In Another World with My Smartphone - Phrasia / Characters

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This page is a collection of tropes for the characters affiliated with Phrasia in the Light Novel In Another World with My Smartphone and its adaptations. Fans of only the anime and manga must beware of spoilers.

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The Phrase in General

The Phrase are lifeforms native to the Crystal Planet of Phrasia.

Absurdly Sharp Blade: They can turn their limbs into this to slice or stab at their targets.
Alien Invasion: Of the extra-dimensional variety. A faction of them gained the power to tear through World Boundaries, and chased the Sovereign Phrase across many worlds, exterminating countless lives in their mad pursuit.
Animalistic Abomination: With the exception of Dominant Constructs, who resemble humans, the other Phrase take on the forms of a variety of abstract and twisted animals.
Anti-Magic: They're completely immune to energy-based magic. Due to the unique qualities of Phrasium, they can absorb magic, and use it to make their bodies harder. Touya eventually discovers that he can make powerful weapons and armor out of the material.
Attack Its Weak Point: Each Phrase's body contains a glowing red core that functions as their heart. Destroying the core is the only way to kill a Phrase.
Big Bad: The first half of the light novel, they are the utmost threat to the multiverse due to their involvement in the destruction of other worlds five thousand years ago.
Crystalline Creature: Their entire body is made up of a clear, blue-tinted material that humans refer to as Phrasium. Ancient humans often referred to them "crystal monsters".
From a Single Cell: They can regenerate any amount of their crystalline body as long as their core is intact.
If It Swims, It Flies: Phrase that resemble animals that live underwater have the ability to fly.
Super-Persistent Predator: They seek out and kill any intelligent creatures with a heartbeat.

Lesser Constructs

The weakest and most common type of Phrase.

Animalistic Abomination: They resemble various types of animals, but primarily bugs. Some of these types include Crickets, Beetles, Crabs, Crayfish, and Snakes.
Cannon Fodder: They're this to anyone riding a Frame Gear. They're relatively small, and lack the more destructive properties of the other constructs, making them easy targets.

Intermediate Constructs

The level of Phrase above Lesser Constructs. These Phrase are significantly larger and more deadly.

Animalistic Abomination: They resemble various types of animals. These types include Manta Rays, Ocean Sunfish, Orcas, Praying Mantises, Ostriches, and Spiders.
Energy Weapon: They can fire destructive laser blasts from their bodies.
Giant Mook: They're significantly larger than Lesser Constructs, almost equal in size to Frame Gears.
Spike Shooter: They can transform parts of their bodies into primitive cannons and fire spikes of Phrasium at their targets.

Upper Constructs

The largest type of Phrase lifeform and also the most destructive.

Animalistic Abomination: They embody this trope much more than the smaller constructs, as while they do still resemble animals, they always have features that the original animal doesn't have. Various examples include:
- A Crocodile with six legs, a dorsal fin, a giant horn on its head, and a protrusion on its tail that can fire crystal spikes.
- A Gorilla with four arms, a row of spikes running down its back, and a whip-like tail.
- A Tortoise with six legs and a buzz-saw lining its shell.
Attack Its Weak Point: Unlike the other types of Phrase, Upper Constructs always contain more than one core, and all cores must be taken out at the same time in order to kill them.
Giant Mook: A more extreme example than Intermediates.
Kaiju: They're utterly gigantic. Touya notes that Frame Gears look like tiny action figures compared to them.
Shockwave Stomp: They're so massive that their physical attacks can cause shock waves that create ripples in the ground.
Wave-Motion Gun: The laser blasts they can fire are large and powerful enough to vaporize entire cities, as the people of Yulong found out.

Dominant Constructs

The smallest, yet most powerful type of Phrase. They even possess human-level intelligence.

Yula

The mastermind behind the Phrase invasion that plagued the multiverse. He originally sought the power of the Sovereign, but eventually discovered an even higher power.

A God Am I: He planned to conquer countless worlds until he was strong enough to usurp the gods.
Ain't Too Proud to Beg: He begs Melle to at least grant him an honorable death on Phrasia despite the many atrocities he had committed.
Big Bad: He is responsible for starting the Phrase invasion across the multiverse, after he deposed and betrayed Melle in the distant past, making him complicit in the main conflict of the series. He's actually sharing this role with the Servile God, a traitorous member of the Pantheon, who would ally with him before eventually betraying him and fuse him into the Wicked God, making both him and the Wicked God the threat to Touya and the entire world.
Big Bad Ensemble: Along with the Servile God, they are equally responsible for plotting the destruction of the multiverse, but they are not allies in the first place as Yula only uses him to have the Wicked God to devour him, giving the evil deity a massive power boost. Both the Wicked God and Yula later become the equal threat during the climatic battle.
The Chessmaster: He was an accomplished strategist among the Phrase, and it shows in his plan to take over Touya's world. He sought out the power of the Servile God, and secured his help in creating a Wicked God. He then betrayed the Servile God by having the Wicked God devour him, giving the beast a massive power-up. He then used it to corrupt the remaining Phrase in his faction, and used them to consume the souls of mortal beings to further power up the Wicked God. Following that, he imbibed the Wicked God with a god-killing substance known as Divine Venom, preventing Touya from facing it head on. And when it looked like Touya had him backed into a corner, he created a Pocket Dimension to trap Touya in while his subordinates destroyed the world. He likely would've succeeded had Touya not been Genre Savvy enough to plan for it.
Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: Backstabs Melle by usurping her position as Phrasia's leader and starts the Phrase invasion across the multiverse. He then backstabs the Servile God to be devoured by the Wicked God, therefore causing the latter to gain a massive boost in power, as well as himself.
Disc-One Final Boss: Both him and the Wicked God's deaths in Volume 19 only ended the Phrase invasion and it is still far from over. There's the Wicked Devout's five Generals, the Co-Dragons to the Wicked God before evolving into the new main antagonists of the light novel. Touya and the rest of his allies now have to deal with the religion's generals during the aftermath of the evil deity's destruction. And they are actively continuing their master's Evil Plan.
Morton's Fork: He was going to end up dead regardless of whether he had conquered Touya's world or not.
- In scenario A, Touya defeats him and ruins his plans.
- In scenario B, he defeats Touya and conquers the world, which would prompt the God of Destruction to destroy the world right then and there.
Multiversal Conqueror: His entire endgame is to conquer every single worlds across the multiverse, so he can rule over anyone.
Omnicidal Maniac: Is content to wipe out every life on the multiverse including the Gods so that he'll rule it as he sees fit.
Opportunistic Bastard: He uses Melle's escape as an opportunity to start a mass-invasion from countless worlds.
Pocket Dimension: He uses some of the Wicked God's power to create one called Niflheim, with the intention to trap Touya there and force him to watch as the Mutants kill all of his friends and family.
The Starscream: In the past he's responsible for driving Melle out of Phrasia when he takes over her spot as the Phrase's leader.
Undignified Death: Melle cruelly executes him inside his own crumbling pocket dimension. He's unable to even fight back as the death of the Wicked God took away all of his powers, including his natural Phrase abilities.
Villainous Breakdown: When Touya reveals that the Servile God was the weakest divine being Yula could've gotten his hands on, as well as when Touya is able to effortlessly escape from Yula's supposedly inescapable pocket realm.
Villain Team-Up: He joined forces with the Servile God to create a Wicked God with which they would take over the world. At least, that's what the Servile God was led to believe.
What's a Henway?: Touya hits him with one of these when Yula demands to know how Touya empowered all of his allies.
Yula: Wh-What nonsense is this?! How can those mere creatures be mustering this strength?! What did you do, you bastard?!
Touya: Just a little power I like to call nunya.
Yula: And just what the hell is nunya?!
Touya: Nunya business.

Gila

A battle-crazed member of the Combat Strain of Dominant Constructs who also sought to take the Sovereign's power for his own.

Arc Villain: Serving as part of the Big Bad Ensemble in the Demon Kingdom of Xenoahs arc alongside Severus Arnos. While Arnos is responsible for the attempted assassination of Sakura by hiring the Yulong assassins, the Qulan, so that he can allow his nephew Farese to take the throne in Xenoahs, Gila invades the capital city of Xenoskull with an army of Phrase to ultimately kill Touya and Sakura.
Blood Knight: He lived for battle and was never satisfied unless he was killing something.
Equippable Ally: Shown the first instance of a Dominant construct attaching lower constructs as weapon, which he use to produce stronger energy blasts than what her can do alone.
Ingesting Knowledge: So that he could properly communicate with Touya, he used a bizarre technique that Phrase can use to learn a world's language. They stab the brain of a local, and after a few seconds a crystal flower grows from the wound. The flower than wilts into a seed, which is then ingested by the Phrase, giving them that person's knowledge of their native language.
The Starscream: While he is loyal to Gila, his true motivation is to use the Sovereign's own power for his own reasons, with the presumed intention of betraying Yula in the first place.
Super Mode: He was capable of using a skill called "Crystal Armament" that covered his entire body in tough, jagged crystal, and gave him a tremendous boost in physical power. Unfortunately, this skill required him to put all of his being into a single maneuver, making him susceptible to powerful attacks.

Xeno

A former general of the Phrase and member of the Combat Strain. He was the elder brother of Gila.

Blood Knight: Much like his brother. He joined Yula not because he wanted the Sovereign's power, he simply wanted to kill the Sovereign for the adrenaline rush.
Red Is Violent: Unlike most Phrase who are a pale blue color, Xeno is primarily red to denote his role as a general of the Combat Strain.
Super Mode: Can use "Crystal Armament". And just like his brother, he expended all of his life force to activate it, allowing Melle an opening to kill him.

Leto and Luto

Twin Dominant Constructs who joined Yula's faction to seek out the Sovereign.

The Assimilator: After they became corrupted by the wicked god, Leto attempted to do this to Ney.
Axe-Crazy: The only reason they accompanied Yula across worlds was because they wanted to kill things without consequences.
Creepy Twins: They speak in calm voices yet are always talking about violence.
Half-Identical Twins: Their slightly different builds and mirrored hairstyles are the only way to tell them apart.
One-Winged Angel: When it's clear they can't kill Ende and the Phrase girls normally, they fuse together into a single entity that resembles a giant spider.
Spider People: Their One-Winged Angel form is essentially an arachne but with two human upper bodies attached to the giant bottom half of a spider.

The Mutants

Mutated Phrase Constructs

Gold-colored Phrase lifeforms that were corrupted by the Wicked God. They no longer serve their original purpose.

The Assimilator: They're capable of doing this to their fellow Phrase. During an invasion in Sandora, multiple mutated Lesser Constructs fused themselves with an uncorrupted Upper Construct. While it originally resembled a Nautilus, after getting corrupted it resembled a horrifying hybrid of a Snail, Octopus, and Squid.
Gold and White Are Divine: While their golden shine is a sign of their divinity, it's hardly an indication that they're good.
Gold-Colored Superiority: They look like they're made of a muddy gold material, and are significantly stronger than regular Phrase.
Hunter of His Own Kind: As a result of the Wicked God' influence, they will target any uncorrupted Phrase they come across to bolster their own strength.
Monstrous Cannibalism: They will consume their fellow Phrase by absorbing their cores and slurping up their bodies as they liquefy.

Skeletal Constructs

The remains of humans whose souls had been consumed by the Wicked God, reduced to shambling, mindless monsters.

Deader than Dead: Any living thing whose soul has been consumed is described as being "obliterated at the base level". Their souls will never ascend to the Divine Realm and they will never be reincarnated. Even the gods themselves can't bring you back from this.
Dem Bones: They resemble human skeletons that are made of Phrasium. Later on they take on the same golden sheen as the other Mutants.
Our Zombies Are Different: Their existence is likened to that of a zombie, as they were once human and were turned into shambling, undead corpses. Although this is (quite literally) only skin deep, as their skin is easily burned away, leaving only the skeleton, and they can't infect other humans.
Reforged into a Minion: They lack any traits that they had as humans, and their only purpose is to attack anything that isn't a Mutant.
Was Once a Man: They're what remains of the humans whose souls had been consumed.

Fake Gears

Bizarre Mutated Phrase constructs that resemble Frame Gears.

Attack Its Weak Point: They can only be destroyed if the Skeleton Constructs piloting them are destroyed.
Awesome, but Impractical: Despite being made of corrupted Phrasium, they lack many of the attributes of the Phrase, such as their magic resistance and ability to change the shape of their body. This is because the Fake Gear shares a cherry-sized core with the Skeleton Construct piloting it.
Grand Theft Prototype: They were created after Yula used a Mutant Anemone Phrase to steal a couple Frame Gears during a battle.

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