Rance/Characters/Rance and Sill: Difference between revisions

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* [[Eleventh-Hour Ranger|11th-Hour Ranger]]: {{spoiler|He's the last person who joins in ''Rance X: Part 2'' at level 400^note . Curiously enough, the focus of the story goes back to him while Rance's kids, who have been the main point of view of the story, are there along for the ride.}}

* [[Everyone Has Standards]]: Even he is against pedophilia and incest, and isn't fond of sexual torture (a bit of BDSM is fine by him but he doesn't actually enjoy causing physical pain in women).

* [[Fatal Flaw]]: His obsession for beautiful women and sex, as it often causes a lot of damage around. It actually cost him his life in one specific instance of ''Kichikuou Rance'', in this case the '''Poisoned Ending'''.

* [[Foil]]: While he's a major one to Sill, due to his infamous personality he's also one to many individuals in the Continent, but especially two fellow adventurers:

** This even applies to evil characters such as the [[Jerkass Gods]] that govern and created the world Rance lives in. The Top God Rudrathaum expected him to become an evil tyrannical king that would bring chaos, destruction and despair to humanity which is why he was allowed to live despite being a Balance Breaker, but instead Rance actually shortens the war he's involved with and minimizes the amount of suffering humanity has to go through.

* [[Hypocritical Heartwarming]]: He can be quite quick to protect Sill from harm, on the grounds that being his slave, no one can hurt her but him.

* [[Insane Troll Logic]]: Likes to use it to create any excuse to sleep with women.

* [[Jerkass]]: Was one during the first games, with small redeeming traits.

* [[Moral Myopia]]: He's aware of raping and killing people on a whim are bad things, but since he thinks of himself as a hero, he doesn't think of his actions as bad (thus the biased narration regarding the sex scenes). Downplayed in the later games, when he begins to be more cautious about his actions.

* [[Morality Pet]]: Surprisingly, he's one to Lia Parapara Leazas; her love for him refrains her from her world conquest as she's afraid of losing him. Best demonstrated when Rance successfully prevents her invasion of Zeth in ''Rance VI'' and basically persuades her to collaborate with the other major powers at the beginning of ''Rance X''.

* [[Mysterious Past]]: For most of the series. It isn't until fairly late in that his backstory was revealed.

* [[Nominal Hero]]: And actually calls himself a hero even though everyone knows his antics. The game series narrations frequently call him someone in the position of a hero, despite not possessing any heroic traits.

* [[Questionable Consent]]: For roughly half of the series, most of the girls he slept with all fall under this trope instead of outright rape, many by offering Sex for Services in exchange for helping them in a quest or by Rance persuading them to do so. Throughout the later half of series, it's slowly downplayed and he progressively gets patient and more accepting of consent. That said, it only applies to his allies, as he stills have his way with women in enemy factions during armed conflicts.

* [[Refuge in Audacity]]: Given his personality, many of his accomplishments came from these, daring to do any tactic possible, no matter how outrageous or underhanded they are. Such as ''kissing Camilla to distract her despite being weaponless'' in ''Rance VI''.

* [[Signature Laugh]]: '''Gahahaha!'''

* [[Signature Move]]: '''Rance Attack''', an overhead sword strike that creates a wave of energy in front of him.

* [[A Sinister Clue]]: Downplayed. He's left handed, but not a villain.

* [[Slasher Smile]]: His default face.

* [[Small Name, Big Ego]]: Zig-Zagged. He likes to boast about his many (non-existent) qualities, but over the course of the games actually saves numerous cities and countries from destruction. The twist being that many circumstances hide his role in the games, such as Lia using her influence in order to prevent him from getting popular with girls, Zeth not wanting other nations to realize that the Maginot Line actually went down and that they nearly got invaded by Fiends and monsters, or that he was only a secret leader to the actual representative of the Oda Clan, Kou Oda.

* [[Put On the Bus|Put On The Bus]]: She spends the entirety of ''Rance Quest'' and ''Rance IX'' stuck in ice, leaving her unable to influence the plot in any way.

* [[The Red Mage]]: Knows both healing and offensive spells, making her one of the best assets for Rance in his adventures.

* [[Satellite Character]]: She's almost never seen apart from Rance, and most of her role and character revolves around him.

* [[Stripperiffic]]: Given that ''Rance'' of all people picks out her clothes, she tends to wear very little, with the amount increasing as games go on. In ''Rance 02'' she wore little more than a bikini, but by the end of the series was wearing a more sensible cloak and dress.

* [[Yamato Nadeshiko]]: Has shades of this due to her gentle demeanor and manners, emphasized by her Nipponese costume in ''Sengoku Rance''.

* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]: Her signature pink hair.