Excellen Browning

Excellen Browning is a fictional character in the SUPER Robot Wars series. In canon, she pilots the Rein Weiss Ritter, and is joined by her boyfriend, Kyosuke Nanbu, who pilots the Alt Eisen Riese.

Appearances

Excellen has appeared in the following games:

• Super Robot Wars Compact 2 Part 1 - Minor appearance
• Super Robot Wars Compact 2 Part 2 - Protagonist
• Super Robot Wars Compact 2 Part 3 - Protagonist
• Super Robot Wars Impact - Protagonist
• Super Robot Taisen: Original Generation - Playable character
• Super Robot Taisen: Original Generation 2 - Playable character
• Super Robot Wars Original Generations - Playable character
• Super Robot Wars Original Generation Gaiden - Playable character

Theme Music

• Hakugin no LUCIFER (Platinum Lucifer; retitled Fallen White Knight, in the North American localization of Original Generation 2) - Default theme in all appearances
• Yureru Kokoro no Alchemist (Alchemist With A Wavering Heart; retitled Alchemist's Query, in the North American localization of Original Generation 2) - Default theme as an enemy unit

Personality And Traits

23-year old Excellen Browning is an extremely playful and flirtatious woman. One of the best examples of her teasing nature involves dressing up in a Playboy Bunny suit for the viewing pleasure of the male crew. She's always trying to get her boyfriend Kyosuke Nanbu to be romantic with her whenever she gets the chance, although her efforts usually backfire. She also jokingly flirts with nearly every male (and a few females) she comes in contact with, enjoys teasing the younger pilots like Brooklyn Luckfield and Masaki Andoh, cheering up people in times of stress, like Aya Kobayashi when Ingram Prisken defected to the Aerogaters and helping couples solve their relationship problems, á la Tasuku Shinguji and Leona Garstein. Carefree, frequently cheerful and loves alcohol, Excellen is actually quite an intelligent person, often quoting metaphors in the midst of battle, but at the same time, misusing them or getting their composition wrong.

In battle, Excellen can be considered a sniper, as the Weiss Ritter/Rein Weiss Ritter was built for long-range combat by Dr. Marion Radom. Most of the time, she's there to back up Kyosuke from the rear, while he takes the enemy head-on.

History

Excellen and Kyosuke were the only survivors of a shuttle crash during their younger years as cadet pilots. While Kyosuke came out of the accident unscathed, Excellen's body was damaged beyond repair and had little chance of living. However, a group of mysterious aliens called the Einst rebuilt her damaged body with their technology, inserting her into the Persönlichkeit, in order to rejuvenate her. She ended up surviving, becoming roughly 80% Einst and 20% human. Her history is unknown within that period until Kyosuke is recruited by Sanger Zonvolt into the ATX Team. Although Kyosuke didn't recognize her at first, Excellen, a second lieutenant on the team, reminds him of their past acquaintance and begin their steady relationship.

Though the two don't serve a strong role in Original Generation, their storyline is central to the plot of Original Generation 2. Here, the Einst, the aliens who repaired Excellen's body, have cloned her from their collective data on her in the form of Alfimi. The Einst, who claim they're the original watchers of the Earth, decide to destroy it and recreate it from its ashes a new world, with Kyosuke and Alfimi as the new Adam and Eve. To further their scheme, they capture Excellen and her Weiss Ritter and had her easily brainwashed, due to the influence of the Einst technology in her. The Weiss Ritter is eventually rebuilt as the Rein Weiss Ritter. Kyosuke was the only one who managed to break her free from their control over her and stop the Einst. With the Einst leader destroyed, all Einst elements in the universe begin to fade, including Alfimi, the parts on the Rein Weiss Ritter and the technology within Excellen's body.

Because Alfimi was essentially Excellen, even though she was a clone, Excellen felt deeply disheartened, having to lose another part of her. The events of Original Generation 2 concludes with Kyosuke and Excellen discussing their future together, with Excellen suggesting that if she ever conceives a baby girl, they would name her Alfimi, in memory of her attachment with her clone, before the Einst disappeared.

In the Shadow-Mirror universe, the Excellen Browning of that dimension was killed in the crash and was reborn and rebuilt as Lemon Browning by her parents.

Notes

In Original Generation 2, if Excellen lands the final blow on Lemon Browning's unit in the last battle against the Shadow-Mirror inside the White Star, she revises her comment about having children, during the ending dialogue. She tells Kyosuke that she'd like to have twin girls instead, with the oldest of the two named Alfimi, during which Kyosuke correctly guessed the younger would be named Lemon.

Furthermore, the release of Super Robot Wars Original Generations seems to have rectonned the fading of the Einst technology on the Rein Weiss Ritter, as it is still usable in the bonus segments of the game. Therefore, it is possible Excellen is still part Einst.

Trivia

• The original protagonists for the Playstation 2 turn-based strategy game, Namco x Capcom, Reiji and Xiaomu, were inspired by Kyosuke and Excellen, who share similar personality traits and relationship status. Namco x Capcom also happens to be directed by Soichiro Morizumi, who directed many games from the Super Robot Wars series, one of them being Super Robot Wars Impact, where Kyosuke and Excellen were the protagonists.

• When performing the signature combination Rampage Ghost with Kyosuke, Excellen would purposely misquote it as the Love Love Attack.

• Additionally, Yuko Mizutani and Toshiyuki Morikawa, Kyosuke's voice actor, also played characters that were close to each other in Tekkaman Blade.

• In Original Generations, placing Excellen in other machines sometimes causes her to use battle dialogue referencing various anime.
  • When using the Gespenst's Jet Magnum attack, she cries out "God Hand Crash!", recalling Rom Stoll of Machine Robo fame. Yuko Mizutani also voiced Rom's sister, Leina.
  • Upon finishing the Grungust's Calamity Sword attack, Excellen will sometimes say "Once again, I have cut a worthless object", a catchphrase used by Goemon in Lupin III.
  • In terms of the Gespenst MK II Type-S' Gespenst Kick attack, she yells out "Inazuma Kick!", the infamous technique of the Gunbuster robot, from the series of the same name. At other times, she may call out "Ges-chan jump! Ges-chan kick!", imitating the chorus of Kamen Rider's opening song, Let's go! Rider Kick!
  • Using the Mega Blaster Cannon will make Excellen yell out lines similar to Great Mazinger's Breast Burn attack, Getter Robo's Getter Beam attack or Mazinkaiser's Fire Blaster attack.
  • When attacking with the hidden Shishioh Blade weapon available for use on multiple real robots, Excellen will imitate Sanger Zonvolt's catchphrase, but in her own rendition: "I am Excellen Browning, the sword that cleaves up evil! There's nothing I can't cleave, you know!"
  • Using the Guarlion Custom's Sonic Breaker may cause Excellen to exclaim Yatteyaruyo! (lit. meaning: Let's do it!), in reference of Shinobu Fujiwara from Dancougar, whose catchphrase is Yatteyaruze!, also referencing that Shinobu's Eagle Fighter has an attack consisting of charging towards the enemy while covered with energy.

• In the English localizations of the Original Generation series, Excellen uses quotes from American pop culture:
  • When using the Giganscudo's Sheath Thunder attack, Excellen quotes Back to the Future by saying: "1.21 Gigawatts? Great Scott!"