Characters from Doraemon: Nobita and the Winged Braves.
Friends from Birdopia
Gusuke
A young bird-boy from Birdopia around Nobita's age who lacks the ability of flight, but also a genius mechanic who pilots his own self-made gyrocopter, the Snow Goose.
Gusuke accidentally stumbles into Tokyo when the portal in Birdopia unexpectedly opens in the hills behind Nobita's school, crashing into Nobita, Shizuka and Doraemon and accidentally damaging the Snow Goose.
Getting the Snow Goose fixed and becoming friends with Nobita, Doraemon and Shizuka in the process, Gusuke's attempts to return to Birdopia was unexpectedly interrupted by Gian and Suneo. One thing leads to another, Gusuke accidentally drags Suneo and Gian into the portal, with Doraemon and the others following suit, kickstarting a new adventure in Birdopia, the land of the bird-men.
- Acrophobic Bird: Owing to a traumatic childhood experience where he fell out his cot during a thunderstorm nearly to death, Gusuke have a morbid fear of flying with his wings. Though he gets better by the climax.
- Adorably Precocious Child: Young and already determined to win the Icarus Rally, as well as destined for great things to come.
- I Believe I Can Fly: He spends the entire film trying to do so despite being seemingly unable to fly, unlike most of the Birdopian residents who aren't flightless birds. And succeeds at the end.
- Catch a Falling Star: Gusuke managed to pull this off twice in the climax; firstly using the Snow Goose to catch Icarus who's in the middle of a fall, and then when he finally learnt how to fly, grabs Nobita who dropped his bird-hat.
- Crash-Into Hello: Both the manga and anime have him colliding with Doraemon, Nobita and Shizuka while on his Snow Goose as his intro.
- Determinator: He will stop at nothing to train himself and win the Rally Icarus, as well as striving to fly. And succeeds both at the end.
- Gadgeteer Genius: Lacking the means of flight with his wings, Gusuke instead puts his genius mechanics to good use, constructing a self-made machine gyrocopter called the Snow Goose which serves as his airborne transport.
- Gigantic Adults, Tiny Babies: His father is none other than Icarus, the legendary giant bird-man who can hold a person in one hand. Gusuke on the other hand comes from a relatively tiny egg; for comparison the newly-hatched Gusuke is the size of a single feather off his father's wings.
- Goggles Do Nothing: In the anime film, at least, where Gusuke's goggles remains glued to his forehead even in times when wearing it over his eyes would seem practical (such as during the Icarus Rally when he's zipping up the World Tree at full speed or when battling the fire-breathing Phoenixia in mid-air). Averted in the manga, where Gusuke will sometimes pull down his goggles during practical situations.
- Good Luck Charm: As an infant Gusuke is found falling from the skies while holding a feather as large as himself. Said feather is displayed in his home as a lucky amulet, and it turns out to belong to Gusuke's father - the legendary giant bird-man, Icarus.
- Moses in the Bulrushes: After Icarus accidentally drops the infant Gusuke, the boy ends up falling from the heavens into the arms of a duck-woman - Milk's mother - who then adopts Gusuke as her own child. And as he grows up, Gusuke is destined for greatness despite whatever hardships.
- Mysterious Past: All his foster duck family knows of him is that Gusuke literally drops from the skies in the middle of a storm as an infant, before they decide to take him as their own.
- Those Magnificent Flying Machines: The Snow Goose, a self-made gyrocopter. Sadly it gets incinerated by Phoenixia in the climatic battle.
- Noble Bird of Prey: He is turned out to be an eagle, and the son of a legendary one, no less.
- Pint-Sized Powerhouse: He gets to fight the kaiju-sized behemoth, Phoenixia, in the final battle. And is strong enough to catch and support Icarus, a giant bird-man, with the Snow Goose and actually remain airborne for several seconds.
- The Rival: Gusuke has one of these in the neighbourhood, a swallow-boy named Tsubakuro. With the last round of the Icarus Rally having Gusuke and Tsubakuro racing each other to the top of the World Tree to reach their mark.
Milk
Gusuke's foster sister, a duck-girl who's as determined to win the Icarus Rally as Gusuke.
- Anger Born of Worry: She's introduced to the audience... shouting at Gusuke and scolding him for making her worry over his two-day absence. But then Gusuke assures her that he's with friends and introduces her to Doraemon and gang.
- Cool Big Sis: Owing to being Gusuke's adoptive sister. She also have another younger brother, the little infant duck who imprints itself on Suneo.
- Furry Female Mane: She's a duck-girl with visible hair, which she ties up with a bow.
- I Will Only Slow You Down: During the Icarus Rally, Milk accidentally got herself caught in some cowebs (and in the anime, attacked by a Giant Spider until Gian and Suneo comes to her rescue). When Gusuke turns back to help her, Milk instead shouts at Gusuke to ignore her and continue the race.
- Nice Girl: Kind, friendly, encourages Gusuke to strive and win, a pleasant and supportive character to every other bird-people in the community. She's also visibly angry at Tsubakuro for poking fun at Gusuke's Snow Goose before the rally.
Tsubakuro
Tsubakuro in the foreground, Tobio is the sparrow behind
A swallow and fellow participant in the Icarus Rally, and Gusuke's fiercest rival.
- Adaptational Badass: The anime film has him helping out in battling Phoenixia by loosing arrows on the monster, though it didn't really do much good. But he at least contributed something unlike his absent manga counterpart.
- Adaptational Nice Guy: His anime counterpart, while still snarky and condescending towards Gusuke, undergoes some Character Development after seeing the main cast. To the point of shaking hands with Doraemon for being a better flyer than him, besides finally putting his rivalry with Gusuke aside.
- Ascended Extra: Downplayed, but his anime counterpart have slightly more moments than his manga version, including showing up after the final battle to congratulate the main cast. Though he's still a relatively minor character in both versions.
- The Bully: He makes fun of Gusuke's Snow Goose before the race and leaves gloating all the way when Milk reprimands him.
- Expy Coexistence: Tsubakuro and his sidekick, Tobio, seems like counterparts to Gian and Suneo. So it's quite fitting in the anime they actually shows up alongside the two after the final battle.
- Disqualification-Induced Victory: He's the champion of the Icarus Rally, owing to Seagrid disqualifying Gusuke in the last moment.
- Goggles Do Nothing: Like Gusuke in the anime, Tsubakuro (and Tobio) both wears goggles that never covers their eyes. Also averted in the manga.
- Reformed Bully: In the anime only, where he puts his rivalry against Gusuke away after the final battle.
- The Rival: One to Gusuke, with the two of them racing each other side-by-side in the Icarus Rally's final lap.
- Those Two Guys: He's often seen alongside Tobio, a sparrow. Who gets to assist Tsubakuro in the final battle.
Professor Hou
An owl professor and expert in mythological studies, whom Milk and Gusuke are close friends with.
- Bound and Gagged: The state he ends up in when Seagrid's forces abducts him. And with Suneo and Gian joining him soon after.
- Distressed Dude: Owing to getting captured by Seagrid's crows and locked in a cage for a prolonged period of time.
- Labcoat of Science and Medicine: He wears a science labcoat in each and every single scene with him, fitting for a professor.
- The Owl-Knowing One: The wisest among the Birdopian residents, and he's an owl.
- Parental Substitute: He serves as a father figure to Gusuke, with the latter freaking out when receiving news of Professor Hou's abduction.
- Smart People Wear Glasses: The wise owl professor is the only named major avian character in the film who wears spectacles.
- Unwise Owl: While he's usually The Owl-Knowing One, he has a moment of this when he mistakes Doraemon for a tanuki upon meeting him, in contrast to other bird-people who were able to correctly identify him as a cat.
The Baby Chick
A newly-hatched infant bird in one of Professor Hou's incubation chambers who accidentally imprints itself on Suneo before repeatedly tagging behind him, much to everybody's amusement.
- But Now I Must Go: The inevitable farewell between Suneo and the infant when the gang leaves Birdopia have Suneo bursting into Ocular Gushers, having grown attached to the baby bird, and the baby also teary-eyed. Somewhat downplayed however, that unlike the three previous movies their goodbye isn't permanent, and that the gang could still visit Birdopia anytime in the future.
- Head Pet: After hatching, the baby spends most of its screentime sitting on Suneo's scalp, underneath his bird-cap.
- Imprinting: On Suneo, who curiously looks at a cracking egg only for the infant bird to hatch and mistake Suneo as it's parent.
- The Navigator: After becoming attached to Suneo, the baby serves this role by pointing out directions for his master while tucked beneath Suneo's cap.
- No Name Given: The film's only prominent character who doesn't have a name. Even the credits and the Doraemon wiki calls him "baby chick".
- Pet Gets the Keys: In the manga, the Chick proves himself useful when Suneo and Gian gets captured alive by Seagrid's forces and thrown into a cage with Professor Hou; the chick hiding beneath Suneo's bird-cap sneaks out and bites the ropes holding his master allowing the trio to escape.
- Practically Different Generations: A toddler, whose elder sister and (adoptive) brother are near their teens.
- Tagalong Kid: Or tagalong infant bird, the baby quickly and comically becomes a member of the group, specifically by tagging behind Suneo regardless he likes it or not.
Icarus
Back in Action.
The almighty former commander of the Bird Migration Patrolling Troops and a legendary hero of Birdopia, who fell from grace years ago after losing his son during a storm, and later takes the blame when his second-in-command Seagrid gets shot by humans. Feeling guilty over the incident and believing himself unworthy of a position of authority, Icarus exiles himself as a prisoner and have remained as such for nearly a decade.
When Phoenixia is about to be freed from it's icy prison, Gusuke and friends have to seek Icarus' help.
- The Atoner: Icarus is genuinely guilty over his past actions that leads to his former friend, Seagrid, getting shot by humans, and allows himself to be imprisoned over his sins. He finally atones for everything when he rescues Seagrid from being incinerated by Phoenixia's flames.
- Broken Bird: Pun aside, Icarus is still broken on the inside because of blaming his actions that made him lose his son and have his subordinate shot by humans.
- Cardboard Prison: He's chained in a cave that he can instantly break out in seconds, just by stretching his arms and flapping his wings.
- Clip Its Wings: In the final battle Icarus get his wings incinerated by Phoenixia's flames and deprived of his flight abilities, though he gets better.
- Epiphanic Prison: The cave that serves to imprison him might as well not be there at all. The reason it holds is because Icarus willingly remains to atone for his past.
- Giant Equals Invincible: The largest of the main cast, and also the strongest, to the point of surviving a full blast from Phoenixia's flames which would've killed a smaller target.
- Giant Flyer: By far the largest Birdopian protagonist, and the mightiest of them all.
- How the Mighty Have Fallen: From a proud commander Bird Migration Patrolling Troops to a recluse and prisoner.
- Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: Taken to the extreme, where his wife and mate Audia is barely a quarter his size!
- Icarus Allusion: It's right there in the name. Icarus blames himself over his comrade Seagrid being attacked by humans in the past, to the point where he quits his high-ranking position in the Bird Migration Patrolling Troops, allows himself to be imprisoned for his failures, and remains a recluse in Birdpia's equivalent to The Alcatraz until he found out Phonenixia is being unleashed and his help is required.
- Living Legend: He's the legendary Icarus, the greatest of the Birdopian warriors, and still alive in the present.
- Luke, I Am Your Father: The legendary eagle hero of Birdopia, Icarus, is Gusuke's father.
- That Man Is Dead: Delivers one such line when Gusuke tries calling for Icarus' help outside his prison. But then he changes his mind when realizing Phoenixia is about to be unleashed.Icarus: The Legendary Birdman Icarus is already dead, please go home!
- My Greatest Failure: Over failing to save his son, Gusuke, and getting his ally Seagrid shot.
- Noble Bird of Prey: He's an eagle-human and the most majestic and graceful of the Birdopians.
- The Worf Effect: Even he can't do much to stop Phoenixia on his own, and ends up getting burned severely when he tries.
Audia
She's the one in front.
Icarus' wife and Gusuke's biological mother, who lose her son in a storm a decade ago. She's not seen ever since that incident, and what happens of her is unknown.
- Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: She's a relatively normal-sized humanoid bird, in comparison to her huge husband Icarus.
- Missing Mom: Her only appearance in the film is during Gusuke's flashback, with no mention of what happens of her after losing her son. Though there are implications that Audia died at some point in the backstory.
Villains
Seagrid
A ruthless leader of the Birdopian army, Commander Seagrid is a vulture who holds a grudge against humans because of an accident in the past; during a routine migration check on non-andromorphic earth birds, Seagrid was shot in the wings by a human hunter and rescued by his comrade, Icarus. But the incident leave him scarred, with Seagrid desiring to wipe humanity off the planet's surface in order to reclaim earth for the birds.
And then, he comes across the legend of Phoenixia, and realize he could use the monster to his advantage.
- Badass Cape: Wears one draped over his wings for the entirety of his screentime.
- Bald of Evil: As expected from a cruel, ruthless vulture-man.
- Big Bad: The main villain of the picture, who wants to revive the eldritch monster Phoenixia to wipe out humans. But then again...
- Big Bad Wannabe: …the moment Phoenixia awakens, it is absolutely leagues too powerful for Seagrid to even control, who then swats Seagrid aside like a bug.
- Clip Its Wings: In the past during a routine migratory trip in the human world, Seagrid was shot in his wings by a hunter, nearly dying if not for Icarus' rescue. But this only fuels his hatred towards mankind.
- Didn't Think This Through: Seagrid's plans in a nutshell. Trying to awaken the eldritch monster who destroyed entire civilizations without a proper fail-safe backup plan; What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
- Evil Gloating: Spends half of his scenes gloating, either at the imprisoned Suneo and Gian, or chuckling when he found out the truth behind Phoenixia.
- Evil Versus Oblivion: Seagrid wants to destroy the world of humans. Phoenixia, which he's trying to revive for his own goals, wants to destroy everything, Birdopia included.
- Face–Heel Turn: He's a lawful member of the Migration Troops during the flashback, but all that changed in the present after his accident.
- Fantastic Racism: He's a birdman who despises humanity, and wants to have humans eradicated from the earth, after suffering an injury from being shot by a hunter.
- Gone Horribly Wrong: Trying to revive Phoenixia to wipe out all humans, which leads to the revival of a monster who wants to wipe out everything, starting with Birdopia.
- Karma Houdini: While his hatred towards humans is somewhat justified, he still revived an ancient eldritch monster who nearly turned Birdopia into ruins. And never actually suffers any onscreen comeuppance for his actions (in both manga and anime), getting rescued from certain death and not seen for the remainder of the climax.
- Kick the Dog: By deliberately disqualifying Gusuke after he won a championship position in the Icarus Rally, a long and intense race which Gusuke spent an entire year preparing himself for. Especially considering there are doesn't seem to have any rules against gyrocopters - the race have a few other contenders piloting gyros similar to Gusuke's Snow Goose, most whom crashed along the way. Seagrid pretty much imposed a last-minute-rule to disqualify Gusuke just because he could.
- Kill All Humans: He intends to have mankind wiped off the surface of the world, in order to reclaim earth for the birds. Any human intruders caught by his mooks are sentenced to immediate execution.
- Obviously Evil: You can pretty much tell Seagrid's going to be a nasty piece of work the moment he appears onscreen, in both the anime and manga.
- Save the Villain: When Phoenixia proves too powerful for Seagrid to control, it seems like Seagrid would be squashed by the monster's tail. But Icarus arrives just in time and saves Seagrid from certain death.
- Screw the Rules, I Make Them!: He lets out a variant of this trope when taunting the caged-up Gian and Suneo, when Gian demands if "there's a law about execution".Seagrid: A law, you say? There is no law for human prisoners. Have them executed at once.
- Vile Vulture: A vulture-humanoid and the main villain of the picture, one who intends to unleash doomsday on the world of humans.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: Subverted - Seagrid's claims for his antagonism towards humanity is that he is fighting for the rights of birds, with his Freudian Excuse being that he was shot by a human once. But to achieve his goal he's reviving Phoenexia, an ancient civilization-destroying monster that once ravaged the surface before the arrival of the first generation Birdopians, and putting thousands and thousands of citizens' lives at risk. Phoenixia's awakening at the end proves Seagrid's goals to be ultimately undesirable when the monster nearly destroyed the entirety of Birdopia.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: He just somewhat disappears in the ending after he gets smacked aside by Phoenixia. Though it could be assumed that he have a change of heart after realizing the errors in his ways.
- Would Hurt a Child: Upon finding out Gian and Suneo are humans, his first reaction is ordering their execution.
Babylon
The second-in-command to Seagrid, Colonel Babylon is a falcon who serves as the vulture's representative.
- Brutal Bird of Prey: He's a falcon, and one of the film's villains.
- A Dog Named "Dog": Babylon appears to be a Barbary Falcon, who goes under the genus Falco pelegrinoides babylonicus.
- The Dragon: Answers directly to his commander, Seagrid.
- Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Subverted that it backfires for all parties involved; when Doraemon tries stopping the out-of-control Phoenixia with the Evolution Ray, Babylon ambushed Doraemon and after a brief struggle, accidentally turns the gadget backwards while aimed at Phoenixia. The results turns Phoenixia into a far bigger and stronger monster than it already was.
- Mook Lieutenant: Spends most of his screentime ordering the crow troops around.
- Villainous Friendship: For all his misdeeds, he does seem to respect his boss, Seagrid, however little there is; Babylon's last scene have him moving an unconscious Seagrid out of the rampage.
The Crow Troops
Seagrid's foot soldiers, a horde of crow-men.
- Clever Crows: They are able to identify Doraemon as a cat upon first glance, in contrast to nearly everyone else who mistake him for a tanuki.
- Cool Helmet: All of them wears a pointed helmet resembling a Pickelhaube.
- Creepy Crows: They're a race of andromorphic crow-men who serves as mooks of the main villain. Though it's downplayed that they seem to be Just Following Orders.
- Fantastic Racism: Along with humans, they also hate cats.
- Hooks and Crooks: Their sidearm is an extendable hook with a pincer-like tip.
- Punch-Clock Villains: They're mooks whom are Just Following Orders. A group of crows pursuing Doraemon, Nobita and Shizuka even slows down so they don't run over a group of passing children.
Phoenixia
Out of Hibernation, Out of the Ice...
When Evil Evolves into a One-Winged Angel form.
A dinosaur-like, ancient monster rampaging across the parallel world, destroying everything in it's path until the first generation of Birdopians have the monster imprisoned in a glacier. But Seagrid realize the monster could be used as his pawn in destroying the human world, and seeks to awaken it.
- And I Must Scream: The monster's eventual fate - being teleported to the Hadean Era, in deep space before earth exists, couldn't be a good way to go.
- Breath Weapon: Can breath fire in both it's forms, and repeatedly uses it's fiery breath to menace the heroes.
- Dinosaurs Are Dragons: It resembles a T. Rexpy, but with draconic wings. And taken even further when it's hit by the Devolution Light, at which point it gains additional horns, gold-colored armor, and the ability to breathe fire.
- Draconic Abomination: His second form, an unholy fusion of dinosaurs, dragons, and all things terrible.
- Evil Evolves: An accidental example thanks to being hit by the Devolution Ray whose polarity was reversed, and as if it's initial form isn't terrifying enough, now it has the ability to breathe fire, a golden armor plating, and extra horns.
- Giant Flyer: One that dwarves even Icarus.
- Good Wings, Evil Wings: The heroes, Doraemon and gang and their Birdopian allies, have feathery wings; in contrast Phoenixia has leathery bat-like wings.
- Kaiju: A gigantic rampaging monster who stomps down entire buildings with ease.
- Living Dinosaurs: Well, a monster resembling one that still survives in the present.
- Monster in the Ice: A prehistoric civilization destroyer sealed underneath a glacier, prior to it's awakening.
- Omnicidal Maniac: Phoenixia exists to destroy everything in sight, and it can never be stopped.
- One-Winged Angel: One which occurs by accident, when Colonel Babylon accidentally caused Doraemon's Devolution Light to hit the rampaging Phoenexia and make it even stronger.
- Prehistoric Monster: Phoenixia has existed ever since before the arrival of the first-generation Birdopians, before it's original defeat several millenia ago. But it's still alive and ready to go on it's rampage.
- Tail Slap: Repeatedly uses it's gigantic tail as a weapon, including using it to take down Nobita who would've fallen to his death if not for Gusuke learning to fly in time.
SPOILER CHARACTER
YOU WERE WARNED
Mamoru Torino
The younger Torino in the flashback.
As a hologram triggered by Nobita.
A human scientist and ornithologist from the 23rd Century who despises humans for destroying the environment and ecosystem, Mamoru Torino decides to leave the world of man using a Time Machine, carrying with him hundreds and hundreds different species of birds. But when a rift in time sends Mamoru and his pets, not to the past but to a parallel green world devoid of life, Mamoru decides he will evolve the birds into sentient life-forms, similar to humans, and have them rule the world anew.
Along the way, Mamoru discovers the parallel world to be guarded by an ancient beast, the highly-destructive monster Phoenixia, and with the help of his newly-evolved avian allies they managed to have Phoenixia sealed in a glacier.
In the centuries to come, Gusuke, Doraemon and Nobita - finding a way to defeat the rampaging, unleashed Phoenixia - comes across Mamoru's machine.
- Adam and Eve Plot: He created the first generation of Birdopians using the Evolution Light, turning two ordinary, non-sentient birds (one of each gender) into fully human-sized andromorphic beings, who serves as the Birdopian's equivalent to Adam and Eve. And there are more birds to follow.
- Hologram: How he appears himself to Nobita and friends, since his true self is long-dead when they found his machine.
- Labcoat of Science and Medicine: Befitting his status as a scientist, Mamoru wears a labcoat in most of his scenes, including his appearance as a hologram of a long-dead man.
- Meaningful Name: Mamoru Torino - tori meaning "bird" in Japanese. An appropriate-sounding name for an ornithologist, is it not?
- Mythology Gag:
- Mamoru is not the first 23rd-Century scientist who despises humanity, and Time Travelled to the past to an uninhabited world and start life anew. Earlier movies like Doraemon: Nobita and the Steel Troops and Doraemon: Nobita and the Animal Planet have similar characters, though they're repopulating worlds respectively with robots and assorted animals instead of only birds, and Mamoru is the first of these granted the privilege of having a name and personality.
- Mamoru creating a new world with an upgraded version of the Evolution Light is also loosely adapted from a manga story, "Stray Dog Ichi's Country" where Nobita creates a civilization of andromorphic canines and felines using the same gadget, though for Nobita's case it's unintentional. What's even better is that Doraemon: Nobita in the Wan-Nyan Spacetime Odyssey, an adaptation based on "Stray Dog Ichi's Country" comes out three years after this one!
- Posthumous Character: He's been dead for thousands of years by the time Doraemon and friends found out the truth behind Birdopia's creation.
