Genya

Genya is the primary villain of the animated OVA Giant Robo: The Night The Earth Stood Still. He is a tall, handsome figure with long hair and wears a white suit. In Giant Robo, Genya seeks to avenge his late father, who had died whilst working amongst some of the world's greatest minds to invent a new source of clean, renewable energy and had been blamed when his team's experiments led to a devastating tragedy.

Pre-Criminal History
Genya was born as Emmanuel von Folger, son of Doctor Franken von Folger. His father was a brilliant scientist who worked with a team of other great minds in the valley of Bashtarlle, outside Belgium, where they sought to create a new energy source. However, in their haste to achieve recognition and glory, Dr. Shizuma and his colleagues went behind Folger's back and initiated their final experiment with their prototype drive system, ignoring Folger's warnings regarding a 2% margin of error. As it turned out, that 2% margin of error had devastating consequences, as the team's experiment caused their power plant to overload. Folger stayed behind to try and stop the drive overload while Shizuma and the rest of the Belgium Team fled. Young Emmanuel and his sister Farmelle were awoken by the power disruption caused by Shizuma's experiment and arrived to witness Folger trying to stop it. Folger failed and the reactor exploded, devastating the entire country and leading to the loss of a third of the world's population. This event would go down in history as The Tragedy of Bashtarlle.

Emmanuel and his father survived the destruction of the Bashtarlle reactor when Emmanuel activated his latent power of teleportation, transporting himself and Franken a safe distance. They believed that the doctor's assistant Go-sama and his daughter Farmelle had perished, but this would later be disproven. For months after the explosion, Franken and Emmanuel lived in exile beneath the ruins of Bashtarlle where they remained undisturbed. Franken grew withered and absent-minded during this time, until the day when his son brought home a complete Shizuma Drive: the very invention that Folger and his colleagues set out to create, now under Dr. Shizuma's patent. Von Folger cried out in despair, taking the Drive and locking himself in the run-down lab, his son waiting outside for days, unsure if his father was still alive in there. When the door finally opened, Emmanuel found his father nearly dead in a crumpled heap. Franken's final words to his son were "Take the sample... you must stop... Shizuma... stop him..." . When Franken died, Emmanuel buried his father beneath Bashtarlle, vowing to make the world atone for crucifying his family's name and labelling his father as a monster. With that, Emmanuel - rechristening himself "Genya - The Beautiful Night" - left Bashtarlle to begin his mission of revenge. Shortly after, Genya found his way into the arms of the super-powerful terrorist organization known as Big Fire. Over the next 10 years, Genya would serve under the Magnificent Ten and use Big Fire's resources to work towards his own goals.