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* [[Career Killer]]

* [[Cute and Psycho]]

* [[Heel Face Turn]]

* [[Heroic BSOD]]: After {{spoiler|losing to Adele at the Genoard manor.}}

* [[Plucky Girl]]: When it comes to helping Roy, Edith will never throw in the towel. Taking a once in a lifetime chance to earn a [[Fate Worse Than Death]] by resident [[Torture Technician|Torture Technicians]] Claire and Tick? No problem if Roy is forgiven.

* [[Odd Friendship]]: With Tick. Edith became one of his few friends after the "torture" event. In 1933, it's mentioned that she often sends him bouquets of flowers. She's on good terms with Claire as well.

* [[Taking the Heat]]: For almost any of Roy's wrongdoing.

* [[Traumatic Haircut]]: A subversion. Tick thought that cutting short Edith's beautiful long hair would be proper punishment for insubordination. Edith herself considered this to be a [[Poke the Poodle]] and grew to like the haircut.

* {{spoiler|[[Bokukko]]}}

* {{spoiler|[[Hive Mind]]: Courtesy of Sham.}}

* [[I Just Want to Be Normal]]: Ricardo really doesn't enjoy being heir to a mafia family.

* [[Intergenerational Friendship]]: With Christopher.

* [[Missing Mom]]: His mother left him and his brother with a really bad stepfather.

* [[No Doubt the Years Have Changed Me]]: {{spoiler|Subverted. Tick recognized him immediately, but played along because he knew that he wanted to leave his past behind him.}}

* [[Parental Abandonment]]: His biological parents are dead. His stepfather just didn't care about him.

* [[That Man Is Dead]]: He changed his entire appearance to cut himself off from his past.

* [[Fangs Are Evil]]

* [[Faux Affably Evil]]: Christopher sings songs as he happily massacres people. {{spoiler|He grows out of the evil part after joining the Russo Family.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Heel Face Turn]]: After being ambushed and nearly killed in Chicago, Christopher starts working for Ricardo as he loses contact with Huey.}}

* [[I Am a Monster]]: Jokes with it ("Would you believe me if I said I wanted to do that by destroying you, a man obviously gifted by Him, and in doing so overcome a massive inferiority complex left inside me by the fact of my artificial creation?"), but it's implied that he does have more than a few hangups with being so obviously unnatural.

* [[Immortality]]: Type 2.

* [[Red and Black And Evil All Over]]

* [[Red Eyes Take Warning]]

* {{spoiler|[[Technical Pacifist]]: After losing to Claire at the end of ''The Slash'' and becoming Ricardo's bodyguard. In the ninth book, he decides to [[Gorn|rehabilitate himself.]]}}

* [[Technicolor Eyes]]: Blue eyes with red sclerae.

 

=== Hong Chimei "Chi" ===

* [[Our Homunculi Are Different]]

* [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]]: As with Chris, he's at the very least 40 years old.

* [[Vitriolic Best Buds]]: With Christopher.

{{quote| '''Chi:''' ...I just realized that I don't think of you as a friend at all.<br />

A member of Lamia created less than 15 years ago. Rail is an explosives specialist with an outspoken hatred of his master and creator Huey. He hero-worships Christopher, who befriended him after a particularly traumatizing experiment. {{spoiler|Later in 1934, Rail leaves Huey's side after befriending Nice and joining Jacuzzi's gang. He is also revealed to be female.}}

 

* [[Artificial Human]]

* {{spoiler|[[Bifauxnen]]: At the end of the 1934 novels, Rail is revealed to be a girl.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Heel Face Turn]]}}

* [[Hero Worshipper]]: To Christopher.

* [[Immortality]]: Type 2.

* {{spoiler|[[Mad Bomber]]: Becomes one after Frank's kidnapping.}}

A member of Lamia whose body is proportioned like a child, but is over 7 feet tall. Frank is one of Rail's closest friends. {{spoiler|He is kidnapped by Renée's team of scientists during the raid on Russo Manor, but is recovered by Huey at the end of 1934.}}

 

* [[Artificial Human]]

* [[The Big Guy]]

* [[Bruiser With a Soft Center]]: Despite his size, Frank's really just a kid.

* [[Distressed Dude]]: {{spoiler|Is kidnapped by Renée and Nebula in 1934.}}

* [[Immortality]]: Type 2.

* [[Lightning Bruiser]]

* [[Milking the Giant Cow]]: All the time.

* [[Nice Hat]]: White fedoras are basically synonymous with the trope.

* [[Odd Friendship]]: With Graham, who is so moved by his poetry that he buys him a drink.

* [[Our Homunculi Are Different]]

* [[Berserk Button]]: Leeza reacts rather violently to anyone hurting, or even threatening Huey.

* [[Cute and Psycho]]

* [[Enfant Terrible]]

* [[Eyes of Gold]]

* [[Rings of Death]]

* [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]: {{spoiler|After Firo steals Huey's eye in 1934. Foiled when Ladd decides to make her his next target.}}

* [[Tyke Bomb]]

* [[The Voice]]: When she's on the field with the other members of Lamia.

* [[Cool Mask]]: Wears one in 2001.

* [[Immortality]]: Type 3

* [[Straight Man]]: Elmer decides that he's his new [[Straight Man]] after they meet up. Nile is not amused by this.

{{quote| '''Nile:''' I say this: Die, Elmer. No, I will kill you myself.}}

A scientist working at Nebula. Renée is a clumsy and forgetful woman who is nevertheless devoted to science, to a frightening degree. Her attractive figure is the subject of much attention from her fellow researchers, but Renée doesn't seem to care about anything not related to her experiments. {{spoiler|She was also Huey, Elmer, and Monica's alchemy teacher in the early 1700s. Renée is from a generation of immortals even earlier than the 1711 group, though details on that are still sparse.}}

 

* [[Apologizes a Lot]]

* [[Cute and Psycho]]: She {{spoiler|devours people}} without losing that airheaded smile.

* [[Eye Scream]]: {{spoiler|Courtesy of Huey, in exchange for taking his eye. No anesthesia.}}

* [[Faux Affably Evil]]

* [[Four Eyes Zero Soul]]

* {{spoiler|[[Hot Mom]]}}

* {{spoiler|[[The Older Immortal]]: Drank the Elixir of Immortality before the 1711 group.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]]}}

* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]

 

* [[Lamarck Was Right]]: Inherited Claire's solipsism. Firo remarks that Claudia's not the first one to take after Claire in that sense, but so far she's the one who resembles him most.

* [[Master Actor]]

* [[Strong Family Resemblance]]: Eye color aside, Claudia's practically an [[Opposite Sex Clone]] of her great-grandfather Claire, and is growing up to resemble him more and more.

* [[Took the Bad Film Seriously]]: In-universe. Claudia puts heart and soul into each one of her roles, even if they happen to be trashy B-movies.

* [[Samus Is a Girl]]: Aging first appears as a voice on a radio that talks very much like an old man.

* [[Statuesque Stunner]]

* [[The Tease]]: She often teases Luchino. His gentle, unretaliating nature only encourages her.

 

* [[Cool Shades]]

* [[Even Evil Has Standards|Even Assassins Have Standards:]] A self-proclaimed man of principle, Angelo won't shoot women, children or elders.

* {{spoiler|[[Henpecked Husband]]: Angelo mentioned that back home in Spain, his wife has the final word}}.

* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]: The narrative compares Angelo to [[Antonio Banderas]] and his roles on movies such as [[Once Upon a Time In Mexico]].

* [[Revenge]]: For the fallen companions in South America.

* [[Street Urchin]]: Up to his teens, Angelo was often getting in trouble with the local police.

* [[Weapon of Choice]] --> [[Sniper Rifle]]: Rivaling with Death from the Mask Makers.

* [[Would Not Hit a Girl]]: Along with...