Madlax/Characters

MADLAX (The Gatekeeper of Hell is All Alone)


Voiced by: Sanae Kobayashi (Japanese) Nancy Novotny

An agent for hire in the war torn country of Gazth-Sonika.


 * Action Girl: Naturally
 * Anti-Hero
 * Asskicking Pose
 * Badass Adorable: Madlax is oh so very sweet and cute for a mass-murderer.
 * Bi the Way
 * Big Damn Heroes
 * Code Name: Her name has always simply been known as MADLAX.
 * Cursed with Awesome:
 * Dissonant Serenity
 * I Just Want to Be Normal
 * Innocent Fanservice Girl
 * Impossibly Cool Clothes: The red and white cocktail dresses.
 * Meaningful Name
 * The Messiah
 * Moe Moe
 * Ms. Fanservice
 * Mysterious Past: Just one of many.
 * Out of the Inferno: Episode 1
 * Theme Music Power-Up: Yanmaani!
 * Trademark Favorite Food: "Yeah, PASTA!"
 * Trademark Favorite Food: "Yeah, PASTA!"

Margaret Burton


Voiced by Houko Kuwashima (Japanese) Luci Christian (English)

A usually sleepy eyed and slightly amnesic aristocrat.


 * Awful Truth
 * Badass Adorable:
 * Cloudcuckoolander: Somewhat spacey most of the time (the first episode has her walking to school in the wrong direction). She's far from stupid, though.
 * Easy Amnesia
 * Idiot Hair
 * Mysterious Past
 * Small Girl, Big Gun
 * The Three Faces of Eve:
 * Trademark Favorite Food: PASTA! Yeah, Pasta!
 * Zettai Ryouiki
 * Trademark Favorite Food: PASTA! Yeah, Pasta!
 * Zettai Ryouiki

Elenore Baker (Everyday Gatekeeper)


Voiced by Ai Uchikawa (Japanese) Kira Vincent-Davis (English)

Margaret's loving and very devoted personal assistant and maid.


 * Action Girl: In certain circles it's joked er...hinted that she's the teacher of Roberta from Black Lagoon.
 * Beach Episode: Episode 9. One of the few times in the series that you see her wearing something other than her maids uniform.
 * Beware the Nice Ones
 * Cool Big Sis: To Margaret
 * Gainax Ending: Her fate has been the cause of some intense debates over
 * Heterosexual Life Partners: With Margaret,
 * Just Friends: Vanessa and her in the first half of the series, until Vanessa hooks up with Madlax.
 * Kick Chick: Watch eps 6 and 24 for prime examples of this.
 * Killed Off for Real
 * Kira Vincent-Davis
 * Let's Get Dangerous: Episode 6
 * Mama Bear: A surrogate one for Margaret
 * Meganekko: Episode 14
 * Meido
 * Messianic Archetype:
 * Ninja Maid: Oh God, does she ever prove it.
 * Old Retainer: Her grandpa was this, and she'd fit if not for her age since the Bakers have served the Burtons for generations.
 * Plucky Girl: Pretty much one the entire series
 * Small Girl, Big Gun: One episode she gets on a mounted gun and starts firing off like hell.
 * Undying Loyalty
 * Zettai Ryouiki: Episode 14. The only other episode that she wears something other than her maids uniform.

Vanessa Rene (Gatekeeper of Happiness)


Voiced by Satsuki Yukino (Japanese) Kelly Manison (English)

Margaret and Elenore's friend who determined to find the truth and clear her parent's names. She's also an employee of Bookwald in order to find thier connection to the civil war Gazth-Sonika.


 * Bodyguard Crush: On Madlax, mutual
 * Cool Big Sis: To Elenore and Margaret
 * Died Happily Ever After:
 * Heroic Sacrifice
 * Just Friends: With Madlax and Elenore (in earlier episodes)
 * Les Yay With Madlax and to a lesser extent Elenore.
 * The Promise:Her's to Madlax and vice versa
 * Teach Me How to Fight

Friday Monday
Voiced by: Masashi Ebara (Japanese) Mike Kleinhenz (English) 

Friday Monday is the enigmatic founder and head of the Enfant organization. Very little is known about his past before 1999, when he used his Gift to open the Door of Truth in a failed attempt to plunge the world into a total war, which, as he believes, is its natural state.


 * Big Bad
 * Blue Eyes
 * Cool Mask
 * Light Is Not Good
 * Villainous Breakdown:Margaret! What happened to you?!  YOU BITCH!!!

Limelda Jorg
Voiced by: Aya Hisakawa (Japanese), Christine Auten (English)

A deadly Dark Action Girl whose boss dies at Madlax's hand. She's very displeased by that, and as such she starts chasing after Madlax.


 * Cold Sniper
 * Dark Action Girl
 * Depraved Bisexual: She slept with Carrossea Doon and she is Very, VERY fixated on Madlax.
 * Good-Looking Privates

Laetitia
Voiced by: Tomoko Kaneda (Japanese), Cynthia Martinez (English)

A strange and very creepy little girl seen more than once.


 * Creepy Child
 * Meaningful Name: She's named after both a chara in Mashimo's favorite movie and the Roman Goddess of gaiety.
 * Meaningful Name: She's named after both a chara in Mashimo's favorite movie and the Roman Goddess of gaiety.

Colonel Richard Burton
Voiced by: Toru Ookawa (Japanese), Ben Hamby (English)

Margaret's Disappeared Dad.


 * Colonel Badass
 * Colonel Badass

Carrossea Doon.
Voiced by: Toshiyuki Morikawa (Japanese), Vic Mignogna (English)

Carrossea is officially an independent contract worker for Bookwald Industries, although, in reality, he is one of Enfant's best operatives and the right-hand man of Friday Monday himself.


 * The Dragon: To Friday Monday
 * Gainax Ending: His fate has been the cause of some intense debates over
 * The Dragon: To Friday Monday
 * Gainax Ending: His fate has been the cause of some intense debates over
 * Gainax Ending: His fate has been the cause of some intense debates over