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Characters from ''[[{{TOPLEVELPAGE}}]]'' include:
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=== Rock ===
{{quote|Voiced by: [[Daisuke Namikawa]] (JP), [[Brad Swaile]] (EN)}}
[[File:
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.
* [[Action Survivor]]: He's survived being caught in the middle of multiple gunfights, being kidnapped several times, a collapsing building, boat chases, car chases, assaults from various ultra-violent maniacs... ...and Revy.
* [[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?]]
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* [[Corrupt the Cutie]]: {{spoiler|Rock seems to be headed in this direction}}
* [[The Cynic]]: What he has irrefutably become by the recent chapters. Whereas the old Rock would have been moved by Fabiola's lingering idealism towards a morally-gray-world where justice and decency ''can'' exist if you want it to, the double-whammy of failing to save Hansel/Gretel AND Yukio from Balalaika's clutches has knocked that hope ''clean'' out of him. The only response he had instead is now a cold, apathetic, Revy-like snarl.
* [[
{{quote|"Great! Now he's been kidnapped by a schoolgirl!"}}
* [[The Dulcinea Effect]]: Puts his ass on the line for Yukio, a girl he has only just met, and who {{spoiler|proceeds to try and kill him}}. He probably did it because she reminded him of himself, though.
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* [[Talking the Monster to Death]]: Does this several times, most notably with {{spoiler|Balalaika}} at the end of the final arc.
** Though she made it clear that she was still calling the shots.
* [[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.
* [[Took a Level
* [[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]]
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=== Revy ===
{{quote|Voiced by: [[Megumi Toyoguchi]] (JP), [[Maryke Hendrikse]] (EN)}}
[[File:
A nihilistic Chinese-American gunwoman and the Lagoon Company's primary muscle. Known as "Two Hand," after her preferred [[Guns Akimbo|style of shooting.]] Her first name is apparently "Rebecca", but nothing more is known of her past apart from the implication that it wasn't a happy one.
* [[Abuse Is Okay When It Is Female On Male]]: Subverted. She does hit and abuse Rock, even almost shoots him at one point, but it is never portrayed as normal or acceptable. Moreover, Rock eventually stands up for himself and succeeds in convincing her that there are other ways to solve her issues than her guns. She feels ashamed after this confrontation and mostly stops abusing him after that.
* [[All Amazons Want Hercules]]: Averted; this particular Amazon prefers [[Guile Hero|Odysseus]].
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* [[Playing Against Type]]: [[Megumi Toyoguchi]] aka [[Fullmetal Alchemist|Winry Rockbell]] Wha...?
** Even better, the English dub is voiced by [[The Powerpuff Girls|Bubbles]] (no, not [[Tara Strong]], [[Powerpuff Girls Z|the other one]], [[Maryke Hendrikse]]).
*** AKA ''[[Johnny Test|Susan Test]]''.
*** and [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|Gilda]]. Good Lord. Revy is an R-rated Gilda!
* [[Pre-Mortem One-Liner]]: "Say hi to the Fuhrer for me."
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=== Benny ===
{{quote|Voiced by: [[Hiroaki Hirata]] (JP), [[Brian Drummond]] (EN)}}
[[File:
An American computer hacker who acts as the Lagoon Company's communications officer and radio operator.
* [[Affably Evil]]: Though definitely less evil than most in the series.
* [[Anti-Villain]]
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* [[Perma-Stubble]]
* [[Playful Hacker]]: And his mad skills even score him a girl.
* [[Straight Man]]: Gives Rock occasional [[Hannibal Lecture
* [[Villain Protagonist]]
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=== Dutch ===
{{quote|Voiced by: Tsutomu Isobe (JP), Dean Redman (EN)}}
[[File:
A laconic African-American swiftboat veteran; the leader of the Lagoon Company and the captain of the ''[[Black Lagoon]]''.
* [[Affably Evil]]: He's the leader of a group of pirates who'll get the job done no matter what it'll take. He's also one of the most sane people of the cast. See [[Benevolent Boss]] and [[Cool Old Guy]].
* [[Anti-Hero]]: Type V
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* [[Gangsta Style]]: He does this with a shotgun in episode 6, though only for his first shot.
* [[Genius Bruiser]]
* [[Mysterious Past]]: Major Caxton says that {{spoiler|Dutch's story about being a Vietnam vet is a lie}} because {{spoiler|he}} claimed to be part of an offensive while in a unit that didn't take part in it, and {{spoiler|he}} didn't understand {{spoiler|basic military lingo that a 'Nam vet would have known. His}} actual past (or if Caxton was even right) is still unknown.
* [[Pragmatic Villainy]]: Does not like his employees (read:Revy) running off [[Ax Crazy]] and shooting [[Innocent Bystanders]] instead of sticking to the plan.
* [[Punch Clock Villain]]: Sure, he deals in slaves and drugs and illegal firearms that are used for gods know what, but it's just business.
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* [[Scary Black Man]]: [[Subverted Trope|Not so much]]. [[Oh Crap|Unless you're a Nazi.]]
* [[Scary Shiny Glasses]]: Episode 3.
* [[Slasher Smile]]: He displays these from time to time.
* [[Sunglasses
* [[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.
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=== Balalaika ===
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A former Soviet VDV special forces commander turned mafia queen; member (along with Mr. Chang and two others) of the four-person commission that regulates crime in Roanapur. Her real name is Sofiya Irininskaya Pavlovena.
* [[Affably Evil]]
* [[All Women Are Lustful]]: Averted hard.
* [[A Father to His Men|A Mother To Her Men]]
* [[Asexuality]]: Even though she can get flirtatious with guys like Rock or, more seriously, Mr. Chang, she finds sex boring and uninteresting, and has no real sex life to speak of. There's also her completely bored-to-death look when she edits porn videos.<ref>although anyone who edits for a living can tell ya that after the first 30 minutes even porn gets boring when you're editing them</ref>
* [[Authority Equals Asskicking]]
* [[Badass]]
** [[Badass Army]]: The Vysotniki, who were all former Soviet commandos with the Spetsnaz and the VDV and they all had combat experience in Afghanistan against the Mujaheddin.
** [[Badass Longcoat|Badass Greatcoat]]: Her officer outfit from her army days.
** [[Pop-Cultured Badass]]: Quotes an 80's song while delivering one of her most brutal [["The Reason You Suck" Speech|The Reason You Suck Speeches]].
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* [[Evil Laugh]] / [[Laughing Mad]]: Her reaction to Rock trying to talk her down near the end of the Yakuza arc. If she ever seemed sane and reasonable before, here you find out the opposite...
* [[Eviler Than Thou]]: Her confrontation with Hansel.
** And later the [[Yakuza]], especially Yukio.
** In the light novel, she out-eviled ''Mr. Chang'' of all people, laughing in his face when he offered to take out her rebellious subordinate so she wouldn't have to kill one of her own.
* [[Femme Fatalons]]
* [[Former Regime Personnel]]
* [[Good
* [[Good Scars, Evil Scars]]: Balalaika has a large part of one side of her face scarred, a result of the war. She's sometimes called "Fry Face" because of it.
** As she still manages to look attractive regardless.
** The first time you see her arms in Chapter 64...Jesus.
** And the [https://web.archive.org/web/20100722121954/http://www.animepaper.net/gallery/scans/Black-Lagoon/item229980
* [[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]]
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** Particularly, the [http://www.absoluteanime.com/black_lagoon/balalaika%5B2%5D.jpg smile] she gives to Rock at the end of the Yakuza arc, which is one of the few times she gives an actual, honest smile instead of [[Technically a Smile]].
** The revelation of why she was discharged, {{spoiler|mainly, due to an international incident when she was photographed by media somewhere her unit shouldn't have officially been}}, is a pet the dog moment for her since the reason she got photographed was because {{spoiler|she went out of her way to save a child}}.
* [[Power Hair]]: Subverted. She is powerful, [[Badass]], feared and a decent strategist but she has the long, flowing, slightly wavy tresses usually worn by weak and fragile [[
* [[Pre-Ass-Kicking One-Liner|Pre Ass Kicking One Liners]]: Nice commie ones like "Comrades, raise your fists!" or "Cock your hammers!"
* [[Psychotic Smirk]]
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* [[Technically a Smile]]: (Provides the page picture). If Balalaika ever smiles at you, it's recommended that you make sure your last will and testament is up to date.
* [[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]]
* [[Used to Be a Sweet Kid]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20131029110145/http://manga.animea.net/black-lagoon-chapter-55-page-23.html This] is Balalaika at age 9.
* [[Villain Protagonist]]
* [[Warrior Poet]]
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=== Boris ===
{{quote|Voiced by: [[Taiten Kusunoki]] (JP), Mark Acheson (EN)}}
[[File:
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|Bishounen: According [http://manga.animea.net/black-lagoon-chapter-55-page-24.html to one of the omakes], he used to be an incredibly scrawny, girlish-looking boy (the [[Shout-Out]] to [[Rose of Versailles]] was very obvious), so to fix this, he joined the Army and [[Took a Level
** {{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.
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: Admits to Balalaika that {{spoiler|taking out Hansel's leg and hand with a sniper rifle and letting him slowly bleed to death}} gave him the chills. Though he may have been talking about how he was letting one of the only people to kill a member of the Vysotniki in-series within twenty feet of her.
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=== Mr. Chang ===
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{{quote|Voiced by: [[Toshiyuki Morikawa]] (JP), [[Trevor Devall]] (EN)}}
[[File:
A former police officer with the Royal Hong Kong Police turned Triad leader; currently engaged in an friendly competition with Balalaika over control of the Roanapur underworld.
* [[Affably Evil]]: Starts out as this, but [[Character Development|reveals himself as]] [[Faux Affably Evil]] later on.
* [[Authority Equals Asskicking]]
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=== Shenhua ===
{{quote|Voiced by: [[Yuko Sasaki]] (JP), [[Saffron Henderson]] (EN)}}
[[File:
A Taiwanese assassin in the employ of Mr. Chang. She prefers to use various edged weapons in close combat, in particular a pair of kukri knives linked together with a length of leather rope at the handles, thus using them as modified rope darts. She is also skilled in the use of throwing knives.
* [[Affably Evil]]: Quite cheery most of the time, whether she's skewering hapless [[Mooks]], or delivering an unfortunate man in a suitcase to be chopped up by a goth with a chainsaw. She and Revy even have a (relatively) friendly conversation whilst trying to kill each other.
* [[Anime Chinese Girl]]
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=== Eda ===
{{quote|Voiced by: Jun Karasawa (JP), [[Lisa Ann Beley]] (EN)}}
[[File:
An easy-going, sunglasses-wearing nun with the so-called [[Corrupt Church|Church Of Violence]]. Revy's confidante and only friend. {{spoiler|Also an undercover agent for the CIA.}}
* [[Badass]]
* [[Berserk Button]]: Anyone who puts a bullet in the church had better damn well be prepared to go to war. She doesn't appreciate apprentice priest Rico calling her "sis," either.
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* [[Bottle Fairy]]
* [[Cluster F-Bomb]] (Second to Revy in that department.)
* [[The Cheerleader]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20130519093309/http://manga.animea.net/black-lagoon-chapter-55-page-22.html When de-aged in the omakes.]
* [[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.)
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=== Ricardo aka Rico. ===
{{quote|Voiced by: [[Tetsuya Kakihara]] (JP), Simon Hill (EN)}}
[[File:180px-
Eda's assistant and a newcomer in the Church Of Violence, who makes his debut in the "Greenback Jane" arc.
* [[More Dakka]]: His weapons of choice is an M60 Machine Gun.
* [[Naive Newcomer]]: In the Greenback Jane arc.
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=== Sister Yolanda ===
{{quote|Voiced by: Akiko Takeguchi (JP), Shirley Millner (EN)}}
[[File:
Leader of the Church of Violence. {{spoiler|Very likely has a background in intelligence herself, as she is fully aware of Eda's status, and acts as an informant/confidante to her.}}
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* [[Affably Evil]]: Seems like just a benevolent, soft spoken elderly lady, aside from the eyepatch. And, you know, the weapons dealing and the drug smuggling.
* [[Church Militant]]/[[Corrupt Church]]
* [[Cool Old Lady]]: Wouldn't it be awesome if ''your'' grandma was more like this?
* [[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''.
* [[I Was Quite a Looker]]: '''God''' '''''[https://web.archive.org/web/20130519093309/http://manga.animea.net/black-lagoon-chapter-55-page-22.html DAMN.]'''''
* [[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.
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=== Roberta ===
{{quote|Voiced by: [[Michie Tomizawa]] (JP), [[Tabitha St. Germain]] (EN)}}
[[File:
A maid who worked for four years at the Lovelace household in Venezuela. Although her domestic skills such as cleaning and cooking were somewhat lacking, she developed a close friendship with the young son of the Lovelace family, Garcia. {{spoiler|Roberta was once known as Rosarita Cisneros, a former FARC guerrilla trained as an assassin in Cuba and an internationally wanted criminal. She was taken in by the Lovelaces to clear a debt of honor between Roberta's father and the head of the family, who then became her master.}}
* [[Anti-Hero]]: Type IV --> Type V (El Baile De La Muerte)
* [[Hero Antagonist|Anti-Hero Antagonist]]: In her first appearance,she was trying to retrieve Garcia from his kidnappers, (which were the protagonists)...and is utterly unstoppable in her pursuit
* [[The Atoner]]: ''Tried'' to be a good person by being a loyal servant and a mother/sister of sorts to Garcia... sadly, all that went out the window with the murder of her master/Garcia's dad.
* [[Ax Crazy]]: During "El Baile De La Muerte", Roberta not only falls into this state, but takes it [[Up to Eleven]].
* [[Badass]]: The merest mention that "The Maid" is back in town is enough to set everyone on edge, because the only thing it could mean is trouble.
** [[Badass Bandolier]]
** [[Badass Creed]]: "In the name of Santa Maria, [[Pay Evil Unto Evil|a hammer blow of righteousness to all injustice.]]"
** [[Badass Adorable]]: With '''VERY''' heavy on the badass part but still, when you see that [[Even Evil Has Loved Ones|kind-hearted side of her]], you really can't help but want to [[I'm Taking Her Home with Me|take her home with you.]]
* [[Braids of Action]]
* [[Briefcase Blaster]]: Used one in her initial appearance.
* [[Byronic Hero]]
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* [[Lightning Bruiser]]: She's got impressive foot speed and [[Charles Atlas Superpower|is WAY stronger than she looks.]]
* [[Mama Bear]]: You look at Garcia wrong, you're deader than dead.
* [[Meganekko]]
* [[Mexican Standoff]]: With Revy.
* [[Morality Pet]]: Garcia Lovelace.
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* [[She Cleans Up Nicely]]: Lampshaded when Roberta changes from her maid's outfit to a [[Hot Amazon]] look.
* [[Shower of Angst]]: We see her sulking in the shower {{spoiler|right after her master's demise.}}
* [[Slasher Smile]]: In ''El Baile De La Muerte''. [[Up to Eleven|And
* [[Spell My Name with an "S"]]: Her last name, Cisneros, has been localized as "Tisneros".
* [[The Unfettered]]
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=== Garcia Fernando Lovelace ===
{{quote|Voiced by: [[Kazue Ikura]] (JP), [[Cathy Weseluck]] (EN)}}
[[File:Garcia-lovelace-black-
The young son of Roberta's master Diego, heir to the Lovelace family. When he's kidnapped and later the Lagoon company gets the work of "transporting" him, Roberta goes against our "heroes" to get her [[Morality Pet]] back. And that's just the beginning...
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* {{spoiler|[[A Child Shall Lead Them]]}}
* [[Cross-Dressing Voices]]: In both Japanese and English.
* [[
* [[Disappeared Dad]] {{spoiler|More like blown to smithereens, but still...}}
* [[Harmful to Minors]] ''Hoo'' boy...
* {{spoiler|[["I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight]]}}
* {{spoiler|[[Likes Older Women]]: He loves Roberta like family. We find out at the end of Chapter 76, he doesn't love her as a mother, or even as a sister. [[Precocious Crush|More like a wife]]. [http://i365.photobucket.com/albums/oo91/StayuplateInsomiac/Black%20Lagoon/1256542123920.jpg Kiss included!]}}
* {{spoiler|[[
* {{spoiler|[[Mexican Standoff]]}}
* [[Morality Pet]]: To Roberta
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=== Diego Jose San Fernando Lovelace ===
[[File:
Garcia's father, Roberta's boss and leader of the Lovelace family. {{spoiler|Whose tragic death kicks off the ''El Baile de la Muerte'' arc.}}
* [[Disappeared Dad]]
* [[Impoverished Patrician]]: To a degree. While he still has quite a bit of money due to plantations, it's still not compared to what the Lovelaces used to have in the past, due to their political beliefs and the harrassment of the Colombian cartel.
* [[Morality Chain]]: Roberta owes him her new chance at life, and thus {{spoiler|she goes batshit when he kicks it.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Sacrificial Lion]]}}
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=== Fabiola Iglesias ===
{{quote|Voiced by: [[Satsuki Yukino]] (JP)}}
[[File:
Another maid in the Lovelace household, and the only one who's trained in hand-to-hand combat and weaponry like her. After Roberta leaves in her [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]], she becomes Garcia's caretaker.
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* [[Badass Adorable]]: Basically Roberta Lite.
* [[Bare Your Midriff]]: Late in ''El Baile de la Muerte'', she ditches her maid outfit for bike shorts, a sports bra, and an unzipped hoodie. Averted in the Roberta's Blood Trail OVA when the hoodie remained zipped.
* [[Celibate Hero
{{quote|"There is no need for you to be concerned about my breasts. Even if they grew as big as melons I have no intention of anybody fondling them."}}
* [[Complaining About Rescues They Don't Like]] {{spoiler|''Shoots'' Rock with a blank and cracks his rib at the end of "El Baile De La Muerte", despite his doing everything possible to help her and Garcia, even if he did have to manipulate them and gamble with their lives.}}
* [[Curtains Match the Window]]
* [[Dance Battler]]: Well versed in Capoeira.
* [[Dramatic Gun Cock]]: When she pulls out a China Lake grenade launcher (that she hid on her back, underneath her outfit) to take out an SUV.
* [[Groin Attack]]: With a ''knife'' concealed in her shoe. Ouch!
* [[Green Eyes]]
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=== Ginji Matsuzaki ===
{{quote|Voiced by: [[Kiyoyuki Yanada]] (JP), [[Michael Adamtwaite]] (EN)}}
[[File:Ginji-
Legendary enforcer for the Washimine clan and protector of Yukio Washimine, his skill with a sword is equal to Revy's gunfighting ability.
* [[Badass]]
** [[Back-to-Back Badasses]]: With Revy at the bowling alley.
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* [[Cool Shades]]
* [[Dodge the Bullet]]: When he's not [[Implausible Fencing Powers|cutting bullets in half in midair]] Ginji dodges them with ease, despite his size, at ''point blank'' range.
* [[Mr. Fanservice]]: He's a muscled giant with sunglasses and a katana who spends some time shirtless.
* [[Huge Guy, Tiny Girl]]: Ginji with not just Yukio, but ''any'' female character.
* [[I Just Want My Beloved to Be Happy]]: The only reasons he goes back to the Yakuza is because he loves Yukio.
* [[Katanas Are Just Better]]: Ginji uses a shirasaya blade. Semi-justified in that he's part of the [[Yakuza]].
* [[Lightning Bruiser]]: Huge but fast.
* [[Neighbourhood Friendly Gangsters]]: He's first seen working in a festival booth. He also says that being poor is better than "selling women and drugs."
* [[Never Bring a Knife to
* [[Red Baron]]: [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Manslayer Ginji.]]
* [[Retired Badass]]: Was contentedly working as a vendor until he was called out of retirement.
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=== Yukio Washimine ===
{{quote|Voiced by: [[Houko Kuwashima]] (JP), [[Lalainia Lindbjerg]] (EN)}}
[[File:180px-
A high school girl and [[Yakuza Princess|heir to the Washimine Clan]], who takes over leadership of the group when it's at war with Balalaika and the old one, Tsugio Bandou, loses his life.
* [[Anti-Villain]]: One of the few honorable and ethical people in the series. Just happens to be antagonistic to the viewpoint characters. And chooses to become a [[Yakuza]] boss when Balalaika kills the previous one, since she's next in line.
* [[Big Bad Wannabe]]: The underworld has a '''really steep''' learning curve and Balalaika had a few decades of experience on her.
* [[Batman Gambit]]: Just one against Hotel Moscow.
* {{spoiler|[[Better to Die Than Be Killed]]}}: {{spoiler|She chose to die by her own hand rather than being at the mercy of rival clans or Hotel Moscow, to preserve her honor, or [[Together in Death|to be with Ginji]].}}
* [[Break the Cutie]]
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* [[Brown Eyes]]
* [[Complaining About Rescues They Don't Like]]: Rock rescues Yukio from capture, humiliation and imminent rape, then begs her to leave the underworld. She thanks him politely and then unleashs a brutal [[Hannibal Lecture]] deconstructing his own motives.
* [[Doomed Moral Victor]]: Pretty much. She lives her life without compromising her principles, {{spoiler|which is why she turns to evil despite Rock's advice}}.
* [[Good Counterpart]]: To Rock, he thinks.
* {{spoiler|[[Go Out with a Smile]] (in the manga, [http://manga.animea.net/black-lagoon-chapter-37-page-20.html she's smiling sadly at Rock and Revy] as she pierces her throat with Ginjis' katana and neck and falls on his lifeless body.}}
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* [[Samurai]]: She {{spoiler|commits suicide}} in the traditional manner of [[Yamato Nadeshiko|a Japanese noblewoman.]]
* [[See You in Hell]]: The message that she asks Rock to relay to Balalaika {{spoiler|before commiting suicide}} in the manga.
* [[Too Clever by Half]]: Her relentless philosophizing is just a front for her uncertainty and desire to be with Ginji, but it lets her delude herself for long enough for her whole life to wind up in ruin.
* [[Warrior Poet]]
* [[The Woman Wearing the Queenly Mask]]
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=== Chaka ===
{{quote|Voiced by: [[Wataru Takagi]] (JP), Jonathan Holmes (EN)}}
[[File:180px-
One of the Washimine family's [[Mooks|enforcers]] who attempted to take control of the family.
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* [[All Girls Want Bad Boys|All Guys Want Bad Girls]]: Revy being dangerous and violent is a ''huge'' turn-on for him.
* [[Affably Evil]]: Subverted. When he first appears, he seems like a dimwitted yet likeable mook who harbors an almost childlike enthusiasm for guns and shootouts. However, this facade quickly dissipates after he "snaps" and reveals himself for the murderous psychopath he truly is.
* [[Bad Boss]]: Shoots his own for no good reason. That was the thing that made [[Even Evil Has Standards|Revy]] pissed with him. That, [[Berserk Button|and]] [[Kick the Dog|beating up Rock.]]
* [[Blond Guys Are Evil]]
* [[Blood Knight]]: He wanted to duel against Revy, cowboy style. Instead, he got to duel Ginji and that didn't end up well for him.
* [[Bodyguard Betrayal]]
* [[Cruel and Unusual Death]]: What Ginji does to him is ...unpleasant, but he ''seriously'' had it coming.
* [[Dirty Coward]]
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* [[Expy]]: Of Kakihara from ''[[Ichi the Killer]]'', apparently.
* [[The Gunslinger]]: Fancies himself one. Revy outright states that he's nothing more than a barely-competent poser with ''serious'' delusions of grandeur. [[Too Dumb to Live|He doesn't take her advice]].
* [[Humiliation Conga]]: After seeing his entourage of thugs get wiped out, he makes a run for it while taking Yukio as a hostage. Rock makes him slip with spilled cleaning fluid, bashes him in the head with a bowling pin, and liberates his hostage. Then Revy drop-kicks him in the face and grinds his balls under her heel whilst delivering a [["The Reason You Suck" Speech|Reason You Suck Speech.]] ''Then'' he goes one-on-one using a revolver against Yukio's protector, who can cut bullets in mid-air with a sword. Predictably, he loses badly, gets cut up, and is finally finished off by drowning. From what we've [[Complete Monster|seen of him]], he [[Karmic Death|deserved]] every single thing that came to him.
* [[Kick the Dog]]: All the Goddamn time. Beats up poor Rock savagely for cutting in on his "conversation" with Revy, hoping to provoke her into a quickdraw duel. Kidnaps Yukio, lets his buddies beat her up and strip her nearly naked, and plans to sell her into sexual slavery to "a real sicko" (and he gleefully describes in [[Nausea Fuel|detail]] some of the horrible things she's going to be forced into). Criticises his guys for being "pussies" during the fight in the bowling alley, whilst making his way to the exit using Yukio as a human shield, and later shoots the last surviving gang members just because he's annoyed. He's one hell of a guy.
* [[Psychopathic Manchild]]: Uhhh... yeah!
* [[Psycho for Hire]]: Oh yeah. An idiot, but psycho nonetheless.
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=== Tsugio Bandou ===
{{quote|Voiced by: [[Tomomichi Nishimura]] (JP), John Novak (EN)}}
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Yukio's immediate predecessor as the leader of the Washimine clan, and a friend of her late father Ryuzou. By the time he took charge, the clan was already in danger of being absorbed by a larger and more powerful rival. He resorts to contacting the Russian mafia for help, leading to the events of the story arc.
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* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: For him, the final straw came when Balalaika proposed kidnapping the rival clan leader's family members.
* [[Failure Is the Only Option]]: In the end, he is left with two equally undesirable choices: either continue cooperating with Hotel Moscow and have every other yakuza clan in Japan turn against the Washimine clan, or cut ties with their erstwhile ally and incur the wrath of the mafia.
* [[I Did What I Had to Do]]: Resorts to increasingly drastic measures in order to keep the clan going, including human trafficking.
* [[Neck Snap]]: How Balalaika responds to him breaking their deal.
* [[Number Two]]: What he was to Ryuzou, before the latter died.
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=== Yoshida ===
{{quote|Voiced by: [[Kenta Miyake]] (JP), [[Trevor Devall]] (EN)}}
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Tsugio's bodyguard, and later one of Yukio's supporters in the Yakuza.
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=== Abrego ===
{{quote|Voiced by: [[Hisao Egawa]] (JP), Eli Gabay (EN)}}
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The leader of Roanapur's branch of the Colombian Manisarela Cartel.
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** "I forgot! We have to go to Liverpool! [[Jimi Hendrix]] is calling for me! To defeat the [[Star Trek|Klingons-ASAP!]] Oh ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation|Captain Picard]]'' here I come!!"
** "Where're you ladies takin' me? Could it be? Could it? The legendary nude beach?!"
** (When the car gets shot up) "Barbarella is holding an anti-war sign in the nude!"
** "Playmates! There are exactly one hundred Playmates! Starting from the nineties! It's the attack of the Playmate Army!" *with accompanying hallucination, no less*
** "What? My application for the Black Panthers was denied ''again''?!?"
* [[Perma-Stubble]]
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=== Hansel and Gretel ===
{{quote|Voiced by: [[Omi Minami]] (JP, Hansel), [[Tomoko Kaneda]] (JP, Gretel), Ashleigh Ball (EN, Hansel), Jocelyne Loewen (EN, Gretel)}}
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{{quote|''"[[Creepy Children Singing|My mother has killed me... my father is eating me... my brothers and sisters sit under the table, picking up my bones! They will bury them under the cold marble stones...]]"''}}
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* [[BFG]]: Gretel, an 11-year-old child, fires a Browning Automatic Rifle from the hip. Not entirely unrealistic, since Bonnie (of [[Bonnie and Clyde]] fame) carried a cut-down one much of the time and she was 90 pounds soaking wet, but still eyebrow raising.
* [[Being Tortured Makes You Evil]] and [[Conditioned to Accept Horror]]
* [[Blood Knight
* {{spoiler|[[Break the Cutie]]: Where to start...?}}
** {{spoiler|[[Corrupt the Cutie]]: Things got worse...}}
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* [[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.
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** There's also an omake scene involving Garcia, but that's [[Crowning Moment of Funny|more]] [[Crosses the Line Twice|hilarious]] than fan-servicy or [[Buffy-Speak|fan-diservicy]].
* [[Freudian Excuse]]: Nothing can excuse their actions, but they have a pretty valid reason as to why they're as damaged as they are. ''Anyone'' would be fucked up in the head having survived what they were put through.
* [[Giggling Villain
* [[Girl with Psycho Weapon]]: Hansel and/or Gretel, when {{spoiler|the current}} Hansel wields the [[Ax Crazy|axe]] {{spoiler|(Since they switch personas, if one of them is a girl, it'd be this - at the very least, it'd be cute kid [[Girl with Psycho Weapon|With Psycho Weapon]]).}}
* [[Grotesque Cute]]
* [[Hair Decorations]]: Gretel wears a black hair ribbon.
* [[Harmful to Minors]]: Does not even ''begin'' to describe their past.
* [[Hime Cut]]: Gretel.
* [[Hypocritical Humor]]: Hansel asks for help dragging a Russian mobster to their car.
{{quote|'''Gretel:''' But that's a boy's job. It's not very ladylike to carry heavy things. ''(opens fire with her BAR rifle)''}}
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* [[Muscles Are Meaningless]]: Both twins use weapons that are somewhat big for them. At one point Hansel even drags a grown man around, even though he complains that the man is heavy.
* {{spoiler|[[My Sibling Will Live Through Me]]: Damn it, Gretel... er, Hansel... you know what, forget it!}}
* [[Nightmare Fetishist
* [[No Sense of Personal Space]]: Gretel ''really'' got in Eda's face when she and Hansel ran into Revy and her. She also groped Eda after catching her alone a bit later, and [[Les Yay|seemed to enjoy it quite a bit]] if her change of tone was any indication.
* [[Obliviously Evil]]: They have no problem killing and torturing people because that's how they believe the world works.
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* {{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.]]
* [[Slasher Smile]]: [http://animedesho.animeblogger.net/wp-content/uploads/2006/10/bl2epi1%20%282%29.jpg See for yourself]{{Dead link}}
* [[Small Girl, Big Gun]]: Gretel
* {{spoiler|[[Snuff Film]]}}: What these two were forced to do. They survived by becoming ruthless killers.
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=== Janet "Greenback Jane" Bhai ===
{{quote|Voiced by: [[Miki Nagasawa]] (JP), [[Kelly Sheridan]] (EN)}}
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An Indian counterfeiter whose goal is to create perfect counterfeit money. After members of the Floridian cartel that hired her lose patience with her due to continued [[Schedule Slip|schedule slips]] and shoot one of her co-workers to death before giving her a 48-hours deadline to finish her job, she flees from the members of the cartel and eventually seeks sanctuary with the Church of Violence, unleasing a ''mad'' pursuit.
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=== Rotton the Wizard ===
{{quote|Voiced by: [[Tomokazu Sugita]] (JP), [[Samuel Vincent]] (EN)}}
[[File:
A handsome, long-coated adventurer introduced during the Greenback Jane arc, he is one of the few survivors of the band of mercenaries hunting for Jane. He now lives with the other two, Shenhua and Sawyer the Cleaner.
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* [[Bishonen]]: Pretty much the only adult one in the series.
* [[Cool Shades]]
* [[Crazy Prepared]]: He might not be all that bright, but he has a [[Bulletproof Vest]] unlike the rest of the [[Carnival of Killers]] and [[Balls of Steel|metal armor for his groin]], which helped save his balls when Roberta [[Groin Attack|kicked them]].
* [[Drink Order]]: Milk, since he [[Can't Hold His Liquor]].
* [[The Dulcinea Effect]]: "There's no way I can just ignore an injured girl and let her die."
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* [[Genre Savvy]]: Oddly plays this straight in regards to the fact he's smart enough to wear a bulletproof vest and codpiece most of the time. See [[Wrong Genre Savvy]] for what he gets wrong.
** He also gains the trust of two of the most dangerous people in town. Seriously, no one screws with Shenhua or Sawyer and gets away with it.
* [[Guns Akimbo]]: With two Broomhandle Mausers, except he didn
* [[Horrible Judge of Character]]: Sort of. He saves both [[Psycho for Hire|Shenhua]] and [[The Butcher|Sawyer]], but given the [[Crapsack World]] setting of this series, both seem pretty nice they then became semi-loyal allies instead of [[The Farmer and the Viper|killing him immediately thereafter.]] Yes, they'll kill anyone in the price is right, but if that's the worst thing about you in [[Wretched Hive|Roanapur]], you can't be ''that'' bad, so he may have actually been on point with this one.
* [[In the Name of the Moon]]: Is very fond of this. [[Black Lagoon]] being the kind of show that it is, it doesn't do him much good.
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=== Sawyer the Cleaner ===
{{quote|Voiced by: Asami Yaguchi (JP), [[Venus Terzo]] (EN)}}
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A feared presence in the Roanapur underworld, who helps the various crime organizations dispose of corpses (and soon to be corpses) with her trusty [[Chainsaw Good|chainsaw]]. Actually a rather pretty young goth girl.
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* [[Cute Mute]]: A subversion; while she is cute in a goth-punk sort of way and does appear to be missing her vocal cords, she can be quite mouthy when she has her electrolarynx device. Without it, [[Villainous BSOD|not so much]].
* [[Dissonant Serenity]]: She's quite cheerful; at one point {{spoiler|when she's explaining that the bad odor in a hotel room results from the ooze from rotted corpses she had to clean up there earlier}} she smiles happily while all around her, people are losing their lunch, and may in fact be giggling ''because'' the others are losing their lunch.
* [[Earn Your Title]]: Sawyer "The Cleaner", she cleans up messes, specializing in body disposal, alive or dead doesn't matter to her.
* [[Expecting Someone Taller]]: Her fellow mercenaries have this reaction during the Greenback Jane arc, as most of them have never seen her in person, and those who have, only saw her swathed in surgical dress which obscured her features.
* [[Girl with Psycho Weapon]]
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* [[Last-Name Basis]]: Everyone refers to her by her last name Sawyer, {{spoiler|her real name is Frederica Sawyer.}}
* [[Meaningful Name]]: Sawyer - Saw-er, one who saws. Not to mention the [[Shout-Out]] below.
* [[Nightmare Fetishist]]: She loves playing violent video games and discussing the clean-up jobs she does.
* [[Only Known by Their Nickname]]: It appears that nobody knows her first name, only Sawyer the Cleaner. Revy also calls her by the nickname [[Goth]] Girl
* [[Only in It For the Money]]: Subverted, She enjoys the money, but she does enjoy [[Ax Crazy|the work]] too.
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=== Claude "Torch" Weaver ===
{{quote|Voiced by: Youichi Nishijima (JP), Jason Simpson (EN)}}
[[File:180px-
One of the [[Carnival of Killers]] hired to hunt down Jane in the Greenback Jane arc.
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* [[Affably Evil]]: Despite being a [[Psycho for Hire]] who likes to burn people with his flamethrower; he seems quite pleasant.
* [[Big Fun]]: If it's a [[Serial Killer]] party.
* [[Blond Guys Are Evil]]
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=== Guy Russel ===
{{quote|Voiced by: [[Masaki Terasoma]] (JP), [[Brian Dobson]] (EN)}}
[[File:
A cowboy themed [[Bounty Hunter]] who leads the group hired to go after Jane.
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* [[Fish Out of Water]]: He'd be much more at home in Florida.
* {{spoiler|[[He Knows Too Much]]: Is killed by Eda when he twigs to the fact that she is a CIA operative.}}
* [[Not-So-Harmless Villain]]: The other killers mock him and view him as a [[
* [[Revolvers Are Just Better]]
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=== Verrocchio ===
{{quote|Voiced by: [[Banjo Ginga]] (JP), [[Scott McNeil]] (EN)}}
[[File:-
Head of an Italian mafia operating in Roanapur. {{spoiler|He hired Hansel and Gretel to assassinate Balalaika and Chang so that he could take control over Roanapur's underworld, but quickly found that the [[Creepy Twins]] didn't enjoy being ''told'' to kill.}}
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=== Maki ===
{{quote|Voiced by: [[Shiho Kawaragi]] (JP), Ashleigh Ball (EN)}}
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Maki is a high-school junior who goes to the same school as Yukio. She's very much your average Japanese high school girl and looks up to Yukio as a sempai.
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* [[The Ingenue]]
* [[Ordinary High School Student]]
* [[Sempai
* [[Tender Tears]]
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