Metal Fight Beyblade/Characters

Main Characters

Ginga/Gingka Hagane

• Big Brother Mentor: To Kenta.
• Big Eater
• Blow You Away: Later in Fusion his Beyblade gains the ability to wield this element.
• Death From Above: His special technique.
  • Which would be Awesome but Impractical if this wasn't a cartoon. It is, theoretically, incredibly easy to dodge such an attack, unless your beyblade is stuck, which was what happened to Hyoma.
  • Actually, it isn't. The opponent has no idea which direction Pegasis is coming from, hence, the opponent has no idea where to go to dodge the attack.
• The Drifter: Though he decides to stay with Kenta & Madoka.
• Fingerless Gloves
• Free-Range Children: Sure, it's a kid's show, but social services should have caught Gingka within the first day of his cross-country trek.
• Good Is Not Dumb: He's a good deal smarter than most shonen heroes, including Tyson.
  • He seems to dumb up in Masters.
• Hachimaki
• The Hero
• Pegasus
• Launcher of a Thousand Ships: Often to Memetic Sex God levels. He's been shipped with Madoka, Hikaru, Masamune, Kyoya, Ryuuga,Kenta,Hyoma...and the list just keeps on going.
• Meaningful Name: Ginga = Galaxy; Hagane = Metal.
• Pointless Band-Aid
• Redheaded Hero: DOY!
• Scarf of Asskicking
• Super Prototype: His second beyblade, Galaxy Pegasus is the prototype version of Storm Pegasus. Despite this, it is extremely powerful, but originally uncontrollable, thus why the weaker Storm Pegasus is the final version. It chose Gingka to wield it, though, so he's able to control it.
• To Be a Master: Not as much as Hikaru or Masamune, however.
• Trademark Favourite Food: Hamburgers.
• Wimpification The yaoi fangirls just love doing this to him.
• You Gotta Have An Unnatural Shade Of Red Hair

Kyoya Tategami

• Bare Your Midriff
• Blood Knight
• Blow You Away
• Cute Little Fangs
• Facial Markings: His scars.
• Good Scars, Evil Scars
• Heel Face Turn
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: During his battle with Ryuga, the semi-physical manifestation of L-Drago pierced his chest. It's as weird as it sounds.
• Jacob Marley Warning: Busujima is what he would have become had he not disbanded the Face Hunters.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold
• The Lancer
• Large Ham: His seiyuu was having just a bit too much fun during Kyoya's first episodes.
• Panthera Awesome
• The Rival: To Gingka.
• Sneeze Cut: Done here (at 7:30), he even references it with his line "Alright okay, who's talking about me"
• Tsurime Eyes
• You Gotta Have Green Hair

Benkei Hanawa

• Big Eater
• Big Fun
• The Big Guy
• Catch Phrase: B-b-b-bull!
• Heel Face Turn
• Lancer Worshipper: Boy, he has it bad for Kyoya.
• Hotblooded Sideburns
• A Load of Bull
• Nice Hat
• Odd Couple: With Kyoya and, occasionally, with Kenta.
• Paper-Thin Disguise: As Masked Bull for Wild Fang. Subverted because he isn't fooling anybody.
• Undying Loyalty: For Kyoya.
• Sneeze Cut: Follows suit with Kyoya (3 seconds later at 7:33).
• You Gotta Have Purple Hair

Kenta Yumiya

• The Archer: His Beyblade, anyway.
• Badass Boast: Gives one to Busujima's gang, saying he could beat all of them by himself. He probably could've too, if they weren't a pack of cheaters.
• Brown Eyes
• Cheerful Child
• Cute Shotaro Boy
• Odd Couple: With Benkei and, as of lately, with Ryuga.
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse
• Playing with Fire
• You Gotta Have Green Hair

Madoka Amano

• Blue Eyes
• Brainy Brunette
• The Chick
• Goggles Do Something Unusual
• The Medic: Well, as close as you can get in the series; she's basically a toy handyman, but that is of course very important to the world of Beyblading.
• Ms. Exposition
• Name's the Same: Sure, she's The Chick, but nowhere to the level of another Madoka you might be thinking about.
• Power Strain Blackout: She's prone to doing this when she actually uses her Beyblade. How that's possible is never really answered.
• Wrench Wench: In a nutshell, she's Ami Mizuno meets Winry Rockbell. If their jobs were to make sure mechanical tops were kept in mint condition.

Masamune Kadoya

• Almighty Janitor: Was never in any real tournaments, including the Survival Battle, or Battle Bladers before the World Tournament. He's still quite the blader.
• Big Eater
• Determinator: After spending an entire episode losing miserably to Ginga, but kept coming back until he won and training as hard as he could.
• Cute Bruiser: A rare male example.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: For all his boasting and snarkiness, he's a nice guy.
• Large Ham: Definitely.
• Mouthy Kid: Has no trouble making snarky comments at his opponent's expense.
• Shock and Awe: His preferred type of attack moves.
• To Be a Master: How many times has he exclaimed that he's going to beat Ginga/ whatever opponent he has, or that he/Gan Gan is/are number one? Exactly.
• Unicorn: His bey.
• Unknown Rival: To Ginga at first, as Ginga really has no idea who he is and his presently uncontrollable Super Prototype has him preoccupided at the moment. Most of the episode consists of him getting curbstompped by Galaxy Pegasus. It's only towards the end when Ginga reconizes something in him and he manages to beat Galaxy Pegasus that he manages to earn proper The Rival status.

Allies

Hikaru Hazama

• Ambiguously Brown
• Bifauxnen
• Faux Action Girl
• Office Lady: In Masters.
  • Liz Lemon Job
• To Be a Master
• The Worf Effect
• You Gotta Have Blue Hair

Hokuto

• Hachimaki
• Meaningful Name: It means "North Star".
• Talking Animal

Hyoma

• Demoted to Extra: In Masters.
• Japanese Politeness
• Meaningful Name: He points out himself that his name has kanji for "iceberg" and "demon". The former refers to his politeness and the latter to his Trickster tendencies.
• White-Haired Pretty Boy

Tsubasa Otori

• Ambiguously Brown
• Badass Long Hair
• Bare Your Midriff
• Beware the Nice Ones
• Dark Skinned White-Haired Pretty Boy
• Eyes of Gold
• Long-Haired Pretty Boy
• Meaningful Name: "Tsubasa" meaning "wing". "Otori" also means "great bird".
• Reverse Mole: He pretended to side with Dark Nebula to gather information about L-Drago on behalf of the WBBA.
• Sixth Ranger: Of Ginga's gang in Fusion.
• Super-Powered Evil Side: Develops this in Masters, due to being contaminated with Ryuga's dark power. He eventually overcomes it.

Ryusei/Ryo Hagane

• Bumbling Dad: Very much in Masters.
• Char Clone: As Phoenix
• Code Name: Phoenix in Fusion.
• Disappeared Dad: For a while.
• Hope Springs Eternal: Makes a big deal of this during his battle with Doji. He was right.
• Hot Dad
• Large Ham
• Misery Builds Character
• Not Quite Dead
• Playing with Fire
• Phoenix
• Sink or Swim Mentor

Others

Teru Saotome

• Hair of Gold
• Meaningful Name: His family name contains "otome", which means "lady". It either refers to his beyblade being a Virgo or himself being a ballerina. Or both.
• Out of Focus
• Real Men Wear Pink: He's a former ballerina.

Sora Akatsuki

• Creepy Cool Crosses: His special move does this, for some reason.
• Hero Worshipper
• Meaningful Name: "Sora" means "sky".
• Multicolored Hair
• Out of Focus
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: So subverted. He's a really good guy.

Busujima

• Dirty Coward
• Expy: He and his gang are one of the Face Hunters from the beginning of the season. As his group (as a whole) like to bully weaker Beybladers (like the face hunters), bully Kenta (like the face hunters) and his name starts with the letter B (the face hunters had a member, whose name began with the letter B).
• Gonk
• Multicolored Hair
• One-Shot Character: Why did they give Scorpio to THIS guy?
• Scary Scorpions

Dark Nebula

Daidoji/Doji

• Big Bad: Only in the sense that he's the head of the Dark Nebula. Later, Ryuga "dismisses" him.
• Big Badass Wolf: His beyblade, which he barely uses.
• Casting a Shadow
• Death by Adaptation: Is killed by Ryuga in the Anime, but lived through it in the Manga. This caused problems when the Manga had him come back as a Big Bad later on, requiring the Anime to create Dr. Ziggurat to replace him.
• Foe Yay: With cactuses. No, really. He says he hates them, yet he has a bunch of them in his office.
• Four Eyes, Zero Soul
• Karmic Death: Kept trying to feed people to Ryuga and L-Drago to increase their power. In the end, Ryuga kills him by sucking out all of his.
• Killed Off for Real: Ryuga sucks out all of his energy after he's beaten by Phoenix.
• Noodle Incident: Whatever was that caused his hatred of cactuses is never explained properly. Yu doesn't seem to want to know either.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Ryuga killed him because, in his view, he didn't need his help to get more power anymore.

Ryuga

• Big Bad
• Big Damn Heroes: Came to the rescue of Gan Gan Galaxy when Tsubasa and Yu got injured.
  • And again, albeit unintentionally, he rescued Ginga and Masamune from the black hole they were stuck in when he fired his beyblade at Hades City. On the other hand, it almost blew them up.
• Demonic Possession: His cruelty and evil is a result of L-Drago's power over him. L-Drago can completely possess him as well.
• Devour the Dragon: Had a habit of doing this. Finally turned on Doji and absorbed all of his energy in order to power up L-Drago, killing him in the anime.
• Eviler Than Thou: Does this to Doji, turning on him and sucking out all of his energy, killing him.
• Evil Is Not a Toy: There's a very good reason L-Drago was called the "Forbidden Bey". Ryuga wasn't aware of the fact that L-Drago was really the one using him, and on a few occasions, L-Drago possesses Ryuga, which normally leads to Body Horror.
• Evil Weapon: L-Drago.
• Eyes of Gold
• Hand Blast: One of his favorite moves in Beyblade matches.
• Multicolored Hair
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: When L-Drago possesses him, his eyes glow red.
• Sealed Evil in a Can: L-Drago was sealed away by Gingka's village in ancient times due to being destructive and evil.
• Shock and Awe and Casting a Shadow: In Fusion.
  • Star Power: In Masters. Specifically, meteors.
• You Have Failed Me.../You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Both of which are punishable by becoming a meal for L-Drago.

Tetsuya Watarigani

• Butt Monkey
• Demoted to Extra: In Masters.
• Dirty Coward
• Et Tu, Brute?
• Face Heel Turn: Joined the Dark Nebula. Although it ended badly for him.
• Freudian Excuse: Being betrayed by a friend.
• Plucky Comic Relief
• Laughably Evil
• Verbal Tic - Crab!

Mizuchi Reiji

• Ax Crazy
• Bishonen
• Blinding Bangs
• Complete Monster
• Hoist by His Own Petard: See below.
• Multicolored Hair
• Snakes Are Evil
• Taken for Granite: Apparently part of his power. He also turns to stone when he loses to Ginga.
• Villainous Breakdown:
  • During his fight with Kenta, Kenta manages to turn the tide on him. Reiji goes berserk and even keeps attacking Kenta's bey after it's already stopped spinning in a mad rage.
  • When Ginga delivers a Shut UP, Hannibal to him in their match and proves he isn't afraid of him, Reiji finds the tables turned and loses it completely, but in a different way than his previous breakdown. Instead of going berserk, he is ultimately becoming overwelmed by his own fear to the point his Taken for Granite power is turned on him.

Tobio Oike

• Demoted to Extra: In Masters
• Face Heel Turn: He turns good again though.
• Friendly Sniper
• Funny Afro
  • He could also be considered an Afro Asskicker, because he's pretty Badass, despite the fact that he doesn't often win.
• Improbable Aiming Skills

Ryutaro Fukami

• Blow You Away: His powers allow him to manipulate the air currents.
• Demoted to Extra: In Masters.
• Dude Looks Like a Lady
• Face Heel Turn: Turns good again at the end.
• Graceful Loser: His final battle with Ginga.
• Large Ham
• You Gotta Have Blue Hair

Yu Tendo

• Badass Adorable
• Bratty Half-Pint
• Cute Shotaro Boy
• Dishing Out Dirt
• Evil Counterpart: To Kenta.
• Friendly Enemy
• Graceful Loser: At least he tends to be a good sport when he loses.
• Heel Face Turn
• Keet
• The Nicknamer
• Number Two: Of the Dark Nebula.
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse
• Tagalong Kid: In Masters, replacing Kenta.

Dan and Reiki

• An Ice Person: Offensive.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Color-reversed.
• Playing with Fire: Defensive.

Kuma Brothers

• The Brute
• Everything's Worse with Bears
• Evil Counterpart: Just like Yu serves as one for Kenta, this trio serves as one for Benkei. Kumasuke even passes as a lookalike for Benkei.
• Terrible Trio
• The Worf Effect

Wang Hu Shong

Chao Xin

• Brilliant but Lazy: Is a rather talented blader, but would rather flirt than battle.
• The Casanova
• Estrogen Brigade Bait: In-universe.
• Red Oni

Da Shan

• Badass Long Hair
• Blue Oni
• Hotblooded Sideburns: They're golden!
• Multicolored Hair
• Our Dragons Are Different: Zurafa, despite manifesting as a dragon, has a Face Bolt which depicts a Qilin, which is a unicorn-like creature that occasionaly replaces Baihu as one of the The Four Gods. On the other hand, its corresponding constellation is the "Camelopardalis" a.k.a. the giraffe^[1].
• Playing with Fire
• Pretty in Mink

Chi-yun

• Kaiju: His bey manifests as a lizard, but it looks more like this.
• Nice Hat
• The Stoic
• Tagalong Kid
• Wise Beyond Their Years
• You Gotta Have Blue Hair

Mei-Mei

• The Chick: Very much. She's Wang Hu Shong's bench-warmer.
• Chinese Girl
• Malaproper
• Odango

Lovushka

Aleksei

• Big Badass Wolf: His bey.
• Megane
• Nerds Are Sexy: Madoka certainly thinks so.
• Ship Tease: With Madoka.

Nowaguma

• Blinding Bangs
• Everything's Worse with Bears
• The Quiet One
• Shrinking Violet
• Tagalong Kid

Lera

• Girlish Pigtails
• Rose-Haired Girl
• Scary Scorpions: Her bey.
• Tsundere

Anton

• Dirty Coward
• Something About a Rose

Wild Fang

• Includes Kyoya and Benkei.

Nile

• Blow You Away: Vulcan Cannon. Basically it's air bullets.
• Egyptian Mythology: He wields a beyblade based on Horus.
• Facial Markings
• The Lancer: To Kyoya.
• Light'Em Up: Mystic Zone. Looks oddly like the Hama skill.
• Meaningful Name: Because he's from Egypt.
• Multicolored Hair

Demure

• The Chick: He really would rather not fight.
  • He's A Woman In Japan
• Meaningful Name
• Scary Scorpions
• Shrinking Violet
• The Smart Guy
• Tareme
• Token Minority

Excalibur

Julian Konzern

• The Archer
• Face Heel Turn: Defected to Star Breaker for a while.
• Family Honor
• Gravity Master
• Italy: Country of origin.
• Medusa: Also Perseus.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Not him, but his beyblade. It has a few dots which glow red during a particular attack.

Wales

• Bishonen
• Britain: Country of origin.
• Making a Splash
• Peek-a-Bangs

Sophie

• France: Country of origin.
• Making a Splash
• You Gotta Have Blue Hair

Klaus

• The Big Guy
• Blank White Eyes: When he lost to Jack.
  • Fainted Standing Up
• Germany: Country of origin.
• Multicolored Hair
• Shirtless Scene: His shirt tends to burst in the middle of a battle.

Garcia

Tropes fitting the entire team:

• Dirty Coward / Combat Pragmatist: They're all cheaters of some sort.
• Face Heel Turn: Join Star Breaker and don't seem to reform.
• Heartwarming Orphan: Averted.
• Phenotype Stereotype: They're black; so are almost all the Brazillian characters seen in the background.

Argo

• Dem Bones
• Hachimaki
• Meaningful Name: His beyblade is based on the Carina constellation, formerly part of the ancient Argo Navis.

Ian

• Classical Mythology: Herculeo being based on Hercules.

Selen

• Get Back Here Boss

Enzo

• Mouthy Kid
• Peek-a-Bangs
• Tagalong Kid

Star Breaker

Zeo Abyss

• From Nobody to Nightmare: Was very weak before joining Star Breaker.
• Multicolored Hair
• Token Good Teammate

Jack

• Dark Chick
• Dude Looks Like a Lady
• Facial Markings
• Feather Flechettes
• Mad Artist
• Mask Power

Damian Hart

• The Brute
• Hell Hound: Hades Kerbecs, being based on Cerberus.
• Light Is Not Good: White and golden clothes, golden Beyblade and fire powers. Yep.
• Playing with Fire
• Psychotic Smirk
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Gave it to Julian.
• You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Plus a little green section.

Faust/Toby

• Badass Longcoat
• Badass Long Hair
• Brainwashed and Crazy
• The Dragon
• Ill Boy
• Meaningful Name
• Black Holes Suck
• White-Haired Pretty Boy

Dr. Ziggurat

• Big Bad
• Evil Genius
• Meaningful Name: A ziggurat is an Aztec altar.

1. ↑ Additionaly Zurafa is arabic for giraffe