Usagi Yojimbo/Characters: Difference between revisions

Our hero, a young samurai whose liege lord died in battle not long after Usagi entered his service. Now masterless, he [[Walking the Earth|walks the earth]], occasionally hiring himself out as a bodyguard (hence the title), honing his skill as a warrior and meeting lots of interesting people. Usagi is kind and honorable almost to a fault, but has a trickster streak as well.

 

* [[Bodyguard]]: Usagi was a bodyguard to his daimyo before he became a ronin and occasionally takes up that job during his travels.

* [[Chick Magnet]] (Gee, [[Sarcasm Mode|I can't imagine]] who would be attracted to a [[Nice Guy|kindhearted,]] [[Katanas Are Just Better|sword wielding]] [[Badass]].)

Chief retainer to the young Lord Noriyuki; a controversial position for a woman, but one she's earned several times over. She and Usagi become friends early in the series after he helps her foil an assassination attempt on her master, and they gradually develop feelings for one another.

 

* [[Action Girl]]

* [[Cain and Abel]] (she and {{spoiler|[[Psycho for Hire|Noriko]]}})

Usagi's [[Mr. Vice Guy|less morally upright]] friend, a bounty hunter who cheats Usagi out of money the first few times they meet (which later becomes a running joke between them). He's more interested in preserving his gruff image than his samurai honor, but is not as callous as he pretends.

 

* {{spoiler|[[Ancestral Weapon]]}}: {{spoiler|after the battle againsta magistrate oda, he discover his new swords were his father's swords}}

* [[Boisterous Bruiser]]

A street performer/thief/[[Con Man|con woman]] who remains friends with Usagi despite the fact that his purse tends to go missing when they meet.

 

* [[Classy Cat Burglar]]

* [[Cool Big Sis]] (to her apprentice, Kiyoko)

Usagi's son by his childhood sweetheart Mariko, raised in the belief that her husband Kenichi is his father {{spoiler|but later learns the truth}}.

 

* [[Kid Samurai]] (he's determined to be the coolest samurai ''ever'' and considering he has defeated foes literally twice his size and with only a bokken, he is well on his way.)

* [[Wooden Katanas Are Even Better]]

The old hermit who taught Usagi more or less everything he knows: humility, compassion, thinking before he acted, and not least importantly his unusual style of swordsmanship. {{spoiler|He's currently teaching Jotaro the same things.}}

 

* [[Badass Grandpa]]

* [[Eyepatch of Power]]: After getting his eye slashed in an ambush, he uses a sword guard as an eyepatch (''a la'' [[Inuyasha|Kaede's]]).

He became an ally of Noriyuki after the latter saved his son Motokazu's life.

 

* [[Badass Mustache]]

* [[Call to Agriculture]]

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* [[Kid Samurai]]

 

A [[Walking the Earth|wandering]] swordswoman of unparalleled skill, constantly pursued by [[Bounty Hunter|bounty hunters]] since there's a hefty price on her head - she killed the [[Yakuza]] boss who murdered her husband, and now his people want revenge. She saved Usagi's life once (if only because he'd paid for her drink earlier), but since she kills people so coldly he doesn't much like her.

 

* [[Action Girl]]

* [[The Drifter]]

A middle-aged detective, highly competent but sometimes hampered by corrupt superiors. He and Usagi have solved several murder mysteries together.

 

* [[Friend on the Force]]

* [[The Last DJ]]

A [[Bounty Hunter]] who sometimes works with Gen. He's a ruthless, double-crossing [[Jerkass]] who claims he only looks out for himself (which isn't entirely true).

 

* [[Combat Pragmatist]]

* [[Jerkass Facade]]

Yagi is a grim but honorable [[Samurai]] who turned [[Career Killers|assassin]] after being framed for treason. He travels with his young son Gorogoro in a baby cart.

 

* [[Walking the Earth]]

 

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* [[A Child Shall Lead Them]]

* [[Pandaing to the Audience]]

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* [[All Monks Know Kung Fu]]: [[Justified Trope|justified]], in that Sanshobo was a samurai warrior before his life as a priest.

* [[Good Shepherd]]

A skilled fox ronin, Sasuke is a [[Demon Slayer]] and has devoted his life to hunting them.

 

* [[The Archer]]

* [[The Hunter]]

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* [[Blind Seer]]

* [[Disability Superpower]]: Sees through [[The Nose Knows|scent.]]

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* [[Authority Equals Asskicking]]

* [[Badass]]

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* [[Dark Action Girl]]: Her clan serves Hikiji. {{spoiler|[[Heel Face Turn|Eventually,]] just [[Action Girl]].}}

* [[Friendly Enemy]]/[[Foe Yay]]: Gets some [[Ship Tease]] with Usagi.

Enemy of Usagi's Lord Mifune, personally {{spoiler|killed Usagi's defiant father and made Keniichi village leader}}, and employer of the rival Neko and Komori ninja clans.

 

* [[Big Bad]]

* [[Evil Overlord]]

A giant snake who's Lord Hikiji's second-in-command.

 

* [[Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever]]: Lord Hebi is so huge he fights ninjas by ''picking them up with his mouth and hurling them to death''. Pretty good for a [[Incredibly Lame Pun|disarmed person]].

* [[Reptiles Are Abhorrent]]

One of Usagi's deadliest enemies. In his first appearance he is showed as a crazy killer who think himself as an emissary of the gods in a mission to clean the world from the evil...[[Knight Templar|by any means needed]] but with each appearance, although it's never confirmed that he is ''the blade of the gods'' it's made more clear that he isn't just a normal person, neither.

 

* [[Back From the Dead]]

* [[Dark Is Evil]]: he doesn't just wear black clothes, whenever he put the hands in a blade ''it immediately turns black''

* [[Glowing Eyes of Doom]]

* [[Implacable Man]]

* [[Knight Templar]]

* [[Milky White Eyes]]

Jei-San's "niece", who he spared after killing the thieves who killed her grandpa because she was "innocent". Having nowhere else to go, she started following him. {{spoiler|She was originally supposed to become Jei's new host, but the author felt uncomfortable so he created Inazuma.}}

 

* [[Cheerful Child]] / [[Creepy Child]]

* [[Pure Is Not Good]]

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* [[Bad Boss]]: He has no concern for the lives of his own men and at one point destroy a bridge to make a getaway while leaving several of his men on the other side.

* [[Big Ol' Eyebrows]]

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* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]

 

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* [[Bat Out of Hell]]

 

== The Mogura Ninja ==

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* [[Wolverine Claws]]

 

Usagi's beloved lord, defeated by Lord Hikiji's forces. {{spoiler|The war was caused by Hikiji sending the Neko Ninja to murder his wife and child. Usagi personally decapitates his lord to ensure his head isn't used as a trophy}}.

 

* [[Shout-Out]]: To [[Toshiro Mifune]].

 

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* [[Yuppie Couple]]