Code Breaker



""An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, and evil for evil.""

- Rei Ogami

Code: Breaker is an ongoing manga series by Akimine Kamijyo (the creator of Samurai Deeper Kyo) currently appearing in Weekly Shonen Magazine.

Riding the bus one day, Sakurakouji Sakura looks out the window to see people being burned alive with a blue fire and a boy her age who's unharmed and standing over the people. She comes back to the site the next day and there are no corpses or evidence of any kind of murder, just a small fire. She then goes to class to find there's a New Transfer Student who looks exactly like the boy she saw before and wears a black glove only on his left hand. Later she finds out that he is the sixth "Code:Breaker", a special type of assassin with a strange ability, who is only a member of a secret organization that serves the government.

This series provides examples of:

 * Action Girl: Kanda here.
 * Sakura also, at least in the beginning...
 * Action Mom:
 * Adult Child: Sakura's mother.
 * Ambiguously Brown: Yukihina.
 * Ambiguously Evil:
 * Ambiguous Gender: Haruto
 * An Ice Person: Yukihina's most common application of his power, though he seems to be able to control water in any form.
 * Anti Hero: Ogami is a Type V
 * Anti Magic / Power Nullifier: Sakura Sakurakouji with implied Anti-Magic abilities. All Code Breakers' abilities have been shown to be ineffective against her, and she's even displayed the ability to cancel out the effects of those powers on others. Canceling out their power's effects may or may not require full body contact, since she seems to hug people every time she does it, causing her friends to name it her "rare power hug attack."
 * The President is also a power-suppressing "Rare Kind"  He made Inoichi with this ability in mind, although she has to bite someone to take their power rather than just touch them.
 * The five "Angels".
 * Arc Words: "December 32nd"
 * Artificial Human: Biological, though not (as far as we've seen) actually clones.
 * The Atoner:.
 * Badass Longcoat: Ogami. Also
 * Bad Liar: Sakura.
 * Bandage Babe:
 * Berserk Button: Don't mess with Yuuki's Nyanmaru dolls if you want to live.
 * Or anyone that reminds him of Nyanmaru. At first it was just Sakura but.
 * Ogami with Sakura as well.
 * Do not tell Yukihina to work with Heike. Ever. Unless someone comes and threatens other peoples' warrior prides. Then Yukihina will work with Heike. After a Curb Stomp Battle, of course.
 * Berserker Tears:
 * Big Fancy House: When the gang needs shelter for the night, the apparently homeless Yuuki suggests a bench, then a park, then the big fancy house that envelopes the park. Naturally, it's his house (big imagination + The Nicknamer + a country that loooooves collectible toys = (mega) profit!). When Toki suggests that Yuuki is just being used to make a profit, Yuuki shows that he's also really good at reading the stock market
 * There's also the Shibuya Manor, which is kinda run down and should've fit the trope well were it not for the constant damage.
 * Sakura's home.
 * Black Eyes of Crazy / Uh Oh Eyes / Facial Markings / Evil Feels Good:
 * Blessed With Suck: One of the most obvious cases of blessed with suck EVER. People can get awesome elemental powers, and, seriously, who wouldn't want to control lightning?, but in the end your powers will turn on you and consume you.
 * Bloody Murder: The Saint Fighters' special ability, a la Deadman Wonderland. Maybe they're related like.
 * Brick Joke: Remember the toy that Yuuki designed in chapter 51? A little kid is seen holding it in chapter 60.
 * Bullying a Dragon: Yuuki, who can manipulate sound waves, tries to use their shared abusive pasts to reason with the poison (and other liquids - she hides her many scars under a thick layer of "makeup")-secreting Lily, to no avail.
 * In a more recent chapter, some Re-Code punk wannabe tells the Prince off and tried to blow her up. She julienne's him.
 * But Not Too Foreign: Toki is half-Caucasian on his mother's side (presumably).
 * Cain and Abel: Ogami and his brother. They are even color coded!
 * Calling Your Attacks: Code:Revenger calls out numbers
 * Came Back Strong: Ogami pulls this trope twice. The first time when he was a child
 * Subverted when we learn.
 * Casting a Shadow: The Prince's power.
 * Catch Phrase: The Code:Breakers often quote the Code of Hamurabi: "An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth--" with a personal touch added to it.
 * Cats Are Mean: Played with - the "cat" isn't mean, just an annoying Cloudcuckoolander. A guy in a cat costume puts the Code Breakers through Training From Hell and is apparently powerful enough to negotiate with the Big Bad.
 * When angered, Yuuki is pretty dangerous, even in cat form.
 * One of the five Angels is a boy with spiky hair that looks like cat ears who little Ogami instantly names "Catboy". He's the first to play a game where.
 * Chekhov's Gun:.
 * Cherry Blossom Girl: Double the fun - Sakura Sakurakouji.
 * Also.
 * Childhood Marriage Promise:
 * Clean Cut: Shigure from Re-Code inflicts this on a passer-by, with the notable detail that he does it with ashes in place of a blade.
 * Clothing Damage:
 * Cloudcuckoolander: There are two:
 * Nenene, who loves to randomly grope Sakura's breasts (and even names them). Not only is Nenene Sakura's Sempai, she's somehow a member of the student council.
 * Yuuki, on the other hand is one of the most powerful of the Code:Breakers in EDEN due to his control of . For some reason, his nonsensical behavior annoys the hell out of the usually lackadaisical Toki  To his (or his handlers') credit, Yuuki uses his nonsensical ideas ("He's a middle-aged mushroom suffering from depression") to become the chief of a multi-billion dollar toy empire, although all he really wants/needs are friends.
 * Cooldown Hug: Sakura's specialty.
 * Ogami, to Sakura
 * Rui did this to Hiyori when she first recruited Hiyori to the Re-Codes.
 * Crouching Moron Hidden Badass: Yuuki; Hyori AKA turtle-girl. And while he isn't so much a moron as immature,.
 * Curb Stomp Battle:
 * Freezing Houkabe didn't stand much of a chance against Yukihina's Forms of Water. Didn't help that he hit one of Yukihina's semi-Berserk Buttons.
 * Curtains Match the Window: Rui, Hiyori, Yuuki.
 * Cute Bruiser: Sakura: Looks like The Ojou, loves martial arts/boxing magazines.
 * Chibigami  while little Sakura  .
 * Cute Mute: Chibisakura wasn't much of a talker.
 * Cycle of Revenge:  averts this by
 * Dark Action Girl: Lily, Hiyori, and
 * Dark Is Not Evil: Ogami has dark hair, dark clothes, a dark glove, and uses his powers to burn people to death on a regular basis. He's also very much a good guy, going to great lengths to protect his friends and allies.
 * Mixing this up a bit with Light Is Not Good, Ogami's sempai is very sinister and is usually seen reading bondage H-manga, but he can control light (in the form of a shibari rope, naturally) and is also on the side of good. Though.
 * Given this is a manga full of Gray and Gray Morality not many people can be called either good or evil. By the nature of their job, at best most characters could be classified as anti-heros or anti-villians.
 * Dead All Along:  had his "life and living" taken away by   many years ago, and is now nigh-indestructible.
 * Distracted By the Sexy: Surprisingly Ogami when Sakura is having a Wet Sari Scene. He made her take a shower and change dry her clothes which just made things worse. Earlier while fighting a half naked Lily he was decidedly Not Distracted By the Sexy.
 * In chapter 129,
 * Dissonant Serenity: Ogami, while burning a bunch of people to death. To quote Sakura, "He looked cold and peaceful...yet cruel."
 * Let's not even get started on.
 * , who kills without malice. It almost seems like if you asked her why she kills she'll look at you as if asked her why she breathes.
 * , who slaughters with a smile.
 * The Five Angels, but especially "Fussy Lunch" who always has the same bored expression.
 * The Ditz: Hiyori the Re-Coder. When asked how many people she killed, she says "One, two, three... Ten, I guess, because I have ten fingers! But I'm not in a counting mood, so now I'll kill you painfully!" Notably, she never lapses into a Slasher Smile but remains perfectly cheerful and perky throughout.
 * Doomed Hometown:
 * Dropped a Bridget On Him: The Prince dropped a Bridget on everyone, although she wasn't specifically trying to hide it.
 * Eleventh Hour Superpower: Pretty much after the Re-Code Arc, each power user gets one every other chapter.
 * Equivalent Exchange:
 * Everythings Better With Penguins: 's childhood orphanage was called or nicknamed the "Penguin House".
 * Everythings Sparkly With Jewelry: Code:Emperor's fashion sense -- he's like Ciel Phantomhive Up to Eleven.
 * Evil Is Deathly Cold: Sakura, who is sensitive to people's scents and body heat, is shocked when she discovers 's body is "as cold as ceramic".
 * One of the Re-codes  is icy cold, but that's just because.
 * Expy: An airheaded, eccentric lunatic with very surprising level of competency and power? Why hello, Keikoku Hotaru.
 * Face Heel Turn / Heel Face Turn: Practically ever single main character, besides Ogami and Sakura, has done one by now.
 * Face of a Thug: Kouji. Despite his punk like appearance, Kouji is a reserved and calm individual who doesn't show much emotion. Occasionally subverted in that once someone manages to get him to fight seriously, he becomes extremely violent and merciless with a sadistic grin.
 * Fan Service: Some starts showing up around chapter 40
 * There was always a little but it's becoming more prevalent as the manga continues.
 * Code:Revenger has a pantyshot in almost every scene she's in while Sakura seems to possess a Magic Skirt.
 * Fantastic Racism: The Rare Kinds view Power Users as Evil simply because they are Power Users.
 * Fire Forged Friends: The only thing that makes the Code:Names ally with the Code:Numbers is the threat of death by the Angels. Possibly a clue about why "Fussy Lunch" wants to.
 * Flipping the Bird: Code:Emperor even has an especially long and decorated middle fingernail for emphasis.
 * Forgotten Childhood Friend:
 * Ogami claims that he does not remember Noguchi, the arsonist, and he kills him so no real drama comes of his not remembering.
 * The Four Gods / Four Is Death: The Four Founders of EDEN ; they're reverently remembered and their organization has certainly caused a lot of deaths.
 * Code:04, a merciless killer with a gentle smile, AKA
 * Freudian Trio: Childhood friends Yuuki (id), Muggle Mokoto (ego), and future Re-code Shigure (the one with a bar code for an eyebrow; super-ego).
 * Friend to All Living Things / Walking Wasteland:
 * Friend to All Living Things / Does Not Like People / Hikkikomori / Crazy Cat Lady: "Misoshiru", a beautiful girl who can talk to animals and lives in an abandoned art room where she's guarded by a cadre of feral cats she rescued (a tiger is a cat, right?).
 * Future Me Disappoints Me / I Hate Past Me:
 * Generation Xerox:
 * Genius Bruiser: Implied, he hasn't had to use his muscles at all: The Angel known as "Franken" is as eloquent as his namesake's monster despite looking like Solomon Grundy.
 * Godiva Hair:
 * Expository Hairstyle Change:
 * Gone Horribly Right:
 * Code:Revenger successfully turns Ogami into a little child who can't tell friend from foe  .
 * Good Thing You Can Heal:  gets chopped to bits by a laser and his wounds heal instantly  . His clothes , however...
 * Gotta Catch Em All:
 * Government Conspiracy: EDEN, the group that controls the Codes, is led by the Prime Minister of Japan
 * Half the Man He Used To Be:
 * The Heart: Sakura does everything in her power to keep the group together and foster friendship.
 * The Heartless:
 * Harem: apparently
 * Heroic BSOD: After getting utterly defeated by the Angels, it take Ogami setting their stuff on fire to snap them out of it.
 * Heroic RROD: The people with powers suffer from this if they use their powers too much, but the will return to normal after 24 hours have passed. Here is a list of the known consequences:
 * Ogami gets cold chills and later.
 * Hitomi.
 * Toki becomes a child.
 * Yuuki becomes a tiny kitten.
 * Hiyori, a girl who uses bubbles becomes a turtle.
 * Heike's depowered form is that of a full-sized human, but apparently so embarrassing -- and remember he reads S&M mags in public -- that he wears a full suit of Japanese or European armor. It's quite likely it's his.
 * Prince's depowered form is [[spoiler: a mermaid. Her brother Saechika appears to become a [[One Piece (Manga)|One Piece]]-style fishman with horns and a tail, possibly a sea-dragon or a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makara_
 * Sakura and The President shrink but being "Rare Kinds" they require a special liquid made from the a "Rare Kind's" blood to return to normal. Presumably this also applies to the five Angels.
 * Kouji's depowered form is apparently.
 * turns into a fairy and  is a goofy frog.
 * Shigure becomes.
 * Code:Revenger AKA  becomes a
 * Heroic Sacrifice:
 * Hidden Depths:
 * For another, see Cycle of Revenge.
 * Hot Mom: Sakura's mom is so small (and, arguably, childish), she looks like her younger sister. It doesn't help that she cosplays as a waitress, a bunny and the like.
 * Ho Yay:
 * Huge Guy Tiny Girl: Sakura's parents. Dad is a normal/tallish katana-wielding Retired Badass ill guy, mom is a tiny Moe Blob who loves costumes.
 * Uesugi Hajime and his childhood friend Takatsu Aoba.
 * Important Haircut: Rui, after she's saved from the accident that killed her family, to express her resolve to get stronger.
 * I Take Offense to That Last One: Little Maeshun to little Aoba: "You violent bitch! Godzilla girl! Ironing board!" *Pow!*
 * Well of course she is, they're like 4 years old in that scene.
 * Idiot Heroine: Sakura. Just because you're a Rare Kind doesn't give you permission to jump into deadly Code-battles willy-nilly! At least one person cites Flanderization as a reason why she seems to be getting dumber.
 * The seventh chapter has her yelling at people shooting at her that guns aren't fair. She has never been bright.
 * Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: The series uses the word "Code" as a quirky episode naming convention.
 * Innocent Fanservice Girl: Sakura
 * Jerkass Facade: Ogami Rei certainly acts like a coldhearted bastard, doing things like snapping a dog's neck, burning a group of policemen to death to eliminate all witnesses, killing a man in front of his Littlest Cancer Patient daughter, and torching the helpful, handcrafted guide his classmates made for him in order to help him remember their names. Actually  Naturally, his stalker companion Sakura notices something's amiss when   and also when.
 * Indeed, the facade is getting harder and harder to maintain, as evidenced when  Hard to believe this is the same guy who would've roasted Sakura without a second thought...
 * After their utter defeat by the Five Angels, our heroes (the ones who are still conscious) have been moping around Shibuya Mansion. Ogami gathers up their precious things and starts to burn them (with matches), snapping everyone out of their depression; naturally, by this point everyone knows he's trying to help them and makes fun of his bluff.
 * Jerk With a Heart of Gold:  Ogami is disgusted that this person is imitating him.
 * Katanas Are Just Better:
 * Kill It With Fire: What Ogami does very effectively.
 * Knight Templar / Blood Knight: The Code:Names, who are even more powerful then the Code:Numbers.
 * The Ladette: The Prince, who loves drinking, fishing, and motorcycle riding and wasn't revealed to be a woman until she had a naked-hello with Sakura.
 * Worth mentioning is that she ALSO possesses Yamato Nadeshiko traits, being very domestic and caring, making her a bit of an Action Mom as well.
 * Laser Guided Amnesia:
 * Light Em Up: Heike possesses the ability to manipulate light, though his uses of it can be a bit more unusual than most occurrences of the trope.
 * Light Is Not Good:
 * Heike can be very ambiguous for someone on Ogami & co.'s side.
 * Luminescent Blush: Sported by the Prince, whenever someone is nice to her as she's very shy.
 * Made of Explodium:
 * Mafia Princess.
 * Magic Skirt: Doesn't work for.
 * MacGuffin: Pandora's Box.
 * Make Me Wanna Shout: The nature of Yuuki's power, which extends to the point where he can actually move at the speed of sound.
 * Manipulative Bitch: One on par with "Hummingbird" could be
 * Code:Revenger:
 * Mask Power:
 * Mes a Crowd:
 * Mega Manning:
 * Miniature Senior Citizens:
 * Mirror Match:.
 * Mismatched Eyes: Nenene and Toki both have one blue and one brown eye. This almost gets Nenene killed when fire bender controller Ogami mistakes her for his despised teammate Toki
 * The Mole:
 * The Re:Code with a barcode-eyebrow is actually working for EDEN.
 * Mood Swinger:
 * Most Common Superpower: Lily, Code:Revenger,.
 * Ms. Fanservice: Give it up for the stacked, high-kicking Miss Code:Revenger!
 * Mishiru has a great body, wears her summer uniform all the time, and doesn't seem to own a bra.
 * My Greatest Failure:
 * Mysterious Parent:
 * Nakama: In addition to the current group,
 * Necromancer:
 * The Nicknamer: The blunt and "amnesiac" (he hadn't met these people yet) "Chibigami".
 * Chibigami meets the five "Angels". He dubs the first one he meets "Fussy Lunch", and everyone calls him "Lunch-dono" in the present.
 * No Sense of Personal Space: "Huggergirl" is a very touchy-feely person. Getting hugged freaks her out though.
 * No Social Skills: Ogami's house would make Sosuke proud.
 * "Misoshiru" is a hikkikomori who would rather talk to her animals, but she somehow has "fans".
 * Not a Date: Sakura, sensing Ogami needs cheering up after everyone was beaten by the Five Angels, takes him out to dinner, gets matching phone charms (despite Ogami not owning a phone), and gets in bed with him.  Unbelievably, she still insists that her excitement and rapid heart rate being in bed with Ogami is just high blood pressure.
 * Not So Different: Subverted when an evil character says she was severely abused because of her powers, and a good character says that he too was abused. They go through a Defeat Means Friendship moment . It seems that Defeat has nothing on treating someone like a human being.
 * Obfuscating Stupidity: Ogami is kind of like Hei in this respect (and not just because of the Badass Longcoat and extreme ruthlessness). In his civilian identity, he's a Nice Guy and often Eyes Always Shut. In professional life... not so much. Also, the homeroom teacher acts like a Cloudcuckoolander but is actually The Handler for Ogami.
 * Oblivious to Love: Sakura: I'm feeling anxious and jumpy around . It's obviously my blood pressure!
 * Older Than They Look: She looks like Sakura's little sister. But wait! That's her mom (although she's a bit more endowed)!
 * Many power users do not look their age because their powers grant them unnatural life force. . Lately, we learn that might be one like this too. It's not confirmed, but it's possible that the rare kind  has the same ability.
 * Only Known By Their Nickname: The head of Re-Code is only ever called "The One Being Sought", which is fine for Ogami  but sounds a bit odd coming other members of Re:Code, at least in the fandubs ("'The One Being Sought', what are our plans?"). This is later revealed to be a bit of clever wordplay, as it can also be translated as the "Seeking One", referring to his.
 * The five Angels are so far only known by the nicknames Ogami gave them when he was 5. This extends to people like  who ought to know their actual names.
 * The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: Ogami to "The One Being Sought"; the Re:Codes to Ogami
 * Only Sane Man: Toki, almost exclusively around Yuuki; apparently Ogami, a Crazy Prepared Implacable Man and Sakura doesn't (usually) push the boundaries of Shonen sanity enough to bother him.
 * Our Ghosts and/or Souls Are Different:
 * Our Werewolves Are Different: becomes a wolf when his powers are depleted.
 * Out of Focus: Where is Kanda-sensei again?
 * Parental Abandonment: Ogami's parents were murdered; Toki's father is a heartless Jerkass (and also  with no mention of a mom; Sakura appears to be an aversion  . Yuuki has no parents   It also appears that
 * Pay Evil Unto Evil: The modus operandi of the Code:Breakers.
 * Person of Mass Destruction: The Codes are people of mass destruction under the control of EDEN and protect Japan; the Re-Codes are . People in both groups were abused because of their powers, and now feel useful and free, respectively.
 * is even known as the God of Destruction because of that trope.
 * Pinky Swear: Sakura made her father promise as a child.
 * Playing With Fire: Except, is Ogami really playing?
 * Pure Is Not Good:
 * Pyromaniac: Ogami, obviously.
 * Quirky Miniboss Squad: The Code:Names each have their own special squads. Code:Revenger seems to have at least three . Sadly they don't appear to be very relevant since.
 * The Rainman: Yuuki is an incredibly odd character who appears to be homeless, randomly falls asleep, and gives people silly nicknames . He's also one of the most powerful of the Codes with his ability to   and has used his frequently nonsensical pronouncements to spawn a multi-billion-dollar toy empire. When Toki thinks that Yuuki couldn't possibly have control over the company's finances and is just being used by his handlers, Yuuki is shown crouched on a chair in front of a bunch of screens showing the company's stock rising at the announcement of the new collectible.
 * Red Herring: For a moment it looks like  is the Code: Revenger. It's actually.
 * Revenge: Code:Revenger, obviously, after.
 * The Reveal:
 * Robot Girl: Inoichi.
 * Rock Paper Scissors: Re-Codes Hiyori, Shigure, and Yukihina play this to decide who gets to slaughter the police officers surrounding them.
 * Room Full of Crazy: Relatively speaking:
 * Scars Are Forever:
 * School Uniforms Are the New Black: Sakura always wears her uniform, as does Ogami (though it's just a plain shirt and slacks). Toki and  wear another school's uniform just to blend in, although   has such long Godiva Hair he actually stood out a lot less when he was just in a hooded Badass Longcoat. Hiyori, the Re:Code who can Swiss-cheese everything wears a stylized school uniform as part of her Bad Ass Lolita-look.
 * Sealed Badass in A Can:
 * Sealed Evil in A Can: Pandora's Box is actually
 * Secret Test of Character:
 * Serial Killer Killer: Some of the Code:Breakers recognize that they are evil themselves, though.
 * Selective Magnetism: Toki's power is this trope. The largest abuse is that mercury is not magnetic at all. Rule of Cool is in full force.
 * Seven Deadly Sins:
 * Person of Mass Destruction: The Codes are people of mass destruction under the control of EDEN and protect Japan; the Re-Codes are . People in both groups were abused because of their powers, and now feel useful and free, respectively.
 * is even known as the God of Destruction because of that trope.
 * Pinky Swear: Sakura made her father promise as a child.
 * Playing With Fire: Except, is Ogami really playing?
 * Pure Is Not Good:
 * Pyromaniac: Ogami, obviously.
 * Quirky Miniboss Squad: The Code:Names each have their own special squads. Code:Revenger seems to have at least three . Sadly they don't appear to be very relevant since.
 * The Rainman: Yuuki is an incredibly odd character who appears to be homeless, randomly falls asleep, and gives people silly nicknames . He's also one of the most powerful of the Codes with his ability to   and has used his frequently nonsensical pronouncements to spawn a multi-billion-dollar toy empire. When Toki thinks that Yuuki couldn't possibly have control over the company's finances and is just being used by his handlers, Yuuki is shown crouched on a chair in front of a bunch of screens showing the company's stock rising at the announcement of the new collectible.
 * Red Herring: For a moment it looks like  is the Code: Revenger. It's actually.
 * Revenge: Code:Revenger, obviously, after.
 * The Reveal:
 * Robot Girl: Inoichi.
 * Rock Paper Scissors: Re-Codes Hiyori, Shigure, and Yukihina play this to decide who gets to slaughter the police officers surrounding them.
 * Room Full of Crazy: Relatively speaking:
 * Scars Are Forever:
 * School Uniforms Are the New Black: Sakura always wears her uniform, as does Ogami (though it's just a plain shirt and slacks). Toki and  wear another school's uniform just to blend in, although   has such long Godiva Hair he actually stood out a lot less when he was just in a hooded Badass Longcoat. Hiyori, the Re:Code who can Swiss-cheese everything wears a stylized school uniform as part of her Bad Ass Lolita-look.
 * Sealed Badass in A Can:
 * Sealed Evil in A Can: Pandora's Box is actually
 * Secret Test of Character:
 * Serial Killer Killer: Some of the Code:Breakers recognize that they are evil themselves, though.
 * Selective Magnetism: Toki's power is this trope. The largest abuse is that mercury is not magnetic at all. Rule of Cool is in full force.
 * Seven Deadly Sins:
 * Serial Killer Killer: Some of the Code:Breakers recognize that they are evil themselves, though.
 * Selective Magnetism: Toki's power is this trope. The largest abuse is that mercury is not magnetic at all. Rule of Cool is in full force.
 * Seven Deadly Sins:

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 * Shock and Awe: Hitomi's ability allows him to control electricity.
 * Shoot the Dog: Literally what Ogami does right in the first chapter, though replace "Shoot" with "Break the Neck of." The aforementioned dog got mortally wounded trying to protect Sakura from a bunch of gang members, and Ogami, before burning and killing all of the bad guys, goes up to the dog and commends it for its efforts to save Sakura. And then promptly snaps its neck to "help the pain."
 * Shout Out: See above to a certain ambiguous angel, Yuuki's stock-watching-pose, and possibly the blood-based weapons of .   depowered form could be a fishman, though the horns and tail imply a Capricorn (or a makara -- I want to believe!).
 * Sibling Yin Yang:
 * Slasher Smile: Most of the prominent cast has this, but some notable ones are Yukihina's and Heike's.
 * Sleep Mode Size
 * Social Darwinist: Though not yet outright stated,  implies this is his group's ideal when he wonders why Ogami is protecting an ordinary(?) human.
 * Sphere of Destruction: Hiyori can turn anything -- or anyone -- into Swiss Cheese.
 * Beehive Barrier: The Angels are totally unaffected by the destruction caused by.
 * Stepford Smiler: Ogami (pleasant but distant; is actually a Serial Killer Killer) and Heike (polite but perverse and is actually ), along with Code:Revenger  .   goes into a Slasher Smile routine when he threatens to.
 * Super Powered Evil Side:
 * Every shadow power user has this.
 * Super Speed: Both Tenpouin Yuuki and  are in possession of this.
 * Take a Third Option: See Secret Test of Character.
 * Taking You With Me:
 * Team Parents: Ogami and Sakura, especially Sakura: she will do anything to ensure together time to try and make them be friends. Prince, being a proper Japanese lady under her Ladette surface, is also very maternal.
 * When they meet the reclusive Mishiru, Prince and Ogami are compelled to clean her room and give her a shower, respectively.
 * Terrorists Without a Cause: Re-Code seems to consist of these, as the details of their actual goal remain vague.
 * Third Person Person: Lily is going to kill you now, Lily is very excited!
 * Time Master:
 * Training From Hell: Suffered by both Ogami and Toki under the President.
 * True Neutral:
 * Tyke Bombs: Loads
 * Laser Guided Tykebombs:
 * Unexplained Recovery:
 * Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Subverted when Heike and  meet at a cafe. One's reading porn in public, the other has a bigass katana, they're seated back-to-back but obviously talking to each other, and everyone is staring at them.
 * Villain Protagonist: Ogami Rei appears to be this, but he's clearly more emotional then he lets on (not that it does anything about his nearly 150-person body count). He even defines his organization as "super-powered murderers put to good use."
 * Weaksauce Weakness: An extra chapter reveals that all the Codes have an odd weakness:.
 * Well Intentioned Extremist: Hitomi just wants recognition for the scores of anonymous, mostly teenage Code Breakers who died in the line of duty
 * What the Hell Hero: Like many things he did in the past Ogami's got to have a good reason for, but still!
 * We Have Reserves: EDEN has lots of  they don't really care about.
 * Wet Sari Scene: Sakura gives this little number a few chapters after a restaurants sprinkler system goes off on her.
 * When She Smiles:  has the sweetest smile after.
 * Where I Was Born and Razed:
 * Why Did It Have to Be Snakes: Sakura is terrified of fireworks, as shown in the summer festival and
 * Will They or Won't They: Ogami and Sakura.
 * Wouldn't Hit a Girl:.
 * Woobie Destroyer of Worlds:
 * World of Buxom: Sakura, Aoba, Lily, Sakura's mother,, plus all those bondage books Heike reads.
 * Yakuza: actually her maternal uncle.
 * You Are Number Six: The Code:Numbers would only refer to each other by their code numbers (Ogami is 06, a low number; likewise for the Code:Names).
 * Yuuki says the he calls his friends by numbers.
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Rui has light blue hair as does.
 * You Have Failed Me:
 * You Killed My Father: Or not:
 * You Have Failed Me:
 * You Killed My Father: Or not: