Klaus



Klaus (Original version: George) is a recurring character in the Metal Saga, first appearing in Beyblade: Metal Masters. Klaus is the muscle of Team Excalibur. He represents Germany in the European Union and in the Festival of Warriors. He is known as having the strongest launch in the world with his Grand Capricorn 145D. He is also known as the "Axe of Destruction" by most of Europe.

Appearance
Klaus has dark brown eyes and brown hair with orange stripes in it. He wears a green collared shirt underneath a black and brown jacket, and brown trousers. He also appears to be very muscular like Benkei Hanawa. He has light brown highlights in the sides of his hair. Klaus wears a bright gold pendant around his neck, and wears a dark green dress shirt under a black jacket with brown/orange designs. He wears a unique belt with several gold buckles and brown pants. He also has orange ankle braces that go over his black dress and shoes.

Personality
He is one of the more indifferent characters in the anime. However, he does not give up easily and is loyal to his team. Klaus is a very proud and strong individual. He is known for his physical prowess but does have a sensitive side towards his team, caring about them above all else. Klaus also has a strong sense of loyalty, vowing to fight hard for his team and is highly disappointed by defeat. He also shows respect and a degree of kindness towards others, as he says to Masamune he had never had to work so hard to fight against an opponent until he fought him.

Beyblade: Metal Masters
Klaus represents Germany, having obtained a spot in the European team as its representative. He made his stage debut against Team Wang Hu Zhang, having stood out of the previous matches won by Julian Konzern. He faced Chi-Yun Li after his teammates Sophie and Wales had already won their first match against Mei-Mei and Chao Xin. Klaus easily takes the match against Chi-yun and even during the course of the match, Chi-yun tried his mightiest but Klaus simply dominated him, though he respected the effort.

Team Excalibur returned to Julian's mansion for training, where Klaus was tag teamed and defeated by Sophie and Wales for practice. But during this training, Tsubasa Otori of Japan's Team GanGan Galaxy challenged Julian, but Klaus and the twin jewels caught wind of this in time to stop Tsubasa and a mysterious Blader named Ryuga.

Excalibur went on the face GanGan Galaxy as scheduled, Klaus to face Masamune Kadoya in the first round. The axe against the spear, Masamune pushed Klaus to the edge several times, using pin point attacks rather than brute force. Klaus was forced to pull out all the stops in order to battle and finally defeat Masamune, exhausting himself into a coma. Because of this, he missed the second round match but woke up to view Julian's match against Gingka Hagane. To their surprise, Julian was defeated by Gingka's superior ability, forcing Excalibur to train harder to avoid being knocked from the tournament.

In their next match in the Semi-Finals, Team Excalibur is to face the American Team, Team Star Breaker. In the first match, Klaus battles against the uncanny Jack. The match starts with Klaus using his special move, Claw of the Storm, but Evil Befall takes no damage. Grand Capricorn 145D uses barrage attacks on Evil Befall but, it still takes no damage. Jack explains that Befall has limitless stamina and will spin forever. Grand Capricorn continues its attacks but Evil Befall counters and it attacks to cut through the stadium. It clashes against Grand Capricorn and leaves scratches on its fusion wheel. It also continues to cut through the stadium and chases after Grand Capricorn. Jack uses his special move, Befall The Ripper, to attack Grand Capricorn and cuts through the whole stadium. Klaus uses Claw of the Storm again to attack from the air, but Evil Befall counters it. Julian encourages Klaus to win and not lose a second time. Klaus begins to power up and Capricorn regains it balance. Klaus rips his shirt while Capricorn begins to charge at Befall. Jack uses his second special move, Beautiful Dead and Klaus uses his second one, Steel Darkness. Try as he might, Klaus strength was no match for Jack's mysterious arts, as Klaus was just made into another one of Jack's works. Klaus was ultimately dominated by Jack's skills, even after exceeding his limits he was child's play for the strange Blader. Because Klaus once again passed out, he missed the match where all of his teammates were dominated by one person, Damian Hart.

Because of the humiliating loss, Dr. Ziggurat stole everything from Julian and forced him to work for Hades. Soon after this he announced the Spiral Force, seeking for a leader, Team Excalibur joined forces with the other teams to stop Zigguart's plans and save Julian. He, Wales, Sophie and Masamune battled Selen Garcia and many HD Academy Bladers once they arrived at Hades city. but during Hades City's launch Klaus had to stay behind for his team to continue to victory. After Gingka and Ryuga stop the spiral core, he looks pleased.

Beyblade: Metal Fury
Klaus appears with Juilan in a temple where he tells Gingka, Madoka, Yuki Mizusawa, Kyoya Tategami, and Benkei Hanawa that the place was destroyed before they have reached there, they speculated that the one who took The Sword of The Gods did all of this.

After this episode, he gives Gingka his power to help beat Nemesis and Rago. After their defeat Klaus and his team look toward a better future.

Beyblade: Shogun Steel
He makes a brief cameo at the end of the season with the other members of Team Excalibur watching Zero Kurogane and his team battle the Bridge to the Future to see who will represent Japan.

Beyblades
Grand Capricorne 145D: Klaus' first Beyblade.

Trivia

 * He isn't seen during the Festival of Warriors, so he didn't see GanGan Galaxy fight his fellow team members.
 * Despite being a very large guy, he is very agile, as seen when he flips over a group of reporters that are bothering Konzern.
 * Although having the strongest launch power in the world, he is only Team Excalibur's sub member.
 * The highlights on Klaus' head resemble the horns of his bey, Capricorn.
 * He is the second person to own a Capricon bey after Tobio Oike.
 * Ironically despite being the sub of Team Excalibur he only had two loses while his teammates had 3.