This is for the Saint Seiya Characters in the Toei Animation movies. Spoilers are unmarked.
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Saint Seiya: The Movie (Movie 1)
Eris/ Eri Aizawa
Voiced by Mayumi Shou (JP Iriana), Toshiko Fujita (JP Eris)
- Artifact of Doom: Her Golden Apple, which not only lets her possess Eri, but also steal Saori's energy to regain her original body.
- Big Bad: Of the first movie.
- Conveniently an Orphan: Eri is an orphan, just like Seiya, his sister Seika, and Miho.
- Demonic Possession: The goddess Eris took control over Eri's body until she could be completely revived into this world again.
- Evil Counterpart: Eris to Athena herself.
- Evil Makeover: When Eris took control over Eri's body...
- Good Hair, Evil Hair.: ...Eri's normally tied up hair falls loose.
- Grand Theft Me: In the Italian dub of the movie she wants to kill Athena to use the latter body as a host, not simply to drain her energy from her.
- Remember the New Guy?: Eri only appears in the first movie, yet Athena and the Saints act as if she was a regular character, similar to Miho.
- She's a Man in Japan: Played straight in the musical where a man plays her.
- Ship Tease: Eri and Hyoga felt a close connection when they first met.
- Soul Jar: Her apple. She dies when Seiya destroys the apple.
Ghost Saint Orion Jäger
Voiced By: Yuu Mizushima (JP)
- The Ace: One of the few warriors who can proudly admit they single-handedly kicked both Seiya and Ikki's asses at the same time.
- Back from the Dead: Is a Saint resurrected by Eris.
- Blood Knight: Ikki accuses him of being this, fighting for the sake of fighting, and not so much for bringing good to the world.
- Badass Cape: Comes complete with a cape that he used against Seiya.
- Calling Your Attack: MEGATON METEOR CRASH!
- Evil Counterpart: To Ikki. Lampashaded by Ikki that found his foe's strength to be almost equal to his.
- Fallen Hero: He is said to be one of the most powerful Silver Saints who served Athena with honor. But after he was killed, he held a grudge over being forgotten, and the loneliness that comes with being dead.
- Spin Attack: His attack, the Megaton Meteor Crash. It's hard to describe. He curls up into a ball to charge up and then follows up with a kick.
- Worthy Opponent: With his last words, he commends Seiya and the Bronze Saints as true warriors.
Ghost Saint Southern Cross Kristos
Voiced By: Ryūsei Nakao (JP)
- Back from the Dead: Is a Saint resurrected by Eris.
- Big Ol' Unibrow: Hard to notice at first, but yes, he has a unibrow under that Southern Cross symbol on his Cloth's headpiece.
- Calling Your Attack: SOUTHERN CROSS THUNDERBOLT!. Christ shifts his arms into an L shape with the left one lying down. He then dashes forward with his Cosmo charged.
- Dub Name Change: In order to avoid religious controversies, his name was changed to "Crayfuss" in the Spanish dub and "Krakus" in the Latin American dub.
- Evil Counterpart: To Hyoga, since the Cygnus constellation is also referred to as the Northern Cross.
- Flat Character: He barely shows any personality during his fight with Hyoga.
- Human Popsicle: Hyoga traps him in the ice, but not completely.
- Murder by Mistake: From Eris when she tried to hit Hyoga with a spear and he was in the way, poor guy.
- Reused Character Design: His design (without the Cloth) was later recycled for the Judge Specter, Wyvern Radamanthys in the Hades arc.
Ghost Saint Lyra Orpheus
Voiced By: Yūji Mitsuya (JP)
- Back from the Dead: Is a Saint resurrected by Eris.
- Musical Assassin: The first in the franchise. The his weapon is a lyre.
- Razor Floss: His Stringer Requiem. Here, the lyre's strings entangles Orpheus' opponent and leaves his victim at his mercy.
- Retcon: He was supposed to be the Orpheus from the Greek mythology. But in the Hades Arc appear another similar saint, Lyra Orphee. Considering that the events in the first movie are non-canonical to Kurumada's true manga plot, Lyra Orphéee is thus the true incarnation of the Lyra Saint.
- Reused Character Design: His character design and attack style are used afterwards for Benetnasch Mime (Asgard God Warrior in the Asgard anime filler-arc) and the Silver Saint Lyra Orphee in the Hades arc.
- Spell My Name With An S: The only Saint where people mix up his Cloth that he represents.
- Lyre: English name for the instrument that Orpheus carries.
- Lyra: The constellation he is based on.
Ghost Saint Scutum Jan
Voiced By: Keiichi Nanba (JP)
- Back from the Dead: Is a Saint resurrected by Eris.
- Calling Your Attack: BONE CRUSH SCREW!
- Evil Counterpart: To Shiryu.
- Flat Character: he shows very little personality, other than priding himself in the shield included on his armor.
- Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me: It's even in his constellation. The Scutum Cloth has a stronger shield than the Dragon Cloth.
- Spin Attack: In his attack, Jan leaps into the air while spinning his body around. He continues to speed up until he delivers a powerful kick to the foe.
Ghost Saint Sagitta Maya
Voiced By: Michitaka Kobayashi (JP)
- Annoying Arrows: He uses poison arrows and not cursed like Sagitta Ptolemy.
- Back from the Dead: Is a Saint resurrected by Eris.
- Calling Your Attack: HUNTING ARROW EXPRESS!
- Composite Character: He combines the looks of Sagitta Ptolemy, with the poisonous rain of attacks as well as his status as an enemy of Seiya's from Black Pegasus.
- Doppelgänger Attack: He is able to make copies of himself as well as his arrows.
- Expy: Maya is, for all intents and purposes, Black Pegasus with a new cloth.
- He has an (almost identical) expy in the Silver Saint Sagitta Ptolemy.
- Hot-Blooded: He acts a lot like Seiya, except without the Plot Armor.
- Thanatos Gambit: Planned on getting killed by Seiya so he could shoot him with a poison arrow.
The Heated Battle of the Gods (Movie 2)
Gothi Dolbr
Voiced By: Iemasa Kayumi (JP)
- Authority Equals Asskicking: Dolbr can create shock waves of great destructive power, capable of hitting the target from great distances. Moreover, according to Pegasus Seiya, he moves faster than the Gold Saints.
- The Big Guy: He is a physical monster of a man, towering over about everyone. He could be a serious contender for the hardest purely physical foe Seiya and his friends faced.
- Big Bad: Of second movie.
- High Priest: Is the Gothi, the representative of Odin on Earth.
- Meaningful Name: His name is an anagram/reverse of Baldr, who was a revered god of good. This is a hint to his true nature as an evil man.
- Mind Rape: With a throwaway line where he shows his disbelief at Hyoga breaking free from his "demon fist" note , he ends up confirming that he has used this on the Cygnus Saint, thus unambiguously explaining his behavior in the movie.
- Obviously Evil: One look at this guy and anyone can tell that he’s absolutely not trustworthy, which makes Athena’s decision to visit him alone at night baffling.
- Renaissance Man: He pretty much has every major skill set used in the series, and to pretty insanely high levels. Physical strength? Check, he nearly breaks Hyoga's spine with a bear hug, and could outright manhandle all of the Bronze Saints. Speed? Check, Seiya states he puts Gold Saints to shame. Sealing techniques involving other dimensions? Check, Athena can attest to how effective it was. Mind control? Check, Hyoga can attest to it.
- Retcon: When the Asgard Saga appeared in the anime, Polaris Hilda became Odin's Representative, with the events of the movie removed from continuity.
- Sealed Good in a Can: He uses a technique called "Odin Sealed" on Athena to trap her in another dimension.
God Warrior Fenrir Loki
Voiced By: Yuu Mizushima (JP)
- Evil Counterpart: To Seiya, but he is more stoic.
- The Dragon: Of Dolbr.
- Religious and Mythological Theme Naming: From Norse Mythology, named after the trickster son of Odin.
God Warrior Surtr Ullr
Voiced By: Akira Murayama (JP)
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Easily defeats Shun, but suffers from the same fate thanks to Ikki.
- Implausible Fencing Powers: He destroys easily, with one attack, both Shun's cloth and weapon (and part of the ground).
- One-Hit Kill: How he goes out.
God Warrior Thrymr Rung
Voiced By: Tesshô Genda (JP)
- The Brute: The biggest and brutal of Dolbr's warriors.
- Disney Villain Death: As a result of his Last Ditch Move.
- Dual Wielding: His twin big boomerangs.
- Evil Sounds Deep: Yes.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: He is killed by his own boomerang thanks to Ikki's Mind Rape powers.
- Doubly so, since his Last Ditch Move mentioned below only results in his death, as the cliff crumbles beneath his added weight and Shun and Ikki manage to save themselves.
- Last Ditch Move: When Ikki is busy rescuing Shun, Rung draws strength for one last attack, nailing a boomerang in Ikki’s chest. However, his weight added to Shun and Ikki’s combined weight causes the cliff to collapse. Shun and Ikki manage to save themselves, but Rung is not so lucky.
God Warrior Midgardson Midgard
- Animal Motifs: Snake
- Dramatic Unmask: Is really a Brainwashed and Crazy Hyoga in a mask... and orange armor. Shiryu only recognizes him after he takes the mask off.
Frey
- Defector from Decadence: Frey doesn't stand for Dolbr's plot, which gets him beaten within an inch of his life and jailed. Afterwards, he does everything he can to stop the plot.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Frey sacrifices himself to end the reign of Dolbr and to save Saori.
Legend of Crimson Youth (Movie 3)
Abel
Voiced By: Taichirou Hirokawa (JP)
- Attack Reflector: Like most deities in Saint Seiya, he has the inherent power to reflect (almost) any attack directed against him.
- A God Am I: Invoked by him at the very end. With the blasphemous implication that he is THE God above all others.
- Back from the Dead: He resurrected the fallen Gold Saints and bound them to his service and will. Seiya was utterly indignant at this act.
- Big Bad: Of the third movie.
- Cain and Abel: The Cain to Saori's Abel. (Dramatic irony definitely intended; see below) He believes mankind is beyond saving, his sister begs to differ, things get murdery.
- Captain Ersatz: A rather unique case. He's one to Phoebus Apollo and/or Helios, not due to copyright reasons, but (apparently) because Kurumada didn't want to use the former unless it was during the Heaven's/Zeus' Saga.
- Elegant Classical Musician: He plays a lyre to exalt his heavenly nature.
- Et Tu, Brute?: To Saori when she reveals her true intentions of protecting the human race and declares herself an enemy to her brother.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He seems genuinely sad and distraught after killing Saori when she reveals her true intentions of protecting the human world. He also was willing to spare Hyoga, on the condition that he builds an ice coffin for Saori (to preserve her beauty).
- Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon: He's remarkably attractive, even by this series' standards, as he radiates with an aura of celestial beauty and grace. It heavily contrasts with his cruel and uncaring nature, and his ultimately apocalyptic and self-serving goals.
- Flanderization: He has a small role in the fourth movie, but without the somewhat melancholic personality he had in the third movie, appearing as a generic evil spirit.
- Invincible Villain: Until the end when Sagittarius Seiya gathers everyone's Cosmo to stop Abel from sending Athena to Elysion, or until the last moment when he concentrates his full Cosmo in a golden arrow that he shoots at Abel, he is totally invulnerable to any and all attacks. Everyone is plain horrified at Seiya attempting such a thing against Abel of all people. Justified since he is a God.
- Leitmotif: A sublime and discordantly gentle piece simply called Abel's Theme
. As previously mentioned, he even plays in-story for dramatic effect. - Light Is Not Good: He is the God of the Sun, and intends to obliterate the Earth and the human race.
- Long Lost Sibling: Of Athena, when he discovered that she was now living as Kido Saori.
- Telepathy: As stated by Berenike, humans' hearts and minds are an open-book to him, Saori included.
- Nightmare Face: In the last moments of the movie, when facing Seiya, he mostly has this impassible expression on his face, but the lighting effects as his eyes flash with power or when he attacks the Saints result in his face looking quite scary and unforgiving.
- Religious and Mythological Theme Naming: As evident due to his relationship with Saori, he's named after the biblical "Cain and Abel" story.
- Unperson: He was erased from history as a punishment for his ambition and arrogance... And due to self-preservation matters it seems, as his power was said to rival that of Zeus himself.
- Worthy Opponent: Before dying he ends up feeling respect for Seiya, though he does not quite understand the feeling and tries to prevent himself from acknowledging it, the contradiction jolting him into attacking Seiya as he unleashes his arrow.
Corona Saint Carina Atlas
Voiced By: Akira Kamiya (JP)
- Blasting Time: When casting his attack, Atlas raises his arms above his head and crosses his wrists, surrounding himself with solar cosmos, which wraps forming a spiral. Then he hurls this energy, concentrated as a scorching globe, towards its target by suddenly and violently whipping his arms forward.
- Calling Your Attack: BURNING CORONA!
- Dirty Coward: On the way back, Atlas hits Ikki and Shun with his Burning Corona after the defeat of Aphrodite.
- Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon: He has a serene, androgynous appearence, but is shown to have a violent and sadistic personality.
- Karmic Death: After being a proud and arrogant bastard through the whole movie, and taking his sweet time to inflict physical and psychological torture and humiliation upon Athena's Saints, especially Seiya, Atlas meets his end in an inglorious and swift manner as Seiya pierces his heart with a single Pegasus Sui Sei Ken.
- Smug Super: Is confident in his strength and convinced of the superiority of the Corona Saints over Athena's Saints.
- The Dragon: The most powerful warrior under Abel, and the last one to be defeated.
- Playing with Fire / The Power of the Sun: The Burning Corona is a fiery ball of solar energy, which Atlas creates by raising his arms, summoning a raging spiral of fiery death, and then hurling his arms forward in a violent manner. The burning orb, similar in appearance to a small sun, causes the enemy to burst in flames as its explodes from within them, causing serious (or fatal) damage to the victim.
Corona Saint Coma Berenices Berenice
Voiced By: Toshio Furukawa (JP)
- Dirty Coward: Berenice uses his Death Golden Hair on Shiryu after he defeated Cancer Deathmask.
- Human Popsicle: At first, Berenices seems completely immune to cold attacks. But in a final surge of willpower, Hyoga launched an attack that froze him completely.
- The Power of the Sun: Invoked when he shows that he can melt ice like nothing.
- Prehensile Hair: He uses this ability as his main offensive method, with the plus of being able to launch a burning wave through the filaments.
- Razor Floss: His hairs are able to trap and disrupt the enemy.
- Repetitive Name: (Coma) Berenices Berenice, which despite being written differently, are spoken the same if you go for the Latin pronunciation.
Corona Saint Lynx Jaow
Voiced By: Katsuji Mori (JP)
- Animal Motifs: Lynx
- Calling Your Attack: SHINING HELL CLAW!
- Underestimating Badassery: Jaow sorely underestimates Saga's power, reminding him of the sorry state he is in after battling Seiya, but the Gold Saint just decided to go around that issue by detonating his Cosmo at full power against him, managing to weather Jaow's assault, hold him back and ultimately killing him at the price of a Heroic Sacrifice: both die a fiery death, calcined, after going through the stratosphere at full speed.
Warriors of the Holy Battle (Movie 4)
Lucifer
- Ambition Is Evil: His ambition is become the highest among all Gods.
- Big Bad: Of the fourth movie.
- Big Bad Duumvirate: With Abel, Eris and Poseidon. Lucifer draws them to himself, gaining their support and cosmos to manifest a physical body on Earth and continue the conquest of the universe, in exchange for their promises dominion over the planet and the life of Athena to resuscitate them.
- Card-Carrying Villain
- Fallen Angel: His classic backstory. Lucifer was considered in the Kingdom of Heaven to be the most beautiful and powerful sentient being after the Creator himself. Because of this, he developed pride and lust for domination upon all of creation, and declared war on its Creator. He was subsequently defeated, and then banished from heaven along with his followers.
- I Lied: Reveals that he had no intention of fulfilling his bargain with Athena to not let Eris, Abel, and Poseidon destroy the Earth in exchange for her surrender.
- It's Personal: Hates Athena for helping defeat him in the past.
- Manipulative Bastard: Lies to Athena about sparing Earth if she surrenders to him in his palace, planning to exhaust her so he can strike her down and use her blood to revive Eris, Poseidon, and Abel, while using his Fallen Angels to ensure Athena can’t be saved by her remaining Bronze Saints.
- Sadist: He finds pleasure in inflicting pain and suffering to others.
- Satan: In Christianity, the name of Lucifer is one of the alternate names for Satan, due to his former radiance and beauty as an angel of God (see above). He is first overpowered by Archangel Michael, helped by Athena and the eastern god Marishitien.
- White Hair, Black Heart: Has white hair.
Fallen Angel Seraphim Beelzebub
- Animal Motifs: The Garuda, a mythic bird.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: He and the other Fallen Angels kill easily five Gold Saints: Mu, Aldeberan, Ioria, Shaka and Milo.
- Hellish Horse: Beelzebub uses a horse to move through the ethereal Pandemonium.
- Hot-Blooded Sideburns: Mixed into his hair
- Wreathed in Flames: 'Hell Garuda Wing (Wings Garuda Infernal): Beelzebub takes a big leap into the air, stretching his arms and makes their opponent moving to become a Garuda. During the fall, his body metamorphoses again in the form of a Garuda, this time engulfed in flames and concludes with a powerful knee blow to his opponent.
Fallen Angel Cherub Ashtaroth
- Animal Motifs: Cobras
- Curb-Stomp Battle: He and the other Fallen Angels kill easily five Gold Saints: Mu, Aldeberan, Aeolia, Shaka and Milo.
- Flat Character: He's evil, agressive...and that's it.
- Meaningful Name: From the Middle Eastern fertility Goddess who uses snakes as one of her symbols.
- Real Men Wear Pink: His cloth is pink.
Fallen Angel Virtue Eligor
- Animal Motifs: Praying mantis
- Curb-Stomp Battle: He and the other Fallen Angels kill easily five Gold Saints: Mu, Aldeberan, Aeolia, Shaka and Milo.
- Femme Fatalons
- Slaying Mantis: His fighting style reminiscent of one of Kung Fu, also called "The Mantis".
- White Mask of Doom: Wear a white mask and his face is never seen.
Fallen Angel Thrones Mois
- Animal Motifs: Butterflies.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: He and the other Fallen Angels kill easily five Gold Saints: Mu, Aldeberan, Aeolia, Shaka and Milo.
- Dude Looks Like a Lady
- Long-Haired Pretty Boy: Has very long hair.
- Slipknot Ponytail: His hairstyle.
- Villainous Crossdresser: Somehow this guy managed to out-tacky Shun's V1 Cloth.
- Master of Illusion / Mind Rape: Mois is able to read the mind of an opponent and create an illusion that undermines the opponent psychologically.
- Real Men Wear Pink: And eyeshadow, too!
Heaven Chapter~Overture
Artemis
Voiced By: Yurika Hino (JP)
- Adaptational Heroism / Adaptational Villainy: Shows up in the Next Dimension manga, not nearly as cold or harsh as in the movie.
- Big Bad: Of the movie.
- Canon Immigrant: Canon Discontinuity as this movie may be, she still shows up in the manga.
- Greek Mythology: Goddess of the moon, hunting, bears, childbirth and chastity among other things.
Apollo
Voiced By: Kazuhiro Yamaji (JP)
- All-Encompassing Mantle: Besides a diadem, all he wears is a massive billowing white cloak completely obscuring any God Robe he may have underneath.
- Always a Bigger Fish: Yeah, uh, turns out fucking around to find out with an Olympian God ends as terribly as you could possibly expect.
- Big Brother Instinct: Appears just in time to save Artemis from Seiya's Comet Punch, transforming it into harmless sparkles of light.
- Brother–Sister Incest: Remarks on his half-sister Athena's beautiful face and that it's almost a shame to snuff the life out of it as he's cradling it to choke her to death.
- Dynamic Entry: By virtue of the fact that his mere presence causes the night sky to immediately become a sunset.
- Evil Redhead
- Flaming Hair: One of the coolest-looking applications of Saint Seiya's "chainsaw hair billowing" to date.
- The Giant: Quite literally four or five times the size of a normal human. Seiya doesn't even reach his knees.
- Greater-Scope Villain: Shows up at the end of the movie when it is clear Artemis has failed.
- Greek Mythology: God of the sun, light, archery, youth, music, dance and prophecy among other things. In Real Life Ancient Greece, he was arguably looked upon with the same reverence as Zeus and Herakles.
- Mercy Kill: Tries to inflict this on Saori by choking her as recompence for allowing humans to encroach on the domain of god. He treats stamping out the Bronze Saints' rebellion the same way.
- Messy Hair
- Person of Mass Destruction: Easily Seiya's most horrific opponent to date, his attacks causing all of existence to shudder and seemingly disintegrating Seiya on contact. Even Athena exclaims that their powers are nothing compared to Apollo.
- The Power of the Sun: His appearance causes Artemis' moonlit night to be instantly dispelled by a bright sunset.
Icarus Toma
Voiced By: Hikaru Midorikawa (JP)
- Cool Mask
- Canon Immigrant: Even if the movie is Canon Discontinuity, he still shows up in the Next Dimension manga.
- The Dragon: To Artemis
- Died in Your Arms Tonight: Certainly implied to have died in Marin's arms after shielding Athena from Artemis' arrow.
- Flight
- Long Lost Sibling: So that is where Marin's little brother went... Too bad this is Canon Discontinuity.
- One-Winged Angel
- Our Angels Are Different
- Redemption Equals Death: Has an epiphany just in time to take an arrow for Athena.
Theseus
Voiced By: Toshiyuki Morikawa (JP)
- Flat Character: He and Odysseus display very little personality in comparison with Icarus Toma.
- Flight
- Our Angels Are Different
- Reused Character Design: His design without the armor is nearly the same as that of the God Warrior, Merak Beta Hagen from the Asgard saga, only slightly modified with dreads instead of straight hair.
Odysseus
Voiced By: Hiroki Takahashi (JP)
- Flat Character: Other than being a very powerful antagonist, he doesn't display any personality trait, beyond dull amazement at the Bronze Saints daring to go against the gods.
- Flight
- Our Angels Are Different
