Characters from Doraemon: Nobita and The Space Heroes, both old and new.
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Miracle Guardians of the Galaxy
The gang gets some new outfits for this adventure.
Nobita and friends, getting Doraemon's help for making a superhero movie of their own, have Doraemon using the Upgrade Light to imbue themselves with superpowers that matches their personalities. Using a sentient robot called the Burger Director to shoot their film, the gang unintentionally caught the attention of Aron, an alien from Planet Pokkoru, who's on a quest to save his home planet from Ikaros and his minions.
NOTE: The following list applies only to the gang's superpowered incarnations in this movie, where their abilities are one-shot only for the film. For their regular selves, check here.
Tropes related to the gang
- Clothes Make the Superman: They gain their powers through the Star Badges they wore on their collars. Nobita unfortunately lose his badge at one point, and quickly reverts back to normal.
- Color-Coded Characters: The main characters, in their superhero alternate identities, each with a unique colour scheme:
- Nobita: Yellow
- Doraemon: Red
- Gian: Blue
- Suneo: Green
- Shizuka: Pink
- Counterpart Combat Coordination: Towards the end of the film, each member of the Guardians get to battle their exact counterparts, and they excel with flying colours:
- Doraemon and Suneo vs. Hyde: Gadgeteer Geniuses / The Lancer vs. Evil Genius / The Dragon, with Hyde taking on the gang with his Drill Tank. Doraemon had a Rummage Fail as always, but Suneo uses his powers to turn a pile of random junk and turn it into a spaceship in three seconds and counter Hyde's weapons.
- Gian vs. Ogon: The Big Guy vs. The Brute, in two occasions. In the rematch Gian turns the tables and smashed the alien brute into the floor, defeating Ogun.
- Shizuka vs. Meba: The Heart vs. the Dark Action Girl, both of them the sole female of their teams taking their fights near a series of hot springs. Unfortunately for Meba, Shizuka's power upgrade happens right then, allowing her to manipulate water and steam, and Meba's weakness happens to be hot water.
- Nobita vs. Lord Ikaros: The Hero vs. the Big Bad, with Nobita taking Ikaros heads on in Ikaros' lair just as Ikaros is breaking out of his stasis tank. Nobita wins by unlocking his power upgrade in time and restraining Ikaros.
- Made of Iron: Thanks to their superpowered suits, this time the gang can take far more punishment and injuries that would've killed a child their age, such as when Gian and Suneo gets thrown off their high-speed transports by Ogon and landing heavily. They do feel pain, however (in the aftermath of one such battle, they escaped with their lives and later on all of them - sans Shizuka - are shown getting bandaged).
- Shout-Out: Their names are a reference to... come on, it's just one word away, do we even need to spell this out?
- Toku: The entire gang are an Affectionate Parody to classic tokatsu media, right down to their outfits and power-poses.
- Unlikely Hero: A bunch of children from Earth whom are shooting a homemade film becomes the unlikely saviors of an alien planet.
Doraemon
- Calling Your Attacks: "Super-Dora-KICK!"... subverted because it fails both times he tried using it.
- Diving Kick: Attempts to pull this off twice, only to screw up both times. While flying on the Takecopter, Doraemon (in superhero form) tries performing a "Super-Dora Kick"... but his power is having an exceptionally solid head, so instead his body turns around and let his head ram into targets.
- Hard Head: Doraemon already has a hard cranium, but his superpowers are depicted as having his scalp hard enough to knock out a Not Zilla with a headbutt and destroying the containment cell holding Nobita, Suneo and Gian by hitting with his head.
- Lancer vs. Dragon: He fights Hyde, the Space Partners' dragon in the finale.
- The Leader: An enforced version - since the gang gets their powers thanks to Doraemon's gadgets, and Doraemon (secretly a toku fan himself) made himself their show's producer, he deliberately casts himself as their leader. That said...
- Leader Wannabe: He still plays second fiddle to Nobita, just like in the manga, serving as The Lancer.
Nobita
- Epic Fail: He thought he could use his powers of creating threads to stop a runaway mook,only for his strings to flail around uselessly before falling before him.
- Inescapable Net: His silly powers to shoot strings quickly goes through an upgrade at the end, turning into a powerful all-holding net that can restrain Lord Ikaros' gigantic final form, long enough to prevent the villain from activating the device that can destroy Planet Pokkoru.
- Master of Threads: A very, very weak version that parodies of the trope. Nobita's powers can create a single, fine thread from his hands, for him to play cat's cradle with. While flimsy, it does seem to have infinite length when Nobita falls down a hole as the thread stretches as far as he fell allowing Aron to locate him.
- Negated Moment of Awesome: Early in the film, every. single. one. of Nobita's attempts in unleashing his superpowers results in this, as he charges up into a sentai-esque superhero pose, glows with an aura of powerful energy... and shoots two flimsy-looking threads from his hands.
- Power Of Hate: When Ikaros nastily states he's aware that activating his power-draining device will destroy Planet Pokkoru, Nobita channels his outrage to unlock his power upgrade, turning his strings into an Inescapable Net that traps Ikaros and brings him down to his weakest form.
- What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?: He frequently laments that while his friends get cool powers (like Gian's Super-Strength and Suneo's Gadgeteer Genius weapons), all he gets is the ability to shoot strings from his hands. Quickly turns into Heart Is an Awesome Power at the end when his strings are upgraded into a powerful containment net that saves the day.
Shizuka
- All-Loving Hero: It's Shizuka from the manga, but now having superpowers while retaining her kind nature.
- Beware the Nice Ones: As Meba finds out the hard way by calling Shizuka "some little girl". Cue Shizuka ripping Meba a bunch of new holes.
- Designated Girl Fight: Fights Meba, the sole female of the Space Partners, in the finale.
- Little Miss Badass: Shizuka in superpowered form is no larger than her canon form, but she can kick plenty of ass.
- Making a Splash: As Shizuka is a Bathing Beauty in canon, her powers are manifested as the ability to shoot jets of water from her hands, with varying strengths - from water pistol to raging cyclones. Later on she can actually manipulate the flow of liquid as well, and uses this skill to utterly destroy Meba in the finale.
- Mundane Utility: Being Shizuka, she uses her powers to generate water at will to take a late night shower.
- Pink Is Feminine: Much like canon Shizuka, her superpowered form wears pink as well.
Gian
- Lightning Bruiser: Gian's powers allows him to move quite fast, being the muscle of the team.
- Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs: Another set of his powers. Early on when battling the Not Zilla Gian lands a few dozen slaps on the monster's shin, resulting in the monster's foot throbbing comically. Later on he gets to trade punches against Ogon, and wins.
- Shockwave Stomp: By pounding the ground really hard.
- Super-Strength: Technically all the heroes gains these thanks to their superpowered forms being fifty times stronger than their regular selves (Shizuka shortly after receiving her powers can lift a gigantic boulder with her bare hands) but Gian's enhanced strength is the most evident.
- Suplex Finisher: His preferred Finishing Move, dished out on the Not Zilla and on Ogon.
Suneo
- Ace Pilot: Creates a spaceship out of junk before getting into it's cockpit, and proves to be really adept in piloting it.
- Artificial Limbs: Downplayed since it's just in his gloves instead of his entire arms, but Suneo's gloves stores a whole lot of useful gadgets and machines.
- Gadgeteer Genius: Owing to canon Suneo already being talented in fixing and building things, in his superpowered form Suneo can create assorted weapons and tools from the most random junk possible. Including a spaceship in three seconds!
- This Is a Drill: His right hand can be converted into a drill.
- Tickle Torture: One of Suneo's preferred ways to use his gadgets. By releasing a dozen robotic hands and tickle his opponents into submission.
- Tinman Typist: From his left hand, which turns into five smaller, skeletal robotic hands typing on various control panels at rapid pace.
- Wrecked Weapon: When fighting Ogun for the first time, Suneo grossly under-estimated the alien brute's power and gets an Oh, Crap! once Ogun rips off his drill arm. He gets a new one later on.
The Burger Director
Lights, camera, action!
A robot shaped like a hamburger and one of Doraemon's gadgets. As per the robot cat's words, the Burger Director's role is to assist filming and outcome to be 100% smooth, and can change and manipulate surrounding reality at will to ensure that happens.
- Anthropomorphic Food: The Burger Director isn't "actual" food, per se, being a robot and all. But he does look like a real burger enough that Gian tries biting him... and hurting his teeth.Gian: Oh, must be lunch! *bites* [cue metallic clang and Gian wincing in pain]
- Deus ex Machina: Towards the end of the film, the gang had defeated Ikaros, only to realize the destruction of Planet Pokkoru have started. They then realize they can have the Burger Director order for a reshoot - which somehow magically reverse the process and bring life back to the planet.
- Dope Slap: Quite fond of thumping the boys in the back of their heads using his megaphone, much to their annoyance. One of his earlier scenes have him whacking Gian and Suneo for challenging his authority... and then thumping Nobita for good measure, even though Nobita didn't say anything.Nobita: "Why me?"
- Forgot About His Powers: Really, the entire movie would've ended in half an hour if the Director uses his powers to warp Ikaros and his goons out of existance. Lampshaded in the final battle, where the gang managed to defeat Ikaros and his minions, but are too late to stop Planet Pokkoru's destruction... until they realize they can just have the Burger Director "reshoot" the scene.
- Hologram: He can project holograms with his drone bug, tricking Hyde into believing he's being attacked by monsters - firstly by the Not Zilla at the start, then by a car, then by Nobita's mother Tamako in a bad mood (!!!), and then by a clone of himself. At which point Hyde realize he's being made a fool of, but the heroes had long left the area.
- Prima Donna Director: A robotic version, who does everything in his power to keep the filming in place.
- Reality Warper: The Director is likely the most powerful tool from Doraemon's array of gadgets, capable of changing entire environments and realities just for shooting a film; in it's first scene, it transforms Suneo's harmless stuffed dinosaur into a giant Not Zilla because "the film says so". He even single-handedly stops the entirety of Planet Pokkoru's destruction at the end by reversing the effect of the doomsday device!
- Robot Buddy: A cute robot shaped like a hamburger. Unfortunately, this film is his sole appearance in the franchise so far.
Planet Pokkoru
Aron
The Sheriff of Planet Pokkoru investigating the Space Partners' secret amusement park base. His worries are confirmed when it's revealed they are villains attempting to drain Planet Pokkoru of it's core powers, but when sneaking around their base he gets caught and quickly escapes to space, crashing on Earth and meeting Doraemon and gang.
- Cassandra Truth: He attempts to convince the citizens of his hometown that the Space Partners are up to no good, only for his concerns to be ignored.
- Friend to All Children: The kids from his village adores him, with a whole group of children running to him chanting "Aron's back! Aron's back!" when they see him. He's more than happy to embrace the kids, too.
- Hero of Another Story: Aron has quite an impressive resume given his reputation, but his role in the film is merely to seek help from the heroes as the citizens on his planet doesn't believe his claims that the Space Partners are up to no good.
- Nice Guy: He's certainly quite an affable, easygoing fellow who's quick to forge a friendship with the main cast.
- Older Than They Look: He looks no older than Nobita and the main gang, but he's actually an adult who holds a position of authority on his homeworld. One can argue because he's an alien, but then there are actual alien adults in crowd scenes.
- Reused Character Design: He resembles the titular character of Chinpui.
- The Sheriff: He's the sheriff of Planet Pokkoru, and pretty good at his job at that.
The Space Partners
The Terrible Trio and their mooks.
A sinister bunch of aliens posing as investors and peaceful visitors on Planet Pokkoru, intending to revive their master Lord Ikaros by draining Planet Pokkoru of her energy.
Hyde
When he's a Villain with Good Publicity.
And then he shows his true face.
The representative of the Space Partners, Hyde and his co-workers, Ogon and Meba, arrives on Planet Pokkoru in the backstory, offering the citizens a deal to build an amusement park for improving their economy and bringing fun and joy to their people, which the oblivious citizens accepts - unaware of Hyde's plans to siphon their planet of it's energy for his boss, Lord Ikaros.
- Amusement Park of Doom: What Pockleland amounts to be, since it's a front for the Space Partners' hidden base to distract the local citizens while they carry out their operations, sucking out resources and energy from the planet for Ikaros' awakening.
- Beware the Silly Ones: He looks and sounds like an alien Muppet, but he's definitely no pushover in a confrontation thanks to his various machines and weaponry.
- Big Anime Eyes: His public appearance when he's posing as a businessman and entrepreneur helping the citizens of Planet Pokkoru. Once his true colours are revealed Hyde ditches his disguise.
- Corrupt Corporate Executive: A wealthy, influential alien businessman and entrepreneur, whose investments can destroy Planet Pokkoru, which he doesn't give a single cent towards.
- The Dragon: He serves Ikaros, the Big Bad, directly, being the Number Two in the Space Partners.
- Drill Tank: He creates and commandeers one of these in the final battle, trying to crush Aron, Doraemon and Suneo. But thanks to Suneo having superpowers to create any instant machinery from random junk, he managed to create a second vehicle to counter Hyde's.
- Evil Counterpart: To Suneo and Doraemon, since they're they brains of their respective teams. So it's no wonder they get to battle each other in the climax.
- Evil Genius: The mastermind and brains of the villains.
- The Face: He's the representative of the Space Partners when it comes to making deals with the citizens of Planet Pokkoru.
- Frog Men: Given his amphibian-looking skin and oversized eyes, Hyde appears to be from some amphibian alien species.
- Hammerspace: A literal version, what with his pack capable of pulling out twenty hammers in one go.
- Horned Humanoid: He's an alien with a single pointed horn atop his cranium.
- Lancer vs. Dragon: As the dragon to the Space Partners, Hyde's opponent in the final battle is Doraemon.
- Leader Wannabe: Sees himself as the great leader of the Space Partners, but he's only the lackey to Ikaros.
- Meaningful Name: His name is Hyde, as in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. And much like the novel's titular character(s), he appears to be a reasonable and important figure of authority on the surface, but is secretly evil in the inside.
- The Napoleon: The smallest and shortest of The Space Partners (until Ikaros' true form is revealed, that is) and he's their leader and director of their operations.
- Reused Character Design: His appearance is based on "The Ghost
", an obscure character from an older Fujiko Fujio comic (that pre-dates even Doraemon!). - Sharp-Dressed Man: How he frequently appears as an important alien businessman, in front of the Planet Pokkoru citizens. His outfit as a mercenary is hidden underneath his suit.
- Small Name, Big Ego: He sees himself as the Space Partners' highly-respected second-in-command. His Co-Dragons Meba and Ogon thinks otherwise.Hyde: How dare they make a fool of the great Hyde?
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Being a Villain with Good Publicity running an Amusement Park of Doom with his own prison for keeping anyone who knows his secrets locked up makes him a blatant replacement for Neko-Jara from the earlier adeventure, Doraemon: Nobita in the Wan-Nyan Spacetime Odyssey.
- Technopath: Can create assorted weaponry and gadgets from his bagpack, and invents most of the Space Partners' equipment for their invasion.
- This Is a Drill: While he prefers using hammers, Hyde at one point produces a drill and threatens to use it on Shizuka.
- Villain with Good Publicity: He's introduced as a wealthy alien businessman and philanthropist proposing to citizens of Planet Pokkoru to build Pockleland, a Space Amusement Park on their world in order to reap in economic and financial benefits. In truth, Pockleland is meant for the Space Partners to siphon Planet Pokkoru of it's energy for their boss, Ikaros.
- Would Hurt a Child: Hyde doesn't hesitate to attack the Miracle Guardians of the Galaxy and visibly cackles with glee when he's pursuing Doraemon, Suneo and Aron in the final battle, attempting to grind them into a pulp with his Drill Tank.
Ogon
Who knows Chewbacca has an evil brown cousin?
The largest member of the Space Partners, a furry, gorilla-like alien monster loosely resembling Chewbacca, right down to his attire. He's the villains' powerhouse.
- The Brute: The muscle powerhouse of the villains, far stronger than either Meba or Hyde.
- Co-Dragons: Alongside Meba, right under The Dragon Hyde.
- Corrupted Character Copy: He's a rather blatant Chewbacca expy, right down to having a Badass Bandolier across his chest and speaking in growls and roars, but he's serving the villains.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Dishes one out on Gian and Suneo in their first fight.
- Dumb Muscle: Largest and strongest of the villains, but absolutely not very bright.
- Evil Counterpart: To Gian, The Big Guy of the heroes. Fittingly enough, they get to challenge each other to a rematch in the finale.
- Hammered into the Ground: He smashed Gian into the earth in their first direct confrontation, leaving Gian's legs comically waving in the air with his lower half underground (that would've easily killed Gian if not for Gian currently in a superpowered form). Flipped around in the final battle, when Gian pummels Ogon into the floor in the exact same manner.
- Horned Humanoid: Has two tiny horns on his head. Smaller than Hyde's though.
- Intelligible Unintelligible: He doesn't seem to have problems communicating with Ikaros, Meba and Hyde, all whom are capable of speech.
- Super-Strength: Strong enough to grab the flying transports used by Suneo and Gian with his bare hands. Both at the same time, one on each, causing Suneo and Gian to fall off. Before smashing the transports together into pieces.
- Third Eye: Has one in his forehead, which is red instead of blue. It appears to be his source of powers.
- The Voiceless: Much like Chewie, Ogon is incapable of speech, only grunts and growls. His fellow Space Partners seem to understand him however.
Meba
"I want you to be around to witness the destruction of this planet."
A blue-skinned, female shapeshifting alien serving the villains, and one of Hyde's enforcers. She's visibly one of the more sadistic members of the Space Partners, as well as one of the more capable fighters.
- Achilles' Heel: Hot water, where the heat can dissolve her humanoid form and strip her down to her tiny blob form. Unfortunately for her, Meba gets to fight Shizuka after the latter learns how to create cyclones made of heated water.
- Blob Monster: Her true form is a small dollop of blue, gelatin-like blob with two eyes, after getting disintegrated by Shizuka.
- Co-Dragons: Alongside Ogon, right under The Dragon Hyde.
- Designated Girl Fight: Fights Shizuka, the sole female of the Miracle Guardians of the Galaxy.
- Green-Skinned Space Babe: Blue-Skinned, but her default humanoid form is admittedly quite attractive.
- Corrupted Character Copy: Meba, being a blue-skinned female shapeshifter, is loosely based on prequel-era Mystique (the movie came out during the time when the X-Men franchise are portraying Mystique in a far more positive light). But Meba is one of the antagonists of the picture.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Her sole weakness is hot water, and Shizuka's powers in the climax are upgraded to the point where she can adjust the temperature of her liquid projectiles, besides controlling the flow of liquid in mid-air. You do the math.
- Dark Action Girl: The sole female member of the villains, and a very capable fighter at that.
- Ear Wings: While her colleagues Hyde and Ogon use Jet Packs, Meba on the other hand can turn her ears into wings.
- Evil Counterpart: To Shizuka, both of them being the sole female and voice of reason of their respective teams. And yes, they fight each other in the final battle.
- Oh, Crap!: Has a really epic one on her face, proving Meba's Not So Stoic, when she realizes Shizuka had trapped her in a funnel made of hot water.
- Partial Transformation: Sometimes Meba can transform parts of her limbs or neck, while retaining most of her human-like form.
- Snakes Are Sinister: Her favorite transformation is a blob-like blue alien snake, which she uses to choke her targets.
- Stripperiffic: Her mercenary outfit really doesn't leave much to the imagination.
- Tentacle Rope: Her Extendable Arms can double as tentacles to restrain victims.
- Token Competent Minion: She's one of the more threatening baddies in the film, giving the heroes a hard time and capturing Nobita and Aron with ease... as long as her Achilles' Heel remains unknown.
- Underestimating Badassery: She calls Shizuka, her opponent, a "little girl" and barely considers Shizuka a threat. And then Shizuka reveals her upgrade which can manipulate water into superheated cyclones.
- Whip of Dominance: Her powers allow her to turn her arms into whips for lashing out at her targets, fitting with her ruthless and sadistic personality.
- Would Hurt a Child: Unlike Ogon, who's a Dumb Muscle unable to tell the difference between adults and kids, Meba on the other hand is quite willing to antagonize Nobita and pals. This ends up biting her in the butt - hard - once she got on Shizuka's bad side.
Ikaros
The first form Ikaros is depicted in for majority of the film.
And then he crawls out of his tank.
Before turning into... uh, what?
A powerful, mysterious alien entity introduced as a menacing, demonic creature inside a stasis tank, who is the true villain of the picture late into the film, commanding his mooks around his headquarters. He intends to drain all of Planet Pokkoru's energy for himself to attain his ultimate form, but the Miracle Guardians of the Galaxy get in his way.
- Adaptational Wimp: In the manga, Ikaros gets to battle all members of the Miracle Guardians of the Galaxy and actually putting up a serious fight, compared to his animated counterpart who's weakened by running out of energy and gets defeated by Nobita. Alone.
- Bad Boss: When his mooks inform him of their failure to recapture Aron, Ikaros turns the mook reporting to him into stone before shattering him. He's about to do the same on Hyde for failing to prevent Doraemon and Shizuka from saving Nobita, Suneo and Gian, until Hyde reveals he had procured the Energy Launch Detonator to activate Ikaros' final weapon.
- Big Bad: Leader of the Space Partners.
- Combat Tentacles: Can spawn a bunch of these from his containment tank.
- Dark Lord on Life Support: For most of the story, Ikaros is a sealed entity inside his stasis tank, needing to absorb energy from Planet Pokkoru's core in order to sustain himself. His ultimate plan is to strip the planet of all it's energy to fully become the ultimate evil, destroying Planet Pokkoru and all life on it in the process.
- Deathbringer the Adorable: In his final form, he's Lord Ikaros the adorable squid-like alien.
- Defiant to the End: After getting stripped of all his powers and reduced to a dinky, pocket-sized squid form, Lord Ikaros would, in a last act of spite, trigger the doomsday device to destroy both Planet Pokkoru and his base, in a Taking You with Me moment.
- Greater-Scope Villain: While the Space Partners are the main threats opposing the heroes, they're merely minions of Ikaros, who commands them from inside his stasis tank in his headquarters.
- Hidden Villain: Not revealed (save for a cameo lasting for a few seconds during Aron's story flashback) until more than halfway into the film.
- One-Winged Angel: Initially played straight, when he starts absorbing energy from Planet Pokkoru and bursts out of his stasis tank as a green, multi-tentacled and fearsome-looking monster several times larger than Nobita. But that turns out to be a Clipped-Wing Angel form who can barely put up a fight due to over-using his energy and can barely crawl his way - pathetically - towards a control panel (while Nobita, who's nearby, frantically tries stopping Ikaros with his cat's cradle powers, to no avail).
- Orcus on His Throne: He's confined entirely within his stasis tank for majority of the story.
- Sinister Silhouettes: Majority of his screentime is depicted as a scary-looking demonic form inside a tank. In fact, his silohoutte form is one which shows up in most of the movie's promotional materials in order to keep his true face a secret.
- Taken for Granite: His tentacles can release sludge that petrifies victims.
- This Was His True Form: Parodied - his true form is a squid-like alien smaller than a child's toy. He looks really dopey-looking and ridiculous, as you can expect a toku parody could come up.
- Vile Villain, Saccharine Show: Parodied - the movie is silly and ridiculous enough as it is, with the Space Partners, Hyde, Meba and Ogon, being portrayed as comical and hardly as threatening as most previous Doraemon film villains. It appears that the scary, demonic-looking Lord Ikaros is going to be a serious antagonist... until his menacing true form is actually a pathetic Clipped-Wing Angel barely putting up a fight. And then he's revealed to be a tiny squid creature that looks even sillier than his underlings.
- You Have Failed Me: Doesn't hesitate to eliminate his failed minions via petrification.
