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* [[Creepy Child]]: Shion.

* [[Creepy Twins]]: Madame Oreille hangs around with an extremely creepy pair of Doll twins who even do the alternating-speaking thing.

* [[Dead Star Walking]]: Given the [[Trailers Always Lie|promos]] for the second season, it seemed as if {{spoiler|April}} would become a major character. Then Hei shows up and quickly puts an end to that notion.

* [[Drill Sergeant Nasty]]: Hei in Episode 4.

* [[Drowning My Sorrows]]: The year's gap between the two seasons does not appear to have been kind to Hei, if the hip flask is any indication. Or maybe it's just part of the "Sexy Hobo" look he appears to be cultivating. When someone pointed it out, his response was pretty much just, "Shut up."

* [[Eagle Land]]: Part of the [[Melee a Trois|mess]] is due to attempts by the United States to restore their superpower status.

* [[Eye Scream]]: When the [[Fragile Speedster]] ran through a rain which killed him because of inertia, the last thing he saw was a raindrop. Very, very close to his eye. Thank goodness for the [[Gory Discretion Shot]].

** Another example shown at the end of the last episode {{spoiler|a shot of Genma, presumably dead, but still in "armor mode" with the handle of Mina's sword sticking out of one of his eyes, which is dripping blood.}} Completely deserved in this case.

* [[Fan Nickname]]:

** Goran, the FSB agent in Season 2 {{spoiler|who gets offed by April within minutes of appearing}} is affectionately referred to as "Burger-kun" due to his remuneration of eating burgers.

** ''Japanese Lesbian Catwoman'' for Mina Hazuki due to her powers and remuneration of [[Intimate Healing|having to kiss men]], [[Does Not Like Men|one which she is not happy with at all]].

** It's only on one site, AFAIK, but the anime blog, [http://randomc.animeblogger.net/ Random Curiosity] calls Kirihara's boss "Mr. [[Golgo 13]]" on account of the similar appearance of the characters.

*** In fact, he's an almost perfectt [[Expy]] of Duke Togo, and RC isn't alone in noticing it.

*** This troper was able to visit some of those locations while on her exchange program in Japan. [http://community.livejournal.com/darker_than/239323.html Here] [http://community.livejournal.com/darker_than/257815.html are] her pics. Also, for those who can understand Russian, there's [http://www.russelldjones.ru this site] (the webmaster of this site has translated some of this troper's notes/comments into Russian; even better, he has pics of the locations in Russia.]]

** The ending gave us the title translated into Russian, but with some letters mixed up and a few missing. Guess what? The next episode they CORRECTED it. [[Shown Their Work]] indeed!

** {{spoiler|Played straight in a flashback, though; as children, Shion and the original Suou were near-identical.}}

* [[Hannibal Lecture]]: Hei gives one to {{spoiler|Major Repnin, who'd been pursuing him. Repnin}} threatened to {{spoiler|blow up a train}} if Hei didn't cooperate and admitted that, although he trusted Contractors because they were logical, he hated them because one of his Contractor subordinates killed his niece. He laments that he was forced to work with his niece's murderer and thanks Hei for killing him. Hei then points out that the Contractor was a depraved human before he was a depraved contractor and that if {{spoiler|the major}} was too bound by his logic to avenge his niece himself, he likely didn't have the balls to {{spoiler|hold innocent people hostage}} either. {{spoiler|Then he pins Repnin's hand to the table with a table knife.}}

* [[He's Back]]: It takes a while, but Hei eventually gets back to his normal self. Significantly marked when he turns down alcohol at dinner and exhibits his [[Big Eater|ludicrous appetite]] again.

* [[History Repeats]]: The American military launching an operation to occupy what remains of the Greater Tokyo Area.

* [[Improbable Aiming Skills]]: Suou when she {{spoiler|goes off to save July from being smuggled out of Hokkaido.}}

* [[I'm Taking Her Home with Me]]: Kiko's friend, regarding Suou. For the first time ever, Kiko <s>[[Reality Ensues|distinguishes anime from real life]]</s> realizes she's [[Wrong Genre Savvy|not in that kind of show]], and notes that kidnapping people is illegal.

* [[Living MacGuffin]]: {{spoiler|Yin.}} Shion as well... [[The Man Behind the Man|or so it seems]].

* [[Lolicon]]: Where to start? Many, many shots of an unclothed junior high girl, Hei's groping act, and most recently, having said girl [[Wax On, Wax Off|belly-dance in front of store windows]] to "train her abdominal muscles." Is that how Hei got so [[Badass|ripped]]?

** Also, the belly-dancing thing would've been much creepy... if it hadn't been so [[Refuge in Audacity|random to the point of hilarity.]]

*** Believe it or not, movements like those are actually a traditional Chinese method of improving your abdominal muscle, posture, and balance.

* [[Pettanko]]: Suou is flat as a washboard -- even compared to her ''classmates''.

** And now Kiko is back!

** Possibly justified by Hei being Asian; as many can attest, growing a beard is ''hard''.

*** Genma, on the other hand, doesn't seem to have a problem with his.

** The way Kobayashi poses in the end of the series with the custom M16A2 rifle [[Golgo 13|is too reminiscent of Golgo 13.]]

* [[Single-Target Sexuality]]: Misaki (Heisexual)

** {{spoiler|Shion apparently used a real one in Episode 8, and the custom variant at that, modified due to him being left-handed. He shoot it prone, though, not from the hip as his sister does.}}

** {{spoiler|Actually, her wielding a gun of that size is not really unbelievable. Think of, that it's her power as Contractor. Despite the fact, that she is no real Contractor anyway but fused with Bai. As Hei gets depowered, Bai moves to the Meteor Core Suou is wearing, giving her the Contractor powers same as she did to Hei in Season 1. (Explains why Suou keeps being emotional, struggles with the mindset she should have as a Contractor and in the end develops a crush on Hei.) You can see that in the scene, where Section 3 hits Hei with the anti-contractor trap and a stream of light hits the Meteor Core. Plus, the weapon materializes itself not from her chest, but from the necklace. If someone can alter reality on quantum level and create an Anti-tank weapon out of nowhere, adjusting the strenght of its wielder is simple.}}

* [[Space Master]]: August 7 aka "The Magician" used spatial distortions to become functionally [[Intangible Man|intangible to physical attacks]] and to access his armoury.

* [[Stalker with a Crush]]: Kirihara is trying pretty hard, considering that the target of said stalker-crush is a ninja who's not even in the same country.

** Ironically enough, a [[Psycho Lesbian|completely different ninja]] has taken up stalking ''her.''

* [[The Stinger]]

* [[Stockholm Syndrome]]: Suou is basically stuck with Hei, since she's been [[Unperson|unpersoned]] and has no money. Despite the fact that Hei killed her father and mostly acts like a complete [[Jerkass]], especially at the beginning, his [[Chick Magnet]] powers are apparently still active, since by the end of the season she's developed a bit of a [[Precocious Crush]] on him.

* [[Time Skip]]: A year or two between seasons.

* [[Too Fast to Stop]]: See also [[Inertia Is a Cruel Mistress]].

* [[Transhuman Treachery]]: {{spoiler|Tanya}} seems to perfectly encapsulate all of the [[Fantastic Racism]] stereotypes about the differences between Contractors and normals.

* [[Trippy Finale Syndrome]]: If you thought the ''first'' season was bad, the last episode of ''Gemini'' will probably leave you unable to say much beyond "[[Flat What|Wut.]]"

* [[Twelve-Episode Anime]]

* [[Underestimating Badassery]]: Genma apparently thinks that Hei is "just a [[The Stoic|gloomy]] [[Chick Magnet|gigolo]]" when he's not using his powers. Unfortunately for Genma, Hei earned his nickname "Black Reaper" because of how many Contractors he killed even ''before'' [[Badass Normal|he had any powers]].

* [[Unperson]]: Suou and presumably Nika

* [[You Need to Get Laid]]: All of the suggestions that if Kirihara did, she might be less obsessed with catching Hei.

 

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