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These are the villains of the franchise, ranging from mere threats, to a squad of lovable, but dangerous mooks who work for the main antagonist, to galaxy-annihilating overlords. Because some of these characters have spoiler-heavy content, their folders will be unmarked.

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Recurring Antagonists

Arfoire (UNMARKED SPOILERS)

Arfoire (Magiquone in Japanese)

Super Dimension, Zero Dimension, and Hyper Dimension (Revived)

^{Deity of Sin Arfoire}

^{True Deity of Sin Arfoire}

^{Ultra Dimension Arfoire}

^{As Conversation (Super Dimension)}

^{Pure Arfoire}

Debut: Hyperdimension Neptunia

Voiced by: Chiaki Takahashi (Japanese), Laura Post (English)

The primary antagonist of the franchise. Like the CPUs, she's had several different incarnations; some of whom, when not working alone, are members of ASIC, the Seven Sages, AffimaX, and the Pirate Makers.

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General Tropes:

• Arch-Enemy: She's this towards Neptune and her companions, being the only they've faced throughout the series to come back again and again. Both Neptune and Nepgear lampshades this towards Uzume and the audience in VII.
  Uzume: ...She's an acquaintance or what...?
  Neptune: Honestly, she's like one of those annoying relatives you don't like too much because she's always criticizing or picking fights with you. Ahem. Let me explain to those in the audience new to the series! We've fought this here old boss lady character called Arfoire like a billion times in the older games and anime releases! She's so boring! I seriously don't even wanna look at Arsnore right now. She's not about to make us enter a boss fight, is she? Ugh, I'm so over it...
  Nepgear: Sis, maybe you should be less meta in explaining it, so the players get a more immersive, believable experience. But in our world, Arfoire^note as the Deity of Sin should have perished, and in the other dimension, I thought she had reformed completely, which means that this Arfoire must be different from the ones we've seen.
• Big Bad: She's the main antagonist of the original game, mk2, their remakes, and Sisters vs Sisters.
• Composite Character: Her portrayal in the anime. Her initial plan to string up the CPUs and strip them of their power resembles the actions of Hyper Dimension's ASIC. Creating eggplant minions to torment Neptune is based on Ultra Dimension Arfoire. Super Dimension Arfoire gets a reference in the "Little Purple Sunshine" OVA, where a Fountain of Youth reverts her to her original form from Re;Birth1. Additionally, her design in the 3rd OVA is based on Chrome from Super Neptunia RPG, whose design, character, and even voice actress was based on the former's original form.
• Digital Piracy Is Evil:
  • The personification of this. Her Japanese name "Magiquone" is a play on "Magicon", the name used for flash carts for the Nintendo DS, while her localized name "Arfoire" is a play on the popular flash cart R4. Flash carts for the DS are cartridges that can be easily loaded with downloaded games and other applications and used in a plug-and-play fashion. There are even mooks throughout the game named after DS flash carts, such as R4, M3, and DSTT, complete with drops of "Illegal" hardware and software.
  • Interestingly, her Re;Birth1 backstory actually veers into Digital Piracy Is Okay, since the reason she's with the Quartet who defeated the original Goddess is because she can absorb/copy the Goddess' power and use that to create the current 4. She does become a villain later, but that wasn't her choice.
• Dub Name Change: From Magiquone in Japanese to Arfoire in English.
• Fusion Dance:
  • Zerodimension Arfoire does this with Dark Purple and whatever is left of Rei Ryght's power near the end of the Zero Dimension arc.
  • In Sisters, the Arfoire who was slain by Nepgear's Gehaburn in one of the Bad Futures does this with her present self.
• Generic Doomsday Villain:
  • The Deity of Sin in mk2 is a barely sentient monster who only exists to destroy everything, though she's a much more cunning and active threat after reviving in Sisters.
  • While Zero Dimension Arfoire has more personality than the average villain of this attitude (being both Evil Is Hammy and exasperated at how no one takes her seriously), her ultimate motivation boils down to being an Omnicidal Maniac who wants to kill Uzume and destroy the Zero Dimension, and doesn't even seem to register that doing this would end up with her destroyed either. It's not even that she knows and welcomes it, but she just flat-out ignores it when anyone brings it up. Justified since she's nothing more than Kurome's recollection of Arfoire as the aforementioned Deity of Sin.
• Hot Witch: Her primary form is a witch-like being with a revealing outfit.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: She has red eyes and serves a constant threat throughout the series.
• Villain Decay: Super Dimension Arfoire is the calm and calculating Big Bad, and Hyper Dimension Arfoire is a full-on Eldritch Abomination. Ultra Dimension Arfoire, however, was only ever portrayed as a threat when Neptune and Noire couldn't transform, and mostly becomes a joke afterward, especially with the trauma from Iris Heart and resorting to sentient eggplants against Neptune. Zero Dimension Arfoire is more competent, but still has a lot of comedic scenes.
• With Great Power Comes Great Insanity:
  • Unlike the original game's Arfoire, who was the original Goddess, Re;Birth1's take on Arfoire was originally a human who had copied the original Goddess's power while assisting a group of heroes. Unfortunately her madness was copied as well, and eventually changed Arfoire into what she is in game.
  • In the Bad Future from where the time-travelling Grey Sister originated, the IS Crystal has powered Arfoire up to Level 999999, at the cost of any will or personality other than destroying everything in sight (not much different from her original portrayal in mk2).

Super Dimension Arfoire (Hyperdimension Neptunia/Re;Birth1/reVerse)

• Annoying Laugh: The characters in game find Arfoire's laugh to be annoying, and it's the way she announces herself half the time!
• Assimilation Backfire: The first time she uses her Power Copying turns it into a double-edged sword, when she accidentally copied Compa and suffered a severe de-powering and minor personality change because of it. Unfortunately it turns out keeping powers is voluntary. This also applies to copying the original Goddess's powers, which drove her insane.
• Beauty Equals Goodness: Just compare how she looks when she's a villain to how she looks after Neptune reformed her in True End...
• Dirty Coward: Arfoire is more likely to send an accomplice in to do battle than actually fight Neptune and company herself — even using machines that jam items and abilities so she gains the upper hand. Justified, as Arfoire is not particularly powerful and spends the game in a constant power contest with Neptune's growing party. When she picks a fight, it's only because she thinks she can win.
• Evil Is Hammy: She sure is hammy in an evil way.
• Fallen Hero: In Re;Birth1 Arfoire was originally a hero who helped the other 4 in fighting the old Goddess, then after the Goddess is defeated (with the other 4 heroes perished in the process), Arfoire copied her power and use that to create the current 4 goddesses, and help raising them with Histoire until she was driven insane by the original Goddess' insanity.
• Heroic Willpower: And even then, she held out against the corruption for centuries before finally succumbing and causing trouble only a few years before the start of the game.
• I Lied: Late in the game, Arfoire defeats your party again. Every single character tells Neptune to make a break for it, as Arfoire is obviously after her goddess power. Neptune decides to give up her power instead, as Arfoire promises not to harm the others if she gives up her power. And after Neptune's power is stolen, Arfoire retracts her promise, stating that Good Is Dumb. Fortunately IF and Compa manage to steal the tome Arfoire is carrying which contains Histoire, and they manage to successfully escape.
• Master of Disguise: Her "Copy" powers can be used to mimic others' appearances and mannerisms completely like when she posed as Blanc to take over Lowee.
• The Minion Master: Arfoire created the Enemy Discs, and can use them as well as leave them in dungeons to attack the player. Worse still, she can create fake CPUs like in chapter 7. She isn't this during battle though.
• Motive Decay: By the end of the first game, Arfoire goes from trying to remake the world to simply destroying it. It's explained that her fear-derived power basically eroded away her mental stability to cause this.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain:
  • Avenir is a very good front for her... when she's not trying to run it. Forcing the CPU Breaker to be deployed before it was done with testing completely cripples Avenir's stranglehold on Lastation.
  • Convincing the goddesses to gang up on Purple Heart and cast her out of Celestia turned out to be the nail that set into motion the chain of events that ended in her downfall, as it allowed Neptune to befriend the other CPUs and uniting them against Arfoire.
• Parental Substitute: Before going nuts, she shared this role with Histoire to the four goddesses.
• Power Copying: Arfoire's specialty. She absorbs the abilities of anyone she targets and then can replicate them perfectly, even right down to transforming into their Goddess forms. Even worse, if the power is retrieved, Arfoire still maintains a copy that she can alter to her whims.
• Spared by the Adaptation: In the True End to Re;Birth1, Neptune is able to successfully save her from her corruption and bring her home to give her a chance to redeem herself.
• Treacherous Advisor: Arfoire plays this role to the Goddesses while in Celestia. This is the reason why they cast Neptune from Celestia, as opposed to the first game, where it was decided on a whim.
• Villain Ball: Almost completely averted. Only once does Arfoire do anything dumb. And even then, she gets what she wants.

Hyper Dimension Arfoire (mk2/Re;Birth2, Sisters)

The object of worship for the Arfoire Syndicate of International Crime (ASIC). Arfoire is likened to a false idol in comparison to CPUs, being their equal in terms of power and capable of using Shares to her advantage. The CFWs are all aspects of her, and her primary goal is Gamindustri's destruction.

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• And I Must Scream: In the Bad End of Sisters, Maho traps her in the sealing device to leave her stranded in a spacetime rift for eternity.
• Arch-Enemy: Considers Nepgear as this in all endings, being her greatest obstacle in destroying the world.
• Back from the Dead: In Sisters, Maho was tricked into creating the Infinite Share Crystal by an ASIC remnant so she could be revived.
• Borrowed Biometric Bypass: In order to release the limiter on the IS Crystal and use its full power, she needs to possess its creator Maho.
• Demonic Possession: The Deity of Sin manifests by possessing objects as her vessel. She even boasts that she is limited by neither time or physical body. After reviving in Sisters, her vessel isn't just limited to inanimate objects. Her initial host was the PC Continent's unnamed CPU, and she seeks to move on to the current Maho to release the limiter on the IS Crystal. She also possessed Anri, followed by Rom, in one timeline.
• Double Weapon: Her weapon in her true form is a spear with a large, dual-edged red blade on both of its ends.
• Eldritch Abomination: Compared to the first game's Arfoire or Ultra Dimension Arfoire, Deity of Sin is a very different entity. Being destruction incarnate, she manifests physically by possessing things, and thus is nearly impossible to destroy permanently. When manifesting incompletely she takes the form of a hideous, gigantic monster that looks more like a Living Statue than human.
• Godzilla Threshold: Infinite power, the ability to Body Surf upon "death" to possess anyone else she wants, and the ability to look like anyone she wants, Lowee and Lastation's populations almost entirely wiped out, and the ability to move through time after catching on to what Gray Sister has been up to. Even after one of her has finally been killed off, there's no stopping that time loop and no recovering from the damage she's done, so what else can be done but delete the entire timeline and every variation of it back to the creation of the IS Crystal to ensure there's no Infinite Shares for anyone and hope for a better outcome?
• Humanoid Abomination: Her complete manifestation manages to hit this, seeing as it looks quite beautiful for a monstrous goddess.
• Hopeless Boss Fight: Level 999999 Arfoire is this, you just have to stay alive for 6 minutes for the fight to end and have no hope of ever killing her.
• I Cannot Self-Terminate: This is uniquely the greatest obstacle toward her goals in Sisters. Having taken over Maho's sister's body she's now functionally immortal like all CPUs. This is all well and good until she realizes she needs to be Maho specifically to make full use of the IS Crystal and her Demonic Possession ability requires the death of her host before she can move on. The only ways to kill her would be another CPU or a weapon specifically designed to do so, such as the Gehaburn. The Maho with her is unwilling to kill her own sister and Gray Sister has informed the CPUs of how her power works so they won't go for the kill, leading to a race between the two groups to get the Gehaburn first.
• Invincible Villain: Pretty much what can sum her up. Not only she has no physical form, all she does when her vessel is destroyed is to migrate to another vessel. She is only sealed because the CPUs of the previous generation sacrificed themselves to bind Arfoire into the Gamindustri Graveyard. It takes the combined Shares of all the goddesses on one CPU to destroy her for good.
• Load-Bearing Boss: Due to being one with the Gamindustri Graveyard.
• No-Nonsense Nemesis: Unlike her other portrayals, this Arfoire is completely devoid of any comedic traits. She notably doesn't bat an eyelash whenever Neptune mispronounces her name.
• The Older Immortal: One of the, if not the oldest being in the franchise.
• Omnicidal Maniac: She has no goal beyond destroying Gamindustri as we know it.
• Pieces of God: The Criminals of Free World (Magic, Judge, Brave and Trick) are all aspects of her. This means their defeat only serve to accelerate Arfoire's revival.
• Red Baron: "Hanzaishin" (literally "Crime God" in Japan). In the dub it's changed into "Deity of Sin"
• Reused Character Design: Her CFW Arfoire form is later used for Overlord Momus in Re;Birth1. Her Deity of Sin form is also used for various monsters throughout the franchise as well as Ultra Dimension Arfoire. Meanwhile, both of her forms are later reused as transformations for her Zero Dimension incarnation, which turns out to be a copy of the original Deity of Sin.
• Sealed Evil in a Can: Arfoire was sealed by the CPUs of previous generation, led by Uranus, Neptune's predecessor.
• Taking You with Me: What she attempts to do toward Nepgear in all endings except the Conquest Ending.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Delivers this to Nepgear in the Conquest Ending, haunting her with implications that Nepgear has ensured Gamindustri's destruction instead of prevented it.
• Vocal Evolution: She has a hauntingly low voice in mk2, but her newly recorded lines in Re;Birth2 are more in line with her other portrayals.
• Voluntary Shapeshifting: She takes on a number of forms throughout the game. Notably turning herself into Compa to infiltrate the group to find the IS Crystal, as well as her usual appearance as her primary body throughout most of the game is that of Maho's sister, who is never seen.

Ultra Dimension Arfoire (Victory/Re;Birth3)

• Angrish: Slips into barely coherent sentences while expressing frustration that the anti-CPU Seven Sages have a CPU of their own with Yellow Heart.
• Artificial Stupidity: Arfoire will typically fixate on killing a single party member before moving on to another, that unfortunate character appears to be randomly chosen though the English version seems to put a slight preference toward Neptune.
• Berserk Button: Neptune's mere name is enough to annoy the hell out of Arfoire; the connection between the old world and the different world of the other dimension hasn't helped at all. Also getting called old.
• Big Bad Wannabe: In a first for the series, Arfoire is not the true threat, in spite of her efforts to the contrary. That honor would go to Rei, or at least the HDD form of both Rei's.
• Call to Agriculture: In the true end she's the owner of an eggplant farm.
• The Chew Toy: Throughout the game, nothing really works out for her to go smoothly as she planned, from being partnered up with Copypaste whose personality was rewritten by Anonydeath to spew out friendship speeches to getting traumatized by Iris Heart, even in her dreams. To rub further salt to the wound, her battle theme during her fight with Neptune is a remixed version of the first game's Gamindustri's Comic Relief.
• Composite Character: She's a combination of the first game's Arfoire and mk2's Underling.
• Dull Eyes of Unhappiness: She has these after what Iris Heart does to her.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Somewhat. She disapproves of the plan to kidnap children and everything that comes of it, but she goes along with it anyway.
• Heart Is an Awesome Power: After figuring out that Neptune is highly disturbed by eggplants she goes out of her way to get the powers of eggplants. It actually works for her for awhile, until she goes so far as to take on the form of a giant winged eggplant at which point Neptune just finds the situation so completely absurd that it just stops phasing her.
• Hopeless Boss Fight: In your first fight against her with Neptune and Noire, before either of them became CPUs. In a New Game Plus you can win the fight, though the rewards aren't that great and the story assumes you are still lost.
• I Work Alone: She dislikes collaborating with others.
• Old Maid: Called this by Warechu. Somehow, this convinces her that she perhaps belongs to the Seven Sages.
• Obviously Evil: Aside from the fact that she's dressed like a witch, the players have seen Arfoire before, from the original game, so they know she's evil. Which makes it surprising that she's not the main villain this time.
• Omnicidal Maniac: She never gets to act on it, but when she finally leaves the Seven Sages she comments on how she's always wanted "to destroy all". Warechu points out how that and the way she's speaking make no sense.
• To the Pain: She threatens to tear out Warechu's organs and feed them to piranhas while making him watch while he dies.
• Shapeshifter Baggage: She dislikes taking her strongest form due to how hideous it is. Noire also points out the more realistic problem, that it makes her a massive target.
• Spared by the Adaptation: She is the first Arfoire to make it through a game alive, and with a relatively happy ending to boot.
• Villain Team-Up: Despite doing most of the work herself, she likes the idea of the Seven Sages pushing aside the Goddesses, so she joins them.
• Villainous BSoD: Iris Heart punishes her for kidnapping IF by whipping her so thoroughly that she's reduced to gibberish and giggles with a blank face. She continues to have nightmares about it for years.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: Whether either will admit it or not, Warechu and Arfoire actually share this dynamic, and despite their bickering, really are friends, with Warechu actually willing to stand up to the CPUs to let Arfoire flee from Plutia. Even the CPUs were touched by this.

Zero Dimension Arfoire (VII/VIIR)

"My name is Arfoire... a name that will signal your demise, and ring the bell of destruction for this hopeless world!"

A woman dressed like a witch, met in the Zero Dimension by Neptune, Nepgear and Uzume. Everything about her is shrouded in mystery except for her goal of plunging the world into destruction.

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• Alas, Poor Villain: When she's killed off again in the Heart Dimension, she goes out pitifully begging Kurome to save her from disappearing. Adult Neptune, who she'd been trying to kill at the time, solemnly bids her farewell while saying her name properly for the first time.
• Ain't Too Proud to Beg: When she's defeated by Nepgear, Uzume and Adult Neptune, Arfoire doesn't waste any time in begging for mercy from Uzume (who is the CPU of the ruined nation that they were fighting in) by saying that CPU's should treat prisoners "according to the law!". Uzume doesn't listen, outright stating that as the only CPU in Zero Dimension, she is the law and that if she wants to pummel her, she damn well will.
• Arc Villain: Of the Zero Dimension Z arc, entering the narrative in order to deal with Uzume, Nepgear, and Neptune once they gain the ability to harm Dark Purple to prevent them from stopping the destruction of Zero Dimension.
• Back from the Dead: She dies at the end of the Zero Dimension Z arc with Dark Purple, but is shown alive and well in the Hyper Dimension G when she attacks IF. When Purple Heart takes notice of this and asks how she came back, Arfoire smugly replies how indeed without elaborating. That's because this Arfoire is a creation of Kurome, who can remake her as many times as necessary so long as she had enough energy to do so.
• Berserk Button: Both Neptunes get on her nerves with their inability to say her name right, to the point that she sheds Tears of Joy and nearly lets Nepgear pass her without a fight just for being the first person to properly pronounce it.
• The Dragon: To her creator Kurome, being the rogue CPU's most loyal follower.
• Fighting a Shadow: She's not the real Arfoire, but a copy created from Kurome's memories of the Deity of Sin. Even her death doesn't stop Kurome from just making a new one.
• Flat "What": When Adult Neptune says she is gonna put Arfoire, now in her One-Winged Angel form, in her bug book, all she can squeeze out is a bewildered "what?".
• Ignored Enemy: When Adult Neptune gets introduced, everyone is so stunned by it that they completely forget Arfoire is even there, much to her annoyance.
• It's What I Do: She frequently declares her intent to destroy all CPUs and the world, but when asked how the latter could possibly benefit her, she scoffs at the idea of needing a motive. It's just what she does. She's based on Kurome's memory of the Deity of Sin, who also defined her reason for existence as simply destroying everything.
• Not-So-Harmless Villain: The heroes tend to treat her with no respect or mock her name and rather shallow motive to destroy, so Arfoire tends to end up being treated as a Butt-Monkey in the narrative. This makes the moments where she actually lives up to her posturing (such as transforming into her One-Winged Angel to beat down on Nepgear and Uzume before Adult Neptune shows up, or being tasked with killing Adult Neptune by Kurome and getting surprisingly close before Nepgear and Uni intervene) stand out all the more.
• Omnicidal Maniac: She states that she knows no other purpose than destroying the world, even if it means she too is destroyed. This version of Arfoire is based on Kurome's memories of the Deity of Sin, who she encountered once a long time ago - thus this Arfoire's generic personality.
• Power Nullifier: Using Negative Energy, she can block the power of Shares, which allows her to get the advantage on Uzume and company near the climax of the Zero Dimension arc. It takes drawing shares from both the monsters of the Zero Dimension and shares from Hyperdimension's Planeptune to overpower her.
• Reused Character Design: This Arfoire can transform into the One-Winged Angel forms of the previous game's Arfoire, specifically the Deity of Sin's, something which both Nepgear and Uni comment on. Ironically, the Deity of Sin's first form has been reused before for Overlord Momus, while its second form has been reused by Ultra Dimension Arfoire. However unlike the previous Arfoires, this trope is justified since this incarnation is just a copy of the Deity of Sin from Kurome's memories.
• Sealed Evil in a Can: Briefly subjected to this inside of Adult Neptune's Nep-Note, though she breaks out thanks to eating all the food Adult Nep, Uzume, and Umio didn't like to regain enough strength to force her way out, though she decides beat a tactical retreat to avoid recapture.
• Smug Snake: While she has her moments, this version of Arfoire is not much of a schemer.
• Tears of Joy: Thanks to the Running Gag of people getting her name wrong, she's surprisingly thankful when Nepgear gets her name right, though not enough to spare her of course.
• Undying Loyalty: Unusually for Arfoire, she has this towards Kurome. Which makes sense, since she's literally a creation of Kurome.
• Villains Want Mercy: After being defeated by Uzume, Nepgear, and Adult Neptune, she tries to plead for leniency by claiming the law protects those who have surrendered and can't fight back. Uzume angrily answers back that as the only CPU of the Zero Dimension, she is the law and if she wants to beat her to death, it very much is allowed. She's only spared because Adult Neptune wanted to keep her in her Nep-Note.
• With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: Borrowing some of Rei's power from Croire seems to take a toll on her mind, not caring if she gets caught up in the newly revived Dark Purple's assault so long as she kills the CPUs.

Spin-offs and Other Media:

• Adaptational Heroism:
  • In the 2013 anime, she starts out as her usual antagonistic self in line with the games, but following her defeat by Iris Heart and the Planeptune CPUs, she willingly gives up villainy in favor of becoming an eggplant farmer, and saves the other CPUs from Rei by taking away the latter's powers in the final episode.
  • In Cyberdimension, she's just a normal farmer working for an eggplant farming company, displaying none of the Omnicidal Maniac traits of her canon counterpart.
  • Played with in the case of Game Maker Arfoire. She's very much still a villain, but her motives for being one is far more sympathetic; the only reason she wants to beat the other Game Makers with her games is so she could unify the world, which, while having some morally dubious implications to it, is much more reasonable compared to Taking Over the World.
• Anti-Villain: Her Game Maker self wants to make games that unite the world, much like the Failure Goddesses do. Well, that and make so much money. She simply takes every chance she gets to cut out the competition and take every good idea they had in the process in order to get a start in the industry. Once she actually does make a highly successful company, she's noted to be quite meticulous in programming her games and making them completely bug free despite also being relatively predatory "free" games. The only reason her games ended up releasing the Zaikopath is that Croire began swapping out her perfected code with bug ridden messes at the height of her popularity to bring everything crashing down for the energy needed to do so.
• Author Appeal: In-Universe. While exploring her company's building you can find multiple vending machines that will provide you with one of her games' discs. Almost every single one comes with the exceptionally powerful All Cancel Optimization ability and unfortunately wasted slots on redundant Break, Power, and/or Rapid Cancel Optimization abilities.
• Didn't Think This Through: Disbanding Magicompany in favor of Arfoire's Best Company, including abandoning the Copy Trio, for plausible deniability in having any connection to the previously rampant piracy issue is a fairly wise idea. Continuing to make use of Copy the Art's unique Jolly Roger logo on basically everything inside the building, on the other hand, would've instantly blown up in her face if only the Gold Third thought to look inside when coming to arrest her for her crimes.
• Go-Karting with Bowser: Cyberdimension is one of the very few times Arfoire is not out to do anything evil, she just wants to farm and make a living off her eggplants.
• Never My Fault: In Game Maker she has a habit of shifting the blame off herself to her various subordinates. This comes back to haunt her when it really wasn't her fault that the Zaikopath was released due to her company's games.
• The Voiceless: Doesn't speak in the English version of Cyberdimension, since none of the scenes in which she appears are dubbed.
• Throw the Dog a Bone: In Cyberdimension. It helps that she's not a villain here, but she does finally get something nice for herself; namely her attempts to grow and sell eggplants, despite initially being a failure, picked up a massive boom due to the fact that it unlocks a secret boss fight (since the game properly modeled Neptune's hatred of eggplants for AI Purple Heart)

Warechu

Warechu (Pirachu in the NIS English dub)

Debut: Hyperdimension Neptunia mk2

Voiced by: Neeko (Japanese), G.K. Bowes (English, games), Sara Ragsdale (English, anime)

A villainous mouse with a crush on Compa. Across his various incarnations he has worked as a member of ASIC, the Seven Sages, and AffimaX among other unaffiliated appearances.

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General Tropes:

• Ditching the Dub Names: The NIS America releases of mk2 and Victory dubbed him "Pirachu". When Idea Factory International brought the rights to localize the games, he was reverted back into his Japanese name Warechu.
• Dub Name Change: He's Warechu in Japan, but was renamed Pirachu by NIS America. However, when the series changed hands in the West, his Japanese name was restored, with the exception of Hyperdevotion Noire: Goddess Black Heart due to when the English version released.
• Mascot: Claims to be one of three in the mouse world.
• Punny Name: Both his Japanese and English names are references to software piracy. While the English name makes it kind of obvious (Pirachu), his Japanese name is a pun on the Japanese term for a software pirate (割れ厨, also pronounced warechu), and can also evoke the term warez.
• Ridiculously Cute Critter: He is rather adorable, and his crush on Compa merely adds to it.
• Verbal Tic: "Chu" in the Japanese version, as the sound of mice.
• Villainous Crush: Has a crush on Compa after she heals him. This extends even to his Ultra Dimension counterpart, despite the Compa in that world being a child.
• Wicked Heart Symbol: One of the villains, and has a half-red/half-yellow heart on his chest, along with an upside-down cracked heart at the end of his tail.

Hyper Dimension Warechu (mk2/Re;Birth2)

• Brick Joke: "Omega Warechu" is a monster that has previously only appeared in the credits of every main series Neptunia game. It actually shows up in VII.
• Demoted to Extra: Unlike in previous games where he is always with Arfoire, he's now become a resident crook of Planeptune in Neptune's Hyperdimension G story arc.
• Even Evil Has Standards: He might be Planeptune's resident crook, but when Kurome offers to help him, he refuses to work with her because he can sense her bad vibes. Unfortunately, Kurome brainwashes him anyway, turning him into a mindless monster.
  Warechu: I've been in the game long enough to know that you're bad news, chu.
• Kick the Dog: A downplayed variation. He attacks a kid who accidentally bumped into him. This earns him a beating from B-Sha soon afterwards.
• Make My Monster Grow: Temporarily ends up completely massive and completely insane, courtesy of the Deity of Sin in mk2 and Kurome in VII.
• Taking the Bullet: He takes some of Kurome's Negative Energy that was aimed at Chuuko, turning him into a monster.
• True Companions: Even after Underling's begun to go off the deep end toward the end, and even after ASIC is ended, he tries to be the voice of reason for her and sticks with her even when she just won't listen.
• Villainous BSoD: In the Hyperdimension G arc, he's utterly devastated when Compa declares that she hates him for setting monsters loose in Planeptune just to distract Neptune and her friends.

Ultra Dimension Warechu (Victory/Re;Birth3)

• Brick Joke: Several chapters, and a bit over 10 years, after the Seven Sages have gotten to show off their special logos, he finally gets to do his hoping that maybe the CPUs would show him some mercy because of it. They actually were willing to do so, except for Iris Heart.
• Call to Agriculture: In the true end he works for Arfoire on her eggplant farm.
• The Chew Toy: Iris Heart debuts dragging him by the tail after roughing him up offscreen. Yellow Heart also enjoys tearing out his fur.
• Corner of Woe: A variation at the end of chapter 2, when he tries and fails to announce his name and get his own Boss Subtitle to appear. The game has him standing in the corner of the screen, sadly looking down to the ground while the CPU's, at that moment still recovering from Copypaste's introduction, eventually note he looks depressed.
• Heel–Face Revolving Door: He will jump at the chance to work for the CPUs if Iris Heart is making the request in order to avoid her wrath, but always goes back to the Seven Sages once he gets away from her. Once Compa grows up he settles for working with the CPUs to stay near her.
• Fragile Speedster: Unless you've gone out of your way to over level or gear specifically for accuracy, expect most of your attacks to never connect. Those that do, however, bring him down quite quickly compared to most bosses.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: Warechu became a member of the Seven Sages almost without noticing.
• Insistent Terminology: He insists that he is neither a Rat nor a Mouse, but a Warechu. Not that anyone cares enough to listen to him, though.
• I Warned You: He tried to get Mister Badd to hurry up and just make his announcement so that he (Warechu) could go home because he knew and said as much that the CPUs would find some way to escape and come after them. While Mister Badd is trying to tell him that it's just impossible, Plutia shows up midsentence.
  Warechu: "Sonofabitch! I -knew- it!"
• Killer Rabbit: Averted. Warechu's combat abilities aren't that great. He can deal out surprisingly high damage and can be somewhat hard to hit if the team's accuracy is low, but compared to the other Seven Sages he goes down quick.
• The Nicknamer: At least to the females in the Seven Sages. Warechu calls Rei "Mature woman" and Arfoire "Middle-aged lady". The latter...isn't amused.
• Not-So-Harmless Villain: While he was just part of the Quirky Mini Boss Squad in mk2, his Ultra Dimension version is part of the Seven Sages.
• Sir Swears-a-Lot: This version is far more foul-mouthed and shows little restraint in doing so, though it mostly fall into Precision F-Strike.
• Useless Useful Spell: He has the ability to inflict the Virus status. The only fight against him has the CPUs locked into HDD, making for a hilarious inversion of Contractual Boss Immunity.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: Whether either will admit it or not, Warechu and Arfoire actually share this dynamic, and despite their bickering, really are friends, with Warechu actually willing to stand up to the CPUs to let Arfoire flee from Plutia. Even the CPUs were touched by this.
• You Shall Not Pass!: When Arfoire is trembling uncontrollably in fear of Plutia, Warechu urges her to escape while he holds back the CPUs. They're so moved that he was hoping that be able to avoid a fight. Too bad for him that Iris Heart isn't that compassionate...

Spin-offs and Other Media:

• Adaptaptational Heroism: Like Arfoire, his Cyberdimension counterpart is just a regular boy dressed in a mouse costume with almost no devious intentions, though he still retains his crush on Compa.
• Adaptation Species Change: In Cyberdimension. Since there's no mouse race in the game, his appearance in-game is that of a human wearing a mouse costume.

Coire (UNMARKED SPOILERS)

Croire

"Yeah, keep flappin' your gums, pal, it's related to 'chronicle' and you know it."

Debut: Hyperdimension Neptunia Victory

Voiced by: Mika Kanai (Japanese), Cristina Vee (English)

A girl with a fairy-like appearance who rides on a black book. Similar to Histoire, she is a mysterious girl who has been tasked with the important role of recording history. She first appears in Victory and returns in both VII and Game Maker. Enabling various antagonists throughout the series, she generally avoids direct confrontation and simply observes the chaos that results from her actions. Uniquely the only recurring character that is always the same character rather than an alternate universe variant.

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• Actor Allusion: In one VR scene, the big Neptune talks about how they visited the world of Pokémon of all things. They found a little caterpillar with a red Y antenna that turned itself into a sleepy looking cocoon, then were ambushed by a balloon monster that sounds just like Croire that sang and put them to sleep then drew on them. Mika Kanai provided the voice for Jigglypuff.
• Blue-and-Orange Morality: Good and evil don't really interest her; she sides with whoever can make things interesting.
• Dimensional Traveler: Her main ability which Adult Neptune takes advantage of. However, a point is made that Croire is only capable of teleporting people, hence why Adult Neptune can't use Croire's power to prevent the dimensional fusion of Hyper and Heart Dimension.
• The Dragon: Her relationship with Rei somewhat resembles that of an Oracle. She later briefly becomes this to Kurome after Arfoire is defeated again.
• Embarrassing Nickname: Because she looks like a darker version of Histoire she was given the nickname Darksty, Blacksty (original Japanese) or Crostie (English Dub) by adult Neptune.
• The End of the World as We Know It: She apparently recorded multiple instances of this happening to different worlds.
• Enemy Mine: Forms one with Nepgear, Uzume and Adult Neptune against Arfoire at the climax of the Zero Dimension arc. She may be willing to watch the destruction of a dimension for interesting history, but not when she can die too.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Even she felt that Rei's tyrannical ego justified Tari's citizens turning on her.
• Evil Counterpart: To Histoire; they're both incredibly old fairy-like beings who ride on books, record history, and assist CPUs. They even have the same Japanese voice actress. However, while Histoire's duties are passively recording history and protecting peace, Croire seeks to actively mess things up to make history more "interesting", and will align herself with shady figures like Rei, Zero Dimension Arfoire, and Kurome to achieve her twisted pleasures.
• Expository Pronoun: She uses the masculine pronoun "ore" and very masculine language to highlight her crass personality in contrast to Histoire.
• For the Evulz: In both the games she appears in, her only concern is to stir trouble towards Neptune and her friends. This is the major reason big Neptune trapped her in her Nep-Note, as while she's fine with Croire wanting to record history, she's not okay with her intentionally mucking with it to make it "interesting".
• Great Big Book of Everything: Like Histoire, her purpose is to record history. Croire insists that her role is to make sure that it's interesting.
• Greater-Scope Villain: While Arfoire, Rei, and Kurome are often the main antagonists of any given game, it's Croire's actions that enable and empower them in every game she's present for in her search for interesting histories.
• Hijacked by Ganon: She manages to pull this on Arfoire of all people in Game Maker. Croire sets Arfoire up as a successful game developer only to bring everything crashing down around her to free the Zaikopath in an attempt to make that world more interesting, revealing herself to be the Big Bad of the game rather than her usual habit of just empowering and enabling the others.
• History Repeats: The ending for Game Maker plays out like the ending of Victory. She nearly causes the end of the world, escapes unharmed, only to finally be captured by a random child that assumes she's just a really cool bug. However this time Neptune comes along and trades some Mushikaiser goods to the child to get Croire away from them before once again sealing her away in the Nep-Note.
• Insistent Terminology: Any time her nicknames pop up she makes it a point to correct whoever said it.
• Irony: Her role in Victory is to stir trouble and watch from afar as to how it unfolds. In the True Ending, she's the one who gets trapped by Ultra Dimension Neptune in a bottle to be examined as a specimen. Doubles as a Laser-Guided Karma.
• It Amused Me: Her most defining trait. She loves to toy with the other characters, gets motivated by the trouble she's causing, and doesn't care about how the other characters feel; all for her own self-indulgent. As such, this is the main reason why Adult Neptune keeps her trapped in her Nep-Note.
• Karma Houdini Warranty: In the Good Ending of Victory, she makes off with Rei's leftover power to start more trouble in some other dimension where Neptune and her friends can't reach her. In the True Ending, she returns to the Ultra Dimension, only to get caught by its resident Neptune.
• Lack of Empathy: Befitting her role as troublemaker and instigator, she has little to no concern about anyone who gets screwed by her, both good and bad. The only thing she cares about is her own amusement.
• Our Fairies Are Different: Like Histoire, she's also a book.
• Pretty Butterflies: When she gets briefly De Powered when Arfoire steals some of her power, she takes the form of a purple-black butterfly. It's also how she appears while sealed in the Nep-Note.
• Really 700 Years Old: She first met Rei the moment she obliviously ate a CPU Memory... which was tens of thousands of years ago. It's not even clear if she's originally from the Ultra Dimension.
• Sadistic Choice: During the Heart Dimension route of the game's final chapter, she offers two different decisions to the CPUs: if they leave Uzume, the whole Hyper Dimension will be screwed. On the other hand, if they decided to save Hyper Dimension, the Heart Dimension will be gone for good. However, both Neptunes decide to choose a third option instead: save both dimensions and earn the Happy Ending.
• Sealed Evil in a Can: Adult Neptune traps her in her Nep-Note both to travel dimensions and to keep her from stirring up trouble, but she does manage to escape from time to time.
• Sensible Heroes, Skimpy Villains: A rare example in a franchise steeped in skimpy outfits for both heroes and villains, but she's the Evil Counterpart of Histoire who contrasts her consistently conservative outfits by wearing a form-fitting leotard that highlights what little curves she has, especially through her exposed legs and feet.
• Theme Naming: As a counterpart to Histoire ("history"), her name means "belief". Owing to the Japanese origin of the franchise, her name also owes its origins to the Dark Ages. ^Explanationkurorekishi. She also claims that her name is related to "Chronicle", furthering the history connections.
• Troll: Since she's still sealed in the Nep-Note in the Golden Ending, the most resistance she can offer is to slightly mess up their coordinates while warping so that they hurt themselves upon reaching their destination.
• Villains Want Mercy: By the end of Game Maker, after she let an Eldritch Abomination loose on the world for fun, she begs Adult Neptune not to put her back in the Nep-Note. Of course, since Croire has yet again proven herself too dangerous to roam free (and Neptune needs a ride out of the dimension), her pleas fall on deaf ears.
• Your Size May Vary: Croire is repeatedly noted to be easily mistaken for a bug and one small enough to be effortlessly captured and restrained by children at that. The opening scene in Game Maker, however, depicts her as being roughly the size of a child herself.

Arfoire Syndicate of International Crime

Debut: Hyperdimension Neptunia mk2

Abbreviated as ASIC, they are a cult who seek to revive their namesake Deity of Sin.

General Tropes

• Apocalypse Cult: For the Four Felons, though most of its followers have no idea what Arfoire really is.
• Came Back Wrong: With the exception of Judge (who remains dead and is already insane to begin with), the Felons are all revived in the True and Holy Sword Endings, but at cost of their sanities.
  • Magic's desire to serve under Arfoire is turned into a desire to ensure that everything becomes one with her.
  • Trick's obsession with children ends up becoming a love for eating them.
  • While not as severe as the other two, Brave is reduced to a raging Blood Knight who no longer cares for children or their safety.
• Dark Is Evil: They are an organization built around their obsession with reviving their Goddess by taking the Shares from the other nations. They represent the negative aspects of the gaming industry and its community, such as the unhealthy obsession the consumer has on their presumed idol or the wrath of game developers whose games don't sell well. Naturally, they all have a dark color scheme plastered in their designs (expect for Brave, who is white, and Trick, who is orange).
• Dub Name Change:
  • The Four Felons are named "_ the Hard" in Japanese, but "Criminal of the Free World (CFW) _" in English.
  • The name "Four Felons" itself is changed from its Japanese name "Four Celestial Kings".
  • ASIC itself was called the Criminal Organization Magiquone in the Japanese version.
• Elite Four: The Four Felons are named as such in Japanese, albeit with "Celestial" in place of "Heavenly".
• Humongous Mecha: CFW Brave, Trick, and Judge are designed as robots that are approximately bigger than any of the characters in mk2. Brave in particular looks like a cross between GaoGaiGar, Sol Gravion, Brave Exkaiser, Thrudgelmir, and Dancougar Nova.
• The Psycho Rangers: They all serve this role to the CPUs and their sisters.
  • CFW Judge has wings that resemble that of the CPUs to a limited extent. He and Magic also served as Nepgear's counterpart in AISC, as his goal is to keep the CPUs contained in the graveyard while Nepgear's is to free them.
  • CFW Brave is one to Uni; though apart from Trick, he resembles the CPUs the least, being a Humongous Mecha with more airplane-like wings
  • CFW Trick is this to both Ram and Rom, due to his preferences.

CFW Magic

CFW Magic (Magic the Hard in Japanese)

Voiced by: Chiaki Takahashi (Japanese), Laura Post (English)

Arfoire's most loyal follower, and the de-facto leader of Arfoire Syndicate of International Crime. An aspect of the Deity of Sin, she tapped into the power of Shares and used them to defeat and trap the CPUs in the prologue, cementing the cult as the dominant religion. She is the personification of Fanboy/Fangirlism.

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• Curb-Stomp Battle: In the prologue she faced off against the four Goddesses, alone. The result would seem to be the four of them being captured and bound by naughty tentacles.
• The Dragon: While technically the Four Felons would count as these, her position as the leader among CFWs cements her as this to ASIC as a whole.
• Evil Redhead: Her hair is magenta, and she is one of the main antagonists of the game.
• Expy: To the first game's version of Arfoire. She even shares the same voice actress.
• Eyepatch of Power: An ominous one covers her right eye.
• Fan Boy: The personification of this. She's the most fervently devoted to Arfoire, even having the same voice actress in both English and Japanese.
• Gods Need Prayer Badly: Her power comes from the Shares belonging to ASIC, therefore as the four nations begin extorting Shares back, Magic progressively becomes weaker, which downgrades her from being invincible to defeatable.
• One-Woman Army: At least during the prologue, when she is holding the majority of the world's Shares. Five goddesses (The four CPUs plus Purple Sister) versus her. She curb stomped them. Even after weakened enough near the end of the game, she is still more than a match for the CPU Candidates together to defeat. She is only defeated after ASIC takes over Planeptune, which weakens her Share further.
• Sinister Scythe: Her weapon is a very large scythe, matching her wicked personality.
• Stripperific: Her outfit exposes much of her chest, torso and thighs.
• Thanatos Gambit: She's rightfully confident that she would never lose, but just in case she ensures that her death only speeds up Arfoire's revival.
• Villain Decay: The main plot of the game is to weaken the Shares belonging to ASIC so that Magic is weakened enough for the protagonists to defeat.

CFW Judge

CFW Judge (Judge the Hard in Japanese)

Voiced by: Kenjiro Tsuda (Japanese), Kyle Hebert (English)

After Magic defeated the CPUs and sealed them in the Gamindustri Graveyard, she sent Judge to watch over them. He is ruthless in battle and proved to be a difficult obstacle for Nepgear, IF and Compa, cutting their plans to free the other CPUs short at first. He is the personification of people who gave up after their games flopped.

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• Ax-Crazy: He's so obsessed with killing that he was ready to turn on Linda and Warechu because he couldn't wait any longer for Nepgear's group to arrive.
• The Berserker: A mindless brute who only thinks of killing.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: The actual fight with him will end this way for either you or him. He is powerful enough to wipe out most of your team in a single turn, but just before the fight, Nepgear gets an extremely powerful new processor set and a Game-Breaker skill called Celestial Severance. Your CPU Candidates also receive the Superior Angels skill shortly before entering the area, another ridiculously powerful skill. And to top it all off, everyone in your party begins the fight with a full 300 SP. So the fight is pretty much a race to see who will utterly annihilate the other first.
• The Grim Reaper: As the personification of game creators giving up after poor sales, he's been designed to look the part at the very least. Despite this, Magic is the one with the associated weapon.

CFW Brave

CFW Brave (Brave the Hard in Japanese)

Voiced by: Kentarō Itō (Japanese), David Vincent (English)

A Humongous Mecha who knows well about impoverished children and as such, will help ASIC to bring joy to the poor children. This naturally puts him in a bit of a moral grey area. He is the personification of not being able to buy the newest games.

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• Affably Evil: Is described as being more chivalrous than evil compared to his comrades. He even offers to let Nepgear and Uni free before attacking when he found them in Endless Zone.
• Anti-Villain: Brave believes that piracy is the only way for poor children to play and enjoy games, and he fights for their sake.
• Blood Knight After being resurrected by Arfoire in the True Ending, due to losing his previous memories, Brave also loses all of his nobility and restraint and becomes much more inclined to fighting his enemies. It takes Uni's "You Used to Be Better" Speech for him to regain trust for her, allowing Uni to gain enough confidence to kill him after initially hesitating on doing so.
• Evil Makeover: In the True Ending, his color scheme turns red and black, and while he isn't as deranged as the other Felons, he becomes much more bloodthirsty and less caring of children and the other CPUs, Uni included.
• Flaming Sword: His official art depicts his sword wreathed in fire.
• Light Is Good: In addition to being the fellow heroic member of an otherwise cruel syndicate, unlike the other Felons, is color palette is pure white and gold, and his overall design is reminiscent of the more heroic mecha robots of the 90s a la GaoGaiGar, complete with a lion's face on his chest.
• My Death Is Just the Beginning: In the True Ending, he is reprogrammed to attack Uni and Noire. When defeated, he told Uni he will always be by her side, even if he isn't around, and uses his remaining data to create a new assault rifle for Uni.
• Perpetual Poverty: The personification of this. Specifically the resentment of not having the money to keep up with game releases.
• Noble Demon: As the personification of not having enough money to buy new games, Brave fights to protect children's joy, and doesn't want to see their smiles fade. He's like Santa if he were a villainous mecha.
• Token Good Teammate: He's an Anti-Villain at best and his goal is to protect the joy of children.
• Worthy Opponent: He sees Uni as this, and the feeling is mutual.

CFW Trick

CFW Trick (Trick the Hard in Japanese)

Voiced by: Yoji Ueda (Japanese), Derek Stephen Prince (English, mk2/Re;Birth2), Jessie James Grelle (English, anime)

A reptilian-looking paedophile who seems to be hated by most everyone (wonder why?). He represents the reactions to Nintendo Hard games

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• Affably Evil: Sort of. He claims that he never goes full out on little girls. That doesn't stop him from brainwashing them, though.
• Child Eater: Following his resurrection in the True Ending, Trick's obsession with children evolves into him wanting to devour them.
• Fat Bastard: He's the most heavyset of the Four Felons, and an unrepentant pedophile.
• Hate Sink: Out of all of the members of ASIC, he is easily the most detestable by virtue of being a child predator whose entire existence revolves around his fetish for young girls, to the point that Linda is shown to openly disgusted by his behavior. It's also not easy to see why Blanc wants to kill him, as Trick's targets are usually Rom and Ram.
• Overly-Long Tongue: How he attacks and he always tries to lick the twins with it.
• Pædo Hunt: His obsession with children, especially little girls, is treated as abhorrent by even the villains themselves. He's particularly fixated with Ram and Rom, being the first victims he and Linda kidnaps so he could lust over them. Re;Birth2 even adds a scene where he licks the two as they helplessly plead for him to stop.
• Reptiles Are Abhorrent: He is a depraved bastard who has a lizard-like tail on his back and a long, slimy tongue that he uses to lick little girls.

Underling

Linda/Underling

Voiced by: Junko Minagawa (Japanese), Unknown (English, mk2/Re;Birth2), Morgan Berry (English, anime)

There's not much to say about her, other than the fact she is an Underling. She confronts the party at every turn hoping to destroy the mascots before they empower Nepgear. Like Arfoire and Magic, she also uses ASIC's shares to her advantage.

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• Asshole Victim: She's an evil brat at the best of times, and it's really hard to feel sorry for her in the Conquest end. One could nearly forgive Nepgear's Evil Feels Good moment, just because it's Underling she offed.
• Avenging the Villain: The final fight against her in the True Ending is because she wants revenge for them killing Magic twice, hoping that maybe she can kill them before Arfoire destroys the world.
• Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work: When Vert loses to the Nep sisters in the Conquest Ending, they can't bring themselves to kill her because she won't consent to it like Lastation and Lowee's CPUs, and just end up letting her leave with the Hungry Weapon. It's only after Linda ambushes the exhausted Vert and fatally injures her that she finally accepts just so her death will mean something.
• Even Evil Has Standards:
  • Linda is disgusted by CFW Trick's behaviour towards Rom and Ram.
  • Linda beats feet when CFW Magic turns into an Omnicidial Maniac after reviving.
• Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Linda receives the label "Underling" from Nepgear and company, much to her dismay. Even Warechu keeps calling her "Underling" despite multiple demands telling him not to, and to add insult to injury, the name above the text box every time she speaks is changed from "Linda" to "Underling."
• Fake Ultimate Mook: There's nothing fake about how dangerous she is in her first encounter in gameplay terms, but narratively speaking that's only because she had an immense situational advantage. As the party properly gears up and decays ASIC's shares, she rapidly goes from serious threat to absolute joke.
• Fangirl: Some of her dialog implies that she's one for Magic.
• God Needs Prayer Badly: While not a god, Linda's power comes from the fact she can tap into ASIC's Shares. As those get worn down, she steadily becomes less of a threat.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Zigzagged. She's kind to civilians, but that's usually so she can sell ASIC merchandise to them. She then feeds a stray cat and recruits it into ASIC, though she has no plans to actually make it do anything evil, which suggests she's not all bad.
• Kick Them While They Are Down: Manages to fatally injure Vert in the Conquest Ending by ambushing her while she's exhausted from fighting Neptune and Nepgear. She attempts to do the same to them, but ends up killed for it.
• Master of Disguise: Makes a convincing disguise as Chika. Subverted when she keeps flubbing her lines and regressing into her normal speech patterns, though the party fails to see through her for a while.
• Not What I Signed on For: After Magic tells her that everything will be absorbed into Arfoire and tries to kill her, she realizes that Magic has changed and that things are more extreme than she first thought and bails.
• Pipe Pain: Her weapon is a pipe that she holds over her shoulder when not in use.
• Villain Has a Point: During the Conquest End, after she has beaten Vert to an inch of her life, the heroines state that what she has done is unforgivable. Underling's counter-statement is saying she just did what they were trying to do a moment ago, and that they should thank her. This doesn't work out for her as Nepgear instead stabs her with the sword out of vengeance.

Seven Sages

Debut: Hyperdimension Neptunia Victory

An anti-CPU group in the Ultradimension who will resort to all sorts of shady behavior to oust them.

General Tropes

• Big Bad Duumvirate: Or in this case, Big Bad Septumvirate. They all have their own different agendas but they do agree that the CPU goddesses should not exist at all.
• Boss Subtitles: They generally get a logo for their name when they introduce themselves to the CPUs. A Running Gag is that Warechu never gets the chance.
• Dub Name Change: Besides Warechu and Arfoire, every single member has their names localized in the English version.
  • Mister Badd was Akudaijin, a portmanteau of aku^*devil and dajin^*minister, meaning "evil minister".
  • Copypaste was Copyliace.
  • Downplayed with Anonydeath. While he retains his name, in the Japanese version the "Anony" part is written as "Anone" with an e.
  • Also downplayed with Abnes. The Japanese writing includes an additional "s" at the end of her name, which is dropped in the English writing.
  • Rei herself is also a downplayed example; her surname is changed from "Kiseijou" to "Ryghts".
• Heel–Face Turn: By the end of the game, all of the Sages except for Arfoire (who just gives up on outright villainy) and maybe Anonydeath undergoes one. Abnes defects when she finds out what the Sages are really up to, Copypaste's reprogrammed personality allows hiim to befriend the main characters, Warechu doesn't so much defect as just blindly obey any request Compa makes, Badd quits so he can lead a normal life with his "daughters" (and tries to make amends by turning them back to human), Peashy regains her memories, and the two versions of Rei have some sense permanently slapped into them, with Ultra Dimension Rei finally learning to contain her HDD form instead of suppressing it.

Rei Ryghts (UNMARKED SPOILERS)

Rei Ryghts (Rei Kiseijou in Japanese)

^{HDD form}

Debut: Hyperdimension Neptunia Victory

Voiced by: Yuu Kobayashi (Japanese), Julie Ann Taylor (English, game), Morgan Garrett (English, anime)

The weak-willed leader of the Seven Sages in the Ultra Dimension. She has a Hyper Dimension counterpart who's also an anti-CPU activist.

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General Tropes

• Apologizes a Lot: She will often apologize and eventually run away, even when she technically didn't do anything wrong, like during her attempted rally.
• Ax-Crazy: She becomes absolutely insane when she becomes Drunk with Power. Blanc even calls her a psycho, much to her anger.
  Rei: Who's a psycho!? Everyone around me keeps saying that, but I'm correct! I embody propriety!
• Composite Character: In the anime that does feature the Ultra Dimension, HDD Rei and her lost nation appear to be native to the Hyper Dimension, whereas Hyper Dimension Rei in the game was an ordinary woman before Croire showed up.
• Corrupt the Cutie: Croire gives her dark energy to regain her powers. It works out too well.
• Dimensional Traveler: A unique trait to her CPU powers compared to normal, she's able to distort and pierce through to other dimensions. She created the hole between the Hyper Dimension and Ultra Dimension to send Neptune away. Hyper Dimension Rei was utterly elated when she found out she was the one who made the Goddess go away after that.
• Exotic Eye Designs: When in HDD form, she has a symbol in her eyes like the CPU, however, it's not the power symbol. More specifically, the symbol looks like a triangle with an exclamation mark going through the bottom of the triangle; kind of like a warning symbol.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: When Rei gets her HDD form, her personality completely changes from a timid woman to an Ax-Crazy tyrant. The Hyper Dimension Rei goes even further.
• Horned Humanoid: Wears a horn-like accessory on the left side of her head. Gains a matching one on the right side in her CPU form.
• Insane Troll Logic: When her timid personality fades away, Rei breathes this trope, in constant denial of everyone who has a far more accurate view, and believing the world to be wrong simply because she says it is.
• It's All About Me: As HDD Rei, she rants about how the CPU system, and even the entire world, are flawed and need to be reset because she didn't get her way. Uni even Lampshades this in the true ending.
  Uni: So after all this, you were just thinking of yourself? Like a big self-pity party?
• Jekyll & Hyde: A more accurate example when comparing her normal and HDD forms. As normal Rei, she is meek and gentle woman with a tendency to apologize a lot. As HDD Rei, she's a loud, murderously insane tyrant who becomes Drunk with Power.
• Moe Anthropomorphism: Of the Atari 2600, with all the tragedy that would imply.
• No Sense of Direction: She doesn't know where she's going at times.
  Neptune: By any chance, were you running ever since yesterday? If so, then that's amazing! Wow, you have an awesome sense of no direction!
• Obviously Evil: As a way to further emphasize her status as Victory's main villain, she wears a black-colored business outfit with of skull-like accessories decorated into it.
• Omnicidal Maniac: HDD Rei wants to destroy everything for not going her way.
• Psychopathic Womanchild: Her HDD rants may remind the player of a spiteful kid who just got his favorite toy taken away from her.
• Shy Blue-Haired Girl: Rei has pale blue hair and is too much of a pushover to make any progress with her anti-CPU agenda. Averted to hell and back while in HDD.
• Shrinking Violet: She is this in spades. From her apologising for things that weren't even her fault to being walked over by almost everyone.
• Skeletons in the Coat Closet: Downplayed, but she wears a skull as a belt buckle of sorts, and on her arm guards.
• Superpowered Evil Side: When Drunk with Power, her personality undergoes a drastic change from a shy, frail Extreme Doormat in civilian form to a overbearing, power hungry dictator who will annihilate anyone who gets in her way in HDD.
• Wide Eyes and Shrunken Irises: Her goddess persona often makes deranged expressions like this.
• With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: She becomes a murderous tyrant if she obtains a CPU Memory. This is the exact reason why her people rebelled against her.
• World's Strongest Woman: Rei is the strongest individual in the Neptunia series, bar none. A Goddesses' power is derived from their followers; the more followers they have, the more power they have. No followers give the Goddess a power of absolutely zero. Ultra Dimension Rei managed to put up an impressive showing with no followers at all, while the only Goddess who has a similar amount of experience, Blanc, was reduced to a powerless little girl with no followers. Things only take a turn for the worse once Hyper Dimension Rei gains followers, becoming the most powerful of all of the CPUs from both dimensions, dwarfing even her Ultra Dimension self.

Hyper Dimension Rei

• Evil Feels Good: When she sent Neptune into the past, what was her first reaction? A Slasher Smile and gloating that she was actually to successfully do something of such magnitude. Given her earlier appearances, you actually have to be happy for her. And it's also a good Call-Back because this was her reaction when her other self got her powers thousands of years ago.
• Ghost Memory: Hyper Dimension Rei ends up getting the memories of the Ultra Dimension Rei mixed with her own when she receives her powers. The sudden addition of several thousand years of memory from a completely different world are implied to be why she's so much further off the deep end than the one she received the power from.
• Slasher Smile: A rather scary one when she sends Neptune to the past, since it is obviously the first time she's succeeded in anything. She gains it again when she becomes a Goddess. Both times, it is very off-putting.
• True Final Boss: Surprisingly, instead of Arfoire who usually fills this role in the first two games. Croire passes off her other self's remaining power to make her this.

Ultra Dimension Rei

• The Alleged Boss: It's easy to forget that she's supposed to be the leader of the Seven Sages given how much they push her around.
• Apocalypse How: Ultra Dimension Rei caused a Regional Class 2, Hyper Dimension Rei attempts a Multiversal one, Class 5 or 6.
• The Atoner: In the True Ending, Ultra Dimension Rei finally learns to take responsibility for her actions and came to rescue Iris Heart from her power trying to posses the latter. She also reforms the Seven Sages into a better organization.
• Berserk Button:
  • Rather ironically, she doesn't like being called a "psycho", nor does she take pity from a Goddess, as Neptune learned the hard way.
  • Peashy finds out that reminding her in any way of her age proves to be one while the HDD personality is in control. Part of her tirade at the CPUs becomes about how she's never dated a man, will never marry, and has never had a child, after Peashy continues to call her Mommy.
• Beware the Nice Ones: More so than Plutia. Despite being the main antagonist, she's a timid Nice Girl who gets bullied a lot by the rest of the cast. Then she becomes a murderous Omnicidal Maniac in HDD.
• Big Bad: Her Ultra Dimension counterpart serves as this, as she is responsible for The Great Crash that lead to the death of her citizens as well as forming a group dedicated to eliminating the goddesses.
• Boomerang Bigot: HDD Rei is constantly ranting about how awful CPUs are despite being one herself.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Dishes this out to the three CPU goddesses of the Hyper Dimension Gamindustri in the Good Ending Route.
• Cute and Psycho: In her normal form, she is a shy lady who is pushed around by everyone. In her HDD form, she is a tyrannical Psychopathic Womanchild who murder anyone who gets in her way.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Because of her tyrannical rule, the Tari land collapsed, leading her to believe that the CPU system should not exist in the first place.
• De-power: After her destruction, she loses the ability to activate her HDD form.
• Drunk with Power: As soon as she gains superpowers, Rei slips into this very quickly, believing that she's better than everyone and threatens murder when she doesn't get her way.
• Entitled Bitch: As the CPU of Tari, she believed that her citizens were obligated to worship her 24/7, and would casually go out and kill anyone who had a problem with her. When an angry mob eventually tried to oust her, she decided to just destroy everything rather than reflect on her tyranny.
• Extreme Doormat: She can't stand up to herself and gets walked over by everyone.
• Evil Is Hammy: HDD Rei is such a hysterical, ranting lunatic that others can hardly believe that she's the same person as the Shrinking Violet that they're used to.
• Evil Laugh: Does this quite often later on in the game and she does them beautifully and menacingly.
• Fallen Angel: Downplayed. She was a former Goddess of the long-gone nation of Tari. Once she got her powers however, she became deranged, turning against her civilians and led to The Great Crash that resulted in the deaths of millions and destruction of her nation. This leads her into becoming the Big Bad of Victory.
• Fallen Hero: Originally the CPU of her nation before destroying said nation out of rage. She now leads an organization destined to wipe out the goddesses.
• The Glasses Come Off: Loses her glasses when transformed. The effect is... unnerving to say the least.
• God Save Us from the Queen!: What she was a long time ago, where she was a tyrannical ruler who was responsible for The Great Crash, resulting in her people rebelling against her.
• Grew a Spine: By the end of the game, she's learned to channel her HDD persona to actually make the remaining Sages take her seriously.
• Hypocrite: HDD Rei is constantly ranting about how bad CPUs are (even their Stripperific outfits annoy her) while refusing to acknowledge her own tyrannical behavior (her outfit is just as revealing as the average CPU, by the way).
• I Just Want to Be Normal: After gaining her powers, she becomes so ruthless that by the time she caused The Great Crash, she doesn't want to be a CPU anymore. Thus, her starting the Seven Sages group.
• Incoming Ham: Her first boss fight's pre-dialogue consists of mountains of Chewing the Scenery. It is one the longest scenes in the game. She sums up her past history, complains about the other HDDs, makes many statements about why she thinks she is right, and so on.
• In the End, You Are on Your Own: Due to the efforts of the CPUs, all the Seven Sages were defeated, and the organization crumbled, leaving Rei by herself. You really do pity the girl as she delves deeper into her self-deprecating attitude.
• It Meant Something to Me: When Anonydeath finally leaves the Seven Sages her immediate concern is that their pretend marriage is what's ending not that he's leaving the group.
• Legend Fades to Myth: Once Rei explains who she is and what lead her to do everything she had, Blanc informs her that the former nation of Tari has become considered nothing more than a myth and warning for CPUs to understand that they serve their people not the other way around.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Knowing that her rage and tyranny resulted in the death of her entire nation was a huge blow for Rei. The first time she's reminded of this event, her reaction was of genuine remorse and regret.
• My Future Self and Me: Inverted. Ultra Dimension Rei is the past version of the Hyper Dimension Rei, apparently; the former aids the latter.
• Misunderstood Loner with a Heart of Gold: Played with. Rei is an entirely innocent girl who just thinks she can improve the world better if it's a little more orderly and the Goddesses don't reign supreme. Sadly, no one listens to her, despite all the hard work she does. Turns out there's a good reason why she acts that way.
• Never My Fault: Ultradimension Rei initially doesn't accept that it was her HDD personality that caused The Great Crash, but that it was simply the concept of CPUs in general, so she starts the Seven Sages. She gets over it.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: In the True Ending, Rei arrives after her Hyper Dimension counterpart is defeated to try talking some sense into her. Not only does it fall on deaf ears, but she simply gives Croire the opportunity to steal her remaining power and pass it off to her still hostile counterpart. The CPUs call her out for just making the situation worse.
• The Older Immortal: Out of all the Goddesses in the game, Neptune and her crew from the Hyper Dimension would most likely be the oldest, followed by Blanc from the Ultra Dimension, who appears to be a few centuries old. Vert, Peashy, and Noire don't top more than a few decades. Rei, on the other hand, is several thousand years old, having been a Goddess for far longer than any of the main characters. She has the power to show it.
• Old Maid: Approaching her 30s, and claims to be too old to marry. Or more specifically for Ultra Dimension Rei was approaching her 30s, and is now simply stuck looking that way despite being several thousand years old.
• Older Than She Looks: Despite her age of nearing 30, she looks closer to twenty. That's not even getting into the whole thousands year old former goddess thing.
• Put Them All Out of My Misery: HDD Rei believes that the CPU system (and even the entire world in the True Ending) need to be eliminated because they made her unhappy (never mind that she was a self-absorbed tyrant who was entirely to blame for her own nation's downfall).
• Reality Warper: Can open portals to the past, as mentioned above.
• Really 700 Years Old: Ultra Dimension Rei is the oldest goddess no less, by her own count anywhere between thousands and tens of thousands of years old.
• Re-Power: She sent a fragment of her power over to the Hyper Dimension timeline, who sends some of the power back to her and she gets HDD again, though apparently she's nowhere near as strong as she no longer has any worshippers.
• Super Prototype: Ultra Dimension Rei was the very first Goddess in her timeline apparently. She's also one of the strongest characters in the Neptunia universe story-wise.
• Terrible Artist: After she is defeated in the Ultra Dimension universe and her personality returns to normal, Rei attempts to provide background on how she became a CPU. To aid her, she provides a visual aid she drew, except the art is so incomprehensible to everyone, even to the player much to Neptune's concern, that all anyone can do is laugh at it. This is used as an Hilarious Outtake in the anime. Also doubles as a reference to Yuu Kobayashi's "drawings".
• Took a Level in Badass: Hyper Dimension Rei gained her badassery after Croire gives her powers from the Ultra Dimension Rei, who in turn sent some of that power back so that one could regain hers. To put it simply, they ping-pong'ed this trope.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Oddly enough, despite being the Big Bad, she's also this. She never intended to cause her alternate self to go Omnicidal Maniac. She only wanted to help her be more confident and assertive, and that ended up working a little too well.
• Villainous Rescue: In the true end Plutia tries to dominate Rei's power after beating it out of Hyper Dimension Rei, and was quickly failing and at risk of having their combined power and madness. After Neptune implies she's ready to Mercy Kill Plutia if she fails, Ultra Dimension Rei steps in and takes her power back and finally gets control over it.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: Thinking back on the good times with the rest of the sages, all that comes up is being ridiculed over and over again. Some of them later admit that, while she was fairly incompetent, being part of her group wasn't all that bad. This helps explain how even with no followers she was able to control her HDD form and pull off what she did when she initially gained her CPU powers, but with far more restraint.

Abnes

Abnes

Voiced by: Yui Shoji (Japanese), Stephanie Sheh (English)

The first member of the Seven Sages who Neptune encounters. She is obsessed with the safety of little girls, and does not believe that they should be tasked with leading nations as CPUs, though she takes offense to being called out as a little girl herself.

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• Boomerang Bigot: She thinks a nation run by girls can't be successful. She's a girl herself.
• The Cape: Before joining the Seven Sages, Abnes would normally go around the world protecting little girls.
• Elegant Gothic Lolita: She wears a frilly pink dress with a skull decoration.
• Friend to All Children: Specifically little girls, whose safety she prioritizes over everything else.
• Insane Troll Logic: Abnes thinks that, because she's on a mission to protect all the little girls in the world, she's always right, and anyone who stands in her way is a "big pedophile" and a "gross fetishist". Naturally, there's something off about her logic.
• Hero Antagonist: She's a part of Anti-CPU criminal organization, but hardly poses as an actual threat. If anything, she's just very, very misled.
• Insane Troll Logic: During her introductory scene, she offers this gem of an explanation for her being right:
  "I'm on a mission to protect every child in the whole wide world! That means I am in the right. Therefore, all who oppose me are big pedophiles and gross weirdos."
• Locked Out of the Loop: Since she's the public face of the group often getting questioned about what their goals are, and would object to most of the things they do, the rest of the Seven Sages leave her out of a lot of the planning.
• Moral Guardians: One of her main issues with the Goddesses is the sort of influence they have on children
• My Country, Right or Wrong: Defied. She has strong doubts on a system of nations ruled by girls that have become Goddesses, and such joined the Seven Sages.
• Not What I Signed on For: When she finds out the Seven Sages have been the ones behind all the kidnappings over the last several years she immediately bails and informs the CPUs of where they'd been keeping the kids.
• Paper Tiger: She pounces at Neptune for returning her "little girl" insults, only to end up crying when Neptune (who couldn't even transform at that point) throws out a single punch.
• Skeletons in the Coat Closet: Like Rei, she wears skulls on her dress.
• Tiny Tyrannical Girl: She is one of the smallest member of the group, and has a condescending and mocking attitude towards other nations' being ruled by 'little girls' (i.e. Blanc), even though she's a little girl herself.
• Token Mini-Moe: She's the youngest member of the Seven Sages.
• There Was a Door: Played with. Whenever she appears, she slams open a door, yelling out "Ga-thunk!", even in the Seven Sages' base. There's an exception during her Not What I Signed on For moment, where she just comes in like a normal person.
• The Unfought: She's the only one of the Seven Sages you never fight.
• Verbal Tic: Most of her sentences contain the term "little girls".

Anonydeath

Anonydeath

Voiced by: Yuki Fujiwara (Japanese), David Vincent (English)

A skilled hacker in a flashy pink mech suit who identifies as female and holds a possessive crush toward Noire.

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• Dead Man's Switch: He manages to escape the CPUs by telling them that if he dies all of the embarrassing footage he has of Noire will be released worldwide. As soon as he's safe, he informs them that he lied about it.
• Effeminate Voice: He has a very flamboyant tone with feminine speech patterns.
• The Faceless: He never leaves his suit so no one has ever seen what he really looks like. And even when he did, he only appeared as a silhouette, so to the player, he's still faceless.
• Flunky Boss: He comes with several small robots that disables various commands until you manage to kill them off.
• Healing Factor: Since only his armor is taking damage, he can repair and upgrade it to return for later battles. He is also the one who repairs Copypaste after he explodes.
• The Hedonist: He doesn't care about his job, he just does whatever he wants.
• Hollywood Hacking: Played With. His hacking of computers is all fairly realistic, having been based on actual events, all he had to do was observe and record Noire while she worked to gain access to Lastation's network. However he can also apparently hack people to observe and rewrite their memories.
• It Amused Me: If it's fun, he'll do it. This is more or less his only reason for having joined the Seven Sages.
• Karma Houdini: In the end, the CPUs never get to properly pummel him for what he's done to Peashy.
• Names to Run Away from Really Fast: The "death" part in Anonydeath is already a sign that he's not a good person. The "Anony" part of his name could count, if one consider the group Anonymous.
• Non-Action Big Bad: It is confirmed that Anonydeath seldom fights openly; though he does mention he can configure himself to a more combat oriented role, however doing so would cause him to lose his current suit's slim figure.
• Pretty Boy: Outside his armor, Anonydeath is apparently very cute, enough to make pretty much every Goddess in the Basilicom comment on it, and Noire having to snap them out of it by reminding them it's a man.
• Reformed, but Rejected: In the True End he found a way to reverse the failed CPU transformations, yet is still considered a creep.
• Troll: Quite possibly the only reason Anonydeath would alter Copypaste's personality as he did and then pair him up with Arfoire, and give Rei the task of being Peashy's "mother". This side of him also shows through in his reactions with Noire.
• Villainous Crush: He has a crush on Noire, much to her disgust.

Copypaste

Copypaste (Copilyace in Japanese)

Voiced by: Daisuke Kusunoki (Japanese), Patrick Seitz (English)

An incredibly loud-mouthed and simple-minded robot who views himself as the strongest member of the Seven Sages. After being destroyed by the CPUs, he is rebuilt with a much friendlier personality.

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• Awesomeness by Analysis: He gains powers by copying software.
• The Brute: He's the self-proclaimed strongest amongst the Seven Sages, but his intelligence is horrible.
• Casting Gag: This wouldn't be the last time Patrick Seitz would play a grouchy, Hot-Blooded, yet dimwitted character whose very eager to fight. Although this time, he's playing a legit bad guy instead of a good guy who looks bad.
• Defeat Equals Explosion: Explodes upon being defeated. He gets repaired later.
• Dumb Muscle: Despite being the strongest and most heavy-set of the Sages, even gloating about it at one point, he's the least intelligent, due to his tendency to prioritize brute strength over solving issues carefully. Once he's repaired though, he becomes Sophisticated as Hell, though his habit of destruction still remains.
• Glass Cannon: After being rebuilt by Lowee, Blanc admits that they rushed it and just redid his shell with paper-mache, so he wouldn't last in a fight anymore.
• Head Pet: After being rebuilt he has a tendency to do this with smaller characters. Specifically after being rebuilt in Lowee. Histoire, Ram, and Rom all get this treatment. Only the twins enjoy it.
• Healing Factor: Being a machine, he can be repaired by someone else.
• Heel–Face Door-Slam: Due to his change in personality after his initial repairs, he starts to get along with the citizens of Lowee when they show him how to destroy things in a helpful manner. While they're in the middle of convincing him to leave the Seven Sages Blanc shows up to make him pay for damages done to Lowee and kills him despite everyone's protest. Then it gets Subverted a couple chapters later. Lowee had him rebuilt during the 10 year Time Skip and he has been working for Blanc since.
• Humongous Mecha: He was built like a machine and towers almost all of the characters with his enormous size. His overall design vaguely resembles that of Getter Robo.
• Large Ham: He's so loud and boisterous that his self-introduction briefly deafens the CPUs so they can't hear Warechu's attempt to display his own name.
• Power-Up Letdown: As his abilities are low, he can only copy old ROM cartridges.
• Sophisticated as Hell: A variation. After being repaired from his first defeat, Copypaste begins to talk in a proper manner... while he still destroys things.
• Spikes of Villainy: He's a member of the Seven Sages and has horns on his head and drills on his shoulders. He starts to become less aggressive and more gentle after getting destroyed, however.
• True Companions: After being fixed by Anonydeath, Copypaste seems to value the Power of Friendship, sayings friends are valuable things.

Mister Badd

Mister Badd (Akudaijin in Japanese)

Voiced by: Kiyoyuki Yanada (Japanese), Keith Silverstein (English)

Introduced as Blanc's right-hand man, he is secretly one of the Seven Sages who seeks to undermine her authority. He is fiercely protective of several grotesque monsters who he views as his "daughters".

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• Ain't Too Proud to Beg: After being beaten, Plutia and Blanc (in their HDD forms) torture a confession out of him to be televised. After Blanc mentions that she's done, Plutia informs everyone that she's going to keep toying with him however she wants. This prompts a Big "NO!" and him begging for anyone to come save him from her.
• The Atoner: Genuinely comes to regret what he did to the failed CPU children-turned-monsters and goes out his way to care for them like they were really his children, even to the point he starts researching a way to turn them back and eventually abandons the Seven Sages for their sake.
• Batman Gambit: He reveals to the Goddesses that the monsters he uses to fight them (and calls his daughters) are actually children who failed to become CPUs. It's heavily hinted he forcefully did this to them, and when he reveals this to them, he fully expects they'd be unwilling to harm the children and would have to leave, thus sparing his life.
• Composite Character: Has a similar role in this game to Ganache and Yvoire from the first game, he even spends some time as nothing but a silhouette while working with the Seven Sages.
• Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": 'Mister Badd' is an alias.
• Evil Genius: He uses his intelligence to his to help the other Sages in getting rid of the goddesses, and at first glance, looks like a cold, cunning man who puts on the facade of seemingly helpful mentor to Blanc to trick her into loosing to the other CPUs, causing her Shares to plummet significantly. In fact, if it weren't for the existence of a fourth CPU, he and the other Sages would've won as early as the third chapter.
• Evil Old Folks: While not old per se, he's stated to be in his late 50s or so. He also works for a criminal organization devoted to doing away with every and all CPUs in the Ultra Dimension, in addition to being an Evil Genius.
• Four Eyes, Zero Soul: He wears glasses and is an Evil Genius who is a part of an Anti-CPU organization.
• The Glasses Come Off: He removes his glasses whenever you fight against him.
• Gonk: While not completely ugly, he appears to be a middle aged man, making him stand out for the rest of the cast.
• I Just Want to Be Loved: His wife died when he was a young man, and he eventually began to see failed CPUs as his children, to the point he started researching a way to reverse their transformation.
• Mini-Mecha: As he's just an ordinary human, he uses one to fight the CPUs. It looks rather like a combination of Dr. Eggman and some carnival ride.
• Names to Run Away from Really Fast: His name in the NIS America/Idea Factory International localization is Mister Badd. Not that his Japanese name, Akudaijin, was exactly subtle.^note His name is written in katakana (アクダイジーン Akudaijīn), so the intended meaning is ambiguous. The most likely option is "悪/Aku" (evil) + "大臣/daijin" (minister) = "Evil minister". "Dai" and "jin" can also be "great/big" and "person", respectively (大人). "悪大人/Akudaijin/Great evil person".
• Near-Villain Victory: Thanks to his scheming, Lowee fell when Plutia, Noire and Neptune defeated Blanc on live TV. This defeat stripped Blanc of all her goddess's powers and reverted her to a powerless girl due to the loss of faith from the civilians, thus ridding Lowee of its CPU. He also subsequently imprisoned her along with the other 3 CPUs, leaving their countries vulnerable and defenseless against the Seven Sages. Unfortunately, not knowing Vert existed was the only flaw in his plan. Without her, he would've won.
• Nobody Touches the Hair: Due to him suffering from some hair loss, he doesn't like people messing with his hair. Of the tortures Blanc and Plutia put him through the only one he mentions beyond being kicked in the spleen is that they're plucking his hairs out one by one and begs them to stop.
• Non-Standard Character Design: He's a fairly realistic middle-aged man in a cast of mostly cute anime girls that had kept human males before him in silhouettes.
• Papa Wolf: Despite being a member of the organization that is turning children into monsters, he does seem to care for his daughters, enjoying spending time with them and gets furious when anyone insults or lays a hand on them. He was even researching a way to turn them back to human form.
• Scary Shiny Glasses: His eyes are obscured by the glasses he wears.
• Sharp-Dressed Man: You have to admit, that suit looks awesome on him.
• Treacherous Advisor: He is this to Blanc. Despite initially appearing as her guardian, he reveals that he is a member of The Seven Sages.
• The One Guy: He is the first non-silhouetted human male character in the entire franchise.
• True Beauty Is on the Inside: Played with. Mister Badd sees as beautiful what is generally considered ugly by society. However, he just has a... different aesthetic sense.
• Xanatos Speed Chess: Egg the goddesses on into fighting each other, then televise the battle. If Blanc wins, that's two nations fallen. If Blanc loses, the others are likely to be exhausted and captured, taking out all three nations. Noire herself points out a third result, and pushes for it herself, that being showing Iris Heart to the world would potentially take out Planeptune. Any way it could've conceivably unfolded, he wins. When that all falls apart on him, and they try to pull the same tactic on him, he quickly tries to prevent further losses by banking on the fact that the others wouldn't throw away Blanc just to publicly ruin him. Even when that backfires by them reempowering Blanc and restoring her goddess abilities with The Power of Friendship (literally) he reveals that he had diverted some of Lowee's budget into building a mech to fight them.
• Vile Villain, Saccharine Show: In contrast to the lighthearted tone of Victory, Mister Badd is a surprisingly competent and calculating villain in comparison to the other villains of the game, what with him backstabbing Blanc by revealing that he's a part of The Seven Sages after the latter lost her shares, almost succeeds in his plan by getting rid of the goddesses had Vert not showed up, and used a CPU Memory on untrained users that results in them being turned into monsters, to the point that Blanc threatens to kill him and Plutia nearly goes into a Mama Bear-induced rampage until the other CPUs restrain her from potentially causing anymore damage. However, it's revealed later on that he's actually a loving father to the monsters he created and only turned them into monsters so he can have a family.

Fake CPUs

Debut: Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth1

The copies and fakes of the real CPUs. Created by Arfoire, their mission is to find the Legendary Weapons and to destroy them. However, their personalities are quite flawed.

General Tropes

Fake Purple Heart, Fake Black Heart, Fake Green Heart & Fake Blanc/White Heart

Voiced by: Rie Tanaka (Fake Purple Heart), Asami Imai (Fake Black Heart), Rina Sato (Fake Green Heart) & Kana Asumi (Fake Blanc/White Heart)

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• Action Bomb: Done by Fake Black Heart, and effectively destroying the Dual Revolver of Lastation.
• Anti-Villain: Fake Green Heart has no interest in seeking the Legendary Weapon, even if it's in her near. She simply wants to play video games and visit a butler café. And the only reason she fights Vert is because Fake Green Heart protects the Brothers who are escorting her to the butler café. Even Neptune lampshades that Vert might be the villain in that scenario.
• Colour-Coded for Your Convenience: The eye colors of Fake Purple Heart, Fake Black Heart and Fake White Heart are different than their originals'. Fake Purple Heart and Fake Black Heart have pink eyes, while Fake White Heart has golden eyes.
• Clone Jesus: They are copies of the four goddesses.
• Dull Surprise: In the Japanese version, Fake Blanc's attempt at copying Blanc's dirty mouth.
• Evil Sounds Deep: Averted and inverted. Fake Purple Heart and Fake Black Heart sound exactly like their originals. Fake Green Heart's voice is even higher than Vert's while Fake White Heart sounds exactly like the calm Blanc.
• Flanderization: Played straight In-Universe to hilarious effect. Fake Purple Heart is such a ditz she searches in the wrong spot, Fake Green Heart is so obsessed with video games she's completely harmless, and Fake White Heart is so introverted she outs itself when it can't match the original's potty mouth. Only the Fake Black Heart actually focuses on her objective, exaggerating the original's brutal efficiency.
• Gosh Dang It to Heck!: In the English version, Fake Blanc's attempt at copying Blanc's dirty mouth.
• Machine Monotone: Fake Green Heart's voice sounds like a bit robotic, and it is higher than Vert's voice. In the localized version that is demonstrated by having all of her lines being in written with capital letters entirely.
• Me's a Crowd: Fake Purple Heart can spawn weaker duplicates of herself, giving MAGES. and MarvelousAQL some trouble.
• Out-of-Character Alert: The fake Blanc has all of the real Blanc's memories, but gives herself away by calmly answering embarrassing questions while the real one flips out, exactly as Financier planned.
• Power Makes Your Voice Deep: Averted. Fake Blanc's voice doesn't change at all after transforming. The others are always in their goddess forms.
• The Quiet One: Fake Purple Heart and Fake Black Heart barely talk at all.
• Quirky Miniboss Squad: They are all bosses in chapter 7. Their personalities are flanderized versions of their originals.
• The Stoic: All of them, except of Fake Green Heart, are less expressive than their prototypes, but still retain their eccentric characteristics while maintaining a calm expression. This is especially noticeable in Blanc's case, as she's normally that trope until she gets mad.
• The Voiceless: None of them are voiced in the English audio.

AffimaX

Debut: Megadimension Neptunia VII

The antagonists of the Hyper Dimenion G Arc. They're fundamentally bloggers who profit from the general disarray caused by Gamindustri's Cosmic Retcon.

General Tropes

• Cool Airship: Affimojas' main base, and by the time the CPUs invade he's nearly paid off the loan he made to get it. The Revival Ending reveals that he has two of them.
• Oddly Small Organization: AffimaX as per Warechu's own words is just five members: Affimojas, Steamax, Warechu, Arfoire, and Adult Neptune. And if you want to get down to brass tacks, it's really just Affimojas and Steamax themselves while the rest are just bit players or only nominally allied. Justified by the fact the whole "secret society/organization" label was something coined by the news they took for themselves, and their true purpose is a blog and information-sharing website.

Affimojas

Affimojas

"This world is money! Money is everything in the world! Any sin is justified in order to obtain it!"

Voiced by: Hitoshi Bifu (Japanese), Jamieson Price (English)

The leader of the Secret Organization AffimaX, and the manager of Gamindustri's biggest information site @GeneralSummarySite. He spreads all sorts of info, regardless of veracity, to satisfy his hunger for money. He also holds a huge fetish toward busty blondes. He is an accomplice to a mysterious entity who rewrites Gamindustri, seeking greater profits from the resulting chaos in exchange for collecting the parts of the Swirl Console.

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• Arc Villain: The overall one of the Hyper Dimension G arc. While the individual CPU story arcs have their own separate villains for each set of heroes to tackle, it is Affimojas and his organization AffimaX who profit the most from the chaos of the Gamindustri rewrite, he is the one spearheading the retrieval of the Swirl Console parts hidden within the four nations for the Big Bad, and he's the one the CPUs must defeat in order to restore Hyper Dimension to normal.
• Badass Cape: And it serves as an attack nullifier from all CPUs' physical attacks, requiring them to use magic/element attacks to destroy it. and render him fully vulnerable.
• Baritone of Strength: He has a very deep voice that belies his strength despite his rather mundane day-job of a blogger.
• Beat the Curse Out of Him: How he's ultimately defeated. Neptune uses her strongest attack to take him down and shatter his Power Nullifier sword, which frees him from Kurome's control and also disperses the Cosmic Retcon over Gamindustri.
• Blackmail: Try to do this towards the CPUs by offering to give them their Share powers back for "1 gajillion" credits each. Fortunately, the Gold Third arrive to help before they can give in and help them take their powers back.
• Big Damn Heroes: In the true ending route, he saves both Neptunes, Nepgear, and Uzume from a horde of monsters with his battleship.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: When he refuses to give Kurome the last piece of her console, she drives him mad with Negative Energy for his upcoming fight the CPUs.
• Even Evil Has Standards: He might be working with the Big Bad and doesn't bat an eye at causing chaos throughout Gamindustri in the name of profit, but there are limits to what he'll stomach. He disdains the idea of War for Fun and Profit and prefers to trade in information instead, and when the Big Bad starts pontificating over plunging the world into even greater chaos, he's notably silent rather than reveling in more opportunities to make money.
• Evil Is Petty: His Money Fetish is already bad enough, but later on, he reveals that he spends it on merchandise of busty blondes. Cue Nepgear lampshading this trope.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: He's a blogger, yet he becomes an accomplice in rewriting reality. Though this might be justified given that his words can influence public opinion, which affects Shares and Negative Energy.
• Genius Bruiser: Despite his fearsome appearance, which he backs up in combat, he's quite an intellectual person and a savvy businessman on top of it.
• Has a Type: For busty blondes, which isn't surprising considering that one of the CPUs is one in her human form. In fact, Histoire bought his loyalty by giving him photos and merchandise of Vert (which was all totally officially from Leanbox).
• Heel–Face Turn: He and Steamax eventually shifted their focus from gossip to royalty collecting, and they also aided the CPUs in the Heartdimension arc.
• I Surrender, Suckers: After the CPUs beat him down the first time, he reveals he just did it to drop their guard so he could hit them with his Power Nullifier sword. It takes Gold Third giving them the power of their NEXT forms to come back from it.
• It's Not You, It's My Enemies: He fires Steamax so that he won't have to fight the CPUs, especially Uni. Though Steamax decides to guard Affimojas anyways when he realizes this.
• Know When to Fold 'Em: He knows he's no match for the CPUs and drives Steamax away so he can take the fall alone. Kurome, however, brainwashes him to do so anyways to protect the last piece of her console.
• Large and in Charge: Befitting his leader status, he towers over all his subordinates in AffimaX, including the equally tall Steamax.
• Large Ham: Every ounce of dialogue has him speaking in a loud and bombastic tone of voice.
• Money Fetish:
  • Money is his magnum opus, even moreso than B-Sha. One of the primary reasons why he wants rewrite Gamindustri is so he could increase his finances. Noire is surprised with his justifications.
  Noire: P-profits? Could it be... did you just change the world so you could make some money?!
  • He later reveals that all that money is channeled toward buying photos and figures of the aforementioned busty blond fetish, which surprises Nepgear even more.
• Obviously Evil: How could a big spiky robot like that possibly be a good guy? Except he eventually turns into one.
• Otaku: Reveals himself to be one along with Steamax, collecting figurines and doujinshis about his main fetish, busty blondes. Eventually, he reveals that his money fetish tendencies are also only there to secure him the funds he needed for his Otaku hobbies. After the true ending, in a scene he is seen admiring the quality of a figurine of Vert.
• Power Nullifier: He has a gem embedded in his greatsword that utilizes Negative Energy, which he uses to cripple the CPUs. It takes Gold Third giving them the power of their NEXT forms to overcome it.
• Shipper on Deck: He supports Steamax getting with Uni, to the point he releases him from his service to prevent him from having to fight her.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: He's more or less playing the similar role as Akudaijin/Mr. Badd from Victory, albeit far more physically imposing.
• Villainous Breakdown: As he's overwhelmed by the power of the NEXT Forms, his dialogue quickly starts degenerating into angrily and fruitlessly cursing the CPUs.
• War for Fun and Profit: Averted. While he likes gaining profit, he has no interest in outright conflict. He instead prefers methods such as espionage to obtain his goals.

Steamax

Steamax

"My only lord is General Affimojas. I will not follow any order except for the General's."

Voiced by: Ichitaro Ai (Japanese), Chris Cason (English)

Affimojas' loyal subordinate. Despite being a robot ninja, he has an unusual lack of presence that leads to many overlooking him. After Gamindustri's rewrite, he faithfully follows Affimoja's orders to collects the parts of the Swirl Console, despite their purpose being withheld from him, but his task is complicated when he develops a crush on Uni.

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• Angrish: When Purple Heart starts flirting with him, he can only let out gibberish, and his last "line" before fainting from overstimulation is random shapes and asterisks.
• Anti-Villain: Despite the fact that he's an antagonist, he has a sense of honor towards the CPUs. The best example is when he brings Neptune, Compa and IF to the central of Planeptune to stop the rampage of a monsterized Warechu and brainwashed B-Sha, then distracting the former to buy them time to stop the latter, all this immediately after he just fought them to steal the Swirl Console.
• Big Damn Heroes: In the Hyper Dimension route of Heart Dimension arc, he manages to steal the console away from Kurome.
• Cannot Talk to Women: Hinted at in his first appearance during the Zero Dimension arc, but shown in full during the Hyper Dimension G arc in Neptune's route where he's quickly reduced to mumbling and stuttering when confronted by Neptune, IF, and Compa, the former of which notes they've never had to deal with a guy like this before. IF ends up pissed off about his attitude since she can barely understand what he's saying, while the other two point out it's just a bad personality clash. Purple Heart flirting with him is enough to get him to faint.
• Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: He manages to snatch the Swirl Console right out of Kurome's hands.
• The Dragon: He's Affimojas' faithful servant as well as his closest friend.
• Early-Bird Cameo: He's first seen during Neptune's Hyper Dimension interlude during the Zero Dimension arc, buying some books for Affimojas.
• Fuuma Shuriken: He always carrying his detachable shuriken whenever he's going.
• Has a Type: Like Affimojas, he has a thing for busty blondes, though after befriending Uni, he ends up preferring black-haired twin-tailed Tsunderes instead.
• Heel–Face Turn: He turns a little earlier than Affimojas, offering to help the CPUs with dealing with the dark aura in the Hyper Dimension G arc.
• Hidden in Plain Sight: He proudly states that one of his best traits is "not standing out in a crowd". Only Uni's apparently ever seen him when he's actively doing so, and this comes in handy when he needs to get the drop on Kurome while she's fighting CPU Candidates and Gold Third.
• Katanas Are Just Better: He uses Ninjato to similar effect
• Mistaken for Gay: When Uni catches him with a bikini magazine, he quickly switches it out, only to realize that he switched it with a magazine full of hunky men. It's cleared up later when she realizes he has a crush on her.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: When Planeptune is under attack from the brainwashed B-Sha and Warechu, he completely drops his bashfulness around ladies and is able to not just speak clearly and firmly, but have Neptune, IF, and Compa ride on his body back to the city to protect the people.
• Otaku: Reveals himself to be one along with Affimojas, often carrying his orders to purchase doujinshis and enjoys them as much as Affimojas do, he is also shy around girls to the point of communication deficiencies like a stereotypical Otaku. Generally, his scenes when he is alone with Affimojas sounds completely like an Otaku sitcom.
• Porn Stash: Has a lot of 18+ magazines that he uses to distract Purple Heart, IF and Compa. The result is hilarious.
• Stealth Expert: So good in fact, when he puts in the effort only Uni can find him out.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: To Brave, who is also a robot that befriends Uni.
• Undying Loyalty: To Affimojas, to the point that he returns to their airship to pull a You Shall Not Pass! on the CPUs even after his general fired him to keep him out the conflict.
• Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Despite being a fairly large robot ninja, he apparently has a low profile that leads to most people not noticing him. Uni, however, finds this implausible.
• Verbal Tic: "~de gozaru" in the Japanese version, a humbling copula for samurai and ninja.
• Villainous Friendship: With Affimojas, who befriended him when they were kids and shared the same perverted hobby. Later, both drop the villainous part.
• You Shall Not Pass!: He attempts to halt the CPUs on their way to Affimojas after realizing that he was fired for his own safety. When he refuses to surrender even while fearing for his life, Uni just shoots him with a tranquilliser, which didn't really work, but gave him an excuse to back down by pretending to fall asleep.

Dark CPUs

Debut: Megadimension Neptunia VII

Resembling the CPUs of the four main nations, these four gigantic humanoids are omnipotent but mindless brutes who have ravaged the Zero Dimension and all of the civilians who inhabited it. Their mere presence tears up the fabric of time and space.

General Tropes

Dark Purple, Dark Black, Dark Green & Dark White

Dark Purple

Dark Black

Dark Green

Dark White

Dark Purple voiced by: Rie Tanaka (Japanese), Chiaki Takahashi (Japanese, fused with Arfoire), Melissa Fahn (English), Laura Post (English, fused with Arfoire)

Dark Green voiced by: Rina Sato (Japanese), Carrie Keranen (English)

Dark Black voiced by: Asami Imai (Japanese), Erin Fitzgerald (English)^note  Fitzgerald's voice lines as Dark Black remain intact in VIIR despite Erica Mendez re-recording all of Noire's lines.

Dark White voiced by: Kana Asumi (Japanese), Wendee Lee (English)

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• Arc Villain: While Uzume mentions in the Z Arc that there are four Dark CPUs in total, Dark Purple is the one that she's personally been struggling to fight the whole time. It gets defeated about halfway through when the Zerodimension monsters suddenly become capable of providing Share Energy to her and the Nep sisters so they can transform, and is later revived by and fused with Arfoire to become the Disc-One Final Boss.
• Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: They are giant-sized entities who easily dwarf everyone around them. They also attack and destroy everything around them.
• Back from the Dead: They all reappear at multiple points during the story despite being killed in each boss battle. Even compared to the other Dark CPUs, Purple gets destroyed and brought back the most. This is because Kurome can recreate them from her memories as long as she has enough Negative Energy.
• Bare-Fisted Monk: Unlike Purple Heart, Dark Purple wields no weapon, instead using her fists to clobber her enemies. The other three will fight in a similar manner once their weapons are destroyed.
• BFS: Dark Black, like Black Heart, uses a big sword as her weapon. It's also used by Dark Orange.
• Breast Expansion: Surprisingly, Dark White has somewhat bigger proportions on her chest compared to the real White Heart, which the Neptune duo joke may have been an act of pity from Kurome. Blanc is really pissed off when finding this out.
• Evil Counterpart: Of the main four CPUs.
• Fusion Dance: Arfoire fused with Dark Purple serves as the final boss of the Zero Dimension arc. The finale has Kurome fuse with all four of them to become Dark Orange.
• Generic Doomsday Villain: The Dark CPUs are essentially large puppets with no will of their own, simply destroying the world on the orders of Arfoire and their creator Kurome.
• Humanoid Abomination: Vaguely angelic beings standing at over 30 meters whose mere presence rips up the fabric of spacetime around them.
• Nigh-Invulnerable: They are destroying the very fabric of reality around them, making them immune to damage. It takes trapping them in a Sharing Field created from pure Share Energy to make them vulnerable to damage.
• Powered by a Forsaken Child: In the H Arc, Kurome kidnaps the CPUs and siphons their power to perfect their respective Dark CPUs, replacing their lost power with her own Negative Energy to gradually brainwash them.
• Skippable Boss: The Story Branching late in the Heart Dimension H arc leads to Dark Black being skipped in the Heart Dimension path or Dark White being skipped in the Hyper Dimension path. However, VIIR simply puts the Heart Dimension path after the Hyperdimension path, making both mandatory.
• Voice of the Legion: They sound like monstrous versions of whichever CPU they're based on.
• Wave-Motion Gun: One of their techniques involves firing massive waves of energy from her hands.
• Weapon Specialization: Dark Black, Dark White, and Dark Green all wield similar weapons to their proper counterparts Noire, Blanc, and Vert respectively, just sized to their proportions.

Dark Orange (UNMARKED SPOILERS)

Kurome Ankokuboshi

^{Dark Orange}

Debut: Megadimension Neptunia VII

Voiced by: Mariko Honda (Japanese), Erica Lindbeck (English)

A mysterious girl from the Heart Dimension who turns out to be the mastermind behind all of VII's events. Being the original version of Uzume Tennouboshi, she looks almost identical to her in everything except personality and morality. Once she fuses with the other Dark CPUs, she becomes the powerful yet unstable Dark Orange.

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• Achilles' Heel: The Swirl Console, her true body after being sealed, and the giant Share Crystal that makes up the core of Heart Dimension. Regardless of how powerful Kurome is in her delusional world, destroying either of these will kill her. The only reason why the protagonists don't resort to this is because Uzume will also die alongside her (not that it stops the protagonists from doing it in the normal ending). This weakness is however removed if Heart Dimension and Hyper Dimension are merged, and it also no longer applies to either of them in the Golden Ending after their resurrection.
• All of the Other Reindeer: She was a CPU of Planeptune, but her existence was loathed and despised by her people... some of them, at least. There were people who genuinely loved her (and in at least one case, still loves her), but she has forgotten them in her delusion.
• All Your Powers Combined: As Dark Orange, Kurome possesses the power of all four Dark CPUs (who were in turn further empowered by the Share Energy stolen from the four Goddesses) alongside her Negative Energy and the CPU power of Rei.
• Apocalypse How: Similar to Rei from the previous game, she attempts to do either Class 5 or 6, a Multiversal one. She intends to fuse both Hyper Dimension and Heart Dimension into a single apocalyptic dimension under her control.
• Ax-Crazy: She is by no means mentally healthy, but as Dark Orange, she loses her calm and calculative demeanor and becomes more unhinged in her actions and words.
• Back from the Dead: In the true ending, the heroes manage to kill her once after beating down her Dark Orange form and destroying the giant Share Crystal in Heart Dimension, but she comes back for another round by using Negative Energy to revive herself. Unfortunately for her, that is all she could do left as without the giant Share Crystal, she and Uzume are on their last legs, which leads to her Villainous Breakdown as she attacks them again.
• The Bad Guy Wins: She is the first villain in the franchise to outright win in the Bad Ending of a Neptunia game, signifying her status as the most dangerous villain in the franchise to date.
• Big Bad: Of the third arc Heart Dimension H and the game as a whole.
• Consummate Liar: As a skilled manipulator and swindler, deception is one of her most useful weapons.
• Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: She is sometimes compared to Rei Ryghts because they shared similar characteristics, as both are the Big Bad, Greater-Scope Villain and True Final Boss in their respective games. However, they also differ at many points:
  • In terms of backstory; Rei was the former CPU of the long lost Tari nation. Her people despised her due to her tyrannical behavior because she was drunk with her newfound power. Angered with her own people's rebellion, Rei used her power to destroy her own nation, which led to her losing her faith entirely, thus The Great Crash. Kurome (as the original Uzume) on the other hand, was the former CPU of Planeptune, only with her existence being rejected and loathed by (some of) her own people. She then decided to seal herself away because she couldn't control her power. In her own delusion, her hatred of Gamindustri grew, and she tried to break out of the seal to have her revenge.
  • In terms of personality: Rei in human form is a very fragile person who is prone to apologizing and has severe confidence issues, is incapable of making anyone obey her command, and thus ends up being stepped all over as a result. But in Goddess Form, she becomes extremely irrational (if also paranoid), unreasonable and overbearing. Kurome, on the other hand, is the resenter who hates Gamindustri, and she wants to give an exact punishment to Gamindustri for what she believes they did to her and has proven she will stop at nothing to be able to do so. She's also a skilled manipulator, deceiving anyone else to further her goals and and isn't above disposing of them without hesitation. As Dark Orange, she retains her vengeful nature and becomes far more unhinged and less collected.
  • While Rei wants to destroy the Gamindustri (both Hyper Dimension and Ultra Dimension) with her sheer power, Kurome wants to destroy the Gamindustri by fusing Hyper Dimension and Zero Dimension into a single apocalyptic dimension.
• The Corrupter: Throughout the story, she brainwashes her victims into either becoming their antithesis or exaggerating their flaws to make them work worse than they actually are.
  • In Neptune story, she turns Warechu into a mindless monster while simultaneously casting an illusion over B-Sha that makes her see people as monsters in order to make her attack innocent civilians.
  • In Noire's story, she instigates K-Sha to kill Uni and tells her she is a nuisance, delivering a Breaking Speech to her that she always being alone. Later she flat-out brainwashes her to make her try and kill Uni and Noire.
  • In Blanc's story, she forces Blanc, Rom and Ram to fight a possessed C-Sha after seemingly solving the nation's problems.
  • In Vert's story, she manipulates S-Sha into searching for a "Demon King" (actually a Zero Dimension monster) and then sacrificing one million ran-pigs (transformed Leanbox citizens and soldiers) in order to "save" E-Sha, not revealing that I Lied until the very end when Vert and Nepgear are forced to stop her from going through with the latter.
  • In the Heart Dimension H story, she kidnaps and corrupts the main Goddesses with negative energy filled with hatred, forcing them to fight the Candidates.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Because of her power being out of control, combined with her being treated like a pariah by her own people (although not entirely), she's become vengeful, leading her to believe that those who loathe her deserves to be destroyed.
• Death Equals Redemption: During the 8-bit retelling of the story during the credits, Kurome ultimately apologizes for her actions before Uzume and thanks her for her forgiveness before vanishing in a flash of light.
• Demonic Possession: People consumed by negative emotions are vulnerable to have their bodies being possessed by her, such as C-Sha during Hyper Dimension G arc. This only applies when she projects her spirit in Gamindustri from Zero Dimension; by Heart Dimension H she doesn't need to do this as she becomes able to enter Gamindustri personally through a dimensional hole.
• Dimension Lord: She essentially is the Heart Dimension.
• Dream Weaver: She has the ability to manipulate other people's dreams. She can corrupt people by showing them nightmares (like pushing C-Sha toward misanthropy with the belief that Lowee will betray her) or even good dreams (like pushing K-Sha further down the Yandere route by showing her a dream where Uni doesn't exist and she has Noire all to herself), and later pries the new hiding spot for the Swirl Console from the minds of Planeptune Basilicom members.
• Drunk with Power: She quickly goes off to the deep end after receiving what's left of Rei Ryghts' CPU power from Croire, especially as Dark Orange where she becomes boisterous and wilder.
• Dystopia Justifies the Means: Her goal is to turn Gamindustri into a living hell as payback for the world's perceived betrayal. She's averse to killing her enemies only because she wants them to suffer when her plan is complete.
• Early-Bird Cameo: She appears briefly in the Zero Dimension arc in her original Uzume form while Nepgear's reading some corrupted data, altering it and making Nepgear fall into a half-asleep state when Uzume finds her, leaving Nepgear to brush it off as All Just a Dream.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: After Uzume convinces the Nep sisters to destroy the Heart Dimesion's Share Crystal, sacrificing herself to stop the monsters ordered by a dying Kurome to assault Gamindustri, Kurome can't comprehend how Uzume can look so happy when she's also about to die.
• Evil Is Hammy: She's a Soft-Spoken Sadist for most of the game, but really cuts loose when she becomes Dark Orange in the finale.
• Evil Me Scares Me: Uzume doesn't react well to the revelation of her past and what her original has become.
• Fake Memories: As part of her delusion powers, she can implant this into people.
  • In the prologue of Hyper Dimension G, she executes this upon almost the entirety of Gamindustri to instill the Gold Third as the new leaders of each nation by taking advantage of the CPU Shift Period (the lowered faith of the people) and the negative emotion created when Gold Third unexpectedly defeated the CPUs beforehand.
  • In Heart Dimension H, she revealed that sometime after sealing herself and before she grew to hate Gamindustri, Uzume also did this upon the entire Planeptune to erase all trace of herself from history.
• Fallen Angel: Much like Rei with the long lost nation Tari, she is a former Goddess of Planeptune... except some of her people loathed her existence, and even called her a demon.
• Fallen Hero: The former goddess is now a vengeful spirit hell-bent on unleashing her hatred upon Gamindustri.
• Faux Affably Evil: Unlike most of the other villains, she acts civil and calm rather than acting like a cheesy, ill-tempered brute, even using Uzume's nicknames. Obviously, this helps her manipulate others, but she'll still keep it up to some extent even when her audience knows her true intentions.
• Freudian Excuse: During the middle part of Heart Dimension H, she tries to justify her actions by claiming she was treated like a pariah by her own people. But considering her mental state and choice of words, it is clear that she really enjoys inflicting pain of her victims, for the sadistic glee.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: Almost literal example. From a fallen and sealed CPU of Planeptune whose very name has been forgotten, to a vengeful, powerful Resenter Heartless who in the Bad Ending even manages to succeed in destroying Gamindustri.
• Fusion Dance: As Dark Orange, she combines all of the Dark CPUs and place them into her, calling herself the ultimate Dark CPU as the Final Boss.
• The Ghost: Literally and figuratively, because over the course of the Hyper Dimension G arc, she spends most of her time as a wandering spirit as her actual physical body is still sealed and Kurome's self is still stuck in her delusional dimension. It's not until she gains enough power to create a dimensional hole that she finally becomes able to appear as herself in Gamindustri.
• Greater-Scope Villain: She's responsible for every single major event throughout the game.
• Gravity Master: Within the Zero Dimension and Heart Dimension, she can casually alter the laws of physics, such as increasing the gravity of a location. She did this in Heart Dimension H arc to force the protagonists to kneel before her as she announces herself as Uzume Tennouboshi, the CPU of Planeptune.
• The Heartless: CPUs gather Share Energy (the belief and admiration of the people) to empower themselves, but after falling into her own delusion of hatred, her power source shifts to Negative Energy (fear, despair, hatred, and other negative emotions). Within her delusion, she gains strength from the despair of the inhabitants of Zero Dimension. She is still able to gain Share Energy and use them, but due to her conscience (Uzume) separating from her she is unable to gather Shares by herself anymore, as Shares actually hurts her at direct contact. After Zero Dimension and Heart Dimension is destroyed though, her power source shifted back to Share Energy.
• Irony: Kurome boasts about the fact that she exists on Negative Energy, and she is actually hurt if she is touched by Share Energy directly. However, she still needs to use Share Energy in order to manifest in Gamindustri, even her Dark CPUs cannot manifest without the Share Energy from the delusional goddesses she captured except if Hyper Dimension and Heart Dimension are merged. Even then, she can only fuse the dimensions due to Rei's CPU power from Croire, which is again empowered by Shares. For extra irony, during the Golden Ending Kurome boasts that she will exist as long as hatred does before she and Uzume commence their final battle to determine who gets to be revived, even though she no longer benefits by Negative Energy and it is actually Share Energy that will resurrect either of them.
• Jekyll & Hyde: An accurate description when comparing her and Uzume, with Uzume being the good one and Kurome being the bad one. Justified, because they are the same person.
• Kneel Before Zod: After revealing that she's a former Planeptune CPU, she increases gravity to force Nepgear and Uzume to kneel before her.
• Knight of Cerebus: Compared to Affimojas and Steamax, as well as the rest of the antagonists from the previous installments, she has little to no comic relief moments and most of her actions are almost always seriously. Once she starts meddling with the protagonists by Hyper Dimension G things get worse really fast, and by personally taking action in Heart Dimension H it is even possible for her to actually win in the end. As no other antagonist in the franchise has ever won, this means that Kurome manages to be this for the entire franchise.
• Laser-Guided Amnesia: She seems to have forgotten the citizens who supported her while only remembering the people who feared her for her Reality Warper powers.
• Lotus-Eater Machine: Yet another way for her to induce delusion upon other people. She does this to the main CPUs in Heartdimension H to use their power to empower her Dark CPUs.
• Manipulative Bitch: Big time. Even though she is just a ghost during the Hyper Dimension G story, she is capable of manipulating everyone else, just for her entertainment. Despite making Gold Third the "leaders" of the four nations, she doesn't hesitate to pull her Batman Gambit and Diabolus ex Machina when the time comes. Combine this with her sadistic nature and you have a contender for the most dangerous Big Bad of the Neptunia series.
• Master of Disguise: Part of her power to induce delusion to other people is to make herself appear as someone else.
  • In Zerodimension Z, she appears as Uzume as she knocks Nepgear out while the latter was searching for data.
  • In Hyperdimension G, her ghost takes the form of Noire while the latter is out on a mission and then goes on a date with Uni in order to sow jealousy in K-Sha.
  • During the beginning of Heart Dimension H, she once again takes the form of Uzume and pretends to be that character with Neptune and the other CPUs. After startling the CPUs by summoning Dark Purple, she proceeds to entrap them in her Lotus-Eater Machine.
• Mind Rape: She first did this to the Gold Third, making them antagonistic to their CPUs through various manipulations. Kurome then one-ups this by placing the CPUs into her Lotus-Eater Machine and using their energy to empower her Dark CPUs.
• Mirror Boss: To Uzume (obviously) in the True Ending, doubling as the True Final Boss, though her identical looking skills are renamed to reflect her villainous nature.
• Mook Maker: Within her own delusional dimension, Kurome can create armies of (unintelligent) monsters, the Dark CPUs, and even copies of beings she has encountered, including Arfoire and the CPUs. She can continue to recreate them so long as she has Negative Energy. Unfortunately for her, they cannot manifest in Hyper Dimension unless she has Share Energy (that she can no longer gain by herself) to manifest, or if she manages to merge Heart Dimension and Hyper Dimension together.
• Multi-Armed and Dangerous: As Dark Orange, she gains a second pair of detached arms. The right one wields Dark White's axe, while the left wields Dark Black's BFS, both recolored to fit her color scheme.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Kurome becomes able to manifest as a ghost in Gamindustri during Hyper Dimension G due to the Share Energy that Neptune brings over to Uzume from Hyper Dimension at the end of Zero Dimension Z. Eventually, she gains enough to create a portal for her true self to appear in Gamindustri personally.
• Not So Stoic: In the True Ending. While she previously always carried herself with her Soft-Spoken Sadist Faux Affably Evil personality except when she transformed, that facade completely breaks upon realizing that only she or Uzume can hope to come back in control of their original body and they have to fight for it. It's especially evident as she's using her SP skills, as her voice becomes gruffer in a manner similar to Uzume as she demands her good self to just disappear while wailing on her.
• The Older Immortal: She's a former CPU of Planeptune... as in she predates both Neptune's entire reign and life as well as that of another CPU, Uranus/Caelus. She's old enough to have encountered the Deity of Sin personally and is running for one of the oldest members of the cast, with only Ultra Dimension Blanc, Ultra Dimension Rei, Croire, Hyper Dimension Histoire, and the Deity of Sin surpassing her.
• Omnicidal Maniac: Played with. She explicitly states in Neptune's story of Hyper Dimension G arc that she wishes to see all of Gamindustri to suffer, endlessly if possible. In the Heart Dimension arc, she admits that she'd rather keep the heroes alive to suffer, but will have to kill them if they keep obstructing her vengeance. This makes her significantly different than most examples, who want to simply end all life.
  Kurome: Gamindustri looks much better when it is endlessly falling into chaos...
• Only Known by Their Nickname: Her name is technically still Uzume Tennouboushi, but both Neptunes independently decide to distinguish her as Kurome Ankokuboshi, which even her text boxes adopt.
• Palette Swap: A justified example. She looks like a recolor of Uzume because she's actually the original version of her.
• Paint It Black: She starts off looking similar to Uzume. Her outfit turns black when she shows her true colors (literally) and kidnaps the CPUs.
• Power Incontinence: She couldn't control her delusion powers, which led to some of her people turning on her.
• The Power of Hate: What Negative Energy is, for lack of a better description. It's her main source of power and she uses it to corrupt the Gold Third and CPUs at various points in the story.
• Power Nullifier: Using Negative Energy, she can cripple people from using Share Energy by infusing negative emotions upon them. Arfoire and Affimojas both gain this ability from her.
• Reality Warper: Uzume possesses a unique power that is capable of turning her wishes and delusions into reality. Within her own dimension, she is capable of using negative emotions as power source, and with them, manipulate reality itself by creating minions powerful enough to distort space-time and even casually increase the gravity of the world to force people to kneel. While outside of her dimension this power is less potent, she is still capable of inducing various forms of delusion to people and rewrite their memories. If Heart Dimension and Hyper Dimension were to merge as she planned, she will be able to utilize her powers in Zero Dimension within the fused world.
• The Resenter: She despises the people of Gamindustri; Planeptune in particular, believing that she was created by her own people only to then be rejected, discarded and sealed away. Her hatred is so great that it created the Zero Dimension (the embodiment of Gamindustri while she's destroying it) and the Heart Dimension (the embodiment of Gamindustri after she destroys it).
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Exploited, discussed, and then subverted. During her Motive Rant, she says that she wants to rule the whole of Gamindustri to reclaim what she lost, all while taking revenge on those who loathe her. Once her good self realizes that she doesn't really despise the world and the world still cares about her, it's so clear that she is merely a Chess Master who just wants to watch the Gamindustri to be destroyed.
• Sadist: Watching people suffer is her most delight entertainment. Deceiving them, pitting them against each other, disposing of her victims when she no longer needs them, most of her antics have little to no purpose other than to satisfy her diabolical pleasure. While she does have a Freudian Excuse due to her troubled past, it is made all clear that she's really enjoy this.
  Kurome: They say that the misfortune of people tastes of honey... don't they? Seeing people suffer is my treat.
• Self-Serving Memory: While some of her people did turn on her, even attempting more than one assassination, there were still several who supported her. She also claims that she got sealed after the assassinations failed, when she actually voluntarily sealed herself until Histoire could come up with a way to fix her Power Incontinence.
• Shadow Archetype: Of Uzume herself.
• The Sociopath: While she once sealed herself away to protect the world, she now just wants to watch it burn. Doesn't help that her conscience split off into another person.
• Soft-Spoken Sadist: Her calm and soft speech combined with her sadistic mentality is quite frightening compared to most other main villains in the series. It's especially frightening when compared to Uzume's (which oscillates between a Tomboyish Voice and a Child-Like Voice) despite both of them being the same person.
• Split-Personality Merge: She invites Uzume to merge back with her so she can have both Negative and Share Energy for put Gameindustri at her mercy. While a merge does occur in the Golden Ending, Uzume ends up in control.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Like Zero Dimension Uzume and Adult Neptune to Plutia and Peashy respectively, she plays the similar role as the Big Bad and True Final Boss, Rei from Victory.
• Taking You with Me: After getting defeated, she declares that she's taking Rei's power down with her, and sends a swarm of monsters to wreak havoc on the Hyper Dimension in her dying breath, though it's foiled by Uzume's Heroic Sacrifice.
• Then Let Me Be Evil: Her people painted her as a demon because she couldn't control her powers. She eventually decided to become just that.
• Tranquil Fury: After getting punched out by Dogoo Man of all people and getting her console (which is her actual body) snatched away by Steamax, her tone remains as cold as ever, but the protagonists are frightened by how much killing intent she's giving off.
• True Final Boss: In addition to Dark Orange, Kurome must also be defeated in her human form in the Golden Ending.
• Unperson: Did this to herself by erasing all memories and records of her existence from Gamindustri after her sealing, claiming that she was just granting their wish of wanting to forget about her. Even Histoire, an artificial being who was unaffected by her Cosmic Retcon removing the concept of CPUs, can only vaguely remember working with someone a long time ago.
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: She used to be kind and bubbly, but her delusion powers ran amok and she was eventually sealed away. Though her people stayed faithful to her to the end, she was eventually corrupted into believing that everyone was against her, putting her into the state she's in now.
• Villainous Breakdown: After getting defeated as Dark Orange, she disappears while desperately screaming about how she hasn't gotten her revenge yet. In the Revival Ending, her sealed body absorbs enough Negative Energy to revive herself, sounding as smug as usual when the protagonists confront her again... until Uzume points out that their sealed body ran out of shares and died since Neptune and Nepgear destroyed the Heart Dimension's Share Crystal, leaving the two as mere ghosts who will soon be going to hell together. This completely sends her off the deep end, hysterically refusing to accept her fate, as she resumes her Dark Orange form. Her in-battle quotes have her almost pitifully wailing about not wanting to disappear and lamenting that the world keeps rejecting her.
• The Voice: She's heard several times throughout the Hyper Dimension arc, usually talking to a Gold Third member or Affimojas, but doesn't actually show up (at least not in her true form) until the Heart Dimension arc.
• Voice of the Legion: Gains a demonic echo as Dark Orange.
• We Can Rule Together: After Uzume boasts that she's gained Share Energy, Kurome invites her to merge back together and take revenge on Gameindustri with their combined Share and Negative Energy. Uzume refuses, even after having her memories of their Dark and Troubled Past restored.
• Why Won't You Die?: During her Mirror Boss battle with Uzume in the True Ending, several of her quotes during her SP skills has her demanding Uzume to "disappear" in a gruff, angry voice as she furiously wails on her. Which makes sense, as she knows what will happen to herself if she loses.
• World's Strongest Woman: She is the second strongest character in the Neptunia series, at least in her own dimension. Although not as powerful as Rei from Victory, she is nonetheless capable of pulling the same trick as Rei does, even though she spends most of her time as a wandering spirit. Coupled with her cunning and deceitful nature, she's capable of presenting herself as the most dangerous main antagonist in the franchise. When she does get a body and after absorbing power from all four Goddesses, she does become even more powerful then Rei.
• The Woman Behind the Man: All the game's problems trace back to her. Arfoire and the Dark CPUs plaguing the Zero Dimension are her creations, and she causes the Cosmic Retcon in the Hyper Dimension while AffimaX were simply accomplices.
• Worf Had the Flu: In the end, this is real reason Kurome is beaten. At full power as Dark Orange, with the combined power of her Negative Energy, all the Dark CPUs, and Rei's remaining power, she could even resist the effects of a normal Sharing Field and the entire playable cast is apprehensive about fighting her on her terms. Uzume is forced to empower the Sharing Field with the Heart Dimension Share Crystal (which is their tied-together life force) in order to weaken her to the point the heroes can actually hurt her.

Pirate Makers

Debut: Neptunia Game Maker R:Evolution

A group of Pirate Makers led by the Arfoire of Pippih, Jagaa, and Reedio's dimension, who is also the CEO of her company. Their mission is to make illegal copies of games in order to surpass the various Game Makers of the world.

General Tropes

• Dressed to Plunder: They all wear stereotypical pirate hats, with Copy the Art also wearing an eyepatch, and their logo is a skull and crossbones.
• Elite Four: This is a common topic of discussion surrounding the three Copies, specifically that they're missing a fourth and can't use such a title for themselves. Copy the Hard even suggests that they force Arfoire to pull double duty and be both their boss and a member of her own Elite Four. They end up settling on the name "Copy Sannin Shuu", which depending on how you interpret one of the kanji could be taken as "The Three Great Copies" or the decidedly less intimidating "Copy Clique Trio".
• Evil Wears Black: Aside from Arfoire herself, the group primarily wear black clothing to emphasize their villainy. The only exception is Copy the Art, whose outfit is white instead; only her pirate hat is black.
• Never Bareheaded: Copy the Hard, Copy the Art, and Copy the Code all wear pirate-like hats that they never take off in the game.
• Too Dumb to Live: Stealing the Immersion-kun ProMAX and using it to abduct people is fairly clever. Picking a fight with its creator, Reedio, inside of it not so much. The three Copies get shunted off to an inescapable prison where they can never die for their troubles. Croire apparently freed them at some point, leading to a second case of this where they do not attack her on sight after the Zaikopath's destruction and her long since revealing that she's been using them. This allows Croire to fuse Arfoire, Hard, and Code to a fragment of the Zaikopath she saved in the Nep-Note, with Art barely escaping with her life to warn Victory of what was about to happen and beg for their help.
• Wolf Pack Boss: The second time they are fought, they're all together. Individually they were all fairly simple fights, but combining Art's wide variety of long range attacks, Code's various damaging clouds, and Hard's raw melee power makes for a difficult fight until you manage to take at least one of them out.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: A non fatal example, but after the trio buys Arfoire the time needed to start up Arfoire's Best Company she makes no attempt at breaking them out of the Immersion-kun ProMAX and even admits they played their part to completion. Even after Croire helps, while they do still seem to be on good terms there's no indication Arfoire's officially hired them to work for her at this new legitimate company.

Copy the Hard

Copy the Hard

Voiced by: Kyousuke Mano (Japanese), TBA (English)

Copy the Hard is in charge of the production of knockoff consoles at Magicompany, as well as the sabotage of the consoles he's copying. He has a great fondness for children's superhero entertainment and thus puts a lot of effort into being a cool and intimidating villain but has a particular weakness for Presto Mask.

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• Better to Die than Be Killed: After his defeat the Goddesses demand he tell them where their stolen consoles are. Rather than allow himself to be captured and have the information forced out of him, he jumps off the side of a nearby cliff to his death. The group admits that his willingness to die to keep his group's secrets was rather impressive. Right up until they look over the edge and see that he actually grabbed the side of the cliff and is just scaling it down to safety. Older Neptune thinks he's still kind of cool, because he looks like a bug crawling on a wall.
• Expressive Skull: His skull is rather expressive, rather than just the one sinister expression in his portrait here.
• Humongous Mecha: He's a large robot with a Skull for a Head.
• Meaningful Name: The "Hard" referring to hardware, his body is composed of blatant knockoffs of various Nintendo consoles and controllers as well as an Xbox for his right foot and the recurring X shaped console from Planeptune for his torso. He's also a copy of one of the previous "Hard"s, Brave specifically, using an updated copy of Brave's model including his flaming BFS being swapped out for a giant cutlass being held in the exact same manner.

Copy the Art

Copy the Art

Voiced by: Sakura Nagaki (Japanese), TBA (English)

Copy the Art is in charge of producing edited art at Magicompany, as well as being the face of the group at events where she can collect demos and other materials for in production games. Off duty, she can often be found at the Free Market area trying in vain to get anyone to purchase her bizzare art works.

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• Laser-Guided Karma: She makes a living stealing others' artworks so it's somewhat fitting that, after being abandoned by Arfoire, the latter takes her unique Jolly Roger and plasters it all over everything at Afoire's Best Company.
• Light Is Not Good: Unlike the other members, her dress is colored white. She's also one of the main antagonists of the game.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Subverted. She is depicted with red eyes and is one of the main antagonists of the game, but is otherwise just shy. And though she has a tendency to act blunt and overconfident if she wants to, she isn't openly antagonistic about it.
• Shy Blue-Haired Girl: A unique case of this coming from a villain: Copy the Art has light blue hair that looks unkempt, and is described as being a bit shy and not good at communicating with others. That said, she can being very loud and egotistical when it comes to her art.
• Sigil Spam: She has an unfortunate obsession with working the group's Jolly Roger icon on anything she's made, making it very easy for Older Neptune to figure out that the innocent "Street Artist" she's talking with is the same girl who stole a bunch of demos from the New Force event due to her business cards in both situations having it on it.
• Small Name, Big Ego: Often brags about how much of a good artist she is.
• True Art Is Incomprehensible: Part of her problem selling her own original works is due to firmly believing this, and is actually amazed and pleased when she finds out that the Older Neptune does actually grasp what she's going for in her art.

Copy the Code

Copy the Code

Voiced by: Miri Yanagi (Japanese), TBA (English)

Copy the Code is in charge of replicating and editing the coding of any stolen software Magicompany obtains, and oversees a vast network of spies to obtain the stuff. She's exceptionally childish, so she can often be found joining in on Hard's attempts at playing the role of a Tokusatsu villain.

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• Delicious Distraction: After being beaten she admits to having one more sure kill technique, and calls in a legion of NuberEats deliverymen to drop off a ton of food hoping that it will give her time to escape. Unfortunately for her, food is apparently not as good of a distraction as Steamax's porn mags and she's promptly captured.
• Evil Knockoff: She's responsible for the recurring gimmick of copies of characters as bosses this time around, and as always there's usually something about the copies that give them away. Vert's copy constantly screws up her "watakushi" as "atakushi", B-Sha's refers to herself as Presto Rider, C-Sha and S-Sha's are too quiet and too chatty respectively, Neptune's is too competent even for Purple Heart. Only Blanc, Noire, and K-Sha's copies manage to fool anyone but still eventually give themselves away.
• Evil Redhead: Subverted. Though she has long, red hair and serves as a minion to Arfoire, she's more playful than outright villainous.

Minor Antagonists

Bamo

Bamo

Debut: Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth 3

Voiced by: Yo Taichi (Japanese), Tara Sands (English)

A seemingly minor enemy encountered in Re;Birth3's exclusive prologue dungeon by Neptune. She shows up in the True ending Endgame+ plot with social games by terrorizing the Ultra Dimension with Pay to win games that mind controls the citizens.

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• Bribing Your Way to Victory: Uses this as a method to control the citizens of the Ultra Dimension.
• Early-Bird Cameo: Appears as a harmless minor enemy in the prologue.
• Enemy Summoner: Summons monsters to attack the CPUs.
• Wake-Up Call Boss: You are going to face them as Iris Heart and Yellow Heart ALONE — providing that DLC characters are not in your party. There is no warning that the battle will initiate, as checking on Ultra Dimension Planeptune will automatically encounter them.

Regu

Regu

Debut: Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth 3

Voiced by: Kana Yuuki (Japanese), Colleen O'Shaughnessey (English)

One of Re;Birth3's exclusive bosses. Along with Bamo, the two terrorize the Ultra Dimension with social games in the True ending Endgame+ plot.

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• Wake-Up Call Boss: Same with Bamo; provided that Iris Heart isn't partnered with Yellow Heart, or you have DLC characters in your party.

The Order

The Order

Order Woman

Debut: Megadimension Neptunia VII

Order Woman is voiced by: Unknown (Japanese), Unknown (English)

A group of mercenaries that once sold weapons and themselves for war in Lastation before being stopped some time ago. However, the CPU Shift Period combined with the rewriting of the world allowed the survivors to stage a coup within Lastation for themselves, intending to restart their ways.

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• Arc Villain: Of Noire's arc during Hyper Dimension G, specifically the female Order leader.
• The Beastmaster: They've been attempting to capture the delusionary monsters in order to bolster their forces, though a conversation between two members has one admitting their main plan is just to release them into other nations, preferably populated areas, and let them go wild and cause chaos to make the invasion easier.
• Big Bad Wannabe: They want to be the big world changers, but ultimately they're just pawns of Kurome to be discarded.
• Child Soldiers: K-Sha's history indicates they very much employ these.
• Jerkass: The group as a whole are unpleasant condottieres who make war for profit just to make more war, which is essentially trying to start a slaughter for the sake of the slaughter, and have even taken over the Basilicom to do it. The leader is just as repulsive as her partners, having nearly getting Uni killed at one point.
• Mini-Mecha: They have one called the M-Gear that they call the "anti-CPU weapon". The mecha itself is not the true danger however, but the deadly bioweapon contained within its chasis.
• No Name Given: Their female leader is never actually named.
• Stoic Spectacles: The female leader has these and almost never loses her stoic composure.
• War for Fun and Profit: This is what they're all about, why Noire hunted them down and destroyed their original incarnation, and what they want to do with Lastation now that they've taken over the Basilicom and spreading war to the other nations.
• Would Hurt a Child: If their usage of Child Soldiers isn't enough, they have no qualms attempting to dispose of K-Sha, and the leader herself attempts and nearly succeeds in killing Uni.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: When K-Sha decides she's done letting them have their way and refuses to follow through on her assassination mission on Noire, they decide to attempt to destroy her Golden Summit, the source of her power, to get rid of her.

Azna=Leb

Azna=Leb

Debut: Megadimension Neptunia VII

Voiced by: Unknown (Japanese), Unknown (English)

The leader of Lowee's Revolutionary Army and inventor of the License System. If that sounds like a contradiction, that's because he's also the man who wants to engineer a take-over of Lowee.

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• Arc Villain: Of Blanc's arc during Hyper Dimension G.
• Dirty Coward: When the delusionary monsters attack Lowee, he abandons his fellow Revolutionary members and the innocent Lowee citizens to save his own skin.
• Even Evil Has Standards: He's disgusted when C-Sha falsely proclaims to have tried (non-sexually) assaulting Blanc in her sleep.
• Evil Redhead: Has noticeable red hair, and is the major antagonist of Blanc's arc.
• It's All About Me: He immediately bails when a large number of delusionary monsters close in on Lowee, scoffing at the idea of leaving soldiers behind to defend the town instead of saving his own hide. Once he's publicly outed for this, he starts ranting about how the people of Lowee aren't smart enough to exist without him until Blanc punches him in the face.
• Jerkass: He (ostensibly) helped establish the dystopian society that ails G-Arc Lowee, continually tries to pit Blanc and C-Sha against each other and briefly succeeds, manipulates everyone and everything behind the scenes for his own benefit (including drumming up false charges and slandering), and when push comes to shove, abandons a city that is being charged by monsters, insisting that his life is more important than any number of helpless citizens that are depending on him to protect them. He actually goes as far as claiming that everyone else needs to be controlled by him in order to be happy. Blanc slugging him right in the face is very much cathartic.
• Manipulative Bastard: First he hires C-Sha to kill Blanc, but when that falls through he manipulates Blanc by revealing he remembers who she is as well as how C-Sha is the ruler of Lowee and the source of the delusionary fog empowering the monsters in an attempt to get her to kill the Gold Third member, then uses Blanc's attempt to get the truth out of C-Sha to arrest the latter while framing it like Blanc was in on it.
• Not So Above It All: He's noticeably flustered when C-Sha claims one of her attempts to "assassinate" Blanc involved jumping on her while she was asleep, with her asking him if he has "no experience".
• Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: Claims to Blanc as the leader of the Revolutionary Army he wants to restore the Lowee of old from the License System that shouldn't exist, and that their army is made up of those who remember her and want her to take her rightful place as the CPU again. While that is the Revolutionary Army's goal, he's in it solely for his own personal gain and power, and was the one who made the License System in the first place and attempted to have both Blanc and C-Sha killed.
• Running Both Sides: He's the leader of the revolutionaries that seek to abolish the License System... and the man who made the License System in the first place. It's all part of his scheme to take full control of Lowee while coming off as the hero.
• Villainous Breakdown: Once he's outed for abandoning Lowee with no regard for its people as delusionary monsters attacked, as well as setting up the license system, he begins openly ranting about how they're all too weak and stupid to function without his guidance... until Blanc shuts him up.

F2P

F2P

Debut: Neptunia: Sisters vs Sisters

Voiced by: Ryota Shida (Japanese), Unknown (English)

A robot under Arfoire's service who has a huge grudge against Grey Sister.

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• Collective Identity: F2P was originally an armor intended for Arfoire's Mecha-Mooks, but the individual seen for most of the game is actually Anri in Powered Armor.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Repulsed by Arfoire keeping Neptune in the sealing device with the intent of killing her in front of Nepgear, and later outright objects to Arfoire taking Maho hostage to render Nepgear helpless.
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Allies with Arfoire to seek revenge against Grey Sister, flying into a rage whenever she shows up.

Zaikopath

Zaikopath

Debut: Neptunia Game Maker R:Evolution

Voiced by: Unknown, Chiaki Takahashi (Zaiquone Form, Japanese)

An ancient Eldritch Abomination given form by intense Negative Energy from horrible games that nobody wants to play.

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• Almighty Idiot: The Zaikopath has no real discernable intelligence nor motives beyond being a voracious predator that will bring about the end of the world simply by stealing the souls of every living thing to sustain itself. When the main body is found it doesn't even consider using its copies to harvest the souls of those attacking it to defend itself and instead just tries to outright kill them, leading to a relatively easy victory.
• Eldritch Abomination:
  • The Zaikopath is a massive humanoid torso with a featureless head prone to rapid jerky twitching coming out of its chest and an extra arm where a head would normally be while the bottom portion of its body is a gelatinous mass of discarded boxes and games. In combat it freely turns its three arms into a lance, scythe, and hammer. It is also capable of producing an endless number of smaller versions of itself anywhere in the world that there are unplayed games, and promptly steals the souls of anyone unfortunate enough to be nearby to feed on them.
  • Its fused Zaiquone form is no better. It has a psychotic grinning face for a torso with two massive glowing eyes with giant hands closing in behind them where its shoulders should be and a blade where a head would normally be. Instead of the gelatinous mass below it, it floats above a miniature collapsing world.
• Fusion Dance: Croire kept a portion of the Zaikopath trapped within the Nep-Note as a backup plan in case the Goddesses could defeat it. Once they did, she took the remaining fragment and fused Arfoire, Copy the Hard, and Copy the Code with it to create the Zaiquone. Copy the Art was able to escape and warn the Goddesses of what was coming.
• Hate Plague: Exposure to its Negative Energy drives people to violent extremes in their personality as the various cursed discs that F-Sha had been hunting down, including those that drove the Sisters nuts, are in fact just copies of its Master Disc.
• Interface Spoiler: It's possible to gain access to the Arfoire's Best Company dungeon several chapters before you are supposed to clear it. The final floor has only one enemy listed, Zaiquone, giving away its Fusion Dance well before it occurs.
• Meaningful Name: Its name is a combination of zaiko, meaning stock or inventory, and psychopath, in reference to what created it, what it looks like, and its mental state.
• Mighty Roar: The Zaikopath is apparently incapable of speech, with all of its lines being loud angry roaring instead.
• Names to Run Away from Really Fast: This is a soul harvesting monster whose name is a play on psychopath, definitely not the friendliest of Neptunia characters.
• Sealed Inside a Person-Shaped Can: The Master Disc required for its unsealing was hidden inside F-Sha, though she was unaware of it. Once Croire has a sufficient amount of Negative Energy she proceeded to rip the disc out of F-Sha to release the creature.
• Took a Level in Badass: While the main story fights against it are relatively simple affairs, its damage output and general aggression are significantly increased for its Boss Rush version and especially its Extreme Neptral Tower version, where many attacks reach one or two hit kill levels of damage.
• Unusual Halo: It has a massive shattered disc for a halo behind it.
• Your Soul Is Mine!: Its copies possess the ability to harvest the souls of anyone it touches, keeping them in a permanent half dead state where it can feed on the Negative Energy from their suffering. It wasn't expecting a second soul in S-Sha, allowing E-Sha to fight it off long enough for Reedio to figure out where the real body was at.

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