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* [[Anime Chinese Girl|Chinese American Girl]]
* [[Anti-Hero]]: Type V
* [[Ax Crazy]]: During the events of the Nazi arc, Revy went on a quite psychotic killing spree, and in the manga, she didn't even spare the noncombatants. Dutch called her on this, telling her he didn't remember hiring "[http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Whitman:Charles Whitman|Charles fucking Whitman]]."
* [[Badass]]: She's the poster <s> girl</s> woman and one of the two primary characters for a series ''full'' of 'em.
* [[Bare Your Midriff]]: Her default attire.
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* [[Vitriolic Best Buds]]: With Eda.
* [[When She Smiles]]: One of the major signs of the effect Rock has had on her. Very rarely is that Revy smiles without it meaning [[Slasher Smile|something]] [[Psychotic Smirk|else]], so getting her to smile earnestly is a ''major accomplishment''. Most notable during the Japan arc; when Revy notices Rock watching her play with a group of young kids (in her own unique way), where she not only smiles, she [[Luminescent Blush|blushes]].
* [[Who Wears Short Shorts?]]: She does!
* [[Will They or Won't They?]]: Her and Rock.
* [[Women Are Wiser]]: Inverted and justified. Rock is morally superior to her but her lack of morals stems {{spoiler|from a horrific and unstable childhood.}}
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** [[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]].
* [[The Baroness]]: Do NOT get on her bad side if you value your life. Trust us on this one.
* [[Beauty Mark]]
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** And the [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).
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* [[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]]
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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 In 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.
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* [[Former Regime Personnel]]
* [[Good Scars, Evil Scars]]: The large scar across his face is his most distinguishing feature.
* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: Mark Acheson AKA [[Transformers Armada|Unicron]].
* [[Mauve Shirt]]
* [[Sergeant Rock]]: The fact that she addresses him as "sergeant" rather than by name suggests that he's her former platoon sergeant.
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* [[Badass]]
* [[Dark Action Girl]]
* [[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?]]"}}
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* [[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 (Anime)|Roberto...]]
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** "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 (Anime)|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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* [[Break the Cutie]]: The poor kid...
* {{spoiler|[[A Child Shall Lead Them]]}}
* [[Cross -Dressing Voices]]: In both Japanese and English.
* [[Distressed Dude]]: 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...}}
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* [[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 Withwith 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.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Gory Discretion Shot]]}}: In the anime, {{spoiler|we don't see her actually pierce her throat with Ginji's katana, and instead just hear the sound, which might actually be worse.}} Subverted in the manga.
* [[Hannibal Lecture]]: Completely deconstructs Rock when he tries to convince her that the path she has chosen is wrong.
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* [[Meganekko]]
* [[Nietzsche Wannabe]]: Not Nietzsche specifically, but Yukio is well read on [[The Philosopher|philosophy]], genuinely tries to apply it to her life decisions and has a fatalistic worldview.
* [[Out -Gambitted]]: At almost every turn. Her trick with the van worked nicely, but as for the rest...
* [[The Philosopher]]
* [[Samurai]]: She {{spoiler|commits suicide}} in the traditional manner of [[Yamato Nadeshiko|a Japanese noblewoman.]]
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* [[Enfant Terrible|Enfants Terribles]]: They know full well how cute they are, and they love using it to catch their victims by surprise.
* [[Evil Gloating]]: Hansel taunts Balalaika with news of how one of her men {{spoiler|screamed out for her as he was slowly tortured to death.}}. This is not a good idea.
* [[Fan Disservice]]: A bit of [[Girl -On -Girl Is Hot]] is nice... but ''not'' when the girl doing the fondling is a pre-teen murderer and batshit insane. Not to mention she gropes the other girl at ''gunpoint''.
** 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.
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* [[Black Comedy Rape]]: Their sexual assault on a terrified Garcia in an omake is [[Played for Laughs]].
* {{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]
* [[Small Girl, Big Gun]]: Gretel
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* [[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 By Their Nickname]]: It appears that nobody knows her first name, only Sawyer the Cleaner. Revy also calls her by the nickname [[Goth]] Girl
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* [[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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* [[Family Values Villain]]: A softspoken possible-Mormon who doesn't drink or [[Gosh Dang It to Heck|swear]] (he and Lotton are probably the only people on the show not to do the latter). He's also an [[Ax Crazy]] [[Pyromaniac]] who roasted his own wife.
* [[Fat Bastard]]
* [[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 With Fire|"Torch"]].