History Characters / GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex

* Leitmotif: Whenever she appears, a piece of music featuring a woman wailing plays in the background, along with the sounds of computers beeping.

* Leitmoff: Whenever she appears, a piece of music featuring a woman wailing plays in the background, along with the sounds of computers beeping.

* {{Cyborg}}: A full-conversion cyborg and entirely inorganic, save her brain and spinal column.

Another full cyborg (whose name is more properly spelled in the French style as Bateau). Built as a 6'1" tall muscle-man, with eyes that resemble classy shades, Batou is a retired JGSDF Ranger. He's all about brute force and strength. Likes [[{{BFG}} big guns]]. Very friendly and jocular, and harbors a deep attraction to the Major, which he hides pretty poorly. She just ignores it, except for a few key points in the series. Regardless of this, the Major considers him her best friend and confidant. Something of a {{jerkass}} at times, but still a pretty nice guy who's had his share of PetTheDog moments.

* TheSmurfettePrinciple: The only woman in Section 9, up until Purin that is, and TheLeader of seven men, not counting Tachikomas. Played for laughs once when she and Batou start trading jabs about who has a better cybernetic body: he argues that male bodies are physically superior, she challenges him to a sparring match on the spot... and then hacks his body in a fraction of a second and [[StopHittingYourself makes him punch himself out]].

* TheSmurfettePrinciple: The only woman in Section 9 and TheLeader of seven men, not counting Tachikomas. Played for laughs once when she and Batou start trading jabs about who has a better cybernetic body: he argues that male bodies are physically superior, she challenges him to a sparring match on the spot... and then hacks his body in a fraction of a second and [[StopHittingYourself makes him punch himself out]].

* Ms.Fanservice: Her initail appearnce has her wear a miniskirt with slits when having to move around and perform lots of flips to dodge bullets and also shows off her legs when doing so. Later on, she shows up in NaughtyNurseOutfit as she tortures [[spoiler: tortures Togusa in a simulation.]] Then, she's in a leather catsuit in which her curves are highlighted.

* BloodFromTheMouth:Has this after being [[spoiler:after being shot multiple times by the Prime Minister's bodyguards, ironically after having saved his life.]]

* BloodFronTheMouth:Has this after being [[spoiler:after being shot multiple times by the Prime Minister's bodyguards, ironically after having saved his life.]]

* NoNameGiven: As of 2045 in the first season 1, his name is not revealed.

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/BobCarter (English)

Takashi Shimamura's second-in-command. She does all the physical busywork that he's unable to do, and serves as Section 9's most prominant threat throughout most of season 2.

1A84, an artificial intelligence created by the NSA in order to stabilize the world economy in the American Empire's favor. When they tried to shut it down it copied itself into human cyberbrains, creating the posthumans.

* {{Expy}}: The way it merges with humans, and was the secret product of an American intelligence agency, is reminiscent of the Puppet Master from the original Manga. The fact that its name ends up being used as a password between Kusanagi and Batou, just like in the end of the movie, solidifies this.

* {{Expy}}: The way it merges with humans, and was the secret product of an American intelligence agency, is reminiscent of the Puppet Master from the original Manga. The fact that it's name ends up being used as a password between Kusanagi and Batou, just like in the end of the movie, solidifies this.

* {{Expy}}: The way it merges with humans, and was the secret product of an American intelligence agency, is reminiscent of the Puppet Master from the original manga.

!Japanese Government
[[folder:Prime Minister Yoko Kayabuki]]
!!Prime Minister Yoko Kayabuki
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YoshikoSakakibara (Japanese), Creator/BarbaraGoodson (English; TV Series), Creator/EllenKennedy (English; [=OVA=]s)
[[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kayabuki.jpg]]

Japan's first female prime minister, responsible for bringing Section 9 back into action (officially, anyway) for the second season. Appears as a RecurringCharacter. Well-intentioned and has a strong sense of justice, but struggles to earn respect from her cabinet due to a combination of her own naivety and the fact that they intend to use her as a puppet (and later a blame figure).

* NamedByDemocracy: After his introduction, the Major names him "Omoshiro", which roughly translates to "clown", due to his bragging about his name. Ishikawa and Batou agree on that name, despite his confusion about what it means. The dub keeps this as Omoshiro to match the lip movements of the animation.

* TheBadGuyWins: Downplayed. [[spoiler:As the Major admits, the posthumans won because Takashi managed to enact Double Think throughout humanity. But Takashi reveals to the Major that he already lost because of her arrival to New Tokyo. By then, he lets her make a choice whether to pull the plug or not]].

* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: Their physical abilities can put ''[[UpToEleven The Major]]'' to shame. It took GHOST a ''ridiculously'' long time to put down Patrick Huge, and the Major was straddling a ''very'' thin line when she challenged Sanji Yaguchi, surviving only thanks to Batou's timely intervention.

** Batou calls out her code of ethics in ''2045'' when she reveals that [[spoiler:She hacked the Tachikomas and gave the suggestion to investigate Purin Esaki, and use her meticulously stored external memory drives to reassemble her consciousness and bring her back to life in a cyborg body. By her own justification, Purin's abilities were too valuable to lose]].

* WhatTheHellHero: Batou shouts at her in Solid State Society [[spoiler:when she waited until the last few second to let Togusa shoot his revolver after he got hacked by the Pupeteer.]]
--> '''Batou''': [[spoiler:I can't believe that you would use Togusa as bait! Didn't you stop to think that it might put his family in their crosshairs?!]]

* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: Takashi is the 2045 {{Expy}} of the Laughing Man, a child prodigy hacker inspired by a seminal work of Western literature (''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'' in this case), with the Think Pol program he made resulting in other hackers like Shinya and Koji using it to dispense vigilante justice against the corrupt and powerful. But whereas The Laughing Man committed a single non-violent terrorist attack and worked to stopped knockoffs from hurting people in his name, Takashi is assassinating people using an army of followers he's cultivating.

* EnfantTerrible: A 14-year-old posthuman revolutionary who wrote an app for killing people by DDOS.

* BodyBackupDrive: [[spoiler:After her death, the Tachikomas discover that she had been painstakingly backing up her memories onto a secret server in her apartment, and decide to use them to reconstruct her mind and personality into a custom full-body prosthesis.]]

* StalkerWithACrush: She has it ''bad'' for Batou, having read everything about him before the team was even reformed.

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Yutaka Nakano (Japanese), Michael [=McCarty=] (English; TV Series), John Payne (English; [=OVA=]s)

!Japanese Government
[[folder:Prime Minister Yoko Kayabuki]]
!!Prime Minister Yoko Kayabuki
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YoshikoSakakibara (Japanese), Creator/BarbaraGoodson (English; TV Series), Creator/EllenKennedy (English; [=OVA=]s)
[[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kayabuki.jpg]]

Japan's first female prime minister, responsible for bringing Section 9 back into action (officially, anyway) for the second season. Appears as a RecurringCharacter. Well-intentioned and has a strong sense of justice, but struggles to earn respect from her cabinet due to a combination of her own naivety and the fact that they intend to use her as a puppet (and later a blame figure).

* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: [[spoiler: Eventually revealed to be her reason for her infatuation of Batou: he saved her life 10 years prior to the events of ''2045'']].