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* [[Confusion Fu]]: His "snakebite" fighting style.

* [[Cool Shades]]

* [[Deuteragonist]] --> [[Anti-Hero]] [[The Protagonist|Protagonist]]: In the manga, where he's secondary to Ginji for the first half of the series but eventually becomes just as important to the plot.

* [[Deuteragonist]] --> [[The Artifact]]: Anime only. A really weird consequence of the fact that the manga avoided Ban's secrets early on is that in the anime, Ginji really comes across as the main character. The vast majority of major and supporting characters are Ginji's friends, or friends of Ginji's friends; the only exceptions are Himiko and Akabane, neither of whom had fleshed out back stories just yet. Oddly, the one chance the anime ''did'' have to touch on Ban's past (his feud with the Miroku 7) was cut short, as 5 Miroku were omitted and ''why'' Natsuhiko hated Ban was never addressed.

* [[Insufferable Genius]] (It's even stated outright in the manga omake. He's hated at first by pretty much everyone he meets, as he's ''very'' condescending and arrogant. Though in all fairness, he ''is'' justifiably so - he really ''is'' a genius.)

* [[In the Blood]]: In the arcs where his hair is 'down', he looks very much like Der Kaiser; both men have similar abilities and somewhat similar personalities as well.

* [[Lovable Sex Maniac]]

* [[Master of Illusion]] AND [[Mind Rape]] (The effect of his Jagan. One of the very rare cases where a ''hero'' has powers like that)

* {{spoiler|[[Heroic Sacrifice]]}}: Manga-only, fortunately, he got better.

* [[Ineffectual Loner]] (His back story is basically this, with Amon, Emishi and Ginji all making breakthroughs to him, but Madoka really sealed the deal. It's weird, as he averts it at the same time: with his animals, he's never alone.)

* [[Official Couple]] (With Madoka)

* [[Pose of Supplication]] (When Madoka is kidnapped and he needs Ban's help to get her back)

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* [[The Chick]]

* [[Tagalong Kid]] (Complete inversion. He's got three (later four) sidekicks, all in their 20s, who would follow him to the depths of hell and back again.)

* [[Teen Genius]]

* [[Trying to Catch Me Fighting Dirty|Trying To Catch My Minions Fighting Dirty]] (The fights he sets up involve a lot of this, including Juubei attempting to get Kazuki [[In the Back]] and mind controlling a bunch of kids to fight the heroes)

* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]

* [[Improbable Weapon User]] (he fights with mirror fragments.)

* [[Master of Illusion]] (not to the degree of Makubex, but one of his favorite tricks is using a cloud of microscopic glass shards to create holograms of himself.)

* [[Shadow Archetype]] (He's this to Akabane; it's been specifically noted that he was put in white to contrast against Akabane's black. Played with {{spoiler|in the fact that while their appearances are different, their personalities are very similar}} also inverted {{spoiler|in that the "dark one" kills the "light one."}})

* [[Takahiro Sakurai]] (His voice)

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* [[Ax Crazy]]

* [[Disproportionate Retribution]] (His plans for revenge against Ban can definitely be seen as this - ripping the boy apart, "killing him over and over and over," slurping up his blood, violently murdering anyone that Ban pays attention to or likes, etc. Especially since he managed to get a perfectly fine replacement for his arm that works just as well as his old one.)

* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]] (''Anything'' he says to Ban. Screaming at Ban to "meet his throbbing desires," "give his body to him," "quench his thirst"... yeeaah.)

* [[Evil Tastes Good]] (He tends to say stuff like wanting Ban to "quench his thirst," and expresses a desire to "slurp up Ban's blood.")

* [[Foe Yay]] (He's the human incarnate of it.)

* [[Psycho for Hire]]

* [[Say My Name]] ('''MIDOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUU!!!!!''')

 

== Gen Radou ==

The cute waitress at the Honky Tonk.

 

* [[Genki Girl]]

* [[Flat Character]] (Personality-wise, there isn't much to say about her, except that she's happy and likes G&B.)

The other cute waitress at the Honky Tonk, formerly a pawn of Lucifer.

 

* [[Good Is Dumb]] (Remiel, the evil!Rena, could trap people's souls inside her dolls, and in fact did just that to the men who molested her. Good!Rena... believes shady street hustlers who say they are selling incredibly expensive mushrooms for half the price.)

* [[More Than Mind Control]] (She works with Lucifer because she wants to create a fairyland made up entirely of her dolls, because adults have utterly failed her.)

* [[Neutral Female]]

* [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity]] Nobody who touched Divine Design escaped unscathed, but Lucifer chose his archangels well, [[Harmful to Minors|drawing in children who'd been hurt or abused in some way because they'd be easier to manipulate.]]

 

* [[Bokukko]]

* [[Intimate Healing]]

 

== Dr. Amano ==