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[[File:codebreaker_5037.jpg|frame|Ogami and Sakura]]

 

{{quote|''"An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, and evil for evil."''|'''Rei Ogami'''}}

 

 

Riding the bus one day, Sakurakouji Sakura looks out the window to see people being burned alive with a blue fire and a boy her age who's unharmed and standing over the people. She comes back to the site the next day and there are no corpses or evidence of any kind of murder, just a small fire. She then goes to class to find there's a [[New Transfer Student]] who looks exactly like the boy she saw before and wears a black glove only on his left hand. Later she finds out that he is the sixth "Code:Breaker", a special type of assassin with a strange ability, who is only a member of a secret organization that serves the government.

** Sakura also, at least in the beginning...

* [[Action Mom]]: {{spoiler|Sakura's real mother, and maybe her adopted mother too since the Sakuranojis are apparently gangsters.}}

* [[Ambiguously Brown]]: Yukihina.

* [[Ambiguously Evil]]: {{spoiler|"Fussy Lunch", possibly of the "It takes the threat of death to make people appreciate life and [[Fire-Forged Friends|work together]]" variety. It's also unusual that the sadistic game the Angels play is about controlling their life-sucking powers to kill the ''least'' amount of people, and the only ones they kill are the Code:Names' masked goon squads.}}

** The President is also a power-suppressing "Rare Kind" {{spoiler|and Sakura's biological father.}} He made [[Robot Girl|Inoichi]] with this ability in mind, although she has to bite someone to take their power rather than just touch them. {{spoiler|He also put his blood into Sakura's school, making it the only anti-any-Code building in Japan.}}

** The five "Angels".

* [[Artificial Human]]: Biological, though not (as far as we've seen) actually clones. {{spoiler|Yuuki, Shigure, and anyone else with a bar-code are artificially created super-powered people made by EDEN. Unfortunately not all of them can have really cool powers so the rejected ones are given an X on their clothes that marks the as cannon fodder.}}

* [[Badass Longcoat]]: Ogami. Also {{spoiler|Heike, "The one being sought" in the past, and Saechika before his introduction.}}

* [[Bandage Babe]]: {{spoiler|Aoba has her right arm (and her chest) all bandaged up and wears it the arm in a sling after Ogami sliced it off.}}

** Or anyone that reminds him of Nyanmaru. At first it was just Sakura but {{spoiler|now it's almost Sakura's entire class}}.

** Ogami with Sakura as well.

** Sakura's home.

* [[Black Eyes of Crazy]] / [[Uh-Oh Eyes]] / [[Facial Markings]] / [[Evil Feels Good]]: {{spoiler|When Rare Kinds go into suck-the-life-outta-power-users-mode their eyes become "unreflective", they get a weird "blush" around their eyes, and from the looks of it it's a really pleasant sensation.}}

* [[Bloody Murder]]: The Saint Fighters' special ability, a la ''[[Deadman Wonderland]]''. [[Wild Mass Guessing|Maybe they're related]] like {{spoiler|Toki and Nenene}}.

* [[Bullying a Dragon]]: Yuuki, who can manipulate sound waves, tries to use their shared abusive pasts to [[Not So Different|reason]] with the poison (and other liquids - she hides her many scars under a thick layer of "makeup")-secreting [[Dark Action Girl|Lily]], to no avail.

** In a more recent chapter, some Re-Code punk wannabe tells the Prince off and tried to blow her up. She julienne's him.

* [[Casting a Shadow]]: The Prince's power. {{spoiler|And her brother's. Both "shadows" are strong enough to douse Heike's light and Ogami's fire.}}

* [[Catch Phrase]]: The Code:Breakers often quote the Code of Hamurabi: "An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth--" with a personal touch added to it.

** One of the five Angels is a boy with spiky hair that looks like cat ears who little Ogami instantly names "Catboy". He's the first to play a game where {{spoiler|they take turns sucking power-users lives away. He kills Aoba's squad in five minutes}}.

* [[Cherry Blossom Girl]]: Double the fun - Sakura Sakurakouji.

** Also {{spoiler|her mother Sakurako Sakurakouji}}.

** {{spoiler|One of Saechika's psycho murderer squad neatly shreds his victims and teammates thanks to his diamond blades.}}

* [[Clothing Damage]]: {{spoiler|Kouji ''obliterates'' the Saint Fighters' clothes, then gives them his own since he can't stand to to see girls getting hurt. Also happens to Aoba a lot. Good thing she's a time-master.}}

** Nenene, who loves to randomly grope [[Cute Bruiser|Sakura's]] breasts (and even names them). Not only is Nenene Sakura's ''Sempai'', she's somehow a member of the student council. {{spoiler|Her dad being the prime minister of Japan and head of [[Organization Index|EDEN]] probably had something to do with it. It's revealed that this is her de-powered personality and that her real self is kind of a bitch.}}

** Yuuki, on the other hand is one of the most powerful of the Code:Breakers in [[Organization Index|EDEN]] due to his control of {{spoiler|sound}}. For some reason, his nonsensical behavior annoys the hell out of the usually lackadaisical Toki {{spoiler|who happens to be Nenene's estranged brother. Naturally, Nenene is easily distracted as Sakura says "This is your brother!" while standing in front of a guy with the same hair and [[Mismatched Eyes]] as her.}} To his (or his handlers') credit, Yuuki uses his nonsensical ideas ("He's a middle-aged mushroom suffering from depression") to become the chief of a multi-billion dollar toy empire, although all he really wants/needs are [[The Woobie|friends]].

* [[Dark Is Not Evil]]: Ogami has dark hair, dark clothes, a dark glove, and uses his powers to burn people to death on a regular basis. He's also very much a good guy, going to great lengths to protect his friends and allies.

** Mixing this up a bit with [[Light Is Not Good]], Ogami's ''sempai'' is very sinister and is usually seen reading bondage H-manga, but he can control light (in the form of a ''shibari'' rope, naturally) and is also on the side of good. Though {{spoiler|currently on a different side from Ogami}}.

* [[Dead All Along]]: {{spoiler|Yukihina}} had his "life and living" taken away by {{spoiler|Heike}} many years ago, and is now nigh-indestructible.

* [[Dissonant Serenity]]: Ogami, while burning a bunch of people to death. To quote Sakura, [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/code_breaker/v01/c002/16.html "He looked cold and peaceful...yet cruel."]

** {{spoiler|Little Sakura}}, who kills without malice. It almost seems like if you asked her why she kills she'll look at you as if asked her why she breathes.

** {{spoiler|The ''real'' Nenene}}, who slaughters with a smile.

* [[Eleventh-Hour Superpower]]: Pretty much after the Re-Code Arc, each power user gets one every other chapter.

* [[Equivalent Exchange]]: {{spoiler|Code:Emperor's seven powers are in exchange for Ogami's senses. He's already taken Ogami's sense of taste and now he's taken his newly-acquired sound powers.}}

* [[Evil Is Deathly Cold]]: Sakura, who is sensitive to people's scents and body heat, is shocked when she discovers {{spoiler|her friend Ogami's [[Evil Twin]] [[Light Is Not Good]] possible [[Social Darwinist]] brother}}'s body is "as cold as ceramic".

** One of the Re-codes {{spoiler|Yukihina}} is icy cold, but that's just because {{spoiler|he's been zombified}}.

* [[The Four Gods]] / [[Four Is Death]]: The Four Founders of EDEN {{spoiler|Heike, Code: Emperor, and Sakura's mom}}; they're reverently remembered and their organization has certainly caused a lot of deaths.

** Code:04, a merciless killer with a gentle smile, AKA {{spoiler|Nenene}}

* [[Freudian Trio]]: Childhood friends Yuuki (id), [[Muggle]] Mokoto (ego), and future Re-code Shigure (the one with a bar code for an eyebrow; super-ego).

* [[Friend to All Living Things]] / [[Walking Wasteland]]: {{spoiler|The Prince's brother Saechika, who is shown peacefully surrounded by birds one minute and killing them with his power or his bare hands the next -- one particular parakeet excluded. It's later revealed that the parakeet is his Dark Side, and it's controlling him.}}

* [[Future Me Scares Me|Future Me Disappoints Me]] / [[I Hate Past Me]]: {{spoiler|"The Flame of Pride" takes the form of little Ogami and says he's ashamed he became such an "evil loser". Later, present Ogami declares he doesn't want to remember ''anything'' about his past, not even happy memories.}}

* [[Generation Xerox]]: {{spoiler|Every boy (and girl, if Mishiru's "related") who got the Emperor's flame (I think) starts out looking like Ogami but eventually matures into their own person (see Ogami's brother).}}

* [[Godiva Hair]]: {{spoiler|The Prince's long-lost brother Saechika, a member of Code:Name}}

** [[Expository Hairstyle Change]]: {{spoiler|Little Rui chops off her hair and declares that she'll give up her femininity in order to get strong (Kouji declares that's unnecessary, especially since she (and Saechika) are inclined to long hair); Rui's dark side slashes Saechika's, chopping most of his hair off at the same time he almost seems to consider letting the past go (too bad his dark side won't let him).}}

** {{spoiler|Little Ogami proposed to every girl he met so they could stay together forever; he just didn't want these super-powered people to be lonely.}}

* [[Heroic BSOD]]: After getting utterly defeated by the Angels, it take Ogami setting their stuff on fire to snap them out of it.

** [[Selective Magnetism|Toki]] becomes a child. {{spoiler|The One Being Sought AKA Ogami's brother does too. Or did. Nenene doesn't change appearance but her personality becomes the ditzy girl we first met.}}

** [[Make Me Wanna Shout|Yuuki]] becomes a tiny kitten.

** [[Anti-Magic|Sakura and The President]] shrink but being "Rare Kinds" they require a special liquid made from the a "Rare Kind's" blood to return to normal. Presumably this also applies to the five Angels.

** [[Power of the Void|Kouji]]'s depowered form is apparently {{spoiler|[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/code_breaker/v13/c117/19.html a wolf]. Or Lassie}}.

** Uesugi Hajime and his childhood friend Takatsu Aoba.

* [[Important Haircut]]: Rui, after she's saved from the accident that killed her family {{spoiler|minus her brother}}, to express her resolve to get stronger. {{spoiler|After her victory in a battle with Saechika, she imposes this on him to force him to change his warped ideals.}}

** Well of course she is, they're like 4 years old in that scene.

** The [http://www.mangareader.net/322-22446-7/code-breaker/chapter-10.html seventh chapter] has her yelling at people shooting at her that guns aren't fair. She has never been bright. {{spoiler|Amnesia and getting the murdering part of her personality hugged out of her might have something to do with that.}}

* [[Idiosyncratic Episode Naming]]: The series uses the word "Code" as a quirky episode naming convention.

** Indeed, the facade is getting harder and harder to maintain, as evidenced when {{spoiler|Ogami *doesn't* burn the thank-you note from his classmates after he sheltered them from a typhoon (he'd never been thanked before) and when he makes a [[Suspiciously Specific Denial]] about not caring what's going on with this teammates.}} Hard to believe this is the same guy who would've roasted Sakura without a second thought...

** After their utter defeat by the Five Angels, our heroes (the ones who are still conscious) have been moping around Shibuya Mansion. Ogami gathers up their precious things and starts to burn them (with matches), snapping everyone out of their depression; naturally, by this point everyone knows he's trying to help them and makes fun of his bluff {{spoiler|because they can tell he's still depressed}}.

* [[Katanas Are Just Better]]: {{spoiler|The Sakuranoji siblings - Sakura's biological mother and uncle - both wield huge katanas.}}

* [[Knight Templar]] / [[Blood Knight]]: The Code:Names, who are even more powerful then the Code:Numbers.

* [[The Ladette]]: The Prince, who loves drinking, fishing, and motorcycle riding and wasn't revealed to be a woman until she had a naked-hello with Sakura.

* [[Mask Power]]: {{spoiler|Mishiru: flying black cat masks turn her into Kagemarou}}

* [[Me's a Crowd]]: {{spoiler|One of Heike's powers}}

* [[Miniature Senior Citizens]]: {{spoiler|Aoba's lost state turns out to be that of an incredibly small grandmother. It is unclear if this is how she will look when that old or if the lost state just decided to make her into a small old woman.}}

* [[Mirror Match]]: {{spoiler|Our seven fighters against the Seven Flames, one for each person's flaw: so far we've seen Yuuki's temper and Ogami's pride}}.

* [[Mysterious Parent]]: {{spoiler|Sakura's biological parents. The President can't reveal himself to her for some reason, and neither can her Code Breaker mother.}}

* [[Nakama]]: In addition to the current group, {{spoiler|1=Little Ogami went around asking his new female friends to marry him since marriage = bonded till death, and he didn't want these super-powered girls to be lonely.}}

* [[The Nicknamer]]: The blunt and "amnesiac" (he hadn't met these people yet) [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/code_breaker/v14/c120/5.html "Chibigami".]

** [http://www.mangareader.net/code-breaker/170/13 Chibigami meets the five "Angels".] He dubs the first one he meets "Fussy Lunch", and everyone calls him "Lunch-dono" in the present.

* [[No Sense of Personal Space]]: "Huggergirl" is a very touchy-feely person. Getting hugged freaks her out though.

** "Misoshiru" is a hikkikomori who would rather talk to her animals, but she somehow has "fans" {{spoiler|who basically make her homecoming queen. Of course, she is extremely pretty for a girl who lives in a closet}}.

* [[Not a Date]]: Sakura, sensing Ogami needs cheering up after everyone was beaten by the Five Angels, takes him out to dinner, gets matching phone charms (despite Ogami not owning a phone), and ''gets in bed with him''. {{spoiler|She's actually recreating what her parents (actually her aunt and uncle) did to make her feel like family when she went to live with them.}} Unbelievably, she still insists that her excitement and rapid heart rate being in bed with Ogami is just high blood pressure.

* [[Not So Different]]: Subverted when an evil character says she was severely abused because of her powers, and a good character says that he too was abused. They go through a [[Defeat Means Friendship]] moment {{spoiler|and then the villain drops all the people she's frozen into a pit}}. It seems that Defeat has nothing on [[Even Evil Has Standards|treating someone like a human being]]. {{spoiler|It eventually works.}}

* [[Oblivious to Love]]: Sakura: I'm feeling anxious and jumpy around {{spoiler|Ogami after learning he asked me to marry him as a child}}. It's obviously my blood pressure! {{spoiler|And she's obviously lying!}}

* [[Older Than They Look]]: [[Moe Blob|She]] looks like Sakura's little sister. But wait! That's her mom (although she's a bit more endowed)! {{spoiler|Sakura's biological mom could pass for her big sister, and is ''really'' more endowed.}}

** {{spoiler|"The One Being Sought" is actually Ogami's older brother, it's just that he's been "locked" in a younger form for a while.}}

** {{spoiler|Code:Emperor, being just an arm, only has enough energy to manifest as a young boy.}}

** The five Angels are so far only known by [http://www.mangainn.com/manga/chapter/82908_the-angels-of-december-32/page_13 the nicknames Ogami gave them when he was 5.] This extends to people like {{spoiler|Sakura's bio-mom}} who ought to know their actual names.

* [[The Only One Allowed to Defeat You]]: Ogami to "The One Being Sought"; the Re:Codes to Ogami {{spoiler|hence why they're protecting him from EDEN. The Prince has also vowed to "beat some sense into her brother, because that's what sisters do".}}

* [[Our Ghosts Are Different|Our Ghosts]] [[Our Souls Are Different|and/or Souls Are Different]]: {{spoiler|Code:Emperor can summon the souls of the dead, and uses this to upset the Prince; however all he ends up doing is revealing that Prince's brother is alive.}}

* [[Our Werewolves Are Different]]: {{spoiler|Kouji}} becomes a wolf when his powers are depleted.

* [[Parental Abandonment]]: [[Jerkass Facade|Ogami's]] parents were murdered; [[Mismatched Eyes|Toki's]] father is a heartless [[Jerkass]] (and also {{spoiler|and also Prime Minister of Japan and a leader of EDEN}} with no mention of a mom; [[Genki Girl|Sakura]] ''appears'' to be an aversion {{spoiler|but she's actually adopted and has no memory before the age of 5, and it turns out that her birth parents (the president and a code breaker who can control dolls) are actually alive but for some reason can't see her}}. Yuuki has no parents {{spoiler|and might not actually be human.}} It also appears that {{spoiler|Ogami's mother was murdered by "The One Being Sought" because she was trying to protect Ogami... and ''Sakura''. Additionally, The Prince's parents also had superpowers, and were killed because of it.}}

* [[Pay Evil Unto Evil]]: The modus operandi of the Code:Breakers {{spoiler|and now their superiors the Code:Names}}.

** {{spoiler|Kouji}} is even known as the God of Destruction because of that trope.

* [[Pinky Swear]]: Sakura made her father promise as a child {{spoiler|to not kill people despite being a Yakuza leader- as a bit of a twist on this trope, she references [[Yubitsume|him cutting off the finger]] if he breaks his promise}}.

* [[Pure Is Not Good]]: {{spoiler|Sakura's original personality. She's so beautifully pure and innocent that she doesn't kill out of malice, she just kills.}}

* [[Pyromaniac]]: Ogami, obviously.

* [[Revenge]]: Code:Revenger, obviously, after {{spoiler|Ogami burned down her orphanage that was staffed by nuns}}.

* [[The Reveal]]: {{spoiler|Ogami is a hybrid; Sakura's father is one of the Four Founders of EDEN (as is her mother and Heike), little Sakura killed Ogami, no wait "Fussy Lunch" was the one who killed little Ogami after Ogami attacked Sakura.}}

* [[Scars Are Forever]]: {{spoiler|Kouji has a distinctive scar around his left eye that Toki uses to ID him as his sister's killer. The ''real'' killer, Saechika, also has the same scar so either they both coincidentally have the same scar or Kouji gave himself that scar as part of his plan to stop the cycle of revenge.}}

* [[School Uniforms Are the New Black]]: Sakura always wears her uniform, as does Ogami (though it's just a plain shirt and slacks). Toki and {{spoiler|The Prince's brother}} wear another school's uniform just to blend in, although {{spoiler|Saechika}} has such long [[Godiva Hair]] he actually stood out a lot less when he was just in a hooded [[Badass Longcoat]]. Hiyori, the Re:Code who can [[Sphere of Destruction|Swiss-cheese everything]] wears a stylized school uniform as part of her Bad Ass Lolita-look.

* [[Secret Test of Character]]: {{spoiler|Code:Emperor does this when he forces Ogami to save either Yuuki, "that hugger girl", or their classmates and let the other two choices die in order to get his powers back. Ogami chooses to kill the Emperor and save everyone; naturally this is the correct answer and the Emperor rewards him with an upgrade.}}

** {{spoiler|Sakura's bio-mom poses one for Sakura and Ogami by acting like thrill killer and slicing Sakura in half}}.

* [[Selective Magnetism]]: Toki's power is this trope. The largest abuse is that mercury is not magnetic at all. [[Rule of Cool]] is in full force.

* [[Seven Deadly Sins]]: {{spoiler|Code:Emperor's body parts can each destroy one the the sins:}}

** [[Enemy Without|How convenient:]]

7. {{spoiler|Yukihina: Envy (already defeated; stated by Heike)}} }}

* [[Shock and Awe]]: Hitomi's ability allows him to control electricity.

* [[Sibling Yin-Yang]]: {{spoiler|Rui was cynical about helping people (including herself) while Saechika is obsessed with becoming absolute justice and preventing anyone from feeling the same pain as him, even if he has to kill loads of people.}}

* [[Slasher Smile]]: Most of the prominent cast has this, but some notable ones are [http://www.mangareader.net/code-breaker/129/20 Yukihina]'s and [http://www.mangareader.net/code-breaker/151/11 Heike]'s.

* [[Sleep Mode Size]] {{spoiler|Kind of odd version, as Toki already looks like a bishounen high school student, but after he exhausts his powers, his real form is revealed to be that of a kid several years younger. Semi-similarly, Code:Emperor has been reduced to an arm, and is he wants to talk can only take the form of a tiny fireball. In Ogami's Personal Hell he's a young boy due the fact that he's got the same amount of "chakra" as, y'know, an arm. Rare kinds Sakura, the President, and presumably the Angels shrink, while Aoba becomes a "tiny granny". Other power-users can become tiny animals like baby turtles and rats.}}

* [[Social Darwinist]]: Though not yet outright stated, {{spoiler|Ogami's brother}} implies this is [[Terrorists Without a Cause|his group's ideal]] when he wonders why Ogami is protecting an ordinary(?) human.

** [[Beehive Barrier]]: The Angels are totally unaffected by the destruction caused by {{spoiler|Toki lobbing iron beams while Saechika brings an entire building down on them}}.

* [[Stepford Smiler]]: Ogami (pleasant but distant; is actually a [[Serial Killer Killer]]) and Heike (polite but perverse and is actually {{spoiler|thirsting for revenge "like a mad dog" and really 100 years old}}), along with Code:Revenger {{spoiler|Aoba, who is/was Sakura's ditzy-looking classmate}}. {{spoiler|Toki's dad, aka the PM of Japan aka leader of EDEN}} goes into a [[Slasher Smile]] routine when he threatens to {{spoiler|use Pandora's Box on Nenene and force her to fight}}.

* [[Super Speed]]: Both Tenpouin Yuuki and {{spoiler|Takatsu Aoba}} are in possession of this.

* [[Take a Third Option]]: See [[Secret Test of Character]].

* [[Team Mom|Team]] [[Team Dad|Parents]]: Ogami and Sakura, especially Sakura: she will do [http://www.mangareader.net/322-37865-8/code-breaker/chapter-63.html anything] to ensure together time to try and make them be friends. Prince, being a proper Japanese lady under her [[Ladette]] surface, is also very maternal.

** When they meet the reclusive Mishiru, Prince and Ogami are compelled to clean her room and give her a shower, respectively.

* [[Third Person Person]]: Lily is going to kill you now, Lily is very excited! {{spoiler|Lily has changed her mind, Lily thinks you guys are awesome!}}

* [[Time Master]]: {{spoiler|Aoba's special power is the ability to control the time of any object/person she touches. She can even "pause" death, but can't stop it.}}

* [[True Neutral]]: {{spoiler|Sakura's parents stayed out of EDEN's business to ensure that Sakura grew up normally and to preserve peace between power-users and Rare Kinds.}}

* [[Tyke Bomb]]s: Loads

* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: Like many things he did in the past Ogami's got to have a good reason for {{spoiler|burning down an orphanage full with nuns and apparently exploding Prince's family}}, but still!

* [[We Have Reserves]]: EDEN has lots of {{spoiler|artificial humans -- including artificial ''children''}} they don't really care about.

* [[When She Smiles]]: {{spoiler|Ogami}} has the sweetest smile after {{spoiler|learning Sakura wasn't really sliced in half}}.

* [[Where I Was Born and Razed]]: {{spoiler|Shibuya Mansion gets destroyed after EDEN turns on Ogami.}}

* [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?]]: Sakura is terrified of fireworks, as shown in the summer festival and {{spoiler|after "The One Being Sought" was defeated.}}

* [[Wouldn't Hit a Girl]]: {{spoiler|Kouji, who refuses to harm Aoba and her all-girl goon squad}}.

* [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds]]: {{spoiler|When Saechika woke up from being exploded years later he vowed to "become justice and destroy evil even at the cost of others' lives" and declares himself the be "the ultimate victim, the only one who deserves forgiveness". He appears to have gotten better after his dark side was pieced by his big sister.}}

* [[You Are Number Six]]: The Code:Numbers would only refer to each other by their [[Department of Redundancy Department|code numbers]] (Ogami is 06, a low number; likewise for the Code:Names).

** Yuuki says the he calls his friends by numbers.

* [[You Killed My Father]]: {{spoiler|Re:Code 3 Kouji, with a scar on his face, is responsible for killing Toki's sister a while back... or at least causing a whole lot of memory loss.}} Or not: {{spoiler|that was actually Saechika, but Kouji didn't want Toki to kill him and in turn get killed by Prince for murdering her long-lost brother, so he let Toki believe it was him.}}

 

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