History Characters / MardockScramble

* KickTheSonOfABitch: They're a bunch of Killers hired by Shell to take out Balot, and have become absolutely addicted to Implanting their victims parts onto their artificially enhanced bodies to cope with the trauma of the war they fought in. Their "test" by Shell is to murder a room full of his guests. They include a mother who just happened to witness it, and her son after she tried to spare him by telling him not to visit Shell's meeting room and he disobeys. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking They also witness Balot showering, go through her underwear, and even eat her cooking]]. As cruel as Balot is to them subsequently, the Manga assures us that their defeat and betrayal by Boiled was a long time coming and very well deserved.

TheDarkChick of the Bandersnatch Company.

* TheDarkChick: He's the smallest and most effeminate member of the Bandersnatch Company, and behaves much like a young woman. He's also one of the most sadistic and depraved of the crew.

* TheRedBaron: In the novel, he’s referred to as the Golden Egg, as he was an entirely unique and extraordinary achievement.

* BadassMustache: He has a large and bristly mustache which he strokes when he's thinking.

* {{Asexual}}: After the war, the Doctor went through many hours of intensive ethics counseling and became impotent as a result, which caused his wife to leave him. He jokes that he feels like a saint because of this.

* NotSoDifferent: During her massacre of the Bandersnatchers, Balot becomes intoxicated by the feeling of power it gives her, and reasons that this is what all the men who used her must have felt.

->'''Voiced by''': Tomohiro Waki (Japanese), Rob Mungle (English)

->'''Tweedledum Voiced by''': (Japanese), (English)
->'''Tweedledee Voiced by''': (Japanese), (English)

* {{Transgender}}: It's implied, anyway. He [[CrossDresser dresses in feminine clothing and wears a woman's funeral veil]], [[BodyHorror transplants the hair and skin of women he fancies onto his own body]], and has [[VocalDissonance surgically altered his vocal cords to sound female]].

* BrokenBird: Her nightmarish backstory (raped by her father, raped by volunteers at the Welfare Institute, forced into prostitution, abused and used by practically everyone she’s ever known), has left her thoroughly shattered, at least at the beginning of the novel. She even tells herself that she’d be better off dead.

* CelibateHero: Rune’s history has resulted in her having absolutely no interest in sex whatsoever.

* CuteMute: Rune's vocal cords were incinerated, so she can only speak by snarking nearby speakers or screens. In the manga, this was because Shell [[NoKillLikeOverkill slit her throat before blowing up the car]].

* {{Cyborging}}: After she's blown up by Shell, the Doctor saves her by coating her skin with regenerative metal fibers known as Lightite. The fibers meld seamlessly with her skin and grant her control over basically all electronic devices, as well as allowing her to control her own physical processes and sense her surroundings.

* DarkActionGirl: Rune slides toward this end of the trope when she begins to enjoy killing the Bandersnatchers in horrible and painful ways. Also applies with regard to her disregarding Œufcoque's initial pleas for her to stop abusing his powers.

* ParentalIncest: Rune lost her virginity when her father raped her after school. She was twelve.

* PlayfulHacker: Rune can snark virtually anything, and displays a sadistic mischievousness about it when she does so to the Bandersnatchers. Less seriously, she uses it to punish some teenagers for parking in spaces reserved for handicapped persons by locking them in the garage.

* WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove: As a mouse, Oeufcoque doesn't really grasp the finer points of human love, which becomes an issue when dealing with Balot and her complicated feelings toward him.

* CyberneticsEatYourSoul: Boiled's lost empathy is due to Paradise's experimental technology.

* GreaterScopeVillain: Shell-Septinos works for him, and [=OctoberCorp=] is strongly implied to be behind much of the organized crime in the city, particularly drug trafficking and money laundering.

* BrokenBird: Her nightmarish backstory (raped by her father, raped by volunteers at the welfare institute, forced into prostitution, abused and used by practically everyone she’s ever known), has left her thoroughly shattered, at least at the beginning of the novel. She even tells herself that she’d be better off dead.

* CuteMute: Rune's vocal cords were incinerated, so she can only speak by snarking nearby speakers or screens. In the manga, this was because Shell slit her throat before blowing up the car.

* ImprobableAimingSkills: Rune is good enough that shooting bullets out of the air isn't even a strain for her. Justified taking into account just how big a Game-Breaker her new skin makes her.

* SuperPrototype: He was designed as the world's first All-Purpose-Tool, meant to be the strongest hand-to-hand combat weapon ever made. However, due to prohibitive costs and postwar politics, no more like him were ever made.

* ReplacementGoldfish: It's implied that he sees Balot as a replacement for his daughter; he even notes at one point that they're about the same age.

* CuttingTheKnot: [[spoiler: On Boiled's last case with the Doctor and Oeufcoque, the three of them found themselves trapped in a no-win situation. They had been hired to protect a university student who had apparently run afoul of a drug ring, only to discover that their client was in fact the leader of the drug ring, and that he'd been dealing with corrupt police officers on the side. If they told the truth, they would ruin many innocent lives and trigger a huge scandal. If they concealed the truth, they would likely face arrest or even execution. Boiled resolved the issue by using Oeufcoque to kill everyone involved.]]

* DragonInChief: Despite Rune’s ultimate goal being to take down Shell, Boiled is by far the greater presence and more significant threat throughout the story.

* FriendOrFoe: [[spoiler: When he was a fighter pilot in the Airborne Division, he dropped half a tonne of bombs onto his old unit due to a combination of exhaustion and being high on amphetamines.]]

The CEO of OctoberCorp and the GreaterScopeVillain of the novel. The Doctor and Oeufcoque are out to take him down.

* AbusiveParents: He kept his mentally challenged daughter locked away from society, since she was an embarrassment to the family, then effectively sold her to Shell-Septinos as part of a business deal. It's also implied that he may have been sexually abusive to her.

* BadBoss: As is standard for CEOs in cyberpunk novels. He outright threatens to have Shell killed if he can't get the special million-dollar chips back from Balot and immediately throws him under the bus as soon as his schemes are found out.

* GreaterScopeVillain: Shell-Septinos works for him, and OctoberCorp is strongly implied to be behind much of the organized crime in the city, particularly drug trafficking and money laundering.

* MeaningfulName: Discussed by the Doctor. He's a john (i.e. someone who visits prostitutes) who is also clean-living (i.e. he keeps up a veneer of honesty and respectability while indulging in all kinds of depraved exploits and dirty business deals).

* BodyHorror: Let's see, we've got: a guy who replaces his fingers with those of his victims, [[EyesDoNotBelongThere a guy with eyeballs implanted all over his chest and arms]], a cackling sadist whose skin and hair are a patchwork of grafts taken from his victims, a FatBastard with human breasts grafted all over his body, and... [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin the Pussyhand]].

* FreudianExcuse: They get one of these in the manga, and the novel to a lesser extent. In the manga, they were a tight-knit squad serving in the Commonweath-Continent War, and Welldone initially refused to force cybernetization on them. Soon after, however the horrors of war caught up with them and they were all mentally broken. Having fallen into despair, Welldone gave in and allowed them to be converted into cyborg killing machines. In the novel, the story isn't much different; though the whole implant angle is dropped, Flesh tells Boiled about how they were surrounded and cut off for three months and forced to slaughter thousands of enemy soldiers before being rescued.

* PsychoForHire: They didn’t even want money for the Rune Balot job. They fancied her parts so much that they considered the job and the payment to be one in the same.

* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: His nickname. He does, in fact, have a vulva and vagina grafted into his left hand.

* MadeOfIron: Balot fills him with bullets, and he’s still able to keep coming at her. She has to literally shoot him to pieces before he finally stops.

* AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler: Medium]] severs one of Tweedledee's arms in an effort to get him to reveal Balot's location. Since Tweedledee can control his pain response, this has little effect on him.

* BioAugmentation: Tweedledee was born paralyzed and with various ailments that would have likely killed him before he turned three. He's received extensive biological modifications from the researchers at Paradise; as a result, he can not only walk, he can now communicate via an organic transmitter growing from his forehead and control his own pain response. He doesn't even need to breathe anymore.

* FeelNoPain: Tweedledee can switch his pain response on and off at will. This comes in handy when [[spoiler: Medium]] decides to try and torture Balot's location out of him.

* MrExposition: Tweedledee fills Balot in on Paradise's nature and purpose, and Tweedledum walks her through using the pool as a terminal to access the Net.

* BringingInTheExpert: After Balot and the Doctor have shut down a cheating poker dealer, the casino's best roulette croupier, and one of its best blackjack dealers, Ashley is dispatched to kill their winning streak.

* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: Tweedledee barely blinks when [[spoier: Medium]] cuts his arm off.

* BigScrewedUpFamily: Rune’s father was an out-of-work laborer with a degenerative neurological disorder, who raped Rune several times. Her mother was a mentally unbalanced, emotionally and physically abusive drug addict. And her brother was forced to resort to gunrunning for money, and nearly killed their father after learning about the aforementioned rape. Currently both parents are hospitalized, and her brother is serving a prison sentence.

* InstantExpert: Balot is a natural with her new skin, and its snarking function affords her instinctual mastery of any electronics she comes into contact with.

* TheRedBaron: In the novel, he’s referred to as the Golden Egg, as he was an entirely unique and extraordinary achievement.

* BunnyEarsLawyer: The Doctor is eccentric and a little spacey, but he's also a genius cyberneticist who developed nearly all the technology that Balot has been implanted with. He's also a ruthless card shark who easily takes Eggnog Blue to the cleaners when playing poker.

!The Bandersnatch Company

[[folder: In General]]
!! A gang of psychopathic fetishists who are hired to kill Balot. They present the first major test of her new abilities.

* FreudianExcuse: They get one of these in the manga, and the novel to a lesser extent. In the manga, they were a tight-knit squad serving in the Commonweath-Continent War, and Welldone initially refused to force cybernetization on them. Soon after, however the horrors of war caught up with them and they were all mentally broken. Having fallen into despair, Welldone gave in and allowed them to be converted into cyborg killing machines.

* HumanResources: They pride themselves on not letting any parts of their kills go to waste.

* Fingore: Balot blows off most of the fingers on his right hand during their initial encounter.

* AcePilot: He was apparently a skilled bomber pilot during the war.

[[folder: Ashley Harvest]]
Chief of operations at the Eggnog Blue casino, Ashley Harvest is a superbly skilled dealer and casino boss who steps in to stop Balot and the Doctor when their winning streak gets too hot.

* TheAce: Ashley is almost supernaturally skilled at stacking the deck to his advantage. Appropriately enough, his so-called "special move" involves stacking several aces in a row to mess with the opposing player.

* BadassMustache: He has a large and bristly mustache which he strokes when he's thinking.

* BringingInTheExpert: After Balot and the Doctor have shut down a cheating poker dealer, the casino's best roulette croupier, and one of its best blackjack dealers, Ashley is dispatched to kill their winning streak.

* DidntSeeThatComing: When Balot stakes both her million-dollar chips on her current hand, Ashley believes that there is no way Balot would pass up a potential six-million-dollar payout, and is stunned when she calls for "even money".[[note]]Even money is a conditional side bet in blackjack; if the player has a natural blackjack (an ace and a card with a value of ten), they are allowed to call for "even money", which gives them a two-to-one payout on their side bet in the case that the dealer also gets a blackjack.[[/note]]

* FixingTheGame: This is Ashley's specialty; he is capable of stacking the deck in such a way that any ordinary gambler would lose all their money to him in short order. Only the team of Balot and Oeufcoque are able to beat him.

* GracefulLoser: He cheerfully admits defeat when Balot passes up her chance at a six-million-dollar payout to ensure she gets the chips she needs from him.

* PunchClockVillain: He's just doing his job by trying to shut down Balot and the Doctor. He doesn't particularly like Shell, who is his boss, and he quits the casino soon after his game with Balot is over.

* SherlockScan: Ashley studies Balot and the Doctor and quickly deduces that they are no ordinary punters. He is also able to figure out that Balot's gloves (which are really Oeufcoque in disguise) are giving her some kind of advantage simply by watching security footage of her.

* StoneWall: This is his specialty; if a punter is doing too well at the tables, he steps in to wear them down and then use his extraordinary shuffling skills to stack the deck in his favor and clean them out.

* WorthyOpponent: After Balot survives his special move, he begins to regard her as one.

[[folder: Bell Wing]]
A master roulette croupier at the Eggnog Blue Casino.

->'''Voiced by''': Norito Yashima (Japanese), Andy [=McAvin=] (English)

* SerialKiller: Shell has made a ritual of taking in young women, killing them when he finds out they've looked into the fake IDs he gives them, and turning their remains into blue diamonds. Balot was set up to be his next victim.

* Transgender: It's implied, anyway. He [[CrossDresser dresses in feminine clothing and wears a woman's funeral veil]], [[BodyHorror transplants the hair and skin of women he fancies onto his own body]], and has [[VocalDissonance surgically altered his vocal cords to sound female]].

* FallingInLoveWithTheMark: In a platonic sense. While she initially sees Balot as only another punter to be rooked of all their money, she comes to like Balot so much that she quits the casino after their game, then stands by her side during the final game with Shell. She even declares that she'd be happy to train Balot as her successor, much to the dismay and envy of the other croupiers at the casino.

* Asexual: After the war, the Doctor went through many hours of intensive ethics counseling and became impotent as a result, which caused his wife to leave him. He jokes that he feels like a saint because of this.

* EyeScream: Balot shoots out every single one of the eyes implanted into his arms and torso, which [[BerserkButton]] drives him into a rage.

* FriendOrFoe: [[spoiler: He's stabbed to death by Rare, who mistakes him for the enemy due to having his audiovisual implants hacked by Oeufcoque and Balot.]]

* FromASingleCell: The Doctor notes that he can regenerate his original form even if he's split into pieces. [[spoiler: This ability comes in handy when Boiled blows him in half.]]

* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: His fur is gold, and he is bar none the nicest person in the story.

* [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe HalfTheMouseHeUsedToBe]]: During Balot’s first proper confrontation with Boiled, [[spoiler: Boiled shoots Oeufcoque with his HandCannon and blows him in half. Fortunately, he gets better.]]

Character page for all three adaptations of ''Mardock Scramble''

* Asexual: After the war, the Doctor went through intensive counseling and became impotent as a result, which caused his wife to leave him. He jokes that he feels like a saint because of this.

* ShellShockedVeteran: He served in the Airborne Division during the Commonwealth’s war with the Continent, [[spoiler: during which he accidentally dropped a half-tonne of incendiary bombs onto his old unit]], and this left him with a severe case of PTSD and an addiction to amphetamines, which is why he volunteered to be a GuineaPig for Paradise’s researchers.

* HeelRealization: When she snaps out of her brief PowerTrip and sees how badly she's mutilated Welldone, and even more so when she realizes that she broke her promise to Oeufcoque never to abuse his power.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone?: When Boiled tells her that Oeufcoque has rejected her because she's abusing him, Balot is horrified by the realization that she's become no better than all the men who abused her over the years. This sends her into a spiral of panic and guilt.

* ShellShockedVeteran: He served in the Airborne Division during the Commonwealth’s war with the Continent, and this apparently left him with a severe case of PTSD and a drug addiction, which is why he volunteered to be a GuineaPig for Paradise’s researchers.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: In the novel, he's Flesh. In the manga, he's Fresh.