Covers the Battle B-Daman cast.
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The Main Characters
The Heroes
- Nice, Mean, and In-Between: Yamato and Terry are the pure good, friendly guys of the team (nice). Li is a calm and kind-hearted enough person, though he did start off as a villain, and Grey means well despite having a tough and surly exterior (in-between). Wen and Enjyu are heroes (eventually) but even after turning good, they are very brash and confrontational, and even a little arrogant at times (mean).
- Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: The main heroes consist of an eccentric young boy raised as a cat, a boy in a yellow dress, a young child with a Split Personality disorder of some kind, and otherwise a bunch of reformed bad guys who were all part of the Shadow Alliance at one point.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: The cheerful and eccentric Yamato is the red to The Stoic and tough, somewhat emotionally repressed Grey's blue, while the brash and arrogant Wen is the red to the calm and quiet Li's blue.
- Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: Yamato, Terry and Li are the sensitive guys, while Grey, Wen and Enjyu are manly. Bull can be either, depending on which of his personalities is dominant at any given time.
Yamato Daiwa/Yamato Delgado
Voiced by: Reiko Takagi (JP), Brian Beacock (EN), Fadwa Soliman (AR)
- Badass Normal: Has the agility of a cat.
- Cat Boy: After being raised by cats, Yamato is quick and agile, likes fish and has whiskers and cat-like hair.
- Raised by Wolves: By cats from when he was 5 years old.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Taiyaki.
- Uncatty Resemblance: With Tommy, his pet cat.
- Wild Child: Both when was 5, and even now when he's 11.
Bull Borgnine
Voiced by: Kurumi Mayima (JP), Mona Marshall (EN), Ameera Hdaife (AR)
- All-Encompassing Mantle: What he wears most of the time.
- Alternate Identity Amnesia: He doesn't remember the times of when he's in his alternate personality once he turns back.
- The Brute: His dark-heard, open-eyed personality. Though this is only in the anime.
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Despite his quirkiness and alternate personalities, he turns out to be a skilled mechanic and repairer of B-Daman, eventually even becoming Armada's apprentice.
- Color-Coded for Your Convenience: His "good" side and "evil" side are black and red, respectively.
- Demoted to Extra: Despite appearing prominently in the intro, and having a fairly large roll near the beginning of the series. By the time Marda B's good side assembles a group 'chosen' players to square off against his dark half. Bull has been frozen in stone like every other extra on the show. This happens to him gradually in the manga as well, doubly so for his recessive "evil"/berserker" side.
- Face of a Thug: For his red-headed personality.
- Fiery Redhead: You guessed it, his red-headed personality.
- Freudian Trio: His personalites are this. With his first (and most prominent) personality being the Cuckoolander, well more so than the other two anyway. Though this is only the case in the anime.
- Good Eyes, Evil Eyes: Depends on which personality is dominant at the time.
- Large Ham: When in his "evil/berserker" mode.
- Many Spirits Inside of One: Has two (three in the anime) split personalities; a calm one, a confident one, and an aggressive one.
- Meaningful Name: The guy who has a Hair-Trigger Temper and frequently Turns Red, is named "Bull."
- Mood-Swinger: His defining characteristic.
- Skeletons in the Coat Closet: Wears a necklace of skulls around his cloak and mantle.
- Skintone Sclerae: When in his default "good/normal" mode.
- The Smart Guy: Becomes this, surprisingly, for Yamato and the group.
- Turns Red: When in his "evil" mode.
Grey Michael Vincent
- Aloof Big Brother: Kind ofacts like this towards Yamato. Doesn't act as one towards his sister.
- Big Brother Instinct: Towards Liena, although they're actually twins. It's how he got Forced into Evil.
- Blow You Away: His B-Daman, Chrome Zephyr; now Chrome Raven.
- Commonality Connection: With Joshua. See his section for the details.
- Dark and Troubled Past: His hometown was destroyed and his twin sister was captured and taken away, and he ultimately doesn't take it lying down.
- Forced into Evil: The Shadow Alliance blackmails him into working for them via holding Liena hostage.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold
- Ineffectual Loner: Tried to keep an emotional distance from everyone at first.
- My Sister Is Off-Limits: To the point where he hits Yamato for asking Liena to give him a back rub, and states that he would never allow her to do such crass things.
Mie Daiwa/Mie Delgado
Voiced by: Naoko Takano (JP), Philece Sampler (EN), Lama Alshamandi (AR)
- Curtains Match the Window: Brown hair, brown eyes.
- Sympathy for the Devil: After Li loses to Terry, she's the only one who feels sorry for him when even his own brother doesn't.
- Too Dumb to Live: Despite the fact that she knew Ababa was evil, and the fact that she'd seen Li in the company of Ababa multiple times. When she finally does run into him alone in episode 13, she immediately assumed that he was another one of her son's friends. This cluelessness nearly got her kidnapped in a similar fashion to Liena.
Tsubame Tsubakura/Terry McScotty
Voiced by: Tomoko Kaneda (JP), Mary Elizabeth McGlynn (EN, first 6 episodes), Barbara Goodson (EN, from episode 7), Samar Kokash (AR)
- Annoying Younger Sibling: Sometimes, to his blood brother, Joe Tetsunosuke.
- Brave Scot: Well, he is technically Scottish, has a Scottish accent in the anime, and he's certainly brave. However, he can also be considered to be a...
- McNinja: He is called ''Terry McScotty'' in the English dubbed anime and manga, and yet is a Ninja. Thus, he is probably one of the best and most literal examples of this trope ever created.
- For example, as a Ninja, he is thus able to perform both the Ninja Run and Ninja Log, as shown here.
- To make it even more confusing; he claims to be a "Highlander", but then explicitly states just a few minutes later of how he "came from Japan", as seen here.
- For example, as a Ninja, he is thus able to perform both the Ninja Run and Ninja Log, as shown here.
- Meaningful Name: Well, his Japanese name at least, means swallow when translated into English; which fits with the bird theme of his B-Daman Wing Eagle, and then later as Wing Sword.
- Misplaced Accent: For the English dubbed anime, though it is actually meant to be deliberately confusing, as discussed in
Fake Scot above. - The Rival: Starts out this way to Yamato.
- Speech Impediment: He suffers from a lisp, to be precise; though only in the manga.
- Sweet Tooth: He loves Mie Delgado's taiyaki.
- The Worf Effect: Suffers from this quite a bit in both the anime and the manga.
Shadow Alliance
Marda B.
Voiced by: Mugihito (JP), Paul St. Peter (EN)
Ababa
Voiced by: Kazuko Sugiyama (JP), Steve Blum (EN)
Enjyu
- Ain't Too Proud to Beg: How he convinced Li to become a Fake Defector with him: Li knew Enjyu had to be serious as soon as Enjyu started begging for his help, as that would be too hard a blow to his pride if he were insincere.
- Best Served Cold: After obtaining Lightning Kahn, he went after his former friend Cornell by completely ruining what was supposed to be Cornell's greatest moment by attacking him right on the day of the finals in the tournament stadium humiliating him right in front of the audience.
- Cool Bike: Rides a motorcycle in the manga.
- Cynicism Catalyst: Being betrayed by his friend and being booed at a tournament completely embittered him.
- Good Scars, Evil Scars: Has a lighting bolt-shaped scar on his face, which initially reflects his selfish nature, before his Heel–Face Turn.
- Evil Redhead: As a villain.
- Fake Defector: What he becomes in an attempt to infiltrate the Neo Shadow Alliance and bring them down from the inside.
- Freudian Excuse: He was betrayed by his childhood companion Cornell; who sabotaged Enjyu in order to get him disqualified in the final, after trying beforehand to guilt trip him into forfeiting their match, as his friend. (In the anime; he claimed that Enjyu had cheated, causing the crowd to turn against him, boo him offstage and thus quit the battle. In the manga; he shot down the locker directly onto Enjyu, thus preventing him from attending and playing against him.) Unsurprisingly, Enjyu then became extremely vengeful and cynical of the game after that, and so was easily manipulated by Ababa into joining the Shadow Alliance.
- Heel–Face Turn: Defeat Means Friendship specifically, though it takes a while to really kick in.
- Jerkass: For the first season, where he's a piece of work with no redeeming qualities.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Post-Heel–Face Turn, this is what he becomes.
- Oblivious to Love: Enjyu is either completely oblivious to Liena's crush, or he's simply not interested.
- Psycho Electro: He has a lightning theme in his first appearance as a villain; on his clothes, as a scar, and with his B-Daman, Lightning Khan.
- Save the Villain: During his match with Yamato, Yamato pushes him out of the way of an oncoming attack form Ababa.
- The Rival: To Yamato.
- The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: Adopts this attitude after his defeat by Yamato.
Wen Yong Fa
Voiced by: Tomo Shigematsu (JP), Brad MacDonald (EN)
- Anti-Hero: Post-Heel–Face Turn, particularly once he gets upgraded to main character status. Though he's a good guy now, his aggressiveness hasn't changed and it results in him not being quite as idealistic or compassionate as the others.
- Aloof Big Brother: Towards Li, sometimes.
- Big Brother Bully: While he cares about Li, he's not above being somewhat mean to him during their time with the Shadow Alliance.
- Big Brother Instinct: This comes out in full force after Li's (fake) Face–Heel Turn to the Neo Shadow Alliance.
- Charles Atlas Superpower: He and Li are inhumanly agile.
- Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Post-Heel–Face Turn. He tends to be rather silly, such as his whole hero getup, but it doesn't make him any less dangerous.
- Deadpan Snarker: In his early appearances, he and Li often display an acidic sense of humor.
- Good Scars, Evil Scars: He has an "x" shaped scar on his cheek.
- Heel–Face Turn: By the end of the Winners Tournament in the first season.
- Palette Swap: His outfit looks almost exactly like his brother, but with different coloring.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: He's the loud and brash one, whereas Li is the calm and stoic one. However, he wears blue in comparison to Li's red.
- Sibling Team: With Li, complete with being able to fuse his blaster with his.
- Strong Family Resemblance: To his and Li's father.
- Take My Hand!: Yamato attempts this with him, thankfully it works.
Li Yong Fa
Voiced by: Miyako Ito (JP), Derek Stephen Prince (EN), Ramia al Ibrahim (AR)
- Annoying Younger Sibling: Towards Wen, sometimes.
- Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy: Not quite as much as Wen, but he has his moments. And he plays it up while becoming a Fake Defector.
- Because You Were Nice to Me: He cites that nobody's ever been as nice to him as Mie was while he was working for her, and it contributes to his Heel Realization.
- Brainwashed and Crazy: Cain demands that he become this when he joins up with the Neo Shadow Alliance. So as to not blow his and Enjyu's cover, Li complies.
- Charles Atlas Superpower: He and Wen are inhumanly agile.
- Deadpan Snarker: He can dish out some good quips. Unlike Wen, he remains this even after their Heel–Face Turn (it doesn't help that Wen tends to bring out this side).
- Fake Defector: Enjyu, another Fake Defector, convinces him to join him in this.
- Heel–Face Turn: By the end of the Winners Tournament in the first season.
- Heel Realization: While he doesn't change sides until Wen does, he effectively stops being an antagonist much sooner, upon losing to Terry and realizing that there might be merit behind The Power of Friendship after all.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Non-fatally, but he lets himself be brainwashed to ensure that Enjyu's mission to infiltrate the Neo Shadow Alliance will work.
- Ignored Epiphany: Subverted. This seems to be the case when he starts to open up to Mie and teams up with Yamato, only to then shatter Terry's blaster under pressure from Enjyu and Wen—but after losing to Terry in the subsequent episode, he then regains the epiphany.
- Not So Stoic:
- During his Day In The Lime Light episode, he seemed very happy helping Yamato's mother, Mie.
- He practically loses it during his match with Terry, likely due to a case of Evil Cannot Comprehend The Power of Friendship.
- The Resenter: While brainwashed, he claims to have always felt inferior to Wen and thus resented him. How much of this is true when not brainwashed is up in the air.
- The Stoic: Generally much more composed than his brother.
- Odd Friendship: Hints of it with Yamato's mother.
- Palette Swap: His outfit looks almost exactly like his brother, but with different coloring.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: He's the calm and stoic one, whereas Wen is the loud and brash one. However, he wears red in comparison to Wen's blue.
- Sibling Team: With Wen, complete with being able to fuse his blaster with his.
- Strong Family Resemblance: To his and Wen's mother.
- Sweet Tooth: He loves Mie Delgado's taiyaki.
- Technicolor Eyes: Has dark blue, almost black colored eyes, in contrast to Wen's normal brown ones.
Cain McDonnell
Voiced by: Hiro Yūki (JP), Steve Blum (EN), Lama Alshamandi (AR)
- Abusive Parents: His dad was noted to be rather stern with him and instilled his current power-obsessed mindset.
- Anime Hair: He's apparently taking cues from Yu-Gi-Oh!.
- Bad Boss: Blaster-wise, he's got a bad habit of breaking his whenever he gets a better one. People-wise, he's lucky Joshua's got a case of Undying Loyalty going on, because Cain treats him like dirt.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: He initially appears as a perfect Nice Guy. In reality, he's one of the nastiest people you'll ever meet.
- Break the Cutie: What having Abusive Parents did to him throughout his childhood.
- Et Tu, Brute?: Joshua's "betrayal" is the first thing to throw him off his game—the first one, that is. Joshua's second one essentially drives him insane.
- Evil All Along: Suffice to say that he was never actually Yamato's friend.
- Freudian Excuse: See Abusive Parents and/or Break the Cutie.
- Heel–Face Turn: Implied at the end. Unlike others on this page, it's never explicitly shown.
- Heroic BSoD: He completely shuts down after his final match with Grey. It's not until the finale that he gets better.
- Ironic Echo: A non-exact example, but after all his talk about how he was a master and Joshua was just his servant, Grey throws it back in his face when he points out that Cain has no friends or anything worth fighting for—and that he can't claim Joshua as one, because "he's just your butler."
- It's All About Me: Even for a villain, he comes off as incredibly self-centered compared to the others in the show.
- Jerkass: One of the biggest in the show.
- Kick the Dog: He likes to do this a lot, but breaking the B-daball Joshua gave him as a kid probably ranks somewhere at the top of the list.
- Lack of Empathy: It becomes clear that he suffers from this while casually verbally abusing Joshua, at which point Grey asks if he even cares at all about how Joshua feels.
- Lonely at the Top: Joshua claims that this would be the case if Cain didn't have him as an incentive for Cain to take him back, and Grey similarly calls him out on it in their final match.
- Sanity Slippage: He's very clearly losing it during his last match with Grey, ultimately culminating in his Heroic BSoD.
- The Starscream: While he never outright betrays Marda B, it's implied that he ultimately would given that he doesn't give a damn about him—he's just out to Take Over the World for himself.
- Take Over the World: His goal and reason for joining with the Neo Shadow Alliance.
- Ungrateful Bastard: Joshua would literally die for him. Does Cain care? Nope.
- Used to Be a Sweet Kid: He used to be a Cheerful Child. Joshua's goal is to bring that back.
- "Well Done, Son" Guy: It's ambiguous as to whether his dad's still around in the anime or not, but Cain's determined to make him proud.
Joshua
Voiced by: Akira Susunuma (JP), Brian Beacock (ENG)
- Anti-Villain: As part of the Neo Shadow Alliance, he does absolutely nothing villainous, seems uncomfortable when Cain's being his Jerkass self, and graciously chooses not to report Enjyu's snooping around. Being Good All Along has to do with it.
- Battle Butler: He's literally Cain's butler, as well as his Number Two. Fairly self-explanatory.
- Becoming the Mask: Possibly. He mentions that he succumbed to the temptation of power, but whether he became evil alongside Cain before regaining his senses or if it was a case of wearing a facade a little too well is ambiguous.
- Commonality Connection: Despite Grey quite possibly having hated his guts more than anyone else up until that point, he's quick to connect with Joshua after hearing his reasons for being evil, due to understanding what it's like to kill your heart for the ones you love.
- Extreme Doormat: Played with. He generally doesn't defy Cain even when he disagrees with him, but it's because everything he does is in hopes of saving him. When he does need to stand up to Cain for the latter's own good, he will.
- Heel–Face Revolving Door: Obviously Evil to the viewer in his debut but never does anything honestly villainous, before then revealing himself to actually be a villain after all. And then revealing himself to be Good All Along and/or pulling a brief Heel–Face Turn before going back to Cain as The Mole, and then going back to the heroes (permanently) after Cain's defeat...
- Heroic Sacrifice: The heroes stop him from going through with it, but he had no qualms about dying if that would convince Yamato and co. to save Cain.
- Love Martyr: Considering he's willing to throw himself off a cliff for Cain? Yeah.
- Morton's Fork: He finds himself in this situation when up against Cain: lose and affirm Cain's belief that kindness equals weakness, pushing him further into evil, or win and isolate Cain further... and thus pushing him further into evil? In the end, he chooses the former.
- My Master, Right or Wrong: Played with: see Extreme Doormat.
- Not So Stoic: Damn you, Cain. Damn you. After Cain's Kick the Dog moment above, Joshua starts crying.
- The Stoic: Almost always composed, to the point of freaking Grey—who's hardly a well of emotions either—out.
- Sugar-and-Ice Personality: Rather aloof and admits to not being a social person, but an extremely caring person in the end. Word of God states him to be the nicest character in the series (though it's worth noting that applies more to the manga than the anime).
- Undying Loyalty: Everything he does begins and ends with Cain.
Others
Armada
Voiced by: Tadashi Miyazawa (JP), Paul St. Peter (EN), Yahya Alkafri (AR)
- Doting Parent: Whenever Armada spends quality time with Yamato and his friends.
Liena Vincent
Voiced by: Takako Uemura (JP), Peggy O'Neal (EN), Leena Dawwa (AR)
- Cool Mask: Wears one when impersonating Sigma.
Tommi
- Uncatty Resemblance: To Yamato.
