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Fake Heroes Party
Voiced by: Hiro Shimono (Derolin), Yōko Hikasa (Zurbon), Hiroshi Iwasaki (Masopho), Yasuhiro Mamiya (Herohero)
A group of fakes, they appear to be heroes but are really scheming and acting for their own greed. In their second encounter with Dai, they reveal to have become better people and helping others or at least, they attempt to, but are still greedy. They make some sporadic appearances in the story, including the final arc.Tropes pertaining all of them
- Back for the Finale: After the first story arcs, they make some minor appearances in the story without playing any major role until the final battle, where they are the one to disable the last Black Core with Matoriv’s help.
- Broken Pedestal: When he first meet them, Dai believes Deroline is the hero of the story and the others are his party and calls the monsters on Dermline island when they request it. When he sees them beating down the monsters, Dai realizes they are just fake. The second time he meets them, Dai openly shows his disdain.
- Butt-Monkey: Following their debut, all their appearances have them humiliated and never taken seriously. They cower at the sight of Dai and witness with horror the moving castle.
- Corrupted Character Copy: They are an evil version of some playable classes from Dragon Quest III. Specifically the Hero for Deroline, the Warrior for Herohero, the Mage for Masopho and the Priest for Zulpon.
- Everyone Has Standards:
- They're fakes and not really good people until much later on, but they still fight monsters, protect the lands and do what they can, even if it's for their own reputation.
- Masopho himself is entirely aware of his low morals and would rather Popp not end up on the same road.
- One thing could also be said about the rest of the party chiding Masopho for rousing up to fight Crocodine, which they see as sending him to a painful and meaningless death. They're crooks and fakes, but not outright unfeeling sociopaths.
- Fake Ultimate Hero: They are an entire party of crooks who defraud people while pretending to be heroes to kings.
- Goldfish Poop Gang: Their comedic antics wouldn’t be out of place coming from Team Rocket, and like those guys, they’re not all bad and occasionally wind up doing good.
- Greed: Their main motivation is to get rich, even through dishonest ways. After they ‘’try’’ to become better person, they remain greedy but their methods are less morally ambiguous.
- Heel–Face Turn: Downplayed. When meeting Dai for the second time, they say to have turned a new leaf and are trying to become real heroes, however, Dai notices their motivations remain unheroic. By the end of the series, however, they do commit a truly heroic action.
- Mass "Oh, Crap!": Played for Laughs. In their little appearances, they witness with terror some of Vearn’s most impressive actions, like his moving fortress or the dropping of a pillar from his palace. In these instances they are helpless and can only panic or react with shock.
- Obviously Evil: While they are dressed like the Hero and the classes of the Dragon Quest games, their faces in their panel debut make instantly clear they’re fakes with bad intentions.
- Small Role, Big Impact:
- Thanks to them Dai meets the King of Romos, leading to him being recommended as a disciple for Avan.
- Masopho is the one who sets the wimpy Popp on the path of heroism.
- In the final arc they play a vital role to save the world with Matoriv's help by stopping the last Black Core.
- Starter Villain: They’re the main villains of the pilot chapters and the first opponents Dai faces.
- Villain with Good Publicity: They fool the people of Romos into believing that they are a party of true heroes that has killed evil monsters, while they've actually attacked good monsters and kidnapped Gome. During their fight with Dai, however, they reveal their true colors in front of everyone.
Tropes exclusive to Deroline
- Anime Hair: Being an evil ripoff of the Hero from Dragon Quest III, Deroline shares the same Dragon Ball-esque spiky hairstyle.
- Having a Blast: Deroline knows the Boom spell, which he uses on Dai and Brass before leaving Dermline Island.
- Heroes Prefer Swords: Played with. Deroline is the fake Hero of the group and his main weapon is a sword.
- Kill It with Fire: During the party at Romos Castle, Deroline defeats most of Dai's monsters with fire spells.
- Sealed Evil in a Can: After a brief fight, Dai defeats Deroline by capturing him in a magic cylinder. He's freed shortly after.
- Smug Snake: Delorin is proud and confident of his abilities despite not even being the smartest among his party but, when Dai summons many monsters stronger than him, he quickly panics.
- Tsurime Eyes: Upon first seeing Deroline, Brass notices something is wrong with him because his eyes aren’t those of a hero. Instead, his eyes are sharp and triangle-shaped.
- Would Hurt a Child: After beating Dai in a swordfight, Deroline threatens to kill him in front of everyone, accidentally revealing that he's not the hero he pretends to be.
Tropes exclusive to Herohero
- Brutish Character, Brutish Weapon: He's the brute of his party and wields an axe.
- Gonk: His face is very ugly, even more than the other fake heroes, resembling more a gorilla than a human.
- Ironic Name: His name is Herohero but he’s actually a fake hero.
Tropes exclusive to Masopho
- Connected All Along: It turns out that Masopho was a co-disciple of Matoriv when they were young, decades prior the start of the story. The difference is that Matoriv kept training and became the world’s best mage while Masopho became a crook.
- Dastardly Whiplash: Masopho has a thin twirled mustache which immediately sets him as a villain.
- Hidden Depths: While he is a petty thief, Masopho is aware of his low morals and not proud of his own situation. He also understands what makes a true hero, and what courage is.
- Jacob Marley Warning: Masopho points out that, in his young days, he was a coward like Popp, running away and abandoning his companions, with the implication that it is a dark mark on his past that he is not proud of, all so that he can make the young man follow a different route than himself and save Dai and Maam from Crocodine.
- My Greatest Second Chance: Downplayed, but he is given one of these in the final arc, as he finally gets to use his powers beyond their limits for good to freeze the last Black Core.
- Robe and Wizard Hat: Like the male mage from the Dragon Quest games, Masopho wears a green robe and a hat.
Tropes exclusive to Zulpon
- Adaptation Dye-Job: Zulpon has purple hair in the manga and the original Anime but the 2020 anime changes it light blue to make her closer to the priestess of the games.
- Blow You Away: When the Fake Heroes Party kidnaps Gome, Zulpon sends Dai away with a Woosh spell, which also cuts him in multiple places.
- Bound and Gagged: While looking for Gome, Dai finds Zulpon and ties her up to ask her where have they taken it..
- Put Down Your Gun and Step Away: After Dai defeats the Fake Heroes, Zulpon holds some slimes hostages, pointing a sword at them, and forces him to summon back the monsters. It backfires because the slimes combine together in a king slime that squashes her.
- Razor Wind: Zulpon's Woosh is a weak wind spell that cuts the opponent in multiple places.
- The Smurfette Principle: Zulpon is the only female fake hero.
- Squashed Flat: When she holds some slimes hostage, they combine into a big king slime. Zulpon barely has time to notice it before being squashed.
- Tickle Torture: Dai has an Antnibbler lick her feet to tickle her and force her to confess where Gome is kept.
- Women Are Wiser: Zulpon is more clever than the other male fake heroes. She’s the one who decide to use Dai to get the Golden Metal Slime and also the only one smart enough to hold a hostage against Dai rather than fight him directly.
- White Magician Girl: Zulpon is the only girl of the group and the priest as well, although, unlike most examples of the trope, she’s actually evil (at first).
Temujin and Baron
Temujin and Baron are, respectively, a bishop and a sage from the kingdom of Papnica. They accompany Leona to Dermlin Island for Leona's baptismal ritual in her introductiory arc, but they harbor a nefarious scheme to kill Leona and become the new rulers of Papnica. Dai finds out about of their plans and foils them when he activates the Dragon Crest for the first time.
Tropes pertaining to both
- Arc Villain: They are the main villains of Leona's introductiory arc, though Baron usurps Temujin's position after getting a killing machine.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: They pretend to be royal sages loyal to Leona, but they actually plan to kill her.
- Make It Look Like an Accident: The reason they insisted on doing the ritual on Dermlin Island is because it's populated by monsters and, after killing Leona, they could come back and pretend she was killed by a monster instead.
- Put on a Prison Bus: After Dai stops their plan, they are said to have been imprisoned, but never reappear in the story.
- Sinister Minister: Both are sages of the Papnica kingdom who want Leona dead.
Exclusive to Temujin
- Evil Old Folks: Temujin is an evil old bishop who wants to kill his princess.
- The Usurper: His true intention is to kill Leona, the last surviving member of Papnica's royal family, and usurp the throne. However, Baron dispatches him after obtaining the killing machine.
Exclusive to Baron
- Attack Its Weak Point: Baron's mecha is very tough, but Dai notices a small window on its chest. After breaking thee window, Dai fires up the mecha with a Dragon Crest-powered ''Frizz''. The fire goes inside the window and burns Baron, defeating him.
- Humongous Mecha: Baron pilots a killing machine, a giant mecha designed years before the beginning of the story by the Dark Lord to defeat the Hero. It's very powerful, easily beating Dermlin Island's monsters and Dai, who couldn't win without the Dragon Crest.
- Scary Scorpions: In his first attempt to kill Leona, Baron summons an Evil Scorpion, but Dai kills it. Then Dai spots Baron with a monster cylinder and realizes his true intentions.
- The Worf Effect: Baron's killing machine was designed to defeat the Hero and easily beat all the monsters of Dermlin Island, but loses instantly when Dai activates his Dragon Crest, showing how powerful he becomes.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: After the killing machine proves to be powerful enough to easily defeat all of the monsters, Baron tosses Temujin, feeling certain he isn't needed anymore.
Soala (Unmarked Spoilers)
Voiced by: Ai Kayano (Japanese, 2020 series)
Soala was the princess in the kingdom of Alkeed. When Baran was gravely injured following his battle against Velzar and on the verge of death, Soala found him and nursed him back to health. When the royal circle in Alkeed started casting doubt on Baran, he opted to leaving the kingdom behind, but Soala caught up with him and followed him to Teran, where they settled down as family, raising their son, Dino, whom nearly everyone would address as "Dai" in the main story.Alas, her father would not allow such a peaceful life to remain, as he and his subordinates tracked them down with the intention of killing Baran, though Dino was spared and sent away. As Baran was about to be executed, Soala unexpectedly jumped into the line of fire and took the fireball spells that were meant to kill Baran, sacrificing her life in exchange for Baran's. In his moment of rage, Baran wiped out the entire region of Alkeed, annihilating everyone within it.
- Died in Your Arms Tonight: Specifically, in Baran's arms when she snuffed it.
- Florence Nightingale Effect: After she nursed Baran back to health, they fell in love with each other.
- Happily Married: To Baran, while she was alive.
- Last Request: Her dying wish for Baran was for him not to hate humans. Unfortunately, Baran was too enraged by the actions that led to her death for her words to register to him.
- The Lost Lenore: Her death sparked Baran's hatred of humans.
- Missing Mom: Of Dai.
- Morality Chain: To Baran. It was her death that caused Baran to develop a seething hatred towards the humans.
- Posthumous Character: She had already been dead before the main story-line began.
- Rebellious Princess: A tragic example. She ran away with Baran, in defiance of her father and others who distrusted him. She also took the fireball spells that were intended for Baran, which caused her death.
- Star-Crossed Lovers: With Baran. He doesn't take it well when Soala dies Taking the Bullet.
- Taking the Bullet: In this case, the "bullet" was the fireball spells, but the trope otherwise applies, at the cost of her own life.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: She gave up her life to protect Baran from being killed and pleaded with him to not hate humans. Little did she know that her death caused Baran to hate humans, decide to wipe out humanity, and become an enemy for their son years later.
- Walking Spoiler: It's hard to talk about her without revealing important details about Baran and/or Dai.
Velzar, King of the Abyss
- Ancient Evil: Just like Vearn, Velzar is millennias old, and is likely much older. He remained in the underworld until 15 years before the main story and was quickly defeated by Baran, though he remains alive.
- And I Must Scream: He's sealed in stone by the gods and can't act, though he is capable to telepathically speaking with Vearn and Dai. With the death of Kill-Vearn, it's implied that Velzar has lost his only way of doing anything meaningful.
- Complete Immortality: Even if he had been killed, Velzar's immortal soul would have eventually brought him back to life. In order to keep him from acting further after his defeat at Baran's hands, emissaries of the gods trapped his body in stone.
- Didn't Think This Through: With Vearn's loss, instead of going back to behind the scenes, he attempts to manually blow up the nearby Black Core via Kill-Vearn. As long as heroes and most humans die, he can always come up with some way to Take Over the World. Kill-Vearn is immediately Killed Off for Real and Velzar loses his only puppet.
- Dragons Are Demonic: He's an ancient fire dragon and alongside Vearn is effectively the ruler of the underworld.
- Evil Versus Oblivion: Velzar's motives is Kill All Humans and reclaim the surface world for the dragons to spite the gods. Vearn's motives are the same, except that he wants to obliterate the surface completely and make the underworld the new main realm.
- Sealed Evil in a Can: After his defeat he was sealed in a stone dragon statue. Still, he's able to communicate and uses Kill-Vearn as his proxy.
- Underestimating Badassery: He calls Dai weak compared to Baran and questions why Vearn is having trouble with him. Vearn even calls him out that Dai has already surpassed Baran and they're yet to see Dai fight at full strength. Velzar changes his mind when Vearn has to pull more tricks to stay alive.
- Villain of Another Story: He was a threat to the surface world before Vearn and Hadlar. In fact, because Baran has defeated him before he could launch an invasion, unlike Hadlar, almost nobody in the present time knew of Velzar's existence.
- Villain Respect: He’s fought against Vearn for ages for the rule of the underworld and in the end they consider each other equals. After Velzar got sealed away, he can only watch Vearn from the sidelines, and praises the strategies the Dark King can come up with. He still plans to kill him via Kill-Vearn in case Vearn wins and decide how to rule the world later.
