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Red Shield

Saya Otonashi

Tropes associated with Saya:

Action Girl
Amnesiac Dissonance: Starts out the series amnesiac, and slowly regains her memories over the course of the first two seasons.
Animals Hate Her
Anti-Hero: Type II --> Type III
Big Eater: An instance of Fridge Brilliance: Saya only receives just enough blood to keep from getting thirsty, but her body still needs more energy. Human food isn't quite enough to match up to blood, which is why she burns through calories so quickly and has to eat so much.
Break the Cutie
Broken Bird: Once she gets her memories back.
Cain and Abel: With Diva.
Dark Is Not Evil
Death Seeker: For a while, but she snaps out of it.
Despair Event Horizon: She hits it when Diva rapes and kills Riku.
Earn Your Happy Ending
Eri Kitamura: Her first famous role.
Even the Girls Want Her: Saya seems to have girls crawling into bed with her with alarming frequency.
The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry: With Diva, Saya is the "smart" sister.
Good Thing You Can Heal: Takes advantage of it during her final fight with Karl, when she impales herself through the stomach to stab Karl, who was behind her.
Happily Adopted: Too bad it doesn't last..
Heroic BSOD: A big one after Riku's death.
Hot Chick with a Sword
Kari Wahlgren
Kiss of Life: Twice with Hagi.
Mistress and Servant Boy: With Hagi.
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: There surely could never be a reason why that girl with the beautiful voice is locked away in a tower on your foster father's property...
Oblivious to Love
The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: Towards Diva.
Ordinary High School Student
The Promise: She made Hagi promise her that he would kill her after she kills Diva.
Really Seven Hundred Years Old: Though with all her long naps and amnesia, she doesn't have much built up wisdom.
Red Eyes, Take Warning: Inverted. The red-eyed Saya is the hero pitted against blue-eyed Diva.
Red Oni, Blue Oni: The red to Diva's blue.
Reluctant Warrior: Big time during season one.
Romantic Two-Girl Friendship: With Kaori and Minh.
Talking to Herself: With Diva in the dub.
Tomato in the Mirror: Her reaction to realizing she's a chiropteran.
Took a Level in Jerkass: After regaining her memories in the manga. She even flatly tells Riku she's going to kill him because he's a chiropteran. Considering what she was going through, it's understandable, and she seems to be uncertain about it afterwards. (Still pretty mean, though, Saya.)
Unstoppable Rage: Occasionally falls into this in the first part of the series.
What Have I Become?

Hagi

Tropes associated with Hagi:

Badass Longcoat
Bishonen: In the novelization Mao grumbles about how he's so pretty, it's annoying because it's so distracting.
Bodyguard Crush: On Saya.
Cannot Spit It Out: Surely taking 130 years to tell the woman you love how you feel must be some kind of record?
Crispin Freeman
Dark Is Not Evil
Deliberate Injury Gambit
Earn Your Happy Ending: Poor Hagi, his life is so hard.
Extreme Doormat: "If that is your wish" is pretty much his Catch Phrase. To the point that Kai calls him out on it.
Good Old Ways
Good Thing You Can Heal
Hey, It's That Voice!: Wait a second... Is that Kamina?!
I Am Not Left-Handed
Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Taken to ridiculous degrees. Poor Hagi.
Improbable Weapon User: A cello case. With a cello in it.
Innocent Cohabitation: With Saya, during Time Skip and probably before as well.
Instrument of Murder: The cello is more invincible than Hagi is!
I Will Wait for You: During Saya's hibernation periods.
Katsuyuki Konishi
Kiss of Life: Twice with Saya.
Knife Nut
Mistress and Servant Boy: With Saya.
Mr. Fanservice: Lampshaded in the anime when Saya has to infiltrate a Vietnamese boarding school and Hagi poses as a gardener to protect her. Cue squealing fangirls.
Mysterious Protector
No One Could Survive That: And of course he did.
The Promise: Promised to kill Saya after she kills Diva.
The Quiet One
Really Seven Hundred Years Old
Senseless Cellos
Slipknot Ponytail: His hair coming loose from its ribbon is invariably a sign that Hagi is taking a nasty beating.
Spell My Name with an "S": Hagi or Haji?
The Stoic
Tall, Dark and Handsome
Undying Loyalty
Willfully Weak: Suppresses a lot of his natural abilities because when Saya first saw him use them, she was terrified.
The Worf Effect
You Shall Not Pass

George Miyagusuku

Tropes associated with George:

Badass Normal
Boisterous Bruiser
Cool Old Guy
Dying as Yourself
Parental Substitute
Papa Wolf
Sacrificial Lion: Dies early on in the series, asking to be killed by Saya before becoming a Chiropteran from Delta 67.
Supreme Chef

Kai Miyagusuku

Tropes associated with Kai:

Badass Normal
Ben Diskin
Big Brother Instinct
Earn Your Happy Ending
Emo Teen: At first.
Happily Adopted: Both he and Riku were adopted by George.
Hiroyuki Yoshino
Hot-Blooded
Hot Dad: In the epilogue after he adopts Diva's daughters.
Idiot Ball
I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: To Saya.
Love Hurts: Both romantic and familial.
Motorcycle on the Coast Road
Not Blood Related: To Saya.
Oblivious to Love: Ironically, just as Saya doesn't notice his romantic attraction towards her, Kai doesn't realize that Mao loves him and is confused when she kisses him.
Parental Substitute: To Diva's daughters. Guess he takes after George.
Redheaded Hero
Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: The Manly Man to Riku's Sensitive Guy.
Took a Level in Badass: After the timeskip.
Use Your Head / Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!: Using a combination of the two is probably his most notable Character Tic in the manga.

Riku Miyagusuku

Tropes associated with Riku:

Akiko Yajima
Break the Cutie: And oh, it hurts.
Children Are Innocent
Cross-Dressing Voices
Dead Little Sister
Emergency Transformation: Made into Saya's chevalier after Diva kills him at the Zoo.
Happily Adopted: Like the rest of George's kids.
James Bondage: Frequently in the manga.
Kill the Cutie
Out with a Bang: He is raped and murdered by Diva.
Red Oni, Blue Oni: The blue to Kai's red.
Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: The Sensitive Guy to Kai's Manly Man.
Spared by the Adaptation: In the manga.
Took a Level in Badass: Also in the manga.

David

Tropes associated with David:

Babies Ever After: With Julia.
Badass Normal: "David the Invicible"
Good Is Not Nice: He completely pounds Kai early on to teach him a lesson about the kind of world they're in and forces Saya to fight despite knowing it's emotionally breaking her.
Drowning My Sorrows: During his BSOD.
Heroic BSOD: After Red Shield's headquarters are destroyed, Riku is killed, and Saya disappears without a trace.
He's Back
Salt and Pepper: With Lewis.
Unresolved Sexual Tension: With Julia.

Julia Silverstein

Tropes associated with Julia:

Lewis

Tropes associated with Lewis:

Joel Goldschmidt VI

Tropes associated with Joel:

Crispin Freeman

Aston Collins

Tropes associated with Collins:

Face Heel Turn
Steven Jay Blum
Villainous Breakdown
What Happened to the Mouse?: Halfway through season four, he shoots David, gets shot in the arm in return, and...never appears again.

Mao Jahana

Tropes associated with Mao:

Demoted to Extra: Only appears as a very minor character in the manga, first bullying Saya because she's jealous that she lives with Kai, then recruits Saya to be in the school play in hopes that Kai will come and watch.
I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: To Kai.
Odd Couple: With Okamura.
Shipper on Deck: Makes a couple of attempts to set Saya and Kai up during season four.
- Matchmaker Crush: Despite having feelings for him.
Spoiled Sweet
Stalker with a Crush: Mao steals four million yen from her mob boss father's untraceable cash stash to follow Kai across the world.
Tsundere: Dere for Kai, tsun for everyone else, especially Okamura.
Yakuza Princess

Akihiro Okamura

Tropes associated with Okamura:

Intrepid Reporter
Odd Couple: With Mao.

Cinq Fleches

Diva

Tropes associated with Diva:

Akiko Yajima
All Women Love Shoes: Rare anime example. She once sees a guy with cute sneakers, kills him, takes said shoes and wore them for the rest of the episode.
Bifauxnen: After the timeskip.
Big Bad
Brown Note: Her singing, oh God.
Cain and Abel: With Saya.
Cry for the Devil
Cute and Psycho
Cute Psycho in the Tower
Dead Person Impersonation: Tries this on Kai by creepily imitating Riku as a way to convince him to join her. Doesn't work, though.
Double Standard Rape (Female on Male): Completely averted in-story, as her rape and murder of Riku is shown as her Moral Event Horizon crossing.
Evil Counterpart: Diva is what Saya would've been like if she had been the one locked in the tower instead of raised like a human. (Compare Zoo!Saya to Modern!Diva, for example.) After Diva's death, Saya even holds her hand and calls her "my other half" (Japanese dub only).
Evil Diva
Evil Twin
Face Stealer: Spends much of seasons three and four masquerading as Riku.
Fan Disservice: She gets a Toplessness From the Back shot right before raping and killing Riku.
Faux Affably Evil
Freudian Excuse
The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry: With Saya, as the "pretty" sister.
Kari Wahlgren
Light Is Not Good
Meaningful Name: Because she, you know. Sings really well.
Motive Rant: Gives one to Saya right before they fight at the opera house, in the hopes that her sister would agree and they wouldn't have to kill each other.
Not So Different: "No, we're the same!"
The Ophelia and Psychopathic Manchild
Pimped-Out Dress
Really Seven Hundred Years Old
Red Oni, Blue Oni: The blue to Saya's red.
Stalker with a Crush: Poor, poor Riku.
- Stalker with a Test Tube
Talking to Herself: With Saya in the English dub. Averted in other dubs and in the original.
- Actually played straight in the original... but with Riku instead of Saya. Made weirder when she rapes and kills him.
The Vamp

Diva's Chevaliers

Blood Brothers: They all share Diva's blood, operate closely together and refer to each other as brothers.
Men Of Wealth And Taste
One-Winged Angel
Really Seven Hundred Years Old
Red Eyes, Take Warning: Their eyes glow red when they pull out the guns.
The Renfield
Undying Loyalty: Towards Diva, by instinct. Though it is possible for them to overcome this.

Amshel Goldsmith

Tropes associated with Amshel:

The Chessmaster
Complete Monster: Probably the most prominent one in the entire series.
Corrupt Corporate Executive
The Dragon
- Dragon-in-Chief
- Dragon Their Feet: He survives his and Haji's initial fight and appears again after Diva's death.
Evil Genius
Face Stealer: First appears disguised as an old woman, then kills a Red Shield operative and spends the next few episodes disguised as her. And in the last few episodes, he arrives for the final battle disguised as Diva to buy time against Saya.
Harmless Electrocution: Averted. After being impaled on the Chrysler Building's spire, Amshel is fried by a lightning bolt attracted by the spire's point. He survives (barely) but his healing factor has him stuck between his human and chiropteran forms when he returns to finish his fight with Haji.
Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: He has this done to him by Haji during the climactic battle with Diva
Mad Scientist: He wants to know everything there is to know about chiropterans and will do anything to learn.

Solomon Goldsmith

Tropes associated with Solomon:

Anti-Villain
Bishonen
Blade Below the Shoulder: His weapon of choice. He shapeshifts his hand into one.
Heel Face Turn: Though only out of love for Saya, as opposed to a change in morality.
Light Is Not Good: Described to have the face of an angel and wears white to symbolize his devotion to Diva. When he changes to Saya's side, he starts wearing all black instead.
Man in White: Well, at least until he follows Saya
Parental Favoritism: According to James, he was "Diva's favorite boy."
Shapeshifter Weapon
Sixth Ranger Traitor
Stalker with a Crush: To Saya.
Undying Loyalty: Towards Diva. He later feels this way towards Saya, to the point where he betrays Diva (though he still admits he cares about her.

Karl Fei-Ong

Tropes associated with Karl:

Ax Crazy: Juuuuuust a little bit.
The Brute
Camp: His flamboyant personality combined with his choices of attire:
- Malevolent Masked Man: Stylized to look like bat wings
- Ominous Opera Cape with High Collar of Doom
Death Seeker
Dude Looks Like a Lady: To a point. He wears an ao dai, which isn't exclusively a woman's garment, but it's certainly most common.
In Love with Your Carnage: To Saya. Also, it's implied, to Diva.
Love Makes You Crazy: To Saya. And Diva, initially. The fact that she didn't love him is what drove him insane.
Quinton Flynn
Red Right Hand
Stalker with a Crush: To Saya.
Tragic Villain: Karl was made a chevalier against his will because Amshel wanted one to experiment on.
The Unfavorite

James Ironside

Tropes associated with James:

The Brute
Fantastic Racism: His hatred of the Schiff.
Irony: After an encounter with Saya leaves him fatally wounded and unable to regenerate, he's forced to get Schiff implants to stay alive. Doesn't help afterward that Diva loses interest in him.
Tragic Villain: Perhaps the only one of Diva's chevaliers to be genuinely devoted to her, Diva casts him off when he's grafted with Schiff body parts following his first defeat by Saya.
Undying Loyalty: To Diva.

Nathan Mahler

Tropes associated with Nathan:

Agent Peacock
Anti-Villain
Beware the Nice Ones: Despite working for the villains, he's actually quite friendly. But the few times he does threaten someone, it's freaking creepy.
- Not-So-Harmless Villain
Camp Gay
The Chessmaster
Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Insinuates he's probably stronger than James and Amshel.
- He's probably the single most powerful being to appear in the show, period.
Dark Chick
Enigmatic Minion
Flamboyant Gay
Large Ham
Mercy Kill: After seeing that Diva has died and lamenting on her own foolishness, he reverts to Chiropteran form and gently asks Saya to kill him, since he would essentially be living an empty life of immortality. Saya grants his last wish. ... although he's later seen to have survived the encounter and disguised himself as a reporter.
Obfuscating Stupidity: Drops a big, whopping hint that he was the chevalier of Diva and Saya's mother.
Voice of the Legion

Van Argeno

Tropes associated with Van:

The Schiff

Anti-Villain
- Anti-Hero: Type II or III)
Dark and Troubled Past
Dark Is Not Evil: They start out as this, then gradually move to being characters of the light.
Exotic Weapon Supremacy
Heel Face Turn
Pointy Ears
Secret Project Refugee Family
Super Soldiers
The Worf Effect: The Schiff are frequently victims of this.
Tragic Dream
Undying Loyalty

Moses

Tropes associated with Moses:

Bishonen
Break the Badass: Goes through this over an episode or two once he realizes that Karman is dying.
Driven to Suicide
Friendship Moment: With Karman just before they commit suicide.
Heroic BSOD: Again, the knowledge of Karman's imminent death causes Moses to go through one of these.
- Despair Event Horizon: Finding out that Karman is about to die does not have any positive effect on Moses. Seriously.
Martial Pacifist
Meaningful Name: He inspired the Schiff to escape the research facility where they were created as test subjects.
Red Oni, Blue Oni: The blue to Karman's red.
Sinister Scythe
Steven Jay Blum
Vitriolic Best Buds: With Karman.

Karman

Tropes associated with Karman:

Break the Badass: Has this done to him by James Ironside, and boy does it hurt.
Dave Wittenberg
Driven to Suicide
Friendship Moment: With Moses just before they commit suicide.
The Glasses Come Off: Averted. Karman has his glasses on in every fight he participates in.
Jerkass
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Despite acting like a jerkass towards most of the people he meets, he seems to genuinely care about his fellow Schiff.
Red Oni, Blue Oni: The red to Moses's blue.
Vitriolic Best Buds: With Moses.

Lulu

Tropes associated with Lulu:

An Axe to Grind
Genki Girl
Lara Jill Miller
Last of Her Kind
Never Got to Say Goodbye: To Moses and Karman.

Irene

Tropes associated with Irene:

BFS
Dirty Business: Irene admits to both Ghee and Kai that she does not want to kill anyone anymore, despite having little choice in the matter.
Hyper Awareness: Irene is the only one of the Schiff who possesses this ability, being able to sense any target within a fairly wide distance of herself.
Reluctant Warrior
Sacrificial Lamb
Proper Lady