Arcturus Porter I/Tropes

Tropes that apply to Arcturus Porter I, written as if it were a TV Tropes page.

## Characterization and background

* **One Man Army**: Like his central descendant as of Season 4, he's heavily armed and can withstand enemy forces.
* **Old But Still Kickin'**: Is 2000 years old, oldest of all the characters despite having the appearance of a 30 year-old man.
* **Communism is Heresy**: Has an certain hatred of communism.
* **The Predecessor**: The ancestor of all Porters.
* **Artificial Human**: Was created by magic instead of human parents.
* **Living Distant Ancestor**: He's the ancestor of all Porters, but is still very much alive prior to the final episode of season 11.
* **The Multiversal Emperor of Mankind**: Used to be an Emperor in his Federal times.
* **Starship Captain**: Has an GDI Kodiak-Class battlecruiser (which he used it as an merchant ship) painted with the color palette of his clothes.
* **Mech Pilot**: Has a ye olde Titan Mk. I main battle walker (the first Titan walker used by GDI) with a railgun but painted with the color palette of his clothes.
* **Fish Out of Water**: He lives in a cave as a hermit, so he doesn't know that much about modern society.
* **Smugglin' & Tradin'**: He is currently a merchant, or most likely a smuggler.
* **What Could Have Been**: Originally, his Japanese name was planned to be "Portuaa Akihito," but this was rejected since it would be disrespectful to the former emperor of Japan, Akihito.
* **Expy**: Of Han Solo from *Star Wars*. He has a starship (which in this case, it was the Kodiak-Class battlecruiser) of his own, and being a smuggler all the time until his death.
* **The Primarch**: He has an army of his own. In this case, it is the undefeatable Defenders of Imperium, a military organization that serves to protect Arcturus's empire.
* **Vulgar Humor**: He likes making crude jokes, and another character always has to cut him off before he can go on.
* **Closeted Geek**: Arcturus is secretly a fan of *Saturday Night Live* as of Season 4.
* **Meaningful Name**: A subtle example in the Japanese version. The name "Arata" means "fresh" or "new," referring to the fact he's the ancestor of the Porter family.
* **The Only Thing They Fear Is You**: Villains like Team Rocket (except Event Horizon and her pals) fear him whenever he appears with Terminator Power Armor on, since Terminator Armors are virtually hard to destroy with any other weaponry or magic, which make users like a living tank.
* **Jerk with a Heart of Gold**: As an adult, he is often rude, bitter, and makes crude jokes, but truly cares about the others deep down.
* **Kid Hero**: Is 10 in the first season.
* **Despair Event Horizon**: He witches out in episode 10, but is purified.
* **Adoption is Not an Option**: Arcturus and Victoria were never adopted due to prospective parents not wanting a magically-created kid, but attitudes have since changed.
* **Eternal Depression**: Whenever someone mentions Victoria, he'll cry. If Nanette lets him see Victoria for a short time, he'll calm down, but this trope is permanently averted in the season 11 finale due to his death. Word of God says he also is an alcoholic after her death.
* **Fantastic Racism**: Is racist towards Slavs.
* **Took a Level in Jerk\*bleep\***: As an adult in the present day, he is far more bitter, rude, racist, and cynical than in the first season due to Victoria's death.
* **Freudian Excuse**: Downplayed. He's not evil and while Victoria's death certainly doesn't excuse his behavior, his bitter and cynical attitude as an adult is a result of the grief he suffered from it.
* **Berserk Button**: He has plenty.
	+ DO NOT ever TRY and ship him and Victoria together. He'll attack if done anyways.
	+ He gets triggered whenever Pudding ships him and Victoria with her dolls.
	+ Steal his Power Armor and you'll be doomed.
	+ Don't make fun of Victoria and Melody or even Sanguinius. Do that, and you've chosen getting attacked.
	+ Don't try to do something bad with all of his 21 children, or otherwise you'll face his wrath. This is best seen where Jim got utterly disgusted by Eridanus and removed him after being asked if Jim ever heard about "wincest."
* **Oh, Crap!**:
	+ Episode 11, when he sees his crush as a witch.
	+ Episode 22, when he realizes Victoria is about to ruin the entire planet. He even says "DIVINITY-DAMMIT!", though nobody is able to stop him from saying the name of his (in-universe) creator in vain in time.
* **Perplexing Plurals**: Whenever a Pokémon using Transform transforms into him or when a character such as Kyoko, Julia, or the supporting Guardian Alya, uses illusion magic, other characters typically say "Arcturi" instead of "Arcturuses."
* **What Kind Of Treachery Is This?!**: Arcturus is revealed to have betrayed Arcadia by having him and his legion kill her with anti-magic (though the Divinity acted quickly; despite this action not being shown) and slaughtering others during the events of Arcturus's Heresy as the way to avenge the death of Victoria and Samu. He's now a traitor Guardian that never redeemed himself even after the event. To this day, however, he's still in the good side despite that event.
	+ Eventually, when Tapu Fini learns the truth, however...
	+ Unfortunately, to this day, that doesn't stop him from making his future secret plans about killing her to avenge the death of someone he loves the most. Not even GDI or any of Primarch Porters' legions could stop him and his legion from sparking the second Arcturus's Heresy.
* **Friends?! Who Needs Friends?**: Under any circumstances, don't ever mention the name Arcadia while he is around, or otherwise, he'll lose it. He and Arcadia are no longer friends, as they're now enemies since the events of Arcturus's Heresy. Not only that, but he also stated to Melody one time that *making friends is hersey* (thus getting himself blinded by Aurea after she overhears him). In the Season 11 finale, however, Arcturus sees his error, and before sacrificing himself, tells Melody that he wanted to apologize to Arcadia but had no time.
* **Redemption Equals Death**: Downplayed. While he was never evil in a sense, he saw the error of his ways in the Season 11 finale and sacrificed himself to save Melody from an attack Eternatus unleashed.
* **Disability as an Excuse for Jerk\*bleep\*ery**: He uses his PTSD from Victoria's death as an excuse to be a complete jerk\*bleep\* who commonly makes threats and insults his own friends and descendants.
* **Revenge Before Reason**: He would like to brutally murder Arcadia more than anything for becoming immortal at the cost of Victoria and Samu's lives, and as a result is a callous, grief-stricken, alcoholic jerk\*bleep\* with severe depression and PTSD.
* **Disproportionate Retribution**: All because of Victoria's death due to something that even Arcadia had no control over, Arcturus started a huge war, became an enormous psychopathic Jerk\*bleep\*, and murdered the rest of his former teammates sans Arcadia and Kiara. The latter, however, knows how Gura and Calliope managed to escape death as well...
* **Public Enemy #1**: As this for being a huge psychopath who killed his former teammates, started a huge war that killed trillions of lives and even disbelief in magic, friendship and harmony, even believes that the Light of Hope and the Magic of Friendship aren't exist as well.
* **Friend Kills Friends**: Done this several times.
	+ The first one being him killed his former friends sans Arcadia and Kiara during Arcturus's Heresy.
	+ He did once attempted to kill all of his sons, but fails when Rogal caught him trying to kill Leman.
	+ At some point in Season 8, he strangled Jim to death but only to be stopped by his sole daughter.

* **Face-Heel Turn**: Downplayed. While he never became completely evil, the trauma from Victoria's death twisted his heart and made him cold, bitter and cruel, and made him extremely consumed with revenge on Arcadia. This is certainly a sharp contrast from when he is a child in the first season.
* **Gory Discretion Shot**: During the Great Rebellion, him killing the other Guardians is not shown onscreen, as the camera avoids showing the killing while only the screams and the sound of weapons and stabbing can be heard.
* **Food Slap**: In "Chloe Is a School Girl?!," he splashes soda in Melody's face after she rubs in being a Hero.

## Appearance

* **You Gotta Have Blue Hair**: He has neon cyan hair like his descendants.
* **Older than They Look**: He's 2000 years old, yet looks 30.
* **Slight Resemblance**: He looks a bit like Jim.
* **Sharp-Dressed Man**: Well, boy, but his Guardian outfit has a very militaristic vibe, with buttons, shoulderpads, and a tailcoat jacket.
* **Combat Stilettos**: A male variant - not exactly high heels, but he does wear platform dress shoes in his Guardian form.
* **Memento MacGuffin**: His Polaris Sword, which is a large, indestructible, magical silver sword with unlimited potential, is this to the Porters (especially Jim).
* **Pink Girl, Blue Boy**: A somewhat downplayed example, but Arcturus mostly dresses in cyan (which is composed of half blue) with cyan hair, a cyan Harmony Mark, and a cyan Guardian outfit while Victoria has some pink accents in her Guardian form and has a pink Harmony Mark.

## Abilities

* **Mighty Glacier**: Is a Fighting Elemental, but he doesn't have much agility and speed like Jim does. He makes up for it with physical strength.
* **Master Swordsman**: Is a very capable swordsfighter.
* **Super Strength**: His main power as a Guardian is superhuman strength, and his kicks and punches can shatter stone as if it were glass.
* **Undying Loyalty**: He wields the Element of Loyalty.

## Relationships

* **Cannot Spit it Out**: He really likes Victoria, but he just can't seem to gather the courage to admit it.
* **Divine Parentage**: A variation. He was created by the Divinity, but isn't biologically Her "offspring" and was created with his own DNA.
* **Useless Advisor**: In contrast to Victoria Daisy, he sometimes gives Jim advice that aren't actually helping or working.
* **Explosive Breeder**: He has 20 sons. However, it is unknown whether his current wife Mary is the mother of all of them or not or if he had them with various partners.
* **Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other**: He often insults and makes fun of his sons, and while he rarely admits it, he loves them deep down.
* **Theme Naming**: Arcturus himself is named after a star, and he named all his sons after various constellations.
* **Malicious Misnaming**: He often refers to or call anycreature else with terms or inappropriate names. For example:
	+ Jim; "Military veteran turned president" or "blue-tipped cosmic banana", "golden \*censored\* toy" after Jim got his Stage 4 upgrade, Oshawott fetishist, Water-type wannabe.
	+ Magnus; Chicken, chili pepper, good-for-nothing book-fucker, red nerd.
	+ Team Rocket; a bunch of completely unnecessary, \*bleep\*ed-up BDSM enthusiasts.
	+ He's not the only one who better not call Nina a "jerkish idealistic heroine." Do that and she'll attack.
	+ Event Horizon; Pink-skinned witch, or a literal beet.
	+ Necrosis; "Robotic piece of junk" or "creepy swordswoman" (both no longer applicable).
	+ Elizabeth; Unicorn vomit, Skittlesface, or "AIDS-ridden piece of \*bleep\*".
	+ Nanette; Dragon-flavored donuts or purple enthusiast. (Anyone better not call her either those names or something much more rude, or else she'll attack.)
	+ He and anyone else better make sure they don't call Cheren a "bratty nerd with high IQ and snarkiness." He'll get a huge temper if said...
	+ Queen Vera; Big Daddy Eridanus's personal pleasure object.
	+ Black Hat; A straight-up idiot.
	+ Tenebrosum Leucosia; An paraplegic sociopath.
	+ June Porter; A literal cybernetic bimbo.
	+ Pudding; Bratty custard addict.
	+ Carrot Cake; Overly curious carrot enthusiast.
	+ Sugar; Sugary piece of toilet paper.
	+ Dragonet; Snarky jerk\*bleep\*.
	+ Aurea; Cinccino furry fan. (Careful, push her a little too far and she'll go insane...)
	+ Marina; Ocean fetishist, seashell obsessee, or weak water-obsessed creampuff.
	+ Fennel; Dream-\*bleep\*er or Munnaphile.
	+ Borealis; Speed demon, racing fetishist, velocity enthusiast, Asian racer.
	+ Eridanus; Mindless manchild or oil tanker.
	+ Sagittarius; Superpowered garbage bag.
	+ Elio and Helios; Solar panels.
	+ Both Selenes in this series (Moone and Porter ones); Lunar dumbasses.
	+ Amelia; Pachirisu rapist.
	+ Leman; Russ, Scottish wolf furry enthusiast, cold environment addict and Norse viking.
	+ Rogal; Worker cyanbrain, emotionless builder, honey-mustard bearded homonculus, lemon-stained hunk of concrete and Rogaly-Ding-Dong.
	+ Vulkan; Friendly-ass black guy.
	+ Cygnus and his Ultra-Blue Warriors legion; Baby-blue ball-busters.
	+ Corvus; Fucking ravens.
	+ Alpharius; Gay-looking person and blind asshole.
	+ Taurus; Literal vampire.
	+ Fornax; Man needs anger management issues.
* **Childhood Friend Romance**: With Victoria.
* **Unto Us a Son and Daughter Are Born**: If Victoria and Arcturus are considered "twins" (chronlogically but not biologically), then they count as this, as the Divinity created a boy and a girl.
* **Abusive Parents**: Arcturus is often quite rude and abusive to his sons, once even trying to *kill* all of them only to be stopped by Rogal.
* **Starter Wedding**: In the Season 1 finale, he and Victoria make wedding vows offscreen and become married for 15 minutes before the latter dies.