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A description of characters in [[~~Get Backers~~]].

A description of characters in [[GetBackers]].

Obligatory warning: this page will contain spoilers, including up through what Tokyopop has published in English, and beyond.

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* [[Confusion Fu]]: His "snakebite" fighting style.

* [[Cool Shades]]

* [[Cursed ~~With~~ Awesome]]: For the longest time, Ban's "Curse" seemed to be to utter a totally badass mantra before completely kicking ass with his amped up snakebite. Some thirty-two volumes in the series we finally start learning ''[[Body Horror|why]]'' it's a curse.

* [[Cursed with Awesome]]: For the longest time, Ban's "Curse" seemed to be to utter a totally badass mantra before completely kicking ass with his amped up snakebite. Some thirty-two volumes in the series we finally start learning ''[[Body Horror|why]]'' it's a curse.

* [[Deuteragonist]] --> [[Anti-Hero]] [[The Protagonist|Protagonist]]: In the manga, where he's secondary to Ginji for the first half of the series but eventually becomes just as important to the plot.

* [[Deuteragonist]] --> [[The Artifact]]: Anime only. A really weird consequence of the fact that the manga avoided Ban's secrets early on is that in the anime, Ginji really comes across as the main character. The vast majority of major and supporting characters are Ginji's friends, or friends of Ginji's friends; the only exceptions are Himiko and Akabane, neither of whom had fleshed out back stories just yet. Oddly, the one chance the anime ''did'' have to touch on Ban's past (his feud with the Miroku 7) was cut short, as 5 Miroku were omitted and ''why'' Natsuhiko hated Ban was never addressed.

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* [[Insufferable Genius]] (It's even stated outright in the manga omake. He's hated at first by pretty much everyone he meets, as he's ''very'' condescending and arrogant. Though in all fairness, he ''is'' justifiably so - he really ''is'' a genius.)

* [[In the Blood]]: In the arcs where his hair is 'down', he looks very much like Der Kaiser; both men have similar abilities and somewhat similar personalities as well.

* [[Jerk ~~With~~ a Heart of Gold]]

* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]

* [[Lovable Sex Maniac]]

* [[Master of Illusion]] AND [[Mind Rape]] (The effect of his Jagan. One of the very rare cases where a ''hero'' has powers like that)

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* {{spoiler|[[Heroic Sacrifice]]}}: Manga-only, fortunately, he got better.

* [[Ineffectual Loner]] (His back story is basically this, with Amon, Emishi and Ginji all making breakthroughs to him, but Madoka really sealed the deal. It's weird, as he averts it at the same time: with his animals, he's never alone.)

* [[Not Good ~~With~~ People]]

* [[Not Good with People]]

* [[Official Couple]] (With Madoka)

* [[Pose of Supplication]] (When Madoka is kidnapped and he needs Ban's help to get her back)

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[[Fan Service]] personified, but that doesn't stop her. Hevn is an intermediary who hooks freelancers like the [[~~Get Backers~~]] up with jobs. ''Incredibly dangerous jobs''. She also works behind the scenes doing research for them, and is genuinely fond of Ban and Ginji.

[[Fan Service]] personified, but that doesn't stop her. Hevn is an intermediary who hooks freelancers like the [[GetBackers]] up with jobs. ''Incredibly dangerous jobs''. She also works behind the scenes doing research for them, and is genuinely fond of Ban and Ginji.

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* [[The Chick]]

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* [[Tagalong Kid]] (Complete inversion. He's got three (later four) sidekicks, all in their 20s, who would follow him to the depths of hell and back again.)

* [[Teen Genius]]

* [[Tomato in ~~The~~ Mirror]]: {{spoiler|A major point of the IL arc is him coming to terms with the fact that he's essentially a hologram who can never leave the Infinite Fortress.}}

* [[Tomato in the Mirror]]: {{spoiler|A major point of the IL arc is him coming to terms with the fact that he's essentially a hologram who can never leave the Infinite Fortress.}}

* [[Trying to Catch Me Fighting Dirty|Trying To Catch My Minions Fighting Dirty]] (The fights he sets up involve a lot of this, including Juubei attempting to get Kazuki [[In the Back]] and mind controlling a bunch of kids to fight the heroes)

* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]

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* [[Improbable Weapon User]] (he fights with mirror fragments.)

* [[Master of Illusion]] (not to the degree of Makubex, but one of his favorite tricks is using a cloud of microscopic glass shards to create holograms of himself.)

* [[Meaningful Name]]: Kagami, of course, means mirror, which is an obvious reference to his powers and fighting style. However, it becomes even more meaningful in the final arc, where it's revealed that {{spoiler|Kagami is a physicist who helped to create the entire [[~~Get Backers~~]] universe to begin with. And the theory he developed that led to the creation of that universe was called ''The Magic Mirror Effect''.}}

* [[Meaningful Name]]: Kagami, of course, means mirror, which is an obvious reference to his powers and fighting style. However, it becomes even more meaningful in the final arc, where it's revealed that {{spoiler|Kagami is a physicist who helped to create the entire [[GetBackers]] universe to begin with. And the theory he developed that led to the creation of that universe was called ''The Magic Mirror Effect''.}}

* [[Shadow Archetype]] (He's this to Akabane; it's been specifically noted that he was put in white to contrast against Akabane's black. Played with {{spoiler|in the fact that while their appearances are different, their personalities are very similar}} also inverted {{spoiler|in that the "dark one" kills the "light one."}})

* [[Takahiro Sakurai]] (His voice)

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A former thief, and of all the people who actively want to kill Ban, he's the most [[Stalker ~~With~~ a Crush|deranged and obsessed]]. Yes, that includes Akabane. Nicknamed "The Enlightened," for his ability to see several seconds into the future.

A former thief, and of all the people who actively want to kill Ban, he's the most [[Stalker with a Crush|deranged and obsessed]]. Yes, that includes Akabane. Nicknamed "The Enlightened," for his ability to see several seconds into the future.

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* [[Ax Crazy]]

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* [[Disproportionate Retribution]] (His plans for revenge against Ban can definitely be seen as this - ripping the boy apart, "killing him over and over and over," slurping up his blood, violently murdering anyone that Ban pays attention to or likes, etc. Especially since he managed to get a perfectly fine replacement for his arm that works just as well as his old one.)

* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]] (''Anything'' he says to Ban. Screaming at Ban to "meet his throbbing desires," "give his body to him," "quench his thirst"... yeeaah.)

* [[Due to ~~The~~ Dead]] (For the [[Complete Monster]] he is, he {{spoiler|receives a pretty darn peaceful, compassionate death courtesy of Ban. Ban even gently closes his eyes and wishes him to have good dreams}}.)

* [[Due to the Dead]] (For the [[Complete Monster]] he is, he {{spoiler|receives a pretty darn peaceful, compassionate death courtesy of Ban. Ban even gently closes his eyes and wishes him to have good dreams}}.)

* [[Evil Tastes Good]] (He tends to say stuff like wanting Ban to "quench his thirst," and expresses a desire to "slurp up Ban's blood.")

* [[Foe Yay]] (He's the human incarnate of it.)

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* [[Psycho for Hire]]

* [[Say My Name]] ('''MIDOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUU!!!!!''')

* [[Stalker ~~With~~ a Crush]] (He stalks and follows Ban ''everywhere''. Ban even [[Lampshades]] it with annoyance, calling him a "damn stalker zombie.")

* [[Stalker with a Crush]] (He stalks and follows Ban ''everywhere''. Ban even [[Lampshades]] it with annoyance, calling him a "damn stalker zombie.")

== Gen Radou ==

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The cute waitress at the Honky Tonk.

* [[A Day in ~~The~~ Limelight]] (Her manga only backstory arc aside, Natsumi gets an entire episode in the anime where she takes on a job in place of Ban and Ginji while they're on "vacation.")

* [[A Day in the Limelight]] (Her manga only backstory arc aside, Natsumi gets an entire episode in the anime where she takes on a job in place of Ban and Ginji while they're on "vacation.")

* [[Genki Girl]]

* [[Flat Character]] (Personality-wise, there isn't much to say about her, except that she's happy and likes G&B.)

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The other cute waitress at the Honky Tonk, formerly a pawn of Lucifer.

* [[Broken Bird]] at first, later portrayed as a [[Wide Eyed Idealist]] for no real reason (except so Ban and Ginji would see how brokenhearted she was when her trust didn't pay off).

* [[Broken Bird]] at first, later portrayed as a [[Wide-Eyed Idealist]] for no real reason (except so Ban and Ginji would see how brokenhearted she was when her trust didn't pay off).

* [[Good Is Dumb]] (Remiel, the evil!Rena, could trap people's souls inside her dolls, and in fact did just that to the men who molested her. Good!Rena... believes shady street hustlers who say they are selling incredibly expensive mushrooms for half the price.)

* [[More Than Mind Control]] (She works with Lucifer because she wants to create a fairyland made up entirely of her dolls, because adults have utterly failed her.)

* [[Neutral Female]]

* [[Rape As Backstory]]

* [[Rape as Backstory]]

* [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity]] Nobody who touched Divine Design escaped unscathed, but Lucifer chose his archangels well, [[Harmful to Minors|drawing in children who'd been hurt or abused in some way because they'd be easier to manipulate.]]

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* [[Bokukko]]

* [[Intimate Healing]]

* [[Tomato in ~~The~~ Mirror]]

* [[Tomato in the Mirror]]

== Dr. Amano ==