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{{quote|''"Let's go, Samson!"''

** [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]: Unlike Filia, played straight, but only when he's extremely pissed. See the quote right above.

 

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{{quote|''"Get ready for a show-stopper!"''}}

** [[Tricked-Out Shoes]]: Her heels have ''[[Hammerspace|swords]]'' hidden in them.

* [[Dangerously-Short Skirt]]

* [[The Four Loves]]: All she wants is for the Medici family to love her.

* [[Impossibly Low Neckline]]: The appearance given by her attire. It's a [[Playboy Bunny|bunny-esque dress]] with [[Detached Sleeves]] that has each sleeve linked via a band that crosses her chest.

* [[Metronomic Man-Mashing]]: One of her specials involves her doing this to her opponents when she uses Vice Versa to grab and slam them repeatedly. She then throws them in the air and impales them with the sword on one of her heels and Vice Versa pushes them further for more damage.

* [[Mini-Dress of Power]]

* [[Nice Girl]]: For all her showboating, she's never shown any negative emotions (except to those Vitale tells her to get rid of and the villains) and even the [[Big Bad]] notes her heart of gold and purity.

* [[Panty Shot]]: Try pausing at any point in her character trailer. It's a challenge to find a frame where her panties aren't showing.

* [[Zettai Ryouiki]]: Courtesy of [[Nice Shoes|some kind of stocking-boot footwear]].

 

* [[Bring It]]: Of the move-finger-towards-self variety, when Cerebella walks backwards.

* [[Expressive Accessory]]

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{{quote|''"Time to paint the town red!"''}}

 

Once a war-orphan slave named Patricia, Peacock’s body was gruesomely mutilated by slave traders that captured her. She was rescued by Dr. Avian’s Anti-Skullgirls Labs, and rebuilt her with a (literally) [[Reality Warper|reality-defying]] biomechanical arsenal: the Argus System augmented her body, and the Avery Unit gave her access to unprecedented weaponry. Alas, they couldn’t do anything for her mind: Peacock’s damaged psyche and abiding love of cartoons shaped her new “toys” into a terrifying gang of cronies, whom she has no qualms using to [[Paint the Town Red]]... with blood. Terrifying as she is, she may be the kingdom’s best bet against the Skullgirl.

* [[Body Horror]]: Aside from her brain and her face, there's practically nothing left of her. Her eyes were forcefully gored out, so technically what remains are her eyesockets (but she can see with the eyes on her arms).

** [[More Teeth Than the Osmond Family]]: Those aren't her real teeth, they are removable like dentures (so she doesn't wear them while asleep). She has, in effect, a miniature, stainless-steel bear trap in her mouth, and some of her regular attacks involve ''biting'' the opponent.

* [[Byronic Hero]]

* [[Cartoon Bomb]]: The [[Assist Character]] bombs, George (the small one) and Lenny (the big fat one).

* [[Cheshire Cat Grin]]: Sports this constantly and doubles as a [[Slasher Smile]] due to her nature.

* [[Cigar Chomper]]: She's fond of smoking fat cigars and occasionally uses them in [[Cigar Fuse-Lighting|attacks]].

* [[Creepy Child]]

* [[Cute and Psycho]]

* [[Cyborg]]

* [[Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas|Even Bad Girls Love Their Daddies]]: The death of {{spoiler|Dr. Avian}} in her story route spurs her to seek revenge against the [[Co-Dragons]].

* [[Eyes Do Not Belong There]]: Those [[Black Bead Eyes|black dots on her face]] aren't her real eyes—along with everything else they did, the slavers put her eyes out. She sees with the feather-like electronic eyes on her arms and [[Animal Motif|peacock-like tail]], all of which can fire [[Eye Beams]].

* [[Fiery Redhead]]

* [[Fighting Your Friend]]: {{spoiler|Marie}}

* [[Non-Standard Character Design]]

* [[The Only One]]: Who can destroy the [[MacGuffin]].

* [[Peacock Girl]]

* [[Piano Drop]]: Capable of this, and with a variety of objects.

* [[Wheel-O-Feet]]

 

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{{quote|''"Egrets, assemble!"''}}

 

Few know the terrors of the Skullgirl as intimately as Parasoul does: seven years ago, her own mother became the Skullgirl that nearly destroyed the world. This tragic past has made her fiercely protective of both her country and her family, and these two priorities frequently come into conflict. Parasoul is now the crown princess of the Canopy Kingdom and leader of its elite military squad, the Black Egrets. Wielding the living umbrella, Krieg, she fights with grace, poise and cunning to defend her family honor and destroy the Skull Heart so no one can repeat her mother’s terrible mistake.

 

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* [[Assist Character|Assist Soldiers]]: She has a few attacks that utilize her off-screen soldiers.

* [[Badass Princess]]

{{quote|'''Ms. Fortune:''' ''"I... uh... dammit, your name's already a pun!"''}}

* [[Putting on the Reich]]: The Black Egrets [[Assist Character]]s for Parasoul have uniforms and equipment that are clearly using this trope - grey-coloured, armband on the upper-right arm, gas-masks, seem to be using [[wikipedia:MP40|MP 40s]] and a [[wikipedia:MG 42|MG 42]] in a super, and have helmets resembling the fairly-stereotypical [[wikipedia:Pickelhaube|Pickelhaube]] (though those helmets, while culturally German, were used in World War I). Parasoul herself seems to utilize a [[wikipedia:Luger pistol|Luger P08]].

* [[Royals Who Actually Do Something]]

* [[She's Got Legs]]

* [[Zettai Ryouiki]]: Only on some of her alternate colours.

 

* [[Eye Beams]]

* [[Living Weapon]]

* [[Parasol of Pain]]

* [[Playing with Fire|Playing With Napalm]]: He cries napalm tears, which can be placed on the screen and detonated.

* [[Swiss Army Tears]]

 

* [[Abnormal Limb Rotation Range]]

* [[Ambiguously Brown]]

* [[Badass]]

* [[Bare Your Midriff]]

* [[Everything Is Better With Spinning]]: Her intro animation has her shred her trenchcoat by spinning her body independent of her head.

* [[Expressive Accessory]]: Her collar.

* [[Gameplay and Story Segregation]]: Her powers of revival theoretically should make it impossible to knock her out in a fight (she can hit her own head, which is detached from her animate body, and remain conscious and in control of her body) but that (obviously) wouldn't make a great fit for a fighting game character.

* [[Man Bites Man|Girl Bites Girl]]: Her severed head can chew on opponents. (Popularly called OMNOMNOM)

* [[Le Parkour]]

* [[Little Bit Beastly]]

* [[Made of Plasticine]]

* [[Name's the Same]]: No, she's not a [[League of Legends|pirate hunter.]]

* [[Anime Chinese Girl]]: The image given off by her appearance, she is a decidedly ''non''-cute example closer to a [[Stringy-Haired Ghost Girl]].

* [[The Berserker]]: So much so that her [[Charged Attack|charge attacks]] can gain more power when she's hit while readying them.

* [[Blade Below the Shoulder|Blade Below BOTH Shoulders and BOTH Knees]]: They're also [[Retractable Weapon|retractable]].

* [[Body Horror]]: She has a giant pinwheel attached to her back (connected to what looks like her ''spine''), as well as nails driven into her thighs, shoulders and head. She's also able to produce spikes anywhere on her body.

* [[Dark Reprise]]: Her song, ''The Lives We Left Behind'' is remixed her to a depressing effect and called ''The Lives We Tried to Reclaim'' in her ending.

* [[Downer Ending]]: {{spoiler|She regains free will, but is still a monster. Returning home to her parents, they are terrified and drive her out. Brain Drain offers to take her back in to Lab Zero but [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge|it does not work out.]]}}

* [[Hulking Out]]: Her Gaelbolga special causes her to do this.

* [[Implacable Man|Implacable Woman]]: While using [[Super Mode|Hatred Install]], Painwheel can use her charged normal attacks to absorb hits that would normally kill her, and survive.

* [[Living Weapon]]

* [[Malevolent Masked Man|Malevolent Masked Woman]]

* [[Odango Hair]]

* [[Perpetual Frowner]]: After becoming Painwheel. One piece of concept art published by Reverge Labs shows her smiling, with the emphatic note "''{{small-caps|this NEVER happens.}}''" penciled in next to it.

* [[Phlebotinum Rebel]]

* [[Psycho Serum]]: Experimental synthetic Skullgirl blood.

* [[Shout-Out]]: Her death-crawl is reminiscent of [[Soul Series|Voldo's]] reverse crab-walk.

* [[Swirling Dust]]: Victory pose. Kind of overlaps with a bit of [[Battle Aura]]

* [[Used to Be a Sweet Kid]]

* [[Wheel of Pain]]: Her weapon, and her ''name.''

 

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{{quote|''"Side effects may include nausea, headaches, and '''death.'''"''}}

 

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* [[1-Up]]: Her Level 5 Super can bring a dead teammate back to life with 33% of their health.

* [[Badass Normal]]: The only cast member who manages to kick ass without hosting a parasite or having command over a [[Living Weapon]]. [[Eldritch Abomination|Double]] and [[Immortality Inducer|Ms. Fortune]] do not count.

* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: Her dialogue when she starts talking about experimenting on Ms. Fortune, and her [http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2cd9fSiXj1qiasjvo4_250.png injured] sprite.

* [[The Dragon]]: To the current Skullgirl.

* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: Apparently, she wasn't happy about having to work on Painwheel; Brain Drain had to lean rather heavily on her to get her to cooperate.

* [[Evil Mentor]]: In her story, she prepares {{spoiler|Painwheel}} to {{spoiler|destroy the Skullgirl}}.

* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: Special mention has to go to her pre-fight intro, where she's seen behind hospital curtains fiddling with her top.

** See also her winpose; it involves her ''trying'' to pull a mercury thermometer out from inside her shirt, but "accidentally"<ref>(probably ''not'' accidental, judging by the smug grin visible through her face mask)</ref> snapping the end off because the rest of it is too firmly lodged between her breasts.

* [[Ninja Pirate Robot Zombie|Ninja Nurse]]

* [[Ninja Run]]: Her ground dash.

* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]

 

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{{quote|''"Have you come to make confession? I will gladly accept your tithe. In '''blood'''."''}}

* [[Awesome but Impractical]]: Her Level 5 Super turns her into {{spoiler|a [[Gradius]] boss.}} While Mike Z mentioned a 60,000 damaging juggle combo with it, it's easy to screw up, especially when you're pressured with not wasting a whole five meters. Only time will tell.

* [[Black Eyes of Evil]]: She has these in her nun form for one of her alternate color palletes. Still, her monster form has black sclera.

* [[Body Horror]]: Let's start with the fact that she has a giant, razor-toothed mouth in her back and go from there.

* [[Development Gag]]: Many of her transformations involve animations and concepts not used by the final designs of each character.

* [[Ditto Fighter]]: She assumes the forms of other members of the cast and uses specials [[What Could Have Been|they used to have in planning stages]], such as taking Peacock's form and using a car to run down her enemies. However, all of her moves have different properties, making them unique to her. She does not possess the ability to copy powers, either. For example, she cannot use Krieg's tears, so she uses Parasoul's gun instead. As a whole, she only assumes the forms of her enemies not to outright ''copy'' them, but to ''mock'' them.

* [[Eldritch Abomination]]

* [[Freeze-Frame Bonus]]: Double's Level 3 super has her transform into all of the 7 main cast members, but also several as-of-yet unannounced characters; including Umbrella, Squigly, Andy Anvil, Black Dahlia and Mrs. Victoria.

* [[Gainax Ending]]: One minute, Double is {{spoiler|getting ready to devour the fighters she defeated}}. The next, two girls are [[Leaning on the Fourth Wall|playing Skullgirls]]...

* [[Gainaxing]]: Quite disturbingly, considering she's in her more monstrous form when she does it.

* [[Hartman Hips]]

* [[Humanoid Abomination]]: Her nun form.

* [[Humans Are the Real Monsters]]: One of her win quotes.

* [[I'm a Humanitarian]]

** [[Dual Boss]]: With Valentine.

* [[Monochromatic Eyes]]: In her nun form. In her default color they are [[Blank White Eyes|white.]]

* [[Sinister Minister]]

* [[Unexpected Shmup Level]]: Played with: her Level 5 super transforms her into an Easter Island statue that spits projectiles and summons Peacock's cartoon cronies. Sounds almost like [[Gradius|a certain shoot-em-up series Konami made]]...

* [[Voice of the Legion]]: In more ways than one. Along with her shape, her voice morphs to match whichever character she's impersonating; she has very few lines in her "real" voice.

* [[Voluntary Shapeshifting]]

* [[What Could Have Been]]: Part of her fighting style. Any attacks that didn't make it onto certain characters went to Double instead.

 

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The game's final boss. A maid with a skeletal motif.

 

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* [[Army of the Dead]]: She summons skulls and skeletal monsters, which she refers to as her "slaves."

* [[Big Bad]]

* [[Volcanic Veins]]: Glowing blue blood vessels stretch out of the Skullheart.

 

A zombified former opera singer, Squigly is inhabited by the parasite Leviathan, a rival to Filia's parasite Samson. Squigly uses a combination of "stance cancels" and spatial control powers.

 

 

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* [[Cute Monster Girl]]: The cutest zombie you'll ever see.

* [[Detached Sleeves]]

* [[Hartman Hips]]

* [[Spell My Name with an "S"]]: An image found in the game files spells her name "Squig'''g'''l'''e'''y."

* [[The Undead]]

 

Parasoul's younger sister. Although Umbrella lacks the military protection and tactical finesse of her older sister, she does wield Hungern, a sentient umbrella that becomes more voracious and powerful the more it isn't used.

 

 

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* [[Token Loli]]

* [[Wrong Genre Savvy]]: In Story Mode she lists off charge attacks from characters of other fighting games similar to Parasoul.

 

== {{spoiler|The Trinity}} ==