History Characters / CyberpunkEdgerunnersCorposCriminalsAndFixers

* AllThereInTheScript: They are never called or adressed by name, but the credits reveal their names as Kate and Douglas.
* SecretPolice: The corporate version
* SmallRoleBigImpact: They only really appear in the latter half of the series, mainly the last episode. None of the Edgerunner Crew ever meet them(Besides the few seconds where a Psycho David and sedated Lucy are in the hanger room with Douglass and Davis only notices his existence enough to try to shoot him) or know who they are. Nonetheless they basically act as the ManBehindTheMan once Tanaka Sr. gets killed. Their Job is to try to recover the Cyber skeleton data Lucy erased from his head which puts them on a collusion course with the Edgerunner crew and ends up with a bunch of Dead Arasaka Netrunners,killed by Lucy's hands. Seeking to end the spree, they passive aggressively (As in pressure him with as assassination attempt) make a deal with Faraday to both recover Lucy as a Arasaka netrunner asset and capture David as a test subject. Their the ones who plot with Faraday to setup the Miltech ambush to force Davis into the Cyber skeleton. Once that operation goes bellyup they demand Faraday meet them at Arasaka HQ,fully intending to kill him for going beyond their deal in his actions,which leads to the climatic final. Their also the ones who let Smasher off the Leash on the crew once they lose control of the situation which seals the fate of the Crew. The Agents,especially Kate who is noticeably more aggressive are the closest people to a BigBad in the show as all the bad things that happen to the crew in the latter half of the show are the results of their efforts. They could also be seen as the Greater-Scope Villian as they essentially represent the machinations of the omnipresent Arasaka Corporation in the show and all the death and destruction,from hundreds of dead soldiers to the final fate of the crew in the last few episodes are because of their manipulations.
* TheScapegoat: Kate full intends for Douglas to take the blame for the Cyber skeleton incident.

* HateSink: Faraday is quite possibly the single most detestable person in ''Edgerunners''. While Katsuo is just a run-of-the-mill bully who's easily dealt with and [[spoiler: Adam Smasher, who ''personally kills'' Rebecca and David,]] [[PunchClockVillain only does so on orders from Arasaka's CI agents for a paycheck]], Faraday is a self-absorbed, arrogant BadBoss who throws his weight around anyone who's willing to put up with him for a job at best and [[spoiler: actively sells them out and/or sends them on suicide missions at worst, not ever caring about the consequences so long as it benefits him. He double-crosses and kidnaps Lucy and forces David in a [[SadisticChoice no-win situation]] that requires him to don the cyberskeleton and succumb to cyberpsychosis lest he and his friends all get killed by Arasaka's armed forces. He's ultimately the one most responsible for everything bad that happens at the end of the series - specifically, Rebecca and David's aforementioned deaths.]] He ends up getting his just desserts when [[spoiler: David goes on a [[RoaringRampageOfRescue rampage]] at Arasaka's headquarters and get in a fight with Adam Smasher, with Faraday getting killed in the crossfire]].

* HateSink: Faraday is quite possibly the single most detestable person in ''Edgerunners''. While Katsuo is just a run-of-the-mill bully who's easily dealt with and [[spoiler: Adam Smasher, who ''personally kills'' Rebecca and David,]] [[PunchClockVillain only does so on orders from Arasaka's CI agents for a paycheck]], Faraday is a self-absorbed, arrogant BadBoss who throws his weight around anyone who's willing to put up with him for a job at best and [[spoiler: actively sells them out and/or sends them on suicide missions at worst, not ever caring about the consequences so long as it benefits him. He double-crosses and kidnaps Lucy, and forces David in a [[SadisticChoice no-win situation]] that requires him to don the cyberskeleton and succumb to cyberpsychosis lest he and his friends all get killed by Arasaka's armed forces. He's ultimately the one most responsible for everything bad that happens at the end of the series - specifically, Rebecca and David's aforementioned deaths.]] He ends up getting his just desserts when [[spoiler: David goes on a [[RoaringRampageOfRescue rampage]] at Arasaka's headquarters and get in a fight with Adam Smasher, with Faraday getting killed in the crossfire]].

* HateSink: Faraday is quite possibly the single most detestable person in ''Edgerunners''. While Katsuo is just a run-of-the-mill bully who's easily dealt with and [[spoiler: Adam Smasher, who ''personally kills'' Rebecca and David,]] [[PunchClockVillain only does so on orders from Arasaka's CI agents for a paycheck]], Faraday is a self-absorbed, arrogant BadBoss who throws his weight around anyone who's willing to put up with him for a job at best and [[spoiler: actively sells them out and/or sends them on suicide missions at worst, not ever caring about the consequences so long as it benefits him. He double-crosses and kidnaps Lucy, and forces David in a [[SadisticChoice no-win situation]] that requires him to don the cyberskeleton and succumb to cyberpsychosis lest he and his friends all get killed by Arasaka's armed forces. He's ultimately the one most responsible for everything bad that happens at the end of the series - specifically, Rebecca and David's aforementioned deaths.]] He ends up getting his just desserts when [[spoiler: David goes on a [[RoaringRampageOfRescue rampage]] at Arasaka's headquarters and get ina fight with Adam Smasher, with Faraday getting killed in the crossfire]].

* HateSink: Faraday is quite possibly the single most detestable person in ''Edgerunners''. While Katsuo is just a run-of-the-mill bully who's easily dealt with, and [[spoiler: Adam Smasher, who ''personally kills'' Rebecca and David,]] [[PunchClockVillain only does so on orders from Arasaka's CI agents for a paycheck]], Faraday is a self-absorbed, arrogant BadBoss who throws his weight around anyone who's willing to put up with him for a job at best and [[spoiler: actively sells them out and/or sends them on suicide missions at worst, not ever caring about the consequences so long as it benefits him. He double-crosses and kidnaps Lucy, and forces David in a [[SadisticChoice no-win situation]] that requires him to don the cyberskeleton and succumb to cyberpsychosis lest he and his friends all get killed by Arasaka's armed forces. He's ultimately the one most responsible for everything bad that happens at the end of the series - specifically, Rebecca and David's aforementioned deaths.]] He ends up getting his just desserts when [[spoiler: David goes on a [[RoaringRampageOfRescue rampage]] at Arasaka's headquarters and get ina fight with Adam Smasher, with Faraday getting killed in the crossfire]].

* AllForNothing: Even if [[spoiler: he didn't end up getting splattered into a fine paste in the last episode, it's made abundantly clear that he ''wasn't'' going to get that position in Arasaka's top brass like he wanted because of how badly he screwed up with the cyberskeleton project]].

* AllForNothing: Even if [[spoiler: he didn't end up getting splattered into a fine paste in the last episode, it's made abundantly clear that he ''wasn't'' going to get that position in Arasaka like he wanted because of how badly he screwed up with the cyberskeleton project]].

* AdaptationalPersonalityChange: In the game, his speech is [[SirSwearsAlot generally crude and vulgar]], [[LargeHam he's more prone to emotion]], and he's '''unapologetically''' [[CountryMatters misogynistic]]. He's much more composed in the series and swears much less with the no indication of misogynistic tendencies.

* ColdHam: He's not as loud and vitriolic as his game counterpart, but he's no less short of bloodthirsty boasts.

* SmallRoleBigImpact: They only really appear in the latter half of the series, mainly the last episode. None of the Edgerunner Crew ever meet them(Besides the few seconds where a Psycho David and sedated Lucy are in the hanger room with Douglass and Davis only notices his existence enough to try to shoot him) or know who they are. Nonetheless they basically act as the ManBehindTheMan once Tanaka Sr. gets killed. Their Job is to try to recover the Cyber skeleton data Lucy erased from his head which puts them on a collusion course with the Edgerunner crew and ends up with a bunch of Dead Arasaka Netrunners,killed by Lucy's hands. Seeking to end the spree, they basically passive aggressively make a deal with Faraday to both recover Lucy as a Arasaka netrunner asset and capture David as a test subject. Their the ones who plot with Faraday to setup the Miltech ambush to force Davis into the Cyber skeleton. Once that operation goes bellyup they demand Faraday meet them at Arasaka HQ,fully intending to kill him for going beyond their deal in his actions. Their also the ones who let Smasher off the Leash on the crew once even that became a mess. The Agents, especially Kate are the closest thing to a BigBad in the show as all the bad things that happen to the crew in the latter half of the show are the results of their efforts. They could also be seen as Greater-Scope Villians as they essentially represent the machinations of the Arasaka Corporation in the show and all the death and destruction in the last few episodes are because of their manipulations.

* SmallRoleBigImpact: They only really appear in the latter half of the series, mainly the last episode. None of the Edgerunner Crew ever meet them(Besides the few seconds where a Psycho David and sedated Lucy are in the hanger room with Douglass and Davis only notices his existence enough to try to shoot him) or know who they are. Nonetheless they basically act as the ManBehindTheMan once Tanaka Sr. gets killed. Their Job is to try to recover the Cyber skeleton data Lucy erased from his head which puts them on a collusion course with the Edgerunner crew and ends up with a bunch of Dead Arasaka Netrunners,killed by Lucy's hands. Seeking to end the spree, they basically passive aggressively make a deal with Faraday to both recover Lucy as a Arasaka netrunner asset and capture David as a test subject. Their the ones who plot with Faraday to setup the Miltech ambush to force Davis into the Cyber skeleton. Once that operation goes bellyup they demand Faraday meet them at Arasaka HQ,fully intending to kill him for going beyond their deal in his actions. Their also the ones who let Smasher off the Leash on the crew once even that become a mess. The Agents, especially Kate are the closest thing to a BigBad in the show as all the bad things that happen to the crew in the latter half of the show are the results of their efforts. They could also be seen as Greater-Scope Villians as they essentially represent the machinations of the Arasaka Corporation in the show and all the death and destruction in the last few episodes are because of their manipulations.

* SmallRoleBigImpact: They only really appear in the latter half of the series, mainly the last episode. None of the Edgerunner Crew ever meet them(Besides the few seconds where a Psycho David and sedated Lucy are in the hanger room with Douglass and Davis only notices his existence enough to try to shoot him) or know who they are. Nonetheless they basically act as the ManBehindTheMan once Tanaka Sr. gets killed. Their Job is to try to recover the Cyber skeleton data Lucy erased from his head which puts them on a collusion course with the Edgerunner crew and ends up with a bunch of Dead Arasaka Netrunners,killed by Lucy's hands. Seeking to end the spree, they basically passive aggressively make a deal with Faraday to both recover Lucy as a Arasaka netrunner asset and capture David as a test subject. Their the ones who plot with Faraday to setup the Miltech ambush to force Davis into the Cyber skeleton. Once that operation goes bellyup they demand Faraday meet them at Arasaka HQ,fully intending to kill him for going beyond their deal in his actions. Their also the ones who let Smasher off the Leash on the crew once even that become a mess. The Agents, especially Kate are the closest thing to BigBad in the show as all the bad things that happen to the crew in the latter half of the show are the results of their efforts. They could also be seen as Greater-Scope Villians as they essentially represent the machinations of the Arasaka Corporation in the show and all the death and destruction in the last few episodes are because of their manipulations.

* SmallRoleBigImpact: They only really appear in the latter half of the series, mainly the last episode. None of the Edgerunner Crew ever meet them(Besides the few seconds where a Psycho David and sedated Lucy are in the hanger room with Douglass and Davis only notices his existence enough to try to shoot him) and or know who they are. Nonetheless they basically act as the ManBehindTheMan once Tanaka Sr. gets killed. Their Job is to try to recover the Cyber skeleton data Lucy erased from his head which puts them on a collusion course with the Edgerunner crew and ends up with a bunch of Dead Arasaka Netrunners,killed by Lucy's hands. Seeking to end the spree, they basically passive aggressively make a deal with Faraday to both recover Lucy as a Arasaka netrunner asset and capture David as a test subject. Their the ones who plot with Faraday to setup the Miltech ambush to force Davis into the Cyber skeleton. Once that operation goes bellyup they demand Faraday meet them at Arasaka HQ,fully intending to kill him for going beyond their deal in his actions. Their also the ones who let Smasher off the Leash on the crew once even that become a mess. The Agents, especially Kate are the closest thing to BigBad in the show as all the bad things that happen to the crew in the latter half of the show are the results of their efforts. They could also be seen as Greater-Scope Villians as they essentially represent the machinations of the Arasaka Corporation in the show and all the death and destruction in the last few episodes are because of their manipulations.

* TheScapegoat: Kate full intends for Douglas to take the blame for the Cyberskeleton incident.

* WorldsBestWarrior: With decades of combat experience, the best cyberware Arasaka has to offer, and having taken on the likes of Morgan Blackhand and Johnny Silverhand and lived, Smasher is, to put it bluntly, the deadliest killing machine on the planet. David simply never stood a chance.

-> Voiced by: Yukihiro Misono (Japanese), Alec Newman (English)

* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Downplayed as he's not winning any beauty awards anytime soon but the anime's stylization causes his face to lose some of the more grotesque features; His game depiction's face can be summed up as rotting human flesh stretched over half a robotic head. Here, his remaining human skin has merely gone pale with no signs of decay and has enough stylization that it could pass off for a mask.

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* DragonInChief: Though Arasaka's deadliest weapon and corporate attack dog, Smasher is a far more dangerous and direct threat to the protagonists than the corpos he works for, with the series' climax being against him, and the actual BigBad being unceremoniously defenestrated.

* EvilCounterpart: To Gloria Martinez, David's mother. They’re both parents of Arasaka students, possibly both single parents (David is confirmed to have no father whereas we just never see or hear about Tanaka Sr.'s wife.) but that's basically where the similarities between the two end. Where Gloria is a lower class, hard working mother who greatly cares for her son and puts in intense effort into getting her son into Arasaka Academy, Tanaka Sr. is a high class, high-ranking member of the academy board who doesn't seem to care that much for his son, clearly mostly sending him there because of his position, even ignoring him being discharged from the ''hospital'' to pick up [[spoiler: an XBD.]] From their different parenting styles it becomes clear why both of their sons turned out the way they did and why David is as decent a person as he is. They also both take note of David's potential, but whereas Gloria was from the perspective of a proud mother knowing her son could accomplish great things and seeing his ''academic'' potential, Tanaka Sr. was only interested in David's ''physical'' potential to take Cyberware with little ill effects and sees David as little more than a guinea pig for the "product." [[spoiler: They even heavily contrast in their deaths. Where Gloria died as collateral damage in a gang drive-by on the highway and from being neglected by the Trauma Team due to not being a client, Tanaka Sr. dies due to being ''directly'' targeted by Maine's gang, and, ironically enough, his slim chance of making it out might've been dashed ''because'' he was a Trauma Team client, as them suddenly coming in and swarming the place causes the [[SanitySlippage already slipping Maine]] to completely break down into cyberpsychosis, slaughtering the cops and Trauma as a result and brutally killing and mutilating Tanaka's body.]]

* GeniusBruiser: Despite his appearance Smasher is far from a mindless thug. Upon being given his mission briefing he immediately deduces that the Cyberskeleton's anti-grav emitters are its key weakness. He also has enough hacking knowledge to completely NoSell Lucy's attempts to attack him from cyberspace. Could count as AdaptationalIntelligence, as in ''[=CP2020=]'' his intelligence stat is only 4, what doesn't make him the sharpest tool in the shed, or him taking the time in the intervening decades to [[RemovedAchillesHeel deal with his biggest vulnerability]].

* AdaptationalNiceGuy: A ''very'' minor example. Compared to the game, his portrayal in ''Edgerunners'' lacks the game version's [[HeManWomanHater notorious misogyny]] and very vulgar mouth, especially when it comes to his [[CountryMatters treatment]] of women. This version of Smasher is far more emotionally detached and is ''[[FauxAffablyEvil almost]]'' polite to David after defeating him. The game's version basically had the personality of an overgrown schoolyard bully who took every challenge to his power as a [[WhoDares personal insult]], where in his sole appearance in the anime he has all the emotional involvement of a guy [[ButForMeItWasTuesday playing games on his phone at the bus stop while waiting for his ride to arrive.]]
* AdaptationalPersonalityChange: In the game, he's fairly crude and vulgar in the way he speaks as well as more prone to emotion. He also seemed to be somewhat misogynistic as he'll frequently use gendered insults when talking to or about women. He's much more composed in the series and swears much less with the no indication of misogynistic tendencies.

--> '''Adam Smasher''': None leave the slaughterhouse! Not alive!

* BishounenLine: Compared to the boxy MiniMecha David becomes after donning the Cyberskeleton. Adam’s cybernetic chassis is far more humanoid and compact, and it ''far'' outperforms the skeleton during Smasher and David’s climatic fight.

* DragonInChief: Though Araska's deadliest weapon and corporate attack dog, Smasher is a far more dangerous and direct threat to the protagonists than the corpos he works for, with the series' climax being against him, and the actual BigBad being unceremoniously defenestrated.

* DragonInChief: Though Araska's deadliest weapon and corporate attack dog, Smasher is a far more dangerous and direct threat to the protagonists, with the series' climax being against him, and the actual BigBad being unceremoniously defenestrated.