Sanger Zonvolt
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Sanger Zonvolt (ゼンガー・ゾンボルト zengā zonboruto) is a fictional character in the Super Robot Wars series. He first appeared in Super Robot Taisen Alpha Gaiden as an enemy character, who could be recruited later in the game, and was fully playable in the rest of the Alpha series and the Super Robot Taisen: Original Generation series. In canon, he pilots the DyGenGuard.
[edit] Personal Data
Name: Sanger Zonvolt
AKA: Sanger
Voice Actor: Kenichi Ono
Status: Human
Rank: Major
Affiliations: Aggressors (Before OG 1), ATX Team (OG 1/2), Divine Crusaders (OG 1), Ancestors (Alpha Gaiden), Londo Bell (Alpha Gaiden), Alpha Numbers (Alpha 2/3)
Personal Relatives And Affiliations: Elzam V. Branstein (Friend), Sophia Nate (Love Interest)
Mecha: Thrudgelmir (Alpha Gaiden), Grungust Type 0 (OG 1), Grungust Type 3 (OG 2, Alpha 2), DyGenGuard (OG 2, Alpha 2/3)
[edit] Personality And Traits
The self-styled "Sword That Smites Evil" (aku wo tatsu tsurugi 悪を断つ剣 Sword That Cleaves Evil in the original Japanese), Sanger Zonvolt is a very honorable individual who fights for his own personal beliefs. Hardened by a long career as a soldier, Sanger has an amazing amount of wisdom on the battlefield and can sense the potential in allies and enemies alike. His demeanor and manners of speech are reminiscient of a samurai, and as such, Sanger and his personal machines are always depicted with a sword -- in the case of the latter, all of his machines have a gigantic, specially-made sword called the Zankantou (Colossal Blade in the English localization). Sanger also has a tendency to speak with yojijukugo -- four-kanji idioms -- a trait which his fellow swordsman-in-training Brooklyn Luckfield inherits in future games. Examples of such phrases are ichiisenshin (一意専心, With all my heart and soul), ittou ryoudan (一刀両断, One blade that cuts in half), and jinba ittai (人馬一体, The rider and his horse are one), though Sanger uses an alternate version (刃馬一体, The blade and the horse are one）.
[edit] History
In the Original Generation timeline, Sanger Zonvolt began as a member of the Aggressors unit, an elite group of pilots formed by the Earth Federation Army, with other notable members as Elzam von Branstein, Gilliam Yeager and Kai Kitamura. When the unit was disbanded, Sanger was relocated to the North American Langley Base, and started to form the ATX Team. When the Divine Crusaders declared war on the Federation Army, led by such convictions, Sanger chose to leave the ATX Team and join forces with the Divine Crusaders, fighting once more alongside his old friend, Elzam.
As a member of the faction, Sanger upholds the more honorable intentions of Bian Zoldark, and seems to understand the point of Bian's rebellion: it is suppose to strengthen the forces of Earth and prepare them for an impending invasion by alien forces. This dedication to valor often causes Sanger to butt heads with another high-ranking soldier, Siebel Mistel, who feels that the ends justify some truly devious means, such as trying to kill his enemies with poison gas, or making the threat of gassing a space colony.
Both Sanger and Elzam join the Earth's forces in time for Operation SRW, the final offensive against the Aerogater invaders, before going their separate ways. He and Elzam would retreat into hiding, waiting for the opportunity to reveal themselves again, when a new alien threat would arrive to terrorize the people of Earth. As expected, in Original Generation 2, both the mighty Inspectors and mysterious Einsts appear. Sanger and Elzam immediately rush to join their old allies in the battle against the extraterrestrials, as well as the Neo Divine Crusaders and Shadow-Mirror. His Grungust Type-3 is torn apart by one of the Inspectors, but shortly after he acquires Bian Zoldark's last gift to him-the incredible Dynamic General Guardian, which he shortens to DyGenGuard.
In the Alpha timeline, Sanger first appears in Alpha Gaiden. Here, he has a deep sense of devotion to the main designer of the Earth Cradle shelter, Sophia Nate, to the point where he is seemingly in love with her. This devotion plays a role in the dystopian alternate future in the story of Alpha Gaiden, where Sanger shows fanatical loyalty to Magus, the central computer of Earth Cradle that has fused with Sophia. Through the persuasion of Londo Bell's pilots, however, Sanger realizes that Magus is not the same Sophia Nate he swore to protect, and chose to fight against the Ancestors and free Sophia from Magus' control.
