History Literature / CombatantsWillBeDispatched

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** At the start of the series, Kisaragi is on the verge of world domination, but once the world starts to stabilize under their regime, there won't be a need for such a large army so the first thing that will happen will be downsizing with many of their employees facing unemployment, hence sending them to conquer other planets seemed a comparatively more humane solution.
** Lilith's teleporter may work, but even she does not know the geography of the planet she's sending Six and Alice to, and had to initially teleport them as high up in the stratosphere as possible so they wouldn't accidentally teleport into the planet, let alone underwater. Needless to say, when Six learns from Alice that the teleporter has a success rate of only ''less than 5%'', he's livid, to say the least.
** Grace Kingdom's HonorBeforeReason attitude of only fighting head-on battles against a vastly superior country meant that they're constantly losing battle after battle and at the start of the series, is on the verge of defeat.
** Likewise, the Demon Kingdom has become so accustomed to fighting Grace and overpowering them in head-on battles that they had no need of any other strategy. As a result, they are constantly completely caught off-guard by Six's [[CombatPragmatist out-of-the-box strategies]].
** Lilith may be a genius scientist on Earth, but her knowledge does not fully apply in the other world where not just scientific theory are different, but magic is involved. As a result, many of her schemes relying on Earth physics / science end up either failing or making things worse.
** Later on in order to save Evil Points, Alice hires Snow to make more shotgun shells for her. Snow doesn't have any idea of the materials she's handling, and eventually brings her flaming magical sword into the room, igniting the gunpowder and destroying the base. Even Alice notes that she can't be angry at Snow for making a newbie handle gunpowder.

* AlmightyJanitor: Six is just a lowly run-of-the-mill Combatant with outdated cybernetic enhancements and power armor, but he's still strong enough to fight on the front lines against entire Sentai teams on his own. He's also one of the first members of Kisaragi, and knows the Supreme Lords on a personal level. It's hinted that one of the reasons why he's not already a Supreme Lord himself is because he's just too kind-hearted to commit truly evil acts. The real reason he was chosen to prepare the invasion of the other world is for him to gain enough achievements to promote him into one without giving the impression of favoritism. [[spoiler:In Volume 4, Lilith the Dark outright states that by sending Six into so harsh an environment as the planet he's on, hopefully he'd turn into a "proper" villain that they could promote to their ranks instead of remaining a halfway-decent person deep down.]]

* ArentYouGoingToRavishMe: A semi-recurring nameless woman is a victim of Six’s sexual harassment in order to get Evil Points. Except that instead of being put off, she’s very clearly into it, and rattles off about various fantasies like being assaulted right on the street or being kidnapped and forced to constantly give birth. Both times, Six freaks out and [[TooSpicyForYogSothoth tells her to leave because he’s creeped out by her behavior]]. He doesn't even get any Evil Points, due to her consent.

* BeastMan: Tiger Man. [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin He is a tiger who is also a man.]]
* BeneathTheMask: On the surface, Princess Tillis is as pretty as a summer's day. But underneath she's a ruthless schemer who doesn't hesitate to use her loyal vassals as pawns to trap a lecherous prince.
* BigEater: Rose gains the abilities of her enemies by snacking on them.

* ChainedByFashion: Rose wears a manacle with a broken chain on her right wrist.

* ComedicLolicon: Tiger Man likes his women smaller than Snow. ''Much, much'' smaller.

* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Six constantly acts like a fool and is looked down upon by others, even among fellow Combatants. Nevertheless, not only is he one of the most senior Combatants, but remains one of Kisaragi's best fighters even with outdated cybernetic enhancements and power armor, and is trusted enough by the Supreme Lords for them to consider promoting him into their ranks. One reason why he acts like a fool is because he's just too kind-hearted to be truly evil and seldom goes beyond committing petty crimes to obtain Evil Points.

* DefrostingIceQueen: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Snow.]] When she meets Six and Alice, she doesn't care about anything but exploiting them to further her own social status, since she was a dirt-poor urchin who worked her way to the top. But after she's demoted and assigned to his ragtag group of reject warriors, she softens into a SlapSlapKiss {{Tsundere}} towards him after she sees some tiny modicum of virtue inside him.

* DoingInTheWizard: Grimm attempts to prove her god and ability to summon undead is more than simply an advanced form of technology when Alice dismisses her claims as simply being an esper mutation. When she summons a greater devil, Alice makes several requests of it, from creating planets to simply unclogging a toilet. When the devil is unable to fulfill the requests, Alice remains skeptical about the existence of the supernatural.
** Finally averted when she and Six try putting socks on Grimm, who is cursed to never be able to wear footwear. After a few seconds of wearing them, she explodes, finally convincing Alice that magic truly does exist.

* EliteFour: Averted in that Kisaragi Corporation is under the command of an Elite Three. However, the trio ''wants'' Six to perform deeds that provide enough recognition for him to get promoted into their ranks, thereby making them an EliteFour.

* FlatEarthAtheist: Being a product of science, Alice staunchly refuses to believe in the supernatural. Six calls her out on this, pointing out they deal with magic and demons on a regular basis, but she wants none of it. When Grimm summons a devil to prove her wrong, Alice gladly offers her soul (which she doesn't have) in exchange for a series of ludicrous wishes like creating a few more planets in Earth's solar system. The befuddled demon meekly complains it's beyond his abilities and disappears, leaving Alice less than impressed.
* GlassCannon: Alice is a high specs android, so high specs that she was built with the exact same strength and durability of a normal human girl of her physical appearance. As a result, she's always careful of avoiding damage, because it could trigger her self-destruct to go off which is ''nuclear''.
* GoldDigger: Snow. She starts cozying up to Tiger Man the instant she finds out he can summon swords from another world, right up until he outs himself as a pedophile and she turns away in disgust. Later, she asks Six if he can summon swords as well, and casually mentions she has no problem paying for them with sex.
* GoodisBadandBadisGood: The heroes are members of an evil organization, while the heroic nobles are less than noble.

* HandicappedBadass: Grimm. An almighty wizard who can't be killed, yet spends her life in a wheelchair. Subverted in that the reason she's in a wheelchair isn't because her legs are broken, but because she's suffering under a curse that forbids her from ''wearing shoes''. Indeed she’s shown walking around multiple times when needed, though she’s physically the weakest of the group and has to literally be carried by Rose when they’re trapped in the desert (and she still dies anyway despite that).

* ICallItVera: Snow is obsessed with nice swords, and she's taken to giving them fancy names like "Flame Zapper" and "Iceberg".

* TheLeader: Originally Six was the leader of the two and Alice is just his support android. But it slowly switches around because Six and the other Combatants are all idiots and Alice is the OnlySaneMan. By later volumes she’s outright giving both Six and Snow salaries to ensure they don’t starve to death. Justified because while initially Six was sent to the other world in order to spy on the inhabitants and build a base, he ended up starting a mercenary group with the Grace Kingdom believing that they're representatives from another country. This requires someone with bureaucratic & negotiation abilities, which Six lacks. This is shown in later volumes as Alice is the one negotiating with Tillis from behind the scenes, not Six.
* LegoGenetics: Rose is frequently described as being "like [[Franchise/{{Kirby}} K*rby]]" for her ability to take on the powers of (and sprout the body parts of) whatever she eats. This is also the very reason she is loathe to eat bugs.
* LinearWarriorsQuadraticWizards: Snow is an outstanding swordswoman, but she's weaker than Rose (who has inherent magical abilities) and Grimm (who can use spellcraft).
* LittleBitBeastly: Rose has one horn and a lizard's tail, due to her chimeric nature. She gains a single black wing later on.
* LittleMissSnarker: Alice, the rational and sane strategist to Six's brash, cocky brawler.

* LoveHungry: Outwardly, Grimm pretends to be a consummate priestess attuned to the powers of darkness. But secretly, she's miserable that she can't get a man, going so far as to wear racy panties that, according to a magazine she read, would help raise her prospects.
** Later, her idea of going out on a date with Six is rolling through town at breakneck speeds on a new wheelchair he bought for her and trying to bowl over happy couples.
** Later on when visiting a neighboring kingdom, she desperately tries to hook herself up with various noblemen and flies into a crying rage when she fails due to them already having fiancees, already being married, and in one case being gay.

* PerpetualPoverty: Thanks to her habit of buying extremely expensive [[CoolSword cool swords]], Snow is constantly lacking in funds. It gets to the point where she’s willing to sell her body and Alice has to stop her by offering her a job making shotgun shells. She’s even homeless because of her spending habits, as she confesses later on.

* [[SelfMadeMan Self-Made Woman]]: Snow rose from abject poverty to become the captain of Grace Kingdom's royal guard. As a result, she has a fetishistic lust for money and material goods (''especially'' nice swords) and she flies off the handle whenever something happens that threatens her hard-earned status.

* SelfDamagingAttackBackfire: As a dark priestess, Grimm can hurl curses at her enemies. However, they stand a 20% chance of backfiring and inflicting ''her'' instead, so she mainly relies on pathetic low-level curses such as inflicting somebody with the pain of a stubbed toe. In fact, a backfiring curse is the reason she's in a wheelchair. Not because her legs don't work, but because she's ''forbidden from wearing shoes''.

* {{Sleepyhead}}: Grimm often dozes off in her wheelchair during battles. That sounds dangerous, but she ''is'' functionally immortal thanks to her nature as a dark priestess.
* {{Stripperific}}: The amount of authority a warrior woman has is inversely proportional to the amount of clothing she wears. Astaroth, Belial, Snow, and Heine all wear very little clothing and command armies, while the other female characters dress more modestly.
** Actually justified in Volume 5. Heine claims that, being a fire user, she needs to wear her outfit to avoid catching fire or overheating using her attacks. Snow follows up by stating that the majority of the demon forces are orcs and goblins who prefer to take women prisoner rather than killing them and the more skin you show the more they’ll try to avoid damaging their prey. Snow also claims this is why female soldiers [[HelmetsAreHardlyHeroic never wear helmets; they need to announce their sex.]]

* TakeAThirdOption: Six's mission is to spy on the inhabitants of this world and make preparations for Kisaragi to TakeOverTheWorld. He ends up growing attached to the people of Grace Kingdom, and rather than turning against them or leaving them to their fate against the Demon Army, he sets things up so Grace Kingdom hires Kisasragi as mercenaries; so they are still technically fulfilling their mission.
* TakeOverTheWorld: Kisaragi's goal, and are on the verge of doing so on Earth at the beginning of the series. Now they plan on doing the same thing on other worlds in order to solve Earth's overpopulation, pollution and dwindling resources problems.
** It should be noted that they’re nicer about it than most evil organizations. They’re perfectly willing to enter an alliance with the Grace kingdom to protect them from the demon lord’s army in exchange for territory and Alice mentions that they’ll try to terraform empty and uninhabitable places the locals can’t use anyway rather than forcibly subjugating the populace.
* TheLoad: Grimm. Snow is a skilled swordsman while Rose is a powerful combat Chimera. Grimm, on the other hand, is a priestess adept with curse magic. While she ''would'' be useful under normal circumstances multiple factors cripple her: she’s often asleep during the day and struggles to stay awake during combat, her curses have a 1-in-5 chance of backfiring on her, and her self-enforced wheelchair-bound state means she’s often a sitting duck for attacks. If not for her ResurrectiveImmortality she’d be (permanently) dead dozens of times over.
* TheyKilledKennyAgain: Grimm is nothing but dead weight. ''Literally'', since the party often have to drag her corpse back to the nearest altar of Zenarith to resurrect her. When they’re trapped in the desert she somehow dies of dehydration despite the other party members managing to stay alive and Rose has to carry her corpse through the sweltering heat.

* VagueAge: Grimm appears to be in her late teens or early twenties, but her constant worries about being a spinster and refusal to state her age makes it difficult to tell how old she really is. The fact that she’s an undead means it’s possible that she's ''far'' [[OlderThanTheyLook older than she looks]].
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Despite being a CardCarryingVillain organization, Kisaragi seems to be the only group that’s trying to fix the abundant problems of both planets (see CrapsackWorld above). Six even notes the irony of an evil organization forcing everyone to do what’s best since a divided group of humans can’t work together to solve the issues without old grudges getting in the way.

** Rose is utterly repulsed of bugs. Since she [[LegoGenetics literally morphs into whatever she eats]], she has good reason to be.

* DoesNotLikeShoes: Enforced with Grimm. While Six assumes the rebounded curse that confines her to a wheelchair weakened her legs, she just can’t wear shoes. So needs a wheelchair to avoid dirtying and/or injuring her feet. When Six and Alice try to put shoes on Grimm's feet by force, she panics that she'll literally ''explode'' unless the shoes are removed. Six expresses disbelief and annoyance that Grimm really is cursed like that.

* {{Expy}}: As Akatsuki remarks in the first volume, he published the series on "Let's Become a Novelist" before his [[LightNovel/KonoSuba other]] [[Manga/KemonoMichi works]], but given how scarce info on the original web novel is, it probably didn't do well. So it seems like he took the opportunity to reuse some of his ideas and archetypes when writing his later works:

** When Six finds out the world he's been sent to has magic, he immediately strikes a pose and screams, "[[LightNovel/{{Konosuba}} EXPLOOOOOOOSION]]!" Nothing happens.

** The longer the story goes on, the more the conflict between Grace and the Demon Kingdom is shown to be not so black-and-white. While the demons are the aggressors, they're invading due to their lands being ravaged by a monster, and they have their share of well-meaning demons. Grace, as shown later, engages in slave labor of sapient humanoids, has no issue eating sapient humanoids like orcs, ostracizes Grimm and Rose despite both being helpful due to their non-human heritage, and their royalty is show as remarkably self-centered with the refusal of the king and the princess to say an embarrassing phrase even if it means saving their kingdom from a drought.

''Combatants Will be Dispatched!'' (戦闘員、派遣します！, ''Sentōin, Haken Shimasu!'') is an ongoing 2017 light novel series written by Creator/NatsumeAkatsuki, with illustrations by Kakao Lanthanum, published by Kadokawa Shoten under its ''Kadokawa Sneaker Bunko'' imprint. There is also an ongoing 2018 manga adaptation illustrated by Masaaki Kiasa, published by Media Factory under its ''Monthly Comic Alive'' imprint, as well as an anime adaptation directed by Hiroaki Akagi for Creator/JCStaff which started airing in April 4, 2021.

** Grimm is a big-sister figure in the mold of Wiz, albeit minus her dignity and with her pre-undeath OldMaid tendencies amplified, with jokes about her GagBoobs flipped into Altena's PantyShot jokes, with dashes of Kazuma's tendency to frequently die and be resurrected, as well as Aqua's near-complete uselessness in battle.

** Grimm is a big-sister figure in the mold of Wiz, albeit minus her dignity and with her pre-undeath ChristmasCake tendencies amplified, with jokes about her GagBoobs flipped into Altena's PantyShot jokes, with dashes of Kazuma's tendency to frequently die and be resurrected, as well as Aqua's near-complete uselessness in battle.

* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Rose is utterly repulsed of bugs. Since she [[LegoGenetics literally morphs into whatever she eats]], she has good reason to be.

* VampireVords: The English dub gives the devil Grimm accidentally summons a distinct Slavic accent.