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A listing of characters in ''[[Medaka Box]]''. [[Loads and Loads of Characters|You may wish to go get a drink,]] as due to the infamous [[Genre Shift]], there are effectively three casts -- the original cast of the [[Slice of Life]] manga, the cast of the fighting manga, and the cast of the meta [[Deconstruction]] manga.

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Medaka is literally better than everybody, no matter how accomplished. The student council president, elected with 98% of the vote, Medaka is one of the mysterious ''abnormals'' -- [[Ultimate Lifeform|genetically perfect human beings]]. In addition to being vastly better than average, this manifests itself in a special power -- she has the ability to take other people's special power along with their personality and master them instantly, then use them at will. This ability is known as "The End".

Medaka's main man and punching bag. He's been with her since both of them were learning to speak, and his enthusiasm has rubbed off on Medaka. Has grown into a bit of a [[Knight in Sour Armor]] due to years of dealing with Medaka and having started to give up hope about her returning his affections; Zenkichi is special because he's perfectly normal<ref>[[Wild Mass Guessing]] aside, that is</ref>, but able to keep up with Medaka and the other Abnormals in single combat. Maguro refers to it as "Normal-cool."

Mogana is the treasurer of the Swim Club who participated in the Student Council's challenge for club funding. She seemed greedy at first, but she later revealed in a dramatic monologue that she and the others in the club only wanted the money to escape their poor living conditions. After the swim meet, Medaka convinced her to join the Student Council as their Treasurer. She has a significant amount of subtext with Zenkichi and Medaka -- or at least did, before the [[Genre Shift]] (after which she gets some with {{spoiler|Kumagawa}} of all people).

A reformed hooligan and former [[Number Two]] of the school's Judo Club, Kouki has decided to make Medaka his wife and joined the Student Council as secretary at her request. Unfortunately, Zenkichi has other ideas. Well known for enjoying dirty tricks in combat (but not to the extent of the official [[Combat Pragmatist|Combat Pragmatists]]).

* [[Combat Pragmatist]]: This is her "hat" -- as mentioned above, she can keep up with even the superpowered Abnormals by fighting absolutely, disgustingly, dirty.

* [[Lightning Bruiser|Lightning]] [[Cute Bruiser]]: She can throw around 30 kg metal ball and chains like nothing, and she's chained to six of them to boot. Taking off the ball and chains gives her a ''massive'' increase in speed.

* [[Absurdly Powerful Student Council|Absurdly Powerful Hall Monitors]] - The herald of the [[Genre Shift]] was seeing just how absurdly powerful these hall monitors were -- Myouri used ''high explosives'' and ''garrotte wires'' against Medaka in their fight.

* [[Humans Are Bastards]]: Myouri's philosophy, to the point he's willing to dish out capital punishment and put the fear of God into people to keep them in line.

** Interestingly, he's [[Unskilled but Strong|not actually that good at using these weapons, but he makes up for it in sheer power]]. In fact, he's stronger ''without'' his weapons -- he's so used to lugging them around that once he discards all that weight he is quite possibly the fastest person in the manga (barring Medaka herself). At the very least, he's faster than {{spoiler|Kumagawa.}}

* [[Ascended Fangirl]]: She's a huge fan of the Showa-era [[Kamen Rider|Kamen Riders]], most of which were [[Hollywood Cyborg|Hollywood Cyborgs]] like her.

* [[Leaning on the Fourth Wall]] / [[This Is Reality]]: Kumagawa does this a lot, as [[Freudian Slip|Freudian Slips]] of his damaged mind, as he loves Shonen manga for brightening up his horrible life somewhat. Or more practically speaking, as massive [[Take That]]'s against the most traumatised part of the audience. For example referring to the fact that "If we were published in ''Shounen Jump'' bullying wouldn't be allowed...", with the author, through Zenkichi, twisting the context of his extremely damaged state into [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|that he is so disgusting that it would be a holy act to hurt him even more, exterminate him, and cleanse the world from his foul presence]]; and additionally mocking the online fans by twisting ''Shonen Jump's'' mottoes into something hollow and meaningless.

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* [[Terrible Trio]] (?): With Saki and Jyuujika. When people refer to a school filled with muggles, [[Badass Normal|Badass Normals]], and super-powered mutants as "a farm for humans" it can't be a good sign.

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The beloved vice-president that was in office when Kumagawa was president, who was so warm and loving that even the dark and twisted Kumagawa loved her. Unfortunately, his twisted personality got the better of him and he brutally murdered her, setting off the events of the manga -- Medaka drives him away and decides to go for his position as Student President.

* [[Physical God]]: As close as an Absnormal can get -- she has super everything, reality and dream warping powers, the works.

== Not-Equals not officially affiliated with Ajimu: ==

A cold, militaristic, eyepatch-clad girl who values strength. She was once Akune Kouki's biggest admirer before his--in her mind--fall from grace due to Nabeshima Nekomi's influence. {{spoiler|Despite her initial appearance, she is actually quite emotional, and her name is actually an alias: Her real name is Munakata Koi, and she is Munakata Kei's sister.}}

* [[Cutting the Knot]]: When Medaka challenges them with a video game where [[Unwinnable by Design|every choice is bad and everyone dies]], she (Medaka) encourages Suishou to "cheat" -- it turns out that she'd been holding back her abilities because she didn't want to intimidate her friends even when it could have been used to their advantage. Suishou uses her computing powers to make the game [[Everyone Lives|winnable and uplifting.]]