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This page lists the characters of ''[[Elfen Lied (Manga)|Elfen Lied]]'' and their associated tropes.
 
=== Lucy / {{spoiler|Kaede}} ===
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* [[Defrosting Ice Queen]]: Most of her arc in the anime. "Defrosting" also includes being slightly less murderous.
* [[Depraved Bisexual]]: Never throughly explained, however if Nyu means anything...
* [[The Determinator]]: {{spoiler|No matter how many people oppose her. She ''will'' find Kouta and she ''will'' apologize to him, and anyone who gets in her way will die. Horribly. Also, if your name is Kurama, don't ''ever'' let your loved ones near her. She will kill ''[[Revenge Byby Proxy|every last one of them]]''. And there's ''nothing'' you can do to stop her.}}
* [[Evil Sounds Deep]]: Lucy's voice is deep and quite ominous in comparison to Nyu's chirpy, childish, high-pitched voice.
* [[The Eeyore]]
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* [[Kill All Humans]]: If it wasn't for {{spoiler|Kouta}}. She would've done this ''long'' ago.
* [[Kick the Dog]]: She once tries to kill Mayu after Mayu saves her from being killed.
** [[Kick the Son of Aa Bitch]]: The [[Kids Are Cruel|cruel kids]] at the orphanage.
*** [[Kick the Morality Pet]]: Poor {{spoiler|Kanae}}...
* [[Limp and Livid]]: Quite a lot.
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* [[Love Makes You Evil]]: At first, but she does get better.
* [[Made of Iron]]: She survives taking an anti-tank slug to the head in the first episode. To be fair, though, the thing barely grazes her, she's wearing a helmet, and she has her vectors to protect her. She still does survive falling hundreds of feet off a cliff into the ocean without drowning immediately afterwards though.
* [[Magical Girlfriend]]: They can't all be [[Ah! My Goddess (Manga)|Belldandy]].
* [[Meaningful Name]]: Can be seen alternatively as a female version of Lucifer (the devil, which fits her role as an evil mass-murderer), and also sounds like "lucid," which could refer to Nyu only initially talking in full sentences when Lucy is at the wheel.
** Lucy is also the name of a [[wikipedia:Lucy chr(28)Australopithecuschr(29)|protohomonid skeleton]] with an upright gait and small brain capacity, suggesting a missing link between the great apes and modern humans. Lucy, being the first of her kind capable of "proper" reproduction, could also potentially serve as a missing link between humans and some future Diclonius race.
* [[Monster Progenitor]]: She's not the first diclonius by a long shot, but {{spoiler|her vectors are capable of spreading the diclonius condition to the gametes of humans she touches with them.}}
** And how can we forget that {{spoiler|She's the only fertile female of her species}}.
* {{spoiler|[[More Than Mind Control]]: Turns out Lucy, or rather [[Only Known Byby Their Nickname|Kaede]], was [[Driven to Murder]] in part, by the manipulations of a [[Complete Monster]], [[Omnicidal Maniac]] [[Split Personality]] within her (Born from either [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds|snapping]] [[Break the Cutie|at the constant abuse]], her own [[In the Blood|genetic drive]] to [[Kill All Humans]], or ''[[Take a Third Option|both]]'').}}
* [[Only Known Byby Their Nickname]]: {{spoiler|Most people seem to either not know or forget that "Lucy" isn't her real name. As revealed toward the end of the manga, "Lucy"'s real name is Kaede.}}
* [[Pay Evil Unto Evil]]: She's far more sadistic towards people who actually deserve it. She'll ''kill'' anyone, but she'll ''torture'' people like Bando half to death.
** That doesn't explain what she did to Nana and Manga!Mariko.
*** Then again, it was mostly [[Revenge Byby Proxy]] directed at Kurama, who isn't exactly the [[I Did What I Had to Do|nicest]] [[Anti-Hero|guy]] in the world.
* [[Perpetual Frowner]]: In stark contrast to Nyu. [[Slasher Smile|Exception]] are reserved for when everybody else is [[Made of Plasticine|unhappy]].
* [[Person of Mass Destruction]]: An order of magnitude more dangerous than the other diclonii, due to {{spoiler|being fertile}}.
** She also has the power to [[Earthshattering Kaboom|destroy the Earth]]. [[Superpower Meltdown|At the cost of her own life]]...
* [[Power Gives You Wings|Power Gives You Larger Horns]]: A [[New Powers Asas the Plot Demands|convenient power-up]] in the manga allowed her to {{spoiler|take down a helicopter and smash it onto Nosou and the Mariko clones.}}
* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]: In the anime. In the manga, they're [[Green Eyes|green]] according to the cover art.
* {{spoiler|[[Redemption Equals Death]]: In the manga; probably not in the anime.}}
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* [[Unstoppable Rage]]: About 90% of the time.
* [[Unusual Ears]]: Well, they're technically horns(?), but the principle is the same.
* [[Used to Be Aa Sweet Kid]]
* [[Weak but Skilled]]: She's actually not that powerful compared to some of the other diclonii; Nana has longer vectors and can hold her at bay, while Mariko is an outright nuke. Lucy is a ''far'' more experienced killer, and when Nana tries to go easy on her, Lucy [[Cold-Blooded Torture|rips her limbs off]].
** {{spoiler|Subverted in the end of the manga where her vectors can split islands and have a reach of at least hundreds of kilometers.}}
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** There's also when she hears about Lucy, she doesn't believe that the person she knew as Nyuu could be a sadistic killer and saves her during her 2nd fight with Bandou, after which Lucy tries to kill her.
* [[Does Not Like Men]] / [[Hates Being Touched]]: She follows this to a degree; {{spoiler|the manga implies that her traumatic experience with her stepfather has soured her on men in general, and finding Kouta in the bath groping Nyu doesn't help. Ironically, she appears to bond most closely with Bandou, who generally treats her like crap, except for when he saved her from the "Unknown Man".}}
* [[Rape Asas Drama]]: {{spoiler|She was sexually abused by her stepfather, and very nearly raped by the Unknown Man.}}
* [[The Runaway]]: A textbook Abused Runaway.
* [[Shrinking Violet]]
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* [[Redemption Equals Life]]: If you count simply ''being'' a Diclonius as a state in dire need of redemption, Nana definitely qualifies. She is one of the kindest characters in the series, meaning she ''staunchly'' rejects the inherent, ingrained desire to eradicate all humans. {{spoiler|She never takes a single life throughout both the anime and manga and is amply rewarded by being the ''only'' Diclonius to survive the manga.}}
* [[Seven Is Nana]]: Nana is Diclonius subject Number Seven.
* [[Too Incompetent to Operate Aa Blanket]]: raised in a lab, and thus, unable to even cut a cabbage with an ordinary knife.
* [[Took a Level In Badass]]
* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair|You Gotta Have Pink Hair]]
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* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: Manga exclusive, combined as it often is with a nice case of [[Dynamic Entry]].
* [[Blood Knight]].
* [[Character Development]]: Bando is probably the most [[Dynamic Character]] in the series. He goes from a borderline-[[Complete Monster]] who joins the SAT to legally [[Psycho for Hire|kill people]], to a [[Jerkass]] who will repay people who are in his debt, to finally, a [[Jerk Withwith a Heart of Gold]] and [[Jerkass Woobie]] who risks his life to stop the [[Complete Monster|Unknown Man]] from raping Mayu.
* [[The Combat Pragmatist]]
* [[Cool Shades]]: Very cool.
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* [[Flat What]]: His expression when {{spoiler|Lucy throws The Unknown Man's head at him}} is ''[[Black Comedy|price]][[Crowning Moment of Funny|less]]''.
* {{spoiler|[[Half the Man He Used To Be]]: Loses his lower half and his left arm (and his right one, though he lost it earlier, and It had been replaced with a cybernetic). He recovers, but with a cybernetic lower half (and arms).}}
* [[Hitman Withwith a Heart]]: Particularly in the manga.
* [[Jerkass]] -> [[Character Development]] -> [[Jerk Withwith a Heart of Gold]]: While he's a ''much'' bigger bastard than normal of the latter, he has his moments {{spoiler|mainly towards Mayu}}. It's perhaps better than nothing that Bandou is simply a [[Jerkass]] and not a [[Complete Monster]], given his behavior and the [[Humans Are Bastards|general treatment of most humans in this show]]!
* [[Large Ham]]
* [[Noble Demon]]
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* [[Equivalent Exchange]]: He believes that Kurama must trade {{spoiler|Mariko's life, which is Kurama's ''daughter''}} for working with him.
{{quote| ''A human has no more than two hands. To take something, one must drop what one's holding.''}}
* {{spoiler|[[Hoist Byby His Own Petard]]: Satisfyingly killed by Lucy in the manga.}}
* [[Karma Houdini]]: In the anime, in addition to barely getting any screen time, {{spoiler|he never faces a bit of danger and is free to gleefully continue his abhorrent research facility.}}
* [[Large and In Charge]]: According to the full-cast shot in the last chapter, he is taller than the rest of the cast by a notable amount.
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** [[Evil Is Hammy]]: ''Very hammy''.
* [[Macho Masochism]]
* [[Stalker Withwith a Test Tube]]: A rare male example.
* [[The Reveal]]: During his final confrontation with Lucy, it is made known that {{spoiler|his family were never true Diclonius, merely Humans with a minor genetic mutation who invented legends and eugenic myths to cope with the persecution they faced in medieval times.}} The strife he caused our heroes and the world takes on a whole new light.
* [[The Unfettered]]
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Also known as Number 35, she is a young Silpelit girl {{spoiler|who is the biological daughter of Kurama}}. She is regarded as the most powerful of the Diclonius, possessing 33 vectors each with an approximate range of 11 meters in the anime (the number and range is much higher in the manga).
 
After her mother's [[Death Byby Childbirth]] Mariko was imprisoned as an infant and raised inside a steel container with human contact consisting of nothing more than a scientist acting as a sort of foster mother through speakers and monitors. Her physical impairment is seen in her atrophied limbs as she moves around in a wheelchair. Despite the environment she was raised in, she is relatively well developed psychologically (for a given degree of "psychologically"), unlike Nana. She is extremely homicidal and sadistic, and enjoys torturing and dismembering her victims. However, her personality is not blatantly evil: she is only having fun, and the pleasure she gets from it is equivalent to a child playing with toys, not really noticing the differences.
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* [[Adaptation Dye Job]]: Averted/played with. Due to weird lighting, she seems to be blonde in the anime for most of her early appearance, but outside the funky sunset light ([[Fridge Logic|which would need to contain an enormous amount of dust to have that effect, by the way]]) she's got the classic Diclonius pink hair.
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* [[Chekhov's Gunman]]: Manga only. {{spoiler|She ends up finally creating the Diclonius vaccine.}}
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Again, manga only.
* [[Expy]]: YMMV, but she does bear a striking resemblance to [[Azumanga Daioh (Manga)|Yomi Mizuhara]].
* [[Hot Scientist]]
* [[Meganekko]]
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* [[Fan Nickname]]: For note, the above name is a ''fan'' term given to him. He never speaks his name, nor does anyone know his name.
* [[Laser-Guided Karma]]: Shortly after he tries to rape Mayu, Bandou comes in kicks his ass.
* {{spoiler|[[Karmic Death]] / [[Hoist Byby His Own Petard]]: During Lucy and Bandou's showdown, he tries to save Lucy from Bandou, and she responds by [[It Makes Sense in Context|popping off his head]] and [[Black Comedy|throwing it at Bandou]] since there was nothing else around for her to throw.}}
* [[Nice Hat]]: In tune with his "Alucard wanna-be" appereance.
* [[No Name Given]]: This arguably just makes him worse.
* [[Psycho for Hire]]: Less [[Large Ham|Hammy]] than Bando, but ''much'' more sadistic.
* [[Rape Asas Drama]]: Does this to Number 28, and tries (and comes terrifyingly close) to do it to Mayu (And probably would've done the same to Nana).
** It's also implied that he was allowed to rape many more Silpelits by the staff of the facility.
* [[The Sociopath]].
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* [[And I Must Scream]] / [[Fate Worse Than Death]] / [[Cruel and Unusual Death]]: Sweet mother of God... she has everything below her torso removed.
* [[Rape Asas Drama]]: Courtesy of the Unknown Man.
* [[The Voiceless]]: She doesn't get any spoken lines during her time as a whole person, {{spoiler|and afterward she ''can't'' speak because the Unknown Man ''ripped her vocal chords out''.}}
 
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