Black Butler (anime)/Characters

Ciel Phantomhive
"Voiced by Maaya Sakamoto (JP) and Brina Palencia (ENG)"


 * Anti-Hero: Type IV or type V.
 * Bad Guys Play Pool: He has a pool room in his manor. In an early episode he gets to show off his pool skills.
 * Being Tortured Makes You Evil
 * A Boy and His X: A boy and his demon butler.
 * Byronic Hero: A very young example.
 * Conveniently an Orphan: Of the Villain Protagonist variety. That's not to say he doesn't grieve for his loss.
 * Dark and Troubled Past:
 * Deal with the Devil: With Sebastian.
 * Deadpan Snarker
 * Deceased Parents Are the Best
 * Dude in Distress: As a Non-Action Guy, he constantly has to be saved by Sebastian as their deal dictates.
 * Dull Eyes of Unhappiness: The difference between his current state and how he was as a young child is easily visible from the eyes.
 * Even Bad Boys Love Their Mamas: Even now, Ciel loves the deceased Rachel and Vincent.
 * Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Ciel deeply cares for Elizabeth and his (deceased) parents and aunt. At one point, he even stops Sebastian from hunting down Grell because he "doesn't want Lizzie to witness anymore bloodshed."
 * Even the Guys Want Him: Much to his displeasure.
 * Evil Eye: The pentagram in his right eye allows Ciel to command Sebastian.
 * Eyepatch of Power: Because walking around with a pentagram visible to anyone who looks you in the eyes is kind of a bad idea.
 * Grade School CEO: Even at the age of twelve, he runs the family business he inherited.
 * Hates Being Touched: He appears to not enjoy physical contact, though he tolerates Sebastian and does not complain when the demon picks him up or holds him. If he is stressed, he will slap someone touching him away, proclaiming, "Don't touch me so easily!" This is a negative influence of the trauma he underwent during his time in captivity.
 * Improbable Age: Ciel is the leader of a popular toys and candy company and works for the Queen doing black ops.
 * He's also highly skilled at pool to the point that he can beat a bunch of adults, despite being so short he actually has to sit on the pool table to make a shot.
 * Kid with the Leash: Ciel's relationship towards Sebastian. While largely true to the trope, it lacks the usual element of contrast in that with few exceptions, Ciel is just as amoral and ruthless as his servant.
 * Magnificent Bastard
 * Man of Wealth and Taste
 * Mark of the Beast: In his right eye.
 * Mismatched Eyes: The eye that isn't blue is purple and has a pentagram on it. By the rules of demon contracts, the more visible the spot you put the mark, the more power you get - and what's more visible than your eye?
 * Non-Idle Rich
 * Power At a Price: He sells his soul in return for help from Sebastian in succeeding in all of his goals, including killing his parents' murderer[s]. After that last goal is finished, Sebastian will be able to take Ciel's soul.
 * Sharp-Dressed Man: He wears expensive, tailored clothes.
 * Smart People Play Chess
 * Stoic Woobie
 * Supernatural Is Purple: His Eyepatch of Power hides his cursed, mismatched eye that holds the symbol of his contract with Sebastian. It's purple, and glows with an eerie neon when he gives Sebastian an order.
 * Troubling Unchildlike Behavior
 * Used to Be a Sweet Kid
 * Wise Beyond Their Years

Sebastian Michaelis
"Voiced by Daisuke Ono (JP) and J Michael Tatum (ENG)"


 * Anti-Hero: Type V.
 * Antiquated Linguistics: More obvious in the original Japanese than the English versions.
 * Battle Butler: He's the trope image!
 * Bishounen : Oh yes.
 * Catch and Return: He can do that with multiple bullets fired simultaneously at point-blank range all around him.
 * Catch Phrase: In the dub, "I am one Hell of a butler."
 * Also, some variation of, "If I didn't/wasn't (insert task here), then what kind of butler would I be?"
 * "A butler who couldn't (insert highly improbable situation here) isn't worth his salt."
 * Cheshire Cat Grin: Occasionally.
 * Cuteness Proximity: Get him close to his beloved cats, and he'll even ignore Ciel.
 * Dissonant Serenity
 * The Dragon: To Ciel.
 * Fangs Are Evil: His demon form has sharp teeth and small fangs.
 * Femme Fatalons: In his demon form.
 * Fork Fencing: He carries cutlery wherever he goes. He's pretty damn effective with them too. Killed an entire room of men with a handful of thrown dinner knives.
 * Game Face: He shows his true form very occasionally to his and Ciel's enemies, though the actual readers have still never seen the whole thing up to this point.
 * Gentleman Snarker
 * Glowing Eyes of Doom: When he is letting his demonic side closer to the surface.
 * Gratuitous English: "Yes, my lord."
 * Hellish Pupils: When he lets his demonic side closer to the surface.
 * Hot Teacher: In his "tutor mode".
 * Immune to Bullets: Either he sidesteps them, catches them from the air, or recovers from them almost immediately.
 * In-Series Nickname: "Sebas-chan" by Grell ("Bassy" in the dub).
 * The Jeeves
 * Kick Them While They Are Down: He literally and happily does that more than once.
 * Named After Somebody Famous: Sebastien Michaelis.
 * One-Winged Angel
 * Perpetual Molt: Sebastian in his true form appears to be constantly shedding massive amounts of feathers. We never get to see the true form properly, in part because the feathers are in the way.
 * Purely Aesthetic Glasses: He always puts on glasses when he enters tutor mode.
 * Ravens and Crows: Sebastian is shown as either a raven or a crow in the anime's prelude, and is often shown with the black Corvid feathers around him.
 * Red Eyes, Take Warning
 * Red Right Hand: His fingernails are black even when he suppresses his other visible demon traits.
 * Sarcastic Devotee
 * Servile Snarker
 * Sexy Discretion Shot: At the end of the first anime when he leans into Ciel.
 * A Sinister Clue: He is left-handed.
 * Skewed Priorities: An early example happens when Sebastian discovers that Ciel has been kidnapped and Sebastian is most concerned about what will happen to his meat pie now when there is no one to eat it. Because it was an exceptionally good meat pie.
 * Slasher Smile: Occasionally when the situation warrants it.
 * Super Mode: Sebastian's true form.
 * Super Reflexes
 * Super Senses: Apparently all of them.
 * Super Speed: To the point where it's unknown whether he is able to teleport or if he's just that fast.
 * Tall, Dark and Handsome: He fits this trope to a T.
 * The Coats Are Off: He removes his tailcoat in his fight with Grell, and that's when things really get down.

Mey-rin
"Voiced by Emiri Katou (JP) and Monica Rial (ENG)"


 * Blind Without'Em: She is farsighted, and she treasures her glasses as the first item she got from Ciel as his maid.
 * Curtains Match the Window
 * Dojikko: She is incredibly clumsy with porcelain plates and such.
 * Meido
 * Meganekko
 * Only One Name
 * Red Eyes, Take Warning
 * Spell My Name with an "S": Also spelled Mei Lin/Mei Rin/Maylene/etc.
 * Red Eyes, Take Warning
 * Spell My Name with an "S": Also spelled Mei Lin/Mei Rin/Maylene/etc.

Baldroy "Baldo"
"Voiced by Hiroki Tochi (JP) and Ian Sinclair (ENG)"


 * Lethal Chef
 * Only One Name
 * Oven Logic: He has tried to use a flamethrower for cooking, apprarently more than once. Even worse, he once tried to cook with an assault rifle. The results weren't good.
 * Perma-Stubble
 * Spell My Name with an "S": Baldo/Bard.
 * Stuff Blowing Up: The kitchen. Repeatedly.

Finnian "Finny"
"Voiced by Yuuki Kaji (JP) and Jason Liebrecht (ENG)"


 * Cute Bruiser
 * Does Not Know His Own Strength: He keeps breaking things by accident.
 * Hair Decorations
 * Hair of Gold: A male example.
 * Only One Name
 * Super Strength: One of his defining traits.
 * Super Strength: One of his defining traits.
 * Super Strength: One of his defining traits.

Tanaka
"Voiced by Shunji Fujimura (JP) and R. Bruce Elliot (ENG)"

Ho ho ho."


 * Cartoonish Companion: For the rest of the cast being drawn as a chibi is an exception. For Tanaka it's the rule.
 * Miniature Senior Citizens: He is scarcely more than knee-high in his chibi form.
 * Old Retainer
 * Only One Name
 * Super-Deformed: This actually is shown to be something people are aware of in some way in the anime. He can only remain in his normal form for a limited time before he becomes too tired to hold on to his mental clarity and becomes a chibi again.

Pluto
"Voiced by Takafumi Yamaguchi (JP) and Z. Charles Bolton (ENG)"


 * Big Friendly Dog: In a manner of speaking.
 * Dogs Are Dumb
 * Hell Hound: Seems like the Hunter type.
 * Innocent Fanservice Boy
 * Naked on Arrival
 * Playing with Fire:
 * They Have the Scent: Used to
 * White-Haired Pretty Boy
 * White-Haired Pretty Boy

Elizabeth "Lizzy" Midford
"Voiced by Yukari Tamura (JP) and Cherami Leigh (ENG)"


 * Arranged Marriage: In one of the beginning chapters he says that he was forced to marry her and does not really want to. He does care for her, though.
 * Damsel in Distress:
 * Genki Girl
 * The Glomp: She never hesitates at a chance to glomp Ciel.
 * Hair of Gold
 * Kawaiiko
 * Kissing Cousins: She and Ciel are cousins. Not that this was unusual for this time period.
 * Morality Chain: Her entire reason for existence seems to be keeping Ciel from falling into the abyss.
 * Princess Curls: In Mega Twintails.
 * Spoiled Sweet: She's used to getting what she wants but, for the most part, isn't a bad person for it.
 * Stepford Smiler: She keeps most of her fears and worries regarding Ciel to herself.
 * Stepford Smiler: She keeps most of her fears and worries regarding Ciel to herself.

Angelina "Madam Red" Durless
"Voiced by Romi Park (JP) and Lydia Mackay (ENG)"


 * Curtains Match the Window
 * Bob Haircut
 * Fiery Redhead
 * Green-Eyed Monster: She envied her sister Rachel's blond hair and conventional beauty. Then Rachel snagged from Angelina certain Vincent Phantomhive.
 * I Am Not Pretty: When she was a child she believed that her red hair was ugly. Vincent convinced her otherwise.
 * I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: That's what she tried to convince herself to believe.
 * Important Haircut: Cutting her long bangs marked the beginning of her self-esteem.
 * Later on she cut her hair short all around when
 * Lady in Red
 * Like a Son to Me: Ciel.
 * Red Eyes, Take Warning
 * Shrinking Violet: When she was younger.
 * Like a Son to Me: Ciel.
 * Red Eyes, Take Warning
 * Shrinking Violet: When she was younger.
 * Shrinking Violet: When she was younger.
 * Shrinking Violet: When she was younger.

Lau
"Voiced by Kôji Yusa (JP) and Jerry Jewell (ENG)"


 * Beware the Silly Ones
 * Eyes Always Shut: Lau sports a variation of this. His closed eyes are not upturned in a foxlike manner; rather, they're more U-shaped, giving him an air of calm.
 * Handsome Lech: Almost always seen with Ran-Mao in his lap… and occasionally hitting on Ciel.
 * inscrutable Oriental: It is hard to know what he is thinking.
 * Obfuscating Stupidity: Eventually he stops pretending.
 * Only One Name
 * Opium Den: Lau's occupation.
 * Yellow Peril

Ran-Mao
"Voiced by Sayuri Yahagi (JP) and Trina Nishimura (ENG)"


 * Anime Chinese Girl
 * Beware the Quiet Ones
 * Dual-Wielding: She has been seen to use two ornamental clubs.
 * Emotionless Girl
 * Eyes of Gold
 * Horned Hairdo
 * Incest Subtext: For supposed brother and sister, she and Lau are far, far too close physically. She even routinely sits on his lap.
 * Little Miss Badass
 * Mini-Dress of Power
 * Ms. Fanservice: Ran Mao, bearing cat ear-like Odango, having large breasts behind a clingy dress, showing off a lot of leg, being extremely flexible, and generally being very touchy-feely.
 * Odango: Shaped like cat ears. Yeahhh...
 * She's Got Legs
 * Show Some Leg: She gets set up to distract Sebastian with her legs. It doesn't work.
 * Spell My Name with an "S": Lan Mao vs. Ran Mao.
 * Qipao: A mini-dress version.
 * The Quiet One
 * The Stoic
 * Zettai Ryouiki

Undertaker
"Voiced by Junichi Suwabe (JP) and John Swasey (ENG)"


 * Blinding Bangs: Though Grell does brush them aside to find his beautiful eyes.
 * Cheshire Cat Grin
 * The Creepy Undertaker: He really plays up the morbid factor, sleeping in coffins and so on.
 * Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Everyone calls him "Undertaker".
 * Good Scars, Evil Scars: It's as if his skull's had to have been stitched back together... and maybe it has.
 * Knowledge Broker
 * Nice Hat
 * Nightmare Fetishist: Quite a few different examples, including cooing over how nice a corpse looks with its cuts.
 * No Sense of Personal Space: He tends to get a little too close for Ciel's comfort.
 * Perky Goth
 * Take Our Word for It: We never find out what Sebastian did to make Undertaker laugh.
 * Too Kinky to Torture: Only in the anime.
 * Undertaker
 * Undertaker

Aleister Chambers (Viscount Druitt)



 * Aristocrats Are Evil: This viscount definitely is.
 * Bishounen
 * The Dandy: He is the dandiest dandy in a series in which a lot of people dress well.
 * Large Ham
 * Lolicon: As they say, he "likes women of all ages". He was quite taken by Ciel when he was disguised as a girl.
 * Long-Haired Pretty Boy
 * Purple Eyes
 * Purple Eyes

Fred Abberline
"Voiced by Hisayoshi Suganuma (JP) and Jonathan Brooks (ENG)"


 * Friend to All Children: He feels sorry for Ciel because he's a burdened child.
 * Named After Somebody Famous: Or rather, is someone famous.
 * Nice Guy
 * Named After Somebody Famous: Or rather, is someone famous.
 * Nice Guy

Grell Sutcliffe
"Voiced by Jun Fukuyama (JP) and Daniel Fredrick (ENG)"


 * All Girls Want Bad Boys: All the guys he seems to like.
 * Ambiguous Gender: There's still discussion among fans on whether or not he's a transsexual or just flamboyant gay. The Word of God is that he's gay.
 * Badass Long Hair / Badass Longcoat:
 * Camp Gay: Though it's heavily implied that he was romantically involved with Madam Red...
 * Cheshire Cat Grin: This seems to be a popular trope for the characters of this series.
 * Depraved Bisexual: He actually did fall in love with Madam Red, so he could be considered bisexual.
 * Drag Queen
 * Jerkass Dissonance: Most fans seem to completely ignore his ruthless and sadistic streak and tend to portray him as something completely different.
 * Long Hair Is Feminine
 * Love At First Punch: Sebastian. (And Will too, for this one. It seems he likes them both for the cold shoulders they give him. And the bruises.)
 * Mad Love
 * Meaningful Name/Partially Named After Somebody Famous: He shares a surname with
 * Rapunzel Hair
 * Transsexualism: The fandom debate is heated and endless.
 * Trans Equals Gay: The source of much confusion and disagreement.
 * Jerkass Dissonance: Most fans seem to completely ignore his ruthless and sadistic streak and tend to portray him as something completely different.
 * Long Hair Is Feminine
 * Love At First Punch: Sebastian. (And Will too, for this one. It seems he likes them both for the cold shoulders they give him. And the bruises.)
 * Mad Love
 * Meaningful Name/Partially Named After Somebody Famous: He shares a surname with
 * Rapunzel Hair
 * Transsexualism: The fandom debate is heated and endless.
 * Trans Equals Gay: The source of much confusion and disagreement.
 * Transsexualism: The fandom debate is heated and endless.
 * Trans Equals Gay: The source of much confusion and disagreement.

Angela Blanc
"Voiced by Akiko Yajima (JP) and Colleen Clinkenbeard (ENG)"


 * Meaningful Name: Blanc is French for white.
 * Meido
 * Moral Myopia:
 * Of Corsets Sexy
 * Purple Eyes
 * White-Haired Pretty Girl
 * Zettai Ryouiki
 * Meaningful Name: Blanc is French for white.
 * Meido
 * Moral Myopia:
 * Of Corsets Sexy
 * Purple Eyes
 * White-Haired Pretty Girl
 * Zettai Ryouiki
 * Purple Eyes
 * White-Haired Pretty Girl
 * Zettai Ryouiki
 * White-Haired Pretty Girl
 * Zettai Ryouiki
 * Zettai Ryouiki

Soma Asman Kadar
"Voiced by Shinnosuke Tachibana (JP) and Chris Ayres (ENG)"


 * Bishounen
 * Break the Haughty: As the result of a vicious "The Reason You Suck" Speech given by and.
 * Eyes of Gold
 * Heterosexual Life Partners: He and Agni care deeply about each other; they are always together.
 * Ignorant of Their Own Ignorance: At least at first.
 * Parental Abandonment: His parents didn't see him much and pretty much let him run free.
 * Small Name, Big Ego: Apparently no one ever gave him any criticism when he was a child. He grew up with more than a little distorted idea of his own abilities.
 * Spoiled Brat
 * Terrible Artist: And entirely unaware of it. His sitar-playing isn't any better either.
 * Trademark Favorite Food: He loves curry.

Agni
"Voiced by Hiroki Yasumoto (JP) and Patrick Seitz (ENG)"


 * Battle Butler
 * Bishounen
 * Chef of Iron: Also, a Supreme Chef.
 * Dark-Skinned Blond
 * Heterosexual Life Partners: He and Soma care deeply about each other; they are always together.
 * Important Haircut: Marked the beginning of his relationship with Soma.
 * I Owe You My Life: Towards Soma.
 * Only One Name
 * Super Mode: Samadhi.
 * Tears of Blood: When in a state of samadhi.
 * Undying Loyalty: Towards Soma.

Queen Victoria
"Voiced by Ayako Kawasumi (JP), (young) Alexis Tipton (ENG) and (old) Bridgett Dahl (ENG)"


 * Friend to All Children: She has a particular soft spot towards children, calling them "the future".
 * Friend to All Children: She has a particular soft spot towards children, calling them "the future".
 * Friend to All Children: She has a particular soft spot towards children, calling them "the future".

Ash Landers
"Voiced by Satoshi Hino (JP) and Chuck Huber (ENG)"


 * Battle Butler
 * Moral Myopia:
 * Meaningful Name:
 * Purple Eyes
 * White-Haired Pretty Boy
 * Moral Myopia:
 * Meaningful Name:
 * Purple Eyes
 * White-Haired Pretty Boy
 * Meaningful Name:
 * Purple Eyes
 * White-Haired Pretty Boy
 * Purple Eyes
 * White-Haired Pretty Boy
 * White-Haired Pretty Boy
 * White-Haired Pretty Boy

Drocell Keinz
"Voiced by Anri Katsu (JP) and Sonny Strait (ENG)"

"Therefore, I reason for a superior present to be given to a very dear person, the most suitable thing would be your very self."


 * Affably Evil
 * Artificial Human: It's painfully obvious even before straw starts spilling out of his head.
 * Creepy Doll
 * Evil Redhead
 * Ironic Nursery Tune: He changes the lyrics in My Fair Lady, more commonly known as London Bridge Is Falling Down, to
 * Marionette Master
 * Purple Eyes
 * Razor Floss: Deals with someone with this.
 * Undying Loyalty: Drocell's devotion to his master is absolute, even
 * Sebastian: "Perhapse I judged him too hastily. He may well be, one hell of a butler."
 * Verbal Tic: "I reasoned".
 * Sebastian: "Perhapse I judged him too hastily. He may well be, one hell of a butler."
 * Verbal Tic: "I reasoned".

Paula
"Voiced by Yui Itsuki (JP) and Jessica Cavanagh (ENG)"

"Jingle jingle!"

Elizabeth's personal maid. She seems to be a nice girl, though little is known of her.


 * Canon Immigrant: Originally an anime-only character, she later makes multiple appearances in the manga.
 * Catch Phrase: "Jingle jingle!" in the anime.
 * Meido: She works as Elizabeth's personal maid.
 * So Unfunny It's Funny: Her attempts at cheering Lizzie up in the anime are very awkward, but endearing.