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{{quote|''"I've never seen anyone kick so much ass in my entire life."''|'''[[Innocent Bystander|Random Villager]]'''}}
On the [[Single Biome Planet|desert world]] of [[Meaningful Name|Gunsmoke]], outlaw and [[Honor Before Reason|absolute pacifist]] "Vash the Stampede" is being sought after by two young women: the tall, [[The Ditz|ditzy]] Milly and the tiny, [[Tsundere|short-tempered]] Meryl. They work for an insurance company that's getting bankrupted by all the [[Destructive Saviour|property damage caused by Vash]]: collateral from the ridiculous fights he tends to get into which result in his nickname of "[[Red Baron|The Humanoid Typhoon]]". The reason? Vash has a bounty of $$60,000,000,000 (sixty billion [[Global Currency|double-dollars]]) on his head, and every [[Bounty Hunter]] on Gunsmoke aims to collect in [[Zany Scheme|true Wile E. Coyote]] fashion.
Wacky hijinks ensue for a few episodes, then [[Cerebus Syndrome|the mood darkens]]. Lots of people die, in many cases slowly and horribly. Survivors discover new things about themselves. Personal growth takes place. There are hints of romance. [[It Got Worse|Mood gets still darker]]. For the eggheads out there, there is even a fair amount of analysis of certain aspects of Christian theology (though Jesus is never mentioned by name), as viewed from a very Japanese perspective, having to do with the contrast between pacifist ideals and the moral obligation some characters perceive to protect the innocent even if they must kill in order to do so.
In 2010, Yasuhiro Nightow started a modest series of new works for the Trigun universe in anticipation for the movie: '''''Trigun Badlands Rumble'''''. First it was a two-chapter story, going by the same name as the movie, drawn by Yasuhiro himself it serves as a preview for the movie. The second was a One-Shot, '''''Trigun: Rising''''', it is a short tale about Rai The Blade, one of the original Gung-Ho Guns, drawn by ''Yuusuke Takeyama''. The third, and final, was another One-Shot, entlied '''''Trigun: The Lost Plant''''', a story set 6 years after the original manga ending; it was drawn by ''Boichi'' and later published as an extra for the 12th Volume of his own series, [[Sun Ken Rock]].
[[Trigun/Characters|This series has a character sheet.]] Feel free to expand on it.
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An exceptionally thorough and entertaining analysis of the anime can be found [http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/ir/jo/in here]. The English dub was one of the flagship shows of [[Adult Swim]] (along with ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]'') and helped to set the mood that the sub-channel was simply for mature audiences and not necessarily "adult" audiences.
The show, formerly licensed in the US by Pioneer/Geneon and now licensed by Funimation, is on [http://www.youtube.com/show/trigun YouTube], [http://www.hulu.com/trigun Hulu], and [http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Trigun_The_Complete_Series/60030879?trkid=2361637 Netflix]{{Dead link}}.
{{tropelist}}
* [[Above the Ruins]]: Episode 2 utilizes this.
* [[The Ace]]: Vash ''just barely'' avoids fitting this trope ''thanks to'' the fact that he's actually [[Stepford Smiler|a completely traumatized individual]] with a borderline [[Split Personality]] and to the ideological ramifications of his "no killing" policy. (What if he had killed Monev before he went on a rampage? What if he had killed Knives after his [[Start of Darkness]]?)
** [[Broken Ace]]
* [[Action Girl]]: Dominique the Cyclops and a few others.
* [[Aerith and Bob]]: With names like Vash the Stampede, Legato Bluesummers, and Millions Knives... names like Meryl Strife and Millie Thompson don't exactly seem to fit.
** Averted. Strife: Battle; Conflict; War. Thompson: As in the Thompson sub-machine gun, the defining firearm of 1920s-'30s American gangsters.
** The whole world is a mess of Midvalleys and Brads, so not genuinely averted, even if the main cast gets a pass. And Nicholas D. Wolfwood manages to straddle the line with a perfectly normal [[Awesome McCoolname]].
** Their names are probably based off of Meryl Streep and Milly Tomlin (SP?) the actresses.
* [[An Aesop]]: Violence only creates more violence; non-violence is the key to solving conflicts (maybe); love thine enemy; [[He Who Fights Monsters]]; [[Green Aesop|nuclear power is bad]]; respect difference; in other words, [[Catch Phrase|LOVE AND PEACE!]]▼
* [[Aesoptinum]]{{context}}
* [[After the End]]: Just living on Gunsmoke in the first place. The fact that they wound up there after an attempt to escape a ruined Earth went wrong. And then in the manga Armageddon-via-Knives kinda comes and goes and the story carries on.
* [[Ain't Too Proud to Beg]]: Vash in an attempt to save Lina. He's also not too proud to strip naked and bark like a dog.
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** [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|And most importantly, alcohol makes you puke.]]
{{quote|'''Frank Marlon''': ...You drink too much.
'''Vash''': I'M SORRY! *
* [[And Now for Someone Completely Different]]: ''Trigun The Lost Plant'', introduces Verona Tsubasa, a woman following Vash around on search for the titular lost plant; {{spoiler|the setting is placed six years later the original manga ending, Verona is the real focus of the story, Vash is just kind of there, and no other characters make a return, in fact, they are not even mentioned}}.
▲* [[An Aesop]]: Violence only creates more violence; non-violence is the key to solving conflicts (maybe); love thine enemy; [[He Who Fights Monsters]]; [[Green Aesop|nuclear power is bad]]; respect difference; in other words, [[Catch Phrase|LOVE AND PEACE!]]
* [[And the Adventure Continues...]]: Manga ending falls somewhere between here and [[Here We Go Again]].
▲* [[And Now for Someone Completely Different]]: ''Trigun The Lost Plant'', introduces Verona Tsubasa, a woman following Vash around on search for the titular lost plant; {{spoiler|the setting is placed six years later the original manga ending, Verona is the real focus of the story, Vash is just kind of there, and no other characters make a return, in fact, they are not even mentioned}}.
▲* [[And the Adventure Continues...]]: Manga ending falls somewhere between here and [[Here We Go Again]]. {{spoiler|Since the Knives situation has been resolved, Vash is free to enjoy his wandering life more, but the gag of Meryl and Millie becoming [[Paparazzi|TV reporters hired to chase him around]] is kinda out there, and worse than insurance by a long way.}}
* [[Anti-Hero]]: Wolfwood; Livio.
* [[Apocalypse How]]:
* [[Are We There Yet?]]: Towards the start of episode 15.
* [[Armor-Piercing Slap]]: Vash gets one in episode 19.
* [[The Atoner]]: Vash; Wolfwood.
* [[Author Appeal]]: All the elaborate cowboy-like outfits and uniforms with all sorts of useless straps and buttons, huge collars etc. Also present in Nightow's other work, ''[[Gungrave]]''. [http://www.animefringe.com/magazine/02.10/feature/4/1.jpg See] [http://media.animegalleries.net/albums/userpics/37811/Gungrave_image1.jpg for yourself].
* [[Averse Adept]]: The first few episodes of ''Trigun'' show that Vash the Stampede is good at defeating armies and handling villains. He also hates being a [[Person of Mass Destruction]] owing to the harm it causes, which is why he keeps traveling a lot.
* [[Awesome McCoolname]]: Brilliant Dynamites Neon.
** Nicholas D. Wolfwood.
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* [[Berserk Button]]: Vash snaps if he witnesses mass murders or if he gets [[Mind Rape|mind raped]]; Knives snaps even harder than usual if Vash contradicts him; and Vash must be Meryl and Brad's [[Berserk Button]]...
** [[Mind Rape]] counts as a specific berserk button now?
* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: Vash.
* [[Beware the Superman]]: What everyone tends to think of first when they start to understand just how ''special'' Vash is.
** Wolfwood even has a [[Paranoia Fuel|disturbing yet awesome]] moment in ''Maximum'' where they're hanging out and brooding together, and he seriously considers shooting Vash (by this time firmly established as his best friend) in the back right then and there, just to get at least ''one'' of the twins out of the way. [[It Was His Sled|He doesn't,]] but Vash gives him a sad, knowing look later and Wolfwood sort of smirks and thinks, 'who am I kidding? He knew exactly what I was thinking, and he would have survived.'
* [[BFG]]: The Cross Punishers and Angel Arms are the cream of the crop.
** Or at least they would be, until Caine the Longshot's '''hundred foot long sniper rifle''' is taken into consideration.
** One of the bounty hunters in the first episode has a gun that takes the cake for sheer impracticality: a two-barreled rifle, each barrel having its own long clip. In firing it looks like a propeller.
** Don't forget the huge starship gun Chronica tries to blast Knives with.
* [[Bifauxnen]]: Though the voice and the name are clear giveaways, some people (i.e. viewers/readers) tend to doubt Milly is a woman when they first see her.
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* [[Bloodless Carnage]]
* [[Body Horror]]: Vash's body is ''interesting''; involves a generous helping of [[Transformation Trauma]].
** After he finally starts to learn how to use this (traumatically), the first time his
* [[Boomerang Bigot]]: Done seriously with [[The Dragon|Legato]]. He was at least born human (prior to getting a ton of modifications), but is an [[Omnicidal Maniac]] who wants to kill all humans and anxiously awaits the day when his own boss will kill him.
** There is no evidence Legato was
** He could very well have been modded in childhood by the people he hated so much at the place where they were keeping him. At any rate they paid him more careful attention than your average boy whore, worked out he was planning to kill them all, and the simplest explanation for how they were able to use the method they did for killing him is that they developed the cancellation technology from the coin-box, and were using it. Given Legato couldn't stop his death-by-rape but after the building got sliced up a bit could brain-hack ''Knives'' enough to stay alive.
* [[Bounty Hunter]]
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* [[Bring My Red Jacket]]: Arguably the reason for the color of Vash's trademark coat. Debatable: in the anime at least, Vash inner-monologues about Rem and her love of red flowers while the camera pans over his coat.
* [[But Now I Must Go]]: Vash, the initial premise being informed by just the type of Western that codified the trope.
* [[But Your Wings Are Beautiful]]: Averted. Knives has people around him who think his [[Freaky Is Cool|freakiness is pretty damn awesome]], but so does he. Vash could do with hearing this, but no one can actually bring themselves to say it. [[Averted Trope|His wings freak them out way too much.]] In fairness, they are pretty terrifying wings.
** (Manga) Meryl is so badly traumatized by the situation in which she first sees them that she burrows into Millie's arms and screams, the next time he reflexively puts up a feather to catch a bullet. 'Colorless Emotions' is a depressing chapter all round.
* [[Cain and Abel]]
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* [[Casanova Wannabe]]: Anime Vash.
* [[Cast From Lifespan]]: Vash's Angel-arm is ridiculously powerful, but every shot costs him life energy and shortens his lifespan.
* [[Cast Full of Pretty Boys]]: In the manga, at least; the only seriously recurring women are Meryl and Millie, who are absent for at least half the story and fairly useless most of the time, and eventually Elendira, who is m-t-f
** Dominique is the only actual female antagonist, and she had only one trick and didn't last long.
* [[Catch Phrase]]: "Love and peace~!"
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** Vash during the first episode.
* [[Cattle Punk]]: A prime example, although Nightow chose to make his setting ''so'' desert there is no space for any actual herdbeasts. They aren't actually compulsory despite the name.
* [[Cerebus Syndrome]]: The manga, at least, had 'moved from shounen to seinen title partway through' to blame for Nightow holding back and then cutting loose.
** The anime just held the plot until halfway through, till they'd established the world and its people. This was probably a good idea. It would be hard to care half so much for what happens once the bad times start if one didn't already have a connection to the people involved.
* [[Character Exaggeration]]: Manga Vash may do just anything he can to be silly, he doesn't harass ladies 'for the lulz'. Anime Vash becomes a [[Casanova Wannabe]].
* [[Charge Into Combat Cut]]: In the opening scene of the first episode after an armed gang demolishes a bar that Vash was drinking in, he slowly stands up after finishing drink, adjusts his glasses and points his gun at the gang... cue a cut to another town, in which the insurance adjusters on Van's trail are introduced.
**
* [[Chaste Hero]]: Vash, possibly due to Yasuhiro Nightow's Christian overtones. (He's a Roman Catholic... and Japanese!)
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]:
* [[The Chessmaster]]: Knives. Steps up his game after the Last Run disaster reveals that he's actually mortal and just can't play around forever.
* [[Chivalrous Pervert]]: Vash, in the anime. In the manga, he's more of a [[Chaste Hero]].
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** He doesn't exist in the manga. He's instead of [[Villainous Crossdresser|Elendira]].
* [[Compensating for Something]]: In volume seven Knives attempts to...[[Squick|fuse with]] Vash and let him survive as part of Knives when he accepts that his brother is never going to come around. Only, as Legato has already noticed, Vash has more raw power at his disposal, and almost overwhelms him. Knives does not like this. He then fuses with every other plant on the planet and becomes the controlling consciousness of a [[Body Horror|vast collective entity that sprawls across the sky with a thousand wings]].
* [[Confessional]]: Wolfwood even sells confessions despite probably being a Protestant priest.
** 'Protestant priest' means Anglican or Episcopalian, pretty much. Both of which practice confession. Most sects that abolished confession also abolished priests, as such, and most sacraments, since they're something of a package deal and distrust of priestly corruption and its impact on the efficacy of sacerdotal endeavor was a major article of reformist heresy and eventually the Reformation. Wolfwood seems to be some kind of [[Recycled in Space|Space Episcopalian]].
*** Though apparently, inasmuch as he was ordained at all it was through the Eye of Michael, who are purportedly an assassin ring fused with an underground ''plant worshiping cult
* [[Conservation of Ninjitsu]]: With gunfighters in place of ninjas.
* [[Cool Mask]]: Vash. The 'little round glasses' variant. In the manga, Livio.
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* [[Cool Starship]]
* [[Couldn't Find a Lighter]]: At a shooting competition, one contestant can be seen lighting his cigarette with a submachine gun.
* [[Covered with Scars]]: Vash. The girls walk in on him after a shower.
** He's a plant. Plants don't heal, they just grow back. The metal is keeping him in one piece.
** He isn't that kind of plant. Also, citation needed. Vash heals normal wounds like a cut to the head, and whatever restorative procedure Knives was going through before he came out pulling his Lady Godiva....
* [[Crapsack World]]: The world is full of gunslingers. Shootouts and property damage seem to be the norm. The planet itself is a desert and the competition for scarce natural resources is definitely bringing out the worst in people. The fear of the Humanoid Typhoon hangs over every town. Death is never far away.
* [[Creepy Cool Crosses]]: Wolfwood, duh. His main weapon looks like a giant cross with a gun handle in its middle. The elongated bottom spoke conceals a machine gun, the top spoke above it holds a rocket launcher, and the two side spokes slide outwards to reveal racks for about a dozen pistols. The anime also has Chapel the Evergreen of the Gung-Ho Guns, who also carries a giant cross, though his
** Man: "Whoa, this is HEAVY!" Wolfwood: "That's because it's full of mercy."
* [[Cross-Popping Veins]]
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* [[Desert Punk]]
* [[Despair Event Horizon]]: As it is set in a [[Crapsack World]] heavy on [[Rule of Drama]] and one of its major questions is whether idealism has any real meaning...so many characters, all the time. Especially in backstories, but the 'eternal suffering to Vash the Stampede' gives us a couple heroic ones in the main timeline. Meryl and Millie are actually ''notable'' for never falling to this point, in either version. (In fact, the odds of things ''not'' going completely to shit increase significantly in their presence. Too bad the guys never notice.)
** Especially notable is the one Vash and Knives had when they were a year old. Their reactions were actually relatively
* [[Despair Gambit]]: Knives' main plan with regard to Vash. In the anime, this ultimately pushes him into a [[Heroic BSOD]].
* [[Destructive Saviour]]: Vash is called the "Humanoid Typhoon" for a reason, and while he doesn't ''like'' people's homes and so one being wrecked, the only [[Collateral Damage]] that's ''really'' important to him is human life. He's willing to die for you, but not for your car.
** The dark side of this, as it were, comes up in the anime: apparently his wish to not kill anyone affected the Angel Arm enough when Knives set it off in July that he managed to wreck an entire city without directly killing ''anybody''. But now they were a city full of refugees in the middle of a desert...
* [[Determined Expression]]: Vash looks like this whenever he drops his facade of idiocy and decides to get serious. Only to be expected from a man whose byword is determination.
* [[Deus Exit Machina]]: In the chapters where Meryl and Millie are protecting the oasis owned by the old couple, Vash is almost entirely absent. The plot instead focuses on giving us a better idea of who the insurance girls are. Vash even lampshades it at one point when he pops out to make a single assist. The camera then pans away and he says ''"Hey that was it? That was my turn?"''
* [[Devil in Plain Sight]]: Legato out to lunch in a bar or having a sandwich on a village plaza; in the manga, Knives hanging around in bars before freakin' killing everybody, in Midvalley's memories.
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** A truly Western concept? What about [[wikipedia:Hanakotoba|Hanakotoba]]?
** But he wasn't using Hanakobata. Was he?
** Victorian Language of Flowers is actually a pretty popular idea in Japan, inasmuch as you can consider anything that marginal popular. There's a mini-fetish for the whole Victorian motif,
* [[Died Standing Up|Died Kneeling Before An Altar]]: Anime {{spoiler|Wolfwood.}}
* [[Die Hard on an X|Die Hard on a futuristic sand-train thing
* [[Disaster Scavengers]]
* [[The Ditz]]: Vash, [[Obfuscating Stupidity|or so it seems...]]
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* [[Dysfunction Junction]]: Oh boy...
* [[Earn Your Happy Ending]]: Both versions, particularly the manga.
* [[Enfant Terrible]]: Young Knives.
* [[Environmental Symbolism]]
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: Neon sticks to what he says and REALLY likes it when someone "sparkles" brightly. he outright refuses to kill Vash despite he and Vash being in a gun duel where Vash is wounded pretty badly. He even helps stop the massacre he STARTED because he agreed to do whatever Vash said if Vash won their duel.
* [[Even the Guys Want Him]]: Legato.
* [[Evil Counterpart]]: Knives to Vash; Livio to Wolfwood might be a case, if you believe [[Yandere|Wolfwood]] can have an [[Evil Counterpart]].
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* [[Evolving Credits]]: Each episode's opening (except for episode 2) shows a couple of scenes from that episode. Starting in episode 18, the wanted poster also changes to one warning people that Vash is coming.
* [[Exactly What I Aimed At]]
* [[Explosive Overclocking]]: {{spoiler|Wolfwood after taking two vials of serum.}} He regenerates almost instantly from almost any wound, but burns out his life and dies shortly afterwards.
* [[Expy]]: Knives has been accused of being a [[Dragon Ball|Vegeta]]
** Monev the Gale is very intentionally a Venom expy.
* [[Eye Scream]]: In the manga, Zazie's flies crawl in and out of his eyes. Midvalley's horn playing also seems to make eyes bleed/explode.
* [[Face Heel Turn]]
* [[The Faceless]]: Knives during most of the first ''Trigun'' manga and almost all the anime. Even when he does show up at the end of the first manga, much of his face is hidden by a mass of improbable curly
* [[Fan Disservice]]: Legato in the manga... *shiver*
* [[Fan Service]]: Lots of eye candy if you love big muscles.
** Or long legs. Or glowering.
* [[Fantastic Measurement System]]: Distances are measured in "iles" and "yarz," although it's never made clear whether those are actually miles and yards with letters removed and different spellings, or something different.
* [[Fearful Symmetry]]: [[Evil Counterpart|Vash and Knives]] in the anime. Very strange and gratuitous because it's extremely unlikely Knives would have the same gunfighting training and
* [[The Fettered]]: Vash. Source of his philosophical dispute with Wolfwood; arguably the same with Knives; Knives is just much further on the other end of the scale.
* [[Fill It With Flowers]]: Being a desert planet, the setting touches on this a lot, but especially in the episode "Little Arcadia".
* [[Four
* [[Freak-Out]]
* [[Freudian Excuse]]: Most of the villains and even some of the 'good guys'.
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* [[Friend to All Children]]: Vash. Playing with children is one of his many activities whenever he stays in one place more than a few hours, and if he stays more than a few days the local kids will all consider him their personal minion. Wolfwood doesn't play with them quite so much, but they're an even bigger part of his world.
* [[Full-Frontal Assault]]: Knives.
* [[Gallows Humour]]: The
* [[Gecko Ending]]: The
* [[A Glass of Chianti]]: Knives in the anime.
* [[The Gloves Come Off]]: Happens to Vash when he's forced to {{spoiler|kill Legato}} in order to save Millie and Meryl. Unusually for the trope, the act itself is rather understated.
* [[Glowing Eyes of Doom]]: Vash in
** Vash also happens to be the page picture for this trope.
* [[A God Am I]]: Knives's megalomaniac tendencies and belief that he is a kind of noble crusader or even a kind of Jesus figure. Then [[It Got Worse|it gets worse]].
* [[Go Mad
* [[Gonk]]: The vast majority of antagonist characters are either that or [[Mr. Fanservice]].
** Also a lot of the background characters.
* [[Good Costume Switch]]: Livio.
* [[Good Feels Good]]: Vash, obviously. The show also underlines that even though it may ''seem'' so, [[Evil Feels Good|evil]] ''[[Evil Feels Good|doesn't]]'' [[Evil Feels Good|feel good]]: Legato is suicidal, Knives seems to have a chronic nervous breakdown, [[Villainous Breakdown
* [[Good Scars, Evil Scars]]
* [[Good Thing You Can Heal]]: Wolfwood, Livio (in the manga) and Knives. Vash has the power but refuses.
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** The whiskey labels are very faithful reproductions of actual brands.
* [[Gratuitous Foreign Language]]:
** Vash occasionally utters a few words in French, crying for his "maman" and greeting his food with "Bonjour! Je t'aime!"
*** [[Hilarious in Hindsight]]: [[Masaya Onosaka]] later got rather well known as ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia|Hetalia]]'''s France.
** "Danke, danke!"
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* [[Gun Fu]]: Vash vs. Knives in the anime and Wolfwood vs. Midvalley in the manga seem lifted directly from a John Woo flick.
* [[The Gunslinger]]
* [[Gut Punch]]: Legato's introduction.
* [[The Gwen Stacy]]: Rem is Vash's. Except his foster mom.
* [[Hacker Cave]]: You wouldn't think manga Knives is a tech geek. Oh wait, he's actually ''made'' of tech geek material.
* [[Hair of Gold]]: Vash is a male example.
* [[Hannibal Lecture]]
* [[Heartbroken Badass]]: Vash.
* [[The Heartless]]: The manga heavily implies that Knives and to a lesser extent Legato function symbolically as [[The Heartless]].
* [[Heel Face Turn]]
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* [[Hero with Bad Publicity]]: Vash, so very, very much.
* [[Hidden Eyes]]: The manga contains quite a few variations on this, including [[Scary Shiny Glasses]].
* [[Hive Mind]]: Apparently
* [[Hope Spot]]: {{spoiler|In episode 21 of the anime, Vash looks like he's about to revive a wounded plant and save the ship...just when Hoppered regains consciousness and destroys the plant with a suicidal [[Last Breath Bullet]].}}
* [[Hot-Blooded]]
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* [[Huge Guy, Tiny Girl]]: Being at least two times taller than Meryl, Vash really has to bow down when he wants to hug her. That or he hoists her up.
* [[Human Popsicle]]
* [[Humans Are
* [[I Have Many Names]]: Vash only ever gives 'Vash' if actually pressed into introducing himself <ref>except that one time when he met Wolfwood and said he was Valentinez Alkalanela Zeehok Sushira Boheres Gombigonela Blue Stradavari Tralentent Pierre Andre Charlatenhemost I'vanovitchi Baldos George Doitzel Kaiser the Third</ref> but he's also 'The Stampede,' [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|'The Humanoid Typhoon,' 'The Demon of July,' 'The Walking Disaster,' 'God's Armed Arm,' 'The First Human Act of God,']] and [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|Broom-head.]] And Spiky.
** Oh, and Eriks. That one time when he [[Ten-Minute Retirement|finally gave up]].
** Nicholas D. Wolfwood is also Nicholas the Punisher. And
* [["I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight]]: Vash does this pretty much every time he meets Knives in the manga; from Knives's perspective, ''he'' must be the one doing it to Vash, which brings once again the question of whether the twins are by "nature" peace-loving or mindlessly violent.
** Given their silent sisters appear to all be sweethearts, although easily influenced, Vash appears to have a leg up in this argument. Chronica, meanwhile, has a bit of a temper and apparently a rather military mindset, vaguely like a sane Knives, while Domina is sweet and spunky.
* [[Implausible Fencing Powers]]: Rai-Dei the Blade can block bullets.
* [[Impossibly Cool Clothes]]: Also note than in the Trigun ''verse'', nothing is cooler than a coat with the bottom part torn apart by dozens and dozens of bullets. With [[Scary Shiny Glasses]], fuck yeaaaah!
* [[Improbable Aiming Skills]]: A must for any [[Technical Pacifist]] operating as a gunslinger. Vash almost invariably hits what he aims at, no matter how absurd the shot, though a combination of rigorous training and superhuman potential count for a lot. On one occasion a terrible hangover made him reflexively hit all the targets in a
** In the same episode, he throws pebbles from the sidelines to knock bullets askew and make sure all wounds are nonfatal during other people's duels. And moves so fast no one notices. Kind of disappointing after that that he was never reduced to 'throwing stones' as a combat technique.
** In another, he concusses an opponent by flinging the bullets out the back of his gun, and blocks the hammer of another guy's gun with the bubblegum he had been chewing, apparently ''at range
** On the other hand, on one occasion his response to an ambush netted one accidental potentially-fatal blow somewhere on the abdomen, so he interrupts his role as John McClane in a [[Die Hard on an X]] episode to staunch the enemy's bleeding in alarm, to the consternation of his young ally. So he's not infallible or anything.
* [[Improbable Weapon User]]: Played straight (?) with Midvalley, whose saxophone is actually pretty sinister in the manga. Also, the deadliness of [[Creepy Cool Crosses]] is directly proportional to their size and [[Freud Was Right|probably inversely proportional to the size of your penis]].
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* [[It Got Worse]]: Everything does. Also, the apocalypse kinda comes and goes during the manga. Story proceeds.
* [[It's Personal]]: Vash's conflict with Knives becomes personal very early; his feud with Legato soon becomes this too, with Vash announcing loudly "From now on, YOU are the hunted!"
* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]: Nicholas D. Wolfwood. The manga never quite explains why his [[True Companions]] inflict it upon themselves to put up with him in the first place, knowing that he never uses [[Honorifics]] and expresses his affection by distributing humiliating nicknames ("Tongari / Spikey
** From the anime.
{{quote|Millie (flashback): "It's bad for the baby, dear!" ([[It Makes Sense in Context]]).
Wolfwood (present): "I'm sorry, honey."
* [[Kill All Humans]]
* [[Killed Off for Real]]
* [[Klingon Promotion]]: How
* [[Knife Nut]]: Especially in the manga. Vash's special boot-knife is neat, too.
* [[Knight of Cerebus]]: Legato.
* [[Knight Templar Big Brother]]: Knives is a big brother complex gone ''horribly wrong''. He's pretty much of a [[Yandere]] over Vash, with huge emphasis on the "Yan
* [[The Lancer]]: Wolfwood.
* [[Large Ham]]: Lazlo; Legato; Wolfwood; Knives very often; Vash, in quite a different style.
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* [[Lower Deck Episode]]
* [[Made of Iron]]
* [[The Magnificent]]: Most major characters have one of these. Whether the name was earned by exploits or assigned as part of [[Theme Naming]] by employers etc. seems to vary. At least one was inherited via [[Klingon Promotion]]. Meryl and Millie shake up the trend by having nommes de guerre that come ''before'' their proper names and do not involve prepositions.<ref>
** [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Vash the Stampede, the Humanoid Typhoon. Destroyer of July. God's Right Hand of Destruction.]]
** Monev the Gale.
** Nicholas the Punisher
** Midvalley the Hornfreak.
** Chapel the Evergreen has great rhythm but doesn't do the scary thing that well, either.
** Livio the Double Fang and [[Ax Crazy|Razlo]] the [[Up to Eleven|Tri-Punisher of Death]] help make up the Eye of Michael's scary name quotient.
** Elendria the Crimson Nail. ''All'' Gung-Ho Guns have these. Unclear whether this is Knives' taste or Legato's, considering the level of delegation and that neither of them has one.
* [[A Man Is Not a Virgin]]: Subverted ''hard'' by Vash, especially in the manga (though his <s>sexual harassment</s> excruciatingly inept flirting with ladies in the anime can be seen as a sign of sexual frustration). He fakes being passed out in order to avoid the "favours" of already-paid-for-by-jovial-benefactor prostitutes, spends an inordinate amount of his free time thinking about his dead mother figure, doesn't want any woman to see his scars and avoids any kind of romantic or sexual relationship, be it with Luida, Meryl or Jessica. He may have had sex before, but his scars and the fact that Knives's henchmen endanger everybody close to him probably prevent him from doing so. As for manga Nicholas, the [[Omake|gag covers]] suggest he has a scandalous love affair with... a blow-up doll!? Make of it what you will.
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* [[Mayfly-December Romance]]: ''Anyone'' Vash could hypothetically hook up with would be about a hundred years younger than him, and he'd still probably outlive them. Except...[[Squick|his twin brother]]? And potentially that plant woman Chronica in the manga? A major factor in his status as [[Chaste Hero]], since he's the emotional type.
** Applies to Knives, too, except he really doesn't care.
* [[Meaningful Name]]: Rem can be translated to
** Legato named himself. Presumably he meant something by it. It will forever be a mystery what.
* [[Megaton Punch]]
* [[The Messiah]]: Vash borders on this towards the end of the manga.
** He borders on this ''all the time
** He gets it from his mother figure, Rem, who died to save everybody during the crash landing.
* [[Messianic Archetype]]
* [[Mexican Standoff]]: Happens a few times throughout the anime and manga, but by far the most over the top one occurs in Volume 5 in the manga.
* [[Mismatched Eyes]]: Livio, sort of.
* [[Mistaken Identity]]: A bit of a running gag early in the anime. Due to there being no proper pictures of Vash, just a vague description, people with a red coat, blond hair, and a big weapon become mistaken for Vash. It gets to the point that two guys even ''mistake each other'' for Vash.
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* [[The Movie]]: [[And the Fandom Rejoiced]].
* [[Mr. Fanservice]]: A few characters fit this trope, but Wolfwood is practically the archetype. Too bad his only mate is an inflatable doll, as the [[Omake|gag covers]] suggest.
** Anime Wolfwood
* [[Murder, Inc.]]: The Eye of Michael. Bonus points for the [[Ancient Conspiracy]] undertones.
* [[Must Make Amends]]: In the Trigun manga, Young Vash and Knives discover that {{spoiler|there was another sentient plant called Tesla}} like them before and worse, they made several experiments with her and in the end lead to her death. The problem is that their surrogate mother was one of the researchers from the experiment. Knives after facing the truth, fell in a coma and Vash simply refused to eat. In an attempt to make him eat,Rem started peeling a fruit, Vash leapt for the knife in what was almost certainly a suicide attempt, but wound up stabbing Rem in the side when she put up a struggle for it. At first he [[Slasher Smile|seemed relieved]] but quickly started panicking and put her to bed in a med-birth and patched her up.
* [[My Death Is Just the Beginning]]:
* [[My God, What Have I Done?]]: Vash.
* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: Millions Knives.
** Legato Bluesummers, on the other hand, just carries an air of faint menace.
** Most of Vash's nicknames count: the Human Typhoon, the Demon of July, the First Human Act of God, etc. etc.
* [[A Nazi by Any Other Name]]: Knives is an Aryan on steroids who rants about being a "superior breed"; Legato has his own particular brand of [[Nietzsche Wannabe|Nietzschean philosophy]]; genocides involving high technologies.
* [[Never Found the Body]]: In the movie, {{spoiler|after Vash gets shot by one of Gasback's henchman.}} However, [[Like You Would Really Do It|nobody in the audience would believe it]], especially on the basis of ''canon'' and all...
* [[Nietzsche Wannabe]]: Several characters, but Legato practically ''defines'' the trope.
* [[Nonchalant Dodge]]: Vash does this a lot.
* [[No Romantic Resolution]]: In the anime, the relationship between
* [[Nun-Too-Holy]]: Wolfwood is the male version, obviously.
{{quote|'''Vash:''' What the hell kind of churchman are you, anyway?!}}
** The most extreme interpretation of his position in the anime is, as described on the main [[Nun-Too-Holy]] page, ''
* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]: Practically the definition of the trope. Vash didn't even fire his gun ''once'' until the end of the fifth episode, surviving the previous episodes by making it look like dumb luck. Another early episode had him rocking out on his headphones and going into a bar seemingly ignorant of the current hostage situation, but carefully and methodically diffused the situation all while seemingly harmless.
** This episode was based on an early one-shot chapter written in the process of developing the character, which has differences and is not actually in the manga continuity.
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* [[Once an Episode]]: Appearances from Kuroneko-sama.
* [[One-Winged Angel]]: Manga only, but it was [[Cosmic Horror|pretty awesome]].
* [[Older Than They Look]]: Vash looks like that he's around 27,
* [[Only Six Faces]]: All the non-[[Gonk]] characters must have only ''four'' faces or something. So much in Nightow's work that most "Kekkai Sensen" characters look like ''
** Anime Vash and Knives have moderately different coloring. Some of the manga scenes are almost incomprehensible at first or second look, especially if both of them are in it and there are a lot of sound effects.
*** This looks intentional in the flashback to the twins as
* [[Orcus on His Throne]]: Knives. Less than totally ridiculous example since Knives' only deadline is his and his sisters' lives expiring, which he starts moving pretty promptly after he learns about, and his only threat is his brother trying to pose one. Which he likes Vash doing. And which Vash is pretty bad at.
* [[Pals with Jesus]]
* [[Papa Wolf]]: Wolfwood, for any child he happens to encounter at all. Made his anime
* [[Parental Abandonment]]: Most of the cast are either abandoned or orphaned; some even killed [[Oedipus Rex|a father figure]] or mother figure as a result of abuse or insanity...
** Manga Legato gets triple points.
*** Was tortured by, was plotting to kill, was being killed by, swore self into service to being who killed them for him out of gratitude...quadruple, I'd say.
* [[Pastel-Chalked Freeze-Frame]]: Wolfwood in
* [[Person of Mass Destruction]]: Vash is classified as a '''Human Act of God'''.
** For insurance purposes. For some reason this also causes the bounty to be taken off his head. Gunsmoke must have some ''weird'' torte law.
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* [[Razor Wings]]: One of Knives' powers is part of his body turning into feathers which are monomolecular blades.
* [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]]: Interestingly, some other characters are [[Younger Than They Look]] in the manga.
* [[Reckless Pacifist]]: Vash.
* [[Recurring Extra]]: Kuroneko-sama
* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: Vash vs. Wolfwood; Vash vs. Legato; Vash vs. Knives is a more complex case, as Knives is the more cerebral one but also the more impulsive and violent. In all these cases, it's often reflected in their clothing and/or background colours, though Knives often appears in red
* [[The Reveal]]: Vash is {{spoiler|an [[Artificial Human]]}}! Knives is {{spoiler|his [[Evil Twin]]}}! The Gung-ho Guns' coins are
* [[The Revolution Will Not Be Vilified]]: When [[La Résistance]] is made out of trauma-fueled genocidal psychos and a massively oppressed species.
* [[Revolvers Are Just Better]]
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** The name "Wolfwood" (Urufuudo) is an allusion to a Japanese band called "The Ulfuls" (Urufuuruzu) and the character in question is designed after their singer.
** Many to American popular culture. Includes such gems as "double dollars", country-style music, and countless loans from western movies and American comics, noticeable both in plot elements and graphic references.
** Often in chapter titles, such as the one to [[Quentin Tarantino]] in the chapter "Reservoir Dogs
** Tessla probably alludes to [[wikipedia:Nikola Tesla|a certain Serbian inventor and engineer]], himself [[wikipedia:The Five Fists of Science|a glorious Steampunk hero]] (click if you dare). (Alternately, she might be named after [[wikipedia:Tesla Motors|one of the companies named after Nikola Tesla]].)
** The [[Gun Fu]] battles may be [[Shout-Out|shout outs]] to John Woo.
** Monev's name and costume are a [[Shout-Out]] to Venom from Marvel.
** Vash seems to be riding a wheeled [[Last Exile|Vanship]] during the trailer for ''Badlands Rumble''.
** Blink-and-you'll-miss-it one in the very last episode. The photo shown for
* [[Sibling Yin-Yang]]
* [[Single Biome Planet]]: [[Fridge Brilliance|Although, with the twin-suns, is it any surprise it's a desert world?]]
[[Pretty Butterflies]].
* [[Sinister Shades]]:
* [[Slap Yourself Awake]]: In a variant, Vash concentrates on the pain from his previously injured finger to counteract a villain who uses hypnosis to paralyze people.
* [[Slasher Smile]]: Knives; Legato; manga Wolfwood; Livio; Lazlo; Elendira.
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* [[Slipped the Ropes]]: Vash once slides out of ropes to protect a young woman from bandits. Said bandits catch him before he can get back into them... the second time.
* [[Slouch of Villainy]]: Manga Knives, generally with a hand over his eyes of forehead to show he's Full of Upset.
** He [[Slasher Smile|grinned]] while doing this at the flashback to Midvalley's concert
* [[Small Girl, Big Gun]]: The girl in this case (Milly) isn't exactly small; it's just that her gun is just that big. Meryl is an interesting variation, as her guns are tiny but so numerous she must be carrying her weight in derringers.
* [[Space Western]]: And the soundtrack reflects this extremely well.
* [[Spell My Name with an "S"]]: Lazlo/Razlo is a noteworthy and oddly controversial example. Also note Livio de Pupe (?), Chronica/Cronica/Kronika, Revnunt/Revnant Buskus/Buskuz/Vasquez, Tesla/Tessla, Kaito/Kite, and the names of several cities.
** Rem is a particularly confusing example. Rem or Lem? Seibrem, Saverem, or Seiburem? It doesn't help that the manga lists her name as "Rem Seibrem" while the anime lists it as "Rem Saverem
* Squick: In the manga, when Zazie the Beast pulls a worm out of her crotch.
* [[Start of Darkness]]
* [[Steampunk]]: Even though it takes place in the future.
* [[Stepford Smiler]]
* [[Stop or I Shoot Myself]]: Wolfwood seems to do this, to provide a visual example on how someone's chosen action will lead to the death of hundreds. It is quickly revealed however, that he never intended to put himself in any danger, and was using an empty clip.
** There's a chilling scene in the manga, on the other hand, where to prove how serious he is, Wolfwood holds Vash's (loaded) gun to his own forehead while it's still in Vash's hand and demands, '''''shoot'''''. Saying if he could trigger a willingness to do what's necessary and keep moving in Vash, that would be completely worth his life.
* [[Strike Me Down with All of Your Hatred]]:
* [[Stuff Blowing Up]]: The reason why everyone runs Vash out of town.
* [[Sufficiently Advanced Alien]]: Vash and Knives are technically ''not'' alien lifeforms, but there are strong suggestions of this trope, especially in the anime since
* [[Suicide by Cop]]: None literally, since there is almost nothing by way of law enforcement on Gunsmoke. However, this is part of the modus operandi of several of the Gung-Ho Guns, especially {{spoiler|Legato.}}
** In the anime, this is also an interpretation for Vash's complete failure to say a word or make a move in his own defense while being lynched by the town that recognizes him as the Stampede, in the episode after
* [[Super-Deformed]]
* [[Super-Powered Evil Side]]:
* [[Super Speed]]: Vash shoots about six times faster than a human gunman, which is ''impossibly awesome''. Also played with with Dominique the Cyclops.
** He ''makes gunpowder explode faster than normal''. He breaks physics through physical contact! And we thought he didn't have the girly family superpowers.
** Elendria rams nails through peoples bodies ''faster than the eye can see
* [[Supervillain Lair]]
* [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]]: {{spoiler|Livio, for Wolfwood}}.
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* [[Teach Him Anger]]: Likely the intent of the [[Break the Cutie]] campaign that forms the backbone of the plot, the part that isn't just Knives' inner child throwing a tantrum about his brother not doing what he wants. Vash is already perfectly [[Badass]], with a sizable temper if pushed far enough, but as a [[Technical Pacifist]] and [[Friend to All Living Things]] he lacks the genocidal anger his twin wants to see.
** Also one of the many contradictory goals of poor Wolfwood, especially in the manga. He is perfectly willing to die for the sake of convincing Vash to actually ''kill'' the bad guys (specifically Knives) and really ''solve'' problems, because he's pretty sure Vash would fill his chosen role of [[The Punisher|righteous executioner]] much better and longer than he can.
* [[Technical Pacifist]]: Vash, in ''spades''. It even says 'pacifist' on his Quickdraw tournament application, if you look!<ref>
** Vash's entire character can be seen as a sort of deconstruction of the [[Technical Pacifist]] trope. Devoting his life to saving everyone around him takes a very, ''very'' heavy toll on him, as not everyone is happy that saving everybody includes the worst, most depraved [[Complete Monster|monsters]] out there, and as Vash's [[Shirtless Scene]] shows, he's damn near falling apart because keeping everyone from killing each other is a very hard job. And by the end, he's forced to learn the hard way that he can't save everyone all the time.
* [[Ten-Minute Retirement]]
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* [[Those Two Guys]]: Those two girls, Meryl and Milly, fit the description to a large extent.
* [[Thou Shalt Not Kill]]: Vash believes in not killing, ever. The ramifications of this are explored as Vash {{spoiler|is shown to have been torn to shreds under his jacket from numerous wounds he acquired while winning fights without hurting people.}}
* [[Time Skip]]: Two years passes after
* [[Time Stands Still]]: Dominique the Cyclops pretends to be able to do this. In fact, she uses hypnosis to momentarily freeze her target.
* [[Training
* [[Transformation Trauma]]
* [[Transsexualism]]: Elendira the Crimson Nail; also fits into the [[Villainous Crossdresser]] trope as a result of [[Did Not Do the Research]].
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* [[Twincest]]: [[Fan Wank]] notwithstanding, nothing actually happens, but manga Knives has a very... fusional and obsessive relationship with Vash to say the least.
* [[Ubermensch]]
* [[The Ugly
* [[The Un-Reveal]]: Among other important plot points, the existence of independent plants is never explained and suffers from a borderline [[Hand Wave]]. In [[Fan Fiction]], many fans suppose that they are the result
** Genetically, it's logically more likely than their being mutant throwback versions of normal plant reproduction. Because all the plants are girls and the twins are boys. Story-wise, the latter is more likely, if only because the only person not in cryo on the ship in the time frame for Vash and Knives to get sired was...Rem. Also because the crew would have worked that out while experimenting on Tessla and intentionally reproduced the event if at all possible.
* [[Unflinching Walk]]: Vash and Wolfwood in "Goodbye for Now".
* [[Unstoppable Rage]]: Frequent. Vash's is the most impressive, manga Knives' the most destructive.
* [[Used to Be a Sweet Kid]]:
** Also Wolfwood, Livio, and Legato, for a given value of 'sweet
** Vash, by contrast, has forcibly changed as little as possible over the years leaving him ridiculously childish at times. Of course, it's not all genuine.
* [[Unpronounceable Alias]]: Vash introducing himself to Wolfwood.
{{quote|"I am known as Valentinez Alkalienella Xifax Sicidabohertz Gombigobella Blue Stradivari Talentrent Pierre André Charton-Haymoss Ivanovicci Baldeus George Doitzel Kaiser the Third...Don't hesitate to call."}}
* [[Utopia Justifies the Means]]
* [[Villain Episode]]: The manga has a few chapters with Legato, Knives, Livio etc. as focal characters or even narrators.
** Midvalley's narration of his fight with Wolfwood (during much of which Wolfwood is blind) is actually particularly good.
* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: Happens to quite a few villains, some of whom commit suicide or start [[
* [[Villainous Crossdresser]]: Elendira, the only [[Transsexualism|trans woman]] [[Badass]] enough to freak people out while being called "the Crimsonnail
** She is equally subject to censorship for being a trannie and for being ''terrifying
* [[Villains Out Shopping]]: Played for [[Gallows Humor|gruesome fun]] with Legato's junk food addiction; never has eating ice cream looked creepier. Also creepy in the case of Knives, seen [[Sealed Evil in a Can|hanging around naked in a tube]] and drinking [[A Glass of Chianti]] in an oasis in the anime, and playing the organ in bondage gear in his base and [[Wangst|hanging around with a depressed/psychotic expression]] in the manga. Knives might be the laziest, most idle [[Big Bad]] around, which is bound to make us think he'd be less messed-up if he had a hobby or something. As for Elendira, she likes reading cards while fawning over Knives, apparently.
* [[Visible Sigh]]
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* [[Walking the Earth]]
* [[Wave Motion Gun]]: The Angel Arm.
* [[Weapon of Mass Destruction]]: That are actually
* [[Weapon Tombstone]]: {{spoiler|Vash uses Wolfwood's cross punisher as his gravestone. Considering its shape, it's very fitting.}}
* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: Knives; Wolfwood to a certain extent.
* [["Well Done, Son" Guy]]: Livio in the manga.
* [[Wham! Episode]]: "Diablo", the twelfth episode of the anime, though episodes 7 and 8 arguably count as well
* [[Wham! Line]]: Accomplished with a single word!
{{quote|'''Vash (to {{spoiler|Elizabeth}}):''' {{spoiler|Aw, you aren't after that stupid reward, are you?}}
'''{{spoiler|Elizabeth}}:''' {{spoiler|''[[Little No|No]]''.}}
* [[Whole-Episode Flashback]]: Episode 17 of the anime, "Rem Saverem".
* [[Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?]]: [[Aerith and Bob]] accounts for most of these, but Rem? Who names their foster-son ''Knives?'' Crazy ninjas, that's who! Pirates! Not pacifist astronauts conspiring to prevent the kid from being dissected by their coworkers! [[Meaningful Name|It's like you were asking for it.]]
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* [[Writer on Board]]: Yasuhiro Nightow is a Catholic convert retaining some Buddhist influences by his own admission, and boy does it show.
* [[X Days Since...]]: In an interesting variation of this trope, showed a sign in one city counting the number of murders and serious injuries that had occured that day.
* [[Yandere]]: Manga Wolfwood can be seen as [[Cute and Psycho]]
* [[Yellow Brick Road]]: Getting to [[Big Bad|Knives]].
* [[You Can't Go Home Again]]: Vash and Knives; Nicholas; Livio; Kaito. In the manga, all of these characters including Knives express nostalgia towards the 'more innocent times' of their childhood and regrets at not being able to go back in time.
* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]: Legato; some of the mutant characters.
* [[Younger Than They Look]]: Vash and Knives in both versions of the
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