History Anime / BlackLagoon

** Roberta also provides a nice one in [[http://manga.animea.net/black-lagoon-chapter-75-page-5.html chapter 75]], although whether it's FanService or [[FanDisservice not]] is [[YourMileageMayVary a matter of opinion.]]

** ''El Baile de la Muerte'' includes one for [[spoiler: Rock, but given all the hell he's gone through, it could have been much earlier. YourMileageMayVary.]]

** The anime did a good job when Rock was translating for Balalaika during the yakuza meeting. Also, when Revy was talking to Ginji during the same arc. [[YourMileageMayVary YMMV]], though.

** The U.S. Army squad in El Baile is called the [[MetalGear Gray Fox]] unit. And features one guy with a bandana and full beard.

** The U.S. Army squad in El Baile is called the [[MetalGear Gray Fox]] unit.

** Chaka. Just... Chaka. At the same time you're seething with [[CompleteMonster loathing]] for him, you're also shaking your head in disbelief at just how incredibly ''dumb'' he is.

* BloodstainedGlassWindows: Parodied in the Greenback Jane arc. In HeroicBloodshed movies, the church is usually there to be a cool and somber shootout spot, and not so much for its ability to sport gunslinging nuns who blow the ever-loving crap out of the invaders. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38Un0m0WIwk Like this.]]

* HeyItsThatVoice:
** Revy is voiced by Megumi Toyoguchi aka [[FullMetalAlchemist Winry Rockbell]]. Even more hard to believe is that she also voices [[Anime/{{Pokemon}} Hikari/Dawn]] and [[GundamSEED Miriallia "Miri" Haww]].
*** Revy's English dub voice actress is Maryke Hendrikse AKA [[GundamSeedDestiny Lunamaria "Luna" Hawke]]
*** [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Gilda]], is that you?
**** Don't forget young Master [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Spike]] and his [[BattleButler battle butler]] Rarity.
*** It's hard to listen to dubbed Revy when you can only hear [[CheerfulChild Bubbles]] ''from DemashitaPowerpuffGirlsZ''
** And Rock is BradSwaile! Cue videos of [[DeathNote Light Yagami]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rm08ceRKED0 cussing out at Ryuk]].
*** Benny's BrianDrummond, who voiced Ryuk.
** And DaisukeNamikawa, too. [[{{Gundam 00}} Michael Trinity]] and [[IkkiTousen Toutaku Chuihei]] have nothing on this.
** Roberta is voiced by Michie Tomizawa, aka [[SailorMoon Sailor Mars]], [[SakuraTaisen Sumire]] and [[BubblegumCrisis Linna]]...
*** I'm not sure who the voice actor is, but the Neo Nazi captain sounds like [[DawnOfWar a commissar]].
*** Entirely [[strike:possible]] probable. Rock's company's VP was the space marine scouts among others, the E.O. helicoptor captain from the first arc was badass General Sturnn (who he channeled heavily), Verrocchio is every imperial guardsman you ever met, and Benny is none other than '' Ork Warboss Gorgutz''.
** Both [[KellySheridan Greenback Jane]] and [[HoukoKuwashima Yukio]] are [[InuYasha Sango]]
** Fabiola is voiced by the same actress that voiced Shion Sonozaki.

*** [[MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Gilda]], is that you?

** Subverted with Rotton the Wizard. While he has all elements that'd point that'd he'd be the coolest badass ever, he ends up being a JokeCharacter.
*** Well, he survived a fall from 20 m tall building, and a kick in the balls from Roberta didn't seemed to affect him so you has to give him some badass points.
*** as much of a joke as is in comparison to much of the rest of the cast, at the very least he is not stupid, the only evidence you need is the fact that he lives in Roanapur without dying.

Rokuro Okajima was not a happy man. Barely graduating from a Japanese community college and getting a job as an underpaid {{salaryman}} working in the shipping and handling department of an industrial group called Asahi Industries, Rokuro was consigned to a life of abused mediocrity as a gear in a corporate machine.

That is, until a mission to deliver a data diskette to a customer in the South China Sea goes south when his ship is attacked by {{pirate}}s with a torpedo boat, who nab the disc and bring Rokuro with them as a hostage for ransom. Twenty-four hours later, following a series of events that include being nearly shot by his captors, surviving a bar shootout, being chased by a gunship helicopter and being declared legally dead by his company, Rokuro, now rechristened with the nickname "Rock," is hired by a small boat courier service called the Lagoon Delivery Company -- the very pirates who kidnapped him.

Apart from Rock, the other members of the crew are:

* Dutch, an [[ScaryBlackMan imposing African-American]] Vietnam veteran. The [[BaldBlackLeaderGuy leader]] of Lagoon Company and the captain of the ''Black Lagoon''.
* Revy, a Chinese-American thug. The Lagoon Company's primary muscle, she's a [[AxCrazy sociopathic]], [[NietzscheWannabe nihilistic]] [[TheGunslinger Gunslinger]] and is known as "Two Hands" for [[strike:having two hands]] her [[GunsAkimbo style of shooting]].
* Benny, a Floridian communications expert and hacker who ran into some trouble with the FBI and the Mafia back home, and now serves as the Lagoon Company's [[MissionControl technical expert, radar and radio operator]].

Making their headquarters in the fictional Thai city of Roanapur, the company make their living 'acquiring' goods and delivering them -- no questions asked -- on behalf of the various criminal elements who effectively run the city. Of course, the "goods" aren't always legal, and they sometimes have to "persuade" the original owners before they can receive the cargo...

* RevolversAreJustBetter: Dutch uses one of these. So does [[CompleteMonster Chaka]], which Revy takes as another sign that he's a poser and a show-off. Also, one of Florida gangsters uses one with surprising competence, and probably ''could'' have survived... [[spoiler:if he had shut his big mouth regarding Eda's identity.]]

* GeniusBreedingAct: Benny and Greenback Jane.

* LegitimateBusinessmensSocialClub: For at least a couple of organizations in the city, if not all of them. The worst offender is the Church of Violence, which doesn't seem to do anything remotely religious at all.

* DarkActionGirl: Just about every female warrior on this show. [[spoiler:Well, except Fabiola.]]

* IsraelisWithInfraredMissiles: Ibraha's son was killed during the invasion of Lebanon by "Those monsters from Jerusalem!". [[OffscreenMomentOfAwesome we don't get to see them, though]].
** So, seeing soldiers kill a child would be awesome? Great.

* ActionGirl: Fabiola

* AntiHero (Type V)/ VillainProtagonist: They ''are'' [[APirate400YearsTooLate pirates]]. And [[ADisgraceToBlackbeard not fun ]][[PiratesOfTheCaribbean Captain Jack Sparrow]] [[ADisgraceToBlackbeard pirates either]]. Hell, they're introduced by having them hijack a boat...during which time Revy proposes that they execute Rock to tie up loose ends.

** Hasn't gotten any better for him? I think becoming the MoralityPet to [[DragonLady Shenua]] and [[ChainsawGood Sawyer]] [[{{OT3}} worked out]] [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean pretty well.]]