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The Lagoon Company
Rock
A former Japanese Salaryman, Rokuro "Rock" Okajima serves as the the Lagoon Company's negotiator and translator, and is the series' primary POV Character. Although the least physically dangerous member of the Company, Rock possesses the ability to negotiate with heavily-armed, insane, hyper-violent individuals, and not only get out of such negotiations alive, but even convince them to see things his way.
- Action Survivor: And how! He's survived being caught in the middle of multiple gunfights, being kidnapped several times, a collapsing building, boat chases, car chases, assaults from various ultra-violent maniacs...
- All Guys Want Bad Girls: A rare case where a kind, decent guy is after a violent and really dangerous female criminal.
- Anti Hero: Starts as a Type-1 and advances to a cross between Type 2 and Type 3
- Bad Ass: A prime example of how you don't need mad fighting skills to qualify for this.
- Indy Ploy: His ability to think on his feet has saved his life (and his partners') several times.
- Badass Normal: Let's face it, when you have the balls to stand up to Revy and Balalaika with a gun in your face and live to tell about it, you qualify for this title.
- Crazy Awesome: In the very second episode he comes up with the idea of using a partially submerged ship to launch the Lagoon into the air and take out the attack helicopter chasing them with its torpedoes. And It Worked. His confrontations with Revy and Balalaika. Sitting completely calmly and having a pleasant chat with Sister Yolanda over a nice cup of tea while Revy and Eda are in the midst of a Mexican Standoff, and successfully salvaging the negotiation.
- Lets Get Dangerous: He may be the least physically threatening crew member, but he's still just as dangerous as most of the people around him, due to his powers of persuasion and his ability to think on his feet.
- Took A Level In Badass: He's still a scrawny white-collar office drone, but on the other hand he's adapted incredibly well to his circumstances since arriving in Roanapur. Since the beginning of the series he's grown steadily more confident to the point where not only is he almost at ease in volatile and life-threatening situations, but he seems to be actively enjoying himself! He can calmly and unflinchingly stand up for what he believes in to two of the most lethal women on the planet in a verbal confrontation, whilst being held at gunpoint, and persuade them to see his point of view.
- Also when he beat up Chaka with a bowling pin was badass awesome too.
- Badass Pacifist: Not always, but facing down Revy, facing down Balalaika, and talking his way out of the Church of Violence are all lovely acts of Badass Pacifism.
- Being Good Sucks: At the beginning of "The Wired Red Card", he complains of this because of being shot with a blank at the end of the previous arc after all his efforts to save everyone.
- Belligerent Sexual Tension: With Revy.
- Slap Slap Kiss Revy has almost shot him more than once.
- Unresolved Sexual Tension Lampshaded by Eda a lot, especially in Revy's face.
- Beware The Nice Ones: Easily the most decent and sympathetic human being in
the seriesRoanapur, and usually very polite and even-keeled... but just as dangerous as his crewmates, albeit in a different way. And if you push him far enough, like say, abducting and then molesting and abusing a young girl he's trying to protect, he will drop the pacifism and bring the pain, as Chaka found out the hard way. Or if you're a crewmate who's worn away his (considerable) patience by being a Jerk Ass, he'll get in your face and verbally shred you, whether you have a gun pointed at him or not.- Not to mention that in a last bid to save Yukio, he asked Balalaika to wipe out the last remaining Yakuza in order to force her to live an ordinary life.
- Brad Swaile
- Butt Monkey: In his old job, he got his ass kicked a lot by his bosses. He's shaken this off as he adjusts to his life as a pirate.
- Character Development: Growing from his first appearance as a sad sack into one who can survive among some pretty awful people; not necessarily a completely positive change.
- Well, it does allow him (the poster boy for idealism in a very cynical series) to survive while still retaining a soul and his own ability to survive, so it's justified.
- Chronic Hero Syndrome: Particularly in the Yakuza arc. And no, it doesn't end well.
- Recently, he's taken a turn for the dark. His goal is still to save people, but he's learning that nice guys always lose in Roanapur.
- Corrupt The Cutie: Rock seems to be headed in this direction
- Daisuke Namikawa
- Distressed Dude: Revy gripes about how Rock gets captured all the time, leading to a Crowning Moment Of Funny when Yukio abducts him towards the end of the Yakuza arc."Great! Now he's been kidnapped by a schoolgirl!"
- The Dulcinea Effect: Puts his ass on the line for Yukio, a girl he has only just met, and who proceeds to try and kill him.
- Although he probably did it because she reminded him of himself before he chose a life of crime, not because she was a pretty girl.
- Even Evil Has Standards: He may have willingly chosen to become a pirate and run with very unsavory people doing very unsavory things, but dammit, he still has morals!
- Fanservice Pack/Evil Is Sexy/Art Evolution: He started out looking fairly average, but as the story continued and Rock started getting more morally ambiguous he got a lot hotter, just look at this (NSFW) (Not the left image, as fine as it may be.
- Though it could just be Rei Hiroe getting better at drawing hot men.)
- Guile Hero: Has to relay on his wits and negotiation abilities to survive. The result? He becomes a good guy who has nonetheless managed to successfully makeBalalaika and Sister Yolanda back down. He's a serious candidate for Magnificent Bastard, should he become even more embittered.
- Good Eyes Evil Eyes: His eyes were shown as fairly wide at the beginning of the series, when he was at his most inexperienced and idealistic, but over time, they have narrowed considerably, as he became more competent/cynical. It should be noted that this style of eye is used to denote such badasses as Revy, Roberta, Ginji, etc.
- Heel Realization: Not quite, but the events in Tokyo forced him to realise what kind of life he's chosen.
- Fabiola gives him another, more serious one of these by shooting him in the gut with a blank and calling him out.
- Improvised Weapon: Although not usually a physical fighter, he did defend himself from a chainsaw-wielding goth girl using a metal shelf the one time, and then there's the above example where he trips Chaka up using spilled cleaning fluid and knocks the obnoxious prick out with a bowling pin.
- Knight In Sour Armor: By the end of Season 2, Rock freely admits that justice is non-existent, and that morality is a sham, yet he still believes in helping people.
- Launcher Of A Thousand Ships: Lemon writers have paired him with Revy, Shenhua, Eda, Roberta, and even Balalaika!
- Fairly justified with Revy and Eda, and to some extent Balalaika (see the Yakuza arc for the details). Shenhua, and to a lesser extent, Roberta, is a bit out there.
- Magnificent Bastard: Going down this way.
- The Messiah: Rock is about the closest thing the Black Lagoon universe has to The Messiah, but given the Crapsack World that he lives in, anything heroic or idealistic that he tries to do tends to go badly for him.
- As El Baile de la Muerte shows, he CAN save lives, but it almost seemed like the world only let him get away with it because he acted like a prick to do it.
- Morality Chain: To Revy. Starts more as a Morality Pet but, as their relationship thickens, he becomes this. Especially when she makes it very clear to him that she would never let anyone else talk to her the way he does or tolerate his naïveté from anybody else.
- To the point that when he goes Laughing Mad, gloating to himself over how Chang was wrong about the Gray Fox situation being unsalvagable, she seems to be given pause.
- No Guy Wants An Amazon: Sure!
- Naive Newcomer
- Nice Guy
- Non Action Guy: Most of the time, anyway.
- Only Sane Man: Probably literally in this case.
- Papa Wolf: He really doesn't like children being mistreated/put in danger, as seen with Garcia, Gretel, and Yukio. Notably, when Yukio was abducted, he mounted a rescue, and seeing what her captors had done to her brought out his absolute worst language and drove him to actually assault the ringleader. And later, he risks his life by trying to persuade Balalaika to spare her.
- Precision F-Strike: He's easily the most polite and well-spoken cast member, so when he does swear, it means he's truly furious, such as when he has it out with Revy, or when he sees how Chaka and his gang have mistreated Yukio.
- Protagonist Journey To Villain
- Psychotic Smirk: Has been using it since chapter 72, which combined with the narrowed eyes has cemented his status as a badass.
- Was also used in his earlier moments of awesome, with Revy's drinking challenge, and with the takedown of the Extra Order chopper.
- Stranger In A Familiar Land: In the yakuza arc.
- Sympathy For The Devil: For Hansel, and especially Gretel)
- Talking The Monster To Death: Does this several times, most notably with Balalaika at the end of the final arc.
- Though she made it clear that she was still calling the shots.
- The Unfavorite: The reason he hasn't contacted his family to let them know he's alive. He claims his distant relationship with his parents was because they preferred his older, more successful brother.
- Token Good Teammate: Of the Lagoon Company.
- Wide Eyed Idealist: At least initially, and he never becomes completely disillusioned.
- Will They Or Wont They: He and Revy.
- Unless they already did. Eda thinks this may have happened while they were in Japan.
- Xanatos Gambit: Brewed one to stop Roberta's Roaring Rampage Of Revenge.
Rebecca aka Revy
A nihilistic Chinese-American gunwoman and the Lagoon Company's primary muscle. Known as "Two Hand," after her preferredstyle of shooting.- Abuse Is Okay When It Is Female On Male: Subverted. She does hit and abuse Rock, even almost shoots him at one point, but it is never portrayed as normal or acceptable. Moreover, Rock eventually stands up for himself and succeeds in convincing her that there are other ways to solve her issues than her guns. She feels ashamed after this confrontation and mostly stops abusing him after that.
- All Amazons Want Hercules: Averted; this particular Amazon prefers Odysseus.
- Action Girl / Dark Action Girl
- Anti Hero (Type IV/V): Post- Character Development
- Ax Crazy: During the events of the Nazi arc, Revy went on a quite psychotic killing spree, and in the manga, she didn't even spare the noncombatants. Dutch called her on this, telling her he didn't remember hiring "Charles fucking Whitman."
- She was going to kill the innocent crew in the anime, too, but Dutch stopped her just in time.
- Badass: She's the poster
girlwoman and one of the two primary characters for a series full of 'em. - Bare Your Midriff: Her default attire.
- Belligerent Sexual Tension: With Rock
- Tsundere: Very heavy on the tsuntsun, and has even tried to shoot Rock several times.
- Unresolved Sexual Tension
- Blood Knight
- Break The Cutie: You just know that Revy went through something like this during her childhood.
- How about the time she told Rock about her Fringe Horror of the world they are living.
- Broken Bird
- Character Development (Or "watching a monster-like Dark Action Girl learning to care by spending time with a decent human being")
- Charles Atlas Superpower
- Celibate Heroic sociopath Despite being Ms Fanservice, so far, she hasn't been shown to have any sex life to speak of. At one point Eda lampshades this by teasing her about it, "When it comes to you and men..."
- Though it is implied she did (or at least considered) doing a dominatrix porno shoot at one point.
- There's also the fact that she says at one of her former jobs they treated her like a prostitute, which implies some very unpleasant things and goes a long way explaining why she's so messed up.
- Though "At my last job, they treated me like a whore" line could be taken as metaphorical, or even a cause of her Celibate Villain-ness.
- Eda also teases her about how long she and Rock were together in Japan (though if anything did happen, it's never been brought up).
- Chinese American Girl
- Closer To Earth: Inverted and justified. Rock is morally superior to her but her lack of morals stems from a horrific and unstable childhood.
- Cluster F Bomb: Revy is the primary contributor to the high volume of F Bombs dropped in the series proper.
- Defrosting Ice Queen: Whether she likes it or not, Rock's decency and kindness IS beginning to rub off onto her personality.
- She almost seems to go out of her way to act the contrary before Fabiola when the kid tries to give her a The Reason You Suck Speech.
- Dull Eyes Of Unhappiness
- Drives Like Crazy: The one time we see her driving, you'd think the only way she ever learned to turn corners is to drift.
- Even Evil Has Standards: In the Tokyo arc, she expresses her disgust at Chaka shooting his own men in the back."Wow. You shot your own subordinates. Despicable to the end."
- Girls With Guns
- The Gunslinger: Type C.
- Guns Akimbo: Revy's weapons of choice are two custom-modified Berettas, and her skill in using them has earned her the name "Two Hands."
- Hair Trigger Temper: Good Lord, what doesn't piss her off?
- Hollywood Atheist: Revy gave up on God when she was young, a product of growing up on the harsh and unforgiving streets.
- Whether or not its a figure of speech, her time with Rock has her gradually start using terms like "We should thank God that we are still alive."
- Considering she utters the line "lordy lordy fucking christ" in the second episode, it's probably a Rock-independent reflexive response.
- Whether or not its a figure of speech, her time with Rock has her gradually start using terms like "We should thank God that we are still alive."
- Hot Amazon
- I Call It Vera: Variation; she calls her guns "cutlasses" after their moniker, the "Sword Cutlass Special 9mm".
- Jerk Ass: Particularly towards Rock at the beginning of the series, until he stood up to her and chewed her out. She's mellowed since then, but it's important to remember she's still not a particularly nice person...
- Killing Fucking Assholes Mid Sentence
- The Ladette: Revy is more macho than a lot of men, even when she's wearing a skirt.
- The Lancer/ The Dragon: To Dutch
- Megumi Toyoguchi
- Miser Advisor
- Miss Fanservice: Oh, yeah.
- Oh those cut-down jeans showing off her great legs and tight ass! The way her breasts test the confines of that belly button-exposing T-shirt whenever she slouches in her seat. That permanently undone zipper showing a tantalising glimpse of Bleached Underpants. The sociopathic glee with which she murders mooks with herskilfully-wielded dual Berettas, her foul-mouthed disregard of morals and conventions, the tough-gal attitude masking a tragic past, her Ladette (Les Yay?) friendship with a gun-toting, gum-popping, insult-spewing, well-stacked Naughty Nun — Revy's practically a Fetish Fuel Station Attendant!
- Mood Swinger: Her set of attitudes: sullen, Nietzsche-ing, cocky, pleased, foaming-at-the-mouth-furious, and calm. The last is by far the scariest.
- Nietzsche Wannabe: To the point where it borders on narm sometimes. Debatable, of course, but just make sure that the mute button is close by...
- Noble Demon
- Not A Morning Person: Apparently, though her drinking habits may have something to do with it.
- Out Of The Inferno
- Pet The Dog: She once showed a group of kids what gunplay's really about - using their popguns. We even get a Luminescent Blush after she sees Rock was watching!
- Near the end of that story arc, she shows them again...using her guns. Don't worry, she just shoots some cans up. Even she isn't that cruel.
- Playing Against Type: Megumi Toyoguchi aka Winry Rockbell Wha...?
- Even better, the English dub is voiced by Bubbles (no, not Tara Strong, the other one, Maryke Hendrikse).
- aka. Susan Test.
- Even better, the English dub is voiced by Bubbles (no, not Tara Strong, the other one, Maryke Hendrikse).
- Pre Mortem One Liner: "Say hi to the Fuhrer for me."
- Satisfied Street Rat
- She Cleans Up Nicely: Revy looks good in her "city clothes" when she travels with Rock to Tokyo.
- Single Woman Seeks Good Man Even if she hasn't acknowledged in as many words that she's attracted to Rock, the signs are there.
- Sir Swearsalot: By far the most potty-mouthed character on the goddamned fucking show.
- Situational Sexuality/Prison Rape: When she was in prison, she apparently was so good that her partners could never go back to anyone else, and she was definitely the aggressor! She even threatened to show off her stuff to Jane.
- Slasher Smile: Revy often displays these when she gets into a gunfight. And as well...
- Spell My Name With An S In some fan-translations she becomes "Levy".
- Stripperific
- Superpowered Evil Side: The only way to explain how Revy managed to match Roberta during their fight in Rasta Blasta, in light of what Roberta is capable of during El Baile de la Muerte.
- Talk To The Fucking Gun!
- Tall Dark And Bishoujo
- Tattooed Crook: Revy has a quite prominent tribal tattoo on her shoulder.
- Tranquil Fury: Revy's "Whitman Fever," which is more a relapse of Ax Crazy than actual anger. When Revy starts to look like she's sleep-deprived and stops yelling and swearing, there will be blood and there will be lots of it. Revy's eyelids lower and she occasionally smiles slightly whenever she goes into such states.
- Trigger Happy: Very much this.
- Vapor Wear: Partially averted, her panties are visible at all times cause she never zips up her shorts. But her bouncing, and other clues imply she doesn't wear a bra.
- No, she just hangs it on the lamp in her room, thus giving us a literal example of Lampshade Hanging. She definitely wasn't wearing one when she hid those documents for the CIA in her top. One of the agents even complains about them being all sweaty...
- Villain Protagonist: Pre- Character Development
- Vitriolic Best Buds: With Eda.
- Will They Or Wont They: Her and Rock.
- Worthy Opponent: Ginji is this to her.
- Yandere: Revy gets preeetty creepy when Jane considers seducing Rock.
- You Gotta Have Burgundy Hair: A rare shade, even in Anime.
Benny
An American computer hacker who acts as the Lagoon Company's communications officer and radio operator.
- Anti Villain
- Badass Creed: "Fuck the Nazis" is a family motto, apparently.
- He is Jewish, after all.
- Brian Drummond
- Deadpan Snarker: Loves to gibe at his pals.
- Hiroaki Hirata
- Informed Judaism: Only ever mentioned during their encounter with the Neo-Nazis. Probably justified in that him being a pirate is either the reason or the consequence of him disregarding the religion's teachings.
- Mission Control
- Non Action Guy
- Perma Stubble
- Playful Hacker: And his mad skills even score him a girl.
- Villain Protagonist
Dutch
A laconic African-American swiftboat veteran; the leader of the Lagoon Company and the captain of the Black Lagoon.
- Affably Evil: He's the leader of a group of pirates who'll get the job done no matter what it'll take. He's also one of the most sane people of the cast. See Benevolent Bossand Cool Old Guy.
- Bald Of Awesome
- Bald Black Leader Guy
- Badass
- Badass Driver: At one point he drives the Lagoon at full speed at a wrecked freighter to use it as a ramp in order to get airborne and shoot a torpedo at a helicopter. Christ.
- Beard Of Evil: Has a mean goatee.
- Benevolent Boss: He's got pretty good HR skills, and know how to look after his employees well.
- The Captain
- Cool Shades
- Cool Old Guy: Dutch is, in the very least, in his fifties.
- Except maybe not...
- Cultured Badass
- Deadpan Snarker
- Gangsta Style: He does this with a shotgun in episode 6, though only for his first shot.
- Genius Bruiser
- Mysterious Past: Major Caxton says that Dutch's story about being a Vietnam vet is a lie because he claimed to be part of an offensive while in a unit that didn't take part in it, and he didn't understand basic military lingo that a 'Nam vet would have known. His actual past (or if Caxton was even right) is still unknown.
- Pragmatic Villainy: Does not like his employees (read:Revy) running off Ax Crazy and shooting Innocent Bystanders instead of sticking to the plan.
- Punch Clock Villain: Sure, he deals in slaves and drugs and illegal firearms that are used for gods know what, but it's just business.
- Revolvers Are Just Better
- Scary Black Man: Not so much. Unless you're a nazi.
- Scary Shiny Glasses: Episode 3.
- Sunglasses At Night: He hasn't been seen once without them.
- The Stoic: The only moment he gets pissed is when he comes back to discover his warehouse in flames during the Greenback Jane arc, and even then not so much.
- Even when Roberta grabs his arm and - effortlessly - starts to pull him out through the window of a moving car, he doesn't panic.
- The Unfunny: "Amen, Hallelujah, and Peanut Butter..."
- The Vietnam War: Claims to be a vietnam veteran. As it turns out, that isn't entirely true.
- Tsutomu Itobe
- Villain Protagonist
- Warrior Poet
And of course for all four, Smoking Is Cool.
Hotel Moscow
Balalaika
A former Soviet special forces commander turned mafia queen; member (along with Mr. Chang and two others) of the four-person commission that regulates crime in Roanapur. Her real name is Sofiya Irininskaya Pavlovena.
- Affably Evil
- A Mother To Her Men
- Alternate Character Interpretation: Viewer interpretations of her character tend to vary widely; everything from Crazy Awesome Ubermensch to Broken Bird Shell Shocked Veteran to...less flattering things.
- Authority Equals Asskicking
- Badass
- Badass Army: The Vysotniki
- Badass Greatcoat: Her officer outfit from her army days.
- The Baroness: Do NOT get on this lady's bad side if you value your life. Trust us on this one.
- Blondes Are Evil
- Blood Knight: According to Revy she'd rather give up sex than pass up a chance to wage war.
- Break The Cutie: In the anime, we see her as an innocent young girl who wanted to join the Olympic sniping team. Until the Afghan War happened and she got completely trashed.
- Broken Bird
- Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: Fujiama Gangsta Paradise. Full stop. The head of Washimine clan attempted to do this at first because Balalaika was obviously going overboard, providing a very undesirable sort of help.
- Cool Big Sis: To Revy, anyway, who even refers to her as "Anego" which means "Sister". Though Revy isn't above calling Balalaika a bitch when she pulls a gun on Rockor has her men shoot Revy and Shenhua in the arms.
- Crowning Moment Of Funny: I didn't know she edits porn videos...
- "I should have gotten a part-timer to do this. Somebody shoot me."
- Death Seeker: Balalaika confesses to Chang that her driving motivation is to "meet that one fated person in that one fated battle" and die remembering who she once was.
- Disabled Hottie: Scars and all, she's still considered very beautiful. Even though they don't seem so bad just look at her in a swimsuit to get an idea of how extensive they are. Jesus.
- Dissonant Serenity
- Evil Laugh / Laughing Mad: Her reaction to Rock trying to talk her down near the end of the Yakuza arc. If she ever seemed sane and reasonable before, here you find out the opposite...
- Eviler Than Thou: Her confrontation with Hansel.
- And later the yakuza, especially Yukio.
- Femme Fatalons
- Foe Yay: With Mr. Chang.
- Depending on how you look at it, she had some with Rock during the Yakuza arc. She seems to like a man who can piss her off, then not only calm her back down, but practically gift wrap a chance for more carnage in the effort.
- Former Regime Personnel
- Good Looking Kapitan
- Good Scars Evil Scars: Balalaika has a large part of one side of her face scarred, a result of the war. She's sometimes called "Fry Face" because of it.
- As she still manages to look attractive regardless.
- The first time you see her arms in Chapter 64...jesus.
- And the swimsuit special by the author/artist shows that it's actually most of her torso (assuming the doujin is canon).
- Grandma What Massive Hotness You Have: Balalaika, who remains gorgeous despite the disfiguring burns, earned the rank of captain and fought during the Soviet-Afghanistan war, making her at least in her forties.
- Hey Its That Voice: Mami Koyama aka Kei aka Ophicus Shaina aka Esmeraude aka Princess Kycilia Zabi aka Captain Talia Gladys aka Arale Norimaki aka Lunch.
- Hot Chick In A Badass Suit
- Lady Of War
- The Mafiya
- Magnificent Bitch
- Mama Bear: You hurt her subordinates, you will be dead soon. And. VERY. Messily. Hansel and Gretel didn't pay attention to this, so...
- Moe/Girlish Pigtails: Young Balalaika, as seen in the manga omakes.
- Names To Run Away From Really Fast: A balalaika is a type of stringed instrument, but it's also a Russian millitary slang term for a Draganov sniper rifle (which Balalaika used during the Soviet-Afghan War).
- Pet The Dog: Many, mostly concerning her relation with both her henchmen and Lagoon Company.A particularly poignant one is her giving Rock a picture of Yukio to remember her by at the end of the Yakuza arc.
- Your Mileage May Vary. Maybe she just wanted to remind him that he was partially responsible for Yukio's death.
- Or that even if Rock is a smart guy, in the end, she calls the shots. Especially if you note that Yukio's face has a red "X" through it.
- Your Mileage May Vary. Maybe she just wanted to remind him that he was partially responsible for Yukio's death.
- Power Hair: Subverted. She is powerful, badass, feared and a decent strategist but she has the long, flowing, slightly wavy tresses usually worn by weak and fragileDistressed Damsels.
- Pre Ass Kicking One Liners: Nice commie ones like "Comrades, raise your fists!" or "Cock your hammers!"
- Psychotic Smirk
- Scars Are Forever: Justified, given their severity.
- Shut Up Hannibal: Done to Hansel, with a sniper rifle.
- Slasher Smile: When she's enjoying herself
- Smoking Is Cool: Usually has a nice big cigar on hand.
- The Strategist: She's the brains of her personal army.
- Technically A Smile: (Provides the page picture). If Balalaika ever smiles at you, it's recommended that you make sure your last will and testament is up to date.
- Tranquil Fury: Even when she's in the depths of teeth-gnashing, blood-boiling rage, Balalaika tends to speak like a patient mother scolding her children. She raises her voice in anger exactly twice. Both times are among the tensest points in the series.
- Ubermensch
- Villain Protagonist
- Warrior Poet
- Would Hurt A Child: A rare female example. Has no compuctions about hurting children physically and very violently. Even though she did not do it directly, Hansel and Gretel got no special treatment for being children. No doubt she would have done it herself if given a chance though.
- As with Mr. Wong, the fact that these kids killed some of her men in cold blood probably has a great deal to do with it.
- In the anime, a flashback to the Afghan war shows her shifting her sniper fire away from a child running towards its mother. So this trope is in effect, but not to a ridiculous degree — presumably she'd have no qualms about killing a Child Soldier.
- Why We're Bummed Communism Fell
Boris
Balalaika's former platoon sergeant during the Soviet-Afghan war, Boris is utterly loyal and devoted to her and is almost always at his Kapitan's side.
- Bishounen: According to one of the omakes, he used to be an incredibly scrawny, girlish-looking boy (the Shout Out to Rose Of Versailles was very obvious), so to fix this, he joined the Army and took 20 levels in badass.
- The Dragon: We can safely assume he is this to Balalaika, despite not having seen him do much so far.
- Even Evil Has Standards: Admits to Balalaika that taking out Hansel's leg and hand with a sniper rifle and letting him slowly bleed to death gave him the chills. Though he may have been talking about how he was letting one of the only people to kill a member of the Vysotniki in-series within twenty feet of her.
- Former Regime Personnel
- Good Scars Evil Scars: The large scar across his face is his most distinguishing feature.
- Hey Its That Voice: Mark Acheson AKA Unicron.
- Mauve Shirt
- Taiten Kusunoki
- Sergeant Rock: The fact that she addresses him as "sergeant" rather than by name suggests that he's her former platoon sergeant.
- The Stoic: Very much so.
- The Mafiya
Sun Yee On Triad
Mr. Chang
A former Hong Kong policeman turned Triad leader; currently engaged in an friendly competition with Balalaika over control of the Roanapur underworld.
- Affably Evil: Starts out as this, but reveals himself as Evilly Affable later on.
- Authority Equals Asskicking
- Bad Ass: Revy calls him "sir" which should instantly tell you he's the most baddest guy in a town full of them. (It's obvious that Revy wants to be a cool, rich and powerful Triad boss just like Chang when she grows up.)
- Back To Back Badasses: He and Revy make an awesome version of this - See the terrorist arc.
- Badass Longcoat
- Cool Shades: Considering his character design is based on Chow Yun-Fat, this pretty much comes with the territory.
- Scarf Of Asskicking: Of the untied variety, hanging around the collar of his coat.
- Card Carrying Villain: Apathetically and matter-of-factually talks about his absolute lack of compassion for sexually-abused children because he is a black-hearted cynical scumbag and is completely comfortable with that fact; this is the defining difference from the kind-and-honorable Papa Wolf gangsters played by Chow Yun-Fat that he is based upon.
- Arguably, this callousness has more to do with the fact that the abused kids double up as Ax Crazy serial killers who killed some of his subordinates.
- Comic Book Fantasy Casting: Chang looks suspiciously like Chow Yun-Fat.
- See John Woo entry below. Mr. Chang was a Hong Kong police detective at one time, before he went over to the Triads.
- Cute Shotaro Boy: 15-year-old Chang from the Omakes13-year-old Rock: Mr. Chan! You're so young!
- Evil Laugh: Gives one after Rock calls him out for what he is. Comes off as rather menacing somehow.
- Estrogen Brigade Bait: Without his glasses, he is very handsome.
- Foe Yay: Him and Balalaika. Neither of them take it personally when they are at odds, and have exchanged flirty banter with each other. They're a Fan Preferred Couplein fanfics.
- In the omake where Balalaika is Hansel and Gretel's mother, guess who they made the father?
- Guns Akimbo: So does this (See Cool Shades). Unlike Chow Yun-Fat's characters, Chang's Weapons Of Choice are two
AMT Hardballer LongslidesBeretta 76s (The Longslides were borrowed from his subordinates). - Magnificent Bastard: One of the few who can keep up with Balalaika regularly.
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: The already mentioned Chow Yun-Fat.
- Only Sane Man: Generally acts as a voice of reason towards the other local crimelords, particularly Balalaika.
- Reasonable Authority Figure
- The Stoic: This guy is capable of being completely calm during a massive shootout. The only time he lost his cool was when Eda told him he was an insect compared to the might of the United States.
- The Triads And The Tongs: Mr. Chang is a member of Sun Yee On.
- Toshiyuki Morikawa
- Trevor Devall
Shenhua
A Taiwanese assassin in the employ of Mr. Chang. She prefers to use various edged weapons in close combat, in particular a pair of kukri knives linked together with a length of leather rope at the handles, thus using them as modified rope darts. She is also skilled in the use of throwing knives.- Affably Evil: Quite cheery most of the time, whether she's skewering hapless Mooks, or delivering an unfortunate man in a suitcase to be chopped up by a goth with a chainsaw. She and Revy even have a (relatively) friendly conversation whilst trying to kill each other.
- Badass
- Chinese Girl
- Genius Bonus or Did Not Do The Research: In volume 8, she answers the phone in the Cantonese dialect, which is not used in Taiwan but widely spoken in Hong Kong and Guangdong. Maybe she picked it up from hanging out with the Triad, or maybe Rei Hiroe Did Not Do The Research. The latter is unlikely, but not impossible.
- I Sound Like A Retard In Chinglish"My English not good because I am pure Taiwanese. Maybe you like me to skin your ass, bitch?"
- Knife Nut: She's as good with the knives as Revy is with the guns.
- Kukris Are Kool
- Not So Harmless: Very easy to underestimate given her ridiculous Engrish. You'll regret laughing though when her knife comes out.
- Power Trio: She forms one with Rotton and Sawyer. They even live together now!
- Qipao
- Saffron Henderson
- Shes Got Legs: And that dress shows off every inch.
- Yuko Sasaki
Ripoff Church / Church of Violence
Eda
A nun with the so-called Church Of Violence ( and an apparently active CIA agent). Revy's confidant and only friend.- Badass
- Berserk Button: Anyone who puts a bullet in the church had better damn well be prepared to go to war! She doesn't appreciate apprentice priest Rico calling her "sis," either."That's SISTER to you, jackass!"
- Bottle Fairy
- Cluster F Bomb (Second to Revy in that department.)
- The Cheerleader: When de-aged in the omakes.
- Cool Big Sis: To Rico apparently.
- Cool Shades (She always wears them - the few times we see her without them, she's either in disguise or otherwise acting officially as a field officer, versus the normal 'undercover' role.)
- Gainax Bounce: There is no way in hell that she wears a bra whilst in her civvies.
- Girls With Guns (Or rather, NUNS with guns.)
- Lisa Ann Beley
- Miser Advisor: Even more so than Revy.
- Miss Fanservice: Just look at her◊ when she's wearing her "street clothes"... or maybe even still in her nun's habit.
- Most Common Superpower: She's more... well-endowed than Revy.
- More Dakka: Oh so very much!
- Naughty Nuns
- Or Is It? The ending of the Greenback arc and her role in the El Baile De La Muerte arc indicate that what we see of Eda is mainly a front.
- Not So Harmless: You'll see her coming anyway, unless she's really serious.
- Nun Too Holy
- Shipper On Deck: She seems to have taken an interest in Rock/Revy.
- When she's not hitting on Rock herself... which could be an act, and if it is, it's a damn good one.
- And thus, the Revy/Rock/Eda threesome is born. Amen, bitches.
- Amen, hallelujah and peanut butter, more like.
- When she's not hitting on Rock herself... which could be an act, and if it is, it's a damn good one.
- Stripperific: When not wearing her nun outfit.
- She Cleans Up Nicely: Wears a stylish black dress when "talking" to Mr. Chang in "El Baile de la Muerte".
- The Tease: She frequently comes on very heavily to Rock, much to his embarrassment and Revy's annoyance. As if the poor guy didn't have enough stress in his life...
- They Call Me Mister Tibbs: "That's SISTER to you, jackass!"
- Vitriolic Best Buds: With Revy
Ricardo aka Rico.
Eda's assistant and a newcomer in the Church Of Violence, who makes his debut in the "Greenback Jane" arc.
- Naive Newcomer: In the Greenback Jane arc
- Running Gag: "That's SISTER to you, jackass!"
- Sexy Priest: In a sort-of cute, laid-back way.
- Tetsuya Kakihara
- Yougotta Have Blue Hair: Or green, in his case.
Sister Yolanda
Leader of the Church of Violence. Very likely has a background in intelligence herself, as she is fully aware of Eda's status, and acts as an informant/ confidant to her.
- Affably Evil: Seems like just a benevolent, soft spoken elderly lady, aside from the eyepatch. And, you know, the weapons dealing and the drug smuggling.
- Church Militant / Corrupt Church
- Cool Old Lady: Wouldn't it be awesome if your grandma was more like this?
- Eyepatch Of Power
- Hand Cannon: A gold-plated and engraved Desert Eagle to be exact. And this 70-year-old lady can fire it with one hand.
- I Was Quite A Looker: In an Omake we see Yolanda at the age of 29. She's, well, See for yourself.
- Lady Of War: Very cultured and very well versed in the Bible. Mixes this rather well with being able to blow your shit up with a gold plated Desert Eagle.
- Never Mess With Granny: Especially not when she's firing a freakin' Desert Eagle one-handed.
- Not So Harmless: You had BETTER believe it.
The Lovelace Household
Roberta
A maid who worked for four years at the Lovelace household in Venezuela. Although her domestic skills such as cleaning and cooking were somewhat lacking, she developed a close friendship with the young son of the Lovelace family, Garcia. Roberta was once known as Rosarita Cisneros, a former FARC guerrilla trained as an assassin in Cuba and an internationally wanted criminal. She was taken in by the Lovelaces to clear a debt of honor between Roberta's father and the head of the family, who then became her master.
- Anti Hero: Type IV —> Type V (El Baile de la muerte)
- The Atoner: Tried to be a good person by being a loyal servant and a mother/sister of sorts to Garcia... sadly, all that went out the window with the murder of her master/Garcia's dad.
- Ax Crazy: During "El Baile De La Muerte", Roberta not only falls into this state, but takes it Up To Eleven.
- Bad Ass: Holy shit...
- Badass Bandolier
- Badass Creed: "In the name of Santa Maria, I shall be the hammer that swept the evil and injustice"
- Seriously, Roberta seems to have been specifically designed to live and breathe "badass."
- Briefcase Blaster: Used one in her initial appearance.
- Charles Atlas Superpower: Probably the most egregious example in the series.
- Composite Character: A combined Expy of El Mariachi, The T-1000 and Mary Poppins, or as the author calls her, "Death Poppins."
- Crazy Prepared: Let's see, she shows up in Roanapur with an umbrella made of Kevlar that has a built in shotgun, a suitcase made of the same with a built in machine gun and rocket launcher, and she hides enough grenades to demolish an entire building in her maid's skirt. And then there's what's inside her suitcase besides all that. If this isn't a prime example of this trope I don't know what is.
- Cry Cute: The adorably sad eyes she looked at Garcia with when she hung off the edge of Dutch's car.◊ Aww, can I take her home with me?
- Curb Stomp Battle: She catches one of Shenhua's kukris in her teeth, uses it to block the other kukri (with it still in her teeth), then shatters it right in Shenhua's face (again with her teeth). When Sawyer steps in, Roberta jams the chain and snaps the blade with the trigger guards of her Colts. And when it's Rotton's turn? She gives him the boot.
- Dark Action Girl: Understatement of the year.
- Determinator: To the point where the crew of the Lagoon repeatedly jokes that she could be the T-1000. All jokes stop when she starts climbing up the back of their car with a pair of trench knives. After catching up to them on foot at a dead run. What makes it awesome is that she's even imitating Robert Patrick's "knife hand" sprinter's run.
- Ensemble Darkhorse
- Fan Nickname: Maidenator.
- Get A Hold Of Yourself, Head Maid!
- Guns Akimbo: Amongst her weapons are a pair of Sistema Colt Modelo 1927s, which she wields against Revy's Cutlasses. And later, she adds drum clips to them.
- Hey Its That Voice (None other than Michie Tomizawa or Tabitha St Germain.)
- Hot Amazon: Garcia certainly thinks so!
- Implacable Woman (Rock makes a joke on how she's like the Terminator. Turns out it couldn't be closer to the truth.)
- Mama Bear: You look at Garcia wrong, you're deader than dead.
- Mexican Standoff: With Revy.
- Michie Tomizawa
- Morality Pet: Garcia Lovelace.
- Morality Chain: The Lovelace clan in its entirety is this to her, as evidenced in El Baile de la Muerte.
- My God What Have I Done: After she shoots Garcia because "Master would never say such a thing!" [Read: denounce her Roaring Rampage Of Revenge].
- Names To Run Away From Really Fast: Her nickname is the "Bloodhound of Florencia" and to be fair running won't do you much good. She can outrun a car. I'm dead fucking serious.
- Nigh Invulnerable: Made Of Iron is a standard power for Black Lagoon characters. Roberta is not so much made of 'Iron' as 'diamondoid, probably poured over a base of Wolfram or some other extremely dense, tear-resistant material'.
- Ninja Maid: In Fucking Spades.
- Parasol Of Pain: Hers is made of Kevlar and has a built in shotgun. And that's just one of her many pain-inducing items.
- Plucky Maid: In Fucking Spades.
- Obfuscating Stupidity: Who would believe that the clumsy housemaid who just burned dinner is actually the "Bloodhound of Florencia"?
- One Woman Army: And fucking how.
- Real Women Never Wear Dresses: Yeah right! This is the implacable woman who wears a maid outfit 95% of time and never ever complains about it.
- In a climate that has most of the female cast wearing considerably less.
- And she's got a 12-year-old Morality Pet. Can't forget that.
- Red Baron: The Bloodhound of Florencia
- Roaring Rampage Of Revenge: When Roberta's master (and Garcia's dad) is killed at the start of El Baile De La Muerte, this is Roberta's response.
- Scary Shiny Glasses
- She Who Fights Monsters: So very much in El Baile De La Muerte. Only Garcia, Fabiola and Rock's Xanatos Gambit were enough to snap her out of psycho-mode.
- She Cleans Up Nicely: Lampshaded when Roberta changes from her maid's outfit to a Hot Amazon look.
- Shower Of Angst: We see her sulking in the shower right after her master's demise.
- Slasher Smile: In El Baile de la Muerte. And holy crap.
- Spell My Name With An S: Her last name, Cisneros, has been localized as "Tisneros".
- Unstoppable Rage: Goddamn...
- Up To Eleven: Roberta lives this trope - the Dojikko maid (she's better with guns than she is with household duties, it's stated) as well as the Ax Crazy and One Woman Army parts.
- Villain Protagonist: (YMMV) in the OVA's "Roberta's Blood Trail."
- Walking Armory
Garcia Fernando Lovelace
The young son of Roberta's master Diego, heir to the Lovelace family. When he's kidnapped and later the Lagoon company gets the work of "transporting" him, Roberta goes against our "heroes" to get her Morality Pet back. And that's just the beginning. . .
- A Child Shall Lead Them
- Action Survivor
- Break The Cutie: The poor kid...
- Cake Eater: He loves Roberta like family. We find out at the end of Chapter 76, he doesn't love her as a mother, or even as a sister. More like a wife. Kiss included!
- Garcia has excellent taste in women.◊]]
- Cathy Weseluck
- Cute Shotaro Boy
- Distressed Dude: Not his fault, he ain't a child soldier
- Disappeared Dad More like blown to smithereens, but still...
- Harmful To Minors Hoo boy...
- I Know You Are In There Somewhere Fight
- May December Romance: That is, if Roberta returns his (romantic) feelings. It's a bit unclear how she feels about that.
- There actually may be a distinct possibility that she does return his feelings in that context. She did tell him that she was impressed by how much he had grown in her absence (after he had straddled her, no less).
- Mexican Stand Off
- Morality Pet: To Roberta
- The Messiah: Kind of grows into this trope during the course of "El Baile de la Muerte".
- The White Prince
- The Woobie
Diego Jose San Fernando Lovelace
Garcia's father, Roberta's boss and leader of the Lovelace family. Whose tragic death kicks off the El Baile de la Muerte arc.
- Disappeared Dad
- Impoverished Patrician: To a degree. While he still has quite a bit of money due to plantations, it's still not compared to what the Lovelaces used to have in the past, due to their political beliefs and the harrassment of the Colombian cartel.
- Morality Chain: Roberta owes him her new chance at life, and thus she goes batshit when he kicks it.
- Sacrificial Lion
- The White Prince
Fabiola Iglesias
Another maid in the Lovelace household, and the only one who's trained in hand-to-hand combat and weaponry like her. After Roberta leaves in her Roaring Rampage Of Revenge, she becomes Garcia's caretaker.
- Awesomeness By Analysis: She learned Capoeira from watching people practice. No formal training involved.
- Badass Adorable: Basically Roberta-lite.
- Bare Your Midriff: Late in El Baile de la Muerte, she ditches her maid outfit for bike shorts, a sports bra, and an unzipped hoodie.
- Celibate Heroine"There is no need for you to be concerned about my breasts. Even if they grew as big as melons I have no intention of anybody fondling them."
- Complaining About Rescues They Dont Like Shoots Rock with a blank and cracks his rib at the end of "El Baile De La Muerte", despite his doing everything possible to help her and Garcia, even if he did have to manipulate them and gamble with their lives a bit. It was hardly his fault Roberta shot Garcia.
- He was guilty of acting like a dick about the whole thing, treating the whole affair more like a gamble with Chang than a life-or-death crisis, and then acting like he was a hero, when it was clear that despite everyone surviving, there had been permanent damage done.
- Dance Battler: Well versed in Capoeira.
- Groin Attack: With a knife concealed in her shoe. Ouch!
- Guns Akimbo: Dual-wields shotguns. That she hides in her sleeves.
- Mama Bear
- The Napoleon (Is picked on because of her lack of height.)
- Ninja Maid
- Odango Hair
- Pettanko
- Satsuki Yukino (in the newly released OVA)
- Dress over Bike Shorts: Being a Dance Battler who fights in a Maid outfit, this is a must.
- Small Girl Big Gun: Carries a pump-action China Lake Launcher grenade launcher during her fight at the Yellow Flag.
- Shut Up Hannibal: To Revy of all people, who has been insisting that they live in a horrible, vicious world and that Fabiola needs to stop being so idealistic. She finally gets fed up with it and insists the world is neither, and that she can accept that the world is a gray place and the one who really thinks the world is black and white is Revy herself. Neither Revy or Rock were impressed, though.
- Street Urchin (Her backstory)
The Washimine Clan
Ginji Matsuzaki
Legendary enforcer for the Washimine clan and protector of Yukio Washimine, his skill with a sword is equal to Revy's gunfighting ability.- Bad Ass
- Back To Back Badasses: With Revy at the bowling alley.
- Badass Beard
- Badass Longcoat
- Let's face it, this man probably shares a wallet with Samuel L Jackson. You know, the one that says "BAD MOTHERFUCKER" on it.
- Body Guard Crush
- Cool Shades
- Dodge The Bullet: When he's not cutting bullets in half in midair Ginji dodges them with ease, despite his size, at point blank range.
- Estrogen Brigade Bait: Ho boy, a muscled giant with sunglasses and a katana who spends some time shirtless. What's to like?
- Huge Guy Tiny Girl: Ginji with not just Yukio, but any female character. And most male characters. Motherfucker is BIG.
- I Just Want My Beloved To Be Happy: The only reasons he goes back to the Yakuza is because he loves Yukio.
- Katanas Are Just Better: Ginji uses a shirasaya blade. Semi-justified in that he's part of the Yakuza.
- Kiyoyuki Yanada
- Lightning Bruiser: Huge but fast.
- Neighbourhood Friendly Gangsters: He's first seen working in a festival booth. He also says that being poor is better than "selling women and drugs."
- Red Baron: Manslayer Ginji.
- Retired Badass: Was contentedly working as a vendor until he was called out of retirement.
- Roaring Rampage Of Revenge: Goes through the punks who kidnapped and mistreated Yukio like a hay reaper ("Did you want to see my sword that badly?!"), then goes after the ringleader, chops up his gun, severs then the hands holding it, knocks the guy into a pool, and pushes him under to drown.
- Samurai
- Tattooed Crook: Has a large traditional yakuza-style backpiece.
- The Big Guy: Revy calls him "Jumbo" for a reason.
- The Dragon: For the Washimine Clan.
- The Stoic
- Together In Death: With Yukio.
- Worthy Opponent: Revy immediately pegs him as one for her. He slowly stops denying his inner psycho and admits he sees her the same way.
Yukio Washimine
A high school girl and heir to the Washimine Clan, who takes over leadership of the group when it's at war with Balalaika and the old one, Tsugio Bandou, loses his life.- Anti Villain: One of the few honorable and ethical people in the series. Just happens to be antagonistic to the viewpoint characters. And chooses to become a yakuzaboss when Balalaika kills the previous one, since she's next in line.
- Big Bad Wannabe: The underworld has a really steep learning curve and Balalaika had a few decades of experience on her.
- Batman Gambit: Just one against Hotel Moscow.
- Better To Die Than Be Killed: She chose to die by her own hand rather than being at the mercy of rival clans or Hotel Moscow.
- Alternatively, it was to preserve her honor. Or be with Ginji.
- Break The Cutie: Oh dear god, does she get broken...
- Complaining About Rescues They Dont Like: Rock rescues Yukio from capture, humiliation and possible rape, then begs her to leave the underworld. She thanks him politely and then unleashs a brutal Hannibal Lecture deconstructing his own motives.
- Doomed Moral Victor: Pretty much. She lives her life without compromising her principles, which is why she turns to evil despite Rock's advice.
- Good Counterpart: To Rock, he thinks.
- Go Out With A Smile (in the manga, she's smiling sadly at Rock and Revy as she pierces her throat with Ginjis' katana and neck and falls on his lifeless body.
- Hannibal Lecture: Completely deconstructs Rock when he tries to convince her that the path she has chosen is wrong.
- He is later able to, politely, tell her to shut up, stating that his path is not only a perfectly valid way to live, but also one that allows him to see that she is simply not cut out for the life of a gangster.
- Honor Before Reason: The entire reason she took over her Family was because she felt obligated to her subordinates, despite the fact that none of them wanted her to sacrifice her normal life for them and that there was absolutely no chance of victory. Arguably, her refusal to leave Balalaika's forces alone is something of a subversion, on the grounds that she made that decision on the very reasonable grounds that she had no reason to trust Balalaika to keep her word after having broken it to wage war on her Family in the first place.
- Houko Kuwashima
- I Just Want To Be Special: Willingly takes leadership of a Yakuza gang, and laughs at Rock's suggestion that she leave the underworld. It doesn't end well for her.
- Improbable Age: Horribly deconstructed. A teenager has no business trying to fight Balalaika and her ex-special forces henchmen, even with the help of Ginji and the rest of the Washimine Clan. And made even worse by the intervention of Chaka and his group.
- Lalaina Lindbjerg
- Meganekko
- Nietzsche Wannabe: Not Nietzsche specifically, but Yukio is well read on philosophy, genuinely tries to apply it to her life decisions and has a fatalistic worldview.
- The Philosopher
- See You In Hell: The message that she asks Rock to relay to Balalaika before commiting suicide in the manga.
- Samurai: She commits suicide in the traditional manner of a Japanese noblewoman.
- Out Gambitted: At almost every turn. Her trick with the van worked nicely, but as for the rest...
- Warrior Poet
- The Woman Wearing The Queenly Mask
- Yakuza Princess
- Yamato Nadeshiko: Thoroughly deconstructed, as the "young Samurai girl who takes up the family business" ends up in Hell because of that.
- You Are In Command Now: Becomes head of the Washimine clan after the leader kicks it. Sadly, her complete lack of criminal, military or leadership experience makes her easy prey.
- She did well with what she had at hand, being able to figure out what was going on a lot faster than her more experienced subordinates, and she made a decent showing against the head of the rival Family. It's just that she started off with a very small gang (a portion of whom were Ax Crazy traitors) who had been targeted for annihilation by both a much larger gang leaded by freakin' Balalalaika. Really, the only factor she had in her favor was the Revy-level Bad Ass enforcer/love interest Ginji, and that's not even close to enough to dig her out of the pit she started in.
Chaka
One of the Washimine family's enforcers who attempted to take control of the family.- All Guys Want Bad Girls: Just like Rock, Revy being dangerous and violent is a huge turn-on for him.
- Affably Evil: Subverted. When he first appears, he seems like a dimwitted yet likeable mook who harbors an almost childlike enthusiasm for guns and shootouts. However, this facade quickly dissipates after he "snaps" and reveals himself for the murderous psychopath he truly is.
- Bad Boss: Shoots his own for no good reason. That was the thing that made Revy pissed with him. That, and beating up Rock.
- Blond Guys Are Evil
- Blood Knight: He wanted to duel against Revy, cowboy style. Instead, he got to duel Ginji and that didn't end up well for him.
- Bodyguard Betrayal
- Complete Monster: While most of this series' villains have sympathetic moments, Chaka is a complete scumbag from his introduction on, particularly with the way he abuses Yukio once he gets his hands on her. Not even the freakin' Neo-Nazis inspired as much loathing and contempt by the end of their first scene as this jackass. This guy makes even Revy pissed off with his actions and even the usually non-violent Rock decide to beat his sorry ass with a freaking bowling pin.
- Hell, the only reason he might not qualify as a Complete Monster is how very, very pathetic he is.
- Cruel And Unusual Death: What Ginji does to him is ...unpleasant, but he seriously had it coming.
- Expy: Of Kakihara from Ichi The Killer, apparently.
- Humiliation Conga: Rock makes him slip up with spilled cleaning fluid, bashes him in the head with a bowling pin, and steals his hostage. Then Revy drop-kicks him in the face and grinds his balls under her heel whilst delivering a Reason You Suck Speech. Then he goes one-on-one using a revolver against a guy who can cut bullets in mid-air (and is rather pissed about what he did to Yukio) and loses. Badly.
Couldn'tWouldn't have happened to a nicer guy. - Jerk Ass: Oh yeah. Most obnoxious character in the series from the get-go. By the end of his first scene this troper was longing to lodge his fist in the guy's mouth (or for one of the other characters to do something worse to him).
- Kick The Dog: All the goddamn time. Beats up poor Rock savagely for cutting in on his "conversation" with Revy, hoping to provoke her into a quickdraw duel. Kidnaps Yukio, lets his buddies beat her up and strip her nearly naked, and plans to sell her into sexual slavery to "a real sicko." Criticises his guys for being "pussies" during the fight in the bowling alley, whilst making his way to the exit using Yukio as a human shield, and later shoots the last surviving gang members just because he's annoyed. He's one hell of a guy.
- Psychopathic Manchild: Uhhh...YEAH!
- Psycho For Hire: Oh yeah. A bit of an idiot, but psycho nonetheless.
- Revolvers Are Just Better: He fancies himself a Wild West-style gunman. Revy sees this as evidence that he's a poser and a show-off.
- Smug Snake: Very, very much so.
- The Starscream: Starscream if he would've been a psychopath. Attempted to become the boss of the family by beating up Yukio and then wanted to rape her and sell her out to the Russians. Ginji was not happy about it.
- Stupid Evil: He acts needlessly sadistic towards both Yukio and his subordinates, and he winds up paying dearly for this later on.
- Too Dumb To Live: Seriously overestimates his abilities, as shown by his trying take on Revy one-on-one even after seeing her tear through his entire gang like a hay reaper. She drop-kicked his sorry ass rather than waste the bullet, before letting Ginji shish-kebab him.
- Wataru Takagi
- Would Hit A Girl: And does. As can be gleaned from the above, he's the abusive asshole version of this trope.
Tsugio Bandou
The leader of the Washimine clan that preceeded Yukio, and a friend of her late father Ryuzou.
- Even Evil Has Standards: Broke off with Hotel Moscow because he didn't like Balalaika's brutality
- Neck Snap: How he died
- Number Two: What he was to Ryuzou, before he died.
- The Obi Wan: To Yoshida
- Tomomichi Nishimura
Yoshida
Tsugio's bodyguard, and later one of Yukio's supporters in the Yakuza.
- Kenta Miyake
- Pet The Dog: Tries to defend Yukio from Chaka and his group, rallying support for her.
- Mauve Shirt
- Trevor Devall
Others
Abrego
The leader of Roanapur's branch of the Colombian Manisarela Cartel.
- Cluster F Bomb (Rivals Revy in terms of swearing-to-nonswearing dialogue ratio.)
- Defeat Means Friendship
- No One Could Survive That: He's at ground zero of the Yellow Flag bar being grenaded by Roberta, but is seen alive (albeit beaten and bloody) in the hands of Hotel Moscow in the next episodes. He's seen later, very much alive, which is actually pretty impressive, considering this is Hotel Moscow we're talking about.
- Named After Somebody Famous: Despite being Colombian, he is named after the Mexican drug lord Juan Garcia Abrego, one of the founders of the Mexican Gulf Cartel.
Leigharch
An Irish driver who worked with Shenhua at one time. A compulsive coke fiend, he has a distressingly frequent tendency to hallucinate at inopportune times, such as in the middle of a car chase.
- Badass Driver:Shenhua: Even when his head off to Mars, he never mess up driving.
- Bedlam House (According to Shenhua, he's currently in an asylum due to having taken so much coke that "he never came back from Mars".)
- Crazy Awesome
- Dont Try This At Home: Remember kids, drugs are bad, and you should certainly never take them before driving.
- Oireland
- Non Sequitur Thud: Delivers one when Revy kicks him for getting high. And then just keeps spewing them.
- "I forgot! We have to go to Liverpool! Jimi Hendrix is calling for me! To defeat the Klingons-ASAP! Oh Captain Picard here I come!!"
- "Where're you ladies takin' me? Could it be? Could it? The legendary nude beach?!"
- (When the car gets shot up) "Barbarella is holding an anti-war sign in the nude!"
- "Playmates! There are exactly one hundred playmates! Starting from the nineties! It's the attack of the Playmate Army!" * with accompanying hallucination, no less*
- "What? My application for the Black Panthers was denied again?!?"
- Perma Stubble
- Put On A Bus: It's implied that his liberal drug use resulted in his brain being permanently fried.
- The Stoner: And how!
- Trevor Devall
Hansel and Gretel
- "My mother has killed me... my father is eating me... my brothers and sisters, sit under the table, picking up my bones! They'll bury them, under the cold marble stones..."
A pair of incestuous, prepubescent porn star assassins with shared multiple personality disorders. Creepy as Hell. And just as horribly broken due to their horrendous common backstory.
- Affably Evil: They're both bug-fuck insane, but no one ever said that they were impolite.
- Ambiguous Gender
- Ax Crazy: Literally, in Hansel's case.
- Badass Adorable: Of the creepiest variety imaginable.
- Batman Gambit: They diverted the hired guns out for their bounty by bribing two local orphans to pose as them.
- BFG: Gretel, an 11-year-old child, fires a Browning Automatic Rifle from the hip. Considering that the BAR weighs in at about 20 pounds, it makes you wonder what in the hell do those kids eat?
- Other kids.
- The BAR isn't really that tough to handle. Bonnie Parker (of Bonnie And Clyde fame) carried a cut-down one much of the time and she was 90 pounds soaking wet.
- Being Tortured Makesyou Evil and Conditioned To Accept Horror
- Blood Knights: With emphasis on "Blood".
- Break The Cutie: Where to start...?
- Brother Sister Incest: And this is the LEAST disturbing thing about them.
- Brother Sister Team
- Children Forced To Kill: They started out like this, being forced to kill other children in snuff films just to survive. At some point they began to enjoy it.
- Cold Blooded Torture: What they do to that poor Russian that they take home. And in a sense, what Balalaika does to Hansel as punishment.
- Composite Character: Hansel and Gretel both resemble "the twins from The Shining," as pointed out by a traumatized survivor of their attack on a bar. The Gretelpersonality also shares elements of Rambo with her Weapon Of Choice, namely a BAR Machine gun that she can fire from the hip single-handedly while running.
- Complete Monsters: Averted towards the end of their story arc when you hear about the sheer hell that was their childhood. They still commit the most evil and horrific actions on the show, but they're also the most tragic characters we encounter, without a doubt. The real monsters are definately the adults responsible for systematically abusing them and forcing them to rape and kill other children in paedophilic snuff films, which is what drove them crazy and bloody in the first place.
- Creepy Awesome
- Creepy Twins: Squared, cubed, and then raised to the power of itself.
- Crossdresser: Hansel and Gretel actually switch clothes. It's never explicitly stated what their real genders are, all the audience knows is that the girl carries the machine gun and the boy carries the axe. When they switch clothes they switch weapons too. The anime reveals that they also switch voices.
- Cry Cute: Hansel breaks down into tears as he bleeds to death.
- Cute Little Fangs/Fangs Are Evil
- Cute Shotaro Boy: Hansel is a subversion as he and Gretel use their cuteness to get the drop on their victims.
- Depraved Bisexual: Gretel we think enjoyed feeling up Eda a little too much.
- Dissonant Serenity
- Does Not Know How To Say Thanks (Gretel is given genuine compassion, a hug and Tender Tears by Rock. The poor girl is so dumbfounded that she sexually offers herself to him, truly thinking that it's the best way to thank him.)
- Elegant Gothic Lolita
- Enfants Terribles: They know full well how cute they are, and they love using it to catch their victims by surprise.
- Ensemble Darkhorses
- Fan Disservice: Some bits of Girl On Girl Is Hot are nice... but not when the girl doing the fondle part is a pre-teen murderer and batshit insane. Not to mention she gropes the other girl at gunpoint.
- Freudian Excuse: Nothing can excuse their actions, but they have a pretty valid reason as to why they're as damaged as they are. Anyone would be fucked up in the head having survived what they were put through.
- Giggling Villains: Though Gretel does break out a Evil Laugh once when Eda asks her why they're still after Balalaika even though they killed the guy who hired them.
- Girl With Psycho Weapon: Hansel and/or Gretel, when the current Hansel wields the axe (Since they switch personas, if one of them is a girl, it'd be this - at the very least, it'd be Cute Shotaro Boy With Psycho Weapon).
- Grotesque Cute
- Harmful To Minors: Does not even BEGIN to describe their past.
- Hypocritical Humor: Hansel asks for help dragging a Russian mobster to their car.Gretel: But that's a boy's job. It's not very ladylike to carry heavy things. (opens fire with her
BFGBAR rifle) - I Love The Dead: Though according to Gretel they have never tried it with an "Ivan" before.
- May have been metaphorical, however. We hope.
- Japanese Sibling Terminology: Refer to each other as nii-sama and nee-sama (very formal, respectful and hinting at romantic feelings) in the Japanese version while using "fratele meu" and "sora mea" (the Romanian words for "my brother" and "my sister") in the English dub.
- Jerk Ass Woobies: Horribly and terribly bloodthirsty. Still so terribly pitiful.
- Draco In Leather Pants: Fandom, please don't take the Jerk Ass out of Jerk Ass Woobie!
- Little Miss Badass: Gretel
- Memetic Molesters: Possibly. Considering what Gretel did to Eda and their behavior in the omakes, it might not be entirely without reason.
- My Sibling Will Live Through Me: Damn it, Gretel... er, Hansel... you know what, forget it!
- Nightmare Fetishists: That's putting it mildly.
- Nightmare Fuel Unleaded: Their backstory, their manner of speech, their home country, their interactions with each other, their job, the way they carry out the job... Absolutely everything about them is nightmarish. They could very well be the "monsters" in a horror flick.
- No Sense Of Personal Space: Gretel really got in Eda's face when she and Hansel ran into Revy and her. She also groped Eda after catching her alone a bit later, andseemed to enjoy it quite a bit if her change of tone was any indication.
- Obliviously Evil: They have no problem killing and torturing people because that's how they believe the world works.
- Omi Minami: She voices Hansel.
- Orphanage Of Fear: Where they were raised before Ceausecu fell. And what came after was even worse.
- Psycho For Hire: With emphasis on "psycho."
- Purple Eyes
- Rape As Comedy: Their sexual assault on a terrified Garcia in an omake is Played For Laughs.
- Slasher Smile: See for yourself◊
- Small Girl Big Gun: Gretel
- Snuff Film: What these two were forced to do. They survived by becoming ruthless killers.
- Squick: In Fucking Spades!
- Together In Death
- Tomoko Kaneda (She voices Gretel)
- Twincest
- Twin Switch
- The Unreveal: We're not shown (which is just as well) whether 'Gretel' really is Gretel when she exposes herself to Rock. Either way it's not surprising Rock freaks out.
- Villainous Crossdresser
- What An Idiot: Hansel, honey, you should have known that Balalaika wouldn't just sit there without any kind of support...
- Then again, Balalaika had specifically instructed people to confuse and frustrate him to dull his instincts, so this is kind of justified. She also pointed out that no saneperson would have walked into that trap.
- In addition to his axes, Hansel carried a pair of revolvers. Which he could have used from the trees, where the snipers wouldn't have seen him.
- This was the target he'd been stalking all night though; even assuming he still had ammo after chasing the Vysotniki around the park, I doubt he'd have been happy just shooting her. Ax time!
- White Haired Pretty Kids
- Yangire: Cute and innocent-looking ? Check. Ax Crazy ? Check.
- This fanart probably puts it best.
Janet "Greenback Jane" Bhai
An Indian counterfeiter whose goal is to create perfect counterfeit money. After members of the Floridian cartel that hired her lose patience with her due to continued schedule slips and shoot one of her co-workers to death before giving her a 48-hours deadline to finish her job, she flees from the members of the cartel and eventually seeks sanctuary with the Church of Violence, unleasing a mad pursue.
- Butt Monkey
- Dark Skinned Blonde
- Dojikko
- Geeky Turn On (she once says watching Benny break code turns her on)
- Genius Breeding Act and sorta Official Couple (with Benny)
- Kelly Sheridan
- Meganekko
- Miki Nagasawa
- Miss Fanservice: Unintentionally so in her first arc. As of her reappearance, she's embraced this wholeheartedly, from dress to manner.
- My Girl Is A Slut: Has recently revealed her interest in getting herself gangbanged. And she planned on roping Rock into it.
- Naive Newcomer: Starts like that, but as of the latest chapters, not so much. Though she didn't think about the possible consequences about letting her colleague, who had probably never been to Thailand, come from Bangkok to Roanapur BY HERSELF.
- Since she planned from the beginning to betray that colleague anyway, she probably just didn't care.
- Panty Shot/Shes Got Legs/Running Gag: Keeps being subjected to her flowing skirt going up and giving the viewer a nice view of her legs and panties.
- Technobabble: Over the finer details of counterfeit money. Revy is not amused.
- Underboobs: As of the latest arc, she's taken to wearing a slim tube-top. And just plain skimpier clothes in general.
- You Have 48 Hours: What the Floridian cartel tells her. She manages to escape from them.
Rotton the Wizard
A handsome, long-coated adventurer introduced during the Greenback Jane arc, he is one of the few survivors of the band of mercenaries hunting for Jane. He now lives with the other two, Shenhua and Sawyer the Cleaner.
- Anti Villain
- Badass Longcoat: Subverted, as while he looks the type, he's not all that badass.
- Bishonen: Pretty much the only adult one in the series.
- Cool Shades
- Crazy Prepared: He might not be all that bright, but he has a Bulletproof Vest unlike the rest of the Carnival Of Killers and metal armor for his groin, which helped save his balls when Roberta kicked them.
- Drink Order: Milk, since he Cant Hold His Liquor.
- The Dulcinea Effect: "There's no way I can just ignore an injured girl and let her die."
- The Fool
- Genre Savvy (Oddly plays this straight in regards to the fact he's smart enough to wear a bulletproof vest most of the time. See Wrong Genre Savvy for what he gets wrong.)
- Guns Akimbo: With two Broomhandle Mausers, except he didn´t get to use them onscreen yet.
- Horrible Judge Of Character: We get it, you're a nice guy, but you
hang out with, saved Shenhua and Sawyer? Must be the boobs.- Given the Crapsack World setting of this series, both seem pretty nice. Yes, they'll kill anyone in the price is right, but if that's the worst thing about you in Roanapur, you can't be that bad.
- In The Name Of The Moon: Is very fond of this. Black Lagoon being the kind of show that it is, it doesn't do him much good.
- Joke Character
- Made Of Iron: Even when he's shot, falling down from a building or kicked in the balls (by Roberta of all people!), he just rises up again and continues to try to act like a badass.
- The "Being shot" and "kicked in the balls" parts mostly comes from a bulletproof west and a metal codpiece. He still fell from a rooftop and just got up again, though.
- Even with the protection preventing more serious damage, getting shot and kicked in the balls still really hurts. He has to be Made of Iron to treat it like it was nothing.
- Spell My Name With An S: Rotton? Lotton?
- Tomokazu Sugita
- Token Good Teammate: Compared to his fellow bounty hunters, several of whom are utter psychos.
- Also of the Power Trio he's formed with Shenhua and Sawyer.
- White Haired Pretty Boy: The prettiest, whitest haired, and nicest character in the series.
- Wrong Genre Savvy: Rotton acts like he came from a more idealistic series. Even Rock has become more savvy to the way the world works than he has.
Sawyer the Cleaner
A feared presence in the Roanapur underworld, who helps the various crime organizations dispose of corpses (and soon to be corpses) with her trusty chainsaw. Actually a rather pretty young goth girl.- Badass Adorable
- The Butcher
- Chainsaw Good: So good in fact that she can use it to deflect bullets.
- Cleanup Crew
- Creepy Awesome
- Cute Bruiser: A rather dark take on this trope
- Cute Mute: A subversion; while she is cute in a goth-punk sort of way and does appear to be missing her vocal cords, she can be quite mouthy when she has electrolarynx device. Without one, not so much.
- Dissonant Serenity: She's quite cheerful; at one point when she's explaining that the bad odor in a hotel room results from the ooze from rotted corpses she had to clean up there earlier she smiles happily while all around her, people are losing their lunch.
- She may in fact be giggling because the others are losing their lunch.
- Ensemble Darkhorse
- Expecting Someone Taller: Her fellow mercenaries have this reaction during the Greenback Jane arc, as most of them have never seen her in person, and those who have, only saw her swathed in surgical dress which obscured her features.
- Fetish Fuel: You just know this is true for some people out there.
- Girl With Psycho Weapon
- Goth
- Implausible Fencing Powers: Does what Ginji does to bullets... with a chainsaw.
- Not quite as impressive: While Ginji clean cuts them, she blocks them with the broad side of her blade. Still pretty impressive, though.
- Meaningful Name: Sawyer
- Moe: Watch her playing video games with Rotton or sitting curled up poolside with an ice pop and try to deny the cuteness.
- The Woobie: Rei Hiroe's swimsuit special reveals that she has a series of cuts on her wrist.
- Villainous BSOD: Whenever she loses her communication device. She later upgrades to a choker-mounted version to prevent such incidents.
- Heroic BSOD: She's seen shaking in terror after the team confronts a crazed Roberta.
Claude "Torch" Weaver
One of the Carnival Of Killers hired to hunt down Jane in the Greenback Jane arc.- Dissonant Serenity: He wears a contented grin and talks happily in a Texas good 'ol boy accent while trying to kill everyone with his flamethrower.
- Drink Order: Milk (drink is against his religion).
- Family Values Villain: A softspoken Mormon who doesn't drink or swear (he's probably the only person on the show not to do the latter). He's also an Ax Crazypyromaniac who roasted his own wife.
- Fire Breathing Weapon: Uses both a full-on backpack flamethrower and a cigerette-lighter version.
- Jet Pack: What happens after Revy shoots the tanks on his flamethrower.
- Meaningful Name: "Torch".
Verrocchio
Head of an Italian mafia operating in Roanapur. He hired Hansel and Gretel to assassinate Balalaika and Chang so that he could take control over Roanapur's underworld, but quickly found that the Creepy Twins didn't enjoy being told to kill.- Bad Boss: Almost as bad as Chaka.
- Banjo Ginga
- Blond Guys Are Evil
- Cluster F Bomb
- Dark Skinned Blond
- Gory Discretion Shot: While we don't see the result of the twins turning on him, we certainly hear it.
- Hoist By His Own Petard (come on)
- Jerk Ass
- Karmic Death
- Scott Mc Neil
- Smug Snake
Maki
- Every Girl Is Cuter With Hair Decs (blue hair ribbons)
- Foil: To Yukio, showing what she may have been if she was born in a normal family.
- Girlish Pigtails
- The Ingenue
- Ordinary High School Student
- Sempai Kouhai and Tomboy And Girly Girl: The kouhai and tomboy to Yukio's sempai and girly girl.
- Shiho Kawaragi
- Tear Jerker: The scene with Yukio telling Maki good-bye and asking her to take care of her mother before she leaves school and takes over the clan.
- Tender Tears
- The Woobie
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