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* {{Badass}}: Indisputably the most powerful fighter in the series, ''bar none''.
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* {{Badass}}: Indisputably the most powerful fighter in the series, ''bar none''.series. The only people who have shown to rival her are Tatsumi [[Spoiler: After evolving Incursio]] and Great General Budo whom is referenced multiple times in the manga to be on the same threat level as her.
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* DetachedSleeves: The sleeves of her haori are cut to expose her shoulders.
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* TooDumbToLive: Everything else aside, he wanted to rape Kurome who is known to be a skilled assassin. Strike 1. She is a Jaeger under the command of General Esdeath, an infamously unforgiving MamaBear and [[FatherToHisMen Mother to her Men]]. Needless to say her reprisal would have been the kind of things torturers use to scare each other when they need to remind themselves of the extremes of their profession. Strike 2. His father relies on General Esdeath's military power to protect him from rebellions and her personal combat ability to counter Great General Budoh. Something like this could easily lead to Esdeath repudiating her alliance with Prime Minister Honest leaving him to twist in the wind. Strike 3. The series could have been over in a flash if Syura had been allowed to indulge his lusts instead of thinking with his brain.
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* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: She wears a black sailor uniform with a red ribbon and a red belt that has a red side skirt cover. She's also a psychotic assassin of the Empire and a {{Yandere}} who enjoys turning the people she "loves" into one of her puppets.
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* NotQuiteFlight: She's able to levitate by forming ice around herself and controlling it, though she admits that it's not as graceful or as manuverable as Ran's Teigu.
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* PrecisionFStrike: She is normally quite eloquent even as she goes about her sadistic habits, but she dropped this line while facing off against an entire army:
--> '''Esdeath:''' ''[after slicing through a bunch of arrows]'' How trite. But if you insist on using a Teigu... then make sure you really ''fucking'' use it!
--> '''Esdeath:''' ''[after slicing through a bunch of arrows]'' How trite. But if you insist on using a Teigu... then make sure you really ''fucking'' use it!
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* {{Empathic Weapon}}: He can feel the frame of mind of his owner and he is shown feeling anger or sadness (when Seryu was mourning Stylish's death, Koro is visibly sad to the grief of his owner). Also, he [[spoiler: comfort Seryu in her death moment before the bomb explode and kill both]]. Considering that he is a dog shaped weapon, [[FridgeBrilliance it has sense]].
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* {{Empathic Weapon}}: EmpathicWeapon: He can feel the frame of mind of his owner and he is shown feeling anger or sadness (when Seryu was mourning Stylish's death, Koro is visibly sad to the grief of his owner). Also, he [[spoiler: comfort Seryu in her death moment before the bomb explode and kill both]]. Considering that he is a dog shaped weapon, [[FridgeBrilliance it has sense]].
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* CuteLittleFangs: Has visible small fangs who give him a mischievous aspect. In truth, is much more monstrous.
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* ObviouslyEvil: Just look at his profile image. Hell, he even has a crown who looks like devil's horns.
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* OnlyOneName: The only character of the series that averts this, as we know her surname.
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* NotSoDifferent: Of Night Raid, but especially, of Tatsumi. They are both young people with a great sense of justice who cares for the weak, both kill merciless what they consider evil and both show a great affect with his beloved ones to a point of claim revenge for them (Tatsumi killed Aria when he discovers that she and her family were responsible for the dead of Sayo and Ieyasu [[spoiler: and later he tries to avenge Sheele's death]] and Seryu killed [[spoiler: Sheele]] in revenge for Ogre's death at the hands of Night Raid).
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* NobleDemon: The most triumphant example from the Jaegers (and definitely when compared to Wild Hunt). She's ''horrific'' to her enemies, but she doesn't actively abuse the people of TheEmpire, only fights direct opponents of the Prime Minister, has no issues with her soldiers protecting citizens of the Empire, largely sees her line of work as a job (although one she [[BloodKnight definitely enjoys WAY too much]]), possesses a sense of honor and respect to people worth her time, and genuinely cares for her subordinates - even when they disappoint or annoy her. While none of her actions are excusable, she's definitely one of the comparatively nicer villains in the series.
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* NobleDemon: The most triumphant example from the Jaegers (and definitely when compared to Wild Hunt). She's ''horrific'' to her enemies, but she doesn't actively abuse the people of TheEmpire, only fights direct opponents of the Prime Minister, has no issues with her soldiers protecting citizens of the Empire, largely sees her line of work as a job (although one she [[BloodKnight definitely enjoys WAY too much]]), possesses a sense of honor and respect to people worth her time, and genuinely cares for her subordinates - even when they disappoint or annoy her. While none of her actions are excusable, she's definitely one of the comparatively nicer villains in the series.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: The anime toned down a lot of her {{yandere}} personality and instead portrays her more as this, although {{deconstructed}}. [[spoiler: The reason Kurome wants [[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou to kill Akame alone]] is because deep down inside, she deeply loves her sister. However, because both Kurome and Akame has taken different paths in their lives, they are forced to kill each other. This is apparently true in episode 22 where Kurome and Akame met each other for the last time where Kurome shared her Pocky sticks with Akame and a brief chat with each other (and even slept together). Akame also reveals that she wanted to kill Kurome because she too, loves her sister, and they decided to have their last duel to the death. In the end, Kurome lost the duel and dies to Akame's blade (in addition the poison from Chelsea that Kurome suffered earlier), which Kurome's death has caused Akame to [[TenderTears break down in tears]] [[TearJerker because she feels Kurome's unconditional love to her and how much Akame loved her younger sister]]]].
** In addition to loving her sister, Akame, Kurome (in manga, although hinted in the anime) does develop genuine feelings toward her teammate, Wave. Whether or not this ends up being good or bad for Wave, considering her {{yandere}} personality in the manga, has yet to be seen.
** In addition to loving her sister, Akame, Kurome (in manga, although hinted in the anime) does develop genuine feelings toward her teammate, Wave. Whether or not this ends up being good or bad for Wave, considering her {{yandere}} personality in the manga, has yet to be seen.
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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: The anime toned down a lot of her yandere personality and instead portrays her more as this, although {{deconstructed}}. [[spoiler: The reason Kurome wants [[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou to kill Akame alone]] is because deep down inside, she deeply loves her sister. However, because both Kurome and Akame has taken different paths in their lives, they are forced to kill each other. This is apparently true in episode 22 where Kurome and Akame met each other for the last time where Kurome shared her Pocky sticks with Akame and a brief chat with each other (and even slept together). Akame also reveals that she wanted to kill Kurome because she too, loves her sister, and they decided to have their last duel to the death. In the end, Kurome lost the duel and dies to Akame's blade (in addition the poison from Chelsea that Kurome suffered earlier), which Kurome's death has caused Akame to [[TenderTears break down in tears]] [[TearJerker because she feels Kurome's unconditional love to her and how much Akame loved her younger sister]]]].
** In addition to loving her sister, Akame, Kurome (in manga, although hinted in the anime) does develop genuine feelings toward her teammate, Wave. Whether or not this ends up being good or bad for Wave, considering her yandere personality in the manga, has yet to be seen.
** In addition to loving her sister, Akame, Kurome (in manga, although hinted in the anime) does develop genuine feelings toward her teammate, Wave. Whether or not this ends up being good or bad for Wave, considering her yandere personality in the manga, has yet to be seen.
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* {{Expy}}: Of ''Manga/FutureDiary''s Yomotsu Hirasaka: They both see themselves as heroes of justice despite harming innocent people, have a DisabilitySuperpower, [[spoiler:are killed by the protagonist's pink haired girlfriend, and blow themselves up.]]
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* {{Expy}}: Of ''Manga/FutureDiary''s ''Manga/FutureDiary'''s Yomotsu Hirasaka: They both see themselves as heroes of justice despite harming innocent people, have a DisabilitySuperpower, [[spoiler:are killed by the protagonist's pink haired girlfriend, and blow themselves up.]]
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* {{Expy}}: Of [[Manga/FutureDiary ''Manga/FutureDiary''s Yomotsu Hirasaka]]: Hirasaka: They both see themselves as heroes of justice despite harming innocent people, have a DisabilitySuperpower, [[spoiler:are killed by the protagonist's pink haired girlfriend, and blow themselves up.]]
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* {{Crazy Prepared}}: Of all the characters of Akame ga Kill, probably Seryu is the one who have the most resources and special moves. Before her heavy modifications, she had a [[DualTonfas pair of tonfas]] that can shoot bullets and [[DisabilitySuperpower cutting her arms only reveal more guns]], and that without counting Koro's abilities. After being modified by Stylish, she had an [[HyperspaceArsenal entire arsenal]] for her inside Koro, including a giant sword, a [[ThisisaDrill giant drill]] that can explode, a [[SniperRifle rifle]], a [[EpicFlail giant flail]] and a [[MacrossMissileMassacre pair of missiles]], between other things (a hook and a radar), and combining some of them, she can shoot a [[MoreDakka rain of missiles]] with a big power of destruction. Also she has been trained physically by Ogre and has a considerable strenght that was increased by her mechanical arms. As if that not were enough, she had three trump card, the one of his Teigu (Berserk, see the Teigu entry for more information), a [[HiddenWeapons gun inside her throat]] that she claims that was a gift from Ogre and can be used to do surprise attacks, and the last one, given to her by Dr. Stylish, a suicide bomb of incredible radius inside her brain that is used as last resort in a desperate situation. The only reason why she didn't kill Mine in her second battle was due to an external factor in the fight [[spoiler: (Tatsumi).]]
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* {{Crazy Prepared}}: CrazyPrepared: Of all the characters of Akame ga Kill, probably Seryu is the one who have the most resources and special moves. Before her heavy modifications, she had a [[DualTonfas pair of tonfas]] that can shoot bullets and [[DisabilitySuperpower cutting her arms only reveal more guns]], and that without counting Koro's abilities. After being modified by Stylish, she had an [[HyperspaceArsenal entire arsenal]] for her inside Koro, including a giant sword, a [[ThisisaDrill [[ThisIsADrill giant drill]] that can explode, a [[SniperRifle rifle]], a [[EpicFlail giant flail]] and a [[MacrossMissileMassacre pair of missiles]], between other things (a hook and a radar), and combining some of them, she can shoot a [[MoreDakka rain of missiles]] with a big power of destruction. Also she has been trained physically by Ogre and has a considerable strenght that was increased by her mechanical arms. As if that not were enough, she had three trump card, the one of his Teigu (Berserk, see the Teigu entry for more information), a [[HiddenWeapons gun inside her throat]] that she claims that was a gift from Ogre and can be used to do surprise attacks, and the last one, given to her by Dr. Stylish, a suicide bomb of incredible radius inside her brain that is used as last resort in a desperate situation. The only reason why she didn't kill Mine in her second battle was due to an external factor in the fight [[spoiler: (Tatsumi).]]
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* AdaptationalWimp: As a side effect of the anime route, the poor Wave have most of his awesome moments cut out and his participation in the story was greatly reduced. Because Bolic's assassination was adapted during Seryu and Mine battle, he did not fight with Akame, Lubbock and Mine (fight when he reveals how powerful his Teigu is) and because Wild Hunt didn't appear in the anime, he neither fight with Syura (moment that consolidates his relationship with Kurome). Except a brief fight with Susanoo and helps Tatsumi to defeat the Ultimate Teigu, his role in the anime is minimal.
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* AdaptationalWimp: Compared to the manga version, in the anime he is a lot more weak. He is kicked by Tatsumi with ease and during the battle with Night Raid, he puts a less resistance that in the manga, [[spoiler: and is defeated by Mine with more ease, although in the anime Mine latter die to the wounds caused by Adramelech.]] Also in the anime, his Teigu's trump card, Solid Shooter is a mere lightning ball, while in the manga is a energy beam of electricity.
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* AdaptationalWimp: Compared to the manga version, in the anime he is a lot more weak. he's weaker. He is kicked by Tatsumi with ease and during the battle with Night Raid, he puts a up less resistance that than in the manga, [[spoiler: and is defeated by Mine with more ease, although in the anime Mine latter die later dies to the wounds caused by Adramelech.]] Also in the anime, his Teigu's trump card, Solid Shooter is a mere lightning ball, while in the manga is a energy beam of electricity.
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* MyCountryRightOrWrong: Appears to have recognize'd the Prime Minister as a [[UnderStatement very bad influence]] to the young Emperor but is willing to look the other way until the rebellion is crushed. He knows that while the Prime Minister is using the Emperor as a puppet, FatBastard needs that puppet alive and well.
* NeverFoundTheBody: [[spoiler: In the manga, after being blasted off by Mine in the climax of their battle, The Empire release various posters about his death, but later Honest mention that actually nobody has found his body, leaving his fate ambiguous at the moment.]]
* NeverFoundTheBody: [[spoiler: In the manga, after being blasted off by Mine in the climax of their battle, The Empire release various posters about his death, but later Honest mention that actually nobody has found his body, leaving his fate ambiguous at the moment.]]
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* MyCountryRightOrWrong: Appears to have recognize'd the Prime Minister as a [[UnderStatement very bad influence]] to the young Emperor but is willing to look the other way until the rebellion is crushed. He knows that while the Prime Minister is using the Emperor as a puppet, FatBastard Fat Bastard needs that puppet alive and well.
* NeverFoundTheBody: [[spoiler: In the manga, after being blasted off by Mine in the climax of their battle, The Empire release various posters about his death, but later Honest mention that actually nobody has found his body, leaving his fate ambiguous at the moment.]]well.
* NeverFoundTheBody: [[spoiler: In the manga, after being blasted off by Mine in the climax of their battle, The Empire release various posters about his death, but later Honest mention that actually nobody has found his body, leaving his fate ambiguous at the moment.]]
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* {{Hypocritical Humor}}: The interview that the Jaegers and the Prime Minister have in the series it's not seen, but in one of the Theaters, it's revealed and {{played for laughs}}. In this, Bols frightens him greatly, Kurome make him nervous (as she stares a big bag of sweets that Honest carries in the interview), Seryu and Koro scare him when she mistakes a bug in the wall with an enemy and Koro punch him, nearly hitting Honest, Dr. Stylish give him creeps and he mistakes Run for a girl. For that, he concludes that no one of them is normal. But before, he ignored Wave (the first of the Jaegers to be interviewed), [[OnlySaneMan who was the most normal member of the team]].
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!! Prime Minister Honest
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-->''"Time like these, when the nation is in chaos, are the best opportunity to determine who is loyal or who is not. Any fools who oppose me will be driven out and executed."''
-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KoujiIshii (Japanese), Marty Fleck (English)
The defacto ruler of the Empire, as the Emperor highly regards Honest's council, even if everyone else around him knows otherwise but stays quiet lest they get removed and killed.
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!!!The tropes associated with Prime Minister Honest
* BeardOfEvil: Which he often strokes while pondering his evil deeds.
* BigBad: Technically, he's the root of all the corruption in the Capital but it's his subordinates (particularly Esdeath) that let him stay as comfortable as he is.
* BigBadWannabe: The only reason he's still in charge is because he has Esdeath's support. He will not even consider annoying her in any way, and allows her to do whatever she wants, even if she goes against his authority, because he knows his title, his authority, his reputation, and his ''life'' are all forfeit otherwise.
* BigEater: He’s even seen eating a cake ''whole''.
* TheCorrupter: He is this towards the Emperor. While claiming to be guiding the boy, he proves to be a ManipulativeBastard, and will always try to convince the Emperor that he's doing what's in the best interests of the Empire. And in episode 23 of the anime, even while the Emperor starts wondering if he's going too far, Honest tells him to harden his heart and put down the rebellion for the sake of his people. Never mind that many of them are dying by the Emperor's own hand as a result.
* DevilInPlainSight: Not to [[HorribleJudgeOfCharacter The Emperor]].
* DirtyCoward: In the anime, after all of his plans fall apart, he [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere tries to flee]], whimpering and whining pathetically the whole time, and then screams for someone to save him when [[spoiler: Leone blocks his path]].
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He cares for his son Syura, and [[spoiler: loses his shit when he dies... for all of '''one panel'''. After a few seconds of OcularGushers, he abruptly moves on and considers having another child.]] Dorothea is really unnerved by it.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Pities the poor sap that ends up being Esdeath's lover. When Esdeath decides to drink an entire vial of demon blood, Honest ''immediately'' tries to get her to back off since it could've killed her. He makes a toast with her once she proves him wrong by surviving and taming the demon blood.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: [[VisualPun Walks out]] [[ManBehindTheMan from behind]] The Emperor after The Emperor sentenced an innocent man to death casually and then supports said decision while [[VillainousGlutton engorging himself with food]]. When the man tries to convince The Emperor that he’s being manipulated, he puts on a kind face and successfully convinces the latter otherwise. What marks him being a complete and utter bastard is telling the condemned man that he’ll make sure to take care of his wife, ''every single part of her''.
* EvilChancellor: Evil Prime Minister to be exact. He plays the trope straight by having the most influential power in the entire empire, [[TheManBehindTheMan influencing the decisions]] of TheEmperor, and being his most “trusted” advisor.
* FatBastard: His argument is that the [[PostStressOvereating stress he gets from hearing about the actions of the resistance cause him to over indulge himself]].
* FauxAffablyEvil: He's always polite, especially to the Emperor but when speaking to others his words positively drip with sarcasm.
* FlatCharacter: He's evil and he eats a lot. That's really all there is to him.
* HeroKiller: In the last episode of the anime, [[spoiler: he is killed by Leone after destroying her Teigu, but manages to shoot her several times before perish. Leone later dies due to the injuries that Honest cause to her.]]
* IronicName: He is anything but honest.
* {{Jerkass}}: Doesn't care about anyone but himself.
* LackOfEmpathy: Shows no remorse for all the terrible corruption that caused people to suffer, including [[spoiler:his son's own death.]]
* ManipulativeBastard: Particularly regarding The Emperor, who's little more than a PuppetKing. At one point, he mentions that he intends to drive him into the same depravity as his own by getting him to drink, eat, and fuck non-stop when he gets older, so that even if Honest himself dies, The Emperor will more than likely continue the same form of corruption as an adult. Esdeath, for her part, cryptically tells Honest not to allow him to contract "adult diseases."
* NightmareFace: In his introduction, when he convinces the Emperor to condemn a man to his death, the man looks to Honest and he shows to the poor man a chilling face. In fact, that face is his profile image!.
* NonActionBigBad: He has yet to face the heroes directly and so far just defers combating Night Raid to Esdeath, Budo and even his son, [[StupidEvil Syura.]]
* OhCrap: He utterly craps himself when Tatsumi evolves and best's The child emperor's Ultimate Taigu.
** [[spoiler:And again when Leone corners him.]]
* SmugSnake: In the anime. Jury's still out in regards to the manga, though.
* VillainousBreakdown: ''Completely'' loses it when his entire plan falls apart and yells out to anyone begging to save him from death.
* VillainousFriendship: His relationship with Esdeath is very professional and business-like, and they're often seen sharing drinks in his dinner table. Of course, Honest knows his rule is over without her support, so he makes sure to stay on Esdeath's good side at all times. They have an implicit deal - as long as he rules, his corruption creates more and more enemies arrayed against the capitol, which Esdeath - being a BloodKnight - would happily put down (although the Jaegers do protect the average folks of the empire when it comes down to it). Honest knows damn-well that a single ''inch'' out of line would result in Esdeath outright murdering him for crossing her, so he allows her to do whatever she pleases and makes sure not to boss her around (limiting his direct orders purely for combat-related purposes). This is best shown regarding Wild Hunt; when his son, Syura, asks him to disband the Jaegers on suspicion of secretly working against them, he counters by pointing out that Esdeath's very existence covers their asses, and refuses to oppose her in any way. When Esdeath humiliates Syura and provides evidence that he needlessly harmed the people of the Empire, Honest is ''forced'' to disband Wild Hunt.
* VillainousGlutton: Most of his appearances have him always consuming large amounts of foods.
!! The Emperor
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-->''"The empire that's persisted for generations is God's will. To defy God is preposterous!"''
-->'''Voiced by:''' Yo Taichi (Japanese), Creator/ShannonEmerick (English)
The de jure ruler of the Empire, although everything he does is through the influence of Prime Minister Honest.
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!!! Tropes associated with The Emperor
* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: In episode 22 of the anime, he is told by various advisors that the Revolutionary Army is marching towards the capitol. On top of that, they have a lot of sympathizers within the city walls, and he's warned that as powerful as Esdeath is, even she likely can't win if a large enough army shows up. He starts to wonder if he wasn't leading the people as well as he thought he was, but Honest once against interjects and claims he has to simply put his foot down every now and then to quell any dissent.
* AdorablyPrecociousChild: Outside of his duties as the emperor, he's really just a cheerful little boy.
* ChildrenAreInnocent: So innocent that he's very easy to manipulate.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: He is shown stoically [[DisproportionateRetribution sentencing an innocent man to death]] for objecting the political affairs of the Empire. He then asks the [[BigBad Prime Minister]] if he did well. [[WhatTheHellHero When called out on being victim of the Prime Minister’s machinations]] by the innocent man he immediately dismisses the man’s words as foolish ramblings.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler:In the final chapter of the anime, after being sentenced to death by The Revolution and before being executed, he accepts his judgment, admits that he was a bad ruler and finally asks Najenda to restore the country in his place.]]
* GoodIsDumb: [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] as he is just a child.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Believes the [[ObviouslyEvil Prime Minister]] is his most trusted advisor.
* NiceGuy: Although he's clearly just a fake ruler, he's a kind young boy at heart, at least to to those he believes are good people and are loyal to the empire. He even tries to help Esdeath find her perfect match after Tatsumi gets away, but she respectfully insists that she's fine with finding Tatsumi again.
* ObliviouslyEvil: He does not seem to realize that his actions are more hurting his country than helping it.
* PuppetKing: He is merely a tool used to distract the more feeble minded citizens of his court and by extension, the entire empire from the activities of the Prime Minister.
* SanitySlippage: In episode 23 he's starting to lose his marbles. Despite the massive destruction of the capitol, along with countless deaths, Honest keeps telling him that the rebellion must be stopped. He develops a crazy look on his face from time to time as he battles Tatsumi and causing considerable collateral damage.
* VillainousBreakdown: Gradually loses his mind during his battle with Tatsumi and grows more angry to the point that he doesn't even care about the damage he causes.
!! Great General Budo
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-->'''Voiced by:''' {{Creator/Hozumi Gouda}}
While he is not the Empire's Strongest, Budo is the commander in chief of the military, although he knows better than to boss Esdeath around. He is a man of immense strength, to the point where Esdeath herself respects him immensely.
His Teigu is Thunder God's Rage: Adramelech, a pair of gauntlets which enable him to create storms and lightning, granting him tremendous destructive power.
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!!! Tropes associated with Great General Budo
* {{Adaptational Wimp}}: Compared to the manga version, in the anime he is a lot more weak. He is kicked by Tatsumi with ease and during the battle with Night Raid, he puts a less resistance that in the manga, [[spoiler: and is defeated by Mine with more ease, although in the anime Mine latter die to the wounds caused by Adramelech.]] Also in the anime, his Teigu's trump card, Solid Shooter is a mere lightning ball, while in the manga is a energy beam of electricity.
* AntiVillain: Although he was born from a line of generals who served the Empire, he cannot stand the current Prime Minister's very existence. At [[spoiler:Tatsumi's]] PublicExecution, Budo ''publicly'' declares his intention to kill Honest after the revolution is put down, with Esdeath right next to him at that. Esdeath herself smiled softly at his convictions and says she looks forward to fighting him.
* AttackAttackAttack: In the manga. As result of his inexperience, Budo often resorts to spamming overpowering attacks at his opponents, as well as using these attacks to counter anything they throw at him. [[spoiler: This ends up costing him dearly, as his teigu has a limit on how much power it can use and ends up running out of power on him at the worst possible time.]]
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: The highest ranking general and one of the series' strongest antagonists.
* {{Badass}}: If the people of the Empire compare his strength to Esdeath herself is not in vain. His Teigu powers are very powerful, being capable of manipulate storms, defeats Wave easily when he was about to kill Syura in a rage, curbstomp Night Raid in the majority of Tatsumi rescue battle, [[spoiler: forced Tatsumi to evolve Incursio to temporarily stop him, putting his life in risk in the process, and, even when Night Raid escaped in Najenda Danger Beast and thinks that the combat ends, he appears in the air and with his last attack forced Mine to destroy Pumpkin and enter in a coma.]]
* BlondGuysAreEvil: Like Run, he has blonde hair and work for The Empire, but he hate Honest and want to kill him for the sake of his country. However, he also detest Night Raid and want it elimination.
* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: His physical strength far surpasses that of [[spoiler: Leone and Tatsumi in spite of both of them having Teigus that enhance their physical prowess. He is also fast enough to casually fend off Leone's and SuperMode Tatsumi's attacks simultaneously, and is one of only 2 people in the manga to land a direct hit on ''Akame''.]]
* {{Determinator}}: Very much. During his battle with Night Raid in the manga he decides to kill all of them, even when [[spoiler: Tatsumi with the evolved Incursio wounded him, he pursues Night Raid when they are escaping and try to kill them with his strongest attack. Seriously, if Mine wouldn't sacrifice herself, Night Raid could be exterminated in that moment.]]
* TheDreaded: Nearly as much as Esdeath.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: He is sincerely disgusted by Honest's lack of sympathy for his equally-sadistic son Syura's death.
* FourStarBadass:
** Single-handedly stopped Wave's NoHoldsBarredBeatdown on Syura, and he is a fellow Teigu user as well.
** Takes out an ([[WorfHadTheFlu admittedly weakened]]) Incursio-clad Tatsumi clad with a '''single blow''.
** [[spoiler: He takes on the entire Night Raid and it requires a sacrificial technique from Mine to finally take him out.]]
* HairTriggerTemper: He pretty much loses it at anything that offends him and his sensibilities, [[RedOniBlueOni in contrast with the cool Esdeath.]]
* HeroKiller: [[spoiler: In the manga, the [[BeamOWar collision of beams]] between him and Mine ends with him being blasted off to an unknown place and Mine in a coma. However, in the anime, the clash ends with Budo being incinerated by Pumpkin's blast and with Mine's death due the impact of Adramelech lightning.]]
* {{Hypocrite}}: In spite of knowing full well how rotten the Prime Minister is and being partially aware that his influence is what caused the revolutionary army to form in the first place, [[IdiotBall he focus's his attention on crushing the effect instead of hitting at the cause in actuality is, was and always has been the seed of the problem.]] which in turn, might have eased off the tension the empires opposition presented in the first place. [[FalseDichotomy In that sense he isn't all that much better than Esdeath and Honest or their warped sense of self serving world logic.]]
* ImplacableMan: In the manga, this guy just won't stay down. [[spoiler: It takes Mine's Pumpkin overloading and his teigu running out of power to finally put him down.]]
* LightningBruiser: Incredibly fast and very strong.
* MyCountryRightOrWrong: Appears to have recognize'd the Prime Minister as a [[UnderStatement very bad influence]] to the young Emperor but is willing to look the other way until the rebellion is crushed. He knows that while the Prime Minister is using the Emperor as a puppet, FatBastard needs that puppet alive and well.
* NeverFoundTheBody: [[spoiler: In the manga, after being blasted off by Mine in the climax of their battle, The Empire release various posters about his death, but later Honest mention that actually nobody has found his body, leaving his fate ambiguous at the moment.]]
* NighInvulnerability: [[spoiler: His armor is strong enough to no-sell slashes from Akame's Murasame, and even take several supercharged shots from Mine without a scratch. Only attacks from Tatsumi's SuperMode and Mine's sacrificial move have succeeded in injuring him.]]
* NoSell: [[spoiler: Tanks several supercharged shots from Mine (which when used against Seryu sliced a building into half) without a scratch.]]
* OhCrap: In the manga, [[spoiler: while he doesn't say it, the look on his face when the ManaMeter of his teigu running out on him in the middle of a BeamOWar with Mine says it all.]]
* RedOniBlueOni: The Red to Esdeath's blue. Where Esdeath is cool, composed and anatytical, Budou is hot-tempered, easily enraged and loses composure more easily in battle (or just in general). He is also the more passionate of the 2 when it comes to matters of the state. This difference is highlighted by Esdeath's use of ice while he uses blazing lightning.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Is willing to let Syura and Wave duke it out as long as they don't use their Teigus and don't kill each other.
* SkilledButNaive: Acting as the Empire's last line of defense, Budo never been in an all out battle before his fight with Night Raid. As a result, Budo lacks that actual battle experience that both Night Raid and Esdeath (and by extension the Jaegers) possesses, something he admits, in one of his internal thoughts, put him at a disadvantage. As a result of his inexperience, Budo does not seem to understand the limitations of teigu, [[spoiler: something that ends up being a fatal mistake.]]
* SuperStrength: Incapacitates Tatsumi, Wave and later [[spoiler: Akame and Leone]] in a single punch each.
* UndyingLoyalty: Certainly not to Honest, but to the Emperor and the Empire as a whole, leading to his determination to take down the Night Raid regardless of harm to himself.
* UnstoppableRage: [[spoiler: After Tatsumi succeeds in landing a direct hit on him, he and his Teigu are brought to a different level due to Tatsumi literally enraging him.]]
* WorthyOpponent: [[spoiler: Praises the Night Raid's strength and fighting spirit, lamenting that he has to fight against them.]]
** Esdeath herself considers him a worthy adversary.
* VillainousBreakdown: His calm demeanour shatters [[spoiler: over the course of his battle with the Night Raid, and by the end of the fight he is a seething bubble of unbridled fury.]]
!!!Teigu: Adramelech
* {{Flight}}: When the owner of Adramelech charges his body with electricity, it gains the ability to float in the air.
* LightningGun: Adramelech's Trump Card, Solid Shooter, is this in the manga.
* ManaMeter: Apparently his teigu has one. [[spoiler: It ends up running out on him in the middle of a {{BeamOWar}} with Mine's Pumpkin.]]
* PowerFist: The Teigu is a piston punch variant.
* RedBaron: Thunder God's Rage: Adramelech
* ShockAndAwe: Adramelech main power.
* WaveMotionGun: Solid Shooter.
* WeatherControlMachine: One of Adramelech powers. See {{Weather Manipulation}} below.
** WeatherManipulation: Apart of create lightnings, Adramelech can also manipulate the weather around his owner to produce thunderstorms and call lightnings to strike the enemies at his owner's pleasure.
* YellowLightningBlueLightning: In the anime at least, the colors of Adramalechs attacks are depicted as blue. However, Adramelech main movements in the manga are depicted as black-colored lightnings.
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!Tropes associated with Jaegers:
* ALighterShadeOfBlack: They can be very ruthless, but they are not barbarians. They don't indiscriminately kill the Empire's citizens unless they suspect them to working with LaResistance. Every member at least have their own share PetTheDog moments. This is very stark contrast to Wild Hunt where they are willing to kill the Empire's citizens for ''any'' reason ([[ForTheEvulz even for fun]]).
* AntiVillain: Some of the members such as Wave and Bols are this, especially considering that the Jaegars themselves don't actively abuse the populace of the Empire and are actually intent on protecting them. Unlike [[EvilerThanThou Wild Hunt]].
* BadassCrew: All the members of the group (except Dr. Stylish) are pretty good fighters that can wipe out armies and are very dangerous as their own. For this reason Najenda decides to confront them separately.
* BadassInANiceSuit: The first time the group assembled, their first order of business is to meet the emperor in stylish black suits.
* CurbStompBattle: One of the first missions of the Jaegers is to kill a group of bandits. At the beginning of the fight the bandits starts making cocky comments about the group and think they can win because they are more, even saying that they will take Kurome and Seryu for them. The Jaegers mop the floor with them without a scratch.
* TheDreaded: Esdeath is already bad enough news for anyone opposing the Empire. So naturally the team she leads also brings fear to rebels.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Even the worst members of their group have a strict moral code.
* EvilCounterpart: To Night Raid.
* {{Leitmotif}}: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5qhvynBgsE Jaegers. ]]
* PunchClockVillain: Other than [[CuteAndPsycho Seryu]], [[PsychoForHire Esdeath]] and [[MadScientist Dr. Stylish]] most of the members see being in the group as just a job and generally aren't villainous otherwise outside of combat.
* ThePsychoRangers: To Night Raid. Tatsumi even lampshades how similar the two opposing sides are.
** Esdeath to Najenda, the leaders of their respective groups and great tacticians.
** Kurome to Akame, child assassins who are one of the strongest memebers. Bonus points being also sisters.
** Wave to Tatsumi, newcomers to the team who become the OnlySaneMan. They also wear PoweredArmor with conflicting colors (White/Red vs Black/Blue).
** Run to Leone, yellow-themed characters who transform into animals (beast vs bird).
** Seryu to Mine, ruthless young girls devoted to their team and carry powerful ranged weapons. [[spoiler: This makes their fight well fit.]]
** Dr. Stylish to Lubbock, crazy geniuses with glove Teigus.
** Koro to Susanoo, being organic Teigus.
** Bols to Chelsea. One thinks he's a bad person despite being very nice, the other thinks she's doing good while being very rude and jaded. Also, one focuses on strength while the other uses deception.
* VillainousFriendship: Save for Dr. Stylish, they all seem to genuinely enjoy each other's company.
* VillainsOutShopping: Interestingly, the Jaegers are seen during their downtime from fighting, and some of them even have their own interesting background, such as Bols cooking for the others.
!! Esdeath
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-->''"The weak are destined to lie beneath the boots of the strong. If that angers you, overcome your deficits."''
--> '''Voiced by:''' Creator/SatomiAkesaka (Japanese), Creator/ChristineAuten (English)
Leader of the Jaegars. A high-ranking general and the most powerful fighter in the Empire. A true sadist, she is an expert in torture and ''loves'' to inflict it upon others (indeed, the prospect of her "personal" attention is seen as a [[FateWorseThanDeath terrible fate]]). Ironically, when offered a title of nobility for hunting down and destroying Night Raid, she instead wanted them to find someone she believed could be her OneTrueLove (to the utter shock of everyone in the room).
Her Teigu, Demon God Manifestation: Demon's Extract, is the blood of an ultra class Danger Beast that she drank, allowing her manipulate ice with immense skill.
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* AbductionIsLove: PlayedForLaughs. She couldn't understand why knocking out Tatsumi, dragging him to the palace and slapping a collar on him isn't a good idea. [[ComicallyMissingThePoint She just wants him to stand out as her lover]].
* AdaptationDistillation: After showing us what she did with the hero of the Northern Tribes, the anime adaptation removes several later instances of Esdeath's actual Sadist tendencies, relegating it to little more than her being a strong, though clearly AxCrazy, BloodKnight. It is still hammered home that she's a PsychoForHire, but most of what she's done is toned down, and it isn't the first instance of censorship in the anime.
* AffablyEvil: An extreme case where both sides are roughly balanced. She is a murderous, warmongering sadist who enjoys torture, pillages towns, and firmly believes in a survival of the fittest mindset. She is ''also'' AMotherToHerMen, expresses VillainRespect fairly frequently, doesn't care about achieving power (and turned down an offer of nobility when asked directly), [[{{Sadist}} mostly]] [[PunchClockVillain sees her line of work as just a job]] (and a way to find her OneTrueLove), and generally isn't villainous - some would even say ''kind'' - outside of combat.
* AMotherToHerMen: Surprisingly, considering her infamous sadism and cruelty. She will torture them as punishment for major screw ups, but it's light compared to what she does to enemies. In fact, when Run asked her point blank what they should do if confronted by her OneTrueLove, Esdeath ''unhesitatingly'' told him that if their lives were in danger, they had permission to kill him (although she privately admitted that she'd prefer to add Tatsumi as a subordinate rather than be faced with the scenario of killing him).
* AllWomenAreDomsAllMenAreSubs: Goes right along with her pure sadistic nature, but when she thinks Tatsumi is a masochist[[note]] After he asks her to PinchMe [[/note]], she is quite over joyed and thinks it's further proof they are made for each other.
* AnIcePerson: Her Teigu, Demon's Extract, can create ice from nothing, lots of ice. In fact, it's said to be the most powerful teigu in existence.
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: She's the {{Badass}} among badasses, outright stated to be the WorldsStrongestWoman, and because of this, she has one of the highest authorities in the Empire, is given a license to pretty much do whatever she wants, and anything that she wants will ultimately be given to her.
* AxCrazy: One of her more infamous moments came in her fight with Leone. Esdeath cut off Leone's ''breast'', just to see how quickly Leone could regenerate (and don't worry, she did regenerate pretty quickly). This is another instance where Esdeath's brutality is toned down in the anime - she never even meets Leone, let alone fights her, although the sequence where she scares Leone off from her KillingIntent remains. In general, many of the more horrific scenes, whether they had Esdeath or not, were removed entirely, which leaves Esdeath as still AxCrazy, but relatively hands-off in the anime.
* {{Badass}}: Indisputably the most powerful fighter in the series, ''bar none''.
* BarbarianTribe: She's from the far-north Partas tribe which specialize in hunting Dangerbeasts. Despite her years of living in the Capital, she's still a barbarian at heart with an inability to understand art and music. In the manga, she actively encourages her troops to rape and pillage.
* TheBaroness: The Sexpot type with the Rosa Klebb fear factor. She's attractive, incredibly sadistic, smitten with the young hero and is considered the most terrifying warrior of the Empire.
* {{Bathos}}: Casually slaughtering Danger Beasts in between bouts of acting like a schoolgirl with a crush on Tatsumi.
* BloodKnight: The reason she brutally kills all but a few people when putting down a rebellion. She wants that hatred to be preserved and spread once more, so another revolt happens in time, and that she may fight again. Hopefully against stronger/more worthy opponents.
%%* BreakoutVillain
* BreakTheBadass: She’s capable of doing this to every opponent but notable mention goes to ''[[SpiritedCompetitor Leone]]'' who flees from her just from the pressure of her ''KillingIntent''.
* CallingYourAttacks: Doesn't seem like she usually does this, but in episode 14 she comments that she did it specifically to show off for Tatsumi.
* TheChiefsDaughter: Back in her youth, she was the daughter of the Partas Clan Chief.
* ClingyJealousGirl: She literally smashed Suzuka into a wall for molesting Tatsumi and later gives Mine a terrifying DeathGlare when [[spoiler:she reveals herself as Tatsumi's girlfriend]].
* CombatStilettos
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: A RunningGag of hers, particularly when it involves Tatsumi. See AbductionIsLove above for just one example.
* CommissarCap: Fitting with her Nazi-esque motif.
* CovertPervert: When she gets Tatsumi in her room after slapping a collar on him, and he attempts to leave by claiming he needed to shower, she actually says "[[FemaleGaze Maybe we should have showered together...]]".
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Blue hair and eyes.
* CuteAndPsycho: She's AxCrazy as all-hell, and yet she can smile and blush like an innocent girl or a kindly mother. Tatsumi finds himself unnerved by it - he abhors her psycho side, but he's attracted to her cute/nice side.
** As a little girl, she's an adorable tribal but even her own father says that there's something missing inside of her as she smiles while scooping the eye out of a giant lizard.
* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: She also lets some of her opponents go, so as to spread more hatred towards the Empire and incite rebellions which she would then brutally suppress.
* DangerouslyShortSkirt: A minidress with the bottom modified like a skirt, so she has the short part down. Also the [[WorldsStrongestMan World's Strongest Woman]], so ''you better bet'' she got the dangerous part down.
* DarkActionGirl: She's sadistic, vicious and is known as The Empire's Strongest for damn good reason.
* {{Determinator}}: Esdeath is one dedicated woman who just won't give up on something she wants, as shown in her pursuit of Tatsumi. [[spoiler:When he refused to join her and rejected her love one last time because of having a girlfriend now, she had to execute him under the Empire's orders. She then pretended to pull an IfICantHaveYou and she planned to wound him bad enough so that he will seem dead, then take him away to presumably nurse him back to health and resume her attempts to get him to fall for her.]]
* DoomedHometown: She was pretty devastated to learn that her village was destroyed by a rival hunting clan. Even today, she mourns the loss of her father and her village.
* DragonInChief:
** She's only one in a long line of generals working for Prime Minister Honest (himself the root of all the corruption in the capitol), but she's [[SpotlightStealingSquad far more prominent]], [[InvincibleVillain far more powerful]], and [[TheHeavy holds much greater sway over the story than anyone else]], including Honest and [[OverlordJr Syura]]. In many ways, the only reason Honest is still the Prime Minister is because he's providing Esdeath with more and more enemies to fight, but if you mistreat her subordinates, you can kiss your ass ''goodbye'', and she's already proven that even the resident OverlordJr isn't safe from her wrath. Often times, it's very easy to mistake her as the BigBad instead.
** Additionally, she doesn't seem overly interested in the political scheming of the Prime Minister, she just loves to fight and he happens to provide her with enemies to crush. She also tells an [[spoiler: imprisoned Tatsumi she will force the Prime Minister to free him if he agrees to follow her]].
* TheDreaded: She's notorious for her power as well as her cruelty, to the point where most people would rather haul ass than to face her.
* EntitledToHaveYou: She thinks this about Tatsumi.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Having previously established the the Prince of the North was an unstoppably powerful warrior who'd never lost a battle, the very first time Esdeath appears in person said prince is naked, chained and collared, kneeling at her feet, literally licking her boots. She promptly kills him with one kick, almost as an afterthought.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: One of the clearer examples amongst the Jaegers; she finds Wild Hunt to be obnoxious and disgusting, most notably, and she found Seryu to be far to AxCrazy, so she [[PetTheDog told Kurome and Wave to loosen her up]] and reel in her SanitySlippage.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Tatsumi attempts to convince her to use her influence to better the Empire from within by appealing to the good side of her he's seen: He tries to explain how the drastic class gap could keep people who loved each other apart, but her obsession with SocialDarwinist philosophy causes her immediate response to be that she can't comprehend something like that. To her, the strong fight for what they want and if they're strong enough to survive, they do. If they don't, they're too weak and she doesn't care.
* EvilCounterpart: To Najenda.
* FinalBoss: Serves as one in episode 24 of the anime. Despite the Empire falling, Esdeath vows to continue her "hunt". And if she can't find any rebellions to put down, she'll simply start one. [[spoiler:Fortunately she's stopped by Akame before she's able to put that into action.]]
* ForcefulKiss: She steals a kiss from Tatsumi twice. Although the second time was because she wanted to know if they were living in an illusion when they were sent to an island by Syura (and says no, it's real, because the sensations are too strong for it to be fake). Nevertheless, [[ClingyJealousGirl Mine]] wasn't happy when Tatsumi told her about it.
* FourStarBadass: When you kick as much ass as her there's no other position except as a general.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: She used to be a normal little girl from the Northern Frontier Lands who lived happily with her father and loved nothing more than hunting. As she grew up, her father emphasized SocialDarwinist philosophy in her upbringing for her own sake; the Danger Beasts running rampant around their homeland meant that she'd die if she couldn't become a force to be reckoned with by the time she became old enough to hunt. However, her village was later wiped out during a raid by an enemy tribe. Fifteen years, the death of her father, the destruction of her village, and the drinking of demon blood later, and she's the most feared warrior in the entire series.
* GoOutWithASmile: [[spoiler:In episode 24 of the anime, after being mortally wounded by Akame, she smiles as she cradle's Tatsumi's corpse and slowly freezes herself and him, before disappearing into the air after the ice vaporizes them both.]]
* GracefulLoser: [[spoiler: After getting slashed in the chest by the Murasame, Esdeath is beginning to die. Even though she has power to spare, rather than continue the fight - she acknowledges Akame's victory and asks her how is that Akame has grown so strong. When Akame tells her it's the willingness to fight on behalf of others, Esdeath still can't understand but accepts that she lost fairly.]]
* GratuitousGerman: Most of her named attacks fall under this. [[spoiler: Averted with her [[Myth/HinduMythology trump card]].]]
* HeartbrokenBadass: After Tatsumi manages to escape from her... [[VillainousCrush love]].
* HeroKiller: She's responsible for the destruction of many prominent forces opposing the Empire, so she always had a fierce reputation (even Leone refused to fight her), but she definitely becomes one when she kills [[spoiler:Susanoo]].
* HiddenDepths: She may be a SocialDarwinist with a sadistic streak and a penchant for torture, but she's [[VillainTakesAnInterest looking for people who are strong]], so she may recruit them under her umbrella. If she sees you as strong, you're earned her respect, and she will [[UndyingLoyalty treat you as if you were family]]. Plus, she's looking for her OneTrueLove (no, really - and everyone who hears this is equally surprised). She's even overjoyed at the idea of said OneTrueLove being a masochist (which is [[PetTheDog oddly considerate]] of her). Perhaps because of that, she '''hates''' over-hyped strength (meaning, great fighters who turn out to be mere chumps when they face her, as she finds it incredibly boring). Even though she clearly enjoys annihilating her opponents, she has expressed a fairly strong sense of disappointment whenever they prove to be not as powerful as she thought; she regrets nothing, but appears sullen and bitter that they were not strong enough to challenge her. In addition, while she is merciless to her enemies, she's the type that would not accept mercy done to herself either; do not hold back, because she wouldn't hold back either.
* HiddenHeartOfGold: She's a sadistic SocialDarwinist who doesn't care how corrupt the empire becomes as long as she can fight, yet she respects strength above everything else, so if she thinks you're strong, she'll treat you almost like a mother or a very quirky older sister. She may be complicit in allowing the corruption of the Prime Minister, but she has enough of a code of honor not to actively torment the people of the Empire, and prefers to fight only active enemies of the Prime Minister. Furthermore, for all of her SocialDarwinist bravado, she has a ''massive'' problem with people who harm her subordinates, so even though she believes it is natural for the weak to die, she will take time out of her hands to avenge their deaths anyway, even though it goes against the very creed she's honoring her father over. In many ways, she's ''earned'' the loyalty of her fellow Jaegers, and she's [[PetTheDog actually very sweet]] to anyone whom she thinks is worth her time.
* HopelessSuitor: No matter how hard she tries, Tatsumi absolutely refuses to join her and become her lover. This comes to a head when [[spoiler:Tatsumi is revealed as a member of Night Raid and tells her he has a girlfriend now]] and Esdeath makes one last desperate attempt to make Tatsumi fall for her and become her subordinate. Once it becomes clear Tatsumi won't change his mind, [[IfICantHaveYou Esdeath decides to kill him so he can't be with anyone else]] [[spoiler:only to reveal in her inner thoughts that she never planned on actually killing him and still planned on getting him to fall for her.]]
* IControlMyMinionsThrough: Kindness, ironically. Despite her brutal philosophy, she's very kind (in her own way) and caring to her subordinates. She'll certainly torture them if they screw up badly, but she doesn't kill them, never cripples them, always heals them, and keeps it fairly light compared to her enemies. In fact, it's actually pretty rare for her to mistreat any of her subordinates ''at all'', and she tends to transfer money intended for her to her FacelessGoons instead. When Prime Minister Honest brings it up, Esdeath replies that she knows her soldiers will fight harder for her if they adore her rather than fear her. And to be fair, [[AMotherToHerMen her relationship with the Jaegers]] in particular shows that [[PetTheDog the devotion is mutual on her part]].
* IcyBlueEyes: To fit her general disposition, she has appropriately colored light blue eyes.
* IfICantHaveYou: She repeatedly tries her best to get Tatsumi to join her, and grows more desperate towards the end. Even when he let it slip that [[spoiler:he's already dating another girl]], she keeps trying, and clearly feels awful that he keeps rejecting her. Since he won't ever leave Night Raid, she ultimately decides to put Tatsumi up for a PublicExecution [[spoiler:but doesn't intend to actually kill him; instead, she plans to wound him bad enough so that he will seem dead, then take him away to presumably nurse him back to health and resume her attempts to get him to fall for her.]]
* ImTakingHimHomeWithMe: Tatsumi is the first person she encounters who fits her criteria for her perfect match, so she kidnaps him with the entire stadium full of spectators watching. No joke! She slaps a collar around his neck, starts to drag him off, and ''knocks him out when he asks her to wait a moment.''
-->'''Tatsumi:''' WAIT! Hold on a--\\
'''Esdeath:''' ''(Hits Tatsumi on the back of the neck.)'' No, I will not wait. Lets go to the palace where we can talk alone. \\
''Esdeath slings an unconsious Tatsumi over her shoulder and walks off.)''\\
''(A panel showing the spectators' reactions that includes a dumbfounded man, a stunned woman, and an utterly distraught Esdeath fanboy.)''\\
'''Lubbock:''' [[BigWhat WHAT THE HELL JUST HAPPENED??!!]]
* InLoveWithYourCarnage: She gets quite turned on when fighting against Tatsumi's [[spoiler:powered up mode]].
* {{Jerkass}}: She's actually ''very'' aware of how the Prime Minister is manipulating the emperor and allowing the Capital to become corrupt and rampant with crime, but doesn't really care as long as she can fight and recruit strong people. Her adherence to SocialDarwinism is the main reason Tatsumi doesn't think LoveRedeems in her case.
* TheJuggernaut: In the course of the entire story Esdeath has ''never'' been harmed when she enters a fight. If her opponents aren't done in by her OneHitKill blows, they are immediately incapacitated or [[ColdBloodedTorture worse]]. This comes to a head in the Bolic arc, when she takes down [[spoiler: [[PoweredArmor Incursio Tatsumi]], [[LightningBruiser Leone]], [[SuperMode Magatama Susanoo]], and [[HandicappedBadass Najenda]] ]] ''singlehandedly''.
--->'''Najenda''': If you make a mistake, we'll crash head on into Esdeath. We don't have enough soldiers to face her yet.\\
'''Tatsumi''': How many do you think we'll need to defeat her?\\
'''Najenda''': [[NoKillLikeOverkill Fifty thousand elite soldiers]], and [[UpToEleven at least ten Teigu users like Akame.]]
* KickTheDog: Naturally, being a sadist, she enjoys doing this. Her two most notable crimes include encouraging her men to rape the female members of the Ban tribe while forcing the men to watch, then burying almost half-a-million civilians alive out of spite.
* KickTheSonOfABitch: She helps put Syura on a HumiliationConga and forces Wild Hunt to disband as payback for killing one of her Jaegers. Wild Hunt '''definitely had it coming'''.
* {{Leitmotif}}: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qP7JqSVC7gc Esdeath.]] Essentially the theme for the Jaegars without the lyrics.
* LifeOrLimbDecision: In the anime, [[spoiler:Akame wounds her left arm in their final battle. Esdeath then cuts it off to prevent the poison from spreading through her body.]]
* LightningBruiser: Most of her blows are OneHitKill and she's fast enough to dodge attacks from [[spoiler: [[PoweredArmor Incursio Tatsumi]]]] and [[SuperMode Magatama Susanoo]] ''simultaneously''. That's not even taking into account of her [[AnIcePerson Teigu]].
* LoveAtFirstSight: She falls for Tatsumi after watching him win a tournament and she goes to greet him personally. While he's expecting a cash payment, she instead puts a leash on him, then knocks him out and takes him into the palace.
* LoveFreak: She's pretty damn obsessed with Tatsumi, which makes her simultaneously CuteAndPsycho.
* LoveRedeems: {{Subverted}}. Tatsumi realized that she can't be changed from her current standpoint, because she isn't just a product of society or her time; she really is insane and nothing will change that, so he figures that she ''needs'' to lose if there is to be any progress at all.
* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: [[spoiler:In the anime she cuts off her own arm to avoid Murasame's killing effect and isn't slowed down at all afterward.]]
* MamaBear: This is a recurring theme with Esdeath. Despite everything, she's rather protective of her subordinates. When River, Nyau, and Daidara were all killed, Esdeath - naturally - cursed them for being too weak and claimed it was "only natural" for them to die. Yet, she still gave each a proper burial, planted flowers on each of their tombstones, bowed her head, and declared her desire to avenge their deaths anyway. Also, despite wholeheartedly believing that the weak should be left to rot, she's known to comfort her comrades when they are in emotional pain (like Seryu), advises and mentors them like a mother, puts their families under her protection, and often swears revenge if any of her soldiers were killed. In addition, after one of her subordinates was killed by Wild Hunt, Esdeath swears to exact revenge, despite Wild Hunt's leader being ''the Prime Minister's son''.
* MarshmallowHell: Hugs Tatsumi's face into her chest in Episode 14.
---> '''Esdeath''': Let's get to know one another better!
* MeaningfulName: Esdeath --> S Desu, which means "I am a sadist" in Japanese
* MiniDressOfPower: Part of her IconicOutfit.
* MoralMyopia: Zigzagged, if not subverted. Esdeath's contempt for Wild Hunt may seem out of place on paper, due to her sharing sadistic and TortureTechnician traits with their leader, Syura. However, her contempt for Wild Hunt stems from their indiscriminate targeting of Imperial civilians (whom Esdeath protects as a Jaeger), genuine distaste for their wanton (and often pointless) cruelty, their StupidEvil tendencies, and their killing of one of her subordinates. She isn't an angel by any means, but Wild Hunt remains EvilerThanThou to the Jaegers as a whole.
* MsFanservice: Even more so than Leone. Many a MaleGaze is dedicated to Esdeath.
* MrsRobinson: Esdeath is in her early twenties and she tries to make Tatsumi who is in his teens fall for her. She even states that she prefers younger men... Oh and the reason for that is because she want to be the dominant partner in the relationship as she stated.
* NatureVersusNurture: It is true that her SocialDarwinist mindset is the result of being raised in a very rural, unforgiving area of the continent where Danger Beasts ran rampant and her tribe being wiped out by a rival tribe. However, her penchant for sadism and enjoyment of torture is implied to be nature, not nurture. The northern tribes who decimated her village? She holds no ill will towards them, because as her father once said about her mother, if they lost, it was because they were too weak, and it is the natural order of things in the world. She decimated them because [[PunchClockVillain that was what her job entailed]], and she admits she probably would've killed them eventually anyway even if she wasn't a general (since they were a rival hunting tribe to begin with). Nevertheless, she still mourns the loss of her father and hometown, ''does'' protect the normal people of the Empire, prefers to cut loose only on her enemies, and she has since developed a massive BerserkButton towards ''anyone'' who harms her subordinates, so the question is rather ''how much'' of a sadist would she have been if things played out differently for her life. And to be fair, being given a name (see MeaningfulName above) that forced her to claim to be a sadist every time she introduced herself might have something to do with it.
* NobleDemon: The most triumphant example from the Jaegers (and definitely when compared to Wild Hunt). She's ''horrific'' to her enemies, but she doesn't actively abuse the people of TheEmpire, only fights direct opponents of the Prime Minister, has no issues with her soldiers protecting citizens of the Empire, largely sees her line of work as a job (although one she [[BloodKnight definitely enjoys WAY too much]]), possesses a sense of honor and respect to people worth her time, and genuinely cares for her subordinates - even when they disappoint or annoy her. While none of her actions are excusable, she's definitely one of the comparatively nicer villains in the series.
* NotGoodWithRejection: Yes and no. She's ''very'' driven to getting Tatsumi under her wing, but he keeps saying no. Eventually, she gives up when she realizes that he will never change his answer, [[spoiler:and begrudgingly decides to have him put up for execution while planning to wound him bad enough to make others think he's dead, take him away, and presumably heal him up and continue her attempts to win him over.]]
* OhCrap: When she realizes that [[spoiler: the Akame she froze in time is actually an afterimage.]]
* OneWomanArmy: As Najenda herself estimated, she is worth ''no less'' than ten Teigu users and 50,000 soldiers.
* PantyShot: Zigzagged. Every now and then, we see brief black bars from underneath her skirt, which we assume to be her undergarments. However, in episode 19, when there's a clear shot of her crotch, there's a silhouette covering her panties. It's a fairly awkward form of censorship.
* PetTheDog: Surprisingly often. Among other such occasions, she comforts Seryu when she is devastated over Stylish's death (even [[WhenSheSmiles smiles sweetly]] when Seryu falls asleep in her arms), she shows a much softer side to her subordinates, she prefers to see Susano'o as a warrior and not simply as a Teigu, she personally nurtured Tatsumi when they were stranded on the island, she keeps the actual families of her soldiers under protection, she doesn't treat Bols any differently after taking off his mask (and even smiles after seeing it firsthand), she's incredibly protective of her subordinates (even when it ''goes against'' her SocialDarwinist creed), and orders her soldiers to protect the fleeing civilians at a botched PublicExecution.
* PowerBornOfMadness: She gained her Teigu by drinking the blood of a particularly demonic Danger Beast. It littered her mind with destructive, murderous thoughts, that she was able to control due to Esdeath herself being destructive and murderous (although she mentions that the demon blood has since been tamed).
* PowerTattoo: That marking on her chest, just above her cleavage, is her Teigu, and the reason she's AnIcePerson.
* PsychoForHire: She's a sadist through and through (although how much of one would she have been is up for debate) - perfect for the position of General in TheEmpire's military.
* PuttingOnTheReich: Between her her doubled-buttoned blazer, CommissarCap and job subjugating enemies of the state, there's definitely some association to the Third Reich in her character.
* RapunzelHair: Par course for the series.
* RedBaron: The Empire's Strongest.
* RoyalRapier: Her weapon of choice.
* {{Sadist}}: One of her most defining characteristics, as it's heavily implied that she's a sadist by nature. There's nothing that she enjoys more than the suffering and pain of others.
* SexyShirtSwitch: She dons a plain white shirt, complete with AbsoluteCleavage and ShesGotLegs, when she gets Tatsumi to her room after a shower.
* ShamelessFanserviceGirl: She has no qualms about showing off her body in front of Tatsumi whatsoever.
* SingleTargetSexuality: She's Tatsumisexual.
* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: She's primarily searching for her OneTrueLove... which just happens to be [[NiceGuy Tatsumi]]. In general, she seems to have a natural liking towards good men. Other than Tatsumi, she holds a ton of respect for [[MyCountryRightOrWrong General Budo]], she prefers to see Susano'o as a man instead of a tool, she personally broke Liver out of prison, and she lets a small smile as well as a very tiny blush upon removing Bols' mask and persuading him to overcome his shyness. Tatsumi fits all of the traits she wants in a man, though.
* SmittenTeenageGirl: Not a teenager, but she definitely acts like this around Tatsumi.
* SocialDarwinist: An extreme example, she believes it only natural for the weak to die. Indeed, she even states she cannot understand "the feelings of the weak." It's to the point that when Tatsumi tries to reason with her and get her to use her influence to help eliminate some of the corruption within, appealing to the fact that she loves him with a scenario of a girl who's kept from her love by the large social gaps and corruption, she coldly states that she doesn't understand such things. This mindset is why Tatsumi keeps rejecting her advances.
* SuperpowerLottery: Being gifted with the [[AnIcePerson Demon's Extract]] automatically wins her this, allowing her to create ''gigantic'' blocks of ice out of thin air with little effort and instantaneously freeze anything within seconds. If that's not enough she has OneHitKill blows, she's fast enough FlashStep around her opponents, and has an impeccable [[SpiderSense sixth sense]]. If all that fails she can [[spoiler: ''[[TimeStandsStill briefly freeze space and time once a day]]'']].
* TogetherInDeath: [[spoiler:In the anime, after being mortally wounded by Akame, Esdeath freezes herself along Tatsumi's corpse before shattering both into pieces.]]
* TortureTechnician: Esdeath ''loves'' to torture people and her hobby seems to be finding new ways to make them suffer. The capital has a industrial scale torture chamber that she takes direct charge of whenever she's around; at one point upon seeing a vat full of people boiling alive, she demanded the water temperature be lowered simply to make them suffer longer.
* VillainessesWantHeroes: A fairly major part of her role in the plot is her love for Tatsumi.
* VillainousBreakdown: A subtle example, she gradually loses some of her composure when Akame manages to get the upper hand during the fight with her.
* VillainousCrush: On Tatsumi, who managed to fit all her criteria for a lover plus the extra one (A pure and innocent smiling face would be nice). It seems to be genuine LoveAtFirstSight for her, as she only becomes softer and kinder when she's around him and is pretty determined in her efforts to get him to fall in love with her (even asking Bols for advice) despite the fact he stated he was going to join the revolutionary army.
* VillainRespect: After seeing [[spoiler:Susanoo]] perform a HeroicSacrifice, Esdeath is so impressed that she vows to remember him, not as a Teigu, but as a warrior. It's one of her more poignant PetTheDog moments.
* WeCanRuleTogether: She constantly tries to convince Tatsumi to join the Empire and become her subordinate, but he always refuses. She eventually gives up and decides that if Tatsumi won't join her, she will have to kill him herself - [[NotSoDifferent similar to how Tatsumi himself declared that if he can't convince her, then he will have to kill her as well]].
* WomanInWhite: In contrast to all the red she spills, Esdeath's outfit is white as snow. In addition, her skin is practically porcelain.
* WorldsBestWarrior: Acknowledged as the most formidable and feared warrior in the Empire.
* {{Yandere}}: One of the rarer cases in that she never attempts to MurderTheHypotenuse. Instead, her psychotic nature generally comes from outside her interactions with Tatsumi, until he [[spoiler:tells her he has a girlfriend now and refuses to join her one last time]]. She still loves Tatsumi, but would rather have him executed as opposed to letting anyone else take him. [[spoiler:Though the execution was something she wasn't really planning on carrying out...]]
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Her hair is light blue.
* ZettaiRyouiki: She wears a pair of white thigh-high boots.
!!!Teigu: Demon's Extract
* BloodMagic: The Demon's Extract is the blood of a Danger Beast that could control ice.
* FateWorseThanDeath: Those who consume it and are not compatible are DrivenToMadness, a fate all those before Esdeath have suffered
* HearingVoices: Drinking it will cause a person to hear voices commanding them to commit all kinds of heinous actions. Esdeath was too powerful and claims the voices have been tamed.
* KillItWithIce: Allows Esdeath to do this whenever she likes thanks to the Demon's Extract being able to infinitely produce ice from nothing.
* PsychoSerum: Takes the form of a ominous purple liquid that is consumed to gain its powers. Those who are not compatible are driven insane.
* RedBaron: Demon God Manifestation: Demon's Extract
* SwissArmySuperpower: Because she can create ice without limitation, her powers can be used for all sorts of tasks. She can use ice to create bridges, give her a vantage spot, restrain or kill individuals, etc.
!! Wave
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-->''"Protecting the powerless is simply a soldier's duty!"''
--> '''Voiced by:''' Creator/YoshimasaHosoya
A former member of the Imperial Navy recruited by Esdeath as a member of the Jaegars. Wave is a simple man of common upbringing and is initially naive of the corruption of the Empire. Harboring strong convictions of honor and duty, Wave works tirelessly to make the Empire a better place for all.
His Teigu is Carnage Incarnate: Grand Chariot, a counterpart to the Incursio armor, but considered the superior model.
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!!! Tropes associated with Wave
* AntiVillain: He doesn't really like the state the empire's in and is very well aware of the immense corruption of the nobles and of the [[PsychoForHire more psychotic members]] of his group but he embraces his role as an enforcer due to a debt from an unseen savior back in the navy.
* AvengingTheVillain: During Bolic's assassination, one of his main motives to fight Night Raid is to avenge the deaths of [[spoiler: Bols, Seryu and Coro]] at the hands of the assassins.
* AwesomenessByAnalysis: Of a sorts. He is capable of very quickly learning his opponent's attack patterns and style, even unpredictable and unfamiliar ones like Syura's.
* {{Badass}}: Despite his {{Butt Monkey}} moments, [[spoiler: he [[CurbStompBattle curb stomp]] Tatsumi with Incursio equipped, surpasses Lubbock, Akame and Mine at the same time and beat Syura in a fist to fist fight, despite the fact that the latter is a very good physical fighter.]]
* BerserkButton: Hurting or threatening to hurt any of his comrades in front of him, especially [[ShipTease Kurome]], is a quick way of getting a fist in your face, just ask Syura.
* ButtMonkey: He tends to get the short end of the stick at times, from his punishment by Esdeath for allowing Tatsumi to escape to constantly being ejected off the battlefield by the Night Raid.
* TheConfidant: Acts as one for Kurome.
* CountryMouse: He is transferred to the capital via Esdeath's request for him. He tries his best not to look like a country bumpkin, but unfortunately he's still seen as one by many of the citizens there.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass:
** [[ButtMonkey When given the opportunity,]] Wave has demonstrated that he can [[CurbStompBattle curb stomp]] an [[spoiler: Incursio clad Tatsumi]] and overpower Akame, Mine, and Lubbock ''simultaneously''.
** In addition to this, he can [[spoiler:fight [[BareFistedMonk Syura]] in hand to hand combat, barring Teigu, and successfully defeat him. Bearing in mind that Syura is a much more established martial artist.]]
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Dark blue eyes and hair. {{Averted}} in the anime, when his hair is more dark than his eyes.
* DeclarationOfProtection: Quietly declares to himself that he will protect Kurome and the burden of her side of any fight so that her [[spoiler: GameBreakingInjury won't be revealed to the Empire and so that she won't use the now zombified Run for battle.]]
* DeusExitMachina: When Night Raid went after Kurome the first thing they do is send Wave flying off a la [[Anime/{{Pokemon}} Team Rocket]]. Fights against Imperial Arms users are tough enough and Wave is one of the stronger members of the Jaegers. Probably third strongest [[spoiler: and he later ties with Kurome as second strongest due to her GameBreakingInjury]].
* EvilCounterpart: A subversion for Tatsumi. The Jaegers are antagonists but he is a Type IV AntiVillain, their characters and Teigus are pretty much the same.
* FailureHero: From little things like cheering up his teammates to actually protecting them, Wave finds repeatedly that he is incapable of either.
* {{Foil}}: A rather obvious one for Tatsumi.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: His joining of the Jaegers and subsequent adventures with them, run parallel to Tatsumi's own.
* HypocriticalHumor: He laments the way most people react with fear or disgust to Bols due to the mask he wears along with his large size, despite usually trying to help them. Wave is then immediately reminded by the other Jaeger members of his first reaction to Bols when the Jaegers were first forming, and how he freaked out as well.
* ItsAllMyFault: He blames himself for [[spoiler:being knocked out from the Night Raid ambush that resulted in the death of Bols.]]
* LightningBruiser: While in Grand Chariot, he is powerful enough to overpower three Night Raid members, outrun ''Akame'' and like Incursio is NighInvulnerable.
* MoralityPet: He tends to bring out Kurome's more cuter and sweeter side of her personality.
* NaiveNewcomer: In comparison to the other members of Jaegars.
* NiceGuy: Actively believes his job will change the corrupt crime rampant within the empire and is always seen getting along with fellow members of the Jaegars, [[ShipTease especially]] [[DefrostingIceQueen Kurome]].
* NotSoDifferent: When talking to Tatsumi in episode 10, both of them learn they have issues with their respective teammates. Were they not on opposing sides, they likely would have been good friends and allies.
* ObliviousToLove: Not surprisingly, considering how he's a clear mirror of Tatsumi; he doesn't seem to realize how increasingly, Kurome's feelings for him aren't just those of friendship and camaraderie.
* OnlySaneMan: In the [[PsychoForHire Jaegars]].
* RageBreakingPoint: While Wave could put up with the Jaegars at first; when he sees Wild Hunt's actions, he completely loses it.
* {{Ship Tease}}: With Kurome. She didn't care very much for him in the beginning, but after Bolic assassination, she opens more to him. Their relationship became so close that Wave even [[spoiler: beat Syura to a nearly death state because he tried to rape Kurome.]]
* SignatureScent: Due to his many years out at sea and his love of sea food, many people commented that Wave's scent reek of the ocean. During his introduction, many of the people found his scent to be unpleasant. So far, only Kurome seems to be the only one to enjoy his scent, or at the every least, she is willing to stand it to be with Wave.
* SkilledButNaive: Esdeath makes it a point to inform Wave that his strength is perfect; but how he lacks mental fortitude, and thus as a result can be easily deceived or misled.
* ThisIsUnforgivable: When he witnesses Wild Hunt's actions; most notably their [[spoiler:rape and murder of Bols' wife and daughter '''on his own grave''', and Syura's attempted assault on Kurome, which brings him to a RageBreakingPoint.]]
* ThoseTwoBadGuys: "Bad" might be a little harsh when describing Wave, but he starting to become this with Kurome, as the two seen together more than the other Jaegers and are rarely far apart from one another.
* TokenGoodTeammate: The only person in the Jaegars that has absolutely no irredeemable qualities whatsoever. He’s never even seen killing a person, civilian or criminal, at all.
* WhatTheHellHero: He calls out Kurome [[spoiler:for continuously making use of Run's deceased body as one of her corpse puppets. He also calls her on casually assuming that the EmptyShell of their deceased friend is enough to substitute the fact that he's no longer alive.]]
* WoodenShipsAndIronMen: In his introduction, Wave mentions that before joining the Jaegers he served in the Imperial Navy fighting with pirates and Danger Beast to return a favor to a Captain of the Navy.
!!! Teigu: Grand Chariot
* BadassCape: It even ''[[AntiGravityClothing floats]]''.
* CoolMask: The armor comes with a helmet with a mask.
* DarkIsNotEvil: It's all black armor, but don't forget that Wave is actually one of the most merciful members of the entire cast.
* {{Flight}}: Grand Chariot trades the InvisibilityCloak of Incursio for the usage of being able to fly for short amounts of time.
* ImpossiblyCoolClothes: Encompassing the wearer's back is a shield that floats without any support.
* InstantArmor: He can summon it at any time.
* PowerArmor: Grand Chariot was also made from the flesh of Tyrant after Incursio and Wave confidently states that because of this fact Grand Chariot is superior to its predecessor.
* NighInvulnerability: A given fact considering it was made from the same Danger Beast as Incursio, but it also proves rather effective at blocking attacks from Akame's [[OneHitKill Murasame]].
* RedBaron: Carnage Incarnate: Grand Chariot
* SuperStrength: Grand Chariot is capable of cracking the defenses of Incursio with ''one kick'', a Teigu known for [[NighInvulnerability nigh invulnerable armor]].
!! Bols
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-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/EijiTakemoto
An intimidating, masked member of the Empire's Incineration Squad. Before joining the Jaegars, Bols's duty was to wipe out whole villages, burning troublesome buildings and populations to the ground in the name of the Empire. When not on duty, Bols is a compassionate family man with a loving wife and daughter he adores.
His Teigu is Purgatory's Invitation: Rubicante, a powerful flamethrower.
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!!! Tropes associated with Bols
* AlasPoorVillain: After a long battle against the Night Raid he is ultimately dispatched by [[spoiler:Chelsea, who takes the form of a little girl who was once a citizen of a village Bols burned to ashes. He dies crawling to the memory of his wife and child.]]
-->'''Bols''': [[FamousLastWords I have to return home... Because they are both waiting... I have to return...]]
* AntiVillain: Firmly believes karma will catch up to him for his actions. He still does his job for the sake of his wife and child.
* BeingEvilSucks: He is well aware that his actions are terrible and has a horrible self-image as a result. Even so, he does his job to put food on the table.
* {{Expy}}: Of Maes Hughes from [[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist Fullmetal Alchemist]]. Both are devoted family men who are obsessed with their wife and young daughter. Both are soldiers who worked for a corrupted government, despite being out of the nicest characters in their series. If that is not enough to convince you, both [[spoiler: were ultimately tricked and killed by a shapeshifter and spent their last moment's thinking about their families.]]
* TheFaceless: We never see his face. The anime does not directly show his face, but closeups and a shot from behind show that he is blond and blue-eyed.
* FaceOfAThug: Between the scary mask, massive body and grizzly scars, people are surprised to find Bols is actually a really sweet guy.
* FreakyFashionMildMind: Despite wearing a creepy mask that freaks out nearly anyone he meets, Bols is actually a really nice guy and one of the most sympathetic villains in the series.
* FriendToAllChildren: In addition to having a child of his own, he goes out of his way to care for a lost and injured girl.
* GenreBlindness: Lets face it, the moment he started talking about [[spoiler: his happy family, we knew he was doomed.]]
* GoodScarsEvilScars: He has a scar across his chest that looks like claw marks. They signify he is a tough guy who apparently has tangled with dangerous creatures in the past and survived.
* HappilyMarried: He has a wife and a daughter who love him as much as he loves them (i.e. very deeply). To the shock of everyone else in the group.
* NiceGuy: If it wasn't for his [[PunchClockVillain occupation]] Bols would be the nicest character in the series.
* PlayingWithFire: As part of the Incineration Squad.
* PunchClockVillain: Despite having a job that entails burning down entire cities, innocents included, he still views it as a job.
* ShoutOut: Big muscular guy carrying a {{BFG}} attached to a huge barrel backpack? Are we talking about [[MetalGearSolid Vulcan Raven]]?
* ShrinkingViolet: The first time Wave meets him, Bols is so nervous that he just stares silently at him until several other Jaegars show up.
* SuperStrength: He can beat Danger Beasts into submission with his bare hands.
* SupremeChef: He is noted by Wave to be an excellent chef, often making the meals eaten by the Jaegars.
* TakingYouWithMe: When he has his back to a corner he triggers a massive explosion in a last ditch attempt to kill Night Raid. Subverted in that Bols and even his targets survive.
* WrestlerInAllOfUs: He takes down some Danger Beasts with lariats and suplexes.
!!!Teigu: Rubicante
* {{Fireballs}}: Aside from functioning as a standard flamethrower, Rubicante can also fire highly-concentrated fireballs as a long-range attack.
* FireBreathingWeapon: Rubicante is a flamethrower can expel flames so hot that [[{{Hellfire}} even water can’t extinguish it]].
* {{Hellfire}}: The fire of Rubicante cannot be extinguished with water, leaving the poor soul who is burned by him in a large agony.
* KillItWithFire: Can spew seemingly endless flames that burn hotter than normal flames and cannot be extinguished by water. These flames have reduced many villages and people to nothing.
* RedBaron: Purgatory's Invitation: Rubicante
* SelfDestructMechanism: Rubicante's tank can be detonated via a button switch, causing a massive explosion. This of course will destroy Rubicante, and should only be used when absolutely desperate.
!! Dr. Stylish
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--> '''Voiced by:''' Creator/KenNarita
A brilliant doctor and scientist of the Empire scouted by Esdeath to join the Jaegars. Though unparalleled in his practice, Dr. Stylish is a man of questionable morals, taking great pleasure in experimenting on living beings, especially humans.
His Teigu is Glorious Hands of God: Perfector, a pair of gloves that multiply Stylish's hand dexterity many times over, allowing him to heal nearly any wound short of death.
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!!! Tropes associated with Dr. Stylish
* AgentPeacock: The best scientist in the Empire, who is also a vain, campy pretty boy.
* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: When he injects himself with something in episode 11, he grows monstrously huge.
* BadBoss: He doesn't care for his subordinates, only sees them as pawns to defeat Night Raid and only give them an antidote for his drug to make them capture the heroes. His true colors are revealed eventually with Susanoo's arrival, when he explode his minions trying to kill Night Raid and later eat the ones who stayed with him to become stronger after his transformation.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: He fakes to be kind with his minions for personal gain. He didn't care about them at all.
* CampGay: He blatantly hits on his fellow male Jaegars, except [[HappilyMarried Bols]], and even offers his transformed human experiments a “night alone” with him if they manage to kill any Night Raid.
* CatchPhrase: "Stylish."
* CombatMedic: He can deal a healthy dose of asskicking with his minion army while also repairing (and upgrading) any of his allies with his Teigu, Perfector, saving them from anything less than death.
* CombatTentacles: Syringe tipped tentacles.
* CrazyPrepared: As expected from a {{mad scientist}}. He brings all his mooks in the battle against Night Raid (this mooks are very resistant and one of them knocked down Leone with ease) including two of his more competent servants, a big guy who owns [[spoiler: Exctase]] and a {{bishonen}} with artificial limbs that give a nice battle to Akame herself. When they are defeated, he makes the rest of his troops to battle the members and displays a poisonous gas to defeat Night Raid more easily. When Susanoo appear, he explode his mooks and seeing that this doesn't harm the Teigu, proceeds to use his final card: as syringe with Danger Beast DNA that turns him into a powerful monster, and after eating his last subordinates, he became even more powerful. Seriously, if Najenda didn't reach to the base at time, he probably would've defeated Night Raid.
* TheDandy: His obsession with his image and being stylish make him this.
* EvilIsHammy: The way he talks and moves tends to be extremely melodramatic.
* {{Expy}}: Of Szayel Aporro Granz from {{Manga/Bleach}}: Both are [[{{Camp}} campy]] but [[AgentPeacock brilliant]] scientist working for the bad guys, [[TheDandy worried about their image]], both fight with their weird {{mooks}} rather than by himself, eat them to became stronger/cure his wounds and go [[spoiler: {{One Winged Angel}}]] in their battle with the good guys. [[spoiler: Also the two of them have very different deaths; while Szayel suffer a [[{{Cruel and Unusual Death}} slow and painful death due Mayuri's drug]], Stylish die immediately due to [[OneHitKill Murasame's poison.]]]]
* TheFightingNarcissist: He openly flaunts his good looks and "style." Even in his OneWingedAngel form he calls himself the ultimate in stylishness.
* FlunkyBoss: When he attacks the Night Raid hideout he send his entire minion army to attack them while he stands back and watches the outcome of the battle.
* FourEyesZeroSoul: Considering that he is a {{mad scientist}} who hasn't any consideration with the human life, love to realize sick experiments on people and also wears glasses, it's nothing strange.
* FullFrontalAssault: After using a serum on himself that made him grow to Danger Beast size, his clothes were torn to shreds.
* GenreSavvy: He is the only one of the Jaegers that suspects from Tatsumi being part of Night Raid. He was right indeed.
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: He gave an antidote to his minions so that they would be immune to his poison weapon, making his subordinates praise him for caring. He then reveals he rigged those same minions with bombs to use against Night Raid, showing that he doesn't actually have any respect or care for them.
* KickTheDog: His treatment of his subordinates during the battle with Night Raid make him to do this.
* LabCoatOfScienceAndMedicine: Never leaves his experiment dungeon without it!
* MadScientist: Loves to experiment on humans and seeks to create weapons more powerful than Teigus.
* MeaningfulName: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin He's basically a Doctor obsessed with being stylish.]]
* {{Megane}}: To really play up his "doctor" look.
* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: Specializing in human experimentation.
* OneWingedAngel: After his army is destroyed and realizes Night Raid is coming for his head, Stylish [[spoiler:[[PlayingWithSyringes injects himself with a syringe]] transforming himself into a giant monster.]]
* PetTheDog: For all his immoralities, he was genuinely kind to Seryu.
* ScarilyCompetentTracker: He has three specially modified minions who have enhanced [[SuperSenses hearing, scent and vision]] to help him track down Tatsumi.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Despite being the first of the Jeagers to die and the one who's least screentime, his impact on the story and his investigations take a key role later. Examples include him meeting Ogre to make Seryu's body modifications [[spoiler: who caused Scheele's death]], the creation of [[spoiler:Humanoid Danger Beast that later Syura uses to cause chaos on the Empire]], his discovery of [[spoiler: the Danger Beast DNA in the Leader of the Oath of Peace]] and the most recent one, the coming of Dorothea to the Capital only to meet him.
* SquishyWizard: He has an army of human experiments at his disposal that each have a variety of different upgrades and enhancements but stays back because he himself lacks any kind of offensive ability. [[spoiler: At least before his OneWingedAngel.]]
* SkunkStripe: He has a streak of white through his black hair. After assuming his OneWingedAngel form, the rest of his hair turns white.
* WeHaveReserves: Zigzagged. He initially doesn't seem concerned with the death of a few of his footsoldiers, due to having a large pool of them available via criminals in prison. However, he later uses a drug to knock out the Night Raid members other than Tatsumi, who isn't affected by it due to his Imperial Arms, and comments that the huge loss of men forced his hand. And when he transforms, he eats the minions who were with him until he was directly attacked.
* TheWorfEffect: When he uses his monster form, that he claims to be very strong, to defeat Night Raid, is quickly defeated by all them united, leaving us without knowing his true strength.
!!!Teigu: Perfector
* EliteMook: Created several of these each capable of giving Night Raid members trouble.
* {{Red Baron}}: Glorious Hands of God: Perfector
* TrickedOutGloves: Perfector allows Stylish to basically do what he does best, but even better. He can perform surgery and experiment faster than humanly possible.
* MadeOfIron: Stylish's soldiers are very hard to kill, capable of recovering from normally fatal wounds like a broken neck and ignoring getting their limbs removed.
!! Kurome
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-->''"To kill the one you love... If someone else will do it anyway, I'd rather do it myself."''
-->'''Voiced by:''' Ayaka Ohashi
Akame's younger sister recruited by Esdeath to form the Jaegars. Like her sister, Kurome is a skilled assassin, forcibly trained since childhood by the Empire to kill effectively and without remorse. She holds a grudge against Akame for abandoning her and their former assassin squad in favor of joining Night Raid.
Her Teigu is March of the Dead: Yatsufusa, a katana that has the power to convert those it kills into undead puppets for Kurome to command.
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!!! Tropes associated with Kurome
* AlienLunch: She's such a BigEater that when the Jaegars capture some new humanoid Dangerbeasts, Kurome started salivating and started approaching them hungrily. She only backed off when Esdeath ordered her not to eat them. To make the scene squickier, those Dangerbeasts were former humans.
* AntiVillain: In manga, she more or less becomes this after having some [[CharacterDevelopment character development]]. Like Akame, she truly care about her comrades. Also, she agrees with Wave and Run that the empire needs to be changed for the better and fully supports Wave's campaign to change the Empire for within.
* {{Badass}}: She’s easily the second strongest Jaegar after [[WorldsStrongestMan General Esdeath]], capable on taking on the ''entire'' Night Raid with her [[{{Necromancer}} Yatsufusa]] and almost winning. She’s also the only person that can clash swords with [[OneHitKill Akame]] and come out unscathed with no allies or supernatural assistance.
* BadassAdorable: Her allies and enemies alike take note of how cute she is until she cuts a group of soldiers to pieces in a single motion.
* BadassBoast
-->It seems if you want to kill me... You’ll have to do something like squash my heart or separate my head from my body.
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: The very fact that both Run and Wave treated her with kindness is one of the main reasons why Kurome is emotionally attached to both Run and Wave. [[spoiler:[[SubvertedTrope This actually plays a role in Run turning into Kurome's corpse puppets]].]]
* BigEater: She eats cookies like [[UpToEleven Akame eats meat]].
* CainAndAbel: Cain to Akame's Abel, mainly because she betrayed her and the Empire.
* CharacterDevelopment: She's initially introduced as the ruthless [[CuteAndPsycho psychopathic]] assassin who's main goal in life was being her older sister's [[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou sole murderer]]. Eventually through her interactions within the [[TrueCompanions Jaegars]] and Wave's kindness she begins to show a [[WhenSheSmiles kinder and sweeter side]] behind closed doors. This change is lampshaded by Run, when she encounters Akame for the third time, announcing her intent to take her down for the sake of ''the people'', and not her deep-seated grudge towards her. [[spoiler:This is unfortunately [[AvertedTrope averted]], as when Run is slowly dying from his wounds obtained in their battle against Wild Hunt, she unexpectedly decides that instead of letting Run [[PeacefulInDeath die peacefully]], she'll instead MercyKill him and force him to continue living as one of her corpse puppets.]]
* ColourfulThemeNaming: "Kurome" literally means "[[BlackEyesOfCrazy black eyes]]".
* CrushBlush: In recent chapters, Kurome tends to blush uncontrollably whenever she with Wave, it is actually pretty adorable.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: [[MeaningfulName Black eyes]] and hair.
* CuteAndPsycho: Emphasis on the psycho part.
* CuteIsEvil: As cute as she appears, one must not forget that she's one of the most sociopathic and psychopathic members of the Jaegers.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: She and Akame were abandoned by their parents after being sold to the Empire to be child soldiers. However, [[TrainingFromHell unlike Akame]], Kurome was instead subjugated to rigorous experimentation and [[SuperSerum numerous drug enhancements]] in the Empire's quest to create a new SuperSoldier.
* DarkActionGirl: Being the darker equivalent to Akame while being just as {{Badass}}.
* DefrostingIceQueen: She didn't care very much for Wave in the beginning, but after Bolic assassination, she opens more to him and became more friendly with him. She even confesses her fears to him. Their relationship became so close that Wave even [[spoiler:beat Syura to a nearly death state because he tried to rape her.]] In the latest chapters, Kurome also shows a very grade of affection for his teammate, playing with his pillows and blushing in his presence.
* DissonantSerenity: She often goes into this state, particularly following her attempt to act like everything is fine with Wave after she [[spoiler:reanimates Run.]]
* EmpoweredBadassNormal: As kids, her sister was marked #7 of the Empire's Elite Seven, a team of child assassins comprised of the top seven candidates of a survival test. Kurome, who was marked #8, wasn't good enough to be part of that elite team. To make up for this she ended up being injected with drugs that bolster her stats.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Her first onscreen appearance shows her sitting atop a mountain of corpses humming a melody to herself.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: She can't understand why Wave is upset [[spoiler:over her usage of Run as her newest corpse puppet. She also can't understand why he isn't happy about her ability to keep his body in existence to prevent the total loss of their friend and his disgust when she attempts to summon him to spend time together with them like back when he was alive.]]
* EvilCounterpart: Of Akame. Besides being sisters, she and Akame are extremely similar in alot of ways, from general looks to clothing choices, they both wield sword Teigus and they're both master swordswomen. The main difference is that Akame is still a good person at heart who got fed up with the Empire's corruption and became a rebel, while Kurome's [[PsychoSerum "training"]] appears to have made a real number on her psyche and now she doesn't have any problem with working for such a corrupt empire.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: The anime toned down a lot of her yandere personality and instead portrays her more as this, although {{deconstructed}}. [[spoiler: The reason Kurome wants [[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou to kill Akame alone]] is because deep down inside, she deeply loves her sister. However, because both Kurome and Akame has taken different paths in their lives, they are forced to kill each other. This is apparently true in episode 22 where Kurome and Akame met each other for the last time where Kurome shared her Pocky sticks with Akame and a brief chat with each other (and even slept together). Akame also reveals that she wanted to kill Kurome because she too, loves her sister, and they decided to have their last duel to the death. In the end, Kurome lost the duel and dies to Akame's blade (in addition the poison from Chelsea that Kurome suffered earlier), which Kurome's death has caused Akame to [[TenderTears break down in tears]] [[TearJerker because she feels Kurome's unconditional love to her and how much Akame loved her younger sister]]]].
** In addition to loving her sister, Akame, Kurome (in manga, although hinted in the anime) does develop genuine feelings toward her teammate, Wave. Whether or not this ends up being good or bad for Wave, considering her yandere personality in the manga, has yet to be seen.
* GameBreakingInjury: A rare villainous variant. After surviving an assassination attempt by [[spoiler:Chelsea]], Kurome has been visibly more tired and weaker in combat. A notable example is when she fought the entire Night Raid she was able to summon and control eight corpse puppets and still have the strength to fend off [[MasterSwordswoman Akame]] simultaneously while largely keeping the pace of the battle. After the failed assassination she can barely summon two puppets, [[spoiler:and is suffering from a potentially IncurableCoughOfDeath; thus ''losing'' a subsequent battle of speed against Akame, resulting in the death of Bolic.]]
* HeroKiller: She's the one who ultimately kills [[spoiler:Chelsea]].
* HiddenDepths: She confides to Wave that she’s afraid of being seen as weak because back in the Assassination Squad [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness those who are deemed weak are disposed of]].
* IfICantHaveYou: Kurome resorts to trying to kill Akame for choosing Night Raid over her.
%%* ILoveTheDead
* LaughingMad: She giggles creepily anytime she fights Akame.
* LustObject: Syura seems very fixated on wanting to rape Kurome.
* MasterSwordswoman: When you can fight off another MasterSwordsman that's wielding a OneHitKill katana [[{{Badass}} you're more than qualified]].
* MercyKill: She delivers this to an unsuspecting [[spoiler:dying Run, in an effort to keep him "alive", ultimately enslaving and reanimating him with her Yatsuhusa into one of her newest corpse puppets.]]
* MundaneUtility: A rather darkly comedic version of this. [[spoiler:Basically, after she reanimates a dying Run into one of her corpse puppets with Yatsuhusa, she then suggests using it to summon him to spend time together with them as they did back when he was alive. For example, like when it's time to eat cake.]]
* MurderIsTheBestSolution: As an assassin, killing comes with the territory but Kurome takes it a step further and has killed more than one friend, so that she can revive them as a zombie. One reason why she wants to kill Akame is so that she can turn her sister into a loyal zombie. Practically any problem for Kurome is asking for someone to be killed by her sword.
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: She is very adamant about being the only person who may deliver her sister's death by her own hands. Needless to say, the feeling is mutual.
* PsychoForHire: She was trained as an assassin just like Akame. Unlike Akame she completely buys into the MoreThanMindControl that was fed to her.
* PsychoSerum: It’s later revealed the [[spoiler:“cookies”]] Kurome always consumes is actually a new type of drug developed by the Empire to forcibly enhance their soldiers and [[spoiler:[[HorrorHunger she’s become addicted to them.]]]]
* RescueRomance: They had some ShipTease before the fact, but she begins to openly show her feelings for Wave after he saves her from [[spoiler:getting raped by Syura]].
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: While she was already going to kill [[spoiler:Chelsea]] in self-defense, the realization that [[spoiler:Chelsea killed Bols]] makes Kurome visibly enraged, leading to [[spoiler:Chelsea]]'s FamilyUnfriendlyDeath.
%%* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan
* SuperReflexes: Fast enough to dodge a sniper rifle shot from ''miles away''.
* SweetTooth: She has a giant bag of cookies that she carries around wherever goes just to snack upon.
* ThoseTwoBadGuys: She and Wave are rarely far apart from one another and are often seen together.
* UncannyFamilyResemblance: She and her sister look nearly identical except for the hairstyle and eye color.
* UsedToBeASweetKid: In her backstory presented both in the original manga and in Zero. She was shocked with the deaths of other children in the forest test and felt ill after being forced to kill a prisoner. Contrast with what she is now.
* {{Yandere}}: Her idea of loving someone is turning them into one of her corpse puppets.
!!! Teigu: Yatsufusa
* EliteMooks: Especially [[TheDragon Natala]] and [[BossInMooksClothing Destaghoul]].
** Destaghoul: An [[{{Kaiju}} Ultra Class Danger Beast]] that's nothing but [[DemBones an old skeleton given life]] but still wields [[TheDreaded the terrifying power]] it wielded in its previous life and is capable of firing a massive BreathWeapon that's powerful enough to ''alter the terrain''.
** General Rokgough: A previous general of the Empire that was [[DoubleAgent exposed trying to betray the Empire and join the Revolutionary Army]]. Wields a [[WhipItGood whip]] so masterfully that even Leone's SuperSenses can't keep up with its movements. Despite this, he was just a [[BadassNormal normal human]] in life.
** Hentarr: A [[LastOfHisKind survivor of the Ban Tribes]] and a target even Kurome [[WakeUpCallBoss admits to having difficulty in obtaining]]. [[LivingShadow Able to move through shadows]] and strike opponents in vital areas [[FragileSpeedster while dodging blows and retreating to the shadows.]] [[DualBoss Works in conjunction with Apeman for a devastating combo.]]
** Apeman: A Danger Beast that is noted to be a favorite for Kurome since he is [[DumbMuscle easy to use]]. Uses his new found undead body to NoSell attacks and [[LightningBruiser deliver fast and powerful blows]]. [[DualBoss Works in conjunction with Hentarr]].
** Woll: A famous guardsman that happened to be killed by Kurome when he was protecting a target of hers. Uses [[TakingTheBullet his own body]] to take blows for teammates when opponents get around his [[LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe giant riot shield]].
** Doya: A {{Gunslinger}} assassin sent from the Northern tribes [[PerpetualSmiler that wears a constant smirk on her face.]] She is very quick and fights using GunsAkimbo.
** Natala: Kurome and Akame's childhood friend that died sometime before the story began. He guards Kurome during Yatsufusa's activation since [[AttackItsWeakPoint Kurome is busy manipulating several other puppets]] simultaneously. Kurome quite confident in his abilities, stating he's ''10 times'' stronger than [[TheBrute Apeman]]. He fights using an extending BladeOnAStick.
** Kaiser Frog: A recent edition to Kurome’s collection. A giant frog that uses its long tongue to drag prey into its highly acidic stomach.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: You remember the scene when Tatsumi says that could be a Teigu that have the ability to resurrect dead people at the beginning of the series?. This is Yatsufusa, although it not have the effect Tatsumi refers...
* {{Necromancer}}: Those killed by Yatsufusa are enslaved and can be reanimated by the user whenever they enter combat.
* RedBaron: March of the Dead: Yatsufusa.
* TheUndead: What will happen to those who are killed by Yatsufusa. All skills and abilities the victim had in life are retained, but they are under Kurome's complete control. They are left as little more than flesh and blood puppets.
!! Seryu Ubiquitous
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-->''"In the name of absolute justice, I shall make evil pay, here and now!"''
--> '''Voiced by:''' Creator/KanaHanazawa
A young Imperial Guards soldier recruited by Esdeath as a member of the Jaegars. The impressionable Seryu was personally trained by Imperial Guard Captain Ogre and holds an overwhelming sense of loyalty to justice. Upholding the law and punishing "criminals" without mercy, Seryu makes it her mission to rid the Empire of villainous forces.
Her Teigu is a biological type in the form of Magical Beast Transformation: Hekatonkheires, aka "Koro," who resembles a small dog but possesses a limitless stomach and a voracious appetite.
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!!! Tropes associated with Seryu
* AffablyEvil: Despite her ruthless behavior when she fights her enemies and evildoers, she is pretty nice and friendly with her allies and the people of the Empire.
* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:Once she notices that Koro isn't able to regenerate anymore after [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe he got sliced in half by Mine]] earlier before her, she despairs over the fact that she hasn't even finished purging all of the "evil" yet and makes a tearful plea not to die "in a place like this" (in her case, in the valley located away from the imperial capital) before the bomb inside her head explodes. To top it off, the chapter in which she dies ends with the kids she'd made a habit of playing soccer with coming to the field where they'd hang out only to wonder why she's not there.]]
* AllCrimesAreEqual: Kills a bunch of petty thieves based on this philosophy.
* AmbiguouslyGay: She does have her moments with Esdeath and does not seem all that interested in boys. [[spoiler: It fact, in her final moments, after thinking about Esdeath, she started crying and pleading how she does not want to die.]]
* AnArmAndALeg: After she trips during a fight with Sheele, she loses grip of one of her tonfas. As Sheele moves in with an attack, Seryu puts her arms out in front to protect her body, though she loses both of her arms in the process.
* AntiVillain: She actually fights for the safety of the common people. The only problem is that she blindly follows the Empire to the point where she is reduced to a weapon.
* ArtificialLimbs: After [[AnArmAndALeg losing both of her arms]] to Sheele.
* AvengingTheVillain: Her initial motive to fight Night Raid is to avenge the death of her master, Ogre, at the hands of Tatsumi. [[spoiler: Later she also wants to avenge Stylish, who perishes in his battle with Night Raid.]]
* AxCrazy: Very much so. When fighting she's constantly got a SlasherSmile on her face and half of her dialogue, both in and out of combat, relates to murdering evildoers.
* {{Badass}}: Has many traits of this. In her first battle with Night Raid, despite the battle starts with disadvantage for her, she manages to win a battle against two strong opponents using all her resources and successfully [[spoiler: kill Sheele]] and injures Mine, breaking her arm. Later, with her body modifications, she can exterminate entire groups of enemies by herself and gain a new powerful arsenal. Even in her last battle with Mine she forces Mine to use her trump card to defeat her for good and leave her severely wounded.
* BerserkButton: Commit a crime or do evil things (like stealing or murder) in her presence is not a very good idea. Also hurt or kill anyone she beloved and prepare to confront a persistent enemy who doesn't stop to search you until she found and kills you.
* {{BFG}}[=/=]MacrossMissileMassacre: #2, #6 and #8, with #2 serving as four missiles that [[MoreDakka split and turn into an even larger volley of missiles]].
* {{BFS}}: #3: Which also serves as her BladeBelowTheShoulder.
* BlackAndWhiteInsanity: You are with the Empire? You're good, no matter how corrupt or heinous you are. You are against it in any way? You're evil and must be killed, no matter what the circumstances were.
* BodyHorror: She willingly undergoes a painful experiment by Captain Ogre's persuasion to have [[spoiler:machine guns surgically implanted into her arms. This is taken a step further when she can sprout a gun ''from her throat''.]]
* BossInMookClothing: During her time in the Imperial Guard Forces.
* ChekhovsGunman: See EarlyBirdCameo below.
* CoolBigSis: She tries to become this for Tatsumi when told that he'll be joining their group, patting him on the head and saying that he's amongst good people. It takes the danger of being found out to keep Tatsumi from cursing her out. Later she became this to a group of childrens in Kyoroch.
* {{Crazy Prepared}}: Of all the characters of Akame ga Kill, probably Seryu is the one who have the most resources and special moves. Before her heavy modifications, she had a [[DualTonfas pair of tonfas]] that can shoot bullets and [[DisabilitySuperpower cutting her arms only reveal more guns]], and that without counting Koro's abilities. After being modified by Stylish, she had an [[HyperspaceArsenal entire arsenal]] for her inside Koro, including a giant sword, a [[ThisisaDrill giant drill]] that can explode, a [[SniperRifle rifle]], a [[EpicFlail giant flail]] and a [[MacrossMissileMassacre pair of missiles]], between other things (a hook and a radar), and combining some of them, she can shoot a [[MoreDakka rain of missiles]] with a big power of destruction. Also she has been trained physically by Ogre and has a considerable strenght that was increased by her mechanical arms. As if that not were enough, she had three trump card, the one of his Teigu (Berserk, see the Teigu entry for more information), a [[HiddenWeapons gun inside her throat]] that she claims that was a gift from Ogre and can be used to do surprise attacks, and the last one, given to her by Dr. Stylish, a suicide bomb of incredible radius inside her brain that is used as last resort in a desperate situation. The only reason why she didn't kill Mine in her second battle was due to an external factor in the fight [[spoiler: (Tatsumi).]]
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: She's normally a carefree GenkiGirl, but when it comes to fighting she's deadly and ruthless.
* CryCute: She cries many times for her fallen friends and loved ones, showing that while she is merciless towards "villains," she isn't a monster.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Orange eyes and hair. In the anime are more brown colored.
* CuteAndPsycho: Very cute girl on the outside with ''very'' twisted conception of right and wrong.
* DarkActionGirl: She's vicious and brutal when she's out to "eradicate evil", always with a crazy SlasherSmile in her face.
* DefiantToTheEnd: She gets [[spoiler:[[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe sliced in half]] by Mine's Teigu and she [[TakingYouWithMe still tries to kill Mine]] by [[HavingABlast detonating a bomb inside her head]] before she dies. [[SenselessSacrifice It fails big time.]]]]
* DisabilitySuperpower: Her body is filled with weapons, so removing her limbs isn't ideal.
* DualTonfas: What she used to fight with before Dr. Stylish’s modifications. They even fired ''bullets''!
* EarlyBirdCameo: Before her proper introduction in the series, she is seen along a group of Imperial Guards during Ogre's presentation.
* EpicFlail: #1: Shinkou's Ball of Justice.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Even she felt that [[HidingBehindReligion Borick]] was a pig not worth the Jaegars' protection.
* EvilRedhead: She doesn't view herself as evil, but she's one of the most brutal and twisted members of the Jaegars.
%%* FieryRedhead
* {{Expy}}: Of [[Manga/FutureDiary Yomotsu Hirasaka]]: They both see themselves as heroes of justice despite harming innocent people, have a DisabilitySuperpower, [[spoiler:are killed by the protagonist's pink haired girlfriend, and blow themselves up.]]
* GenkiGirl: When she is in her not-crazy mood, she is lively and energetic. By example, when she meet Tatsumi for first time, she happily announces her name and reveals that Coro is a Teigu without any problem.
* HeroKiller: She manages to kill [[spoiler:Sheele]] but she doesn't get out of the encounter [[AnArmAndALeg unscathed]].
* HiddenWeapons: She has the barrel of a gun hidden ''in her mouth''.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: She believes that [[DirtyCop Captain Ogre]] and [[MadScientist Dr. Stylish]] were genuinely good people.
* InsaneTrollLogic: Helped a group of bandits because you were forced to? Just as guilty as they were in Seryu's eyes.
* {{Inspector Javert}}: Basically the love child of Inspector Javert with {{Franchise/Terminator}}.
* {{Irony}}: In one of the manga chapters of the special volume (the 1.5), she makes a cameo capturing the men that Tonto contracted to kill Nea (who Leone have knocked down previously) and says that only good people would have make that good action. That people was Night Raid, who in that time she hunts in sake to avenge Ogre's death and who she later would find evil.
* KnightOfCerebus: Her battle against Mine and Sheele is the first reminder in the story that the Night Raid isn't invincible and even the [[AnyoneCanDie good guys can die]].
* KnightTemplar: A very dark kind. For Seryu, all those who break the law or oppose the Empire are deserving of death.
* JusticeWillPrevail: Her philosophy. If only she knew what kind of people Night Raid assassinated and her "saviors" truly were...
* LaughingMad: After she kills [[spoiler: Scheele]] she starts to laugh happily despite [[MajorInjuryUnderreaction that both of her arms were cut!]].
* LetsGetDangerous: Sweet and bubbly normally, but when she is "administering justice," a sadistic and cruel personality takes over.
* LuminescentBlush: She tends to have these when she is not being a raving psycho, especially around Esdeath.
* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: She gets ''both'' her arms cut off and all she does is hysterically giggle over the fact that she [[EatenAlive defeated]] the evil villain. It's quite disturbing.
* MeaningfulName: Her last name refers to something that is felt everywhere, or omnipresent. This definition accurately depicts her feelings about her brand of ''justice''.
* MoralMyopia: Completely fails to recognize the flagrant evil in her mentors (and herself) while spouting on about bringing justice to "evildoers".
* MultiMeleeMaster[=/=]MultiRangedMaster: Her personal armory held within [[HyperspaceArsenal Koro]], Judgement of the Ten Heavenly Kings, created by [[GadgeteerGenius Dr. Stylish]] that serve as extra modifications to her body that she can wield in the midst of battle.
* NightmareFace: During battles, her expression changes from a normal face to a really creepy one accompanied with a big {{slasher smile}}. However, the face she shown when she [[spoiler: shoots Sheele in the back]] deserves a [[https://33.media.tumblr.com/0da5708777c8a0003f1a0bd99817e124/tumblr_na4pwwTNZX1sdhuzuo4_500.gif special mention]]
* ObliviouslyEvil: While the rest of the Jaegers seem to have some level of understanding that what they do isn't entirely good and are either [[CardCarryingVillain Card-Carrying Villains]] (Esdeath, Dr Stylish) or [[PunchClockVillain Punch Clock Villains]] (Wave, Run, Bols, and to a lesser extend Kurome), Seryu does not seems to grasp that her actions are more villainous than heroic. Something that even Mine lampshade.
* OlderThanSheLooks: His official age was 20 years at least. She has the looks of being of the age of Tatsumi.
* RapunzelHair: In her introduction, she wore her hair in a long ponytail that almost reached the ground, but it was shortened to shoulder-length after becoming a Jaegar.
* RedHerringShirt: Before being formally introduced in Episode 5 of the anime, she can be spotted briefly in Episode 2 as a member of Ogre's entourage.
* {{Revenge}}: Her initial motivation is the fact that Night Raid murdered her master, Captain Ogre.
* SanitySlippage: She's becoming more derailed as the series goes on, even killing a woman for assisting a group of bandits despite having been forced to do so against her will.
* ScarfOfAsskicking: Her outfit after joining the Jaegers features a scarf.
* SlasherSmile: When she gets into battle expect '''a lot''' of these.
* SmitingEvilFeelsGood: Nothing brings her greater joy than slaying evil-doers.
* SniperRifle: #7: Taizan's Cannon of Justice.
* TautologicalTemplar: She firmly believes everyone working for the Empire is on the side of justice and anyone who has done even the smallest crime even if they were forced to, are evildoers that must die, completely ignoring how corrupted the Capital, her allies and herself are.
* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: When she, along Suzuka, found [[spoiler: Tatsumi and Mine in a ruins in Kyoroch]], her response is to launch missiles to them. Despite the two of them escapes, the ruins are pretty much destroyed.
* ThisIsADrill: #5: Enma's Spear of Justice.
* ThisIsUnforgivable: Considering the fact that Night Raid was responsible for General Ogre's death, the fact that she says this to Night Raid after reminiscing of her training with him following her helping Tatsumi earlier is understandable. Later on, she even says this to Mine and Sheele before their fight because she blames them both for the deaths of both her father and Ogre himself, even though she has no idea that Tatsumi was the one who killed Ogre himself.
-->'''Seryu''': (to Mine and Sheele) My father died in the line of duty fighting villains like you! And you killed my mentor, General Ogre! I will never forgive you!
* TookALevelInBadass: Before her battle with Scheele and Mine she was a dangerous opponent, but after Stylish modifies her and Koro with the Judgement of the Ten Heavenly Kings she has access to a vast armory inside Koro's stomach that can summon inside a battle, making her a more deadly enemy. It's take an step further in Bolic's arc, when combining some of the armory, [[UpToEleven she can even launch missiles!]].
* WellIntentionedExtremist: She cares genuinely for the sake of the people of The Empire, unfortunately, her methods and her twisted sense of justice are very extreme and do more harm than good.
* ZettaiRyouiki: Grade A.
!!! Teigu: Hekatonkheires aka "Koro"
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[[caption-width-right:217:Normal State]]
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[[caption-width-right:250:Beserker State]]
* TheBerserker: His [[{{Exactly What It Says on the Tin}} Berserk]] [[{{Super Mode}} mode]].
* BigEater: It finishes off opponents by eating them. No matter how many it devours, it never seems to get its fill.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: His appearance outside combat is a one cute dog. However, when he enter in a battle he became a really deadly Teigu with MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily who also can enter in a feral {{Super Mode}}.
* CuteAndPsycho: Looks like a cute and fluffy plush dog but when he gets hungry...
* {{Empathic Weapon}}: He can feel the frame of mind of his owner and he is shown feeling anger or sadness (when Seryu was mourning Stylish's death, Koro is visibly sad to the grief of his owner). Also, he [[spoiler: comfort Seryu in her death moment before the bomb explode and kill both]]. Considering that he is a dog shaped weapon, [[FridgeBrilliance it has sense]].
* GrowingMusclesSequence: It can temporarily bulk up the muscle mass within their arms to increase its attack power.
* HealingFactor: Being a biological Teigu grants Hekatonkheires the ability to heal from damage at an extremely fast rate.
* HyperspaceArsenal: Seems to act a portal to Seryu's arsenal by biting her arm off.
* KillerRabbit: Looks like an adorable plushie dog, then it [[MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily opens its mouth]], and it just gets worse from there.
* LivingWeapon: Like Susanoo, he is a biological Teigu and for that, a weapon with live.
* MakeMeWannaShout: Has a skill where it can emit an intense roar capable of momentarily incapacitating enemies.
* PetTheDog: [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe After getting blown in half]] by Mine's Teigu, [[spoiler:he manages to crawl beside Seryu and [[TogetherInDeath comfort in her last moments.]]]]
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Like Susanoo, Coro is a Teigu and would be at the same age of him.
* RedBaron: Magical Beast Transformation: Hekatonkheires.
* SuperMode: His Triumph Card has the ability Berserk to turn him into a more powerful, biggest, feral looking, red version of himself, but if his owner use this, he become inactive for a time.
* TokenNonHuman: Being a living Teigu, he is the only non-human member of the Jaegers as Susanoo is this for Night Raid.
* TurnsRed: Can enter a [[TheBerserker berserker mode]] that turns it into a complete LightningBruiser but [[HeroicRROD overheats after a short time]].
* WalkingArmory: Koro's infinite belly houses Seyru's vast arsenal which she can command to equip when necessary.
!! Run
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-->''"Not even one of you will be allowed to escape."''
-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JunjiMajima
A kind and charming man enlisted by Esdeath into the Jaegars. Run hails from a small rural village, and joins the Jaegers in hopes of one day reforming the Empire from within.
His Teigu is Limitless Flight: Mastema, which among many other powers, bestows him the power of flight, and gives him an angelic appearance.
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!!! Tropes associated with Run
* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler:His look of horror as Kurome uses her Yatsufusa to "save" him says it all.]]
* AntiVillain: Like Wave, he's this. It turns out he wants to change the Empire from within following an incident where in his days as a teacher he had the horror of walking into witness the aftermath of his class after they were massacred by [[MonsterClown Champ]] from Wild Hunt.
* AwesomenessByAnalysis: With only a few small clues Run accurately figures out that Dr. Stylish found the Night Raid base, assaulted the base with his army to acquire them for experimentation, failed and then got erased for his trouble.
* BadassBookworm: He is never seen without a book in his hand.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Run is a polite and kind man who want the best for The Empire and aspires to change it to a better place. But when someone hurt his beloved ones, as [[spoiler: Champ could testify]], he became vengeful and cruel.
* BigDamnHeroes: Saves Kurome from being killed by a two pronged attack from members of Wild Hunt, [[spoiler:but ultimately sustains heavy injuries [[TakingTheBullet shielding her]] from a fiery explosion caused by Champ]].
* {{Bishounen}}: He is a very handsome individual, which he uses to his advantage, in fake relationships with women like his town's mayor and Cosmina.
* BlondGuysAreEvil: Partially {{subverted}}. He works for the bad guys, but he is well-intentioned and wants the best to The Empire.
* BromanticFoil: For Wave
* TheCharmer: He is fully aware of his good looks and silver tongue and uses them to get on the good side of people.
* ColdBloodedTorture: He makes sure Champ suffers before killing him, even rubbing flowers that cause intense pain into his wounds.
* CoolTeacher: Before joining the Jaegers, Run was a beloved teacher of a small village.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Yellow eyes and hair.
* TheDragon: To Esdeath, being the one that informed her of the dissappearance of Dr. Stylish and other important stuff like the humanoid Danger Beast appearance. [[spoiler:Also he help her superior to disband Wild Hunt.]]
* DudeLooksLikeALady: PlayedForLaughs in one of the omakes of the anime, when Honest mistakes him with a girl due his {{bishonen}} appearance. {{Averted}} in the proper series, where everyone know that he is a guy.
* FateWorseThanDeath: [[spoiler: In the manga, after he is fatally wounded, Kurome uses her Yatsufusa to turn him into a puppet, keeping him "alive."]]
* FragileSpeedster: Run's skill at dodging attacks and his teigu's ability of flight, makes him a very difficult target to hit. In the anime, he was never once hit by a single attack, while in manga, he was only hit two times, [[spoiler: before his death/zombification.]] However, both attacks in the manga ending up doing a great amount damage to him. The first time he was hit occurred when [[spoiler: Mine gazed him with her teigu, Pumpkin. Despite only just being gazed, the injury was enough to put him out of the fight for the rest of the Bolic arc.]] The second time occurred when he hit by [[spoiler: Champ's explosion orb, the injuries he sustained from that attack ended up proving fatal.]]
* GoodWingsEvilWings: When Run activates Mastema he sprouts golden angelic wings to move about. [[spoiler:When Run is enslaved and reanimated by [[{{Necromancer}} Yatsufusa]] his wings are dyed jet black, akin to that of a fallen angel.]]
* HairDecorations: [[FeatherMotif Two winged clips]] on both sides of his hair.
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: He may be a member of the Jaegars, but he's a actually a really decent guy who wishes to change the empire from within.
* HiddenAgendaVillain: Internally mentions having an ulterior goal to working with the Jaegars: he wants to change the empire from the inside.
* HoneyTrap: This was how he obtained his Teigu. By seducing his town's mayor, he was able to use her favor to work up the ranks of the military and obtain a Teigu.
* InternalReformist: Like Wave, Run believes the Empire needs to change and joined the Jaegers to reform it from within.
* NiceGuy: He is very polite and cares for his partners and allies. [[BewareTheNiceOnes This doesn't stop him of being very ruthless]] [[spoiler:when he torture Champ in revenge for the deaths of his students.]]
* NonchalantDodge: Can dodge a fury of attacks from [[LightningBruiser General Esdeath]] while still reading his book.
* {{Revenge}}: Despite his kind nature, Run seeks vengeance against Champ of Wild Hunt for slaughtering the children of his old village.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler:In the manga, he dies in his fight with Champ, but at the end of the anime he's still alive and will help Wave rebuild the Empire.]]
!!! Teigu: Mastema
* CatchAndReturn: Mastema's trump card, Divine Wings, allows the user to utilize Mastema's wings to deflect enemy projectiles back at them.
* FeatherFlechettes: Mastema has the ability to fire a molt of feathers in lethal volley in a resemblance like weapons from [[VisualNovel/FateStayNight Gilgamesh's Gate of Babylon]].
* {{Flight}}: Mastema grants the user the ability to sprout angelic wings and fly.
* PerpetualMolt: The wings sprouted by Mastema constantly molt feathers with every flap.
* RedBaron: Soaring For Thousands of Miles: Mastema.
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[[folder:Wild Hunt]]
! Tropes associated with Wild Hunt:
* AdaptedOut: Apart from Syura and Suzuka, none of them appear in the anime.
* AxCrazy: Every single member is a psychopath that has no qualms about murdering people in the worst ways imaginable. Some members even feel compelled to do so.
* DirtyCoward: Most of Wild Hunt display this trope at one point or another. [[spoiler: In Enshin, Champ, Syura and Dorothea's cases, it's right before they die.]]
* EmpoweredBadassNormal: Every member of Wild Hunt (except [[BadassNormal Izou]]) is known to be equipped with a Teigu Syura found in his travels.
* EnemyMine: Wild Hunt made Night Raid and the Jaegers cooperate two times. The first time was because [[spoiler: Syura uses the Danger Beast that Stylish created to cause a havoc in the Empire, forcing the two factions to united to kill the monsters for the people sake.]] The second one happens when [[spoiler: Run, who want to kill Champ to avenge his students who Champ kills, and Kurome, who helps him in the task, guides Champ to a trap and are encountered by Enshin and Cosmina. In this moment Night Raid, who was finding the members of Wild Hunt to kill them to stop their atrocities, appears and with the "help" of the Jaegers manages to kill Enshin and wound Cosmina. Champ also dies in the cross fire.]]
* EvilerThanThou: While the Jaegars weren't formed with the most morally compassionate people in the Empire, Wild Hunt has been introduced as a group hellbent on causing carnage throughout the Empire, excusing their actions as being a Secret Police group under the Prime Minister.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler: Subverted in all cases but Cosmina's.]]
** [[spoiler: Syura dies whimpering that he cannot die a pointless death in a dungeon and that he was meant to surpass his father, dying as he curses his fate.]]
** [[spoiler: Enshin [[DirtyCoward flees rather than face the strength of Night Raid]], only to be cut down in a single strike by Akame and die dumbstruck by her power.]]
** [[spoiler: Champ enters his final fight bleeding and half-broken from Run's torture, recoils in terror as his Fire Orb attack is redirected at him, and dies screaming in agony as he is burnt down to his bones.]]
** [[spoiler: Dorothea is brought down rather easily by Leone and after failing to fake being dead resorts to [[AintTooProudToBeg begging Leone to let her live]], crying and screaming that she doesn't want to die, only for Leone to remark that none of her victims did either before crushing the Alchemist's head with a boulder.]]
** [[spoiler: Izou spends his final few moments begging Akame to take his sword from him, so that it can continue to drink blood, and when she refuses he can only ask why as he expires.]]
* FiveBadBand: Like the Jaegars, each of the member of Wild Hunt form this:
** BigBadWannabe: Syura, leader of the group, a threat at the beginning of the arc, but his {{Humiliation Conga}} and [[spoiler: later easy death at Lubbock's hands]] makes him this.
** TheDragon: Izou, being the most trusted member of the team in Syura's opinion. Enshin could be this as Dorothea mentions later that he and Syura had a good relationships [[spoiler: before the former's death]]. Dorothea herself also qualifies.
** TheBrute: Champ, a [[FatBastard big, fat, depraved]] MonsterClown who is not very brilliant.
** EvilGenius: Dorothea, being the equivalent of a MadScientist in Wild Hunt.
** TheDarkChick: Cosmina.
** SixthRanger: Suzuka.
* ForTheEvulz: Syura does have an actual EvilPlan behind all the random murder, rape and torture - lure out the Night Raid by committing enough atrocities to become the most public symbol of the Empire's brutality and thus force their hand. However, besides this expected result he very much enjoys the process itself, and the rest of the Wild Hunt kill the Empire's citizens simply because they can easily get away with it.
* InTheHood: Syura is first introduced with a hood suit. Later the others members of the team are also introduced with the same costume as Syura. All of them abandon the hoods when they became the Jaegers substitute.
* KickTheDog: Every chapter since their introduction Wild Hunt has been '''constantly''' kicking the dog.
* MeaningfulName: Named after TheWildHunt. They have a habit of raping and killing everyone in their way, too.
* PsychoForHire: The people recruited to make up Wild Hunt by Syura, are all definitely this. Enshin, Cosmina and Champ joined to engage in as much depravity within the Empire as possible, while Izou outright admits that he only came along just so to be allowed to kill as many people as he could.
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: A very notable difference between them and the Jaegars to make them all the more monstrous. Syura, Cosmina, Enshin and Champ are all rapists. Especially [[MonsterClown Champ]], [[PaedoHunt who expresses sadistic glee at having his way with children]].
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: The Wild Hunt tend to throw a lot of weight around in the Empire simply because their leader is the son of the Prime Minister. As such any of their actions, such as rape and murder, can hand waved as [[BlatantLies thorough investigation]].
* SerialRapist: Four out of the six original member.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: [[AdaptedOut The team at all didn't appear in the anime]], instead, Syura brought with himself a group of people in yellow hoods (with a similar looks that Wild Hunt wore in their debut chapter) and spears who Syura said that are "his elite". Later, Syura and the group along Budo ambush Tatsumi and Lubbock and fight with the latter. The elite team are later the ones who [[spoiler: kills Lubbock after he defeat Syura]] and [[WhatHappenedtoTheMouse never appears again]]
!! Syura
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-->''"It seems I've found myself some interesting toys."''
-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/RyoheiKimura
The son of the Prime Minister and leader of Wild Hunt. Left on a journey to explore the world and retrieve Teigu in other nations, he assembled the members of Wild Hunt to replace the Jaegers task to hunt Night Raid.
His Teigu is Dimensional Formation: Shambhala, a pendant type Teigu that can teleport people and himself to any place he marks. However, the Teigu is mostly for support and Syura use his strength and ability in hand-to-hand combat to fight.
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!!! Tropes associated with Syura
* AdaptationalBadass: While much of his role in the anime is eliminated, in this route he has a true fight with Lubbock when he put the Night Raid member in danger and even reveals his Trump Card. [[spoiler: Comparing this with his manga counterpart, who died without a good fight and never reveal his Teigu strongest technique.]]
* AdaptationalHeroism: Has a little bit in the anime. Despite in this adaptation he is still a jerk, like Esdeath, much of his atrocities are removed from the anime, leaving him as a prick, but not as a monster.
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Strangely, he's very tanned compared to his fair-skinned father. Presumably, this is because he's spent the majority of his time away in the Borneo islands south of the Empire, but the Prime Minister also stated his mother is not very respectable and possibly foreign.
* AxCrazy: When he's not conversing with his father you can expect to see him raping some innocent girl and murdering her ForTheEvulz or pounding a fallen foe to death with his bare hands, cackling the whole time.
* BareFistedMonk: In his skirmish with [[spoiler:Wave,]] he demonstrates a vast knowledge of different martial arts he acquired during his travels outside the Empire.
* BerserkButton: Going against him as the son of the Prime Minister or even worst, leading him into being a disappointment in his father's eyes is a one way ticket to him intending to rip you limb from limb.
* BigBadWannabe: He thinks of himself a threat to Night Raid (and everyone) for being the son of the Prime Minister. While he is strong indeed, his actions during Wild Hunt arc only put him in evidence in his father's eyes and [[spoiler: the dissolution of his group thanks to Run investigations and his cheap death at Lubbock's hand make him less threatening since his introduction.]]
* TheCasanova: Most of his actions are often motivated by lust. Also, it is shown in the Jaeger arc that Syura is fully capable of picking up women if he wanted to. The problems is he find it more arousing to force himself on to them and tends to become violent towards them.
* DanceBattler: He takes down a group of seasoned martial artists just by using capoeira style kicks.
* EvilIsPetty: In one of Wild Hunt first missions, he kills an entire theatre company because they have a play that would ridiculise his father even when the owner of the company try to bribe him to spare their lives. In fact, he kills the company because they try to bribe him!.
* {{Expy}}: Of Uday Hussein, minus the EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas trope.
* {{Foil}}: For Wave. Both are members of a task force with the job to hunting down Night Raid. In addition, both Syura and Wave even wanted to change the Empire for within. However, while Wave wants to make the Empire better for everyone, Syura wants to make the Empire worse and change it to better suit his own amusement. Their relationship with Kurome also similar yet different from one another. Wave deeply cares about Kurome and wants to protect her at all cost, while Syura is attracted to Kurome but only see her as a LustObject.
** Also, for Lubbock. While were born into rich families, Lubbock gave up his rich life to be with Najenda, while Syura likes to abuse the resource that he has at his disposal. Also, both apparently suffer from a InferioritySuperiorityComplex. In addition, while Lubbock is a ChivalrousPervert who does not like to hurt women, Syura is a SerialRapist that take pleasure is hurting women.
* GoodScarsEvilScars: He has a giant X shaped scar across his face from the bridge of his nose.
* GroinAttack: Crushes one of Rabac's testicles.
* HumiliationConga: Later on, he loses to Wave in a fist fight, [[BerserkButton gets criticized by his dad for it]], then he loses [[spoiler: several members of his unit]], [[BerserkButton gets criticized by his dad for it]], [[spoiler: despite catching two members of Night Raid,]] Esdeath humiliates him by [[spoiler: proving that he was responsible for an incident that endangered the empire and getting what remained of Wild Hunt disbanded]], [[BerserkButton gets criticized by his dad for it]], and finally [[spoiler: gets killed by Lubbock when he pretends to have been broken by his torture.]] [[KickTheSonOfABitch The fans enjoyed those few chapters immensely.]]
** And to top it all off, [[spoiler:after Honest (the father he worked so hard to please) hears about the death of his son, he proceeds to weep for him... for '''one whole page'''. He gets over it in seconds, pretty much stating that he'll "make another son from scratch." Even after death the humiliation continues.]]
* {{Jerkass}}: Oh boy, is he is one. He commits many acts of cruelty for the most insignificant reason, rape womens, [[spoiler: including Bol's wife,]] [[SmugSnake looks down his allies and enemies alike]] because he is the son of the Prime Minister (his card to do anything he want) and even despise her own men because they lose to Night Raid. Of all the cast of the series, he is one of the biggest dicks.
* KickTheSonOfABitch: People ''loved'' his HumiliationConga.
* MurderTheHypotenuse: Somewhat. Syura is attracted towards Kurome and wants to rape her, while Kurome is attracted towards Wave. Wave prevents Syura from raping Kurome and naturally Syura wants Wave dead, so it be that much easier to get to Kurome.
* OverlordJr: He's the spoiled son of the [[BigBad Prime Minister]] whose entire goal in life is to become as powerful and ruthless as his father and become competent in his eyes.
* OutGambitted: After [[spoiler: Run kills off a big chunk of his team and he's captured Tatsumi]], Syura is convinced that he's gotten the fodder he needs to have the [[spoiler: Jeagers disbanded.]] Esdeath completely outwits him by [[spoiler: hiding the evidence Run had gathered against Syura in particular, which saves his ass from the law... and then she counters with evidence against the rest of Wild Hunt, which has them disbanded at her request. He refuses the cross her because of the blackmail she still had on him.]]
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: He tends to instill fear in his enemies by stating his relation to the Prime Minister, which causes them to halt their attacks. [[{{Hypocrite}} He then calls them out for being cowards.]] [[spoiler:[[UnstoppableRage Not that this matters to Wave.]]]]
* ShoutOut: A dark skinned man with white hair and a scar shaped like a X?. Hello, [[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist Scar!]]
* SlasherSmile: In the manga, when he is introduced to the audience, the only thing we see of his face is a huge menacing grin.
* SmugSnake: Due to his perceived strength and prowess, as well as family connections.
* StoryBreakerPower: In the manga, Syura once mentioned he had a last resort plan to defeating his opponents by teleporting them in the middle of an active volcano. Naturally with such overpowering ability, the story finds ways to prevent Syura [[spoiler: from ever doing just that before his death and his teigu destroyed.]] First, Syura can only use his teleporting ability a few time every couple of days, so he cannot just spam it. Also, the few times he does use it, it was on people that he needed alive at the time. The first time he used his teigu, Shambhala, was on [[spoiler: Esdeath and Tatsumi. At the time, he just wanted Esdeath out of the way and Tatsumi just happen to be with her at the time. He most likely reframed from trying to kill her because he knows that his father still needs her.]] He later used his teigu was on [[spoiler: Tatsumi and Lubbock, at the time he want to capture them, not kill them.]] The closest occurrence of [[spoiler: Syura ever performing his last resort plan, was just before his fight Wave, but he was stop by Budo from using his teigu, and instead settled with a fist fight that reframed both Wave and Syura from using their teigu.]]
* ThisCannotBe: [[spoiler:When he is about to die by Lubbock's hands he blurts this out. Since he died without taking the throne and surpassing his successful father so that he could change the "boring world" as he called it, this is very understandable.]]
* TortureTechnician. Claims to be this. He later shows how and why [[spoiler:towards poor Lubbock.]]
* VillainousFriendship: Subverted. Although he seems to be great friends with the other members of Wild Hunt, most often when they gleefully indulge in their [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil "activities"]]; [[spoiler:when Champ and Enshin are killed, he states that he doesn't give a toss since they died so easily.]] This claim is then consequently [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by fellow member Dorothea.
* WeakButSkilled: A very skilled martial artist, as shown by his dominance of Wave for most of their skirmish, but he lacked the raw power to take him down and [[spoiler: ended up getting defeated in 2 hits once Wave saw through his attack patterns.]]
* WellDoneSonGuy: He's determined to prove himself to his father, and is noticeably afraid when his father is angry at him [[spoiler:for being beaten by Wave.]] Basically, humiliating or demeaning him in front of his father is the [[BerserkButton worst way to piss him off.]]
* WhiteHairBlackHeart: His hair is white and he's one of the most evil sons of bitches in the series.
!!! Teigu: Shambhala
* ItWasAGift: Doesn't played straight. [[spoiler:In the manga, after Lubbock kills Syura, he became the owner of Shambhala and try to escapes the Imperial palace with the Teigu. Unfortunately for him, is for a very short period of time, as Lubbock, who don't understand the working system of Shambhala, is immediately killed by Izou, who is not interested in the Teigu and destroys it with Lubbock.]]
* PocketDimension: His Trump Card in the anime, Dimensional Abyss, have the ability to create one of this and engulf the enemy in the dimension.
* RedBaron: Dimensional Formation: Shambhala
* TeleportersAndTransporters: He can teleport himself or others to fixed locations. He used it to send Tatsumi and Esdeath from a mountain range to an island on the other side of the world.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler: While in the manga Shambhala is destroyed by Izou, in the anime its fate is never revealed after its owner's death.]]
!! Izou
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-->''"Oh, my beloved Kousetsu... I... will feed you now."''
A swordsman who loves to fight.
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!!! Tropes associated with Izou
* {{Badass}}: Is apparently as strong as the rest of the Wild Hunt put together, and takes down Lubbock with a single strike of his ''sheath''.
* BadassNormal: His katana is stated to be normal (by their world's standard), and not a Teigu.
* BetterThanSex: While the Wild Hunt is [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil "investigating"]] a theatre group suspected of writing plays that harm the image of the Prime Minister, Izou instead prefers to stand outside [[BloodKnight carving any would-be escapees to pieces]].
* BloodKnight: He loves to "make blood rain" and "feed" his sword Kousetsu the blood of his kills.
* CoDragons: Replaces [[spoiler:Enshin after his death]] and shares this position with Dorothea for Syura. [[spoiler: He later shares this position with Cosmina for Dorothea when Dorothea takes over what's left of Wild Hunt after Syura's death.]]
* EyesAlwaysClosed: He keeps his eyes shut unless he's cutting down scores of people, in which he reveals his [[BlackEyesOfCrazy black sclera]].
* FightsLikeANormal: All members of the Wild Hunt have a Teigu, but unlike the rest he has no interest in it and is entirely devoted to Kousetsu.
* HeroKiller: [[spoiler: As Lubbock would testify. Akame later avenges him.]]
* HungryWeapon: Played with. Izou treats Kousetsu as such and is devoted to feeding it "blood" above everything else, but there's nothing to indicate in-universe that it's anything more than a delusion.
* LackOfEmpathy: Unlike other Wild Hunt members like Champ or Cosmina, he is not a crazed lunatic who enjoys raping or harming people, or drawing out their suffering. He is just addicted to fighting and using his sword to kill, without a care for the lives of people he ends. In fact, he has a sense of honor, as shown [[spoiler: when he kills Lubbock, admiring him for being able to put up a fight in spite of having suffered horrible torture]].
* MasterSwordsman: Frequently cuts down groups of Mooks in single slices.
* NumberTwo: To Syura.
* OralFixation: The classic straw version, as seen in the image above.
* TheWorfEffect: During all the Wild Hunt arc, Izou is shown as a powerful opponent that kills people like flies and even, in Syura's words, being as powerful as Enshin and Champ combined. Also he [[spoiler: kills Lubbock]] easily, setting him up as a serious threat. [[spoiler: However, like Enshin, he is effortlessly killed during his fight with Akame.]]
!! Cosmina
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-->''"Oh, my. There's nowhere for you to escape. Poor things. At the very least, let me sing you a farewell song on your journey to Heaven!"''
Cosmina was a singer who was convicted of witchcraft in the Western kingdom. She survived her village's attempt to kill her and was recruited into Wild Hunt for her voice-based abilities.
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* AllWomenAreLustful: She happily indulges in her sexual activities, which include an entire theatre troupe of men, and shamelessly flirts with Enshin and Run.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: She was persecuted and branded as a witch because her voice has the ability to manipulate people. This such persecution later led to her entire family being killed and their house set on fire. Unfortunately, she survived the fire, but went [[SanitySlippage completely insane]] by the tragedy.
* DumbMuscle: A rare female example. In combat, [[WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer her only action]] is to face enemies and fire her destructive sound waves at them until they die. She thinks ''nothing'' about defensive measures and lets her guard down all to quickly on the battlefield, even when it's obvious that there's still potential enemies that pose a definite threat to her.
** Her "upgrade" by Dorothea turns this aspect up, as she is now a hybrid between a mantis and a tank.
* ExoticEyeDesigns: Her eyes have a [[BishieSparkle sparkle]] sign in her pupils.
* FreudianExcuse: She apparently used to be a sane, decent human being. That all changed when the people of her village, who feared her ability to influence their behavior with her songs, deemed her a witch and burnt her house down with her and her family in it. She was the only one to survive. The event turned her into the monster she is.
* GenkiGirl: She's always seen upbeat and energetic.
* GlassCannon: She has devastatingly destructive attack power she can emit over long distances, but other than that aspect, she lacks defensive ability of any kind.
* GoodThingYouCanHeal: Dorothea can repair her to some degree but turns her into a cyborgmonster in the end.
* HalfTheWomanSheUsedToBe: [[spoiler: How Tatsumi finally kills her in her monster form.]]
* MadeOfIron: She's been known to mysteriously survive the giant fire that burned her entire house and family to ashes and even survived [[spoiler:a shot from Mine's Pumpkin but keeps a hole from it.]]
* MakeMeWannaShout: Her Teigu, Great Tremor: Heavy Pressure, allows her to transmit long range sound waves, strong enough to shatter the skeletons and implode the brain on any unfortunate target caught in its radius.
* TheNicknamer: Refers to her fellow Wild Hunt members Syura and Champ, as "Shurry" and "Champie", respectively.
* NighInvulnerability: With her modifications she becomes this instead, with SuperMode Tatsumi admitting she is one hell of a tank and requires many of his special moves to defeat.
* PlayboyBunny: The outfit that she wears from when she is first introduced.
* PsychopathicWomanchild: She has a constant smile on her face even when she's killing, flirts shamelessly with any handsome man in her company, and treats all of her battles as concerts where she's "entertaining" the opponent with her [[MakeMeWannaShout "singing"]].
%%* ReallyGetsAround
* TooDumbToLive: She tries to have her way with a heavily injured Run ''in the middle of a battlefield'' [[spoiler:and [[InTheBack gets shot through the chest]] by Mine for her trouble.]]
!!! Teigu: Heavy Pressure
* MakeMeWannaShout: Heavy Pressure allows its user to transmit long range sound waves, strong enough to shatter the skeletons and implode the brain on any unfortunate target caught in its radius.
* MusicalAssassin: Heavy Pressure is a microphone Teigu that allows its owner to amplifies its voice with devastating effects.
* RedBaron: Great Tremor: Heavy Pressure
!! Dorothea
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-->''"Hmph. You'd make a most ideal subject for my experiments."''
An alchemist from the Western Kingdom, Dorothea is recruited into the Wild Hunt. She comes into prominence after [[spoiler: Syura's death]], taking charge of the Wild Hunt to further her own machinations. Her Teigu is Blood Collection: Absordex, fangs which allow her to drain the blood of whatever she bites. In addition, she also fights with a variety of gadgets and alchemic tricks.
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* ACupAngst: When healing Cosmina with her alchemy; she comments to Syura on how her great bust infuriates her, in a comedic fashion.
* AllWomenAreLustful: Demonstrates this towards [[ChickMagnet Tatsumi]], of course.
* {{Badass}}: Despite her small size, she is a powerful fighter with an incredible strength that rivals Leone's own. She puts up a strong showing and in contrast to the rest of the Wild Hunt, [[spoiler: she only dies after a long, hard battle and would have killed Leone if it weren't for her overconfidence.]]
* BlondesAreEvil
* BrokenTears: When [[spoiler: she plays dead and Leone is about to crush her with a rock to secure her death, she starts crying and pleading with her opponent to spare her life and permit her to continue her life-extending experiments. Unfortunately for her, Leone isn't particularly swayed...]]
* CoDragons: She replaces [[spoiler: Enshin after his death]] and shares this position with Izou for Syura.
* CuteAndPsycho: Anyone would look at her and assume that she's the most innocent of Wild Hunt. Truthfully, she is perhaps the most ruthless and dangerous.
* DidNotSeeThatComing: She had multiple [[CrazyPrepared contingency plans in place]] to deal with Night Raid, though she was caught off guard by some surprises.
** [[spoiler: She covered her experimental warriors with glue so that Murasame got stuck on one of them, disarming Akame. Given that most of Akame's targets were killed with her sword, this seems like a good plan, but [[EntertaininglyWrong unfortunately, Akame was trained in many fighting techniques, including hand-to-hand combat without her Teigu]].]]
** [[spoiler: She turned Cosmina into an insectoid beast capable of injecting deadly poison even through [[NighInvulnerability Incursio's armor]]. This would have worked, except for the fact that [[AdaptiveArmor Tatsumi's body had already adapted to the poison]] from when the Prime Minister tainted Incursio with it, back when Tatsumi recovered it.]]
** [[spoiler: Most of her victims became shriveled and emaciated like mummies after she absorbed their blood. The exception being Leone, who was capable of [[HealingFactor quickly recovering from the loss of blood by eating animals]].]]
* DragonAscendant: [[spoiler:She ends up taking over the remains of the Wild Hunt after Syura's death.]]
* EldritchAbomination: [[spoiler:In the climax of her fight with Leone, she summons a grotesque monster to defeat her enemy.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards: She seemed pretty taken aback by how quickly the Prime Minister recovered from hearing of [[spoiler:his son's death, considering that he died while trying to prove himself to his father.]]
* EvilGenius: Of Wild Hunt. Doubled as CoDragons with Izou, [[spoiler: after Enshin's death]], and then briefly became [[spoiler: DragonAscendant when Syura himself died.]]
* FurAgainstFang: Her fight with Leone can be considered this.
* HypercompetentSidekick: She ends up being the biggest threat in the Wild Hunt and the only one to be a serious challenge to the Night Raid.
* ImmortalitySeeker: Her investigations are primarily to stay young and beautiful forever.
* JapanesePronouns: Dorothea uses 妾 (warawa), giving old-fashioned connotations to her speech and hinting that she's been around for significantly longer than her appearance suggests.
* KilledMidSentence: [[spoiler:Leone crushes her with a boulder before she can finish making her case about why she should live on and continue her experiments.]]
* MadeOfIron: Seriously, it took a lot to kill her. [[spoiler: Leone punched her hard in the stomach and she recovered quickly; she kicked her in the spinal column, which would have killed most people or at least paralyzed them, yet she was mostly fine, and finally, Leone broke her neck and she was still alive. Leone had to crush her with a giant bolder to finish her off.]]
* MadScientist: She is the Doctor Stylish of Wild Hunt. [[spoiler:She turned one of her own colleagues into an enormous monster that grew stronger from consuming human flesh and was capable of surviving [[OneHitKill Akame's sword.]]]]
* TheMedic: She serves as this for the rest of Wild Hunt.
* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler: Leone finishes her battle with Dorothea by breaking the alchemist's neck. Dorothea then plays possum, expecting that Night Raid will leave and that she can recover from her injuries. However, Leone takes the precaution of making sure Dorothea is down for good...]]
* NotGrowingUpSucks: Although she seems generally satisfied with her near-immortality, she expresses resentment towards Cosmina's more mature figure and shortly before [[spoiler: she dies, she mentally pictures herself looking considerably older and dressed in a more Stripperiffic outfit.]]
* OlderThanSheLooks: [[spoiler: Her exact age is unknown but her fight with Leone reveals that her blood-drinking keeps her young and when she sustains a strong attack from Leone begins showing visible wrinkles on her face.]]
* TheParalyzer: She uses a paralyzing gas that turn those who come into contact with it into stone during her fight with Leone, who mistakes it for a [[DeadlyGas poisonous gas]]. [[spoiler: Dorothea then drains all of Leone's blood, but thanks to Lionelle's regenerative abilities and stamina, she survives this.]]
* PintSizedPowerhouse: Wild Hunt's shortest member and physically the strongest.
* ShoutOut: Her character design, the clothes she wears, and her blonde hair makes her a manga version of [[Literature/AliceinWonderland Alice]].
** The monster that she releases in the end of her battle with Leone at the beginning appears as a shadow with multiple eyes. Could be a [[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist Pride]] reference?
* SlasherSmile: She flashes a really creepy one when [[spoiler: Leone breaks her neck and she fakes her death, looking forward to revenge when she recovers from her wounds.]]
* SupernaturallyDeliciousAndNutritious: In chapter 50, when she's feasting on Tatsumi after he's subdued; she comments on how his blood is incredibly delicious, intense, and rich.
* ThisCannotBe: [[spoiler:After Leone has just brought her down by delivering a NeckSnap to her, she's lying flat on the ground, on her back, muttering this trope. Then she witnesses [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe the way Tatsumi finishes Cosmina]], horrifying her, which causes her to lament her ambitions, before feigning death as a last resort (which doesn't work with Leone, of course).]]
* TrouserSpace: During the fight with Leone, she whips an alchemy capsule out from deep within her underskirt. She later draws a gun, presumably from the same general area.
* VillainousBreakdown: When she starts her fight with Leone she is confident about winning the fight. [[spoiler: However, despite nearly killing her enemy, she underestimates Leone's regenerative abilities and when her opponent appears without a scracth, she starts to scream in anger and lose her cool. Even when she reveals her Trump Card, a grotesque {{Eldritch Abomination}}, Leone still defeats her. When Leone is about to crush a rock over her to make sure that Dorothea is dead for good, she starts to cry and plead with Leone for her life. Leone kills her without thinking.]]
* VillainousFriendship: [[spoiler: "Friendship" might be an exaggeration, but she seemed sympathetic when she told Prime Minister Honest of his son Syura's death, and the two frequently shared amicable meals with each other. She also seemed quite friendly with Suzuka. Towards the other Wild Hunt's members, however, this trope is subverted, since she turned Cosmina into an insectoid beast for her experiments and didn´t seem upset when Izou was killed by Akame.]]
!!! Teigu: Absordex
* CuteLittleFangs: In Dorothea at least, the fangs look cute.
* FangsAreEvil: Absordex are a pair of blood-sucking fangs that maintain someone's youth if they drink blood frequently.
* LifeDrinker: Absordex can make its owner young forever from draining the blood of living beings.
* LiquidAssets: The transfer of blood and life energy from victim to attacker seems to be how Absordex functions.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: The abilities of Absordex have many similarities with the powers of {{vampires}}, but the user is still human.
* RedBaron: Blood Collection: Absordex.
* VampiricDraining: Her Teigu allows its owner to bite into a victim and reduce them to a withered husk in mere seconds.
!! Enshin
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-->''"A woman's hand isn't meant to hold guns. It's meant to serve me."''
Pirate from the Southern Islands.
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* {{Badass}}: Have to give the bastard credit, he was able to easily defeat [[spoiler: Kurome's two most powerful puppets at time, Doya and Natala, especially since Tatsumi couldn't defeat Natala.]] Also, [[spoiler: he lasted longer than Champ and Cosmina during Wild Hunts fight with the Jaegers and Night Raid, before being killed.]]
* TheDragon: Dorothea noted that Enshin was possible the closest member of Wild Hunt to Syura. He also acted as the unofficial leader of Champ and Cosmina during Wild Hunts fight with the Jaegers [[spoiler: and later Night Raid.]] However,[[spoiler: he was replace by Dorothea and Izou after his death.]]
* GenreSavvy: Unlike [[DumbMuscle Champ]] and [[ReallyGetsAround Cosmina]], he is not fooled by Run's [[{{NiceGuy}} facade]] about joining Wild Hunt and follows him when he leads Champ to another location, in the event that Run might try to ambush Champ.
* OhCrap: When Akame dodges the attacks from his Shamshir, and [[spoiler:then swiftly kills him with her Murasame. The look on his face when he realizes her strength sums it all up.]]
* ProperlyParanoid: Of Run's reasons for ingratiating himself to Wild Hunt, which turn out to indeed be insincere.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: Of Wild Hunt, he was the one with less screentime before his death and, except commentaries of Dorothea about him, we knew nothing about him apart of his likes of rapes.
* TheWorfEffect: In his fight with Run and Kurome, his Teigu was in his prime and offer a challenge to the Jaegers, but [[spoiler: is easily killed by Akame when Night Raid come to the battle.]]
!!! Teigu: Shamshir
* {{Lunacy}}: Shamshir is a curved sword that can create [[SwordBeam aerial blades]] which can grow stronger depending on the lunar cycle. When it's full moon is when is more strong.
* MeaningfulName: The Teigu is named in base to a curved sabre originated in central Asia. Its name is derived from Persian شمشیر (romanized as shamshīr) which means "sword" in general.
* RedBaron: Moonlight Sword Dance: Shamshir.
* SwordBeam: Shamshir main power is to create aerial blades in base to the lunar cycle.
!! Champ
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-->''"Where's the shack full of super-cute children?"''
A 'Serial Killer Entertainer', Champ is clown-like child molestor and killer that gets recruited into the Wild Hunt.
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!!! Tropes associated with Champ
* AssholeVictim: His death at the hands of [[spoiler:Run]] was a long, ''long'' time coming.
* BishieSparkle: Whenever he sees a child or gets passionate in speaking about his love for children.
* ButForMeItWasTuesday: When asked by Run if he remembers his massacre of students back in the town of Joyou, he struggles to remember the memory until he thinks about the amount of children he raped and killed.
* ChildrenAreInnocent: In a very twisted aspect, this is the reason why he kills children. [[NotAllowedToGrowUp To prevent them from becoming "filthy adults"]].
-->'''Champ:''' [[InsaneTrollLogic "Adults are worthless. They're all scum! Angels should just stay angels forever."]]
* DumbMuscle: He's strong enough to be recruited as a Teigu wielding member of Wild Hunt yet is easily fooled by Run into following him into some abandoned ruins in an attempt to ambush him and kill him with the promise of having prepared a group of small children just for his pleasure.
* {{Expy}}: Of John Wayne Gacy.
* EyeScream: In his retaliation against him, Run fires a [[FeatherFlechettes feather]] into his eye.
* FatBastard: In terms of evil and girth, he gives the [[BigBad Prime Minister]] a run for his money.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: In the end he is killed when he [[spoiler:throws his Flame Orb at Run, who in turn activates Mastema's Divine Wings, which [[CatchAndReturn deflects]] the orb back at Champ incinerating him into a skeleton.]]
* {{Irony}}: He likens children to angels, which is why he kills them before they become evil and impure as adults, yet [[spoiler:[[DeathByIrony he is killed]] by an opponent whose Teigu likens his image into the form of an actual angel.]]
* KarmicDeath: His death [[spoiler: by Run is this, as he's killed by his own attack by a man with wings, an angel in effect. Ironic as he compares children to angels.]]
* MadeOfIron: Has the courtesy of being hit by a [[FlechetteStorm barrage]] of Mastema's FeatherFlechettes, which can pierce through bone, [[ColdBloodedTorture tortured by Run]], stabbed repeatedly in the torso and still has the strength to find Run and Kurome and attack the pair with his Teigu.
** Kevlard: It seems it was his fat and body size that allowed him to continue kicking after all the punishment he took.
* MightyGlacier: He's very slow but can tank an incredible amount of punishment and his Teigu can deal immense damage in both long and short range combat.
* MonsterClown: Especially monstrous, when one considers his [[PaedoHunt sexual preference]].
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Beats an innocent woman to death simply because she tried to prevent him from having his way with a young child in a theater group.
* NotSoStoic: He drops his [[TheStoic stoic demeanor]] when he happens to spot a cute child. Unfortunately, this is also [[{{Squick}} coupled with arousal]]...
* OhCrap: [[spoiler:When Run reflects his Flame Orb right back at him, which in turn soon causes him to be incinerated into a skeleton.]]
!!! Teigu: Die Leaguer
* BlowYouAway: Storm Orb, an orb imbued with the power to unleash an incredibly strong hurricane.
* ElementalPowers: Die Leaguer is a six orb imbued with an element that activates after being thrown.
* PlayingWithFire: Flame Orb, an orb imbued with the power to incinerate an enemy to mere bones.
* RedBaron: Ace Solution: Die Leaguer.
* StuffBlowingUp: Explosion Orb, an orb imbued with the power to induce an immense explosion.
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[[folder:Minor Villains]]
!! Aria
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-->''"If you have nowhere to sleep, would you like to stay at my home?"''
-->'''Voiced by:''' Kanami Satou (Japanese), Creator/BrittneyKarbowski (English)
A wealthy girl living in a huge mansion within the imperial capital. Aria appears to be kind-hearted and innocent, but in truth, she and her family are actually a group of sadists disguised as {{Good Samaritan}}s who lure unidentified people with kind words before drugging and then torturing them to death.
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* AssholeVictim: Tatsumi wastes no time killing her once he sees for himself what she did to both Ieyasu and Sayo.
* BadSamaritan
* BitchInSheepsClothing: A very sadistic little girl who disguises herself as a sweet and innocent one to fool the people she lured before killing them.
* BlondesAreEvil
* BlueEyes
* CheerfulChild: What she appears to be, anyway.
* ChildrenAreInnocent: Brutally subverted in her case.
* ColdBloodedTorture: What she did to her victims that her household invited.
* CreepyChild: What she eventually turns out to be.
* CuteAndPsycho: First, take a look at the appearance of this very cute girl. Then, look deep inside her.
* EnfantTerrible
* EvilIsPetty: The reason why she tortured Sayo to death was mainly because she was jealous of her smooth hair.
* FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon: Who would've thought that such a cute and innocent-looking girl would turn out to be a depraved creature on the inside that's way worse than any demon?
* HairDecorations: She wears a light blue pompom with black ribbons on her hair.
* HalfTheWomanSheUsedToBe: In the manga, at least; in the anime, Tatsumi simply slashed her across the front of the stomach.
* LackOfEmpathy: Towards the victims of her household. Secretly.
* ManipulativeBitch
* RichBitch
* StarterVillain
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: She and her family invite people using kind words before drugging them and torturing them to their deaths.
* VillainOfTheWeek: The very first one to appear, in fact.
* VillainousBreakdown: Once Tatsumi learns of the whole truth of her household's sheer sadism towards the people she lured to it, she snaps and rants about her views of others as nothing but worthless cattle, her belief in her right to toy with whatever she wants, and her jealousy toward's Sayo's hair motivating her to torture-murder her, all while putting on a NightmareFace and seemingly sounding like a VoiceOfTheLegion.
!! Ogre
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-->''"A weakling's concerns don't matter. In this city, only the strong prevail. I'm the one that determines others' fates! I won't tolerate being judged!"''
-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TsuyoshiKoyama (Japanese), Creator/GeorgeManley (English)
Captain of the Capital guards, Ogre is a evil individual who takes bribes from criminals such as Gamal, a crooked oil merchant, and uses his authority to frame people from the crimes that Gamal commits. After his last victim overhears the dealings between Gamal and Ogre he sends a letter to his wife before his execution to inform her of their crimes and she in turn requests the Night Raid to end both Gamal and Ogre for their transgressions.
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* TheAlcoholic: He's often seen drinking when he's not patrolling on duty.
* BlackEyesOfCrazy: Just another trait to ''really'' prove he is an [[ObviouslyEvil amoral bastard.]]
* DirtyCop: Ogre is known for accepting bribes and using his connections to frame innocent people to take the executions for the real criminals.
* DreadlockWarrior: His hair is styled in the shape of several dreadlocks.
* EvilMentor: To Seryu.
* GenreSavvy: He's savvy enough to keep his hand on his weapon and stay on guard when he first encounters Tatsumi and he's also sharp enough to figure out that he's Night Raid and who was the one that contracted the hit on him in the first place.
* GoodScarsEvilScars: He has a wide cross shaped scar over his left eye.
* KickTheDog: If it wasn't enough he framed an innocent man for a crime he didn't commit he also planned on forcing the man's wife to watch her entire family get executed one by one.
* NoKillLikeOverkill: Tatsumi cuts off [[spoiler:[[AnArmAndALeg both his arms]] and then slashes him into a bloody corpse.]]
* RedBaron: The Demon.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: In the anime.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Has a little of this. Despite being one of the first {{Villain of the Week}} in the series, his death is the reason because Seryu became obsessed to avenge him and defeat Night Raid and eventually causes[[spoiler: Scheele's death.]]
* SocialDarwinist: He believes in the empire the weak don't matter and the strong do. As such he has the power and authority to pass judgement on anyone weaker than him.
!! Zank the Beheader
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-->''"It appears that the capital is a very comfortable place to live. With so many people, I can cut down as many as I want! Splendid. Simply splendid!"''
-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/SatoshiTsuruoka (Japanese), Creator/RobMungle (English)
A former prison executioner. Seemed to be normal once, though due to the sheer amount of executions he was required to do under Prime Minister Honest, he began to develop a bloodlust and soon started to kill random people at night, fleeing to a new area once a punitive squad was assembled to deal with him.
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* AxCrazy: [[FreudianExcuse Considering what the Prime Minister forced to put him through]], who wouldn't be?
* BladeBelowTheShoulder: Two katars to be precise.
* {{Blond Guys are Evil}}: Or downright insane in his case.
* BloodKnight: Though he prefers unarmed civilians incapable of putting up much resistance, he also loves to fight when he sees an opponent who can defend themselves.
* ExplainingYourPowerToTheEnemy: He arrogantly explains his Teigu's powers in great detail to Tatsumi as they try to kill each other.
* FangsAreEvil: To highlight his vicious personality, his grin contains pronounced incisors.
* GracefulLoser: When Akame kills him, he thanks her for doing so (and, as an effect, ridding him of the voices that haunted his mind).
* HeadphonesEqualIsolation: PlayedWith. He doesn't wear headphones to isolate himself from people or reality, he wears them in an attempt isolate himself from the [[HearingVoices voices he constantly hears within his head]]. [[spoiler:When his headphones break open after he's defeated by Akame he realizes the voices have stopped and [[DeathSeeker thanks Akame while he dies]].]]
* HearingVoices: See TheMentallyDisturbed below.
* HoneyTrap: He uses this against Tatsumi to lure him out into an area where he could slowly torture and kill him. Specifically his illusion power allows him to look like the person his target cared most about, and in Tatsumi's case, Sayo. It doesn't quite work the way he expected against Akame though.
* HopeSpot: He likes to torture people before killing them. One method he employs is to tell them he simply wants to talk with them, which seems reasonable enough. However, he usually decapitates them, then talks to the person's head.
* TheMentallyDisturbed: Showed symptoms of Schizophrenia, hearing dark voices that drove him further and further into insanity.
* MotorMouth: Zank does ''not'' stop talking. Even when in the midst of combat he never takes a minute to cease conversation, even between attacks. He intentionally [[InvokedTrope invokes]] this because in his mind, [[HearingVoices the voices in his head]] [[JustifiedTrope quiet down whenever he speaks]].
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: He earned his nickname by killing lots of prisoners. And when that wasn't enough, he started to kill random people as well.
* OhCrap: When Akame nearly kills him while under the effects of his [[MasterOfIllusion Illusion Sight]], which showed her the [[CainAndAbel person she loves the most]].
* PerpetualSmiler: Always seen with a [[SlasherSmile giant grin]] ''constantly''.
* PowerPerversionPotential: Zank's "Spectator" Teigu had multiple abilities related to sight, but there was one he never used. [[spoiler: When Tatsumi used Spectator, that hidden ability was the ability to see through people's clothes.]]
* RequiredSecondaryPowers: Had Zank's body been in top physical condition, he would have been able to keep up with the CombatClairvoyance that Spectator granted and would have been a ''much'' larger threat.
* SanitySlippage: After delivering numerous executions of various innocent people who were sentenced to death by the Prime Minister, Zank eventually went mad from the immense guilt brought on by the many innocent pleas of his victims.
* SerialKiller: Of the Hedonistic kind, coupled with his threat to the populace and possession of a powerful Teigu, makes him a target for assassination by the Night Raid.
* SlasherSmile: He sports a rather terrifying one at all times.
* SuperpowerLottery: His Teigu, Spectator, is among the most versatile Teigu in the story. It grants Zank ''five'' abilities that when properly used in conjuction allows him to fight on par with ''Akame''. In the hands of a much more experienced combatant, it would have been a complete StoryBreakerPower.
* VillainousBreakdown: When he realizes that Akame [[NoSell isn't affected]] by his [[MasterOfIllusion Illusion Sight]] and proceeds to crack his katars, he falls into a mad craze and tries to finish her off before his weapon breaks, all while [[SmugSuper thinking he has still has the upper hand]] due to his [[CombatClairvoyance Spectator]].
* WakeUpCallBoss: Though just a VillainOfTheWeek, he seriously wounds Tatsumi in their fight. And even Akame isn't able to finish him off right away.
!!!Teigu: Spectator
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* CombatClairvoyance: Grants its user the ability to see the smallest muscle movements of their opponents, allowing them to successfully predict what their next move is.
* ComboPlatterPowers: Spectator has been noted to grant its user a number of mental abilities.
* MasterOfIllusion: Has the ability to cast illusions of one's loved ones to catch them off guard.
* RedBaron: Omnipotent Five Sights: Spectator.
* SuperSenses: Grants the user impeccable long range vision.
* {{Telepathy}}: Grants the user the ability to read their opponents mind.
* XRayVision: It can see through clothes.
!! Liver
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-->''"What is your desire, divine Esdeath?"''
-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JojiNakata
The leader of the Three Beasts, the strongest military group in the Empire before their destruction and the creation of the Jaegers. Liver was formerly a righteous general in the empire and Bulat's mentor and friend. Refusing to take bribes, he was imprisoned until Esdeath, recognizing his strength, offered him a place under her command. As a result, Liver has since idolized Esdeath is unfailingly loyal to her. Liver led the Three Beasts in framing Night Raid in a series of political murders to lure them out, eventually confronting Bulat and Tatsumi aboard a cruise ship.
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* AntiVillain: Compared to his two teammates. He is an enemy only because of his UndyingLoyalty to Esdeath for saving his life.
* {{Badass}}: Being a former general qualifies but fighting an Incursio clad Bulat on equal grounds is impressive.
* BadassBaritone: The fact that he's voiced by {{Creator/Joji Nakata}} makes this obvious.
* BadassMustache: It's quite spiffy.
* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: In a [[CurbStompBattle "battle"]] against an ex-minister who is opposed to Honest, he cuts his head with only '''his hand'''.
* CordonBleughChef: While he loves to cook, it's noted by Daidara that Liver is an extremely terrible chef. His cooking is known to be as [[UpToEleven lethal as an average Teigu]] and even incapacitated [[WorldsStrongestMan General Esdeath]] for several minutes.
* CrazyPrepared: Knowing that Bulat is more powerful than him, he staged their battle in a ship in the open ocean, where his Teigu's power is maximised and Bulat cannot dodge his attacks for fear of allowing the ship to be destroyed. When this fails, he injects himself with a strengthening serum to engage Bulat in close combat, where he [[ThanatosGambit allows himself to be slashed]] so that he can utilise his blood magic to fatally wound Bulat with a lethal toxin in the aforementioned serum. [[spoiler: He succeeds.]]
* FallenHero: He was Bulat's former superior in the Empire's army but after a downfall orchestrated by the Prime Minister and being saved by Esdeath, he now serves directly under her as part of the [[QuirkyMiniBossSquad The Three Beasts]].
* HeroKiller: The Three Beasts were the most powerful soldiers under Esdeath until the formation of the Jaegers. They were responsible for wiping out the entire outskirts division of the Night Raid save for Chelsea, killing the ex-Prime Minister and his knights. River himself fatally wounded [[spoiler: Bulat]] before dying himself.
* PeacefulInDeath: Dies contently, having succeeded in slaying [[spoiler: Bulat]] and served Esdeath to the best of his ability.
* TakingYouWithMe: After a long battle he is eventually beaten by [[spoiler:Bulat]], but not before fatally poisoning him with Black Marlin.
* TeamDad: To the 3 Beasts, just like Bulat is to Night Raid.
* UndyingLoyalty: To Esdeath, although it appears to reach the point of romantic affection.
* WeCanRuleTogether: Tries this on Bulat. It fails, obviously.
!!! Teigu: Black Marlin
* BloodyMurder: The Teigu's Trump Card allows its owner to weaponize its own blood into a projectile.
* MakingASplash: Black Marlin allows its owner to control water in the vicinity. However Liver notes that, unlike Esdeath's Teigu, [[ElementalBaggage he can't create the water.]]
* RedBaron: Water Dragon Possession: Black Marlin.
* RingOfPower: Black Marlin is a ring who was forged from the remains of an aquatic monster, and gives the wielder control over liquids.
* ShapingYourAttacks: The Teigu also has the ability to shapes its attacks into whatever its owner wishes, likes spears, dragons, or a '''giant snake'''.
!! Nyau
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--> '''Voiced by:''' Creator/HitomiNabatame
A member of the Three Beasts under Esdeath's command. He wields an Imperial Arm in the form of a flute that allows him to manipulate anyone who hears his music in a variety of ways.
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* {{Bishounen}}: Being young, he has a slender physique, large eyes, and postures in ways a girl might.
* BondVillainStupidity: If he would have attacked Tatsumi instead of discourage him of taking Incursio, he would've won the fight.
* CombatCommentator: He mentally explains all of Liver's abilities during his fight with Bulat.
* CreepySouvenir: Cuts off and [[CollectorOfTheStrange collects people's faces]], while they're still alive.
* DudeLooksLikeALady: It's easy to confuse him for a little girl the first time one watches the series. His manners neither help too much.
* EnfanteTerrible: He's appears to be very young and yet revels in torturing and killing.
* HairDecorations: He sports a small horn-like hairband. To compliment it, he also has a black devil tail.
* HorrifyingTheHorror: Nyau's "hobby" unnerves even [[BloodKnight Daidara]].
* PunchedAcrossTheRoom: How he is killed by a newly Incursio clad Tatsumi.
* {{Sadist}}: The little bastard take much pleasure in skins people's face.
* SuperSpeed: His agility is above average, being able to match Tatsumi's, though he isn't as fast as Akame.
* TheWorfEffect: He defeats Tatsumi easily, and later uses his Trump Card to confront a wounded Bulat and Tatsumi. However, when Tatsumi [[spoiler: makes Incursio its own]], he defeats Nyau of a single punch.
!!! Teigu: Scream
* InstrumentOfMurder: Scream can be uses as a melee weapon.
* MagicEnhancement: One of Scream powers is the capacity to enhance the allies and it's owner, giving them more moral to fight or make them more powerful.
* MusicalAssassin: Scream has the ability to affect listeners depending on what he plays.
* RedBaron: Military Music Dream: Scream.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Nyau's eyes become red when Call of the Fierce God is used in his body.
* TemporaryBulkChange: The Teigu's Secret Skill: Call of the Fierce God can make its user to become more strong and muscular.
!! Daidara
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-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AnriKatsu
A member of the Three Beasts commanded by Esdeath. He is a large, imposing man with an interest in killing so as to gain more "experience."
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* BloodKnight: Loves to fight so that he can gain [[ExperiencePoints "experience"]], so the stronger the better.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Considers Nyau's habit of skinning faces to be disgusting.
* HairDecorations: Strangely, he wears a headband with horn-like designs.
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: Bulat kills him by splitting him vertically down the middle.
* HotBlooded: He's loud, theatric, and eager to kill.
* MonochromaticEyes: His eyes lack pupils, giving him a strange and inhumane physical feature.
* SlasherSmile: Sports one constantly while in combat.
* SuperStrength: It's a requirement to wield Belvaac. He can cut through a whole crowd of [[{{Mook}} mooks]] in one swing.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: Being the first of the Three Beast to die, it's nothing strange that we have little knowledge about him.
* TheWorfEffect: He puts Tatsumi on the ropes, and is immediately killed by Bulat as a testament of his full power.
!!! Teigu: Belvaac
* AnAxeToGrind: Belvaac is a giant axe that can split into [[BifurcatedWeapon two homing boomerangs]].
* BifurcatedWeapon: Can be separated into two axes that can be thrown and will pursue the target until it hits.
* RedBaron: Double-Bladed Axe: Belvaac.
!!Bolic
-->'''Voiced by''': Creator/MasamiIwasaki
A spy working for the Prime Minister who poses as a high-ranking member of the Path of Peace. His goal is to kill the leader of the religious organization without revealing his true identity so the Empire can use it for its own ends.
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* BeardOfEvil
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Loves doing this to members of the Path of Peace by mixing drugs into food, which he claims "will get them closer to the Lord" (he's lying, of course), only to turn them into his obedient slaves and use them as his sex toys afterwards. This, once explained by Najenda, was more than enough to [[BerserkButton enrage both Lubbock and Susanoo]].
-->'''Lubbock''': (About Bolic) He's probably going from girl to girl, and having his way with them.\\
'''Susanoo''': Mixing drugs into food is a crime against food!\\
'''Both''': [[ThisIsUnforgivable I'll never forgive him!]]
* DeathByAdaptation: The way he dies in the anime is different from his death in the manga, with him being ambushed by Akame and Lubbock and then being hanged from the ceiling by Lubbock's Cross Tail.
* DirtyCoward: He's such a coward that he begs for the Jaegers to protect him when Night Raid comes to assassinate him.
* TheHedonist: Cares only for pleasure, even going so far as to rape and abuse people unfortunate enough to please him.
* HidingBehindReligion
* LightIsNotGood: Did we mention that he's an evil priest?
* ManipulativeBastard
* TheMole: He poses as a high-ranking member of the Path of Peace in an attempt to kill their leader. Thank goodness Night Raid put a stop to that.
* OhCrap: In the anime, he utterly craps himself when Akame and Lubbock ambush both him and Holimaca.
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Loves raping people who end up interesting him.
* SmugSnake
* UnderestimatingBadassery: In the manga, he underestimates Night Raid when Esdeath is overpowering them and believes himself to be secure enough to be able to rape the injured Leone. However, she grabs him by the leg as Mine and Akame arrive, allowing Akame to finish him with her Murasame for his troubles.
!!4 Rakshasa Demons
The Prime Minister's personal executioners, the Rakshasa Demons are humans that undergo intense training to modify their bodies. Despite not wielding Teigus, they have defeated a total of five Teigu users. The 4 Rakshasa Demons are sent to guard Path of Peace leader Bolic when the Night Raid threaten to assasinate him. They assist the Jaegers in engaging the Night Raid.
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!!!Tropes in common for all the demons:
* BadassNormal: Despite not having a Teigu, they are capable of fighting on par with Teigu users thanks to their physical abilities. That being said, they are able to use their body in manners that hardly classify as 'normal'.
** Ibara overwhelmed Akame until he made the mistake of grabbing Murasame, while Suzuka overwhelmed an Incursio-clad Tatsumi in combat. Sten and Mez held the advantage over Lubbock for the majority of their battle.
* BareFistedMonk: All 4 members use only their bare hands in combat.
* BloodKnight: All 4 crave combat and a worthy opponent.
* {{Contortionist}}: They are capable of twisting their bodies to ridiculous extents thanks to their [[TrainingFromHell training]].
* DoesNotLikeShoes: Instead, they wear only footwraps.
* EmpoweredBadassNormal: Their fighting skills come from their martial arts training, but the really weird things they do like Mez's super sweat or tentacles coming out of Ibara...those powers come from the 4 using a broth derived from the lake kraken behind their temple.
* MadeOfIron: Sten is impaled by Lubbock with scarcely any reaction, while Ibara survives getting his neck snapped. Suzuka survives getting a building dropped onto her.
* SuperSenses: They are perhaps the most proficient at this in the series, able to detect enemies in a crowd in an instant.
* TrainingFromHell: All 4 underwent intense training in the harshest environments to achieve practically superhuman capabilities.
* TheWorfEffect: Despite being hyped as the Prime Minister's most powerful assassin squad and claim their strength to the Jaegers, at the end they were only a nuisance for Night Raid and only lasted 4 manga chapters and two anime episodes.
!!!Ibara
-->'''Voiced by''': {{Creator/Satoshi Hino}}
One of the members of the 4 Demons and, in words of Sten and Mez, probably the strongest of the four. He was known by Akame and is arrogant and bloodthirsty, admonishing Seryu when she was warning them about Night Raid capacities. He fights with Akame when Night Raid reaches Kyoroch to kill Bolick.
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* ArrogantKungFuGuy: He makes fun of Seryu surprising her with an attack from behind when she warns Bolick about Night Raid, and is somewhat cocky, saying to the Jaegers that they should drink wine in the mansion of Bolick meanwhile they (the Demons) exterminates Night Raid. Fitting considering that himself is a martial artist user.
* {{Badass}}: Of all the Demons, he is mentioned as the strongest and fight with Akame peer to peer despite not being a Teigu user. He only loses when he grabs Murasame and insult the sword, calling it "ominous".
* BarehandedBladeBlock: Ibara catches Murasame's blade with his bare hands (and without a scratch, mind you).
* BlackEyesOfCrazy: He have black scleras, who give him a inhuman aspect.
* BloodKnight: Even in the Rakshasa Demons, he was the most excited to fight Night Raid (Akame).
* CleopatraNose: Have a big nose who enhances his evil design.
* ExtendableArms: One of his powers, originating of eat the meat of the lake's Kraken.
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: Akame slices Ibara into half when he charges at her in a blind rage.
* NeckSnap: Akame delivers this to him, but that does not kill him.
* OhCrap: He gets one when he realises that Murasame is cursed and that him grabbing it was in Akame's plan all along.
* SlasherSmile: He smiles when he is excited about fighting something strong.
* SpeedBlitz: Delivers one to Seryu when she doubts their combat capabilities.
* SuperSpeed: He is capable of this, and is fast enough to overwhelm ''Akame''.
* WorthyOpponent: Considers Akame this.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: His hair is lavender.
!!!Sten
-->'''Voiced by''': {{Creator/Kenji Nomura}}
Another member of the Demons who is serious and believes that when he kills a person, he "releashes its soul". Along Mez, he fights with Lubbock after detecting him in a crowd in Kyoroch.
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%%* BaldOfEvil
%%* BeardOfEvil
* BarehandedBladeBlock: Catches an axe created by Lubbock's Cross Tail barehanded.
* DidNotSeeThatComing: Despite blocks Lubbock spear, he is defeated when Lubbock uses the spears strings to strike his heart, killing him in an instant.
* ExoticEyeDesigns: Has yellow eyes with red circles around them.
* MadeOfIron: He is impaled by a spear created by Lubbock and resist it without any reaction.
* SuperSpeed: When Lubbock flees from him and Mez after saving the revolutionary girl, Sten uses an incredible speed to catch him.
!!!Mez
-->'''Voiced by''': Aina Suzuki
One of the members of the Demons, a cheerful and easygoing girl who fights Lubbock along Sten when they detecting him in a crowd in Kyoroch.
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* BadassAdorable: As Lubbock notes. She is cute and also a formidable fighter.
%%* BlondesAreEvil
%%* DarkActionGirl
%%* DarkSkinnedBlonde
* DidNotSeeThatComing: She is killed by a sneak attack of Lubbock (a knife tied by a string) that she confusses by another attack.
* EmpoweredBadassNormal: Deserves an special mention in the group because she has her own ability: she is capable of shooting bullets of sweat!.
* ExtendableArms: Like Ibara, she also have this ability.
* GreenEyes: A big ones which denote her cheerful nature.
* FemmeFatale: She can be considered this for Lubbock. Mez actually admitted if they weren't enemies, she wouldn't mind gooding out with him.
* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: Again, she can use her sweat as a long range distance weapon and is pretty effective.
!!!Suzuka
-->'''Voiced by''': Eriko Matsui
The last member of the Rakshasa Demons, a masochistic woman who intercept Tatsumi and Mine along Seryu and fight with the first. She is the only of the Demons that survives the Bolick Assassination arc and later becomes a member of Wild Hunt.
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* AbsurdlySharpBlade: She can extend her nails and use her as a blades.
* BiTheWay: She is interested in Esdeath's torture methods in a erotic way, but she also has interest in Tatsumi after the battle with him in Kyoroch.
%%* DarkActionGirl
* CombatSadomasochist: She occasionally lets herself be struck in combat so she can savour the pain.
* DeathByAdaptation: Because Wild Hunt doesn't exist in the anime, Suzuka is killed much earlier - in her fight with Tatsumi, the building starts to fall apart, and as she runs away, a boulder crushes her head. In the manga, she survives getting crushed by it, but given the omission of her being tortured for her failure, and the aforementioned removal of Wild Hunt, it's clear she's done for.
* DoesNotLikeShoes: The only one of the Demons that avert this, as she wears boots.
* GoodScarsEvilScars: Has a little scar across her cheek.
* MadeOfIron: Suzuka survives getting a building dropped onto her. She also survives to Esdeath fury when she and Dorothea try to rape Tatsumi (Esdeath smash her face to a wall), but her face gets bandaged.
* RecurringBoss: Suzuka is one of the most long lived secondary antagonist of the series, even when entire factions like the Three Beast or [[spoiler: Wild Hunt]] have been eliminated (and some of its members in their first battle onscreen), Suzuka has survived every battle that she has done.
* SoleSurvivor: In the aftermath of the Bolic Arc, she is the only survivor of the Rakshasa Demons.
** [[spoiler: As of Issue 60, she is the sole survivor o the Wild Hunt as well.]]
* TooKinkyToTorture: Suzuka gets aroused when the Prime Minister tortures her for failing to protect Bolic.
* UnderestimatingBadassery: Suzuka underestimates Tatsumi because of his inexperience and gets a building on her head for her troubles.
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[[folder:Other Characters]]
!!Sayo
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-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MikakoKomatsu (Japanese), Creator/MargaretMcDonald (English)
A girl who left the village at the same time with Tatsumi and Ieyasu. Unfortunately they get separated before reaching the capital, after which Tatsumi finds out she's been tortured to death.
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* ClingyJealousGirl: In a FlashBack during episode 3 when Ieyasu and Tatsumi joke about finding women in the capital, she punches Ieyasu in the face. He wonders why she only punched him.
* ColdBloodedTorture: She's one of the many victims in a wealthy household's scheme of capturing and torturing newcomers from the countryside for their sadistic glee. She was tortured much more roughly than Ieyasu, [[DisproportionateRetribution simply because the one of the nobles hated how nice her hair was.]]
* DefiantToTheEnd: Ieyasu notes that despite the horrific torture inflicted upon her by the sadist nobles, she never once submitted to them.
* DetachedSleeves: The sleeves of her haori are cut to expose her shoulders.
* FlowerInHerHair: The flower decoration in her hair.
* PosthumousCharacter: She is already dead by the time Tatsumi finds her in the first episode. But she is seen in a couple of FlashBack scenes when Tatsumi reminisces about them in later episodes.
* RapunzelHair: Her hair is very long and luxurious.
* SacrificialLamb: With Ieyasu, both of them died in the first chapter to demonstrate the dark world where the character of the series live.
* ShipTease: With Ieyasu.
* StuffedIntoTheFridge: Her battered body is found by Tatsumi, enraging him into killing the noble girl responsible.
* ThreeAmigos: She, Tatsumi and Ieyasu.
* {{Tsundere}}: Type A. When Ieyasu and Tatsumi chat about how they're [[HandsomeLech eager to see what the women in the Capital are like]], [[ClingyJealousGirl Sayo]] promptly [[UnprovokedPervertPayback slugs him]] and he wonders in pain why [[ObliviousToLove she didn't also hit Tatsumi]].
!!Ieyasu
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-->'''Voiced by:''' Kouji Takahashi (Japanese), Patrick Poole (English)
A boy who left the village at the same time as Tatsumi and Sayo. Due to [[NoSenseOfDirection getting lost]], he and Sayo get separated from Tatsumi on their way to the capital. Once Tatsumi finds them again, he finds his friend inside a cage, severely beaten and suffering from a fatal illness. Ieyasu succumbs to his illness shortly after their reunification.
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* BloodFromTheMouth: He coughs up blood, confirming that he has been fatally poisoned.
* BromanticFoil: He was one to Tatsumi, being his lighthearted, goofball of a friend.
* ColdBloodedTorture: Like Tatsumi, he and Sayo both accepted the offer from nobles for some hospitality. Unfortunately, they drugged their drinks and subjected them to hideously sadistic torture. Sayo dies first from her wounds and after Tatsumi finds him he dies shortly after.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: He [[GoOutWithASmile smiles]] as he dies, wanting to go bravely like Sayo did.
* GoodIsDumb: He's the most cheerful of his friends about venturing to the empire and becoming famous. His friends note that his carelessness and lack of common sense will instead get him killed.
* HeroicWillpower: The ''only'' reason why he was still alive when Tatsumi found him while dying of the Lubora disease.
* IllBoy: The nobles that tortured him infected him with the Lubora disease, an incurable virus that slowly kills its victim.
* MartialArtsHeadband: He wears it as part of his standard attire.
* NoSenseOfDirection: Which is one reason he and Sayo got separated from Tatsumi when the three of them went to the capital together. This unfortunately causes a lot of problems for Tatsumi later on when he finds them in the first episode.
* PosthumousCharacter: He dies shortly after reuniting with Tatsumi in the first episode. But like with Sayo, he is seen in a couple of FlashBack scenes when Tatsumi reminisces about them.
* SacrificialLamb: With Sayo, both of them died in the first chapter to demonstrate the dark world where the character of the series live.
* ShipTease: With Sayo.
* ThreeAmigos: He formed a trio with Tatsumi and Sayo.
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!! Prime Minister Honest
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-->''"Time like these, when the nation is in chaos, are the best opportunity to determine who is loyal or who is not. Any fools who oppose me will be driven out and executed."''
-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KoujiIshii (Japanese), Marty Fleck (English)
The defacto ruler of the Empire, as the Emperor highly regards Honest's council, even if everyone else around him knows otherwise but stays quiet lest they get removed and killed.
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!!!The tropes associated with Prime Minister Honest
* BeardOfEvil: Which he often strokes while pondering his evil deeds.
* BigBad: Technically, he's the root of all the corruption in the Capital but it's his subordinates (particularly Esdeath) that let him stay as comfortable as he is.
* BigBadWannabe: The only reason he's still in charge is because he has Esdeath's support. He will not even consider annoying her in any way, and allows her to do whatever she wants, even if she goes against his authority, because he knows his title, his authority, his reputation, and his ''life'' are all forfeit otherwise.
* BigEater: He’s even seen eating a cake ''whole''.
* TheCorrupter: He is this towards the Emperor. While claiming to be guiding the boy, he proves to be a ManipulativeBastard, and will always try to convince the Emperor that he's doing what's in the best interests of the Empire. And in episode 23 of the anime, even while the Emperor starts wondering if he's going too far, Honest tells him to harden his heart and put down the rebellion for the sake of his people. Never mind that many of them are dying by the Emperor's own hand as a result.
* DevilInPlainSight: Not to [[HorribleJudgeOfCharacter The Emperor]].
* DirtyCoward: In the anime, after all of his plans fall apart, he [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere tries to flee]], whimpering and whining pathetically the whole time, and then screams for someone to save him when [[spoiler: Leone blocks his path]].
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He cares for his son Syura, and [[spoiler: loses his shit when he dies... for all of '''one panel'''. After a few seconds of OcularGushers, he abruptly moves on and considers having another child.]] Dorothea is really unnerved by it.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Pities the poor sap that ends up being Esdeath's lover. When Esdeath decides to drink an entire vial of demon blood, Honest ''immediately'' tries to get her to back off since it could've killed her. He makes a toast with her once she proves him wrong by surviving and taming the demon blood.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: [[VisualPun Walks out]] [[ManBehindTheMan from behind]] The Emperor after The Emperor sentenced an innocent man to death casually and then supports said decision while [[VillainousGlutton engorging himself with food]]. When the man tries to convince The Emperor that he’s being manipulated, he puts on a kind face and successfully convinces the latter otherwise. What marks him being a complete and utter bastard is telling the condemned man that he’ll make sure to take care of his wife, ''every single part of her''.
* EvilChancellor: Evil Prime Minister to be exact. He plays the trope straight by having the most influential power in the entire empire, [[TheManBehindTheMan influencing the decisions]] of TheEmperor, and being his most “trusted” advisor.
* FatBastard: His argument is that the [[PostStressOvereating stress he gets from hearing about the actions of the resistance cause him to over indulge himself]].
* FauxAffablyEvil: He's always polite, especially to the Emperor but when speaking to others his words positively drip with sarcasm.
* FlatCharacter: He's evil and he eats a lot. That's really all there is to him.
* HeroKiller: In the last episode of the anime, [[spoiler: he is killed by Leone after destroying her Teigu, but manages to shoot her several times before perish. Leone later dies due to the injuries that Honest cause to her.]]
* IronicName: He is anything but honest.
* {{Jerkass}}: Doesn't care about anyone but himself.
* LackOfEmpathy: Shows no remorse for all the terrible corruption that caused people to suffer, including [[spoiler:his son's own death.]]
* ManipulativeBastard: Particularly regarding The Emperor, who's little more than a PuppetKing. At one point, he mentions that he intends to drive him into the same depravity as his own by getting him to drink, eat, and fuck non-stop when he gets older, so that even if Honest himself dies, The Emperor will more than likely continue the same form of corruption as an adult. Esdeath, for her part, cryptically tells Honest not to allow him to contract "adult diseases."
* NightmareFace: In his introduction, when he convinces the Emperor to condemn a man to his death, the man looks to Honest and he shows to the poor man a chilling face. In fact, that face is his profile image!.
* NonActionBigBad: He has yet to face the heroes directly and so far just defers combating Night Raid to Esdeath, Budo and even his son, [[StupidEvil Syura.]]
* OhCrap: He utterly craps himself when Tatsumi evolves and best's The child emperor's Ultimate Taigu.
** [[spoiler:And again when Leone corners him.]]
* SmugSnake: In the anime. Jury's still out in regards to the manga, though.
* VillainousBreakdown: ''Completely'' loses it when his entire plan falls apart and yells out to anyone begging to save him from death.
* VillainousFriendship: His relationship with Esdeath is very professional and business-like, and they're often seen sharing drinks in his dinner table. Of course, Honest knows his rule is over without her support, so he makes sure to stay on Esdeath's good side at all times. They have an implicit deal - as long as he rules, his corruption creates more and more enemies arrayed against the capitol, which Esdeath - being a BloodKnight - would happily put down (although the Jaegers do protect the average folks of the empire when it comes down to it). Honest knows damn-well that a single ''inch'' out of line would result in Esdeath outright murdering him for crossing her, so he allows her to do whatever she pleases and makes sure not to boss her around (limiting his direct orders purely for combat-related purposes). This is best shown regarding Wild Hunt; when his son, Syura, asks him to disband the Jaegers on suspicion of secretly working against them, he counters by pointing out that Esdeath's very existence covers their asses, and refuses to oppose her in any way. When Esdeath humiliates Syura and provides evidence that he needlessly harmed the people of the Empire, Honest is ''forced'' to disband Wild Hunt.
* VillainousGlutton: Most of his appearances have him always consuming large amounts of foods.
!! The Emperor
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-->''"The empire that's persisted for generations is God's will. To defy God is preposterous!"''
-->'''Voiced by:''' Yo Taichi (Japanese), Creator/ShannonEmerick (English)
The de jure ruler of the Empire, although everything he does is through the influence of Prime Minister Honest.
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!!! Tropes associated with The Emperor
* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: In episode 22 of the anime, he is told by various advisors that the Revolutionary Army is marching towards the capitol. On top of that, they have a lot of sympathizers within the city walls, and he's warned that as powerful as Esdeath is, even she likely can't win if a large enough army shows up. He starts to wonder if he wasn't leading the people as well as he thought he was, but Honest once against interjects and claims he has to simply put his foot down every now and then to quell any dissent.
* AdorablyPrecociousChild: Outside of his duties as the emperor, he's really just a cheerful little boy.
* ChildrenAreInnocent: So innocent that he's very easy to manipulate.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: He is shown stoically [[DisproportionateRetribution sentencing an innocent man to death]] for objecting the political affairs of the Empire. He then asks the [[BigBad Prime Minister]] if he did well. [[WhatTheHellHero When called out on being victim of the Prime Minister’s machinations]] by the innocent man he immediately dismisses the man’s words as foolish ramblings.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler:In the final chapter of the anime, after being sentenced to death by The Revolution and before being executed, he accepts his judgment, admits that he was a bad ruler and finally asks Najenda to restore the country in his place.]]
* GoodIsDumb: [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] as he is just a child.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Believes the [[ObviouslyEvil Prime Minister]] is his most trusted advisor.
* NiceGuy: Although he's clearly just a fake ruler, he's a kind young boy at heart, at least to to those he believes are good people and are loyal to the empire. He even tries to help Esdeath find her perfect match after Tatsumi gets away, but she respectfully insists that she's fine with finding Tatsumi again.
* ObliviouslyEvil: He does not seem to realize that his actions are more hurting his country than helping it.
* PuppetKing: He is merely a tool used to distract the more feeble minded citizens of his court and by extension, the entire empire from the activities of the Prime Minister.
* SanitySlippage: In episode 23 he's starting to lose his marbles. Despite the massive destruction of the capitol, along with countless deaths, Honest keeps telling him that the rebellion must be stopped. He develops a crazy look on his face from time to time as he battles Tatsumi and causing considerable collateral damage.
* VillainousBreakdown: Gradually loses his mind during his battle with Tatsumi and grows more angry to the point that he doesn't even care about the damage he causes.
!! Great General Budo
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-->'''Voiced by:''' {{Creator/Hozumi Gouda}}
While he is not the Empire's Strongest, Budo is the commander in chief of the military, although he knows better than to boss Esdeath around. He is a man of immense strength, to the point where Esdeath herself respects him immensely.
His Teigu is Thunder God's Rage: Adramelech, a pair of gauntlets which enable him to create storms and lightning, granting him tremendous destructive power.
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!!! Tropes associated with Great General Budo
* {{Adaptational Wimp}}: Compared to the manga version, in the anime he is a lot more weak. He is kicked by Tatsumi with ease and during the battle with Night Raid, he puts a less resistance that in the manga, [[spoiler: and is defeated by Mine with more ease, although in the anime Mine latter die to the wounds caused by Adramelech.]] Also in the anime, his Teigu's trump card, Solid Shooter is a mere lightning ball, while in the manga is a energy beam of electricity.
* AntiVillain: Although he was born from a line of generals who served the Empire, he cannot stand the current Prime Minister's very existence. At [[spoiler:Tatsumi's]] PublicExecution, Budo ''publicly'' declares his intention to kill Honest after the revolution is put down, with Esdeath right next to him at that. Esdeath herself smiled softly at his convictions and says she looks forward to fighting him.
* AttackAttackAttack: In the manga. As result of his inexperience, Budo often resorts to spamming overpowering attacks at his opponents, as well as using these attacks to counter anything they throw at him. [[spoiler: This ends up costing him dearly, as his teigu has a limit on how much power it can use and ends up running out of power on him at the worst possible time.]]
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: The highest ranking general and one of the series' strongest antagonists.
* {{Badass}}: If the people of the Empire compare his strength to Esdeath herself is not in vain. His Teigu powers are very powerful, being capable of manipulate storms, defeats Wave easily when he was about to kill Syura in a rage, curbstomp Night Raid in the majority of Tatsumi rescue battle, [[spoiler: forced Tatsumi to evolve Incursio to temporarily stop him, putting his life in risk in the process, and, even when Night Raid escaped in Najenda Danger Beast and thinks that the combat ends, he appears in the air and with his last attack forced Mine to destroy Pumpkin and enter in a coma.]]
* BlondGuysAreEvil: Like Run, he has blonde hair and work for The Empire, but he hate Honest and want to kill him for the sake of his country. However, he also detest Night Raid and want it elimination.
* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: His physical strength far surpasses that of [[spoiler: Leone and Tatsumi in spite of both of them having Teigus that enhance their physical prowess. He is also fast enough to casually fend off Leone's and SuperMode Tatsumi's attacks simultaneously, and is one of only 2 people in the manga to land a direct hit on ''Akame''.]]
* {{Determinator}}: Very much. During his battle with Night Raid in the manga he decides to kill all of them, even when [[spoiler: Tatsumi with the evolved Incursio wounded him, he pursues Night Raid when they are escaping and try to kill them with his strongest attack. Seriously, if Mine wouldn't sacrifice herself, Night Raid could be exterminated in that moment.]]
* TheDreaded: Nearly as much as Esdeath.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: He is sincerely disgusted by Honest's lack of sympathy for his equally-sadistic son Syura's death.
* FourStarBadass:
** Single-handedly stopped Wave's NoHoldsBarredBeatdown on Syura, and he is a fellow Teigu user as well.
** Takes out an ([[WorfHadTheFlu admittedly weakened]]) Incursio-clad Tatsumi clad with a '''single blow''.
** [[spoiler: He takes on the entire Night Raid and it requires a sacrificial technique from Mine to finally take him out.]]
* HairTriggerTemper: He pretty much loses it at anything that offends him and his sensibilities, [[RedOniBlueOni in contrast with the cool Esdeath.]]
* HeroKiller: [[spoiler: In the manga, the [[BeamOWar collision of beams]] between him and Mine ends with him being blasted off to an unknown place and Mine in a coma. However, in the anime, the clash ends with Budo being incinerated by Pumpkin's blast and with Mine's death due the impact of Adramelech lightning.]]
* {{Hypocrite}}: In spite of knowing full well how rotten the Prime Minister is and being partially aware that his influence is what caused the revolutionary army to form in the first place, [[IdiotBall he focus's his attention on crushing the effect instead of hitting at the cause in actuality is, was and always has been the seed of the problem.]] which in turn, might have eased off the tension the empires opposition presented in the first place. [[FalseDichotomy In that sense he isn't all that much better than Esdeath and Honest or their warped sense of self serving world logic.]]
* ImplacableMan: In the manga, this guy just won't stay down. [[spoiler: It takes Mine's Pumpkin overloading and his teigu running out of power to finally put him down.]]
* LightningBruiser: Incredibly fast and very strong.
* MyCountryRightOrWrong: Appears to have recognize'd the Prime Minister as a [[UnderStatement very bad influence]] to the young Emperor but is willing to look the other way until the rebellion is crushed. He knows that while the Prime Minister is using the Emperor as a puppet, FatBastard needs that puppet alive and well.
* NeverFoundTheBody: [[spoiler: In the manga, after being blasted off by Mine in the climax of their battle, The Empire release various posters about his death, but later Honest mention that actually nobody has found his body, leaving his fate ambiguous at the moment.]]
* NighInvulnerability: [[spoiler: His armor is strong enough to no-sell slashes from Akame's Murasame, and even take several supercharged shots from Mine without a scratch. Only attacks from Tatsumi's SuperMode and Mine's sacrificial move have succeeded in injuring him.]]
* NoSell: [[spoiler: Tanks several supercharged shots from Mine (which when used against Seryu sliced a building into half) without a scratch.]]
* OhCrap: In the manga, [[spoiler: while he doesn't say it, the look on his face when the ManaMeter of his teigu running out on him in the middle of a BeamOWar with Mine says it all.]]
* RedOniBlueOni: The Red to Esdeath's blue. Where Esdeath is cool, composed and anatytical, Budou is hot-tempered, easily enraged and loses composure more easily in battle (or just in general). He is also the more passionate of the 2 when it comes to matters of the state. This difference is highlighted by Esdeath's use of ice while he uses blazing lightning.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Is willing to let Syura and Wave duke it out as long as they don't use their Teigus and don't kill each other.
* SkilledButNaive: Acting as the Empire's last line of defense, Budo never been in an all out battle before his fight with Night Raid. As a result, Budo lacks that actual battle experience that both Night Raid and Esdeath (and by extension the Jaegers) possesses, something he admits, in one of his internal thoughts, put him at a disadvantage. As a result of his inexperience, Budo does not seem to understand the limitations of teigu, [[spoiler: something that ends up being a fatal mistake.]]
* SuperStrength: Incapacitates Tatsumi, Wave and later [[spoiler: Akame and Leone]] in a single punch each.
* UndyingLoyalty: Certainly not to Honest, but to the Emperor and the Empire as a whole, leading to his determination to take down the Night Raid regardless of harm to himself.
* UnstoppableRage: [[spoiler: After Tatsumi succeeds in landing a direct hit on him, he and his Teigu are brought to a different level due to Tatsumi literally enraging him.]]
* WorthyOpponent: [[spoiler: Praises the Night Raid's strength and fighting spirit, lamenting that he has to fight against them.]]
** Esdeath herself considers him a worthy adversary.
* VillainousBreakdown: His calm demeanour shatters [[spoiler: over the course of his battle with the Night Raid, and by the end of the fight he is a seething bubble of unbridled fury.]]
!!!Teigu: Adramelech
* {{Flight}}: When the owner of Adramelech charges his body with electricity, it gains the ability to float in the air.
* LightningGun: Adramelech's Trump Card, Solid Shooter, is this in the manga.
* ManaMeter: Apparently his teigu has one. [[spoiler: It ends up running out on him in the middle of a {{BeamOWar}} with Mine's Pumpkin.]]
* PowerFist: The Teigu is a piston punch variant.
* RedBaron: Thunder God's Rage: Adramelech
* ShockAndAwe: Adramelech main power.
* WaveMotionGun: Solid Shooter.
* WeatherControlMachine: One of Adramelech powers. See {{Weather Manipulation}} below.
** WeatherManipulation: Apart of create lightnings, Adramelech can also manipulate the weather around his owner to produce thunderstorms and call lightnings to strike the enemies at his owner's pleasure.
* YellowLightningBlueLightning: In the anime at least, the colors of Adramalechs attacks are depicted as blue. However, Adramelech main movements in the manga are depicted as black-colored lightnings.
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[[folder:The Jaegars]]
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!Tropes associated with Jaegers:
* ALighterShadeOfBlack: They can be very ruthless, but they are not barbarians. They don't indiscriminately kill the Empire's citizens unless they suspect them to working with LaResistance. Every member at least have their own share PetTheDog moments. This is very stark contrast to Wild Hunt where they are willing to kill the Empire's citizens for ''any'' reason ([[ForTheEvulz even for fun]]).
* AntiVillain: Some of the members such as Wave and Bols are this, especially considering that the Jaegars themselves don't actively abuse the populace of the Empire and are actually intent on protecting them. Unlike [[EvilerThanThou Wild Hunt]].
* BadassCrew: All the members of the group (except Dr. Stylish) are pretty good fighters that can wipe out armies and are very dangerous as their own. For this reason Najenda decides to confront them separately.
* BadassInANiceSuit: The first time the group assembled, their first order of business is to meet the emperor in stylish black suits.
* CurbStompBattle: One of the first missions of the Jaegers is to kill a group of bandits. At the beginning of the fight the bandits starts making cocky comments about the group and think they can win because they are more, even saying that they will take Kurome and Seryu for them. The Jaegers mop the floor with them without a scratch.
* TheDreaded: Esdeath is already bad enough news for anyone opposing the Empire. So naturally the team she leads also brings fear to rebels.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Even the worst members of their group have a strict moral code.
* EvilCounterpart: To Night Raid.
* {{Leitmotif}}: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5qhvynBgsE Jaegers. ]]
* PunchClockVillain: Other than [[CuteAndPsycho Seryu]], [[PsychoForHire Esdeath]] and [[MadScientist Dr. Stylish]] most of the members see being in the group as just a job and generally aren't villainous otherwise outside of combat.
* ThePsychoRangers: To Night Raid. Tatsumi even lampshades how similar the two opposing sides are.
** Esdeath to Najenda, the leaders of their respective groups and great tacticians.
** Kurome to Akame, child assassins who are one of the strongest memebers. Bonus points being also sisters.
** Wave to Tatsumi, newcomers to the team who become the OnlySaneMan. They also wear PoweredArmor with conflicting colors (White/Red vs Black/Blue).
** Run to Leone, yellow-themed characters who transform into animals (beast vs bird).
** Seryu to Mine, ruthless young girls devoted to their team and carry powerful ranged weapons. [[spoiler: This makes their fight well fit.]]
** Dr. Stylish to Lubbock, crazy geniuses with glove Teigus.
** Koro to Susanoo, being organic Teigus.
** Bols to Chelsea. One thinks he's a bad person despite being very nice, the other thinks she's doing good while being very rude and jaded. Also, one focuses on strength while the other uses deception.
* VillainousFriendship: Save for Dr. Stylish, they all seem to genuinely enjoy each other's company.
* VillainsOutShopping: Interestingly, the Jaegers are seen during their downtime from fighting, and some of them even have their own interesting background, such as Bols cooking for the others.
!! Esdeath
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-->''"The weak are destined to lie beneath the boots of the strong. If that angers you, overcome your deficits."''
--> '''Voiced by:''' Creator/SatomiAkesaka (Japanese), Creator/ChristineAuten (English)
Leader of the Jaegars. A high-ranking general and the most powerful fighter in the Empire. A true sadist, she is an expert in torture and ''loves'' to inflict it upon others (indeed, the prospect of her "personal" attention is seen as a [[FateWorseThanDeath terrible fate]]). Ironically, when offered a title of nobility for hunting down and destroying Night Raid, she instead wanted them to find someone she believed could be her OneTrueLove (to the utter shock of everyone in the room).
Her Teigu, Demon God Manifestation: Demon's Extract, is the blood of an ultra class Danger Beast that she drank, allowing her manipulate ice with immense skill.
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* AbductionIsLove: PlayedForLaughs. She couldn't understand why knocking out Tatsumi, dragging him to the palace and slapping a collar on him isn't a good idea. [[ComicallyMissingThePoint She just wants him to stand out as her lover]].
* AdaptationDistillation: After showing us what she did with the hero of the Northern Tribes, the anime adaptation removes several later instances of Esdeath's actual Sadist tendencies, relegating it to little more than her being a strong, though clearly AxCrazy, BloodKnight. It is still hammered home that she's a PsychoForHire, but most of what she's done is toned down, and it isn't the first instance of censorship in the anime.
* AffablyEvil: An extreme case where both sides are roughly balanced. She is a murderous, warmongering sadist who enjoys torture, pillages towns, and firmly believes in a survival of the fittest mindset. She is ''also'' AMotherToHerMen, expresses VillainRespect fairly frequently, doesn't care about achieving power (and turned down an offer of nobility when asked directly), [[{{Sadist}} mostly]] [[PunchClockVillain sees her line of work as just a job]] (and a way to find her OneTrueLove), and generally isn't villainous - some would even say ''kind'' - outside of combat.
* AMotherToHerMen: Surprisingly, considering her infamous sadism and cruelty. She will torture them as punishment for major screw ups, but it's light compared to what she does to enemies. In fact, when Run asked her point blank what they should do if confronted by her OneTrueLove, Esdeath ''unhesitatingly'' told him that if their lives were in danger, they had permission to kill him (although she privately admitted that she'd prefer to add Tatsumi as a subordinate rather than be faced with the scenario of killing him).
* AllWomenAreDomsAllMenAreSubs: Goes right along with her pure sadistic nature, but when she thinks Tatsumi is a masochist[[note]] After he asks her to PinchMe [[/note]], she is quite over joyed and thinks it's further proof they are made for each other.
* AnIcePerson: Her Teigu, Demon's Extract, can create ice from nothing, lots of ice. In fact, it's said to be the most powerful teigu in existence.
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: She's the {{Badass}} among badasses, outright stated to be the WorldsStrongestWoman, and because of this, she has one of the highest authorities in the Empire, is given a license to pretty much do whatever she wants, and anything that she wants will ultimately be given to her.
* AxCrazy: One of her more infamous moments came in her fight with Leone. Esdeath cut off Leone's ''breast'', just to see how quickly Leone could regenerate (and don't worry, she did regenerate pretty quickly). This is another instance where Esdeath's brutality is toned down in the anime - she never even meets Leone, let alone fights her, although the sequence where she scares Leone off from her KillingIntent remains. In general, many of the more horrific scenes, whether they had Esdeath or not, were removed entirely, which leaves Esdeath as still AxCrazy, but relatively hands-off in the anime.
* {{Badass}}: Indisputably the most powerful fighter in the series, ''bar none''.
* BarbarianTribe: She's from the far-north Partas tribe which specialize in hunting Dangerbeasts. Despite her years of living in the Capital, she's still a barbarian at heart with an inability to understand art and music. In the manga, she actively encourages her troops to rape and pillage.
* TheBaroness: The Sexpot type with the Rosa Klebb fear factor. She's attractive, incredibly sadistic, smitten with the young hero and is considered the most terrifying warrior of the Empire.
* {{Bathos}}: Casually slaughtering Danger Beasts in between bouts of acting like a schoolgirl with a crush on Tatsumi.
* BloodKnight: The reason she brutally kills all but a few people when putting down a rebellion. She wants that hatred to be preserved and spread once more, so another revolt happens in time, and that she may fight again. Hopefully against stronger/more worthy opponents.
%%* BreakoutVillain
* BreakTheBadass: She’s capable of doing this to every opponent but notable mention goes to ''[[SpiritedCompetitor Leone]]'' who flees from her just from the pressure of her ''KillingIntent''.
* CallingYourAttacks: Doesn't seem like she usually does this, but in episode 14 she comments that she did it specifically to show off for Tatsumi.
* TheChiefsDaughter: Back in her youth, she was the daughter of the Partas Clan Chief.
* ClingyJealousGirl: She literally smashed Suzuka into a wall for molesting Tatsumi and later gives Mine a terrifying DeathGlare when [[spoiler:she reveals herself as Tatsumi's girlfriend]].
* CombatStilettos
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: A RunningGag of hers, particularly when it involves Tatsumi. See AbductionIsLove above for just one example.
* CommissarCap: Fitting with her Nazi-esque motif.
* CovertPervert: When she gets Tatsumi in her room after slapping a collar on him, and he attempts to leave by claiming he needed to shower, she actually says "[[FemaleGaze Maybe we should have showered together...]]".
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Blue hair and eyes.
* CuteAndPsycho: She's AxCrazy as all-hell, and yet she can smile and blush like an innocent girl or a kindly mother. Tatsumi finds himself unnerved by it - he abhors her psycho side, but he's attracted to her cute/nice side.
** As a little girl, she's an adorable tribal but even her own father says that there's something missing inside of her as she smiles while scooping the eye out of a giant lizard.
* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: She also lets some of her opponents go, so as to spread more hatred towards the Empire and incite rebellions which she would then brutally suppress.
* DangerouslyShortSkirt: A minidress with the bottom modified like a skirt, so she has the short part down. Also the [[WorldsStrongestMan World's Strongest Woman]], so ''you better bet'' she got the dangerous part down.
* DarkActionGirl: She's sadistic, vicious and is known as The Empire's Strongest for damn good reason.
* {{Determinator}}: Esdeath is one dedicated woman who just won't give up on something she wants, as shown in her pursuit of Tatsumi. [[spoiler:When he refused to join her and rejected her love one last time because of having a girlfriend now, she had to execute him under the Empire's orders. She then pretended to pull an IfICantHaveYou and she planned to wound him bad enough so that he will seem dead, then take him away to presumably nurse him back to health and resume her attempts to get him to fall for her.]]
* DoomedHometown: She was pretty devastated to learn that her village was destroyed by a rival hunting clan. Even today, she mourns the loss of her father and her village.
* DragonInChief:
** She's only one in a long line of generals working for Prime Minister Honest (himself the root of all the corruption in the capitol), but she's [[SpotlightStealingSquad far more prominent]], [[InvincibleVillain far more powerful]], and [[TheHeavy holds much greater sway over the story than anyone else]], including Honest and [[OverlordJr Syura]]. In many ways, the only reason Honest is still the Prime Minister is because he's providing Esdeath with more and more enemies to fight, but if you mistreat her subordinates, you can kiss your ass ''goodbye'', and she's already proven that even the resident OverlordJr isn't safe from her wrath. Often times, it's very easy to mistake her as the BigBad instead.
** Additionally, she doesn't seem overly interested in the political scheming of the Prime Minister, she just loves to fight and he happens to provide her with enemies to crush. She also tells an [[spoiler: imprisoned Tatsumi she will force the Prime Minister to free him if he agrees to follow her]].
* TheDreaded: She's notorious for her power as well as her cruelty, to the point where most people would rather haul ass than to face her.
* EntitledToHaveYou: She thinks this about Tatsumi.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Having previously established the the Prince of the North was an unstoppably powerful warrior who'd never lost a battle, the very first time Esdeath appears in person said prince is naked, chained and collared, kneeling at her feet, literally licking her boots. She promptly kills him with one kick, almost as an afterthought.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: One of the clearer examples amongst the Jaegers; she finds Wild Hunt to be obnoxious and disgusting, most notably, and she found Seryu to be far to AxCrazy, so she [[PetTheDog told Kurome and Wave to loosen her up]] and reel in her SanitySlippage.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Tatsumi attempts to convince her to use her influence to better the Empire from within by appealing to the good side of her he's seen: He tries to explain how the drastic class gap could keep people who loved each other apart, but her obsession with SocialDarwinist philosophy causes her immediate response to be that she can't comprehend something like that. To her, the strong fight for what they want and if they're strong enough to survive, they do. If they don't, they're too weak and she doesn't care.
* EvilCounterpart: To Najenda.
* FinalBoss: Serves as one in episode 24 of the anime. Despite the Empire falling, Esdeath vows to continue her "hunt". And if she can't find any rebellions to put down, she'll simply start one. [[spoiler:Fortunately she's stopped by Akame before she's able to put that into action.]]
* ForcefulKiss: She steals a kiss from Tatsumi twice. Although the second time was because she wanted to know if they were living in an illusion when they were sent to an island by Syura (and says no, it's real, because the sensations are too strong for it to be fake). Nevertheless, [[ClingyJealousGirl Mine]] wasn't happy when Tatsumi told her about it.
* FourStarBadass: When you kick as much ass as her there's no other position except as a general.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: She used to be a normal little girl from the Northern Frontier Lands who lived happily with her father and loved nothing more than hunting. As she grew up, her father emphasized SocialDarwinist philosophy in her upbringing for her own sake; the Danger Beasts running rampant around their homeland meant that she'd die if she couldn't become a force to be reckoned with by the time she became old enough to hunt. However, her village was later wiped out during a raid by an enemy tribe. Fifteen years, the death of her father, the destruction of her village, and the drinking of demon blood later, and she's the most feared warrior in the entire series.
* GoOutWithASmile: [[spoiler:In episode 24 of the anime, after being mortally wounded by Akame, she smiles as she cradle's Tatsumi's corpse and slowly freezes herself and him, before disappearing into the air after the ice vaporizes them both.]]
* GracefulLoser: [[spoiler: After getting slashed in the chest by the Murasame, Esdeath is beginning to die. Even though she has power to spare, rather than continue the fight - she acknowledges Akame's victory and asks her how is that Akame has grown so strong. When Akame tells her it's the willingness to fight on behalf of others, Esdeath still can't understand but accepts that she lost fairly.]]
* GratuitousGerman: Most of her named attacks fall under this. [[spoiler: Averted with her [[Myth/HinduMythology trump card]].]]
* HeartbrokenBadass: After Tatsumi manages to escape from her... [[VillainousCrush love]].
* HeroKiller: She's responsible for the destruction of many prominent forces opposing the Empire, so she always had a fierce reputation (even Leone refused to fight her), but she definitely becomes one when she kills [[spoiler:Susanoo]].
* HiddenDepths: She may be a SocialDarwinist with a sadistic streak and a penchant for torture, but she's [[VillainTakesAnInterest looking for people who are strong]], so she may recruit them under her umbrella. If she sees you as strong, you're earned her respect, and she will [[UndyingLoyalty treat you as if you were family]]. Plus, she's looking for her OneTrueLove (no, really - and everyone who hears this is equally surprised). She's even overjoyed at the idea of said OneTrueLove being a masochist (which is [[PetTheDog oddly considerate]] of her). Perhaps because of that, she '''hates''' over-hyped strength (meaning, great fighters who turn out to be mere chumps when they face her, as she finds it incredibly boring). Even though she clearly enjoys annihilating her opponents, she has expressed a fairly strong sense of disappointment whenever they prove to be not as powerful as she thought; she regrets nothing, but appears sullen and bitter that they were not strong enough to challenge her. In addition, while she is merciless to her enemies, she's the type that would not accept mercy done to herself either; do not hold back, because she wouldn't hold back either.
* HiddenHeartOfGold: She's a sadistic SocialDarwinist who doesn't care how corrupt the empire becomes as long as she can fight, yet she respects strength above everything else, so if she thinks you're strong, she'll treat you almost like a mother or a very quirky older sister. She may be complicit in allowing the corruption of the Prime Minister, but she has enough of a code of honor not to actively torment the people of the Empire, and prefers to fight only active enemies of the Prime Minister. Furthermore, for all of her SocialDarwinist bravado, she has a ''massive'' problem with people who harm her subordinates, so even though she believes it is natural for the weak to die, she will take time out of her hands to avenge their deaths anyway, even though it goes against the very creed she's honoring her father over. In many ways, she's ''earned'' the loyalty of her fellow Jaegers, and she's [[PetTheDog actually very sweet]] to anyone whom she thinks is worth her time.
* HopelessSuitor: No matter how hard she tries, Tatsumi absolutely refuses to join her and become her lover. This comes to a head when [[spoiler:Tatsumi is revealed as a member of Night Raid and tells her he has a girlfriend now]] and Esdeath makes one last desperate attempt to make Tatsumi fall for her and become her subordinate. Once it becomes clear Tatsumi won't change his mind, [[IfICantHaveYou Esdeath decides to kill him so he can't be with anyone else]] [[spoiler:only to reveal in her inner thoughts that she never planned on actually killing him and still planned on getting him to fall for her.]]
* IControlMyMinionsThrough: Kindness, ironically. Despite her brutal philosophy, she's very kind (in her own way) and caring to her subordinates. She'll certainly torture them if they screw up badly, but she doesn't kill them, never cripples them, always heals them, and keeps it fairly light compared to her enemies. In fact, it's actually pretty rare for her to mistreat any of her subordinates ''at all'', and she tends to transfer money intended for her to her FacelessGoons instead. When Prime Minister Honest brings it up, Esdeath replies that she knows her soldiers will fight harder for her if they adore her rather than fear her. And to be fair, [[AMotherToHerMen her relationship with the Jaegers]] in particular shows that [[PetTheDog the devotion is mutual on her part]].
* IcyBlueEyes: To fit her general disposition, she has appropriately colored light blue eyes.
* IfICantHaveYou: She repeatedly tries her best to get Tatsumi to join her, and grows more desperate towards the end. Even when he let it slip that [[spoiler:he's already dating another girl]], she keeps trying, and clearly feels awful that he keeps rejecting her. Since he won't ever leave Night Raid, she ultimately decides to put Tatsumi up for a PublicExecution [[spoiler:but doesn't intend to actually kill him; instead, she plans to wound him bad enough so that he will seem dead, then take him away to presumably nurse him back to health and resume her attempts to get him to fall for her.]]
* ImTakingHimHomeWithMe: Tatsumi is the first person she encounters who fits her criteria for her perfect match, so she kidnaps him with the entire stadium full of spectators watching. No joke! She slaps a collar around his neck, starts to drag him off, and ''knocks him out when he asks her to wait a moment.''
-->'''Tatsumi:''' WAIT! Hold on a--\\
'''Esdeath:''' ''(Hits Tatsumi on the back of the neck.)'' No, I will not wait. Lets go to the palace where we can talk alone. \\
''Esdeath slings an unconsious Tatsumi over her shoulder and walks off.)''\\
''(A panel showing the spectators' reactions that includes a dumbfounded man, a stunned woman, and an utterly distraught Esdeath fanboy.)''\\
'''Lubbock:''' [[BigWhat WHAT THE HELL JUST HAPPENED??!!]]
* InLoveWithYourCarnage: She gets quite turned on when fighting against Tatsumi's [[spoiler:powered up mode]].
* {{Jerkass}}: She's actually ''very'' aware of how the Prime Minister is manipulating the emperor and allowing the Capital to become corrupt and rampant with crime, but doesn't really care as long as she can fight and recruit strong people. Her adherence to SocialDarwinism is the main reason Tatsumi doesn't think LoveRedeems in her case.
* TheJuggernaut: In the course of the entire story Esdeath has ''never'' been harmed when she enters a fight. If her opponents aren't done in by her OneHitKill blows, they are immediately incapacitated or [[ColdBloodedTorture worse]]. This comes to a head in the Bolic arc, when she takes down [[spoiler: [[PoweredArmor Incursio Tatsumi]], [[LightningBruiser Leone]], [[SuperMode Magatama Susanoo]], and [[HandicappedBadass Najenda]] ]] ''singlehandedly''.
--->'''Najenda''': If you make a mistake, we'll crash head on into Esdeath. We don't have enough soldiers to face her yet.\\
'''Tatsumi''': How many do you think we'll need to defeat her?\\
'''Najenda''': [[NoKillLikeOverkill Fifty thousand elite soldiers]], and [[UpToEleven at least ten Teigu users like Akame.]]
* KickTheDog: Naturally, being a sadist, she enjoys doing this. Her two most notable crimes include encouraging her men to rape the female members of the Ban tribe while forcing the men to watch, then burying almost half-a-million civilians alive out of spite.
* KickTheSonOfABitch: She helps put Syura on a HumiliationConga and forces Wild Hunt to disband as payback for killing one of her Jaegers. Wild Hunt '''definitely had it coming'''.
* {{Leitmotif}}: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qP7JqSVC7gc Esdeath.]] Essentially the theme for the Jaegars without the lyrics.
* LifeOrLimbDecision: In the anime, [[spoiler:Akame wounds her left arm in their final battle. Esdeath then cuts it off to prevent the poison from spreading through her body.]]
* LightningBruiser: Most of her blows are OneHitKill and she's fast enough to dodge attacks from [[spoiler: [[PoweredArmor Incursio Tatsumi]]]] and [[SuperMode Magatama Susanoo]] ''simultaneously''. That's not even taking into account of her [[AnIcePerson Teigu]].
* LoveAtFirstSight: She falls for Tatsumi after watching him win a tournament and she goes to greet him personally. While he's expecting a cash payment, she instead puts a leash on him, then knocks him out and takes him into the palace.
* LoveFreak: She's pretty damn obsessed with Tatsumi, which makes her simultaneously CuteAndPsycho.
* LoveRedeems: {{Subverted}}. Tatsumi realized that she can't be changed from her current standpoint, because she isn't just a product of society or her time; she really is insane and nothing will change that, so he figures that she ''needs'' to lose if there is to be any progress at all.
* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: [[spoiler:In the anime she cuts off her own arm to avoid Murasame's killing effect and isn't slowed down at all afterward.]]
* MamaBear: This is a recurring theme with Esdeath. Despite everything, she's rather protective of her subordinates. When River, Nyau, and Daidara were all killed, Esdeath - naturally - cursed them for being too weak and claimed it was "only natural" for them to die. Yet, she still gave each a proper burial, planted flowers on each of their tombstones, bowed her head, and declared her desire to avenge their deaths anyway. Also, despite wholeheartedly believing that the weak should be left to rot, she's known to comfort her comrades when they are in emotional pain (like Seryu), advises and mentors them like a mother, puts their families under her protection, and often swears revenge if any of her soldiers were killed. In addition, after one of her subordinates was killed by Wild Hunt, Esdeath swears to exact revenge, despite Wild Hunt's leader being ''the Prime Minister's son''.
* MarshmallowHell: Hugs Tatsumi's face into her chest in Episode 14.
---> '''Esdeath''': Let's get to know one another better!
* MeaningfulName: Esdeath --> S Desu, which means "I am a sadist" in Japanese
* MiniDressOfPower: Part of her IconicOutfit.
* MoralMyopia: Zigzagged, if not subverted. Esdeath's contempt for Wild Hunt may seem out of place on paper, due to her sharing sadistic and TortureTechnician traits with their leader, Syura. However, her contempt for Wild Hunt stems from their indiscriminate targeting of Imperial civilians (whom Esdeath protects as a Jaeger), genuine distaste for their wanton (and often pointless) cruelty, their StupidEvil tendencies, and their killing of one of her subordinates. She isn't an angel by any means, but Wild Hunt remains EvilerThanThou to the Jaegers as a whole.
* MsFanservice: Even more so than Leone. Many a MaleGaze is dedicated to Esdeath.
* MrsRobinson: Esdeath is in her early twenties and she tries to make Tatsumi who is in his teens fall for her. She even states that she prefers younger men... Oh and the reason for that is because she want to be the dominant partner in the relationship as she stated.
* NatureVersusNurture: It is true that her SocialDarwinist mindset is the result of being raised in a very rural, unforgiving area of the continent where Danger Beasts ran rampant and her tribe being wiped out by a rival tribe. However, her penchant for sadism and enjoyment of torture is implied to be nature, not nurture. The northern tribes who decimated her village? She holds no ill will towards them, because as her father once said about her mother, if they lost, it was because they were too weak, and it is the natural order of things in the world. She decimated them because [[PunchClockVillain that was what her job entailed]], and she admits she probably would've killed them eventually anyway even if she wasn't a general (since they were a rival hunting tribe to begin with). Nevertheless, she still mourns the loss of her father and hometown, ''does'' protect the normal people of the Empire, prefers to cut loose only on her enemies, and she has since developed a massive BerserkButton towards ''anyone'' who harms her subordinates, so the question is rather ''how much'' of a sadist would she have been if things played out differently for her life. And to be fair, being given a name (see MeaningfulName above) that forced her to claim to be a sadist every time she introduced herself might have something to do with it.
* NobleDemon: The most triumphant example from the Jaegers (and definitely when compared to Wild Hunt). She's ''horrific'' to her enemies, but she doesn't actively abuse the people of TheEmpire, only fights direct opponents of the Prime Minister, has no issues with her soldiers protecting citizens of the Empire, largely sees her line of work as a job (although one she [[BloodKnight definitely enjoys WAY too much]]), possesses a sense of honor and respect to people worth her time, and genuinely cares for her subordinates - even when they disappoint or annoy her. While none of her actions are excusable, she's definitely one of the comparatively nicer villains in the series.
* NotGoodWithRejection: Yes and no. She's ''very'' driven to getting Tatsumi under her wing, but he keeps saying no. Eventually, she gives up when she realizes that he will never change his answer, [[spoiler:and begrudgingly decides to have him put up for execution while planning to wound him bad enough to make others think he's dead, take him away, and presumably heal him up and continue her attempts to win him over.]]
* OhCrap: When she realizes that [[spoiler: the Akame she froze in time is actually an afterimage.]]
* OneWomanArmy: As Najenda herself estimated, she is worth ''no less'' than ten Teigu users and 50,000 soldiers.
* PantyShot: Zigzagged. Every now and then, we see brief black bars from underneath her skirt, which we assume to be her undergarments. However, in episode 19, when there's a clear shot of her crotch, there's a silhouette covering her panties. It's a fairly awkward form of censorship.
* PetTheDog: Surprisingly often. Among other such occasions, she comforts Seryu when she is devastated over Stylish's death (even [[WhenSheSmiles smiles sweetly]] when Seryu falls asleep in her arms), she shows a much softer side to her subordinates, she prefers to see Susano'o as a warrior and not simply as a Teigu, she personally nurtured Tatsumi when they were stranded on the island, she keeps the actual families of her soldiers under protection, she doesn't treat Bols any differently after taking off his mask (and even smiles after seeing it firsthand), she's incredibly protective of her subordinates (even when it ''goes against'' her SocialDarwinist creed), and orders her soldiers to protect the fleeing civilians at a botched PublicExecution.
* PowerBornOfMadness: She gained her Teigu by drinking the blood of a particularly demonic Danger Beast. It littered her mind with destructive, murderous thoughts, that she was able to control due to Esdeath herself being destructive and murderous (although she mentions that the demon blood has since been tamed).
* PowerTattoo: That marking on her chest, just above her cleavage, is her Teigu, and the reason she's AnIcePerson.
* PsychoForHire: She's a sadist through and through (although how much of one would she have been is up for debate) - perfect for the position of General in TheEmpire's military.
* PuttingOnTheReich: Between her her doubled-buttoned blazer, CommissarCap and job subjugating enemies of the state, there's definitely some association to the Third Reich in her character.
* RapunzelHair: Par course for the series.
* RedBaron: The Empire's Strongest.
* RoyalRapier: Her weapon of choice.
* {{Sadist}}: One of her most defining characteristics, as it's heavily implied that she's a sadist by nature. There's nothing that she enjoys more than the suffering and pain of others.
* SexyShirtSwitch: She dons a plain white shirt, complete with AbsoluteCleavage and ShesGotLegs, when she gets Tatsumi to her room after a shower.
* ShamelessFanserviceGirl: She has no qualms about showing off her body in front of Tatsumi whatsoever.
* SingleTargetSexuality: She's Tatsumisexual.
* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: She's primarily searching for her OneTrueLove... which just happens to be [[NiceGuy Tatsumi]]. In general, she seems to have a natural liking towards good men. Other than Tatsumi, she holds a ton of respect for [[MyCountryRightOrWrong General Budo]], she prefers to see Susano'o as a man instead of a tool, she personally broke Liver out of prison, and she lets a small smile as well as a very tiny blush upon removing Bols' mask and persuading him to overcome his shyness. Tatsumi fits all of the traits she wants in a man, though.
* SmittenTeenageGirl: Not a teenager, but she definitely acts like this around Tatsumi.
* SocialDarwinist: An extreme example, she believes it only natural for the weak to die. Indeed, she even states she cannot understand "the feelings of the weak." It's to the point that when Tatsumi tries to reason with her and get her to use her influence to help eliminate some of the corruption within, appealing to the fact that she loves him with a scenario of a girl who's kept from her love by the large social gaps and corruption, she coldly states that she doesn't understand such things. This mindset is why Tatsumi keeps rejecting her advances.
* SuperpowerLottery: Being gifted with the [[AnIcePerson Demon's Extract]] automatically wins her this, allowing her to create ''gigantic'' blocks of ice out of thin air with little effort and instantaneously freeze anything within seconds. If that's not enough she has OneHitKill blows, she's fast enough FlashStep around her opponents, and has an impeccable [[SpiderSense sixth sense]]. If all that fails she can [[spoiler: ''[[TimeStandsStill briefly freeze space and time once a day]]'']].
* TogetherInDeath: [[spoiler:In the anime, after being mortally wounded by Akame, Esdeath freezes herself along Tatsumi's corpse before shattering both into pieces.]]
* TortureTechnician: Esdeath ''loves'' to torture people and her hobby seems to be finding new ways to make them suffer. The capital has a industrial scale torture chamber that she takes direct charge of whenever she's around; at one point upon seeing a vat full of people boiling alive, she demanded the water temperature be lowered simply to make them suffer longer.
* VillainessesWantHeroes: A fairly major part of her role in the plot is her love for Tatsumi.
* VillainousBreakdown: A subtle example, she gradually loses some of her composure when Akame manages to get the upper hand during the fight with her.
* VillainousCrush: On Tatsumi, who managed to fit all her criteria for a lover plus the extra one (A pure and innocent smiling face would be nice). It seems to be genuine LoveAtFirstSight for her, as she only becomes softer and kinder when she's around him and is pretty determined in her efforts to get him to fall in love with her (even asking Bols for advice) despite the fact he stated he was going to join the revolutionary army.
* VillainRespect: After seeing [[spoiler:Susanoo]] perform a HeroicSacrifice, Esdeath is so impressed that she vows to remember him, not as a Teigu, but as a warrior. It's one of her more poignant PetTheDog moments.
* WeCanRuleTogether: She constantly tries to convince Tatsumi to join the Empire and become her subordinate, but he always refuses. She eventually gives up and decides that if Tatsumi won't join her, she will have to kill him herself - [[NotSoDifferent similar to how Tatsumi himself declared that if he can't convince her, then he will have to kill her as well]].
* WomanInWhite: In contrast to all the red she spills, Esdeath's outfit is white as snow. In addition, her skin is practically porcelain.
* WorldsBestWarrior: Acknowledged as the most formidable and feared warrior in the Empire.
* {{Yandere}}: One of the rarer cases in that she never attempts to MurderTheHypotenuse. Instead, her psychotic nature generally comes from outside her interactions with Tatsumi, until he [[spoiler:tells her he has a girlfriend now and refuses to join her one last time]]. She still loves Tatsumi, but would rather have him executed as opposed to letting anyone else take him. [[spoiler:Though the execution was something she wasn't really planning on carrying out...]]
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Her hair is light blue.
* ZettaiRyouiki: She wears a pair of white thigh-high boots.
!!!Teigu: Demon's Extract
* BloodMagic: The Demon's Extract is the blood of a Danger Beast that could control ice.
* FateWorseThanDeath: Those who consume it and are not compatible are DrivenToMadness, a fate all those before Esdeath have suffered
* HearingVoices: Drinking it will cause a person to hear voices commanding them to commit all kinds of heinous actions. Esdeath was too powerful and claims the voices have been tamed.
* KillItWithIce: Allows Esdeath to do this whenever she likes thanks to the Demon's Extract being able to infinitely produce ice from nothing.
* PsychoSerum: Takes the form of a ominous purple liquid that is consumed to gain its powers. Those who are not compatible are driven insane.
* RedBaron: Demon God Manifestation: Demon's Extract
* SwissArmySuperpower: Because she can create ice without limitation, her powers can be used for all sorts of tasks. She can use ice to create bridges, give her a vantage spot, restrain or kill individuals, etc.
!! Wave
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-->''"Protecting the powerless is simply a soldier's duty!"''
--> '''Voiced by:''' Creator/YoshimasaHosoya
A former member of the Imperial Navy recruited by Esdeath as a member of the Jaegars. Wave is a simple man of common upbringing and is initially naive of the corruption of the Empire. Harboring strong convictions of honor and duty, Wave works tirelessly to make the Empire a better place for all.
His Teigu is Carnage Incarnate: Grand Chariot, a counterpart to the Incursio armor, but considered the superior model.
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!!! Tropes associated with Wave
* AntiVillain: He doesn't really like the state the empire's in and is very well aware of the immense corruption of the nobles and of the [[PsychoForHire more psychotic members]] of his group but he embraces his role as an enforcer due to a debt from an unseen savior back in the navy.
* AvengingTheVillain: During Bolic's assassination, one of his main motives to fight Night Raid is to avenge the deaths of [[spoiler: Bols, Seryu and Coro]] at the hands of the assassins.
* AwesomenessByAnalysis: Of a sorts. He is capable of very quickly learning his opponent's attack patterns and style, even unpredictable and unfamiliar ones like Syura's.
* {{Badass}}: Despite his {{Butt Monkey}} moments, [[spoiler: he [[CurbStompBattle curb stomp]] Tatsumi with Incursio equipped, surpasses Lubbock, Akame and Mine at the same time and beat Syura in a fist to fist fight, despite the fact that the latter is a very good physical fighter.]]
* BerserkButton: Hurting or threatening to hurt any of his comrades in front of him, especially [[ShipTease Kurome]], is a quick way of getting a fist in your face, just ask Syura.
* ButtMonkey: He tends to get the short end of the stick at times, from his punishment by Esdeath for allowing Tatsumi to escape to constantly being ejected off the battlefield by the Night Raid.
* TheConfidant: Acts as one for Kurome.
* CountryMouse: He is transferred to the capital via Esdeath's request for him. He tries his best not to look like a country bumpkin, but unfortunately he's still seen as one by many of the citizens there.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass:
** [[ButtMonkey When given the opportunity,]] Wave has demonstrated that he can [[CurbStompBattle curb stomp]] an [[spoiler: Incursio clad Tatsumi]] and overpower Akame, Mine, and Lubbock ''simultaneously''.
** In addition to this, he can [[spoiler:fight [[BareFistedMonk Syura]] in hand to hand combat, barring Teigu, and successfully defeat him. Bearing in mind that Syura is a much more established martial artist.]]
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Dark blue eyes and hair. {{Averted}} in the anime, when his hair is more dark than his eyes.
* DeclarationOfProtection: Quietly declares to himself that he will protect Kurome and the burden of her side of any fight so that her [[spoiler: GameBreakingInjury won't be revealed to the Empire and so that she won't use the now zombified Run for battle.]]
* DeusExitMachina: When Night Raid went after Kurome the first thing they do is send Wave flying off a la [[Anime/{{Pokemon}} Team Rocket]]. Fights against Imperial Arms users are tough enough and Wave is one of the stronger members of the Jaegers. Probably third strongest [[spoiler: and he later ties with Kurome as second strongest due to her GameBreakingInjury]].
* EvilCounterpart: A subversion for Tatsumi. The Jaegers are antagonists but he is a Type IV AntiVillain, their characters and Teigus are pretty much the same.
* FailureHero: From little things like cheering up his teammates to actually protecting them, Wave finds repeatedly that he is incapable of either.
* {{Foil}}: A rather obvious one for Tatsumi.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: His joining of the Jaegers and subsequent adventures with them, run parallel to Tatsumi's own.
* HypocriticalHumor: He laments the way most people react with fear or disgust to Bols due to the mask he wears along with his large size, despite usually trying to help them. Wave is then immediately reminded by the other Jaeger members of his first reaction to Bols when the Jaegers were first forming, and how he freaked out as well.
* ItsAllMyFault: He blames himself for [[spoiler:being knocked out from the Night Raid ambush that resulted in the death of Bols.]]
* LightningBruiser: While in Grand Chariot, he is powerful enough to overpower three Night Raid members, outrun ''Akame'' and like Incursio is NighInvulnerable.
* MoralityPet: He tends to bring out Kurome's more cuter and sweeter side of her personality.
* NaiveNewcomer: In comparison to the other members of Jaegars.
* NiceGuy: Actively believes his job will change the corrupt crime rampant within the empire and is always seen getting along with fellow members of the Jaegars, [[ShipTease especially]] [[DefrostingIceQueen Kurome]].
* NotSoDifferent: When talking to Tatsumi in episode 10, both of them learn they have issues with their respective teammates. Were they not on opposing sides, they likely would have been good friends and allies.
* ObliviousToLove: Not surprisingly, considering how he's a clear mirror of Tatsumi; he doesn't seem to realize how increasingly, Kurome's feelings for him aren't just those of friendship and camaraderie.
* OnlySaneMan: In the [[PsychoForHire Jaegars]].
* RageBreakingPoint: While Wave could put up with the Jaegars at first; when he sees Wild Hunt's actions, he completely loses it.
* {{Ship Tease}}: With Kurome. She didn't care very much for him in the beginning, but after Bolic assassination, she opens more to him. Their relationship became so close that Wave even [[spoiler: beat Syura to a nearly death state because he tried to rape Kurome.]]
* SignatureScent: Due to his many years out at sea and his love of sea food, many people commented that Wave's scent reek of the ocean. During his introduction, many of the people found his scent to be unpleasant. So far, only Kurome seems to be the only one to enjoy his scent, or at the every least, she is willing to stand it to be with Wave.
* SkilledButNaive: Esdeath makes it a point to inform Wave that his strength is perfect; but how he lacks mental fortitude, and thus as a result can be easily deceived or misled.
* ThisIsUnforgivable: When he witnesses Wild Hunt's actions; most notably their [[spoiler:rape and murder of Bols' wife and daughter '''on his own grave''', and Syura's attempted assault on Kurome, which brings him to a RageBreakingPoint.]]
* ThoseTwoBadGuys: "Bad" might be a little harsh when describing Wave, but he starting to become this with Kurome, as the two seen together more than the other Jaegers and are rarely far apart from one another.
* TokenGoodTeammate: The only person in the Jaegars that has absolutely no irredeemable qualities whatsoever. He’s never even seen killing a person, civilian or criminal, at all.
* WhatTheHellHero: He calls out Kurome [[spoiler:for continuously making use of Run's deceased body as one of her corpse puppets. He also calls her on casually assuming that the EmptyShell of their deceased friend is enough to substitute the fact that he's no longer alive.]]
* WoodenShipsAndIronMen: In his introduction, Wave mentions that before joining the Jaegers he served in the Imperial Navy fighting with pirates and Danger Beast to return a favor to a Captain of the Navy.
!!! Teigu: Grand Chariot
* BadassCape: It even ''[[AntiGravityClothing floats]]''.
* CoolMask: The armor comes with a helmet with a mask.
* DarkIsNotEvil: It's all black armor, but don't forget that Wave is actually one of the most merciful members of the entire cast.
* {{Flight}}: Grand Chariot trades the InvisibilityCloak of Incursio for the usage of being able to fly for short amounts of time.
* ImpossiblyCoolClothes: Encompassing the wearer's back is a shield that floats without any support.
* InstantArmor: He can summon it at any time.
* PowerArmor: Grand Chariot was also made from the flesh of Tyrant after Incursio and Wave confidently states that because of this fact Grand Chariot is superior to its predecessor.
* NighInvulnerability: A given fact considering it was made from the same Danger Beast as Incursio, but it also proves rather effective at blocking attacks from Akame's [[OneHitKill Murasame]].
* RedBaron: Carnage Incarnate: Grand Chariot
* SuperStrength: Grand Chariot is capable of cracking the defenses of Incursio with ''one kick'', a Teigu known for [[NighInvulnerability nigh invulnerable armor]].
!! Bols
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-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/EijiTakemoto
An intimidating, masked member of the Empire's Incineration Squad. Before joining the Jaegars, Bols's duty was to wipe out whole villages, burning troublesome buildings and populations to the ground in the name of the Empire. When not on duty, Bols is a compassionate family man with a loving wife and daughter he adores.
His Teigu is Purgatory's Invitation: Rubicante, a powerful flamethrower.
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!!! Tropes associated with Bols
* AlasPoorVillain: After a long battle against the Night Raid he is ultimately dispatched by [[spoiler:Chelsea, who takes the form of a little girl who was once a citizen of a village Bols burned to ashes. He dies crawling to the memory of his wife and child.]]
-->'''Bols''': [[FamousLastWords I have to return home... Because they are both waiting... I have to return...]]
* AntiVillain: Firmly believes karma will catch up to him for his actions. He still does his job for the sake of his wife and child.
* BeingEvilSucks: He is well aware that his actions are terrible and has a horrible self-image as a result. Even so, he does his job to put food on the table.
* {{Expy}}: Of Maes Hughes from [[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist Fullmetal Alchemist]]. Both are devoted family men who are obsessed with their wife and young daughter. Both are soldiers who worked for a corrupted government, despite being out of the nicest characters in their series. If that is not enough to convince you, both [[spoiler: were ultimately tricked and killed by a shapeshifter and spent their last moment's thinking about their families.]]
* TheFaceless: We never see his face. The anime does not directly show his face, but closeups and a shot from behind show that he is blond and blue-eyed.
* FaceOfAThug: Between the scary mask, massive body and grizzly scars, people are surprised to find Bols is actually a really sweet guy.
* FreakyFashionMildMind: Despite wearing a creepy mask that freaks out nearly anyone he meets, Bols is actually a really nice guy and one of the most sympathetic villains in the series.
* FriendToAllChildren: In addition to having a child of his own, he goes out of his way to care for a lost and injured girl.
* GenreBlindness: Lets face it, the moment he started talking about [[spoiler: his happy family, we knew he was doomed.]]
* GoodScarsEvilScars: He has a scar across his chest that looks like claw marks. They signify he is a tough guy who apparently has tangled with dangerous creatures in the past and survived.
* HappilyMarried: He has a wife and a daughter who love him as much as he loves them (i.e. very deeply). To the shock of everyone else in the group.
* NiceGuy: If it wasn't for his [[PunchClockVillain occupation]] Bols would be the nicest character in the series.
* PlayingWithFire: As part of the Incineration Squad.
* PunchClockVillain: Despite having a job that entails burning down entire cities, innocents included, he still views it as a job.
* ShoutOut: Big muscular guy carrying a {{BFG}} attached to a huge barrel backpack? Are we talking about [[MetalGearSolid Vulcan Raven]]?
* ShrinkingViolet: The first time Wave meets him, Bols is so nervous that he just stares silently at him until several other Jaegars show up.
* SuperStrength: He can beat Danger Beasts into submission with his bare hands.
* SupremeChef: He is noted by Wave to be an excellent chef, often making the meals eaten by the Jaegars.
* TakingYouWithMe: When he has his back to a corner he triggers a massive explosion in a last ditch attempt to kill Night Raid. Subverted in that Bols and even his targets survive.
* WrestlerInAllOfUs: He takes down some Danger Beasts with lariats and suplexes.
!!!Teigu: Rubicante
* {{Fireballs}}: Aside from functioning as a standard flamethrower, Rubicante can also fire highly-concentrated fireballs as a long-range attack.
* FireBreathingWeapon: Rubicante is a flamethrower can expel flames so hot that [[{{Hellfire}} even water can’t extinguish it]].
* {{Hellfire}}: The fire of Rubicante cannot be extinguished with water, leaving the poor soul who is burned by him in a large agony.
* KillItWithFire: Can spew seemingly endless flames that burn hotter than normal flames and cannot be extinguished by water. These flames have reduced many villages and people to nothing.
* RedBaron: Purgatory's Invitation: Rubicante
* SelfDestructMechanism: Rubicante's tank can be detonated via a button switch, causing a massive explosion. This of course will destroy Rubicante, and should only be used when absolutely desperate.
!! Dr. Stylish
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--> '''Voiced by:''' Creator/KenNarita
A brilliant doctor and scientist of the Empire scouted by Esdeath to join the Jaegars. Though unparalleled in his practice, Dr. Stylish is a man of questionable morals, taking great pleasure in experimenting on living beings, especially humans.
His Teigu is Glorious Hands of God: Perfector, a pair of gloves that multiply Stylish's hand dexterity many times over, allowing him to heal nearly any wound short of death.
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!!! Tropes associated with Dr. Stylish
* AgentPeacock: The best scientist in the Empire, who is also a vain, campy pretty boy.
* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: When he injects himself with something in episode 11, he grows monstrously huge.
* BadBoss: He doesn't care for his subordinates, only sees them as pawns to defeat Night Raid and only give them an antidote for his drug to make them capture the heroes. His true colors are revealed eventually with Susanoo's arrival, when he explode his minions trying to kill Night Raid and later eat the ones who stayed with him to become stronger after his transformation.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: He fakes to be kind with his minions for personal gain. He didn't care about them at all.
* CampGay: He blatantly hits on his fellow male Jaegars, except [[HappilyMarried Bols]], and even offers his transformed human experiments a “night alone” with him if they manage to kill any Night Raid.
* CatchPhrase: "Stylish."
* CombatMedic: He can deal a healthy dose of asskicking with his minion army while also repairing (and upgrading) any of his allies with his Teigu, Perfector, saving them from anything less than death.
* CombatTentacles: Syringe tipped tentacles.
* CrazyPrepared: As expected from a {{mad scientist}}. He brings all his mooks in the battle against Night Raid (this mooks are very resistant and one of them knocked down Leone with ease) including two of his more competent servants, a big guy who owns [[spoiler: Exctase]] and a {{bishonen}} with artificial limbs that give a nice battle to Akame herself. When they are defeated, he makes the rest of his troops to battle the members and displays a poisonous gas to defeat Night Raid more easily. When Susanoo appear, he explode his mooks and seeing that this doesn't harm the Teigu, proceeds to use his final card: as syringe with Danger Beast DNA that turns him into a powerful monster, and after eating his last subordinates, he became even more powerful. Seriously, if Najenda didn't reach to the base at time, he probably would've defeated Night Raid.
* TheDandy: His obsession with his image and being stylish make him this.
* EvilIsHammy: The way he talks and moves tends to be extremely melodramatic.
* {{Expy}}: Of Szayel Aporro Granz from {{Manga/Bleach}}: Both are [[{{Camp}} campy]] but [[AgentPeacock brilliant]] scientist working for the bad guys, [[TheDandy worried about their image]], both fight with their weird {{mooks}} rather than by himself, eat them to became stronger/cure his wounds and go [[spoiler: {{One Winged Angel}}]] in their battle with the good guys. [[spoiler: Also the two of them have very different deaths; while Szayel suffer a [[{{Cruel and Unusual Death}} slow and painful death due Mayuri's drug]], Stylish die immediately due to [[OneHitKill Murasame's poison.]]]]
* TheFightingNarcissist: He openly flaunts his good looks and "style." Even in his OneWingedAngel form he calls himself the ultimate in stylishness.
* FlunkyBoss: When he attacks the Night Raid hideout he send his entire minion army to attack them while he stands back and watches the outcome of the battle.
* FourEyesZeroSoul: Considering that he is a {{mad scientist}} who hasn't any consideration with the human life, love to realize sick experiments on people and also wears glasses, it's nothing strange.
* FullFrontalAssault: After using a serum on himself that made him grow to Danger Beast size, his clothes were torn to shreds.
* GenreSavvy: He is the only one of the Jaegers that suspects from Tatsumi being part of Night Raid. He was right indeed.
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: He gave an antidote to his minions so that they would be immune to his poison weapon, making his subordinates praise him for caring. He then reveals he rigged those same minions with bombs to use against Night Raid, showing that he doesn't actually have any respect or care for them.
* KickTheDog: His treatment of his subordinates during the battle with Night Raid make him to do this.
* LabCoatOfScienceAndMedicine: Never leaves his experiment dungeon without it!
* MadScientist: Loves to experiment on humans and seeks to create weapons more powerful than Teigus.
* MeaningfulName: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin He's basically a Doctor obsessed with being stylish.]]
* {{Megane}}: To really play up his "doctor" look.
* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: Specializing in human experimentation.
* OneWingedAngel: After his army is destroyed and realizes Night Raid is coming for his head, Stylish [[spoiler:[[PlayingWithSyringes injects himself with a syringe]] transforming himself into a giant monster.]]
* PetTheDog: For all his immoralities, he was genuinely kind to Seryu.
* ScarilyCompetentTracker: He has three specially modified minions who have enhanced [[SuperSenses hearing, scent and vision]] to help him track down Tatsumi.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Despite being the first of the Jeagers to die and the one who's least screentime, his impact on the story and his investigations take a key role later. Examples include him meeting Ogre to make Seryu's body modifications [[spoiler: who caused Scheele's death]], the creation of [[spoiler:Humanoid Danger Beast that later Syura uses to cause chaos on the Empire]], his discovery of [[spoiler: the Danger Beast DNA in the Leader of the Oath of Peace]] and the most recent one, the coming of Dorothea to the Capital only to meet him.
* SquishyWizard: He has an army of human experiments at his disposal that each have a variety of different upgrades and enhancements but stays back because he himself lacks any kind of offensive ability. [[spoiler: At least before his OneWingedAngel.]]
* SkunkStripe: He has a streak of white through his black hair. After assuming his OneWingedAngel form, the rest of his hair turns white.
* WeHaveReserves: Zigzagged. He initially doesn't seem concerned with the death of a few of his footsoldiers, due to having a large pool of them available via criminals in prison. However, he later uses a drug to knock out the Night Raid members other than Tatsumi, who isn't affected by it due to his Imperial Arms, and comments that the huge loss of men forced his hand. And when he transforms, he eats the minions who were with him until he was directly attacked.
* TheWorfEffect: When he uses his monster form, that he claims to be very strong, to defeat Night Raid, is quickly defeated by all them united, leaving us without knowing his true strength.
!!!Teigu: Perfector
* EliteMook: Created several of these each capable of giving Night Raid members trouble.
* {{Red Baron}}: Glorious Hands of God: Perfector
* TrickedOutGloves: Perfector allows Stylish to basically do what he does best, but even better. He can perform surgery and experiment faster than humanly possible.
* MadeOfIron: Stylish's soldiers are very hard to kill, capable of recovering from normally fatal wounds like a broken neck and ignoring getting their limbs removed.
!! Kurome
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-->''"To kill the one you love... If someone else will do it anyway, I'd rather do it myself."''
-->'''Voiced by:''' Ayaka Ohashi
Akame's younger sister recruited by Esdeath to form the Jaegars. Like her sister, Kurome is a skilled assassin, forcibly trained since childhood by the Empire to kill effectively and without remorse. She holds a grudge against Akame for abandoning her and their former assassin squad in favor of joining Night Raid.
Her Teigu is March of the Dead: Yatsufusa, a katana that has the power to convert those it kills into undead puppets for Kurome to command.
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!!! Tropes associated with Kurome
* AlienLunch: She's such a BigEater that when the Jaegars capture some new humanoid Dangerbeasts, Kurome started salivating and started approaching them hungrily. She only backed off when Esdeath ordered her not to eat them. To make the scene squickier, those Dangerbeasts were former humans.
* AntiVillain: In manga, she more or less becomes this after having some [[CharacterDevelopment character development]]. Like Akame, she truly care about her comrades. Also, she agrees with Wave and Run that the empire needs to be changed for the better and fully supports Wave's campaign to change the Empire for within.
* {{Badass}}: She’s easily the second strongest Jaegar after [[WorldsStrongestMan General Esdeath]], capable on taking on the ''entire'' Night Raid with her [[{{Necromancer}} Yatsufusa]] and almost winning. She’s also the only person that can clash swords with [[OneHitKill Akame]] and come out unscathed with no allies or supernatural assistance.
* BadassAdorable: Her allies and enemies alike take note of how cute she is until she cuts a group of soldiers to pieces in a single motion.
* BadassBoast
-->It seems if you want to kill me... You’ll have to do something like squash my heart or separate my head from my body.
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: The very fact that both Run and Wave treated her with kindness is one of the main reasons why Kurome is emotionally attached to both Run and Wave. [[spoiler:[[SubvertedTrope This actually plays a role in Run turning into Kurome's corpse puppets]].]]
* BigEater: She eats cookies like [[UpToEleven Akame eats meat]].
* CainAndAbel: Cain to Akame's Abel, mainly because she betrayed her and the Empire.
* CharacterDevelopment: She's initially introduced as the ruthless [[CuteAndPsycho psychopathic]] assassin who's main goal in life was being her older sister's [[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou sole murderer]]. Eventually through her interactions within the [[TrueCompanions Jaegars]] and Wave's kindness she begins to show a [[WhenSheSmiles kinder and sweeter side]] behind closed doors. This change is lampshaded by Run, when she encounters Akame for the third time, announcing her intent to take her down for the sake of ''the people'', and not her deep-seated grudge towards her. [[spoiler:This is unfortunately [[AvertedTrope averted]], as when Run is slowly dying from his wounds obtained in their battle against Wild Hunt, she unexpectedly decides that instead of letting Run [[PeacefulInDeath die peacefully]], she'll instead MercyKill him and force him to continue living as one of her corpse puppets.]]
* ColourfulThemeNaming: "Kurome" literally means "[[BlackEyesOfCrazy black eyes]]".
* CrushBlush: In recent chapters, Kurome tends to blush uncontrollably whenever she with Wave, it is actually pretty adorable.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: [[MeaningfulName Black eyes]] and hair.
* CuteAndPsycho: Emphasis on the psycho part.
* CuteIsEvil: As cute as she appears, one must not forget that she's one of the most sociopathic and psychopathic members of the Jaegers.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: She and Akame were abandoned by their parents after being sold to the Empire to be child soldiers. However, [[TrainingFromHell unlike Akame]], Kurome was instead subjugated to rigorous experimentation and [[SuperSerum numerous drug enhancements]] in the Empire's quest to create a new SuperSoldier.
* DarkActionGirl: Being the darker equivalent to Akame while being just as {{Badass}}.
* DefrostingIceQueen: She didn't care very much for Wave in the beginning, but after Bolic assassination, she opens more to him and became more friendly with him. She even confesses her fears to him. Their relationship became so close that Wave even [[spoiler:beat Syura to a nearly death state because he tried to rape her.]] In the latest chapters, Kurome also shows a very grade of affection for his teammate, playing with his pillows and blushing in his presence.
* DissonantSerenity: She often goes into this state, particularly following her attempt to act like everything is fine with Wave after she [[spoiler:reanimates Run.]]
* EmpoweredBadassNormal: As kids, her sister was marked #7 of the Empire's Elite Seven, a team of child assassins comprised of the top seven candidates of a survival test. Kurome, who was marked #8, wasn't good enough to be part of that elite team. To make up for this she ended up being injected with drugs that bolster her stats.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Her first onscreen appearance shows her sitting atop a mountain of corpses humming a melody to herself.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: She can't understand why Wave is upset [[spoiler:over her usage of Run as her newest corpse puppet. She also can't understand why he isn't happy about her ability to keep his body in existence to prevent the total loss of their friend and his disgust when she attempts to summon him to spend time together with them like back when he was alive.]]
* EvilCounterpart: Of Akame. Besides being sisters, she and Akame are extremely similar in alot of ways, from general looks to clothing choices, they both wield sword Teigus and they're both master swordswomen. The main difference is that Akame is still a good person at heart who got fed up with the Empire's corruption and became a rebel, while Kurome's [[PsychoSerum "training"]] appears to have made a real number on her psyche and now she doesn't have any problem with working for such a corrupt empire.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: The anime toned down a lot of her yandere personality and instead portrays her more as this, although {{deconstructed}}. [[spoiler: The reason Kurome wants [[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou to kill Akame alone]] is because deep down inside, she deeply loves her sister. However, because both Kurome and Akame has taken different paths in their lives, they are forced to kill each other. This is apparently true in episode 22 where Kurome and Akame met each other for the last time where Kurome shared her Pocky sticks with Akame and a brief chat with each other (and even slept together). Akame also reveals that she wanted to kill Kurome because she too, loves her sister, and they decided to have their last duel to the death. In the end, Kurome lost the duel and dies to Akame's blade (in addition the poison from Chelsea that Kurome suffered earlier), which Kurome's death has caused Akame to [[TenderTears break down in tears]] [[TearJerker because she feels Kurome's unconditional love to her and how much Akame loved her younger sister]]]].
** In addition to loving her sister, Akame, Kurome (in manga, although hinted in the anime) does develop genuine feelings toward her teammate, Wave. Whether or not this ends up being good or bad for Wave, considering her yandere personality in the manga, has yet to be seen.
* GameBreakingInjury: A rare villainous variant. After surviving an assassination attempt by [[spoiler:Chelsea]], Kurome has been visibly more tired and weaker in combat. A notable example is when she fought the entire Night Raid she was able to summon and control eight corpse puppets and still have the strength to fend off [[MasterSwordswoman Akame]] simultaneously while largely keeping the pace of the battle. After the failed assassination she can barely summon two puppets, [[spoiler:and is suffering from a potentially IncurableCoughOfDeath; thus ''losing'' a subsequent battle of speed against Akame, resulting in the death of Bolic.]]
* HeroKiller: She's the one who ultimately kills [[spoiler:Chelsea]].
* HiddenDepths: She confides to Wave that she’s afraid of being seen as weak because back in the Assassination Squad [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness those who are deemed weak are disposed of]].
* IfICantHaveYou: Kurome resorts to trying to kill Akame for choosing Night Raid over her.
%%* ILoveTheDead
* LaughingMad: She giggles creepily anytime she fights Akame.
* LustObject: Syura seems very fixated on wanting to rape Kurome.
* MasterSwordswoman: When you can fight off another MasterSwordsman that's wielding a OneHitKill katana [[{{Badass}} you're more than qualified]].
* MercyKill: She delivers this to an unsuspecting [[spoiler:dying Run, in an effort to keep him "alive", ultimately enslaving and reanimating him with her Yatsuhusa into one of her newest corpse puppets.]]
* MundaneUtility: A rather darkly comedic version of this. [[spoiler:Basically, after she reanimates a dying Run into one of her corpse puppets with Yatsuhusa, she then suggests using it to summon him to spend time together with them as they did back when he was alive. For example, like when it's time to eat cake.]]
* MurderIsTheBestSolution: As an assassin, killing comes with the territory but Kurome takes it a step further and has killed more than one friend, so that she can revive them as a zombie. One reason why she wants to kill Akame is so that she can turn her sister into a loyal zombie. Practically any problem for Kurome is asking for someone to be killed by her sword.
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: She is very adamant about being the only person who may deliver her sister's death by her own hands. Needless to say, the feeling is mutual.
* PsychoForHire: She was trained as an assassin just like Akame. Unlike Akame she completely buys into the MoreThanMindControl that was fed to her.
* PsychoSerum: It’s later revealed the [[spoiler:“cookies”]] Kurome always consumes is actually a new type of drug developed by the Empire to forcibly enhance their soldiers and [[spoiler:[[HorrorHunger she’s become addicted to them.]]]]
* RescueRomance: They had some ShipTease before the fact, but she begins to openly show her feelings for Wave after he saves her from [[spoiler:getting raped by Syura]].
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: While she was already going to kill [[spoiler:Chelsea]] in self-defense, the realization that [[spoiler:Chelsea killed Bols]] makes Kurome visibly enraged, leading to [[spoiler:Chelsea]]'s FamilyUnfriendlyDeath.
%%* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan
* SuperReflexes: Fast enough to dodge a sniper rifle shot from ''miles away''.
* SweetTooth: She has a giant bag of cookies that she carries around wherever goes just to snack upon.
* ThoseTwoBadGuys: She and Wave are rarely far apart from one another and are often seen together.
* UncannyFamilyResemblance: She and her sister look nearly identical except for the hairstyle and eye color.
* UsedToBeASweetKid: In her backstory presented both in the original manga and in Zero. She was shocked with the deaths of other children in the forest test and felt ill after being forced to kill a prisoner. Contrast with what she is now.
* {{Yandere}}: Her idea of loving someone is turning them into one of her corpse puppets.
!!! Teigu: Yatsufusa
* EliteMooks: Especially [[TheDragon Natala]] and [[BossInMooksClothing Destaghoul]].
** Destaghoul: An [[{{Kaiju}} Ultra Class Danger Beast]] that's nothing but [[DemBones an old skeleton given life]] but still wields [[TheDreaded the terrifying power]] it wielded in its previous life and is capable of firing a massive BreathWeapon that's powerful enough to ''alter the terrain''.
** General Rokgough: A previous general of the Empire that was [[DoubleAgent exposed trying to betray the Empire and join the Revolutionary Army]]. Wields a [[WhipItGood whip]] so masterfully that even Leone's SuperSenses can't keep up with its movements. Despite this, he was just a [[BadassNormal normal human]] in life.
** Hentarr: A [[LastOfHisKind survivor of the Ban Tribes]] and a target even Kurome [[WakeUpCallBoss admits to having difficulty in obtaining]]. [[LivingShadow Able to move through shadows]] and strike opponents in vital areas [[FragileSpeedster while dodging blows and retreating to the shadows.]] [[DualBoss Works in conjunction with Apeman for a devastating combo.]]
** Apeman: A Danger Beast that is noted to be a favorite for Kurome since he is [[DumbMuscle easy to use]]. Uses his new found undead body to NoSell attacks and [[LightningBruiser deliver fast and powerful blows]]. [[DualBoss Works in conjunction with Hentarr]].
** Woll: A famous guardsman that happened to be killed by Kurome when he was protecting a target of hers. Uses [[TakingTheBullet his own body]] to take blows for teammates when opponents get around his [[LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe giant riot shield]].
** Doya: A {{Gunslinger}} assassin sent from the Northern tribes [[PerpetualSmiler that wears a constant smirk on her face.]] She is very quick and fights using GunsAkimbo.
** Natala: Kurome and Akame's childhood friend that died sometime before the story began. He guards Kurome during Yatsufusa's activation since [[AttackItsWeakPoint Kurome is busy manipulating several other puppets]] simultaneously. Kurome quite confident in his abilities, stating he's ''10 times'' stronger than [[TheBrute Apeman]]. He fights using an extending BladeOnAStick.
** Kaiser Frog: A recent edition to Kurome’s collection. A giant frog that uses its long tongue to drag prey into its highly acidic stomach.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: You remember the scene when Tatsumi says that could be a Teigu that have the ability to resurrect dead people at the beginning of the series?. This is Yatsufusa, although it not have the effect Tatsumi refers...
* {{Necromancer}}: Those killed by Yatsufusa are enslaved and can be reanimated by the user whenever they enter combat.
* RedBaron: March of the Dead: Yatsufusa.
* TheUndead: What will happen to those who are killed by Yatsufusa. All skills and abilities the victim had in life are retained, but they are under Kurome's complete control. They are left as little more than flesh and blood puppets.
!! Seryu Ubiquitous
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-->''"In the name of absolute justice, I shall make evil pay, here and now!"''
--> '''Voiced by:''' Creator/KanaHanazawa
A young Imperial Guards soldier recruited by Esdeath as a member of the Jaegars. The impressionable Seryu was personally trained by Imperial Guard Captain Ogre and holds an overwhelming sense of loyalty to justice. Upholding the law and punishing "criminals" without mercy, Seryu makes it her mission to rid the Empire of villainous forces.
Her Teigu is a biological type in the form of Magical Beast Transformation: Hekatonkheires, aka "Koro," who resembles a small dog but possesses a limitless stomach and a voracious appetite.
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!!! Tropes associated with Seryu
* AffablyEvil: Despite her ruthless behavior when she fights her enemies and evildoers, she is pretty nice and friendly with her allies and the people of the Empire.
* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:Once she notices that Koro isn't able to regenerate anymore after [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe he got sliced in half by Mine]] earlier before her, she despairs over the fact that she hasn't even finished purging all of the "evil" yet and makes a tearful plea not to die "in a place like this" (in her case, in the valley located away from the imperial capital) before the bomb inside her head explodes. To top it off, the chapter in which she dies ends with the kids she'd made a habit of playing soccer with coming to the field where they'd hang out only to wonder why she's not there.]]
* AllCrimesAreEqual: Kills a bunch of petty thieves based on this philosophy.
* AmbiguouslyGay: She does have her moments with Esdeath and does not seem all that interested in boys. [[spoiler: It fact, in her final moments, after thinking about Esdeath, she started crying and pleading how she does not want to die.]]
* AnArmAndALeg: After she trips during a fight with Sheele, she loses grip of one of her tonfas. As Sheele moves in with an attack, Seryu puts her arms out in front to protect her body, though she loses both of her arms in the process.
* AntiVillain: She actually fights for the safety of the common people. The only problem is that she blindly follows the Empire to the point where she is reduced to a weapon.
* ArtificialLimbs: After [[AnArmAndALeg losing both of her arms]] to Sheele.
* AvengingTheVillain: Her initial motive to fight Night Raid is to avenge the death of her master, Ogre, at the hands of Tatsumi. [[spoiler: Later she also wants to avenge Stylish, who perishes in his battle with Night Raid.]]
* AxCrazy: Very much so. When fighting she's constantly got a SlasherSmile on her face and half of her dialogue, both in and out of combat, relates to murdering evildoers.
* {{Badass}}: Has many traits of this. In her first battle with Night Raid, despite the battle starts with disadvantage for her, she manages to win a battle against two strong opponents using all her resources and successfully [[spoiler: kill Sheele]] and injures Mine, breaking her arm. Later, with her body modifications, she can exterminate entire groups of enemies by herself and gain a new powerful arsenal. Even in her last battle with Mine she forces Mine to use her trump card to defeat her for good and leave her severely wounded.
* BerserkButton: Commit a crime or do evil things (like stealing or murder) in her presence is not a very good idea. Also hurt or kill anyone she beloved and prepare to confront a persistent enemy who doesn't stop to search you until she found and kills you.
* {{BFG}}[=/=]MacrossMissileMassacre: #2, #6 and #8, with #2 serving as four missiles that [[MoreDakka split and turn into an even larger volley of missiles]].
* {{BFS}}: #3: Which also serves as her BladeBelowTheShoulder.
* BlackAndWhiteInsanity: You are with the Empire? You're good, no matter how corrupt or heinous you are. You are against it in any way? You're evil and must be killed, no matter what the circumstances were.
* BodyHorror: She willingly undergoes a painful experiment by Captain Ogre's persuasion to have [[spoiler:machine guns surgically implanted into her arms. This is taken a step further when she can sprout a gun ''from her throat''.]]
* BossInMookClothing: During her time in the Imperial Guard Forces.
* ChekhovsGunman: See EarlyBirdCameo below.
* CoolBigSis: She tries to become this for Tatsumi when told that he'll be joining their group, patting him on the head and saying that he's amongst good people. It takes the danger of being found out to keep Tatsumi from cursing her out. Later she became this to a group of childrens in Kyoroch.
* {{Crazy Prepared}}: Of all the characters of Akame ga Kill, probably Seryu is the one who have the most resources and special moves. Before her heavy modifications, she had a [[DualTonfas pair of tonfas]] that can shoot bullets and [[DisabilitySuperpower cutting her arms only reveal more guns]], and that without counting Koro's abilities. After being modified by Stylish, she had an [[HyperspaceArsenal entire arsenal]] for her inside Koro, including a giant sword, a [[ThisisaDrill giant drill]] that can explode, a [[SniperRifle rifle]], a [[EpicFlail giant flail]] and a [[MacrossMissileMassacre pair of missiles]], between other things (a hook and a radar), and combining some of them, she can shoot a [[MoreDakka rain of missiles]] with a big power of destruction. Also she has been trained physically by Ogre and has a considerable strenght that was increased by her mechanical arms. As if that not were enough, she had three trump card, the one of his Teigu (Berserk, see the Teigu entry for more information), a [[HiddenWeapons gun inside her throat]] that she claims that was a gift from Ogre and can be used to do surprise attacks, and the last one, given to her by Dr. Stylish, a suicide bomb of incredible radius inside her brain that is used as last resort in a desperate situation. The only reason why she didn't kill Mine in her second battle was due to an external factor in the fight [[spoiler: (Tatsumi).]]
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: She's normally a carefree GenkiGirl, but when it comes to fighting she's deadly and ruthless.
* CryCute: She cries many times for her fallen friends and loved ones, showing that while she is merciless towards "villains," she isn't a monster.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Orange eyes and hair. In the anime are more brown colored.
* CuteAndPsycho: Very cute girl on the outside with ''very'' twisted conception of right and wrong.
* DarkActionGirl: She's vicious and brutal when she's out to "eradicate evil", always with a crazy SlasherSmile in her face.
* DefiantToTheEnd: She gets [[spoiler:[[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe sliced in half]] by Mine's Teigu and she [[TakingYouWithMe still tries to kill Mine]] by [[HavingABlast detonating a bomb inside her head]] before she dies. [[SenselessSacrifice It fails big time.]]]]
* DisabilitySuperpower: Her body is filled with weapons, so removing her limbs isn't ideal.
* DualTonfas: What she used to fight with before Dr. Stylish’s modifications. They even fired ''bullets''!
* EarlyBirdCameo: Before her proper introduction in the series, she is seen along a group of Imperial Guards during Ogre's presentation.
* EpicFlail: #1: Shinkou's Ball of Justice.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Even she felt that [[HidingBehindReligion Borick]] was a pig not worth the Jaegars' protection.
* EvilRedhead: She doesn't view herself as evil, but she's one of the most brutal and twisted members of the Jaegars.
%%* FieryRedhead
* {{Expy}}: Of [[Manga/FutureDiary Yomotsu Hirasaka]]: They both see themselves as heroes of justice despite harming innocent people, have a DisabilitySuperpower, [[spoiler:are killed by the protagonist's pink haired girlfriend, and blow themselves up.]]
* GenkiGirl: When she is in her not-crazy mood, she is lively and energetic. By example, when she meet Tatsumi for first time, she happily announces her name and reveals that Coro is a Teigu without any problem.
* HeroKiller: She manages to kill [[spoiler:Sheele]] but she doesn't get out of the encounter [[AnArmAndALeg unscathed]].
* HiddenWeapons: She has the barrel of a gun hidden ''in her mouth''.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: She believes that [[DirtyCop Captain Ogre]] and [[MadScientist Dr. Stylish]] were genuinely good people.
* InsaneTrollLogic: Helped a group of bandits because you were forced to? Just as guilty as they were in Seryu's eyes.
* {{Inspector Javert}}: Basically the love child of Inspector Javert with {{Franchise/Terminator}}.
* {{Irony}}: In one of the manga chapters of the special volume (the 1.5), she makes a cameo capturing the men that Tonto contracted to kill Nea (who Leone have knocked down previously) and says that only good people would have make that good action. That people was Night Raid, who in that time she hunts in sake to avenge Ogre's death and who she later would find evil.
* KnightOfCerebus: Her battle against Mine and Sheele is the first reminder in the story that the Night Raid isn't invincible and even the [[AnyoneCanDie good guys can die]].
* KnightTemplar: A very dark kind. For Seryu, all those who break the law or oppose the Empire are deserving of death.
* JusticeWillPrevail: Her philosophy. If only she knew what kind of people Night Raid assassinated and her "saviors" truly were...
* LaughingMad: After she kills [[spoiler: Scheele]] she starts to laugh happily despite [[MajorInjuryUnderreaction that both of her arms were cut!]].
* LetsGetDangerous: Sweet and bubbly normally, but when she is "administering justice," a sadistic and cruel personality takes over.
* LuminescentBlush: She tends to have these when she is not being a raving psycho, especially around Esdeath.
* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: She gets ''both'' her arms cut off and all she does is hysterically giggle over the fact that she [[EatenAlive defeated]] the evil villain. It's quite disturbing.
* MeaningfulName: Her last name refers to something that is felt everywhere, or omnipresent. This definition accurately depicts her feelings about her brand of ''justice''.
* MoralMyopia: Completely fails to recognize the flagrant evil in her mentors (and herself) while spouting on about bringing justice to "evildoers".
* MultiMeleeMaster[=/=]MultiRangedMaster: Her personal armory held within [[HyperspaceArsenal Koro]], Judgement of the Ten Heavenly Kings, created by [[GadgeteerGenius Dr. Stylish]] that serve as extra modifications to her body that she can wield in the midst of battle.
* NightmareFace: During battles, her expression changes from a normal face to a really creepy one accompanied with a big {{slasher smile}}. However, the face she shown when she [[spoiler: shoots Sheele in the back]] deserves a [[https://33.media.tumblr.com/0da5708777c8a0003f1a0bd99817e124/tumblr_na4pwwTNZX1sdhuzuo4_500.gif special mention]]
* ObliviouslyEvil: While the rest of the Jaegers seem to have some level of understanding that what they do isn't entirely good and are either [[CardCarryingVillain Card-Carrying Villains]] (Esdeath, Dr Stylish) or [[PunchClockVillain Punch Clock Villains]] (Wave, Run, Bols, and to a lesser extend Kurome), Seryu does not seems to grasp that her actions are more villainous than heroic. Something that even Mine lampshade.
* OlderThanSheLooks: His official age was 20 years at least. She has the looks of being of the age of Tatsumi.
* RapunzelHair: In her introduction, she wore her hair in a long ponytail that almost reached the ground, but it was shortened to shoulder-length after becoming a Jaegar.
* RedHerringShirt: Before being formally introduced in Episode 5 of the anime, she can be spotted briefly in Episode 2 as a member of Ogre's entourage.
* {{Revenge}}: Her initial motivation is the fact that Night Raid murdered her master, Captain Ogre.
* SanitySlippage: She's becoming more derailed as the series goes on, even killing a woman for assisting a group of bandits despite having been forced to do so against her will.
* ScarfOfAsskicking: Her outfit after joining the Jaegers features a scarf.
* SlasherSmile: When she gets into battle expect '''a lot''' of these.
* SmitingEvilFeelsGood: Nothing brings her greater joy than slaying evil-doers.
* SniperRifle: #7: Taizan's Cannon of Justice.
* TautologicalTemplar: She firmly believes everyone working for the Empire is on the side of justice and anyone who has done even the smallest crime even if they were forced to, are evildoers that must die, completely ignoring how corrupted the Capital, her allies and herself are.
* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: When she, along Suzuka, found [[spoiler: Tatsumi and Mine in a ruins in Kyoroch]], her response is to launch missiles to them. Despite the two of them escapes, the ruins are pretty much destroyed.
* ThisIsADrill: #5: Enma's Spear of Justice.
* ThisIsUnforgivable: Considering the fact that Night Raid was responsible for General Ogre's death, the fact that she says this to Night Raid after reminiscing of her training with him following her helping Tatsumi earlier is understandable. Later on, she even says this to Mine and Sheele before their fight because she blames them both for the deaths of both her father and Ogre himself, even though she has no idea that Tatsumi was the one who killed Ogre himself.
-->'''Seryu''': (to Mine and Sheele) My father died in the line of duty fighting villains like you! And you killed my mentor, General Ogre! I will never forgive you!
* TookALevelInBadass: Before her battle with Scheele and Mine she was a dangerous opponent, but after Stylish modifies her and Koro with the Judgement of the Ten Heavenly Kings she has access to a vast armory inside Koro's stomach that can summon inside a battle, making her a more deadly enemy. It's take an step further in Bolic's arc, when combining some of the armory, [[UpToEleven she can even launch missiles!]].
* WellIntentionedExtremist: She cares genuinely for the sake of the people of The Empire, unfortunately, her methods and her twisted sense of justice are very extreme and do more harm than good.
* ZettaiRyouiki: Grade A.
!!! Teigu: Hekatonkheires aka "Koro"
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[[caption-width-right:217:Normal State]]
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* TheBerserker: His [[{{Exactly What It Says on the Tin}} Berserk]] [[{{Super Mode}} mode]].
* BigEater: It finishes off opponents by eating them. No matter how many it devours, it never seems to get its fill.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: His appearance outside combat is a one cute dog. However, when he enter in a battle he became a really deadly Teigu with MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily who also can enter in a feral {{Super Mode}}.
* CuteAndPsycho: Looks like a cute and fluffy plush dog but when he gets hungry...
* {{Empathic Weapon}}: He can feel the frame of mind of his owner and he is shown feeling anger or sadness (when Seryu was mourning Stylish's death, Koro is visibly sad to the grief of his owner). Also, he [[spoiler: comfort Seryu in her death moment before the bomb explode and kill both]]. Considering that he is a dog shaped weapon, [[FridgeBrilliance it has sense]].
* GrowingMusclesSequence: It can temporarily bulk up the muscle mass within their arms to increase its attack power.
* HealingFactor: Being a biological Teigu grants Hekatonkheires the ability to heal from damage at an extremely fast rate.
* HyperspaceArsenal: Seems to act a portal to Seryu's arsenal by biting her arm off.
* KillerRabbit: Looks like an adorable plushie dog, then it [[MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily opens its mouth]], and it just gets worse from there.
* LivingWeapon: Like Susanoo, he is a biological Teigu and for that, a weapon with live.
* MakeMeWannaShout: Has a skill where it can emit an intense roar capable of momentarily incapacitating enemies.
* PetTheDog: [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe After getting blown in half]] by Mine's Teigu, [[spoiler:he manages to crawl beside Seryu and [[TogetherInDeath comfort in her last moments.]]]]
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Like Susanoo, Coro is a Teigu and would be at the same age of him.
* RedBaron: Magical Beast Transformation: Hekatonkheires.
* SuperMode: His Triumph Card has the ability Berserk to turn him into a more powerful, biggest, feral looking, red version of himself, but if his owner use this, he become inactive for a time.
* TokenNonHuman: Being a living Teigu, he is the only non-human member of the Jaegers as Susanoo is this for Night Raid.
* TurnsRed: Can enter a [[TheBerserker berserker mode]] that turns it into a complete LightningBruiser but [[HeroicRROD overheats after a short time]].
* WalkingArmory: Koro's infinite belly houses Seyru's vast arsenal which she can command to equip when necessary.
!! Run
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-->''"Not even one of you will be allowed to escape."''
-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JunjiMajima
A kind and charming man enlisted by Esdeath into the Jaegars. Run hails from a small rural village, and joins the Jaegers in hopes of one day reforming the Empire from within.
His Teigu is Limitless Flight: Mastema, which among many other powers, bestows him the power of flight, and gives him an angelic appearance.
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!!! Tropes associated with Run
* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler:His look of horror as Kurome uses her Yatsufusa to "save" him says it all.]]
* AntiVillain: Like Wave, he's this. It turns out he wants to change the Empire from within following an incident where in his days as a teacher he had the horror of walking into witness the aftermath of his class after they were massacred by [[MonsterClown Champ]] from Wild Hunt.
* AwesomenessByAnalysis: With only a few small clues Run accurately figures out that Dr. Stylish found the Night Raid base, assaulted the base with his army to acquire them for experimentation, failed and then got erased for his trouble.
* BadassBookworm: He is never seen without a book in his hand.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Run is a polite and kind man who want the best for The Empire and aspires to change it to a better place. But when someone hurt his beloved ones, as [[spoiler: Champ could testify]], he became vengeful and cruel.
* BigDamnHeroes: Saves Kurome from being killed by a two pronged attack from members of Wild Hunt, [[spoiler:but ultimately sustains heavy injuries [[TakingTheBullet shielding her]] from a fiery explosion caused by Champ]].
* {{Bishounen}}: He is a very handsome individual, which he uses to his advantage, in fake relationships with women like his town's mayor and Cosmina.
* BlondGuysAreEvil: Partially {{subverted}}. He works for the bad guys, but he is well-intentioned and wants the best to The Empire.
* BromanticFoil: For Wave
* TheCharmer: He is fully aware of his good looks and silver tongue and uses them to get on the good side of people.
* ColdBloodedTorture: He makes sure Champ suffers before killing him, even rubbing flowers that cause intense pain into his wounds.
* CoolTeacher: Before joining the Jaegers, Run was a beloved teacher of a small village.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Yellow eyes and hair.
* TheDragon: To Esdeath, being the one that informed her of the dissappearance of Dr. Stylish and other important stuff like the humanoid Danger Beast appearance. [[spoiler:Also he help her superior to disband Wild Hunt.]]
* DudeLooksLikeALady: PlayedForLaughs in one of the omakes of the anime, when Honest mistakes him with a girl due his {{bishonen}} appearance. {{Averted}} in the proper series, where everyone know that he is a guy.
* FateWorseThanDeath: [[spoiler: In the manga, after he is fatally wounded, Kurome uses her Yatsufusa to turn him into a puppet, keeping him "alive."]]
* FragileSpeedster: Run's skill at dodging attacks and his teigu's ability of flight, makes him a very difficult target to hit. In the anime, he was never once hit by a single attack, while in manga, he was only hit two times, [[spoiler: before his death/zombification.]] However, both attacks in the manga ending up doing a great amount damage to him. The first time he was hit occurred when [[spoiler: Mine gazed him with her teigu, Pumpkin. Despite only just being gazed, the injury was enough to put him out of the fight for the rest of the Bolic arc.]] The second time occurred when he hit by [[spoiler: Champ's explosion orb, the injuries he sustained from that attack ended up proving fatal.]]
* GoodWingsEvilWings: When Run activates Mastema he sprouts golden angelic wings to move about. [[spoiler:When Run is enslaved and reanimated by [[{{Necromancer}} Yatsufusa]] his wings are dyed jet black, akin to that of a fallen angel.]]
* HairDecorations: [[FeatherMotif Two winged clips]] on both sides of his hair.
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: He may be a member of the Jaegars, but he's a actually a really decent guy who wishes to change the empire from within.
* HiddenAgendaVillain: Internally mentions having an ulterior goal to working with the Jaegars: he wants to change the empire from the inside.
* HoneyTrap: This was how he obtained his Teigu. By seducing his town's mayor, he was able to use her favor to work up the ranks of the military and obtain a Teigu.
* InternalReformist: Like Wave, Run believes the Empire needs to change and joined the Jaegers to reform it from within.
* NiceGuy: He is very polite and cares for his partners and allies. [[BewareTheNiceOnes This doesn't stop him of being very ruthless]] [[spoiler:when he torture Champ in revenge for the deaths of his students.]]
* NonchalantDodge: Can dodge a fury of attacks from [[LightningBruiser General Esdeath]] while still reading his book.
* {{Revenge}}: Despite his kind nature, Run seeks vengeance against Champ of Wild Hunt for slaughtering the children of his old village.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler:In the manga, he dies in his fight with Champ, but at the end of the anime he's still alive and will help Wave rebuild the Empire.]]
!!! Teigu: Mastema
* CatchAndReturn: Mastema's trump card, Divine Wings, allows the user to utilize Mastema's wings to deflect enemy projectiles back at them.
* FeatherFlechettes: Mastema has the ability to fire a molt of feathers in lethal volley in a resemblance like weapons from [[VisualNovel/FateStayNight Gilgamesh's Gate of Babylon]].
* {{Flight}}: Mastema grants the user the ability to sprout angelic wings and fly.
* PerpetualMolt: The wings sprouted by Mastema constantly molt feathers with every flap.
* RedBaron: Soaring For Thousands of Miles: Mastema.
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[[folder:Wild Hunt]]
! Tropes associated with Wild Hunt:
* AdaptedOut: Apart from Syura and Suzuka, none of them appear in the anime.
* AxCrazy: Every single member is a psychopath that has no qualms about murdering people in the worst ways imaginable. Some members even feel compelled to do so.
* DirtyCoward: Most of Wild Hunt display this trope at one point or another. [[spoiler: In Enshin, Champ, Syura and Dorothea's cases, it's right before they die.]]
* EmpoweredBadassNormal: Every member of Wild Hunt (except [[BadassNormal Izou]]) is known to be equipped with a Teigu Syura found in his travels.
* EnemyMine: Wild Hunt made Night Raid and the Jaegers cooperate two times. The first time was because [[spoiler: Syura uses the Danger Beast that Stylish created to cause a havoc in the Empire, forcing the two factions to united to kill the monsters for the people sake.]] The second one happens when [[spoiler: Run, who want to kill Champ to avenge his students who Champ kills, and Kurome, who helps him in the task, guides Champ to a trap and are encountered by Enshin and Cosmina. In this moment Night Raid, who was finding the members of Wild Hunt to kill them to stop their atrocities, appears and with the "help" of the Jaegers manages to kill Enshin and wound Cosmina. Champ also dies in the cross fire.]]
* EvilerThanThou: While the Jaegars weren't formed with the most morally compassionate people in the Empire, Wild Hunt has been introduced as a group hellbent on causing carnage throughout the Empire, excusing their actions as being a Secret Police group under the Prime Minister.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler: Subverted in all cases but Cosmina's.]]
** [[spoiler: Syura dies whimpering that he cannot die a pointless death in a dungeon and that he was meant to surpass his father, dying as he curses his fate.]]
** [[spoiler: Enshin [[DirtyCoward flees rather than face the strength of Night Raid]], only to be cut down in a single strike by Akame and die dumbstruck by her power.]]
** [[spoiler: Champ enters his final fight bleeding and half-broken from Run's torture, recoils in terror as his Fire Orb attack is redirected at him, and dies screaming in agony as he is burnt down to his bones.]]
** [[spoiler: Dorothea is brought down rather easily by Leone and after failing to fake being dead resorts to [[AintTooProudToBeg begging Leone to let her live]], crying and screaming that she doesn't want to die, only for Leone to remark that none of her victims did either before crushing the Alchemist's head with a boulder.]]
** [[spoiler: Izou spends his final few moments begging Akame to take his sword from him, so that it can continue to drink blood, and when she refuses he can only ask why as he expires.]]
* FiveBadBand: Like the Jaegars, each of the member of Wild Hunt form this:
** BigBadWannabe: Syura, leader of the group, a threat at the beginning of the arc, but his {{Humiliation Conga}} and [[spoiler: later easy death at Lubbock's hands]] makes him this.
** TheDragon: Izou, being the most trusted member of the team in Syura's opinion. Enshin could be this as Dorothea mentions later that he and Syura had a good relationships [[spoiler: before the former's death]]. Dorothea herself also qualifies.
** TheBrute: Champ, a [[FatBastard big, fat, depraved]] MonsterClown who is not very brilliant.
** EvilGenius: Dorothea, being the equivalent of a MadScientist in Wild Hunt.
** TheDarkChick: Cosmina.
** SixthRanger: Suzuka.
* ForTheEvulz: Syura does have an actual EvilPlan behind all the random murder, rape and torture - lure out the Night Raid by committing enough atrocities to become the most public symbol of the Empire's brutality and thus force their hand. However, besides this expected result he very much enjoys the process itself, and the rest of the Wild Hunt kill the Empire's citizens simply because they can easily get away with it.
* InTheHood: Syura is first introduced with a hood suit. Later the others members of the team are also introduced with the same costume as Syura. All of them abandon the hoods when they became the Jaegers substitute.
* KickTheDog: Every chapter since their introduction Wild Hunt has been '''constantly''' kicking the dog.
* MeaningfulName: Named after TheWildHunt. They have a habit of raping and killing everyone in their way, too.
* PsychoForHire: The people recruited to make up Wild Hunt by Syura, are all definitely this. Enshin, Cosmina and Champ joined to engage in as much depravity within the Empire as possible, while Izou outright admits that he only came along just so to be allowed to kill as many people as he could.
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: A very notable difference between them and the Jaegars to make them all the more monstrous. Syura, Cosmina, Enshin and Champ are all rapists. Especially [[MonsterClown Champ]], [[PaedoHunt who expresses sadistic glee at having his way with children]].
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: The Wild Hunt tend to throw a lot of weight around in the Empire simply because their leader is the son of the Prime Minister. As such any of their actions, such as rape and murder, can hand waved as [[BlatantLies thorough investigation]].
* SerialRapist: Four out of the six original member.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: [[AdaptedOut The team at all didn't appear in the anime]], instead, Syura brought with himself a group of people in yellow hoods (with a similar looks that Wild Hunt wore in their debut chapter) and spears who Syura said that are "his elite". Later, Syura and the group along Budo ambush Tatsumi and Lubbock and fight with the latter. The elite team are later the ones who [[spoiler: kills Lubbock after he defeat Syura]] and [[WhatHappenedtoTheMouse never appears again]]
!! Syura
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-->''"It seems I've found myself some interesting toys."''
-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/RyoheiKimura
The son of the Prime Minister and leader of Wild Hunt. Left on a journey to explore the world and retrieve Teigu in other nations, he assembled the members of Wild Hunt to replace the Jaegers task to hunt Night Raid.
His Teigu is Dimensional Formation: Shambhala, a pendant type Teigu that can teleport people and himself to any place he marks. However, the Teigu is mostly for support and Syura use his strength and ability in hand-to-hand combat to fight.
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!!! Tropes associated with Syura
* AdaptationalBadass: While much of his role in the anime is eliminated, in this route he has a true fight with Lubbock when he put the Night Raid member in danger and even reveals his Trump Card. [[spoiler: Comparing this with his manga counterpart, who died without a good fight and never reveal his Teigu strongest technique.]]
* AdaptationalHeroism: Has a little bit in the anime. Despite in this adaptation he is still a jerk, like Esdeath, much of his atrocities are removed from the anime, leaving him as a prick, but not as a monster.
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Strangely, he's very tanned compared to his fair-skinned father. Presumably, this is because he's spent the majority of his time away in the Borneo islands south of the Empire, but the Prime Minister also stated his mother is not very respectable and possibly foreign.
* AxCrazy: When he's not conversing with his father you can expect to see him raping some innocent girl and murdering her ForTheEvulz or pounding a fallen foe to death with his bare hands, cackling the whole time.
* BareFistedMonk: In his skirmish with [[spoiler:Wave,]] he demonstrates a vast knowledge of different martial arts he acquired during his travels outside the Empire.
* BerserkButton: Going against him as the son of the Prime Minister or even worst, leading him into being a disappointment in his father's eyes is a one way ticket to him intending to rip you limb from limb.
* BigBadWannabe: He thinks of himself a threat to Night Raid (and everyone) for being the son of the Prime Minister. While he is strong indeed, his actions during Wild Hunt arc only put him in evidence in his father's eyes and [[spoiler: the dissolution of his group thanks to Run investigations and his cheap death at Lubbock's hand make him less threatening since his introduction.]]
* TheCasanova: Most of his actions are often motivated by lust. Also, it is shown in the Jaeger arc that Syura is fully capable of picking up women if he wanted to. The problems is he find it more arousing to force himself on to them and tends to become violent towards them.
* DanceBattler: He takes down a group of seasoned martial artists just by using capoeira style kicks.
* EvilIsPetty: In one of Wild Hunt first missions, he kills an entire theatre company because they have a play that would ridiculise his father even when the owner of the company try to bribe him to spare their lives. In fact, he kills the company because they try to bribe him!.
* {{Expy}}: Of Uday Hussein, minus the EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas trope.
* {{Foil}}: For Wave. Both are members of a task force with the job to hunting down Night Raid. In addition, both Syura and Wave even wanted to change the Empire for within. However, while Wave wants to make the Empire better for everyone, Syura wants to make the Empire worse and change it to better suit his own amusement. Their relationship with Kurome also similar yet different from one another. Wave deeply cares about Kurome and wants to protect her at all cost, while Syura is attracted to Kurome but only see her as a LustObject.
** Also, for Lubbock. While were born into rich families, Lubbock gave up his rich life to be with Najenda, while Syura likes to abuse the resource that he has at his disposal. Also, both apparently suffer from a InferioritySuperiorityComplex. In addition, while Lubbock is a ChivalrousPervert who does not like to hurt women, Syura is a SerialRapist that take pleasure is hurting women.
* GoodScarsEvilScars: He has a giant X shaped scar across his face from the bridge of his nose.
* GroinAttack: Crushes one of Rabac's testicles.
* HumiliationConga: Later on, he loses to Wave in a fist fight, [[BerserkButton gets criticized by his dad for it]], then he loses [[spoiler: several members of his unit]], [[BerserkButton gets criticized by his dad for it]], [[spoiler: despite catching two members of Night Raid,]] Esdeath humiliates him by [[spoiler: proving that he was responsible for an incident that endangered the empire and getting what remained of Wild Hunt disbanded]], [[BerserkButton gets criticized by his dad for it]], and finally [[spoiler: gets killed by Lubbock when he pretends to have been broken by his torture.]] [[KickTheSonOfABitch The fans enjoyed those few chapters immensely.]]
** And to top it all off, [[spoiler:after Honest (the father he worked so hard to please) hears about the death of his son, he proceeds to weep for him... for '''one whole page'''. He gets over it in seconds, pretty much stating that he'll "make another son from scratch." Even after death the humiliation continues.]]
* {{Jerkass}}: Oh boy, is he is one. He commits many acts of cruelty for the most insignificant reason, rape womens, [[spoiler: including Bol's wife,]] [[SmugSnake looks down his allies and enemies alike]] because he is the son of the Prime Minister (his card to do anything he want) and even despise her own men because they lose to Night Raid. Of all the cast of the series, he is one of the biggest dicks.
* KickTheSonOfABitch: People ''loved'' his HumiliationConga.
* MurderTheHypotenuse: Somewhat. Syura is attracted towards Kurome and wants to rape her, while Kurome is attracted towards Wave. Wave prevents Syura from raping Kurome and naturally Syura wants Wave dead, so it be that much easier to get to Kurome.
* OverlordJr: He's the spoiled son of the [[BigBad Prime Minister]] whose entire goal in life is to become as powerful and ruthless as his father and become competent in his eyes.
* OutGambitted: After [[spoiler: Run kills off a big chunk of his team and he's captured Tatsumi]], Syura is convinced that he's gotten the fodder he needs to have the [[spoiler: Jeagers disbanded.]] Esdeath completely outwits him by [[spoiler: hiding the evidence Run had gathered against Syura in particular, which saves his ass from the law... and then she counters with evidence against the rest of Wild Hunt, which has them disbanded at her request. He refuses the cross her because of the blackmail she still had on him.]]
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: He tends to instill fear in his enemies by stating his relation to the Prime Minister, which causes them to halt their attacks. [[{{Hypocrite}} He then calls them out for being cowards.]] [[spoiler:[[UnstoppableRage Not that this matters to Wave.]]]]
* ShoutOut: A dark skinned man with white hair and a scar shaped like a X?. Hello, [[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist Scar!]]
* SlasherSmile: In the manga, when he is introduced to the audience, the only thing we see of his face is a huge menacing grin.
* SmugSnake: Due to his perceived strength and prowess, as well as family connections.
* StoryBreakerPower: In the manga, Syura once mentioned he had a last resort plan to defeating his opponents by teleporting them in the middle of an active volcano. Naturally with such overpowering ability, the story finds ways to prevent Syura [[spoiler: from ever doing just that before his death and his teigu destroyed.]] First, Syura can only use his teleporting ability a few time every couple of days, so he cannot just spam it. Also, the few times he does use it, it was on people that he needed alive at the time. The first time he used his teigu, Shambhala, was on [[spoiler: Esdeath and Tatsumi. At the time, he just wanted Esdeath out of the way and Tatsumi just happen to be with her at the time. He most likely reframed from trying to kill her because he knows that his father still needs her.]] He later used his teigu was on [[spoiler: Tatsumi and Lubbock, at the time he want to capture them, not kill them.]] The closest occurrence of [[spoiler: Syura ever performing his last resort plan, was just before his fight Wave, but he was stop by Budo from using his teigu, and instead settled with a fist fight that reframed both Wave and Syura from using their teigu.]]
* ThisCannotBe: [[spoiler:When he is about to die by Lubbock's hands he blurts this out. Since he died without taking the throne and surpassing his successful father so that he could change the "boring world" as he called it, this is very understandable.]]
* TortureTechnician. Claims to be this. He later shows how and why [[spoiler:towards poor Lubbock.]]
* VillainousFriendship: Subverted. Although he seems to be great friends with the other members of Wild Hunt, most often when they gleefully indulge in their [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil "activities"]]; [[spoiler:when Champ and Enshin are killed, he states that he doesn't give a toss since they died so easily.]] This claim is then consequently [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by fellow member Dorothea.
* WeakButSkilled: A very skilled martial artist, as shown by his dominance of Wave for most of their skirmish, but he lacked the raw power to take him down and [[spoiler: ended up getting defeated in 2 hits once Wave saw through his attack patterns.]]
* WellDoneSonGuy: He's determined to prove himself to his father, and is noticeably afraid when his father is angry at him [[spoiler:for being beaten by Wave.]] Basically, humiliating or demeaning him in front of his father is the [[BerserkButton worst way to piss him off.]]
* WhiteHairBlackHeart: His hair is white and he's one of the most evil sons of bitches in the series.
!!! Teigu: Shambhala
* ItWasAGift: Doesn't played straight. [[spoiler:In the manga, after Lubbock kills Syura, he became the owner of Shambhala and try to escapes the Imperial palace with the Teigu. Unfortunately for him, is for a very short period of time, as Lubbock, who don't understand the working system of Shambhala, is immediately killed by Izou, who is not interested in the Teigu and destroys it with Lubbock.]]
* PocketDimension: His Trump Card in the anime, Dimensional Abyss, have the ability to create one of this and engulf the enemy in the dimension.
* RedBaron: Dimensional Formation: Shambhala
* TeleportersAndTransporters: He can teleport himself or others to fixed locations. He used it to send Tatsumi and Esdeath from a mountain range to an island on the other side of the world.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler: While in the manga Shambhala is destroyed by Izou, in the anime its fate is never revealed after its owner's death.]]
!! Izou
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-->''"Oh, my beloved Kousetsu... I... will feed you now."''
A swordsman who loves to fight.
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!!! Tropes associated with Izou
* {{Badass}}: Is apparently as strong as the rest of the Wild Hunt put together, and takes down Lubbock with a single strike of his ''sheath''.
* BadassNormal: His katana is stated to be normal (by their world's standard), and not a Teigu.
* BetterThanSex: While the Wild Hunt is [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil "investigating"]] a theatre group suspected of writing plays that harm the image of the Prime Minister, Izou instead prefers to stand outside [[BloodKnight carving any would-be escapees to pieces]].
* BloodKnight: He loves to "make blood rain" and "feed" his sword Kousetsu the blood of his kills.
* CoDragons: Replaces [[spoiler:Enshin after his death]] and shares this position with Dorothea for Syura. [[spoiler: He later shares this position with Cosmina for Dorothea when Dorothea takes over what's left of Wild Hunt after Syura's death.]]
* EyesAlwaysClosed: He keeps his eyes shut unless he's cutting down scores of people, in which he reveals his [[BlackEyesOfCrazy black sclera]].
* FightsLikeANormal: All members of the Wild Hunt have a Teigu, but unlike the rest he has no interest in it and is entirely devoted to Kousetsu.
* HeroKiller: [[spoiler: As Lubbock would testify. Akame later avenges him.]]
* HungryWeapon: Played with. Izou treats Kousetsu as such and is devoted to feeding it "blood" above everything else, but there's nothing to indicate in-universe that it's anything more than a delusion.
* LackOfEmpathy: Unlike other Wild Hunt members like Champ or Cosmina, he is not a crazed lunatic who enjoys raping or harming people, or drawing out their suffering. He is just addicted to fighting and using his sword to kill, without a care for the lives of people he ends. In fact, he has a sense of honor, as shown [[spoiler: when he kills Lubbock, admiring him for being able to put up a fight in spite of having suffered horrible torture]].
* MasterSwordsman: Frequently cuts down groups of Mooks in single slices.
* NumberTwo: To Syura.
* OralFixation: The classic straw version, as seen in the image above.
* TheWorfEffect: During all the Wild Hunt arc, Izou is shown as a powerful opponent that kills people like flies and even, in Syura's words, being as powerful as Enshin and Champ combined. Also he [[spoiler: kills Lubbock]] easily, setting him up as a serious threat. [[spoiler: However, like Enshin, he is effortlessly killed during his fight with Akame.]]
!! Cosmina
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-->''"Oh, my. There's nowhere for you to escape. Poor things. At the very least, let me sing you a farewell song on your journey to Heaven!"''
Cosmina was a singer who was convicted of witchcraft in the Western kingdom. She survived her village's attempt to kill her and was recruited into Wild Hunt for her voice-based abilities.
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* AllWomenAreLustful: She happily indulges in her sexual activities, which include an entire theatre troupe of men, and shamelessly flirts with Enshin and Run.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: She was persecuted and branded as a witch because her voice has the ability to manipulate people. This such persecution later led to her entire family being killed and their house set on fire. Unfortunately, she survived the fire, but went [[SanitySlippage completely insane]] by the tragedy.
* DumbMuscle: A rare female example. In combat, [[WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer her only action]] is to face enemies and fire her destructive sound waves at them until they die. She thinks ''nothing'' about defensive measures and lets her guard down all to quickly on the battlefield, even when it's obvious that there's still potential enemies that pose a definite threat to her.
** Her "upgrade" by Dorothea turns this aspect up, as she is now a hybrid between a mantis and a tank.
* ExoticEyeDesigns: Her eyes have a [[BishieSparkle sparkle]] sign in her pupils.
* FreudianExcuse: She apparently used to be a sane, decent human being. That all changed when the people of her village, who feared her ability to influence their behavior with her songs, deemed her a witch and burnt her house down with her and her family in it. She was the only one to survive. The event turned her into the monster she is.
* GenkiGirl: She's always seen upbeat and energetic.
* GlassCannon: She has devastatingly destructive attack power she can emit over long distances, but other than that aspect, she lacks defensive ability of any kind.
* GoodThingYouCanHeal: Dorothea can repair her to some degree but turns her into a cyborgmonster in the end.
* HalfTheWomanSheUsedToBe: [[spoiler: How Tatsumi finally kills her in her monster form.]]
* MadeOfIron: She's been known to mysteriously survive the giant fire that burned her entire house and family to ashes and even survived [[spoiler:a shot from Mine's Pumpkin but keeps a hole from it.]]
* MakeMeWannaShout: Her Teigu, Great Tremor: Heavy Pressure, allows her to transmit long range sound waves, strong enough to shatter the skeletons and implode the brain on any unfortunate target caught in its radius.
* TheNicknamer: Refers to her fellow Wild Hunt members Syura and Champ, as "Shurry" and "Champie", respectively.
* NighInvulnerability: With her modifications she becomes this instead, with SuperMode Tatsumi admitting she is one hell of a tank and requires many of his special moves to defeat.
* PlayboyBunny: The outfit that she wears from when she is first introduced.
* PsychopathicWomanchild: She has a constant smile on her face even when she's killing, flirts shamelessly with any handsome man in her company, and treats all of her battles as concerts where she's "entertaining" the opponent with her [[MakeMeWannaShout "singing"]].
%%* ReallyGetsAround
* TooDumbToLive: She tries to have her way with a heavily injured Run ''in the middle of a battlefield'' [[spoiler:and [[InTheBack gets shot through the chest]] by Mine for her trouble.]]
!!! Teigu: Heavy Pressure
* MakeMeWannaShout: Heavy Pressure allows its user to transmit long range sound waves, strong enough to shatter the skeletons and implode the brain on any unfortunate target caught in its radius.
* MusicalAssassin: Heavy Pressure is a microphone Teigu that allows its owner to amplifies its voice with devastating effects.
* RedBaron: Great Tremor: Heavy Pressure
!! Dorothea
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-->''"Hmph. You'd make a most ideal subject for my experiments."''
An alchemist from the Western Kingdom, Dorothea is recruited into the Wild Hunt. She comes into prominence after [[spoiler: Syura's death]], taking charge of the Wild Hunt to further her own machinations. Her Teigu is Blood Collection: Absordex, fangs which allow her to drain the blood of whatever she bites. In addition, she also fights with a variety of gadgets and alchemic tricks.
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* ACupAngst: When healing Cosmina with her alchemy; she comments to Syura on how her great bust infuriates her, in a comedic fashion.
* AllWomenAreLustful: Demonstrates this towards [[ChickMagnet Tatsumi]], of course.
* {{Badass}}: Despite her small size, she is a powerful fighter with an incredible strength that rivals Leone's own. She puts up a strong showing and in contrast to the rest of the Wild Hunt, [[spoiler: she only dies after a long, hard battle and would have killed Leone if it weren't for her overconfidence.]]
* BlondesAreEvil
* BrokenTears: When [[spoiler: she plays dead and Leone is about to crush her with a rock to secure her death, she starts crying and pleading with her opponent to spare her life and permit her to continue her life-extending experiments. Unfortunately for her, Leone isn't particularly swayed...]]
* CoDragons: She replaces [[spoiler: Enshin after his death]] and shares this position with Izou for Syura.
* CuteAndPsycho: Anyone would look at her and assume that she's the most innocent of Wild Hunt. Truthfully, she is perhaps the most ruthless and dangerous.
* DidNotSeeThatComing: She had multiple [[CrazyPrepared contingency plans in place]] to deal with Night Raid, though she was caught off guard by some surprises.
** [[spoiler: She covered her experimental warriors with glue so that Murasame got stuck on one of them, disarming Akame. Given that most of Akame's targets were killed with her sword, this seems like a good plan, but [[EntertaininglyWrong unfortunately, Akame was trained in many fighting techniques, including hand-to-hand combat without her Teigu]].]]
** [[spoiler: She turned Cosmina into an insectoid beast capable of injecting deadly poison even through [[NighInvulnerability Incursio's armor]]. This would have worked, except for the fact that [[AdaptiveArmor Tatsumi's body had already adapted to the poison]] from when the Prime Minister tainted Incursio with it, back when Tatsumi recovered it.]]
** [[spoiler: Most of her victims became shriveled and emaciated like mummies after she absorbed their blood. The exception being Leone, who was capable of [[HealingFactor quickly recovering from the loss of blood by eating animals]].]]
* DragonAscendant: [[spoiler:She ends up taking over the remains of the Wild Hunt after Syura's death.]]
* EldritchAbomination: [[spoiler:In the climax of her fight with Leone, she summons a grotesque monster to defeat her enemy.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards: She seemed pretty taken aback by how quickly the Prime Minister recovered from hearing of [[spoiler:his son's death, considering that he died while trying to prove himself to his father.]]
* EvilGenius: Of Wild Hunt. Doubled as CoDragons with Izou, [[spoiler: after Enshin's death]], and then briefly became [[spoiler: DragonAscendant when Syura himself died.]]
* FurAgainstFang: Her fight with Leone can be considered this.
* HypercompetentSidekick: She ends up being the biggest threat in the Wild Hunt and the only one to be a serious challenge to the Night Raid.
* ImmortalitySeeker: Her investigations are primarily to stay young and beautiful forever.
* JapanesePronouns: Dorothea uses 妾 (warawa), giving old-fashioned connotations to her speech and hinting that she's been around for significantly longer than her appearance suggests.
* KilledMidSentence: [[spoiler:Leone crushes her with a boulder before she can finish making her case about why she should live on and continue her experiments.]]
* MadeOfIron: Seriously, it took a lot to kill her. [[spoiler: Leone punched her hard in the stomach and she recovered quickly; she kicked her in the spinal column, which would have killed most people or at least paralyzed them, yet she was mostly fine, and finally, Leone broke her neck and she was still alive. Leone had to crush her with a giant bolder to finish her off.]]
* MadScientist: She is the Doctor Stylish of Wild Hunt. [[spoiler:She turned one of her own colleagues into an enormous monster that grew stronger from consuming human flesh and was capable of surviving [[OneHitKill Akame's sword.]]]]
* TheMedic: She serves as this for the rest of Wild Hunt.
* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler: Leone finishes her battle with Dorothea by breaking the alchemist's neck. Dorothea then plays possum, expecting that Night Raid will leave and that she can recover from her injuries. However, Leone takes the precaution of making sure Dorothea is down for good...]]
* NotGrowingUpSucks: Although she seems generally satisfied with her near-immortality, she expresses resentment towards Cosmina's more mature figure and shortly before [[spoiler: she dies, she mentally pictures herself looking considerably older and dressed in a more Stripperiffic outfit.]]
* OlderThanSheLooks: [[spoiler: Her exact age is unknown but her fight with Leone reveals that her blood-drinking keeps her young and when she sustains a strong attack from Leone begins showing visible wrinkles on her face.]]
* TheParalyzer: She uses a paralyzing gas that turn those who come into contact with it into stone during her fight with Leone, who mistakes it for a [[DeadlyGas poisonous gas]]. [[spoiler: Dorothea then drains all of Leone's blood, but thanks to Lionelle's regenerative abilities and stamina, she survives this.]]
* PintSizedPowerhouse: Wild Hunt's shortest member and physically the strongest.
* ShoutOut: Her character design, the clothes she wears, and her blonde hair makes her a manga version of [[Literature/AliceinWonderland Alice]].
** The monster that she releases in the end of her battle with Leone at the beginning appears as a shadow with multiple eyes. Could be a [[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist Pride]] reference?
* SlasherSmile: She flashes a really creepy one when [[spoiler: Leone breaks her neck and she fakes her death, looking forward to revenge when she recovers from her wounds.]]
* SupernaturallyDeliciousAndNutritious: In chapter 50, when she's feasting on Tatsumi after he's subdued; she comments on how his blood is incredibly delicious, intense, and rich.
* ThisCannotBe: [[spoiler:After Leone has just brought her down by delivering a NeckSnap to her, she's lying flat on the ground, on her back, muttering this trope. Then she witnesses [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe the way Tatsumi finishes Cosmina]], horrifying her, which causes her to lament her ambitions, before feigning death as a last resort (which doesn't work with Leone, of course).]]
* TrouserSpace: During the fight with Leone, she whips an alchemy capsule out from deep within her underskirt. She later draws a gun, presumably from the same general area.
* VillainousBreakdown: When she starts her fight with Leone she is confident about winning the fight. [[spoiler: However, despite nearly killing her enemy, she underestimates Leone's regenerative abilities and when her opponent appears without a scracth, she starts to scream in anger and lose her cool. Even when she reveals her Trump Card, a grotesque {{Eldritch Abomination}}, Leone still defeats her. When Leone is about to crush a rock over her to make sure that Dorothea is dead for good, she starts to cry and plead with Leone for her life. Leone kills her without thinking.]]
* VillainousFriendship: [[spoiler: "Friendship" might be an exaggeration, but she seemed sympathetic when she told Prime Minister Honest of his son Syura's death, and the two frequently shared amicable meals with each other. She also seemed quite friendly with Suzuka. Towards the other Wild Hunt's members, however, this trope is subverted, since she turned Cosmina into an insectoid beast for her experiments and didn´t seem upset when Izou was killed by Akame.]]
!!! Teigu: Absordex
* CuteLittleFangs: In Dorothea at least, the fangs look cute.
* FangsAreEvil: Absordex are a pair of blood-sucking fangs that maintain someone's youth if they drink blood frequently.
* LifeDrinker: Absordex can make its owner young forever from draining the blood of living beings.
* LiquidAssets: The transfer of blood and life energy from victim to attacker seems to be how Absordex functions.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: The abilities of Absordex have many similarities with the powers of {{vampires}}, but the user is still human.
* RedBaron: Blood Collection: Absordex.
* VampiricDraining: Her Teigu allows its owner to bite into a victim and reduce them to a withered husk in mere seconds.
!! Enshin
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-->''"A woman's hand isn't meant to hold guns. It's meant to serve me."''
Pirate from the Southern Islands.
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* {{Badass}}: Have to give the bastard credit, he was able to easily defeat [[spoiler: Kurome's two most powerful puppets at time, Doya and Natala, especially since Tatsumi couldn't defeat Natala.]] Also, [[spoiler: he lasted longer than Champ and Cosmina during Wild Hunts fight with the Jaegers and Night Raid, before being killed.]]
* TheDragon: Dorothea noted that Enshin was possible the closest member of Wild Hunt to Syura. He also acted as the unofficial leader of Champ and Cosmina during Wild Hunts fight with the Jaegers [[spoiler: and later Night Raid.]] However,[[spoiler: he was replace by Dorothea and Izou after his death.]]
* GenreSavvy: Unlike [[DumbMuscle Champ]] and [[ReallyGetsAround Cosmina]], he is not fooled by Run's [[{{NiceGuy}} facade]] about joining Wild Hunt and follows him when he leads Champ to another location, in the event that Run might try to ambush Champ.
* OhCrap: When Akame dodges the attacks from his Shamshir, and [[spoiler:then swiftly kills him with her Murasame. The look on his face when he realizes her strength sums it all up.]]
* ProperlyParanoid: Of Run's reasons for ingratiating himself to Wild Hunt, which turn out to indeed be insincere.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: Of Wild Hunt, he was the one with less screentime before his death and, except commentaries of Dorothea about him, we knew nothing about him apart of his likes of rapes.
* TheWorfEffect: In his fight with Run and Kurome, his Teigu was in his prime and offer a challenge to the Jaegers, but [[spoiler: is easily killed by Akame when Night Raid come to the battle.]]
!!! Teigu: Shamshir
* {{Lunacy}}: Shamshir is a curved sword that can create [[SwordBeam aerial blades]] which can grow stronger depending on the lunar cycle. When it's full moon is when is more strong.
* MeaningfulName: The Teigu is named in base to a curved sabre originated in central Asia. Its name is derived from Persian شمشیر (romanized as shamshīr) which means "sword" in general.
* RedBaron: Moonlight Sword Dance: Shamshir.
* SwordBeam: Shamshir main power is to create aerial blades in base to the lunar cycle.
!! Champ
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-->''"Where's the shack full of super-cute children?"''
A 'Serial Killer Entertainer', Champ is clown-like child molestor and killer that gets recruited into the Wild Hunt.
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!!! Tropes associated with Champ
* AssholeVictim: His death at the hands of [[spoiler:Run]] was a long, ''long'' time coming.
* BishieSparkle: Whenever he sees a child or gets passionate in speaking about his love for children.
* ButForMeItWasTuesday: When asked by Run if he remembers his massacre of students back in the town of Joyou, he struggles to remember the memory until he thinks about the amount of children he raped and killed.
* ChildrenAreInnocent: In a very twisted aspect, this is the reason why he kills children. [[NotAllowedToGrowUp To prevent them from becoming "filthy adults"]].
-->'''Champ:''' [[InsaneTrollLogic "Adults are worthless. They're all scum! Angels should just stay angels forever."]]
* DumbMuscle: He's strong enough to be recruited as a Teigu wielding member of Wild Hunt yet is easily fooled by Run into following him into some abandoned ruins in an attempt to ambush him and kill him with the promise of having prepared a group of small children just for his pleasure.
* {{Expy}}: Of John Wayne Gacy.
* EyeScream: In his retaliation against him, Run fires a [[FeatherFlechettes feather]] into his eye.
* FatBastard: In terms of evil and girth, he gives the [[BigBad Prime Minister]] a run for his money.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: In the end he is killed when he [[spoiler:throws his Flame Orb at Run, who in turn activates Mastema's Divine Wings, which [[CatchAndReturn deflects]] the orb back at Champ incinerating him into a skeleton.]]
* {{Irony}}: He likens children to angels, which is why he kills them before they become evil and impure as adults, yet [[spoiler:[[DeathByIrony he is killed]] by an opponent whose Teigu likens his image into the form of an actual angel.]]
* KarmicDeath: His death [[spoiler: by Run is this, as he's killed by his own attack by a man with wings, an angel in effect. Ironic as he compares children to angels.]]
* MadeOfIron: Has the courtesy of being hit by a [[FlechetteStorm barrage]] of Mastema's FeatherFlechettes, which can pierce through bone, [[ColdBloodedTorture tortured by Run]], stabbed repeatedly in the torso and still has the strength to find Run and Kurome and attack the pair with his Teigu.
** Kevlard: It seems it was his fat and body size that allowed him to continue kicking after all the punishment he took.
* MightyGlacier: He's very slow but can tank an incredible amount of punishment and his Teigu can deal immense damage in both long and short range combat.
* MonsterClown: Especially monstrous, when one considers his [[PaedoHunt sexual preference]].
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Beats an innocent woman to death simply because she tried to prevent him from having his way with a young child in a theater group.
* NotSoStoic: He drops his [[TheStoic stoic demeanor]] when he happens to spot a cute child. Unfortunately, this is also [[{{Squick}} coupled with arousal]]...
* OhCrap: [[spoiler:When Run reflects his Flame Orb right back at him, which in turn soon causes him to be incinerated into a skeleton.]]
!!! Teigu: Die Leaguer
* BlowYouAway: Storm Orb, an orb imbued with the power to unleash an incredibly strong hurricane.
* ElementalPowers: Die Leaguer is a six orb imbued with an element that activates after being thrown.
* PlayingWithFire: Flame Orb, an orb imbued with the power to incinerate an enemy to mere bones.
* RedBaron: Ace Solution: Die Leaguer.
* StuffBlowingUp: Explosion Orb, an orb imbued with the power to induce an immense explosion.
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[[folder:Minor Villains]]
!! Aria
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-->''"If you have nowhere to sleep, would you like to stay at my home?"''
-->'''Voiced by:''' Kanami Satou (Japanese), Creator/BrittneyKarbowski (English)
A wealthy girl living in a huge mansion within the imperial capital. Aria appears to be kind-hearted and innocent, but in truth, she and her family are actually a group of sadists disguised as {{Good Samaritan}}s who lure unidentified people with kind words before drugging and then torturing them to death.
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* AssholeVictim: Tatsumi wastes no time killing her once he sees for himself what she did to both Ieyasu and Sayo.
* BadSamaritan
* BitchInSheepsClothing: A very sadistic little girl who disguises herself as a sweet and innocent one to fool the people she lured before killing them.
* BlondesAreEvil
* BlueEyes
* CheerfulChild: What she appears to be, anyway.
* ChildrenAreInnocent: Brutally subverted in her case.
* ColdBloodedTorture: What she did to her victims that her household invited.
* CreepyChild: What she eventually turns out to be.
* CuteAndPsycho: First, take a look at the appearance of this very cute girl. Then, look deep inside her.
* EnfantTerrible
* EvilIsPetty: The reason why she tortured Sayo to death was mainly because she was jealous of her smooth hair.
* FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon: Who would've thought that such a cute and innocent-looking girl would turn out to be a depraved creature on the inside that's way worse than any demon?
* HairDecorations: She wears a light blue pompom with black ribbons on her hair.
* HalfTheWomanSheUsedToBe: In the manga, at least; in the anime, Tatsumi simply slashed her across the front of the stomach.
* LackOfEmpathy: Towards the victims of her household. Secretly.
* ManipulativeBitch
* RichBitch
* StarterVillain
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: She and her family invite people using kind words before drugging them and torturing them to their deaths.
* VillainOfTheWeek: The very first one to appear, in fact.
* VillainousBreakdown: Once Tatsumi learns of the whole truth of her household's sheer sadism towards the people she lured to it, she snaps and rants about her views of others as nothing but worthless cattle, her belief in her right to toy with whatever she wants, and her jealousy toward's Sayo's hair motivating her to torture-murder her, all while putting on a NightmareFace and seemingly sounding like a VoiceOfTheLegion.
!! Ogre
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-->''"A weakling's concerns don't matter. In this city, only the strong prevail. I'm the one that determines others' fates! I won't tolerate being judged!"''
-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TsuyoshiKoyama (Japanese), Creator/GeorgeManley (English)
Captain of the Capital guards, Ogre is a evil individual who takes bribes from criminals such as Gamal, a crooked oil merchant, and uses his authority to frame people from the crimes that Gamal commits. After his last victim overhears the dealings between Gamal and Ogre he sends a letter to his wife before his execution to inform her of their crimes and she in turn requests the Night Raid to end both Gamal and Ogre for their transgressions.
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* TheAlcoholic: He's often seen drinking when he's not patrolling on duty.
* BlackEyesOfCrazy: Just another trait to ''really'' prove he is an [[ObviouslyEvil amoral bastard.]]
* DirtyCop: Ogre is known for accepting bribes and using his connections to frame innocent people to take the executions for the real criminals.
* DreadlockWarrior: His hair is styled in the shape of several dreadlocks.
* EvilMentor: To Seryu.
* GenreSavvy: He's savvy enough to keep his hand on his weapon and stay on guard when he first encounters Tatsumi and he's also sharp enough to figure out that he's Night Raid and who was the one that contracted the hit on him in the first place.
* GoodScarsEvilScars: He has a wide cross shaped scar over his left eye.
* KickTheDog: If it wasn't enough he framed an innocent man for a crime he didn't commit he also planned on forcing the man's wife to watch her entire family get executed one by one.
* NoKillLikeOverkill: Tatsumi cuts off [[spoiler:[[AnArmAndALeg both his arms]] and then slashes him into a bloody corpse.]]
* RedBaron: The Demon.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: In the anime.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Has a little of this. Despite being one of the first {{Villain of the Week}} in the series, his death is the reason because Seryu became obsessed to avenge him and defeat Night Raid and eventually causes[[spoiler: Scheele's death.]]
* SocialDarwinist: He believes in the empire the weak don't matter and the strong do. As such he has the power and authority to pass judgement on anyone weaker than him.
!! Zank the Beheader
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-->''"It appears that the capital is a very comfortable place to live. With so many people, I can cut down as many as I want! Splendid. Simply splendid!"''
-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/SatoshiTsuruoka (Japanese), Creator/RobMungle (English)
A former prison executioner. Seemed to be normal once, though due to the sheer amount of executions he was required to do under Prime Minister Honest, he began to develop a bloodlust and soon started to kill random people at night, fleeing to a new area once a punitive squad was assembled to deal with him.
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* AxCrazy: [[FreudianExcuse Considering what the Prime Minister forced to put him through]], who wouldn't be?
* BladeBelowTheShoulder: Two katars to be precise.
* {{Blond Guys are Evil}}: Or downright insane in his case.
* BloodKnight: Though he prefers unarmed civilians incapable of putting up much resistance, he also loves to fight when he sees an opponent who can defend themselves.
* ExplainingYourPowerToTheEnemy: He arrogantly explains his Teigu's powers in great detail to Tatsumi as they try to kill each other.
* FangsAreEvil: To highlight his vicious personality, his grin contains pronounced incisors.
* GracefulLoser: When Akame kills him, he thanks her for doing so (and, as an effect, ridding him of the voices that haunted his mind).
* HeadphonesEqualIsolation: PlayedWith. He doesn't wear headphones to isolate himself from people or reality, he wears them in an attempt isolate himself from the [[HearingVoices voices he constantly hears within his head]]. [[spoiler:When his headphones break open after he's defeated by Akame he realizes the voices have stopped and [[DeathSeeker thanks Akame while he dies]].]]
* HearingVoices: See TheMentallyDisturbed below.
* HoneyTrap: He uses this against Tatsumi to lure him out into an area where he could slowly torture and kill him. Specifically his illusion power allows him to look like the person his target cared most about, and in Tatsumi's case, Sayo. It doesn't quite work the way he expected against Akame though.
* HopeSpot: He likes to torture people before killing them. One method he employs is to tell them he simply wants to talk with them, which seems reasonable enough. However, he usually decapitates them, then talks to the person's head.
* TheMentallyDisturbed: Showed symptoms of Schizophrenia, hearing dark voices that drove him further and further into insanity.
* MotorMouth: Zank does ''not'' stop talking. Even when in the midst of combat he never takes a minute to cease conversation, even between attacks. He intentionally [[InvokedTrope invokes]] this because in his mind, [[HearingVoices the voices in his head]] [[JustifiedTrope quiet down whenever he speaks]].
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: He earned his nickname by killing lots of prisoners. And when that wasn't enough, he started to kill random people as well.
* OhCrap: When Akame nearly kills him while under the effects of his [[MasterOfIllusion Illusion Sight]], which showed her the [[CainAndAbel person she loves the most]].
* PerpetualSmiler: Always seen with a [[SlasherSmile giant grin]] ''constantly''.
* PowerPerversionPotential: Zank's "Spectator" Teigu had multiple abilities related to sight, but there was one he never used. [[spoiler: When Tatsumi used Spectator, that hidden ability was the ability to see through people's clothes.]]
* RequiredSecondaryPowers: Had Zank's body been in top physical condition, he would have been able to keep up with the CombatClairvoyance that Spectator granted and would have been a ''much'' larger threat.
* SanitySlippage: After delivering numerous executions of various innocent people who were sentenced to death by the Prime Minister, Zank eventually went mad from the immense guilt brought on by the many innocent pleas of his victims.
* SerialKiller: Of the Hedonistic kind, coupled with his threat to the populace and possession of a powerful Teigu, makes him a target for assassination by the Night Raid.
* SlasherSmile: He sports a rather terrifying one at all times.
* SuperpowerLottery: His Teigu, Spectator, is among the most versatile Teigu in the story. It grants Zank ''five'' abilities that when properly used in conjuction allows him to fight on par with ''Akame''. In the hands of a much more experienced combatant, it would have been a complete StoryBreakerPower.
* VillainousBreakdown: When he realizes that Akame [[NoSell isn't affected]] by his [[MasterOfIllusion Illusion Sight]] and proceeds to crack his katars, he falls into a mad craze and tries to finish her off before his weapon breaks, all while [[SmugSuper thinking he has still has the upper hand]] due to his [[CombatClairvoyance Spectator]].
* WakeUpCallBoss: Though just a VillainOfTheWeek, he seriously wounds Tatsumi in their fight. And even Akame isn't able to finish him off right away.
!!!Teigu: Spectator
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* CombatClairvoyance: Grants its user the ability to see the smallest muscle movements of their opponents, allowing them to successfully predict what their next move is.
* ComboPlatterPowers: Spectator has been noted to grant its user a number of mental abilities.
* MasterOfIllusion: Has the ability to cast illusions of one's loved ones to catch them off guard.
* RedBaron: Omnipotent Five Sights: Spectator.
* SuperSenses: Grants the user impeccable long range vision.
* {{Telepathy}}: Grants the user the ability to read their opponents mind.
* XRayVision: It can see through clothes.
!! Liver
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-->''"What is your desire, divine Esdeath?"''
-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JojiNakata
The leader of the Three Beasts, the strongest military group in the Empire before their destruction and the creation of the Jaegers. Liver was formerly a righteous general in the empire and Bulat's mentor and friend. Refusing to take bribes, he was imprisoned until Esdeath, recognizing his strength, offered him a place under her command. As a result, Liver has since idolized Esdeath is unfailingly loyal to her. Liver led the Three Beasts in framing Night Raid in a series of political murders to lure them out, eventually confronting Bulat and Tatsumi aboard a cruise ship.
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* AntiVillain: Compared to his two teammates. He is an enemy only because of his UndyingLoyalty to Esdeath for saving his life.
* {{Badass}}: Being a former general qualifies but fighting an Incursio clad Bulat on equal grounds is impressive.
* BadassBaritone: The fact that he's voiced by {{Creator/Joji Nakata}} makes this obvious.
* BadassMustache: It's quite spiffy.
* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: In a [[CurbStompBattle "battle"]] against an ex-minister who is opposed to Honest, he cuts his head with only '''his hand'''.
* CordonBleughChef: While he loves to cook, it's noted by Daidara that Liver is an extremely terrible chef. His cooking is known to be as [[UpToEleven lethal as an average Teigu]] and even incapacitated [[WorldsStrongestMan General Esdeath]] for several minutes.
* CrazyPrepared: Knowing that Bulat is more powerful than him, he staged their battle in a ship in the open ocean, where his Teigu's power is maximised and Bulat cannot dodge his attacks for fear of allowing the ship to be destroyed. When this fails, he injects himself with a strengthening serum to engage Bulat in close combat, where he [[ThanatosGambit allows himself to be slashed]] so that he can utilise his blood magic to fatally wound Bulat with a lethal toxin in the aforementioned serum. [[spoiler: He succeeds.]]
* FallenHero: He was Bulat's former superior in the Empire's army but after a downfall orchestrated by the Prime Minister and being saved by Esdeath, he now serves directly under her as part of the [[QuirkyMiniBossSquad The Three Beasts]].
* HeroKiller: The Three Beasts were the most powerful soldiers under Esdeath until the formation of the Jaegers. They were responsible for wiping out the entire outskirts division of the Night Raid save for Chelsea, killing the ex-Prime Minister and his knights. River himself fatally wounded [[spoiler: Bulat]] before dying himself.
* PeacefulInDeath: Dies contently, having succeeded in slaying [[spoiler: Bulat]] and served Esdeath to the best of his ability.
* TakingYouWithMe: After a long battle he is eventually beaten by [[spoiler:Bulat]], but not before fatally poisoning him with Black Marlin.
* TeamDad: To the 3 Beasts, just like Bulat is to Night Raid.
* UndyingLoyalty: To Esdeath, although it appears to reach the point of romantic affection.
* WeCanRuleTogether: Tries this on Bulat. It fails, obviously.
!!! Teigu: Black Marlin
* BloodyMurder: The Teigu's Trump Card allows its owner to weaponize its own blood into a projectile.
* MakingASplash: Black Marlin allows its owner to control water in the vicinity. However Liver notes that, unlike Esdeath's Teigu, [[ElementalBaggage he can't create the water.]]
* RedBaron: Water Dragon Possession: Black Marlin.
* RingOfPower: Black Marlin is a ring who was forged from the remains of an aquatic monster, and gives the wielder control over liquids.
* ShapingYourAttacks: The Teigu also has the ability to shapes its attacks into whatever its owner wishes, likes spears, dragons, or a '''giant snake'''.
!! Nyau
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--> '''Voiced by:''' Creator/HitomiNabatame
A member of the Three Beasts under Esdeath's command. He wields an Imperial Arm in the form of a flute that allows him to manipulate anyone who hears his music in a variety of ways.
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* {{Bishounen}}: Being young, he has a slender physique, large eyes, and postures in ways a girl might.
* BondVillainStupidity: If he would have attacked Tatsumi instead of discourage him of taking Incursio, he would've won the fight.
* CombatCommentator: He mentally explains all of Liver's abilities during his fight with Bulat.
* CreepySouvenir: Cuts off and [[CollectorOfTheStrange collects people's faces]], while they're still alive.
* DudeLooksLikeALady: It's easy to confuse him for a little girl the first time one watches the series. His manners neither help too much.
* EnfanteTerrible: He's appears to be very young and yet revels in torturing and killing.
* HairDecorations: He sports a small horn-like hairband. To compliment it, he also has a black devil tail.
* HorrifyingTheHorror: Nyau's "hobby" unnerves even [[BloodKnight Daidara]].
* PunchedAcrossTheRoom: How he is killed by a newly Incursio clad Tatsumi.
* {{Sadist}}: The little bastard take much pleasure in skins people's face.
* SuperSpeed: His agility is above average, being able to match Tatsumi's, though he isn't as fast as Akame.
* TheWorfEffect: He defeats Tatsumi easily, and later uses his Trump Card to confront a wounded Bulat and Tatsumi. However, when Tatsumi [[spoiler: makes Incursio its own]], he defeats Nyau of a single punch.
!!! Teigu: Scream
* InstrumentOfMurder: Scream can be uses as a melee weapon.
* MagicEnhancement: One of Scream powers is the capacity to enhance the allies and it's owner, giving them more moral to fight or make them more powerful.
* MusicalAssassin: Scream has the ability to affect listeners depending on what he plays.
* RedBaron: Military Music Dream: Scream.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Nyau's eyes become red when Call of the Fierce God is used in his body.
* TemporaryBulkChange: The Teigu's Secret Skill: Call of the Fierce God can make its user to become more strong and muscular.
!! Daidara
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-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AnriKatsu
A member of the Three Beasts commanded by Esdeath. He is a large, imposing man with an interest in killing so as to gain more "experience."
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* BloodKnight: Loves to fight so that he can gain [[ExperiencePoints "experience"]], so the stronger the better.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Considers Nyau's habit of skinning faces to be disgusting.
* HairDecorations: Strangely, he wears a headband with horn-like designs.
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: Bulat kills him by splitting him vertically down the middle.
* HotBlooded: He's loud, theatric, and eager to kill.
* MonochromaticEyes: His eyes lack pupils, giving him a strange and inhumane physical feature.
* SlasherSmile: Sports one constantly while in combat.
* SuperStrength: It's a requirement to wield Belvaac. He can cut through a whole crowd of [[{{Mook}} mooks]] in one swing.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: Being the first of the Three Beast to die, it's nothing strange that we have little knowledge about him.
* TheWorfEffect: He puts Tatsumi on the ropes, and is immediately killed by Bulat as a testament of his full power.
!!! Teigu: Belvaac
* AnAxeToGrind: Belvaac is a giant axe that can split into [[BifurcatedWeapon two homing boomerangs]].
* BifurcatedWeapon: Can be separated into two axes that can be thrown and will pursue the target until it hits.
* RedBaron: Double-Bladed Axe: Belvaac.
!!Bolic
-->'''Voiced by''': Creator/MasamiIwasaki
A spy working for the Prime Minister who poses as a high-ranking member of the Path of Peace. His goal is to kill the leader of the religious organization without revealing his true identity so the Empire can use it for its own ends.
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* BeardOfEvil
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Loves doing this to members of the Path of Peace by mixing drugs into food, which he claims "will get them closer to the Lord" (he's lying, of course), only to turn them into his obedient slaves and use them as his sex toys afterwards. This, once explained by Najenda, was more than enough to [[BerserkButton enrage both Lubbock and Susanoo]].
-->'''Lubbock''': (About Bolic) He's probably going from girl to girl, and having his way with them.\\
'''Susanoo''': Mixing drugs into food is a crime against food!\\
'''Both''': [[ThisIsUnforgivable I'll never forgive him!]]
* DeathByAdaptation: The way he dies in the anime is different from his death in the manga, with him being ambushed by Akame and Lubbock and then being hanged from the ceiling by Lubbock's Cross Tail.
* DirtyCoward: He's such a coward that he begs for the Jaegers to protect him when Night Raid comes to assassinate him.
* TheHedonist: Cares only for pleasure, even going so far as to rape and abuse people unfortunate enough to please him.
* HidingBehindReligion
* LightIsNotGood: Did we mention that he's an evil priest?
* ManipulativeBastard
* TheMole: He poses as a high-ranking member of the Path of Peace in an attempt to kill their leader. Thank goodness Night Raid put a stop to that.
* OhCrap: In the anime, he utterly craps himself when Akame and Lubbock ambush both him and Holimaca.
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Loves raping people who end up interesting him.
* SmugSnake
* UnderestimatingBadassery: In the manga, he underestimates Night Raid when Esdeath is overpowering them and believes himself to be secure enough to be able to rape the injured Leone. However, she grabs him by the leg as Mine and Akame arrive, allowing Akame to finish him with her Murasame for his troubles.
!!4 Rakshasa Demons
The Prime Minister's personal executioners, the Rakshasa Demons are humans that undergo intense training to modify their bodies. Despite not wielding Teigus, they have defeated a total of five Teigu users. The 4 Rakshasa Demons are sent to guard Path of Peace leader Bolic when the Night Raid threaten to assasinate him. They assist the Jaegers in engaging the Night Raid.
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!!!Tropes in common for all the demons:
* BadassNormal: Despite not having a Teigu, they are capable of fighting on par with Teigu users thanks to their physical abilities. That being said, they are able to use their body in manners that hardly classify as 'normal'.
** Ibara overwhelmed Akame until he made the mistake of grabbing Murasame, while Suzuka overwhelmed an Incursio-clad Tatsumi in combat. Sten and Mez held the advantage over Lubbock for the majority of their battle.
* BareFistedMonk: All 4 members use only their bare hands in combat.
* BloodKnight: All 4 crave combat and a worthy opponent.
* {{Contortionist}}: They are capable of twisting their bodies to ridiculous extents thanks to their [[TrainingFromHell training]].
* DoesNotLikeShoes: Instead, they wear only footwraps.
* EmpoweredBadassNormal: Their fighting skills come from their martial arts training, but the really weird things they do like Mez's super sweat or tentacles coming out of Ibara...those powers come from the 4 using a broth derived from the lake kraken behind their temple.
* MadeOfIron: Sten is impaled by Lubbock with scarcely any reaction, while Ibara survives getting his neck snapped. Suzuka survives getting a building dropped onto her.
* SuperSenses: They are perhaps the most proficient at this in the series, able to detect enemies in a crowd in an instant.
* TrainingFromHell: All 4 underwent intense training in the harshest environments to achieve practically superhuman capabilities.
* TheWorfEffect: Despite being hyped as the Prime Minister's most powerful assassin squad and claim their strength to the Jaegers, at the end they were only a nuisance for Night Raid and only lasted 4 manga chapters and two anime episodes.
!!!Ibara
-->'''Voiced by''': {{Creator/Satoshi Hino}}
One of the members of the 4 Demons and, in words of Sten and Mez, probably the strongest of the four. He was known by Akame and is arrogant and bloodthirsty, admonishing Seryu when she was warning them about Night Raid capacities. He fights with Akame when Night Raid reaches Kyoroch to kill Bolick.
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* ArrogantKungFuGuy: He makes fun of Seryu surprising her with an attack from behind when she warns Bolick about Night Raid, and is somewhat cocky, saying to the Jaegers that they should drink wine in the mansion of Bolick meanwhile they (the Demons) exterminates Night Raid. Fitting considering that himself is a martial artist user.
* {{Badass}}: Of all the Demons, he is mentioned as the strongest and fight with Akame peer to peer despite not being a Teigu user. He only loses when he grabs Murasame and insult the sword, calling it "ominous".
* BarehandedBladeBlock: Ibara catches Murasame's blade with his bare hands (and without a scratch, mind you).
* BlackEyesOfCrazy: He have black scleras, who give him a inhuman aspect.
* BloodKnight: Even in the Rakshasa Demons, he was the most excited to fight Night Raid (Akame).
* CleopatraNose: Have a big nose who enhances his evil design.
* ExtendableArms: One of his powers, originating of eat the meat of the lake's Kraken.
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: Akame slices Ibara into half when he charges at her in a blind rage.
* NeckSnap: Akame delivers this to him, but that does not kill him.
* OhCrap: He gets one when he realises that Murasame is cursed and that him grabbing it was in Akame's plan all along.
* SlasherSmile: He smiles when he is excited about fighting something strong.
* SpeedBlitz: Delivers one to Seryu when she doubts their combat capabilities.
* SuperSpeed: He is capable of this, and is fast enough to overwhelm ''Akame''.
* WorthyOpponent: Considers Akame this.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: His hair is lavender.
!!!Sten
-->'''Voiced by''': {{Creator/Kenji Nomura}}
Another member of the Demons who is serious and believes that when he kills a person, he "releashes its soul". Along Mez, he fights with Lubbock after detecting him in a crowd in Kyoroch.
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%%* BaldOfEvil
%%* BeardOfEvil
* BarehandedBladeBlock: Catches an axe created by Lubbock's Cross Tail barehanded.
* DidNotSeeThatComing: Despite blocks Lubbock spear, he is defeated when Lubbock uses the spears strings to strike his heart, killing him in an instant.
* ExoticEyeDesigns: Has yellow eyes with red circles around them.
* MadeOfIron: He is impaled by a spear created by Lubbock and resist it without any reaction.
* SuperSpeed: When Lubbock flees from him and Mez after saving the revolutionary girl, Sten uses an incredible speed to catch him.
!!!Mez
-->'''Voiced by''': Aina Suzuki
One of the members of the Demons, a cheerful and easygoing girl who fights Lubbock along Sten when they detecting him in a crowd in Kyoroch.
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* BadassAdorable: As Lubbock notes. She is cute and also a formidable fighter.
%%* BlondesAreEvil
%%* DarkActionGirl
%%* DarkSkinnedBlonde
* DidNotSeeThatComing: She is killed by a sneak attack of Lubbock (a knife tied by a string) that she confusses by another attack.
* EmpoweredBadassNormal: Deserves an special mention in the group because she has her own ability: she is capable of shooting bullets of sweat!.
* ExtendableArms: Like Ibara, she also have this ability.
* GreenEyes: A big ones which denote her cheerful nature.
* FemmeFatale: She can be considered this for Lubbock. Mez actually admitted if they weren't enemies, she wouldn't mind gooding out with him.
* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: Again, she can use her sweat as a long range distance weapon and is pretty effective.
!!!Suzuka
-->'''Voiced by''': Eriko Matsui
The last member of the Rakshasa Demons, a masochistic woman who intercept Tatsumi and Mine along Seryu and fight with the first. She is the only of the Demons that survives the Bolick Assassination arc and later becomes a member of Wild Hunt.
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* AbsurdlySharpBlade: She can extend her nails and use her as a blades.
* BiTheWay: She is interested in Esdeath's torture methods in a erotic way, but she also has interest in Tatsumi after the battle with him in Kyoroch.
%%* DarkActionGirl
* CombatSadomasochist: She occasionally lets herself be struck in combat so she can savour the pain.
* DeathByAdaptation: Because Wild Hunt doesn't exist in the anime, Suzuka is killed much earlier - in her fight with Tatsumi, the building starts to fall apart, and as she runs away, a boulder crushes her head. In the manga, she survives getting crushed by it, but given the omission of her being tortured for her failure, and the aforementioned removal of Wild Hunt, it's clear she's done for.
* DoesNotLikeShoes: The only one of the Demons that avert this, as she wears boots.
* GoodScarsEvilScars: Has a little scar across her cheek.
* MadeOfIron: Suzuka survives getting a building dropped onto her. She also survives to Esdeath fury when she and Dorothea try to rape Tatsumi (Esdeath smash her face to a wall), but her face gets bandaged.
* RecurringBoss: Suzuka is one of the most long lived secondary antagonist of the series, even when entire factions like the Three Beast or [[spoiler: Wild Hunt]] have been eliminated (and some of its members in their first battle onscreen), Suzuka has survived every battle that she has done.
* SoleSurvivor: In the aftermath of the Bolic Arc, she is the only survivor of the Rakshasa Demons.
** [[spoiler: As of Issue 60, she is the sole survivor o the Wild Hunt as well.]]
* TooKinkyToTorture: Suzuka gets aroused when the Prime Minister tortures her for failing to protect Bolic.
* UnderestimatingBadassery: Suzuka underestimates Tatsumi because of his inexperience and gets a building on her head for her troubles.
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[[folder:Other Characters]]
!!Sayo
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-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MikakoKomatsu (Japanese), Creator/MargaretMcDonald (English)
A girl who left the village at the same time with Tatsumi and Ieyasu. Unfortunately they get separated before reaching the capital, after which Tatsumi finds out she's been tortured to death.
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* ClingyJealousGirl: In a FlashBack during episode 3 when Ieyasu and Tatsumi joke about finding women in the capital, she punches Ieyasu in the face. He wonders why she only punched him.
* ColdBloodedTorture: She's one of the many victims in a wealthy household's scheme of capturing and torturing newcomers from the countryside for their sadistic glee. She was tortured much more roughly than Ieyasu, [[DisproportionateRetribution simply because the one of the nobles hated how nice her hair was.]]
* DefiantToTheEnd: Ieyasu notes that despite the horrific torture inflicted upon her by the sadist nobles, she never once submitted to them.
* DetachedSleeves: The sleeves of her haori are cut to expose her shoulders.
* FlowerInHerHair: The flower decoration in her hair.
* PosthumousCharacter: She is already dead by the time Tatsumi finds her in the first episode. But she is seen in a couple of FlashBack scenes when Tatsumi reminisces about them in later episodes.
* RapunzelHair: Her hair is very long and luxurious.
* SacrificialLamb: With Ieyasu, both of them died in the first chapter to demonstrate the dark world where the character of the series live.
* ShipTease: With Ieyasu.
* StuffedIntoTheFridge: Her battered body is found by Tatsumi, enraging him into killing the noble girl responsible.
* ThreeAmigos: She, Tatsumi and Ieyasu.
* {{Tsundere}}: Type A. When Ieyasu and Tatsumi chat about how they're [[HandsomeLech eager to see what the women in the Capital are like]], [[ClingyJealousGirl Sayo]] promptly [[UnprovokedPervertPayback slugs him]] and he wonders in pain why [[ObliviousToLove she didn't also hit Tatsumi]].
!!Ieyasu
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-->'''Voiced by:''' Kouji Takahashi (Japanese), Patrick Poole (English)
A boy who left the village at the same time as Tatsumi and Sayo. Due to [[NoSenseOfDirection getting lost]], he and Sayo get separated from Tatsumi on their way to the capital. Once Tatsumi finds them again, he finds his friend inside a cage, severely beaten and suffering from a fatal illness. Ieyasu succumbs to his illness shortly after their reunification.
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* BloodFromTheMouth: He coughs up blood, confirming that he has been fatally poisoned.
* BromanticFoil: He was one to Tatsumi, being his lighthearted, goofball of a friend.
* ColdBloodedTorture: Like Tatsumi, he and Sayo both accepted the offer from nobles for some hospitality. Unfortunately, they drugged their drinks and subjected them to hideously sadistic torture. Sayo dies first from her wounds and after Tatsumi finds him he dies shortly after.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: He [[GoOutWithASmile smiles]] as he dies, wanting to go bravely like Sayo did.
* GoodIsDumb: He's the most cheerful of his friends about venturing to the empire and becoming famous. His friends note that his carelessness and lack of common sense will instead get him killed.
* HeroicWillpower: The ''only'' reason why he was still alive when Tatsumi found him while dying of the Lubora disease.
* IllBoy: The nobles that tortured him infected him with the Lubora disease, an incurable virus that slowly kills its victim.
* MartialArtsHeadband: He wears it as part of his standard attire.
* NoSenseOfDirection: Which is one reason he and Sayo got separated from Tatsumi when the three of them went to the capital together. This unfortunately causes a lot of problems for Tatsumi later on when he finds them in the first episode.
* PosthumousCharacter: He dies shortly after reuniting with Tatsumi in the first episode. But like with Sayo, he is seen in a couple of FlashBack scenes when Tatsumi reminisces about them.
* SacrificialLamb: With Sayo, both of them died in the first chapter to demonstrate the dark world where the character of the series live.
* ShipTease: With Sayo.
* ThreeAmigos: He formed a trio with Tatsumi and Sayo.
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