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* BlueAndOrangeMorality: For practical purposes, it seems like he's a villain. But, he's really not: he's more like a more-or-less functional adrenaline junkie who will do anything to get or cultivate his fighting/entertainment fix. In general, aside from getting his adrenaline fix, Hisoka never seems to do anything that's bad or even illegal. He isn't a hired killer, he only joined the Phantom Troupe to get to Chrollo and never seems to engage in thievery unless he was with them, and by and large seems to ignore normal people and when not [[BloodKnight "entertaining"]] himself, he seems quite capable of functioning normally in society. Hisoka is probably best defined as an amoral extreme neutral party. Honestly, he's just as likely to help you as he is to kill you.

His primary Nen ability, Bungee Gum, possesses both the properties of rubber and gum. His secondary ability is Texture Surprise, which he can put onto thin surfaces to change their appearance. [[WhatKindOfLamePowerisHeartAnyway As lame as it sounds]], the former is deadly in combat and the latter gives him impossibly effective forgery skills.

** [[spoiler:After the match he replaced his missing body parts with nen rubber prosthetics, using texture camouflage making them indistinguishable from real ones, while also retaining rubber like characteristics. He is now a partially augmented man with speed and versatility superior to his original self, making it seems like his natural body is now the weakest link in his being.]]

* ArchEnemy: To Gon. He's this to the Phantom Troupe as well, [[spoiler: especially after killing Shalnark and Kortopi, planning to kill the rest of the Spiders]].

* ComedicShotacon: Hisoka is seemingly sexually attracted to strong people... [[AnythingThatMoves regardless of age or gender,]] much to Gon, Killua and probably the audience's horror. This is most apparent in Greed Island, where Hisoka, ''nude'', pops a boner upon seeing how much stronger the two boys have become since last seeing them, and later checks out their butts when walking behind them. A chill runs down their spine and they yell at him to walk in front.

* TheSociopath: He's a hedonist with no conscience and impulse control issues. He doesn't really any particular alliegance to enacting an evil agenda and is in fact ChaoticNeutral, but he is still very much this.

* MoleInCharge: He becomes the family's lead bodyguard when his predecessor is killed by the Phantom Troupe. [[spoiler: After Light Nostrade's mental breakdown following the events in Yorknew City, Kurapika takes control of the entire Nostrade Family.]]

* VengeanceFeelsEmpty: It is suggested that Kurapika's quest for revenge is taking him down a very unhealthy path. Besides the [[CastFromHitPoints physical repercussions]] of using Emperor Time and the way he's becoming increasingly more distant to his friends (not visiting Gon during the Elections arc) and overall becoming a much more aggressive individiual in general (all but threatening to kill Mizaistom for merely talking about his clan), he experienced a HeroicBSOD when he was briefy tricked into believing the Troupe were killed and that he lost his primary purpose for living. [[HopeSpot He finally started getting better]] and even [[WhenHeSmiles smiled]] when hanging out with Gon and Killua and realizing how important his friends are... only to discover that the bodies of the Troupe were fake and immediately revert back into a ruthless avenger.

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MiyukiSawashiro (2011 Series), Creator/YukiKaida (1999 Series), Creator/NorikoHidaka (Pilot OVA) (Japanese), Creator/ErikaHarlacher (2011 Series), Cheryl [=McMaster=] (1999 Series) (English)

* AmbiguousGender: Kurapika is very androgynous-looking, and was not referred to by any gender in the Japanese media for a long time. More gendered language versions tend to be less ambiguous, but even then, some of them guessed wrong (the German version originally used female pronouns) or deliberately use GenderNeutralWriting (the English publishing of the manga at first).

* ADateWithRosiePalms: Revealed a little bit too much about his "hobbies" during a passionate speech to the entire Hunter's Association.

* SwissArmyPower: While he only has two special abilities; Bungee Gum which allows him to give his aura the properties of rubber and sticky gum with Texture Surprise which allows him to reproduce any image on a surface in perfect lifelike realism. The ways he exploits these seemingly mundane and unimpressive abilities with his genius and twisted creativity makes him one of the most lethal characters in the series. To wit, the various ways he has exploited said abilities are:

* TheBerserker: Him going [[RedEyesTakeWarning Scarlet Eyes]]. Kurapika himself states that even just ''seeing a regular spider'' is enough to trigger his Scarlet Eyes and the change causes him to go ''primal''. Even after learning to control his emotions in Scarlet Eyes mode, he can still lose himself if they are involuntarily triggered by anger. Seeing Uvogin’s spider tattoo was enough for him to become BlindedByRage and rush in to capture him at the cost of his life (Melody had to stop him and calm him down with a flute song), meeting Chrollo for the first time involved a brief NoHoldsBarredBeatdown, and Mizaistom casually mentioning the Scarlet Eyes Kurapika was looking for was enough for him to make an ImpliedDeathThreat and even loosen his tie and shirt, ready to kill him. It’s even pointed out by other characters InUniverse, as a villager from outside the Kurta Clan called him a monster after beating up a group of men who insulted Pairo.

* TheBerserker: Him going [[RedEyesTakeWarning Scarlet Eyes]]. Kurapika himself states that even just ''seeing a regular spider'' is enough to trigger his Scarlet Eyes and the change causes him to go ''primal''. Even after learning to control his emotions in Scarlet Eyes mode, he can still lose himself if they are involuntarily triggered by anger. Seeing Uvogin’s spider tattoo was enough for him to become BlindedByRage and rush in to capture him at the cost of his life (Melody had to stop him and calm him down with a flute song), meeting Chrollo for the first time involved a brief NoHoldsBarredBeatdown, and Mizaistom casually mentioning the Scarlet Eyes Kurapika was looking for was enough for him to make an ImpliedDeathThreat and even loosen his tie and shirt, ready to kill him. It’s even mentioned InUniverse, as a villager from outside the clan called him a monster after beating up a group of men who insulted Pairo.

* TheBerserker: Him going [[RedEyesTakeWarning Scarlet Eyes]]. Kurapika himself states that even just seeing a ''regular'' spider is enough to trigger his Scarlet Eyes the change causes him to go ''primal''. Even after learning to control his emotions in Scarlet Eyes mode, he can still lose himself if they are triggered by anger. Seeing Uvogin’s spider tattoo was enough for him to become BlindedByRage and rush in to capture him at the cost of his life, meeting Chrollo for the first time involved a brief NoHoldsBarredBeatdown, and Mizaistom casually mentioning the Scarlet Eyes Kurapika was looking for was enough for him to make an ImpliedDeathThreat and even loosen his tie and shirt, ready to kill him. It’s even mentioned InUniverse, as a villager from outside the clan called him a monster after beating up a group of men who insulted Pairo.

* TheWorldIsJustAwesome: We discover in the special chapter that Kurapika was fascinated by the outside world when he was younger. He is probably still fascinated by the world [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge but it's impossible to notice that in the manga.]] In fact he was very similar to Gon, which makes what happened [[LastOfHisKind to him]] and [[KillEmAll his clan]] all the more tragic.

* BlessedWithSuck: When his emotions are heightened, his eyes change into one the most beautiful shades of scarlet in the world. As another bonus, he gets an extremely useful power upgrade. However, it was ''because'' of their eyes' beauty that his Clan was hunted down, massacred, and then had their eyes sold through the black market.

* VengeanceFeelsEmpty: In chapter 344, [[spoiler:he says that every time he recovers a set of scarlet eyes, he loses something, either physically, mentally or spiritually. He even says he doesn’t know what he’ll do once he’s recovered all the scarlet eyes since he has no home to return to and no family or friends to welcome him back]].

* WildCard: Quite literally regarding his WeaponOfChoice. As for which side? [[ItAmusedMe His own entertainment.]] Always.

* ShirtlessScene: The cover of volume 14 has him shirtless.

* ExpositoryPronoun: Always uses the boyish and somewhat childlike Japanese pronoun "Boku". [[spoiler: When Illumi introduces himself in the Dark Continent arc as the newest member of the Phantom Troupe, he notably uses "Boku", despite Illumi's pronoun of choice having been consistently "Ore" since his debut. This suggests that this "Illumi" might be [[MasterOfDisguise a disguised Hisoka]], plotting to kill the Troupe from the inside.]]

Kurapika's Nen ability involves him conjuring chains, one chain attached to each of the fingers on his right hand. Each chain has a different ability: One chain is able to to be used to heal himself, another has a spike tip that he can embed in a person's heart, which will kill them if they violate certain conditions that Kurapika puts forth. The most prominent ability is Chain Jail, which is used to tie down its target and [[PowerNullifier shut off their ability to use Nen]] (however, the ability will kill Kurapika if he ever uses it on anyone other than a member of the Phantom Troupe).\\

* AwesomeMcCoolName: [[KnightInShiningArmor Paradinight.]]

* EverythingSensor: His ring finger chain. It forms a ball on a chain that moves in the direction of whatever he's dowsing for, tracking the location of someone and even [[LivingLieDetector telling if someone's lying[[.