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Characters from the anime/manga series ''[[Darker than Black]]''. When reading these, bear in mind that pretty much all Contractor characters are also [[Stoic]] [[Tin Man|Tin Men]] with [[Conditional Powers]] and display [[Lack of Empathy]], while Dolls are all [[True Neutral]] [[Emotionless Girl|Emotionless Persons]] verging on [[Empty Shell]]s.

== The protagonists ==
A special operations team employed by [[The Syndicate]].

=== Hei ===
[[File:Hei 6618.png|frame]]

[[The Hero]] (well, for [[Anti-Hero|a given level of "hero"]]), a.k.a. Li Shengshun, a.k.a. Lee Hyeonsik, a.k.a. [[You Are Number Six|BK-201]], a.k.a. LI-KUN!!! a.k.a. [[Badass Nickname|The Black Reaper]], a.k.a. [[Fan Nickname|Chinese Electric Batman]]. An agent of [[The Syndicate]], doing their dirty work to retrieve items and information related to Hell's Gate. He works undercover as [[Nice Guy]] exchange student "Li Shengshun," taking menial jobs [[Why Do You Keep Changing Jobs?|wherever the higher-ups need him]], relying on [[Obfuscating Stupidity|his apparent naivety]] to avoid suspicion. He has the Contractor ability to [[Shock and Awe|manipulate electricity]] and [[Badass Longcoat|the most awesome coat in the universe]], and is a weapons-grade [[Chick Magnet]] to boot.

Has an ''incredibly'' [[Dark and Troubled Past]] featuring [[Shell-Shocked Veteran|war]], betrayal, and [[Dead Little Sister|the disappearance of his younger sister]], and bringing it up is generally [[Berserk Button|a really bad idea]] and one of the few ways to [[Not So Stoic|get a reaction]] [[The Stoic|out of him]].

* [[Adorkable]]: Li. Very, very much.
* [[Anti-Hero]]: [[Sliding Scale of Anti-Heroes|Type IV.]].
* [[Anti-Villain]]
* [[Badass]]: Extremely:
** [[Badass Abnormal]]: He was known as the Black Reaper even before he ended up with {{spoiler|his sister's}} powers. The electrical manipulation just makes him even scarier.
** [[Badass Longcoat]]: So badass, in fact, that the coat is bulletproof ''only when he wears it''.
** [[Badass Nickname]]
** {{spoiler|[[Badass Normal]]: Both before the Heaven's Gate event and in season 2.}}
* [[Berserk Button]]: His sister, and in fact [[Shell-Shocked Veteran|most anything about Heaven's War]].
** And in season 2 {{spoiler|[[Love Interests|anything regarding Yin.]]}}
* [[Big Brother Instinct]]: Towards the aforementioned little sister in the past, and, depending on whether you're wearing [[Shipping Goggles]] or not, [[Morality Pet|Yin]]. Toward the end of the second season, {{spoiler|he also starts to treat Suou this way.}}
* [[Big Eater]]
{{quote|'''Chiaki:''' You are going to get ''so'' fat. Sure, maybe you can get away with it now, but once you hit thirty and your metabolism slows down-- well, if there's any ''justice'' in the world...}}
* [[Bishonen]]: [[Lighter and Softer|First manga]] only. The art is much more stylized than either anime series or the second manga, making him look pretty instead of handsome.
* [[Break the Cutie]]: Heaven's War and most of the interquel OVA.
* [[Broken Faceplate]]: One of the most common and effective ways to show that a foe is to be feared is for them to break Hei's mask.
* {{spoiler|[[Brought Down to Badass]]}}: Second season.
* [[Chick Magnet]]: Boy howdy. Almost every woman he interacts with either falls in love with him or treats him as an honorary family member, be they an [[Emotionless Girl]], a [[Magnificent Bastard]], the [[Fair Cop]] [[Fatal Attraction|trying to catch him]], or someone whose first sight of him was the (apparent) murder of her father.
* [[Combat Pragmatist]]: Has absolutely no qualms about attacking from ambush, playing dead, using [[Improvised Weapon|anything handy]] as a weapon, or using supernatural powers in a fistfight, and ''will'' hit girls if he needs to.
* [[Cover-Blowing Superpower]]: At one point, he's undercover as a waiter in a restaurant, and a violent, drunk customer tries to walk out without paying and he ends up in the way. [[Crowning Moment of Funny|Hilarious]] [[Deadly Dodging]] ensues.
* [[The Cowl]]: He fits this almost perfectly except for the fact that a lot of his behavior is [[Gray and Grey Morality|far from]] [[Anti-Hero|traditionally heroic]]. A [[Fan Nickname]] [[Counterpart Comparison|ensued]].
* [[Dark and Troubled Past]]: Extremely.
* [[Dating Catwoman]]: His relationship as Li with Kirihara.
* [[Dead Little Sister]]: And you will ''suffer'' if he thinks you know anything about what happened to her.
* [[Drill Sergeant Nasty]]: Good luck if you have to [[Training from Hell|train with him]].
* [[Dull Eyes of Unhappiness]]: Permanently. Because his eyes are [[Black Eyes|black]], you can count on one hand the number of times you can tell the pupils from the irises, and they get stylized to dark blue-gray. We never once see light reflecting off them.
** Quite a few contractors display this in the series, to signify how they aren't happy, or anything else regarding emotions for that matter. {{spoiler|Which makes the revelation that Hei isn't properly a Contractor and doesn't have their sociopathy all the more horrible, because he was ''already like that before he got powers''.}}
* [[Evil Sounds Deep]]: Evil is pushing it but Li and Hei sound different.
* [[Expository Hairstyle Change]]: [[Mr. Fanservice]] to [[Perma-Stubble|Perma Stubbled]], long-haired "sexy hobo" between seasons. {{spoiler|Then [[He's Back|back to normal]] after he gets to a stash of [[Hidden Supplies]] in Tokyo.}}
* [[Expressive Mask]]: Very subtly. While his mask's mouth is usually angled upwards in a grin, during serious scenes it's angled downwards (with a little help from the camera) into a much more somber/neutral expression.
* [[Eyes Always Shut]]: Fits the [[Obfuscating Stupidity]] version- "Li" often has these, and you know it's Hei when his eyes open and they're cold, [[Dull Eyes of Unhappiness|blank, and unreflective]].
* [[Face Palm of Doom]]: All the time; it seems to be his preferred method of frying someone.
* [[Fan Nickname]]: Chinese Electric Batman, for pretty obvious reasons. In the second season, with the addition of [[Wild Hair]] and [[Perma-Stubble]], he has been dubbed "Hobo Hei."
** Or "Heibo", if you're one of those informal types.
* [[Good Eyes, Evil Eyes]]: Watching Hei's eyes in an episode where he's mostly being Li is highly entertaining, just to see if you can spot the moments where his personality switches. In general, as Li, they're either [[Eyes Always Shut|closed]] or very wide, and narrower the rest of the time.
** [http://media.photobucket.com/image/darker%20than%20black%20li/Gackt4life/darker%2520than%2520black/DTBHei-LiTrial.jpg This picture] gives a pretty good comparison.
* [[Grappling Hook Pistol]]: Or rather, retractable cables with snap-hooks. Though twice, when he's had to get a cable particularly far away, he used a crossbow.
* {{spoiler|[[Half-Human Hybrid]]: He's not quite a Contractor- he has his sister's powers, but normal emotions and no remuneration.}}
* [[Heroic Neutral]]: He'd really prefer to just be left alone, but the Syndicate isn't about to let someone so useful get away from them. Consequently, although he usually [[Punch Clock Villain|just does what he's told]], he's still the group's loose cannon and will occasionally ignore orders entirely.
* [[He's Back]]: While he starts off the second season in [[Drowning My Sorrows|rather bad shape]], by episodes 8 and 9, he's looking and acting more like his old self, {{spoiler|[[De-Power]] be damned}}.
* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: Why is [[Monster (manga)|Tenma]] killing people? With a little bit of [[Actor Allusion]] thrown in with the [[Expository Hairstyle Change|hobo appearance]] in the second season.
** You might also recognize his dub voice; add a Brooklyn accent and you have [[Baccano!|Luck Gandor]].
* [[Hidenobu Kiuchi]]
* [[Iconic Item]]: His [[Badass Longcoat]], [[White Mask of Doom]], and [[Knife Nut|knives]].
* [[I Have Many Names]]: Well, to start with he's Hei, BK-201, and the Black Reaper and uses at least two different aliases (and probably more), not to mention [[Only Known by Their Nickname|whatever his real name is]], Mayu's... [[Female Gaze|description of him]], and, if you want to get a bit meta, his [[Fan Nickname]].
* [[Immune to Bullets]]: Thanks to his coat. Subverted when {{spoiler|Huang}} shoots him in the leg when he isn't wearing it and he spends the rest of the episode limping.
* [[Important Haircut]]: Once he arrives back in Tokyo in the second season, he does this to illustrate his return to his former self.
* [[Jason Liebrecht]]
* [[Jerkass]]: On a bad day. The second season [[Took a Level in Jerkass|has a very long string of bad days]], though.
* [[Jerkass Facade]]: The entire Black Reaper personality.
* [[Just a Flesh Wound]]: He doesn't tend to get slowed down much by stuff like a bullet through his leg or a spar of wood a foot long stuck in his shoulder.
* [[Launcher of a Thousand Ships]]: Hei has been shipped with everything. [[Foe Yay]], [[Brother-Sister Incest]], [[Interspecies Romance]]... ''everything''. It doesn't help that even ''in-universe'' he gets written into [[Slash Fic]]s, or that in a flashback, Amber thought that Hei holding his sister in his arms {{spoiler|while she slept off her Remuneration}} looked "[[Sleep Cute|romantic]]."
* [[Lightning Can Do Anything]]: Averted most of the time, but given that {{spoiler|the ability underlying this is quantum manipulation of matter}}, there are... exceptions. Especially when [[Eldritch Location|Hell's Gate]] is involved.
* [[Love Makes You Crazy]]: In season 2 {{spoiler|he's willing to kill and [[Torture Technician|torture to death just to find information regarding Yin's location.]] Doesn't help he was only willing to go back to work when he was told that she was still alive.}}
* [[Malevolent Masked Man]]: The way most of the cast sees him. [[Mook Horror Show|Makes sense]].
* [[Mask Power]]
* [[Meaningful Name]]: 'Hei' is the Chinese pronunciation of 黒, the character that means 'black' in both Chinese and Japanese.
* [[Mr. Fanservice]]: A [[Tall, Dark and Handsome|very good-looking]] [[Badass]] with a [[Dark and Troubled Past]] who can qualify for both [[All Girls Want Bad Boys]] and [[Nice Guy]] and can be almost ''cute'' when someone gets past his [[Sugar and Ice Personality|shell]]? Yeah, there's a reason pretty much [[Chick Magnet|every single female he interacts with for any length of time]] ends up crushing on him or treating him as a surrogate family member. Especially since [[Supreme Chef|he's a really good cook]].
* [[Mook Horror Show]]: The Black Reaper ''earned'' that [[Badass Nickname|name]].
* [[Mugging the Monster]]: Pro tip: if you're going to try to walk out of a restaurant without paying, make sure that the [[Adorkable|cute, clumsy]] waiter you attack for getting in your way isn't a [[Badass Abnormal|superpowered ninja]] known and feared throughout the criminal underworld who can [[Deadly Dodging|"accidentally" send you careening into furniture]].
* [[Mundane Utility]]: He can use his abilities to zap people, crack locks, knock people out, {{spoiler|defibrillate his own heart}}... or fix a TV. (Though [[Fridge Brilliance|it might take you a while to realize that's what he did]])
* [[Nice Guy]]: As Li. Even as himself, he's [[Took a Level in Jerkass|usually]] way nicer than most Contractors, and given {{spoiler|[[Reality Warper|the full extent of his abilities]]}}, he could be much, ''[[A God Am I|much]]'' worse.
* [[No Koreans in Japan]]: Subverted; Hei uses a Korean alias, Lee Hyeonsik, as a civilian disguise in Season 2.
* [[Not So Stoic]]: Though he's deeply in denial about most of his feelings, they show through occasionally.
* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]: In his Li Shengshun persona. Li isn't ''stupid'' per se, but he's a [[Adorkable|clumsy, naive, and generally harmless dork]]. Well, [[Cover-Blowing Superpower|unless you attack him with a broken bottle]].
* [[Offscreen Teleportation]]: Once, he managed to disappear from about ten feet in front of Kirihara in the time it took her to put on her glasses, while she was pointing a gun at him and he had a bullet wound in his leg that had him limping badly. And there wasn't anything tall enough to do a [[Building Swing]] escape in the area, so that possibility is out.
* [[One Hero, Hold the Weaksauce]]: Hei doesn't appear to have a [[Conditional Powers|Remuneration]].
* [[Only Known by Their Nickname]]: "Hei" is Chinese for "black," and odds are pretty much certain it has nothing to do with his real name.
* [[Paper-Thin Disguise]]: Played with. When he's on a job, he wears a white mask and a  {{spoiler|bullet resistant}} black overcoat. However, it's less of a disguise, more of means to keep witnesses from getting too close a look at him. It works because he moves too fast for anyone to get more than a glimpse of ''The Black Reaper''.
* [[The Paralyzer]]: Though he uses the "[[Touch of Death|walking downed power line]]" attack more often, he's also able to knock someone out with a touch.
* [[Psycho Electro]]: Generally an aversion. ''[[Berserk Button|Generally]]''.
* [[Punch Clock Villain]]: See [[Heroic Neutral]].
* {{spoiler|[[Reality Warper]]}}: {{spoiler|[[Shock and Awe]] is only one manifestation of a more general quantum-manipulation ability that Dr. Schrader mentioned could even be used for [[Super Empowering]]. When he's in the Gate, he can basically restructure ''everything'' around him.}}
* [[Secret Identity Identity]]: He has distinctly different personalities as Li, Hei, and the Black Reaper.
* [[Shell-Shocked Veteran]]: While nowhere near as severe as Havock, he still hasn't gotten over Heaven's War.
* [[Shock and Awe]]
* {{spoiler|[[Soul Fragment]]}}: {{spoiler|The source of his powers is what's left of his sister's mind after Heaven's Gate fused them.}}
* [[Static Stun Gun]]
* [[Stealth Hi Bye]]: He's a master at this, to the point of [[Offscreen Teleportation]].
* [[The Stoic]]
** Borderline [[Stoic Woobie]]; remember his [[Dark and Troubled Past|traumatic personal history]] and that {{spoiler|he never wanted to be involved in any of this and the only reason he's working for the Syndicate is that they'd kill him if he tried to leave}}, and the reason he pretends to be a vicious, emotionless killer becomes a good deal clearer.
* [[Sugar and Ice Personality]]: Underneath the [[Obfuscating Stupidity]], [[stoic]]ism, and [[Jerkass Facade]], Hei is actually the result of a [[Nice Guy]] being [[Shell-Shocked Veteran|forced to fight]] [[Child Soldiers|since he was a teenager]], and he's ''very'' protective of his [[Nakama]].
* [[Superpower Lottery]]: A low-key win at first glance; he's got a pretty powerful attack that can also be scaled back for [[Static Stun Gun|nonlethal takedowns]], and doesn't have to go line up pebbles or anything similarly inconvenient every time he uses it. However, {{spoiler|it turns out he ''really'' hit the jackpot-- his powers are from his sister, so he's got ''no'' remuneration, and under the right circumstances he's an honest-to-god [[Reality Warper]].}}
* [[Supreme Chef]]: Oddly enough. Presumably it's due to [[Big Eater|a lot of practice]].
* [[Took a Level in Jerkass]]: ''Something'' happened between him and Yin in the [[Time Skip]] between the two seasons, and as a consequence for much of the second season he acts like a [[Drowning My Sorrows|drunken]], violent jerk.
* [[Touch of Death]]: If he can touch you, he can zap you to death.
* [[Tranquil Fury]]: When he's angry, it's a vicious, cold anger.
* [[Underestimating Badassery]]: You'd ''think'' that the fact that he was called the Black Reaper when he was just a [[Badass Normal]] [[Child Soldier]] would be a tip-off, but apparently a lot of people missed the memo.
* [[When She Smiles|When He Smiles:]] According to Amber, he has the most ''beautiful'' smile. Sadly, given the nature of the series, we never get to see the real deal. [[Offscreen Moment of Awesome|Aw.]]
** In a [[Hope Spot]] in the [[Interquel]], we see that [http://i49.tinypic.com/dphlkl.png she has a point].
* [[Villain Protagonist]]
* [[White Mask of Doom]]
* [[Why Do You Keep Changing Jobs?]]: Because he's undercover. Parodied in the omake.
* [[The Worf Effect]]: The [[interquel]]s and second season feature quite a few instances of this, though it makes some sense when you consider that he had the element of surprise in almost every fight he got into in the original series.

=== Yin ===
[[File:Yin 5536.png|frame]]

A doll assigned to Hei's group. A clairvoyant [[Emotionless Girl]] with the ability to project surveillance specters through water, she acts as the group's recon unit.

In the second season, she {{spoiler|develops a [[Super-Powered Evil Side]], Izanami, that causes Contractors to turn their powers on themselves and is [[Mind Screw|apparently]] trying to cause [[The End of the World as We Know It]]. She manages to suppress it, but winds up comatose-- and when someone wakes her up, Izanami wakes up with her.}}

* [[Anti-Hero]] / [[Anti-Villain]]
* {{spoiler|[[Apocalypse Maiden]]}}: Second season.
* [[Blind Seer]]: It's not obvious that she's blind until a flashback from before the appearance of the Gates, since her abilities pretty much perfectly compensate for it.
* [[Brina Palencia]]
* {{spoiler|[[Brown Note]]: In Season Two she triggers Contractors to commit suicide.}}
* [[The Comically Serious]]: This is probably the best explanation for why an [[Emotionless Girl]] reciting [[Crack Fic]] in a [[Creepy Monotone]] is [[Crowning Moment of Funny|so damn funny]].
* {{spoiler|[[Convenient Coma]]: Puts herself into one to stop her [[Super-Powered Evil Side]].}}
* [[Covert Pervert]]: Apparently Kiko introduced her to slash fic.
* [[Emotionless Girl]]
* [[Extreme Doormat]]
* {{spoiler|[[Face Heel Turn]]: Forced into it.}} [[Mind Screw|Or something]].
* [[Frozen Face]]
* [[Heroic Albino]] - Fits with her [[Meaningful Name]], which means silver in Chinese.
* {{spoiler|[[I Cannot Self-Terminate]]: Asks Hei to kill her to destroy Izanami. He can't bring himself to.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Living MacGuffin]]}}: In the second season.
* [[Mission Control]]
* [[Morality Chain]] / [[Morality Pet]]: Hei cares for her and gets pretty violent whenever someone tries to kidnap her, and losing her between the [[interquel]]s and the second season drove him to [[Drowning My Sorrows|start drinking]] and [[Took a Level in Jerkass|act like a complete jerk]].
* [[Misato Fukuen]]
* [[Mysterious Waif]]
* [[Not Himself|Not Herself]]: At one point in the [[Interquel|Gaiden OVAs]], she speaks up out of the blue and starts coldly analyzing the problems with Hei's plan, then suggests another idea. He's rather creeped out, and it only gets worse a minute later when {{spoiler|she says she doesn't remember saying anything}}.
* [[Not So Stoic]]: She starts crying in one episode and occasionally shows evidence of a crush on [[Chick Magnet|Hei]].
* [[Only Known by Their Nickname]]: Her real name is Kirsi and she's Finnish
* [[Purple Eyes]]
* [[Rei Ayanami Expy]]
* [[Tears From a Stone]]
* [[The Un-Smile]]: She uses her fingers. However, unlike most examples of the trope, it's [[Moe|cute]] rather than disturbing.
* [[White-Haired Pretty Girl]]

=== Huang ===
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Hei's "handler," a Syndicate employee who relays his instructions and acts as backup when necessary.

* [[Anti-Hero]] / [[Anti-Villain]]
* [[Badass Normal]]
* [[Bullying a Dragon]]: "I'm pissed! Guess I better pick up the [[Person of Mass Destruction]] by the front of his shirt and scream in his face!"
* {{spoiler|[[Dying Moment of Awesome]]: "Sorry... you've just caught an old man." *[[Taking You with Me|KABOOM]]* }}
* [[Friendly Sniper]]: Not exactly the cuddliest guy, but he has a good heart and he's definitely far from being a [[Cold Sniper]].
* [[Gonk]]
* [[The Handler]] / [[Mission Control]]: He's the one who relays missions to Hei.
* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]
* [[Never Gets Drunk]]: Even when he ''[[I Need a Freaking Drink|really wants to]]''.
* [[Noble Bigot with a Badge]]: He used to be a police officer, even.
* [[Only Known by Their Nickname]]: Huang, which means yellow, fits the color theme of the group, but his actual name (as revealed in episodes showing his past) is Kuno.
* [[Pretend Prejudice]]: He never stops calling Contractors monsters or insulting Hei, but is ultimately pretty friendly with the rest of his team.
* {{spoiler|[[Taking You with Me]]}}
* [[The Team Normal]]

=== Mao ===
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A body-swapping contractor trapped in a cat's body who helps Hei's group.

* [[Anti-Hero]] / [[Anti-Villain]]
* [[Body Surf]]: He has the ability to do this, but only between animals.
* {{spoiler|[[Butt Monkey]]: The second season has a lot of Mao-abuse.}}
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]
* [[The Heart]]: While it's not obvious given his kind of snarky tone, Mao is one of the nicest Contractor characters and tends to bring out the best in Huang and Hei.
* {{spoiler|[[Unexplained Recovery]]: There's no real explanation given for why he's fine again in Season 2.}}
** {{spoiler|Actually, he mentions that he had a backup stored, but he lost all his memories from the gate incident.}}
* [[Insistent Terminology]]: {{spoiler|Mao is very clear on the point that he's not a squirrel, just a cat temporarily in a squirrel body}}.
* [[Intellectual Animal]]
* [[Meaningful Name]]: "Mao" means "cat" in Chinese and sounds very similar to "meow."
* [[The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body]]: His mind is mostly stored on a computer somewhere; without that, he reverts to being a cat.
* [[Mundane Fantastic]]: Very few of the people he interacts with are particularly surprised by a [[Talking Animal]]. However, this is probably just due to exposure, since several characters are ''very'' surprised when he starts talking.
* {{spoiler|[[Non-Indicative Name]]: Mao worked fine when he was in a cat body, but now he's a squirrel...}}
* {{spoiler|[[Not Quite Dead]]: He comes back in the second season}}
* [[Only Known by Their Nickname]]: His original name ({{spoiler|Ricardo}}) isn't revealed until episode 11 of the second season.
* {{spoiler|[[Ridiculously Cute Critter]]: In the second season, where he now inhabits Suo's pet squirrel}}.
* [[Snarky Non-Human Sidekick]]: Oh yes.
* [[Talking Animal]]: Well, a human in a cat's body, anyway.
* [[Team Pet]]
* [[Token Non-Human]]
* [[Voices Are Mental]]: His voice sounds exactly the same (and disproportionately deep) as a cat, a bird, or {{spoiler|a flying squirrel}}, and one character who knew him as a human recognizes him by it.

=== Suō Pavlichenko ===
The second main protagonist, besides Hei, of Season 2, a half-Japanese half-Russian schoolgirl. Her father is a scientist studying ME and her brother is a Contractor; her mother is a photographer who moved to Japan eight years ago. She gets pulled into the plot because of attempts to capture her twin and winds up hanging around Hei. {{spoiler|In the third episode, she develops the Contractor ability to summon an [[BFG|anti-tank rifle]] and [[Small Girl, Big Gun|wield it easily despite its size]].}}

* [[Action Girl]]
* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: Harm {{spoiler|July}} and Suo will show no mercy.
* [[BFG]]
* [[Bokukko]]
* [[But Not Too Foreign]]: She is half-Russian, half-Japanese.
* {{spoiler|[[Cloning Blues]]}}: {{spoiler|According to her mother, a copy of the real Suou. According to her father, an [[Opposite Gender Clone]] of Shion. Either way, she's upset about it, and angsts until Hei snaps her out of it.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Cold Sniper]]: When in "Contractor-mode."}}
* {{spoiler|[[Dead All Along]]}}
* {{spoiler|[[Fake Memories]]}}: {{spoiler|Her memories are mostly fabricated.}}
* [[Fan Nickname]]: [[Mary Sue|Mary Suoh]].
* {{spoiler|[[Half-Human Hybrid]]: Like Hei, she has Contractor powers while retaining human emotions/morals. Unlike him though, she does have a Remuneration and temporarily loses those emotions/morals when her powers activate.}}
* [[Half-Identical Twins|Half Identical Twin]]{{spoiler|: Subverted.}}
* [[Kana Hanazawa]]
* [[Little Miss Badass]]
* [[Mad Scientist's Beautiful Daughter]]: {{spoiler|Or is [[Tomato in the Mirror|she]]?}}
* [[Mind Control Eyes]]: When she's particularly upset.
* [[No Periods, Period]]: Averted  {{spoiler|and responsible for temporary [[Power Incontinence]]}}.
* {{spoiler|[[Opposite Gender Clone]]}}
* [[Precocious Crush]]: Comes to have one of these on [[Chick Magnet|Hei]].
* [[Redheaded Hero]]
* [[Small Girl, Big Gun]]
* {{spoiler|[[Super-Powered Evil Side]]: When being driven to the brink, her necklace becomes a [[BFG]] and she becomes a merciless Contractor, albeit one who wants to kill other Contractors for their evil actions. After this first time though, she retains her morality when using her powers.}}
* [[Token Loli]]
* [[Tomato in the Mirror]]: {{spoiler|When she finally meets her mother, she learns that the real [[Dead All Along|Suou died years ago]]. She's a clone with [[Fake Memories]]. Then she meets her ''father'', who says she's an [[Opposite Gender Clone]] of Shion.}} The timing makes these stories mutually contradictory. [[Mind Screw|Much confusion was had]].
* [[Training from Hell]]: Hei is a sucky teacher, at least when [[Took a Level in Jerkass|depressed, drunk, and angry at the world]].
* [[Tranquil Fury]]: You don't want to see her mad. Seriously.
* [[Twin Switch]]
* [[Unperson]]: After the incident that kicks off the whole mess, she gets wiped from all her friends' and acquaintances' memories.


== Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department Public Security Bureau ==

=== Misaki Kirihara ===
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The head of the TMPD's PSB Foreign Affair Division, Section 4, which covertly deals with contractor-related crimes and terrorism; she takes a special interest in the cases related to BK-201 that starts to grow into an obsession with time.

* [[Action Girl]]: On a good day.
* [[Badass]]: Her performances in ''[[Comic Book Adaptation|Shikkoku no Hana.]]'' One involved a [[Car Fu|car.]]
* [[Big Eater]]: Not as much as Hei, but she likes greasy food.
* [[Blind Without'Em]]: When she's not wearing her glasses, she squints all the time.
* [[Christmas Cake]]
* [[Cool Car]]: Her blue Porsche 997 Carrera.
* [[Dating Catwoman]]: Her relationship with "Li"- given the morality of the series, it's hard to tell which of them is the "Catwoman."
* [[Fair Cop]]
* [[Fatal Attraction]]: She falls for Hei even though she connects him to BK-201 as early as episode {{spoiler|18. It takes a couple suspicious coincidences, a partially-cracked mask, "Li" slipping into his Black Reaper voice, an accidental [[Meaningful Echo]], and some surprising openness on his part before she figures it out/admits it to herself.}}
* [[Genre Savvy]]: Part of the reason she's obsessed with Hei. She's figured out that he's going to be at the center of any world changing event that happens in the future.
* [[Go-Go Enslavement]]: Alice insists on dressing her in a qipao as punishment for forgetting about her party.
* [[Hero Antagonist]]
* [[Hot Chick in a Badass Suit]]
* [[Improbable Aiming Skills]]: She ''shot one of Hei's knives out of the air'' in the OVA.
* [[Meganekko]]
** [[Specs of Awesome]]
** [[Stoic Spectacles]]: Her attitude is probably closer to this than [[Meganekko]].
* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: A mild example.
* [[Nana Mizuki]]
* [[Nepotism]]: Her father is ranked above her on the police force. She doesn't appreciate his attempts to ensure the correct progression of her career. {{spoiler|In the second season, she quits her job out of frustration and a wish to find Hei.}}
* [[Stalker with a Crush]]: She's ''still'' trying to find Hei in the second season, even though {{spoiler|she's no longer working for the police department}}. And by "trying to find" I mean "obsessively watching the star BK-201 through a telescope." Kanami informs her that she needs to get over him and find another guy.
** [[Single-Target Sexuality]]
* [[The Stoic]]: And not a contractor!
* [[Sugar and Ice Personality]]: Generally acts very cool and professional, but gets almost [[Moe]] when she opens up a bit.
* [[Tall, Dark and Bishoujo]]
* [[You Need to Get Laid]]: Has been informed of this quite a few times in the second season because of her obsession with finding Hei.

=== Saitou ===
Kirihara's second-in-command.

* [[Badass Normal]]: Very occasionally. For instance, in the [[Interquel]], he manages to hurt [[Nigh Invulnerable|Harvest]] in a close-range fight.
* [[The Big Guy]]
* [[Bodyguard Crush]]: Towards Kirihara
* [[Christopher Sabat]]
* [[Plucky Comic Relief]]
* [[Those Two Guys]]

=== Kouno ===
One of Kirihara's underlings.

* [[Casanova]]: According to the OVA
* [[Satellite Character]]: Pretty much never seen without Saitou nearby to [[Those Two Guys|play off of]].
* [[Those Two Guys]]
* [[Todd Haberkorn]]: [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]

=== Matsumoto ===
Another Division 4 employee.

* [[Badass Grandpa]]
* [[Cool Old Guy]]
* [[May–December Romance]]: In the OVA, he seems to have a crush on Mayu, at least [[Yaoi Fangirl|until he reads her fanfiction]].

=== Mayu ===
A member of the task force and closet [[Big Name Fan]].

* [[Bunny Ears Lawyer]]: Likes to read and write erotic fanfiction and can be kind of ditzy, but also shows some competence, figuring out BK-201's identity when the rest of the police force failed miserably.
* [[Covert Pervert]]
* [[Cosplay Otaku Girl]]
* [[Fan Girl]]
* [[Female Gaze]]: Spoofed. Hei's "sexy collarbone" has since become [[Memetic Mutation|a meme]].
* [[In Vino Veritas]]: A minor personality inversion example, becoming more boisterous when she gets drunk at an office party.
* [[Loony Fan]]: Quite possibly even loonier than Kiko.
* [[Stalker with a Crush]]: She stalks Hei for a few days, leading the group to suspect that she's working for someone to try to interfere with their mission.
* [[Too Dumb to Fool]]: Not dumb exactly, but like the other [[Wrong Genre Savvy]] characters, she makes some accurate deductions, despite having odd logic and sometimes the wrong conclusion- she figures out that "Li" is the Black Reaper on account of his "sexy collarbone"
* [[Wrong Genre Savvy]]
* [[Yaoi Fangirl]]

=== Yoshimitsu Horai ===
Also known as the Director. Kirihara's boss.

* [[Artificial Limbs]]: He has prosthetic hands; hence the black gloves.
* {{spoiler|[[Beard of Evil]]}}
* {{spoiler|[[Big Bad]]: The closest thing to one in Season One.}}
* {{spoiler|[[The Man Behind the Man]]: He's also a leader of [[The Syndicate]]}}.
* {{spoiler|[[Red Right Hand]]}}
* {{spoiler|[[Villainous Breakdown]]: He really loses his cool in the last episode}}.

== Secret Intelligence Service ==

=== '''November 11''', AKA Jack Simon ===
[[File:cit Darker than Black British agent code name November.jpg|frame]]

MI6's top agent, assigned to Japan to investigate Gate-related activity. He has the power to freeze liquids and a rather [[James Bond]]-like attitude.

* [[Affably Evil]]
* [[Anti-Hero]]: Type IV Or V
* [[Anti-Villain]]
* [[Badass]]: The nature of his powers, his creative use of it, and his suave demeanor cement him as one of the series' premier badasses.
* [[Badass in a Nice Suit]]
* [[Blond Guys Are Evil]]: Well, he's blond, and a Contractor.
* [[Captain Ersatz]]: Of [[James Bond]], but also likely Iceman from [[X-Men]]- not only are both blond and have the same powers, but Iceman was [[Fun Personified]], and November 11's warped sense of humor might be a dark take on that.
* [[Catch Phrase]]: "[[I Was Just Joking]]."
* [[Character Filibuster]]: Against smoking.
* [[Combat Pragmatist]]: His powers aren't as uniformly offensive as Hei's, so he has to get a little bit more creative with it in combat.
* [[Cryonics Failure]]: He does this to people intentionally.
* [[Dissonant Serenity]]
* [[Elemental Eye Colours]]: He has very light blue eyes that can most definitely be described as "icy". This is appropriate, since he's a sociopath [[An Ice Person|with ice powers]].
* [[Evil Has a Bad Sense of Humor]]: he is an emblematic example of the second type of this trope.
* [[Fake Brit]]: Played by American [[Troy Baker]] in the English dub.
* [[Four Eyes, Zero Soul]]: In general, he tends to act like much more of a [[Jerkass]] when wearing his shades than when he isn't.
* [[Good Smoking, Evil Smoking]]: Has an... interesting relationship with this trope.
* [[Harmless Freezing]]: Very, very averted. The frostbite he causes can take off limbs. The closest he gets is freezing someone's shoes to the ground.
* [[Hero Antagonist]]: Hero might be pushing it, but he does genuinely believe that Hei is a dangerous terrorist. [[Gray and Gray Morality|Because he is]]. [[Good Colors, Evil Colors|He wears white while Hei wears black clothes]].
* {{spoiler|[[Heroic Sacrifice]]}}
* [[An Ice Person]]
* [[Irony]]: Which is not lost on him: He ''hates'' smoking and smokers, but has to smoke for his remuneration.
* [[I Was Just Joking]]: His [[Catch Phrase]].
* [[Kazuhiko Inoue]]
* [[Man in White]]
* [[Mugging the Monster]]: His first appearance.
* [[Noble Demon]]: He's quite [[Affably Evil|pleasant]] for a Contractor  {{spoiler|and oddly [[Heroic Sacrifice|self-sacrificing.]]}}
* [[Opaque Lenses]]
* [[Phenotype Stereotype]]: Actually used as the page image at the time of writing.
* [[Psycho Sidekick]] / [[Token Evil Teammate]]: Whenever interacting with Kirihara.
* [[Punch Clock Villain]]
* [[Second Face Smoke]]: In his introductory scene, he's dealing with some gangsters and voices his extreme disapproval of smoking early on. When they try to double cross him, one of them lights up and contemptuously blows smoke in his face. [[Mugging the Monster|Big mistake.]]
* [[Shameless Fanservice Girl|Shameless Fanservice Guy]]: He just doesn't ''[[Lack of Empathy|care]]''.
* [[Shout-Out]]: He is a secret agent. He is an only guy whose name is a month and a ''date'' - [[James Bond|a certain guy]]'s birthday.
* [[Smoking Is Cool]]: Sometimes subverted, sometimes played straight; the first time we see him dealing with his remuneration, he starts hacking out the smoke in a decidedly un-cool way, but the rest of the time he makes it look good.
* [[Touch of Death]]: Like Hei, if he can touch you, he can kill you.
* [[Troy Baker]]

=== April ===
A contractor on November 11's team who can create storms at will.

* [[Actor Allusion]] / [[Captain Ersatz]]: Her Japanese voice actress dubs many Halle Berry characters, including Storm of [[X-Men]], with whom she shares weather-control powers and appearance.
* [[Anti-Hero]] / [[Anti-Villain]]
* {{spoiler|[[Back for the Dead]]}}
* Badass: her performance in Season Two.
* [[Bottle Fairy]]
* [[Cursed with Awesome]]: She's the only Contractor we've seen so far who ''loves'' her remuneration: [[Bottle Fairy|she has to drink beer]].
* [[Eyes of Gold]]
* [[Faux Action Girl]]: In the episode where she's injured, Huang shows Hei a sheet of paper listing her kills which are numerous, but in-series, she just assists November 11 and schleps [[Tagalong Kid|July]] around. Although she does manage to {{spoiler|score a kill on the enemy contractor Goran. Not to mention nearly killing Hei ... until he kills ''her'' of course.}}
* [[Heart Is an Awesome Power]]: Her abilities are ''deadly'' in combination with November, and she pulls off a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] against a guy with [[Super Speed]] at the start of the second season by giving him [[Inertia Is a Harsh Mistress|a rather]] [[Too Fast to Stop|painful]] physics lesson. She then follows up by summoning a swirl of water around her next opponent's head to drown him on his feet.
* [[Making a Splash]]: The second season shows that her powers extend at least a little beyond rainstorms.
* [[Phenotype Stereotype]]: The only aversion on the MI6 team, as she's black with [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair|blue hair]] and [[Eyes of Gold|yellow eyes]].
* [[Punch Clock Villain]]
* [[This Looks Like a Job For Aquaman]]: The conditions for her only solo kill are rather contrived, though her following showing against Hei is still relatively impressive.
* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]: Weirdly, she is introduced with black hair in the second season, which makes you think that her hair might have been dyed. Nope- the black hair is a wig covering her apparently naturally blue hair.

=== July ===
The Doll assigned to November 11's team. In the second season, he {{spoiler|joins Hei, Suou, and Mao.}}

* [[Anti-Hero]] / [[Anti-Villain]]
* [[Emotionless Girl|Emotionless Guy]]: Being a Doll.
* [[Frozen Face]]
* [[Kiyomi Asai]]
* [[Nakama]]: Kirihara is ''very'' surprised when he describes November this way.
* [[Phenotype Stereotype]]: Blond with gray eyes.
* [[Sugar and Ice Personality]]: Only November 11, April, Kirihara and Suo seem to be aware of the ''dere'' side. To be fair, it's mostly for [[Nakama|them.]]
* [[Tagalong Kid]]: Particularly in the second season, where he just sticks around for lack of other options. Or possibly lack of other reasons to be around [[Puppy Love|Suo]].
* [[Team Pet]]
* [[The Un-Smile]]: He uses his fingers like Yin. Unlike Yin, his goes back to [[Uncanny Valley|creepy]].
** It even manages to creep out Hei in full [[Jerkass]] mode.

=== August 7 ===
A Contractor introduced in Season 2. He is part of the same team as April and July.

* [[Achilles' Heel]]: He can pretty much do anything as long as he is looking at you and you at him, but Hei {{spoiler|throws his longcoat over August's head and electrocutes him while he is powerless.}}
* [[Blessed with Suck]]: He's a former stage magician and received the power to do real magic, something which would make him the greatest magician ever. Unfortunately, his Remuneration is to give away how magic tricks work, something which hurts his pride as a former magician and takes away any professional benefit he could get from his powers.
* {{spoiler|[[Disney Death]]}}
* [[Expy]]: He has often been compared to Cornelius Alba of ''[[Kara no Kyoukai:|Kara no Kyoukai]]''.
* [[Hollywood Tactics]]: If you're effectively immune to ranged attacks and you're up against a ninja known for ingenuity, it would seem like a good idea ''not to let him get close''.
* [[Magicians Are Wizards]]
* [[Masaya Matsukaze]]
* [[Nice Hat]]
* [[Reality Warper]]
* [[Stage Magician]]
* [[Superpower Lottery]]: A real winner, since he pretty much has the power to do anything if someone is looking at him.
* [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]]:  {{spoiler|Referred to by some fans as the "New November 11"}}. Actually an aversion though, as his openly psychotic personality is closer to that of Wei in the first series.
* [[White-Haired Pretty Boy]]


== Evening Primrose ==
The [[Muggle Power|Contractor]] [[La Résistance]] with a distinctly [[Social Darwinist]] cast- think [[X-Men|Magneto]]

=== Amber ===
[[File:Amber better 3765.png|frame]]

The founder of Evening Primrose, who used to work for [[The Syndicate]], the CIA, and MI6 and betrayed all of them. She was in South America during Heaven's War, and Hei considers her responsible for what happened at its end.

She can manipulate time, and her remuneration is [[Merlin Sickness|getting younger]].

* [[Anti-Villain]]
* [[Badass Adorable]]
* [[Big Bad]]: [[Gray and Grey Morality|Kinda]]-[[Melee a Trois|sorta]]-[[Necessarily Evil|almost]]-[[Conspiracy Redemption|not-really]]-[[Mind Screw|AGH my head hurts]] in Season 1.
* [[Blondes Are Evil]]: Blonde Contractor, assuming that it isn't actually [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair|green]], what with her status as a...
* [[Captain Ersatz]]: Bears a staggering resemblance to [[Mysterious Waif|C.C.]] of ''[[Code Geass]]'', particularly when we see her as an adult.
* [[Cheerful Child]]
* [[The Chessmaster]]: {{spoiler|Even after her "death."}}
* [[Cuteness Proximity]]: Acts even more cutesy than usual over Mao.
* [[Deliberately Cute Child]]
* [[Eyes of Gold]]: The in-universe explanation for her [[Colorful Theme Naming|name]].
* [[Femme Fatale]]: Just ask Hei. {{spoiler|...although he'd give you the wrong answer. Hei thinks she is, since she betrayed his group in Heaven's War. However, his sister was in on it too, and they didn't tell him because they both knew that continuing to work for [[The Syndicate]] was safer for him in the long run. She still loves him and wants him to be happy.}}
* [[Meaningful Name]]: The mineral amber led to the discovery of electricity; see the entry on the main page for details.
* [[Merlin Sickness]]: Her remuneration.
* [[Necessarily Evil]]: {{spoiler|Seen in how even in her "kill all Japanese humans" plan, she was willing to use the last of her power and seemingly [[Ret-Gone]] herself}}.
* [[Older Than They Look]]
* [[Omniscient Morality License]]: Literally: Because she can see into any number of possible futures, she does morally questionable things on the logic that it is the best plan possible.
* [[Oracular Urchin]]: Since she's a lot older than she looks and has a limited ability to see the future.
* [[Laura Bailey]]
* {{spoiler|[[Ret-Gone]]: Possibly her ultimate fate}}.
* [[Social Darwinist]]: Amber would get along very well with [[X-Men|Magneto]].
* [[Stepford Smiler]]
* [[Superpower Lottery]]: She won. She can control time itself, and her remuneration could theoretically make her immortal.
* [[Time Stands Still]]
* [[Tomoko Kawakami]]

=== Amagiri ===
Amber's second-in-command. He has the very straightforward power of shooting waves of force.

* [[Anti-Villain]]
* {{spoiler|[[Back for the Dead]]}}
* [[Brains and Brawn]]: Amber's the brains, he's the brawn.
* {{spoiler|[[Died Standing Up]]: When his soul was taken by Yin.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Disney Death]]: Seemingly burnt to death along with Brita at the end of the first season, he shows up in the third Gaiden, but now is bald with some signs of scarring, and has an [[Eyepatch of Power]] over his "shut" eye.}}
* [[The Dragon]]
* <s>[[Eyes Always Shut]]</s> ''[[Eyes Always Shut|Eye]]'' [[Eyes Always Shut|Always Shut]]
* {{spoiler|[[Eyepatch of Power]]: At the end of Season 2}}.
* [[Hand Blast]]: Amagiri has the power to shoot concussive force from his hands.
* [[Huge Guy, Tiny Girl]]: With Amber.
* [[Evil Redhead|Morally Ambiguous Redhead]]
* [[Stout Strength]]
* [[Travis Willingham]]
* {{spoiler|[[Your Soul Is Mine]]: His fate at Yin's hands, along with the rest of the Contractor camp.}}

=== Maki ===
A contractor working for Amber. His power is to blow up anything he's touched, and he has an enormous crush on Amber.

* [[Bad Powers, Bad People]]
* [[Blond Guys Are Evil]]: Blond Contractor
* [[Crazy Jealous Guy]]
* [[Creepy Child]]
* [[Driven by Envy]]: He reacts... violently... to the fact that Amber is in love with someone else.
* {{spoiler|[[Impaled with Extreme Prejudice]]: His death. One of the few times where [[Kick the Son of a Bitch|stabbing a little boy is a-ok.]]}}
* [[Having a Blast]]
* [[Kick the Son of a Bitch]]: {{spoiler|Runs around blowing up buildings, hints that he intends to do more, attacks Hei because he's jealous and runs November 11 through a gauntlet for no real reason when his time would be better spent escaping. Not even Amber is sad when he dies.}}
* [[Mismatched Eyes]]
* [[Troubling Unchildlike Behavior]]: Just about everything he does.
* [[White-Haired Pretty Boy]]: Or at least very light blond.
* [[Yandere]]: To Amber.
* [[Yuko Sanpei]]

=== Brita ===
A ridiculously sexy contractor working for Amber as a spy. She can teleport anyone she touches.

* [[Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance]]: Her power involves teleporting with the loss of her clothes, and her Remuneration is to kiss people.
** She usually teleports others by kissing them, thus combining the power use and remuneration in one.
* [[Blondes Are Evil]]: Another blond Contractor.
* [[Censorship Tropes]]: [[Censor Shadow]], [[Godiva Hair]], [[Scenery Censor]], all unobtrusively used.
* [[Foreign Fanservice]]
* [[Intimate Healing]]: Her Remuneration.
* [[Honey Trap]] / [[The Mole]]: infiltrates the CIA by being the secretary of an American official and sleeping with him.
* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: Isn't she just.
* [[Naked on Arrival]]: Her teleportation can't carry anything non-living, so this applies to anyone she teleports, including [[Fan Service|herself]]. [[Fridge Logic|Oddly enough]], she ''does'' retain her purple lipstick through the teleportation]].
* [[Phenotype Stereotype]]: A blonde, blue-eyed American.
* [[Please Put Some Clothes On]]: Requested by Amigiri.
* [[Power Perversion Potential]]
* [[Sexy Secretary]]
* [[Shameless Fanservice Girl]]: More like [[Lack of Empathy|Sociopathic]] Fanservice Girl.
* [[Teleport Spam]]: Her tag-fight with Hei involved a lot of this.
* [[The Vamp]]
* [[Villain Teleportation]]

== PANDORA ==
=== Eric Nishijima ===

A high-ranking PANDORA official, he is a Japanese citizen who was born overseas. He plays a background role throughout much of the first series.

* [[The Chessmaster]]
* [[Fantastic Racism]]: Against Contractors.
* [[Four Eyes, Zero Soul]]
* [[Smug Snake]]
* {{spoiler|[[You Have Failed Me...]]: Courtesy of the Director}}.

=== Dr. Schroeder ===
A scientist working at PANDORA's lab at Hell's Gate.

* [[Affably Evil]]
* [[For Science!]]: He's actually not upset at all when Hei {{spoiler|screws his anti-Gate system up}} since it gave him something new and interesting to observe.
* [[Mad Scientist]]
* [[Miniature Senior Citizens]]
* [[Mister Exposition]]: He's pretty much the only person who understands the nature of BK-201's powers and how they relate to the Gate.
* [[Non-Standard Character Design]]: Agh! The hair!
* [[Techno Babble]]: Speaks almost entirely in it, except when he's making bad jokes.

=== Meena Khandar Swami ===
A scientist working at the laboratory in the Gate who got her position by making a deal with [[The Syndicate]]. Acts as Hei's contact when he infiltrates the place.

* {{spoiler|[[Dropped a Bridge on Him]]: She gets killed in Shikkoku No Hana for helping Hei, Yin and Azusa. Her superior, Sergei [[Spell My Name with an "S"|Vectrof]] even [[Pet the Dog|complains about it.]]}}
* [[Fantastic Racism]]: An interesting case, as she mostly just has exaggerated misconceptions and she [[Chick Magnet|very quickly develops a crush on Hei]] despite them.
{{quote|"Could you be... upset?"}}
* [[Hot Scientist]]
* [[Longing Look]]: Many, many times, [[Selective Obliviousness|none of which Hei seems to notice]].
* [[Meganekko]]
* [[Punch Clock Villain]]: The only reason she's involved with [[The Syndicate]] at all is so she can work at the Gate, and her contact with Hei is apparently the only time she's actually had to do anything for them.
* {{spoiler|[[What a Senseless Waste of Human Life]]: Vectrof points out that Meena was younger, smarter and possibly [[Pet the Dog|more useful than he is and certainly should have at least been held hostage.]] His captors disagree.}}

=== Nick Hillman ===
A cheerful scientist Hei meets while undercover at an observatory.

* {{spoiler|[[Affably Evil]]}}
* {{spoiler|[[Anti-Villain]]: Big time.}}
* [[Birds of a Feather]]: He and "Li" are both [[Nice Guy]] borderline-[[The Stoic|stoics]] who want to make the world better for their little sisters, and they get along really well. {{spoiler|They even have the same powers.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Blond Guys Are Evil]]}}
* [[Eric Vale]]
* {{spoiler|[[Evil Counterpart]]: He even has the same powers as Hei (the main difference is Hei's powers are straight [[Reality Warper|Reality Warping]] that he uses almost exclusively for electricity, while Nick's are actually electricity)}}
* [[Nice Guy]]
* [[Phenotype Stereotype]]: Of ''course'' the American researcher is blond with blue eyes.
* [[Real Men Wear Pink]]
* {{spoiler|[[Shock and Awe]]}}


== Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications ==
A group of Japanese agents introduced in Season 2.

=== Genma Shizume ===
Part of the team dedicated to hunting down Hei and Suou, a contractor with the ability to turn solid objects into heavy armor. Has a habit of [[Anything That Moves|hitting on everyone he encounters]].

* [[Bait the Dog]]: Genma initially comes across as an affable, jokey [[Lovable Sex Maniac]], and a pushover at that, since Suo "defeats" him by throwing a trash can over his head. Further appearances establish him as a pedophilic sociopath who finds wanton brutality incredibly amusing.
* [[The Brute]]
* [[Captain Ersatz]]: He is sometimes jokingly referred to as [[Fate/stay night|Emiya Kiritsugu]].
* [[Depraved Bisexual]] / [[Anything That Moves]] / general pedophilia: Genma makes so many sexual references that it's not quite clear what "direction" in which he swings or even if he's restricted himself to a "direction". Still, he seems to attracted to children.
* [[Faux Affably Evil]]
* [[Genre Savvy]]: He makes a reference to [[Dark and Troubled Past]] as adding [[Moe]] points.
* [[The Juggernaut]]: When in "armor mode".
* [[Locked Out of the Loop]]: Played for laughs; {{spoiler|by episode 11, he's pretty much the only one who ''doesn't'' know that Suou isn't Shion.}}
* [[Lovable Sex Maniac]]: Again, at first glance. [[Depraved Bisexual|Then the creepiness starts to show itself]].
* [[Made of Iron]]: His power involves coating himself with nearly impenetrable armor. {{spoiler|However, anti-tank fire can damage it and it doesn't do a damn thing against a laser katana to the eye.}}
* [[Stupid Evil]]: He doesn't really think his [[Kick the Dog|acts of]] [[For the Evulz|pointless cruelty]] through very well.

=== Mina Hazuki ===
A contractor with the ability to turn objects into [[Laser Blade|laser]] [[Katanas Are Just Better|katanas]]. Part of the team hunting Hei and Suou.

* [[Anti-Villain]]
* [[Badass]]: Had not one, not two but three fights with [[The Hero|Hei]]. In the final fight with him, she  {{spoiler|nearly killed him and possibly would've...if Hei had actually been responsible for Yoko's death.}}
* [[Bifauxnen]]
* [[Dark Action Girl]]
* [[Does Not Like Men]]: Unfortunately for her, her Remuneration is to French kiss them.
* [[Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas|Even Bad Women Love Their Mamas]]: Despite being shunned by her family, being informed that her mother is dying distracts her during a fight with Hei, and she muses about still having some caring towards her mother.
* [[Evil Counterpart]]: Has similar dress sense, weaponry, and personality to Hei; her background as [[The Ojou]] who broke from her powerful family is rather similar to that of Kirihara.
* [[Fan Nickname]]: Japanese Lesbian [[Batman|Catwoman]], due to personality and style similarities to Hei and the fact that she's a [[Psycho Lesbian]].
** Also, [[Alliteration|Lightsaber Lesbian.]]
* [[Hot Chick in a Badass Suit]]
* [[Hot Chick with a Sword]]: Or a [[Wooden Katanas Are Even Better|boken]] or a [[Laser Blade|lightsaber]].
* [[Intimate Healing]]: Her remuneration is to make out with guys. [[Does Not Like Men|This is awkward]]. {{spoiler|It's also the reason one of the only 'ships to get any action is a [[Crack Pairing]].}}
* {{spoiler|[[It's Personal]]}}: {{spoiler|She takes Youko's death at what she believes to be Hei's hands rather badly.}}
* [[Katanas Are Just Better]]: Her power is to transform any object into an energy blade. She carries around a [[Wooden Katanas Are Even Better|wooden katana]] for this purpose. That's right, ''[[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|sociopathic Japanese lesbian ninja with a wooden laser katana]]''.
* [[Laser Blade]]
* [[Mitsuki Saiga]]
* [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot]]
* [[The Ojou]]: A conversation with her grandfather in episode 9 suggests she was this and much more deferential prior to becoming a Contractor.
* [[Psycho Lesbian]]: "I got rejected..." Gee, ya think?
* {{spoiler|[[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]: ...or the nearest Contractor equivalent. She ''really'' flips out when Yoko dies.}}
* [[The Stoic]]

=== Yōko Sawasaki ===
The group's [[The Team Normal|token human]], a scientist who worked under Dr. Schrader.

* [[Affably Evil]]
* [[Bait the Dog]]: Initially appears very [[Moe]] as well as friendly and outgoing, but she follows in the footsteps of the similarly affable Dr. Shrader in having [[For Science!]] as a mantra, pursuing "experiments" without concern for human life.
* {{spoiler|[[Cruel and Unusual Death]] - Can't say she didn't have it coming, though. }}
* [[Eating the Eye Candy]]/[[Male Gaze]]: The target in the "Hazuki-vision" shot in the [[Interquel]] OVA. Played for laughs more than anything.
* [[Evil Genius]]
* [[For Science!]]: She basically {{spoiler|rips Hei's soul in half}} just to see what happens.
* [[Kozue Yoshizumi]]: [[Playing Against Type]]
* [[Mad Scientist]]
* [[Meganekko]]
* [[Mission Control]]: She is the "token normal" member of the group.
* [[Scary Shiny Glasses]]: In episode 6.
* {{spoiler|[[Stuffed Into the Fridge]]: Genma kills and rapes her messily to shut her up. Due to circumstances, Hazuki blames it on Hei and makes a very nearly successful attempt at revenge since [[It's Personal]].}}
* [[The Team Normal]]

=== Spoiler ===
{{spoiler|!'''Misaki Kirihara'''}}
* {{spoiler|See The Japanese Police.}}

== Others ==

=== Wei Zhijun ===
A contractor serving the Chen Long Tang crime family. His power is to blow holes in anything he gets blood on. {{spoiler|Later joins Amber's group in order to fight Hei again.}}

* [[Arrogant Kung Fu Guy]]: He can't stand losing a fight.
* [[Badass]]: He's an evil psycho. But in a series where most people can't even come close to standing up to the main character, Wei nearly kills him two or three times.
* [[Bad Powers, Bad People]]
* [[Battle Butler]]
** [[Bodyguard Betrayal]]
* [[Blood Knight]]
* [[Bloody Murder]]
* [[Cursed with Awesome]]: His remuneration is cutting himself, which he has to do anyway to use his powers.
* [[Dragon with an Agenda]]: {{spoiler|Has to share the post of [[The Dragon]] with Amigiri, but otherwise fits in relation to Amber: the only reason he helps her is so he can fight Hei again.}}
* [[Finger-Lickin' Evil]]: He's been seen to slurp blood off his hands after killing someone.
* [[Good Scars, Evil Scars]]: Evil ones- his arms are covered with scars due to him cutting himself to use his powers/pay his Renumeration, and after Hei electrocutes him, half of his face and body is burned.
* [[Pointy Ears]]
* [[Psycho for Hire]]: Even by Contractor standards
* [[Required Secondary Powers]]: Never gets faint from blood loss, no matter how much he fights.
* [[Slasher Smile]] / [[Psychotic Smirk]]: Often has either of those.
* [[Two-Faced]]: After being electrocuted by Hei.
* [[The Triads and the Tongs]]
* [[Worthy Opponent]]: Considers Hei to be this.

=== Alice ===
The heir to the Chen Long Tang family. She was friends with Kirihara as a teenager, and did not react well to her friend's career choice.

* [[Alice Allusion]]
* [[Anime Chinese Girl]]: Subverted.
* [[Ax Crazy]]
* [[Forgotten Childhood Friend]]
* [[Mafia Princess]]
* [[The Triads and the Tongs]]
* [[Yandere]]: A platonic version... [[Les Yay|maybe]]. It's kind of debatable given her [[Go-Go Enslavement]] of Kirihara.

=== Gai Kurasawa ===
[[File:Defective Detectives 3230.png|frame|Kurosawa and Kiko]]

A rather useless private investigator who accidentally stumbles across the edges of Hei's assignments a couple of times.

* [[Affectionate Parody]]: Of [[Hardboiled Detective]] stereotypes.
* [[Awesome McCoolname]]: He renamed himself because he thought his real name wasn't cool enough. As with his attempts at [[Smoking Is Cool]], little success was had.
* [[The Fool]]: He keeps accidentally and unknowingly wandering into extremely dangerous situations, and only the fact that he's an idiot keeps him safe.
* [[Non-Standard Character Design]]
* [[Plucky Comic Relief]]
* [[Private Defective]]
* [[Smoking Is Cool]]: Attempted with little success.
* [[Too Dumb to Fool]]: The only person to notice that that one Chinese exchange student keeps showing up in weird situations. However, he quickly decides that it's probably a coincidence and he's being paranoid.
* [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?]]: Fate keeps throwing him into situations involving cats. He's terrified of them.
* [[Wrong Genre Savvy]]: Thinks he lives in a world created by Raymond Chandler.

=== Kiko ===
Kurosawa's [[Genki Girl|cheery, excitable]] secretary, who only works for him because she can watch yaoi at work. She has an over-the-top [[Stalker with a Crush|stalker-crush]] on "Li."

* [[Cosplay Otaku Girl]]
* [[Expressive Hair]]: It even curled into little heart shapes when she first saw Hei.
* [[Fan Girl]]
* [[Genre Savvy]]: Has occasional flashes of this amidst a lot of [[Wrong Genre Savvy]]; for instance, she accurately diagnosed someone under the influence of [[Laser-Guided Amnesia|ME]].
* [[Hypercompetent Sidekick]]: Although Kiko's kind of weird in [[Cosplay Otaku Girl|her own way]], she fits this in respect to Kurosawa.
* [[Emiri Katou]]
* [[Loony Fan]]: Towards "Li"
* [[Meta Guy|Meta Girl]]: sometimes
* [[Non-Standard Character Design]]: She generally uses a lot of standard anime effects that the rest of the series ditches in favor of a more realistic style, and even gets [[Super-Deformed]] a few times.
* [[Plucky Comic Relief]]: Hilariously lampshaded in the second season.
* [[Smitten Teenage Girl]]
* [[Wrong Genre Savvy]]: Tends to apply anime tropes towards real life. While this does mean she correctly diagnoses a victim of [[Laser-Guided Amnesia]], it also means she thinks "Li" is a [[Shojo]] love interest.
* [[Yaoi Fangirl]]
* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]: Pink, probably to mark her as a comic character

=== '''Havoc''' AKA Carmine ===
Quite possibly the most dangerous contractor in existence, she killed hundreds or even thousands in South America- and then something happened that removed her powers and some of her memories but restored her emotions to normal. Now she's wracked with guilt over what she did, leaving her as probably the only case of a [[Woobie]] who [[Eats Babies|ate babies]] in history.

* [[The Atoner]]
* [[The Butcher]]: Was the Contractor with the single largest body count.
* [[De-Power]]
* {{spoiler|[[Dies Wide Open]]: Hei shuts them before going to confront the people who killed her.}}
* [[Eats Babies]]: Her Renumeration involved drinking the blood of children.
* [[Evil Redhead]]: Prior to reforming anyway.
* [[Girl in a Box]]
* {{spoiler|[[Deadly Change-of-Heart]]: Immediately after she gets her powers back but remains reformed, she is impaled by one of November 11's ice spears.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Impaled with Extreme Prejudice]]}}
* [[Luci Christian]]
* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: And it was well-earned, even if now she mostly just inspires people to want to give her a hug.
* [[Naomi Shindo]]
* [[Person of Mass Destruction]]
* [[Power of the Void]]
* [[Shell-Shocked Veteran]]

=== Bertha and Itzhak ===
Two Contractors working for FSB to capture Yin. Bertha's power allows her to force objects to resonate, usually breaking them, although it can also stop someone's heart; Itzhak can absorb observation ghosts and use them to manipulate and control the minds of dolls.

* [[Anti-Villain]]
* [[Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance]]: She's an overweight former opera singer who kills people with her voice.
* [[Beard of Sorrow]]/[[Perma-Stubble]]:Itzhak
* [[Belated Backstory]]: Bertha's back story comes toward the end of her and Itzhak's arch. [[Tear Jerker|And it's devastatingly sad.]]
* [[Cigar Chomper]]: Quite literally with Bertha
* [[Make Me Wanna Shout]]
* [[Musical Assassin]]
* [[Pillar of Light]]: A side-effect of Itzhak's power; {{spoiler|when he dies, all the observation ghosts he's grabbed disperse at once, creating a ''huge'' version.}}
* [[Warrior Poet]]: Literally, in Itzhak's case: his remuneration is writing poetry.
* [[What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?]]: Itzhak has one of the most [[Crippling Overspecialization|specialized]] and useless-in-combat abilities we've seen, which is presumably why he was paired with someone who can kill quietly and almost instantaneously or cause massive structural damage.

=== Harvest ===
The primary antagonist of the [[Interquel]] manga, ''Shikkoku no Hana''. His power is to dissolve matter, and this ability to manipulate the connections between atoms allows him to give normal humans Contractor abilities.

* [[The Corrupter]]
* [[Deadly Upgrade]]: Yeah, he'll give you superpowers. But {{spoiler|watch out for that flower...}}
* [[Deal with the Devil]]: Has the ability to give humans Contractor-like powers. However, {{spoiler|they have to kill their closest friend to do it, and they start turning into walking plants.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Evil Counterpart]]: His Contractor power involves the ability to manipulate electrons, similar to Hei, and as a result he can also grant normal people powers.}}
* [[Green Thumb]]: Those flowers. Creepy as hell.
* [[Hollywood Evolution]]: He [[You Fail Biology Forever|fails biology forever]] thanks to ranting about [[Evolutionary Levels]].
* [[Manipulative Bastard]]: Plays off people's emotions to get them to accept his [[Deal with the Devil]].
* [[Mook Maker]]: {{spoiler|Plants seeds into the corpses of his opponents and re-animates them as [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|contractor zombies.]]}} Wholesome.
* {{spoiler|[[Necromancer]]: His powers allow him to raise the dead.}}
* [[Nigh Invulnerability]]: Since he can break down pretty much anything, bullets are completely useless and even attempts to gas him just result in him chemically decomposing the gas. {{spoiler|The cops manage to hit him with tranquilizer darts and electricity.}}
* [[Super Empowering]]
* [[Touch of Death]]: The results are rather gross.

=== Azusa Tsukimori ===
A young schoolgirl Hei encounters in ''Shikkoku no Hana''. After being seduced and betrayed by her [[Casanova|coach]], Daisuke Mioka, she desires to become a Contractor in order to exact revenge. And then she meets Harvest...

{{spoiler|After the death of her best friend, his power gives her supernatural leg strength, allowing her to [[Kick Chick|kick people hard enough that they explode]] or [[In a Single Bound|jump twenty feet in the air]]. But the more she uses it, the larger [[The Corruption|the black flower attached to her back]] grows...}}

* [[Be Careful What You Wish For]]
* {{spoiler|[[The Corruption]]}}
* {{spoiler|[[Damsel in Distress]]: She's captured after Meena is killed.}}
* [[The Dog Bites Back]]: See [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]].
* [[Heart Is an Awesome Power]]: {{spoiler|Super-strong legs? What are you going to do, kick him to deat-- Oh. [[Kick Chick|You are]]. [[Your Head Asplode|Yuck]].}}
* {{spoiler|[[Deadly Change-of-Heart]]: She's not dead (yet?) but she would be marginally okay if she had spared her teacher. Of course, she WOULD'VE spared him (at [[Chick Magnet|Hei's]] urging, of course) if he had decided to not [[Kick the Dog|be a dick]] at that very moment.}}
** {{spoiler|She lives.}}
* [[Hot for Teacher]]: Ends very badly indeed.
* [[In a Single Bound]]
* [[Interrupted Cooldown Hug]]: A non-hug version: {{spoiler|Hei has pretty much managed to talk her down from her [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]], when her coach comes up behind her with a taser and knocks her unconscious. Retribution was not long in coming, from both Hei ''and'' Azusa.}}
* [[Kick Chick]]
* [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]: She seeks out Harvest in the first place in order to go on one of these.
* {{spoiler|[[Shoot the Shaggy Dog]]: Hei puts a ''lot'' of effort into trying to convince her to stop her rampage before the flower blooms and she's completely screwed. She decides to finish it at the last minute anyway, though [[Complete Monster|he kinda deserved it]].}}
* [[Waif Fu]]
* [[Woman Scorned]]

=== Daisuke Mioka ===
A young coach for a girls' volleyball team in ''Shikkoku no Hana''. [[Casanova|Loves teh ladies]] but goes about it in the most dickish way possible.

* {{spoiler|[[Asshole Victim]]: The only reason anyone cares about his death at all is because it nearly kills Azusa.}}
* [[Casanova]]: His most defining trait. As far as he's concerned, if it has a vagina, it's fair game.
* [[The Dog Bites Back]]: Being an asshole is a good deal more dangerous when your victims can make a [[Deal with the Devil]] for superpowers.
* [[Hot for Student]]: {{spoiler|And it's his downfall.}}
* [[Implausible Deniability]]: He tries to invoke [[I'm a Man, I Can't Help It]] as a defense to someone [[Kick Chick|who can literally kill him with her foot]] for God's sake.
* [[It's All About Me]]
* {{spoiler|[[Karmic Death]]: He goes out with a "bang." [[Kick the Son of a Bitch]]!}}
* [[Kick the Son of a Bitch]]:  {{spoiler|Literally.}}
* [[Kissing Cousins]]: He also macked {{spoiler|Kyouko, Azusa's best friend and his kid cousin}}.
*  {{spoiler|[[Ludicrous Gibs]]: Azusa kicks him so hard ''he explodes''}}
* [[Manipulative Bastard]]: Do not sleep with this man.
* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: Really, Daisuke? You're going to {{spoiler|taser someone that you know would love NOTHING more than to kill you in the most horrible way possible, right when they decide to spare your life? [[What an Idiot!|Really?]]}}
** And even if {{spoiler|she hadn't killed him for that, Hei certainly would have.}}

=== Parcel ===
A contractor of one of PANDORA's many factions working to kill Harvest. Her power is teleportation through use of black portals. Her Doll is a modified cyborg named "Champ."

* [[Child Prodigy]]
* [[The Corps Is Mother]]: Has been a part of PANDORA since she was 5.
* [[Friendship Moment]]: Between her and Champ  {{spoiler|as they, Yin and Hei escape their hideout. [[Tear Jerker|Champ doesn't make it.]]}}
* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: {{spoiler|Champ.}}
* [[Huge Guy, Tiny Girl]]: Champ is ''enormous''. Parcel is... [[Child Prodigy|not]].
* [[In the Hood]]: Because it has [[Unusual Ears]].
* {{spoiler|[[Little Miss Badass]]: When she kills Maxfield.}}
* [[Little Miss Snarker]]: Hei even lampshades it.
* [[Meganekko]]
* [[Non-Action Snarker]]: Justified by her powers being more suited for observation and support.
** [[Not-So-Harmless Villain]]:{{spoiler|[[Little Miss Badass|And dropping people into oceans]], if necessary.}}
* [[Our Wormholes Are Different]]
* [[Teleporters and Transporters]]
* [[Teleport Spam]]: Parcel has no compunctions about using her powers all the time, [[Mundane Utility|for just about everything]], possibly because her remuneration isn't very harsh.
* [[Token Loli]]
* [[True Companions]]: Her, Champ, [[Team Mom|Meena]] and [[Team Dad|Sergei]].
* [[Unable to Cry]]: Not surprising seeing as she's a Contractor. {{spoiler|Unfortunately, it means she can't mourn the deaths of her friends as [[Tear Jerker|she'd wish to.]]}}
* [[Unusual Ears]]: Wears mouse-ears as her remuneration.
* {{spoiler|[[You Killed My Father|You Killed My Friends]]: Drops Reynard Maxfield into the ocean [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill|from the STRATOSPHERE]] for causing [[True Companions|Champ, Meena and Sergei's deaths.]]}}

=== Shion Pavlichenko ===
Suo's brother, who was transformed into a Contractor. His power is to {{spoiler|produce copies of things and people with one trait changed}}, and his remuneration paralyzes his legs, putting him in a wheelchair most of the time.

* [[But Not Too Foreign]]
* [[Creepy Child]]
* {{spoiler|[[Evil Redhead]]}}: Sort of.
* [[Half-Identical Twins|Half Identical Twin]]{{spoiler|: Or not.}}
* [[Hikikomori]]: On account of being imprisoned and his Remuneration, which left him temporarily crippled.
* [[Houko Kuwashima]]
* [[MacGuffin Girl]]: A male variant, since the reason everyone's chasing Suou is to catch him. {{spoiler|However, it turned out he was a lot more active than we were giving him credit for.}}
* [[Madwoman in the Attic]]: After he became a Contractor, his father imprisoned him in a metal room from which he couldn't leave.  {{spoiler|Or maybe not. Dad and son are in cahoots. It's... [[Mind Screw|complicated]].}}
* {{spoiler|[[Manipulative Bastard]]}}: {{spoiler|He enjoys messing with Suou's head a little too much.}}
* [[Mind Control Eyes]]: Only one; see Mismatched Eyes.
* [[Mismatched Eyes]]: He lost the use of an eye in the explosion which turned him into a Contractor, so while both of his eyes are green, the injured eye is much lighter and [[Mind Control Eyes|missing a pupil]].
* [[Power Degeneration]]: His remuneration makes him very weak, although it seems he can recover with no ill effects given enough time.
* (Pre-)[[Teen Genius]]
* [[Twin Switch]]: Has Suo take his clothing in the first episode, so she can escape. {{spoiler|However, given later events, it seems more likely to have been so ''he'' could escape...}}

=== Dr. Pavlichenko ===
Suo's father and the inventor of a device which can pull memories from people even after they are dead. {{spoiler|Later revealed as an early member of [[The Syndicate]].}}

* {{spoiler|[[Evil Redhead]]}}: Maybe.
* {{spoiler|[[Faking the Dead]]}}: {{spoiler|The version Hei killed was a copy/clone.}}
* [[Mad Scientist]]
* [[Sacrificial Lamb]]: {{spoiler|Subverted. He appears to be killed in the first episode, but see [[Faking the Dead]].}}

=== Madame Oreille ===
A mysterious character with connections to the CIA  {{spoiler|who is revealed to have been Hei's employer}}.

* [[The Chessmaster]]: Apparently she was betting on the fact that {{spoiler|Hei would head back to Tokyo}}.
* [[Foreign Fanservice]]
* [[Knowledge Broker]]
* [[Manipulative Bastard]]: Particularly towards Kirihara and Hei.
* [[Meaningful Name]]: "Oreille" is French for ears.
* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: So very, very much.

=== Mr. Smith ===
A mysterious CIA agent seen interacting with Madame Oreille.

* [[Character Tics]]: He quotes ''The Art of War'' incessantly.
* [[Cool Shades]]
* [[Good Scars, Evil Scars]]: Very evil-looking.
* [[Mismatched Eyes]]: The reason he wears those glasses all the time is that while one eye is bright blue, the other is completely dead and white with a nasty scar over it.
* [[White-Haired Pretty Boy]]

=== Tanya ===
Suou's best friend who becomes a Contractor at the start of the second season

* [[Bee-Bee Gun]]: Her power involves summoning a swarm of insects which she can control with her mind.
* [[Blondes Are Evil]]
* [[Evil Costume Switch]]: Quickly exchanges her school clothes for a black military uniform.
* {{spoiler|[[Deadly Change-of-Heart]]: She was showing signs of redemption... until [[Manipulative Bastard|Shion shot her]].}}
* [[Transhuman Treachery]]: The way she immediately turns into a [[The Spock|utterly emotionless]] killing machine seems to conform with all of the [[Fantastic Racism|worst stereotypes]] about Contractors, which is pretty jarring after the first season went to all that effort to convince us it wasn't justified.
** Possible [[Fridge Brilliance]] here, contractors seem to get better at using logic to work there way around to morals as they live longer.

=== Ilya Sokoloff ===
A Russian Contractor featuring in the second series

* [[Ax Crazy]]: Played with: While most Contractors can kill without much thought, becoming a Contractor actually made him ''less'' kill-crazy. Also, theoretically, he now kills in the most painless way possible. But, yes, he's still crazy.
* [[Bishonen]]
* [[Four Eyes, Zero Soul]]: Looks like he'd be [[Adorkable]], but is actually a total psychopath who is bad [[Even Evil Has Standards|even by Contractor standards]].
* [[Nightmare Fuel Coloring Book]]: His remuneration.
* [[Serial Killer]]: Prior to becoming a Contractor.
* [[White-Haired Pretty Boy]]
* [[Would Hit a Girl]]: His victims were female.
* [[Yuji Ueda]]

=== Claude / Shichi ===
A Contractor who features as a major antagonist in the [[Interquel]] OVAs.

*  {{spoiler|[[The Bad Guy Wins]]}}: Despite  {{spoiler|being shot and nearly bleeding out}}, he still manages to  {{spoiler|slaughter many Contractors that wanted to live in peace and forces Yin into awakening Izanami, creating a worldwide threat that could kill many humans and Contractors and setting up the second season.}} He still  {{spoiler|ends up dying due to Izanami, although it is less of a [[Karmic Death]] since he seemed to enjoy being killed by Izanami as he knew he had already won.}}
*  {{spoiler|[[Attractive Bent Gender]]: His disguise as Amber actually isn't all that different from his true appearance.}}
* [[Bishonen]]: Looks similar to Amber from the first season.  {{spoiler|But while Amber was an [[Anti-Villain]], Shichi is just evil.}}
* [[Blond Guys Are Evil]]: One of the most clear-cut examples in the series.
* [[Evil Is Not a Toy]]: Yes, it's a ''wonderful'' idea to {{spoiler|let an [[Eldritch Abomination]] loose}} just to see what happens.
** It was less "just what to see what happens" and more of [[The Social Darwinist|his desire to see Contractors rise up and dominate humanity due to having superpowers]].
* [[Fantastic Racism]]: Reveals he doesn't like humans to  {{spoiler|intelligence agencies paying him a ton of money for Yin/Izanami...Shichi tosses their money away and manipulates the situation so everyone there will die. Though he didn't see himself dying, probably, but didn't care because [[The Bad Guy Wins|he won]] in the end of the OVA.}}
* [[Johnny Yong Bosch]]: Working for Funimation again.
* [[Manipulative Bastard]]: {{spoiler|His habit of using shape-shifting to trick people into killing their loved ones}}.
*  {{spoiler|[[Master of Illusion]]}}
* [[The Social Darwinist]]: Due to being exploited by humans, he began to wonder why Contractors don't exploit humans...after all Contractors have powers and humans don't.
* [[The Sociopath]]: Seems to have no attachment to others, even  {{spoiler|killing his partner who he seemed to be friendly with and had no problem killing a lot of Contractors, despite his claims that Contractors are better than humanity and his dream of them ruling humans.}} Whereas other Contractors have felt some emotion towards others, Shichi's emotions can be summed up as [[Fantastic Racism|spite against humans]].
* [[Smug Snake]]
* [[Superpower Lottery]]: He won. {{spoiler|He basically has [[Bleach|Aizen's Complete Hypnosis]] as well as a limited ability to control his victims' bodies, and his remuneration is extremely light.}}

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