Loid Forger

Loid Forger (Japanese: ロイド・フォージャー, Hepburn: Roido Fōjā) is the protagonist from Tatsuya Endo's mangaSpy × Family. A Westalian agent code-named Twilight (黄昏, Tasogare), the character is tasked with spying on politician Donovan Desmond, leader of the National Unity Party within Ostania. However, due to Desmond being notoriously reclusive, the only way Twilight can get close to him is to enroll a child in the same private school as Desmond's son, Damian, and pose as a fellow parent. To accomplish this and present the image of a happy family, he creates the alias of psychiatrist Dr. Loid Forger, adopts a young orphan girl named Anya, and marries an Ostanian city hall clerk named Yor Briar.

Loid was first created by Endo with the idea of having a spy and a child together as the main core of the story, until he came up with the idea of Yor as the mother of the house. As a result of not being too experienced with works of fiction involving spies, Endo decided the story would focus on the fake family Loid creates for his mission. In Japanese, Takuya Eguchi voices the character while Alex Organ is in charge of the English dub.

The character of Loid was praised by the media for straight head in his family, as well as the growing chemistry he has with Anya, Yor, and Bond. He's proven popular enough to appear in Nintendo Switch exclusive game, Captain Velvet Meteor: The Jump+ Dimensions. With the release of the anime's third season, multiple critics expressed shock when exploring the protagonist's backstory which they found surprisingly dark for the series.