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Character file · Original series
Enrique
Giancarlo Tornatore · ジャンカルロ・トルナトーレ
- Bit-beast
- Amphilyon · Two-headed serpent (amphisbaena)
- Style
- Attack
- From
- Italian
- First seen
- Beyblade: 2000, Episode 35
2
series
9
episodes on record
1
Beyblade
4
cards across 3 games
Biography
Enrique Tornatore — Giancarlo in Japan — is the Italian champion, a wealthy playboy who treats Beyblade as a diversion between dates until Tyson gives him a reason not to, and who takes an old-fashioned pride in only accepting opponents he rates. His bit-beast Amphilyon is a twin-headed dragon, and the episodes around him lean hard on Rome's gladiatorial past. He wins their first match; in the rematch Tyson turns the two independent-minded heads against each other, and Enrique's threat to smash the bit chip makes Amphilyon turn on him, leaving Dragoon to finish it. He comes out of it with more respect for the game than he went in with, and watches from the side afterwards — the Majestics' exhibition, and Russia.
Appearance and personality
What They Look Like, and How They Behave
Wavy blond hair and grey-blue eyes. In the first season he wears a long-sleeved yellow polo neck under a short red overshirt with green trousers; G-Revolution puts him in a white overshirt trimmed orange over red, with black trousers and orange fingerless gloves.
Better mannered than most of his team and a little eccentric with it. He is old-fashioned about battle, never shy of a challenge, and picky about who he accepts one from — anyone he reads as weaker gets waved off. He likes girls, arrived with two of them, and is pleasant enough underneath the act; he says the wrong thing often, and spends his way out of it.
On file
The record
- Blading style
- Attack
- Nationality
- Italian
- English voice
- Julie Zwillich
- Team
- Majestics
- Beyblades
- Amphilyon
- Bit-beast or avatar
- Amphilyon (two-headed bit-beast)
- First appearance
- Beyblade: 2000, Episode 35
- Japanese name
- ジャンカルロ・トルナトーレ
- Romaji
- Jankaruro Torunatōre
- Occupation
- Blader
- Gender
- Male
- First anime appearance
- When in Rome... Beyblade!
- First manga appearance
- Finishing Move Foiled!!
- Voice (Japanese)
- Daisuke Sakaguchi
- Voice (English)
- Julie Zwillich
Bit-beast & Beyblades
Amphilyon, form by form
Story by season
Where the seasons take them
Beyblade (2001)
Majestics
Enrique treats his first match with Tyson as barely worth the trouble, beating him with the easy confidence of a champion who's never had to try, and Rome's history of gladiators hangs over the whole encounter. The rematch goes differently: Tyson works Amphilyon's two independent heads against each other until the dragon is fighting itself, and when Enrique threatens to smash the bit chip in frustration, Amphilyon turns on its own master, leaving Dragoon to finish what Enrique started. He comes out of the loss with more respect for the game than he walked in with, and spends the rest of the season watching from the sidelines — the Majestics' team exhibition, and later the Russian finals — rather than blading again.
Briefing
What to know
- Descends from an old Italian noble family of gladiators, and fights for the Majestics representing Italy.
- His bit-beast Amphilyon has two independently thinking heads capable of turning against each other and even against Enrique himself.
- Defeats Tyson Granger in their first match but loses the rematch once Tyson exploits Amphilyon's split mind.
- Amphilyon's heads turn on Enrique after he threatens to destroy its Bit Chip mid-battle — the only known case of a bit-beast attacking its own master.
- Close friends with fellow Majestics members Oliver and Robert; the team later hosts the Bladebreakers at Robert's castle for a 3-match exhibition.
- Watches rather than battles during the Majestics' appearances in the Russia arc and G-Revolution's finale.
Notable battles
- vs Cenotaph — Win
- vs Tyson Granger in Episode 35 — Win
- vs Tyson Granger in Episode 36 — Lose
Key episodes
Watch these first
Sightings
Episodes they appear in
From our own episode records — the cast, Beyblade and debut lists we compiled show the name here.
- Beyblade (2001) episode 35: When in Rome... Beyblade! 2001-09-03
- Beyblade (2001) episode 36: Déjà Vu All Over Again 2001-09-10
- Beyblade (2001) episode 37: A Knight to Remember! 2001-09-17
- Beyblade (2001) episode 38: Olympia Challenge 2001-09-24
- Beyblade (2001) episode 39: A Majestic Battle... a Majestic Victory? 2001-10-01
- Beyblade (2001) episode 47: A Lesson for Tyson 2001-11-26
- Beyblade (2001) episode 33
- Beyblade (2001) episode 51
- Beyblade: G-Revolution episode 30
Also on record
Where they first appear
Resolved against our own episode records, so the pointer the entry carries as text is a link you can follow.
- Beyblade (2001) episode 35: When in Rome... Beyblade! First anime appearance · 2001-09-03
Also on record
Named elsewhere on this site
Tournament reports, testing threads, rules announcements, news and fake or leak checks carrying this name. Each link opens that section with the name already searched for.
- Beyblade episode 37 aired in Japan: A Knight to Remember! news item · 2001-09-17
- Beyblade episode 36 aired in Japan: Déjà Vu All Over Again news item · 2001-09-10
- Beyblade episode 35 aired in Japan: When in Rome... Beyblade! news item · 2001-09-03
Rivals & bonds
Known associates
- Tyson Granger Enrique beats Tyson their first time out on pure swagger, but the rematch turns into his undoing — Tyson splits Amphilyon's two heads against each other, and Enrique's own panic finishes the job.
- Oliver closest Majestic friend
- Robert JürgensJohnny McGregor Majestics
Cross-references
Teams, places and more
Bit-beasts & avatars 1
Attributed, not verified by us
Claims We Could Not Check
- He is the first Beyblader shown with a two-headed bit-beast.
- Amphilyon is based on the Amphisbaena, a heraldic creature linked to a Polish family crest though Greek in origin.
- In the English dub he is the only Majestics member never shown with on-screen battle statistics.
In the card games
Enrique on cardboard
The character 1
Their bit-beast 2
Their Beyblades 1
The Blader Profile is our own reading of how the character performs on screen or on the page, not a figure from the makers.