History Manga / AkameGaKiru

** It's outright stated in the second chapter that Night Raid aren't heroes, they are murderers. It's shown through their work that often times they have to kill people who have families or simply got in their way, like Tatsumi did. They also mention that any one of them can receive [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor divine retribution]] for the people they murder.

* AbuseIsOkayWhenItIsFemaleOnMale: Esdese slapping a colar onto Tatsume, stating that [[VillainousCrush saying that he belongs to her]], and ''literally'' kidnapping him is PlayedForLaughs, but imagine how such a scene would have been treated with a GenderFlip. Albeit, in the context of the setting, Esdese getting away with kidnapping a young boy in front of an entire stadium full of spectators was likely tolerated because she's a high-ranking member of the Empire's military, not because she's a woman, not because no one took the situation seriously. In fact, the audience seemed rather shocked.

* AbuseIsOkayWhenItIsFemaleOnMale: Esdese slapping a colar onto Tatsume, stating that [[VillainousCrush saying that he belongs to her]], and ''literally'' kidnapping him is PlayedForLaughs, but imagine how such a scene would have been treated with a GenderFlip. Albeit, in the context of the setting, Esdese getting away with kidnapping a young boy in front of an entire stadium full of spectators was likely tolerated because she's a high-ranking member of the Empire's military, not because she's a woman.

* CrapsackWorld: However, once TheMasquerade is lifted, you can really see how bad of a state the Empire is in. The Capital as become a HiveOfScumAndVillainy, being horribly corrupt and run by a CompleteMonster. The countryside isn't much better, with the various villages being taxed into oblivion, and getting obliterated by Imperial troops and assassins when they rebel.

* [[spoiler: AnyoneCanDie]]

* AnyoneCanDie: [[spoiler:So far, several members of both Night Raid and the Jaegers have been killed off, including Braht, Schere, Dr. Stylish, and Bors.]]

* {{Captain Ersatz}}: A tan, mysterious man in tattered robes with an X-shaped scar on his face? Hello, [[{{FullmetalAlchemist}} Scar]].

* CrapsackWorld/CrapsaccharineWorld: Seems like a nice place so it can only get worse. Tatsumi is provided shelter by a family of nobles who turn out to do this so they can torture the poor country people who venture in to the big city. And that's just the surface.

* {{Heroic Sociopath}}: Night Raid in general, solely by merit of occupation.
** Arguably Esdese, for a given definition of "heroic". She's portrayed as being nowhere near as reprehensible as most of the people in the Capitol (even though she tortures people as a hobby, which more speaks for the Capitol in general than her as a character), and is actually quite friendly and kind to people on her good side. ''Especially'' Tatsumi.

* ShrinkingViolet: Bors, despite how he looks is quite shy.

* SuperpowerLottery: Some teigu are better than others.

* AntiHero: The Night Raids

* AFateWorseThanDeath: one of the points of the plot is that how corrupt the capitol is and how those in charge are sadistic.
* AnAxeToGrind: Daidara has the axe type Teigu Belvac.

* AnIcePerson: [[spoiler: General Esdese's Teigu's ability. To an extent that she managed to freeze a river and a majority of a forest.]]

* {{BFG}}: Taizan's cannon of justice.

* BloodyMurder: the finger type Teigu Black Marlins secret skill is this.

* CrapsackWorld\CrapsaccharineWorld: Seems like a nice place so it can only get worse. Tatsumi is provided shelter by a family of nobles who turn out to do this so they can torture the poor country people who venture in to the big city. And that's just the surface.

* CuteClumsyGirl: Schere, an assassin who mistakes salt for sugar and washes Mein with the clothes while doing the laundry.

* FlechetteStorm: it seems that the Teigu Mastema is capable of this.

* KillItWithFire: Rubicante a flamethrower type Teigu

* MakingASplash: the Teigu Black Marlin.

* MeaningfulName: Esdese is a wordplay on "S" desu. Schere in german means scisors, guess how does her Teigu looks like.

* MusicalAssassin: Nyau has the flute type Teigu Scream.

* ObviouslyEvil: The Primeminister.

** Boris is a massive man who walks around in a menacing gas mask, and it's his job to use his flamethrower tegu in order to burn traitors at the stake and wipe plague-ridden villages off the map, but he has a wife and daughter he loves very much.

* RazorFloss: Rabac's Teigu Infinite Uses: Cross Tail.
* RedBaron: plenty, Zank the beheader, 100 man slayer Braht, even some of the Teigu have these One Cut Killer Murasame, Hundred-Beast-King Lionelle, Roman Artillery Pumpkin, Demon Armor Inclusio, Infinite Uses Cross Tail, Cutter of Creation Ecstasy just to name a few.

* ThisIsADrill: Enma's spear of justice, Dr.Stylish created weapon which is used by Seryuu.

* SuperpowerLottery: Some Teigu are better than others.

** Boris is a massive man who walks around in a menacing gas maks, and it's his job to use his flamethrower tegu in order to burn traitors at the stake and wipe plague-ridden villages off the map, but he has a wife and daughter he loves very much.

* CuteShoutaroBoy: Esdese is initially impressed by Tatsumi's fighting skills, but it's the fact that he's a good fighter ''and'' cute that convinces her that they're meant to be together.

* PunchClockVillain: Esdese may be a sadist who doesn't care for the empi's corruption, but she's a very sweet person when around someone she likes.

* VillainessesWamtHeroes: Played with. It just ''happens'' that Tatsumi falls into all the criteria of Esdese's perfect guy, and she encounters him when watching a public fighting tournament, not when in the battlefield. Because of this, the members of Night Raid are incredibly dumbfounded and confused when she snatches him up and takes him to the Capitol.

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