Alexis・Kerib [2] is the main antagonist of SSSS.GRIDMAN.
Personality[]
On the surface, Alexis acts in a gentlemanly way and speaks in a calm, polite way to everyone he meets. However, he is really a manipulator who had been using Akane's negative emotions from the very beginning.
Additionally, being immortal has left him with a deep emptiness that he feels can only be satisfied by seeing the ideals of people being crushed over and over again, which is why he helps Akane create Kaiju in the first place. Once he had no more use of Akane, he tried to flee and find another person to leech off.
History[]
Pre-SSSS.GRIDMAN[]
Alexis・Kerib was a malevolent immortal being who reveled in the negative emotions of others. At some point, he found Akane Shinjo, who harbored within her what Alexis sought. Using her, he helped her create a supposedly perfect world, but he knew that she could not control everything, and imperfections were bound to exist. Alexis once fought Gridman, who was chasing him from the Hyper World, and won, having split up his consciousness into parts.
SSSS.GRIDMAN[]
Alexis was first seen in a computer screen, commenting that the model of Ghoulghilas made by Akane was quite good. He then turned it into a giant using his powers. Awakening Alexis helps Akane create the various Kaiju throughout the series. Secretly, he was simply using Akane's Kaiju to destroy the city and have it rebuilt every time, simply for his enjoyment.
Later on, Akane invites Yuta out for a meal, where they are joined by Alexis. Much to Yuta's surprise, no one takes notice of the alien figure, implying he has a similar cloaking ability as the Illusion Monsters. Just as Yuta's about to eat, his Primal Acceptor goes off, revealing a Kaiju is attacking. Akane goes home, confused that a Kaiju is attacking without her creating it, and Alexis reveals to her that Anti was the one who designed this creature and asked him to bring it to life, much to Akane's displeasure. After Gridman and Sky Vitter destroy Diriver and beat Anti again, Alexis directly confronts Anti, who punishes the human lookalike by stealing his buzzsaw and slashing his face. Scheme
Alexis continued to create Kaiju designed by Akane and, towards the end, pushed her into creating more despite her being reluctant to. Collapse After Akane loses the will to make more Kaiju, Alexis revives many Kaiju that were previously defeated by Gridman. When all of them are defeated, he uses his Instance Abreaction on Akane, turning her into a Kaiju. Decisive Battle
Rikka confronts him but Alexis reveals to her that she is simply a manufactured imitation, a Repli-Compoid. His words fail to phase Rikka. Anti rescues Akane from her Kaiju form but just as he does, Alexis impales him with a massive sword and swallows Akane with his cloak. Absorbing her negative emotions, Alexis evolved into Giant Alexis・Kerib. He fought Gridman, who had regained his true form, and was initially winning until Gridman realized his true power was not simply to attack and destroy, but also to repair and mend. With that, Gridman blasted Alexis with the Grid Fixer Beam, clearing Akane's heart and thus weakening Alexis. In a final clash, Gridman won and all that was left of Alexis was a smoking shard, which was sealed away and taken back by Gridman and the Neon Genesis Junior High Students to the Hyper World. Awakening (Finale)
GRIDMAN UNIVERSE[]
Alexis first briefly appeared during the chaotic merging of universes as a costume worn by Rikka's dad, much to Yuta's horror.
Later, Akane Shinjo used Instance Domination on his sealed body to take control of him, which he went along with, having grown bored of waiting around. The pair transformed into new New Order forms and fought Mad Origin, managing to rescue Gridman from him. Afterwards, Alexis fought the Noirdogma army and Mad Origin with the other heroes. When it seemed that they had won, Mad Origin ambushed Alexis and consumed him, although he sent Akane to safety first. In response, Gridman fired his Fixer Beam while the others fired their own strongest beams, causing Mad Origin's body to be repeatedly destroyed and restored, the unlimited energy he received from Alexis being used against him. While Alexis・Kerib prevented Mad Origin from escaping from within his body, Gridman delivered the final blow and destroyed the villain for good.
Badly damaged and the color of his body faded, Alexis floated in midair. After saying that he found being a limited lifeform enjoyable, he crumbled away into dust. However, the Neon Genesis Junior High Students were unconvinced that Alexis was truly gone and agreed to seal him once they found him again. GRIDMAN UNIVERSE
Profile[]
- Stats
- Height: 215 cm
- Weight: 112 kg
- Powers and Weapons
- Computer Inhabitation: Compared to Gridman, Alexis seems to be in perfect shape and is able to exist both in real life and in Akane's LCD computer screen.
- Instance Abreaction : By some unknown process, Alexis turns a figure of a monster into a real life monster. His visor glows red when he uses this power. It can also be used on a human.
- Mass Resurrection: During the eleventh episode, when Akane refused to make more Kaiju, Alexis resurrected every previously defeated Kaiju in the show and released them into the city. He performed this the same way as Instance Abreaction.
- Attention Manipulation: At least to normal humans, Alexis can mask his presence so as to not raise suspicion on his rather odd appearance.
- Enhanced Reflexes: Alexis is fast enough to react towards Anti's buzzsaw, disarming him before using that very same weapon to scar him.
- Teleportation: Alexis can transport himself to any location in the Computer World within a blink of an eye.
- Weapons: Alexis can conjure weapons to use in battle, most commonly he uses two swords in battle but has also used a spear.
- Transformation: In the final episode, Alexis took on a more humanoid form to battle Gridman by absorbing Akane into his body and feeding off her negative emotions. He also grows in size to about Gridman's maximum height and changes into Giant Alexis・Kerib.
- Energy Blast: Only used in the opening, Alexis fires a purple energy blast out of his palm. It causes a massive explosion.
Giant Alexis・Kerib [3][4] is Alexis' evolved combat form, gained after absorbing Akane's negative emotions.
- Stats
- Height: 75 m
- Weight: 65,000 t
- Powers and Weapons
It is likely that Alexis retains all his abilities from his normal-sized self and may have had these abilities then as well.
- Strength: Alexis was shown to be able to keep up with and even overpower Gridman at times.
- Immortality: During the final battle, Alexis revealed that he had a form of immortality. He was shown to instantly regenerate from Gridman's attacks, which atomized him various times. Gridman was able to subdue this ability by using his Fixer Beam (the beam heals the heart of his host Akane, thus robbing him of the source of negative emotions that augmented his immortality and regeneration), after which his remaining body shard had to be sealed.
- Energy Pulse: Alexis fires an energy pulse that destroys whatever it hits.
- Energy Bolts: Energy bolts fired from Alexis' body.
- Energy Beam: An energy beam fired from Alexis' hands. It can easily overpower Gridman's Grid Beam.
- Portal: Alexis opens a portal to travel through.
- Flame Form: Alexis can become a living flame if he chooses to. His eyes are still clearly present.
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In a bid to help Yuta and co. saving Gridman and the entire multiverse from Mad Origin, Akane subjects Alexis • Kerib with Instance Domination, allowing her to merge with the latter with herself as the "pilot." This resulted in Alexis • Kerib attaining a purple, red, and white variation of his giant form along with a different set of abilities.
- Stats
- Height: 59 m
- Weight: 33,000 t
- Powers and Weapons
- Instance Abreaction : He retains his use of Instance Abreaction and even displayed another application of it, this time, guiding Gridman in bringing his allies back to existence to counter Mad Origin's forces.
- Immortality: He retains his original giant form's immortality in which he can instantly regenerate from even most severe of damage. That said, it's later confirmed that rapid restoration and destruction of his body will result it to fall apart, revealing his immortality has limitations after all.
Gallery[]
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Trivia[]
- Designer: Shigeto Koyama[5]
- His design is rather clearly inspired, at least in part, by the main villain of the original Gridman series, Kahn Digifer.
- He also shares his design with General Manager of Over Justice from a Trigger anime, Space Patrol Luluco. It also helped that they are voiced by the same voice actor. One notable detail is the outline of a Sheriff's badge on Alexis' forehead exactly wear Over Justice's would be placed.
- Other details of his design may also relate to another Trigger work, Kill la Kill. His shoulder pads have the same shape as Junketsu does in override form, as well as his color scheme matches Senketsu.
- His voice actor Tetsu Inada mentions in an interview that director Akira Amemiya once said that Alexis is Over Justice. According to him, after the events of Space Patrol Luluco, Over Justice wandered the multiverse for thousands of years and became corrupted in the process. Gridman's Fixer Beam restored his original self, and he may return as Gridman Justice .[6]
- In Super Robot Wars 30, when fighting any unit from J-Decker, Alexis Kerib will say the word police make his skin crawl. This is a direct reference to Over Justice.
- As with Yuta Hibiki and Akane Shinjo, Alexis was one of the adopted characters of the scrapped plan, Gridman the Hyper Agent F. SSSS.GRIDMAN adopted many aspects of this leftover plan and had the show went on, Alexis would still become its main antagonist, going further to explain that he was an inhabitant of Makai World (as opposed to Khan, a criminal from Hyper World) and his assistant would be Akane, who was to be portrayed in a similar role to Takeshi Todo.
- In the English dub, voice actor Barry Yandell affects an accent reminiscent of Tim Curry, paying tribute to the actor's role dubbing Kilo Khan (Kahn Digifer's counterpart) in Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad. Also, the scene where Alexis calls Rikka a "fabricated meat-thing" during a conversation in episode 12 is a call-back to Kilokahn referring to humans as "meat-thing"s.
- Just as Akane's design holds references to a Transformers character, arguably, so does Alexis. His black body and teal shoulder pads, plus his red sword, are reminiscent of Scourge (ja:Black Convoy)'s color scheme, an evil lookalike of Optimus Prime (ja:Fire Convoy) from Transformers: Robots in Disguise (ja:Transformers: Car Robots).
- According to the voice drama episode 2.9, Alexis owns a car and has it insured, but unfortunately he doesn't have a driver's license and no idea on how to operate the brake, causing him to crash the car in the voice drama.
- Super Robot Wars 30 would emphasize his connection to Ultraman. Upon seeing Ultraman (Shinjiro Hayata) and interacting with him, he makes a couple of references to the Ultraman Factor, calling it the Light Factor or calling Shinjiro the Vessel of Light.
- In Super Robot Wars 30, if Alexis fights the magic knights from Rayearth, Alexis would quote by saying, "I suppose a magical girl could be the next step up from Akane. The despair of magical girls… hmmm." This becomes ironic as on March 24, 2023, GRIDMAN UNIVERSE would be released with Akane transforming into a magical girl type.
References[]
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-7aH5_iGEs
- ↑ https://gridman.net/character/#/alexis
- ↑ https://animaru.jp/excludes/p/1046/images/special/comiket95/images/item/grd_05.jpg
- ↑ https://ultra.fandom.com/wiki/File:GiantAlexisName.png
- ↑ Live Drawing 6 - Akira Amemiya drawing a GRIDMAN Shikishi for AX
- ↑ https://ultra.fandom.com/wiki/File:GridmanJustice.jpg