Weiss Kreuz/Characters

Weiss

 * Animal Theme Naming - Each of them is code-named for a breed of cat: Abyssinian, Bombay, Balinese, and Siberian. Gluhen adds "Havana [Brown]" and "LaPerm," although unlike the original four these codenames are never used aloud in the anime (they belong to Kyou and Sena respectively)
 * Cartwright Curse - As a side effect of being Doom Magnets par excellance, nobody in Weiss has much luck keeping girlfriends alive. Yoji has it the worst, but everyone on the team except for Kyou has at least one instance.
 * Creepy Cool Crosses - A white cross is the team's logo, and they all wear red crosses on their "working clothes" in Gluhen. Both Aya and Youji wear silver crosses with their street clothes (justified in Aya's case, since he's at least shown to read the Bible and talk points on it with nuns).
 * Dark and Troubled Past
 * Doom Magnets
 * Flower Motifs: Each of the boys is associated with a particular flower: Aya is red roses, Omi is freesias, Youji is cattleya (a specific type of orchid), Ken is gentians, Sena is pansies, and Kyou is yellow roses.
 * Four Is Death - Aside from initially having four members, look at the fates of the Fourth Weiss team:.
 * Hitmen With Hearts
 * It's Personal - The Third Weiss team (Aya, Omi, Ken and Youji) all have a fairly plausible reason to want Reiji Takatori dead. Fourth Weiss' new recruits, Kyou and Sena, both have a deeply personal reason to find out what the deal is with Koua Academy. Persia II all but admits he did this on purpose; Persia IV tells Rex outright that he did.
 * Necessarily Evil - How they perceive themselves.
 * Ragtag Bunch of Misfits - a failed P.I., a disgraced athlete, an amnesiac student, and a very angry young man out for revenge.
 * Shoot the Dog
 * True Companions - Played with. It's plain to the audience that the core four care about each other, but they're all so damaged and wrapped up in their own issues that, by the time they realize it, it's too late. In the OVA, Omi tells Ken not to worry, Aya and Youji will understand what they did because they're nakama; Ken just smiles wryly and thinks how he's never thought about them that way.
 * We Help the Helpless - And when they get there too late, they enact bloody vengeance.

Aya Fujimiya (Ran Fujimiya)
"VA: Takehito Koyasu (JP), Paul Juhn (EN - Kapitel), Dan Green (EN - Gluhen)

Neither the devil nor death, I am just a murderer."


 * Adaptation Dye Job - went from bright red hair in AAWS and Kapitel to brown in Gluhen. Might be an actual dye job, as most Side B color art gives him back the bright red color, but the one cover art that shows him as he was in the final episode of Gluhen uses the darker color. On the other hand, flashbacks and old photographs in Gluhen show him having the brown hair the whole time, so it's really anyone's guess.
 * Aloof Big Brother
 * A Man Is Not a Virgin - Fight Fire With Fire goes out of its way to reveal that Aya lost his virginity at 16. Otherwise, Aya shows absolutely no interest in sex - which stands out because Youji, Ken, and Omi do.
 * Asexuality - Ranjatai suggests this is the case with Aya and makes something of a point of his lack of sexual interest in Shizu.
 * Author Avatar - Of Takehito Koyasu.
 * Badass Longcoat - Gluhen.
 * Badass Teacher - Gluhen: Asami-sensei sees him this way after he stands up to S Class to defend Sena. Her perception is not exactly accurate; although Aya would probably have moved himself to defend any other innocent student in danger if given opportunity, the issue mostly never comes up.
 * Berserk Button - "TA-KA-TO-RIII!" And more generally anything to do with his little sister.
 * Big Brother Instinct - Compulsively, not just to his actual little sister but also to Taiyou (even though they're the same age), Sakura, Sena, and Yuki.
 * Big Damn Heroes - Repeatedly. Weiss as a team sometimes manage to play Big Damn Heroes to save the victim of the week, but Aya especially has a way of turning up to bail out his teammates when they're in trouble.
 * Combat Pragmatist - Best illustrated when Aya.
 * Cool Car - His white Porsche doesn't look like much in the original anime's lackluster animation, but is quite snazzy when viewed through the higher production values of Gluhen.
 * Diagonal Cut
 * Flower Motifs - His given name, "Ran," means "orchid," a fact played with more than once in the series.
 * I Call It Vera - according to character profiles, he calls his katana "Shion."
 * Important Haircut - Gluhen.
 * Its Not You Its My Enemies - to both Sakura and his sister.
 * Jerk With a Heart of Gold
 * Katanas Are Just Better - Both played straight and subverted in equal measure.
 * Knight Templar Big Brother - To Aya-chan, and with good reason
 * Meaningful Rename - With three different versions between AAWS, Kapitel and the First Mission audio drama.
 * Older and Wiser - the only member of Weiss to get saner in Gluhen.
 * Pre-Mortem One-Liner - Aya gets more of these than anyone else in Weiss.
 * Pre-Ass-Kicking One-Liner - Around Gluhen, he's a bit snarkier when he's not delivering the final blow.
 * The Protagonist - the number of Ran-centric CD dramas make it rather clear who is the main character.
 * Purple Eyes
 * Rapunzel Hair - Gluhen, at least up until the aforementioned Important Haircut.
 * Redheaded Hero - Strictly speaking.
 * Relative Error - Omi and Sakura both assume the cute, comatose girl he's caring for and using the name of is his lover, instead of his little sister. In Assassin and White Shaman, one of Ran's coworkers assumes Aya-chan is his girlfriend when she drags him away from his job to buy her something to eat.
 * Save the Day Turn Away - He removes himself completely from Aya-chan and Sakura's lives after saving them both from Essett and Schwarz at the end of Kapitel.
 * Tall, Dark and Snarky
 * Tragic Keepsake - takes his sister's name and one of her earrings.
 * Tsurime Eyes
 * Tsurime Eyes

Omi Tsukiyono ()
"VA: Hiro Yuki (JP)

Never forgive the bad ones."


 * Adaptation Dye Job - went from dark blond hair in AAWS and Kapitel to a grayish color in Gluhen. As a possible justification:
 * The Archer - His preference is for a crossbow, but he uses everything from hand-thrown darts all the way up to a large compound bow.
 * Automatic Crossbows
 * Blue Eyes
 * Break the Cutie
 * Demoted to Extra - Side B
 * Deuteragonist - in Kapitel
 * Goggles Do Nothing - Lampshaded in the outtakes: "Finally an use for this goggles I've been wearing for 24 episodes!"
 * Laser-Guided Amnesia
 * Older Than He Looks - According to Forever White, Omi could easily pass for middle-school age.
 * Luke, I Am Your Father - Oh, where do we start? Parodied in the "Wish A Dream" CD drama, when Omi has a nightmare that not only is Ken his older brother but Youji is his father and Aya is his mother.
 * Manipulative Bastard - In and following Gluhen:
 * Meaningful Name -
 * Meaningful Rename -
 * Odd Name Out -.
 * Parental Abandonment -
 * Savvy Guy Energetic Girl: to Ouka Sakaki.
 * Shipper On Deck - Seems to be a Sakura/Aya fan.
 * Shorter Means Smarter
 * The Smart Guy - He's also the team's go-to guy for anything related to computers or other technology.
 * Significant Birth Date - Leap Day, February 29.
 * That Man Is Dead -
 * Tyke Bomb -
 * Wise Beyond Their Years

Youji Kudou ()
"VA: Shinichiro Miki (JP)

Woman's enemy is my enemy."


 * Adaptation Dye Job - Went from dark hair in An Assassin and White Shaman to blond hair in the anime.
 * Badass Longcoat - Gluhen.
 * Cartwright Curse - Yoji has the worst luck with women of anyone in Weiss, with at least seven women that we know of dying after he gets involved with them. This is partly the result of his role as a Honey Trap for Kritiker, but as Dramatic Precious proves, even nameless one-night-stands aren't safe.
 * Chivalrous Pervert - Deconstructed. He's got the personality type in full force - and because of that, his Cartwright Curse and his role as a Honey Trap take a heavy toll on him emotionally, leading to a protracted breakdown that starts in Dramatic Precious and reaches its culmination in a near-Face Heel Turn in Gluhen.
 * Cool Car - The Super 7.
 * Dead Person Conversation - Spends much of Gluhen talking to Asuka's ghost. Sometimes on the phone.
 * Demoted to Extra - Side B.
 * Tritagonist - Gluhen
 * Failure Knight
 * Gadget Watches - Hides his wire in his diver's watch.
 * Green Eyes
 * Handsome Lech
 * Honey Trap - Rare case where it's a man pulling this trick on women. And he pays for it since he tends to get emotionally involved.
 * Jade-Colored Glasses
 * Jerk With a Heart of Gold
 * Kill the Ones You Love - Three girlfriends that we know of (admittedly, at least with the honeymoon was definitely over).
 * Knight in Sour Armor
 * Ladykiller in Love
 * Leave Her To Me - Near the end of Gluhen. It doesn't go all that well.
 * Love Makes You Crazy
 * More Than Mind Control - Tsuji does a number on him in Gluhen.
 * Polyglot - can speak Italian, read English, and probably teach art/flirt in German, as well.
 * Private Detective - his back story.
 * Razor Floss - His garrotte wire sometimes functions as this, although more often he simply strangles or restrains people with it.
 * Smoking Is Cool
 * Spell My Name With an "S" - Yoji, Youji, or Yohji? Variations in romanization aren't usually notable enough for the trope, but not even the official source material can keep the spelling straight.
 * Significant Birth Date - March 3rd, Girls' Day.
 * Sunglasses At Night - Kapitel.
 * Walking Shirtless Scene - Mainly Gluhen, where his mission clothes lack a shirt. He occasionally forgets to do up the top three buttons on his shirt, though.
 * What the Hell, Hero? - He calls Ken out for thinking he can just run off with Yuriko: "How many people have you killed? And you can hold her with those arms?"
 * Would Not Hit a Girl - per Word of God. He actually kills three women over the course of the series but only after each of them beats the crap out of him and leaves him with no alternative, and it emotionally destroys him every time, leading directly to the very bad place he's in during Gluhen.
 * What the Hell, Hero? - He calls Ken out for thinking he can just run off with Yuriko: "How many people have you killed? And you can hold her with those arms?"
 * Would Not Hit a Girl - per Word of God. He actually kills three women over the course of the series but only after each of them beats the crap out of him and leaves him with no alternative, and it emotionally destroys him every time, leading directly to the very bad place he's in during Gluhen.

Ken Hidaka
"VA: Tomokazu Seki (JP)

It's too late to confess now."


 * Adaptation Dye Job - Has Brown Eyes in the manga adaptations, but his eye color is inconsistent (brown, blue, and green at various different points) in the anime. The Gluhen redesign settles on green.
 * Badass Biker
 * Beleaguered Childhood Friend - Rather cruel variant, as Ken is an assassin ordered to kill his friend, Kase. Kase is a really sucky friend.
 * The Big Guy
 * Blood Knight - Dramatic Precious through Gluhen, though he seems to more or less get over it by Side B.
 * Break the Cutie
 * Cartwright Curse - His record is better than Yoji's, but not by very much. At least
 * Deliberate Injury Gambit - The former Trope Namer, back when it was named I Have Two Kidneys.
 * Deuteragonist - Side B, arguably Dramatic Precious. He's even the Protagonist of Verbrechen and Strafe.
 * Establishing Character Moment - in Assassin and White Shaman, when his reaction to "Remember this guy who attacked you yesterday? He's your new teammate!" is to punch Aya in the face, and then say "It's nice to meet you." Youji says this was how Ken "greeted" him, too.
 * Fingerless Gloves - While riding his motorcycle, and later, for his bagh nakh.
 * Goggles Do Nothing - The orange shirt around his waist, and not actually the goggles.
 * Horrible Judge of Character
 * Hot Blooded
 * In Love With the Mark - In Dramatic Precious,.
 * Its Not You Its My Enemies - to Yuriko
 * Japanese Christian
 * Kill the Ones You Love - In Holy Children and Dramatic Precious.
 * Out of Focus - See here. The later installments of the series attempt to make up for it... with angst. Lots of angst.
 * Raised Catholic - Ken's religious upbringing is hinted at in the anime series, but much more apparent in the Drama CDs.
 * Self Restraint - At the end of Gluhen he gets himself put into prison of his own volition, apparently via Takatori connections, in order to have "time to think."
 * Sunglasses At Night - Gluhen.
 * The Masquerade Will Kill Your Dating Life
 * Wolverine Claws - modified bagh nakh, retractable "tiger claws" hidden in his gloves. Very, very messy, up close and personal method of killing, and in the drama CDs, this is part of why he goes crazy.

Kyou Aguri

 * An Axe to Grind
 * Badass Longcoat / Fingerless Gloves - the one and only time we see him in mission clothes.
 * Big Brother Instinct
 * Dead Little Brother
 * Fatal Flaw -
 * Knight Templar Big Brother
 * Replacement Goldfish -
 * Sacrificial Lamb - Episode 5.

Sena Izumi ()
"VA: Kappei Yamaguchi (JP)"


 * Blue Eyes
 * - Aya's.
 * Fatal Flaw -.
 * Mysterious Parent - Has one.
 * New Transfer Student - his cover.
 * Sacrificial Lion
 * Weapon of Choice - Chakram.
 * Wide Eyed Idealist - as much as a sixteen-year-old assassin can be.
 * What the Hell, Hero? - Aya yells at him for . Ken yells at him for.
 * What the Hell, Hero? - Aya yells at him for . Ken yells at him for.

Kritiker Agents

 * High Turnover Rate - Kritiker personnel have a pretty high mortality rate. Very few named members survive to the end of Gluhen, and unnamed Kritiker agents only appear to get slaughtered by the villains.
 * Theme Naming - Most Kritiker agents are known by their code names. Weiss and their handlers are named for cat breeds, the Aoba Center agents are named for flowers, and Crashers and their handler are named for chess pieces.

Persia II ()
"VA: Jurota Kosugi (JP)

White hunters of the night, deny these dark beasts their tomorrows."


 * Byronic Hero: Oh my.
 * Cain and Abel - With
 * Catch Phrase - See above.
 * Corruption of a Minor - He raised Omi to be an assassin after rescuing him from his kidnappers.
 * I Have Many Names - each team calls him by a different code name; aside from Weiss, who know him as Persia, he is "Marigold" to the Aoba Center team and "King" to Crashers.
 * Face Framed in Shadow
 * Not So Different - right before, Reiji points out that the way he used Masafumi and Hirofumi is no different from the way Persia uses Weiss.
 * Sunglasses At Night
 * Vigilante Man
 * What the Hell, Hero? - You know you've screwed up when it's the villain of the piece calling you out. More exactly:
 * What the Hell, Hero? - You know you've screwed up when it's the villain of the piece calling you out. More exactly:

Manx (Hanae Kitada)

 * The Handler
 * Princess Curls
 * Sexy Secretary
 * Subordinate Excuse - She turns out to be in unrequited love with Persia II.
 * Subordinate Excuse - She turns out to be in unrequited love with Persia II.

Birman
"VA: Kikuko Inoue (JP)"


 * The Handler
 * Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette
 * Subordinate Excuse - Birman is in Unrequited Love with Persia III, Karasuma.
 * Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette
 * Subordinate Excuse - Birman is in Unrequited Love with Persia III, Karasuma.

Botan
"VA: Fumihiko Tachiki (JP)"


 * Fatal Family Photo
 * The Handler
 * Improbable Weapon User - Paper airplanes.
 * Odd Name Out - The only person working with Weiss to have a flower-themed codename (it means "peony"), instead of a breed of cat.

Rex

 * The Handler
 * Sempai-Kohai - Rex refers to Queen as her sempai.
 * Subordinate Excuse - Keeping the tradition alive, Rex seems to possibly have feelings for Persia IV, Mamoru Takatori.
 * Suspiciously Similar Substitute - You can make an argument for her being one of Birman.
 * The Watson - Persia sometimes explains his plans to her.
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair

Persia I (Saijou Takatori)

 * Manipulative Bastard
 * Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant
 * Wife Husbandry - To Sano and Uno, two girls that he bought as children, enslaved and.
 * Wife Husbandry - To Sano and Uno, two girls that he bought as children, enslaved and.

Crashers

 * Chess Motifs - The members of Crashers are code-named for chess pieces.
 * Five-Man Band - The inclusion of Aya into the previously four-man team turns them into this, as well as averting Four Is Death.

Knight (Yuushi Honjou)
"VA: Toshihiko Seki"


 * Big Brother Instinct - has his own Ill Girl little sister, Taiyou.
 * The Hero - To Aya's Lancer. Or possibly The Lancer to Aya's Anti-Hero, depending on your mileage.
 * Vitriolic Best Buds - With Aya, mutually. Best example is when Aya asks how things are going, Knight says he's being weird, and Aya snarks back that he's not asking about Knight, he's asking about Knight's sister.
 * What the Hell, Hero? - In the last episode of Gluhen he calls out Persia IV for apparently sacrificing Weiss.
 * Whip Sword - his "cordon de argent."

Bishop (Reiichi Shirasagi)

 * Mission Control
 * The Smart Guy - He's Crashers' mission planner.
 * Smart People Wear Glasses

Rook (Masato Tanuma)

 * The Big Guy
 * Cowboy Cop - Though Crashers aren't cops, he otherwise qualifies; he's put on suspension and Ran is brought in as his replacement after he gets hurt while disobeying orders during a mission.
 * Perma Stubble
 * Shout Out - Named after Takehito Koyasu's brother.
 * Smoking Is Cool

Pawn (Naru Uhyou)
"VA: Koichi Tochika"


 * The Chick
 * Stuff Blowing Up - Pawn is an explosives and demolitions expert.

Queen

 * Catch Phrase - "Crashers is always awaiting your orders. Checkmate."
 * The Handler
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair

Aoba Center

 * Floral Theme Naming - Their codenames are the names of flowers: Kikyou means Chinese bellflower, Tsubaki means camellia, and Kuroyuri means black lily.

Kikyou
"VA: Kaneto Shiozawa"


 * Big Brother Mentor - to Aya, compared to Shion's more aloof form of mentorship.
 * Dead Little Sister
 * Foil - to Shion and to Aya.
 * I Am Your Opponent -
 * Long Haired Pretty Boy
 * The Obi-Wan - to Aya in Endless Rain.
 * Paper Fan of Doom - subverts Katanas Are Just Better by defeating Aya with a paper fan.
 * Spirit Advisor - to Aya via dreams.
 * The Obi-Wan - to Aya in Endless Rain.
 * Paper Fan of Doom - subverts Katanas Are Just Better by defeating Aya with a paper fan.
 * Spirit Advisor - to Aya via dreams.

Tsubaki

 * The Big Guy
 * Get a Hold of Yourself, Man! - he hauls off and slaps Kuroyuri to keep him from rushing off to try to avenge Shion.
 * Old Retainer - to Kikyou

Essett

 * Ancient Conspiracy
 * Spell My Name With an "S" - Should it be Eszett, Essett, SS, or ÃŸ? Fandom may never agree.

Schwarz

 * Chronic Backstabbing Disorder - They backstab everyone they ever work for in the series, eventually backstabbing their way out of Essett entirely.
 * Karma Houdini
 * The Power of Friendship - Bizarrely enough, this or something like it is what enables Schwarz to defeat the Rosenkreuz trio in Gluhen, a point clarified by Crawford when he delivers his Hannibal Lecture to Berger: "That's right, we're in my head. But unlike in yours, we're not alone."
 * The Psycho Rangers

Brad Crawford
"VA: Ryotaro Okiayu (JP)"


 * Battle in The Center of The Mind - With Berger in Gluhen
 * Combat Clairvoyance
 * Evil Counterpart - to Aya.
 * Four Eyes Zero Soul - Kapitel
 * Hannibal Lecture - He gets a couple.
 * High Class Glass - His character design for Gluhen trades his Scary Shiny Glasses for a monocle.
 * Scary Shiny Glasses
 * Spider Sense

Schuldig
"VA: Hikaru Midorikawa (JP)"


 * Evil Counterpart - to Yoji.
 * Evil Redhead
 * For the Evulz
 * Hearing Voices - he complains that it gets hard to tell which thoughts are his.
 * I Was Just Passing Through - He saves Ken and Omi from Geisel in Gluhen but informs them that he plans to kill them next. Admittedly in Schuldig's case, unlike Nagi's below, this is probably more or less true.
 * Manipulative Bastard - "People's minds taste like honey."
 * Mind Control
 * More Than Mind Control - because he just really likes messing with people's heads in any way he can.
 * Neck Snap - He kills Geisel this way in Gluhen.
 * Telepathy

Farfarello (Jei)
"VA: Ryusei Nakao (JP)"


 * Assassin Outclassin - stands out as the only official target Weiss fails to kill.
 * Ax Crazy
 * Evil Counterpart - to Ken, a bit more directly than the previous two: they're both lapsed Catholics who begin to enjoy killing in bloody, up-close-and-personal ways.
 * Eyes of Gold
 * Eyepatch of Power
 * Faith Heel Turn - "Jei" was a devout Catholic until he learned that . As an adult he claims that his desire is to kill God, and spends his spare time torturing priests to death.
 * Karma Houdini - Again, it bears repeating. Farfarello is singled out as one of Weiss' targets, kills, almost kills and arguably gets the happiest ending in the series.
 * Knife Nut - anything sharp and pointy, really.
 * Licking the Blade
 * White-Haired Pretty Boy
 * White-Haired Pretty Boy

Nagi Naoe
"VA: Nozomu Sasaki (JP)"


 * Alliterative Name
 * All of the Other Reindeer/Bullying a Dragon - Nagi hates humanity because he was tormented due to his telekinetic powers.
 * Evil Counterpart - to Omi.
 * - of sorts, in Gluhen
 * I Was Just Passing Through - He saves Aya from being shot by Shimojima in Gluhen, but informs Weiss he isn't there to help them.
 * Mind Over Matter
 * Only Sane Man - Then again, that's not saying much...
 * Peek-a-Bangs - Of the Emo variety, in Gluhen
 * Rapid Fire Typing - via telekinesis, even
 * The Stoic
 * Not So Stoic - at least until...
 * Superpower Meltdown

Schreient

 * All There in the Manual - All That Weiss touches on their backstories.
 * And Your Little Dog, Too - They try to use Aya-chan to get back at Aya for killing Masafumi. It doesn't work out very well for them.
 * Amazon Brigade
 * Bodyguard Crush - Hel, Neu and Schoen are all in love with Masafumi.
 * Broken Birds
 * Dark Action Girl - Four of them, specially Neu.
 * Distaff Counterpart - to Weiss & Schwarz. Lampshaded by Nagi, when he points out that they're Masafumi's attempt to copy Schwarz.
 * Four Girl Ensemble - Hel is the smart, serious leader, Schoen is the pretty, vain one, Neu is the tough one, and Tot is the perky, childish one.
 * Mind Control - According to All That Weiss, Hel is the only not under mind control.
 * The Psycho Rangers - albeit not as direct a parallel to Weiss as the other examples, beyond being a team of four assassins.

Hel (Chizuru Aoi)
"VA: Masako Katsuki (JP)"


 * Battle Butler
 * Meaningful Name - "Hel" is German for "bright."
 * Meganekko
 * Sexy Secretary
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair
 * Evil Counterpart - to Aya.

Schoen (Karen Kitaura)
"VA: Miki Ito (JP)"


 * Alliterative Name
 * The Fighting Narcissist
 * Meaningful Name - German for "beauty." She's a failed model.
 * Minor Injury Overreaction - Schoen flips out when Ken cuts her face and leaves a minor scar.
 * Whip It Good
 * Evil Counterpart - to Ken.

Neu ()
"VA: Kotono Mitsuishi (JP)"


 * Beauty Mark
 * Good Old Fisticuffs
 * Heel Face Mole
 * Meaningful Name - German for "new."
 * Sunglasses At Night
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair
 * Evil Counterpart - to Youji.
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair
 * Evil Counterpart - to Youji.

Tot (Nanami Kyouno)
"VA: Yuko Mizutani (JP), Rachael Lillis (EN)"


 * Abusive Parents - She says that her father was a "bad, bad man" towards her. She never says how bad he was, though.
 * Bare Your Midriff - her second battle outfit.
 * Dark Chick
 * Meaningful Name - German for "dead."
 * Odango
 * Parasol of Pain
 * Perky Female Minion
 * Psychopathic Manchild - Acts like a little girl, despite being 17.
 * Third Person Person
 * What Happened to The Mouse? - Okay. Tot So, um,
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair
 * Evil Counterpart - to Omi.

Takatori Family

 * Big Screwed-Up Family

Reiji Takatori
"VA: Norio Wakamoto (JP)"


 * Abusive Parent -
 * Action Survivor - See Chekhov's Gun.
 * But for Me It Was Tuesday - although, after a minute, he does remember Aya... 's father.
 * Chekhov's Gun - That big shadowy thing that obscures the screen during certain scenes in his office? It's a katana. He knows how to use it. Very well.
 * Four Eyes Zero Soul
 * Parental Favoritism - Ouka is clearly his favorite child.
 * Pet the Dog - His only redeeming quality is his genuine affection for his  daughter.
 * Porn Stache
 * President Evil - Well, Prime Minister Evil. Although the positions are not the same thing, he still manages to fit the trope perfectly.
 * You Can Keep Him - When his young son Mamoru was kidnapped, he refused to pay the ransom and abandoned the boy to his kidnappers out of spite over the fact that Mamoru was.
 * You Can Keep Him - When his young son Mamoru was kidnapped, he refused to pay the ransom and abandoned the boy to his kidnappers out of spite over the fact that Mamoru was.

Hirofumi Takatori

 * The Dutiful Son: Villainous version
 * Four Eyes Zero Soul
 * Jerkass
 * "Well Done, Son" Guy - Believes blindly in Reiji.
 * "Well Done, Son" Guy - Believes blindly in Reiji.

Masafumi Takatori
"VA: Keiji Fujiwara (JP)"


 * Evil Genius
 * Mad Scientist
 * One-Winged Angel
 * Playing With Syringes

Kikuno Takatori
Reiji's deceased wife, matriarch of the family.
 * Arranged Marriage - To Reiji.
 * Broken Bird
 * Hot Mom.
 * Posthumous Character - Having died before the story started, Kikuno only appears in flashbacks.
 * Star-Crossed Lovers - With the boyfriend she had before having to marry Reiji
 * Tall, Dark and Bishoujo
 * Yamato Nadeshiko - From what we can see in the flashbacks.
 * Yamato Nadeshiko - From what we can see in the flashbacks.

Koua Academy

 * Academy of Adventure
 * Boarding School of Horrors
 * School for Scheming

Todou

 * Batman Gambit - pulls one on Sena.
 * Tomato in The Mirror
 * Tyke Bomb
 * Tomato in The Mirror
 * Tyke Bomb

Mayumi Tsujii
"VA: Atsuko Tanaka (JP)"


 * Manipulative Bastard - Over the course of Gluhen she manages to do a number on Toudou, Kyou, and Yoji.
 * Neck Lift - She does this to Suika and later to Yoji.
 * Playing With Syringes - Less crazed than many scientists in the series, but no less unscrupulous.
 * You Gotta Have Green Hair

Sagiri and Suika

 * Big Brother Instinct - Sagiri . It's a recurring motif.
 * Brother-Sister Team
 * Hannibal Lecture - Sagiri and Suika get Sena with this, but.
 * Mismatched Eyes - They each have one brown eye and one blue one.

Berger
"VA: Katsuyuki Konishi (JP)"


 * Mind Control - He causes Ken, Sena, and Omi to see illusions, drags Crawford into a Battle in The Center of The Mind, and...
 * People Puppets - ...physically controls Shimojima, giving him a nasty Psychic Nosebleed in the process.
 * You Gotta Have Green Hair - Justified in his case due to extensive genetic engineering.

Geisel

 * Playing With Fire
 * Pyromaniac
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair - Justified in his case due to extensive genetic engineering.

Layla

 * Mind Over Matter
 * You Gotta Have Pink Hair - Justified in her case due to extensive genetic engineering.

La Mort

 * Face Heel Turn - They were Kritiker's second Weiss team. Then they went crazy.
 * Floral Theme Naming - Shion refers to the Tatarian aster; Azami refers to the thistle flower; Ayame means iris; Rindou refers to the Japanese gentian.
 * Flower Motifs - Aside from the Theme Naming: Shion's initial appearances involve ikebana, traditional Japanese flower arranging; he also goes to the flower shop where Aya's sister works and buys expensive orchids (a play on Aya's given name).
 * Four Is Death - Again. Still.
 * He Who Fights Monsters - Dramatic Precious indicates that their generally Ax Crazy conditions are the ultimate destination of the slippery slope that the present members of Weiss are currently on.
 * The Psycho Rangers - Weiss has a lot of Psycho Rangers.

Shion

 * Big Bad - of the Dramatic Precious drama CDs.
 * Broken Pedestal
 * Evil Counterpart - to Aya.
 * Faking the Dead - in Endless Rain.
 * Nietzsche Wannabe - in Dramatic Precious.
 * The Obi-Wan - to Aya in the Endless Rain drama CD, as well as being the namesake of Aya's katana. Subverted when it turns out that Shion faked his own death and has turned against Kritiker.

Ayame

 * Evil Counterpart - to Ken.
 * Precision Guided Boomerang
 * - and very angry about it.

Azami

 * Affably Evil - On his off time, Azami comes across as a pleasant fellow and gets along rather well with Yoji until the truth comes out.
 * Evil Counterpart - to Yoji.
 * Love Makes You Evil
 * Mad Love - With Ayame.
 * Musical Assassin - with a violin as his weapon.

Rindou

 * Evil Counterpart - to Omi.
 * Tarot Motifs

KR (Richard Krypton)

 * Badass Grandpa
 * Vigilante Man

Nana Mihirogi

 * The Handler
 * Kick Chick
 * Lady of War
 * Lethal Chef
 * Seven Is Nana: As their handler, she's Side B's seventh member.

Side B

 * Domino Mask
 * Four Is Death - notable aversion; after the many repetitions of the trope in previous installments of the series, Kryptonbrand is a three-man team prior to the additions of Ken, Aya, and Yuki, and a six-man team thereafter. This may be why Kryptonbrand is ever so slightly less screwed up than Weiss.
 * Multinational Team - Ken & Aya = Japanese; Yuki = Japanese-American; Michel = Irish, raised in England; Chloe = born in Romania; Free = born in Liechtenstein.

Yuki

 * But Not Too Foreign - Yuki, the first of his new teammates that Aya meets after leaving Japan, is Japanese-American.
 * Kid With the Leash - Of sorts. In order to allow Yuki to keep the promise he made to Alison never to kill, Aya kills for him.
 * Meaningful Name - "Yuki" meaning "snow."
 * Mission Control
 * The Smart Guy
 * The Stoic
 * Stoic Spectacles - A head injury he suffers during the fighting between Orphan and Blue Eyes causes him to need glasses; coincidentally, 's betrayal and 's death during the same arc leaves him with an unusually stoic attitude for his age.

Chloe (Edward R. Krotznik)

 * The Beast Master
 * Dye Hard -.
 * Gratuitous German - and French, and English, and what appears to be Italian...
 * Green Thumb
 * Non-Human Sidekick - his owl, Trabant.
 * Something About a Rose
 * Stealth Pun - He's Romanian and hates direct sunlight.
 * Suspiciously Similar Substitute/Expy - Tall, blond, snarky flirt who teases his teammates while obsessing over a girl? He's Youji with an owl.

Michel E. Conrad

 * Whip It Good

Free

 * Facial Markings
 * Tarot Motifs
 * Warrior Poet - Well, a lot of them are a bit like this, but Free with his tarot cards is a particularly notable example.

Momoe

 * Kindhearted Cat Lover
 * Living Prop
 * Miniature Senior Citizens

Aya-chan Fujimiya
"VA: Yui Horie (JP), Rachael Lillis (EN)"


 * Big Eater/Sweet Tooth - implied in a couple scenes, she certainly likes a great variety of foods, and one of radio dramas reveals she wanted to open a bakery when she grew up.
 * Break the Cutie
 * Did Sis Just Sell Flowers To Shion?
 * Genki Girl
 * Girlish Pigtails
 * Hidden Eyes - In the last episode of Gluhen and a brief shot of her in Side B. Her only other post-Kapitel appearance is in Dramatic Precious, which is a Radio Drama.
 * Ill Girl (in a Convenient Coma after being hit by a car in her birthday. )
 * Living MacGuffin

Ouka Sakaki

 * Daddy's Girl
 * - Omi's.
 * - to Omi
 * Ojou - Played with a little. Her classmates consider her rich and snobby, but she's much louder and more forceful than the typical Ojou. Turns out she's a rich politician's illegitimate daughter and her forcefulness is a result of feeling neglected by him when she was younger.
 * Plucky Girl
 * Princess Curls - smaller, face-framing ones.
 * Recurring Character - pops up in several episodes, hanging around the flower shop and being much more articulate and forward than the usual gaggle of fangirls.
 * Savvy Guy Energetic Girl - with Omi.
 * What The HELL?!
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair
 * Savvy Guy Energetic Girl - with Omi.
 * What The HELL?!
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair

Shizuka Sakaki

 * Absurdly Youthful Mother - She's 34, Ouka is 15. Yeah, she had her when she was just 18-19.
 * Beauty Mark
 * Hot Mom - Of Ouka
 * Supreme Chef - Works as a restaurateur.
 * Tall, Dark and Bishoujo

Sakura Tomoe
"VA: Hiroko Kasahara (JP)"


 * All Love Is Unrequited - She falls in love with Aya, although he doesn't seem to consider her as any more than a friend/surrogate little sister.
 * Bedsheet Ladder -
 * Distressed Damsel
 * Expository Hairstyle Change / Important Haircut - She grows her hair long in the vague hope that it will appeal to Aya by increasing her resemblance to his sister. At the closing of Kapitel, however, she has it cut short again.
 * Modesty Bedsheet
 * Naive Everygirl
 * Plucky Girl
 * Replacement Goldfish - to Aya for his sister, temporarily.
 * Rescue Romance - She falls for Aya at least in part because he keeps rescuing her, although he doesn't return her feelings.
 * Twin Switch -
 * You Go Girl - She's a rather decent athlete.

Asuka Murase
"VA: Kotono Mitsuishi (JP)"


 * Beauty Mark
 * Boisterous Bruiser - Youji describes her as passionate and violent. You don't see it in the anime, but the one drama track that features her shows it in spades.
 * Death By Origin Story -
 * Cool Big Sis
 * Left Hanging -.
 * Posthumous Character -
 * Private Detective

Maki
"VA: Rio Natsuki"


 * Broken Bird
 * Femme Fatale
 * Hooker With a Heart of Gold
 * Womanin Black
 * Womanin Black

Kouichirou Kase
"VA: Yuji Ueda (JP)"


 * Beleaguered Childhood Friend - Ken's.
 * Forgotten Childhood Friend - Ken's.

Yuriko Asakawa
"VA: Michiko Neya"


 * Biker Babe

Kaori Hibana

 * Break the Cutie
 * The Cracker
 * Distressed Damsel

Akira Hibana

 * Badass Biker
 * Better to Die Than Be Killed -
 * Cowboy Cop
 * Foil - To Ken's personality and Aya's choices.
 * Leeroy Jenkins - Just once, though.

Taiyou Honjou

 * Girlish Pigtails
 * Ill Girl - lost her sight in a car accident.
 * Meaningful Name - "Taiyou" means "sun."
 * Morality Pet - for both Knight and Ran.
 * Ojou

Sally Schumars

 * Alliterative Name
 * All of the Other Reindeer - Her townspeople hated her and her family for their powers.
 * Burn the Witch - Was about to be burned alive, but  saved her.
 * Butt Monkey - For her ties with the Rosenkreuz group. And she doesn't have it easy with Schwarz, either.
 * Dark Magical Girl
 * Mad Love/Mind Game Ship/Rescue Romance - With.
 * Shallow Love Interest
 * Shrinking Violet - considering her story, can you blame her?

Kimika Serizawa

 * Broken Bird
 * Genki Girl
 * Kawaiiko
 * Shallow Love Interest - Even she admits it!
 * Third Person Person
 * Third Person Person

Nozomi Miyazawa

 * The Cutie
 * Naive Everygirl
 * Naive Everygirl
 * Naive Everygirl
 * Naive Everygirl

Asami-sensei

 * - There's only five episodes until the end, why are we suddenly getting back story...? Oh. Right.
 * Badass Teacher - She sees Aya this way, and she really wants to be one herself.
 * - Aya's.
 * - Goddamnit, Tsujii.
 * Leitmotif - A particularly sweet, bubbly little song that plays whenever she acts cute around Aya.
 * Leitmotif - A particularly sweet, bubbly little song that plays whenever she acts cute around Aya.

Asuka Ito

 * Hospital Hottie
 * Replacement Love Interest
 * Yamato Nadeshiko
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair

Kurumi Shinjou

 * Break the Cutie -
 * The Chick
 * Every Girl Is Cuter With Hair Decs
 * Feminine Women Can Cook - Compared to Mihirogi at least. Her food is almost edible, as opposed to not edible at all.
 * Important Haircut - She hacks off her waist-length braids after losing her parents and moving in with KB.
 * Improvised Weapon - In volume five
 * MacGuffin Girl