Wild Arms 2/Characters

A list of the characters found in the Playstation era Eastern RPG Wild Arms 2.

Ashley Winchester
A young man who belongs to a military organization called the Musketeers, later promoted to a special task force code-named ARMs. After a terrorist attack he finds himself burdened with great power. His weapon is an advanced bayonet.


 * Awesome McCoolname: His name is Ashley Winchester and he's just a freeloader in a bread shop.
 * Badass Abnormal: Well, he does gain Access a wee bit early in the game.
 * Big Damn Heroes: Ashley does this a few times.
 * BFS: Both his bayonet's blade, which is ridiculously large, and Argetlahm.
 * Demonic Possession: He is possessed by Lord Blazer at the end of the prologue, but is actually able to keep him in check and even gets a Super Mode from him.
 * Duel Boss: He's got quite a few boss fights where he has to fight alone. In order, we've got Kalivos, Trask, Vinsfeld,, and
 * Empathic Weapon: Argetlahm
 * Enemy Within: He fuses with a demon destined to destroy the world.
 * Evolving Weapon: You can buy upgrades for it as you go along.
 * Expy: Battle-wise, he's essentially Jack Van Burace. Character-wise, he's like Fei Fong Wong.
 * Gender Blender Name: For those who don't realize that "Ashley" was once more prominently a guy's name.
 * Henshin Hero: Via Access. Ashely transforms into a being that is a balance between
 * Involuntary Transformation: His transformation into the demon-thing Protoblazer in the first part of the main story.
 * The Kid With the Leash: He must contain within himself.
 * Lightning Bruiser: Especially when he obtains Access.
 * Scarf of Asskicking: His Knightblazer form.
 * Super-Powered Evil Side: His Knight Blazer form.
 * Super-Powered Evil Side: His Knight Blazer form.

Lilka Eleniak
A teenage wizard-in-training who takes her missing sister's place in the team, despite her self-doubts. She fights with umbrellas.


 * Big Eater: Like Cecilia before her, and like Cecilia justified by her being a Crest Sorceress who needs the extra calories.
 * Black Magician Girl
 * Child Mage
 * Cute Witch
 * Dead Little Sister: Inverted:.
 * Expy: She's much like Cecilia Adlehyde in battle.
 * Girlish Pigtails: A variation, combined with Tomboyish Sidetails.
 * Hair Decorations
 * Improbable Weapon User
 * Inept Mage: Though only really when teleporting.
 * Parasol of Pain
 * Parasol of Prettiness: Symbolizing innocence. Evident in her official art as well as her battle end pose.
 * Trademark Favorite Food: Jelly rolls.
 * Trademark Favorite Food: Jelly rolls.

Brad Evans
A large man who is an expert in heavy weapons and explosives. Originally the hero of a revolution, he was later imprisoned for "war crimes" (before joining ARMS.) He uses metal gloves as his weapons.


 * Ambiguously Gay: It was once widely rumored that Brad was gay in the Japanese script, but this was never verified. But regardless, the one other person in the world closest to his heart is a man in a wheelchair.
 * Badass: He's even the only one who single-handledly has the necessary power to defeat Ragu O'Ragula.
 * Badass Long Hair
 * Evolving Weapon: Like Ashley's bayonet, you can buy upgrades for his heavy ARM.
 * Explosive Leash: His collar.
 * Expy: Battle-wise, he's essentially Rudy Roughnight. Character-wise, he's more like Ricardo Banderas.
 * Gentle Giant: He's tall and fierce-looking, and even more formidable in battle. But to ordinary people, he's actually surprisingly affable and level-headed. Just very reserved about the details of his background.
 * Homoerotic Subtext: With Billy, the other person he loves most in the world.
 * Kill Sat: Sky Eye.
 * Mighty Glacier
 * Mr. Fanservice
 * The Scapegoat: He and the entire Slayheim Liberation Army.
 * Skunk Stripe
 * Testosterone Poisoning: For the most part Averted &mdash; he's just very, very strong and powerful. But then he gets his "Earthquake" tool, and...come on.
 * Walking Shirtless Scene: This is half-true, as his shirt has only one shoulder strap, showing a good portion of his torso at all times.
 * Walking Spoiler
 * Walking Shirtless Scene: This is half-true, as his shirt has only one shoulder strap, showing a good portion of his torso at all times.
 * Walking Spoiler

Kanon
A bionic, female bounty hunter, who at first opposes the group but later joins it. She uses daggers (and her bionic implants) in combat.


 * Artificial Limbs: Her arm.
 * Cutscene Power to the Max
 * Fragile Speedster
 * Hero Antagonist: Until after the third time you fight.
 * Honor Before Reason: Kanon is obsessed with her family honor.
 * Kill Me Now or Forever Stay Your Hand: She's put in this position with regards to Ashley.
 * Mysterious Mercenary Pursuer
 * Redemption Demotion: Kanon seems to stop being so awesomely powerful when she joins the party (at least until you unlock her later skills). Justified, as she took a tremendous amount of damage in a short time before joining the party and it's a miracle she's still alive at all, let alone being able to move.
 * Recurring Boss
 * Wake Up Call Boss: She is ridiculously powerful and fast, even if you've been pouring your Personal Skill points into the Game Breaker skills. And let's not even talk about the later two fights.
 * Well-Intentioned Extremist

Tim Rhymeless
An innocent boy who discovers he's the Chosen One to receive powers from the planet's spirits. Fights with a staff.


 * Braids, Beads, and Buckskins
 * Chekhov's Gunman: He is introduced a good long while before he becomes vastly important to the game's plot, although his giving Ashley a Guardian Medium and his "enter name" screen having a portrait are big clues.
 * Child Mage
 * Hair Decorations
 * Mystical Waif
 * Summon Magic: He provides this for all the heroes.
 * White Magician Boy: At first, although he wanders more into The Red Mage territory later.

Marivel Armitage
A female inventor who helps the team with their technological needs. She becomes playable after a specific subquest, where it is revealed that she's actually. A pair of robots fight for her.


 * Child Mage: Or at least, she looks like a child.
 * Humongous Mecha: Marivel uses these in her summon magic.
 * Improbable Weapon User
 * Insufferable Genius
 * Power Copying: Marivel can learn certain enemy abilities thanks to her.
 * Summon Magic
 * Power Copying: Marivel can learn certain enemy abilities thanks to her.
 * Summon Magic
 * Power Copying: Marivel can learn certain enemy abilities thanks to her.
 * Summon Magic

Irving Vold Valeria
The commander of ARMS. He purchased the unit after it was decimated in a terrorist attack, and appointed Ashley, Lilka, and Brad as its initial members.


 * The Chessmaster:
 * Necessary Evil:
 * White-Haired Pretty Boy
 * Xanatos Gambit: He pulls off a masterful gambit by
 * White-Haired Pretty Boy
 * Xanatos Gambit: He pulls off a masterful gambit by
 * Xanatos Gambit: He pulls off a masterful gambit by

Altaecia Rune Valeria
Irving's sister, who supports him unconditionally.


 * Honor Before Reason
 * Pimped-Out Dress: Her Pink Means Feminine dress.
 * Honor Before Reason
 * Pimped-Out Dress: Her Pink Means Feminine dress.

Amy and Kate
Irving's telepathic assistants, who operate the communication device, and also the chateau


 * Bridge Bunnies
 * Psychic Powers

Pooka
A "sub spirit" that Tim can summon, which is sort of like a Guardian Lite. He serves as Tim's first tool.


 * Expy: Of Hanpan from the frist game, at least as far as his appearance and uses go.
 * Ridiculously Cute Critter
 * Third Person Person

Lombardia
A biomechanical dragon that can turn into an jet.


 * Global Airship
 * Humongous Mecha
 * Our Dragons Are Different

Anastasia, The Sword Magess
A young woman who fought against evil using the sword Argetlahm. She is revered in the present day.


 * A Girl And Her Wolf: She and Lucied have been together almost forever.
 * Animal Motifs: Her companion is a wolf-like god.
 * Badass: You gotta admit, facing off against Lord Blazer back in the day with Lucied was pretty damn awesome.
 * BFS: Argetlahm
 * Empathic Weapon
 * Cool Big Sis: During the time Ashley Anastasia calls herself as this.
 * Guest Star Party Member:
 * Heroic Sacrifice: In the past, to stop the Blaze of Disaster.
 * I Just Want to Be Normal:
 * The Paladin: Combines healing magic and physical attacks.

Lucied
The Guardian of Desire, and Anastasia's partner.


 * Big Badass Wolf
 * Dark Is Not Evil
 * Guest Star Party Member
 * Lightning Bruiser
 * Time Abyss: He is as old as the planet itself.

Marina
Ashley's childhood friend, whose mother owns the bakery where Ashley lives.


 * She Is Not My Girlfriend

Tony Stark
A friend of Tim's whom Ashley rescues from kidnapers in the prologue.


 * Totally Radical: Dude!
 * Keet
 * Shout-Out: To Iron Man.

Scott Summers
Another friend of Tim's. The three of them are always together.


 * Shout-Out: To Scott Summers (aka Cyclops) of the X-Men.
 * Verbal Tic: He begins nearly every sentence with "in my humble opinion".

Vinsfeld Rhadamanthus
The leader of Odessa, a terrorist organization which seeks to take over the world.


 * Bonus Boss:
 * Duel Boss
 * Recurring Boss
 * Well-Intentioned Extremist

Cocytus
A group of four powerful individuals that fight for Odessa.


 * Four Is Death
 * Meaningful Name/Shout-Out Theme Naming: Cocytus is the ninth circle of Hell in The Divine Comedy, and Antenora, Caina, Judecca, and Ptolomea are parts of it.
 * Recurring Boss

Caina
The source of monsters for Odessa and the person who controls Randolf the Magic Key.


 * All Love Is Unrequited: Caina loves Vinsfeld, who instead loves Antenora.
 * Bishonen
 * Duel Boss
 * She's a Man In Japan: His feelings towards Vinsfeld were too much for Western censors, who changed his gender to female. This was easy to do with someone as androgynous-looking as Caina.
 * Homoerotic Subtext: With Vinsfeld, leading to the above trope.
 * Improbable Weapon User: The aforementioned magic key.
 * Psycho Supporter
 * Straight Gay

Antenora
An assassin and strategist for Odessa.


 * Rapunzel Hair: Her hair reaches down to the backs of her knees while in a ponytail.
 * Tomboyish Ponytail
 * Tomboyish Ponytail

Ptolomea
A very tall man and the leader of Odessa's troops. He's prone to spouting cheesy lines and uses a windmill-like three-bladed claw as a weapon.


 * Anti-Villain/Friendly Enemy: For someone who fights you most of the times you meet him, Ptolomea is unfailingly respectful.
 * Boisterous Bruiser
 * A Father to His Men
 * Improbable Weapon User
 * Mr. Fanservice

Judecca
Odessa's hitman and an expert marksman, and a sadist to the core.


 * Adjusting Your Glasses: Pushes them up and down rapidly when he's excited - which is usually when he's about to kill someone.
 * Duel Boss
 * Expy: Of Alhazad.
 * Four Eyes, Zero Soul
 * Psycho for Hire
 * Psycho for Hire

Liz and Ard
The game's comic relief villains, and Odessa's science division. Liz is prone to spouting nearly-nonsensical poetry, while his companion can only say "Ard".


 * Butt Monkeys
 * Cloudcuckoolander: Liz, courtesy of Good Bad Translation.
 * Dual Boss
 * For Science!: Liz
 * Goldfish Poop Gang
 * Good Bad Translation: All of Liz's dialogue. Already a comic relief character and one half of the game's Goldfish Poop Gang, his "poetic" Japanese dialogue was translated literally. The result is both incomprehensible and hilarious.
 * Harmless Villains
 * Insufferable Genius: Liz.
 * Pokémon-Speak: Ard. Liz can translate this one word into long sentences, but it's unknown how accurate he is.
 * Quirky Miniboss Squad
 * Recurring Boss

Lord Blazer
The demon possessing Ashley, who is destined to destroy the world.


 * Duel Boss
 * Eldritch Abomination
 * Enemy Within: To Ashley.
 * Our Demons Are Different

Kuiper Belt

 * Eldritch Abomination