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* [[All Girls Want Bad Boys]]: Poor girl is madly in love with a guy who is openly abusive to women.
* [[All Love Is Unrequited]]: (with Saionji).
* [[Cute and Psycho]]
* [[Dub Name Change]]: The Enoki Films release names her Wanda.
* [[Genki Girl]]: To the point that she almost knocks Utena out of windows.
* [[Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!]]: (Smacks Utena out of her self-pity).
* [[The Glomp]]: She does this to Utena a lot, almost knocking her out of a window.
* [[The Glomp]]
* [[Heroic Self-Deprecation]]: Thinks she's not nearly as great as Utena is.
* [[I Just Want to Be Special]]
* [[Love Letter Lunacy]]: She sends Saionji a love letter. [[Kick the Dog|He scoffs it, and it ends up put on display and mocked by other students]]. Poor Wakaba collapses crying, and Utena steps in to defend her honor... via challenging Saionji to a duel.
* [[Ms. Exposition]]: Her role in the first arc is basically to introduce our main characters to Utena. Later on she [[Character Development|becomes a more complete character]].
* [[The Nondescript]]: And she's painfully aware of it.
* [[Romantic Two-Girl Friendship]]: (WithExplicitly calls Utena) "my one true love" several times, but this seems to be more of an inside joke between the two of them.
* {{spoiler|[[Stepford Smiler]]}}
 
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* [[Attention Whore]]: Deconstructed; her inferiority complex with regards to her brother makes her think that negative attention is the only kind she can get, hence her promiscuous behaviour.
* [[Attention Whore]]
* [[Character Exaggeration]]: Kozue in the manga was a very different character from Kozue in the anime, and nowhere near as warped. Basically, she was just bratty and overprotective of Miki, and she certainly didn't act promiscuous or hurt anyone who would get close to him.
* [[Clingy Jealous Girl]]: In the manga, and overtly so.
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* [[Freudian Excuse]]: When Miki was unable to attend their recital, not only was it revealed Kozue was a sub-par player on her own, but being alone in front of the crowd clearly traumatized her. And while Miki is the series' [[Nice Guy]], he hasn't treated her with the same affection since she stopped playing the piano and [[Loving a Shadow|projects her childhood self]] onto Anthy. No wonder the girl has [[Yandere|issues]].
* [[Green-Eyed Monster]]: Don't take her brother's attention from her. Just... don't.
* [[Half-Identical Twins]]: (With Miki). When Utena sees both of them together for the first time, she even comments on how similar they look to one another.
* [[Knight Templar Big Brother|Knight Templar LittleBig Sister]]: Show attention or attraction to her brother around her, or worse, hurt him? You're in for it big time.
* [[The Nondescript]]: (When she was younger).
* [[Parental Abandonment]]: See Miki's section. Kozue isn't exactly fond of their parents.
* [[Really Gets Around]]: She invokes this to get Miki's attention.
* [[Sibling Yin-Yang]]: (With Miki).
* [[Theme Twin Naming]]: "''Kozue''" means "treetop" while "''miki''" means "trunk".
* [[Troubled but Cute]]
* [[Twincest]]: Implied, particularly in the movie.
** More blatant in the 20th anniversary manga. Wherein Kozue is openly attracted to her brother, going so far as to try kissing him in his sleep (she was rejected), and actually kissing him when she came to him in the middle of the night, claiming that her husband had abused and potentially sexually assaulted her, claiming she was in love with another man. It was to the point that, after the second mentioned rejection by her brother, she went into a state of catatonia.
* [[Yandere]]: Over [[Twincest|Miki]].
 
=== '''Shiori Takatsuki''' ===
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* [[Attention Whore]]: (Shades of this in her character), though it's more like she just wants positive attention from someone who can actually make her feel good about herself.
* [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing]]: Due to her cripplingly low self-esteem.
* [[Butterfly of Death and Rebirth]]: (In the movie).
* [[Don't You Dare Pity Me!]]
* [[Disturbed Doves]]: When she {{spoiler|loses her Black Rose duel}}.
* [[Drives Like Crazy]]: In the movie. While trying to ram Anthy off the road, she doesn't seem to notice that she's about to crash into a fork in the road.
* [[Dub Name Change]]: The Enoki Films release names her Sally.
* [[Green-Eyed Monster]]: (Believes that Juri was always better than her at everything, and that she was only pretending to be friends with her in order to look down on her).
* [[Incompatible Orientation]]: Truthfully, this is the ''least'' of the problems between Juri and Shiori. {{spoiler|May be subverted in the end.}}
* [[It's All About Me]]: In the movie, when, after she becomes a car, she rants to Anthy that the only who deserves to escape from Ohtori is "beautiful me. Me. Me. Me! Me! Me, me, me, me, ME!!!"
* [[The Nondescript]]: Considers herself to be plain in comparison to the beautiful Juri.
* [[Pure Is Not Good]]: (Juri calls her "cruelly innocent." This may be true, but she's also willing to do some pretty awful things because of her inferiority complex.)
* [[Purple Eyes]]
* [[Red String of Fate]]: As seen in Juri's past memories of her in episode 7.
* [[Selective Obliviousness]]: When Juri tries to warn her away from Ruka because she's worried about her, Shiori misinterprets her words as jealousy and thinks she's awful for it.
* [[Self-Serving Memory]]: In the movie, as she's recounting her so-called relationship with Touga {{spoiler|before his death}}, she mentions that "my Prince and I were going to go steady". Considering he was still in a relationship with Utena at the time, chances are she's either lying or that's how she remembers it.
* [[Zettai Ryouiki]]: (in [[The Movie]]).
 
=== '''Kanae Ohtori''' ===
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* [[Abusive Parents]]: Her mother, who seems to care for nothing but herself {{spoiler|and sleeps with Kanae's fiance.}}
* [[Arranged Marriage]]: (to Akio).
* [[Big No]]: ({{spoiler|at the end of her duel}}).
* [[Break the Cutie]] -> [[Cute and Psycho]]: (when this girl snaps, she ''snaps''. Being practically {{spoiler|[[Mind Rape]]d by Mikage and Mamiya}} did NOT help.)
* [[Dark Mistress]]: (heavily deconstructed).
* {{spoiler|[[Disposable Fiancé]]: She's introduced as Akio's fiancee but Akio uses her power, cheats on her with everyone including her mother and maybe even literally disposes of her}}.
* {{spoiler|[[Disposable Fiancé]]}}
* {{spoiler|[[Downer Ending]]}}: ({{spoiler|Out of all the duelists, Kanae is the only one not shown in the [[Book Ends]] montage towards the end. The last we see of her is, well... see [[How Do You Like Them Apples?]].}}).
* [[Dub Name Change]]: The Enoki Films release names her Kate.
* [[Everything's Better with Princesses]]: (Deconstructed like whoa. Kanae is implied to fit the true princess archetype in this series, being very kind-hearted and sweet... but also very passive and lacking any control over her own future. This is not portrayed as a good thing.)
* [[Fragile Flower]]
* [[How Do You Like Them Apples?]]: (In the third arc, {{spoiler|1=Akio and Anthy feed a BSODing Kanae an apple pin-cushioned by forks. It is strongly implied that they're poisoning her, and the apple also obviously stands for Anthy's swords of hate. One of the background music tracks, which plays during Akio and Anthy's familial bonding is called "Fruit of Sin", as well. Make of that what you will.}}).
* [[The Ojou]]: The [[Spoiled Sweet]] type.
* [[Sanity Slippage]]: She's really paranoid about Anthy due to the latter's [[Stepford Smiler]] nature.
 
=== '''Keiko Sonoda''' ===
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* [[Backstabbing the Alpha Bitch]]: (arguably her [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]]).
* [[Cinderella (novel)|Cinderella]]: (Subverted. At first, Keiko seems to follow this tale straight to the point of parody, Nanami being a sorta "evil stepmother"... {{spoiler|But then her attitude to her "prince" appears to be much more "rose-bridish" than "cinderella-esque". And as she gets close to Touga at last, she switches roles with Nanami, starting to humiliate her. To crown the subversion, she ends up beaten and "princeless".}}).
* [[Cute and Psycho]]: (after snapping).
* [[Dub Name Change]]: The Enoki Films release names her Kelly.
* [[False Friend]]:Only pretended to be Nanami's friend so that she could get closer to Touga, and wastes no time in ditching her when the opportunity presents itself.
* [[False Friend]]
* [[Girl Posse]]: A member of Nanami's posse, along with Aiko and Yuuko.
* [[Girlish Pigtails]]
* [[Letting Her Hair Down]]: Does this once after Nanami makes her miss out on seeing Touga at a party.
* [[The Nondescript]]: Taken to new heights when the audience realizes that Utena doesn't even know her ''name'' after she duels her. The other two members of her [[Girl Posse]] have similar names as she does also.
* [[Together Umbrella]]: (with Touga, which enrages Nanami).
 
=== '''Mitsuru Tsuwabuki''' ===
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* [[Adorably Precocious Child]]: Deconstructed, as his innocence ends up being quite creepy at times.
* [[Badass Adorable]]
* [[The Chew Toy]]: (his horrible luck is played for utter comedy, even in {{spoiler|his Black Rose episode.)}}.
* [[Combat Pragmatist]]: {{spoiler|In his Black Rose episode he attacks Utena before she can even draw the Sword of Dios; he also puts to good use the intrinsic advantages of dual-wielding against someone with a single weapon.}}
* [[Creepy Child]]: Has a cheerful demeanor, but initially places Nanami in a series of deadly situations [[Rescue Romance|so he can rescue her]], apparently not realizing that this is ''very bad''. {{spoiler|Also qualifies during his tenure as a Black Rose duelist.}}
* [[Dual-Wielding]]: ({{spoiler|Wields Nanami's sword and knife as a Black Rose duelist.}}).
* [[Dub Name Change]]: The Enoki Films release names him Mitch.
* [[Indirect Kiss]]: (his chocolate bar, which had a bite taken out by Nanami).
* [[Looking for Love In All the Wrong Places]]: (when the object of your affection is ''Nanami'' of all people, you have issues).
* [[Stalker with a Crush]]: A clipshow episode shows Tsuwabuki following and spying on Nanami since the start of the series. Which leads to him plotting to make her fall in love with him. Surprisingly for this anime, it's only played for laughs.
* [[Stalker with a Crush]]
* [[Yandere]]: (once he snaps over Nanami).
 
=== '''Tatsuya Kazami''' ===
==== Voiced by: [[Ryotaro Okiayu]] (JP), Frank Frankson (EN) ====
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* [[Embarrassing Nickname]]: ("Prince Onion." To clarify, in Japanese referring to something as onion-make means it's shoddy or second-rate).
* [[Dogged Nice Guy]]: (To {{spoiler|Wakaba.}} {{spoiler|Upon hearing him confess, Mikage rejects him for the Black Duels and sends him home.}} And immeduately afterwards, {{spoiler|he uses said knowledge to put Wakaba as the next Black Duelist in line}}).
* [[Green-Eyed Monster]]
* [[Unlucky Childhood Friend]]: (to {{spoiler|Wakaba}}).
 
=== '''Souji Mikage/{{spoiler|Professor Nemuro}}''' ===
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* [[Anti-Villain]]: [[Sliding Scale of Anti-Villains|Type III]].
* {{spoiler|[[Big Bad]]}}: Of the Black Rose's arc.
* {{spoiler|[[Dead All Along]]: possibly. It isn't clear whether or not he died in the fire he started at Nemuro Hall years ago, though the fact that he hasn't aged since then may indicate that he's a ghost of sorts}}.
* {{spoiler|[[Dead All Along]] (possibly)}}
* [[Despair Event Horizon]]: (Weaponized, sorta. He uses tactics that arguably predate those of [[Mobile Suit Gundam 00|Celestial Being]], approaching young people who are in their lowest with promise of a chance to change their worlds and end what's making them suffer by defeating Utena: it's specially obvious in the cases of people like {{spoiler|Kanae, Wakaba, Keiko, or Mitsuru Tsuwabuki.}} And then we learn that {{spoiler|Mikage himself also went past the DEH in his backstory, and is pushed even further in the last episode of the Black Rose arc.}}).
* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: (all the duels he enables are this, and usually for a small or perceived slight)'.
* [[Dub Name Change]]: The Enoki Films release names him Sonny.
* {{spoiler|[[Driven to Madness]]}}: ({{spoiler|seeing his beloved Tokiko seduced by Akio and the death of Mamiya made him crack, ''big time''}}).
* [[Elaborate Underground Base]]: Nemuro Memorial Hall. He does his thing in an elevator decorated with pictures of butterflies (in different stages of development) and a leaf, which leads to a massive underground mausoleum where the bodies of a hundred duelists are stored.
* [[Elaborate Underground Base]]
* [[Expy]]: (Of Fiore from the ''[[Sailor Moon]] R'' movie, which Ikuhara also directed. In addition to their appearances and role in the narrative, they also have the same seiyuu, [[Hikaru Midorikawa]].)
* {{spoiler|[[Fake Memories]]: His memories of Mamiya and what really happened to Nemuro Hall}}.
* [[Foil]]: to Utena, pink hair and all. Utena is straightforward and well-meaning; he is manipulative and cruel. They have some similarities, too-see [[Shadow Archetype]] and [[Spear Counterpart]] below.
* [[Foil]] (to Utena)
* [[The Glasses Come Off]]: (This is reversed with him, who is unable to clearly perceive things ''after'' he loses his glasses).
* [[I Am What I Am]]
* [[Indirect Kiss]]: (Tokiko's [[Lipstick Mark]] on his cup).
* {{spoiler|[[I Reject Your Reality]]}}
* [[Loving a Shadow]]: ({{spoiler|"Mamiya" is actually Anthy in disguise}}).
* [[MacGuffin]]
* [[Manipulative Bastard]]: How he creates Black Rose duelists.
* [[More Than Mind Control]]: (his entire shtick with the black roses).
** [[Mind Rape]]: (how he manipulates the Black Rose duelist candidates), via making them tell him their deepest traumas and frustrations and using said knowledge to recruit them to his side. It's a frighteningly good use of the "Mundane" methods.
* [[Not So Different]]: (with Utena, and their similar coloration intentionally highlights this).
* {{spoiler|[[Our Ghosts Are Different]]: ''Maybe''. The end of the Black Rose arc suggests he was [[Dead All Along]], but reality seems to get overwritten at that point. It's theorized that he might be a self-propagating mental projection, though you may as well just call that a ghost. More confusingly, his flashback scenes don't even match up with what we know about the timeline from elsewhere}}.
* {{spoiler|[[Our Ghosts Are Different]]}}
* [[Pet the Dog]] : {{spoiler|(Well, he lets Tatsuya walk away free and clear -- then again, this may have been because Tatsuya was [[Only Sane Man|the most mentally-healthy person on campus]], and thus not suitable for his purposes)}}.
* {{spoiler|[[Playing with Fire]]}}: ({{spoiler|the reason Nemuro Hall burned down}}).
* [[The Professor]]: (As Nemuro).
* {{spoiler|[[Ret-Gone]]}}: ({{spoiler|after the Black Rose arc everyone but Akio and Anthy forgets he was ever there}}).
* [[Rose-Haired Girl|Rose Haired Guy]]
* [[Sanity Slippage]]
* [[Shadow Archetype]]: (of Utena).
* [[Signature Move]]: (He's ambidextrous).
* [[Single Tear]]
* [[Spear Counterpart]]: to Utena—pink hair, attached to a submissive person in an engagement type of situation (whose looks and names are quite similar) motivated by idealized memories.
* [[Spear Counterpart]] (to Utena)
* [[Spooky Photographs]]
* [[The Stoic]]: (Was described as being akin to a "human computer").
* [[Teen Genius]]: A professor at just 18.
* [[There Are No Therapists]]: (man could ''really'' have used one). He also functions as a twisted version of a therapist in the Black Rose arc, urging the students who visit him to confess their psychological problems. Of course, having Mikage listen to your issues is ''really'' not a good way to solve them.
** He also functions as a twisted version of a therapist in the Black Rose arc, urging the students who visit him to confess their psychological problems. Of course, having Mikage listen to your issues is ''really'' not a good way to solve them.
* {{spoiler|[[Tomato Surprise]]}}
* {{spoiler|[[Unwitting Pawn]]}}: ({{spoiler|to Akio, who had him under control the whole time}})
 
=== '''Mamiya Chida''' ===
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* [[Ambiguously Brown]]
* {{spoiler|[[Dead Person Impersonation]]}}: ({{spoiler|Anthy took over his identity to fool Mikage into believing that Mamiya is still alive}})*.
* [[Dub Name Change]]: The Enoki Films release names him Miles.
* [[Facial Markings]]: (wears a bindi).
* [[Green Eyes]]
* [[Identical Stranger]]: (to Anthy {{spoiler|which, considering he really ''is'' Anthy, makesand that his real appearance was completely different, this ais [[Subvertedactually Trope]]subverted}}).
* [[Ill Boy]]
* [[Spear Counterpart]]: (to Anthy, subverted).
* [[The Stoic]]: (tends not to show much emotion).
* [[Unperson]]: (no one but Mikage and the Black Rose Duelists know he exists, and they forget him once their roses are destroyed).
 
=== '''Tokiko Chida''' ===
==== Voiced by: [[Noriko Hidaka]] (JP), Tara Jayne (EN) ====
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* [[Armor-Piercing Slap]]: (to {{spoiler|Nemuro, once she sees him burn down a certain building}}...}})
* [[Beauty Mark]]
* [[Expository Hairstyle Change]] : {{spoiler|(At the end of episode 22, we see her as an older woman. Her formerly short hair has grown much longer.)}}.
* [[Hot Scientist]]: (She became one to try curing her little brother's life-threatening illness. {{spoiler|She failed, and Mamiya ultimately died. when Nemuro Hall was burned down}}).
* [[Promotion to Parent]]: (towards Mamiya).
* [[Tall, Dark and Bishoujo]]
 
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