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Characters from ''[[{{TOPLEVELPAGE}}]]'' include:
== '''The Lagoon Company''' ==
=== Rock ===
{{quote| Voiced by: [[Daisuke Namikawa]] (JP), [[Brad Swaile]] (EN)}}
[[File:rock_blacklagoonrock blacklagoon.jpg|frame]]
 
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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* [[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.
* [[Distressed Dude in Distress]]: Revy gripes about how Rock gets captured all the time, leading to a funny moment when Yukio abducts him towards the end of the Yakuza arc.
{{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.
* [[Establishing Character Moment]]: The first time that Rock shows that he's not the timid weaksauce salaryman he appears to be is when Revy goes into a spiel about how Rock probably couldn't even begin to match her in a drinking game, only for him to flip his shit, call her bluff, and proceed to match her shot-for-shot in Bacardi (the challenge is then interrupted by grenades). The second time is when he shows us how to kill an attack helicopter with an obsolete torpedo boat.
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* [[Psychotic Smirk]]: Has been using it since chapter 72, which combined with the [[Good Eyes, Evil Eyes|narrowed eyes]] has cemented his status as a badass. It was also used in his earlier moments of awesome, with Revy's drinking challenge, and with the takedown of the Extra Order chopper.
** [[Slasher Smile]]
* [[Stranger in Aa Familiar Land]]: In the [[Yakuza]] arc.
* [[Sympathy for Thethe Devil]]: For Hansel, and ''especially'' Gretel.
* [[Tall, Dark and Handsome]]
* [[Talking the Monster Toto 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 Inin Badass]]: Goes from a meek white collar to a badass [[The Chessmaster|Chessmaster]] as the series continues.
* [[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]]
* [[Wide -Eyed Idealist]]: At least initially.
** [[Jade Coloured Glasses]]
* [[Will They or Won't They?]]: He and Revy.
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=== Revy ===
{{quote| Voiced by: [[Megumi Toyoguchi]] (JP), [[Maryke Hendrikse]] (EN)}}
[[File:Revy_5139Revy 5139.png|frame]]
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.
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* [[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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** In the final episode of season two, she hijacks a truck and just like the above example, Drove recklessly. Though it's [[Justified Trope|justified]] in this case.
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: In the Tokyo arc, she expresses her disgust at Chaka shooting his own men in the back.
{{quote| "Wow. You shot your own subordinates. ''Despicable to the end.''"}}
* [[Eyes of Gold]]
* [[Fingerless Gloves]]
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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 (Animation)|Gilda]]. Good Lord. Revy is an R-rated Gilda!
* [[Pre-Mortem One-Liner]]: "Say hi to the Fuhrer for me."
* {{spoiler|[[Rape Asas Backstory]]: In the El Baile De La Muerte OVA, it's revealed that Revy was raped as well as beaten by a police officer during her days as a teenage street punk.}}
* [[Satisfied Street Rat]]: ...Not that it didn't leave her fucked in the head, to put it mildly.
* [[She Cleans Up Nicely]]: Revy looks good in her "[[Skirt Over Slacks|city clothes]]" when she travels with Rock to Tokyo.
* [[Single Woman Seeks Good Man]] Even if she hasn't acknowledged in as many words that she's attracted to Rock, the signs are there.
* [[Sir Swearsalot|Lady Swears-A-Lot]]: By far the most foul-mouthed character on the show.
* {{spoiler|1=[[Situational Sexuality]]/[[Prison Rape]]: When she was in prison, she apparently was so good that her partners could never go back to anyone else, and she was definitely the aggressor! She even threatened to show off her [[Rape Asas Drama|stuff]] to Jane}}.
* [[Slasher Smile]]: Revy often displays these when she gets into a gunfight. [http://www.mangareader.net/700-33926-20/black-lagoon/chapter-72.html And other times as well...]
* [[Sociopathic Hero]]
* [[Spell My Name Withwith an "S"]]: In some fan-translations she became "Levy" before her real first name was revealed.
* [[Stripperific]]
* [[Super-Powered Evil Side]]: The only way to explain how Revy managed to match Roberta during their fight in ''Rasta Blasta'', in light of what Roberta is capable of during ''El Baile de la Muerte''. Either that, or Roberta was holding back. ''A lot.''
* [[Talk to Thethe Fist|Talk To The Gun]]
* [[Tall, Dark and Bishoujo]]
* [[Tattooed Crook]]: Revy has a quite prominent tribal tattoo on her shoulder.
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=== Benny ===
{{quote| Voiced by: [[Hiroaki Hirata]] (JP), [[Brian Drummond]] (EN)}}
[[File:bennyblacklagoon2_7073bennyblacklagoon2 7073.jpg|frame]]
 
An American computer hacker who acts as the Lagoon Company's communications officer and radio operator.
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* [[Affably Evil]]: Though definitely less evil than most in the series.
* [[Anti-Villain]]
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* [[Blond Guys Are Evil]] <-> [[Hair of Gold]]: Swings between the two. He ''is'' a pirate and has no moral compunctions about it but he is among the least actively malevolent of the lot, seeing that even {{spoiler|his girlfriend}} is more active than him in that matter.
* [[The Cynic]]: Benny has no illusions whatsoever about the evils he ignores on a daily basis. He hasn't got Revy's materialistic nihilism, but he's about as cynical as Dutch.
{{quote| "What do you expect to happen to her? Get cured? Go to school, be happy and make friends? It will never happen and that's just how reality is."}}
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Loves to gibe at his pals.
* [[Green Eyes]]
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* [[Non-Action Guy]]
* [[Only Sane Man]]: Probably this, considering his crewmates.
* [[Perma -Stubble]]
* [[Playful Hacker]]: And his mad skills even score him a girl.
* [[Straight Man]]: Gives Rock occasional [[Hannibal Lecture|Hannibal Lectures]]s on what he needs to accept about the life he chose. Also see: [[The Cynic]].
* [[Villain Protagonist]]
 
 
=== Dutch ===
{{quote| Voiced by: Tsutomu Isobe (JP), Dean Redman (EN)}}
[[File:Dutch_001Dutch 001-1iwghnx_68621iwghnx 6862.jpg|frame]]
 
A laconic African-American swiftboat veteran; the leader of the Lagoon Company and the captain of the ''[[Black Lagoon]]''.
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* [[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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* [[Cool Old Guy]]: Dutch is, in the very least, in his fifties.
** {{spoiler|Except maybe not...}}
* [[Cultured Badass]]: He even quotes [[François de La Rochefoucauld (Creator)|La Rochefoucauld]] and Marx at Revy and Rock when they complain about work.
* [[The Cynic]]
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]
* [[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 Atat Night]]: He hasn't been seen once without them.
* [[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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== '''Hotel Moscow''' ==
 
=== Balalaika ===
{{quote| Voiced by: [[Mami Koyama]] (JP), Patricia Drake (EN)}}
[[File:balalaika.jpg|frame]]
 
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.
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* [[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 -Looking Privates|Good Looking]] [[Good -Looking Privates|Kapitan]]
* [[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/ swimsuit special by the author/artist shows that it's actually most of her torso] (assuming the doujin is canon).
* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: [[Mami Koyama]] aka [[Akira (Manga)|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]].
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* [[Hot Chick in Aa Badass Suit]]
* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: [[Mami Koyama]] aka [[Akira (Manga)|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]]
* [[Lady of War]]
* [[Lzherusskie]]: the name "Sofiya Irininskaya Pavlovena" is a typical case of ''klukva''. The order of names is totally wrong (should be "Sofiya Pavlovna Irininskaya"), and the last name sounds really fake to this Russian troper.
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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 [[Distressed Damsel in Distress|Distressed Damsels]].
* [[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 Aa 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:_boris_6317boris 6317.jpg|frame]]
 
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 Inin Badass|took 20 levels in badass]].}}
** {{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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=== Meshov ===
{{quote| Voiced by: [[Kenta Miyake]] (JP), Richard Newman (EN)}}
 
Member of the [[Badass Army|Vysotniki]]
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== '''Kan Yi Fan Triad''' ==
 
=== Mr. Chang ===
 
{{quote| Voiced by: [[Toshiyuki Morikawa]] (JP), [[Trevor Devall]] (EN)}}
 
[[File:mr_changmr chang.jpg|frame]]
 
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.
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* [[Affably Evil]]: Starts out as this, but [[Character Development|reveals himself as]] [[Faux Affably Evil]] later on.
* [[Authority Equals Asskicking]]
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* [[Slasher Smile]]: Rarely done, but has one or two of these on occasion, usually accompanied by a cigarette between his teeth.
* [[Tall, Dark and Snarky]]
* [[The Triads and Thethe Tongs]]: Mr. Chang is a Pak Tsz Sin (a high ranking officer) of the Kan Yi Fan, a fictional Triad based in Hong Kong.
 
 
=== Shenhua ===
{{quote| Voiced by: [[Yuko Sasaki]] (JP), [[Saffron Henderson]] (EN)}}
[[File:shenhua_blacklagoonshenhua blacklagoon.jpg|frame]]
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.
 
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* [[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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* [[I Am Not Left-Handed]]: Wears long stiletto heels on purpose to keep her edge in an environment where almost nobody knows martial arts. When she gets serious, they come off.
* [[I Sound Like a Retard In English|I Sound Like A Retard In Chinglish]]
{{quote| "My English not good because I am pure Taiwanese. [[This Is for Emphasis, Bitch|Maybe you like me to skin your ass, bitch?]]"}}
* [[Kicking Ass in All Her Finery]]
* [[Knife Nut]]: She's as good with the knives as Revy is with the guns.
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== '''Ripoff Church / Church of Violence''' ==
 
=== Eda ===
{{quote| Voiced by: Jun Karasawa (JP), [[Lisa Ann Beley]] (EN)}}
[[File:eda_blacklagooneda blacklagoon.jpg|frame]]
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.}}
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* [[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.
{{quote| "That's SISTER to ''you'', jackass!"}}
* [[Blue Eyes]]
* [[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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* [[Not-So-Harmless Villain]]: You'll see her coming anyway, {{spoiler|unless she's ''really'' serious.}}
* [[Nun-Too-Holy]]: She's the trope image. Nuff said, really.
* [[Shipper Onon Deck]]: She seems to have taken an interest in Rock/Revy.
** When she's not hitting on Rock herself... which could be an act, and if it is, it's a damn good one.
* [[Stripperific]]: When not wearing her nun outfit.
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=== Ricardo aka Rico. ===
{{quote| Voiced by: [[Tetsuya Kakihara]] (JP), Simon Hill (EN)}}
[[File:180px-Black_Lagoon_16_Rico_5634Black Lagoon 16 Rico 5634.jpg|frame]]
 
Eda's assistant and a newcomer in the Church Of Violence, who makes his debut in the "Greenback Jane" arc.
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* [[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:yolanda_golden_eagle_3352yolanda golden eagle 3352.jpg|frame]]
 
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 Withwith Granny]]: Especially not when she's firing a freakin' Desert Eagle one-handed.
* [[Not-So-Harmless Villain]]: You had BETTER believe it.
 
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== '''The Lovelace Household''' ==
 
=== Roberta ===
{{quote| Voiced by: [[Michie Tomizawa]] (JP), [[Tabitha St. Germain]] (EN)}}
[[File:roberta_blroberta bl.jpg|frame]]
 
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.}}
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* [[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 Withwith Me|take her home with you.]]
* [[Braids of Action]]
* [[Briefcase Blaster]]: Used one in her initial appearance.
* [[Byronic Hero]]
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* [[Composite Character]]: A combined [[Expy]] of ''[[El Mariachi]]'', [[The Terminator|The T-1000]] '''and''' ''[[Mary Poppins]]'', or [[Word of God|as the author calls her]], "Death Poppins."
* [[Crazy Prepared]]: Let's see, she shows up in Roanapur with an umbrella made of Kevlar that has a built in shotgun, a suitcase made of the same with a built in machine gun and rocket launcher, and she hides [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill|enough grenades to demolish an entire building in her maid's skirt]]. And then there's what's inside her suitcase besides all that. If this isn't a prime example of this trope I don't know what is.
* [[Cry Cute]]: [http://batrock.net/animeimages/bl09-14.JPG The adorably sad eyes she looked at Garcia with when she hung off the edge of Dutch's car.] Aww, [[I'm Taking Her Home Withwith Me|can I take her home with me?]]
* [[Curb Stomp Battle]]: She catches one of Shenhua's kukris in her ''teeth'', uses it to block the ''other'' kukri (with it still in her teeth), then shatters it right in Shenhua's face (''again'' with her '''teeth'''). When Sawyer steps in, Roberta jams the chain and snaps the blade with the ''trigger guards'' of her Colts. And when it's Rotton's turn? [[Groin Attack|She gives him the boot.]]
* [[Dark Action Girl]]: Fits both the "dark" and the "action" parts with emphasis.
* [[Determinator]]: To the point where the crew of the Lagoon repeatedly jokes that she could be the T-1000. All jokes stop when she starts climbing up the back of their car with a pair of trench knives. After catching up to them ''on foot'' at a ''dead run''. What makes it awesome is that she's even [[Shout-Out|imitating]] Robert Patrick's "knife hand" sprinter's run.
** Take a look at {{spoiler|Roberta's Blood Trail under [[Nigh Invulnerable]], just being able to MOVE under that condition guarantees this trope.}}
* [[Distaff Counterpart]]: A morally questionable, astonishingly competent assassin disguised as a household servant? Sounds a little like [[Monster (Animemanga)|Roberto...]]
* [[Fan Nickname]]: Maidinator.
* [[Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!|Get A Hold Of Yourself, Head Maid!]]
** "See? [[World of Cardboard Speech|We're]] ''[[World of Cardboard Speech|not]]'' [[World of Cardboard Speech|dead]]"
* [[Guns Akimbo]]: Amongst her weapons are a pair of Sistema Colt Modelo 1927s, which she wields against Revy's Cutlasses. And later, she adds ''drum clips'' to them.
* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: None other than [[Michie Tomizawa]] or [[Tabitha St. Germain|Tabitha]] [[Galaxy Angel (Animeanime)|St]] [[Mobile Suit Gundam SEED (Anime)|Germain]].
* [[Hot Amazon]]: {{spoiler|Garcia}} certainly thinks so!
* [[Hypocritical Humor]]: "I have no need for filthy language." During her fistfight with Revy, "STAY THE [[Precision F-Strike|FUCK]] OUT OF THIS!"
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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 ]][http://www.mangareader.net/700-33904-14/black-lagoon/chapter-50.html holy][http://www.mangareader.net/700-33919-6/black-lagoon/chapter-65.html crap].
* [[Spell My Name Withwith an "S"]]: Her last name, Cisneros, has been localized as "Tisneros".
* [[The Unfettered]]
* [[Unstoppable Rage]]: God''damn''...
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=== Garcia Fernando Lovelace ===
{{quote| Voiced by: [[Kazue Ikura]] (JP), [[Cathy Weseluck (Creator)|Cathy Weseluck]] (EN)}}
[[File:Garcia-lovelace-black-lagoon_3734lagoon 3734.jpg|frame]]
 
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.
* [[Distressed Dude in Distress]]: Not his fault, he ain't a child soldier like several other kids in this series.
* [[Disappeared Dad]] {{spoiler|More like blown to smithereens, but still...}}
* [[Harmful to Minors]] ''Hoo'' boy...
* {{spoiler|[["I Know You Are'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|[[May-DecemberMay–December Romance]]: Roberta may return his (romantic) feelings. It's a bit unclear how she feels about that, but she did tell him that she was impressed by how much he had grown in her absence (after he had straddled her, no less).}}
* {{spoiler|[[Mexican Standoff]]}}
* [[Morality Pet]]: To Roberta
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=== Diego Jose San Fernando Lovelace ===
[[File:_diego_8611diego 8611.jpg|frame]]
 
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:Fabiola_4690Fabiola 4690.jpg|frame]]
 
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|Celibate Heroine]]ine
{{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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== '''The Washimine Clan''' ==
 
=== Ginji Matsuzaki ===
{{quote| Voiced by: [[Kiyoyuki Yanada]] (JP), [[Michael Adamtwaite]] (EN)}}
[[File:Ginji-matsuzaki_6040matsuzaki 6040.jpg|frame]]
 
Legendary enforcer for the Washimine clan and protector of Yukio Washimine, his skill with a sword is equal to Revy's gunfighting ability.
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* [[Badass]]
** [[Back-to-Back Badasses]]: With Revy at the bowling alley.
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* [[Berserk Button]]: Harm Yukio in any way and you will die slowly and painfully. {{spoiler|Chaka found that out the hard way.}}
* [[Bodyguard Crush]]
* [[Born in Thethe Wrong Century]]: Honestly, his almost-supernatural swordsmanship belongs in a completely different ''genre'', much less century.
* [[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 Toto Aa Gun Fight]]: He averts this completely. [[Badass|And wins.]]
* [[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-Black_Lagoon_20_Yukio_9316Black Lagoon 20 Yukio 9316.jpg|frame]]
 
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.
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* [[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 Byby 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-Black_Lagoon_20_Chaka_2952Black Lagoon 20 Chaka 2952.jpg|frame]]
 
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)}}
[[File:bando_tsugio_23105_6611bando tsugio 23105 6611.jpg|frame]]
 
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)}}
[[File:180px-Black_Lagoon_21_Yoshida_2537Black Lagoon 21 Yoshida 2537.jpg|frame]]
 
Tsugio's bodyguard, and later one of Yukio's supporters in the Yakuza.
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== '''Others''' ==
 
=== Abrego ===
{{quote| Voiced by: [[Hisao Egawa]] (JP), Eli Gabay (EN)}}
[[File:Abrego_thumb_7299Abrego thumb 7299.jpg|frame]]
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The leader of Roanapur's branch of the Colombian Manisarela Cartel.
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=== Leigharch ===
{{quote| Voiced by: Akimasa Ohmori (JP), [[Trevor Devall]] (EN)}}
[[File:leigharch.jpg|frame]]
 
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* [[Badass Driver]]:
{{quote| '''Shenhua:''' Even when his head off to Mars, he never mess up driving.}}
* [[Bedlam House]]: According to Shenhua, he's currently in an asylum due to having taken so much coke that "he never came back from Mars".
* [[Don't Try This At Home]]: Remember kids, drugs are bad, and you should certainly never take them before driving.
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* [[Oireland]]
* [[Non Sequitur Thud]]: Delivers one when Revy kicks him for getting high. And then just keeps spewing them.
** "I forgot! We have to go to Liverpool! [[Jimi Hendrix]] is calling for me! To defeat the [[Star Trek (Franchise)|Klingons-ASAP!]] Oh ''[[Star Trek: theThe Next Generation (TV)|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]]
* [[Put Onon a Bus]]: It's implied that his [[Drugs Are Bad|liberal drug use resulted in his brain being permanently fried.]]
* [[The Stoner]]: And ''how''!
 
 
=== Hansel and Gretel ===
{{quote| Voiced by: [[Omi Minami]] (JP, Hansel), [[Tomoko Kaneda]] (JP, Gretel), Ashleigh Ball (EN, Hansel), Jocelyne Loewen (EN, Gretel)}}
[[File:Hansel_gretel_blHansel gretel bl.jpg|frame]]
{{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...]]"''}}
 
A pair of incestuous, prepubescent porn star assassins with shared multiple personality disorders. Creepy as Hell. {{spoiler|And just as horribly broken due to their horrendous common backstory.}}
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* [[Badass Longcoat]]: Hansel wears one as part of his [[Elegant Gothic Lolita]] getup. It's also where he hides his axes, so it also serves a practical purpose.
* [[Batman Gambit]]: They diverted the [[Carnival of Killers|hired guns]] out for their bounty by bribing two local orphans to pose as them.
* [[BFG]]: Gretel, an 11-year-old child, fires a Browning Automatic Rifle from the hip. Not entirely unrealistic, since Bonnie (of [[Bonnie and Clyde (Film)|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|Blood Knights]]s: With emphasis on "Blood".
* {{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).
* [[Cross DresserCrossdresser]]: {{spoiler|Hansel and Gretel actually switch clothes. It's never explicitly stated what their real genders are, all the audience knows is that the girl carries the machine gun and the boy carries the axe. When they switch clothes they switch weapons too. The anime reveals that they also switch voices.}}
* [[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|Giggling Villains]]s: Though Gretel does break out a full-blown [[Evil Laugh]] once when Eda asks her [[For the Evulz|why they're still after Balalaika]] {{spoiler|even though they [[Hoist Byby His Own Petard|killed the guy who hired them.]]}}
* [[Girl Withwith 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 Withwith 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)''}}
* [[I Love the Dead]]: Though according to Gretel they have never tried it with an "Ivan" before. May have been [[Interplay of Sex and Violence|metaphorical]], however. ''We hope''.
* [[Interplay of Sex and Violence]]: They get really ''turned on'' at the thought of everybody coming to kill them.
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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|Nightmare Fetishists]]s
* [[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|[[Only Known Byby Their Nickname|Only Known By Their Nicknames]]: Hansel and Gretel are what they were called in the snuff films they were forced to take part in.}}
* [[Orphanage of Fear]]: Where they were raised before Ceausecu fell. And what came after was even ''worse''.
* [[Outlaw Couple]]: They're just so cute together! [http://animemiz.files.wordpress.com/2006/10/black-lagoon-w.jpg Just look.]
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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.
* {{spoiler|[[Split Personality]]: "Hansel and Gretel" are personalities the twins developed to cope with their traumatic childhood. They can decide themselves who wants to be who at any given time. When Hansel has his hand shot off by Balalaika's men, the pain and stress causes him to randomly switch between Hansel's and Gretel's voice every few seconds.}}
* [[To the Pain]]/[[Would You Like to Know How They Died]]: Hansel gives one to Balalaika {{spoiler|[[Talk to Thethe Fist|which turns out to be last thing he ever does]]}}.
* {{spoiler|[[Together in Death]]}}: [[Tear Jerker|The end credits for 15.]] Dear '''GOD''', those credits.
* '''[[Troubling Unchildlike Behavior]]'''
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=== Janet "Greenback Jane" Bhai ===
{{quote| Voiced by: [[Miki Nagasawa]] (JP), [[Kelly Sheridan]] (EN)}}
[[File:250px-Greenback_Jane_1032Greenback Jane 1032.jpg|frame]]
 
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:Lotton_thumb_2285Lotton thumb 2285.jpg|frame]]
 
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&acute;´t get to use them onscreen yet.
* [[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 Thethe 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 Thethe Moon]]: Is very fond of this. [[Black Lagoon]] being the kind of show that it is, it doesn't do him much good.
* [[Joke Character]]
* [[Made of Iron]]: Played with. Even when he's shot, falling down from a building or being [[Groin Attack|kicked in the balls]] (by Roberta of all people!), he just rises up again and continues on. Luckily, he's [[Genre Savvy]] enough to wear a bulletproof vest and a metal codpiece, though he got kicked so hard that the codpiece ''dented'', and still fell from a rooftop onto solid asphalt. In general he takes far more punishment than most people could handle.
* [[Nice Guy]]: Now that Rock no longer qualifies for this trope, he is the sole possessor of it in this franchise.
* [[Spell My Name Withwith an "S"]]: Rotton? Lotton? The North American translation says its Lotton while most of the scanlations says its Rotton...
* [[Token Good Teammate]]: Compared to his fellow bounty hunters, who are either complete psychopaths at worst and a bunch of backstabbing cutthroats at best.
** Also of the [[Power Trio]] he's formed with Shenhua and Sawyer.
* [[White-Haired Pretty Boy]]: The prettiest, whitest haired, and [[Subverted Trope|nicest]] character in the series.
* [[Wide -Eyed Idealist]]: And judging by how disconnected from the harsh realities of life he is, it's going to take a lot more to break him than it did to break Rock.
* [[Wrong Genre Savvy]]: Rotton acts like he came from a more idealistic series. Even Rock has become more savvy to the way the world works than he has.
 
 
=== 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 Withwith Psycho Weapon]]
* [[Goth]]
* [[Implausible Fencing Powers]]: Blocks bullets... with a chainsaw.
* [[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 Byby 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 Thethe Money]]: Subverted, She enjoys the money, but she does enjoy [[Ax Crazy|the work]] too.
* [[Psycho for Hire]]: She really loves both her jobs; her job disposing of bodies after torturing that person, and her job as a bounty hunter.
* [[Samus Is a Girl]]: Several characters react this way [[In-Universe]] when they discover that she's female, since most people deal with her when she's covered head to toe in scrubs that obscure her face.
* [[Shout-Out]]: Her name and weapon of choice are one to the family in the original ''[[The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Film)|The Texas Chainsaw Massacre]]'' franchise.
* [[Villainous BSOD]]: Whenever she loses her communication device, an Ultravoice. She later upgrades to a choker-mounted version to prevent such incidents.
** [[Heroic BSOD]]: She's seen shaking in terror after the team confronts a crazed Roberta.
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=== Claude "Torch" Weaver ===
{{quote| Voiced by: Youichi Nishijima (JP), Jason Simpson (EN)}}
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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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* [[Fire-Breathing Weapon]]: Uses both a full-on backpack flamethrower and a cigerette-lighter version.
* {{spoiler|[[Jet Pack]]: What happens after Revy shoots the tanks on his flamethrower trough his stomach, causing the exhaust to blast ''through'' his gut, before he explodes. "You're a rocket man, baby!"}}
* [[Meaningful Name]]: [[Kill It Withwith Fire|"Torch"]].
* [[Professional Killer]]
* [[Pyromaniac]]: Oh yeah.
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=== Guy Russel ===
{{quote| Voiced by: [[Masaki Terasoma]] (JP), [[Brian Dobson]] (EN)}}
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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 [[TedSmall BaxterName, Big Ego]] type, but he holds his own quite well in a gun duel with Eda.
* [[Revolvers Are Just Better]]
 
 
=== Verrocchio ===
{{quote| Voiced by: [[Banjo Ginga]] (JP), [[Scott McNeil]] (EN)}}
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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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* [[Dark-Skinned Blond]]
* {{spoiler|[[Gory Discretion Shot]]: While we don't ''see'' the result of the twins turning on him, we certainly ''hear'' it.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Hoist Byby His Own Petard]] (''come on'')}}
* [[Jerkass]]
* {{spoiler|[[Karmic Death]]}}
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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 Kouhai-Kohai]] and [[Tomboy and Girly Girl]]: The kouhai and tomboy to Yukio's sempai and girly girl.
* [[Tender Tears]]
 
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