< Endless Frontier

Endless Frontier/Characters


See the Xenosaga character sheet for KOS-MOS, T-ELOS and MOMO. See Namco X Capcom for tropes regarding Reiji Arisu, Xiaomu, Saya and Katana. See the main Super Robot Wars page for people from the main games.

Protagonists

Haken Browning (Voiced by Nobuyuki Hiyama)

The protagonist of Endless Frontier, 23-year-old Haken Browning is captain of the dimension-travelling vehicle Zeit Krokodil (German for "Time Crocodile") and a bounty hunter, faithfully followed by his Sidekick Aschen Brodel. He's also a ladies' man, complimenting everyone of the fairer sex. He has Sanger Zonvolt's colour scheme and Excellen Browning's surname, but is defined as Kyosuke Nanbu's Expy; he takes on the role of the calm, cool leader and has a gambling habit, even naming most of his attacks after gambling stints (Texas Hold'em, High Low Draw, etc.)

He also seems to attract a number of beings similar to Personal Troopers, only double a human's size. These turn out to be Gespents of the Shadow-Mirror organization, modified in the Endless Frontier by the Orchestral Army to resemble the blueprints of the much larger Shadow-Mirror mecha. As it turns out, he's W00, the Super Prototype of Lemon Browning's W-Numbers. The rest were robots and mostly-machine cyborgs rather than extremely enhanced humans like Haken because they decided it took too long to wait for him to grow up.

Haken carries two weapons with him at all times: the Night Fowl rifle and the Longtomb Special revolver. He embodies these tropes:

  • Ascended Fanboy: Vice Chief Lee Ly of the Zeit Krokodil often mocks his cowboy costume.
  • Badass Longcoat
  • BFG: The Longtomb can disassemble itself into an Big Fraggin' Cannon. In the sequel Endless Frontier EXCEED, it doubles as a portable Wave Motion Gun.
  • Bodyguard Crush: For Kaguya Nanbu
  • Casanova Wannabe: Subversion...at first, as he flirts with every girl and gets turned down, but eventually wins Kaguya's heart...and maybe a little more...
  • Combination Attack: Phantom Hold 'Em and Rampage Specter; the former with the Gespenst Phantom, while the latter is Haken simply summoning the Alt Eisen Nacht and Weiss Ritter Abend, instead.
  • Generation Xerox: Hilariously played with: although Haken isn't John Moses's biological son, John mistakes Kaguya for a call-in escort the first time they meet. No wonder Haken's such a Lovable Sex Maniac.
  • Gratuitous English: A lot, such as "OK!", "Bingo!" and "Last showdown!"
  • Gratuitous Spanish: Sort of; he does say "Adios!" often.
  • Guns Akimbo
  • The Gunslinger: Combines Types C and D
  • Opposite Gender Clone: Lemon did use her blood to create him...
  • Shout-Out: Haken means "hook" in German and he arrived in the Endless Frontier on a ship called Neverland, with a navigation computer called Tinkerbell. The Zeit Krokodil refers to a certain crocodile that ate, amongst other things, a clock and one captain's hand. Do you get it?
  • Super Prototype
  • Super Soldier: Implied
  • Swiss Army Gun/Bayonet Ya: The Night Fowl's a customized assault rifle that fires normal rounds with an underslung piledriver below the rifle's barrel and a fold-out bayonet in the stock.
  • Theme Naming: All his attacks are related in some way to poker: Texas Hold 'Em, High Low Draw, Best Flush, Five Card Stud, Jackpot, Last Showdown.
  • The Nicknamer: Every single person he meets.
  • White-Haired Pretty Boy: Heroic, nonetheless.

Kaguya Nanbu (Voiced by Yukana)

The young, innocent princess of the Nanbu Clan in Kagura Amahara, Kaguya's the heiress of the sword-fighting style Jinraku Tengen. On her first meeting with Haken, she unknowingly hires him and Aschen to escort her in her pilgrimage. Throughout her travels, her relationship with Haken grows more forward than that... and she's hot... yeah...

Although she has Kyosuke's surname, she seems to be more of a loose Expy of Excellen, since her personality is almost like her: innocent, playful and the one to provide the most Fan Service (not that she tries to invoke it, unlike Excellen). She also has more Sanger references than Haken, starting from her sword Goushiki Zankantou to her styling herself as "The Sword That Cleaves Evil", and Sanger's trademark "CHEESTOOOOOO!!!!". Some of the tropes that represent Kaguya are:

Aschen Brodel (Voiced by Kaori Shimizu)

Haken's loyal and devoted sidekick, Aschen's a green-haired combat cyborg capable of emitting human-like emotions...sometimes. At first, you'd think she's a blatant Expy of Lamia, but it's justified: Aschen's, in fact, her predecessor (or, to a lesser extent, "sister") codenamed W07. She, along with Haken and the rest of W-Numbers 1 through 9 were the first to be sent to the Original Generation universe during Beowulf's attack, but they were put in the first batch of the teleportation device, namely the unstable ones. Haken and Aschen stumbled into the Endless Frontier and have been there for the past twenty-three years.

Unlike Lamia, who's mostly stoic unless the situation requires, Aschen's more than just stoic. She has a sharp tongue and at times flings insults, especially regarding Haken's womanizing attitude, and invents other derisive nicknames like "Dairy Cow Princess" or "Princess Flat" (for Suzuka-hime). She's also installed with Code DTD (Dust-to-Dust), but instead of it being a Chekhov's Gun, she uses it for full advantage as a power-up, with a side-effect of turning her personality into a total Genki Girl. Being a combat cyborg, she doesn't need a weapon: she fights with bare hands and feet (although the rest of her body carries an assortment of weapons like missiles, disk cutters and shotguns mounted to her heels). Tropes associated with her are:

  • Artificial Human
  • Armed Legs: Shotgun boots and rocket batteries in her thighs.
  • Brainwashed and Crazy
  • Calling Your Attacks: "ASCHEN PUNCH!"
  • Deadpan Snarker: "I will write something insulting on that billboard you call a chest".
  • Everything's Better with Spinning
  • The Four Gods: Her moveset incorporates attacks called "Tigress Bite", "Genbu Spike" and "Dragon Scale", while her Overdrive is aptly named "Phantasm Phoenix" (doubles as a Shout-Out to Lamia's "Phantom Phoenix" for the Angelg).
  • Gratuitous English: Similar to Haken, there's a lot, like "Fire!" and "Striking!"
  • Rocket Punch: She uses a wired variant for Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs in many of her attacks.
  • Shout-Out:
    • Aside from Lamia, try translating her name into German: as per the usual fairy tale Theme Naming, her name translates into "Cinderella". Likewise, if she attacks with her feet, she sometimes yells out "Glass Heel", a signature item from the story.
    • In Endless Frontier EXCEED, she gives a Shout-Out to Super Robot Wars 64, namely her multi-target Overdrive "Gravity Howling", a call to "Bloody Howling", the ultimate attack of 64's female ultimate Super Robot Simurgh Splendid, which Lamia's mecha Angelg is an Expy of.
    • Some of her new skills in EXCEED are called Code: Amphisbaena and Code: Empusa, which are Greek mythological monsters like the lamia. One of the meanings for the former is "both ways" and its appearance is that of a serpentine monster with a head at each end. The attack involves grabbing one of the enemies and a random object offscreen with her Rocket Punches and slamming them together.
  • Split Personality: When activating Code DTD or if she overheats.
  • Stripperific: Her Overdrive "sheds" the green parts of her body, revealing an ample bosom like Kaguya's and thighs.
  • Unknown Rival: Seems to think of KOS-MOS as her rival, even challenging her to a fight during their first meeting. KOS-MOS ignores this completely.

Suzuka-hime (Voiced by Mamiko Noto)

A Shiki-Oni princess from Kagura Amahara, Suzuka is Kaguya's childhood friend and is currently betrothed to another Oni, Shuten (who's not necessarily evil...), bumping into our heroes and joining them in their endeavor.

She uses an unusual style of dance that lets her command a mecha (just about as tall as the mecha found in the game) called "Jyaki-GUN-Oh" (Devil Gun King), which somehow manages to get itself classified as a Choukijin. As far as beauty goes, Haken calls her a "Midriff Beauty", but Aschen dubs her "Princess Flat" (with good reason); Suzuka doesn't take kindly to the latter. Some of the tropes she adheres to include:

Aledy Naash (voiced by Tomokazu Seki)

Protagonist for the sequel Endless Frontier EXCEED, Aledy Naash's a Shura warrior sent by his mentor Cindy Bird to investigate the new emergence of Einst-like crystals in the newly formed Endless Frontier, as well as the missing machine Ark-On. He's assisted by the lost princess of Elfetale Neige Hausen.

The only link between him with the main series is that he's a Shura and is a practioner of Kishin Ken. Coupled with the surname Naash, Epileptic Trees occur on whether he's related to the previous Shura King Alkaid Naash or not.

Tropes associated with Aledy:

Neige Hausen (voiced by Nana Mizuki)

Female protagonist in Endless Frontier EXCEED, Neige's a princess of the fairies in the Elfetale Kingdom, which was wrecked by the Einsts following the first game, now accompanying Aledy in his quest. Later acquires the Fee-Kleid unit.

Tropes associated with Neige:

ORCHESTRAL ARMY

The elite unit of Formido Heim, the world that invaded Elfetale and caused the Ten Year War which ended once they offered a ceasefire. Their members are Token Mini-Moe Black Magician Girl Kyon Feulion, black-winged valkyrie Henne Valkyria and skull-headed leader Ezel Granada. Utilizing various hi-tech equipment like Light Sabers and combat robots, they now roam around Elfetale and cause the Cross Gates that connects between worlds to be unstable. The bad guys, right? Wrong! Turns out Formido Heim's actually trying to prevent an Einst invasion, who created an imposter of their deceased king, pushing Formido Heim into war. The group's vice-captain, Katze Kotolnos, leaves them and becomes The Atoner.

In EXCEED, they aid the main party as support members. Aschen, having been given an offer to join by Henne at the end of the first game, is currently a member.

Elfetale

The denizens of Elfetale, made up of talking animals, fairies and elves. They were the primary targets during the Ten Year War with Formido Heim and thus, were hit the hardest. A majority of the elves fled the onslaught, seeking refuge in the Shura world.

Dorothy Mistral (Voiced by Natsuko Kuwatani)

Rubor Cucullus (Voiced by Ryotaro Okiayu)

Cleo Gretel

An Egyptian-themed lamia with a sweet tooth, who bakes delicious sweets. Apparently the reason why she wasn't in the first game was because she was living under a Crossgate. Operates a bakery called "Fatty Hansel".

Katze (Voiced by Ryotaro Okiayu)

See: Orchestral Army

Varna Kanai

The Sirena Pirates

  • Cool Big Sis: To the rest of the girls in the party in EXCEED. Anne Sirena could also be viewed as the Team Mom.
  • Dual-Wielding: Anne uses a pair of cannons in combat and holds them like tonfas.
  • Our Mermaids Are Different: Anne's a half-shark mermaid, while her Sidekick Bonny Maxmad is at best a fish-type kemono.
  • Shout-Out: Their names are derived from Anne Bonny, a historical female pirate.

Kagura Amahara

The people of Kagura Amahara live primarily in three places: under the World Tree Fujisakura, in the frontier town of Ryugu Island and in the Oni Megi Castle. During the Ten Year War, they secluded themselves from Elftale by closing their Crossgates.

Sanuki Nanbu

Sanuki : "Ah, but those curves...There's no mistaking them! You're my daughter!"
Kaguya: "Father, can't you think of a better way to recognize me?"

Otone

Koma (Voiced by Natsuko Kuwatani)

Shirou

Shuten, King of the Shiki-Oni (Voiced by Tetsu Inada)

Shura

The Shura are a fight happy Proud Warrior Race, who originated from a world they called "Hakoku", nicknamed "The Land of Waves". They were in the middle of a war with another race until their sudden transfer to the Endless Frontier. Shura politics are one of the three guiding forces that move the story in Endless Frontier EXCEED.

Cindy Bird

Hamelin Sibalto (Voiced by Tomokazu Sugita)

Gerda Miroir

Agrado Heim

One of the driving forces behind the events of EXCEED and the main antagonists of the game. They were at war with the Shura of Hakoku, with several of their members being familiar with Aledy or one of the other Shura generals. They share many similarities with the denizens of Formido Heim.

Gagun Laos/Gymnos Basileus

  • Not Quite Dead His soul's currently possessing W05's body.
  • For the Evulz: The entire plot of EXCEED, as well as the motivation of Agrado Heim, revolves around trying to gather enough restless souls to power their own World Tree to cross to another dimension. This was the entire reason why they made war with the Shura, but also the reason why they sought the surviving Einst, brought chaos across the Endless Frontier and attempted to corrupt the Fujisakura. Were they to succeed, they plan to start the process all over again.
    • Thanatos Gambit: They include themselves among the restless souls they plan to harvest.
  • Meaningful Name: Gymnos Basileus means "naked king" in Greek.
  • One-Winged Angel: When he gathers enough souls, he transforms into the Svaiser.

Lok Eye

Hild Brun

Rig The Guard

  • Names to Run Away From Really Fast: Almost killed Aledy and Neige in the past until Cindy arrived to help.
  • The Rival: Another one for Cindy; after his fight with her, he began to incorporate many Shura techniques into his style.

Gand Siblings

Members: Vanar Gand, Hela Gand, Jolm Gand. How they classify as "siblings" despite being entirely different species is a mystery.

Shadow-Mirror

One of the driving forces behind both games, they are the same-named faction from the main series. One of the Shadow Mirror's Neverland class battleships broke in two during a dimensional jump, with the front and rear parts landing in Formido Heim and Lost Herencia, respectively. Their commander androids, the W Numbers, are key characters all games.

There are still 5 W Numbers unaccounted for.

W00

See: Haken Browning.

W03 Pete Pain (Voiced by Yuuichi Nakamura)

A W Number designed to eliminate other W Numbers, tasked with "clean up" and ensure that sensitive information does not fall in enemy hands. He uses his unique command code, PTP, to control both Aschen and a (rebuilt) Cardia. He orders Cardia to self-destruct at a specific point, and intended to kill Haken by ordering Aschen to do the same. A timely intervention by Axel activates DTD, which overrides PTP. Rebuilds various mechs, like Arkgain and the Gespensts, and tries to assassinate W05 but fails. He eventually self-destructs to allow the party into Aggrado Heim (after failing to assassinate them for the last time).

  • Marionette Master: PTP = Play The Puppet.
  • Pimp: Invokes this trope unintentionally at one point when he has both Aschen and Cardia flanking him.
  • Standard Status Effects: Appropriate, as he's not really a "fighting" android, and more of a "command" type.
  • Shout-Out: Peter Pan. He and the other W numbers arrived on the ship known as Neverland. The ship's computer is called Tinkerbell. How many times would you like to be beaten on the head?
  • The Atoner

W05

See: Agrado Heim.

W06 Cardia Basirisa

W07

See: Aschen Brodel.

W10

See: Mecha of Endless Frontier.

Lost Herencia

John Moses Browning

Crew of the Zeit Krokodil

Einst

The Big Bads of the first game, the source of all the conflict that occurred in the Endless Frontier. When the over ambitious king of Formido Heim attempted to explore a recently opened Cross Gate, he returned possessed by an Einst. The impostor started a war of genocide with Elfetale. The Einst also possessed the three machines that accompanied him: the Nacht, the Abend and the Arkgain. Their leader is [1]

  • A God Am I: In sharp constrast to their "father", Neue Regisseur.
  • Eldritch Abomination
  • Bonus Boss: Ezel was unable to vanquish the Einst who impersonated the Formido Heim's king, and the best he could do was seal it. It falls upon the players to truly annihilate the strongest boss in the first game.
  • Meaningful Name:
    • Persoen Lichkeit = Personality.
    • Wahrschein Lichkeit = Probability.
    • Wesent Lichkeit = Materiality\Essentiality.
  • Not Quite Dead: You think that's the last you'll see of Wahrschein Lichkeit? Hah!
  • There's No Place Like Home: Their desire to return home is their entire reason for committing all their acts of villainy in the series.
  • The Virus

Mecha of Endless Frontier

Alteisen Nacht

Arc-On

  • Demonic Possession
  • Evil Twin: In the form of the Ice Rasetsu-Ki and the stronger Arc-Ontes, both of which are mass-produced versions created by Gelda for her army.

ArkGain

Feykreid

Gespenst Phantom

Usually just call Phantom. The mysterious robot that wander around Endless Frontier and investigate it was one of Haken's assigment. Like the other robots from the first game, it was built by Formido Heim befor the Ten Years War using the data in the computer Tinkerbell. Gespenst Phantom was based on Gespenst Haken, W00's personal unit. When Cardia Basirisa encounter Phantom, she restore its original program and make it work for her. Beaten by Haken whom Phantom recognized as its master, Phantom shut down the system by itself, allow him to capture it and has Marion modified it with voice control system. After the group defeat Nacht and Abend, Phantom also upload its program to those two and thus allow Haken to command it. Phantom serve Haken faithfully, by start of EXCEED, it is the only robot that still accompany Haken while Nacht and Abend run amok because of Pete Pain using Tinkebell to hack into their system. Phantom, however, is totally loyal to Haken because of its core program and thus immune to Pete's hacking.

  • BFS: The Grand Plasma Cutter.
  • Chest Blaster, Wave Motion Gun: The Neutron Blaster.
  • Composite Character: The mecha has black colors scheme from first Gespenst. On its back are larger version of Gespenst Mk-II R's slash ripper. Has Chest Blaster and can use Gespenst Kick like Gespest Mk-II S.
  • Robot Buddy: Once Phantom join the group, it is totally loyal to Haken. And while it can't talk back to him, Haken show gratitude toward it.

Jyaki-GUN-Oh

A Karakuri that used by Suzuka as weapon. Unlike other robots listed here, it is directly controlled by strings attached to Suzuka's fan and thus isn't a true robot despite its Super Robot design.

Svaiser

  • Shout-Out: Of Thrudgelmir. Notice its drill and sword are reverse of Thrudgelmir?
  • This Is a Drill

Weissritter Abend


  1. ↑ (Voiced By Taiten Kusunoki)
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