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* AgonizingStomachWound: Mauser is shot in the gut by Clemente's black ops unit when he tries to protest the Berserker being taken away. Knowing that he is on borrowed time, and upset about his colleagues being killed, he [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge has nothing left to lose]].
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Activates the Berserker, knowing it will automatically go on a killing spree, to slaughter the people who killed his colleagues and fatally wounded him. He also hopes that the U.K. government will have a tremendous amount of egg on its face and will be forced to [[TheUnmaskedWorld reveal the existence]] of [[LostTechnology OOParts]] to try to save some of its dignity when the Berserker inevitably escapes the base and continues its rampage through the towns nearby.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Activates the Berserker, knowing it will automatically go on a killing spree, to slaughter the people who killed his colleagues and fatally wounded him. He also hopes that the U.K. government will have a tremendous amount of egg on its face and will be forced to [[TheUnmaskedWorld reveal the existence]] of [[LostTechnology OOParts]] to try to save some of its dignity when the Berserker inevitably escapes the base and continues its rampage through the towns nearby.
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* OnlySaneMan: Zig-zags in this role. When it involves encountering an [=OOPart=], she most of the time lets her {{Greed}} get the better of her and Yu is the one who is most sane by thinking it's best to retrieve it and lock it away or destroy it. When it involves things like prioritizing a HotBlooded grand battle to finish a conflict between two parties over surviving a DeathWorld-level place that is out to kill everybody incessantly, she is the one who has to call out Yu and the others to place survival first.
* PluckyComicRelief: [[BadassAdorable Although she's a capable fighter]], a lot of her scenes in the 2022 anime are her having moments of clumsiness, having funny reactions to whatever is goingon, on (such as [[WingdingEyes forming dollar signs in her eyes]] when Yu tells her that Soma would be a priceless {{Panacea}}) or getting in arguments with Yu.
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* TheDread: Yu's feared by militaries/intelligence agencies worldwide because of his experience fighting with other Spriggan forces. If any military unit's been told to go after him, it shows that he's assessed to be a major threat.
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* TheRival: Sees himselfe as a rival to Yu since he's able to break COSMOS conditioning and uses his special forces skills to fight against them.
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[[folder:Colossus of Rhodes]]
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* TheRival: Sees himselfe as a rival to Yu since he's able to break COSMOS conditioning and uses his special forces skills to fight against them.
* YouAreInCommandNow: He commands a revamped COSMOS unit with surgery done with implants on his brain. This allows Sho to command numerous units through Orihalcon synthesis, allowing digital signals to be used.
* YouAreInCommandNow: He commands a revamped COSMOS unit with surgery done with implants on his brain. This allows Sho to command numerous units through Orihalcon synthesis, allowing digital signals to be used.
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* TheManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler:Her full name is Tea Flatte Arcam, whose family is behind the creation of the ARCAM Corporation.]]
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* Really700YearsOld: [[spoiler:She is the original Chairwoman of the 300 year old ARCAM Corporation. She learned life extension magic from Merlin.]]
* TheManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler:Her full name is Tea Flatte Arcam,whose family is behind the creation of who created the ARCAM Corporation.]]
* TheManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler:Her full name is Tea Flatte Arcam,
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* CatchPhrase: She likes to refer to herself as "a fragile maiden" to try to convince people not to harm her.
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* WalkingDisasterArea: Yu does not likes her because, aside from being TheRival, she has a very bad bout of luck. Her initial appearance accidentally causes an idol's SelfDestructingSecurity to cause a cave-in and in episode six Yu says a LongList of the collateral damage of her operations. Three of her raids ending in international incidents is the ''least'' embarrassing part of it.
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* TheSociopath: This man has no problem risking the obliteration of a significant chunk of the planet via [=OOPart=] if that brings his organization any closer to getting significant power, and he will do all of that with a half-smug/[[DullSurprise half-"meh"]] look on his face.
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* BadassNormal: Medium capabilities aside, she still is charging into very dangerous Out-Of-Place Part archaeological sites (many of which are downright DeathWorld-level) carrying only a machine gun and grenades and thriving.
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* DopeSlap: Exaggerated for laughs. Because Ominae is A) that headstrong and B) wearing a bodysuit made of ultra-tough {{Unobtanium}}, she tends to do this to him by [[MoreDakka blasting him with her machine gun]].
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* BadassNormal: Leads the APA against the paranormal, superpowered beings and heavily decked military units despite using conventional small arms, explosives and close quarters combat.
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* StarterVillian: Yu fights him in Tokyo as the first major villain going after [=OOPArts=].[[note]]You need to ignore the one shots.[[/note]]
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* StarterVillian: StarterVillain: Yu fights him in Tokyo as the first major villain going after [=OOPArts=].[[note]]You need to ignore the one shots.[[/note]]
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* KnifeNut: Hans is an expert with knives, and enjoys cutting people up. He gloats about the chance to slice apart an Asian woman.
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* GracefulLoser: After being defeated by Ominae, he simply remarks that God promised that Sodom and Gomorrah would be spared if even ten righteous people were found within the city, comparing Ominae to those ten righteous.
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* IllGirl: Her civilian cover, to explain the numerous school absences that being a globe-trotting treasure hunter bring.
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* HumansAreBastards: [[spoiler:Firmly believes humanity to be the greatest threat to Earth, and as such plans to use Noah's Ark to exterminate them.]]
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* PluckyComicRelief: [[BadassAdorable Although she's a capable fighter]], a lot of her scenes in the 2022 anime are her having moments of clumsiness, having funny reactions to whatever is going on, or getting in arguments with Yu.
* TheRival: She often encounters Yu on the field trying to get a relic that Yu is out to get himself [[OnlyInItForTheMoney in order to get rich]].
* TheRival: She often encounters Yu on the field trying to get a relic that Yu is out to get himself [[OnlyInItForTheMoney in order to get rich]].
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* IllGirl: Her civilian cover, to explain the numerous school absences that being a globe-trotting treasure hunter bring.
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* BrainwashedAndCrazy: [[spoiler:Tanaka was brainwashed to kill Yu, but struggles to go through with it.]]
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* {{CallBack}}: The ONA version of "Noah's Ark" has Fatman and Little Boy not thinking too highly of him when they fight Yu and the former mentions that they're not weak like him.
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* CastingGag: Interestingly enough, this isn’t the first time Creator/KyleMcCarley [[Manga/{{Gantz}} took over a role previously done by]] Creator/ChrisPatton.
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* {{Irony}}: He hates it when he's called a monster. [[spoiler:Considering that's a lycanthrope bioweapon that is.]]
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* {{Irony}}: He hates it when he's called a monster. [[spoiler:Considering that's he's a lycanthrope bioweapon that is.]]
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* StarterVillain: In the ONA, Yu fights him as the first bad guy to be taken down. Not so in the manga since "FIRST MISSION" was published in the 2000s and beyond after the manga finished publishing in the 1990s.
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* StarterVillian: Yu fights him in Tokyo as the first major villain going after [=OOPArts=].[[note]]You need to ignore the one shots.[[/note]]
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!Shogakukan 3rd High:
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* RightInFrontOfMe: Yu's ChildhoodFriend asks for ARCAM help in tracking down her friend from the orphanage in Japan, not realising he's her Spriggan bodyguard.
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* WouldHurtAChild: Especially if said child is used by the American military to be engineered with enhanced psychic powers.
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* AdaptationPersonalityChange: Colonel [=McDougal=] is still a genocidal CreepyChild with AGodAmI complex, but here he's a WellIntentionedExtremist who thinks [[InYourNatureToDestroyYourselves humanity will destroy the world beyond repair]], so plans to use HostileTerraforming, and the lifeforms frozen in time in Noah's Ark, to destroy and then repopulate the Earth. When his plan fails he activates the SelfDestructMechanism, feeling he has no reason to exist other than the Ark.
** However, he did hurt Margaret. The manga never showed him doing this.
** However, he did hurt Margaret. The manga never showed him doing this.
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* KarmaHoudini: Henry was never brought to justice despite collaborating with Trident.
* SecretKeeper: [[spoiler:He later finds out Tea's real name and her backing of the ARCAM Corporation at the end of the manga.]]
* SecretKeeper: [[spoiler:He later finds out Tea's real name and her backing of the ARCAM Corporation at the end of the manga.]]
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* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: Jean is this after he sees his own blood whenever he gets shot up by small arms. He's like that [[spoiler:since his family bloodline are all werewolves, created by ancient civilizations as a biological soldier.]]. However, ex-ARCAM Spriggan and doctor Percup Ramdi had been able to fix it somewhat.
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* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: Jean is this after he sees his own blood whenever he gets shot up by small arms. He's like that [[spoiler:since his family bloodline are all werewolves, created by ancient civilizations as a biological soldier.]]. However, ex-ARCAM Spriggan and doctor Percup Ramdi had been able to fix it somewhat.]]
* TheManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler:Her full name is Tea Flatte Arcam, whose family is behind the creation of the ARCAM Corporation.]]
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* StealthMentor: A variation occurs when Oboro was first introduced. He was a good guy all along, and was a double agent. [[spoiler: A more straight example occurs late in the series when he seemingly defects to Trident. He fought and seemingly killed Jean and later fought Yuu. After being defeated (he may have limited himself) he explains that he did all that to unlock Yuu's true potential and he knew Jean wouldn't be that easily killed. It was shown in subsequent battles that the two indeed became a lot more powerful after his "lesson".]]
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* StealthMentor: A variation occurs when Oboro was first introduced. He was a good guy all along, and was a double agent. [[spoiler: A [[spoiler:A more straight example occurs late in the series when he seemingly defects to Trident. He fought and seemingly killed Jean and later fought Yuu. After being defeated (he may have limited himself) he explains that he did all that to unlock Yuu's Yu's true potential and he knew Jean wouldn't be that easily killed. It was shown in subsequent battles that the two indeed became a lot more powerful after his "lesson".]]
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* DarkAndTroubledPast: Her mom died at a young age, which forced her to go to the mercenary treasure hunter career early on while in school.
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* OmnicidalManiac: [[spoiler: Col. [=McDougal=] plans to wipe humanity off the face of the planet to help the Earth re-flourish and repopulate it with creatures he will create.]]
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* PlayingBothSides: Moroha uses the CIA agents and the American military with the Spetsnaz in Japan to help him secure the Fire Orb for himself.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Moroha kills the CIA agents in the outskirts of New Tokyo International Airport by using [[spoiler: razor sharp winds that decapitated them and their body parts.]]
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* PlayingBothSides: Moroha uses the CIA agents and the American military with the Spetsnaz in Japan to help him secure the Fire Orb for himself.
himself. [[spoiler:It's hinted that he does this so that can find and locate the shrine.]]
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Moroha kills the CIA agents in the outskirts of New Tokyo International Airport by using[[spoiler: razor [[spoiler:razor sharp winds that decapitated them and their body parts.]]
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Be warned of spoilers, especially for those who are just seeing the Netflix version, considering the manga's been fully published by the early 90s.
[[foldercontrol]]
!ARCAM Corporation
!!Leadership:
[[folder:Henry Garnum]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Yamamoto]]
[[/folder]]
!!Spriggans:
[[folder:Yu Ominae]]
* BarehandedBladeBlock: During the chase in the Grand Bazaar in the OVA, Ominae managed to block a mook's {{BFS}} with his bare hands. Before breaking it, much to the mook's horror. Justified because Ominae is a SuperSoldier.
* ChildSoldiers: Yu himself, who was kidnapped at a young age and placed into a black ops unit of child soldiers known as "COSMOS" after his parents were killed during an archaeological expedition in Iran by American commandos.
* ExperiencedProtagonist: An ex-COSMOS child soldier who fought around the world before his brainwashing wore off and recruitment to ARCAM.
* ThePowerOfFriendship: [=McDougal=] calls out Yu for SavingTheWorld when ItIsBeyondSaving. Yu replies that he doesn't care about the world; [[FamilyOfChoice everyone he cares about is in ARCAM]] so he fights to save them.
* SeeYouInHell: Yu yells one to Col. [=McDougal=] before giving the latter the final blow.
* ThatManIsDead: Yu has abandoned being called #43 since he defected from COSMOS, preferring to be called by his real name.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Jean Jacquemonde]]
* AntiHero: Jean believes that ARCAM's security forces need to be ruthless against those who try to steal the [=OOPArt] by doing the necessary, even killing, in order to protect the human race.
* {{Irony}}: He hates it when he's called a monster. [[spoiler:Considering that's a lycanthrope bioweapon that is.]]
* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: Jean is this after he sees his own blood whenever he gets shot up by small arms. He's like that [[spoiler:since his family bloodline are all werewolves, created by ancient civilizations as a biological soldier.]]. However, ex-ARCAM Spriggan and doctor Percup Ramdi had been able to fix it somewhat.
* SuperSpeed: Jean can outrun machine-guns fired at his direction thanks to his powers. [[spoiler:It's a strong hint to his lycanthrope past.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Tea Flatte]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Oboro]]
* ArrogantKungFuGuy: Oboro is a benevolent version.
* BareFistedMonk: Oboro mostly fights with qigong skills.
* BadassNormal: Fighting against enhanced soldiers and supernatural opponents, he has to resort to using martial arts.
* StealthMentor: A variation occurs when Oboro was first introduced. He was a good guy all along, and was a double agent. [[spoiler: A more straight example occurs late in the series when he seemingly defects to Trident. He fought and seemingly killed Jean and later fought Yuu. After being defeated (he may have limited himself) he explains that he did all that to unlock Yuu's true potential and he knew Jean wouldn't be that easily killed. It was shown in subsequent battles that the two indeed became a lot more powerful after his "lesson".]]
[[/folder]]
!!ARCAM Special Private Army:
[[folder:Jimmy Max]]
[[/folder]]
!!Scientists:
[[folder:Professor Mayzel]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Margaret]]
[[/folder]]
!Allies:
[[folder:Rie Yamabishi]]
* RightInFrontOfMe: Yu's ChildhoodFriend asks for ARCAM help in tracking down her friend from the orphanage in Japan, not realising he's her Spriggan bodyguard.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Yoshino Somei]]
* ActionGirl: Being a mercenary treasure hunter and spirit medium while trained by her mom at a young age, she's prepared for this when she decided to go hunt for [=OOPArt=] treasure.
[[/folder]]
!Shogakukan High:
[[folder:Kagaho Sasahara]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Hatsuho Sasahara]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Tanaka]]
* OriginalCharacter: He only exists in the 1998 OVA.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: [[spoiler:Tanaka was brainwashed to commit a suicide bombing attack in Shogakukan High in order to kill Ominae.]]
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!Joint Special Operations Command
!!Machiner's Platoon:
[[folder:Colonel McDougal]]
* AGodAmI: [[spoiler: He declares himself to be a god after he starts Noah's Ark.]]
* AdaptationPersonalityChange: Colonel [=McDougal=] is still a genocidal CreepyChild with AGodAmI complex, but here he's a WellIntentionedExtremist who thinks [[InYourNatureToDestroyYourselves humanity will destroy the world beyond repair]], so plans to use HostileTerraforming, and the lifeforms frozen in time in Noah's Ark, to destroy and then repopulate the Earth. When his plan fails he activates the SelfDestructMechanism, feeling he has no reason to exist other than the Ark.
** However, he did hurt Margaret. The manga never showed him doing this.
* ChildSoldiers: He's a young child who has been experimented on by the Machiner's Platoon (Machine Corp. in the OVA) and cybernetically enhanced since birth, having been trained to harness unmatched psychic power.
* ColonelBadass: Aforementioned Colonel [=McDougal=] can take down complete squads of soldiers with his mind alone.
* CreepyChild: Colonel [=McDougal=] doesn't look much more than 6-10 years old. He's also an albino with heterochromia, a sadistic killer who can slaughter people just be thinking about it, and who plans to [[spoiler: wipe out all human life and repopulate the world with creatures of his own devising]] by seizing the power of Noah's Ark.
* OmnicidalManiac: [[spoiler: Col. [=McDougal=] plans to wipe humanity off the face of the planet to help the Earth re-flourish and repopulate it with creatures he will create.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Hummingbat]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Fatman]]
* GatlingGood: Fat Man's preferred weapon. It appears to be a vehicle-mounted chain gun, but given his immense strength, Fat Man can use it single-handedly to massacre entire legions of RedShirts.
* OnlyAFleshWound: Yu snaps out of a HeroicBSOD in what, up to that point, was a CurbStompBattle with Fat Man, taking off his hand with one knife swipe and gutting him with another. ''This just gets him riled up.''
-->'''Fat Man''': FINALLY, YOU BEGIN TO FIGHT!
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[[folder:Little Boy]]
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: Several of Little Boy's victims ends up being diced apart into chunks thanks to his RazorFloss, with a few who gets cleanly bisected.
* RazorFloss: The cybernetically enhanced Machiner's Platoon operative "Little Boy" uses razor-thin wires as his weapon of choice, which he utilizes to ensnare and slice multiple enemies at once to ribbons.
* SaveTheVillain: Discussed when Yu and Jean Jacquemonde get into an argument over whether they should [[SaveTheVillain spare Little Boy's life]] after taking him prisoner, with Yu saying [[IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim they have to be better than their enemies]] and Jean arguing that they need to be [[TheDreaded ruthless to deter them]].
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!!COSMOS:
[[folder:Ralph Cooley]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Sho Kanaya]]
[[/folder]]
!Trident Corporation:
!!Leadership:
[[folder:Larry Markson]]
[[/folder]]
!!Operatives:
[[folder:Iwao Akatsuki]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Bowman]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Jack the Ripper]]
[[/folder]]
!Russia:
[[folder:Viktor Stolov]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Koichi Moroha]]
* PlayingBothSides: Moroha uses the CIA agents and the American military with the Spetsnaz in Japan to help him secure the Fire Orb for himself.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Moroha kills the CIA agents in the outskirts of New Tokyo International Airport by using [[spoiler: razor sharp winds that decapitated them and their body parts.]]
[[/folder]]
!Mexico:
[[folder:Quetzalcoatl]]
* AncientAstronauts: He's responsible for helping to civilize the native Mexicans in ancient times.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Tezcatlipoca]]
[[/folder]]
!UK:
[[folder:Maria Clemente]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Professor Mauser]]
[[/folder]]
!Neo-Nazis:
[[folder:Kutheimer]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Bo Brantz]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Bo refuses to let anyone destroy the world. Yu thinks he's gone crazy.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Hans Schneider]]
[[/folder]]
!Out-of-place artifacts:
[[folder:Fire Shrine/Orb]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Mask of Palenque]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Noah's Ark]]
* CollapsingLair: JustifiedTrope; Noah's Ark is frozen in time, and activating the SelfDestructMechanism causes the flow of time to continue. As the Ark's mass is too great to sustain its weight in three-dimensional space, it collapses.
* NoahsStoryArc: It's depicted to be created by an ancient race as an out-of-place artifact which not only carried dinosaurs and mythical creatures, [[spoiler:it's also used as a weather control device that can bring about drastic changes to the Earth's weather, including the threat of global flooding]].
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Crystal Skull]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Phantom Isle]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Berserker]]
[[/folder]]
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[[foldercontrol]]
!ARCAM Corporation
!!Leadership:
[[folder:Henry Garnum]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Yamamoto]]
[[/folder]]
!!Spriggans:
[[folder:Yu Ominae]]
* BarehandedBladeBlock: During the chase in the Grand Bazaar in the OVA, Ominae managed to block a mook's {{BFS}} with his bare hands. Before breaking it, much to the mook's horror. Justified because Ominae is a SuperSoldier.
* ChildSoldiers: Yu himself, who was kidnapped at a young age and placed into a black ops unit of child soldiers known as "COSMOS" after his parents were killed during an archaeological expedition in Iran by American commandos.
* ExperiencedProtagonist: An ex-COSMOS child soldier who fought around the world before his brainwashing wore off and recruitment to ARCAM.
* ThePowerOfFriendship: [=McDougal=] calls out Yu for SavingTheWorld when ItIsBeyondSaving. Yu replies that he doesn't care about the world; [[FamilyOfChoice everyone he cares about is in ARCAM]] so he fights to save them.
* SeeYouInHell: Yu yells one to Col. [=McDougal=] before giving the latter the final blow.
* ThatManIsDead: Yu has abandoned being called #43 since he defected from COSMOS, preferring to be called by his real name.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Jean Jacquemonde]]
* AntiHero: Jean believes that ARCAM's security forces need to be ruthless against those who try to steal the [=OOPArt] by doing the necessary, even killing, in order to protect the human race.
* {{Irony}}: He hates it when he's called a monster. [[spoiler:Considering that's a lycanthrope bioweapon that is.]]
* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: Jean is this after he sees his own blood whenever he gets shot up by small arms. He's like that [[spoiler:since his family bloodline are all werewolves, created by ancient civilizations as a biological soldier.]]. However, ex-ARCAM Spriggan and doctor Percup Ramdi had been able to fix it somewhat.
* SuperSpeed: Jean can outrun machine-guns fired at his direction thanks to his powers. [[spoiler:It's a strong hint to his lycanthrope past.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Tea Flatte]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Oboro]]
* ArrogantKungFuGuy: Oboro is a benevolent version.
* BareFistedMonk: Oboro mostly fights with qigong skills.
* BadassNormal: Fighting against enhanced soldiers and supernatural opponents, he has to resort to using martial arts.
* StealthMentor: A variation occurs when Oboro was first introduced. He was a good guy all along, and was a double agent. [[spoiler: A more straight example occurs late in the series when he seemingly defects to Trident. He fought and seemingly killed Jean and later fought Yuu. After being defeated (he may have limited himself) he explains that he did all that to unlock Yuu's true potential and he knew Jean wouldn't be that easily killed. It was shown in subsequent battles that the two indeed became a lot more powerful after his "lesson".]]
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!!ARCAM Special Private Army:
[[folder:Jimmy Max]]
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!!Scientists:
[[folder:Professor Mayzel]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Margaret]]
[[/folder]]
!Allies:
[[folder:Rie Yamabishi]]
* RightInFrontOfMe: Yu's ChildhoodFriend asks for ARCAM help in tracking down her friend from the orphanage in Japan, not realising he's her Spriggan bodyguard.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Yoshino Somei]]
* ActionGirl: Being a mercenary treasure hunter and spirit medium while trained by her mom at a young age, she's prepared for this when she decided to go hunt for [=OOPArt=] treasure.
[[/folder]]
!Shogakukan High:
[[folder:Kagaho Sasahara]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Hatsuho Sasahara]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Tanaka]]
* OriginalCharacter: He only exists in the 1998 OVA.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: [[spoiler:Tanaka was brainwashed to commit a suicide bombing attack in Shogakukan High in order to kill Ominae.]]
[[/folder]]
!Joint Special Operations Command
!!Machiner's Platoon:
[[folder:Colonel McDougal]]
* AGodAmI: [[spoiler: He declares himself to be a god after he starts Noah's Ark.]]
* AdaptationPersonalityChange: Colonel [=McDougal=] is still a genocidal CreepyChild with AGodAmI complex, but here he's a WellIntentionedExtremist who thinks [[InYourNatureToDestroyYourselves humanity will destroy the world beyond repair]], so plans to use HostileTerraforming, and the lifeforms frozen in time in Noah's Ark, to destroy and then repopulate the Earth. When his plan fails he activates the SelfDestructMechanism, feeling he has no reason to exist other than the Ark.
** However, he did hurt Margaret. The manga never showed him doing this.
* ChildSoldiers: He's a young child who has been experimented on by the Machiner's Platoon (Machine Corp. in the OVA) and cybernetically enhanced since birth, having been trained to harness unmatched psychic power.
* ColonelBadass: Aforementioned Colonel [=McDougal=] can take down complete squads of soldiers with his mind alone.
* CreepyChild: Colonel [=McDougal=] doesn't look much more than 6-10 years old. He's also an albino with heterochromia, a sadistic killer who can slaughter people just be thinking about it, and who plans to [[spoiler: wipe out all human life and repopulate the world with creatures of his own devising]] by seizing the power of Noah's Ark.
* OmnicidalManiac: [[spoiler: Col. [=McDougal=] plans to wipe humanity off the face of the planet to help the Earth re-flourish and repopulate it with creatures he will create.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Hummingbat]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Fatman]]
* GatlingGood: Fat Man's preferred weapon. It appears to be a vehicle-mounted chain gun, but given his immense strength, Fat Man can use it single-handedly to massacre entire legions of RedShirts.
* OnlyAFleshWound: Yu snaps out of a HeroicBSOD in what, up to that point, was a CurbStompBattle with Fat Man, taking off his hand with one knife swipe and gutting him with another. ''This just gets him riled up.''
-->'''Fat Man''': FINALLY, YOU BEGIN TO FIGHT!
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Little Boy]]
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: Several of Little Boy's victims ends up being diced apart into chunks thanks to his RazorFloss, with a few who gets cleanly bisected.
* RazorFloss: The cybernetically enhanced Machiner's Platoon operative "Little Boy" uses razor-thin wires as his weapon of choice, which he utilizes to ensnare and slice multiple enemies at once to ribbons.
* SaveTheVillain: Discussed when Yu and Jean Jacquemonde get into an argument over whether they should [[SaveTheVillain spare Little Boy's life]] after taking him prisoner, with Yu saying [[IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim they have to be better than their enemies]] and Jean arguing that they need to be [[TheDreaded ruthless to deter them]].
[[/folder]]
!!COSMOS:
[[folder:Ralph Cooley]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Sho Kanaya]]
[[/folder]]
!Trident Corporation:
!!Leadership:
[[folder:Larry Markson]]
[[/folder]]
!!Operatives:
[[folder:Iwao Akatsuki]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Bowman]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Jack the Ripper]]
[[/folder]]
!Russia:
[[folder:Viktor Stolov]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Koichi Moroha]]
* PlayingBothSides: Moroha uses the CIA agents and the American military with the Spetsnaz in Japan to help him secure the Fire Orb for himself.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Moroha kills the CIA agents in the outskirts of New Tokyo International Airport by using [[spoiler: razor sharp winds that decapitated them and their body parts.]]
[[/folder]]
!Mexico:
[[folder:Quetzalcoatl]]
* AncientAstronauts: He's responsible for helping to civilize the native Mexicans in ancient times.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Tezcatlipoca]]
[[/folder]]
!UK:
[[folder:Maria Clemente]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Professor Mauser]]
[[/folder]]
!Neo-Nazis:
[[folder:Kutheimer]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Bo Brantz]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Bo refuses to let anyone destroy the world. Yu thinks he's gone crazy.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Hans Schneider]]
[[/folder]]
!Out-of-place artifacts:
[[folder:Fire Shrine/Orb]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Mask of Palenque]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Noah's Ark]]
* CollapsingLair: JustifiedTrope; Noah's Ark is frozen in time, and activating the SelfDestructMechanism causes the flow of time to continue. As the Ark's mass is too great to sustain its weight in three-dimensional space, it collapses.
* NoahsStoryArc: It's depicted to be created by an ancient race as an out-of-place artifact which not only carried dinosaurs and mythical creatures, [[spoiler:it's also used as a weather control device that can bring about drastic changes to the Earth's weather, including the threat of global flooding]].
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Crystal Skull]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Phantom Isle]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Berserker]]
[[/folder]]
