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{{cleanup|This page claims that three different characters are the story's [[protagonist]]. At least two of those claims must be wrong. Somebody familiar with this work needs to identify which character is the [[protagonist]], which character (if any) is the [[deuteragonist]], and which characters are "merely" Major Characters.}}
This page lists the characters of ''[[Elfen Lied]]'' and their associated tropes.
[[File:Elfen Lied Lucy.jpg|frame]]
Voiced by: [[Sanae Kobayashi]] (Japanese), [[Kira Vincent-Davis]] (English)
The female protagonist of the series, she is a teenage Diclonius around 18 years old. Lucy has four vectors with a limited range of two meters. However, she demonstrates prodigious control over her vectors and can be swift and lethal within that range in addition to being able to use nearby objects as high velocity projectiles to kill at greater distances. She is also capable of stopping or deflecting most standard ammunition. Her great skill, murderous intent {{spoiler|and ability to reproduce}} have caused her to be regarded as the most dangerous of the Diclonius.
Lucy hates humans mainly because of how she was treated by her human peers as a child. Consequently, she discounts non-Diclonii, claiming they are not real people, to the point of stating that she has "not killed anyone yet". She seems to lack empathy, kills without much concern, and acts sadistically. Despite this lack of concern for human life she will not harm Kouta, {{spoiler|as he was her only childhood friend.}}
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Lucy include:}}
* [[Adaptation Dye Job]]: Somewhat. Her hair is more dark and red in the anime, while in the manga it's a pure pink.
* {{spoiler|[[The Atoner]]: Sort of.}}
* [[Ax Crazy]]: In the manga, at least, Lucy doesn't just nonchalantly tear people to pieces, she does it with a huge grin on her face.
** [[Evil Laugh]]: Manga-only.
* [[Anti-Villain]] [[Villain Protagonist|Protagonist]]: [[Sliding Scale of Anti-Villains|Type II]]. One of the best examples.
** Also, [[Anti-Hero]]: [[Sliding Scale of Anti-Heroes|Type V]]. Particularly, in the anime.
* [[Badass]]: ''Oh so much.''
** [[Badass Adorable]]: When she starts [[Defrosting Ice Queen|defrosting]], she builds up an immense reservoir of [[Moe]].
* [[Berserk Button]]: If she sees you as a threat to Kouta, you will die. Period.
* [[Break the Cutie]].
* [[Broken Bird]]: Just about as broken as you can get. Seriously.
* [[Bully Hunter]]: Lucy takes this trope to the logical extreme and beyond in her backstory. {{spoiler|Just...don't hurt dogs near her, ok? Less a case of wanting to get her own back on bullies, more a case of having a full-on psychotic break.}}
* [[But Your Wings Are Beautiful|But Your Horns are Beautiful]]: When Kouta first {{spoiler|meets Lucy as a child}} this is more or less what he says.
* [[Catgirl]]: Her appearance looks like this, but the "ears" are actually horns, making her more of a [[Cute Monster Girl]].
* [[Clingy Jealous Girl]]: In the most ''frightening'' way imaginable.
* [[The Combat Pragmatist]]
* [[Curb Stomp Battle]]: Pretty much any "fight" she takes part in, {{spoiler|although this is reversed in the battle between Lucy and Mariko, but only in the Anime.}} Averted by her duel with Nana, which is more or less an even match; Nana gets the advantage, but Lucy wins because she's far more willing to hurt Nana than vice versa.
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* {{spoiler|[[Heroic Sacrifice]] / [[Superpower Meltdown]] : Toward the end of the manga.}}
* [[Hidden Eyes]]: Quite often, although ''very'' prominent when she's just reverted back to Lucy.
* [[Humans Are
* [[Identity Amnesia]]: The switch between Lucy and Nyu and back is triggered by {{spoiler|either a nasty injury (usually a blow to the head) or a very traumatic memory}}.
* [[Karma Houdini]]: Averted in the manga; Kouta does ''not'' forgive her for {{spoiler|brutally murdering his dad and sister in cold blood}}, {{spoiler|and she dies by [[Superpower Meltdown]],}} but {{spoiler|the personalities of Kaede and Nyu are reincarnated as twin girls and are reunited with Kouta some years later.}} In the anime, however, she is implied to survive her last showdown with the army, and while Kouta doesn't exactly ''forgive'' her (or at least not her actions), he's much more sympathetic to her plight, and he'd rather see the killing stop than seek revenge.
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* [[Made of Iron]]: She survives taking an anti-tank slug to the head in the first episode. To be fair, though, the thing barely grazes her, she's wearing a helmet, and she has her vectors to protect her. She still does survive falling hundreds of feet off a cliff into the ocean without drowning immediately afterwards though.
* [[Magical Girlfriend]]: They can't all be [[Ah! My Goddess|Belldandy]].
* [[Meaningful Name]]: Can be seen alternatively as a female version of Lucifer (the devil, which fits her role as an evil mass-murderer), and also sounds like "lucid," which could refer to Nyu only initially talking in full sentences when Lucy is at the wheel.
** Lucy is also the name of a [[wikipedia:Lucy
* [[Monster Progenitor]]: She's not the first diclonius by a long shot, but {{spoiler|her vectors are capable of spreading the diclonius condition to the gametes of humans she touches with them.}}
** And how can we forget that {{spoiler|She's the only fertile female of her species}}.
* {{spoiler|[[More Than Mind Control]]: Turns out Lucy, or rather [[Only Known by Their Nickname|Kaede]], was [[Manslaughter Provocation|Driven to Murder]] in part, by the manipulations of a [[Complete Monster]], [[Omnicidal Maniac]] [[Split Personality]] within her (Born from either [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds|snapping]] [[Break the Cutie|at the constant abuse]], her own [[In the Blood|genetic drive]] to [[Kill All Humans]], or ''[[Take a Third Option|both]]'').}}
* [[Only Known by Their Nickname]]: {{spoiler|Most people seem to either not know or forget that "Lucy" isn't her real name. As revealed toward the end of the manga, "Lucy"'s real name is Kaede.}}
* [[Pay Evil Unto Evil]]: She's far more sadistic towards people who actually deserve it. She'll ''kill'' anyone, but she'll ''torture'' people like Bando half to death.
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* [[Star-Crossed Lovers]]
* [[The Stoic]]
* [[Stringy
* [[Sugar and Ice Personality]]: What young Lucy's tsundere tendencies have matured into by the start of the series. Although not at the same time, Lucy's character seems therefore to be the very rare quartet of [[Tsundere]], [[Sugar and Ice Personality]], [[Yandere]] ''and'' [[Cute and Psycho]].
* [[Super-Powered Evil Side]]: She's it, except {{spoiler|there's an even ''more'' evil side that's essentially her basic instincts.}}
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* [[Tragic Villain]]: ''So very, very tragic.''
* [[Tranquil Fury]]: In the anime, where she kills without a change in her facial expressions.
* {{spoiler|[[Unlucky Childhood Friend]]}}
* [[Unstoppable Rage]]: About 90% of the time.
* [[Unusual Ears]]: Well, they're technically horns(?), but the principle is the same.
* [[Used to Be a Sweet Kid]]
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Not a separate character in the strictly technical sense, Nyu is the split personality of Lucy that developed after a .50 BMG round grazed the metallic helmet protecting her head. Nyu has a childlike personality, an infantile knowledge of the world, and lacks spoken language skills, only able to say "Nyu" and "Kouta" most of the time. Nyu is innocent and incapable of violent acts, a foil to the normally cold and sadistic Lucy; she is the manifestation of Lucy's "good side".
When Nyu is attacked violently she regresses into Lucy; likewise, when Lucy is treated with love and kindness or wants to hide herself from Kouta, she will switch back into Nyu. While Nyu exists first due to trauma, {{spoiler|it is believed that Lucy subconsciously encourages her presence due to her feelings of guilt towards Kouta. In the manga, this is confirmed by Lucy herself.}}
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Nyu include:}}
* [[Anything That Moves]]: Nyu tends to be rather... [[Skinship Grope|indiscriminate]] when it comes to others.
* [[Apocalypse Maiden]]: Nyu is innocent and no threat to anyone. Her other personality is a world-killing weapon.
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* [[Verbal Tic Name]]
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Voiced by: [[Chihiro Suzuki]] (Japanese), Adam Conlon (English)
An 18-year-old student who arrives in the Kanagawa Prefecture to attend college. He is the male protagonist of the series. Kouta lives in a closed-down inn with his cousin, Yuka, while attending university.
Kouta has repressed traumatic memories of witnessing, firsthand, the deaths of his father and sister. He ended up in a psychiatric ward for over a year following the event, but eventually made a full recovery. As a result, he is particularly sympathetic towards [[The Dulcinea Effect|girls in trouble]] and is extremely generous to and protective of the girls around him. He is very kind and gentle as well, offering to shelter the various suffering characters he and Yuka stumble across, and treating them as part of his family. He and Yuka both initially meet Lucy as she washes up on the shore of a nearby beach.
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Kouta include:}}
* [[Accidental Pervert]]
* [[Angst Coma]]: Justified given {{spoiler|the gruesome severity of what he witnessed}}.
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* [[Star-Crossed Lovers]]
* [[Shiny Midnight Black]]
* [[Team Dad]]: Sometimes referred to as the "Father" of the group, and he acts like it. Despite looking like a typical [[Nice Guy]], he can be surprisingly strict and gruff when he needs to be.
* [[Trauma-Induced Amnesia]]: A significant part of the plot.
* [[Unlucky Everydude]]: ''Very'' unlucky.
== Yuka ==
[[File:Elfen Lied Yuka.jpg|frame]]
Voiced by: [[Mamiko Noto]] (Japanese), Nancy Novotny (English)
Kouta's cousin, who is around 19 years old and planning to attend the same university as Kouta. She moves in with him at the inn after having not seen him in many years. Having had a crush on Kouta since childhood, she still harbors strong feelings for him, and is openly jealous of Kouta's attention to Nyu, to the point of being irrational.
Despite her brash tendencies, Yuka is geniunely as kind and caring as Kouta. Though she is hesitant and reserved, she is accepting of Kouta's decision to use their inn to shelter those in need.
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Yuka include:}}
* [[Absurdly Youthful Mother]]: She and Kouta both adopt Mayu despite the fact that Yuka is only 19 and Mayu is 14.
* [[Clingy Jealous Girl]]: In a grating manner as well. People tend to dislike her for this... while forgetting that Lucy can be ''even'' clingier. At least Yuka would NOT try to kill Lucy, whereas Lucy HAS used her vectors to push Yuka down and {{spoiler|started her [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]] because she was jealous of her.}}.
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[[File:Elfen Lied Mayu.jpg|frame]]
Voiced by: Emiko Hagiwara (Japanese), Cynthia Martinez (English)
A young 14 year-old girl, abandoned by her mother and a victim of sexual abuse by her stepfather. She has run away from home and is homeless at the start of the series, subsisting on bread crusts she is given at a local bakery under the pretence that they are for the small puppy, Wanta, that accompanies her. She ends up living with Kohta and Yuka as her legal guardians. Mayu befriends Nana and tries to take her under her wing.
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Mayu include:}}
* [[Break the Cutie]]: {{spoiler|Her [[Abusive Parents]].}} Yes, nary a cutie escapes unbroken in this series.
** There's also when she hears about Lucy, she doesn't believe that the person she knew as Nyuu could be a sadistic killer and saves her during her 2nd fight with Bandou, after which Lucy tries to kill her.
* [[Does Not Like Men]] / [[Hates Being Touched]]: She follows this to a degree; {{spoiler|the manga implies that her traumatic experience with her stepfather has soured her on men in general, and finding Kouta in the bath groping Nyu doesn't help. Ironically, she appears to bond most closely with Bandou, who generally treats her like crap, except for when he saved her from the "Unknown Man".}}
* [[Rape as Drama]]: {{spoiler|She was sexually abused by her stepfather, and very nearly raped by the Unknown Man.}}
* [[The Runaway]]: A textbook Abused Runaway.
* [[Shrinking Violet]]
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== Nana ==
[[File:Elfen Lied Nana.jpg|frame]]
Voiced by: [[Yuki Matsuoka]] (Japanese), Sasha Paysinger (English)
Also known as [[Seven Is Nana|Number 7]], she is a young Silpelit (Diclonius born from a human) girl who has the physical appearance of being 14 years old. Most Diclonius babies are euthanized at birth, but Nana was one of a handful kept alive for use as test subjects. As a result she has spent her entire life in the Diclonius research facility. Nana can be seen as the exact opposite of Lucy. While Lucy's default personality is serious and cold, Nana's is fragile, friendly, and kind. Nana's default personality is very similar to Nyu and she also has an endearingly immature knowledge of the world.
Nana was a stand-out subject among the Diclonius for being able to effortlessly repress her murderous instincts. Accordingly, she has never used her vectors to harm humans (or anything for that matter). Chief Kurama sees her as his daughter and cares very much for her. In the end, {{spoiler|Nana and Kurama are regarded more instead as a couple with Nana referring to herself as his 'wife', as Kurama couldn't accept Nana as her daughter.}}
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Nana include:}}
* [[Adaptation Dye Job]]: Her hair was purplish-blue in the manga, but is purplish-pink in the anime. Also her eyes were green rather than rose-pink.
* [[Artificial Limbs]]
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* [[Berserk Button]]: Threaten to hurt her "papa". I ''dare'' you.
* [[Break the Cutie]]: An extremely clever inversion. It's explicitly stated that her "Cutie" persona is a psychological defense mechanism that she developed as a result of the universe's constant attempts to break her.
** [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: The few times said cutie-persona/psychological-defense-mechanism is broken through. During Nana & Bandou's first meeting on a moonlit beach, [[Jerkass|Bandou]] pushes her too far and she snaps on him, gaining the same dead look in her eyes that Lucy almost-constantly has and trying to kill him (and coming very close) until a .50-caliber bullet grazing her head knocks her back to her senses. Later in manga Chapter 74, {{spoiler|The Unkown Man threatening Mayu and casually killing [[Kill the Cutie|Number 28]] right in front of Nana is enough to set her off again. Unfortunately, he blasts her before she can attack, taking her out of the fight}}.
*** Oh, and her fight with Mariko? {{spoiler|Mariko was basically beating her sensless, and Nana was not able to fight back at all, just laying there. And when Mariko was about to finally finish her off, she still could not do anything...but then Mariko said that she will kill her papa as well. [http://www.mangareader.net/190-12668-6/elfen-lied/chapter-57.html Bad] [http://i16.mangareader.net/elfen-lied/57/elfen-lied-1889961.jpg idea.] }}
* [[Can't Catch Up]] : Despite smarts in battle and ever-increasing savvy, she has a good showing but always gets curbstomped by opponents.
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* [[Only a Flesh Wound]]: Her battle with Lucy.
* [[The Pollyanna]]: Admirably and ''heroically''. Under ridiculously brutal circumstances that turned other Diclonii into killers. Choosing not to be one of the series' [[Unstoppable Rage|unstoppable killing machines]], Nana maintains an unshakable positive outlook, anchored by her belief that everything will be OK when she can be with papa again.
* [[Power Nullifier]]: She can use her vectors to temporarily disable other Diclonius's vectors.
* [[Redemption Equals Life]]: If you count simply ''being'' a Diclonius as a state in dire need of redemption, Nana definitely qualifies. She is one of the kindest characters in the series, meaning she ''staunchly'' rejects the inherent, ingrained desire to eradicate all humans. {{spoiler|She never takes a single life throughout both the anime and manga and is amply rewarded by being the ''only'' Diclonius to survive the manga.}}
* [[Seven Is Nana]]: Nana is Diclonius subject Number Seven.
* [[Too Incompetent to Operate a Blanket]]: raised in a lab, and thus, unable to even cut a cabbage with an ordinary knife.
* [[Took a Level
* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair|You Gotta Have Pink Hair]]
* [[Younger Than They Look]]: Silpelits age at about double the rate of normal humans. Nana looks 14 and is really around seven years old.
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A 15-17 year old girl who's Yuka's best friend and [[Sempai-Kohai|kohai]], she aspires to become a famous opera singer {{spoiler|like her late mother}}. However, her father does not approve of her dream, due to her being the only heir of his business, {{spoiler|and also because she has a throat defect that will eventually make her lose her voice if she strains it too much}}.
Due to Dad's rather... [[Abusive Parents|violent]] opposition of her dream, Nozomi developed a psychological trauma that [[Bring My Brown Pants|makes her wet herself whenever she becomes too nervous]]. Despite this, she tries to get into a music high school, secretly training at the Maple Inn, which Yuka invited her to, during her free time {{spoiler|and moving there permanently after getting accepted}}.
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Nozomi include:}}
* [[Ascended Extra]]: She has a special chapter in the manga depicting her past. Arguably the [[Lighter and Softer|Lightest and Softest]] chapter in the entire series.
* {{spoiler|[[Cute Mute]]: In chapter 83, her throat gets crushed by a soldier, turning her into this until the final chapter.}}
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* [[The Runaway]]: While she didn't really run away in a direct way like Mayu, she still kind of qualifies as an Abused Runaway.
* [[Shrinking Violet]]: With damn good reason.
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== Dr. Kurama ==
[[File:Elfen Lied Kurama.jpg|frame]]
Voiced by: Osamu Hosoi (Japanese), Jay Hickman (English)
The chief of research of the Diclonius children in the research containment facility. {{spoiler|He is also the surrogate father of Nana and biological father of Mariko. His wife died from when she tried to stop him from killing their daughter shortly after she gave birth to Mariko.}}
Kurama was initially respected for his stern, no-nonsense attitude and his devotion to his job, in spite of the horrible atrocities that were being carried out. However, recent events cause Kurama's ironclad devotion to waver...
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Dr. Kurama include:}}
* [[Anti-Hero]]: Type IV. He's willing to terminate innocent children and not-so-innocent adult women alike, for the sake of saving the human race.
* [[The Atoner]]
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[[File:Elfen Lied Bando.jpg|frame]]
Voiced by: [[Joji Nakata]] (Japanese), Jason Douglas (English)
An operative for the National Police Agency's Special Assault Team. Although he is technically human, he is as homicidal and apathetic to other people as the worst Diclonius are. He is incredibly skilled in combat and widely-regarded as a lethal and bloodthirsty soldier.
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Bando include:}}
* [[Anti-Hero]]: Type V in the manga. Type IV in the anime. Unlike Kurama, Bando kills mostly [[For the Evulz]], or [[Revenge]].
* [[Artificial Limbs]]: After his skirmish with Lucy, who wouldn't?
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** He also nearly manages to beat Lucy in his 2nd fight with her, losing because the Unknown Man got in the way, and then because Mayu got in the way.
** Also when facing the Unknown Man, he gets hit with one of his toxic spiked balls, and he endures the pain and rips it out despite being hooked into his skin with barbs.
* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: Manga exclusive, combined as it often is with a nice case of [[Dynamic Entry]].
* [[Blood Knight]].
* [[Character Development]]: Bando is probably the most [[Dynamic Character]] in the series. He goes from a borderline-[[Complete Monster]] who joins the SAT to legally [[Psycho for Hire|kill people]], to a [[Jerkass]] who will repay people who are in his debt, to finally, a [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]] and [[Jerkass Woobie]] who risks his life to stop the [[Complete Monster|Unknown Man]] from raping Mayu.
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* {{spoiler|[[Half the Man He Used To Be]]: Loses his lower half and his left arm (and his right one, though he lost it earlier, and It had been replaced with a cybernetic). He recovers, but with a cybernetic lower half (and arms).}}
* [[Hitman with a Heart]]: Particularly in the manga.
* [[Jerkass]] -> [[Character Development]] -> [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]: While he's a ''much'' bigger bastard than normal of the latter, he has his moments {{spoiler|mainly towards Mayu}}. It's perhaps better than nothing that Bandou is simply a [[Jerkass]] and not a [[Complete Monster]], given his behavior and the [[Humans Are
* [[Large Ham]]
* [[Noble Demon]]
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* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: Red to Kurama's Blue.
* {{spoiler|[[Staying Alive]]: Walking Trope embodiment.}}
* [[Sunglasses
* [[Villainous Rescue]]
[[File:Elfen Lied Kakuzawa.jpg|frame]]
Voiced by: Kinryu Akimoto (Japanese), Andy McAvin (English)
The director of the Diclonius research facility. He is a repulsive, power-hungry man lacking any sense of morality and will do whatever it takes to achieve his goals. {{spoiler|He is from a long line of Diclonius ancestry that has been watered down by inter-breeding with humans. As a result, he has no vectors and much smaller horns on his head. The aim of him and his son is, in part, to replenish their bloodline with the Diclonius they are experimenting on (of which Lucy was the first specimen capable of reproducing) and consequently become "kings" of the new race.}}
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Kakuzawa include:}}
* [[A God Am I]]: {{spoiler|His ultimate goal.}}
* [[Authority Equals Asskicking]]: A villanous ''extreme'': he will kill a subordinate if they decide not to obey.
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* [[Evilutionary Biologist]]
* [[Equivalent Exchange]]: He believes that Kurama must trade {{spoiler|Mariko's life, which is Kurama's ''daughter''}} for working with him.
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* {{spoiler|[[Hoist by His Own Petard]]: Satisfyingly killed by Lucy in the manga.}}
* [[Karma Houdini]]: In the anime, in addition to barely getting any screen time, {{spoiler|he never faces a bit of danger and is free to gleefully continue his abhorrent research facility.}}
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* [[Wicked Cultured]]
[[File:Elfen Lied Mariko.jpg|frame]]
Voiced by: [[Tomoko Kawakami]] (Japanese), [[Luci Christian]] (English)
Also known as Number 35, she is a young Silpelit girl {{spoiler|who is the biological daughter of Kurama}}. She is regarded as the most powerful of the Diclonius, possessing 33 vectors each with an approximate range of 11 meters in the anime (the number and range is much higher in the manga).
After her mother's [[Death by Childbirth]] Mariko was imprisoned as an infant and raised inside a steel container with human contact consisting of nothing more than a scientist acting as a sort of foster mother through speakers and monitors. Her physical impairment is seen in her atrophied limbs as she moves around in a wheelchair. Despite the environment she was raised in, she is relatively well developed psychologically (for a given degree of "psychologically"), unlike Nana. She is extremely homicidal and sadistic, and enjoys torturing and dismembering her victims. However, her personality is not blatantly evil: she is only having fun, and the pleasure she gets from it is equivalent to a child playing with toys, not really noticing the differences.
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Mariko include:}}
* [[Adaptation Dye Job]]: Averted/played with. Due to weird lighting, she seems to be blonde in the anime for most of her early appearance, but outside the funky sunset light ([[Fridge Logic|which would need to contain an enormous amount of dust to have that effect, by the way]]) she's got the classic Diclonius pink hair.
* [[Badass Adorable]]
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* [[Too Powerful to Live]]: Hence the [[Explosive Leash]].
* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair|You Gotta Have Pink Hair]]
** [[Blondes Are Evil]]: Manga only.
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Voiced by: [[Maria Yamamoto]] (Japanese), [[Monica Rial]] (English)
Kouta's little sister who died before the series start. {{spoiler|She was actually brutally slaughtered by a jealous Lucy, and along with his father, serves as the trigger for Kouta's [[Trauma-Induced Amnesia]]}}.
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Kanae include:}}
* [[Bratty Half-Pint]]
* [[Dead Little Sister]]
* [[Memento MacGuffin]] / [[Tragic Keepsake]]: The seashell she gives to Kouta {{spoiler|on the day of her death}}.
* [[Cassandra Truth]] : Her wild story about a horned girl killing people with arms that came out of her head is proven true in the worst way.
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Voiced by: Eriko Ishihara (Japanese), [[Jessica Boone]] (English)
A researcher working alongside Professor Kakuzawa to find a vaccine for the Diclonius virus.
She, along with Kouta, ends up seeing {{spoiler|Professor Kakuzawa's mutilated body. She reports to Chief Kakuzawa what she's seen, but he doesn't intend to let her off scot-free, and threatens her with death lest she take up the rest of Professor Kakuzawa's research}}.
In the anime, she's basically only there for comic relief, but in the manga, she plays an extremely important role as the story progresses on.
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Arakawa include:}}
* [[Chekhov's Gunman]]: Manga only. {{spoiler|She ends up finally creating the Diclonius vaccine.}}
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Again, manga only.
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* [[Plucky Comic Relief]]: In the anime, and ''early'' manga. Combined with:
* [[Running Gag]]:
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== Nousou ==
The head scientist of Chief Kakuzawa after Kurama's departure.
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Nousou include:}}
* [[Bishonen]]: Just ''look'' at his face!
* {{spoiler|[[Cloning Blues]]: He cloned Mariko.}}
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* [[Karmic Death]]
* [[Heel Realization]]: Feels regret over his tortuous experiments after realizing {{spoiler|he felt the clones of Mariko he created were like daughters to him.}}
** [[
* [[Mad Scientist]]: ''Oh so much...''
** [[Morally-Ambiguous Doctorate]]
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* [[White-Haired Pretty Boy]]
An ambiguously looking operative that goes alongside Nousou at the assault of Maple Inn. Is the one that knocks Lucy out and brings her back to the facility.
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by The Agent include:}}
* [[Anti-Hero]]: Type IV
* {{spoiler|[[Bifauxnen]].}}
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* [[Genre Savvy]]: {{spoiler|She recognizes that removing the mind-control device from the clones leads to dangerous things (See Nousou's entry). So when Arakawa does it, she quickly put it back in right before the clone went all [[Ax Crazy]]}}
* [[Hidden Depths]]
* [[Sunglasses
* {{spoiler|[[Reverse Mole]]: Works for the Japanese goverment. Sent to Kakuzawa as a spy.}}
* [[The Stoic]]
** {{spoiler|[[Not So Stoic]]: Stays behind to face certain death so Arakawa can escape with the Diclonius vaccine. Starts crying as soon as Arakawa is gone.}}
The ringleader of the children who tormented Lucy as a child. Is also the one most responsible for her hatred of humanity.
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Tomoo include:}}
* [[Complete Monster]]: He has no excuse for being so cruel. He just ''is.''
* [[Creepy Child]]: Ironically more so than his victim.
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* [[Oh Crap]]: Just before Lucy kills him his look is one of pure shock and terror.
* [[The Bully]]: You bet he is!
* [[The Sociopath]]: Oh boy is he...{{context}}
== The Unknown Man ==
A minor manga-only character, a man clad in a black trenchcoat and wide-brimmed hat, with opaque sunglasses and greasy-looking hair. At first appears relatively civil, he soon reveals his true colors as one of most horrifically evil bastards, if not ''the'' most evil, in the entire series. A brutal [[Naruto|Hidan]]-level sadist; rapist; heartless; and all-around not very nice. He delights in causing pain and suffering, especially in Diclonius and/or teenage girls. {{spoiler|Killed by Lucy}}.
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* [[Agony Beam]]: A low-tech variation, in the form of a crossbow that fires spiked metal spheres coated in a toxin that causes horrible, cripplingly agonizing pain to those it hits. {{spoiler|Bites him in the ass - literally - during his fight with Bandou.}}
** [[Abnormal Ammo]]: Let's just say that heavy spiked balls coated in potent toxins isn't exactly what you'd expect a ''crossbow'' to fire.
* [[Ax Crazy]]: Perhaps the craziest. And considering the likes of Bando and Lucy, that's saying something!
* [[Badass Longcoat]]
* [[Complete Monster]]:
* [[Dirty Coward]]: He gleefully tortures and rapes defenseless Diclonii and normal children, but runs away when he confronts [[Badass Normal|Bando]].
* [[Eviler Than Thou]]: definitely worse than [[Psycho for Hire|Bandou]] and/or [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds|Lucy]], and arguably worse than even Kakuzawa Sr.
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** It's also implied that he was allowed to rape many more Silpelits by the staff of the facility.
* [[The Sociopath]]
* [[Sunglasses
** [[Lennon Specs]]
A relatively minor manga-only character, 28 is mainly known for the absolutely nauseatingly horrifying fate she suffers at the hands of the Unknown Man.
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* [[And I Must Scream]] / [[Fate Worse Than Death]] / [[Cruel and Unusual Death]]: Sweet mother of God... she has everything below her torso removed.
* [[Rape as Drama]]: Courtesy of the Unknown Man.
* [[The Voiceless]]: She doesn't get any spoken lines during her time as a whole person, {{spoiler|and
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