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This is not an abbreviated article of the ''[[Modern Warfare]]'' series, by the way.
 
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* [[Alpha Bitch]]: Michio's wife, and his boss' daughter.
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* [[Downer Ending]]: {{spoiler|Father Garai foiled Michio's plot of gassing the entire world with the titular chemical weapon by sacrificing his life of taking it down with him to the ocean, the latter gets gunned down by one of his hostages, Shunsuke Ban still doesn't recover from his last attack, and Michio is revealed to be alive and escapes punishment by impersonating his older lookalike brother.}}
* [[Evil Laugh]]: Michio does this ''a lot''.
* [[Expy]]: Michio may be the basis for ''[[Monster (Animemanga)|Monster]]'''s Johan, another beautiful but amoral killer, though Michio's sexuality is much more overt and he [[Mood Swinger|entirely lacks]] Johan's trademark [[Dissonant Serenity]].
* [[Freudian Excuse]]: Subverted; when Michio starts targeting people involved with the MW accident, Father Garai thinks he's after revenge, but actually Michio wants a sample of the gas so he can synthesize large amounts in order to {{spoiler|take the whole world with him when he dies.}}
* [[Good Is Impotent]]: Michio generally effortlessly outmanoeuvresoutmaneuvers poor, conflicted, and not all-that-bright Garai. And everyone else.
* [[Groin Attack]]: Poor, poor {{spoiler|Shansaku Ban}}.
* [[He Also Did]]: ''MW'' is rather a departure from Tezuka's other work in terms of content.
* [[Heel Faith Turn]]: Garai, from {{spoiler|child-molesting}} [[Mook]] to priestly [[The Atoner|do-gooder]].
* [[Implacable Man]]: Meguro.
* {{spoiler|[[Joker Immunity]]: The ending.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Karma Houdini]]: Minch just ''might'' have shot the wrong guy....}}
* {{spoiler|[[Kill All Humans]]}}: Michio.
* [[Love Martyr]]: Sumiko, and she [[Genre Savvy|knows it]], which doesn't help.
* [[Manipulative Bastard]]: guess who.
* [[Mood Swinger]]: Michio.
* [[Morality Chain]]: Garai makes ineffectual attempts to be this to Michio, and instead ends up being a heavily subverted [[Morality Pet]] - the one person Michio really cares for, but not treated any better for it.
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: {{spoiler|Thanks to Minch unknowingly killed Michio's lookalike brother, Michio becomes a [[Karma Houdini]] in the end}}.
* [[Not So Different]]: Michio mentions this to Garai at a few points, though the analogy is so absurd neither Garai nor the reader takes it seriously. Much more effectively done with Sumiko- when Garai confronts her about the sheer illogic of her relationship with the psychotic Michio, she points out that he's doing exactly the same thing. Garai [[Selective Obliviousness|avoids seriously considering this fact]].
* [[Out Withwith a Bang]]: Michio kills a female character during sex, [[For the Evulz|just for the fun of it.]]
* [[Precision F -Strike]]: From the Vertical translation: "I'll teach them to fuck with the common man!"▼
* [[Psycho Serum]]: MW, the gas that leads to Michio's [[Ax Crazy]].
▲* [[Precision F Strike]]: From the Vertical translation: "I'll teach them to fuck with the common man!"
* [[The Seventies]]: Michio's sideburns. Michio's apartment. Michio's fake mustache. ''Everything'' about Meguro.
* [[Sissy Villain]]: Michio▼
* [[Shotacon]]: When Garai is keeping the very young Michio captive overnight, he becomes attracted to the boy, and something unspecified happens... Refreshingly, ''not'' used as an explanation for Michio's [[Freudian Excuse|later behavior]] or [[Rape and Switch|his orientation]].
** Debatable on the [[Freudian Excuse]] front, given that Garai is not exactly all that honest with himself or anyone else (cf. his entirely unbelievable claim that he has only been having sex with Michio because the latter is able to "turn himself into a woman" and somehow subvert Garai's free will), and has plenty of reason to want to insist that Michio's [[Axe Crazy]], aggressively hypersexualizedhyper-sexualized behaviourbehavior is just due to the gas, not {{spoiler|his own molestation of a ''nine-year old'' child hostage}}.
* [[Shout -Out]]: An early sex scene between Garai and Michio is a pastiche of Aubrey Beardsley's illustrations for ''[[Lysistrata (Theatre)|Lysistrata]]'' and ''[[Salome (Theatre)|Salome]]''.
▲* [[Sissy Villain]]: Michio.
* [[Sleazy Politician]]: Michio's eventual father-in-law, who's also {{spoiler|part of the MW cover up.}}
* [[Sliding Scale of Anti -Heroes]]: Garai as type 1.
* [[Stockholm Shnozzing]]: Taken to mindscrewily complicated levels with Michio and Garai - role reversal is the least of it.
* [[Taking You Withwith Me]]: Michio, on a grand scale.
* [[Transparent Closet]]: Garai .
* [[Twin Switch]]: Part of Meguro's intricate plan. However...
** Except they're not twins, just lookalike siblings.
** {{spoiler|This is how Michio survives in the end.}}
* [[Used to Be Aa Sweet Kid]]: Michio before the MW/Garai/hostage situation.
* [[Villain Protagonist]]: Michio▼
* [[Villainous Crossdresser]]: Michio, frequently impersonating his female victims.
▲* [[Villain Protagonist]]: Michio.
 
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