Ecolo

**Ecolo** is the mysterious hyperspace alien, and is one of the main characters from the long-running Puyo Puyo animated television series. He is Ringo's epic extraordinary nemesis and is the secondary antagonist in the Puyo Puyo franchise.

He is voiced by Spike Spencer in the video games, Eric Bauza in *Puyo Puyo: Magical Story*, and James Franco in the Puyo Puyo movies from Paramount Pictures.

## Biography

### Games only

During the events of the story, it is revealed that Dark Arle was actually Ecolo using Arle's body. He apparently wanted to bury Ringo's world in Puyo just for his amusement. After being beaten out of Arle's body, he wanted to possess Ringo Ando, but she wasn't about to let that happen! After foiling Ecolo's little game a second time, Ecolo decided that all worlds would suffer and be buried in Puyo, so he began to break down all worlds to gain the power to do this. Ringo could only watch, until Amitie and Arle came (along with apparently everyone else, too). The three girls teamed up to battle Ecolo one last time. They had defeated him, and apparently, it sends everyone back to their own respective worlds unharmed.

In Daihenshin, Ecolo transforms into shadowy doppelgangers of Feli and Klug. Outside of a henshin mode, Ecolo takes the form of a shadowy Ringo and borrows all of her animations, aside from the winning, losing and transforming animations, which are his own.

He uses Ms. Accord's Dropset.

## Relationships

### Dark Prince

Ecolo first met the Dark Prince in *Puyo Puyo!! 20th Anniversary* and was impressed at his magical powers. Since then, the two have delighted in causing chaos together and when mayhem arises, they are generally the first culprits in mind for Arle and Ringo. Ecolo is on friendly terms with the Dark Prince much to the girls' annoyance, and refers to him as "old man".

### Maguro Sasaki

While their interactions are few, Ecolo seems to see Maguro as a rival for Ringo's attention as seen by how he was upset in *Puyo Puyo!! 20th Anniversary* during Maguro's route.

### Ringo Ando

Ecolo has great fascination in Ringo Ando, to the point of jealousy and antagonizing those that are close to her; such as Maguro Sasaki and Amitie. He will use its powers to stole everyone's bodies and take control of their own, as he was the most extraordinary alien in the universe, trying to beat gamers around the galaxies due to the minds being antagonized. Sometimes, Ecolo loves to travel into space, as well as living on her own home planet, as well as travelling into different galaxies.

### Poison Ringo

Ecolo believes that Poison Ringo thinks that she's the evil witch version of Ringo. He calls her "Apple Witch" and he likes her as a friend and like to cause trouble together.

## Appearance

Ecolo is an amorphous, human-shape figure of space matter, generally of black and highlighted cyan. Their head has a wispy tail, and their face consists of two cyan circles, a question mark on the forehead and an eerily crescent-shape mouth with a perpetual drool. Their chest glows cyan, taking a vaguely star-shape form and spirals.

While the space matter appearance is the default, Ecolo has a more human-like appearance known as Unusual Ecolo.

In the movies from Paramount Pictures; Ecolo has the same appearance as the video game, but his hands and feet are more humanized.