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=== Rock ===

{{quote|Voiced by: [[Daisuke Namikawa]] (JP), [[Brad Swaile]] (EN)}}

 

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.

* [[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]]

=== Revy ===

{{quote|Voiced by: [[Megumi Toyoguchi]] (JP), [[Maryke Hendrikse]] (EN)}}

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]].

* [[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]].

 

=== Benny ===

{{quote|Voiced by: [[Hiroaki Hirata]] (JP), [[Brian Drummond]] (EN)}}

 

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]]

* [[Perma-Stubble]]

* [[Playful Hacker]]: And his mad skills even score him a girl.

* [[Villain Protagonist]]

 

=== Dutch ===

{{quote|Voiced by: Tsutomu Isobe (JP), Dean Redman (EN)}}

 

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

* [[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.

 

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=== Balalaika ===

 

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]]

* [[Authority Equals Asskicking]]

* [[Badass]]

** 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]]

=== Boris ===

{{quote|Voiced by: [[Taiten Kusunoki]] (JP), Mark Acheson (EN)}}

 

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.

 

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=== Mr. Chang ===

{{quote|Voiced by: [[Toshiyuki Morikawa]] (JP), [[Trevor Devall]] (EN)}}

 

 

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]]

=== Shenhua ===

{{quote|Voiced by: [[Yuko Sasaki]] (JP), [[Saffron Henderson]] (EN)}}

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)}}

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.

* [[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.)

=== Ricardo aka Rico. ===

{{quote|Voiced by: [[Tetsuya Kakihara]] (JP), Simon Hill (EN)}}

 

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.

=== Sister Yolanda ===

{{quote|Voiced by: Akiko Takeguchi (JP), Shirley Millner (EN)}}

 

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.}}

* [[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.

 

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=== Roberta ===

{{quote|Voiced by: [[Michie Tomizawa]] (JP), [[Tabitha St. Germain]] (EN)}}

 

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

* [[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.}}

* [[Spell My Name with an "S"]]: Her last name, Cisneros, has been localized as "Tisneros".

* [[The Unfettered]]

=== Garcia Fernando Lovelace ===

{{quote|Voiced by: [[Kazue Ikura]] (JP), [[Cathy Weseluck]] (EN)}}

 

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...

* {{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|[[Mexican Standoff]]}}

* [[Morality Pet]]: To Roberta

 

=== Diego Jose San Fernando Lovelace ===

 

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.}}

=== Fabiola Iglesias ===

{{quote|Voiced by: [[Satsuki Yukino]] (JP)}}

 

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.

* [[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.

{{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.}}

 

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=== Ginji Matsuzaki ===

{{quote|Voiced by: [[Kiyoyuki Yanada]] (JP), [[Michael Adamtwaite]] (EN)}}

 

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.

=== Yukio Washimine ===

{{quote|Voiced by: [[Houko Kuwashima]] (JP), [[Lalainia Lindbjerg]] (EN)}}

 

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.

=== Chaka ===

{{quote|Voiced by: [[Wataru Takagi]] (JP), Jonathan Holmes (EN)}}

 

One of the Washimine family's [[Mooks|enforcers]] who attempted to take control of the family.

=== Tsugio Bandou ===

{{quote|Voiced by: [[Tomomichi Nishimura]] (JP), John Novak (EN)}}

 

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.

=== Yoshida ===

{{quote|Voiced by: [[Kenta Miyake]] (JP), [[Trevor Devall]] (EN)}}

 

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.

=== Hansel and Gretel ===

{{quote|Voiced by: [[Omi Minami]] (JP, Hansel), [[Tomoko Kaneda]] (JP, Gretel), Ashleigh Ball (EN, Hansel), Jocelyne Loewen (EN, Gretel)}}

{{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...]]"''}}

 

* [[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]]

* {{spoiler|[[Break the Cutie]]: Where to start...?}}

** {{spoiler|[[Corrupt the Cutie]]: Things got worse...}}

* [[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.

** 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.

* [[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]]

* [[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!}}

* [[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.

* {{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.

=== Janet "Greenback Jane" Bhai ===

{{quote|Voiced by: [[Miki Nagasawa]] (JP), [[Kelly Sheridan]] (EN)}}

 

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.

=== Rotton the Wizard ===

{{quote|Voiced by: [[Tomokazu Sugita]] (JP), [[Samuel Vincent]] (EN)}}

 

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.

* [[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.

* [[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.

=== Sawyer the Cleaner ===

{{quote|Voiced by: Asami Yaguchi (JP), [[Venus Terzo]] (EN)}}

 

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.

=== Claude "Torch" Weaver ===

{{quote|Voiced by: Youichi Nishijima (JP), Jason Simpson (EN)}}

 

One of the [[Carnival of Killers]] hired to hunt down Jane in the Greenback Jane arc.

=== Guy Russel ===

{{quote|Voiced by: [[Masaki Terasoma]] (JP), [[Brian Dobson]] (EN)}}

 

A cowboy themed [[Bounty Hunter]] who leads the group hired to go after Jane.

* [[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.}}

* [[Revolvers Are Just Better]]

 

=== Verrocchio ===

{{quote|Voiced by: [[Banjo Ginga]] (JP), [[Scott McNeil]] (EN)}}

 

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.}}

=== Maki ===

{{quote|Voiced by: [[Shiho Kawaragi]] (JP), Ashleigh Ball (EN)}}

 

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.

* [[The Ingenue]]

* [[Ordinary High School Student]]

* [[Tender Tears]]