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* [[Big Bad]]: While Tetsuo starts off just as confused as everybody else, he becomes the main antagonist eventually.
* [[Big Bad]]: While Tetsuo starts off just as confused as everybody else, he becomes the main antagonist eventually.
* [[Evil Laugh]]: "UWAH-HAH-HAH-HAH-HAH-A-AAH"!
* [[Evil Laugh]]: "UWAH-HAH-HAH-HAH-HAH-A-AAH"!
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: In the movie. Much of Tetsuo's rampage has him doing nothing but smirking and deflecting any hits against him in stride, but when the army starts pulling out their laser guns and shooting at him, they miss and hit one of the Akira worshippers following him. His reaction to it was of [[What the Hell Hero|shock and disgust]]. The next time they fire he shields not only himself from the beams, but also deflects them away from any bystanders behind him. It becomes somewhat inverted, when he breaks the bridge, but hey, that was a combination of him not knowing his own strength as well as one of the collapsing tanks misfiring and hitting the side where the worshippers were standing.
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: In the movie. Much of Tetsuo's rampage has him doing nothing but smirking and deflecting any hits against him in stride, but when the army starts pulling out their laser guns and shooting at him, they miss and hit one of the Akira worshippers following him. His reaction to it was of [[What the Hell Hero|shock and disgust]]. The next time they fire he shields not only himself from the beams, but also deflects them away from any bystanders behind him. It becomes somewhat inverted, when he breaks the bridge, but hey, that was a combination of him not knowing his own strength as well as one of the collapsing tanks misfiring and hitting the side where the worshippers were standing.
* [[Freudian Excuse]]: Poor Tetsuo had to deal with bullies of various sorts his entire life until he discovered his powers.
* [[Freudian Excuse]]: Poor Tetsuo had to deal with bullies of various sorts his entire life until he discovered his powers.
* [[From Nobody to Nightmare]]
* [[From Nobody to Nightmare]]
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* [[Superpower Meltdown]]
* [[Superpower Meltdown]]
* [[Bullet Catch|Tank Ammo Catch]]: Tetsuo does this ''with his mind'' in the movie.
* [[Bullet Catch|Tank Ammo Catch]]: Tetsuo does this ''with his mind'' in the movie.
* [[Took a Level In Badass]]: Thanks to his newly awakened powers!
* [[Took a Level in Badass]]: Thanks to his newly awakened powers!
* [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity]]
* [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity]]
* [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds]]: Naturally.
* [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds]]: Naturally.
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* [[Colonel Badass]]
* [[Colonel Badass]]
* [[Friend to All Children]]: He's the only one aside from Dr. Onishi to take the Espers abilities seriously and is fiercely protective of them. Even willing to take on a mutating Tetsuo with nothing but a side arm just to keep him away from them. He extends this to Kaori as well in the movie when Tetsuo advances on her menacingly, making him the only one aside from Kaneda to manage to harm Tetsuo. He was even genuinely worried when Tetsuo's powers were getting out of control, desperately trying to warn him that his powers are killing him.
* [[Friend to All Children]]: He's the only one aside from Dr. Onishi to take the Espers abilities seriously and is fiercely protective of them. Even willing to take on a mutating Tetsuo with nothing but a side arm just to keep him away from them. He extends this to Kaori as well in the movie when Tetsuo advances on her menacingly, making him the only one aside from Kaneda to manage to harm Tetsuo. He was even genuinely worried when Tetsuo's powers were getting out of control, desperately trying to warn him that his powers are killing him.
* [[Took a Level In Badass]]: The Colonel, after the timeskip in the manga. Before, he's a very angry [[Elite Mook]] who spends his whole time shouting conflicting orders. After, he's a much more thoughtful and outright heroic character who shows that he's a very badass fighter who's not to be messed with as time goes on, leading up to him attempting to take out Tetsuo head on.
* [[Took a Level in Badass]]: The Colonel, after the timeskip in the manga. Before, he's a very angry [[Elite Mook]] who spends his whole time shouting conflicting orders. After, he's a much more thoughtful and outright heroic character who shows that he's a very badass fighter who's not to be messed with as time goes on, leading up to him attempting to take out Tetsuo head on.


=== Akira ===
=== Akira ===
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* [[Human Popsicle]]
* [[Human Popsicle]]
* [[Person of Mass Destruction]]
* [[Person of Mass Destruction]]
* {{spoiler|[[Schrodinger's Cast]]: Alive throughout the manga, but [[Dead All Along]] in the movie (though he gets better.)}}
* {{spoiler|[[Schrödinger's Cast]]: Alive throughout the manga, but [[Dead All Along]] in the movie (though he gets better.)}}
* [[Sealed Evil in a Can]]
* [[Sealed Evil in a Can]]
* [[Why Am I Ticking?]]
* [[Why Am I Ticking?]]
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Revision as of 06:46, 11 April 2017


Shotaro Kaneda

Tetsuo Shima

Kei

Colonel Shikishima

  • Colonel Badass
  • Friend to All Children: He's the only one aside from Dr. Onishi to take the Espers abilities seriously and is fiercely protective of them. Even willing to take on a mutating Tetsuo with nothing but a side arm just to keep him away from them. He extends this to Kaori as well in the movie when Tetsuo advances on her menacingly, making him the only one aside from Kaneda to manage to harm Tetsuo. He was even genuinely worried when Tetsuo's powers were getting out of control, desperately trying to warn him that his powers are killing him.
  • Took a Level in Badass: The Colonel, after the timeskip in the manga. Before, he's a very angry Elite Mook who spends his whole time shouting conflicting orders. After, he's a much more thoughtful and outright heroic character who shows that he's a very badass fighter who's not to be messed with as time goes on, leading up to him attempting to take out Tetsuo head on.

Akira

Kyoko, Takashi and Masaru

  • Apologetic Attacker: Takashi uses his Psychic Powers to pretty much blow up a girl named Mozu, but it's clear that he saw it as the only alternative and apologizes before and after doing so.
  • Creepy Child
  • Ill Girl: Kyoko is bedridden and has a weaker health than the others. Masaru is confined to a wheelchair
  • Never Grew Up
  • Sacrificial Lion: Takashi, who gets shot in the head by no real reason at all. And right when he had found Akira and was happily going to him! This completely causes an horrified Akira to release his powers, taking almost all of Neo Tokyo with him.


Kaori

  • Break the Cutie
  • Butt Monkey: A tragic example in the movie. She is, constantly belittled by Tetsuo, beaten and nearly raped by The Clowns after her first appearance. Then killed accidentally when Tetsuo's mutation devours her and crushes her to death. To make matters even worse he can feel her physical and emotional pain from it even after her death.
  • Love Martyr
  • Morality Chain: In the manga, she's one of the few persons Tetsuo cares for. When she died, he went APESHIT.
  • Stockholm Syndrome: In the manga, Kaori comes to feel sympathy towards Tetsuo, despite the fact he forcibly recruited her and tried to turn her into a sex slave.
  • Yuriko Fuchizaki

Lady Miyako

Sakaki, Mozu and Miki


Chiyoko

Joker

Nezu

Tetsuo's handyman

Kaisuke aka Kai

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