Scorpio Milo

Scorpio Milo (蠍座のミロ, Sukōpion no Miro) is one of the Gold Saints. He is the guardian of the 8th House in the Sanctuary, the Scorpius Temple.

Kurumada introduced Milo in vol.7 of his manga. Though in the manga the first Gold Saints introduced are Aiolia and Saga, Kurumada didn't reveal their rank until further volumes. The first Gold Saint he introduced revealing his rank was Virgo Shaka, in vol.5. In the anime adaptation, these introductions occur in the same manner, although Shaka's is delayed and the first Gold Saint that appeared fully wearing a Gold Cloth was Scorpius Milo.

Personality
Milo is a proud knight who sees great importance in the pride and honor of the Gold Saints and he seems to be always ready to clean the name of his companions. Milo is always sure of himself, he is more impetuous than most of the other Golden Saints and is not afraid to voice what he is thinking. Since his main technique inflicts immense pain to its victims, Milo always gives his opponents the option to either surrender, or become insane due to the unbearable pain. Even so, he is a noble warrior who can admit defeat even against a weaker or inferior enemy.

He can exploit the emotions of others perfectly and uses words as weapons, with irony and direction of a devastating distribution, trying to bring the adversary to his ground. Although he has a predilection for action. Milo has a particular fondness for the art of words, as he always uses it to disable his opponents and cause them to attack recklessly.

In Episode G, Milo's personality triggers airs of immaturity, possibly due to him being younger. There, Milo is aggressive and petulant, with a very unfounded but haughty hatred of Aiolos for being a traitor, and a resentment of his brother, Aiolia, with whose he bickers a lot, often claiming that being a relative of Aiolos, he also has the traitor blood. Young Milo's personality matures little by little as the fighting unfolds, first by understanding Hector's frustration and then by understanding the sacrifice that Aiolia made in his fight against Cronos.

Since Milo fought Hyoga, he spoke to Aquarius Camus in a way that led the fans to believe they were close friends. Apparently, this was made official since the anime adaptation of the Hades arc of the manga included more interaction between them and they are depicted as friends in Saint Seiya Episode G.

Etymology
Milo means apple in greek. The name Milo is probably based on the volcanic Greek island Milos, his place of training. Milo also literally means 'pleasant, merciful'. In Japan and some other dubs like in Brazil, Milo is instead pronounced "Miro". Both translations are correct, and in this case the name Miro derivates from Miroslav which means "glory".

The name Milo is also based on the wrestler Milo of Croton who inserted his hands into the cleft to rend some tree in a forest, unable to free himself, Milo of Croton was devoured by wolves or lions. In the underworld, Gemini Kanon, who was punished by Scorpio Milo before, had a chance to use some similar way to destroy Balron Lune at that circumstance.

Early years
Milo became a Gold Saint at an early age. He had already been granted the Gold Saint status and the Scorpius Gold Cloth by the time he was 7 years old.

Saint Seiya: Episode G
He first appears when Leo Aiolia  fights against Lithos’ father, Milo crosses Virgo's house to protect Leo and was left unprotected, but not to meet with Aioria precisely. After the meeting, he appears in Golden where he discusses with other saints on Aioria. He then appears much later, to protect Aiolia when resting after the fight against the Titan, although he didn't like the idea at all. There he faces Hector, a hero of the Trojan War revived by Pontos, Milo manages to overcome him without major problems with his Scarlet Needle. During the battle against Kronos, the Titan releases three giants: Hoplisma nephritis (Jade Armor) and Margarites Drakon (Pearl Dragon). One of the beasts attacks Aiolia but Taurus Aldebaran protects Leo. The beast then attacks with fire. Aiolia and Aldebaran protects and sacrifice his body for the attack, but Shura destroys the attack with his Excallibur. The dragon's attacks with needles of water but Aquarius Camus saves with Diamond Dust and the giant Nephritis attacks and seems to be the end of them and this time Virgo Shaka saves.

Milo attacks giants and this causes the three giants to be released on them asks Aioria and Aldebaran launch it on them. Aldebaran throws Aioria who uses his Lightning Voltage to fulfill the promise he made ​​to Kronos and Hyperion. Cronos see Aioria to achieve and teases Leo's wishes.

For a change we have a discussion on the grounds of both Milo and Camus by Athena and his comrades, after a talk is ready for battle against Margarites Drakon (Pearl Dragon). Milo attacks the giant whilst protects Camus from the giants and noted that the speed of this beast is amazing. Camus has discovered that in fact the magic dragon is protected a barrier. Camus came up with a plan to break that barrier with Milo's Scarlet Needle.

The dragon attacks Camus with immense water pressure. Camus withstands the attack with Ice Coffin. The beast still continued its deadly offensive and Camus freezes its dunamis to protect Milo who attack with stylus with cosmos raised to the maximum. Milo attacks with his Scarlet Needle Antares followed. Without suspecting what Camus dragon attacks him with his Aurora Execution. And after freezing destroys Milo definitely.

Saint Seiya: Next Dimension
In the official sequel Saint Seiya Next Dimension, Milo appears (together with the other Gold Saints) in the form of spirit to help of Athena.

Saint Seiya: Saintia Shō
Years before the main story, Milo saves Equuleus Shō. Milo is in the sanctuary, seeing the shooting stars, which are actually the seeds of evil released by the goddess Eris, and then Aiolia appears, and tells him that an evil cosmos is spreading through the world, and that she senses that something bad is about to happen, related to the Pope.

When the Pope gathers a group of three Silver Saints to give them the mission to investigate a strange temple that had arisen in a place that had been described in the past as the Garden of Eden, the Silver Saints set out to carry out his mission but at that moment the Golden Saint appears, who asks the Pope to allow him to be in charge of carrying out the mission, which the Pope ends up accepting. Arriving there, Milo ends fighing against Phono.

At the end of the battle, Shōko tries to thank Milo for his heroic act but the Golden Saint tells that it was not because of her that he came, but that he felt a worrying cosmos, that could be the goddess Eris in that Shōko tells him that if she could accompany him to the fight against the goddess Eris to which Milo refuses saying "did you hear me". Soon Milo ends fighting the dryad Ate, who is almost as powerful as Eris.

Milo frees himself from the Dryade techniques, while Atë executesher technique again, but Milo manages to overcome it, which greatly surprises the Dryade, who again attacks him, however the speed of the Saint of Scorpio is superior and manages to hit the Dryade with his Scarlet Needle: Antares, who escapes to the vicinity of the Uterus.

When Atë is suddenly killed by Rigel, Milo emerges at that moment making fun of the situation a bit, Rigel introduces himself to the Golden Saint and tells him that his motives for eliminating Atë, was that he felt that this was a danger to the goddess Eris, The Saint of Scorpio recognizes that the man who has the front an old Silver Saint who disappeared from the Sanctuary, both have a brief conversation about justice and if sacrifices should be made for her, Rigel affirms that he only wants to protect a person, after this both begin to fight during which there is a great clash of cosmos produced.

After completing his mission, Milo returns to the Sanctuary and presents his report to the Pope, about the defeat of the goddess and that in the Garden of Eden he had met two Saintias. Later, Milo, along with the rest of the Golden Saints, are in the Sanctuary, he is present in the assembly called by the Pope, where the latter exposes the danger in which the Sanctuary is found since Saori Kido has several rebellious Saints under his command. I command which makes the Pope doubt whether it is possible that the young woman is the subordinate of some evil being or the reincarnation of one, therefore the Sanctuary must be on high alert. Later on the outskirts of the temple, observing the rest of the 12 houses, he perceives a disturbing air that surrounds the sanctuary and he feels a bad omen.

Saint Seiya (1986), chapter I: the Sanctuary
Milo is first seen at the Scorpius Temple, where he confronted Pegasus Seiya and Dragon Shiryu. The two Bronze Saints were no match for Milo's power. First they were set back by his Restriction, and then injured by his Scarlet Needle. However, Hyoga came before Seiya and Shiryu could start to fight.

Milo attacked Hyoga with his Restriction technique, although it had no effect in the Cygnus Saint because Hyoga's body was being protected by ice. After his first attack was ineffective, Milo attacked with Scarlet Needle, Hyoga could do nothing against Milo's speed, and after almost all his attacks failed to injure the Gold Saint, a nearly senseless Hyoga awakened his seventh sense and launched an Aurora Thunder Attack on Milo. At the same time, Milo attacked Hyoga with the last Scarlet Needle, Antares. Hyoga dropped to the floor after he received Antares. Looking down at Hyoga, Milo saw that he was trying to crawl to the next House. After seeing this, the Gold Saint realized that Hyoga's attack had frozen his Gold Cloth in the fifteen places that corresponded to the stars of Scorpio, which meant Hyoga had hit him just as he received Antares, and if he had not been wearing his Gold Cloth, he would probably have died first. Milo admitted his defeat, and after he stopped Hyoga's bleeding, he allowed him to go to the next House. After the battle in the Twelve Houses ended, to atone for his actions, Milo used his own blood to repair the Cygnus Cloth.

Non-canon anime episodes
When both of them had lost the will to fight, Cygnus Hyoga, along with an unconscious Andromeda Shun, arrived at the Scorpius House where he challenged the Gold Saint.

Saint Seiya (1986), chapter II: Poseidon
In the battle against Poseidon, he decides to stay in the Sanctuary under orders of Athena, since Hades could attack at any moment.

Saint Seiya (1986), chapter III: Hades
In the Hades Arc, Milo is shown at the Pope hall talking with Athena, she tells him that a Saint has come to the Sanctuary, in order to help them defeat Hades. After this revelation, Milo decides to return to the Scorpius House to watch over it. However, as he exits, a cosmos attack arrives at the Hall and injures the new arrived Saint. At that moment, Milo realizes that the new saint is none other than Gemini Kanon. Angered, the Gold Saint demands to Kanon to leave the Sanctuary, after Kanon refuses, Milo attacks him with his Scarlet Needle. Due to the commotion, Athena enters the room and is horrified after seeing the scene. She begs Milo to stop and tells him that Kanon is now their friend and that she has forgiven him. However, Milo only responds that even if she has forgiven Kanon, all the other Saints would never forgive Kanon after what he had done as the Sea Dragon General. Kanon urged Milo to finish his attack for he would not leave even if he became crazy or died, Milo attacked Kanon with Antares. After he finished, Kanon fell into a bloody mess in the ground. Milo apologized to Athena and walked to the exit, but before he could exit, Kanon rose and asked him if he would leave Athena with an enemy, to which Milo only replied that in that room there was no enemy, only a fellow Gold Saint, Gemini Kanon. After Milo finally returned to the Scorpius house, Kanon told Athena that Milo had only been testing his loyalty, and that the last attack was not Antares, but a fake hit which stopped his hemorrhage (similar to what he did to cure Hyoga in the Sanctuary Arc). Later in the Arc, he arrived to the Virgo House to finally stop Gemini Saga, Aquarius Camus, and Capricorn Shura after they have killed Virgo Shaka using the forbidden technique, Athena Exclamation. Milo attacked the three former Gold Saints using 14 of his Scarlet Needles on each one of them, but when he was going to use Antares, Saga attacked him by using his Galaxian Explosion technique. The three spectres threatened to kill all the Saints present at the Virgo House using once more the Athena Exclamation. Scorpio Milo, Aries Mu, and Leo Aiolia prepared to attack the spectres with the same technique. The two groups unleashed the Athena Exclamation and instantly the infinite power destroyed the Virgo House. The power of the two attacks was so even that they did not move at all. Eventually, the combined power of these two attacks was deflected by Dragon Shiryu (in the anime, it was by the combined power of all 4 Bronze Saints). Athena beckons the two parties to stop fighting and come to the Pope Hall. Athena tells the fallen Gold Saints that they no longer have to suffer and commits suicide (secretly invoking the 8th sense as told by Virgo Shaka in the petals he sent her).

When Mu, Aiolia and Milo arrived to Hades' castle, they faced Wyvern Rhadamanthys, one of the three Judges of Hell. To their shock, Rhadamanthys easily overpowers the three of them, because Hades' castle is under his will and cosmo - all Saints have their power reduced to 1/10th. Even after receiving their combined attacks, he defeats all three of them easily using his Greatest Caution technique, and throws them into the abyss to Hell. When Seiya was cast into the frozen Hell where those who dare to defy the gods are kept, he saw Mu, Aiolia and Milo trapped in there as well, apparently dead. However, upon Athena's arrival to Hell, they were revived by her power, and broke free. The three arrived to the Wailing Wall, the gateway to Elysion, where Virgo Shaka and Libra Dohko had already arrived before. Milo using a Libra nunchaku attempted to break the Wailing Wall along with the other Gold Saints, who also wielded Libra Weapons. However, they failed and eventually they had to gather all 12 Gold Cloths and Saints, to sacrifice themselves to open this gateway, and allow the Bronze Saints to reach Elysion - the paradise of the Gods - the true home of Hades.

Episode G Assassin
Milo appears before Aiolia in the forest of Mount Fuji, there after a brief talk Milo prepares to have a training fight with the Saint of Leo, then Aiolia asks him to attack him, which Milo agrees to do so who attacks him with the Scarlet Needle. Later he feels the battle between Shura and Trivikramasena noticing in it how the Excalibur of the Gold Saint "transformed" into a sword that cuts absolutely everything.

Saint Seiya: Soul of Gold
Milo appears in the mountains in Asgard where he meets Camus who attacks him since he allied with Andreas and the God Warriors, then, Camus attacks him along with Surt who defeats him and he falls into the river and is rescued by Shaka of Virgo who tells him to be patient but Milo tells him that he cannot wait to fight and go for Camus, Then he appears fighting against several soldiers who he defeats quickly and demands that Camus appear before him, indeed Camus does but him warns that if both fought against each other, a One Thousand Wars would be unleashed, after this the Saint of Scorpio asks Camus his reason for having allied with the God Warrior to which the Saint of Aquarius decides to tell him what happened when he was a child, since he had been the cause of the death of Surt's younger sister and for that reason he promised Surt that one day he would sacrifice his life to fight for him.

After this both Gold Saints attack each other, causing a clash between the Aurora Execution and Scarlet Needle, after this the same marks that had appeared to Mū, Aldebaran and Aiolia appear on Milo's body, however the fight is interrupted by Sigmund de Granir, who tired of seeing a fight of "children" decides to assassinate the Saint of Scorpio, but when the God Warriors was going to attack Milo, a great tornado of fire appeared out of nowhere that trapped Milo inside, while Surt appears on the battlefield, However, he is not the only one to appear in the firestorm to another Saint of Gold, whom Camus and Milo recognize as Saga, who interrupts the fight.

Milo is forced to fight against an image of Hyoga. He then destroys it Later, the Scorpio returns, in the company of two other Saints, to fight the false-god Loki. Milo reaffirms his ties with Camus, attacking Loki in partnership this time. Another time, Milo uses out the divine cloth of his constellation. With the defeat of Loki, Milo notices his bodies gradually sinking. Milo oil to death, walking next to Camus até plunge.

Heated Battle of the Gods
In the fourth film, Milo appears at the beginning, guarding his temple, being defeated by the Unholy Angels from several simultaneous attacks, without giving him a chance of a counterattack. Then by the end of the film, Milo resurrects along with the other Gold Saints to merge into the sky and allow Seiya to kill Lucifer with the Sagittarius arrow.

Techniques and abilities
Milo had mastered the 7th sense, so he is able to move freely at the speed of light. It is also implied that he reached the 8th sense to wake up in Cocytos. His fighting style seems to rely upon quick movements. His secret techniques are:


 * Restriction (リストリクション, risutorikushon): Milo uses his Cosmo energy to stop the movements of his opponents.


 * Scarlet Needle (スカーレットニードル, sukāreto nīdoru): Milo launches a crimson needle to 14 parts of the body either direct or indirectly to poison opponents, make them bleed, and scream in pain, losing their 5 senses in the process. The attack is impossible to divert or defend against. Each needle represents one of the stars of the Scorpius constellation. He can shoot however many needles he wants at the same time up to 14 and even in multiple targets. The holes of the needles draw a miniature of the Scorpius constellation on the body of the victim.
 * Antares (アンタレス, antaresu): The final attack of Scarlet Needle which the star Antares literally means 'equal to Mars'. If the enemy has not yet been defeated after 14 Scarlet Needles, Milo uses Antares. Whoever receives 14 Scarlet Needles and Antares will die. However if Antares is not delivered, the victim might survive and gradually recover over a period of a few days given the massive blood loss.

Cloth, constellation and Temple
Milo's guardian constellation is Scorpius, and his Gold Cloth represents it and its associated myth : The scorpion Apollo or Gaea sent to kill the fabled hunter Orion.

The temple he guarded was known both in manga and the anime adaptation as Ten Katsu Kyuu (天蠍宮), the "Temple of the Celestial Scorpion".

Predecessor and successor

 * Predecessor: Scorpio Ecarlate
 * Successor: Scorpio Sonia