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A character sheet for the [[Cyberpunk]] [[Anime]] [[Ghost in
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* [[Badass]]
* [[Berserk Button]]: Anyone that [[Children Are Innocent|harms children]]. Note that [[Freudian Excuse|she was cyberized as a child herself.]]
* [[Bi the Way]]: Unclear; she doesn't have a boyfriend in this continuity, but she also doesn't have explicit lesbian VR-sex either (she's just seen talking philosophy with Kurtan in bed while Ran comes out of the shower).
** In 2nd Gig's first episode, she (jokingly) suggests the team goes to a nudie bar if they are told to stand down from their impending mission.
** Kurtan later accompanies her to hospital, checks out her new cyborg body and comments on how excited it makes her to think of what she could do with all the illegal modifications her new body has.
** In the manga, Motoko does have a boyfriend. Sugi makes a brief appearance in ''FAKE FOOD'', even asking if Batou and Togusa knows her. However, this is not enough evidence to suggest he is her boyfriend in this continuity.
* [[Black Bra and Panties]]: What she wears when she and Batou escape to her apartment at the end of episode 25. The scene is full of [[Unresolved Sexual Tension]].
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* [[Hell-Bent for Leather]]: Frequently seen wearing a punkish leather jacket.
* [[Heroic BSOD]]: Undergoes ones after {{spoiler|diving into Kuze's cyberbrain}}. She gets better after a short while.
* [[Heroic RROD]]: Subverted. In the second episode of the series, there's a [[Shout
* [[Hot Amazon]]: Though she's more cultured that you might think.
* [[Kick Chick]]: Watch her take out Sano with a roundhouse to the head.
* [[Lady of War]]: Her career even started in the military.
* [[Majorly Awesome]]: Still a [[Just for Pun|Major]] [[Badass]] too.
* [[Master of Disguise]] Her cloaking abilities aside, she does well to hide in plain sight. {{spoiler|At one point she even dresses to look like the original Laughing man to meet with someone to gain information. Her appearance was covered with the outfit, but doing his voice and mannerisms perfectly? That took talent... Along with the memories given directly from the True Original Laughing Man beforehand}}.
* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: Something of an [[Innocent Fanservice Girl]] too, such as when she gets thrown in a garbage pile and has to change clothes.
** It's basically spelled out in the third novel that she has no nudity taboo ''because'' she is fully cyberized and there are thousands of others with her exact external body.
* [[Not So Stoic]]: Shown at times, such as when she involuntarily cries at a very sad movie, and she takes it personally with what the med students were doing in ''MISSING HEARTS''.
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* [[Pre-Mortem One-Liner]]: Season 2, Episode 1.
* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]: An uncommon heroic example. Or, as heroic as anyone in this series is.
* [[Sexy Backless Outfit]]: In ''Cash-Eye'', also with borderline [[Absolute Cleavage]].
* [[Sinister Surveillance]]: For her enemies, at least.
* [[Stocking Filler]]: Frequently, whether under her coat or just as outerwear (see [[Stripperiffic]]).
* [[The Ladette]]
* [[The Stoic]]: The Major never laughs, involuntarily cries only once, and it takes a hell of a lot to make her angry. If you do ever manage to piss her off, be very, ''very'' afraid. She is not unsympathetic, however, or unwilling to express where her sympathies lie.
* [[Stripperiffic]]: The Major's clothes are too hot for espionage, and that's what she wears in ''civvies''. (Some fans call it the [[Fan Nickname|Battle Teddy]].) However, in more formal public functions, she wears a standard military uniform instead.
** She gets slightly better civvies during the ''2nd Gig'' - still [[Stripperific]] by conventional standards, but at least includes pants. She also gets a fairly modest, and very stylish black business dress for formal occasions where military garb is unsuitable.
** This is played for laughs in one SAC episode, where a raid goes wrong and the Major's normal outfit gets trashed. At the debriefing, she's wearing a much more revealing outfit (basically workout clothes) and is visibly uncomfortable about the humiliation she just went through (thrown to a garbage heap by run-off-the-mill combat android), and Aramaki [[Lampshaded Trope|Lampshades]] it.
* [[Tranquil Fury]]
** [[When She Smiles]]: [[Playing With Tropes|Played with]] : she indeed looks cute... but she acts that way to [
* [[Tomboyish Sidetails]]
* [[Unstoppable Rage]]: Episode 21 displays this very well.
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* [[Hidden Depths]]: Anyone who's known him for more than five minutes assumes him to be [[Dumb Muscle]] based on his huge physique and hot-blooded, reckless personality. And then you find out that he's arguably the best hacker after the Major and Ishikawa, has a base grounding in sociology, religion, politics (even if he doesn't usually care, it's clear that he understands it when he explains things to Togusa), and is more than capable of keeping up with the Major in advanced philosophical debate, even if his stances tend to be more empirical and down-to-earth.
* [[Honor Before Reason]]: Why he [[Villain's Dying Grace|doesn't shoot Marco Amoretti.]]
* [[Jerk
* [[The Lancer]]
* [[Men Are Uncultured]]: Both subverted and played with, since Batou's interests range from classical philosophy to weight training and old cars.
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* [[Revolvers Are Just Better]]: His [[Weapon of Choice]]. The first episode shows that he likes to go to the firing range to unwind.
* [[Weak but Skilled]]
* [[Wide
** What makes all the more heartbreaking to watch is that even though the GITS universe is at the very bottom of the [[Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism]], there is never a moment where it falls into the [[Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids]] aesop. His comrades don't have any problem with his kinder view of the world and even feel it balances out the team. They do, however, get irritated when his naivety [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzcIom9RacE almost gets him killed]. By ''Solid State Society'', it can be argued that he's gone through something of a [[Break the Cutie]], as he's noticeably more cynical, no longer carries his Mateba, and is considering the full-body prosthetics he rejected before. (Even more so, considering his emotional breakdown at the end of Season 1) And after all of that he still {{spoiler|1=[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFk2LAv30QM tries to kill himself] to save his daughter}}.
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* [[Reasonable Authority Figure]]
* [[Smart People Wear Glasses]]
* [[The Strategist]]: He was actually a very brilliant strategist in the military when he was young. Now he effectively applies those strategies in politics, yet he's still more than capable of turning a situation in his favor, such as using two would-be bank robbers to fool a SWAT team who were under orders to kill everyone inside, himself included.
* [[Urban Legend Love Life]]
=== Ishikawa ===
Exceptional info-gatherer. Specializes in traditional hacking, as opposed to cyberbrain invasion. Turns any computer into a [[Magical Database]]. In a subversion of the type, he is actually a fairly old guy, being one of the oldest members of Section 9.
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* [[Badass Beard]]
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** And the only member to be injured in ''both'' seasons.
* [[Unusual User Interface]]: His computer has both a traditional screen and keyboard and an apparatus that resembles a periscope.
* [[Voice
=== Saito ===
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* [[The Casanova]] - Paz claims that he never sleeps with the same woman twice. This comes back to haunt him in ''2nd Gig''.
* [[Eyes Always Shut]]
* [[Spot the Imposter]]: {{spoiler|The only clue detailing that it was the real Paz who defeated his [[Psycho Ex
* [[The Stoic]]: The most unemotional member of Section 9 by spades.
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Or, more succinctly: If you mushed together a puppy, a philosopher, and a machine gun, you'd get a Tachikoma. Add in the curiosity of a 5 year old child, and the zeal for destruction of a barbarian, and you get closer.
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* [[A Day in
* [[Back
* [[Badass Adorable]]: Imagine a talking puppy packing a machinegun. You are not terribly far off from how the Tachikomas behave.
* [[Badass Automaton|Badass Automatons]]
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* [[Cute Bruiser]]: While not humanoid, their voices and personalities are adorable enough to make them the cutest characters of the series. However, they are still advanced combat robots, and they ''will'' completely mess you up, especially if you hurt [[In-Series Nickname|Mr. Batou]].
* [[Cute Machines]]
* [[Do Androids Dream?]]
* [[Gatling Good]] : Occasionally have their grenade launchers replaced with one.
* [[Genki Girl]]: For a certain value of "girl", they do have female voices and are very excitable though.
* [[Grappling Hook Pistol]]: They have them built in for scaling buildings.
* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: {{spoiler|At the end of both seasons no less}}
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* [[Made of Iron]]: They can take bursts of fully-automatic gunfire and still get up and fight.
* [[Spider Tank|Spider Tanks]]
* [[Spanner in
* [[Took a Level
=== The Laughing Man ===
A super hacker who kidnapped the C.E.O of Serano Genomics 6 years prior to the start of the series. This incident would make him a hero in the eyes of some and the entity "The Laughing Man" become a sort of cultural phenomenon. {{spoiler|His real name is Aoi.}}
Voiced by [[Koichi Yamadera]] in the Japanese and [[Steve Blum]] in the dub.
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* [[Actor Allusion]] This isn't the only time [[Steve Blum]] voices a [[Big O|badass with a poetic mantra who lives in a world of cyborgs, androids, and giant robots that works to expose the truth of his world to the people.]] [[Big O|"Cast in the Name of God... Ye Not Guilty"]]
* {{spoiler|[[Anti-Hero]]}} {{spoiler|His mission was to expose a great deal of political corruption especially in the medical industry. However, his methods included extensive hacking, kidnapping, threatening someone at gunpoint, cyber-data-theft, and inadvertently setting off a chain reaction of imitators who caused just as much, if not more problems than he did alone}}.
* [[The Adjectival Man]] His "alias". {{spoiler|Which is ironic since even he admits he never came up with nor goes by the name himself. It was just the media and his imitators that made the name popular.}}
* [[Coat, Hat, Mask]]: His preferred outfit of a parka with the hood pulled over his face.▼
* [[Badass Abnormal]] Depending on who you ask. He seems like an average guy overall, except that he has arguably the best hacking skills in the whole series.
* [[Big Damn Heroes]] {{spoiler|He actually has a few moments where he arrives to help save the day. In fact, his whole initial mission was to expose the truth about a cure for a deadly disease that was being blocked and yet used by the head of the nation's top medical committee. The more direct case of him doing this is when the Major is transferring to a new body, and the nurse doing so was actually going to sabotage it and possibly kill her. He sneaks in, talks to her, reveals his true memories and role to her, and then he helps her finish the operation so she could break free and stop the nurse.}}
▲* [[Coat, Hat, Mask]]: His preferred outfit of a parka with the hood pulled over his face. The "mask" part is the use of the Laughing Man Logo.
* [[The Faceless]]: For most of the season, he's never seen directly, but either his face is obscured (whether by his disguise or one of his hacks) or he's ghost-hacking someone else's body.
* [[I Did What I Had to Do]]: He invokes this as his explanation to the Major.
* [[It's All My Fault]]: {{spoiler|HIS goal was just to expose a government conspiracy. However, he never wanted to become some kind of cultural phenomenon, and even less did he want to unleash the people who would imitate him in a bad way on the world.}}
* [[Memetic Mutation]]: An [[In Universe]] example {{spoiler|Aoi, the original Laughing Man, only carried out the kidnapping of Ernest Serano prior to the start of the series. However, this spawned multiple imitators who carried out crimes under the name of "The Laughing Man".}} ▼
* [[Magnificent Bastard]]: The general public made him practically a pop icon. The government, police, and several big-time organizations are quite impressed with his "Super-hacking" skills. {{spoiler|At the end, the Major and Chief both tried to recruit him into joining Section 9, but he politely declined.}}
** Even in real life some people, most notably Anonymous, use his logo to make a similar statement ▼
▲* [[Memetic Mutation]]: An [[In
* [[Man Behind the Man]]: {{spoiler|An accidental example, since he never intended to spawn imitators.}}
** Another example. {{spoiler|Do you know how he originally found the information that lead to the kidnapping of Serano and all the crap that followed? No? Well ''neither does he.'' He just found a file that had the info on Serano one day, and despite '''years''' of extensively searching for the originator of that file, ''he never found it.''}}
* [[Rage Against the Heavens]]: During his [[Motive Rant]] in episode 23, he expresses his hatred of God.
* [[Spanner in the Works]] Unintentionally. {{spoiler|His original crime sparked numerous imitators who used the name "Laughing Man" to commit their own crimes under it.}} Even the real-world organization of "Anonymous" has been known to use the Laughing Man logo and story as inspiration and cover for some of their actions.
* [[Shout
* [[Techno Wizard]] His hacker skills are incredible! His calling-card is to hack peoples' eyes, cameras, and devices in real-time so that nobody can see his face or even his entire body if he so wants.
* [[The Dog Was the Mastermind]]: {{spoiler|Watch out for that ''deaf, dumb mute'' kid in the wheelchair, Togusa.}}
* [[The Bad Guy Wins]] {{spoiler|Sort of. He wasn't a bad guy, though he DID commit some crimes, he is never actually punished for them. Beyond having spawned imitators who passed themselves off as him to commit more crimes. But in the end, his mission is accomplished, and even when the Major and Chief meet with him at the end of the 1st season, they actually try recruiting him instead of arresting him. He politely declines, and they just leave him be.}}
* [[Title Drop]]: {{spoiler|The aforementioned copycat
* {{spoiler|[[Tomato Surprise]]}} Why do you think he went to such lengths to expose a conspiracy over {{spoiler|a cure for cyber-sclerosis}}? TA-DA!
* [[Visual Pun]]: {{spoiler|While pretending to be a vegetable, Aoi carries around a left-handed catcher's mitt; slang for something which is thought to exist, but doesn't.}}
* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]] ZigZagged. {{spoiler|He just wanted the truth about a cure for a disease being kept from the public while a fake "cure" is marketed in its place. To that end, he ends up hacking, kidnapping, threatening someone at gunpoint, stealing data and government documents, and falsifying his identity. However, HE himself was never actually going to hurt anyone. Even his "hostage" knew he wouldn't go through with it, because deep down he's an idealist. Unfortunately, his original crime sparked a series of imitators who operated under his alias that made him seem like this}}.
=== Hideo Kuze ===
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* [[Implacable Man]]: Thanks to his high-quality cyborg body designed specifically for endurance in combat.
* [[Not So Different]]: He is very similar to the Major.
** For a short while The Major and Kuze both have their own Aramaki -- Kuze meets with Daisuke's disappeared brother, who was resident in Dejima.
* [[Ubermensch]]
* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]
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* [[Big Bad]]: Of the 2nd season
* [[Cutting the Knot]]: How he's undone at the end of the second season. {{spoiler|The Prime Minister simply asserts her authority and gives Section 9 what more or less amounts to permission to kill him unless he surrenders (since he's convinced he's more or less untouchable by the law thanks to his scheming but that particular bit of legislation was the equivlent of the USA Patriot Act). [[Gorn|Which]] [[Your Head Asplode|they]] [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill|do]].}}
* [[Good Scars, Evil Scars]]: Half the side of his face is horribly scarred. Despite having the technology to repair it, Gouda chose to keep it the way it is because it allows him to give off more of an impression. Also, he seems to believe that the scarring of his face also caused a change to his Ghost, turning him from a boring bureaucrat dreaming of greatness into a bona fide [[Magnificent Bastard]].
* [[The Chessmaster]]: {{spoiler|He's the one responsible for the emergence of the Individual Eleven in the first place and is the mastermind behind the entire conflict between Japan and the refugees.}}
** Well, not entirely. He simply exploits trends that are already in place. He just does it extremely well.
* [[Mismatched Eyes]]
* [[Obviously Evil]]
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* [[The Chick]]
* [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]]: At the end of 2nd GIG; her [[Take That]] speech to Chief Cabinet Secretary Takakura after he accuses her of being a typical [[Hysterical Woman]] is nothing short of badass.
* [[
* [[Heroic BSOD]]: Experiences one of these toward the end of 2nd GIG, {{spoiler|when her entire administration turns on her.}}
* [[Hot Chick in
* [[Iron Lady]]: Subverted, although the end of 2nd GIG sees her well on her way to becoming this.
* [[Meaningful Name]]: "Kayabuki" translates to "reed thatch", though the meaning is probably easier to get if you're British.
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