History Characters / LupinIIITheWomanCalledFujikoMine

* DirtyCop: Becomes so fixated on destroying Fujiko that [[spoiler: he commits several robberies to frame her, kills a man, collaborates with Almeida’s Owlmen, and almost blows up a populated bridge. Just before the explosion,]] Inspector Zenigata tells Oscar about the day he ''stopped'' being a DirtyCop himself, which triggers Oscar pulling a RedemptionEqualsDeath.

* RedemptionEqualsDeath: Subverted. While he has a HeelRealization and throws himself into a river holding a bomb, the police never found the body, which triggers Inspector Zenigata actually tracking down Fujiko and demanding some answers from her. The two of them go looking for the Owls. [[spoiler: They find Oscar in a room full of Fujiko clones.]]

[[folder: Aisha Kaiser SPOILERS!]]

* WalkingSpoiler: It's ''very'' hard trying to talk about her until the two-part finale. That's why the entire folder is marked "SPOILERS!".

* DeadAllAlong: His experiments continue as if he is still alive to oversee them.
* DiabolicalMastermind: Count Luis Yu Almeida probably takes the cake in the Lupin franchise. He actually [[DeadAllAlong died before the series started]]. Aisha, his "daughter", was unable to cope with the idea the experiments would end, and followed in her "Papa"'s footsteps, growing it.

[[folder: Fujiko Mine (Child) SPOILERS!]]
!! Aisha Kaiser (This is the character we see in Fujiko’s {{Flashback}}s)

* BigBad: Aisha has been controlling the events of Fujiko's life for the entire series. But she's been doing it on behalf of Count Almeida, making him the mastermind responsible for everything bad that's happened to the main characters. Since he's dead, he is no longer an actual person forcing Aisha to do anything. Aisha' fear, however, makes him a BiggerBad to her, and [[InvertedTrope inverting the trope]] in the process.
* TheChessmaster: Aisha replaces Count Almeida after his death, and chooses to continue his incomplete plans regarding his primary experiment (her). She uses her extensive BigBrotherIsWatching sources to manipulate the people around Fujiko.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Aisha’s memories of torture and brainwashing are the fuel for her fear of Count Almeida. This fear drives her to control every aspect of Fujiko’s life, and manipulate the people around her.
* FakeMemories: Aisha has had memories of other girls implanted, had her real memories covered up, and had her memories implanted into other people.
* GrandTheftMe: Aisha pulls this trope on Fujiko, and many other girls who were in her experiment, via replacing their memories with hers. She continued Count Almeida's work in a vain attempt to get her "story" back by implanting her memories into young girls to see if she was able to live a different life, assuming the physical torture hadn't made her a quadriplegic.

!!Minerva

* FemmeFatale: The series makes this a DeconstructedTrope by showing how messed up her life was before she got to this point. [[spoiler: Then promptly reconstructed, when it's revealed she's a selfish thief because she likes it, and that past isn't even hers.]]
* FullFrontalAssault: In the very first episode!

* HotTeacher: In "Prison of Love".

!!Count Luis Yu Almeida (SPOILERS!)

Goemon is an assassin who meets Fujiko while both are “in disguise”. As he tries to uncover the mystery that is Fujiko Mine, he also tries to find his place in the world.

* [[spoiler: InterruptedSuicide: Tries to kill herself in "Love Wreathed In Stream" but the gun she took her to her head turned out to be a water gun.]]
* MadnessMantra: [[spoiler: At the end of "Love Wreathed In Stream."]]

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: The calm and collected FemmeFatale Fujiko becomes a resilient pursuer in "Love Wreathed In Storm" as she [[spoiler: shows no qualms about murdering Lupin, Jigen, and the human painting that she was after.]] In fact, during the pursuit, she becomes so sloppy that [[spoiler: she falls from a skylift that Lupin shoots, rammed off of the road and into a ditch during a car chase]], and even drops her gun into the boiling, hot spring when [[spoiler: chasing Lupin and the painting]]. She even [[spoiler: goes into a HeroicBSOD from the BrightSlap Lupin gives her]] at the end of episode!

* ShipTease: [[spoiler: With Goemon.]]

[[folder: Fujiko Mine (Child)]]
!! [[spoiler: Aisha Kaiser (This is the character we see in Fujiko’s {{Flashback}}s)]]

[[spoiler: Aisha]] is the daughter of two scientists who worked for Count Almeida. [[spoiler: Picked out as his favourite experiment, she was not only the victim of physical torture and brainwashing, but also given FalseMemory of additional tortures, selected from the other experiments. Unable to accept Almeida’s death, she continued the memory and torture experiments, modifying the pattern to discover what she might’ve done if the experiments hadn’t left her a quadriplegic.]]

* AnimalMotifs: [[spoiler: Aisha]] shares peacocks and butterflies with Fujiko, featuring mostly butterflies in Fujiko's false flashbacks. Her high-backed chair at the dinner table, however, shows peacock feathers.
* [[spoiler: BigBad: Aisha has been controlling the events of Fujiko's life for the entire series. But she's been doing it on behalf of Count Almeida, making him the mastermind responsible for everything bad that's happened to the main characters. Since he's dead, he is no longer an actual person forcing Aisha to do anything. Aisha' fear, however, makes him a BiggerBad to her, and [[InvertedTrope inverting the trope]] in the process.]]
* [[spoiler: TheChessmaster: Aisha replaces Count Almeida after his death, and chooses to continue his incomplete plans regarding his primary experiment (her). She uses her extensive BigBrotherIsWatching sources to manipulate the people around Fujiko.]]
* DarkAndTroubledPast: [[spoiler: Aisha’s memories of torture and brainwashing are the fuel for her fear of Count Almeida. This fear drives her to control every aspect of Fujiko’s life, and manipulate the people around her.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: It's ''very'' hard trying to talk about her until the end of the series.

!!Count Luis Yu Almeida

* BiggerBad: [[spoiler: This series [[InvertedTrope inverts]] the idea of a mastermind being revealed as the toy to an even more powerful and impersonal force. The character acting as the unapproachable mastermind dictating every event in the series is revealed to have two assistants, Aisha and Minerva, who have continued his experiments after he died. But Aisha couldn't bear the thought of her experiences being over, so she continued the torture. He is, therefore, completely impersonal while still operating as the BigBad at the same time.]]

* TheGunslinger

* LastNameBasis: In this version, the Japanese put his name as “Jigen Daisuke”, which makes Jigen his family name (Western order is Daisuke Jigen), and he is addressed as “Jigen” by the other characters.

* BornInTheWrongCentury
* ShipTease: [[spoiler: With Fujiko.]]

* CombatStilettos: Oscar, true to his [[spoiler: {{Creepy Crossdress|er}}ing]] tenancies, is often wearing high heels, even while in his police uniform.
* [[spoiler: CreepyCrossdresser: This trope doesn’t come into play until Oscar’s dream sequence. Until this point, he has only worn women’s clothing in order to disguise himself. A malicious, nasty guy, but once he is shown wearing the dress and flying to Inspector Zenigata, it cements his position as a CreepyCrossdresser.]]
* DirtyCop: Becomes so fixated on destroying Fujiko that [[spoiler: he commits several robberies to frame her, kills a man, collaborates with Almeida’s Owlmen, and almost blows up a populated bridge. Just before the explosion, Inspector Zenigata tells Oscar about the day he ''stopped'' being a DirtyCop himself, which triggers Oscar pulling a RedemptionEqualsDeath.]]
* DisguisedInDrag: Oscar disguises himself as a woman several times over the course of the series. Each time he’s impersonating someone specifically. The first time is in “Prison of Love”, as [[spoiler: Isolde Brach. Then he’s disguised as Fujiko in “The Feast of Fools”, to frame her for several thefts and a murder, and “The Woman Called Fujiko Mine”, where he’s been brainwashed.]]

* [[spoiler: RedemptionEqualsDeath: Subverted. While he has a HeelRealization and throws himself into a river holding a bomb to stop his attempt to frame Fujiko, he survives (though as one of Almeida’s Fujiko clones).]]

* TransEqualsGay: Oscar wearing dresses comes up a lot. [[spoiler: Posing as a schoolgirl could be excused, dressing as Fujiko while framing her was excessive (isn’t the point of being a master thief not being seen in the first place?), but ''wearing a wedding dress in his (not) DyingDream where he flies into Zenigata’s arms'' just goes too far, overlapping with CreepyCrossdresser.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: Not to the extent of [[spoiler: Aisha]], but after a certain point in the series there's only so much that can be discussed about him.

[[spoiler: * TheChessmaster: Aisha replaces Count Almeida after his death, and chooses to continue his incomplete plans regarding his primary experiment (her). She uses her extensive BigBrotherIsWatching sources to manipulate the people around Fujiko.]]

[[folder: Fujiko Mine (Child) SPOILERS!]]

!!Count Luis Yu Almeida (SPOILERS!)

* DisguisedInDrag: Oscar disguises himself as a woman several times over the course of the series. Each time he’s impersonating someone specifically. The first time is in “Prison of Love”, as [[spoiler: Isolde Brach]]. Then he’s disguised as Fujiko in “The Feast of Fools”, to frame her for several thefts and a murder, and “The Woman Called Fujiko Mine”, where he’s been brainwashed.

* TransEqualsGay: Oscar wearing dresses comes up a lot. Posing as a schoolgirl could be excused, dressing as Fujiko while framing her was excessive (isn’t the point of being a master thief not being seen in the first place?), but ''wearing a wedding dress in his (not) DyingDream where he flies into Zenigata’s arms'' just goes too far, overlapping with CreepyCrossdresser.

* BrokenBird: The series gradually reveals more and more of Fujiko's past, memories of [[spoiler: mental and physical torture]], and plays of sympathy for her current mental state. [[spoiler: Until the end of the series, where TheReveal is completely subverting this trope and others, Fujiko had these memories implanted inside her mind]], but was able to block them out and [[spoiler: ignore their effects, as well as being a DarkActionGirl and FemmeFatale before the implantation, too.]] It's just how she rolls.]]

* DarkActionGirl: Fujiko has always been an independent VillainProtagonist, and despite this series being about her, it's still Lupin making friends. But [[Recap/LupinIIIS4E09 Episode 9]] is significant for showing how independent she is. While trying to steal a human painting, she's ruthless enough to try killing Lupin, Jigen, and the painting, [[spoiler: just to feel free from Almeida's influence.]]

* BiTheWay: Humors the advances of SchoolgirlLesbians in [[Recap/LupinIIIS4E06 "Prison of Love"]] because she enjoys the attention she’s getting from them as a HundredPercentAdorationRating HotTeacher.

* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: As Cicciolina in [[Recap/LupinIIIS4E02 ".357 Magnum"]] is helpful enough to point out.

[[spoiler: * BigBad: Aisha has been controlling the events of Fujiko's life for the entire series. But she's been doing it on behalf of Count Almeida, making him the mastermind responsible for everything bad that's happened to the main characters. Since he's dead, he is no longer an actual person forcing Aisha to do anything. Aisha' fear, however, makes him a BiggerBad to her, and [[InvertedTrope inverting the trope]] in the process.]]

* CharacterCheck: Zenigata is much less of a buffoon in this incarnation. Sure, he's still always one step behind Lupin, and Lupin still mocks him, but the emphasis is that he's ''only'' one step behind Lupin, and if Lupin ever made a single mistake, he'd be done for. He's not afraid to actually open fire on Lupin and even hits him once; however, Lupin was armed with a bulletproof vest and a squib vest underneath, too, to make it look worse than it really was.

* {{Bishounen}}: Oscar is easily mistaken for female, even in-universe. A fact that he uses to his advantage by wearing WigDressAccent to fool Fujiko, and later on, other cops.

* CombatStilettos: Oscar, true to his {{Creepy Crossdress|er}}ing tenancies, is often wearing high heels, even while in his police uniform.
* CreepyCrossdresser: This trope doesn’t come into play until Oscar’s dream sequence. Until this point, he has only worn women’s clothing in order to disguise himself. A malicious, nasty guy, but once he is shown wearing the dress and flying to Inspector Zenigata, it cements his position as a CreepyCrossdresser.
* DirtyCop: Becomes so fixated on destroying Fujiko that he commits several robberies to frame her, kills a man, collaborates with Almeida’s Owlmen, and almost blows up a populated bridge. Just before the explosion, Inspector Zenigata tells Oscar about the day he ''stopped'' being a DirtyCop himself, which triggers Oscar pulling a RedemptionEqualsDeath.
* DisguisedInDrag: Oscar disguises himself as a woman several times over the course of the series. Each time he’s impersonating someone specifically. The first time is in [[Recap/LupinIIIS4E06 “Prison of Love”]], as [[spoiler: Isolde Brach]]. Then he’s disguised as Fujiko in [[Recap/LupinIIIS4E11 “The Feast of Fools”]], to frame her for several thefts and a murder, and [[Recap/LupinIIIS4E12 “The Woman Called Fujiko Mine”]], where he’s been brainwashed.
* DrivenByEnvy: As the Owlmen point out, he hates Fujiko so much because she got what he wants from Zenigata.

* KnightTemplar: Subverted. He breaks the law repeatedly trying to catch Fujiko, but it’s not out of good intentions – it’s out of jealousy.

* ParentalIncest: Inspector Zenigata fulfills a ParentalSubstitute role for Oscar. Oscar has worked hard to be the Inspector's right-hand man in the police force after that. Then it's implied by the Owlmen that the way he ''really'' wants to repay his debt is to satisfy "urges" the way Fujiko did.

* RedemptionEqualsDeath: Subverted. While he has a HeelRealization and throws himself into a river holding a bomb to stop his attempt to frame Fujiko, he survives (though as one of Almeida’s Fujiko clones).

* BrokenBird: The series gradually reveals more and more of Fujiko's past, memories of [[spoiler: mental and physical torture]], and plays of sympathy for her current mental state. Until the end of the series, where TheReveal is [[spoiler:completely subverting this trope amd others. Fujiko had these memories implanted inside her mind, but was able to block them out and ignore their effects, as well as being a DarkActionGirl and FemmeFatale before the implantation, too. It's just how she rolls.]]

* DarkActionGirl: Fujiko has always been an independent VillainProtagonist, and despite this series being about her, it's still Lupin making friends. But [[Recap/LupinIIIS4E09 Episode 9]] is significant for showing how independent she is. While trying to steal a human painting, she's ruthless enough to try killing Lupin, Jigen, and the painting, just to feel free from Almeida's influence.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Fujiko remembers being molested and experimented on as a little girl, but the trope is {{Subverted|Trope}} [[spoiler: when it turns out those are Aisha's memories, not Fujiko's.]]

* TeacherStudentRomance: Develops this (from the teacher side) with Isolde in [[Recap/LupinIIIS4E06 "Prison of Love"]] in order to steal something from her.

!! Aisha Kaiser (This is the character we see in Fujiko’s {{Flashback}}s)

Aisha is the daughter of two scientists who worked for Count Almeida. Picked out as his favourite experiment, she was not only the victim of physical torture and brainwashing, but also given FalseMemory of additional tortures, selected from the other experiments. Unable to accept Almeida’s death, she continued the memory and torture experiments, modifying the pattern to discover what she might’ve done if the experiments hadn’t left her a quadriplegic.

* AnimalMotifs: Aisha shares peacocks and butterflies with Fujiko, featuring mostly butterflies in Fujiko's false flashbacks. Her high-backed chair at the dinner table, however, shows peacock feathers.
* BigBad: Aisha has been controlling the events of Fujiko's life for the entire series. But she's been doing it on behalf of Count Almeida, making him the mastermind responsible for everything bad that's happened to the main characters. Since he's dead, he is no longer an actual person forcing Aisha to do anything. Aisha' fear, however, makes him a BiggerBad to her, and [[InvertedTrope inverting the trope]] in the process.
* TheChessmaster: Aisha replaces Count Almeida after his death, and chooses to continue his incomplete plans regarding his primary experiment (her). She uses her extensive BigBrotherIsWatching sources to manipulate the people around Fujiko.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Aisha’s memories of torture and brainwashing are the fuel for her fear of Count Almeida. This fear drives her to control every aspect of Fujiko’s life, and manipulate the people around her.

* BigBad: As of "Dying Day", Count Luis Yu Almeida is the mastermind behind nearly the entire story, despite the fact that he's dead, and it's actually Aisha that's now running the show.
* BiggerBad: This series [[InvertedTrope inverts]] the idea of a mastermind being revealed as the toy to an even more powerful and impersonal force. The character acting as the unapproachable mastermind dictating every event in the series is revealed to have two assistants, [[spoiler:Aisha and Minerva]], who have continued his experiments after [[spoiler: he died. But Aisha couldn't bear the thought of her experiences being over, so she continued the torture]]. He is, therefore, completely impersonal while still operating as the BigBad at the same time.
* TheChessmaster: Count Luis Yu Almeida, whose plans included manipulation of his own scientists and possession of their children. Until TheReveal of his death, the audience thought he was behind the various plots which included Fujiko, Lupin, and Oscar.

* {{Adorkable}}: Goemon.

* CombatStilettos: Fujiko is Not only Fujiko, but ''Oscar'' also wears high heels during fight scenes.

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!!Count Luis Yu Almeida

[[folder: Glaucus Pharmaceuticals (SPOILERS!)]]

* AnimalMotifs: Butterflies and peacocks.

* BiggerBad: Aisha is an InvertedTrope example, because instead of [[BigBad Almeida]] being revealed a being a pawn of Aisha, Aisha is responsible for everything in the series (and therefore the true BigBad), and doing it all out of fear of him, despite his death prior to the start of the series.

[[folder: Count Luis Yu Almeida]]

Count Almeida is an Owl-obsessed MadScientist who owns a Fiction500 pharmaceutical organization that dives into the Black Market.

* SourPrudes: Calls Fujiko a pig and a spittoon for men to use basically entirely because ''he'' wasn’t the one Zenigata used as a spittoon.

In this series, some of the characters [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation act differently]] than their previous incarnations. Any tropes that apply to the ''Franchise/LupinIII'' cast in general belong on the [[Characters/LupinIII main character page.]] Please remember that Character-specific tropes can often be '''spoilers,''' so keep that in mind while reading Character pages.

* AntiHero: Mostly NominalHero, and only because she is the Protagonist. Otherwise fits her typical AntiVillain status.
* BiTheWay: Humors the advances of SchoolgirlLesbians in "Prison of Love".
* DarkActionGirl: She takes it to new heights in Episode 9.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: A SubvertedTrope, while Fujiko remembers being molested and experimented on as a little girl, it turns out those are Aisha's memories, not hers.
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: As Cicciolina in ".357 Magnum" is helpful enough to point out.

* FemmeFatale: Deconstructed by showing how messed up her life was before she got to this point. [[spoiler: Then promptly reconstructed, when it's revealed she's that way because she likes it, and that past isn't even hers.]]
* HelloNurse
* LovableTraitor
* MasterOfDisguise
* {{Omniglot}}
* TheRival: To Lupin, Jigen, and Goemon.

[[folder: Jigen Daisuke]]

-> Yuki Kaji (JP), Josh Grelle (EN)

* CanonForeigner: Strange example as ''The Woman Called Fujiko Mine'' is a prequel, but Oscar is still an original creation.
* CreepyCrossdresser: Twice over the course of the series when Oscar is at a sanity low due to his love for Zenigata, he dresses as a woman – once in Prison of Love, where he poses as a schoolgirl to trap Fujiko, and once in Feast of Fools, where he poses as Fujiko to frame her for several thefts and a murder.
* DirtyCop: Becomes so fixated on destroying Fujiko that he commits several robberies to frame her, kills a man, collaborates with Almeida’s Owlmen, almost blows up a bridge. Just before the explosion, Inspector Zenigata tells Oscar about the day he ''stopped'' being a DirtyCop himself, which triggers him pulling a RedemptionEqualsDeath.

* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette

* TransEqualsGay: Wearing dresses comes up a lot. Posing as a schoolgirl could be excused, dressing as Fujiko while framing her was excessive (isn’t the point of being a master thief not being seen in the first place?), and ''wearing a wedding dress in his (not) DyingDream where he flies into Zenigata’s arms''… well.
* {{Yandere}}: Goes to truly terrifying extremes for love of Zenigata, [[spoiler: including becoming a thief himself and committing murder]].
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!!Fujiko Mine

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!!Lt. Oscar
Yuki Kaji (JP), Josh Grelle (EN)

* {{Yandere}}: Goes to truly terrifying extremes for love of Zenigata, [[spoiler: including becoming a thief himself and committing murder]].

In this series, some of the characters [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation act differently]] than their previous incarnations. Any tropes that apply to the ''Franchise/LupinIII'' cast in general belong on the [[Characters/LupinIII main character page.]]

* AntiHero: Mostly [[NominalHero Type V]].

* DarkAndTroubledPast: Has memories of [[spoiler: being molested and experimented on as a child.]]
** Subverted: [[spoiler: Turns out those are Aisha's memories, not hers.]]

* FemmeFatale: Deconstructed. [[spoiler: Then promptly reconstructed, when it's revealed she's that way because she likes it.]]

* CanonForeigner: Strange example as The Woman Called Fujiko Mine is a prequel, but Oscar is still an original creation.
* [[spoiler:CreepyCrossdresser: Twice over the course of the series when Oscar is at a sanity low due to his love for Zenigata, he dresses as a woman – once in Prison of Love, where he poses as a schoolgirl to trap Fujiko, and once in Feast of Fools, where he poses as Fujiko to frame her for several thefts and a murder.]]
* [[spoiler:DirtyCop: Becomes so fixated on destroying Fujiko that he commits several robberies to frame her, kills a man, almost blows up a bridge, and collaborates with Almeida’s Owlmen.]]

* ParentalSubstitute ParentalIncest: Zenigata found him when he was a child, brushed him off, and made him a police officer. Oscar really wants to repay him for that.
* [[spoiler: RedemptionEqualsDeath: Subverted. While he has a HeelRealization and throws himself into a river holding a bomb to stop his attempt to frame Fujiko, he survives (though as one of Almeida’s Fujiko clones).]]

* [[spoiler: TransEqualsGay: Wearing dresses comes up a lot. Posing as a schoolgirl could be excused, dressing as Fujiko while framing her was excessive (isn’t the point of being a master thief not being seen in the first place?), and ''wearing a wedding dress in his (not) DyingDream where he flies into Zenigata’s arms''… well.]]
* {{Yandere}}: Goes to truly terrifying extremes for love of Zenigata, including [[spoiler: becoming a thief himself and committing murder]].

[[spoiler: * CreepyCrossdresser: Twice over the course of the series when Oscar is at a sanity low due to his love for Zenigata, he dresses as a woman – once in Prison of Love, where he poses as a schoolgirl to trap Fujiko, and once in Feast of Fools, where he poses as Fujiko to frame her for several thefts and a murder.]]
[[spoiler: * DirtyCop: Becomes so fixated on destroying Fujiko that he commits several robberies to frame her, kills a man, almost blows up a bridge, and collaborates with Almeida’s Owlmen.]]

* Yandere: Goes to truly terrifying extremes for love of Zenigata, including [[spoiler: becoming a thief himself and committing murder]].

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* AntiHero: Type IV, bordering on VillainProtagonist at times.

In this series, some of the characters [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation act differently]] than their previous incarnations. Any tropes that apply to the ''Manga/LupinIII'' cast in general belong on the [[Characters/LupinIII main character page.]]

->Creator/MiyukiSawashiro (JP), MichelleRuff (EN)

* TheRival: To Lupin, Jigen, and Goemon.

->MiyukiSawashiro (JP), MichelleRuff (EN)

* DarkActionGirl

In this series, some of the characters [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation act differently]] than their previous incarnations. Any tropes that apply to the ''LupinIII'' cast in general belong on the [[Characters/LupinIII main character page.]]

->MiyukiSawashiro

* Antihero: Type IV, bordering on VillainProtagonist at times.