Cross Ange/Characters

Angelese "Ange" Ikaluga Misurugi
The main character. She was originally a princess on the fast track to assuming the throne, but after she is revealed to be a Norma and a coup d'etat resulted in the death of her mother and the imprisonment of her father, she is forced to join a penal battalion to fight against dragons from another dimension.


 * Alpha Bitch: What she was initially, until put through an epically brutal Break The Cutie sequence in the first episode.
 * Ass Shove: Gets anally violated by Jill under the guise of a "cavity search".
 * Badass: Apparently adapted surprisingly well to military training as seen in episode two.
 * Blondes are Assholes: Or she was until she got brutally screwed over in more ways than one.
 * Ignorance Is Bliss: Her life was so much easier when no one realized she was a Norma.
 * Only Known by Their Nickname: Enforced. Jill shortens her name to Ange as a sign of how she is now considered a Norma and that her former life is forever gone.
 * Revealing Coverup: Jill points out that Angelina couldn't have possibly lived as long as she had without realizing she had no Mana ability, and the manner in which she was exposed revealed her parents had to be in on that secret. It's left somewhat unclear as to how ignorant Ange herself was, though.
 * Spoiled Brat: To an insane degree before having everything stripped away from her. She never even had to put on her own clothes before her imprisonment because she had a maid for that.
 * You Are What You Hate: Even after being exposed as a Norma, refuses to believe she is what she showed contempt of.

The Arzenal Penal Battalion
The penal battalion Ange is assigned too.


 * Badass: The whole point is to give Norma training to be this trope to fight invading dragons
 * Amazon Brigade: Being all Norma, this is a given.
 * Badass Normal: Without Mana, they are still highly trained mecha pilots and soldiers.
 * Badass Battalion: Given that they are supposed to fight extra dimensional monsters in somewhat frail mecha with little more than raw skill, this is basically a must.
 * I Control My Minions Through...
 * Emma: As the prison warden, she controls all the Norma through a combination of legal authority and fear for the most part. The only Norma she seems to have any level of respect towards is Jill, who acts as her right hand woman and keeps the rest of the Norma in line.
 * Jill: Uses her authority as the de facto commander of the other Norma (as decided by Emma) to keep the rest in line with the commands of their Imperial gaolers. Is willing to use fear and sadism when authority alone doesn't suffice. She's also technically the lesser evil, since the Norma mostly have to answer to her, who is a Norma herself and thus has an interest in keeping them alive, as opposed to Emma, who could presumably execute them at any time for disobedience.
 * Zola: Uses the authority she has as Jill's subordinate to dominate the others, and employs sexual sadism to reinforce her control.
 * The Chains of Commanding: Two. One is the somewhat formal military structure of the battalion, which is subordinate to the non-Norma Imperial Army. The other command chain is the dog eat dog structure of the battalion, where the senior prisoners can literally make the junior their playthings and respect is based on level of experience.

Emma
The prison warden who oversees the penal battalion Ange is assigned to.


 * A Taste of the Lash: Apparently keeps a whip around to discipline her prisoners, almost used it on Angelina when she proved defiant, until Jill intervened.
 * Penal Colony: The warden of one.
 * The Jailer: Enforces the penal battalion's captivity, with Jill her subordinate as the head prisoner over the other prisoners

Jill
The commander of the penal battalion Ange has been assigned to.


 * Badass in Charge: Still subordinate herself to Emma, who respects her enough despite being a Norma to command the other prisoners and grants her a fair amount of autonomy in how she does this.
 * Break The Haughty: Uses this to great effect on Angelina, shortening her name to Ange, ripping her attempts at denying her current reality to shreds while mocking her failed attempt to conceal her Norma status, and with the assistance of the prison warden Emma, restrains and rapes Angelina anally under the guise of a "cavity search" to break Ange's will.
 * In Episode 2, Zola wants to rape Ange further, and Jill gives her the go ahead, presumably to continue the effects of this trope.
 * Colonel Badass; Jill's de facto rank, given she still has to fight on the front lines yet leads everyone else in the battalion.
 * Expy: Bears a strong resemblance to Cima Garahau.
 * Jerkass: Especially to her subordinates.
 * Psycho Lesbian: Actually is somewhat in control of herself, but does seem to derive some sadistic pleasure in asserting her dominance over Ange sexually.
 * Tall Dark and Bishojo: Has dark green hair, but otherwise fits, as she's somewhat aloof and standoffish to her subordinates.

Zola
Jill's second in command.


 * Blondes Are Evil: Or at the very least unrepentant lesbian rapists.
 * Disabled Hottie: Seems to have lost an eye, as Ange finds out when it pops out of her face and rolls across the floor (apparently being a cybernetic eye), but this doesn't seem to have dinged her looks all too much.
 * Handicapped Badass: She lost that eye in combat.
 * Jerkass: To anyone below her.
 * Psycho Lesbian: Whereas Jill seems to use rape as a means of asserting her dominance first and pleasure second, Zola seems to enjoy forcing herself on other women simply for the pleasure of forcing them to have sex with her.
 * The Hedonist: Treats the rest of the soldiers under her like her own personal harem, expecting them to satisfy her.

Coco

 * Sacrificial Lion Seemingly existed just to be killed off.
 * You Gotta Have Purple Hair