Lum's Stormtroopers or Lum's Guards are four schoolboys from the same class as Ataru Moroboshi who are in love with Lum and have sworn to protect her from Ataru. They usually also act as the entirety or as the leading members of Tomobiki High School's "Lum's Fan Club".
Biography[]
They are best friends but often end up fighting amongst themselves when the situation involves Lum. These characters--consisting of Megane, Perm, Kakugari, and Chibi--do exist in the manga; however, they are unnamed and appear until the first appearance of Shūtarō Mendō. Along with every major character in the series and some of the more memorable one-shot characters, they were included in the cover art for the final chapter of the manga. They appear more in the anime than in the manga, but they replace Ataru's best friend Kōsuke Shirai with Megane and Perm taking most of his lines. They also appear in the 2010 OVA but separately.
Trivia[]
- They are a spoof of the Stormtroopers from the Star Wars franchise.
- Aside from their obsession with Lum, otaku culture and science fiction, they are particularly fond of military themes from numerous real world countries and fictional ones and so they tend to collect, emulate and adopt the ranks, titles and occasionally armor pieces from all sorts of sources, such as the governments, armies and navies of Japan, the United States, the United Kingdom, Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union and even those from fiction such as Gundam, the works of Leiji Matsumoto, Star Wars, Star Trek and occasionally tokusatsu franchises.
- They make a cameo together with Ataru as punks in Episode 2 of Hanyo no Yashahime.