History Characters / GunslingerGirl

* AntiHero: Unscrupulous bordering on Disney(!).

* HeelFaceDoorSlam: It takes a lot, but eventually she warms up to Sophia and starts considering part of the family. When her parents, Sophia and her are taking the car for vacations, Enrica realizes she hasn't made proper amends with her yet. Just as she's about to do so, the car explodes seconds later.

* WomenAreWiser: Elenora smooths things over when her partner gets too confrontational with Jean, and carries a notebook full of useful facts from accommodation to recipes. It's also implied that she suspects the real cause of Elsa's death, so she makes sure to unload Henrietta's gun before handing it over to her. Ironically she seems to underestimate her own cleverness, thinking that someone smarter would be a more suitable girlfriend for her partner.

* HandCannon: In Chapter 3 she's armed with a Desert Eagle equipped with a silencer (which you'd think would be a contradiction in terms). Ironically, it's not enough against bullet-resistant car she's firing on.

* ShadowArchetype: To the other cyborgs, showing what could happen if a girl's obsession with their handler gets out of control.

* WouldHitAGirl: You bet, and the woman doesn't have to be the SWA's quarry either--he's smacked Rico hard enough to draw blood, and gave Priscilla a shiner during hand-to-hand sparring. To be fair to him, though, he doesn't enjoy hitting them, and he never hit his fiance (though he did throw an orange in her face when they first met).

* BerserkButton: Having lost his leg in a firearm accident, the sight of Henrietta grossly mishandling her pistol (checking a misfire by ''[[IJustShotMarvinInTheFace looking down the barrel]]'') causes him [[WouldHitAGirl strike her]] and abuse Jose for not training her properly.

* BayonetYa: She has a long bayonet which is either mounted on her trench gun or sheaved at her side, her size making it a virtual short sword.

* HeroesWantRedheads: Averted. Alessandro actively dislikes redheads (after his redheaded mentor and then lover ran out on him) and is frustrated when his cyborg arrives with a luscious scarlet mantle. It's assumed the guy in charge of her appearance at the Agency put red hair on Petra to spite him.

* BringingInTheExpert: Dante usually works overseas and is brought into the country as a specialist in terror. His murder of the Croce family causes the Five Republics Faction a lot of public support, but they call on him again after their losses to the Social Welfare Agency as they need someone with just that kind of ruthlessness. And there is no denying that Dante is very good at his job, being the first opponent of the Agency to inflict a serious defeat on them.

* MeaningfulName: Her handler remarks how her father made a good choice in naming her after the angels in The Prince of the Land of Pasta, Part Two. Marco himself changed her name from Angelina, to Angelica.

* BeneathTheMask: At the Agency she's a curt HypercompetentSidekick to her boss, but it's stated that she's a different person off duty.

* TookALevelInBadass: Although not an Agency operative, Priscilla makes sure to learn combat skills because she knows they might be needed as the Agency increasingly takes the front line against Padania. When the Agency is called out for the final battle against Dante, she takes part in the assault on the nuclear planet instead of staying in the compound with the other headquarters staff.

* BootsOfToughness: Wears combat boots, in contrast to the other girls who wear sneakers or more stylish shoes.
* EmotionlessGirl: While all of the cyborgs display this to varying degrees, Beatrice is the straightest example. She says she's never felt moved enough to smile, and is curious about how the other girls seem to feel happiness or fear so easily.

* HeroicSacrifice: The one time Beatrice raises her voice beyond a flat monotone is her scream at Triela to hit the deck as she, mortally wounded, heaves an imminently-detonating warhead out of a window, and herself along with it.

* KnightInSourArmor:
** After Angelica dies, he decides to become the handler of another cyborg rather than go on to other duties (though it's not shown which one he chooses).
** [[YouAreInCommandNow He's the highest-ranking officer still on his feet]] at the end of the Turin battle. When tanks are brought in to force the surrender of both sides his colleagues want to fight, but Marco orders them to surrender rather than throw away their lives.

* {{BFG}}: Uses a 20mm anti-material rifle to counteract the cyborgs, even firing it from the hip during the battle in the Turin nuclear plant.

!Ashiq

* FireForgedFriends: Emma, daughter of the commander of the Padania terrorists who seize the New Turin Nuclear Plant, doesn't trust him for racial reasons, but works with him in fighting the Agency after she realises he's as dedicated to his cause as she is to hers.