History Characters / GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex

* PowerWalk: Done very well by them in the second season intro.

* KickTheSonOfABitch: Takashi's first act is to create a program that he can use to fry the cyberbrain of his math teacher. What did the math teacher do to deserve this? He low key sexually harassed his class with talks about sex instead of doing his job as a math teacher, and when a female student publicly stood up to him about it, he got revenge by molesting her, leading to her suicide. He then proceeded to cover it up by stating that she killed herself out of guilt for getting caught stealing from student council funds to buy a bicycle. And the beauty of Takashi's program is that everyone in the school knew the teacher was a scumbag, but the program allowed them each to contribute to his death (with it using each of their cyberbrains with their permission to perform a [=DDoS=] attack on his brain, which killed him).

* DecompositeCharacter: IA84's method of copying itself is actually highly reminiscent of how Motoko and 2501 in the manga, once they merged, reproduced offspring that would go on to merge with other cyberized individuals, thus creating a number of people throughout the world who had "elements" of Motoko Kusanagi in them. With 1A84 being an {{Expy}} of 2501, it is essentially doing the same thing but without Motoko as part of the process.

* InformedFlaw: They cannot listen in on the conversations people have through their neural com-links unless given access. This allowed Major Kusanagi to fabricate a double-talk conversation with Batou- a phony spoken one overlaid on top of a digital discussion that the Tachikomas could not possibly be privy to.
** To elaborate further, the things the two said through their lip movements did not match what they were saying on the inside, and the Major took to doing this and asking Batou to do the same because she noticed a camouflaged Tachikoma eavesdropping and trying to read their lips, as the whole lot of them were worried they were being sent back to the lab. The eavesdropper thought Batou was being chewed out for harassing rookies, when in reality, he was participating in a covert discussion of whether or not the Tachikomas needed be pulled from duty for gaining individuality. It appeased the Tachikoma, who told the rest what it understood from the fake conversation, which eased their fears and suspicions, none the wiser to the real one.

* AwesomenessbyAnalysis: Day in and day out, he does nothing but throw a single paper plane that flies right back into his hand. The Major notes the sheer insane number of variables he must calculate per second to achieve the same result flawlessly each time, twigging her to the fact that he's not so braindead after all.

* AdaptationalPersonalityChange: In the manga, Motoko started out with a wild and feisty personality that would fit with her being the protagonist of what was largely an irreverent sci-fi comedy. She was prone to exaggerated faces and wasn't above yelling in comedic anger. As the manga neared its end she became more serious. In Stand Alone Complex, on the other hand, the serious Motoko seen from the end of the manga, who at that point was already in the process of leaving Section 9, is already present at the beginning of the series. And while Motoko does have her comedic moments, here she is more dryly humorous compared to the almost slap-stickish nature of her manga counterpart.

* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: He's Kusanagi's lieutenant, and can kick as much ass as she can.

* WhenSheSmiles: She smiles only a few times over the course of the series, but when she hacks Batou and make him punch himself out is the [[http://img1.liveinternet.ru/images/attach/b/3/13/486/13486502_kussmiles.jpg only time she really exagerates it]].

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AkioOhtsuka (Japanese), Creator/RichardEpcar (English, TV Series), Creator/DavidKaye (English; [=OVA=]s), Russell Wait (English, Animax Asia)

* AdaptationalPersonalityChange: The original manga portrays Batou as something of a dumbass and a Buttmonkey due to the comedic tones presented. SAC keeps his jovial personality but makes him much more serious and focused.

* CompositeCharacter: Whole mostly based off of the Motoko Kusanagi of the original manga and 1995 movie, this iteration of character shares a few traits with Motoko Aramaki, a related but still separate character, from the manga sequel ''Man-Machine Interface.

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Yutaka Nakano (Japanese), Michael [=McCarty=] (English; TV Series), Creator/DavidLodgeActor (English; ''2045'' Netflix series season 2), John Payne (English; [=OVA=]s)

* RevolversAreJustBetter: His WeaponOfChoice. The first episode shows that he likes to go to the firing range to unwind.

* WeaponOfChoice: Used a suppressed PPK to take out Nanao.

* TookALevelInJerkass: It's subtle, but the Major lost some of her social skills towards civilians in the years between in the time skip between the original series and SAC_2045. She went from chiding Togusa for entering a civilian woman's room uninvited to being chided by ''him'' 15 years later for lacking tact when speaking with Takashi's mother, as she was pretty blunt that the boy was facing serious charges. Though she at least retained enough grace to [[spoiler: forge a letter in Takashi's name that would reassure his mother that he would be fine.]]

** 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]].

* MrSmith: Their names are composed entirely of [[StockForeignName extremely common]] Japanese surnames (the equivalent of being called "Jones Smith" and "Williams Johnson"), making it obvious that they are both aliases.

* NoNameGiven: Their names are obviously pseudonyms, with both having names composed entirely of extremely common surnames.

* HateSink: Despite their brief screentime, CIA agents Suzuki Sato and Tanaka Watanabe stand out as particularly detestable. They manipulate Section 9 in an attempt to cover up a brutal war crime without any moral qualms or empathy and later attempt to help Kazundo Gohda, who has caused multiple murders and atrocities, defect and evade justice for his crimes. Once the true nature of the agents emerges, everyone in Section 9 is disgusted at them, with Batou punching Sato in rage and later insulting Watanabe the next time they meet.

* NoNameGiven: Their names are obviously pseudonyms, with both having names composed entirely of surnames.

* TheOneWithAPersonalLife: He's the only confirmed member of Section 9 with a family (the red coat technicians are not elaborated on), having a wife and two children at home (who think he works for a security company, although he's told them by the time of ''Solid State Society''). Major actually brought him onto the team because being a family man gives him some unique introspective. By contrast, almost everyone else doesn't seem to have any personal ties outside the military industrial complex (and possibly TheYakuza for Paz). This was a plot point in the first season finale, as [[spoiler:Aramaki had him arrested in order to ensure his survival, since unlike the rest of the team (who lived from safehouse to safehouse), he couldn't just go on the lam while Aramaki allowed the team to be made The Scapegoat before being reformed in secret once again]].

* KnifeNut: Uses a folding knife in combat.

* AwesomeMcCoolName: Her name is pretty cool, but she didn't choose it just to be so. It's because [[spoiler: she doesn't know what her real name is anymore.]]

* SexyBacklessOutfit: In ''Cash-Eye'', also with borderline AbsoluteCleavage.

* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: Most of them have no cybernetics beyond a cyberbrain, but 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.

* FakeMemories: The Major wipes his memory after Aramaki shows up to recruit them back into Section 9, but leaves behind a coded copy of his real memories in his payment file just in case she has need of his services.

* TokenMinority: African-American operator of GHOST.

* TheAce: Inside Section 9, at least. It is easier to list the domains where she is ''not'' the most skilled of the team - that would be [[ColdSniper sharpshooting]] (Saito), [[StuffBlowingUp knowledge of explosives]] (Borma), general detective work (Togusa), [[NonActionGuy info-gathering]] (Ishikawa) and [[TheStrategist politics]] (Aramaki). Batou and Ishikawa often challenge her in general mayhem and hacking respectively, but they tend to hit the plank most of the times.

* ContrivedCoicidence: His reappearance in season 2 is a bit of one. [[spoiler:Not only was he handpicked by the American Empire to be part of a forward team to find Suzuka Mizukane, but he happened to be the last man standing of the team when they all started firing on each other due to Suzuka's mindhack. Then he managed to survive falling into a sewer that got him away from Suzuka. And it just so happens that Batou and Saito were watching the whole thing unfold, allowing them to realize who he was when they found him in the sewer.]]

* MsFanservice: 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.