Voltron New Defenders

Voltron: New Defenders is a sequel to Netflix’s DreamWorks series Voltron Legendary Defender tv series. The animation like it's precursor is a mix of anime-influenced traditional animation for characters and background and CGI for action sequences.

Synopsis
With the Galra Empire’s downfall and Allura and Honvera’s sacrifice to save all realities, the Galactic Coalition has kept the peace in the galaxy in remembrance to those who fell and rose, the Voltron Lions have now gone to parts unknown.

What the alliance does not know is that another empire is planning to conquer the galaxy and new heroes will be needed and they must rise to become the next paladins of Voltron. But each of these new paladins have mysteries surrounding themselves.

Voltron team

 * Black Paladin: "Raible" Yeraiblias: A male Baltan who is the pilot of the Black Lion, the lost prince of the Baltan royal family, and commander of the Altarites. But, he was a former captain in service for the Empire. Personality: brave in action, charismatic, competitive, compassionate to those in need of help, commanding, courageous in the most dire situations, decisive, determined, heroic, honest, he was haunted by the conflict with the Balvestan Empire and the victims of the campaigns that he was involved, honorable, humble, inspiring to those around him, intelligent, kind, loyal to those close to him, merciful to his enemies, noble, proud, responsible, remorseful that he was a captain in service for the Empire
 * Red Paladin: Shiha: A male human who is the pilot of the Red Lion who is the illegitimate son of a businessman, who was orphaned, but was rescued by Altarite leader Raible and became one of them in the fight against the Balvestan Empire. Weapons, and Equipment: Personality: brave in dangerous situations, determined, caring towards his newfound family, stubborn, embittered towards his father for leaving him and his mother on the streets while his two half sisters were living in comfort. saw Raible as a father figure. Appearance: hair, blue irises, gray pupils, white sclera, fair skin, slender figure.
 * Green Paladin: Chiso: A female Altarite Lyran who is the pilot of the Green Lion. Skills, Weapons, and Equipment: Hacking, green bayard, computer. Personality: Protective, curious, strong, capable, willing (to be a paladin), feisty, caring, hostile (toward enemies), excitable, playful. Appearance: amber eyes, white sclera, slender. Based on Chip from the Voltron anime
 * Blue Paladin: Amule: A female Altarite Polluxian who is the pilot of the Blue Lion. Personality: She is flirtatious with anyone be they human, alien, male or female. Appearance: blue hair, white sclera, silver eyes, forest and shamrock green skin, freckles. The Japanese name for Romelle in Beast King GoLion.
 * Yellow Paladin: Brox "Hutch": A male Deevan Altarite who is the pilot of the Yellow Lion. Appearance: turquoise eyes, white sclera, tawny & copper skin, muscular. Personality: funny, brave & tough in a fight, loyal to friends, loves to eat. Has some of the personality of Tsuyoshi Seidou from Beast King GoLion and Hutch from.
 * Queen Fala: A female Altean who is the current queen of Altea after Allura's death and Altea's rebuilding. Appearance: orange blonde hair, blue eyes, light tan skin, she has a slender and beautiful figure. Based on Fala in the Beast King GoLion series.
 * Garaint: A male Altean and he is the son of Coran. Appearance: red hair, brown irises, pupils, white sclera, pale skin. A combination of Garrett from the Voltron series and Saint from the original anime.
 * Bracket: He is an Altarite Baltan medical officer. Personality: cranky at times, willing to risk, he is not blindly loyal to Raible. Appearance: silver hair, blue eyes, gold & harvest gold skin, white armor. Brack from Dairugger and Ratchet from Transformers.
 * Airla: A female and Raible's love interest. Appearance: short auburn hair, jade irises, white sclera, fair skin, pale lips. Personality: tough, feisty, caring, inverted, hostile (towards enemies). She is a combination of Farla from Beast King Golion and Aimee from Voltron.

Allies
A resistance faction fighting the Balvestan Empire who set out from their home planet of Deeva to protect other species from enslavement and free others being enslaved by the Balvestan Empire.

Led and united by it was entirely made up of many civilians, senators, nobility, and former military after discovering the secret intentions that the Empire kept from the public.

Raible and would lead a large faction called the Altarites to find a new home to live, feeling that they are not welcome on their home planet and will eventually make to Earth where Raible becomes the pilot of the Black Lion. Then they were soon joined other rebel cells who stood up after seeing their races being enslaved. Based on the Autobots from the Transformers franchise and the from Drule Underground Rebel Force from the Armored Fleet Dairugger XV anime.
 * Bakki: Former high council leader and the founder and leader of the Altarite faction before giving the mantle of leadership to Raible. Appearance: skin, muzzle, irises, pupils, white sclera, stocky. Personality: Wise, enigmatic, erudite, moral, accepting. Based on Bakki from Dairugger XV.
 * Hazar: Altarite soldier, warrior, and intelligence agent. Based on Hazar from Dairugger anime.
 * Sorill: An Altarite inventor and mechanical engineer. Based on Wheeljack from Transformers
 * Salavad: An Altarite Drule air commander and one of it's best pilots. Based on Salazar from Dairugger XV anime.
 * Durax: Altarite sniper. Appearance: skin, muzzle, eyes.
 * Alornus: A high ranking Altarite Baltan soldier and Raible's most trusted officer. Appearance: Blue-gray hair, orange irises, sclera, red-purple & purple-gray skin. Based on Ultra Magnus, and Alor from Beast King GoLion.
 * Altarite soldiers: made up of different individuals with varying skin colors, eye colors, different species.
 * Lady Hys: The main commander of the rebellion against the Tripartite Empire. Based on the maid from the original Voltron series and Mon Mothma from Star Wars.
 * Neffra: the Queen of Eldora and a member of the leadership council that lead the fight against
 * Sky Marshall Wade: The commander of Galaxy Garrison. a character from Voltron Force series, reinvented for the sequel series for Voltron Legendary Defender.
 * Orla: A mysterious Altean-human girl that was mysteriously born.
 * Aldor: A mysterious Galran-Altean boy that like Orla; was also had a mysterious birth.
 * Nokarz: the current king of the Galra Empire.
 * Daniel: Son of Keith.

Balvestan Empire
The main antagonistic faction of the series. “Khurma taran”. Motto. Salute: hand over the chest. conquering, constructing weapons. Based on the Galveston Empire from the Armored Fleet Dairugger XV anime and the Galactic Empire. Allied with the planet of Demo & Drule in a Tripartite Empire.


 * Emperor Korasair: The first main antagonist of the series, He is a male Baltan, a former friend of Raimon turned traitor, he unseated the governing council after the revolution that overthrew the monarchy, creates the Balvestan Empire and unleashes terrible atrocities onto the galaxy. Appearance: Black hair, black red irises, gray sclera, indigo & charcoal skin. Personality: He is a complex person, charismatic, selfish, tolerant, patient, power-hungry, arrogant in his goals succeeding, both faux & affably evil, cool under pressure, cruel, mildly sadistic, deceptive, cunning, misanthropic, manipulative, deranged, insane. Based on Corsair/Zeppo from Armored Fleet Dairugger XV anime and Emperor Sheev Palpatine/Darth Sidious from Star Wars.


 * Zramont: The skilled Baltan Grand Commander of the Balvestan Fleet known for his tactical brilliance and cunning. based on Zabar/Gramont and Thrawn from Star Wars
 * Capolnaro: a governor of Based on the Al Caponero/Throk character from Armored Fleet Dairugger XV anime.
 * Socateles: A Appearance: acid green eyes, white sclera, liberty & teal blue skin. Based on Socrat Teles from Armored Fleet Dairugger XV anime.
 * Yauruk: a ruthless Baltan fleet commander that was responsible for Raible's defection. Appearance: hair, orange eyes, sclera, flirt-colored skin.
 * Narafite: a commander in the Balvestan Empire. Appearance: white sclera, red irises, maroon & light blue skin, Personality: treacherous, intelligent, ruthless, cruel, backstabbing. Based on Lafitte/Nerok from Dairugger and Starscream from Transformers.
 * Gosoz: Based on Gomez from Dairugger.
 * Ruckon, A Drule commander.
 * Ducusin: Based on Ducas from Dairugger. Roche, Imperial Soldiers: can be made up of clones and individuals, armor, some blood-red, Tyrian purple skin, varying eye colors.
 * Darkoz: Drake from Dairugger.
 * Batarian: Barataria/Brak from Dairugger.
 * Tyroth Zaren: a mysterious male Baltan who serves as the Emperor's hand and leads a faction. He has an obsession in Raible because of certain things are not yet explained. Based on Darth Vader.
 * Maahox: An evil alien scientist who works for the Balvestan Empire that is neither Galra or Altean and the Director of Weapons & Magic. a character from Voltron Force.
 * Kala: Korasair's mother. She was protective of her great grandson. She is based on the original Honerva in the Beast King Golion anime.
 * Siuram: the prince of the Balvostan Empire. Korasair's grandson, son of Lucior,
 * Onaizell: Siuram's sister.
 * Lucior: Korasair's exiled son, Inspired by Keezor/Luciano from Dairugger anime and based on Ozai from Avatar: the Last Airbender.
 * Crown Princess Amme: daughter-in-law.

Drules
Zeppo: King of the Drule race and secondary main antagonist of the series. Based on Zeppo/Corsair from Voltron. Rogom: right-hand of King Zeppo, Based on Mogor/Gobra/Morgil from Voltron series.

Kharsh,

Others
Jain IX: the empress of Demo and the third main antagonist of the series. Based on Jain IX from A Legend Forged Voltron comic book.

Zeke: A human who leads the terrorist organization known as Altergon. Has the hair style from Keith Kepler from Spy x Family.

Raimon: Raible’s deceased father, and the king of the Baltans on the planet of Deeva before being killed in an assassination. Raimon was the name for King Alfor in Beast King GoLion anime.

Azraia: Raible’s mother and queen of the Baltans. Personality: loving, caring,

Galvesarok: a centuries old great demon who is from the void between realities and the true main antagonist of both the Legendary Defender and New Defenders series.

Ubaku: The father of Shiha,

Moya & Cinda: The two half sisters of Shiha.

Rikusa: the wife of Ubaku

Goddess from Beast King Go Lion.

Princess Corral: Lyra. Appearance: hair, eyes, white sclera, skin. Slyva Vect: An alien bounty hunter who at first was an adversity of the Voltron team, but became an ally. Inspired the Predator from the Predator franchise and Boba Fett from Star Wars. Torek: Raible’s great grandfather who led a valiant defense against the Galra Empire from their conquering their home and enslaving them. Appearance: white hair, black eyes, yellow sclera, dark slate blue & medium slate blue skin.

A half-Altean Galran from an alternate reality.

Returning Cast

 * Shiro: The black Paladin and the former pilot of the Black Lion.
 * Keith: The red paladin who is a half Galran, half-human hybrid who was the former pilot of the Black and Red Lion.
 * Lance: The blue Paladin, former pilot of the Blue and Red Lion.
 * Katie “Pidge” Holt: The green paladin, former pilot of the Green Lion.
 * Hunk: The yellow paladin, former pilot of the Yellow Lion.
 * Allura: The blue paladin, the deceased pilot of the Blue Lion, princess of Altea, daughter of King Alfor and Queen Melenor. Personality: brave, courageous. Before the final battle with Honerva, she decided to store her memories.
 * Coran Hieronymus Wimbleton Smythe: Princess Allura’s advisor. Personality: forgetful, kind, energetic, excitable, dedicated, eccentric, compassionate, comical.
 * Space Mice- Platt: the largest mouse with yellow and green fur, Chulatt: the smallest mouse with blue fur and blue eyes. Plachu: a blue mouse with red eyes. Chuchule: pink mouse with red eyes,
 * Romelle: An Altean. Personality: intelligent, kind, caring. Queen Melenor: Allura's mother King Alfor: the original pilot of the Red Lion and king of Altea.
 * Kosmo: A blue teleporting space wolf.
 * Zarkon: The deceased emperor of the Galra Empire and was the first paladin to pilot the Black Lion.
 * Lotor: The deceased emperor and former prince of the Galra Empire, son of Zarkon and Honvera.
 * Honvera: the deceased Altean wife of Emperor Zarkon and empress of the Galra who was once his advisor as the witch Hagger.
 * Merla: An Altean who sided with Voltron against Honerva after learning.
 * Slav, Gyrgan, Trigel, Blaytz,
 * Malachoti: the alien princess from the planet of Krell in the Voltron motion comic
 * Kolivan: the leader of the Blade of Mamora against the Galra Empire. Krolia, Axca, Ezor, Zethrid, Ranveig, Sendak: The
 * Chip: Pidge's robot from the end of Voltron: Legendary Defender.

Weapons, and Devices
Zaiforge cannon, Transforulaters: Special devices when activated can take a vehicle that the user can image. Energy blade: a legendary weapon it has the looks of the hilt of a lightsaber of Star Wars. Bayard,

Mecha
Voltron: a mighty sentimental robot that combined five lions that can bond with their chosen paladins, created from a trans-reality comet by Alfor. Black Lion: Guardian Spirit of the Sky, Voltron’s Torso, Head. Air/Sky. Red Lion: Guardian Spirit of Fire. Voltron’s Right arm. Elemental: Fire. Green Lion: Guardian Spirit of the Forest. Voltron’s Left arm, Elemental: Forest. Blue Lion: Guardian Spirit of Water. Voltron’s Right Leg. Elemental: Water, Ice. Yellow Lion: Guardian Spirit of the Land. Voltron’s Left Leg. Elemental: Earth.

Sincline, IGF-ATLAS

Like the Robeasts of the Galra Empire, the Death Beasts are machines for Balvestan Empire. Rawvax: A death beast. Hydraxis: A death beast. Terrorrax: A death beast. Reptoking: a Godzilla-like death beast, Cytronus (Cy-tro-nus): death beast armor made for the Emperor. Gorzil: death beast. Saurophax: death beast mech.

Vehicles/Spacecraft
Kuru Nova Space Flyers: former ordinary aircraft turned into fighters for the Baladites. Arkonus: a legendary ship that the Baltans had since the time Zarkon and Alfor were pilots of Voltron. Air speeders, Midonji fighters, ruggers, Gradam, The Blackstar, Goliath, Star Cutter. Castle of Lions, Zarkon's ship.

Planets, Regions, and Locations
Earth, Altea, Daibbazaal, Nalquod, Rygnirath, Dalterion Belt, Oriande, Reiphod, Krell, Galaxy Garrison, Balmera, Puig, Frozen Planet, Quantum Abyss, Deeva: the current home planet of the Baltans. Tiberon (Tiber-on): home to the Tiberens. Krallus, Vultura, Yadle, Demos, Jarre, Xalton, Zaigonia (Zai-ɣon-ja), Maura, Eldora, Torjorrein system, Sigrillon, Denubian system, Balto: the original home of the Baltan species, until it was conquered by the Galra which forced the Baltans from the planet but not without putting up a brave resistance against the Galra when they arrived. Lyra, Pollux.

Species showed
Baltans, Lyrans, Deevans, Polluxians, Drules, Humans, Galra, Alteans, Unilu, Olkari, Balmerans, Puigians, Mer, Yupper, Arusians, Balmera, Taujeerians, Tiberens, Demoens, Eldorans, Krellians, Mura

Music
While most of the music is new, the series also includes pieces from Legendary Defender.


 * Your Bayard from Blackout
 * Razor Thin
 * Voltron: Legendary Defender Theme/Voltron Transformation
 * Let's Get That Cannon from
 * See Through from All Good Things

Trivia
Take inspiration from Armored Fleet Dairugger XV anime, the original Voltron show, Transformers, Star Wars, and like Legendary Defender, New Defenders has references to anime.

This series takes heavily from Armored Fleet Dairugger XV anime.

The Drule are distantly related to the Galra. They have blue skin rather than purple. Their eyesight is average.

Voltron: New Defenders Gallery.

Voltron: New Defenders Episodes & Scenes.