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== Protagonists ==
 
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* [[Ascended Fanboy]]: He manifest a big desire to be a Driver before Pyra comes into his life. She's a practically a dream coming true for him.
 
* [[Ascended Fanboy]]: He manifest a big desire to be a Driver before Pyra comes into his life. She's a practically a dream coming true for him.
 
* [[Back From the Dead]]: Pyra brings Rex back to life by giving him half of her life force after he is killed by Jin.
 
* [[Back From the Dead]]: Pyra brings Rex back to life by giving him half of her life force after he is killed by Jin.
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* [[Heroic Lineage]]: A more realistic take on the trope. He shares Addam's blood but he lived 5 centuries after him, so he is hardly the only guy who could unseal Pyra. However, his personality is said to be very similar to his ancestor for everybody old enough to know both.
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* [[Save the Villain]]: {{spoiler|Goes to save Jin in the land of Morytha when sees having difficulty in getting rid of a monster}}.
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* [[Thou Shalt Not Kill]]: It isn't interested in killing unless strictly necessary.
 
* [[Took a Level In Badass]]: He begins the game as a non-Driver that after acquiring his first Blade don't knows exactly how to use her power properly and often loses or have to run away from fighting. Xenoblade 2, aside of everything else, is a story about Rex becoming a better fighter.
 
* [[Took a Level In Badass]]: He begins the game as a non-Driver that after acquiring his first Blade don't knows exactly how to use her power properly and often loses or have to run away from fighting. Xenoblade 2, aside of everything else, is a story about Rex becoming a better fighter.
 
   
 
=== Pyra ===
 
=== Pyra ===
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* [[Apologises a Lot]]: Sorry it's a very common adverb on her sentences, and Rex points it out at the beginning of chapter 4.
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* [[Badass Adorable]]: She is cute in looks and behaviour and also a very powerful Blade.
 
* [[Cleavage Window]]: Pyra's armour has one, though her breasts are covered with some kind of black material.
 
* [[Cleavage Window]]: Pyra's armour has one, though her breasts are covered with some kind of black material.
 
* [[Fingerless Gloves]]: Pyra also wears those.
 
* [[Fingerless Gloves]]: Pyra also wears those.
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=== Mythra ===
 
=== Mythra ===
   
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* [[Cain and Abel]]: {{spoiler|Turns out he and Malos are akin to brother and sister, being similar units of a collective artificial intelligence. As you can see clearly from the other tropes, Malos is pretty much the Cain}}.
* [[Frickin' Laser Beams]]: Her main power involves summoning them from the sky, with the help of an unknown entity. {{spoiler|Her actual power is still this, but it is revealed the entity is the very real [[Humongous Mecha]] Siren, who hoves around Alrest following her and is the one actually launching them, so the lasers aren't just coming from nowhere}}.
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* [[Frickin' Laser Beams]]: Her main power involves summoning them from the sky, with the help of an unknown entity. {{spoiler|Her actual power is still this, but it is revealed the entity is the very real [[Humongous Mecha]] Siren, who hovers around Alrest following her and is the one actually launching them, so the lasers aren't just coming from nowhere}}.
 
* [[Foreshadowing]]:
 
* [[Foreshadowing]]:
** She can predict her opponent's moves just like the Monado did that when Shulk wielded it. {{spoiler|That's because both her, Shulk and Monando were created by Klaus}}.
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** She can predict her opponent's moves just like the Monado did that when Shulk wielded it. {{spoiler|That's because both her, Shulk and Monado were created by Klaus}}.
 
* [[Green-Eyed Monster]]: It's implied she feels envy from Rex seemingly liking more Pyra than her.
 
* [[Green-Eyed Monster]]: It's implied she feels envy from Rex seemingly liking more Pyra than her.
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* [[Ironic Name]]: As noted below, her name comes from a god whose name can means friend. She is by far the most unhelpful of the blades.
* [[Meaningful Name]]: Mythra is a light god.
 
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* [[Meaningful Name]]: Mythra comes from Mitra, a god who was interpreted to be associated with light. More meaningfully. In ancient languages, Mitra also meant "friend" or "covenant, treaty, agreement, promise", {{spoiler|and Rex makes a deal with her "shadow" so he can stay alive and she can be taken to Elysium}}.
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* [[Save the Villain]]: It's not a fan of this, and though she goes with Rex she says outright she doesn't like the idea.
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* [[Super Prototype]]: Justified. {{spoiler|Though she was one of the first Blades created, she wasn't actually a Blade at conception, being a computer processor that was transformed into a Blade later. Because of that, she can do way more things than a normal Blade can}}.
 
* [[Token Evil Teammate]]: The nearest the party have to one. She is very mean and treats Rex with contempt.
 
* [[Token Evil Teammate]]: The nearest the party have to one. She is very mean and treats Rex with contempt.
* [[Truly Single Parent]]: She created Pyra and from her body and mind alone.
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* [[Truly Single Parent]]: {{spoiler|She created Pyra and from her body and mind alone}}.
 
* [[Tsundere]]: She likes Rex, but don't likes to tell it outright.
 
* [[Tsundere]]: She likes Rex, but don't likes to tell it outright.
   
 
=== Nia ===
 
=== Nia ===
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* [[Cat Girl]]: Nia has cat ears and cat claws, and adopts several cat mannerisms, as fitting of a Gormotti. {{Spoiler|Mannerisms who are dropped when she reveals herself to be a blade, acting more like a fox, hinting she isn't a cat girl at all, and her claws and ears are canine ones}}.
* [[Cat Girl]]: Nia has cat ears and cat claws.
 
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* [[Gameplay and Story Segregation]]: {{Spoiler|Cannot be used as Driver at the same time she is used as a Blade, despite the fact nothing should prevent her of doing that in story. The practical explanation is that developers had no idea how to implement it}}.
 
* [[Jerkass With a Heart of Gold]]: Nia is a very unpleasant person to be around initially, but she has her moral limits that she's not willing to cross.
 
* [[Jerkass With a Heart of Gold]]: Nia is a very unpleasant person to be around initially, but she has her moral limits that she's not willing to cross.
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* [[Ojou]]: The way she talks about the substantial money it will be paid for Rex for his salvaging job to Torna hints at this like it's not so much money at all hints at this. {{spoiler|Turns out she was "born" into a wealthy family, as a blade. Her Driver eventually began to treat him like a daughter after she became a Flesh Eater after consuming the flesh of her sister}}.
 
* [[Token Good Teammate]]: Nia is this to Torna early in the game, until finally Malos gets annoyed enough to not care any more about keeping her on his side. Though she's still kind of a jerk and a snob, she mellows it significantly.
 
* [[Token Good Teammate]]: Nia is this to Torna early in the game, until finally Malos gets annoyed enough to not care any more about keeping her on his side. Though she's still kind of a jerk and a snob, she mellows it significantly.
   
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* [[Flat Character]]: He isn't much more other than Nia's loyal blade.
 
* [[Flat Character]]: He isn't much more other than Nia's loyal blade.
 
=== Tora ===
 
=== Tora ===
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* [[Badass Adorable]]: He is a little cute ball of soft hair, which can kick massive amount of butt as long he have the tools for it, and Poppi is a hell of a too.
 
* [[Badass Normal]]: He can't be a Driver, not in a normal sense. He is however very smart and once he manages to activate Poppi he can use her perfectly to drill his way through opposition. However, as the cutscene before his proper debut shows, he can create other gadgets to fight.
 
* [[Badass Normal]]: He can't be a Driver, not in a normal sense. He is however very smart and once he manages to activate Poppi he can use her perfectly to drill his way through opposition. However, as the cutscene before his proper debut shows, he can create other gadgets to fight.
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* [[Innocently Insensitive]]: He lacks a lot of social tact, insisting on the point of Pyra being "fat" after she showed being offended by it, and calling Mui-Mui not very important right to his face.
 
* [[Science Hero]]: He creates his own weapons. Poppi is the most notorious example.
 
* [[Science Hero]]: He creates his own weapons. Poppi is the most notorious example.
 
* [[This Is a Drill]]: His weapon is a shield, but with a drill attached to it.
 
* [[This Is a Drill]]: His weapon is a shield, but with a drill attached to it.
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* [[Token Non-Human]]: Played with as the only Driver who is not humanoid, Nia being a Gormotti who are cat-people but pretty much human aside of small differences on appearance. {{Spoiler|Then Nia reveals she is a Flesh Eater, a blade who assimilated human body parts on herself, making him a complete aversion}}.
   
 
=== Poppi ===
 
=== Poppi ===
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* [[Badass Adorable]]: She was created to be exactly that by Tora's family: cute and strong.
 
* [[Badass Adorable]]: She was created to be exactly that by Tora's family: cute and strong.
 
* [[Creepy Good]]: She basically threatens Nia when the latter asks of what her body is made of, saying that she would kill someone who knew that secret.
 
* [[Creepy Good]]: She basically threatens Nia when the latter asks of what her body is made of, saying that she would kill someone who knew that secret.
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* [[Servile Snarker]]: Often mocks Tora, and her Driver's annoyance at that shows that isn't just [[Brutal Honesty]] as one may assume. Not that surprising considering how Nopons talk.
 
* [[Older Than They Look]]: Played with. She is born in the beginning of the game, but her childish way of speaking is just because she was created by Nopons that talk like that already. She isn't actually immature as the player may immediately assume.
 
* [[Older Than They Look]]: Played with. She is born in the beginning of the game, but her childish way of speaking is just because she was created by Nopons that talk like that already. She isn't actually immature as the player may immediately assume.
   
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* [[Grey and Gray Morality]]: Vandham is a mercenary and reflects a lot about how opponents in a conflict may be [[Not So Different]], and that even sometimes good guys get help from things considered "bad".
 
* [[Grey and Gray Morality]]: Vandham is a mercenary and reflects a lot about how opponents in a conflict may be [[Not So Different]], and that even sometimes good guys get help from things considered "bad".
 
* [[Hitman with a Heart]]: Cole implies he was that as freelancer mercenary. Desconstructed as he rarely got payment for that.
 
* [[Hitman with a Heart]]: Cole implies he was that as freelancer mercenary. Desconstructed as he rarely got payment for that.
* [[Mentor Occupational Hazard]]: {{spoiler|He dies fighting Malos
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* [[Mentor Occupational Hazard]]: {{spoiler|He dies fighting Malos after teaching Rex alot about the reasoning of people of doing things, and his last words is urge for Rex to keep following his dreams no matter what}}.
 
* [[Shipper on Deck]]: Believes Rex is helping Pyra because he is interested into her, but don't find that dishonourable at all.
 
* [[Shipper on Deck]]: Believes Rex is helping Pyra because he is interested into her, but don't find that dishonourable at all.
 
* [[Stating the Simple Solution]]: Tells Rex he may invoke [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here]] and leave Pyra, since she is basically a conflict magnet. Rex is reluctant, what makes Vandham assume there is a deeper motivation for it.
 
* [[Stating the Simple Solution]]: Tells Rex he may invoke [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here]] and leave Pyra, since she is basically a conflict magnet. Rex is reluctant, what makes Vandham assume there is a deeper motivation for it.
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=== Five ===
 
=== Five ===
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* [[Foil]]: Big time for Rex. Both share extraordinarily powerful Blades whose main ability is [[Playing with Fire]], but while Rex is born dirt poor and has no military training at all, Five is a noble whose military rank is basically the highest of her nation. Basically she is Rex if Rex was born into nobility and actually was trained to fight as a Driver before the story began.
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* [[Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy]]: Has this kind of dynamic with Rex, which is usually pretty polite and sensitive. Five otherwise tries to act like the most mature person in the room at all tume.
 
* [[Walking Spoiler]]: The fact this character joins the protagonists isn't show in any trailers or promotional material, and it happens around the middle of the game.
 
* [[Walking Spoiler]]: The fact this character joins the protagonists isn't show in any trailers or promotional material, and it happens around the middle of the game.
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* [[Workaholic]]: To the point her swimsuit costume is called "Obligatory Leave". The reason she joins the party is because their quest to find Elysium is found to be vital as the Titans are dying and mankind is running out of living space, so is technically still part of her job.
   
 
=== Five's Blade ===
 
=== Five's Blade ===
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* [[Playing with Fire]]: Is a Fire Blade.
 
* [[Walking Spoiler]]: The fact this character joins the protagonists isn't show in any trailers or promotional material, and it happens around the middle of the game.
 
* [[Walking Spoiler]]: The fact this character joins the protagonists isn't show in any trailers or promotional material, and it happens around the middle of the game.
   
 
=== Zeke ===
 
=== Zeke ===
 
* [[BFS]]: Carries an abnormally large sword that don't helps him in any way once the fights with him actually start.
 
* [[BFS]]: Carries an abnormally large sword that don't helps him in any way once the fights with him actually start.
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* [[Born Unlucky]]: In his first boss battle, a lighting attack of him destroys the ground where he is standing on, making Zeke fall on a hidden abyss. In his second, the same attack causes an avalanche, making a rock collide with him and Pandoria and sending them flying. After his third, he dismiss having awful luck, and proceeds to prove himself wrong by breaking a fence on accident, making him fall on the Cloud Sea.
 
* [[Eyepatch of Power]]: That was his intention of using it, giving the impression he is a powerful guy, but it fails completely once Pandoria says out loud he couldn't afford a second contact lens.
 
* [[Eyepatch of Power]]: That was his intention of using it, giving the impression he is a powerful guy, but it fails completely once Pandoria says out loud he couldn't afford a second contact lens.
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* [[Recurring Boss]]: He is fought three times before being recruited.
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* [[Secret Test]]: {{Spoiler|He was sent by Indol to check on the Aegis, under the pretense of being just a greedy driver wanting the Aegis for himself. It was supposed to be an one-and-done mission but his awful luck prevents his fights with Rex of concluding properly}}.
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* [[Thou Shalt Not Kill]]: Consider killing a sinal of cowardice and weakness, and therefore will not do it unless strictly necessary.
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* [[Wrong Genre Savvy]]: He acts like some kind of charming, seductive [[Anti-Hero]] before attacking Rex and company in his boss battles. Nonethless to say, Rex and company find him more to be a [[Manchild]] who they have to deal with from time to time (and they are completely correct).
   
 
=== Pandoria ===
 
=== Pandoria ===
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* [[Satellite Character]]: Played for Laughs. Not only she has not a lot of character, she literally mimicates her Driver's mannerisms like a street mime.
 
* [[Shock and Awe]]: Her element is lightning.
 
* [[Shock and Awe]]: Her element is lightning.
 
   
 
== Torna ==
 
== Torna ==
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* [[Dead Guy, Junior]]: In a bizarre case of this, they're named after Torna, a country was destroyed centuries ago, apparently by the Aegis himself.
 
* [[Dead Guy, Junior]]: In a bizarre case of this, they're named after Torna, a country was destroyed centuries ago, apparently by the Aegis himself.
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* [[Half-Human Hybrid]]: With the exception of Malos, {{spoiler|all of the Drivers of Torna are Flesh Eaters, blades infused with human cells, with exception of Mikhail, who is instead a human infused with a blade's core crystal}}.
 
* [[Kill All Humans]]: Akhos say that is Jin's objective, and therefore their objective, word by word.
 
* [[Kill All Humans]]: Akhos say that is Jin's objective, and therefore their objective, word by word.
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* [[Kill The God]]: What they will do after killing manking, as said by Akhos after the Aeshma's core boss fight.
* [[Omnicidal Maniac]]: Since they are humans. {{spoiler|It's revealed eventually they are all blades}}.
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* [[Omnicidal Maniac]]: Since with the exception of Malos they are all humans. {{spoiler|It's revealed eventually most are blades, and only Mikhail is human}}.
   
 
=== Malos ===
 
=== Malos ===
   
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* [[Card-Carrying Villain]]: Openly calls himself a "wretched being".{{spoiler|Just before the [[Final Boss]] fight}}.
* [[Darth Vader Clone]]: {{spoiler|He's [[The Dragon]] with a filial relationship with the hero/heroine who was artificially created, and then manipulated into evil by the Big Bad}}.
 
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* [[Cain and Abel]]: {{spoiler|Turns out he and Mythra are akin to brother and sister, being similar units of a collective artificial intelligence. As you can see clearly from the other tropes, Malos is pretty much the Cain}}.
* [[Dragon Their Feet]]: {{spoiler|Outlasts Jin and keeps doing what Jon ordered him to only well after Jin is dead but also changed his mind into destroying mankind}}.
 
 
* [[Darth Vader Clone]]: He's [[The Dragon]] with a filial relationship with the hero/heroine who was artificially created, {{spoiler|and manipulated into evil by the Big Bad}}.
* [[Evil Counterpart]]: {{spoiler|He wasn't created to be one, but grew into one to the Aegis with time}}.
 
 
* [[Dragon Their Feet]]: {{spoiler|Outlasts Jin and keeps doing what Jin ordered him to only well after Jin is dead but also changed his mind about destroying mankind}}.
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* [[Driven to Madness]]: {{spoiler|His initial rampage was likey a result of absorbing his Driver's negative emotions}}.
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* [[Evil Counterpart]]: For some unexplanable reason, he turned into a monster as soon as Amalthus awakened him, totally different of Mythra that, despite her flaws, wants to do what is best for Alrest. {{spoiler|Mythra speculates that Amalthus unintentionally turned him into this, and Malos outright tell Amalthus in a flashback he was going to kill humans indiscriminately because that is what his Driver wished}}.
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* [[Final Boss]]: {{spoiler|Pilots Artifice Aion for the final story mode boss battle}}.
 
* [[Foreshadowing]]: {{spoiler|He is able to use abilities with "Monado" on their name in his second boss battle, hinting there is deeper connections between this game and the [[Xenoblade Chronicles|first one]]}}.
 
* [[Foreshadowing]]: {{spoiler|He is able to use abilities with "Monado" on their name in his second boss battle, hinting there is deeper connections between this game and the [[Xenoblade Chronicles|first one]]}}.
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* [[Generic Doomsday Villain]]: Amalthus awakened him and without restraint or remorse Maltos began to destroy Alrest, not obeying his Driver's orders at all. {{spoiler|When fighting Amalthus later, however, Mythra speculates it were Amalthus' emotions that drove Malos' rampage, even if Amalthus himself couldn't control him}}.
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* [[King Mook]]: Is basically this for the Blades, being much more powerful than your regular one from the moment he was awakened.
 
* [[Obviously Evil]]: Malos wears a dark-blue armor and has a scary humanoid monster as Blade.
 
* [[Obviously Evil]]: Malos wears a dark-blue armor and has a scary humanoid monster as Blade.
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* [[Super Prototype]]: Justified. {{spoiler|Though he was one of the first Blades created, he wasn't actually a Blade at conception, being a computer processor that was transformed into a Blade later. Because of that, he can do way more things than a normal Blade can}}.
 
* [[The Dragon]]: He's [[The Brute]] of Torna and he is more focused on fighting the Aegis than Jin.
 
* [[The Dragon]]: He's [[The Brute]] of Torna and he is more focused on fighting the Aegis than Jin.
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* [[The Last of These Is Not Like the Others]]: Despite being a Blade, he can wield other Blades like he was a Driver. He also don't obeys his own Driver, Amalthus, at all, and killing his Driver don't resets his memories. Much of these other traits are similar to Mythra, though Mythra isn't a Driver in gameplay.
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* [[Turned Against Their Masters]]: He is Amalthus' Blade, but he don't obeys him at all, starting a termination campaign against human beings for seemingly no reason, and his Driver couldn't do anything against it. {{spoiler|Mythra later deduces Amalthus' hate towards mankind did come from Amalthus, but Amalthus never agreed to Malos' methods, at least not to a conscious level}}.
   
 
=== Jin ===
 
=== Jin ===
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* [[Big Bad]]: Torna's actions put the plot in motion. Considering he's their leader, that makes him this trope.
 
* [[Big Bad]]: Torna's actions put the plot in motion. Considering he's their leader, that makes him this trope.
 
* [[Flash Step]]: Can do that without controlling a blade despite apparently being a human with no abnormal abilities.
 
* [[Flash Step]]: Can do that without controlling a blade despite apparently being a human with no abnormal abilities.
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* [[Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane]]: {{spoiler|The vision of Lora he sees before fighting the party for the last time could be really her spirit trying to make him give up on his murderous plans or just a manifestation of his own guilt}}.
 
* [[Malevolent Masked Men|Malevolent Masked Men]]: Uses a grey mask over the top of his face.
 
* [[Malevolent Masked Men|Malevolent Masked Men]]: Uses a grey mask over the top of his face.
   
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* [[Genre Savvy]]: He thinks he is in some kind of action story. He laughs when he sees Vandham is about to go through {{spoiler|a [[Mentor Occupational Hazard]] kind of situation}}.
 
* [[Genre Savvy]]: He thinks he is in some kind of action story. He laughs when he sees Vandham is about to go through {{spoiler|a [[Mentor Occupational Hazard]] kind of situation}}.
 
* [[Story-Breaker Power]]: Obrona gives him such an advantage over every other blade in the setting with the exception of Mythra that it's no surprise Mythra breaks her core crystal, rendering her [[Deader Than Dead]].
 
* [[Story-Breaker Power]]: Obrona gives him such an advantage over every other blade in the setting with the exception of Mythra that it's no surprise Mythra breaks her core crystal, rendering her [[Deader Than Dead]].
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=== Mikhail ===
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* [[Heel Face Turn]]: {{spoiler|At the last second, he saves Rex's party from being turned to dust and says he will 'leave Jin' to them, implying he wants him to be defeated}}.
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* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: {{spoiler|Goes down fighting the indolian titan to prevent it of further attacking the World Tree}}.
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* [[Token Good Teammate]]: {{spoiler|He turns out to be much more benevolent than his comrades. Lora's kindness towards him and the romantic love he feels for Patroka are implied to be part of it, so he knows humans aren't all that bad, and may value something on Alrest enough to not be completely omnicidal}}.
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* [[Token Human]]: {{spoiler|The only member of Torna who isn't a Blade, but rather a human infused with blade parts}}.
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* [[Walking Spoiler]]: Much of his character's backstory personality, and active role in the plot comes at the later points of the game, and reveal a disturbing secret about one of the antagonists' pasts too, so there isn't a lot to say about him without delving into spoiler territory.
   
 
== Supporting Characters ==
 
== Supporting Characters ==
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* [[Hero Antagonist]]: She is only doing her job and trying to take down fugitives.
 
* [[Hero Antagonist]]: She is only doing her job and trying to take down fugitives.
 
* [[Not So Different]]: From Rex. The cutscene after she and Brighid lose Rex and company implies she had the same concern as the boy: that someone would use Pyra as a weapon. That realization makes her give up on pursuing them, feeling the blade is in good hands already.
 
* [[Not So Different]]: From Rex. The cutscene after she and Brighid lose Rex and company implies she had the same concern as the boy: that someone would use Pyra as a weapon. That realization makes her give up on pursuing them, feeling the blade is in good hands already.
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=== Amalthus ===
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* [[Combat Tentacles]]: {{spoiler|His final form contains these}}.
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* [[Evil Counterpart]]: {{spoiler|To Rex, since they're both drivers of Aegises with all the power it entails, but Rex's desire is the opposite of Amalthus. To drive the point further, Malos don't obeys Amalthus at all and is openly hostile to him while Mythra and Pyra seem to love Rex romantically. Flashbacks even reveal Malos followed the opposite path of Mythra: he was initially obedient to his Driver and then turned on him}}.
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* [[Green-Eyed Monster]]: {{spoiler|He gets very angry about Rex equaling him in power and breaking his control over other blades, saying he don't deserves it, and later dialogue implies he is actually envious of Rex, believing he is The Architect's Chosen One}}.
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* [[The Chosen One]]: Such thing doesn't exist in this game, but Amalthus' dialogue implies he believes Rex is this to the Architect.
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* [[Unwitting Instigator of Doom]]: Unleashed Malos on the world, but couldn't do anything to stop him. {{spoiler|Later dialogue by Malos himself and Mythra imply Malos was simplying following Malos' subconscious will to destroy everything}}.
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* [[Walking Spoiler]]: Amalthus's active part on the story are linked deeply to both flashbacks and the climax of the game, and let's leave it at that.
 
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Protagonists

Rex

  • Ascended Fanboy: He manifest a big desire to be a Driver before Pyra comes into his life. She's a practically a dream coming true for him.
  • Back From the Dead: Pyra brings Rex back to life by giving him half of her life force after he is killed by Jin.
  • Heroic Lineage: A more realistic take on the trope. He shares Addam's blood but he lived 5 centuries after him, so he is hardly the only guy who could unseal Pyra. However, his personality is said to be very similar to his ancestor for everybody old enough to know both.
  • Save the Villain: Goes to save Jin in the land of Morytha when sees having difficulty in getting rid of a monster.
  • Thou Shalt Not Kill: It isn't interested in killing unless strictly necessary.
  • Took a Level In Badass: He begins the game as a non-Driver that after acquiring his first Blade don't knows exactly how to use her power properly and often loses or have to run away from fighting. Xenoblade 2, aside of everything else, is a story about Rex becoming a better fighter.

Pyra

  • Apologises a Lot: Sorry it's a very common adverb on her sentences, and Rex points it out at the beginning of chapter 4.
  • Badass Adorable: She is cute in looks and behaviour and also a very powerful Blade.
  • Cleavage Window: Pyra's armour has one, though her breasts are covered with some kind of black material.
  • Fingerless Gloves: Pyra also wears those.
  • Meaningful Name: Pyra, of course, comes from pyro, fire in ancient greek, and she is able to manipulate flames.
  • Ms. Fanservice: Pyra is very, uhm....endowed and her costume exposes her thighs, hips, part of her back and parts of her glutes as well. Though some optional Blades are more fanservicey, Pyra is definitively the canon character who delivers more fanservice.
  • Playing with Fire: Her powers allows her to create and manipulate flames as she wishes, and Rex can also do that as long he wields her blade. She does affirm isn't exactly fire though.
  • Redheaded Hero: Pyra, a redhead Living Weapon.
  • Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated: The common tale told around Alrest is that she died after helping Addam five centuries ago.
  • Truly Single Parent: She was created by Mythra and from Mythra alone.

Mythra

  • Cain and Abel: Turns out he and Malos are akin to brother and sister, being similar units of a collective artificial intelligence. As you can see clearly from the other tropes, Malos is pretty much the Cain.
  • Frickin' Laser Beams: Her main power involves summoning them from the sky, with the help of an unknown entity. Her actual power is still this, but it is revealed the entity is the very real Humongous Mecha Siren, who hovers around Alrest following her and is the one actually launching them, so the lasers aren't just coming from nowhere.
  • Foreshadowing:
    • She can predict her opponent's moves just like the Monado did that when Shulk wielded it. That's because both her, Shulk and Monado were created by Klaus.
  • Green-Eyed Monster: It's implied she feels envy from Rex seemingly liking more Pyra than her.
  • Ironic Name: As noted below, her name comes from a god whose name can means friend. She is by far the most unhelpful of the blades.
  • Meaningful Name: Mythra comes from Mitra, a god who was interpreted to be associated with light. More meaningfully. In ancient languages, Mitra also meant "friend" or "covenant, treaty, agreement, promise", and Rex makes a deal with her "shadow" so he can stay alive and she can be taken to Elysium.
  • Save the Villain: It's not a fan of this, and though she goes with Rex she says outright she doesn't like the idea.
  • Super Prototype: Justified. Though she was one of the first Blades created, she wasn't actually a Blade at conception, being a computer processor that was transformed into a Blade later. Because of that, she can do way more things than a normal Blade can.
  • Token Evil Teammate: The nearest the party have to one. She is very mean and treats Rex with contempt.
  • Truly Single Parent: She created Pyra and from her body and mind alone.
  • Tsundere: She likes Rex, but don't likes to tell it outright.

Nia

  • Cat Girl: Nia has cat ears and cat claws, and adopts several cat mannerisms, as fitting of a Gormotti. Mannerisms who are dropped when she reveals herself to be a blade, acting more like a fox, hinting she isn't a cat girl at all, and her claws and ears are canine ones.
  • Gameplay and Story Segregation: Cannot be used as Driver at the same time she is used as a Blade, despite the fact nothing should prevent her of doing that in story. The practical explanation is that developers had no idea how to implement it.
  • Jerkass With a Heart of Gold: Nia is a very unpleasant person to be around initially, but she has her moral limits that she's not willing to cross.
  • Ojou: The way she talks about the substantial money it will be paid for Rex for his salvaging job to Torna hints at this like it's not so much money at all hints at this. Turns out she was "born" into a wealthy family, as a blade. Her Driver eventually began to treat him like a daughter after she became a Flesh Eater after consuming the flesh of her sister.
  • Token Good Teammate: Nia is this to Torna early in the game, until finally Malos gets annoyed enough to not care any more about keeping her on his side. Though she's still kind of a jerk and a snob, she mellows it significantly.

Dromarch

Tora

  • Badass Adorable: He is a little cute ball of soft hair, which can kick massive amount of butt as long he have the tools for it, and Poppi is a hell of a too.
  • Badass Normal: He can't be a Driver, not in a normal sense. He is however very smart and once he manages to activate Poppi he can use her perfectly to drill his way through opposition. However, as the cutscene before his proper debut shows, he can create other gadgets to fight.
  • Innocently Insensitive: He lacks a lot of social tact, insisting on the point of Pyra being "fat" after she showed being offended by it, and calling Mui-Mui not very important right to his face.
  • Science Hero: He creates his own weapons. Poppi is the most notorious example.
  • This Is a Drill: His weapon is a shield, but with a drill attached to it.
  • Token Non-Human: Played with as the only Driver who is not humanoid, Nia being a Gormotti who are cat-people but pretty much human aside of small differences on appearance. Then Nia reveals she is a Flesh Eater, a blade who assimilated human body parts on herself, making him a complete aversion.

Poppi

  • Badass Adorable: She was created to be exactly that by Tora's family: cute and strong.
  • Creepy Good: She basically threatens Nia when the latter asks of what her body is made of, saying that she would kill someone who knew that secret.
  • Servile Snarker: Often mocks Tora, and her Driver's annoyance at that shows that isn't just Brutal Honesty as one may assume. Not that surprising considering how Nopons talk.
  • Older Than They Look: Played with. She is born in the beginning of the game, but her childish way of speaking is just because she was created by Nopons that talk like that already. She isn't actually immature as the player may immediately assume.

Vandham

  • Combat Pragmatist: Oh, so Obrona blocks the flux of ether in the air? No, problem, let's impale myself on my own weapons so the ether can flow using my body!
  • Genius Bruiser: He is a very experienced warrior. He defeats Rex not because his blade is specially powerful but because he thinks more strategically than Rex.
  • Grey and Gray Morality: Vandham is a mercenary and reflects a lot about how opponents in a conflict may be Not So Different, and that even sometimes good guys get help from things considered "bad".
  • Hitman with a Heart: Cole implies he was that as freelancer mercenary. Desconstructed as he rarely got payment for that.
  • Mentor Occupational Hazard: He dies fighting Malos after teaching Rex alot about the reasoning of people of doing things, and his last words is urge for Rex to keep following his dreams no matter what.
  • Shipper on Deck: Believes Rex is helping Pyra because he is interested into her, but don't find that dishonourable at all.
  • Stating the Simple Solution: Tells Rex he may invoke Screw This, I'm Outta Here and leave Pyra, since she is basically a conflict magnet. Rex is reluctant, what makes Vandham assume there is a deeper motivation for it.
  • The Big Guy: The most physically imposing Driver of the party.
  • The Last of These Is Not Like the Others: Is the only natural Driver on the party that can't equip any other blades.

Five

  • Foil: Big time for Rex. Both share extraordinarily powerful Blades whose main ability is Playing with Fire, but while Rex is born dirt poor and has no military training at all, Five is a noble whose military rank is basically the highest of her nation. Basically she is Rex if Rex was born into nobility and actually was trained to fight as a Driver before the story began.
  • Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: Has this kind of dynamic with Rex, which is usually pretty polite and sensitive. Five otherwise tries to act like the most mature person in the room at all tume.
  • Walking Spoiler: The fact this character joins the protagonists isn't show in any trailers or promotional material, and it happens around the middle of the game.
  • Workaholic: To the point her swimsuit costume is called "Obligatory Leave". The reason she joins the party is because their quest to find Elysium is found to be vital as the Titans are dying and mankind is running out of living space, so is technically still part of her job.

Five's Blade

  • Playing with Fire: Is a Fire Blade.
  • Walking Spoiler: The fact this character joins the protagonists isn't show in any trailers or promotional material, and it happens around the middle of the game.

Zeke

  • BFS: Carries an abnormally large sword that don't helps him in any way once the fights with him actually start.
  • Born Unlucky: In his first boss battle, a lighting attack of him destroys the ground where he is standing on, making Zeke fall on a hidden abyss. In his second, the same attack causes an avalanche, making a rock collide with him and Pandoria and sending them flying. After his third, he dismiss having awful luck, and proceeds to prove himself wrong by breaking a fence on accident, making him fall on the Cloud Sea.
  • Eyepatch of Power: That was his intention of using it, giving the impression he is a powerful guy, but it fails completely once Pandoria says out loud he couldn't afford a second contact lens.
  • Recurring Boss: He is fought three times before being recruited.
  • Secret Test: He was sent by Indol to check on the Aegis, under the pretense of being just a greedy driver wanting the Aegis for himself. It was supposed to be an one-and-done mission but his awful luck prevents his fights with Rex of concluding properly.
  • Thou Shalt Not Kill: Consider killing a sinal of cowardice and weakness, and therefore will not do it unless strictly necessary.
  • Wrong Genre Savvy: He acts like some kind of charming, seductive Anti-Hero before attacking Rex and company in his boss battles. Nonethless to say, Rex and company find him more to be a Manchild who they have to deal with from time to time (and they are completely correct).

Pandoria

  • Satellite Character: Played for Laughs. Not only she has not a lot of character, she literally mimicates her Driver's mannerisms like a street mime.
  • Shock and Awe: Her element is lightning.

Torna

The main antagonists of the game, that hired Rex and other scavengers through Bana to retrieve Pyra, the Aegis. Outside of that, they're known for killing Drivers to take their Core Crystals.

In general

  • Dead Guy, Junior: In a bizarre case of this, they're named after Torna, a country was destroyed centuries ago, apparently by the Aegis himself.
  • Half-Human Hybrid: With the exception of Malos, all of the Drivers of Torna are Flesh Eaters, blades infused with human cells, with exception of Mikhail, who is instead a human infused with a blade's core crystal.
  • Kill All Humans: Akhos say that is Jin's objective, and therefore their objective, word by word.
  • Kill The God: What they will do after killing manking, as said by Akhos after the Aeshma's core boss fight.
  • Omnicidal Maniac: Since with the exception of Malos they are all humans. It's revealed eventually most are blades, and only Mikhail is human.

Malos

  • Card-Carrying Villain: Openly calls himself a "wretched being".Just before the Final Boss fight.
  • Cain and Abel: Turns out he and Mythra are akin to brother and sister, being similar units of a collective artificial intelligence. As you can see clearly from the other tropes, Malos is pretty much the Cain.
  • Darth Vader Clone: He's The Dragon with a filial relationship with the hero/heroine who was artificially created, and manipulated into evil by the Big Bad.
  • Dragon Their Feet: Outlasts Jin and keeps doing what Jin ordered him to only well after Jin is dead but also changed his mind about destroying mankind.
  • Driven to Madness: His initial rampage was likey a result of absorbing his Driver's negative emotions.
  • Evil Counterpart: For some unexplanable reason, he turned into a monster as soon as Amalthus awakened him, totally different of Mythra that, despite her flaws, wants to do what is best for Alrest. Mythra speculates that Amalthus unintentionally turned him into this, and Malos outright tell Amalthus in a flashback he was going to kill humans indiscriminately because that is what his Driver wished.
  • Final Boss: Pilots Artifice Aion for the final story mode boss battle.
  • Foreshadowing: He is able to use abilities with "Monado" on their name in his second boss battle, hinting there is deeper connections between this game and the first one.
  • Generic Doomsday Villain: Amalthus awakened him and without restraint or remorse Maltos began to destroy Alrest, not obeying his Driver's orders at all. When fighting Amalthus later, however, Mythra speculates it were Amalthus' emotions that drove Malos' rampage, even if Amalthus himself couldn't control him.
  • King Mook: Is basically this for the Blades, being much more powerful than your regular one from the moment he was awakened.
  • Obviously Evil: Malos wears a dark-blue armor and has a scary humanoid monster as Blade.
  • Super Prototype: Justified. Though he was one of the first Blades created, he wasn't actually a Blade at conception, being a computer processor that was transformed into a Blade later. Because of that, he can do way more things than a normal Blade can.
  • The Dragon: He's The Brute of Torna and he is more focused on fighting the Aegis than Jin.
  • The Last of These Is Not Like the Others: Despite being a Blade, he can wield other Blades like he was a Driver. He also don't obeys his own Driver, Amalthus, at all, and killing his Driver don't resets his memories. Much of these other traits are similar to Mythra, though Mythra isn't a Driver in gameplay.
  • Turned Against Their Masters: He is Amalthus' Blade, but he don't obeys him at all, starting a termination campaign against human beings for seemingly no reason, and his Driver couldn't do anything against it. Mythra later deduces Amalthus' hate towards mankind did come from Amalthus, but Amalthus never agreed to Malos' methods, at least not to a conscious level.

Jin

  • Absurdly Sharp Blade: It can cut through fire of a titan dragon.
  • Big Bad: Torna's actions put the plot in motion. Considering he's their leader, that makes him this trope.
  • Flash Step: Can do that without controlling a blade despite apparently being a human with no abnormal abilities.
  • Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: The vision of Lora he sees before fighting the party for the last time could be really her spirit trying to make him give up on his murderous plans or just a manifestation of his own guilt.
  • Malevolent Masked Men: Uses a grey mask over the top of his face.

Akhos

Mikhail

  • Heel Face Turn: At the last second, he saves Rex's party from being turned to dust and says he will 'leave Jin' to them, implying he wants him to be defeated.
  • Heroic Sacrifice: Goes down fighting the indolian titan to prevent it of further attacking the World Tree.
  • Token Good Teammate: He turns out to be much more benevolent than his comrades. Lora's kindness towards him and the romantic love he feels for Patroka are implied to be part of it, so he knows humans aren't all that bad, and may value something on Alrest enough to not be completely omnicidal.
  • Token Human: The only member of Torna who isn't a Blade, but rather a human infused with blade parts.
  • Walking Spoiler: Much of his character's backstory personality, and active role in the plot comes at the later points of the game, and reveal a disturbing secret about one of the antagonists' pasts too, so there isn't a lot to say about him without delving into spoiler territory.

Supporting Characters

Brighid

Morag

  • Anti-Villain: The reason she wants Pyra is because she fears her Driver may end up using her to cause a disaster similar to what happended 500 years ago.
  • Bifauxnen: She have a very masculine voice and her clothes cover body completely. Thankfully, other characters make pretty clear she's a Lady.
  • Hero Antagonist: She is only doing her job and trying to take down fugitives.
  • Not So Different: From Rex. The cutscene after she and Brighid lose Rex and company implies she had the same concern as the boy: that someone would use Pyra as a weapon. That realization makes her give up on pursuing them, feeling the blade is in good hands already.

Amalthus

  • Combat Tentacles: His final form contains these.
  • Evil Counterpart: To Rex, since they're both drivers of Aegises with all the power it entails, but Rex's desire is the opposite of Amalthus. To drive the point further, Malos don't obeys Amalthus at all and is openly hostile to him while Mythra and Pyra seem to love Rex romantically. Flashbacks even reveal Malos followed the opposite path of Mythra: he was initially obedient to his Driver and then turned on him.
  • Green-Eyed Monster: He gets very angry about Rex equaling him in power and breaking his control over other blades, saying he don't deserves it, and later dialogue implies he is actually envious of Rex, believing he is The Architect's Chosen One.
  • The Chosen One: Such thing doesn't exist in this game, but Amalthus' dialogue implies he believes Rex is this to the Architect.
  • Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Unleashed Malos on the world, but couldn't do anything to stop him. Later dialogue by Malos himself and Mythra imply Malos was simplying following Malos' subconscious will to destroy everything.
  • Walking Spoiler: Amalthus's active part on the story are linked deeply to both flashbacks and the climax of the game, and let's leave it at that.