Characters / Viewtiful Joe

A compilation of the characters from the Viewtiful Joe series. HENSHIN-A-GO-GO, BABY!

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Joe Black/Viewtiful Joe

The main hero of the series, Joe was an average person till he took Silvia to the movies. After Silvia is kidnapped, Joe is similarly taken into Movieland where the spirit of Captain Blue trains him to become Viewtiful Joe.

Voiced by: Dee Bradley Baker (games), Tomokazu Seki (anime, JP), Jason Palmer (anime, EN), Luis Enrique Poján (anime, LA)

• Always Save the Girl: Mainly because he wants to be as great a hero as Captain Blue.
• Amazon Chaser: It's implied quite a few times in the second game that he finds his girlfriend's badassery and bravado extremely attractive.
• Appropriated Appellation:
  • Gets his title of Viewtiful Joe from Alastor's admiration of his skills after their fight in Chapter 5. Sort of. Alastor actually said "Beautiful!", though Joe mishears it and the rest is history. The player themselves might as well, as the music drowns it out. You can hear the word more clearly on the official soundtrack (where most of the tracks are preceded by lines from the game).
  • In an early episode of the anime, Joe similarly adopts it when he mishears Alastor describing his powers as "beautiful" out of astonishment.
• Ascended Fanboy: Just a normal Henshin Hero fan until he got a chance to become one himself.
• Badass and Child Duo: With Captain Blue Jr.
• Badass Family: More or less. His father (Jet), mother (Junko), and sister (Jasmine) all have (or at least temporarily possessed) Henshin powers. His girlfriend (Silvia) is also a super-powered heroine, as is her father, Captain Blue. Depending on the canonicity of the extra storylines in the first game (don't cross your fingers), the same would apply for Goldie (Silvia's twin sister) and Ivory (Blue's wife and Silvia's mother).
• Battle Couple: With Silvia.
• Berserk Button: Threatening Joe's friends is a really bad idea. Jadow learns this multiple times during the anime.
• Beware the Nice Ones: See above. He's a cool guy, but messing with his friends and especially his girlfriend are a good way to get on his short list for receiving a butt-kicking.
• Brother–Sister Team: With Jasmine in Double Trouble!
• Bullet Time: VFX Slow.
• But Not Too Foreign: A likely possibility, judging by appearances. Joe's father is Caucasian, while his mother is Asian; Joe seems to have inherited his hair color and facial features from Jet's side of the family.
• Calling Your Attacks: The tutorial for each of Joe's VFX powers has him calling out the name the first time he activates it.
• Cartoon Bomb: Shocking Pink. As a Shout-Out, he whistles the theme song from Super Mario Bros. in the original while juggling the bomb on his foot, though this was cut from the PS2 port and in the sequels.
• Chick Magnet: Apparently gets lots of girls, which ticks Silvia off to no end.
• Chivalrous Pervert:
  • Junko reveals to Silvia in Double Trouble! that Joe's been skirt-chasing behind her back on a few occasions. Silvia does not enjoy this fact one bit.
  • Joe showed some tendencies for this back in the second game, where he continued to hit on Miss Bloody Rachel in front of Silvia. It's only through Silvia's continued threats (of both the verbal and physical variety) that Joe keeps himself in check.
  • He also has shades of it in the anime, where he's even more enthusiastic about heroics if there are pretty girls involved, gives Jr. advice on attracting the ladies, and has at least one princess fall for him.
• Combination Attack: Viewtiful Touch in 2. The second stage move creates a giant heart that damages all enemies on-screen. The third and final stage is Six Cannon.
• Cool Helmet: Bright red with a golden V-shaped crest.
• Cool Plane: Six Machine in its default mode. It can also assume the form of a car, subterrine drill, submarine, and bazooka.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Delivers an epic one in the anime to Charles III, Hulk Davidson, and Gran Bruce after Blue Jr.'s Heroic Sacrifice.
• Doppelgänger Attack: Mach Speed causes doubles of Joe to attack other enemies and even items in the background (which is necessary for acquiring certain pick-ups).
• Dumbass No More: Mainly due to Character Development.
• Expy:
  • His costume is heavily based on Kaiketsu Zubat, especially how his mask closes before boss battles and the scarf. This is on purpose; Joe is a parody and shout-out to old Tokusatsu shows such as the aforementioned Zubat and Kamen Rider.
  • In addition to Zubat, Joe is possibly an expy of Quick Man. Roll's win quote against him in Tatsunoko vs. Capcom pokes fun of the similarities by having her ask if Joe is cosplaying him.
• Everyone Loves Blondes: Joe to Silvia.
• Fast-Forward Mechanic: VFX Mach Speed.
• Fragile Speedster: Early on in the games, and especially in Marvel vs. Capcom 3. He moves quickly, but his basic attacks are weak and he only has between 3 and 5 hearts depending on the difficulty. In V-Rated and Ultra V-Rated difficulty, that's one hit if you aren't on New Game Plus.
• Friend to All Children: His relationship with Blue Jr. as well his interactions with younger children prove this.
• Genius Ditz: Possibly. Besides his knowledge of how movies and their characters work and his surprising talents when it comes to the martial arts, Joe also was able to repair Miss Bloody Rachel after Dr. Cranken pulled the plug on her.
• Genre Savvy: Justified, he is a huge moviegoer.
• Glass Cannon: Early on, Joe qualifies for this until his health is increased enough. He can finish mooks off in one hit with a Zoomed In Slow punch if they're stunned, but also doesn't take much damage before losing a life.
• Henshin Hero: Changes from a dedicated movie nerd into a superhero with all the powers based on filmography.
• Hero-Worshipper: To Captain Blue, until the final battle of the first game. Once Blue returns to the side of good, Joe goes right back to idolizing him.
• Heroic BSoD: Averted in the game upon discovering King Blue's true identity, played straight in the anime.
• Hidden Depths: Apparently has enough technical know-how to repair Miss Rachel after she's damaged by Dr. Cranken.
• Humongous Mecha: Six Majin, and later Six-Six.
• Idiot Hero: In the anime. Downplayed in later episodes.
• Jack of All Stats: When at max health upgrade, Joe becomes this depending on the difficulty, or compared to Silvia. He can take more damage than her and is good all around in strength, speed, and defense.
• Jumped at the Call: The shock of being dragged into Movieland lasts about five seconds before he starts geeking out about getting his own V-Watch.
• Lady and Knight: The Knight to Silvia's Lady. The dynamic lessens a bit by the end of the first game, whereupon Joe and Silvia graduate to Battle Couple status.
• Large Ham: He enthusiastically embraces his role as a Henshin Hero, with all the hammy dialogue and posing that entails. For just the most obvious example, his transformation phrase is actually just the traditional "Henshin." He just likes to add to it because he's that enthusiastic about it.
• Let's Get Dangerous!: Joe doesn't exactly qualify for Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass, but he isn't exactly the brightest bulb in the box at times either. However, his playful banter and laid-back nature belies a cunning and fierce warrior (thanks in part to being very Genre Savvy in regards to superhero movies) when the time calls for it.
• Luke, I Am Your Father: Joe's parents are The Black Emperor of Gedow and Queen Heinderella of Madow, respectively.
• Nice Guy: Other than his philandering, he's kind to everyone until they give him a reason not to be. Though he is a bit of a smack-talker, too.
• One of the Kids: Joe was a fanboy who watched action films with his girl.
• Ordinary High-School Student: According to supplemental materials and Marvel vs. Capcom 3.
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse: He's a little on the short side compared to human characters like Captain Blue or Jet Black, and especially non-human characters, most of which are at least twice his size. This gets even more pronounced in Marvel vs. Capcom 3, where he's half the size of even normal humanoid characters.
• Playing with Fire:
  • Red Hot Kick when Zoomed in, thus becoming the Dragon Kick/Red Hot Dragon Kick/Spiral Dragon Kick/Fire Drill.
  • Mach Speed, once Joe gets going.
• Precision-Guided Boomerang: Well, Voomerang. In Double Trouble!, this is replaced by the V.F.O. (Viewtiful Flying Object), which instead fires lasers.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Red Oni to Captain Blue, Sexy Silvia, and Captain Blue Jr.'s Blue. They even wear the appropriate colors.
• Robosexual: A possibility, given his admiration of Miss Bloody Rachel in 2. Curiously enough, it's Silvia who gets the Say My Name moment when Rachel gets her fuse blown (though that might have been for the sake of "drama" given all the movie conventions that get parodied in-series), rushes to Rachel's side after she's defeated, and even hugs the android upon Joe's repair job.
• Scarf of Asskicking: A pink one that's long enough to double as a Badass Cape. Also functions as a Kamen Rider Shout-Out.
• Shout-Out: His Red Hot Kick (normally) is the Rider Kick (the Red Hot Dragon Kick is instead based on Casshern's Flying Drill), while his costume's design (as well as his helmet's visor closing) is a homage to toku series Kaiketsu Zubat.
• Super-Speed: Mach Speed.
• Switch-Out Move: His and Silvia's Viewtiful Touch moves in 2.
• Too Slow: His dodge quote is an appropriately mocking "You're too slow!"
• Trademark Favorite Food: Cheeseburgers in the anime; in the games, they recover his health.
• Tranquil Fury: He displays this in the anime after Blue Jr.'s Heroic Sacrifice.
• This Is Unforgivable!:
  • His reaction to Dr. Cranken taking Rachel offline by zapping her. He doesn't utter a peep (besides an "Eat me!" in unison with Silvia), but his violently shaking fist makes it quite clear Joe is not pleased by this development.
  • When Jadow captures and nearly kills Blue Jr.
• Would Hit a Girl: Joe has no problem fighting female opponents, like the Jadow agent who impersonated Silvia in the anime. In the games, this list goes on to include Miss Bloody Rachel, Vanilla/Alter Woman, and even his own mother, although to be fair to Joe, he didn't know Queen Heinderella's real identity at the time.
• Younger Than They Look/Vague Age: Despite what his looks and demeanor may lead you to believe, not to mention the overall art style, according to supplementary materials, Joe is in fact a high school teenager. This is backed up by Wonder Cheerleader (confirmed by Word of God to be none other than Silvia) being only 19 years old (although a university student, possibly hinting at TW101 happening in the series' future).

Silvianne "Silvia" Lumière/Sexy Silvia

The female lead of the series; Damsel in Distress in the first, Action Girl in the second. She has a very close relationship with Joe, even though his fanboyism for Captain Blue movies leaves a lot to be desired for Silvia's romantic moments. It turns out she's Captain Blue's daughter and hasn't seen him in a long time.

Voiced by: Cristina Pucelli (games), Natsuko Kuwatani (anime, JP), Philece Sampler (anime, EN), Lileana Chacón (anime, LA)

• Action Girl: Not in the first game, but definitely in the second.
• All Guys Want Cheerleaders: Silvia's superhero uniform has this motif and she's able to weaponize her charms quite effectively while transformed.
• Alliterative Name: Sexy Silvia.
• Badass in a Nice Suit: But only in the first game. Canonically speaking, she didn't gain her VFX powers until the end of the game and promptly discarded her suit for new threads in 2.
• Battle Couple: With Joe.
• Berserk Button: Silvia doesn't take kindly to Joe flirting with other women.
• Beware the Nice Ones: When she sees the second Great Threat to Earth is upon them, she demands a V-Watch so she can team up with Joe.
• Bowdlerise: Called Go-Go Silvia in the English dub of the anime. Guess what else Go-Go means.
• Calling Your Attacks: Just like Joe, calls out her powers when they activate.
• Canon Welding: She's apparently the same person as Wonder-Cheerleader from The Wonderful 101, making her semi-canon full name Silvianne Lumière.
• Childhood Friend Romance: A brief recount of Jet's Start of Darkness in 2 and a scene in the Anime adaptation shows that Joe and Silvia have known each other since they were kids.
• Combat Stilettos: Both in and out of her Henshin attire.
• Daddy's Girl: As a little girl, she looked up to him as a hero until he disappeared. And doesn't take long to fall back into that after his Heel–Face Turn.
• Damsel in Distress: In the first game's main story, though she's an unlockable character, and is eventually promoted to full-on deuteragonist in the sequel.
• Deadpan Snarker: Especially in 2, where she has just as many snipes at the bosses as Joe does.
• Deuteragonist: Elevates to this status in 2.
• Disappeared Dad: Which presumably left Silvia (and Goldie) to be raised by Ivory. Her father just so happens to be the hero of the movie Joe and Silvia are watching at the beginning of the first game, explaining why Silvia remarks on how strangely familiar Captain Blue is.
• Distracted by the Sexy:
  • How her version of Zoom works in 2. Instead of striking a heroic/macho pose that stops foes in their tracks like Joe does, Silvia decides to take the cheesecake approach,◊ all the while slyly holding a hand up to her mouth so as to feign innocence.
  • This also factors into her standard dodging. When she dodges enough of an enemy's attacks to leave them dizzy, they will have hearts or angels circling above their head instead of the stars left by Joe. This has the effect of leaving them dizzy for far longer than Joe.
• Dual Wielding: Her guns and pom-poms.
• Everyone Looks Sexier if French: Retroactively suggested to be of French descent if her surname given in The Wonderful 101 (Lumière) is to be taken into account.
• First Girl Wins: Despite Joe's Chick Magnet and Chivalrous Pervert status, in the end he only has eyes for Silvia. And as stated elsewhere, they've been close since childhood.
• Fragile Speedster: As an unlockable character in the first game she's faster than Joe, but takes twice as much damage. On Harder difficulties, she becomes a Glass Cannon. Ultra V-Rated is one or two hits, and your dead mode.
• Girly Girl: She's very girly and romantic with a lot of typically feminine interests. In the anime, she really doesn't mind being kidnapped too much if it means she gets to be rescued by her boyfriend like a fairytale princess.
• Genki Girl: Excitedly announces the start of each stage.
  Let's GET IT ON!
• Genre Savvy: Being the daughter of Great Director Blue, she has a pretty good understanding of the villains she and Joe fight.
• The Gunslinger: Replaces Joe's punch with guns hidden in her pom-poms, called Desperado.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Sweet, kind, and forgiving.
• Heart Symbol: Seen inside of the bullets fired from her guns.
• Henshin Hero: Just like Joe, gets a V-Watch that gives her the power of a movie hero.
• Hot Librarian: She initially has all the characteristics for this.
• Inconsistent Spelling: Frequently misspelled as Sylvia, including on This Very Wiki. Even Marvel vs. Capcom 3 makes this mistake.
• Lady and Knight: The Lady to Joe's Knight.
• Light Feminine and Dark Feminine: The Light to Sprocket's Dark.
• Long Hair Is Feminine: Her hair extends from her helmet as a ponytail in her Henshin Hero form, and sits a little past shoulder-length in her default form.
• Ms. Fanservice: Wears a cheerleader-inspired costume with a go-go skirt and thigh-high boots.
• Multi-Take Cut/Repeat Cut: Replay, which repeats any single action twice upon hit, thereby causing her attacks to land three times in total for triple the damage.
• Nerds Are Sexy: This is why she's called Sexy Silvia.
• Pink Means Feminine: Her civilian attire starting in 2.
• Pom-Pom Girl: As part of her superhero identity being styled after a cheerleader. 2 goes the extra mile by having Silvia wave 'em around like an actual cheerleader would when idle.
• Red Boxing Gloves: Un-henshined, her guns are replaced by boxing glove guns.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Blue Oni to Joe's Red Oni.
• Rule of Three: Her Replay ability, which repeats an attack three times, complete with dramatic zooms each time. However, this ability can potentially backfire on her; if Silvia takes damage while Replay is active, she'll be on the receiving end of whatever attack/stage hazard hit her three times, which can spell danger in many instances.
• She Cleans Up Nicely: In the anime, she is forced to marry Alastor until Joe arrives and stops the wedding at the last moment. Her purple wedding dress even becomes regular Silvia's EX costume in Red Hot Rumble.
• Shock and Awe: Cool Blue Kick when Zoomed in (also known as the Lighting Drill), as well as the aftereffects of Replay.
• Shout-Out: Cool Blue Kick? Silvia must have been a fan of Remy. ^note The corresponding attack is named Cold Blue Kick in 3rd Strike, though Silvia's posturing during said kick is identical to Remy's.
• Sibling Team: With her twin sister Goldie, exclusive to the first game.
• Stripperiffic: Despite the perpetual Panty Shot (either that or Underwear of Power; Silvia's undergarments are clearly visible underneath her skirt assuming she's not just wearing a leotard), her default costume is actually modest. During boss battles, however, the getup turns into a midriff-baring bikini-and- hot pants combo.
• Switch-Out Move: See Joe's entry.
• Third-Person Seductress: Yep, especially when you set the game to Adult. (See Distracted by the Sexy for more details.)
• Took a Level in Badass: In the games when she becomes Sexy Silvia, and in the anime when she attacks Sprocket when she threatens Joe.
• True Blue Femininity: Can alternatively be Green Is Blue to some people.
• Twincest: Heavily... uh... implied with her twin sister Goldie, but only if you chose Silvia in the first game. Seems to be a consequence of using the same animations and music in the cutscenes rather than any intentional implication.
• Violently Protective Girlfriend: Threatens to mess up Frost Tiger far, far worse than Joe wrecked Fire Leo in the previous game if he lays even one finger on her little Joe. Even Joe is unnerved... for all of two or three seconds, whereupon he finds his girlfriend's bravado deeply attractive.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Tells Joe he "was so busy showing off, he hardly even thought about (her)" when he reaches her at the end of Scene 5 in the first game.
• Women Are Wiser: After joining Joe in 2, she's the one with answers when he has questions.
• Younger Than They Look/Vague Age: Like Joe, her looks and demeanor combined with the series' art style may lead you to believe she's an adult woman when in actuality she should be a teenager since according to supplementary materials Joe is a high schooler and VJ2 confirms they've known each other as far back as when they were small children. Wonder-Cheerleader (confirmed by Word of God to be Silvia) being 19 years old backs this (although she's a university student, which could be a hint at the game happening in the series' future).

Captain Blue Jr.

A Canon Immigrant from the anime who later got to be in Red Hot Rumble, Jr. was meant to succeed Captain Blue as the role of a super hero, but Joe just happened to become The Chosen One instead, much to Jr.'s dismay. Not wanting to feel forgotten, Jr. is very knowledgeable in the ways of becoming a hero (unlike Joe) and so he tasks himself to make Joe do what he needs to do besides goofing off, specifically saving Silvia. At the start of the second season, Jr. does get a V-Watch, or rather, V-Yoyos.

Voiced by: Tara Strong (Red Hot Rumble), Makoto Tsumura (anime, JP), Katie Leigh (anime, EN), Maythe Guedes (anime, LA)

• Adorably Precocious Child: Tends to be more mature than Joe.
• Ascended Fanboy: Gains V Yo-yos that let him legitimately transform.
• Badass Adorable: Just as capable as Joe or Silvia, but slightly weaker and smaller due to his age.
• Badass and Child Duo: With Joe.
• Blow You Away: His Tornado attacks.
• Canon Immigrant: Sort of: He was introduced in the anime and ported into the games through Red Hot Rumble. However, RHR seems to be an adaptation of the anime rather than part of the actual existing video game series.
• Giant Robot Hands Save Lives: Luckily, he's saved by Six-Six at the last moment.
• Henshin Hero: Transforms with his yo-yos, though he only really gains a helmet since he's already running around in a Captain Blue costume.
• Heroic Sacrifice: When he's captured by Jadow and used as a hostage to make Joe surrender, he chooses to throw himself off of a bridge so Joe wouldn't be forced with making the decision to save him at the cost of Joe's safety. Joe understandably did not take this well.
• Hero-Worshipper: To Captain Blue.
• Kid Hero: The youngest of the group by far. Joe and Silvia are in their 20's; Blue Jr. is maybe 10.
• Kid Sidekick: To Joe in the anime.
• Killer Yo-Yo: Uses a pair of them for mid-ranged attacks.
• The Lancer: By virtue of being the Straight Man/Only Sane Man/The Comically Serious to Joe's more hyper antics.
• Legacy Character: To Captain Blue.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Blue Oni to Joe's Red.
• Sarcastic Devotee: No matter how much Jr. bemoans Joe's brand of heroics, he's always got Joe's back.
• Youthful Freckles: Has a smattering of spots around his nose.

Captain Blue (Spoilers)

Captain Blue Lumière

The titular hero of the Captain Blue movie that Joe and Silvia watch. After being defeated by the movie's villain, his spirit lives on to teach Joe the ways of becoming a super hero. But the truth is a bit more complicated. Blue is actually a once acclaimed film director whose movies were forgotten as a fad. As if to answer his desire to create heroes, he was sucked into one of his own movies and given the chance to become a hero. But as time passed, he began to forget his wife and daughter as evil began to take root in his heart. Bitter from how the world forgot him as well as disillusioned with the fleeting nature of his heroism in Movieland, he turned into the villain of the movie. In the first game, his evil persona King Blue kidnaps Silvia, his daughter, as part of a plan to escape Movieland and enact his revenge. Joe does bring him to his senses and Blue returns to normal, only to be rendered inactive for the majority of the second game due to being turned into one of the seven Rainbow Oscars.

Voiced by: Gregg Berger (games), Banjo Ginga (anime, JP), Bob Papenbrook (anime, EN [ep. 1-21]), George C. Cole (anime, EN [ep. 23-26]), Héctor Indriago (anime, LA)

• Acrofatic: Old Captain Blue and his big belly.
• Badass Cape: The only (canonical) character who wears one. Captain Blue Jr. wears one in emulation of him.
• Battle Aura: Shock Blue until he is staggered; his aura disappearing is the tell to go on the offensive.
• Battle Couple: With Ivory, but only at the end of Blue's scenario in the first game.
• Big Good: Until the end of the first game. Returns to the role once he's cleansed of the evil in his heart, though he's turned into one of the seven Rainbow Oscars shortly after.
• Bishōnen Line: After defeating his monstrous King Blue form, the Final Boss fight is against Captain Blue in his prime.
• Broken Ace: This also leads to his Start of Darkness. After losing his leading actress in a car accident he survived, his movies didn't have the same zing anymore and he became disheartened. Then people stopped watching hero movies, and he was sucked into one of them. Being separated from reality for so long after such tragedy pushed him over the edge.
• Broken Pedestal: Joe is left in shock when he finds out that the hero he idolized had become a supervillain, with it sending him into a Heroic BSoD in the anime. However, after duking it out, Captain Blue comes back to his senses, leading to the pedestal being rebuilt.
• Calling Your Attacks: More prominently, his "CAPTAIN BLUE KICK!"
• Color Character: As stated in his name, his design is dominated by the color blue.
• Cool Old Guy: Old enough to sport grey hair and a beer gut, but can still put up a good fight.
• Demonic Possession: In Dante's storyline, his fall from grace is what allows Mundus to possess him.
• Fallen Hero: He was a filmmaker known for his superhero movies, and he eventually took up the role himself after getting sucked into Movieland. Unfortunately, his time isolated from the real world eventually drove him insane, and he turned into a supervillain bent on making the real world pay for forgetting about him.
• The Good Captain: It's in his title, though he ironically is only shown commanding people during his stint as a villain, making it an inversion.
• Good Scars, Evil Scars: On his helmet, courtesy of Hulk Davidson (or, in the anime, the Black Emperor).
• Gratuitous Japanese: In Red Hot Rumble, Blue will call out his air-to-ground stomp, shouting "Hisatsu!"
• Henshin Hero: Just like Joe and Silvia after him, he is a superhero who transforms from a normal man into a costumed hero with the transformation phrase "Henshin!". Unlike them, the only time he's seen in his civilian form is in flashbacks.
• "I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight: Dante's final battle against Captain Blue is this, as Captain Blue was possessed by Mundas in that storyline.
• It's a Small World, After All: Backstory divulged in 2 and Double Trouble! shows that Joe and Silvia's families were more closely linked than one might have guessed. Blue not only was friends with and an extensive working partner of Jet (who showed Blue's films in his theater, even when Blue was a fledgling director), but he collaborated numerous times with renowned movie starlet Junko, Joe's mother. Joe and Silvia most likely have known each other since childhood, and it appears that Jet, after discovering the Black Film, may have even given custody of Joe to Blue (who was present for Jet's Start of Darkness) for some time. This is even hinted at in the Anime adaption, where Silvia mentioned in the first episode that Joe has been collecting Captain Blue action figures since childhood.
• Large Ham: Not actually in his hero persona, who's more of a relaxed Cold Ham, but definitely once he reveals himself as King Blue, where he stands imposingly while making grandiose speeches.
• Luke, I Am Your Father: To Silvia, although there are a few hints dropped beforehand.
• The Mentor: Gives Joe his V-Watch and periodically tests him, usually right after Joe gains a new power.
• Mirror Boss: When fighting him, he has moves similar to Joe and some of the exact same powers. Mach Speed, his version of Red Hot Kick called Blue Cool Cick, and a few punch and kick moves. This even more apparent when playing as Silvia or Captain Blue himself, when they become playable.
• Mighty Glacier: Unlocked after beating Ultra V-Rated, Blue becomes playable. He moves the slowest, and can't see death markers, no matter the difficulty. To make up for this, he's stronger than Joe or Silvia, and can fly in the air in Henshin form.
• Not Quite Flight: Can hover in the air at any time during a jump and is able to move in a straight line while doing so. This comes at the expense of the ability to Double Jump, but in exchange, Captain Blue's grounded jump is really high.
• Old Superhero: At least in his 50's.
• Passing the Torch: To Joe, as his Captain Blue persona was defeated by King Blue at the beginning of the game. It's ambiguous as to whether or not King Blue was his Enemy Within/Enemy Without or if he was Fighting from the Inside.
• Physical God: Technically, as the director of the film that Movieland's made of.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Blue Oni to Joe's Red.
• Shock and Awe: Has lightning power in contrast to Joe's fire. Silvia gains it in 2.
• Spirit Advisor: To Joe in the first game. To a degree, anyway.
• Superpowered Evil Side: As King Blue. Becomes gigantic and gains new powers after falling to darkness, possibly as a result of the Black Film.
• Trapped in TV Land: He turns out to be from the real world as well but got sucked into one of his movies for unexplained reasons. He eventually went insane after being divorced from the real world for so long.
• Vocal Evolution: Instead the mellow, sagely old man take present in the first two games, Gregg Berger voices Captain Blue with a Hot-Blooded and much gruffer tone in Red Hot Rumble. Unsurprisingly, he sounds almost exactly like Jecht.

Joe's Family

Jet Black

An old friend of Silvia's dad who used to work together with him, father to Joe. He is the one who actually owns the cinema Joe and Silvia attend and helps the couple against the Gedow Empire.

Voiced by: Keith Szarabajka (games), Jurota Kosugi (anime, EN), Carlos Vitale (anime, LA)

• '80s Hair: Has a bit of a mullet going on.
• Bumbling Dad: Fumbles with the projector film between chapters.
• Eyes Always Shut: Doesn't open his eyes at all. Until he transforms into the Dark Hero.
• Drunk with Power: After obtaining the Black Film.
• Face Framed in Shadow: A brief clip after Dr. Cranken is defeated and Joe entrusts six of the Rainbow Oscars to Jet shows him with such as he stares at the ominously glowing Oscars in silence, serving as a rather blatant hint that there's much, much more to Jet than meets the eye.
• Henshin Hero: Even as the main antagonist, his goal is to become a hero so he can get the same attention that Blue and Junko did, so Joe would look up to him like he did as a kid. He just had to send an army to Earth to do it...
• Living with the Villain: Turns out that the Black Emperor's best chance at getting the Rainbow Oscars was to simply bide his time from outside the silver screen and gather them up in one fell swoop after Joe and Silvia did all of the hard work.
• Mission Control: Helps Joe and Silvia from the real world. Or tries to, anyway.
• Sharp-Dressed Man: Technically a Badass in a Nice Suit as well.
• Superpowered Evil Side: See "Leader of the Gedow".
• Start of Darkness: Discovering the Black Film and Black V-Watch. Double Trouble! implies that the tragic loss of his wife was also a nudge in the wrong direction.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: Wanted to be the ultimate hero for his son, but was corrupted by the Black Film into becoming the Black Emperor.

Junko Black

Joe and Jasmine's mother, a famous actress who passed away long before the start of the series.

Voiced by: Hynden Walch

• Back from the Dead: Only for a day, though.
• Hidden Purpose Test: She returns from the dead and becomes Queen Heinderella in Double Trouble! to test Joe and Jasmine and see how strong they've become.
• Kimono Fanservice: An interesting example in that it's technically not Junko providing the fanservice. In Double Trouble! proper, Junko bares some skin by means of a Cleavage Window, but is otherwise as prim and proper as her artwork suggests. In the PSP version of Red Hot Rumble, however, Sprocket's EX color allows her cosplay as Junko, with the corresponding artwork◊ showing Junko looking coy and with her robes lowered to expose her shoulders, possibly in the middle of a striptease.
• Kimono Is Traditional: Being the only character in the series with a Japanese name, her appearance seems to be based on the Yamato Nadeshiko archetype.
• Missing Mom: Unfortunately, she is no longer with the family. In fact, her death via an untimely car crash is implied to be a main contributing factor in her husband Jet going off the deep edge.
• Parasol of Prettiness: Carries a small rice-paper parasol with her to go with her kimono.
• Superpowered Evil Side: See "Leader of the Madow". Subverted in that Junko was merely playing the role and is revealed to be Good All Along alongside the rest of Madow.

Jasmine Black

^{Click here for spoilers for Viewtiful Joe: Double Trouble!}

Joe's little, slightly mature sister and Jet's daughter who wishes to become a great actress like her mother. In Double Trouble!, she is just starting her career until Madow steals the film. Instead of letting Joe handle things, she gives chase.

Voiced by: Hynden Walch

• Action Girl: Shows shades of this during her playable section. She's just a female Joe except with a frisbee and no hero outfit. She obtains her own V-Watch at the epilogue, though.
• Brother–Sister Team: With Joe in Double Trouble!
• But Not Too Foreign: Being the daughter of Jet and Junko, she's half Japanese but, like Joe, better resembles her father.
• Generation Xerox: Desires to become a great actress like the legendary film starlet Junko, who is revealed to be her and Joe's mother at endgame.
• Girlish Pigtails: Keeps her hair up in two short, pointed tails.
• Henshin Hero: At the end of Double Trouble!
• The Medic: Can be spotted in the background of most of Joe's stages, where she provides cheeseburgers to help replenish her bro's health.
• Modesty Shorts: Under her skirt, of course. This is somewhat easier to see with the artwork◊ for Silvia's EX color in the PSP version of Red Hot Rumble.
• Plucky Girl: Overlapping with Action Girl and Badass Normal. Even without powers, Jasmine actually fights her way through the third level (with the help of Vanilla) before ultimately being captured. She's shown to be as skilled at martial arts as Joe is, believe it or not. Even when captured, she still manages to help out Joe from the sidelines, up to and including the final battle.
• Sibling Rivalry: Her interactions with Joe in Double Trouble! hint at this, but she really does care for her big bro underneath all of the bickering.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: Tomboy to Silvia's Girly Girl.
• Tsundere: Towards Joe, who arguably deserves it most of the time.
• Youthful Freckles: Has a face full of them to go with her red hair.

Villains

Jadow

Dark Fiend, Charles the 3rd

Voiced by: Roger Rose (games), Mitsuru Ogata (anime, JP), Terrence Stone (anime, EN), Luis Miguel Pérez (anime, LA)

• All Love Is Unrequited: For Sprocket, to the point of being a Dogged Nice Guy.
• Bat Out of Hell: He's a noble vampire who controls hordes of the undead.
• Bodyguard Crush: In the anime, he has one for Sprocket.
• The Dandy: Both an evil and rebellious spin on the trope.
• Evil Genius: Thinks of himself this way, at any rate. The smartest of the first three bosses by far. Though the anime shows him as only being slightly less stupid than the others.
• Inconsistent Spelling: Charles the 3rd, Charles the Third, and Charles III.
• One to Million to One: Often splits into a large flock of bats after taking enough damage, though this doesn't prevent Joe from knocking around the bats to inflict more damage.
• Shaping Your Attacks: Can hurl sickles formed out of dark energy at Joe.
• Spin Attack/This Is a Drill: His main form of attack.
• Upper-Class Twit: Dresses like an aristocrat, talks down to Joe for being "riff-raff", and portrayed in the anime to only be marginally less brain-dead than Hulk Davidson or Gran Bruce.

Iron Ogre, Hulk Davidson

Voiced by: Kevin Michael Richardson, Dave Fennoy (games), Akimitsu Takase (anime, JP), Joe Cooker (anime, EN), Carlos Vitale (anime, LA)

• Accent Adaptation: In the games, he has a thick African-American accent, courtesy of Kevin Michael Richardson. The anime's English dub gives him a more Western-sounding accent with only a slight Southern drawl.
• Adaptational Early Appearance: While all of the first game's bosses appear and have spoken dialogue in the very first episode of the anime, Hulk takes the cake, being the first boss that Joe fights, though they do still fight in Charles III's mansion where the game's first boss battle takes place.
• Agony of the Feet: His toe is his weakness in the anime.
• Badass Biker: Wears biker gear into battle, and has several motorcycles on display in his office. The anime shows him actually riding one, too.
• Braggart Boss:
  Hulk Davidson: "You know who I am? You know who I am? I'm the one who put that scar on Captain Blue's face. And you'll be lucky if you get away with your life, boy!"
• The Brute: The largest and most direct of the Jadow bosses, he smashes with his axe and bull charges and jumps around the arena. Unlike any of the other bosses, he doesn't appear to have any kind of elemental power.
• Bullfight Boss: Hulk is a biker rhino that charges at you with no mercy. Dodging his ramming attack will cause him to slam into the far wall, stunning Hulk and leaving him open to attack while he's dazed.
• Cool Helmet: Well, he is a biker.
• Dreadful Musician: "DAAAAAVIDSON IS IN THE HOUSE!! HULK DAVIDSON IS BORN TO BE WIIIIIIIILD!! Hehehe..."
• Dumb Muscle: Not touched on much in the game except for his brutishness, but the anime makes him out to be barely functional.
• Large Ham: His singing and boisterous attitude make him the hammiest villain in the game.
• Not in the Face!: Uttered by the guy who gave Blue his scar, no less!
• Rhino Rampage: See Bullfight Boss.
• Shout-Out:
  • He's named after the Harley Davidson brand of motorcycles, and possibly The Incredible Hulk due to his large stature and green skin.
  • "So what's with the V-Watch on your arm, man? What? You think you some kind of Mega Man or somethin'?"

Aquatic Terror, Gran Bruce

Voiced by: Roger Rose (games), Shouto Kashii (anime, JP), Ross Lawrence (anime, EN), Sergio Pinto and Luis Miguel Pérez (anime, LA)

• Adaptational Intelligence: While his Anime counterpart is depicted as a bumbler like Charles III & Hulk Davidson, most of his strategies when dealing with Joe & Blue Jr. come surprisingly close to succeeding (albeit through dumb luck). His sentences and general thought process are also noticeably more coherent, unlike his game counterpart.
• The Ditz:
  Gran Bruce: "Oi! You best shut up, mate. Otherwise I'll chew yer hind quarters like a big stick of... of... thingy... uh... ah, you know the... uuuuuh..."
  Joe: "Gum! G. U. M. Gum! Gosh, do I have to spell it out on a chalkboard for you!?"
  Gran Bruce: "Yeah, so?"
• Dumb Muscle: The most scatterbrained of the group. Has a Running Gag of forgetting words, and occasionally forgetting what he was talking about.
  Gran Bruce: "We need that girl for our dastardly plan to escape *dramatic pose* MOVIELAND! Hehehe... wot? And rule the... theeee... you know... UNIVERSE! ...I think."
• "Jaws" First-Person Perspective: Before the boss battle.
• Just Between You and Me: Tells Joe Jadow's entire plan while stammering and stuttering, thinking about how to threaten him. Joe lampshades this.
• More Teeth than the Osmond Family: He is a shark, after all.
• Now That's Using Your Teeth!: He can chomp onto Joe and shake him around.
• Threatening Shark: Of the Aussie variety.
• Top-Heavy Guy: More than everyone else.

Inferno Lord, Fire Leo

Voiced by: Kevin Michael Richardson, Dave Fennoy (games), Yoji Ueda (anime, JP), Udel R. Deet (anime, EN), Daniel Jiménez (anime, LA)

• Adaptational Wimp: In the anime, he's essentially a Fake Ultimate Mook that actually puts up the least fight of any of the bosses from the game, despite, or arguably because, he's unanimously regarded as the hardest boss in the game.
• Authority Equals Asskicking: Hinted that he was the former leader of Jadow.
• Battle Aura: Leo emanates a blazing aura.
• Beat Them at Their Own Game: He has an aura of fire that hurts you if you try to attack him directly. You get around this by igniting yourself with mach speed and giving yourself an even stronger aura of fire allowing you to punch through his.
• Berserk Button: Do not call him a dog if you know what's good for you.
• Breath Weapon: Classic fireballs from the mouth variant.
• Cats Are Mean: Especially when mistaken for a dog.
• Degraded Boss: Type A. While he doesn't show up again for the rest of the game, Metal Leo enemies that fight identically to him are common enemies throughout the final chapter of the game.
• Disc-One Final Boss: Seems like the final boss as the head of Jadow. Then there's one more chapter after him.
• Evil Sounds Deep: Despite sharing a voice actor with Hulk Davidson, his voice is only beaten in the bass department by King Blue.
• Fangs Are Evil: Looks less like a lion and more like a demon, with huge saber teeth and ears that look like twisted horns.
• Fiery Redhead: Literally; his red mane is made of actual fire.
• Flaming Hair: And it's not just for show, Joe actually takes damage if he touches it.
• Lightning Bruiser: Moves incredibly quickly, doing a spinning pirouette and slashing from it suddenly as his main attack. On top of that, he hits HARD. And the more damage he takes, the faster he runs around the arena between rounds.
• Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me: Can use his shield to block attacks when not dizzied from dodging his attacks or using his meteors against him, by attacking them with Mach Speed to build up a fiery aura to extinguish his.
• Panthera Awesome: A giant lion whose mane is made of fire.
• Playing with Fire: Breaths fire and launches flaming meteors into the arena.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Red Oni compared to his Blue Oni brother, Frost Tiger.
• Sibling Team: With Frost Tiger in Red Hot Rumble.
• Spin Attack: If you manage to successfully dodge all of his swipes, Fire Leo will be dizzied for a time.
• We Can Rule Together: He offers to let Joe join Jadow as a commander, and offers him half of the real world once they've conquered it. And he throws in the release of Silvia as a bonus.

Leader of the Jadow (Spoilers)

Almighty Leader, King Blue Lumiere

Voiced by: Gregg Berger (games), José Méndez (anime, LA)

• A God Am I: Wants to escape Movieland and take over the real world as supreme ruler. His title card says it best: Omnipotent King Blue.
• Battle Aura: An electrified one, no less.
• Beam Spam: One of his attacks involves covering the entire area in lasers that fire up from the floor, except one narrow spot just wide enough for Six Majin.
• Big Bad: In Viewtiful Joe.
• Bishōnen Line: His full power mode (and the Final Boss) is the younger Captain Blue.
• Boss Banter:
  "I WILL SNAP YOUR FOOLISH LITTLE IDEALS IN HALF! HAHAHAHA!"
• Boss Remix: "The Omnipotent" begins with an orchestral and very foreboding remix of the jingle that starts off every boss encounter. Also, compare "Blue the Justice" (the theme of Captain Blue during your sparring matches with him) to "Blue the True Hero" (the theme of Young Captain Blue, the final boss).
• Broken Pedestal: To Joe when he finds out that Captain Blue was behind the entire plot.
• Evil Counterpart: To Joe, in that he received his powers and also is from of the real world.
• Evil Laugh: Almost all of his lines are followed by a maniacal laugh.
• Evil Sounds Deep: Has a baritone that rivals Fire Leo.
• Fallen Hero: He's Captain Blue, having gone insane from being trapped in Movieland for so long.
• Freudian Excuse: He was once a renowned filmmaker who wanted to show people the value of heroism, only to be left by the wayside and forgotten after superhero movies became seen as old hat. While in this dark period of his life, he was suddenly sucked into one of his movies, where he got to live out the role of the hero. However, his time in Movieland caused him to lose touch with reality, twisting his mind as he became consumed with vengeful anger towards those in the real world who had tossed him aside, leading him to plot to escape back into the real world with his new army of evil minions.
• Flight: Under no circumstances whatsoever will this boss touch the ground.
• Good Scars, Evil Scars: The exact same one as Captain Blue.
• He Who Must Not Be Seen: Until he is finally revealed, in true Toku tradition.
• Heel–Face Turn: After beating him, Blue returns to his original role as The Mentor.
• Henshin Hero: Inverted; he's a Henshin Villain, secretly being Captain Blue in disguise.
• Just a Kid: Implied to think this of Joe; one of his taunts is "Go back to school!"
• Knight of Cerebus: Unlike the other boss characters, he lacks distinctly humorous qualities, and when he sets the finale into motion, Joe becomes much more active in stopping him.
• Large and in Charge: Humongous Mecha-sized, and the true leader of Jadow.
• Reality Warper: Uses the power of The Director to dictate what happens in Movieland. Only Joe, as the hero, can counter it.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: One, to be precise. In the opening cutscene, however, he's seen with two eyes so as to not give away the plot twist.
• Shock and Awe: A large deal of frustration in this battle, particularly the first phase, comes from the fact that nearly every action of his that involves lightning cannot be guarded against, even if you're in VFX Slow.
• Shout-Out: His overall design is one to Emperor Bacchus Wrath/King Mondo.
• Tragic Villain: Behind all that hammy evil is a lonely old filmmaker who lost touch with reality and was twisted by his bitterness over the public forgetting about his movies.
• Walking Spoiler: The fact that he's Captain Blue is one of the most major plot twists in the first game.

Gedow

Drill Sergeant, Big John

Voiced by: Michael Gough (games)

• Bait-and-Switch Boss: You face Alastor instead in Stage 4. He also shows up in Stage 5, only to get dispatched by Frost Tiger.
• Boss Banter: Somewhat justified, as he does lead his own squad.
  "YOU ARE NOTHING!" "YOU LITTLE SCUMBAG!"
• Breath Weapon: Fire.
• Degraded Boss: After your first battle against him, he reappears as a mini-boss in several of the reels that follow.
• Dinosaurs Are Dragons: Nothing suggests that he's anything more than an ordinary tyrannosaurus rex... save his ability to breathe fire.
• Drill Sergeant Nasty: He's a nasty general with dragon breath.
• Goldfish Poop Gang: He appears in every reel, but only in Reel 1 and the obligatory boss rush is he a full-fledged boss. By Reel 4, he's somehow managed to become a Recurring Bait-and-Switch Boss.
• Large Ham: "Fire at will! This is not a drill! I repeat: THIS IS NOT A DR*ROAR*!!!"
• Ninja Pirate Robot Zombie: Fire-breathing drill sergeant Tyrannosaurus rex.
• Paper-Thin Disguise: As Big Lee, complete with Funny Bruce Lee Noises. Although he wasn't fooling anyone anyway, he further slips up by ending his sentence with "OVER!" as if he were still issuing commands. Regardless, Big Lee most certainly is not Big John.
• Recurring Boss: At least as a mid-boss. If he shows up claiming to be the stage boss, he'll just get taken down by the actual stage boss shortly after.
• Try to Fit That on a Business Card: "This is Sergeant John of the Fifth Panzer Division, First Reconnaissance Regiment, Second Platoon!"

Ancient Guardian, Flinty Stone

Voiced by: Roger Rose (games)

• Dishing Out Dirt: One of his primary attacks is to vomit up huge stones to hurl at the player.
• Dumb Muscle: A narcoleptic who can't even handle two people talking to him at once without getting sleepy.
• Eating Solves Everything: He eats his respective Rainbow Oscar before the fight, forcing Joe and Silvia to kill him to get it back.
• Heavy Sleeper: To the point where he repeatedly nods off before the boss fight (getting shot awake by Silvia each time). He even repeatedly falls asleep during the boss fight, which is a good opportunity to get some free hits in.
• Living Statue: A narcoleptic stone golem.
• Mayincatec: His design, to cap off an Indiana Jones-style stage.
• Punny Name: Flintstone.
• Snot Bubble: It appears whenever he falls asleep. During his intro cutscene, Silvia repeatedly shoots it to wake him up.
• Unexplained Accent: Why a Mayan/Aztec golem would have a vaguely Swiss accent is anyone's guess.
• Voluntary Shapeshifting: He can turn into a giant flying serpent that can drill attack the player.

Cyber Phantom, Cameo Leon

Voiced by: Dave Wittenberg (games)

• Hollywood Chameleons: How fitting.
• Invisibility: Figures.
• Motor Mouth: Most notable with his death speech, where he manages to cram more words into it than possibly all the dying words of all the villains in BOTH games. Done a little differently in the anime, where his speech is much slower, yet he ends up inadvertently revealing sensitive information.
• Overly-Long Tongue: He IS a chameleon.
• Punny Name: Say his name fast and you get "chameleon."

Blizzard Hazard, Frost Tiger

Voiced by: Fred Tatasciore (games)

• An Ice Person: He can create an icy aura that protects him from any attack that doesn't carry heat. He also possesses ice breath and can create icicles on the ground and shoot blades of ice from his claws.
• Battle Aura: It's actually the only thing keeping him from freezing in his own lair; without it, Frost Tiger is too cold to do anything but shiver repeatedly until he re-establishes his aura.
• Blood Knight: Less interested in revenge for Fire Leo's defeat, and more interested in seeing just how strong the guy who beat him actually is.
• Boss Remix: A cross-title example, with "Blizzard Hazard" being a remix of his brother's theme ("Inferno Lord"), only with a much stronger emphasis on the electric guitar (including one killer solo).
• Breath Weapon: He has ice breath.
• The Dragon: Shared with Dr. Cranken, although he's the least direct of the two, only challenging the heroes when they arrive at his frozen arena.
• Easy Level Trick: Normally, you are supposed to attack the ice pillars that he makes with Mach Speed until you gain fire so that you can break his icy aura, but a zoomed-in Red Hot Kick will have the same effect. What's more, a well-timed Red Hot Kick right when he's about to regain his aura will break it again right away, allowing you to lock him into a state of vulnerability.
• Expy: Of Franziska von Karma, being the blue-clad sibling taking over the role of an antagonist dressed in red from the first game, but being more interested in defeating the protagonist for themselves than to avenge their defeated brother.
• Flaming Hair: Er... frozen flames, maybe?
• Panthera Awesome: He is a tiger samurai, and shares his position with Dr. Cranken as GEDOW's second-in-command.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Blue Oni compared to his Red Oni brother, Fire Leo.
• Samurai: Discussed; Silvia equates Frost Tiger's philosophy and honor code to this while sarcastically ribbing on him.
• Sibling Team: With Fire Leo in Red Hot Rumble.
• The Stoic: It goes in hand with him being one cool cat.
• Warrior Poet: Even in death, he takes the time to recite some viewtiful poetry.
  Frost Tiger: "Battle after battle/ I sought to attain/ the glorious path./ But true viewty lies/ in this late hour of defeat."
• Worthy Opponent: Sees Joe and Silvia as this.
• You Killed My Father: Subverted, despite Joe and Silvia thinking that he'd want to avenge his brother Fire Leo; Frost Tiger is more concerned with having a great battle. However, the official strategy guide implies that it's still a motivational factor.

Serial Killer Android, Miss Bloody Rachel

Voiced by: Vanessa Marshall (games), María José Estevez (anime, LA)

• Boss Rush: She's a one-robot, shapeshifting version.
• Combat Stilettos: Built-in, seeing as she's a robot and all.
• Costume Copycat: Assumes the form of Silvia and seduces Joe after the battle with Frost Leo to steal their Rainbow Oscars at the behest of Dr. Cranken.
• Femme Fatale: While impersonating Silvia.
• Freak Out: Undergoes one (complete with a Skyward Scream) as she wrestles with the concept of a heart while battling Joe and Silvia.
• Grew Beyond Their Programming: It even continues on to Red Hot Rumble, where Rachel shows an interest in various "human" ideas and actions, some of which are rather romantic in nature.
• Mechanical Evolution: She gains a heart after battling Joe and Silvia.
• What Is This Thing You Call "Love"?: Friendship, too.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Dr. Cranken gets furious when Rachel gains a heart, quickly killing her and remarking that now she's "nothing but junkyard trash."

Mad Scientist, Dr. Cranken

Voiced by: Peter Renaday (games)

• Artificial Limbs: His right tentacle was replaced with a robotic hand.
• Assist Character: To Cameo Leon during his boss fight. He hangs out in the background and alternates between attacking/sabotaging the player and healing his creation. It is possible to temporarily knock him out of the game by redirecting the missiles he fires back at him.
• Dr. Fakenstein: His name is close to "Franken", plus the fact that he is a Mad Scientist with his own angsty creation in the form of Rachel.
• The Dragon: Shared with Frost Tiger.
• Evil Genius: The narrator even refers to him as "the brains of Gedow."
• Half the Man He Used to Be: After he is defeated in the first stage of his boss fight, his body explodes, leaving only his head. A head, mind you, that is still jam-packed with deadly weapons.
• Inconsistent Spelling: Sometimes erroneously spelled with a "K" instead of a "C."
• Mad Scientist: His title even says so.
• Punny Name: A play on Kraken and crank. His name also references Frankenstein as seen on Dr. Fakenstein.
• Shout-Out: His mechanical tentacles in his boss fight make him look like a literal version of Doctor Octopus.

Leader of the Gedow (Spoilers)

Emperor of Gedow, Emperor Black

Voiced by: Keith Szarabajka (games)

• Amplifier Artifact: Dark Hero Jet Black holds the power of the seven Rainbow Oscars, boosting his powers and allowing him to appear in the real world with his film powers intact.
• Attack Its Weak Point: The key to beating Dark Kaiser.
• Battle Aura:
  • Adopts the aura of one of your characters in the later stages of the final battle: Joe's fiery one or Silvia's electric one, both which can only be negated by a Zoom-ed in Red Hot/Cool Blue Kick from the character it belongs to.
  • This is also the crux of his gameplay in Red Hot Rumble. The power, range, and properties of all his specials are determined by the "charge" of his aura, which builds over time. Performing these moves will deplete his aura completely, as will attacks from opposing players.
• Big Bad: In Viewtiful Joe 2.
• Calling Your Attacks: Mostly with his Dark Kaiser.
• Cherry Blossoms: His Issen special in Red Hot Rumble depicts him dashing across the field with a single, powerful strike as these flowers flutter behind him.
• Color Character: It makes his real identity something of a clue in hindsight.
• The Emperor: The clue is in the name.
• Evil Laugh: A gloriously bombastic one.
• Evil Redhead: Technically speaking.
• Evil Sounds Deep
• Foreshadowing: He first introduces himself as the Black Emperor.
• Gravity Master: Dark Hero Jet Black, after taking enough damage, will warp the area, causing the gravitational field to go out of whack, in turn saddling Joe and Silvia with very floaty jumps. Jet's movement speed during this phase is unaffected.
• Heel–Face Turn: It's even signified by Jet's Black V-Watch turning into a normal one.
• Humongous Mecha: Dark Kaiser. Whereas most of the other mechas are Godzilla-sized (i.e. able to span the circumference of the globe in a few steps) barring Six-Six (which is instead able to traverse the solar system), the Dark Kaiser is only exceeded in size by the Sun itself.
• Katanas Are Just Better: To match his "dark samurai" appearance. He's quite skilled with the blade, too.
• Large Ham: Mostly reserved, but dear goodness... once he breaks out the ham, there is no going back for him. This goes double for his Dark Hero persona, who is prone to yelling quips like "It's showtime!" and "Bring it on!" at the top of his lungs.
• Light Is Not Good: As Dark Hero Jet Black, his costume is now white.
• Made of Indestructium: Claims the Black Film is this. There's also the possibility that Jet simply faked destroying the Black Film after the ordeal with Alastor.
• Playing with Fire: The Dark Kaiser can launch flaming dragons as projectiles.
• Power Floats: As Dark Hero Jet Black.
• The Power of the Sun: Among other powers (such as presumed electromagnetic radiation in the form of its X-Rays), the Dark Kaiser can fling waves of solar wind at Six-Six in quick succession.
• Reality Warper: In both the movies and the real world thanks to the power of the Black Film and the Rainbow Oscars, respectively.
• Reverse Shrapnel: During the first portion of the battle with Dark Hero Jet Black. After Joe and Silvia regain their powers in a Clap Your Hands If You Believe moment, he largely stops using this move for reasons unknown and will instead take the battle directly to Joe and Silvia. (He does reuse it late in the battle if you delay finishing him off for long enough.)
• Samurai: His overall appearance and the katana he brandishes invoke this imagery.
• Shoryuken: Via his sword.
• Speed Echoes: In his Dark Hero persona.

Madow

Gadget-Cop

• BFG: His famous double 9s.
• By-the-Book Cop: When encountered by Joe, Gadget-Cop is your standard-issue, courteous officer of the law.
• Chest Blaster: With missiles.
• Dirty Cop: After his hero-ness is taken by Queen Heinderella. Actually, it's all a ruse; he's still a good cop.
• Expy: Of RoboCop.
• Spin Attack: His torso attack.

Killer Hands

• Expy: If Edward Scissorhands had a fondness for hugs instead of creepiness and was not portrayed by Johnny Depp, this would be the result.
• Shock and Awe: With his tazer attack.
• Swiss-Army Appendage: Appendages.

Alter Woman/Vanilla

• Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: Subverted. While she does grow in size when transformed, her default form (as well as the city she lives in) is minuscule in comparison to the rest of the cast, so her transformed state is about the same height as Joe. Relative to the city in question, though, she, Joe, and Jasmine would be seen as giants, making this a double subversion as well.
• Cool Shades: Vanilla owns a pair.
• Flying Saucer: Her means of transportation. Doubles as a makeshift throwing weapon for Jasmine.
• Meaningful Name: Rather appropriately for a woman named Vanilla, she dresses in all-white, complemented by silver hair.
• Shout-Out: Say her name aloud. What does it sound like?
• Superpowered Evil Side: To Vanilla after she lost her hero-ness but not really evil at all.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Zig-zagged. She's a red-eyed heroine who briefly turns evil only for it to be revealed she was playing along with Junko's test for Joe and Jasmine and thus never underwent a Face–Heel Turn to begin with.

Meta Rangers

• Good Wings, Evil Wings: Butterfly wings.
• Sentai: An Affectionate Parody.
• Shout-Out: While the name evokes the Power Rangers, they're a bit closer to the original Kamen Riders. The two have a prominent bug theme, work together as a duo like Rider 1 and Rider 2, and utilize many dive kicks in their fighting style. Even the beginning of their boss theme is incredibly similar to the original Kamen Rider opening.

Leader of the Madow (Spoilers)

Queen Heinderella

Voiced by: Hynden Walch

• Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: At first.
• Background Boss: Her first phase.
• Big Bad: In Viewtiful Joe: Double Trouble!
• Cognizant Limbs: Her first form has detached, claw-like hands that have laser cannons built into the palms and are propelled by rocket boosters. While this does call to mind the battle with Wolf Sigma in Mega Man X, the player has to damage Heinderella not by riding up her claws to get a shot at her head, but by redirecting missiles at her, avoiding Frickin' Laser Beams, being crushed by Heinderella's claws, and a number of respawning Elite Mooks all the while.
• Cool Mask: In queenly fashion, Heinderella wears an embroidered masquerade mask in her normal form. It's also handy for concealing her true identity.
• The Corrupter: Forces the heroes Joe encounters to make a temporary Face–Heel Turn by stealing their essences ("their hero-ness"). In reality, nothing was ever stolen, and it was simply an act by the heroes to bring Junko's plan to fruition.
• Dark Is Evil: Intentionally invoked, but ultimately a subversion.
• Evil Sounds Deep: Unsurprisingly, the Big Bad has one of the deepest voices out of the female cast in Double Trouble!, if not the deepest.
• Face Framed in Shadow: Her entire body is obscured in shadow after Joe defeats her the first time, so as to not give away that her non-transformed state is Junko.
• Flight: In a manner similar to Captain Blue and Dark Hero Jet Black, Heinderella liberally flies around in her second form, to point of hovering off the ground even when she's directly taking the battle to Joe.
• Foreshadowing: And very subtly done at that. The mole on her face, the shawl she wears, and the Holy Halo imagery all hint at the Queen's true identity.
• Good All Along: Unlike Blue and Jet, Junko was not influenced by any unseen, outside forces. Her schemes with Madow as Queen Heinderella were of her own volition, as the entire plot of Double Trouble! was one big Hidden Purpose Test for her son and daughter.
• Holy Halo: Present in her final form; she gets one for her helmet and another floating behind her.
• Lady of War/Lady of Black Magic: More so the former than the latter, but incorporates elements of both.
• Light Is Not Good: Her final form, in a case very similar to that of Dark Hero Jet Black (it must run in the family)... only to turn out to actually be a subversion since she's Good All Along.
• Power Floats: Her final form can freely fly around the arena and never touches the ground, preferring to hover just above it when she attacks.
• Power Nullifier: Briefly steals Joe's VFX powers prior to the first phase of the final battle.
• Requisite Royal Regalia: As a queen, Heinderella sports a tiara, with the castle sitting atop her head forming the rest of her "crown."
• Ultimate Life Form: Upon absorbing the hero-ness of Joe and the other bosses, she becomes the "Ultimate Super Being, Heinderella" for the final showdown.

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Blade Master Alastor

Voiced by: Mikey Kelley (games), Shin-ichiro Miki (anime, JP), Ross Lawrence (anime, EN), Ángel Balam (anime, LA)

• Adaptational Badass: In the anime due to his popularity, he's the strongest member of Jadow and consistently does the best against Joe, and in one episode would have actually beat him if King Blue didn't interfere because the fight was endangering Silvia, while in the game, he's more of a Breather Boss between the fight with Another Joe and the Magnificent 5.
• Adaptational Personality Change: In the anime, he's presented as a worthy, serious threat and rival to Joe. In the games proper, he's a fourth wall-breaking silly rival who thinks too much of his so-called rivalry with Joe.
• Affably Evil: Thinks of himself as more of a rival to Joe than the other bosses. Rather than outright insulting Joe, Alastor asserts his belief of being stronger and challenges him. He also takes the time to explain Jadow's plan.
• Ambiguously Bi: In his (non-canon) story mode of the first game, he dates Silvia's twin sister, Goldie, and admits that he considers Silvia beautiful in the second game. At the same time, he's not afraid to compliment Joe's "knock-out" looks.
• Anthropomorphic Personification: Of the sword itself. And boy, is he pissed at Dante for his sucky handling and leaving him during the events of Devil May Cry 2. ^note For those not privy to DMC lore, DMC2 had a very dubious standing in canon for a long time until Devil May Cry 5 nearly sixteen years later, with Capcom barely acknowledging its existence and many fans assuming it was in Canon Discontinuity territory. As a result, Dante proclaims he doesn't remember what Alastor is accusing him of, implying he doesn't remember anything from DMC2 at all. (The beginning of Dante's story additionally insinuates that this is because the Dante seen in that game was Enzo impersonating him.)
• Anti-Villain (Type I): He doesn't care about Jadow's goals, he just wants a fight where he can test his skills, and he doesn't mind losing, provided he doesn't die.
• Badass Creed: And it doubles as a nice Mythology Gag to his actual first words.
  Alastor (transformed by the Black Film): "I am Alastor. The weak shall give their heart and swear their eternal loyalty to me."
• Baddie Flattery: Heck, he's the one who bestows the title of "Viewtiful" upon Joe. Sort of. He actually remarks Joe's style as "Beautiful!" but Joe either mishears it or just changed the lettering so that it would make a better heroic name.
• Badass in a Nice Suit: Un-henshined. That particular form of his even goes by the title of "Stylish Alastor."
• Battle Aura: Is almost always surrounded by a purple aura. When it breaks, he falls to the ground, open to attack.
• Blood Knight: Just wants a fight with Joe. Nothing else.
• Boss Banter: Probably the most out of everyone.
• Boss Remix: His theme as Another Joe is a techno remix of "Joe the Hero," Joe's theme (used in the first level of the game, and remixed again for the first level of VJ2). His own theme also receives a rearrangement in both 2 and Double Trouble!, for justifiable reasons.
• Breaking the Fourth Wall: When he appears in 2, he tells the player to immediately go pick up a copy of the first game if they want to know who he is. Also, see Staying Alive below.
• Breakout Character: Alastor is one of the few characters from the first game to return for every later entry, and has a larger role beyond his two boss fights in the anime adaptation. Ironically, his last appearance in the first game outside of his boss fight is him complaining about his minimal screentime after being defeated.
• Butt-Monkey: Every time he is defeated, the narrator will always insist he is dead and never coming back, followed by him lamenting that he had such little screen time, and pleading with whoever is present to "Help a brother out, will ya?"
• Calling Your Attacks: In his Blade Master form, all of his attacks prompt a declaration. Naturally, the majority of these are moves Dante can perform with Alastor in the original Devil May Cry, several of which (Stinger, Vortex) are completely unaltered.
• Cool Sword: And another cool sword, and another and...
• Costume Copycat: As Another Joe.
• Dark Is Not Evil: Mostly played straight, Averted with his Underworld Emperor form.
• Deadly Lunge: Stinger. In fact, he always starts out with this move when you face him in the first game.
• Evil Counterpart: Subverted. His outfit resembles a demonic variant of Joe's own costume and he serves the villainous Jadow in the first game but he's honestly not really evil so much as he's just really determined to best Joe.
• Evil Sounds Deep: Holy crap, Underworld Emperor Alastor!
• Expy: Probably one to Proto Man, considering his character and the fact that they're both Capcom characters who serve as rivals (technically speaking) to the main protagonist.
• Face Framed in Shadow: After his defeat as Another Joe reveals his true identity, used to keep up the mystery of who exactly it was that Joe was fighting.
• Flight: He has a pair of small demon wings that allow him to attack from the air.
• Friendly Enemy: He's very chummy with Joe and Silvia when he's not trying to kill them, especially in the anime.
• Genre Savvy: To the point of taking out a copy of the first game's script and reading from it before his battle with Joe in 1 and 2.
• Graceful Loser: Losing to Joe and Silvia doesn't trouble him much, he even compliments the two for their skills. Of course, his cool only lasts until he hears the narrator say he's Killed Off for Real, but even then he sounds more upset about not having more screentime than him losing.
• Good Wings, Evil Wings: Decidedly evil. Well, mostly.
• Henshin Hero: The canonicity of it is dubious, but being a playable character in the first game, he naturally has a civilian form and can Henshin into his more familiar "stylish" form.
• Horned Humanoid: Subverted. They're a merely a feature of his helmet, not an actual part of his anatomy.
• Humongous Mecha: The Rex Majin, his answer to Joe's Six Majin.
• Leitmotif: "Blade Master," his boss theme.
• Lone Wolf Boss: After Jadow's collapse, he fights Joe purely to settle their rivalry rather than at the behest of any villain.
• Master Swordsman: His Boss Subtitle is "Blade Master". Notably, he's also the only playable character in the original release to possess a weapon, and he's good enough with it that he doesn't even need to Henshin in order to use it effectively.
• Mirror Boss: Fighting Viewtiful Joe as Another Joe.
• Pointy Ears: Is revealed to have them while unmorphed.
• Power Incontinence: Based off of the player having to voluntarily switch between Stylish and Blade Master Alastor in the first game, the anime reveals that Alastor has trouble changing out of his Henshin form at will and, as such, doesn't do so often.
• Punch-Clock Villain: Goes hand-in-hand with his Blood Knight status. As he states in the first game, he really doesn't care about Jadow's plans and only relishes the chance to face strong opponents such as Joe.
• Recurring Boss: The only one to show up in all of the games, in fact.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Perhaps not naturally, but his visor gives off a very convincing illusion of this, even being prominently shown after the Another Joe fight.
• Ride the Lightning: Whenever he's about to make a big entrance and challenge Joe to a fight, Alastor's cue is a sudden storm of his trademark purple lightning bolts.
• The Rival: Self-declared to Joe.
• Running Gag: He will always lament on his lack of screen time immediately after his presumed death. In the first game, he directs his pleas to the player; in 2, he falls out of the screen and chats with Jet.
• Shock and Awe: Almost all of his attacks have are electrical. Also, he can summon lightning.
• Shout-Out: Is one big walking bundle of Devil May Cry references.
• Spin Attack: Vortex.
• Staying Alive: No matter what the narrator tells you, Alastor is never dead.
• The Only One Allowed to Defeat You:
  • The reason why he takes the blow for Joe from Queen Heinderella after their fight in Double Trouble!
  • Also in the anime, this is why he saves Joe from Fire Leo in the end.
• Throwing Your Sword Always Works: His Round Trip attack involves throwing a sword, which stops mid-flight, spins, and then changes direction to whichever way the player is at that moment. Though, he can use it multiple times at once, so whether these swords are magical in nature or he just carries multiple swords is anyone's guess.
• Trick Boss: In Viewtiful Joe 2, he is fought exactly the same way in the first game, but with a much smaller health bar... then when he's seemingly defeated, Jet plays the Black Film, causing Alastor to transform into his Underworld Emperor form.
• Unknown Rival: At first. It becomes something resembling a Friendly Rivalry with Joe after that.
• Voluntary Shapeshifting: Underworld Emperor Alastor can — understandably so — assume the form of himself (as in Alastor the Devil Arm), although he only demonstrates this in the cutscene prior to your battle with him, in which he attempts to skewer Joe in the same way he impaled Dante in his debut.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: Mostly just wants to get stronger and help bring the chaos of the real world to an end.
• Worthy Opponent: Joe and Alastor see each other as this.

The Biankies

• Dub Name Change: The anime dub changes Joker's name to Jokester, possibly to avoid confusion with another villain from a certain other show on the same network.
• Final-Exam Boss: Your first encounter with Joker is not long after you've learned the basics, and it is extremely difficult to beat him without using Slow.
• The Goomba: Basic enemies with slow wind-up and obvious tells.
• Mecha-Mooks: Look like robots.
• Mascot Mook: All over the cover of the first game.
• Punny Name: Based on "bianco", the Italian word for "white."
• Recurring Boss: Joker in the first game.
• The Unintelligible: They make high-pitched whining noises.

Dante

Voiced by: Drew Coombs

• Calling Your Attacks: Not too prevalent, but it does pop up a bit.
  "INFERNO!"
• Cool Plane: Carnival, making an encore appearance from the first DMC. ^note It's the abandoned biplane Dante commandeers to escape Mallet Island along with Trish after Mundus's defeat.
• Cool Sword: Alastor. Yeah, as in the same guy from above.
• Everyone Loves Blondes: Dante for Trish.
• Guns Akimbo: Just like in his own games, wields a gun (Ebony and Ivory) in each hand.
• Henshin Hero: Ends up in a speedo when he runs out of V power. Transforms into his regular clothes when it recharges.
• Hired Gun: Makes a few snippy remarks about Blue creating a new threat for Dante to face at the end of the game (thus "extending the contract"), but ultimately notes that this isn't the first time he's done a job for free.
• Master Swordsman: Uses Alastor with much the same skill as in the original Devil May Cry.
• Mr. Fanservice: Even Super-Deformed, yes.
• Non-Dubbed Grunts: His voice clips in cutscenes is Simlish taken from his voice acting from Devil May Cry, as well as previously unheard lines likely tucked away and unused from said game.
• Rule of Funny: His appearance can be chalked up to this. If you can read between the lines, it's almost as if Hideki Kamiya (who helmed both the original DMC and Viewtiful Joe and was still a Capcom employee at the time) took the time to insert several Take Thats and Discontinuity Nods to Devil May Cry 2.
• Stripperiffic: A black speedo as his non-Henshin mode. Dante muses that his contact Enzo must've stolen his clothes again as a rib on Dante's characterization in DMC2.
• Trash Talk: Wouldn't be Dante without it.
• Version-Exclusive Content: He was added to the PS2 port.

Trish

Voiced by: Cristina Pucelli (Viewtiful Joe ^note all the female characters that appear in the first game's extra storylines use Silvia's audio played backwards; the game does reuse one of Trish's lines from Devil May Cry right before the fight with King Blue ("Dante")), Sarah Lafleur (Red Hot Rumble)

• Boobs-and-Butt Pose: As seen to the right, her character artwork features this.
• Cool Shades: Dons them in the first game in Hero Mode, possibly a nod to how Trish's Devil Trigger in DMC2 is likewise a simple cosmetic change involving sunglasses.
• Damsel in Distress: First game only. Dante's story ends with her gaining a V-Watch of her own, which translates to Trish upgrading to Action Girl status in Red Hot Rumble.
• Dual Wielding: Her guns, Luce and Ombra.
• Hired Gun: Same as Dante. Unlike Dante, however, Trish even shows some Kleptomaniac Hero tendencies, as she berates Dante for not raking in any money when Captain Blue causes more trouble for Movieland at the end of the game and quips that if Blue doesn't have any cash, she'll take something else from him. Trish gets a V-Watch out of the deal.
• Navel-Deep Neckline: Like in DMC, has a "broken heart" bustier.
• Of Corsets Sexy: Her bustier, which also shows off her belly button in the process.

Dark Emperor: King Mundus

• The Bus Came Back: A rather dramatic reveal.
• The Corrupter: For Captain Blue in Dante's story.
• Crazy-Prepared: He planted a "seed" inside Trish, just in case he ended up getting sealed. Trish experiencing emotions was the trigger to cause the seed to weaken the seal that was placed on him at the end of the first game.
• Demonic Possession: He does this with Captain Blue.
• Devil Complex: Much like in the source series.
• Revenge: Against Dante and Trish, but also against Eva, whose soul is locked in Dante's amulet. Mundus actually sees Eva — the party responsible for numerous events throughout the series (Dante's revival when killed in the demon attack on his family as a child, Nelo Angelo's violent reaction to Dante's half of the Perfect Amulet, Trish's resurrection at the end of DMC, etc.) — as his real enemy, elevating her role in the original game from a primary motivational factor for her son to a three-way combination of Big Good, The Chessmaster, and Guile Heroine.
  Mundus: "The real enemy was you, Eva!"
• Walking Spoiler: The character's involvement in Dante's story is unexpected, to say the least.

Coordinator Sprocket

Voiced by: Vanessa Marshall (Red Hot Rumble), Mayumi Asano (anime, JP), Wendee Lee (anime, EN), Valeria Castillo (anime, LA)

• Affably Evil Counterpart: To Silvia. Subverted, as she's not as much evil as she is loyal to Captain Blue.
• Ambiguously Brown: No mention of her race, but she has a darker complexion than the other characters.
• Ambiguously Human: Her pointed ears bring up the question, but it's never addressed.
• Brainy Brunette: Captain Blue's secretary, who is the one who actually makes sure everything goes to plan.
• Canon Immigrant: Appears as a character in Red Hot Rumble. Though its canon status to the game series is debatable.
• Distracted by the Sexy: Garners this reaction from Blue's wandering eyes in the intro to Red Hot Rumble.
• Heel–Face Turn: Only in Red Hot Rumble.
• Hot Librarian: She has all the characteristics for this.
• Light Feminine and Dark Feminine: The Dark to Silvia's Light.
• Meaningful Name: A sprocket is a type of gear/wheel used to mesh with shafts to provide efficient transmission of rotary motion. As the Only Sane Woman, Coordinator Sprocket usually has to keep everyone in line in order to ensure that Jadow remains a well-oiled machine.
• Navel-Deep Neckline: Zips up her jacket to cover her ample assets as a Character Tic. But it ends up back down to her navel again as soon as the camera cuts away.
• Pointy Ears: Even though she is from the real world.
• Sexy Secretary: To Captain Blue in all incarnations she appears in.
• The Smart Girl/Evil Genius
  • Surrounded by Idiots: In the anime.
• Token Minority: Possibly; most of the characters look ethnically generic, but she has a noticeably darker skin tone. However, she also has pointed ears.
• Undying Loyalty: To her boss, Captain Blue, even after Joe defeats him.
• When She Smiles: She has a particularly beautiful smile, which is rarely seen due to her doubling as The Stoic and being constantly Surrounded by Idiots most of the time.
• You Have Failed Me/You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: In the anime, after Joe defeats Charles III, Hulk Davidson, and Gran Bruce for the final time, she fires them and prevents them from returning to Jadow's main headquarters.

Tsukumo

• Big Bad: In Viewtiful Joe: Red Hot Rumble.
• Body Surf/Demonic Possession: Eventually ends up settling on Rachel.
• Green-Eyed Monster/Driven by Envy/Dude, Where's My Respect?: Albeit not entirely unjustified. Post-defeat, he moves past this and makes a Heel–Face Turn.
• Humongous Mecha: In his final form. Reasonably scaled down in comparison to the likes of Six Majin, but still large enough to dwarf the rest of the cast.
• I Am Legion/Royal "We": Fitting, considering that he is an amalgamation of spirits inhabiting film equipment.
• I Just Want to Be Loved: Tsukumo's main motivation. Due to jealousy/scorn at how props are overlooked, Tsukumo goes on a rampage and begins sabotaging the set of Blue's latest movie. After defeating him, Joe explains that props indeed play an important part in movies; without them, the movie itself wouldn't be possible. With news of this, Tsukumo leaves happily and is even made the star of Blue's film, much to everyone's surprise.
• Meaningful Name: Tsukumo translates to "ninety-nine", alluding to how Tsukumo himself is an innumerable amount of souls working together towards a singular purpose.