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* AntiHero: Type V

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* AntiHero: Type VIV --> Type V (El Baile de la muerte)

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* CharacterDevelopment: LawfulEvil (As a member of the FARC) ---> LawfulNeutral (As a loyal family member lovelace)---> ChaoticNeutral bordering ChaoticEvil (During "El Baile De La Muerte")



* LawfulNeutral: In her normal persona, she is unwaveringly loyal to her master, and the only thing that mattered to her in the first arc was bringing [[MoralityPet the young master]] back home and keeping him safe. During the El Baile De La Muerte arc, she shows signs of tendencies of ChaoticEvil RoaringRampageOfRevenge, the result of reverting back to her old murderous persona.
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* LawfulNeutral: In her normal persona, she is unwaveringly loyal to her master, and the only thing that mattered to her in the first arc was bringing [[MoralityPet the young master]] back home and keeping him safe. During the El Baile De La Muerte arc, she shows signs of {{Neutral| Evil}} or even ChaoticEvil during the course of her RoaringRampageOfRevenge, the result of reverting back to her old murderous persona.

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* LawfulNeutral: In her normal persona, she is unwaveringly loyal to her master, and the only thing that mattered to her in the first arc was bringing [[MoralityPet the young master]] back home and keeping him safe. During the El Baile De La Muerte arc, she shows signs of {{Neutral| Evil}} or even tendencies of ChaoticEvil during the course of her RoaringRampageOfRevenge, the result of reverting back to her old murderous persona.
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* AntiHero: Type IV

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* AntiHero: Type IVV
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May be Irinoskaya. I have no idea how it's spelled. Japanese is イリーノスカヤ.


A former Soviet special forces commander turned mafia queen; member (along with Mr. Chang and two others) of the four-person commission that regulates crime in Roanapur. Her real name/first name may be Vladilena.

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A former Soviet special forces commander turned mafia queen; member (along with Mr. Chang and two others) of the four-person commission that regulates crime in Roanapur. Her real name/first name may be Vladilena.is Sofiya Irininskaya Pavlovena.
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:After she shoots [[MoralityPet Garcia]] because "Master would never say such a thing!" [Read: denounce her RoaringRampageOfRevenge]]].

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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:After she shoots [[MoralityPet Garcia]] because "Master would never say such a thing!" [Read: denounce her RoaringRampageOfRevenge]]].RoaringRampageOfRevenge].]]

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* {{Qipao}}



* BerserkButton: Anyone who puts a bullet in the church [[MemeticMutation had better damn well be prepared to go to war!]] She doesn't appreciate apprentice priest Rico calling her "sis", either.

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* BerserkButton: Anyone who puts a bullet in the church [[MemeticMutation had better damn well be prepared to go to war!]] She doesn't appreciate apprentice priest Rico calling her "sis", "sis," either.



* LawfulNeutral

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* LawfulNeutralLawfulNeutral: In her normal persona, she is unwaveringly loyal to her master, and the only thing that mattered to her in the first arc was bringing [[MoralityPet the young master]] back home and keeping him safe. During the El Baile De La Muerte arc, she shows signs of {{Neutral| Evil}} or even ChaoticEvil during the course of her RoaringRampageOfRevenge, the result of reverting back to her old murderous persona.



* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:After she shoots [[MoralityPet Garcia]] because "Master would never say such a thing!" [Read: denounce her RoaringRampageOfRevenge]].

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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:After she shoots [[MoralityPet Garcia]] because "Master would never say such a thing!" [Read: denounce her RoaringRampageOfRevenge]].RoaringRampageOfRevenge]]].
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* MagnificentBastard Going down this way.

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* MagnificentBastard MagnificentBastard: Going down this way.



* MoralityChain: To Revy. Starts more as a MoralityPet but, as their relationship thickens, he becomes this. Especially when she makes it very clear to him [[spoiler: that she would never let anyone else talk to her the way he does or tolerate his naïveté from anybody else.]]
** To the point that when he [[spoiler: goes LaughingMad, gloating to himself over how Chang was wrong about the Gray Fox situation being unsalvagable]], she seems to be given pause.

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* MoralityChain: To Revy. Starts more as a MoralityPet but, as their relationship thickens, he becomes this. Especially when she makes it very clear to him [[spoiler: that [[spoiler:that she would never let anyone else talk to her the way he does or tolerate his naïveté from anybody else.]]
** To the point that when he [[spoiler: goes [[spoiler:goes LaughingMad, gloating to himself over how Chang was wrong about the Gray Fox situation being unsalvagable]], she seems to be given pause.



* AbuseIsOkayWhenItIsFemaleOnMale: Subverted. She does hit and abuse Rock, even almost shoots him at one point, but it is never portrayed as normal or acceptable. Moreover, Rock eventually stands up for himself and succeeds in convincing her that there are other ways to solve her issues than her guns. She feels ashamed after this confrontation and mostly stops abusing him after that.

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* AbuseIsOkayWhenItIsFemaleOnMale: Subverted. She does hit and abuse Rock, even almost shoots him at one point, but it is never portrayed as normal or acceptable. Moreover, Rock eventually stands up for himself and succeeds in convincing her that there are other ways to solve her issues than her guns. She feels ashamed after this confrontation and mostly stops abusing him after that.



* JerkAss Particularly towards Rock at the beginning of the series, until he stood up to her and chewed her out. She's mellowed since then, but it's important to remember she's still not a particularly nice person...

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* JerkAss JerkAss: Particularly towards Rock at the beginning of the series, until he stood up to her and chewed her out. She's mellowed since then, but it's important to remember she's still not a particularly nice person...



* PreMortemOneLiner

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* PreMortemOneLinerPreMortemOneLiner: "Say hi to the Fuhrer for me."



* VillainProtagonist->HeroicSociopath/ AntiHero: Type V.

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* VillainProtagonist->HeroicSociopath/ AntiHero: VillainProtagonist->HeroicSociopath[=/=]AntiHero: Type V.

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The 12-years-old son of Roberta's master, heir to the Lovelace family. When he's kidnapped and later the Lagoon company gets the work of "transporting" him, Roberta goes against our "heroes" to get her MoralityPet back. And that's just the beginning. . .

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The 12-years-old young son of Roberta's master, heir to the Lovelace family. When he's kidnapped and later the Lagoon company gets the work of "transporting" him, Roberta goes against our "heroes" to get her MoralityPet back. And that's just the beginning. . .



* [[spoiler: CakeEater: He loves Roberta like family. We find out at the end of Chapter 76, he doesn't love her as a mother or even as a sister. More like a wife.]]



* [[spoiler: MayDecemberRomance: That is, if Roberta returns his (romantic) feelings. It's a bit unclear how she feels about that.]]



* SatsukiYukino (in the newly released OAV)

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* SatsukiYukino (in the newly released OAV)OVA)
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:After she shoots [[MoralityPet Garcia]] because "Master would never say [denounce her RoaringRampageOfRevenge]].

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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:After she shoots [[MoralityPet Garcia]] because "Master would never say [denounce such a thing!" [Read: denounce her RoaringRampageOfRevenge]].



** He ''was'' guilty of acting like a dick about the whole thing, treating the whole affair like a gamble with Chang than a life-or-death crisis, and then acting like he was a hero, when it was clear that despite everyone surviving, there had been permanent damage done.

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** He ''was'' guilty of acting like a dick about the whole thing, treating the whole affair more like a gamble with Chang than a life-or-death crisis, and then acting like he was a hero, when it was clear that despite everyone surviving, there had been permanent damage done.



** AwesomenessByAnalysis (She learned it from watching people practice. No formal training involved.)



* GunsAkimbo: Dual-wields ''shotguns''. That she hides [[NothingUpMySleeve in her her sleeves]].

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* GunsAkimbo: Dual-wields ''shotguns''. That she hides [[NothingUpMySleeve in her her sleeves]].



* SkirtOverSlacks: Being a DanceBattler who fights in a [[{{Meido}} Maid outfit]], this is a must.

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* SkirtOverSlacks: [[SkirtOverSlacks Dress over Bike Shorts]]: Being a DanceBattler who fights in a [[{{Meido}} Maid outfit]], this is a must.



* DodgeTheBullet: When he's not cutting bullets in half, midair, Ginji dodges them with ease, despite his size, at ''point blank''.



--> (I forgot! We have to go to Liverpool! Jimi Hendrix is calling for me! To defeat the [[StarTrek Klingons-ASAP!]] Oh ''[[StarTrekTheNextGeneration Captain Picard]]'' here I come!!)

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--> (I ** "I forgot! We have to go to Liverpool! Jimi Hendrix is calling for me! To defeat the [[StarTrek Klingons-ASAP!]] Oh ''[[StarTrekTheNextGeneration Captain Picard]]'' here I come!!)come!!"



* PutOnABus: It's implied in the manga that his [[DrugsAreBad liberal drug use resulted in his brain being permanently fried.]]

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* PutOnABus: It's implied in the manga that his [[DrugsAreBad liberal drug use resulted in his brain being permanently fried.]]



* [[NightmareFetishist Nightmare Fetishists]]: [[ColdBloodedTorture That's]] [[InterplayOfSexAndViolence putting it]] [[{{Understatement}} mildly]]).

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* [[NightmareFetishist Nightmare Fetishists]]: [[ColdBloodedTorture That's]] [[InterplayOfSexAndViolence putting it]] [[{{Understatement}} mildly]]).mildly]].



** In addition to his [[AnAxeToGrind axes]], Hansel carries a pair of revolvers. Which he could have used from the trees, where the snipers wouldn't have seen him.

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** In addition to his [[AnAxeToGrind axes]], Hansel carries carried a pair of revolvers. Which he could have used from the trees, where the snipers wouldn't have seen him.



* MissFanservice: Unintentionally so in her first arc. As of her reappearance, she's embraced this wholeheartedly, from dress to manner.
* MyGirlIsASlut: Has recently revealed her interest in getting herself gangbanged. [[TooDumbToLive And she planned on roping Rock into it.]]



* {{Underboobs}}

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* {{Underboobs}}
{{Underboobs}}: As of the latest arc, she's taken to wearing a slim tube-top. And just plain skimpier clothes in general.



** Given the CrapsackWorld setting of this series, both seem pretty nice. Perhaps only outside of battle and if nobody pays them to hurt you, but that goes for pretty much everyone in [[WretchedHive Roanapur]].

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** Given the CrapsackWorld setting of this series, both seem pretty nice. Perhaps only outside of battle and if nobody pays them to hurt you, Yes, they'll kill anyone in the price is right, but that goes for pretty much everyone if that's the worst thing about you in [[WretchedHive Roanapur]].Roanapur]], you can't be ''that'' bad.



** The "Being shot" and "kicked in the balls"-parts mostly comes from a bulletproof west and a metal codpiece. He still fell from a rooftop and just got up again, though.

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** The "Being shot" and "kicked in the balls"-parts balls" parts mostly comes from a bulletproof west and a metal codpiece. He still fell from a rooftop and just got up again, though.



* {{Moe}}: Watch her playing video games with Rotton or sitting curled up with an ice pop and try to deny the cuteness.

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* {{Moe}}: Watch her playing video games with Rotton or sitting curled up poolside with an ice pop and try to deny the cuteness.



* VillainousBSOD: When her communication device is destroyed.

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* VillainousBSOD: When Whenever she loses her communication device is destroyed.device.




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** Not that her role in the story offers her much chance to be otherwise.
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* JapaneseSiblingTerminology: Refer to each other as nii-sama and nee-sama (very formal, respectful and hinting at romantic feelings) in the Japanese version while using the Romanian words for "my brother" and "my sister" in the English dub.

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* JapaneseSiblingTerminology: Refer to each other as nii-sama and nee-sama (very formal, respectful and hinting at romantic feelings) in the Japanese version while using the "fretella mea" and "sora mea" (the Romanian words for "my brother" and "my sister" sister") in the English dub.
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*** Amen, hallelujah and peanut butter, more like.
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** "I should have gotten a part-timer to do this. Somebody shoot me."

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* TattooedCrook (Revy has a quite prominent tribal tattoo on her shoulder)

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* TattooedCrook (Revy TattooedCrook: Revy has a quite prominent tribal tattoo on her shoulder)shoulder.



* TranquilFury (Revy's "Whitman Fever," which is more a relapse of AxCrazy than actual anger. When Revy starts to look like she's sleep-deprived and ''stops'' yelling and swearing, there will be blood and there will be lots of it.) Revy's eyelids lower and she occasionally smiles slightly whenever she goes into such states.

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* TranquilFury (Revy's TranquilFury: Revy's "Whitman Fever," which is more a relapse of AxCrazy than actual anger. When Revy starts to look like she's sleep-deprived and ''stops'' yelling and swearing, there will be blood and there will be lots of it.) Revy's eyelids lower and she occasionally smiles slightly whenever she goes into such states.



** He is Jewish, after all.



* AffablyEvil (He's the leader of a group of pirates who'll get the job done no matter what it'll take. He's also one of the most sane people of the cast. See BenevolentBoss and CoolOldGuy.)

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* AffablyEvil (He's AffablyEvil: He's the leader of a group of pirates who'll get the job done no matter what it'll take. He's also one of the most sane people of the cast. See BenevolentBoss and CoolOldGuy.)



* LawfulNeutral: Can be expected to keep his word and stay true to his rep, but don't expect him to lose any sleep over morally questionable actions, The only thing that separates it of being a LawfulEvil is that it tries to avoid the death of innocent.

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* LawfulNeutral: Can be expected to keep his word and stay true to his rep, but don't expect him to lose any sleep over morally questionable actions, actions. The only thing that separates it of being a LawfulEvil is that it tries to avoid the death deaths of innocent.



** Even when Roberta grabs his arm and - effortlessly - starts to pull him out through the window of a moving car, he doesn't panic.
* TheUnfunny : [[MemeticMutation "Amen, Hallelujah, and Peanut Butter..."]]

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** Even when Roberta grabs his arm and - effortlessly - starts to pull him out through the window of a moving car, he doesn't panic.
panic.
* TheUnfunny : TheUnfunny: [[MemeticMutation "Amen, Hallelujah, and Peanut Butter..."]]
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** Near the end of that story arc, she shows them again...using ''her'' guns. Don't worry, she just shoots some cans up. Even '''''she''''' isn't that cruel.
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** She was ''going'' to kill the innocent crew in the anime, too, but Dutch stopped her just in time.

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* {{Foil}}: To Yukio, showing what she ''may'' have been if she was born in a normal family.



* SempaiKouhai and TomboyAndGirlyGirl: With Yukio

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* SempaiKouhai and TomboyAndGirlyGirl: With YukioThe kouhai and tomboy to Yukio's sempai and girly girl
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* PutOnABus

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* PutOnABusPutOnABus: It's implied in the manga that his [[DrugsAreBad liberal drug use resulted in his brain being permanently fried.]]

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* EveryGirlIsCuterWithHairDecs (blue hair ribbons)
* GirlishPigtails



* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent



* TearJerker: It's rather sad to see her cry and beg Yukio to not leave her...

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* TearJerker: It's rather sad to see her cry and beg The scene with Yukio telling Maki good-bye and asking her to not leave her...take care of her mother before she leaves school and takes over the clan.
* TenderTears
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* BanjouGinga

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* BanjouGingaBanjoGinga



* TrueNeutral

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* TrueNeutral
TrueNeutral: Most likely a Type 2: kind and sweet like a NeutralGood, but not going out of her way for others.

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* LawfulEvil
* MichaelAdamwhite

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* LawfulEvil
* MichaelAdamwhite
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!!Maki

* TheIngenue
* SempaiKouhai and TomboyAndGirlyGirl: With Yukio
* ShihoKawaragi
* TearJerker: It's rather sad to see her cry and beg Yukio to not leave her...
* TrueNeutral

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!!Tsugio Bandou

The leader of the Washimine clan that preceeded Yukio, and a friend of her late father Ryuzou.


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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Broke off with Hotel Moscow because he didn't like Balalaika's brutality
* LawfulEvil
* MichaelAdamwhite
* NeckSnap: How he died
* NumberTwo: What he was to Ryuzou, before he died.
* TomomichiNishimura

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** Was also used in his earlier moments of awesome, with Revy's drinking challenge, and with the takedown of the Extra Order chopper.



** [[YourMileageMayVary Depending on how you look at it]], she had some with Rock during the Yakuza arc.

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** [[YourMileageMayVary Depending on how you look at it]], she had some with Rock during the Yakuza arc. She seems to like a man who can piss her off, then not ''only'' calm her back down, but practically gift wrap a chance for [[BloodKnight more carnage]] in the effort.



* SlasherSmile: When she's enjoying herself





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\n** As with Mr. Wong, [[spoiler: the fact that these kids killed some of her men in cold blood probably has a great deal to do with it.]]



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* EvilLaugh: Gives one after Rock calls him out for what he is. [[NotSoStoic Comes off as]] [[NightmareFuel rather menacing somehow.]]


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* ShesGotLegs: And that dress shows off every inch.
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* SpellMyNameWithAnS In some translations she becomes "Levy".

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* SpellMyNameWithAnS In some translations fan-translations she becomes "Levy".
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* AffablyEvil: They're both bug-fuck insane, but no one ever said that they were impolite.

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* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Fujiama Gangsta Paradise. Full stop.
** To be fair; the head of Washimine clan attempted to do this at first literally, so they had it coming.
*** Except that he did it because Balalaika was obviously going overboard, providing a very [[{{Understatement}} undesirable]] sort of help.

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* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Fujiama Gangsta Paradise. Full stop.
** To be fair; the
stop. The head of Washimine clan attempted to do this at first literally, so they had it coming.
*** Except that he did it
because Balalaika was obviously going overboard, providing a very [[{{Understatement}} undesirable]] sort of help.



* DisabledHottie: Scars and all, she's still considered very beautiful.
** Scars hardly count as a disability, do they?
** No, but the severe burns might have if Balalaika wasn't so much of a badass.

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* DisabledHottie: Scars and all, she's still considered very beautiful.
** Scars hardly count as a disability, do they?
** No, but the severe burns might have if Balalaika wasn't
beautiful. Even though they don't seem so much bad [[http://www.animepaper.net/gallery/scans/Black-Lagoon/item229980/ just look at her in a swimsuit]] to get an idea of a badass.how extensive they are. Jesus.



** And the swimsuit special by the author/artist shows that it's actually most of her torso (assuming the doujin is canon).

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** And the [[http://www.animepaper.net/gallery/scans/Black-Lagoon/item229980/ swimsuit special by the author/artist shows that it's actually most of her torso torso]] (assuming the doujin is canon).

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* BattleButler


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* FanNickname: Maidenator.

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* NeutralEvil: Although lately she's begun mellowing out to some [[TrueNeutral different]] [[ChaoticNeutral form]] of neutral. (definitely not good, though)


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* GirlsWithGuns


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* TallDarkAndBishoujo
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\n* WouldHurtAChild: A rare female example. Has no compuctions about hurting children ''physically'' and ''very'' violently. [[spoiler: Even though she did not do it directly, Hansel and Gretel got no special treatment for being children. No doubt she would have done it herself if given a chance though.]]

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