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* [[Anti-Hero]]: [[Sliding Scale of Anti-Heroes|Type IV or V.]]
* [[The Atoner]]: [[Anti-Villain|Nazarov]] in "Lost Kitten."
* [[Badass Adorable]]: Kirika is an almost perfect example of one. Mireille, although very pretty, doesn't quite make the cut, being neither as approachable nor [[Woobie|in need of a hug]] as her [[Romantic Two-Girl Friendship|partner]]. Chloe is more of a [[Little Miss Badass]], what with her having a [[Knife Nut|vaguely nasty streak]].
* [[Back-to-Back Badasses]]: Kirika and Chloe slaughtering the Soldats footsoldiers <s>stupid</s> dedicated enough to try and surround them.
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* [[Enfant Terrible]]: Kirika, Chloe, {{spoiler|Silvana}}.
* [[Exclusive Enemy Equipment]]: Averted in episode 3. Kirika wastes no time in relieving an enemy [[Mook]] of his [[More Dakka|machine gun]] and [[Night Vision Goggles]].
* [[Extraordinarily Empowered Girl]]: As one fan put it: "Kirika isn't a ninja, she is a witch."
* [[Falling Chandelier of Doom]]: Episode 3.
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* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: Mireille and Kirika. If it isn't [[Les Yay]] to you.
* [[Hidden Eyes]]
* [[Honor Before Reason]]
* [[Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy]]: [[Fridge Brilliance|Justified by Altena's goal.]]
* [[Improbable Aiming Skills]]
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* [[Knight Templar]]: Altena.
** Don't forget the entire {{spoiler|Soldats organization, as explained in Episode 20. They formed out of a desire to destroy injustice and protect the weak by killing the strong}}.
* [[Kung Fu Jesus]]: {{spoiler|The True Noir are a particularly dark and disturbing twist on this trope.}}
* [[Kuudere]]: Mirielle can be interpreted as this.
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* [[Moe Couplet]]: Mireille and Kirika in their happier moments, especially early in the show.
* [[Moe Stare]]: Rosalie Hammond in Episode 4 and fake!Kirika in Episode 1. This expression is [[Everyone Is Jesus in Purgatory|symbolic of innocence about to be shattered]] in ''Noir''.
* [[Monochrome Casting]]: Sort of. It can be kind of hard to tell with an anime, but it seems that every single extra in France is white when 20% of the population of Paris wasn't [[wikipedia:Paris#Demographics|even born in France]].
* [[Multinational Team]]: Sort of.
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* [[Myth Arc]]
* [[Odd Friendship]]
* [[Ominous Latin Chanting]]: When the choir starts singing "Salva Nos", rest assured that the body count is about to skyrocket. Bonus points for the chanting actually being in [[As Long as It Sounds Foreign|Latin]].
* [[Only a Flesh Wound]]: Mostly averted. Kirika gets shot a few times over the series, and it seriously compromises her ability to pull off her usual feats of death-dealing. In one episode, she has to tape her gun to her hand since an arm wound has rendered her incapable of gripping the weapon properly.
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** Chloe's parents are also never mentioned, but she considered Altena to be her mother figure. {{spoiler|It is implied that Kirika had done the same before her amnesia.}}
* [[Peek-a-Bangs]]: Silvana.
* [[Phenotype Stereotype]]: Mireille is a blonde-haired, blue-eyed, pale-skinned Corsican. Not entirely impossible, but there's no way Silvanna looks even ''remotely''
* [[Professional Killer]]s: Mirielle and Kirika.
* [[Psycho Lesbian]]: Chloe, possibly {{spoiler|Silvana}}.
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* [[Schoolgirl Lesbians]]: {{spoiler|Chloe's affection for Kirika, though it's one sided}}.
* [[Screw Destiny]]: Mireille near the end of the series.
* [[Small Girl, Big Gun]]: Kirika resorts to machine guns a few times, though the creators specifically made her usual gun being fairly low caliber.
* [[Sound-Only Death]]: The family of the Mafia boss being tortured in the next room by Intoccabile, which just makes it more horrific.
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* [[That Liar Lies]]: {{spoiler|The response to Chloe telling Mireille that Kirika killed Mireille's parents.}}
* [[The Only One Allowed to Defeat You]]: Chloe saves a man she has been sent to kill from assassins sent by an old enemy of his because killing him is ''her'' job.
* [[Token Yuri Girls]]: Kirika and Mireille are not shown being physically intimate, but they share a bed and by the end of the series are emotionally dependent on each other. Also, Chloe exhibits a rather warped (and mostly frustrated) desire for Kirika.
* [[Troubled but Cute]]: The sad but adorably cute Kirika.
* [[Trigger Phrase]]: "Receive the final guidance." ''*
* [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]]: While made in 2001, internal detail indicates the series is set around the year 2010. Not that it's actually noticeable and overall it seems fairly contemporaneous.
** Also, in Episode 6 a current newspaper article about the [[George W. Bush|2000 Presidential Election]] is visible on the screen.
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* [[World of Action Girls]]: Not is only almost every member of the cast some kind of badass assassin, but most of the cast are also women.
* [[When She Smiles]]: Kirika-chan, [[Over Nine Thousand]] in sheer cuteness when she smiles for the very first time in Episode 6.
* [[X Meets Y]]: [[Word of God]] calls this anime a [[Gender Flip]]ped version of ''[[The Killer]]'' by [[John Woo]], with Kirika as Chow Yun Fat and
* [[Yamato Nadeshiko]]: For some, Altena. She's very beautiful, motherly, soft-spoken, sincere about what she believes in - but considering ''what'' she is so dedicated to, she's also ''creepy as hell''.
* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]: Most characters have natural hair colors. And then you have Chloe, with her violet [[Peek-a-Bangs]], for whom the [[Curtains Match the Window]], [[Purple Eyes|no less]].
** Also Intoccabile with her blue-gray hair.
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