History Characters / AzurLaneIronbloodMainFleet

* BoobsOfSteel: She's very well-endowed and is also the single toughest vessel currently in the game, bar none.

* BoobsOfSteel: With the second-largest health pool of any carrier in the game, a skill to reduce all incoming damage by 15%, and a chest that can only be rivalled by the likes of Taihou or Illustrious, Graf Zeppelin definitely qualifies.

* BoobsOfSteel: Like her sister, Peter Strasser's sizable bust coincides with her fighting prowess. It's even more pronounced in her New Year's skin, which is a rather revealing kimono.

* BoobsOfSteel: Much like the Graf Zeppelin class, her bustline matches her prowess pretty well, only really outdone by the rainbow rarity carriers.

* TheSouthpaw: Her maid skin would seem to suggest that she's left-handed.

* HumbleHero: Bismark explicitly asks to be treated like just everyone else and simply wants to be just another member of the Azur Lane port, in a similar vein to her original version.

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!!!Artist: kakage
!!!Voiced by: Creator/RihoSugiyama
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* CommissarCap: A downplayed version as it is not as large as Seydlitz's.
* ExtremeDoormat: Invoked and promptly defied with her special touch. She refuses to be your doormat.
* SculleryMaid: Her Tidying in the Moonlight skin plays this one surprisingly straight.

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!!Bismarck
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!!!Artist: Hao
!!!Voiced by: Creator/AyakaFukuhara (Japanese), Creator/AlexMoore (English), Diana Alonso (Latin American Spanish)

-->''Guten Tag, I am Bismarck. I have fought many foes on many fronts. You may call upon me whenever there is a problem.''

The personification of the ever-famed Bismarck, she, curiously, originally only made an appearance in the tutorial. Data for her ''existed'' in the client since the game's original Chinese launch, though - she was originally set to be the only "Legendary" rarity ship in the game (one level higher than Super Rare, with a seventh ascension star). However, for the first two years of ''Azur Lane''[='s=] operation, the character in the data was never made available. While her rarity never changed in updates, by early 2019, both ''San Diego'' and ''Warspite'' could be retrofitted to "Ultra Rare" rarity in the CN and JP clients, using many of the same assets as the data-mined "Legendary" status she would have.\\\
After this, in late April 2019, various leaks began surfacing including a silhouette of Bismarck and what appeared to be a complete, ready to launch skin for her. These combined with teases from the game's English twitter[[note]]Mentioning the release of an unprecedented "mystery ship" and later quoting the lyrics of the song ''Bismarck'' by the power metal band Music/{{Sabaton}}.[[/note]], Japanese twitter[[note]]Making historical references to the Battle of the Denmark Strait where Bismarck's trademark feat of sinking Hood with one well-placed hit occurred ala some remarks from Bismarck herself[[/note]], and Bilibili account[[note]]Cryptically mentioning that players would soon be reunited with someone they met very early on in the game[[/note]] all but outright confirmed Bismarck's long-awaited release and an event revolving around her in the second half of May 2019, just in time for the anniversary of the Battle of the Denmark Strait. She was at last confirmed for a May 23rd worldwide release as part of China's second-anniversary stream. Later tweets would reveal her rarity to be Super Rare ([=SSR=] in Asian versions).

In the 2019 event starting on May 23, Scherzo of Iron and Blood, Bismarck was finally released. The event itself surrounds the battle of the Denmark Strait after the sinking of Hood[[note]]as seen in the tutorial[[/note]] and the eventual fate of Bismarck.

* HumbleHero: In sharp contrast to fellow faction leader Queen Elizabeth, who treats the commander like her servant, Bismark explicitly asks to be treated like just everyone else and simply wants to be just another member of the Azur Lane port.

* PeekABangs: To replicate her namesake's lack of a right eye, since she still has hers.

* ObviouslyEvil: Even more so than Graf Zeppelin or Roon, and ''far'' more so than many of the older vessels in the fleet (and a complete contrast to pre-fascist-era vessels like the ''Königsberg'' sisters or Leipzig), Friedrich hits all the visual sub-tropes of looking as evil as possible, with her all-black-and-red ensemble, her devil horns, her PeekABangs, and her outright kaiju-like ship rigging. Her voice lines are also the sort of things you'd typically expect to hear out of a hilariously over-the-top supervillain. Even then, she is still ostensibly on your side, and her TeamMom status heavily contradicts her look.

* LivingOnBorrowedTime: [[spoiler:Even though she's doing better and has become more active, the corrosion was not completely eliminated and will continue to get worse the more she fights.]]

* NamesTheSame: Gneisenau was her name as an ocean liner, but she has no connection to the Iron Blood's Gneisenau apart from their namesake.

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* HeroWorshipper: While not the extent of shipgirls like [[KidSidekick Reno]], Bismark's lines show that she treats the commander like a sort of role model. She outright says she tried to follow their example at 'Disappointed' Affinity and simply wants a chance to work with him in her 'Stranger' line.

* FanservicePack: Her new outfit is tighter, has a shorter skirt and shows quite a bit of {{Sideboob}}. Ironically with the high neckline in front she shows no frontal cleavage compared to her base form.

* PowerMakesYourHairGrow: Bismarck's already long hair is even longer now and reaches the floor.
* SuperMode: In contrast to the Eagle Union's Type II rigging which completely replaced the ship'soriginal equipment, in-story Bismarck still retained her original rigging. She instead is able to summon her Zwei rigging when needed and dismiss it afterwards. Gameplay still treats her as a seperate ship like the Type II's, though.

* {{Kaiju}}: Continuing the Ironblood arms race of "strap increasingly larger monsters to your back and call it 'rigging'", Bismarck Zwei trades her more traditional ship rigging out for an absolutely ''colossal'' three-headed dragon to better fit with more modern Ironblood designs.

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