Excellen Browning

Infobox animanga character
color = lightsteelblue
name = Excellen Browning
series = Super Robot Wars


caption = Excellen Browning, as she appears in Super Robot Wars Original Generations.
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voiced by = Yuko Mizutani (Japanese)
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nickname = Ms. Excell,
Ex-Oneesama (Japanese)
alias = Assault-2
age = 23
gender = Female
species = Human-Einst Hybrid
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death =
nationality = American
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relatives = Einst Alchemie (Einst clone)
Lemon Browning (Parallel-existence in the Shadow-Mirror universe)
divider = Military History
aux1 name = Affiliation
aux1 = Londo Bell (Compact 2 series, Impact),
ATX Team (Original Generation series)
aux2 name = Rank
aux2 = Second Lieutenant
aux3 name = Units Piloted
aux3 = Gespenst MK II M (OG 1/OGs), Weiss Ritter (Compact 2 series, Impact, OG 1/2/OGs), Rein Weiss Ritter (Compact 2 Part 3, Impact, OG 2/OGs/OG Gaiden)

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 appears in the following games:

*Super Robot Wars Compact 2 Part 1 - Non-playable character
*Super Robot Wars Compact 2 Part 2 - Protagonist
*Super Robot Wars Compact 2 Part 3 - Non-playable enemy character -> Playable character
*Super Robot Wars Impact - Protagonist -> Non-playable enemy character -> Playable character
* - Playable character
* - Playable character -> Non-playable enemy character -> Playable character
*Super Robot Wars Original Generations - Playable character -> Non-playable enemy character -> Playable character
*Super Robot Wars Original Generation Gaiden - Playable character

She also appears in the following anime:

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Theme Music

* "Hakugin no Lucifer" ("Platinum Lucifer"; retitled "Fallen White Angel", 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 is 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, knowledgable in areas other members of the team are not and often quoting metaphors in the midst of battle, but at the same time, misusing them or getting their composition wrong. In the beginning of Original Generations, she served as somewhat a mentor to Bullet, often referring to herself as his teacher.

Additionally, Excellen will also reference quotes from various anime and tokusatsu series:

*When performing their signature "Rampage Ghost" with Kyosuke, Excellen may purposely call it the "Love Love Attack", a play on the "Sekiha Love Love Tenkyoken" attack from Mobile Fighter G Gundam, made famous by Domon Kasshu and Rain Mikamura.
*When using the Gespenst's "Jet Magnum" attack, she cries out "God Hand Crash!", recalling Rom Stoll of "Machine Robo" fame. Using the Mega Blaster Cannon on the same machine will make her yell out lines similar to Great Mazinger's "Breast Burn" attack, Getter Robo's "Getter Beam" attack or Mazinkaiser's "Fire Blaster" attack.
*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 and Blue Jet from Machine Robo.
*When using 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!" She also parodies the multiple names Rom Stole gives to his kicks.
*Using the Guarlion Custom's "Sonic Breaker" may cause Excellen to exclaim "Yatteyaruyo!" (lit. meaning: "Let's do it!"), in reference of Shinobu Fujiwara's catchphrase from Dancougar.
*When using the Shishioh blade, Excellen will sometimes shout out "Ware wa Excellen Browning, Aku wo tatsu tsurugi nari!" This is a direct reference to Sanger Zonvolt's battlecry, "I am Sanger! Sanger Zonvolt, the sword that cleaves evil!"
*In the English localizations of the Original Generation series, when using the Giganscudo's "Sheath Thunder" attack, Excellen quotes Back to the Future by saying: "1.21 Gigawatts? Great Scott!"

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.

There are two characters that share appearance and personalities based on Excellen:
*The original female protagonist for Namco x Capcom, Xiaomu, a flirtatious "mystic fox" who aids the male protagonist Reiji Arisu in his enforcement duties. Namco x Capcom also happens to be directed by the same person who directed Super Robot Wars Impact, where Excellen is the female protagonist.
* for the Nintendo DS features , a woman of nobility, who shares the same carefree and cheerful mannerisms Excellen has.

History

Excellen and Kyosuke are the only survivors of a shuttle crash during their younger years as cadet pilots in the Earth Federation Army. While Kyosuke came out of the accident unscathed, Excellen was wounded beyond compare, and had little chance of survival. However, a group of mysterious aliens called the Einst rebuilt her damaged body with their technology, inserting her into the Lichkeit, rejuvenating her. She ends 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 does not recognize her at first, Excellen, a second lieutenant on the team, reminds him of their past acquaintance and begin their current, steady relationship.

Though the two are regular appearances during the storyline of Original Generation, they don't serve a relatively strong role, but 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 Einst Alfimi. The Einst, who claim they are the original watchers of the Earth, decide to destroy it and recreate it from its ashes a new world, with Kyosuke and Alchemie as the new Adam and Eve. To further their scheme, they capture Excellen and her Weissritter and easily brainwash her, due to the influence of the Einst technology in her. The Weissritter is eventually transformed into the Rein Weissritter. Kyosuke and his allies manages 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 Weissritter and the technology within Excellen's body.:The subsequent release of Super Robot Wars Original Generations seems to have rectonned the fading of the Einst technology on the Rein Weissriter, as it appears fully playable in its first sortie in the bonus segments of the game. Therefore, it is possible Excellen is still part-Einst.

Because Alfimi is essentially Excellen, even though she is a clone, Excellen feels 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 will name her Alfimi.: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 she'd likes to have twin girls instead, with the oldest of the two named Lemon, during which Kyosuke correctly guesses the younger will be named Alfimi.

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