Dr. Shizuma--This
scientist, with his four colleages, invented the Shizuma drive
near Belgium ten years before the events of the Giant Robo story.
The drive was the perfect energy source, efficient and
non-polluting, and soon everything in the world, from
airplanes to cigarette lighters to giant robots, used it. Dr.
Shizuma was hailed as a hero, but at the start of the anime he is
a nervous wreck and mentally unstable. It seems he knows
something about the Shizuma drive that the rest of the world does
not...
Dr. VonVogler
(Fogler, Folger)--Vogler went down in history as the one who
caused the Tragedy of Bashtarlle--An explosion involved with the
first Shizuma drive prototype system that wiped out a country and
killed a third of the world's inhabitants. He is presumed to have
died in the blast, but he turns up early in episode 1, apparently
out for some kind of revenge. Is Vogler still alive, and what
does he hope to accomplish if he is?
Dr. Duncan--He and the two
others below also worked on the drive with Shizuma and Vogler ten
years in the past. Little information about them is given, and
all three are killed by Big Fire at the start of the Giant Robo
animation. I believe Dr. Duncan is the tall one.
Dr. Shimure--See above. I
believe he's the squat one.
Dr. Trumbeaux--See above. I
believe he's the bald one.
The
International Police
Big Fire
The Robots
Other