Elise (Azure Striker Gunvolt)

Elise is one of the major antagonists of Azure Striker Gunvolt. Her rogues gallery theme represents "envy" as one of the seven deadly sins. She is a Sumeragi prisoner, later serving Nova along with the Sumeragi Seven, excluding Zonda, who has his/her own agenda. Elise made a cameo appearance in Gunvolt OVA, and Azure Striker Gunvolt 2. She also made an appearance in Mighty Gunvolt as a boss, and Gunvolt 3 as one of obtainable image pulses.
She is voiced by Ayano Ishimuroya (credited as Ayano) in the Japanese dub, and Katy Johnson (starting in Azure Striker Gunvolt 3) in the English dub.
== What Makes Her an Ensemble Dark Horse? ==
* Of all Gunvolt Bosses, she is genuinely sympathetic, and has more tragic backstory than Stratos due started as a victim of bullying by her classmates, and that's before she was getting kidnapped for experimentation.
* In Audio CD Drama, Lazy Kingdom, Elise, invited by Merak & Teseo by mysterious email, played an online MMORPG called September Records (Realms of Robocraft in the Early 3ds English Translation) to overcome her insecurity caused by bullying. Merak doesn't even bother telling his boss that he succeeded developing Elise's dominant personality before the Sumeragi scientists kidnapped her later for the unethical experimentation asset for cheating death.
* The Sumeragi scientists kidnap her for the asset to develop Septima powers that can reanimate beings from death, by implanting the personality chips of obedience to Elise. The experiment was successful, that Elise created her three literal split personalities, and the scientists became zombies as the consequences.
* Her boss fight is essentially Rospark mixed with Argoyle and Ugoyle from Megaman ZX Advent, but with Gemini Destruction Law. Although known to be one of the difficult boss fights along with Viper.
* She had placed 1st in Gunvolt Popularity Poll for Halloween.
== Trivia ==
* Following the vehicular theme naming of Gunvolt Bosses, she is named after Lotus Elise.
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Category:Video Game Ensemble Dark Horses
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