Beyblade/Characters

The Bladebreakers

Takao Kinomiya/Tyson Granger

The Hero of the series. Quite an Idiot Hero at that, too. He's got nothing more than a decent top and a love for the game, but that changes when he finds the bit-beast Dragoon in his grandfather's dojo. He joins with Ray, Kai, and Max and wins the world championship for all three years of the show.

• Badass
• Balloon Belly
• Big Eater
• Blow You Away: Dragoon had wind-based powers.
• Deus Ex Machina: Tyson has a long list of come from behind wins that look unbelievably cheap when everyone can see he should have lost.
• Fingerless Gloves
• Glass Cannon --> Lightning Bruiser
• Glory Seeker: Very much so, to the point that he unnecessarily takes away challenges that could have been spread around the group to make for more interesting rivalries. While in Europe, Tyson gets to battle Robert, Oliver, and Enrique, three of the best bladers on the continent, while Johnny is saved for Kai. Tyson gets three rivalries, while Max and Ray get what?
• The Hero
• Hot-Blooded: Indeed.
• Idiot Hero
• It's All About Me: For the first half of G Revolution, Tyson has this attitude. He refuses to understand it's not Ray, Max, and Kai's responsibility to get him to the finals of every tournament, only for him to take the title in the end, and then think "they" are champions, when Tyson is the one who gets all the glory in the end.
• Motoko Kumai
• Nice Hat
  • It Was a Gift: From Hiro, although we don't find that out until season 3.
• Snap Back: Later seasons reversed all his character development for the first season.
• Raised by Grandparents
• Small Name, Big Ego: Takes nearly Jerkass levels in later seasons.
• Suddenly Voiced: Dragoon, seasons 1 and 2.
• "With Our Swords" Scene: End of season 3.
• You Gotta Have Blue Hair

Kai Hiwatari

The Lancer to Tyson. He was actually the team captain of the Bladebreakers, and was almost always shrouded in mystery. This changed when the team went over to Russia, where a bit more was divulged about his past. He made a brief Heel Face Turn to join the Demolition Boys, but decided to return back to the Bladebreakers after they proved he belonged with them. In the third season, he defected back to the Demolition Boys (now known as the Blitzkrieg Boys) so he could face Tyson in the world championship. He does, and he loses.

• Always Someone Better: Kai is never allowed to defeat Tyson, ever.
• Anti-Hero: Type IV
• Badass Longcoat: In the last episodes of season 3 for some reason.
• The Determinator
• Evil Counterpart: Black Dranzer, of Dranzer, of course.
• Mr. Fanservice: The main caterer of fangirl bait amongst the main group.
• Face Heel Turn: Twice. First to the Demolition Boys, second to the BEGA bladers. The change to the Blitzkrieg Boys wasn't an example per se because they weren't evil at the time.
  • Heel Face Turn: Twice again.
• Facial Markings
• Feather Flechettes: In season 3, Dranzer had an attack that was somewhat like this.
• Fingerless Gloves
• Genius Bruiser
• Hellish Pupils
• Heroic BSOD: Had an epic one when he failed to join BEGA.
• Jerkass: At the beginning of the series.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Most of the time.
• Kindhearted Cat Lover: In a Pet the Dog sort of way in G-Revolution.
• The Lancer
• Lightning Bruiser
• Loners Are Freaks
• Misunderstood Loner with a Heart of Gold
• Multicolored Hair: Dark grey and black (or various shades of blue, depending on the season).
• Opera Gloves: From second season on. They still don't look too bad on him though.
• Phoenix: Dranzer.
• Playing with Fire: Suzaku is a Phoenix/Vermillion Bird, after all.
  • Technicolor Fire: Blue in season 3.
• The Only One Allowed to Defeat You
• The Rival
• Say My Name: Dranzer! After losing to Zeo and Dranzer was taken.
• Scarf of Asskicking
• Slasher Smile
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Kai gives an epic one to Brooklyn, explaining that despite being the most powerful beyblader in the series, it doesn't mean shit because Brooklyn has never once put his heart and soul into the game from beginning to end like Kai has. It pretty much traumatizes Brooklyn too.
• The Stoic
  • Not So Stoic: After his first Face Heel Turn, he displayed some serious(ly negative) emotions. Also, anytime he's fighting Tyson, this is bound to happen.
• Tall, Dark and Snarky
• Turncoat

Max Mizuhara/Tate

• Badass Adorable
• But Not Too Foreign: His father is Japanese, his mother is American.
• Cat Smile
• Fingerless Gloves
• The Generic Guy: After his more childish aspects were downplayed, there wasn't as much unique to his personality anymore outside being a Token Good Teammate like Ray.
• The Glomp: Especially towards Tyson/Takao.
• Gratuitous English: In the Japanese version.
• Gravity Master: Season 3.
• Keet: More hyper and a bit dense in early episodes, he matures somewhat in later seasons, with Tyson or Daichi usually acting as The Wacky Guy instead.
• Kill It with Water
• Making a Splash
• The Smart Guy: Easily the closest thing the team has to The Strategist and he often wins by cleverly outsmarting his opponents. In the English Dub Kenny actually called him a ruthless strategist.
• Stone Wall --> Mighty Glacier --> Lightning Bruiser
• Turtle Power: Draciel.

Rei/Ray Kon

• Badass Long Hair: Ray is a master of this, his hair is so long, it damn near reaches the ground, and he keeps it tied in a white cloth, making it resemble a tiger tail.
• The Big Guy: Most passionate and brutal competitor of the bladebreakers.
• Cute Little Fangs
• Deadpan Snarker
• Disney Death: Driger after defeating Bryan.
• Eyes of Gold
• Fingerless Gloves
• Hachimaki
• Heroic BSOD: Both times when he lost Driger.
• Heroic RROD: After defeating Bryan.
• Jack of All Stats: Hiro (as Jin) even spells it out for him.
• The Lancer
• Panthera Awesome: Driger.
• Rapunzel Hair
• Shock and Awe: When his blade had an elemental power, it was that of lightning.
• Short Hair with Tail
• Slipknot Ponytail: Once in the first season, and twice in the third.
• Speed Blitz: Driger is most consistently played up as being the fastest of the main four bit beasts, and has mauled enemies before they could react consistently with raw speed.

Kenny

• Adaptation Expansion: Dizzi is not present in the Japanese version at all.
• Blinding Bangs
• The Chick: Before Hilary appeared. Kenny was always a whiz kid, but more often he was the softy of the squad.
• Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Dizzi disappears without a trace in the third season.
• Distress Ball: He was often held hostage by the Dark Bladers.
• Gamer Chick: Dizzi, implied in dialogue.
• Little Miss Snarker: Dizzi.
• Manly Tears: While fighting Tala in season 3.
• Non-Action Guy
• Ship Tease: A little bit with Emily.
• The Short Guy with Glasses

Hiromi/Hilary

• The Chick
• Cute Sports Club Manager: She seems to become the Bladebreakers' manager in season 3.
• Demoted to Extra: Season 3. She still appears a lot, but has very little importance.
• Little Miss Snarker
• The Smurfette Principle
• Tsundere

Daichi Sumeragi

• Big Ol' Eyebrows
• Bratty Half-Pint
• Dark-Skinned Redhead
• Dishing Out Dirt
• Fashionable Asymmetry: His pants.
  • Lampshaded by Brad Best.
• Fiery Redhead
• Hot-Blooded: Goes without saying.
• Nature Hero: He is most confortable outside the artificial Bey-stadium.
• No Indoor Voice
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse
• Sixth Ranger
• Tagalong Kid
• X Marks the Hero: And it GLOWS.

The White Tigers

Rai/Lee

• Always Second Best: To Ray. A major sticking point in the first season was that Ray was chosen to wield Driger over him.
• The Comically Serious: Season 3.
• Eyes of Gold
• Hotblooded Sideburns
• The Hero: First season.
  • The Lancer: To Ray in the third season.
• Meaningful Name: Rai means "Thunder" in Japanese. Possibly refering to Galeon's lightning powers.
• Panthera Awesome: Galeon.
• Shock and Awe: Galeon's elemental power.

Mao/Mariah

• Action Girl
• Adaptation Dye Job: Has red hair in the manga.
• Cat Smile
• Cute Little Fangs
• Eyes of Gold
• The Lancer: First season.
  • The Chick: Third season.
• Panthera Awesome: Galux.
• Victorious Childhood Friend: At the end of the manga, it is shown that Mariah married Ray, and that they have a daughter together.
• You Gotta Have Pink Hair

Gao/Gary

• Big Eater
• The Big Guy
• Everything's Worse with Bears: Galzzy.
• Eyes Always Shut
• Gentle Giant: Most of the time.
• Let's Get Dangerous: After losing to Max in the first round.
• Meaningful Name: Gao is Japanese for "Wild".

Kiki/Kevin

• Bratty Half-Pint
• Doppelganger Attack: Galmon's gimmick.
• Everything's Better with Monkeys: Galmon. Though, actually, it isn't better.
• Eyes of Gold: In the third season. In the first season his eyes were purple.
• Jerkass
• Peek-a-Bangs
• Tagalong Kid: Though no age is stated, flashbacks show him as a baby and the rest of the White Tigers as young children.
• You Gotta Have Green Hair

Tao

• Eccentric Mentor
• Hurricane of Aphorisms
• Miniature Senior Citizens

The All Starz

Michael

• Arrogant Kung Fu Guy
• Art Evolution: He looks like a completely different person in season 3.
• Big Badass Bird of Prey: Trygle.
• Fiery Redhead: Season 1.
• The Hero
• I Am Not Left-Handed
• Jerkass
• Nice Hat
• Peek-a-Bangs: Season 3.

Eddie

• Dark-Skinned Blond: Season 3.
• Curb Stomp Battle: Curb stomped Ray.
• The Lancer
• Scary Scorpions: Trypio.
• Token Minority

Steven

• The Big Guy
• Helmets Are Hardly Heroic: During his battle with Tyson, he throws away his helmet in rage.
• A Load of Bull: Tryhorn.

Emily

• Curb Stomp Battle: She not only knocked Draciel out of the match, she blasted him out of the stadium so hard, Max couldn't even react to catch his blade!
• Insufferable Genius: Emily's smart and she knows it. And won't let anyone else forget it either.
• Never Smile At a Crocodile: Trygator.
• The Smart Guy
• I Work Alone: Until Max gave her a lesson about team work.

Rick

• Arrogant Kung Fu Guy
• Dark Skinned White Haired Guy
• I Work Alone: At first.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold
• A Load of Bull: Rock Bison.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: For Steven, obvious since he uses a Bison bitbeast.

The Dark Bladers

Sanguinex

• Multicolored Hair
• Our Vampires Are Different

Lupinex

• Our Werewolves Are Different

Cenotaph

• Mummy

Zomb

• Our Zombies Are Different: Though it looks more like Frankenstein's monster.

The Majestics

Robert

• Anime Hair: One spectator asks "Is that your hair or a helmet?"
• Blue Oni: To Johnny, down to the armor.
• Catch Phrase: He loves to use the word "uncouth".
• Fan Nickname: Rob the Snob.
• Feather Flechettes: Grypholyon's main attack.
• Four Legs Good, Two Legs Better: Grypholyon is most often seen standing on two legs.
• The Hero
• The Other Darrin: Has a different voice actor in season 2.
• Our Gryphons Are Different: Grypholyon.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning
• The Stoic

Johnny

• Alchemic Elementals: Salamalyon is a salamander and a fire-elemental.
• An Axe to Grind: How he launches his Beyblade.
• Bonnie Scotland
• Helmets Are Hardly Heroic: When the Majestics wear armor, he's the only one without a helmet.
• I Work Alone: While all the Majestics are this, he is specially stubborn (and loud) about it.
• The Lancer
• Playing with Fire
• Red Oni: To Robert, down to the armor.

Oliver

• French Jerk: Subverted. Though he talked down to the Bladebreakers when he first met them, he is subsequently very nice to them.
• Goggles Do Nothing
• Nice Hat
• The Smart Guy
• Unicorn: Unicolyon.

Enrique

• Arrogant Kung Fu Guy
• Berserk Button: While Enrique much prefers to enjoy the company of his girlfriends and spoil them rotten rather than live up to his title as the best blader in Italy, he does not take well to anyone assuming he's a poser who has no real skill, as Tyson soon found out.
• The Big Guy
• The Dog Bites Back: Amphilyon snaps and turns against its owner because Enrique didn't care much for it.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: His bit beast betrays him because he doesn't respect it and treats it as a servant rather than a partner.
• Jerkass
• Kidanova
  • A Lady on Each Arm
• Multiple Head Case: Amphilyon. Its second head is its tail.
• Our Dragons Are Different: Amphilyon.
• Wings Do Nothing: Though Amphilyon has wings, it never actually uses them. Noticeable when Dragoon throws it from the sky.

Demolition Boys

Tala

• Big Badass Wolf: Wolborg.
• The Dragon: Season 1, to Boris.
• Evil Is Deathly Cold
• Evil Redhead
• Glass Cannon
  • Lightning Bruiser: Recovered from his Glass Cannon status in Season Three, where his beyblade is actually meant to take hits in long, drawn out battles.
• Good Is Dumb: When he decided to take on BEGA himself in the third season, it didn't end well.
  • To be fair, he was doing well...until he took on one of the five best BEGA has to offer.
• Heel Face Turn: At the end of Season one.
• Hollywood Cyborg
• An Ice Person
• Light Is Not Good: White clothes, white Beyblade, white bit-beast - yeah.
• Samus Is a Girl: In season 3, it turns out that Wolborg is a girl. A pretty one, at that.

Bryan

• Big Badass Bird of Prey: Falborg.
• Blow You Away
  • Razor Wind
• The Brute
• Curtains Match the Window
• Pretty in Mink
• The Stoic

Spencer

• The Brute
• Making a Splash

Ian

• Chuck Cunningham Syndrome
• Gag Nose: He certainly has an unusual nose, although it isn't remarked upon.
• Goggles Do Nothing
• Red Eyes, Take Warning

Saint Shields

Ozuma

• Anti-Villain
• Badass: Ozuma has given Tyson more beat downs than anyone else in the series, and they were all fair wins.
• Knight Templar
• Multicolored Hair
• Panthera Awesome: Flash Leopard.
• Playing with Fire

Dunga

• Anti-Villain
• Badass: He looks like a moron who relies just on strength. Nope! He is the one to eventually seal Driger in the rock.
• The Brute
• Dumb Muscle
• Shock and Awe

Joseph

• Anti-Villain
• Older Than They Look: Though he looks like a Tagalong Kid, he's as old as his team mates.
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Tiny kid with an elephant bit-beast. Yup.

Mariam

• Action Girl
• Anti-Villain
• Everything's Even Worse with Sharks: Sharkrash.
• Foe Yay: It was pretty obvious she had something more than a rivalry going on with Max.
• Making a Splash
• Ship Tease: With Max.

Team Psykick

Kane

• Brainwashed and Crazy
• Foil: To Tyson.
• Honor Before Reason

Salima

• Action Girl
• Brainwashed and Crazy
• The Heart: She's the only one who tries to warn the Bladebreakers of the Cyber bit-beasts, believing that's what's best for everyone.
• Ship Tease: With Ray.
• Shonen Hair: Unusual for a female character.

Jim

• Brainwashed and Crazy
• Evil Genius / The Smart Guy

Goki

• Brainwashed and Crazy
• The Brute / The Big Guy

Gordo

• Multiple Head Case: Orthrus.

Zeo

• Anti-Villain
• Badass Long Hair
• Face Heel Turn
• Hollywood Cyborg
• Light Is Not Good: Wears white clothes after turning evil.
• Multiple Head Case: Burning Cerberus.
• Pinocchio Syndrome
• Replacement Goldfish: Zagart created him to replace his dead son.

Barthez Battalion

Miguel

• Dark Is Not Evil
• The Hero
• Honor Before Reason
• Our Gargoyles Rock: Dark Gargoyle.
• Playing with Fire
• Power Gives You Wings

Mathilda

• The Chick
• Curtains Match the Window: Pink eyes, pink hair.
• Goggles Do Nothing
• Power Gives You Wings: Even though her bit-beast is, as a hedgehog, totally incapable of flight.
• "With Our Swords" Scene: In her last tournament battle, each member of the team gave her a piece of their Beyblades so she could fight, since her own had been destroyed.

Claude

• Big Badass Bird of Prey: Rapid Eagle.
• The Lancer
• Multiple Head Case: Rapid Eagle.
• Power Gives You Wings

Aaron

• The Big Guy
• Chuck Cunningham Syndrome
• Flat Character
• Full Boar Action: Rushing Boar.
• Token Minority

Barthez

• Dirty Coward
• Evil Genius
• Mentor Archetype
• Token Evil Teammate

F-Dinasty

Julia

• Action Girl
• Badass Spaniard
  • Spicy Latina
• Multicolored Hair
• Shock and Awe: Thunder Pegasus, but it doesn't show.
• Tsundere: So much.

Raul

• Crying Little Kid: He grew out of it. Kinda.
• Multicolored Hair
• Non-Action Guy: At first.
• Playing with Fire: Torch Pegasus. Again it doesn't really show.

Romero

• Camp Straight: One guesses.
• Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!: Of all people, it is him who does this to Kai during his Heroic BSOD after he was defeated by Brooklyn.
• Green Thumb: In the one occasion that he wielded a Beyblade.
• Mentor Archetype

BEGA League

Ming-Ming

• Ambiguously Brown
• Brown Eyes
• Dark Chick: Ming-Ming considers as a lead singer, Jelly is playing her guitar, Killy plays on her drum and Hikaru plays her bass guitar.
• Evil Diva
• Genki Girl
• Girlish Pigtails
• Idol Singer
• Our Dragons Are Different: Venus.
• Transformation Sequence: From pop-star to Beyblade fighter, she gains a somewhat more mature look and personality.
  • Older Alter Ego

Brooklyn Masefield

• All of the Other Reindeer: In his childhood.
• Anti-Anti-Christ
• Ax Crazy
• Badass
• Brilliant but Lazy: He'd rather sit in a grassy field and play with small animals than watch a beybattle. But he's the most naturally gifted blader in the series, he doesn't ever need to practice anyhow. His immense natural skill even gives him some sort of unexplained powers of prescience that allow him to predict most outcomes of battles.
• Bunny Ears Lawyer
• Casting a Shadow
• Cloudcuckoolander
• The Dragon: To Boris.
• Hellish Pupils
• Light Is Not Good: Dresses all in white, a fairly pleasant person. Just don't actually make him serious.
• Lonely at the Top
• Mix and Match Creatures: Zeus is an odd mish-mash of many animals. According to the Beyblade wiki, it has "the head, fur and arms of a jungle cat, a white lion's mane, black eagle-like wings, a horse's lower half and bull horns growing out of his chest".
• Power Gives You Wings
• Reality Warper
• Villainous Breakdown: During his second match with Kai. And through it he ended up subverting the above tropes that made him so Anti Villain-y.

Garland Sieblad

• Benevolent Boss: Garland isn't exactly the leader of his team, but he does try to keep them in line and keep up their morale.
• The Dragon: To Brooklyn.
• Facial Markings: A bindi.
• Family Honor: Everybody in his family excels at a sport of some kind, and he's very much intent to keep tradition alive.
• Our Gryphons Are Different: Apollon.
• Shock and Awe
• Short Hair with Tail
• White-Haired Pretty Boy

Mystel

• Darkskinned Blonde
• Evil Genius
• Fun Personified: His reasons for joining BEGA are unknown, but it seems he's just in it to have a good time, and is almost always smiling.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Poseidon's attack.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Not necessarily a jerk to anyone, but he has a tendency to say rude or insensitive things to others without knowing he does it.
• Jump Physics: He has rather improbable jumping abilities.
  • Which is putting it lightly. He can jump from building sized cliffs and somehow slow his descent speed to land harmlessly on the ground.
• Kill It with Water:
• Mask Power
• Our Dragons Are Different: Poseidon.

Crusher

• Bald of Awesome
• The Brute
• Ill Little Sister: The whole reason he's part of BEGA.
• Manly Tears: After defeating Rei.
  • Also during his Heel Face Turn.
• Power Tattoo

Others

Ryu Kinomiya/Granger

• Badass Mustache
• Cool Old Guy

Mr. Dickenson

• The Chessmaster: He purposely stranded the Bladebreakers in Europe, so they could get stronger before facing the Russian team.
• Demoted to Extra: His role is greatly diminished following season 1.
• Reasonable Authority Figure

D.J. Jazzman

• Art Evolution: Indeed.
• Combat Commentator
• No Indoor Voice: He is always talking into a microphone, admittedly.

A.J. Topper and Brad Best

• Adaptation Expansion: Dub-exclusive.
• Combat Commentator
• The Faceless
• Heterosexual Life Partners
• No Indoor Voice: A.J.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni
• Vitriolic Best Buds

Hiro Kinomiya/Granger

• Char Clone: Besides hiding his identity at the beginning, he seems somewhat amoral, as if all it mattered to him is seeing Tyson getting stronger like when he fake defected to BEGA. And towards the end of the show he is dressed almost exactly like Char in Zeta Gundam, except the colors are different.
• Code Name: Jin of the Gale.
• Cool Shades: Towards the end of the show.
• Dual-Wielding: He can command two Beys at the same time.
• Fake Defector
• Long-Lost Relative: He's Tyson's older brother.
• Mentor Archetype
  • Big Brother Mentor: When Tyson was a little kid.
• Panthera Awesome: Metal Driger. Not that he uses it much.

Boris

• Big Bad: Season 3.
• Humiliation Conga: At the end of season 3.
• Sinister Shades