History Characters / JuniTaisenZodiacWar

* EatTheDog: The light novel states that in contrast to his lack of concern for human life, he cares dearly for the reptiles he keeps as pets, and invokes this trope when one dies as a form of DueToTheDead.

* ActionSurvivor: [[spoiler:Rat survives the Juuni Taisen and becomes the last one standing without having to actually ''fight'' thanks to his power.

* AFoolForAClient: In an anime flashback, he represented himself, as well as his brother, during a hearing for the brothers' unbecoming conduct as warriors. The light novel states that this is a regular occurrence for him whenever the twins are called to task for their extreme behavior as warriors.
* AdaptationalBadass: [[spoiler:Dragon and his brother pull out a better fight against Tiger and Ox in the manga adaptation than in the anime. Ox even admits that it can get troublesome for him if Dragon stops holding back.]]
* AlwaysIdenticalTwins: With his brother Snake.
* AnArmAndALeg: While stealing his icethrower from his reanimated corpse, Tiger winds up ripping off one of his arms.
* AngstySurvivingTwin: Seemingly averted. He clearly does not rejoice at the death of his brother, but at the same time, Dragon tries to gleefully and quickly appropriate his gem. Later, however, he mocks the fact that his brother was killed so early into the battle and Rabbit using the corpse as a puppet. [[spoiler:However, the light novel implies that such behavior is an act on Dragon's part, done to display a strong front towards the other fighters.]]
** The manga adaptation expands on this, with him agonizing over how Snake wouldn't want to be revived with his brother's Wish. So Dragon decides that he'll wish for "Nothing", because there isn't anything he would want in a world without his brother.
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Both he and his brother really deserved what was coming to them.]]
* BerserkButton: Harming Snake seems to be this for him, as he was noticeably angry when Ox killed Snake in a deleted path.

* BlueAndOrangeMorality: The light novel reveals that he and Snake are known to use the money they have earned illicitly to fund charitable activities, not because they are good at heart, but out of a perverse ironic joy at seeing blood money be utilized in a manner diametrically opposed to how it was earned. The anime expands on this when Dragon states that all warriors have this due to the nature of their jobs, and as such, the prosecutor's attempt to judge them based on common standards of morality is flawed and misguided.
* CainAndAbel: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] concerning his brother, Snake. With both being selected to take part in the Juuni Taisen, they were resigned to the idea that they would eventually have to come to blows, and Dragon even takes on a cavalier attitude after Snake is anti-climatically killed by Rabbit. But then it's later implied that [[spoiler: he is more relieved than anything else [[ThickerThanWater knowing that he now he would not have to kill his brother.]]]]
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Played with in regards to him and his younger twin. While they are both awful people who have no regard for human life and are willing to engage in all manner of immoral dealings for either profit or amusement, they do clearly care about each other on some level. It appears stronger on Dragon's end, as he would always watch out for Snake and repeatedly saved his brother from the consequences of his screw ups. Although he seems rather unconcerned about his brother's death, he already knew that one of them would have to die and seems more relieved at the fact that he didn't have to kill his own brother than anything else. He actually spends pretty much the whole Zodiac War floating around in the sky following and observing his brother's reanimated corpse, much like he did while Snake was alive, and promises to give his twin a nice funeral when the war is over.
** This is a bit stronger in the light novel, as the fact that Dragon does miss his twin is very much implied, and his relief at not having to kill his own brother is pretty much outright stated. He also has a flashback here of him and Snake fighting together while he is preparing to ambush Ox and Tiger and wishfully thinks that they will never fight side-by-side again.
* ExactWords: When the twins were accused by the prosecutor of collusion for the incident detailed in PlayingBothSides, Dragon simply stated that he killed Snake's client, while Snake killed his client, which was exactly what their contracts specified.

* FireIceDuo: Has this dynamic with his brother, who uses a [[FireBreathingWeapon flamethrower]].
* FlatWhat: In the anime, upon being chosen as the Fighters of the Dragon and Snake, the twins react this way when told they are expected to kill the other fighters, ''including each other'', until only one is left standing.
* {{Flight}}: His ability, Heaven's Holding, is this. With this ability, he can reach altitudes higher than Chicken's birds, thus ensuring that she can't detect him with her [[AnimalEyeSpy Eye of the Cormorant]].

* HateSink: Easily the least sympathetic character in the story, along with his brother.
* HellishPupils: Both brothers have slitted pupils, giving into their AnimalMotifs.

* IdenticalTwinIDTag: Dresses in cool violet shades to contrast his brother's warmer brown tones.

* JerkassHasAPoint: Dragon points out the hypocrisy of the prosecutor when he attempts to use common standards of law and morality to denounce the twins' conduct, when according to the light novel, the warriors are exempted from such standards explicitly so they can do any work they are contracted to do.
* JustLikeRobinHood: A DeconstructedTrope; it's revealed in his backstory that he and Snake would pull off heists and give the money to the under privileged. Of course, they didn't do it for noble ambitions, but simply because [[ItAmusedMe they were bored]], and were complete ambivalent to the consequences of what would happen to those they passed the money off on.
* KillItWithIce: As his weapon is an [[FreezeRay icethrower]], this is how he kills his foes. [[spoiler:His corpse is finally defeated after Tiger takes his icethrower and smashes it, releasing the liquid hydrogen inside, which freezes the twin brothers.]]
* LiterallyShatteredLives: [[spoiler:After both halves of his body and his severed arm are frozen by Tiger, they are reduced to this upon impact with the ground.]]
* MythologyGag: In their focal episode, the twins are shown performing charitable deeds such as throwing money out of an aircraft while flying over a poverty-stricken village. In the original myth, Dragon explains that he was delayed because he stopped to make it rain over a drought-stricken village.
* OnlyInItForTheMoney: As a mercenary, this is the reason he fights.

* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: According to the light novel, the twins go above in beyond in this regard when carrying out their illicit activities, even when compared to the other warriors.
* TogetherInDeath: [[spoiler: A variant, as though he and his brother were killed separately, their corpses were frozen together by Tiger and then [[LiterallyShatteredLives shattered]], intermingling the fragments to the point where no one could tell them apart. The novel even [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this. In one of the paths deleted by Rat, both twins are killed seconds apart by Ox.]]

** [[spoiler:The Tatsumi Brothers also fares better against Tiger and Ox in the manga adaptation, due to Snake's head being used as an AttackDrone that aims for their blind spots.]]
* AlwaysIdenticalTwins: With his brother Dragon.

* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Both he and Dragon really had it coming in the end.]]

* BlueAndOrangeMorality: The light novel reveals that he and Dragon are known to use the money they have earned illicitly to fund charitable activities, not because they are good at heart, but out of a perverse ironic joy at seeing blood money be utilized in a manner diametrically opposed to how it was earned. The anime expands on this when Dragon states that all warriors have this due to the nature of their jobs, and as such, the prosecutor's attempt to judge them based on common standards of morality is flawed and misguided.
* EatTheDog: The light novel states that in contrast to his lack of care for human life, he cares dearly for the reptiles he keeps as pets, and invokes this trope when one dies as a form of DueToTheDead.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: More or less implied with him and his brother. While they don't care about each other in the way that normal people would, they clearly do care about each other on some level, as the fact that they make such a good team shows. He also was clearly less than thrilled when him and Dragon found out that they were expected to kill each other in the Zodiac War, and he actually died because he turned away from Rabbit to warn his brother about Monkey placing explosives under the floor.
** In the novel, while he doesn't give a crap about anyone other than himself and his brother, he has an extensive amount of pet reptiles and cares deeply for them, despite his lack of care for other humans.
* ExactWords: When the twins were accused by the prosecutor of collusion for the incident detailed in PlayingBothSides, Dragon simply stated that he killed Snake's client, while Snake killed his client, which was exactly what their contracts specified.
* FastballSpecial: His severed head is first flung at enemies by Monkey's corpse, and then by Dragon's corpse.
* FireBreathingWeapon: His weapon, a flamethrower, is this.

* FlatWhat: In the anime, upon being chosen as the Fighters of the Dragon and Snake, the twins react this way when told they are expected to kill the other fighters, ''including each other'', until only one is left standing.
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Its revealed in a posthumous flashback in Episode 7 that Snake had this dynamic with his brother Dragon prior to the Tournament, with Snake being the Foolish Sibling. He would rush into heists and almost get himself killed, requiring Dragon to bail him out.
* HateSink: Both him and his brother are incredibly cruel, loathesome and completely without any likable or sympathetic qualities.
* HellishPupils: Both brothers have slitted pupils, giving into their AnimalMotifs.

* IdenticalTwinIDTag: Dresses in muted brown colors to contrast his brother.

* KilledMidSentence: [[spoiler:Upon detecting Monkey planting explosives under the floor, he attempts to warn Dragon, but has his head unceremoniously lopped off by Rabbit after getting barely two words out.]]

-->'''Snake (Jap):''' Warrior of the Snake, killing for money."

* LiterallyShatteredLives: [[spoiler:After both his head and body are frozen by Tiger, the former falls and strikes the latter, reducing both to this.]]

* OnlyInItForTheMoney: As a mercenary, this is the reason he fights. It's even his wish to obtain more money.
* PlayingBothSides: A flashback in the anime reveals that Dragon was hired by a pharmaceutical company that used poor children in their experiments, while Snake was hired by a criminal gang who kidnapped and supplied those children, allowing them to share information with each other about their respective clients. When both groups came to blows and called in their respective warriors, Dragon simply killed the gang members, while Snake killed the company's employees, allowing the twins to abscond with the money owned by both groups.

* SiblingTeam: With his older brother Dragon.
* SnakesAreSinister: He spends the majority of the story as a headless, reanimated corpse that relentlessly stalks the other fighters. It's incredibly creepy, even ''before'' his severed limbs keep attacking people.
** Heck, Snake was plenty bad on his own even before he got his head lopped off! He's a self admitted pyro maniac who sadistically gets great pleasure out of causing excessive death and destruction and uses the money that he and his brother steal to do charitable deeds simply because they like the irony of using blood money for good and get a kick of how often their so-called help ends up backfiring and hurting the innocent people that they pass their money off to. In addition, Snake is so prone to making creepy and downright disturbing faces in the anime that his headlessness is actually far less creepy.
* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: According to the light novel, the twins go above in beyond in this regard when carrying out their illicit activities, even when compared to the other warriors.
* TooDumbToLive: While turning your back on an enemy is a terrible idea in any situation, doing so when said enemy is a psychopath is especially foolish.
** In the manga is arguably worse: Snake and Dragon voluntary tells Rabbit that they want to be friends with him, so they can use and betray him latter. Also, in this version, Snake is distracted by Ox arriving, rather than by Monkey moving Sheep's explosives to the floor bellow.
* TogetherInDeath: [[spoiler: A variant, as though he and his brother were killed separately, their corpses were frozen together by Tiger and then [[LiterallyShatteredLives shattered]], intermingling the fragments to the point where no one could tell them apart. The novel even [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this. In one of the paths deleted by Rat, both twins are killed seconds apart by Ox.]]
* TookALevelInBadass: Ironically, only ''after'' he died and became one of Rabbit's "friends". As Dragon remarks after observing him for some time, the feats Snake performs during the Juuni Taisen would have been utterly impossible for the man to accomplish if he had been left alive instead.

* AcquiredPoisonImmunity: Because the anime portrays his [[SuperToughness ability]] as an AdaptiveAbility, he would have this in the anime if indeed his ability could protect him from the poison he swallowed.
* AdaptiveAbility: The anime states that his [[SuperToughness ability]] is due to his constantly mutating cells, which give him protection against any force that might injure him, [[spoiler:including the poison he ingested at the start of the Zodiac War]]. According to the anime, this also grants Horse a HealingFactor as well.
* BadassPacifist: Like Monkey, he would rather not fight, even if he's capable of.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: According to to the light novel, he was the one who killed Rat and Rabbit in the path where they befriended each other.

* FatalFlaw: [[spoiler:Horse's own timidness is ultimately what does him in. After getting [[MinorInjuryOverreaction injured]] by Ox, Horse decides to given up on competing for the remainder of the Zodiac War. His attempt to hole up and waiting out of the tournament is what leads him to his death. Had Horse actually put more thought into it though, he would have realized that Ox ''gave up'' his pursuit of him because he could only inflict shallow wounds on him at best. Had Horse actually gone on the offense, he potentially could have won.]]
* FateWorseThanDeath: In a deleted path, he tells Rat that losing a fight is this to him.
* GiverOfLameNames: He originally wanted to name [[SuperToughness his ability]] "Armor", but wrote the kanji for it wrongly and wound up with "Stirrup" instead.
* HealingFactor: In addition to his SuperToughness, he also possesses this ability, which quickly heals the wounds Ox inflicted on him. It does nothing for the [[HeroicBSOD mental trauma]] Horse suffers from being wounded, however. The anime frames this as part of his AdaptiveAbility.
* HeroicBSOD: [[spoiler:After his confrontation with Ox leaves him with several sword wounds, he suffers this as his confidence in being able to emerge from fights unscathed due to [[SuperToughness Stirrup]] is shattered. Being injured in such a manner also made him feel vulnerable for the first time since he was a slender teenager, a feeling he explicitly tried to avoid by bulking up and using steroids. It's so bad that he barricades himself in a bank and considers staying there until the Zodiac War is over.]]
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:His plan to hide himself in a bank and wait out the rest of the Zodiac War becomes an example of this trope when Snake's corpse, having detected that its quarry, Rat, was nearby, uses its flamethrower to burn down the building. The resulting inferno consumes all the oxygen in the building and Horse suffocates to death as a result. Because he barricaded himself inside, he couldn't get out in time.]]

* MythologyGag: In the original myth, the Horse is beaten over the finish line because another competitor frightened him. [[spoiler: Snake steals 6th place by spooking Horse, while in the series Horse is killed by Snake's zombie]].
* NeverBeHurtAgain: In the light novel, he was described as formerly being a tall but slender teenager. Downplayed in the anime, where flashbacks depicted him as having a fairly decent build and already being a capable fighter. Regardless, after a fight that left him brutally defeated, he bulked up, took steroids, and gained his current physique, all so that he would never be put in such a vulnerable position again. [[spoiler:Being wounded by Ox reignites this feeling of vulnerability within him and sends him straight into a HeroicBSOD, to the point that he lost the will to fight and decided to hide himself away until the Zodiac War was over.]] In a deleted path, he confesses to Rat that he fears losing a fight more than dying.

* SuperToughness: His ability, Stirrup, allows him to substantially increase the durability of his body at will, to the point where Ox's swords strikes couldn't penetrate his flesh. It is also speculated that this ability might grant him enough durability to survive the poison he ingested at the start of the Zodiac War, should he live to the end.

* CurbStompBattle: Sheep won a previous Juni Taisen, which took place in a space station, by plating explosives and escaping trough a space pod before the explosion. [[spoiler:Ironically, he also ends up in the receiving end of one this time, due to his misjudgment of Tora's strength.]]
* DemolitionsExpert: His role on the battlefield was this since he was a youth.
* DoppelgangerAttack: Tiger ''thinks'' that he has this ability because she was looking at him through SingleMaltVision.
* TheDreaded: His prized bomb, Shuukaiokuri, is noted to be this to Monkey in the light novel, as it destroys indiscriminately and leaves no room for her to employ her peace talks.

* MoreExpendableThanYou: Sheep consider himself more expendable than his grandson, and so he decided to take his place at the Juni Taisen.
* NonActionGuy: Due to his age and size, he is this. In his prime, however, he was a capable fighter, but that ability eventually shriveled up as he aged. [[spoiler:When forced to fight Tiger in the open, he proves to be no match for her, as she easily kills him with a few swipes of her nails.]] In flashbacks in the anime, he is also rarely seen in direct combat against his enemies, preferring to use explosives to blow them up.

* SoleSurvivor: [[spoiler:He was this at the end of the ninth Zodiac War, being its victor.]]

* ThrowDownTheBomblet: His weapon of choice, even as a youth.
* WrongGenreSavvy: In trying to breakdown and rank the threat-level of his opponents, there's quite a few holes in his plan due to the limited amount of information he actually had. [[spoiler: He considered Horse, Boar, and Dog to be a tier below the favorites to win, and the best possible temporary allies. By this point in the story both Boar and Dog had already died early and Horse, who had been demoralized, had effectively given up on fighting. Similarly, he dismisses Tiger as the weakest of the fighters. Tiger is the one who ends up killing him.]]

* {{Ambadassador}}: She has apparently worked as one to solve crisis, much to the bemusement of her fellow assassins.
* BadassPacifist: Although she is certainly a good fighter, the first thing the Monkey suggests to the rest is to agree on a settlement. Additionally, unlike the other warriors, she is more famous for the sheer number of wars that she managed to stop rather than any sort of combat prowess.

* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] in that Monkey is able to pull off rather absurd feats of strength [[PintSizedPowerhouse for someone her size]]. Doubly so, [[spoiler: after she gets killed by Rabbit and comes back as a Zombie. [[UninhibitedMusclePower Now that her body has no limiters, her strength goes through the roof.]]]]

* FailureHero: Sees herself as one, since she knows that despite her efforts to solve things peacefully, there will always be conflict, sometimes on the same places she tried to appease.
* FastballSpecial: She is capable of flinging others to great heights, [[spoiler:as her corpse demonstrates when it throws Snake's head at the airborne Dragon [[HeyCatch to distract him]], and then hurls Rabbit into the air at a high enough altitude so the necromantist can [[HalfTheManHeUSedToBe bisect Dragon at the waist]]]].
* FatalFlaw: [[spoiler:Her insistence of fighting Rabbit non-lethally left her vulnerable to the trap he set using Snake's head, allowing him to impale her.]]

* TakeAThirdOption: Monkey's method of "peace negotiations." She doesn't get the two conflicting sides to come to common ground as much as strong arming a third solution they can't refuse. This is illustrated in her backstory where, when trying to broker peace between two warring nations, she instead convinces the soldiers to desert and form an independent nation over the land they were fighting over.

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: She turns out to have been one, as a result of distracting Snake at a critical moment. This led to his death, providing Rabbit with his first zombie and allowed him to kill Boar. Later on, [[spoiler: Ox theorizes that the competition was decided the moment she lost to Rabbit.]]

* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: And it seems to be a real mental disorder. She even muses she has betrayed so many people she can't differentiate friend from foe anymore.

* FilleFatale: Niwatori dresses in a {{Stripperiffic}} outfit, has FemmeFatalons and act innocently, going as far as to [[ExplainingYourPowerToTheEnemy explain her special ability to control birds to Dog]] in order to gain others trust [[spoiler:and backstab him later.]]

* MotorMouth: Dog spends most of their interactions ignoring what she says.
* MythologyGag: [[spoiler: Rooster takes 10th place, after helping Monkey]].

* StrippedToTheBone: [[spoiler:Just like she directed her birds to do to Boar's corpse, she uses her last moments to order them to do this to her as well.]]

* TraumaInducedAmnesia: She does not remember anything about the first fifteen years of her life, but given that her biological parents were implied to be highly abusive towards her, along with implication that she snapped and [[SelfMadeOrphan killed them]] as a result, this trope is likely the reason.

* WeaponizedAnimal: By giving her birds some bombs to [[DeathFromAbove drop on foes]], she gets this.
* WhatIsThisFeeling: [[spoiler: Monkey's kind words make her feel some sort of sympathy, but she denies the feeling and chalks it up to One Man Army heightening her emotions as well as her strength. When she instinctively gets into defensive stance upon Ox asking her where Monkey is, she thinks that's One Man Army talking, too.]]
* WoundedGazelleGambit: [[spoiler: Invoked twice, once in her backstory when she double crossed some soldiers she was working with, and once in the present to lure Dog into a false sense of security. It works in both instances.]]

* AcquiredPoisonImmunity: He can make his body immune to all sorts of poisons, including the one used at the competition.

* BlackEyesOfCrazy: His sclera is black, but unlike Rabbit, his irises are blue.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He genuinely loves his adopted daughter.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: While he acts as a recruiter for ChildSoldiers, he draws the line at other crimes against children. When he learned one of his clients was a pedophile, he went on a RoaringRampageOfRescue to get the child back.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler: He gave Chicken a doping to use her as bait to find Rabbit, only for her to crush his face in retaliation.]]

* ManBitesMan: His fangs are poisonous, and kills by biting his enemies.

* PrimalStance: Assumes this position when confronting Chicken, in the second episode.
* RoaringRampageOfRescue: The anime portrays his rescue of the girl who would become his adopted daughter as this.

* {{Schoolteachers}}: He works as a preschool teacher, which doubles as a recruitment pool for his ''other'' job. He genuinely cares for his students, but also willingly scouts out promising young ChildSoldiers for his clients.

* AssholeVictim: Episode 1 showed how she drove her sister to madness and then suicide to take her place in the competition, so it's not hard not to feel sorry for her when Rabbit kills her.
* TheBait: After he kills her, Rabbit uses her corpse as this to lure out the other warriors.

* BottomlessMagazines: What her ability Non-Reload amounts to.

* DidntSeeThatComing: She came up with a very intricate plan to take out Rabbit. Unfortunately, she had no idea that Rabbit is a {{Necromancer}} and was completely caught off-guard when he uses Snake's corpse to grab her from behind, allowing him to land a killing blow.

* ItsAllAboutMe: Toshiko claims to love and wants to protect her little sister and want to take part in the game to spare Kiyoko from having to participate. Of course, when their father chooses Kiyoko, Toshiko resorts to drive Kiyoko to insanity and pushes her into committing suicide.
* JerkassHasAPoint: Boar horribly abusing her sister into murderous insanity and convincing her to commit suicide was solely for self gain. However, Kyoko's innocence and kindness combined with her fear during the training montage showed she had problems killing people, moreso than Boar herself, and was ill-equipped to go into battle since she had only killed ''animals'' without hesitation, not people. The entire point of the Juuni Taisen is to kill without hesitation or any prompting, and to be prepared for any possible scenario; Kyoko might not have been a good candidate to begin with.
* MsFanservice: She has a curvy body, big breasts and has a scene where she's just wearing her bra and panties.
* MythologyGag: The Boar always arrives late.

* SiblingRivalry: In its most terrible, cynical form.

* TheSociopath: Few of the characters are distinguished by high moral standards, but the Boar looks immoral and cruel even against their background.

* PunnyName: A pun on "friendship" and "sheep".

* BrotherSisterTeam: The twins fight together and counts a single warrior.

* ChestOfMedals: Just look at them all.

* CreepyCrossdresser: Raised as a girl, to avoid conscription.

* PunnyName: His codename is one on the band "Iron Maiden".

* BadassCape: Wears a magnificent red cape.

* InTheHood: He wears what it looks like a raincoat.

* CatchPhrase: [[GratuitousEnglish "EVERYBODY, CLAP YOUR HANDS!"]]
* MeaningfulName: "Duedecuple" is the [[GratuitousLatin Latin]] word for ''twelve''.
* PhysicalGod: Implied to be one, due to his ability to grant any wish.

* AudienceSurrogate: As the reporter of the Zodiac War, Navi explains the background and skills of the fighters, and shares his troughs with the audience.

* CainAndAbel: The Abel since she bore no ill-will towards her older sister.

'''Toshiko:''' Yes, to kill. As a member of the Ino family, as the chosen one, this is your duty. The taking of lives... That is what Father, Mother, and I... [[BlatantLies What we all desire.]] Do you mean to tell me it is not what you desire? (''[[LeaveBehindAPistol Puts down a knife and slides it under the door to her]]'') Then you may do as your heart guides you.

** Rabbit: His attire (or lack of it) looks like a parody of a PlayboyBunny, and the ball of fluff that he carries in his back resembles the tail of a rabbit.

** Snake: Just like his older brother, the stripes of his trousers and the tube that connects his flamethrower with the hose of the weapon can be interpreted as the scales and tail of a snake. Also his outfit, unlike Dragon's, doesn't have sleeves on his attire as a representation of the lack of limbs of the snakes.

** Chicken: The ornament of her head is an obvious representation of the crest of a rooster, and her cape resembles the feathers of one.
** Dog: He has the ears and the tail of a dog, and the collar of fur around his name represents the fur of an actual dog.

* AstonishinglyAppropriateAppearance: Justifed, as members of the twelve families, they wear clothes that echos the animal of their EasternZodiac sign.

* DysfunctionJunction: While it may not be obvious, each of the characters have clearly been shaped by all the fighting and killing they've experienced in one way or another. The most obvious one is Tiger, who's trauma was explicitly addressed; even though she got her life back together, it's pretty clear that she is just barely functioning as is still very depressed and traumatized.

** Chicken is very brutal and self-centered yet [[{{Dissonant serenity}} extremely cheerful]] due to having no memories or personality to speak of after being horrifically abused and then being adopted by the Niwa family so that they could exploit those traits and make her a mercenary.
** The Tatsumi brothers are explicitly stated by Rat and their novel profiles to be major [[{{StepfordSmiler}} Stepford Smilers]] who put on a silly and optimistic front with everyone except each other.

** Sheep and Dog are both total asses who look down on everyone else and have a very low value of human life, yet they both somehow have family members who they clearly love deeply.

* EnsembleCast: Downplayed. [[spoiler:Rat is the protagonist of the one-shot manga sequel ''The One Wish That Must Be Granted, and the Ninety-nine That Can Be Done Without'' (which is the Episode 12 of the anime)]], but most of them have their focus chapter/episode.
* EvilVersusEvil: With the exception of [[WhiteSheep Monkey]], their are violent and/or antagonistic characters willing to murder each other for their wish to be granted.
* UnderestimatingBadassery: The fatal flaw of almost every participant. They're so short sighted that they can't see that their opponent might have something up their sleeve, which invariably leads to their demise.

** [[spoiler:Dragon assumed that he was untouchable because he can fly to an altitude beyond detection from the other fighters, and thus decided to spent much of the war simply observing Snake's corpse. While his brother was fighting Ox and Tiger, Dragon thought that he could net two easy kills while they were distracted, and descended to attack them. However, he completely forgot about Monkey and Rabbit and did not realize that the former was capable of throwing objects very high. As such, he was distracted when her corpse threw Snake's head at him, leaving him wide open for Rabbit to bisect him when the necromantist was also thrown upwards by Monkey.]]

* ActionSurvivor: [[spoiler:Surviving the Juuni Taisen without having to actually ''fight'' thanks to his power makes him this.]]

* CombatClairvoyance: [[spoiler:Rat can predict enemy attacks trough SaveScumming. In the manga climax, he uses it dodge Rabbit attacks before using Sheep's grenade to finish him off.]]

* TheCynic: Thinks the lowest of the competition, and believes the War only helps prolong everyone else's "meaningless" lives. [[spoiler: After emerging the victor however Rat admits that a lot of this was actually posturing on his end. Right down to stating that he preferred that Monkey would've won over him since she would've done the most good.]]

* ExactWords: His killing style, "Killing All", is this. [[spoiler:He doesn't have to lift a finger for most of the Zodiac War, only killing one person by hand near the end. He just ends up "killing all" because he chose the reality that leads him to survival-- and in this case, since he's in [[ThereCanBeOnlyOne The Zodiac War]], everyone else has to go.]]

* FashionableAsymmetry: As can be seen on the image to the right, he only wears one pauldron, on his right shoulder. Also, legs of his pants end at different lengths, only extending to his mid-thigh on the right leg, and completely covering his left leg. He also has a blue piece of cloth tied to his left elbow.

* HiddenDepths: [[spoiler: After Rat wins the Juni Taisen, he implies that a lot of his cyncism towards Monkey's ideals came less from him actually not believing but more of a result of Rat knowing ahead of time that he was dooming her and all the other fighters to die. He even admits that Monkey would be the fighter he would have wanted to win if he couldn't, because of the good she could have done.]]

* RoyalRapier: His weapon seems to be one, in contrast with Ox's curved one.

* SoleSurvivor: [[spoiler:As the winner of the Zodiac War, he is this.]]

* BookEnds: [[spoiler:His first and final encounters with Tiger consist of him saving her from enemies and then piggyback carrying her to safety. Tiger even lampshades this.]]

* CannotSpitItOut: [[spoiler:He actually recognized Tiger from their previous encounter, but second-guessed himself and said nothing. As such, he never told her that their meeting had helped him to reexamine his motivations and that he was also grateful to her for helping him]]
* ExhaustedEyeBags: Sports them all the time, accentuating his bored expression.

* GoodIsNotSoft: He is committed to doing the right thing and is often considered to be equal Monkey in terms of righteousness and morality, but he is also a self admitted killer with a body count higher than all the other Zodiac Warriors put together.

* ImplausibleFencingPowers: Ox can cut limbs, steel and solid concrete as they were made of paper.

** [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] in his fight with Horse. Ox ''technically'' [[TacticalWithdrawal wins]] the fight, but gives up on pursuing Horse because he could only at best inflict minor wounds on him.

* MercyKill: [[spoiler: He provides one to a mortally-wounded Tiger, so that she won't be reanimated as one of Rabbit's zombies. This favor is returned when Rat uses a grenade to blow him up so that the corpses of Rabbit and Monkey won't add him to their ranks]].
** In the light novel, it's noted that was is his motivation in deciding to win by killing all of the other warriors as quickly as possible. He was one of the first to realize that there was a necromancer among the twelve, but didn't initially realize that it was [[spoiler:Rabbit]], and also came to the conclusion that everyone had abandoned the idea of a group peace agreement in favor of simply killing each other off. Given the state of the battle at that point and the fact that he didn't know who the necromancer was, he believed that the most merciful thing he could do for the other competitors was to kill them all as painlessly as possible to spare them the extra suffering and indignity of being turned into a living corpse.
* MythologyGag: In the Zodiac myth, the ox was the favorite to win the race, but ended up in second place after the Rat exploited his good nature to get him to give the other rodent a ride on it's back and crossed the finish line first. Ox is considered to be the strongest warrior in the world and all of the [=VIPs=] thought that he was pretty much guaranteed to win; [[spoiler: He actually ends up being the final warrior defeated and meets his end when Rat takes the opportunity to blow him up while he is immobilized, along with the undead corpses of Monkey and Rabbit.]] However, like in the story, Ox doesn't harbor any ill will towards Rat as he believes that [[spoiler: more-or-less sacrificing himself so that Rabbit and Monkey would die for good]] was the right thing to do. He even lampshades this in his final moments

* ShipTease: With Tiger. [[spoiler: His focal chapter reveals that he remembered her all along, and his frantic behavior after she saved him left him confused. Never before had he lost his focus in battle, or acted irrationally. Though he abstained from alcohol, he would have liked to have a drink with her. The novel also reveals that his discussion with her after he saved her helped him to strengthen his determination to fight and that he was both very grateful and impressed by how she was brave enough to shamelessly question him. Although, it's worth mentioning that it's stronger on Tiger's side; for Ox, it's played off as largely admiration, as he's grateful to her helping him in the past, and shock, as he was totally unused to someone being bold enough to question his motivations and surprised that someone would want to save him.]]

* TheTeetotaler: He makes a point to abstain from alcohol, but wishes he could have [[spoiler: had drinks with Tiger]].

* WorldsStrongestMan: The narrative frames him as the world's most skilled fighter, with strength to match, and prior to the Zodiac War, he has never lost a battle. He is even the standard by which other warriors are measured by. [[spoiler:It takes the reanimated corpses of Rabbit and Monkey to finally defeat him, and only because his skills are ineffective against the dead.]]

* AbsurdlySharpClaws: Tora can tear people to pieces with her FemmeFatalons.
** Subverted in the manga version, where she uses WolverineClaws.
* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:The narrative certainly goes out of its way to make the audience feel as sorry for her as possible while she is on her deathbed. The anime further plays this up through the way she emotes during her inner monologues and use of GrayRainOfDepression.]]
* BadassNormal: Similar to Ox, Tiger doesn't have an special ability or modification done to her body. She relies simply on her martial arts.
* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: [[spoiler:Having been fatally wounded by Rabbit's corpse, she asks Ox to kill her so that it wouldn't count as Rabbit killing her, as she did not wish a fate as a reanimated corpse controlled by Rabbit. While she did not commit suicide like most examples of this trope, she still got to dictate the circumstances of her death.]]
* BewareTheSillyOnes: Spends most of her interactions with Sheep drunk of her ass [[spoiler:but as soon as a fight is declared, she tears Sheep in one hit]].

* BookDumb: She is very good at fighting, but she wouldn't pass an basic academic test. [[spoiler:She did not start out this way, however, as she was previously very gifted and intelligent. However, haunted by her consciousness and questioning the morality of all the killing she did, she turned to the bottle to forget all these thoughts in order to focus her mind on fighting and nothing else. As a result, her mental capacities eventually shriveled up.]]
* BookEnds: [[spoiler: Her first and final encounters with Ox consist of him saving her from enemies and then piggyback carrying her to safety. She even lampshades this.]]

* CannotSpitItOut: [[spoiler: She never tells Ox about their previous meeting, pretending that she simply picked a fight with him out of annoyance. She dies without realizing that he ''did'' recognize her, and also felt their meeting was life-changing]].

* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: She's easily underestimated by others, as a result of her heavy drinking and her youthful appearance. In the past, people have mistaken her for a child lost on the battlefield, lowering their guard or attempting to rescue her. Her opponents in the tournament write her off as a non-threat, which proves fatal to [[spoiler: Sheep]].
* CurbStompBattle: [[spoiler:She takes on and effortless kills Sheep with her super speed.]]
* DiedInYourArmsTonight: [[spoiler:After being fatally wounded by Rabbit's corpse, she dies in Ox's arms by requesting him to MercyKill her, not wanting a fate as a reanimated corpse.]]
* DrowningMySorrows: Her addiction began by trying to cope with all she had seen and done.

* FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler:As she lays dying, she remains calm and content as Ox applies her a MercyKill.]]
* FunctionalAddict: Tiger is massive alcoholic. In her backstory, it's revealed that Tiger turned to the bottle in order to cope with the horrors of war. Eventually she customized her fighting style to actually rely on her [[DrunkenMaster being drunk]]. It wasn't until a chance encounter with [[spoiler: Ox on the battlefield]] that Tiger cleaned herself up to a degree to actually becoming a ''functional'' drunk so that she could enter the Juni Taisen.
* GrayRainOfDepression: [[spoiler:Her death scene is underscored by heavy rain to evoke this trope.]]

* TheLadette: Tiger is an agressive and competitive girl who CantHoldHerLiquor.
* MadnessMantra: In the anime, while pondering the continued degradation of her mental faculties, she constantly states that despite it, nothing could stop her from rampaging and killing. Constantly repeating it eventually causes it to become this trope.

* OlderThanSheLooks: Despite her appearance, she is old enough to drink. Lampshaded by Ox, who expresses some regret for treating her like a child [[spoiler:after he [[MercyKill Mercy Kills]] her]].
* PrimalStance: Assumes it at times before engaging a foe. She is seen doing it frequently in the anime's flashback, symbolizing her nature becoming more feral after using alcohol to drink away her sorrows, and also increasing her likeness to tigers.
* PyrrhicVictory: [[spoiler:After a chance encounter with Ox years ago, which steered her on her current path as a warrior, she wished to meet him again one day. She would get her wish when both were chosen to fight in the Zodiac War. Despite not being able to fight him personally, she died satisfied and in his arms after requesting that he MercyKill her. The book notes that she is the first person in the history of the Zodiac War to lose and still have her wish be realized.]]
* RunningOnAllFours: She often does this in combat in conjunction with a PrimalStance, which serves to show how much her mind degraded due to her alcohol consumption and also makes her movements resemble that of a tiger.

* SingleMaltVision: She gets this when drunk, as her confrontation with Sheep proves. Curiously, this causes her to think that Sheep is capable of pulling a DoppelgangerAttack instead.
* {{Stripperiffic}}: She wears a tiger striped bikini with a chain collar, thigh-high boots, and a leather jacket. [[spoiler:She loses the jacket in a fight against Snake's corpse, playing up this trope.]]
* SuperSpeed: When drunken, Tiger speed and attacks becomes so fast that her enemies don't even known what hit them.
* TakingTheBullet: [[spoiler:Saves Ox from Rabbit's corpse, and gets stabbed in the back for it.]]

* BadFuture: [[spoiler:According to Rat, any timeline in which Rabbit won would be this, as Rabbit's wish was to be "friends" with everyone in the whole world; his wish would literally lead to the end of the world.]]

* BlackComedy: After Monkey's corpse retrieves the dead Horse from the bank so he can obtain the deceased fighter's jewel, he complains about it being too well-done.
* BlackEyesOfCrazy: His sclera is black, and is certainly not a stable person.

* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: [[spoiler:In a rejected reality, this was the foundation of his alliance with Rat. When cornered, Rat explained that reanimating him would render his powers useless. As such, the two formed a partnership with Rabbit promising not to kill him until the very end. However, both died at the hands of Horse and the reality was erased]].

* CombatTentacles: [[spoiler:After he is killed and hacked to pieces, he can use ''his intestines'' to evoke this trope.]]
* CreepyCrossdresser: To some extent, since he wears a bunny-eared headband, high heels, and short shorts, all articles of clothing more typically associated with women.
* DefeatMeansFriendship: How he interprets the use of his power, calling [[ReforgedIntoAMinion the corpses under his command]] his "friends".

* HairRaisingHare: His motif as the Rabbit contestant. And boy is he the ''worst''.
* TheHeavy: A combination of both this and TheDreaded once the other combatants learns the [[{{Necromancer}} nature of his abilities]]. Rabbit is the driving force of a lot of the conflicts, alliances, and deaths in the tournament; he derails Monkey's pacifist alliance, Chicken explicitly seeks out and kills Dog to get his OneManArmy serum in order to better combat him, [[spoiler: and thanks to his abilities Rabbit is largely responsible for majority of the deaths in the tournament.]]
* HeroicBuild: His physique certainly fits this trope, but there's nothing heroic about his character or his powers.

* IJustWantToHaveFriends: In the deleted path where he befriends Rat, he reveals this to be his wish when asked by the latter. Given his nature, while Rat initially found it disturbing, he later notes that Rabbit seemed genuine in that desire. However, due to his definition of [[TheUndead "friends"]], Rat also realized [[ZombieApocalypse what kind of nightmare]] it would be if Rabbit ever had this wish granted.

* KillingIntent: Out of all the warriors, Rabbit's stands out in a class of its own. Best pictured by Boar in the novel, who describes it as a massive dark entity that would roll off the building they stood in and head off on its own if it could. His killing intent reaches such degrees that it reduces any chance of him performing an ambush to nil, as everyone can feel it from a mile away, forcing him to use his "friends" just to get the jump on his targets without giving himself away first.
* LoopholeAbuse: [[spoiler:He came to the realization that any warrior who gathers all twelve jewels will be declared the winner, regardless of whether or not he was alive. Thus, when on the verge of being killed by Ox and Tiger, he commits suicide and programs his corpse with instructions to gather all the jewels to ensure that he still has a way to win, even postmortem.]]

* MysteriousPast: Nothing is known about him or his past, the light novel simply stating that such details are unknown and the anime episode that supposedly centers around him reveals nothing. Aside from some apparent fondness for rabbits, he's a complete enigma.
* {{Necromancer}}: His ability, which allows him to control the corpses of anyone he kills, and they also retain whatever powers they had in life, giving him complete control over those as well. [[spoiler:This power ''even extends'' to the corpses of anyone killed by those he is manipulating. And even he is not immune to this power as it will work on his corpse should he commit suicide.]] Over the course of the battle, he comes to use this power on the corpses of [[spoiler: Snake, Boar, Monkey, Dragon, and ''himself''.]]
* NightmareFuelStationAttendant: His looks, personality and abilities all scream 'get the hell away from him', and most fighters take too long to realize the danger he poses until its too late.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Despite his looks and behavior, Rabbit is -by far- the most dangerous participant of the Juni Taisen.

* PullingThemselvesTogether: [[spoiler:After his corpse is hacked to pieces by Ox and Tiger, they execute this trope. They are not entirely successful, however, resulting in a misshapen patchwork monstrosity that only vaguely has a humanoid shape, with parts being reattached in the wrong location and his weapons becoming integrated into the mix.]]
* RaisingTheSteaks: His ability also works on animals, as demonstrated in the scuffle between the reanimated Boar and Chicken's summoned birds.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Something he shares with real-life rabbits; here, it only heightens the madness lying underneath by combining them with BlackEyesOfCrazy.
* SeeingThroughAnothersEyes: Due to his necromancy, Rabbit can see through the eyes of his zombies. [[spoiler:He makes use of this when fighting Monkey, by hiding Snake's severed head on a tree to cover his blind spots.]]

* StalkerWithACrush: Rabbit ''really'' wanted to be friends with Monkey, from the moment he saw her. That's why he hunts her down and kills her.
* TheStrategist: He is considered quite inexperienced in combat compared to most warriors. Because of that, his trump cards to outsmart his opponents consisted on the clever ways he used the bodies of the warriors he had killed.

* SuperPersistentPredator: Once he sets his sights on a target, you can bet he'll go to any length to kill and reanimate said target by any means necessary. This mentality also extends to the corpses he control, which the light novel notes are only programmed to simply follow his orders and do nothing else. [[spoiler: This is further played up after he commits suicide, as ''not even death'' will stop him from pursuing Ox in his bid to kill the other fighter.]]
* ThanatosGambit: [[spoiler:[[DiscussedTrope Ox speculates]] that the reason Rabbit confronted both him and Tiger alone despite knowing that they would easily defeat and kill him, is ''specifically so he can reanimate his own corpse and continue to attack them relentlessly''. If that is the case, then this trope certainly applies to Rabbit.]]

* WeakButSkilled: Despite his HeroicBuild, he's not a trained fighter and can be easily bested by fighters with more combat experience and training, such as Ox, Tiger, Monkey, and Boar. However, he makes up for it with his keen strategic mind by using the corpses he reanimated in creative ways to throw off and overwhelm the opponent.
* WhiteHairBlackHeart: Possibly the most kill-happy of all of the participants.

* ArcherArchetype: In fitting with his Sign, he wields a bow and wears traditional Japanese gear.

* FailedASpotCheck: [[spoiler: Ox notes to himself after getting pinned down by the Reanimated Monkey that even if he didn't know that Monkey had brought her back, he should have taken into account that Rabbit's corpse was unusually bulky for a reason.]]

** Snake: Just like his older brother, the stripes of his trousers and the tube that connects his flamethrower with the hose of the weapon can be interpreted as the scales and tail of a snake. Also his outfit, unlike Dragon's, doesn’t has sleeves on his attire as a representation of the lack of limbs of the snakes.

* BadassNormal: Unlike the other participants, he doesn't has any supernatural ability, only his skill with the sword and his amazing physical feats. It is suggested in the light novel that the other participants possessing powers is so they stand some sort of chance against him in order to maintain CompetitiveBalance in the Zodiac War.

* PeekABangs: His hair covers his left eye.

* PeekABangs: Each twin has one of their eyes covered by their bangs.

* BladeOnAStick: She uses a spading fork as a weapon.

* ShipTease: With Tiger. [[spoiler: His focal chapter reveals that he remembered her all along, and his frantic behavior after she saved him left him confused. Never before had he lost his focus in battle, or acted irrationally. Though he abstained from alcohol, he would have liked to have a drink with her. The novel also reveals that his discussion with her after he saved her helped him to strengthen his determination to fight and that he was both very grateful and impressed by how she was brave enough to shamelessly question him. Although, it's worth mentioning that it's stronger on Tiger's side; for Ox, it's played off as largely admiration,as he's grateful to her helping him in the past, and shock, as he was totally unused to someone being bold enough to question his motivations and surprised that someone would want to save him.]]

* HumanoidAbomination: [[spoiler:After his corpse is cut to pieces and then poorly [[PullingThemselvesTogether reassembles itself]], it becomes an example of this trope.]]

* CainAndAbel: The Abel since she bared no ill-will towards her older sister.

** Kiyoko’s lack of hesitation came from killing ''animals'', ''not'' humans. On top of that it’s implied she had no formal training like Boar. Once she starts killing, she [[SanitySlippage slips further into insanity]] and kills herself in madness, proving she wasn’t necessarily the best choice.

* LittleSisterHeroine: [[spoiler:While considering his wishes, #96 is just him getting very excited coming up with the perfect little sister; attractive, [[BuxomIsBetter endowed]], a bit of a ditz, and wants to be spoiled by him.]]

* OmnicidalManiac: His wish, as genuine and innocent as it sounds, drives him into a quest of KillEmAll which would result in TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt if he had actually won the Juuni Taisen.

* {{Stripperiffic}}: She's not wearing pants.

* IllGirl: She's in a wheelchair, with [=IVs=] attached to her arm.

-->'''Snake ([=FUNimation=] dub):''' "Warrior of the Snake, [[UpToEleven VERY MUCH]] killing for money. [[RepeatToConfirm A LOT]]."

* RapunzelHair: Has long dark hair that reaches his knees.

* RapunzelHair: Her hair reaches past her hips.

* RapunzelHair: Has a long silver hair.

* {{Stripperiffic}}: Wears nothing but [[WhoWearsShortShorts groin-level shorts]], a tiny pair of suspenders and ill-fitting heels.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Along with his twin, both have lavender-colored hair.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Just like his twin, he also has lavender-colored hair.

* {{Meganekko}}: She's a rather cute girl that wears thick-framed glasses.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Has green hair.

* {{Meganekko}}: Wear glasses.

. * FailureIsTheOnlyOption: [[spoiler:Because all the paths he has glimpsed through his ability can potentially have the same outcome, this is a possibility when he uses it. For instance, he once tried to confess to a girl using his power. No matter which path he saw, she rejected him in every single one. Also, he attempted to use it to find a path wherein he did not have to fight in the Zodiac War, but failed every time]].

* MulticoloredHair: His hair is black and red.

* MulticoloredHair: Her hair is white and blue.

* BeautyMark: Beneath her right eye.

* BaldOfAwesome: He's bald beneath his hat, and he still has the skills to participate.

* BadassBeard: As befitting the Lion, he sports a massive beard resembling a mane.