History Characters / BulletTrain

** An InUniverse example: During [[spoiler:the climax]], Ladybug finds it ironic that Lemon, who is obsessed with ''Thomas and Friends'', has [[spoiler: zero knowledge of how to conduct a train. Lemon himself justifies it by stating it's a metaphor for life, not an instruction on actual train driving.]]

* {{Manchild}}: A grown man in his 30s that is absolutely fixated on ''Thomas & Friends'' and treats the show with utmost reverence.

* AdaptationalSeriousness: Lemon is far more serious than his book counterpart, who frustrated Tangerine no end with his near-total inability to take anything seriously outside their murder jobs. Here, his CloudCuckooLander quirks (like his Thomas obsession) are present but downplayed.

* ButForMeItWasTuesday: Doesn't remember shooting Ladybug during a previous job, and he outright forgets that a civilian died in an explosion he indirectly caused when he and Tangerine rescued the Son. [[spoiler:Tragically, due to the events of the movie, he'll never forget Ladybug for as long as he lives.]]

* MoralMyopia: [[spoiler: He orchestrated the movie's entire plot to seek revenge on those he blamed for his wife's death, but callously mocks the Elder's quest of retribution against him for murdering HIS wife.]]

* PinballProtagonist: Ladybug is completely out of his depth the entire movie. He's hardly helpless, but he largely bounces back and forth between the various other killers on the train while attempting to get the briefcase and get off while everyone else has more concrete plans at each step of the way. And by the halfway point, he's willing to settle for just getting off the train, with or without the case. In the climax, [[spoiler:he isn't even the one who deals with The White Death, The Elder is. Ladybug is at the front of the train attempting to stop it while White Death and the Elder have a swordfight further back. And then after the train crashes, Ladybug only survived getting his brains blown out by White Death because the pistol he was using was the one boobytrapped by The Prince earlier]]. This is all likely rather deliberate, as both Ladybug's terrible luck and Fate are both recurring themes throughout the entire movie. Ladybug wasn't even meant to be on that train, to begin with.

* {{Manchild}}: A grown man in his 30s that is absolutely fixated on ''Thomas and Friends'' and treats the show with utmost reverence.

* InformedAttribute: Ladybug describes him as an arrogant jerk. This is never confirmed as he is only in one flashback and he doesn't even speak in it.

* SmallRoleBigImpact: Despite only appearing in a flashback and being mentioned by other characters, his attempted assassination of the White Death and him killing his wife are kickstart the entire plot.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: His final defeat is a combination of multiple petards born from various coincidences and his own actions, befitting the film's themes of fate. [[spoiler:His dismissiveness towards his daughter leads to her both rigging the case he had the assassins fighting over and her own gun, taking advantage of his tendency to UseTheirOwnWeaponAgainstThem. When he has "Carver" at his mercy and is about to execute him, the case is set off by his Mooks, blowing both of them onto the train before Ladybug can clear up the confusion. In his attempt to find him, he fights and nearly kills the Elder in single combat, but decides "for old times sake" to play the same game of RussianRoulette he executed their former boss with, giving him an overly melodramatic execution that allows the Son to intervene and make him waste his shot, allowing the Elder to morally wound him in turn. Whilst he barely survives the train crash and has a clear line of fire on Ladybug, he then learns that his [[ComplexityAddiction overly-complicated plan]] to get revenge on Carver was undone from the start by a simple stomach bug, meaning everything was AllForNothing. And because he wasted his only shot earlier, his attempt to gain some catharsis via persistently shooting Ladybug results in him using the rigged gun, finishing him off]].

* LaserGuidedKarma: Despite having taken over the Yakuza, his life has been filled with tragedy in response for his sins: [[spoiler:he was [[TheLostLenore married to a woman he adored]], but was given two horrible children, a incompetent, deadbeat son and a girl (who while competent, [[WantedASon wasn't the son he wanted]]), his wife got killed as a result of a series of unfortunate events[[note]]He was called away due to his men getting attacked in South America, so his wife's convoy was mistaken to be The White Death's by an assassin who fatally wounded her while she was her on her way to bail his son out of jail, and then, the only surgeon who could have saved her had been killed by another assassin days before the incident.[[/note]], afterwards, he became a shut-in and spent a long time formulating a plan to kill everyone marginally involved in his wife's death, only for outside forces and Fate itself to intervene and ultimately deny him the death of the one man who directly killed his wife (Carver, whom Ladybug was filling in for). He then ends up getting heavily injured after fighting with one of the sole survivors of the Yakuza clan he slaughtered and still being on the bullet train when crashes, ultimately killing himself when he unknowingly blows half his head off with a rigged gun he took from his daughter, who he spent her whole life neglecting]].

* BadassPacifist: Subverted. It's established at the beginning that [[DoesntLikeGuns he refuses to take a gun with him]] and hoping to be able to do the job completly without using violence (begging his opponents for a peaceful solution), the circumstances always go back to involving violence and Ladybug himself ends up killing some of his opponents.

* BlessedWithSuck: The Elder believes he was nicknamed Ladybug because of the popular belief in Japan that the species carries the sorrows on the world on their backs so that others can be fortunate. He sees it as a noble power, though Ladybug sees it as a burden.
* BrokenAce: He's a tall and handsome (as played by Brad Pitt) assassin who is assumed to be one of the best in his job, he however also has some serious mental issues as he reveals in the beginning he takes some therapy.

* AdaptationNameChange: A slight one. In the book Nanao is referred to by Maria and the other assassins on the train as Ladybird, a nickname he absolutely hates for being seen as a tiny insect. In the film, this is changed to the Americanized Ladybug.

* BatmanGrabsAGun: A TechnicalPacifist for most of the movie until that point, he first goes on the lethal offensive against [[spoiler:The Hornet, hitting her with her own syringe of venom to coerce her into pulling out her own vial of antivenom so he can use it to cure his own poisoning]]. His regretful dialogue afterwards implies that [[spoiler:he assumed that she'd be carrying more than one pack, though]].

* BunnyEarsLawyer: He seems to have some serious mental health issues (since he's in therapy) and acts overall very quirky and clumsy throughout the movie, but there is no doubt he's a very competent assassin who usually has the job done, despite his sometimes irritating behaviour.
* ClassicalAntiHero: Ladybug has the combat skills of a typical HollywoodActionHero while lacking any of the finesse or manliness of one; he's in a situation where he's completely out of his depth, largely fumbles his way through the train and mostly wins fights on accident. He also has crippling anxiety that leads to him having several panic attacks and causes him to doubt his own abilities, needing the constant reassurance from his handler that he's doing fine to keep going.

* ExperiencedProtagonist: From this very first scene in the film, it is established that Ladybug has had a very long career as an assassin, being skilled enough at this point to not only take on some of the deadliest professional killers in the world, but being directly responsible for causing two of their deaths. The job he takes in the movie is him returning to his line of work after taking a break.

* ALighterShadeOfBlack: He clearly works in organized criminal activity, but (at least currently) he largely is just involved in (theoretically) non-lethal snatch and grabs compared to all the other criminals on the train who are stone cold killers. His combat skills and general detachment from the people he does end up killing in self defense implies that he's probably done lethal work in the past though.
* MartialPacifist: While being as cool and skillful as any action hero, he does prefer to talk things through before resorting to needless violence.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: He regrets every single death he's involved with in the movie, but he hits his lowest point when the Elder helps him realize that the [[spoiler:Prince]] is bad news, and that he accidentally killed [[spoiler:Tangerine]] for nothing.

* PinballProtagonist: Ladybug is completely out of his depth the entire movie. He's hardly helpless, but he largely bounces back and forth between the various other killers on the train while attempting to get the briefcase and get off while everyone else has more concrete plans at each step of the way. And by the halfway point, he's willing to settle for just getting off the train, with or without the case. In the climax, [[spoiler:he isn't even the one who deals with The White Death, The Elder is. Ladybug is at the front of the train attempting to stop it while White Death and the Elder have a swordfight further back. And then after the train crashes, Ladybug only survived getting his brains blow out by White Death because the pistol he was using was the one boobytrapped by The Prince earlier]]. This is all likely rather deliberate, as both Ladybug's terrible luck and Fate are both recurring themes throughout the entire movie. Ladybug wasn't even meant to be on that train to begin with.

* RetiredBadass: Until recently, only coming back to do a simple snatch and grab job.

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: About halfway through the movie, he decides the job is more trouble than it's worth and just wants to get off the train with or without the briefcase, which he's even willing to give to Lemon to get he and Tangerine off his back. Unfortunately, fate just conspires to keep Ladybug on the train.

** Views himself as being incredibly unlucky. [[spoiler:To an extent he is half right - while his luck gets him into some less than desirable situations, it also gets him to the end of the movie alive]].
** His fight with The Wolf probably illustrates it best; [[spoiler:it starts with one huge piece of bad luck for him - trying to get off at the one station and exact point the Wolf is trying to get on - followed by two equally huge bits of good luck when his phone deflects the Wolf's initial knife strike by pure chance, then gets an insanely unlikely deflection of said knife ricocheting off the briefcase into The Wolf's heart]].

* AdaptationalBackstoryChange: In the book, The Prince is a very dark male version of the AlphaBitch, a [[StrawNihilist nihilistic]] [[TheSociopath sociopath]] who delights in getting his terrified lackeys to torment those weaker than him to prove his worldview. He becomes morbidly obsessed with Kimura after he stands up to him and with meeting and killing Minegishi, someone feared by all, after picking on a classmate whose father is connected to the gang boss - getting the former on the train to kill the latter. In the film, this is simplified considerably - she is [[spoiler:the daughter of The White Death (Minegishi's film equivalent), and is obsessed with revenge on him for ignoring her existence]].

* MrExposition: When it turns out Lemon's never heard of The White Death, Tangerine is the one who fills him - and the audience - in on his backstory.

* TheAlcoholic: Strongly implied - he's constantly in a haze early on, and when [[spoiler:The Prince finds him dropping off the case]] he's swigging from a small bottle. A later KickTheDog moment has her sneering about what kind of father doesn't notice his child missing for three hours, with it again implied he was drunk.

* CompositeCharacter: Interestingly, The White Death takes on the roles of both Minegishi (his book counterpart, the supreme gang boss who everyone is terrified of) and his killer, the book Hornet - or rather, [[spoiler:the second Hornet, who arranged for most of the main characters to be on the train fighting over the briefcase]].

* OccidentalOtaku: {{Implied|Trope}}. He is from Russia, but becomes the top crime boss in Japan and also demonstrates proficience with a katana and wears an ''oni'' mask at one point- and outfits his assassins with similar facewear.

* AdaptationNameChange: A slight one. In the book Nanao is referred to by Maria and the other assassins on the train as Ladybird, a nickname he absolutely hates for being seen as a tiny insect. In the film, this is changed to the Americanized Ladybug.

* BatmanGrabsAGun: A TechnicalPacifist for most of the movie until that point, he first goes on the lethal offensive against [[spoiler:The Hornet, hitting her with her own syringe of venom to coerce her into pulling out her own vial of antivenom so he can use it to cure his own poisoning]]. His regretful dialogue afterwards implies that [[spoiler:he assumed that she'd be carrying more than one pack, though]].

* BunnyEarsLawyer: He seems to have some serious mental health issues (since he's in therapy) and acts overall very quirky and clumsy throughout the movie, but there is no doubt he's a very competent assassin who usually has the job done, despite his sometimes irritating behaviour.
* ClassicalAntiHero: Ladybug has the combat skills of a typical HollywoodActionHero while lacking any of the finesse or manliness of one; he's in a situation where he's completely out of his depth, largely fumbles his way through the train and mostly wins fights on accident. He also has crippling anxiety that leads to him having several panic attacks and causes him to doubt his own abilities, needing the constant reassurance from his handler that he's doing fine to keep going.

* ExperiencedProtagonist: From this very first scene in the film, it is established that Ladybug has had a very long career as an assassin, being skilled enough at this point to not only take on some of the deadliest professional killers in the world, but being directly responsible for causing two of their deaths. The job he takes in the movie is him returning to his line of work after taking a break.

* ALighterShadeOfBlack: He clearly works in organized criminal activity, but (at least currently) he largely is just involved in (theoretically) non-lethal snatch and grabs compared to all the other criminals on the train who are stone cold killers. His combat skills and general detachment from the people he does end up killing in self defense implies that he's probably done lethal work in the past though.
* MartialPacifist: While being as cool and skillful as any action hero, he does prefer to talk things through before resorting to needless violence.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: He regrets every single death he's involved with in the movie, but he hits his lowest point when the Elder helps him realize that the [[spoiler:Prince]] is bad news, and that he accidentally killed [[spoiler:Tangerine]] for nothing.

* PinballProtagonist: Ladybug is completely out of his depth the entire movie. He's hardly helpless, but he largely bounces back and forth between the various other killers on the train while attempting to get the briefcase and get off while everyone else has more concrete plans at each step of the way. And by the halfway point, he's willing to settle for just getting off the train, with or without the case. In the climax, [[spoiler:he isn't even the one who deals with The White Death, The Elder is. Ladybug is at the front of the train attempting to stop it while White Death and the Elder have a swordfight further back. And then after the train crashes, Ladybug only survived getting his brains blow out by White Death because the pistol he was using was the one boobytrapped by The Prince earlier]]. This is all likely rather deliberate, as both Ladybug's terrible luck and Fate are both recurring themes throughout the entire movie. Ladybug wasn't even meant to be on that train to begin with.

* RetiredBadass: Until recently, only coming back to do a simple snatch and grab job.

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: About halfway through the movie, he decides the job is more trouble than it's worth and just wants to get off the train with or without the briefcase, which he's even willing to give to Lemon to get he and Tangerine off his back. Unfortunately, fate just conspires to keep Ladybug on the train.

** Views himself as being incredibly unlucky. [[spoiler:To an extent he is half right - while his luck gets him into some less than desirable situations, it also gets him to the end of the movie alive]].
** His fight with The Wolf probably illustrates it best; [[spoiler:it starts with one huge piece of bad luck for him - trying to get off at the one station and exact point the Wolf is trying to get on - followed by two equally huge bits of good luck when his phone deflects the Wolf's initial knife strike by pure chance, then gets an insanely unlikely deflection of said knife ricocheting off the briefcase into The Wolf's heart]].

* AdaptationalBackstoryChange: In the book, The Prince is a very dark male version of the AlphaBitch, a [[StrawNihilist nihilistic]] [[TheSociopath sociopath]] who delights in getting his terrified lackeys to torment those weaker than him to prove his worldview. He becomes morbidly obsessed with Kimura after he stands up to him and with meeting and killing Minegishi, someone feared by all, after picking on a classmate whose father is connected to the gang boss - getting the former on the train to kill the latter. In the film, this is simplified considerably - she is [[spoiler:the daughter of The White Death (Minegishi's film equivalent), and is obsessed with revenge on him for ignoring her existence]].

* MrExposition: When it turns out Lemon's never heard of The White Death, Tangerine is the one who fills him - and the audience - in on his backstory.

* TheAlcoholic: Strongly implied - he's constantly in a haze early on, and when [[spoiler:The Prince finds him dropping off the case]] he's swigging from a small bottle. A later KickTheDog moment has her sneering about what kind of father doesn't notice his child missing for three hours, with it again implied he was drunk.

* CompositeCharacter: Interestingly, The White Death takes on the roles of both Minegishi (his book counterpart, the supreme gang boss who everyone is terrified of) and his killer, the book Hornet - or rather, [[spoiler:the second Hornet, who arranged for most of the main characters to be on the train fighting over the briefcase]].

* OccidentalOtaku: {{Implied|Trope}}. He is from Russia, but becomes the top crime boss in Japan and also demonstrates proficience with a katana and wears an ''oni'' mask at one point- and outfits his assassins with similar facewear.

* ManipulativeBastard: She lures in people to do her dirty works with an innocent foreign school girl act.

-->'''The Elder:''' ''smirking'' My grandson was pushed off a roof. [[spoiler: [[DidYouActuallyBelieve What makes you think I would leave him unprotected?]]]]

-->'''The Prince:''' ''(about Yuichi and Wataru)'' [[SmugSnake They are both dead.]]''

* DaddysLittleVillain: She's the daughter of The White Death, one of the most feared gangsters on the planet, who tries to prove to her father she's a worthy successor. Her father is genuinly impressed by her cunning and planning.

* VillainyFreeVillain: Its just a snake. It hisses at, then later attacks Ladybug, but doesn't have any sinister agenda, its just acting on it's instincts.

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* NeverHurtAnInnocent: Played with. In the flashback kill count sequence he quite gleefully counts the hapless tourist they accidentally blew up as part of their score (Lemon doesn't, and seems a bit guilty about it). But later on he he comes across The Prince and, thinking that she's just an innocent girl who got caught up into this whole mess, lets her go without question. [[spoiler:This quickly changes when he finds out her true nature, at which point he tries to kill her]].

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: A ruthless killer he might be, he nonetheless loved his wife and boards the train in revenge for her death. He also shared a bond of friendship with his fellow cartel members, as he drinks to cope also with their deaths.

* BadassAdorable: She seems just to be a cute little schoolgirl at first glance, but she actually is one of the biggest {{ManipulativeBastard}}s and probably most evil characters in the movie, scheming her way to get revenge on her dad and is very capable of using a gun.

A conductor on the bullet train who Ladybug crosses paths with Ladybug early on.

* Motif: Alcohol is his to an extent. The Father is strongly implied to be TheAlcoholic, having [[spoiler:dropped off the briefcase]] while drinking from a small bottle. The Prince has a KickTheDog moment where she sneers about Yuichi failing to notice the disappearance of his son, with the implication that he was again drunk. There's even a brief shot during the scene [[spoiler:where The Prince finds the briefcase]], he is surrounded by several bottles of alcohol. [[spoiler:During the climax, he grabs another bottle and debates on whether or not to drink it...before using said bottle to disorient one of The White Death's goons and causes him to shoot another henchman before stabbing him with his makeshift spear.]]

A retired Yakuza with a vendetta against the White Death. He's also the father of Yuichi Kimura.

* CassandraTruth: In the past, [[spoiler:he warned his former superior that allowing the White Death to rise higher in their ranks will only lead to their destruction. If the boss had listened to the Elder's advice, he may have avoided such a horrifying fate]].

* CrazyPrepared: He proudly boasts to [[spoiler:the Prince that he already assigned an assassin to take out the Prince's stooge to keep his grandson safe]].

* PapaWolf: His above quote, [[spoiler:which he ends up illustrating when he kills Prince's hitman that was station to kill Wataru (his grandson) and force Yuichi (his son) to work for Prince.]]

* SerendipitousSurvival: [[spoiler:He avoids the White Death's revenge scheme because of a random stomach bug]].

* AccidentalSuicide: In the climax, [[spoiler: he's about to kill Ladybug with his gun, only for the gun to backfire on him due to the Prince's tampering.]]

* AxCrazy: Stated multiple times to be a dangerous psycho, who orders people's arms and hands to be chopped off. While he appears to be a stoic and serious man upon his actual introduction to the story in the climax, he is reduced to a screaming and raving mess in his final moments, [[spoiler:when he is about to kill Ladybug]].

* CompositeCharacter: Interestingly, the White Death takes on the roles of both Minegishi (his book counterpart, the supreme gang boss who everyone is terrified of) and his killer, the book Hornet - or rather, [[spoiler:the second Hornet, who arranged for most of the main characters to be on the train fighting over the briefcase]].

* GangOfHats: Under him, the Yakuza wears traditional Japanese demon masks (something his goons complain about in secret for being too melodramatic.)
* HuskyRusskie: Stated by Tangerine to be about 2 meters tall and is tough enough to have defeated several members of the Minegishi crime family in combat, destroying the clan later and enduring enough to survive [[spoiler:a train crash and a katana shoved through his chest. Only Prince's rigged gun manages to kill him in the end]].
* LaserGuidedKarma: Despite having taken over the Yakuza, his life has been filled with tragedy in response for his sins: [[spoiler:he was [[TheLostLenore married to a woman he adored]], but was given two horrible children, a incompetent, deadbeat son and a girl (who while competent, [[WantedASon wasn’t the son he wanted]]), his wife got killed as a result of a series of unfortunate events[[note]]He was called away due to his men getting attacked in South America, so his wife's convoy was mistaken to be the White Death's by an assassin who fatally wounded her while she was her on her way to bail his son out of jail, and then, the only surgeon who could have saved her had been killed by another assassin days before the incident.[[/note]], afterwards, he became a shut-in and spent a long time formulating a plan to kill everyone marginally involved in his wife's death, only for outside forces and Fate itself to intervene and ultimately deny him the death of the one man who directly killed his wife (Carver, whom Ladybug was filling in for). He then ends up getting heavily injured after fighting with one of the sole survivors of the Yakuza clan he slaughtered and still being on the bullet train when crashes, ultimately killing himself when he unknowingly blows half his head off with a rigged gun he took from his daughter, who he spent her whole life neglecting]].

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: It's implied he doesn't have the highest view of women given his [[spoiler:neglect and dismissive attitude towards his daughter]] as well as a lack of any notable female assassins in his employ.

* StayInTheKitchen: Heavily implied given his treatment of [[spoiler:the Prince. Along with ignoring her her entire life, her monologue suggests that he only saw her potential as another man's wife or as a mother. Plus there is a noticeable lack of women assassins among his armed forces]].
* UseTheirOwnWeaponAgainstThem: Prince states it to be his trademark in dealing with assassination attempts, having killed several opponents who tried to kill him with their own weapons. [[spoiler:In his fight with the Elder, he tries to have his throat slit by his own katana]]. However, when he really wants to kill a certain target, he uses his own handgun. [[spoiler:It backfires on him in the climax when the Prince sabotages his gun so that he unknowingly kills himself.]]

* AdaptationalJerkass: In the book Little Minegishi is, despite his heritage, a polite and well-mannered young man that's more confused by what's happening than anything else. His film counterpart, the White Death's son, is a a prick to his rescuers for no reason[[note]]though they do punch him out during his rescue so he doesn't get in the way[[/note]] and a misogynist (his facial tattoos read "Trust no bitch") despite needing to be constantly bailed out of trouble by his mother. Tangerine and Lemon can't stand him and even his own father isn't fazed by his death. [[spoiler:Because he's the one that arranged for his son to be killed on the train]].

* {{Irony}}: He tells Tangerine early on that his father doesn't need a reason to kill people, he needs a reason not to. [[spoiler:He's among the first to die because, as we find out near the end, with his mother dead, the White Death lost any reason to keep him alive]].

* SugarAndIcePersonality: Maria has an attitude of cold professionalism and is frequently annoyed at Ladybug's antics, but she does genuinely care for him. When he complains about his bad luck early on, she tries to reassure him that he does not have bad luck and that he just has to reframe it more positively, and helps him calm down when he freaks out following [[spoiler:the Hornet's death]]. And it later turns out that [[spoiler:she went out of her way to pick up Ladybug and get him off the train]].

* TheArtifact: In the book it turns out he's also the Hornet, as nobody knew that the Hornet was a duo instead of a single assassin. Here, there's only one Hornet, but his numerous times crossing paths with Ladybug are kept in.
* TheDreaded: Played for laughs. Ladybug, a trained and highly effective assassin, runs afoul of him early thanks to Yuichi causing him to lose his ticket, and thereafter hides from him rather than cross him again. Justified in that Ladybug mentions the Conductor's creating a scene will allow Lemon and Tangerine to catch up to and kill him.
* UncertainDoom: Unless he got off at the stop before Kyoto, he was [[spoiler:almost certainly killed when the train crashed, but he never shows up after mid-way through the movie when Ladybug was trying to evade him]].

* TheArtifact: Like the Conductor, the novel version is one half of the Hornet duo, fighting and being killed by Ladybird after her cover is blown. Here, she's exactly what she appears to be, with the Hornet connection only coming into play after the real thing knocks her out and steals her uniform.
* UncertainDoom: She was knocked out by the Hornet and doesn't show up again. [[spoiler:Considering what happened to the train, she is almost certainly dead]].

One half of the assassin duo known as the Twins. A thoughtful, observant man with an interest in ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends''.

** [[spoiler:After the train crash in the climax, he falls into a river, only to resurface alive later. He even kills a goon from White Death when trying to escape]].
* SparedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler:In the book Lemon dies when he loses motor control due to Ladybug's drugged water and is shot by the Prince. Here he survives the same event due to a bulletproof vest and goes on to help Ladybug, Yuichi and the Elder against the White Death. After another fakeout falling from the speeding train into a river, he survives the whole movie, even being the one to off the Prince in the mid-credits scene]].

The other half of the assassin duo known as the Twins. A temperamental yet focused man.

* AdaptationalBadass: While the book Tangerine was greatly feared by those who knew of him, he's actually killed by Nanao before he gets to show why. The film version, on the other hand, not only gets a lengthy fight scene against Ladybug and nearly wins, but see the {{Determinator}} entry for the full story of how he gets back on the train after Ladybug kicks him off.

* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: He's hired by the world's most dangerous criminal overlord and he shows no fear in badmouthing him or telling the White Death to back off every time he calls.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: While "evil" is a bit of a stretch (aside from what he does for work, obviously), Tangerine is a short-tempered criminal who's pretty rude to most people, but he does care deeply for Lemon even though they bicker constantly. [[spoiler:Unlike most of his other scenes, his discovery of Lemon's body is played with heartbreaking seriousness, and he's immediately prepared to gun down the Prince when he realises she's the Diesel involved in his brother's death]].
* EvenEvilHasStandards: For Tangerine, professional murder is absolutely fine, but swearing in front of a young lady? Not on. [[spoiler:Doesn't stop him trying to kill the Prince when he realizes she's a "[[ItMakesSenseInContext Diesel]]." Also, his final words have him saying "fucking bell-end" within her earshot]].

* TheHeavy: As the Twin who wants to turn Ladybug into the scapegoat for both the theft of the briefcase and the murder of [[spoiler:the Son]], Tangerine is the protagonist's most present nemesis for much of the film.
* NeverHurtAnInnocent: Played with. In the flashback kill count sequence he quite gleefully counts the hapless tourist they accidentally blew up as part of their score (Lemon doesn't, and seems a bit guilty about it). But later on he he comes across the Prince and, thinking that she's just an innocent girl who got caught up into this whole mess, lets her go without question. [[spoiler:This quickly changes when he finds out her true nature, at which point he tries to kill her]].
* MrExposition: When it turns out Lemon's never heard of the White Death, Tangerine is the one who fills him - and the audience - in on his backstory.

* AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: [[spoiler:The Wolf's book equivalent is a minor assassin who prevents Ladybird getting off the train because he recognizes him as the guy who beat him up outside a bar for threatening some kids. Here, his wife and boss were brutally killed by the Hornet, and he recognizes Ladybug from the wedding where it happened, leading to his instantly trying to kill him, even though the American had nothing to do with their deaths]].
* BlindedByRage: As soon as Wolf meets Ladybug at the train, he immediately [[spoiler:recognizes him from the wedding, as the waiter who spilled wine on his suit at his doomed wedding]], and tries to kill him in a fit of rage.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Ruthless killer he might be, he loved his wife and boards the train in revenge for her death. He also shared a bond of friendship with his fellow cartel members, as he drinks to cope also with their deaths.

* LightIsNotGood: Wears his white wedding suit and is a cold-hearted monster.
* LoneWolfBoss: All jokes aside, the Wolf is the only one of Ladybug's opponents [[spoiler:whose presence on the train the White Death didn't arrange.]]

* RevengeBeforeReason: He's so determined to take revenge against whoever murdered his bride and cartel that he doesn't mind taking out whoever crosses his path. Even when Ladybug tries to reason with him, the Wolf doesn't care and still insists on killing him.
* ShootTheShaggyDog: After the horrific poisoning of his wife at their wedding, he travels all the way across the world to take revenge on her killer, only to end up fighting someone else that he (wrongly) thinks was involved, and dies by his own knife without ever seeing [[spoiler:the Hornet. While Ladybug kills her later, it's his saving his own life, rather than avenging the Wolf or his wife]]

* AdaptationalBackstoryChange: In the books the Hornet was eventually revealed to be a duo, disguised as members of the train staff, who orchestrated everything for a chance to kill Minegishi, the book's BigBad. In the film, she's a solo act who spends most of her screen time disguised as a Japanese TV mascot, and is also one of [[spoiler:the White Death's revenge targets]].

* HateSink: While Prince, the White Death and Wolf are vicious and clearly evil, they at least have some sympathetic qualities. Hornet possesses none.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: She is killed [[spoiler:by her own poison, and due to only carrying one dose of antivenom]].
* {{Irony}}: She calls herself "the Hornet" and uses venom to kill people, but it's from a venomous snake instead of a hornet

* NiceCharacterMeanActor: Happens in-universe. One of her disguises was the Happy Cat mascot which she wore while [[spoiler:poisoning the son of the White Death]].

* SmallRoleBigImpact: She's an unfortunate minor character in this captivating tale. But her relevance comes with the reveal that [[spoiler:she murdered the surgeon who could have saved the White Death's DisposableWoman of a wife. Her death would drive him to create a perfect murder scheme that would wipe out every killer he believes was responsible for her death]].

* WeHardlyKnewYe: She is killed off in her second scene, and is on-screen for even less time than the Wolf.

* ActionDad: [[spoiler:He lives up to the role in the climax when he fights against the White Death's minions]].
* TheAlcoholic: Strongly implied - he's constantly in a haze early on, and when [[spoiler:the Prince finds him dropping off the case]] he's swigging from a small bottle. A later KickTheDog moment has her sneering about what kind of father doesn't notice his child missing for three hours, with it again implied he was drunk.

* ForcedIntoEvil: He's forced to serve the Prince under threat of losing his son.

* SenselessSacrifice: Yuichi knowingly [[spoiler:takes a bullet for the Prince from Lemon]] because he thinks if she does and fails to answer her phone, her man in the hospital will kill his son Wataru. Except it later turns out [[spoiler:his father, the Elder, had an assassin who easily kills the Prince's man watching over Wataru the whole time]], meaning he took a very painful [[spoiler:gutshot]] for nothing.

* BatmanGrabsAGun: A TechnicalPacifist for most of the movie until that point, he first goes on the lethal offensive against the [[spoiler:Hornet]], hitting her with her own syringe of venom to coerce her into pulling out her own vial of antivenom so he can use it to cure his own poisoning. His regretful dialogue afterwards implies that he assumed that she'd be carrying more than one pack though.

* DoesntLikeGuns: Refuses to take a gun on the job at the beginning of the movie, hoping to resolve conflicts without violence.

* NoodleIncident: [[spoiler:It is never explained what he was doing at Wolf's wedding in Mexico or in Johannesburg when he was shot at twice by Lemon]].

* PinballProtagonist: Ladybug is completely out of his depth the entire movie. He's hardly helpless, but he largely bounces back and forth between the various other killers on the train while attempting to get the briefcase and get off while everyone else has more concrete plans at each step of the way. And by the halfway point, he's willing to settle for just getting off the train, with or without the case. In the climax, [[spoiler:he isn't even the one who deals with the White Death, the Elder is. Ladybug is at the front of the train attempting to stop it while White Death and the Elder have a swordfight further back. And then after the train crashes, Ladybug only survived getting his brains blow out by White Death because the pistol he was using was the one boobytrapped by the Prince earlier]]. This is all likely rather deliberate, as both Ladybug's terrible luck and Fate are both recurring themes throughout the entire movie. Ladybug wasn't even meant to be on that train to begin with.
* PocketProtector: Ladybug only survives the Wolf's initial attack due to his phone taking the brunt of the stab in his shirt's pocket.

* RightManInTheWrongPlace: An [[InvertedTrope inversion]] by the climax of the movie. He wasn't supposed to be in the train in the first place, but his involvement with the plot ends up resulting in [[spoiler:the White Death's demise and The Elder having his revenge fulfilled]].

** The fight with the Wolf probably illustrates it best; it starts with one huge piece of bad luck for him - trying to get off at the one station and exact point the Wolf is trying to get on - followed by two equally huge bits of good luck when his phone deflects the Wolf's initial knife strike by pure chance, then gets an insanely unlikely deflection of said knife ricocheting off the briefcase into the Wolf's heart.

* AdaptationalBackstoryChange: In the book the Prince is a very dark male version of the AlphaBitch, a [[StrawNihilist nihilistic]] [[TheSociopath sociopath]] who delights in getting his terrified lackeys to torment those weaker than him to prove his worldview. He becomes morbidly obsessed with Kimura after he stands up to him and with meeting and killing Minegishi, someone feared by all, after picking on a classmate whose father is connected to the gang boss - getting the former on the train to kill the latter. In the film, this is simplified considerably - she is [[spoiler:the daughter of the White Death (Minegishi's film equivalent), and is obsessed with revenge on him for ignoring her existence]].
* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Very downplayed, given both book and film Princes are psychopathic {{manipulative bastard}}s, but present. In the novel, Prince has [[HumansAreBastards a dim view of humanity]] and always [[StrawNihilist believes in the worst of everyone]], doing the appalling things he does for his own amusement and curiosity. The movie version of Prince, who isn't very nice either, has no such beliefs and is driven by the specific goal of [[spoiler:revenge on her father]], with her actions coming across as more goal-focused evil and less ForTheEvulz in comparison as a result.
* BigBadWannabe: [[spoiler:The Prince arranges the presence of Yuichi Kimura on the train so she can use him to kill her father, but she over-relies on her innocent schoolgirl act getting her through. Lemon rumbles her easily because she botches her alibi (twice), Tangerine almost kills her later (only surviving due to Ladybug), the Elder proves to be far more cunning and ruthless than her, and her father essentially dismisses her as an irrelevance when the two finally come face to face]]. Made crystal clear by the Elder when she tries being threatening;
-->'''The Elder:''' The only thing you know about an old man, young lady, is that he has survived much more, and much worse, than you.

* CrocodileTears: Very fond of using these to manipulate men into seeing her as a helpless damsel who couldn't hurt them if she tried.
* FauxAffablyEvil: She presents herself as very chipper and sophisticated as she commits her atrocities. She eventually loses this after [[spoiler:she's exposed by the Elder and how she's once again dismissed by her father]].
* FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler:When Tangerine has the Prince dead to rights, she forgoes her usual theatrics and settles for a defiant stare... at least until Ladybug walks into the train car behind Tangerine]].
* GenderFlip: Prince in the novel is male (although his appearance is described as being almost feminine) but in the film is female. Lampshaded by her saying her parents likely expected a boy.
* {{Jerkass}}: There is a reason why she is compared to [[WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends Diesel]]. She's a big, fat liar and loves rubbing it in when she holds power over someone.
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:The Prince is offed by being run over by Lemon driving a truck carrying tangerines. A fitting fate given how she took part in his brother Tangerine's accidental death]].
* MadBomber: Her original goal in murdering the White Death involved planting bombs in both his briefcase and a gun that he would have used on Yuichi. And of course she's as loony as a one-dollar coin.
* MasterActor: She's very good at putting on an act to fool others and prides herself of it. Even Lemon, an ExcellentJudgeOfCharacter who sees through it almost immediately, is repeatedly distracted by how good she is at it.
* ManipulativeBastard: Lures in people to do her dirty works with an innocent foreign school girl act.
* MeaningfulName: She's the offspring of a prestigious family and intends to move her way up in the world like a normal prince would. [[spoiler:It turns out that her father is the White Death, the King of Assassins and ruler of Japan's underworld]].

* SmugSnake: The Prince oozes with this, with her scenes always has her talking down to anyone in her range. [[spoiler:She loses this when the Elder out-gambits her]].

* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:After being out maneuvered by the Elder and her ploy to kill her father initially failing, she begins to lose her composure, leaving her a screaming mess in the last moments before her death]].

* {{Acrofatic}}: He's rather pudgy, but during the final confrontation with [[spoiler:the White Death's forces]], he is seen jumping in the air and kicking three men over at once.

* ButForMeItWasTuesday: Doesn't remember shooting Ladybug during a previous job, and he outright forgets that a civilian died in an explosion he indirectly caused when he and Tangerine rescued the Son. Tragically, due to the events of the movie, he'll never forget Ladybug for as long as he lives.

** InUniverse, Ladybug finds it ironic that Lemon, who is obsessed with ''Thomas and Friends'', has zero knowledge of how to conduct a train. He justifies it by stating it's a metaphor for life, not an instruction on actual train driving.
** He plants a Diesel sticker on the [[spoiler:Prince]] in a desperate attempt to warn Tangerine about her true nature, but it winds up causing the Twin to come to a lethal misunderstanding with [[spoiler:Ladybug.]]

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