Super Robot Wars Advance/Characters

Axel Almer (Voiced by Nobutoshi Canna)
""The tips of these scales...will turn you into a turkey!!""

The male protagonist of Super Robot Wars Advance, actually The Dragon of the Shadow-Mirror's Big Bad Vindel Mauser and the lover of Mad Scientist Lemon Browning. When picked as The Hero, he suffers amnesia and acts like an all-around silly man with strange capabilities to pilot Humongous Mecha. He also tries to be a Handsome Lech, but horribly and hilariously fail all the time. When faced with his true identity as a Shadow-Mirror operative, he ends up betraying them and eventually be instrumental in destroying the organization.

In Super Robot Wars Original Generation, they pick his villain self and he gets one more quirk: to become The Rival of Kyosuke Nanbu. This gets expanded due to a rivalry in the form of Beowulf, Kyosuke's Evil Twin in the Shadow-Mirror universe. He still ends up dead like the original version, though.

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He pilots the martial arts-based, moustache-sporting Super Robot Genre Soulgain. They embody these tropes:

"Axel: My battle with him is my highest priority."
 * Ace Pilot: He pilots a non-Mo Cap Mecha just fine as shown in The Inspectors whereas he trounced and sent Kyosuke to the ICU room while just using an Ash Saber.
 * Aloof Big Brother (Lamia's "Aloof Senior Captain")
 * Amnesiac Dissonance
 * (He sure loves doing this: first, he, not to mention   (though this is plenty justified as a means to establish  )
 * Anti-Villain (Type I, following Continuity Reboot)
 * Anti-Hero (Type III, )
 * Badass Mustache (Not on him, but the Soulgain's 'stache is legendary: it's even the nickname of the machine! (Mustache Man))
 * Big Ball of Violence (Early parts of Soulgain's Code: Kirin)
 * Big Damn Heroes (TWICE in one game: )
 * Blade Below the Shoulder (It stays hidden until he's about to use Soulgain's Mai Suzaku, or in the final stages of Code: Kirin)
 * Book Ends (The Inspector Animated Adaptation of Original Generation 2 begins and ends with Axel fighting, but the second time he's joined by  )
 * Break the Cutie: It's implied that his "Ahoseru" personality is the way he used to be before his experiences in the Federation army (and Beowulf) turned him into the Noble Demon Anti-Villain / Anti-Hero seen in OG's.
 * Casanova Wannabe (During his amnesiac self, he adopts this personality)
 * Crowning Moments (Variative):
 * Awesome: His Big Damn Heroes moments and his ultimate event. Oh, and how he owns Beowulf.
 * Heartwarming:
 * Funny: "Ahoseru": that is all
 * Music: "Dark Knight" is a kickass piece
 * Defeat Means Friendship:
 * Defector From Decadence: In Original Generations, he used to be a member of his world's Earth Federation, which was supposedly so corrupt and decadent that it made the Shadow-Mirrors look like heroes.
 * Determinator (Never gives up on his rivalry with Kyosuke/Beowulf, but drops it... or does he?)
 * Draco in Leather Pants (People actually like his Jerkass persona for Original Generation 2 on the GBA)
 * Well, not quite: his villain qualities aren't really downplayed, he's just well-received because his asshole-ness is so ENTERTAINING.
 * Ensemble Darkhorse (And thanks to that, he becomes this)
 * Enemy Mine:
 * Well, not quite: his villain qualities aren't really downplayed, he's just well-received because his asshole-ness is so ENTERTAINING.
 * Ensemble Darkhorse (And thanks to that, he becomes this)
 * Enemy Mine:


 * Flanderization (Ironically, it's a fan perception of him that's become flanderized: as an antagonist in Advance, he had roughly three or so appearances in total where he got to interact with Lamia, and most of them involved his hatred of androids. When this carried over to Original Generation 2, the international fandom went into a rage because they had never bothered to investigate his villianous personality, assuming it would be identical to him as a protagonist, which began accusations of this trope. Ultimately, Original Generations changed his personality slightly to make him into a...)
 * Hero Antagonist (While still villainous in a way, the Shadow-Mirror are portrayed more sympathetically, thanks to Beowulf, but Axel's moreso, since his main concern is to eliminate Beowulf before he wreaks havoc in another world, as Beowulf wrecked his. Axel's rivalry with Kyosuke is justified as a means to ensure Kyosuke does not become like Beowulf (at least, according to Axel))
 * Minor correction. Axel, at first, had a hard time believing that Kyosuke could be any different from Beowulf.
 * The Dragon (Of Vindel)
 * Expy (Soulgain gets one in Endless Frontier (ArkGain), while it is itself an expy of Super Robot Wars 64's Earthgain)
 * Fan Nickname (His silly self is "Silly Axel"/"Ahoseru", his flanderized self is "Douchebag/Asshole Axel")
 * The Four Gods (All of the Soulgain's attacks)
 * (Even though his personality gets fixed, everyone's assured he's Killed Off for Real...)
 * Hot-Blooded (He may act calm, but when he gets riled up, you don't get Tranquil Fury: you get Hot-Blooded screaming. Except if he's in "Ahoseru" mode, which means, he's Hot-Blooded from the get-go)
 * Huge Guy, Tiny Girl (Him and )
 * Kamehame Hadoken (Soulgain's Seiryuu Rin)
 * Ki Attacks
 * Leitmotif ("Dark Knight")
 * Made of Iron (A heroic Advance Axel tries to pull apart Domon Kasshu and Kazuya Ryuuzaki when things get too hot, gets hit by both combatants for his efforts, and manages to stay on his feet, clutching his stomach. It's later revealed that both BARELY missed his vitals; he vaguely dodged it by reflex)
 * The Mole (If he's the Advance protagonist)
 * Names to Run Away From Really Fast (Well, as far as his flanderized self goes, it kinda fits)
 * Noble Demon (Persona rewrite in Original Generations)
 * Purple Eyes: Hard to notice in the game, but it's much more pronounced in The Inspector anime.
 * Shell-Shocked Veteran: His Original Generations personality displays traits of this, as he comes across as somewhat embittered and well versed in the horrors of war.
 * Redheaded Hero (Doubles as an Evil Redheads, too, depending on the Advance scenario)
 * Relationship Voice Actor ( GRIFFIIIIIITTTHHH!!!! BEOWUUUULLFFF!!!)
 * Rocket Punch (Soulgain's Rocket Soul Punch!!! Genbu Goudan)
 * The Rival
 * Ship Tease or Fan-Preferred Couple (Gets two: with Lamia and )
 * It's clearly become the latter, what with him and.
 * Shoryuken (The last part of Code: Kirin)
 * Shout-Out (Only in Advanced Portable: "LISTEN TO MY SONG SCREAM!! - wait, that's not what I'm supposed to say!")
 * Spam Attack (Parts of Soulgain's Byakko Kou and Code: Kirin)
 * Verbal Tic (Only when he's "Silly Axel", that is. Oh, and his Original Generations self sometimes slips it off too, korenara)
 * Shout-Out (Only in Advanced Portable: "LISTEN TO MY SONG SCREAM!! - wait, that's not what I'm supposed to say!")
 * Spam Attack (Parts of Soulgain's Byakko Kou and Code: Kirin)
 * Verbal Tic (Only when he's "Silly Axel", that is. Oh, and his Original Generations self sometimes slips it off too, korenara)

Lamia Loveless (Voiced by Kaori Shimizu)
""I can't become human, but I know what being human is like.""

Female protagonist of Super Robot Wars Advance, an android, latest creation of Lemon Browning, with a very very busty and shapely body, since Lemon's trying to play "creation of beings nearing perfect humans"...oh, and her outfit doesn't help. She has a no-nonsense personality, but deep down, since she hasn't spend a long time in the living world, she's a bit like a clueless child. When sent to the actual world, she damages her speech box, causing her to develop very broken grammar (woolsey'd into stuttering speech in the localization). As she spends time in the group she infiltrates, she gains some of her own consciousness and this in turn leads her to betray the Shadow-Mirror and eventually be crucial in defeating the whole faction. After realizing she killed her superiors (Axel included), creator and ultimately fails her original mission, she's Driven to Suicide, only to be stopped at the nick of the time. This gets carried over to Original Generation. In addition, she gets...rather close with Excellen Browning. Later, her speech box gets repaired, but it only makes things worse as she often gets some occasions where her voice turns into something like a little girl.

Lamia gets hammered with lots and LOTS of unfortunate events in Original Generation Gaiden, including getting caught by the Bartoll/ODE in an exhibition gone awry, before she has a chance to fight back, stripped butt naked and tied up in danger of having her personality drained. Later on, she refuses such a thing and disrupts their battle data, indirectly saving her friends, and later gets bailed out by Kyosuke, only to be shot down by the hive mind of the robot, implying she's Killed Off for Real, and becomes a source of Cliff Hanger, since the trailer of Original Generation Gaiden ends there. Later on, Duminuss rebuilds and reprograms her to turn her against her allies. But shortly after, she's saved by, who gets a genuine Heel Face Turn.

Officially, she pilots the very girly, angelic Super Robot Angelg. In Advance, she can pilot the Ninja Samurai Robot Vysaga, though Axel can use it too. It becomes exclusively for her in Original Generation continuity. They embody these tropes:


 * Adaptation Dye Job (Lamia used to have a light green hair, but starting from Original Generations, she has brownish green hair instead. Likewise, only for OG 2 GBA, Angelg is colored orange. The rest of its appearances, its pink)
 * And I Must Scream
 * The Archer (Angelg's Illusion Arrow and Phantom Phoenix)
 * Artificial Human
 * Awesome McCoolname ("Lamia Loveless" is simply a codename for W17. It's kinda awesome, and at the same time, invokes loads of danger)
 * Badass in Distress (The ODE Incident turns her into this. Thank God she's back in action ASAP once rescued, thereby avoiding Chickification)
 * Become A Real Girl (Despite her massive ass-kicking capabilities, THIS takes priority)
 * Came Back Wrong (Combines Type 1 and 3 when she's resurrected by Duminuss and Brainwashed. It takes the interference of  to make her Come Back Right)
 * Chain of Command (The collar around her neck)
 * Chekhov's Gun (Code: DTD (Dust to Dust), the "useless instrument that only mess her speech problems up" turns out to be the thing that's used to save her ass)
 * Dark Chick (Her position in the Shadow Mirrors Five-Bad Band, until she defects and becomes the Sixth Ranger)
 * Defrosting Ice Queen (Starts out the cold-hearted spy who cares nothing more than completing her mission even at cost of her life, but warms up and values life more highly in the end)
 * Detached Sleeves
 * Distaff Counterpart (Lamia certainly gives off the feels of a gender-flipped Heero Yuy, considering they experience similar development (cold soldiers into a warm-hearted person), penchant into blowing themselves up and their mechas have angelic wings (compare Endless Waltz' Wing Zero and Angelg). Add to the fact both of them are really attractive for the audience of the opposite sex)
 * Distress Ball (Picked it up TWICE in Original Generation Gaiden, since all of those happen because she's not in her mech)
 * Ditzy Genius (A real pro pilot and has a no-nonsense personality when it comes to battle/war. However, it's really hard to expect her not to be a clueless girl in daily life when it's just 6 months after she realized her humanity)
 * Driven to Suicide
 * Expy (Loaded with them):
 * In-company examples:
 * Aschen Brodel,  in Endless Frontier
 * Her mecha Angelg is an Expy of SRW64's Simurgh Splendid
 * Out-company examples:
 * Signum of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha, being an almost magnificent Expy
 * Two of them in Tales of Hearts, sharing bits of her elements: Richia Spodune shares her voice, green hair and Stripperiffic outfit. Kunzite shares her robot background, serious, fight-ready (Badass) attitude and also shares similar Tin Man - Become a Real Boy story
 * Fan Disservice (Your Mileage May Vary, but you do know she was butt naked, all while either Brainwashed and Crazy trying to kill you or is about to be turned into goo, had it not been due to her robotic nature?)
 * Fan Nickname ("Lamia3", her Brainwashed and Crazy self, enough it garners a bit of a short hatedom)
 * Five Temperament Ensemble (In the ATX Team, Lamia would be the "Phlegmatic")
 * Gainaxing (It's only a little thanks to Banpresto "mellowing it down", but it's still prevalent. Any wonders why Tasuku Shinguji calls her "Boin-chan"?)
 * Game Breaker (Vysaga in Original Generation)
 * Genki Girl, Split Personality (If her personality got split; apparently, )
 * Here's an example of what Genki Lamia might sound like
 * The Gwen Stacy (Temporarily in Original Generation Gaiden, only so we can see a wangsty Kyosuke and have do his big damn Heel Face Turn)
 * Heroic BSOD (Mentally, Lamia doesn't fully recover from ODE Incident. While she blends with her human allies perfectly after Original Generation 2, using Code DTD makes Lamia question her humanity. She even has depress expression upon sight of garnet's babies)
 * Hot Chick with a Sword (If she's riding any of her exclusive Super Robot, they always come with a sword. Either a graceful beam rapier (Mirage Sword) or a scary katana)
 * Hot Wings (Angelg's Phantom Phoenix)
 * Impossibly Cool Clothes (As this...cosplay picture note explains)
 * Kuudere (Possibly, if the events of Original Generation Gaiden turn her slightly to this for . Naturally, Excellen can also make her go "deredere")
 * Lady of War
 * Leitmotif ("Ash To Ash")
 * Mad Scientist's Beautiful Daughter (Though Lemon's less mad than she is brilliant in creating her)
 * Made of Iron (It explains why she survived getting shot butt naked. If that doesn't impress you, how about surviving being punched by both Domon Kasshu and Kazuya Ryuuzaki? Mind you, unlike Axel, she got hit RIGHT ON THE VITALS and shrug them off just fine)
 * As this 4koma shows us
 * The Mole
 * Names to Run Away From Really Fast (Subverts it by eventually becoming good, but then there's her "permanently evil" self from Axel's Advance scenario. Would you, on the firsthand, really trust someone named after a mythical female monster who Eats Babies?)
 * Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot (To elaborate:)
 * Ninja (Vysaga)
 * Pirate (Can be considered her modus operandi being a former Shadow-Mirror: pirating enemy data and learning their weaknesses...well, "digital" piracy, anyways)
 * Zombie
 * Robot (She's a Robot Girl who rides Humongous Mecha; 'nuff said)
 * No One Could Survive That (Aside from her hijinx with ODE and Duminuss, Lamia also attempted to self-destruct several times for various reasons; all end in failure)
 * Noblewoman's Laugh (Played with: she tends to break down into this, but that's not because of nobility, but because she has no idea on how to laugh normally)
 * Perpetual Molt (At least in The Inspectors, the Angelg displays this)
 * Robot Girl, Ridiculously Human Robot
 * She's Just Hiding ("Killed off" in such way to convince fans she can be killed once her story concludes. Then Original Generation Gaiden comes in...and then again, when you have Duminuss, who resurrects in Super Robot Wars Reversal, nearby...)
 * Speech Impediment (Broken grammar, or stuttering)
 * Stripperiffic
 * The Stoic
 * Tin Girl
 * Turn the Other Cheek ("Duminuss? Messed up with me and almost kills me? At least it revived me. ODE? Caught me unprepared and killed me? They're only misguided")
 * Uke (Any fanwork pairing her up with Excellen 99.9% of the time has Lamia be the Uke, although what woman wouldn't be Excellen's Uke?)
 * W17 Is Dead
 * The Three Faces of Eve (Gets picked into the "Three Beautiful Sisters", and she's the Child)
 * Winged Humanoid (Angelg)
 * You Are Number Six (Theme Naming for the W-Numbers in general)

SHADOW-MIRROR
The antagonists of Super Robot Wars Advance. The Shadow-Mirror's an organization that wants to engulf the world in an endless war, with the reasoning that with war comes improvement for humanity. They tend to send spies to the world they are trying to invade and launch a surprise attack based on the information given. Led by Vindel Mauser with Axel as his Dragon. It's also the home of Lemon Browning, Excellen's Evil Twin, who proceeds to carry out the W-Numbers project, creating artificial humans as close as possible to a real human.

While they seem to be petty villains in the Original Generation 2 GBA version, Original Generations fundamentally changes them into a form of misaimed hero. Indeed, The Federation in their dimension are so corrupt, life seems like hell, and with people like Beowulf on the Feddie's side, the Shadow-Mirror look like heroes. They're also responsible for the creation of some of the characters in Endless Frontier.

Vindel Mauser (Voiced by Hideyuki Umezu)


The leader of the Shadow-Mirror, this warmonger colonel believes war is the only way for humans to evolve and move forward. He has this mindset due to witnessing his world dwindling into corruption and weakness from an achieved peace by The Federation. His plan came to a halt when the government sent out Beowulf, prompting him to jump to another world (Advance or Original Generation) and lay low until the time comes to strike down the resident government, Take Over the World and fulfill his utopia.

While he prefers to be operating behind the shadows, when push comes to shove, he rides to battle with the Zweizergain, a souped up Soulgain-like variant Super Robot. Tropes associated with Vindel:


 * Alternate Character Interpretation (Vindel can either be seen as a downright evil warmonger who got the "But Thou Must!" position in the Eviler Than Thou against the universe's Federation, or a misunderstood hero trying to save his world from the corrupt government, but got beaten on the way)
 * Big Bad
 * Beam Spam (Jayurin, at least in Original Generations)
 * BFS (Zweizergain's Shadow Slicer)
 * Crowning Music of Awesome ("Chaos" is his theme; awesome, it is. Here's the Original Generations version and the Advance Portable version, for a small sampling of the awesomeness)
 * Doppelganger Attack (Some attacks of the Zweizergain are this. The ultimate attack amounts to Vindel creating a metric crapton of Zweizergain copies that beat up on the opponent, then explode as the original flies through the enourmous crowd, pulling off a Shoryuken-like attack)
 * Hey, It's That Voice! (Mobile Suit Gundam 00 fans might recognize Vindel as Ian Vashti. Same goes for Layzner fans: he's David Rutherford)
 * (Twice! Advance version: Vindel's top subordinate (Axel/Lamia), whom he sent to be the main part of taking over the world, ends up betraying him, ; Original Generation version: )
 * Leitmotif ("Chaos")
 * War for Fun and Profit (He doesn't have the seiyuu, but "Gentlemen, I LOVE WAR!" may as well be his Catch Phrase)
 * Well-Intentioned Extremist (Vindel does care enough for the welfare of humanity; Daitetsu Minase even points out that one of Vindel's claims (war helping to foster technological growth and development) is in fact an Awful Truth. It's just Vindel's methods are WAY too extreme, and would eventually render any benefits war could produce useless in the long run)
 * What he also fails to grasp (at least in O Gs) is that the world he wishes to create would become just the same as the world he came from; it's... rather sad, actually.
 * Ubermensch

Lemon Browning (Voiced by Yuko Mizutani)


Vindel's top researcher, with hints of being Axel's lover. Lemon is the head of the W-Numbers project, creating Artificial Humans to be as close as possible to the real deal. Thus far, she's made 18 products,, and it would seem that she's proud with what Lamia, her latest creation, as she came closest to a human being. In Axel's Advance story, she admits that if it wasn't for the situation that ended up with her being his enemy, and that the two of them had met at an earlier point in time, they could've developed a closer relationship.

In Original Generation,.

Lemon either rides an Ash Saver in Advance or a customized version of the same mech called "Weiss Saver" in Original Generation. Tropes associated with Lemon:


 * Ace Custom (Original Generations and Advance Portable only: Lemon customizes a Mook-level Ash Saver into the Weiss Saver. Aside from adding additional (and upgraded) Sword Breakers, it includes the Over Oxtongue Rifle Ouka Nagisa's Rapiecage uses, while removing the Gun Rapier and Laser Blade from the standard Ash Saver armament)
 * Anti-Villain (She's actually RIGHT about her notes on Axel)
 * Attack Drone (Ash Saver's Sword Breakers and the Weiss Saver's Solid Sword Breakers)
 * (Somewhat in Original Generation, though it's plenty justified)
 * Evil Genius
 * Evil Twin
 * Mad Scientist (Not so much "mad", but brilliant, though her subject of research is really mad (almost bordering playing God). And look at how she created Lamia...)
 * Meaningful Name (, you have to wonder whether this was intentional or not before Lemon got into Original Generation)
 * This gets played with in Original Generation 2: if defeats Lemon, not only will Lemon reveal her true identity, but
 * This gets played with in Original Generation 2: if defeats Lemon, not only will Lemon reveal her true identity, but
 * This gets played with in Original Generation 2: if defeats Lemon, not only will Lemon reveal her true identity, but

Echidna Iisaki (Voiced by Mariko Suzuki)


AKA W16. Echidna doesn't appear in Advance, but was mentioned having supposedly assassinated Admiral Leon of the Balms, which in turned got the Balms assassinating Isamu Ryuuzaki (Kazuya's father), and should she fail, Lamia would've been the one to do the job (this only occurs in Lamia's story; in Axel's, he's the one who orchestrates it).

In Original Generation, Echidna ascends to the position of Advance's "Rival Lamia", usually contacting Lamia and keeping her in check. She seems dutifully robotic and doesn't portray much personality...until the assault at the White Star where, at her own will, takes a fatal attack for Axel, and ends up destroyed on her own will. Depending on the continuity, Axel either gets disgusted a doll he hated saved his life, or laments her death will bring despair and lower morale of the Shadow-Mirror.

Echidna pilots the Laz Angriff  in battle. Tropes associated with Echidna:
 * Artificial Human
 * Become a Real Boy (Though it's moments before her death)
 * Dark Chick (After Lamia's Heel Face Turn. Ironically, she's the least emotional between the group (until her last moments))
 * Evil Twin (Supposedly...for Lamia. This gets emulated in Endless Frontier between Aschen and...)
 * Expy (Cardia Basirissa AKA W-06)
 * The Generic Guy (Well, maybe not as extreme as say Russel Bagman, but compared to Vindel, Lemon, Axel, Lamia and Wodan Ymir, Echidna comes off as really generic)
 * Heroic Sacrifice
 * Hey, It's That Voice! (Doubles as Talking to Herself: Echidna also voices KOS-MOS and T-elos. Including Cardia, all three Robot Girls appear together in Endless Frontier)
 * Robot Girl

Tropes associated with the rest of the Shadow-Mirrors:
 * Five-Bad Band (Only in Original Generation, because it wasn't as crowded in Advance:)
 * Big Bad: Vindel
 * The Dragon: Axel
 * The Brute: Wodan
 * Evil Genius: Lemon
 * Dark Chick: Lamia (pre-Heel Face Turn); succeeded by Echidna
 * Man Behind the Man: In Advance, the Shadow-Mirror Manipulates the Gaizok, Mariemaia Army, the Giganos Empire and the Vegan/Barm alliance.
 * Real Men Wear Pink (Male Shadow-Mirror pilots riding on Angelg, though only seen in Axel's protagonist scenario in Advance)
 * War for Fun and Profit (Their modus operandi)