History Characters / SengokuBasaraUesugiClan

* CrossDressingVoices: Only in Japanese. Standard work for Romi Park.

* TheDanza: In ''Devil Kings'', Venus is voiced by Venus Terzo.

-->'''Mook''': "AH...AHHHH! THE WAR GOD IS HEEERRRRRREEEEEEE!!"

* HistoricalBeautyUpdate: Seems like Capcom is taking hints about how historically Kenshin seems to have an ambiguous gender.

* OlderThanTheyLook: Though his age is never specified, he's a similar sort of age to Shingen, who actually qualifies as a CoolOldGuy. Who'd have thought it...

* WeatherDissonance: Cutscenes in ''Utage'' show it snowing wherever he goes, even in the desert. In the third game he's been at Kawanakajima so long it's become completely buried in ice and snow.

** HighlyVisibleNinja: Perhaps the most [[{{Stripperific}} attention-grabbing]] ninja ever. Sasuke also notes that she gets too worked up emotionally and forgets to be on form.

-> ''"The heavens whisper to me... to take up arms."''

Head of the Uesugi clan from Echigo, Takeda Shingen's main rival. He is also a devout follower of the war-god Bishamonten. Has a very young and effeminate appearance, but don't let this fool you. He's ridiculously fast and one heck of a fighter.

* AmbiguousGender: Borderline. In an anime voice commentary, sound director Miwa Iwanami says he asked producer Hiroyuki Kobayashi if Kenshin was male or female, and he [[ShrugOfGod didn't get a straight answer]]. So apparently everyone, including the staff, just ''assumes'' he's male...

* SugarAndIcePersonality: A very subtle example, he is cold and completely unemotional towards his enemies or those he doesn't know, but shows a warmer side and sometimes even a faint smile around those few he loves and respects.

* NotSoDifferent: To Mitsunari. While his devotion may lack the romantic tones of Kasuga, they both share a fierce loyalty to their respective lords. This is best shown in her [[DuelBoss special stage]] in 4. After Kenshin is killed, she's reduced to a delusional, broken mess who only thinks of revenge. [[LampshadeHanging Mitsunari even wonders to himself if he'd become like her should Hideyoshi die.]]

** In Utage, one of her battle lines is her shouting at the enemy general to stop sending soldiers at her, because she's already killed so many.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: [[spoiler:After Kenshin is almost killed trying to protect her, Kasuga sets out to kill Nobunaga, and is captured in the process. Sasuke gets her out of it.]]
** She also attempts this on the player in 4.

-->Voiced by: Creator/RomiPark (Japanese), Alessandro Juliani (''Devil Kings'') , GregAyres (anime), Dino Andrade (''Samurai Heroes'')

-->Voiced by: Atsushi Imaruoka (Japanese), Jim Johnson (anime), TonyOliver (''Samurai Heroes'')

* NiceHat: At least he still retains his love-crest helmet.

* IaijutsuPractitioner: His speed relies on quick draws and he always returns his sword to the sheath. While Mitsunari beats him in raw [[DeathOfAThousandCuts attack speed]], his attacks are more powerful.

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* FauxActionGirl: Gets hit with this hard in the anime.

* LightEmUp: Allows her to create illusions.

* NakedFirstImpression: In one of the drama [=CD=]s Sasuke first saw her while she was bathing, and from then on starts coming to help whenever she's in trouble.

* SpyCatsuit: And as if her default attire wasn't bad enough, her alternate outfit in [=SB2=] is just a bunch of leather straps and a muffler.
* {{Stripperific}}: How does she ''not'' to fall out of that thing when jumping around trees all the time?

* VaporWear

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* DemotedToExtra: He goes from PC to NPC in ''Sengoku Basara 3'' due to Shingen's absence. He returns to PC status again in ''Utage'' along with Kasuga but returns to NPC status in 4.

* IaijutsuPractitioner: His speed relies on quick draws and he always returns in to the sheath.
* GracefulLoser: In the movie. His forces defeated, and Shingen preparing to [[OffWithHisHead liberate him of his head]], he actually compliments his long time rival.

* DemotedToExtra: He goes from PC to NPC in ''Sengoku Basara 3'' due to Shingen's absence. He returns to PC status again in ''Utage'' along with Kasuga.

* DemotedToExtra: Like Kenshin, she's an NPC in ''Sengoku Basara 3''. She returns to PC status in ''Utage'' along with Kenshin.

* EliteMook: That's as far as he can get.

* TakeThat: He's probably Capcom's way to say to Koei: "[[WarriorsOrochi How dare you turn our poster boys Date Masamune and Maeda Keiji into Orochi's henchmen!]] Henceforth, we shall take the buddy of your poster boy, and turn him into JokeCharacter per excellence forever! HA!"
** Note that however this is true only for his appearence in ''Heroes'', as Kanetsugu already appeared in the second game (first released in 2006) while ''Warriors Orochi'' only came out in 2007.

** It doesn't help at all that aside of his [[CrossdressingVoices female]] [[Creator/RomiPark voice actress]], in the games his lines are written entirely in hiragana, which gives him a decidedly feminine aura (traditionally women used mainly or only hiragana in writing).

* ActionGirl <- -> FauxActionGirl: ''Really'' depends which continuity you're following.

-->Voiced by: NatsukoKuwatani (Japanese), Creator/VenusTerzo (''Devil Kings''), StephanieSheh (English)

-->Voiced by: NatsukoKuwatani (Japanese), VenusTerzo (''Devil Kings''), StephanieSheh (English)

-->Voiced by: RomiPark (Japanese), Alessandro Juliani (''Devil Kings'') , GregAyres (anime), Dino Andrade (''Samurai Heroes'')

** It doesn't help at all that aside of his [[CrossdressingVoices female]] [[RomiPark voice actress]], in the games his lines are written entirely in hiragana, which gives him a decidedly feminine aura (traditionally women used mainly or only hiragana in writing).