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The characters who appear in the manga are below.
 
== Phantomhive Manor ==
 
=== Ciel Phantomhive ===
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"''I am indeed arrogant - however, I'm not so arrogant as to boast irresponsibly that I can save anyone.''"
 
A description of the character goes here.
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* [[Angst Coma]]: For a while.
* [[Aristocrats Are Evil]]: He even is one of the so-called [[The Beautiful People|Aristocrats of Evil]].
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* [[Deal with the Devil]]: With Sebastian.
* [[Determinator]]: One of his defining traits is his willpower and willingness to push through, whatever it takes.
* [[Dirty Business]]: How he sees his job working for [[Queen VickyVictoria|the Queen]].
* [[Dude in Distress]]: He is not that effective in combat despite actually being a good shot. He constantly has to be saved by Sebastian as their deal dictates, and sometimes by other people too.
* [[Dull Eyes of Unhappiness]]: The difference from how he was as a young child is easily visible from the eyes. As the manga progresses his eyes gradually get brighter though.
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* [[Wicked Cultured]]
* [[Wise Beyond Their Years]]
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=== Sebastian Michaelis ===
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"''Even though I dislike being kicked by others, I do enjoy the feeling of kicking others.''"
 
A description of the character goes here.
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* [[Antiquated Linguistics]]: More obvious in the original Japanese than the English versions.
* [[Showy Invincible Hero|Showy Invincible Villain Protagonist]]: At least at first. A little later on opponents who actually pose a threat enter the story, but the trivial show-off fights still happen.
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* [[Named After Somebody Famous]]: [[wikipedia:Sebastien Michaelis|Sebastien Michaelis]].
** {{spoiler|Turns out that Ciel was naming him after his dog.}}
* [[Offhand Backhand]]: Gave us a pretty epic one to a zombie while soaking wet on a sinking ship...[http://www.kuroshitsujimanga.com/img/Kuroshitsuji/56/24.jpg no, seriously.]{{Dead link}}
* [[The Perfectionist]]: One of his flaws is going for perfection even when it would be wiser to draw less attention.
* [[Playing with Fire]]: He has the power to control and enhance fire. He can turn a small candle flame into a massive conflagration.
* [[Psychic Radar]]: He can detect nearby souls if he concentrates.
* [[Purely Aesthetic Glasses]]: He always puts on glasses when he enters tutor mode.
* [[Raven Hair, Ivory Skin]]: He embodies the male version of this trope. Multiple characters have commented on his beauty.
* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]
* [[Red Right Hand]]: His fingernails are black even when he suppresses his other visible demon traits.
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* [[Villain Protagonist]]
* [[Vitriolic Best Buds]]: Type 2 is one way to interpret his relationship with Ciel.
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=== Mey-rin ===
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Ciel's maid at the Phantomhive Manor. She is very bad at being a maid and has a habit of breaking dishes, in part because of her extreme far-sightedness {{spoiler|that makes her an excellent sniper, which is her real job at the manor.}} She has a long-standing crush on Sebastian.
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* {{spoiler|[[Action Girl]]}}
* [[Blind Without'Em]]: She is farsighted, and she treasures her glasses as the first item she got from Ciel as his maid. {{spoiler|However, when [[The Glasses Come Off|she removes them...]]}}
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* [[Yaoi Fangirl]]: She has a crush on Sebastian, but doesn't mind him being all over Ciel and gets huge nosebleeds at the sight.
* [[Zettai Ryouiki]]: {{spoiler|In Sniper Mode.}}
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=== Baldroy "Baldo" ===
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Ciel's American chef at the Phantomhive Manor. He is an ex-soldier who is deeply, thoroughly terrible at cooking and has a habit of blowing up the kitchen. {{spoiler|His real job at the manor is protecting it from intruders.}}
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* [[Cordon Bleugh Chef]]: As his cooking skills have gradually improved, he has shown himself able to produce something with a slight, very slight resemblance to food. For the cricket game he made a very clumsy-looking pie with a fried egg, a curl of whipped cream with a cherry on top, an unprocessed fish, several sticks of what look like ''pocky'', and some unrecognizable items. (Soy sauce? Some sort of meat? ''A sea anemone?'')
* {{spoiler|[[Gatling Good]]: Keeps it in the kitchen, of course.}}
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* [[Spell My Name with an "S"]]: Baldo/Bard.
* [[Stuff Blowing Up]]: The kitchen. Repeatedly. {{spoiler|He has also blown up things on purpose, once involving finely-sifted flour and a match and at another time ''explosive easter eggs.'' He has also used grenades made from soup cans.}}
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=== Finnian "Finny" ===
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Ciel's gardener at the Phantomhive Manor. He is a kind, cheerful, and somewhat oblivious young man who is very bad at gardening. He has a tendency to accidentally break things, such as trees, with his extreme strength and has somehow destroyed the entire garden more than once. {{spoiler|He becomes cold and focused when it's about his real job, defending the manor.}}
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* {{spoiler|[[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]]}}
* [[Cute Bruiser]]
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* {{spoiler|[[Tranquil Fury]]: His normal cheerful demeanor vanishes when he enters murder mode.}}
* [[Unskilled but Strong]]
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=== Tanaka ===
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The elderly house steward at the Phantomhive Manor. He spends his days sitting and drinking tea.
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* {{spoiler|[[Badass Grandpa]]: With a touch of [[Dissonant Serenity]].}}
* {{spoiler|[[Battle Aura]]}}
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* [[Only One Name]]
* [[Super-Deformed]]: Whenever he is being comic relief or background decoration, which is most of the time.
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== Ciel's Relatives ==
 
=== Elizabeth "Lizzy" Midford ===
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Ciel's cousin and fianceé, with whom he has been engaged from childhood. She is obsessed with cute things and can get very overbearing. It turns out that she does her best to lift Ciel's spirits with the antics he experiences as annoying. {{spoiler|She is a genius fencer. Her mother forced her into it because the wife of the Queen's Watchdog should be able to protect her husband and herself.}}
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* [[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.
* [[Cat Smile]]
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* [[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.
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=== Angelina "Madam Red" Durless ===
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Ciel's aunt, with whom he is very close. She is a vibrant and vivacious woman who is the life of the party and at the same time a practising doctor in a time when women doctors were rare. {{spoiler|She was one half of Jack the Ripper. She was killed by Grell, her partner in crime.}}
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* {{spoiler|[[Anti-Villain]]: She does some monstrous things, but it's pretty hard not to have sympathy for her.}}
* [[Curtains Match the Window]]
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* [[Shrinking Violet]]: When she was younger.
* {{spoiler|[[Stepford Smiler]]}}
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=== Frances Midford ===
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The Marchioness of Midford: Ciel's paternal aunt and mother to Elizabeth and Edward. She is a formidable character of whom even Sebastian is afraid. She excels at manly pursuits such as hunting and fencing while at the same time holding to strong ideals about the importance of proper behavior. She is the unquestioned matriarch of the Midford family.
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* [[Hot Amazon]]: She attracted her husband by beating him in a duel.
* [[Hot Chick with a Sword]]: Though she would not tolerate anyone calling her that.
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* [[Royal Rapier]]
* [[Master Swordsman|Master Swordswoman]]: She is a brilliant fencer.
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=== Edward Midford ===
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A serious young man who is unusually attached to his sister, Elizabeth. Any small offense against her makes his violent and temperamental side come to the surface.
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* [[Badass]]
* [[Battle Aura]]: In the cricket game. Strangely enough, {{spoiler|learning to throw Cheslock's special cricket pitch somehow brings the battle aura along. And it's not like battle auras are standard in this universe...}}
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* [[Knight Templar Big Brother]]: Just look at how violently he reacted when he thought Ciel might have a slightest interest in marrying someone who wasn't Elizabeth.
* [[My Sister Is Off-Limits]]: He doesn't like the idea of Ciel marrying Elizabeth and makes that clear. Later on Edward seems to have become a little more accepting of the facts though and willing to admit that Ciel really might be a good husband for her. After all, it just isn't possible that Edward [[Incest Subtext|could have her for himself.]]
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=== Vincent Phantomhive ===
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Ciel's deceased father and predecessor as the Queen's Watchdog. The circumstances behind his murder are perhaps the most significant mystery in the story.
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* [[Beauty Mark]]: There is one near the corner of his left eye.
* [[Bishounen]]
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* [[Man of Wealth and Taste]]
* [[Word of God]]: His resemblance to Sebastian is intentional and for an in-story reason.
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== British Government ==
=== [[Queen Victoria]] ===
 
=== [[Queen Vicky|Queen Victoria]] ===
[[File:Kuroshitsuji_Queen_Victoria.png|frame]]
'"ALLLBEERTT!! I wish you were here today too!!!"''
 
The Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and Ciel's employer. She misses her deceased husband Prince Albert very much.
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* [[Affectionate Nickname]]: She enjoys calling Ciel "boy", much to his embarrassment.
* [[Cool Old Lady]]: At least at first. In her first appearance she even wears highly anachronistic [[Cool Shades]].
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* {{spoiler|[[Realpolitik]]: In the manga she turns out to be a lot more ruthless than her grandmotherly appearance would indicate.}}
* [[Widow Woman]]
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=== John Brown ===
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The servant closest to the Queen. His most distinguishing trait is how he always covers his eyes with anachronistic aviator mirror shades.
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* [[Cool Shades]]: He always wear anachronistic mirror shades.
* [[Co-Dragons]]: With the other servants of the queen.
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* [[White-Haired Pretty Boy]]: Though he would probably be prettier if his eyes were visible.
* [[Whip It Good]]: He carries a whip when he goes out.
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=== Double Charles ===
 
Charles Grey and Charles Phipps are Queen Victoria's butlers. Together the white-haired duo is known as Double Charles.
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* [[Absurdly Sharp Blade]]: Grey's sword can cut through metal as if it was butter, and there is every reason to think Phipps's sword is equally sharp.
* [[All Work vs. All Play]]: While Phipps is all about his work Grey is all about the play.
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* [[Man in White]]
* [[Named After Somebody Famous]]
* [[One Steve Limit]]: Averted by the pair.
* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: Grey is red and Phipps is blue.
* [[Super Window Jump]]
* [[White-Haired Pretty Boy]]
* [[Weapon of Choice]]: Sword.
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==== Charles Grey ====
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One of the Queen's butlers. He has a cheerful and outgoing nature. {{spoiler|He is a bully and a sadist who seems to have something personal against Ciel. Grey murdered Georg von Siemens on Queen Victoria's orders and showed no signs of regret or remorse.}}
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* [[Big Eater]]
* [[Licking the Blade]]: In the Manga there is a picture of this.
* [[Long-Haired Pretty Boy]]: Though his hair is only long in one part.
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==== Charles Phipps ====
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One of the Queen's butlers. He is a quiet and thoughtful person. His hobby is apparently painting.
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* [[Beauty Mark]]
* [[The Stoic]]
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=== Fred Abberline ===
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An officer at the [[Scotland Yard]]. Unlike his distinctly heroic anime self and [[Plucky Comic Relief|bumbling comic relief cop]] musical self, in the manga he turns out to be a character with morals that are rather more flexible than his superior [[By-The-Book Cop|Lord Randall]]'s. This makes Abberline willing to cooperate even with someone like Ciel to solve cases and protect the people.
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* [[Clueless Detective]]: He fails to connect the conspicious open window with the fluttering curtain to the question of how Sebastian and Ciel could have gotten to the third floor archive room without having been noticed.
* [[Friend on the Force]]: He has expressed a desire to be this for Ciel.
* [[My Name Is Not Durwood]]: It's Abberline, not Underline or Overline or something else. In the manga this happened once, taking all of one panel, but in the musicals people misremembering Abberline's name became a running joke. Then the running joke spilled back to the manga.
* [[Named After Somebody Famous]]: Or rather, ''is'' someone (marginally) famous.
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== Foreigners ==
 
=== Lau ===
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Ciel's underworld associate who keeps an opium den and runs the organized crime in London's East End. He wears traditional Chinese clothes made from expensive fabrics and is quite a shifty character.
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* [[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.
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* [[Opium Den]]: Lau's public occupation.
* [[Yellow Peril]]: He is basically a slacker version of [[Fu Manchu]].
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=== Ran-Mao ===
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Lau's bodyguard/enforcer/arm decoration/''sister(?!)'' who wears scandalously revealing clothes in the Chinese style and speaks as little as possible. In the anime she is said to be Lau's step sister.
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* [[Anime Chinese Girl]]
* [[Beware the Quiet Ones]]
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* [[The Stoic]]
* [[Zettai Ryouiki]]
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=== Soma Asman Kadar ===
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An Indian prince (27th from the throne!) who had never had to deal with the real world before coming to England. His behavior is extremely immature at first, but due to Ciel's example he decides to improve himself. He thinks he and Ciel are best friends, a sentiment not shared by Ciel who thinks Soma is annoying. Though, given Ciel's general lack of friends, maybe Soma really counts as Ciel's best friend.
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* [[Bishounen]]
* [[Break the Haughty]]: As the result of a vicious [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]] given by {{spoiler|Sebastian}} and {{spoiler|having been abandoned by Agni}}.
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* [[Terrible Artist]]: And entirely unaware of it. His sitar-playing isn't any better either.
* [[Trademark Favorite Food]]: He loves curry.
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=== Agni ===
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Soma's devoted khansama (butler). He turns out to be Sebastian's equal in many things despite being a human. He views his master as practically divine and is extremely indulgent toward him. Agni considers Sebastian a friend and generally sees the best in people.
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* [[Battle Butler]]
* [[Bishounen]]
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* [[Tears of Blood]]: When in a state of samadhi.
* [[Undying Loyalty]]: Towards Soma.
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=== Diedrich ===
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Ciel's agent in Germany and an officer in the German army. In his youth he lost a bet with Vincent Phantomhive where the loser had to adhere to one request from the winner. Vincent wanted from Diedrich a lifetime of service. He has been grumpy about that ever since.
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* [[Acrofatic]]
* [[Big Fancy House]]: A small castle, to be exact. He is also known to own a larger castle.
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* [[Trademark Favorite Food]]: Sandwiches, what else?
* [[Trying to Catch Me Fighting Dirty]]: His sense of honor does not extend to his fighting style.
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=== Sieglinde Sullivan ===
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{{spoiler|She ends up going to England with Ciel.}}
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* [[Adorably Precocious Child]]
* [[Break the Cutie]]: A sad case. {{spoiler|Everyone around her had been lying to her all her life. Her entire life had been a lie.}} She was heartbroken.
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* [[Suddenly Bilingual]]: So when ''did'' she learn English?
* [[Training from Hell]]: {{spoiler|When Sebastian has a week to teach her how to act like a lady.}}
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=== Wolfram Geltzer ===
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Sieglinde's butler. He is very protective of her.
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* [[Battle Butler]]: Far more "battle" than "butler", which isn't surprising considering that he {{spoiler|had been raised to be a soldier from childhood and had never known another kind of life.}}
* [[Bodyguard Crush]]
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* {{spoiler|[[Lima Syndrome]]: He was supposed to watch over Sieglinde and kill her if necessary.}}
* [[National Stereotypes]]: His cooking style takes German precision much too far. Sebastian is annoyed.
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== Reapers ==
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* [[Absurdly Sharp Blade]]: A death scythe can cut through anything! {{spoiler|[[Like Cannot Cut Like|Except another death scythe]].}}
* [[Anachronism Stew]]: For some reason technology and culture in the shinigami world is somewhere around 70 years more advanced than in the human world.
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* [[Specs of Awesome]]: All reapers wear glasses. {{spoiler|Only deserters don't.}}
* [[Villain Teleportation]]
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=== William T. Spears ===
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His death scythe is a pruning pole.
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* [[Adjusting Your Glasses]]: All the time, usually with the pointy end of his death scythe.
* [[The Comically Serious]]
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* [[Tall, Dark and Handsome]]
* [[Tall, Dark and Snarky]]
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=== Grell Sutcliffe ===
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His death scythe is a chainsaw.
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* [[All Girls Want Bad Boys]]: All the guys he seems to like. Ronald apparently isn't cruel enough. It's possible to be too much of a bad boy for Grell though, as seen in the case of {{spoiler|Undertaker in the manga.}}
* [[Ambiguous Gender]]: There's still discussion among fans on whether or not he's a transsexualtransgender or just flamboyant gay. The [[Word of God]] is that he's gay.
* [[Badass Long Hair]] / [[Badass Longcoat]]: {{spoiler|The long coat in question being the coat he took from Madam Red as she died.}}
* [[Camp Gay]]: Though it's heavily implied that he was romantically involved with Madam Red...
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* [[Rapunzel Hair]]
** {{spoiler|[[Slasher Smile]]}}
* [[TranssexualismTransgender]]: The fandom debate is heated and endless.
* [[Trans Equals Gay]]: The source of much confusion and disagreement.
* {{spoiler|[[Weapon of Choice]]: The chainsaw he uses as his Death Scythe... even though it gets taken away in the anime and replaced with scissors. As a result, he is mostly reduced to [[Plucky Comic Relief|comic relief]] since. He gets it back in season 2, though.}}
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=== Ronald Knox ===
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His death scythe is a lawn mower.
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* [[Chivalrous Pervert]]
* [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]]
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* [[Share Phrase]]: Attempted in the anime, when he tries to use a variant on Grell's [[Catch Phrase]]. It doesn't work too well.
* [[Shout Out]]: His use of the lawn mower is reminiscent of the movie ''[[Braindead]]''.
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== Noah's Ark Circus ==
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* [[Dark and Troubled Past]]: All the first tier circus members have this.
* [[Only One Name]]
* [[Parental Abandonment]]
* [[Stage Names]]: All the characters. Just not very imaginative names.
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=== Joker ===
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The ringmaster at Noah's Ark Circus. He has a prosthetic skeletal arm.
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* [[All Love Is Unrequited]]: Beast seems to feel differently about Joker than he does about her.
* {{spoiler|[[Anti-Villain]]}}
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* [[Son of a Whore]]: His mother was a prostitute.
* [[Undying Loyalty]]: {{spoiler|Less towards the Baron than the other children.}}
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=== Beast ===
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The beast tamer at Noah's Ark Circus who performs with a tiger named Betty. She wears a black leather corset, a miniskirt, and fishnet stockings and wields a whip. She has a prosthetic leg. She is more sensitive on the inside than she seems and is in one-sided love with Joker. According to the anime, her real name is Mally.
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* {{spoiler|[[Action Girl]]}}
* {{spoiler|[[Anti-Villain]]}}
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* [[Whip It Good]]: She carries a whip and is not afraid to use it.
* [[Zettai Ryouiki]]
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=== Dagger ===
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The knife thrower at Noah's Ark Circus. He has a prosthetic foot. He is in one-sided love with Beast.
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* [[Brother-Sister Incest]]: He has a crush on Beast. The first-tier circus members call each other brothers and sisters, but based on the characters' old looks from a flashback, before curler irons and hair dye, it is likely that Beast and Dagger really are biological siblings.
* [[Berserk Button]]: Touching his big sis seems to have this effect.
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* [[Only One Name]]
* {{spoiler|[[Taking the Bullet]]: In this case the entire bullet capacity of a heavy machine gun, though most of that ended up sprayed harmlessly on the walls.. It is a miracle he survived long enough to have brief last words.}}
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=== "Freckles"/{{spoiler|Doll}} ===
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A friendly and sociable circus member who gets to share a tent with Ciel. {{spoiler|She looks like a boy in her normal clothes, but with pretty clothes and makeup transforms into the elegant tightrope walker, Doll. She is one of the first-tier circus members and develops a crush on Ciel. The hair in front of her left eye hides an empty eye socket and a horrible burn scar.}}
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* {{spoiler|[[Anti-Villain]]}}
* [[Berserk Button]]: When {{spoiler|she finds out that Ciel and Sebastian were the ones who killed the circus crew, she}} immediately tries to attack them.
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* [[This Is Unforgivable!]]: {{spoiler|Her reaction when she found out that it was Ciel and Sebastian who had killed the rest of the circus crew}}.
* [[Youthful Freckles]]
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=== Snake ===
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The snake charmer at Noah's Ark Circus. He has yellow snake eyes and a skin covered with small, white scales. He has numerous pet snakes and can communicate with them. He later joins Ciel's staff at Phantomhive Manor.
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* [[Animal Theme Naming]]: His name is Snake... you know, because he looks like he's half snake.
* [[Animal Eyes]]: Yellow snake eyes with vertical pupils.
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* [[Verbal Tic]]: Every time he speaks, whether it's for one sentence or a longer exposition, he always adds on "...says (fill in name of one of his snakes)". It's unclear whether he really is just a mouthpiece for the snakes, or whether he's so self-effacing that he disguises his own opinions and observations in this way.
* [[Weaksauce Weakness]]: {{spoiler|A snake-charming flute.}}
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=== Doctor ===
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The doctor at Noah's Ark Circus. He, himself in a wheelchair, makes the wonderful [[Artificial Limbs]] that many of the first-tier performers use.
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* {{spoiler|[[Faux Affably Evil]]}}
* {{spoiler|[[Mad Doctor]]}}
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* {{spoiler|[[Throwing Off the Disability]]: When we get the [[Reveal]] about him.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Would Hurt a Child]]: And he does. Routinely.}}
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== Weston College ==
 
=== The P4 (Prefect Four) ===
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* [[Absurdly Powerful Student Council]]
* [[Color Coded for Your Convenience]]: The prefects' names and eye colors match their house colors. It is unknown if this has an in-world explanation.
* [[Colourful Theme Naming]]: Bluewer, Redmond, Violet, Greenhill.
* {{spoiler|[[Sympathetic Murder Backstory]]: They killed Derrick Arden together.}}
* [[True Companions]]: Despite their very different personalities, the P4 are all great friends. Their fags not so much.
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==== Lawrence Bluewer ====
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The Blue House prefect. He is bookish and serious and doesn't seem to have much imagination.
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* [[Geek Physiques]]: He is the skinny and physically weak type.
* [[Informed Ability]]: He does nothing that shows him to be particularly smart. When it should have been his chance to shine, he gets thoroughly outshone by Ciel's contributions instead.
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* [[Nerd]]: Or at least he's constantly reading a little book.
* [[Smart People Wear Glasses]]
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==== Edgar Redmond ====
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The Red House prefect. He is Viscount Druitt's nephew.
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* [[Ambiguously Gay]]: Also ambiguously [[Shotacon]], given how he likes Ciel and Joanne Harcourt so much.
* [[Bishounen]]
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* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]
* [[Something About a Rose]]: He always wears a rose on his lapel. The other members of the P4 also wear their house flowers.
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==== Gregory Violet ====
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The Purple House prefect and an anachronistic goth stereotype. He is talented in art and keeps other people at arm's length.
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* [[Anachronism Stew]]: His appearance doesn't remotely fit the [[Victorian Britain]] he is supposed to live in. This extends to his entire student house.
* [[Goth]]: The gloomy version.
* [[Guyliner]]: He wears a lot of black eyeliner.
* [[Multicolored Hair]]: Black with white strands.
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==== Herman Greenhill ====
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The Green House prefect. He is the local cricket hero who hits the ball every single time, no exceptions. In the school he carries a cricket bat everywhere, apparently as a fashion accessory.
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* [[Badass Boast]]: He claims to be able to hit any ball, and the evidence is consistent with that. Indeed, his ability to hit the cricket ball is so consistent that Ciel builds a stretegy to exploit that.
* [[Big Guy]]
* [[The Idealist]]: He always tends to see the best in people. He even stands alone to defend the team he is playing against, pointing out that {{spoiler|Ciel had needed to train very hard to pull off successfully those unsportsmanlike tactics.}}
* [[Important Haircut]]: {{spoiler|When he returns as a pop singer, he has cut his hair to a shorter, slightly tousled cut and found a less stiff side of himself. He also seems to have trimmed his eyebrows.}}
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=== MauriceThe ColeFags ===
==== Clayton ====
Bluewer's fag. He gives Ciel a negative first impression and a negative second impression. {{spoiler|Ciel ingratiates himself into becoming Clayton's fag to get closer to the P4.}}
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* [[Beautiful All Along]]: The other characters remark how attractive he looks without his glasses and with his hair combed differently. Clayton however prefers his normal style.
* [[Blind Without'Em]]: He wears glasses for a reason.
* [[Jerkass]]
* [[Smart People Wear Glasses]]: Supposedly. The reputation of the Blue House says so.
* [[The Glasses Gotta Go]]: Temporarily for {{spoiler|the boy band's performance}} anyway.
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==== Cheslock ====
[[File:Cheslock_Kuroshitsuji.png|frame]]
 
Violet's fag. He has the most anachronistic style in the entire school, somehow looking and behaving like a hot-headed punk rocker nearly a century before punk was invented. He is a talented musician, but since electric guitars haven't been invented yet, his preferred instrument is the violin.
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* [[Battle Aura]]: In a cricket game. The aura apparently comes from the special bowl he invented.
* [[Delinquent Hair]]: A dyed mohawk in a Victorian public school goes ''just a little'' far.
* [[Guyliner]]
* [[Multicolored Hair]]: Black and white.
* [[Screw the Rules, I Have Connections]]: There can be no other explanation for his physical appearance.
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==== Maurice Cole ====
[[File:Maurice_Cole_Kuroshitsuji.png|frame]]
''"Tomorrow, 2 p.m., right!?"''
 
Redmond's fag and the most beautiful boy in the school. A treacherous and nasty person who manipulates others for his own gain.
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* [[Ambiguously Gay]]: For Redmond.
* [[Bishie Sparkle]]
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* [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing]]
* [[Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon]]
* {{spoiler|[[Make Up-up Is Evil]]: Getting caught using it is enough to ruin your reputation.}}
* [[Manipulative Bastard]]
* [[School Idol]]: He is widely admired as the most beautiful boy in the school.
* [[Screw the Rules, I'm Beautiful]]
* [[Villain with Good Publicity]]
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==== OthersJoanne Harcourt ====
[[File:Harcourt_Kuroshitsuji.png|frame]]
 
A short, sensitive, and incredibly feminine boy who becomes {{spoiler|Redmond's replacement}} fag. He develops feelings for Sebastian.
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* [[Ambiguously Gay]]: For Sebastian.
* [[Gender Blender Name]]: Joanne was a name used by men in the Victorian times.
* [[Genius Book Club]]: He is shown to read Hegel.
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== Others ==
=== Undertaker ===
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An eccentric mortician who has a lot of information on matters related to recently dead people, which makes him useful to Ciel. In exchange for his help, Undertaker demands that he is made to laugh. He doesn't care about money. {{spoiler|He is a shinigami. In the anime he is kindly. In the manga, not so much. In the manga he has been researching reviving the dead and unleashes a zombie horde on unsuspecting civilians, which makes him Ciel's enemy.}}
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* [[Blinding Bangs]]
* [[Cheshire Cat Grin]]
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* [[Take Our Word for It]]: We never find out what Sebastian did to make Undertaker laugh.
* [[Undertaker]]
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=== Aleister Chambers (Viscount Druitt) ===
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A rich and exceedingly handsome nobleman with a flamboyant personality. He is very popular with women. Through his connections he is well networked in serious crime. He doesn't appear to have any morals at all.
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* [[Aristocrats Are Evil]]: This viscount definitely is.
* [[Big Bad Wannabe]]: His plan to {{spoiler|conquer the world with zombies}} ends up embarrassingly nipped in the bud.
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* [[A Glass of Chianti]]: He likes to carry around a glass of wine as an accessory. He never seems to drink from it.
* [[Evil Gloating]]: He really got to indulge himself right before {{spoiler|it turned out that the zombies wouldn't obey him after all.}}
* [[Gratuitous French]]: Occasionally.
* [[Karma Houdini]]: He has an uncanny ability to survive situations he by no means should have and then appear at a society event as if nothing had happened. [[Screw the Rules, I Have Money]] or [[Screw the Rules, I Have Connections]] may be involved.
* [[Kneel Before Zod]]: Though he (probably) had no idea who those people were, not even that boy who looked strangely familiar.
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* [[Shotacon]]: He really appreciates Ciel and Joanne Harcourt's looks.
* [[Take Over the World]]: He made an [[Evil Plan]] to conquer the world {{spoiler|with a zombie army}} and declare himself the kaiser.
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=== Baron Kelvin ===
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"''Special people can only be touched by other special people.''"
 
{{spoiler|The owner of Noah's Ark Circus.}} He is quite special in not having a single distinguishable redeeming trait. Seriously.
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* [[Abhorrent Admirer]]: {{spoiler|For Ciel.}}
** {{spoiler|[[Captive Date]]: The original plan.}}
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* [[Villainous Glutton]]
* [[Would Hurt a Child]]
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=== Nina Hopkins ===
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The tailor responsible for Ciel's extensive wardrobe. She is an open lesbian who has somehow avoided internalizing the Victorian views on morality.
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* [[Author Appeal]]: She provides an excuse to draw costumes more flamboyant than the staid true Victorian fashion.
* [[Battle Strip]]: She takes off her skirt to be more mobile at the Easter egg hunt. This ends up backfiring.
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* [[Thigh-High Boots]]: Under her skirt.
* [[Zettai Ryouiki]]: When she takes off her long skirt.
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=== Arthur ===
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He wrote a mystery novel, ''[[Sherlock Holmes|A Study in Scarlet]]'', that Ciel loved. Because of that, Arthur gained an invitation to Ciel's party held on one fateful night. He ended up having to play the role of an amateur detective.
 
He is [[Arthur Conan Doyle]]. The story all but spells it out, though surprisingly many people still manage to miss that.
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* [[Adorkable]]
* {{spoiler|[[Detective Patsy]]: Invited to the party by Ciel to play that role.}}
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* [[Wrong Genre Savvy]]: {{spoiler|His assumptions about what is possible are in line with normal, non-supernatural mystery novels.}}
* [[Young Future Famous People]]: Even though it is never actually said that he's [[Arthur Conan Doyle]], there is really no question about it. The anime version even mentions [[Sherlock Holmes (novel)|Sherlock Holmes]] by name for those who didn't get all the other references.
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=== Bravat Sky ===
[[File:Bravat_Sky_Kuroshitsuji.png|frame]]
 
The mysterious lavender-haired fortune teller at the popular Sphere Music Hall. His readings to determine someone's personality and protecting star draw the crowds even though there are only four possible results from him: Polaris, Vega, Canopus, and Sirius. He puts in a teacup a few drops of a person's blood and watches it change color according to the star.
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* [[Guyliner]]: Red, as shown in the profile picture.
 
* {{spoiler|[[Phony Psychic]]: His act is really meant to determine someone's ABO blood group.}}
* [[Spell My Name with an "S"]]: The choice between Bravat Sky vs. Blavat Sky depends on your tolerance for puns. Blavat Sky is an obvious reference to MadamMadame Blavatsky. On the other hand, Bravat can be interpreted as the French word bravât, with the full name being interpretable as "one who would have defied Heaven".
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