History Characters / Noir

->Voiced by: Creator/UraraTakano (JP), Kelly Manison (EN)

* CombatStilettos: Not as unrealistic as some examples, but her boots still have decent heels on them. DeconstructedTrope on at least one occasion: she nearly fell from a house roof to her death since her boots lack grip.

* %% Administrivia/ZeroContextExample OneWomanArmy

* PiurpleIsPowerful: She has a lot of purple in her person (hair, eyes and outfit) and is one of the deadliest assassins in the world.

* PurpleEyes
* PurpleIsPowerful: Along with PurpleEyes above, her outfit is purple with white accents.

* ImprobableAimingSkills: Even [[Franchise/MetalGear Revolver Ocelot]] would think twice fighting this cutie.

* GrayEyes

!Kirika Yuumura

* BadassAdorable: [[{{Omochikaeri}} Can I take her home with me?]]
* CryCute: Especially [[spoiler: Episode 25.]] [[Theatre/KingLear Break my heart, I prithee break.]]
* DarkActionGirl: Not only is she a good fighter, she's [[MacGyvering extremely creative]] in dealing with various handicaps caused by terrain or injury.

* {{Expy}}: Let's see... she's an assassin, she has amnesia, she's hunted by the orginization she belongs to, and she [[ImprovisedWeapon kills people with items that are SUPPOSED to be harmless.]] [[DistaffCounterpart Sound like]] [[Franchise/TheBourneSeries Jason Bourne]].

* KungFuJesus: [[spoiler: She is basically viewed as a savior by the superstitious followers of Soldats: An Invincible Warrior destined to destroy evil and injustice in the world.]]

!Mireille Bouquet

* AffablyEvil: She's a fairly decent person when out in public. She's also an assassin and murder is what she does for a living.

* [[HeroesGoneFishing Anti-Heroes Gone Fishing]]: The first few minutes of the show are her going back to her apartment on a bright yellow scooter with a bag of groceries. Then she checks her e-mail to see if she has any hit job offers. She also has a tendency to window-shop.

* CombatStilettos: Not as unrealistic as some examples, but her boots still have decent heels on them. [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]] too, on at least one occasion she nearly fell from a house roof to her death since her boots lack grip.
* CoolShades: Tragically, she only wears them in ''one'' episode.
* DarkActionGirl: She's a very successful assassin. "Successful" meaning that she survives all of her jobs.

* LoveRedeems: Towards Kirika, whether you interpret it as platonic or romantic.

* {{Nominal Hero}}ine: She's not ''evil.'' Well, [[VillainProtagonist not evil if you significantly lower your standards for morality]].

* SpannerInTheWorks: [[spoiler:And holy crap, HOW. Not only Chloe attacking her brought Kirika out of her BrainwashedAndCrazy state, but she ended up ''totally'' tearing through Altena's plans.]]

!Chloe

* DarkActionGirl

* [[VillainProtagonist Villainess Protagonist]]

!Altena

* TheChessmaster: She's the closest equivalent to a BigBad the series has.

* DoesNotLikeMen: Never explicitly stated, but she's never seen interacting with a male character on screen, and the male Soldat leaders only show up at the Manor [[spoiler:after everything's over and she's dead]]. Given her backstory this makes a lot of sense.

* MyDeathIsJustTheBeginning: [[spoiler:One interpretation of the ending, especially since if you look really close at her face [[spoiler:while she's falling to her death]] you can see that she's ''smiling''.

* [[VisionaryVillain Visionary Villainess]]: She wants to use Noir to cleanse the world of evil and impurity.

!Silvana Greone aka "Intoccabile"

!Shao Li

!Laurent Bouquet

!Odette Bouquet

!Claude Feyder

!George Madelin

!Belladonna Lily Woman

* FloralThemeNaming: She even notes that Belladonna lilies are well known to be poisonous.

* AffablyEvil

* [[NominalHero Nominal Heroine]]: She's not ''evil.'' Well, [[VillainProtagonist not evil if you significantly lower your standards for morality]].

* OneWomanArmy: Makes you wonder if she has [[DragonballZ Saiyan blood]] in her.

* [[UnscrupulousHero Unscrupulous Heroine]] : She's more concerned with the ethics of killing than Mireille and is mostly concerned with solving the mystery of herself. That doesn't stop her from going into business with Mireille and being ''very'' good at it.

* PsychoLesbian: Lesbian definitely. Psycho? Debatable, at least until [[spoiler:the second half of episode 25]]...

->Voiced by: TARAKO (JP), Creator/TiffanyGrant (EN)

* NeverBringAGunToAKnifeFight: This causes her demise, since the light hits her knife and attracts Mireille's attention.

* LineageComesFromTheFather: Played with. While Laurent was obviously a huge influence on Mireille and the direction her life took, iw was Odette who probably had the largest impact, [[spoiler:what with what she said to Kirika before she was killed]].

* TheVoiceless: Apart from some grunts, which aren't credited, isn't shown speaking any time he's on screen.

* AnimalMotifs: The character designer describes her as a "female panther" in his notes.

* AnimalHeroes: The character designer describes her as a "female panther" in his notes.

* {{Badass}}: She and the other Noir are the best assassins, but Chloe stands out by only using knifes. And she's not inferior to them.
** BadassCape: Which comes with a high collar that was likely added [[FilmingForEasyDub so they didn't have to animate her mouth flaps]] for part of her screentime.

* ReiAyanamiExpy: Seemingly-emotionless, struggles with identity and humanity, short hair, permanently sad expression.

* ImplausibleFencingPowers: She is to knives what Kirika is to guns.

* BlondesAreEvil: For a given definition of "evil" but she probably would be considered such by most normal people due to her occupation. Given the BlackAndGrayMorality of the show in the end most agree she ends up more on the Gray side.

* [[spoiler: KungFuJesus: She is basically viewed as a savior by the superstitious followers of Soldats: An Invincible Warrior destined to destroy evil and injustice in the world.]]

* [[spoiler: DarkMessiah: What Kirika-chan becomes when she attains the legendary mantle of "The True Noir."]]

* [[spoiler:SelfMadeOrphan: Subverted, she doesn't kill her parents — but she ''does'' kill her ParentalSubstitute uncle Claude.]]
* [[spoiler:SpannerInTheWorks: And holy crap, HOW. Not only Chloe attacking her brought Kirika out of her BrainwashedAndCrazy state, but she ended up ''totally'' tearing through Altena's plans.]]

* [[spoiler:MyDeathIsJustTheBeginning]]: One interpretation of the ending, especially since if you look really close at her face [[spoiler:while she's falling to her death]] you can see that she's ''smiling''.

* [[spoiler: RapeAsBackstory: She was raped by a soldier when she was a young girl, which contributed to her villainy.]]

* [[spoiler:YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: She offs her own comrades in exchange for alliance with the Soldats. Instead, Chloe kills her.]]
* WolverineClaws: Her fingernails are actually ''her weapon''.

* [[spoiler:TheMole]]: [[spoiler:He was really working for Les Soldats in exchange for them leaving Mireille alone.]]

* [[spoiler:WellIntentionedExtremist]]

* [[spoiler: HeKnowsTooMuch: Tries to tell Mireille ''why'' her parents died, and gets sniped for it.]]
* NumberTwo: To [[spoiler: Mireille's parents.]]

* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: When ADVFilms dubbed ''Noir'', they decided not to give Mireille a Corsican accent. The reason for this was to avoid confusion among viewers unfamiliar with the language.