< Gunbuster
Gunbuster/Characters
Through hard work and guts, here's the Gunbuster character page! Still under construction,
Main Characters
Noriko Takaya
- Ace Pilot: Becomes one over the course of the series.
- Action Girl
- Adorkable
- Ascended Fangirl: In the science lesson shorts, she reveals that she's a big Getter Robo fan.
- Badass
- Badass Adorable
- Badass Arm-Fold: Arguably the Trope Codifier in Japan.
- Took a Level in Badass: Quite possibly one of the best examples. Compare her performance in episode one with that in episode four.
- Smash Sisters: With Kazumi.
- Break the Cutie: Breaks pretty quickly in Episode 1, and breaks again in episode 3-4, before Taking Her Levels In Badass.
- Calling Your Attacks: Enough over the course of just six episodes that she became Goddess of the trope on TV Tropes.
- Cute Clumsy Girl
- The Danza: Voiced by Noriko Hidaka.
- Gainaxing
- Hot-Blooded: Even more so when you consider that she's the basis for Simon.
- Iron Woobie: Wasn't iron at all when things started out, but come episode 4....
- Red-Headed Heroine: Although it's a really dark shade that borders on brown sometimes.
- Rousing Speech: Gives one to Kazumi in episode 5, combined with a verbal Bright Slap.
Kazumi Amano
- Action Girl
- Badass
- Heartbroken Badass: In episode 5, when she has to leave Earth for a mission and by the time she gets back, he'll probably be dead from his illness. Subverted when they return to Earth after victory and he's still alive.
- Smash Sisters: With Noriko.
- Cool Big Sis: Goddess of the trope. She's actually referred to as "oneesama" more than by her own name!
- May-December Romance: Is in love with Coach Ohta, who was an officer on the Exelion with Noriko's dad.
- World Of Cardboard Monologue
- You Gotta Have Blue Hair
Jung Freud
- Author Appeal: Was apparently named by Hideaki Anno. Yes, that one.
- Faux Action Girl
- Foreign Fanservice
- Ineffectual Loner
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold
- Red-Headed Heroine
- The Rival
Koichiro "Coach" Ohta
Norio Wakamoto, pre-Pigeon-holing.
- Badass
- Drill Sergeant Nasty
- May-December Romance: With Kazumi.
- Norio Wakamoto
- Playing Against Type: Wakamoto hadn't actually been typecast yet, but Ohta doesn't have any of the Villainous Large Ham that Norio Wakamoto has since become so known for.
Minor characters
Kashiwara
- Alpha Bitch: In the first episode.
- Heel Face Turn
- Defeat Means Friendship: Gets her butt kicked at the end of the first episode and promptly cleans up her act.
- Green-Eyed Monster: Before getting her butt kicked.
- Teens Are Monsters: See above.
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