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== The Lagoon Company ==

=== Rock ===

A former Japanese [[Salaryman]], Rokuro "Rock" Okajima serves as the the Lagoon Company's negotiator and translator, and is the series' primary POV Character. Although the least physically dangerous member of the Company, Rock possesses the ability to negotiate with [[More Dakka|heavily-armed]], [[Ax Crazy|insane]], [[Blood Knight|hyper-violent]] individuals, and not only get out of such negotiations alive, but even convince them to see things his way.

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* [[All Girls Want Bad Boys|All Guys Want Bad Girls]]: A rare case where a kind, decent guy is after a [[Ax Crazy|violent]] and really dangerous female criminal, though Rock gets fed up with her attitude soon enough to make her think a bit.

** [[Single Woman Seeks Good Man|...or is it the other way round?]]

* [[Technical Pacifist]]: Rock absolutely refuses to use firearms, and the furthest he has gone to inflict bodily harm was to assault Chaka with a bowling pin. He's still very dangerous in his own right, as he comes up with plans that almost always succeed at the cost of racking up huge body counts. After all, he's the one who came up with the idea to attach several blocks of Semtex to a speargun, fire it at a container ship blocking their way, and then detonate the explosives to both disable the ship and throw off their pursuers as well.

* [[Token Good Teammate]]: Of the Lagoon Company.

* [[The Unfavorite]]: The reason he hasn't contacted his family to let them know he's alive. He claims his distant relationship with his parents was because they preferred his older, more successful brother.

* [[Villain Protagonist]]

* [[Worthy Opponent]]: Ginji is this to her.

* [[Would Hurt a Child]]: She usually has to be provoked into it, but Revy isn't above hurting or even killing kids. As Dutch says when he's ordering Rock to take over watching Garcia from a pissed-off Revy at the beginning of the first Roberta arc, "not a lot of maternal instinct there."

* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair|You Gotta Have Burgundy Hair]]: A rare shade, even in [[Anime]].

 

* [[Scary Shiny Glasses]]: Episode 3.

* [[Slasher Smile]]: He displays these from time to time.

* [[The Stoic]]: The only moment he gets pissed is when he comes back to discover his warehouse in flames during the Greenback Jane arc, and even then not so much.

** Even when Roberta grabs his arm and - effortlessly - starts to pull him out through the window of a moving car, he doesn't panic.

** As she still manages to look attractive regardless.

** The first time you see her arms in Chapter 64...Jesus.

* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: [[Mami Koyama]] aka [[Akira|Kei]] aka [[Saint Seiya|Ophicus Shaina]] aka [[Sailor Moon|Esmeraude]] aka [[Gundam|Princess Kycilia Zabi]] aka [[Gundam Seed Destiny|Captain Talia Gladys]] aka [[Doctor Slump|Arale Norimaki]] aka [[Dragonball Z|Lunch]].

* [[Hot Chick in a Badass Suit]]

* [[Tranquil Fury]]: Even when she's in the depths of teeth-gnashing, blood-boiling rage, Balalaika tends to speak like a patient mother scolding her children. She raises her voice in anger exactly twice. Both times are among the tensest points in the series.

* [[Ubermensch]]

* [[Villain Protagonist]]

* [[Warrior Poet]]

Balalaika's former platoon sergeant during the Soviet-Afghan war, Boris is utterly loyal and devoted to her and is almost always at his ''Kapitan'''s side.

 

** {{spoiler|Even more hilarious is that everyone, even Balalaika, told him he was an idiot for doing such a thing.}}

* [[The Dragon]]: We can safely assume he is this to Balalaika, despite not having seen him do much so far.

* [[Bottle Fairy]]

* [[Cluster F-Bomb]] (Second to Revy in that department.)

* [[Cool Big Sis]]: To Rico apparently.

* [[Cool Shades]] (She always wears them - the few times we see her without them, she's either in disguise or otherwise acting officially as a field officer, versus the normal 'undercover' role.)

* [[Eyepatch of Power]]

* [[Hand Cannon]]: A [[Bling Bling Bang|gold-plated and engraved]] Desert Eagle to be exact. And this 70-year-old lady can fire it with ''one hand''.

* [[Lady of War]]: Very cultured and very well versed in the Bible. Mixes this rather well with being able to blow your shit up with a [[Hand Cannon|gold plated Desert Eagle]].

* [[Never Mess with Granny]]: Especially not when she's firing a freakin' Desert Eagle one-handed.

* [[Creepy Children Singing]]: They sing a duet, the quotes are above. Gretel also sings shortly before {{spoiler|she dies}}, this time its not nearly as creepy.

* [[Creepy Twins]]: Squared, cubed, and then raised to the power of itself. Seriously it got them in the pantheon (family).

* [[Cry Cute]]: {{spoiler|Hansel breaks down into tears as he bleeds to death.}}

* [[Cute and Psycho]]: Cute and innocent-looking ? Check. [[Ax Crazy]] ? '''Check'''. [http://bloodcri.deviantart.com/art/The-Twins-Black-and-White-135806537?q=boost%3Apopular+Black+Lagoon+twins&qo=13 This fanart] probably puts it best.

* {{spoiler|[[Redemption Equals Death]]: Particularly Gretel.}}

* [[Shout-Out]]: Hansel and Gretel both resemble "the twins from [[The Shining]]," [[Lampshade Hanging|as pointed out by a traumatized survivor of their attack on a bar.]]

* [[Small Girl, Big Gun]]: Gretel

* {{spoiler|[[Snuff Film]]}}: What these two were forced to do. They survived by becoming ruthless killers.

* [[The Ingenue]]

* [[Ordinary High School Student]]

* [[Tender Tears]]