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* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Even Goku gets in a jab now and then.

* [[Fan Nickname]]: The Sanzo-''ikkou'', an [[Japanese Honorifics|honorific]] indicating a group, especially a group of religious pilgrims. Kougaiji, Lirin, Yaone, and Dokugakuji are often referred to as the Kougaiji-''tachi'', a group honorific with a connotation of "team".

* [[Four Temperament Ensemble]]

* [[Four-Temperament Ensemble]]

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* [[Dead Little Sister]]: His mentor, Koumyou Sanzo.

* [[Even the Guys Want Him]]: All four main characters get attention from other men but Sanzo kind of takes the cake. The ''Requiem'' OVA's plot centers around his same-sex stalker.

* [[Everyone Calls Him Barkeep|Everyone Calls Him Sanzo]]: It's his priestly rank/title. The closest thing he has to a personal name is "Genjyo".

* [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"|Everyone Calls Him Sanzo]]: It's his priestly rank/title. The closest thing he has to a personal name is "Genjyo".

* [[Good Is Not Nice]]

* [[The Gunslinger]]: Type A, The Trick Shot. He shoots Chin Yisou's seed out of Gojyo's body without otherwise harming him, even though the seed is right next to his heart.

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* [[Sexy Priest]]: But call him one and your ass is toast.

* [[Smoking Is Cool]]

* [[Strong As They Need to Be]]: The first anime series mostly depicted him close to the manga, but had a couple moments where his strength was greatly inflated, such as once when he knocked Lirin out with a single punch and blocked a punch from Goku's [[Super Powered Evil Side]].

* [[Strong As They Need to Be]]: The first anime series mostly depicted him close to the manga, but had a couple moments where his strength was greatly inflated, such as once when he knocked Lirin out with a single punch and blocked a punch from Goku's [[Super-Powered Evil Side]].

* [[Warrior Monk]]: Duh.

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A being born from the Earth, and imprisoned 500 years prior to the series by the gods. He knew the past incarnations of the rest of the Sanzo party, but his imprisonment erased his memory. He was eventually let out by Genjo Sanzo, and since then followed him everywhere, though Sanzo never admits to caring for Goku. Is the most childish of the group and has a child-like enthusiasm for fighting. Of all the characters, Goku has probably changed the most over the course of the series.

Has a [[Super Powered Evil Side]] that comes out if his diadem is ever removed, in which he attacks everything in sight and his enjoyment of fighting turns into a sadistic joy of inflicting pain on others.

Has a [[Super-Powered Evil Side]] that comes out if his diadem is ever removed, in which he attacks everything in sight and his enjoyment of fighting turns into a sadistic joy of inflicting pain on others.

* [[Adult Child]]: He's 18 at the start of the series.

* [[Ax Crazy]]: Not only will his [[Super Powered Evil Side]] attack anything it sees, it's flat-out sadistic and will pummel enemies even when they can't fight back, and sometimes also bite them, which avoids being [[Narm]] because it results in a lot of blood.

* [[Ax Crazy]]: Not only will his [[Super-Powered Evil Side]] attack anything it sees, it's flat-out sadistic and will pummel enemies even when they can't fight back, and sometimes also bite them, which avoids being [[Narm]] because it results in a lot of blood.

* [[Berserk Button]]: Do ''not'' harm Sanzo in his presence.

* [[Big Eater]]: As Sanzo puts it, he’s making up for 500 years of lost time.

* [[Three Faces of Eve|The Child]]

* [[Crouching Moron Hidden Badass]]

* [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]]

* [[Cute Shotaro Boy]]

* [[Eyes of Gold]]

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* [[I Am Not Left Handed]]

* [[Keet]]

* [[Laser Guided Amnesia]]

* [[Laser-Guided Amnesia]]

* [[Lightning Bruiser]]: His [[Super Powered Evil Side]] moves so fast other characters can't even see him, shrugs off virtually everything thrown at him, and has bent Gojyo's magical shakujou just by grabbing it.

* [[Lightning Bruiser]]: His [[Super-Powered Evil Side]] moves so fast other characters can't even see him, shrugs off virtually everything thrown at him, and has bent Gojyo's magical shakujou just by grabbing it.

* [[Morality Pet]]: For Sanzo.

* [[~~Names~~ the Same]]: He is not Goku from [[Dragonball]], but the mistake is understandable because both stories are based on ''Journey to the West'': both Gokus are based on Sun Wukong (indeed, 'Son Goku' is in the first place merely the Japanese rendering of 'Sun Wukong').

* [[Name's the Same]]: He is not Goku from [[Dragonball]], but the mistake is understandable because both stories are based on ''Journey to the West'': both Gokus are based on Sun Wukong (indeed, 'Son Goku' is in the first place merely the Japanese rendering of 'Sun Wukong').

* {{spoiler|[[Nigh Invulnerable]]: in his true form he can call on energy from the Earth to heal himself whenever he's injured (shown in his fight with Hakkai's true form) which makes him near immortal.}}

* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]

* [[Pint Sized Powerhouse]]

* [[Pint-Sized Powerhouse]]

* [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]]

* [[Restraining Bolt]]: His diadem, which is many times stronger than a normal youkai limiter and can only be remade by the Maten sutra or direct divine intercession.

* [[Sensitive Guy and Manly Man]]: Goku is the Manly Man to Hakkai's Sensitive Guy and the Sensitive Guy to Gojyo's Manly Man.

* [[Super Powered Evil Side]] [[Sealed Inside a Person Shaped Can|Sealed In A Person Shaped Can]] [[Sealed Evil in A Can|Inside A]] [[Tailor Made Prison]]. Goku was subdued with a [[Restraining Bolt]] ''on top of'' being locked away in a solitary mountain prison for ''500 years'' before Sanzo freed him. If the [[Power Limiter]] comes off when Sanzo's not around to run interference, FLEE. In the "Not Even a Worm" arc, we find out that not even {{spoiler|Hakkai's}} [[Super Powered Evil Side]] can stop Goku's in a straight-up fight.]]

* [[Super-Powered Evil Side]] [[Sealed Inside a Person Shaped Can|Sealed In A Person Shaped Can]] [[Sealed Evil in A Can|Inside A]] [[Tailor-Made Prison]]. Goku was subdued with a [[Restraining Bolt]] ''on top of'' being locked away in a solitary mountain prison for ''500 years'' before Sanzo freed him. If the [[Power Limiter]] comes off when Sanzo's not around to run interference, FLEE. In the "Not Even a Worm" arc, we find out that not even {{spoiler|Hakkai's}} [[Super-Powered Evil Side]] can stop Goku's in a straight-up fight.]]

* [[Simple Staff]]: Although dismissing Nyoi-Bou as "just a stick" is a big mistake.

* [[Soichiro Hoshi]]

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* [[Deceased Parents Are the Best]]: Gojyo's biological parents died when he was very young. He was raised by his [[Knight Templar Big Brother|older half-brother]] and [[Wicked Stepmother]], both of them demons.

* [[Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas]] / [[Mommy Issues]]: He loved his [[Wicked Stepmother|stepmother]] very much. [[Abusive Parents|She didn't reciprocate.]]

* [[Facial Markings]] / [[Good Scars Evil Scars]]

* [[Facial Markings]] / [[Good Scars, Evil Scars]]

* [[Half Human Hybrid]]: His father was a demon, his mother a human.

* [[Half-Human Hybrid]]: His father was a demon, his mother a human.

* [[Handsome Lech]]

* [[Heroic Bastard]]: He's the child of an extramarital affair.

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* [[Badass Abnormal]]: He single-handedly killed more than a thousand people (youkai and human) while still fully mortal. Armed with what looked like a fruit knife. Before he learned any ki attacks or healing. Imagine what he’s capable of now. Then go hide under the bed.

* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: Hakkai is easily the most polite and soft-spoken member of the group. He's also a walking font of potential violence.

* [[Brother Sister Incest]]

* [[Brother-Sister Incest]]

* [[Dissonant Serenity]]: Almost every time he fights. If he's acting otherwise his opponent is in big trouble.

* [[Eye Scream]]: In the manga, he tears out his eye and throws it at somebody. The anime "tones it down" to scratching the eyeball up while still in the socket.

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* [[Sensitive Guy and Manly Man]]: Sensitive Guy to Goku and Gojyo's Manly Man.

* [[Stepford Smiler]]

* [[Super Powered Evil Side]]

* [[Super-Powered Evil Side]]

* [[That Man Is Dead]]

* [[Team Chef]]

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=== '''Hakuryuu / Jeep''' ===

* [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin]]: Jeep is a white dragon who [[Voluntary Shapeshifting|can turn]] into a Jeep. [[~~Name Dar~~|Hakuryuu]] means "white dragon."

* [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin]]: Jeep is a white dragon who [[Voluntary Shapeshifting|can turn]] into a Jeep. [[NameDar|Hakuryuu]] means "white dragon."

* [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot]]: He's a [[Our Dragons Are Different|tiny dragon]]! He's a [[Cool Car|Jeep]]! He's a [[Dragonriders of Pern|tiny dragon]] who [[Transformers|transforms into a Jeep]]!

* [[Parrot Pet Position]]

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A band of four youkai that were unaffected by the minus waves, but for reasons that come from following Kougaiji they serve as rivals to the Sanzo party.

* [[Anti Villain|Anti Villains]] Type V, they could very easily be heroes in another series.

* [[Anti-Villain|Anti Villains]] Type V, they could very easily be heroes in another series.

* [[Badass Crew]]

* [[Four Temperament Ensemble]]

* [[Four-Temperament Ensemble]]

* [[Nakama]]: Far more so than the Sanzo Party. They’re called ‘’-tachi’’, “team”, for a reason.

* [[Punch Clock Villain]]: With plenty of [[Enemy Mine]].

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* [[The Comically Serious]]

* [[Facial Markings]]: his stripes

* [[Dark Skinned Redhead]]

* [[Dark-Skinned Redhead]]

* [[Dead Little Sister]]: His mother, Rasetsunyo.

* [[~~Mommas~~ Boy]]: Started out willing to do ''anything'' to reawaken her.

* [[Momma's Boy]]: Started out willing to do ''anything'' to reawaken her.

* [[Noble Demon]]

* [[Playing With Fire]]

* [[Takeshi Kusao]]

* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: Has some moments of this in the anime exclusives, most notably in one instance where he tried fighting Goku's [[Super Powered Evil Side]] despite nearly getting killed the first time.

* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: Has some moments of this in the anime exclusives, most notably in one instance where he tried fighting Goku's [[Super-Powered Evil Side]] despite nearly getting killed the first time.

* [[Warrior Prince]]

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* [[Boobs of Steel]]

* [[Cute Bruiser]]: At times is actually implied to be stronger than Kougaiji.

* [[Dark Skinned Blond]]

* [[Dark-Skinned Blond]]

* [[Facial Markings]]: her (mirror image of Kougaiji's) stripes

* [[Genki Girl]]

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* [[Fan Service]]

* [[The Medic]]

* [[Onee Sama]]: To Lirin.

* [[Onee-Sama]]: To Lirin.

* [[Shy Blue Haired Girl]] : Started out as this, though character development has made her less so.

* [[Shy Blue-Haired Girl]] : Started out as this, though character development has made her less so.

* [[White Magician Girl]]

* [[Yamato Nadeshiko]]

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* [[Kansai Regional Accent]]: In Japanese...because he's from "The West". It gets changed to a mild, Southern accent in English translations.

* [[Koichi Tochika]]

* [[What Measure Is a Non Human]]: He believes in the obliteration of all youkai, berserk or no, since his master's murder.

* [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?]]: He believes in the obliteration of all youkai, berserk or no, since his master's murder.

== '''Gatty "Gat" Nenehawk''' ==

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* [[Badass Long Hair]]: Goes from being just long enough to tie back as a novice, to a waist-length ponytail in middle age, to waist-length even when braided at his death.

* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: The description used in ''Ibun'' is “a little stray cloud off in his own world”. Koumyou claims to be less reliable than the moon. He’s got a real thing for paper airplanes and forgets to hide the pipe and the booze from the other monks. At one point he quotes ''[[Dragonball Z]]'' to explain his strategies. I am not making this up.

* [[Crouching Moron Hidden Badass]]: As a novice, Houmei was known as “the demerit monk” for his chronic rulebreaking and laziness. He was also stronger in Buddhist magic than any of the other sanzo candidates. As Koumyou Sanzo, he’s still blowing off lectures and sneaking alcohol…while also being the youngest person ever to reach that rank and the only one ever to be entrusted with ''two'' sutras.

* [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]]: As a novice, Houmei was known as “the demerit monk” for his chronic rulebreaking and laziness. He was also stronger in Buddhist magic than any of the other sanzo candidates. As Koumyou Sanzo, he’s still blowing off lectures and sneaking alcohol…while also being the youngest person ever to reach that rank and the only one ever to be entrusted with ''two'' sutras.

* [[Master Apprentice Chain]]: Learned from Jikaku as a novice, and transmitted his teachings to his successor, Genjyo Sanzo.

* [[Mentor Occupational Hazard]]

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* [[The Gunslinger]]: She's got a LARGE pistol, although we haven't seen her shoot it yet.

* [[The Siege]]: On the orders of the Sanbutsushin, she's been holding down the fort for years now waiting for the ikkou to make it West from Chang'An.

* [[Tall Dark and Bishoujo]]

* [[Tall, Dark and Bishoujo]]

== '''Hassan''' ==