History Characters / CasshernSins

* TheAtoner: Desperately trying to make up for ending the world.

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%%%%%%%* ParentalAbandonment: [[spoiler:By Leda.]]

* InvincibleHero: Casshern was already the strongest robot before becoming immortal, so this should come as no surprise. The only times he ever gets defeated are when he’s [[DeathSeeker actively seeking to get killed]] and even then, he still tends to win anyway by talking them down or his berserker mode activating. However, the focus of the show is never on the actual fighting and much more on the conflicts and motivations behind all it, so this trope is [[TropesAreNotBad hardly detrimental to the series]].

%%%%%* GoOutWithASmile

* WomanInWhite: Like Casshern, she is always dressed in immaculate white in this world of dust and grime.

* AFatherToHisMen: Despite his actions, seems to care enough for his fallen robot troops to have graves dug for each and every one of them..

* EvilSoundsDeep

->Voiced by: Yuto Nakano

* BattleCouple: With Lyuze, after they reconcile.

* {{Bishonen}}

* TheGrimReaper: [[spoiler: The finale has him deciding to play this role in the series' world.]]

* UnstoppableRage / SuperpoweredEvilSide: It's still not clear what, exactly, his 'Berserk Mode' is, but it's likely a mix of these. Very few things are capable of making him snap out of it, short of him butchering every living thing he sees.
** It seems to be a "Combat Mode" of sorts that activates automatically whenever he enters a fight. Even if he chooses not to fight back, putting him under enough duress will also trigger it.

* AmnesiacsAreInnocent: Why she let Casshern go the first time. She felt revenge wouldn't have been nearly as satisfying if Casshern didn't understand what he did.

* BattleCouple: With [[spoiler: Casshern]], after she admits her feelings for him.
* BelligerentSexualTension: Episode 19.

* CoolBigSis: Becomes this to Ringo, though they aren't related.
* DiedInYourArmsTonight

* GoOutWithASmile

* [[YouKilledMyFather You Killed My Sister]]: The main reason she hates Casshern so much.

* CheerfulChild: In marked contrast to her grim surroundings.

* ParentalAbandonment: [[spoiler:By Leda.]]

* CoolOldGuy

* ParentalSubstitute: To Ringo.

* AFatherToHisMen: Despite his actions, seems to care enough for his fallen robot troops to have graves dug for each and every one of them.
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Not anymore. See: TheEmperor.
* BadassLongCoat
** InTheHood
* BaldOfEvil

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:The fact that he was the one who ordered Luna's death pretty much makes his inevitable death at the hands of the Ruin his own fault.]]

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Gives one of these to Dio.

* AlwaysSecondBest: Towards Casshern.

* DudeLooksLikeALady

* HighCollarOfDoom

* AxCrazy: With hints of WomanScorned.
* BattleCouple: With Dio, eventually.

* BodyHorror: [[spoiler:Courtesy of Luna. See above.]]
* DarkActionGirl
* HighCollarOfDoom
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:By Luna.]]

* WhiteHairBlackHeart

* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:One of the few characters who survives the series until the very end. Justified due to her immortality, and probably because her dying a ''second'' time would lead to an even worse calamity than what her first death caused.]] In truth, this is a subversion since [[spoiler: Casshern tells Luna that if she and the people forgets death, he will come back, and definately bringing death again. Luna won't be the same again]].
* KickTheDog: [[spoiler:Does this to Dune, her bodyguard, by not staying with him as he died.]]

* StellarName: Luna, thus "the Sun Named Moon"

* WeCanRuleTogether: [[spoiler:''She'' proposes this to ''Casshern''. After all that he's seen and been through, he naturally refuses.]]

* WomanInWhite: Like Casshern, she is always dressed in immaculate white in this world of dust and grim.

* ItsPersonal: [[spoiler:Casshern killed Luna and he wants revenge. Subverted when Lyuze says Luna is alive]].
* MyGreatestFailure: [[spoiler:Failed to protect Luna from Casshern]].
* MyMasterRightOrWrong: Part of his UndyingLoyalty to Luna.

* UndyingLoyalty: To Luna. He was her [[spoiler:bodyguard before she was killed by Casshern. After knowing she is alive he reunited with her and supported all her actions, despites her becoming a villian and starting to treat him bad]]. He even [[spoiler: sacrifices himself to protect something that she liked before]].

* AntiVillain: [[spoiler:Types II and III.]]
* BadBoss: [[spoiler:Poor Dune...]]

* DissonantSerenity: Her default expression.

* InLoveWithYourCarnage: [[spoiler:Played with. A little too infatuated with Casshern, who brutally murdered her, but not because of the carnage itself.]]
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:One of the few characters who survives the series until the very end. Justified due to her immortality, and probably because her dying a ''second'' time would lead to an even worse calamity than what her first death caused.]]
** Subverted since [[spoiler: Casshern tells Luna that if she and the people forgets death, he will come back, and definately bringing death again. Luna won't be the same again]].

* MysticalWhiteHair

* NiceHat
* PleaseDontLeaveMe: [[spoiler:To Casshern. More than once. Some of the few instances in which her expression changes.]]
* PosthumousCharacter: [[spoiler:[[NotQuiteDead Subverted]].]]
* StellarName: Luna
* TookALevelInJerkass: After her [[spoiler: revival]].
* WalkingSpoiler

* WomanInWhite

->Voiced by: AkikoYajima (Japanese), Creator/TrinaNishimura (English)

* '''{{Badass}}''': He is the only person in the entire series that can fight and ''win'' against [[InvincibleHero Casshern]], and he wins while in the middle of [[spoiler: painfully dying]]. He is easily THE badass of ''Anime/CasshernSins''.

* HeroicBSOD: [[spoiler: After Luna's death. He starts to wander in the decay world screaming for Luna and hoping to find her.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Sacrified himself in order to protect a single flower remembering how Luna liked flowers. Although there isn't much time for him anyway, since he was hit by the ruin.]]

* UndyingLoyalty: To Luna. He was her [[spoiler:bodyguard before she was killed by Casshern.]] Even after her becoming a [[spoiler:villian and starts to treat him bad after finding her again]], he stays in her side. He even [[spoiler: sacrificies himself to protect something that she liked before]].

* HeroWithBadPublicity: PlayedForDrama. Casshern killed Luna and this brought the ruin for the world. Since everyone know what happened, everyone hate him and want to kill him. [[spoiler: Ringo is the only exception.]]

* TheGrimReaper: The finale has him deciding to play this role in the series' world.

* BattleCouple: With Casshern, after she admits her feelings for him.

* LoveRedeems: Drops all antagonism towards Casshern after falling in love with him.

* '''{{Badass}}''': He is the only person in the entire series that can fight and ''win'' against [[InvincibleHero Casshern]], and he wins while in the middle of painfully dying. He is easily THE badass of ''Anime/CasshernSins''.

* TeamPet: (Of the useful, kickass variety), who can generally be seen helping Casshern fight and/or waking him up from his UnstoppableRage.

* TookALevelInJerkass: After her revival.

--> '''Luna''': [[spoiler:"I want you to stay here with me ''forever'', Casshern."]]

* '''{{Badass}}''': He is the only person in the entire series that can fight and ''win'' against [[InvincibleHero Casshern]], and he wins while in the middle of painfully dying. He is easily THE badass of ''CasshernSins''.

->Voiced by: NamiMiyahara (Japanese), Creator/BrinaPalencia (English)

* [[spoiler: LivingForeverIsAwesome: Reconstructed in the final episode. By then he's come to believe that the fear of death is what makes people truly alive and so he decides to become death itself so Luna and her immortals don't become complacent.]]

* [[spoiler:WhoWantsToLiveForever: His view is that the dispirited immortal robots--including himself--aren't truly alive, compared to the mortals who burn with the metaphorical "fire" of life.]]

* LoveRedeems: Drops all antagonism towards Casshern after falling in love with him.]]

* GenkiGirl
* [[spoiler:InfantImmortality: One of the few characters who survives the series.]]

* [[spoiler:ParentalAbandonment: By Leda.]]
* [[spoiler:RaisedByGrandparents: In the sense that Ohji was the one who created Leda, along with Dio and Casshern.]]
* [[spoiler:SheIsAllGrownUp: Ringo is shown during the series' epilogue to have lived to her adult years. She is absolutely ''beautiful''.]]

* [[spoiler:HoistByHisOwnPetard: The fact that he was the one who ordered Luna's death pretty much makes his inevitable death at the hands of the Ruin his own fault.]]

* [[spoiler:PyrrhicVictory: Yes, he achieved his goal of defeating Luna... though at the cost of the Ruin spreading and infecting everyone including himself, his empire collapsing into anarchy, him losing most of his power, and almost every single one of his followers have lost whatever loyalty they had to him.]]

* [[spoiler:RedemptionEqualsDeath]]
* RedEyesTakeWarning

* [[spoiler:NothingLeftToDoButDie: After achieving his life's goal and defeating Casshern.]]

* [[spoiler:BodyHorror: Courtesy of Luna. See above.]]

* [[spoiler:ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: By Luna.]]
* [[spoiler:LoveRedeems: Manipulated Dio's feelings for her throughout most of the series, until she genuinely began to feel the same way, and softened her personality a bit as a result.]]
* [[spoiler:MissingMom: Heavily implied to be Ringo's mother.]]
* [[spoiler:TogetherInDeath: After hearing how Dio's final wish was for Casshern to save Leda, she crawls back to his side to die with him.]]

* [[spoiler: AGodAmI: Grew a full-blown complex when she returned to power. She was worshiped before she died the first time, but she didn't revel in it nearly as much as she does now.]]
* [[spoiler:AntiVillain: Types II and III.]]
* [[spoiler:BadBoss: Poor Dune...]]
* [[spoiler:BitchInSheepsClothing: Post-resurrection Luna turns out to be this, having a disdain for everything affected by the Ruin, and death in general; she refuses to stay with her loyal bodyguard as he's dying, calling him disgusting.]]
* [[spoiler:CameBackWrong: Even though she's immortal and can't ''permanently'' die, she felt everything and was traumatized by Casshern killing her. Now she finds victims of the Ruin 'disgusting,' wants to abolish death itself, and even appears to be in love with Casshern. Then again... [[ChickMagnet who isn't at this point]]?]]

* [[spoiler:InLoveWithYourCarnage: Played with. A little too infatuated with Casshern, who brutally murdered her, but not because of the carnage itself.]]
* [[spoiler:KarmaHoudini: One of the few characters who survives the series until the very end. Justified due to her immortality, and probably because her dying a ''second'' time would lead to an even worse calamity than what her first death caused.]]
* [[spoiler:KickTheDog: Does this to Dune, her bodyguard, by not staying with him as he died.]]
* [[spoiler:KillerRabbit: Not only did she regularly kill immortals in the past (even if she hated it and doing so eventually drove her crazy with guilt), she's the one who impales Leda after inflicting BodyHorror on her.]]
* [[spoiler:LivingForeverIsAwesome: She literally wants to abolish death because she's disgusted by it. This is in stark contrast to what she did pre-series, which was to remove immortality, which made her feel like a murderer. In the final episode Casshern deconstructed this idea by pointing out that ''living'' is different from ''being alive,'' and the robots in her town were listless layabouts.]]

* [[spoiler:TookALevelInJerkass: After her revival.]]
* WalkingSpoiler

* [[spoiler:WellIntentionedExtremist: Sure, she can fix the Ruin. She'll even throw in immortality. In exchange, she wants you to worship her as she slowly grows DrunkWithPower and similar to [[TheEmperor Braiking Boss]].]]

* [[spoiler:{{Yandere}}: Her tone and the look on her face during the aforementioned WeCanRuleTogether moment, not to mention when she makes a similar offer in the very beginning of Episode 21, screams this.]]

->Voiced by: KenjiUtsumi (Japanese), J. Paul Slavens (English)

Tropes associated with Casshern:

Tropes associated with Lyuze:

Tropes associated with Ringo:

Tropes associated with Ohji:

Tropes associated with Braiking Boss:

Tropes associated with Leda:

Tropes associated with Friender:

Tropes associated with Luna:

->Voiced by: [[YuichiNagashima Cho]] (Japanese), Jerry Russell (English)

* [[spoiler:BattleCouple: With Lyuze, after they reconcile.]]

* [[spoiler:TheBrute: Used to be a supersolider hit man for Braiking Boss, along with Dio and Leda.]]

* [[spoiler:DrivenToSuicide]]: Defied. [[spoiler:He DID want to die and wanted Lyuze to kill him after the full force of him causing the Ruin hit him, but once she started doing some serious damage to him, his [[UnstoppableRage Berserk]] [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Mode]] wouldn't let her finish the job. She would have died if Friender didn't save her.]]
* [[spoiler:TheGrimReaper: The finale has him deciding to play this role in the series' world.]]

* [[spoiler: BadassDecay: An InUniverse, [[JustifiedTrope justified]] example. The Ruin weakens her body and makes her less able to fight, resulting in her being sidelined in the latter part of the series.]]
* [[spoiler:BattleCouple: With Casshern, after she admits her feelings for him.]]
* [[spoiler:BelligerentSexualTension:]] Episode 19.
* [[spoiler:BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu: Zig-zagged. She almost killed Casshern (even if he was actively trying to die at the time), but she eventually inflicted enough damage to trigger his Berserk Mode, and almost got herself killed shortly after. If Friender hadn't saved her, she would have never made it out alive.]]

* [[spoiler:DiedInYourArmsTonight]]

* [[spoiler: GoOutWithASmile]]
* [[spoiler:LoveRedeems: Drops all antagonism towards Casshern after falling in love with him.]]

* [[spoiler:WhoWantsToLiveForever: At first, she wanted Luna to save her from the Ruin. Once she sees how twisted she's become, she quickly changes her mind, deciding it's not worth it if it is going to change who she is. What she has learned while traveling with Casshern makes this decision final.]]
* [[spoiler:WhyCantIHateYou]]: See 'Tsundere.' [[spoiler: She suffers a major internal conflict once she starts realizing she cares about Casshern and is torn between hating the person he '''was''', and falling in love with the person he '''became''' post-amnesia. The fact that Casshern feels genuine remorse over everything he did makes it worse..]]
* [[YouKilledMyFather You Killed My Sister]]: The main reason she hates Casshern so much. [[spoiler:At first, anyway.]]

* [[spoiler: BadassDecay: An InUiverse, [[JustifiedTrope justified]] example. The Ruin weakens her body and makes her less able to fight, resulting in her being sidelined in the latter part of the series.]]

* [[spoiler: BadassDecay: Enforced and Justified due to the Ruin. It weakens her body and makes her less able to fight.]]

* [[spoiler: BadassDecay: Justified due to the Ruin. It weakens her body and makes her less able to fight.]]

->Voiced by: ToshiyukiMorikawa (Japanese), JerryJewell (English)

--> Luna: [[spoiler:"I want you to stay here with me ''forever'', Casshern."]]

* GenkiGirl

* RoseHairedGirl