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* {{Eagleland}}: The series utilizes both variations, but plays heavily into The Boorish.
** America's less than savory history is referenced a lot. The CIA has a major heroin operation out of Roanapur and a vested interest in keeping the place a chaotic hellhole. The USA backs a few right wing organizations and even deploys the NSA to destabilize various South American socialist movements (the series depicting their attack on the Fifth Republic Movement) in order to keep the wealthy in power. The CIA representative based in Roanapur [[spoiler:Eda]] is ruthless and greedy but by all accounts not a corrupt agent, simply one exhibiting the typical behaviors of the agency.
** Shane Caxton and the Grey Fox unit are some of the only members of The Brave variant of this trope. They're professional, heroic, effective, and have a sense of loyalty and comradery to each other. Caxton himself goes out of his way to rescue civilians and minimize the damage his people cause. The contrast is best shown in flashback where his unit try and rape a young Vietnamese woman after massacring her village; Caxton protects her and fights them off but is the only one to do so.
** The Neveral Cartel provide an example of The Boorish that's not connected to the government. Elvis and Russel are idiots plain and simple. They barge into Roanapur throw their weight around expecting to bring everyone to heel and consistently have the situation blow up in their face. Elvis's stupidity in dealing with their contracted tech people leaves the gang at a tremendous monetary loss and his attempts to start a gang war in Roanapur end with him getting killed.
** America's less than savory history is referenced a lot. The CIA has a major heroin operation out of Roanapur and a vested interest in keeping the place a chaotic hellhole. The USA backs a few right wing organizations and even deploys the NSA to destabilize various South American socialist movements (the series depicting their attack on the Fifth Republic Movement) in order to keep the wealthy in power. The CIA representative based in Roanapur [[spoiler:Eda]] is ruthless and greedy but by all accounts not a corrupt agent, simply one exhibiting the typical behaviors of the agency.
** Shane Caxton and the Grey Fox unit are some of the only members of The Brave variant of this trope. They're professional, heroic, effective, and have a sense of loyalty and comradery to each other. Caxton himself goes out of his way to rescue civilians and minimize the damage his people cause. The contrast is best shown in flashback where his unit try and rape a young Vietnamese woman after massacring her village; Caxton protects her and fights them off but is the only one to do so.
** The Neveral Cartel provide an example of The Boorish that's not connected to the government. Elvis and Russel are idiots plain and simple. They barge into Roanapur throw their weight around expecting to bring everyone to heel and consistently have the situation blow up in their face. Elvis's stupidity in dealing with their contracted tech people leaves the gang at a tremendous monetary loss and his attempts to start a gang war in Roanapur end with him getting killed.
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* AwesomeButImpractical: Janet's forgeries are deemed this by her employers, something which Revy and Eda agree with. Janet's team were able to produce very high quality forgeries but her perfectionism made the project exceed its deadline and go way over budget.
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* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: Roberta curtseys and drops almost a dozen grenades inside the Yellow Flag bar blowing the establishment sky-high with the blast consuming numerous gangsters who'd thought they'd gotten clear. Rock almost immediately believes that Roberta got out ok even though she was at ground zero of the explosion, and of course he's right. Interestingly enough all of the people at ground zero got out relatively ok: Bao was fine, if crushed at the loss of his bar, and even Abrego (whom the explosion was mean to kill) was banged up but alive.
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* ScaryTeeth: Any time a character starts giving into bloodlust, their teeth become sharper and more pronounced, including enlargement of the canines into outright fangs.
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* FictionalPainting: The crew is hired to retrieve a fictional Nazi War Propaganda painting that went down with a U-boat after the fall of the Third Reich off the coast of Thailand. Of course, Neo-Nazis are also after it.
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* MasterForger: The "Greenback Jane" arc involves the titular counterfeiter, who is allegedly the best in the business, being hunted down through Roanapur by a CarnivalOfKillers. Turns out that said carnival was hired by the same branch of TheMafia that hired her to produce counterfeit cash: her [[ThePerfectionist perfectionism]] cost them so much time and money that the Mafia deemed her project AwesomeButImpractical and decided to cut their losses and [[OffingTheAnnoyance just kill her]].
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--->"Over here, I'm your gun! I could keep you alive through [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII Tarawa]] or [[UsefulNotes/{{Texas}} the Alamo]]! But I can't save someone who's that anxious to die! If you weren't you, I'd have shot you myself for being so stupid!"
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* StringTheory: In the "Roberta's Blood Trail" arc, Rock hatches a complicated plan, and while making sure he accounts for every detail, he fills an entire room with photos and documents, all connected by string.
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* StringTheory: In the "Roberta's Blood Trail" arc, Rock hatches a complicated plan, and while making sure he accounts for every detail, he fills an entire room with photos and documents, all conected by string.
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** Also somewhat evident in "Calm Down, Two Men" (anime episode 7, manga chapter 9), where Revy seems ''very'' interested in the porn that [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSc16zKFAJs Balalaika's editing]].
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** Also somewhat evident in "Calm Down, Two Men" (anime episode 7, manga chapter 9), where Revy seems ''very'' interested in the porn that [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSc16zKFAJs Balalaika's editing]].editing.]]
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** She can be seen, at one point in the manga, looking at a porn magazine with a naked woman on it (chapter 12 [[http://mangafox.me/manga/black_lagoon/v02/c012/7.html here]] and [[http://mangafox.me/manga/black_lagoon/v02/c012/9.html here]], to [[IncrediblyLamePun bi]] exact).
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** She can be seen, at one point in the manga, looking at a porn magazine with a naked woman on it (chapter 12 [[http://mangafox.me/manga/black_lagoon/v02/c012/7.html here]] and [[http://mangafox.me/manga/black_lagoon/v02/c012/9.html here]], here,]] to [[IncrediblyLamePun bi]] exact).
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* MagicalGirlAU: There is an OVA that turned Revy into a magical girl called "Radical Girl Revy-chan".
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''Film/CreatureFromTheBlackLagoon'' or Mike Thaler's ''Black Lagoon'' children's book series.
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* StumbledIntoThePlot: Rokuro Okajima aka Rock is forced to go on the run and eventually, live in Roanapur and join Lagoon Company since his boss in Asahi Industries decided to have him written off despite being told to handle sensitive data to be given to a VIP in Southeast Asia in case of HeKnowsTooMuch.
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* IndirectKiss: The notorious "cigarette kiss" between Revy and Rock right after their heated confrontation is a definite winner and also one of the series' numerous CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming.
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* IndirectKiss: The notorious "cigarette kiss" between Revy and Rock right after their heated confrontation is a definite winner and also one of the series' numerous CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming.confrontation.
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** Gretel also counts due to the small age and big gun but the fact that [[VillainousCrossdresser she/he/whatever it is may not be a girl makes it hard to determine]]
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* LittleUselessGun: Subverted. While Fritz Stanford is bragging about the enormous handgun he plans to use to kill Revy, a custom-built gold-plated Luger chambered for .454 Casull, she's loading her regular handgun, a custom-built 9mm Beretta, and shoots him before he can finish speaking. Before she finishes him off, she tell him that "if you can hit your target, pretty much any gun will do the trick."
** Later on, Balalaika is negotiating with some Yakuza and demands they let her examine the boodyguard's gun. Then she insists he also hand over his backup gun and she begins to mock him for having such a little weapon. However, she then opens fire and kills the two men, stating that perhaps it wasn't so useless after all.
* LittleUselessGun: Subverted. While Fritz Stanford is bragging about the enormous handgun he plans to use to kill Revy, a custom-built gold-plated Luger chambered for .454 Casull, she's loading her regular handgun, a custom-built 9mm Beretta, and shoots him before he can finish speaking. Before she finishes him off, she tell him that "if you can hit your target, pretty much any gun will do the trick."
** Later on, Balalaika is negotiating with some Yakuza and demands they let her examine the boodyguard's gun. Then she insists he also hand over his backup gun and she begins to mock him for having such a little weapon. However, she then opens fire and kills the two men, stating that perhaps it wasn't so useless after all.
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* ActorAllusion: In the English dub of ''Roberta's Blood Trail'', Roberta yells "Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!" at the hallucination of the Japanese worker whom she killed years ago. Her [[Creator/TabithaStGermain voice actress]] also voiced [[LightNovel/ShakuganNoShana another character]] who regularly says that quote.
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** Also somewhat evident in "Calm Down, Two Men" (anime episode 7, manga chapter 9), where Revy seems ''very'' interested in the porn that Balalaika's editing.
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** Also somewhat evident in "Calm Down, Two Men" (anime episode 7, manga chapter 9), where Revy seems ''very'' interested in the porn that [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSc16zKFAJs Balalaika's editing.editing]].
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'''Balalaika''': ''[-{in not merely a deadpan voice, but sounding downright ''bored''}-]'' Sure is.
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'''Balalaika''': ''[-{in not merely a deadpan voice, but sounding downright ''bored''}-]'' Sure ''bored'' }-]'' ...sure is.
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* BerserkButton: Harming one of Balalaika's men will set her upon you, questioning Revy's cynicism - depending on the length of inquiry - will end with a cocked pistol to your head, shooting at the Rip-Off Church will incur the wrath of their working sisters upon you, doing ''anything even remotely threatening or inhibiting'' to Garcia demands your murder at Roberta's hands.
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* BerserkButton: Harming one of Balalaika's men will set her upon you, questioning Questioning Revy's cynicism - depending on the length of inquiry - will end with a cocked pistol to your head, shooting at the Rip-Off Church will incur the wrath of their working sisters upon you, doing ''anything even remotely threatening or inhibiting'' to Garcia demands your murder at Roberta's hands.
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After an [[ScheduleSlip almost-three-year hiatus]] from June 2010 to March 2013, the series started releasing new chapters. As of February 2014, [[HereWeGoAgain there were no new releases]] except for May 2014 when Volume 10 of the manga was released in Japan (American release date April 2015)... which not-so-coincidentally covered up to all the then-released chapters. Chapter 88 ''finally'' dropped in May 2017, more than ''three years'' after the previous chapter.
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chapter. The manga then went on hiatus ''again'' in August 2018 after Chapter 101 was released... [[HereWeGoAgain which was just enough material to compile Volume 11 together.]]
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* NothingIsScarier: The nigh-unfilmable horrors of [[spoiler: Hansel and Gretel's backstory]] are thankfully left to the audience's imagination.
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* InfantImmortality: [[spoiler: The creepy twins [[EnfantTerrible Hansel and Gretel]] and the two civilians unwittingly used by them as decoys [[AvertedTrope didn't]] get any special treatment.]]
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* ArtisticLicenseShips: CoolBoat though the ''Lagoon'' might be, there's only three 80-foot Elco PT boats known to still exist. The rest were scrapped following the end of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII.
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** Lotton has one after he examines his [[BallsOfSteel steel codpiece]] following an encounter with Roberta and finds it ''crumpled like a tin can,'' giving him a rather chilling hint of how close he got to [[GroinAttack losing the prospect of fathering children.]]
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* IKnowYoureWatchingMe: The third of the BountyHunter brothers hunting Li Xinlin decides to make his move, after Rock and Revy has dealt with his two other brothers. This particular brother is a ColdSniper, so he waits in ambush at the top of a building, deciding to target Rock first, as he has by this point identified him as the brains of the group. But as the sniper lines up his shot, he notices through the scope that Rock is actually looking straight at him, with a completely calm expression on his face, and even does a FingerGun gesture towards him. Rock had in fact long since anticipated that the third brother would try something at that point, and had arranged for Eda to be on the very same roof top, armed with a baseball bat. The sniper barely gets a second to realize that something is wrong, before Eda brings said baseball bat down upon the back of his skull, knocking him off the roof.
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* IKnowYoureWatchingMe: The [[spoiler:The third of the BountyHunter brothers hunting Li Xinlin decides to make his move, after Rock and Revy has dealt with his two other brothers. This particular brother is a ColdSniper, so he waits in ambush at the top of a building, deciding to target Rock first, as he has by this point identified him as the brains of the group. But as the sniper lines up his shot, he notices through the scope that Rock is actually looking straight at him, with a completely calm expression on his face, and even does a FingerGun gesture towards him. Rock had in fact long since anticipated that the third brother would try something at that point, and had arranged for Eda to be on the very same roof top, armed with a baseball bat. The sniper barely gets a second to realize that something is wrong, before Eda brings said baseball bat down upon the back of his skull, knocking him off the roof.]]
