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=== '''Sagara Sousuke''' ===

The [[protagonist]] of the series. He is an approximately 16 year old sergeant within the paramilitary counter-terrorist force, Mithril. He is a member of the SRT (Special Response Team) of the Western Pacific Battle Group "Tuatha de Danaan". His call sign is Uruz-7 and his ID number is B-3128, and operates as team point-man as an Arm Slave specialist.

* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: The way Sousuke tends to make his awesome entrances to save the day. He does it so often, it gets to the point where [[Arch Enemy|Gauron]] actually [[Lampshadeslampshade]]s it mockingly when he tackles and holds him down. "Well well, how do you like this? It's such a disgrace like this, isn't it? You can't act like a big damn hero and save the day in a cool way."

* [[Book Dumb]]: He's a [[Teen Genius]] when it comes to military strategies and techniques... but can't wrap his mind around his Japanese school homework assignments. Of course, part of this is probably because he was raised by the KGB, and is unable to understand normal civilian terms and concepts -- heconcepts—he has [[No Social Skills]]. Undoubtedly, if he were given material on battles and Arm Slaves, he would ace all of it easily.

* [[Can't Hold His Liquor]]: Despite being in the military ever since he was young, he doesn't drink. He's shown to be disgusted at the idea of it, and can't understand how others can stand it. As a result, he has zero tolerance for the stuff. Especially pronounced in the manga, where he takes a small sip of amazake (a drink that has very low alcohol content), and promptly gets dead drunk, complete with the fever and loss of strength. Kaname even [[Lampshadeslampshade]]s it, telling him he '''really''' can't hold his liquor. He ends up dropping unconscious, and even after waking up, he's ''still'' drunk.

** As of recently{{when}} in the novels, he ''literally'' [[Can't Hold His Liquor]], due to {{spoiler|debilitating internal injuries courtesy of a rifle round that relieved him of a portion of his liver among other things.}}

* [[Child Soldier]]: He was trained as an assassin for the KGB ever since he was 2-32–3 years old.

* [[Kick Them While They Are Down]]: He's definitely [[Combat Pragmatist|not averse]] to doing this to his opponents. To add insult to injury, he seems to love doing this in the form of [[Groin Attack|Groin Attacks]]s.

* [[More Dakka]]: {{spoiler|The ARX-8 Laevatein is already a [[Game Breaker]] machine to begin with. Then during the final assault on Amalgam, Sousuke &and some of the MITHRIL engineers develop a Long-Range Booster Jet Pack called the XL-3 that not only gives it the ability to fly but also adds [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill|ANOTHER SHOTGUN, TWO ASSAULT RIFLES, ALMOST A DOZEN MISSILES]], &and to top it off [[Gatling Good|TWO GATTLING CANNONS]]}}.

* [[New Transfer Student]]: His cover at Kaname's school.

* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: Happens a lot with Sousuke at school, but special mention to one act in ''[[Super Robot Wars W]]'' must be given; {{spoiler|Banpresto Original Akane Ardygun is a HUGE fan (to the point where she scares her little sister Mihiro) of Wateropolis's mascot, Uppo-Kun. After being rejected by everyone else he crosses paths with, Uppo-Kun is about to give up hope when Akane shows up and revitalizes his spirit. Just when it looks like a canon [[GaoGaiGar|Zonder]] is about to be retconned out of existence, Sousuke pops out in his Bonta-Kun outift and causes pandemonium, ultimately leading to the creation of EI-13. If only Sousuke knew how to [[Highly-Visible Ninja|keep a low profile]]...}}

* [[No Guy Wants to Be Chased]]: He does ''not'' take well to aggressive methods of romantically pursuing him. As a matter of fact, it almost seems like he subconsciously turns ''up'' the [[Selective Obliviousness|level of his obliviousness]] when his admirer becomes too direct. In contrast, when the girls act more shy and cute, and tell him touching things like [[The Power of Trust|"I trust you,"]] his heart starts fluttering. (Case in point: Why Tessa is rather unsuccessful at wooing him, versus Kaname and Nami, both of whom he admits deeper feelings for.)

* [[No Social Skills]]: He was raised by the KGB to be an assassin ever since he was 2-32–3 years old. Spending his entire life in the military has left him completely incapable of even understanding civilian life, let alone actually passing as a civilian himself, and tends to lead him to some very off-kilter interpretations of other peoples' behavior:

* [[Teen Genius]]: Gauron was well known for being a genius at handling AS in Amalgam. Gauron is 40-5040–50 years old. And then here's Sousuke, who is 16 years old, and can actually fight evenly with Gauron (minus the Lambda Driver - and even then, Sousuke ends up being able to handle it extremely well in a remarkably small amount of time, with little guidance). It's even more pronounced when one considers that the boy was a genius even when he was only 8-128–12 years old.

* [[Training Fromfrom Hell]]

* [[What Beautiful Eyes!]]: Although his eyes don't have a particularly special color, they ''are'' big and very pretty. Gauron [[Love At First Sight|initially became infatuated with him]] because of seeing his [[media:SousukeGaussianGirlFile:Sousuke eyes.jpg|emotionless, cold eyes]]. To put it in Gauron's words: "''Anyone'' would say they're beautiful."

* [[Would Hit a Girl]]: Or [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill|shoot]] her, [[Person of Mass Destruction|bomb]] her, whatever. He definitely isn't sexist when he deems the person a threat, that's for sure.

=== Chidori Kaname ===

Kaname is the main female protagonist[[deuteragonist]] of the story, and appears to be a "normal" 16 year-old high school student at first glance. The character was taken from a friend of the authors, whose name was also Kaname Chidori, living in Japan. However, the discovery of her Whispered abilities attracts the attention of terrorist organizations. As a result, Sousuke has been assigned by Mithril to protect her. While Sosuke Sagara's battle intuition generally saves her from dangerous situations, she often considers Sosuke's instincts an irritant in daily high school events, leading to countless comical situations. Nonetheless, she and Sosuke continue to grow closer, to the point where they have expressed their feelings for each other.

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* [[Action Survivor]] -> [[Badass Normal]] (after ''The Second Raid'')

*** As of the last{{when}} published novel, it seems that might ''not'' be the case. Lampshaded by Leonard Testarossa, who claims that she survived all that (especially the assassination attempt) because she is NOT normal (long story), and Sousuke himself is forced to agree, at least partially.

* [[Cannot Stand Them Cannot Live Without Them|Can't StandLive with Them, Can't Live Without Them]]: She constantly claims that she can't stand Sousuke and all the troubles he brings. And then she realizes just how much she needs and wants him when he gets redeployed.

* [[Modesty Shorts]]: She wears these in an early chapter to prevent [[Panty Shot|Panty Shots]]s

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== Sousuke's World: (Protagonists)Allies ==

=== Kurz Weber ===

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* [[Good-Looking Privates|Good -Looking Sergeant]]

** Not sure about the born part, but he was actually raised in Japan, where his father worked as a reporter. Cue jokes about him being more Japanese than Sousuke -- atSousuke—at least from a cultural perspective.

=== Melissa Mao ===

Serving as the SRT's second-in-command next to Gail [[Mc Allen]]McAllen, she serves in Mithril under the call sign "Uruz-2". Her expertise in electronic warfare is valued by the Pacific Battle Group Tuatha de Danaan. Her rank was Sergeant Major, but by the novel Dancing Very Merry Christmas she has been promoted to Second Lieutenant, making her a commissioned officer. She is 25 years old.

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* [[Chainsaw Good]]: Her Arm Slave has a goddamn [[Warhammer 4000040,000|chainsword]].

=== Andrei Sergeivich Kalinin ===

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=== Richard Mardukas ===

* [[Red BaronSobriquet]]: Known to the submarine communities of the US and UK as The Duke of Undersea Warfare.

* [[Training Fromfrom Hell]]: Mardukas is both a graduate ''and'' instructor of [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Perisher]], the Royal Navy's submarine equivalent to TOPGUN... but ''harder''.

* [[Xanatos Speed Chess]]: How he takes down the Amalgam naval taskforcetask force. Also something of a military maverick, in that none of his tactics are conventialconventional tactics, but he points out that their foe isn't conventional.

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* [[Almighty Janitor]]: Mentioned in the novels, where Harris, another member of Amalgam, explains that with Gauron's capabilities, he could have ''easily'' become commander. However, due to Gauron's [[Jerkass|Jerkassery]]ery, most of the other members had a hard time getting along with him, and adding to that, he had incurable cancer. As a result, they decided instead to give the position to Gates, who was very much inferior.

* [[Large Ham]]: The guy manages to make ''everything'' he does hammy. Especially by including [[Evil Laugh|Evil Laughter]]ter after saying anything. In the novels, he even ''literally'' eats ham while dramatically giving orders to the AI on the Tuatha de Dannan.

* [[Orgasmic Combat]]: The final showdown between him and Sousuke at the end of Season 1 is this in spades. It ends with him <s> raping</s> grappling and holding down Sousuke's [[Humongous Mecha]], with Sousuke panting and trying to get away, and Gauron grunting and breathing heavily (not to mention the suspicious thick white liquid that was dripping down his grinning face). The manga even has him yelling out happily, "Yeah, that's what I'm talking about! Ah, what a rush!" And as impossible as this sounds, Gauron's moaning and loud orgasms are actually ''more'' pronounced in the novels, where he literally yells out happily, "[[Freud Was Right|RIGHT, RIGHT, RIGHT! FASTER! MORE! MORE!!]]" It makes Sousuke ''very'' unnerved and disgusted, and is pretty much what pushed Sousuke to conclude that this makes Gauron [[You're Insane!|completely insane]] (as opposed to before, where he simply thought Gauron was excessively cruel).

=== Mr. Gates ===

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=== Leonard Testarossa ===

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* [[Yandere (disambiguation)]]

=== Xia Yu Fan and Xia Yu Lan ===

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* [[Action Girl]] [[Badass|Badasses]]es

* [[Beauty Mark|Beauty Marks]]s

* [[Chinese Girl|Chinese Girls]]s: Complete with all the stereotypes. Yu Lan, at one point, wears her hair in the [[Odango]] hairstyle and a Qipao. Both are shown to be ''very'' adept at martial arts and using knives, and they even have the accent when attempting to pronounce "Chidori" (instead calling her "Chinniu").

=== John Danigan ===

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=== Zaied ===

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=== Takuma Kugayama ===

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=== Seina ===

As a young girl without any family, Seina found sanctuary in the A21 juvenile assistance group. The leader was the only father she ever knew and her dedication to the group was unmatched by any other for this simple fact. When the A21 fell into the hands of the mass media, the outlook of this oufitoutfit was turned into one of public disapproval ?- affecting Seina greatly. Once the great leader Takechi fell to suicide, Seina took it on her own shoulders to continue the name of the group.

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=== Sophia ===

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=== Kyoko Tokiwa ===

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=== Shinji Kazama ===

Sosuke's Arm -Slave -loving classmate. He shares the same amount of passion to AS as Sousuke and could be considered Sousuke's best school friend besides Kaname. His father is Shintaro Kazama and a secretary of Narashino's Assault Machine Troop. Shinji's love for AS began when his dad failed to become an AS pilot. As a result of his father's failure, Shinji strives to discover the result of the failure and to fulfill his father's dream of becoming a pilot. There is no indication as to what happened to his mother, but it's assumed that Shintaro is a widower before the series started.

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=== Issei Tsubaki ===

The leader of Jindai High School's karate club, he is very skilled at karate. However, he is extremely nearsighted and can see clearly only when wearing his glasses, which leads to several comical incidents. His sense of pride cannot accept the fact that he was defeated by Sousuke, and he is constantly challenging him to rematches - which Sousuke usually avoids - (intentionally or not). He also has a huge crush on Kaname.

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* [[Back-to-Back Badasses]]: An episode of ''Fumoffu'' shows how theyhe and Sousuke manage to do this when they're forced to team up. Unfortunately, it still doesn't work considering [[Almighty Janitor|who they're up against]].

=== Hayashimizu Atsunobu ===

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* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: He really does consider blowing up lockers that shows sign of temperingtampering....appropriate.

** Sort've of. He understands the logic behind it and, using that interpretation, finds it appropriate.

=== Mari Akutsu ===

=== Yoshiki Akutsu ===

=== Masatami Hyuuga ===

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=== Fuwa-senpai ===

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