History Manga / BlackLagoon

Do not confuse this series with ''CreatureFromTheBlackLagoon''.

->''"Rock, if you think about it, other than this, what do we really value in life? {{God}}? [[ThePowerOfLove Love?]] [[NietzscheWannabe Don't make me laugh.]] [[DarkAndTroubledPast When I was a brat, crawling around in that shithole city]], it seemed [[WorldHalfEmpty God and Love were always sold out when I went looking]]. Before I knew better, I clung to God and prayed to Him every single night -- yeah, [[HollywoodAtheist I believed in God right up until that night the cops beat the hell out of me for no reason at all]]. All they saw when they looked at me was another little ghetto rat. With no power and no God, what's left for a poor little Chinese bitch to rely on? It's [[MiserAdvisor money]], of course, and [[MoreDakka guns]]. Fuckin' A. With these two things, the world's a great place."''

** [[HeroicBSOD And look what happened with Garcia]] when he found his head maid doing... that. [[spoiler:She engages in a rather animalistic seduction of a FARC leader before shooting him with a gun hidden in her belt buckle and beating his head [[ChunkySalsaRule to a pulp]] with her bare fists [[GoryDiscretionShot just offscreen]], while shouting about how she was doing everything for Garcia.]]

--> '''Rock:''' What a strange taste this cigarette has. What brand is this?

* {{Tsundere}}: Revy qualifies as a terrfyingly psychotic Type A. When she's being angry and confrontational she's bad enough, but when she lapses into [[AxCrazy Whitman Fever]] during the Nazi arc, she's even ''worse''. She has even tried to ''shoot'' Rock on two different occasions during the first season, with her "dere-dere" side surfacing during the "Fujiyama Gangsta Paradise" arc from the second season (though there was that time she saved Rock at the end of the first season, something she swore she would never do). Other dere-dere moments include: inviting Rock to join the Lagoon Company at the end of Episode Two, the infamous "Cigarette Kiss" in Episode Seven, threatening to kill Gretel if she ever fucks with Rock again (Hey, we did mention that Revy was [[AxCrazy psychotic]]?), and trying to stop Rock from watching [[spoiler: Yukio's]] suicide. She also smiles several times at Rock during the Yakuza Arc.

* Tsundere: Revy qualifies as a terrfyingly psychotic Type A. When she's being angry and confrontational she's bad enough, but when she lapses into [[AxCrazy Whitman Fever]] during the Nazi arc, she's even ''worse''. She has even tried to ''shoot'' Rock on two different occasions during the first season, with her "dere-dere" side surfacing during the "Fujiyama Gangsta Paradise" arc from the second season (though there was that time she saved Rock at the end of the first season, something she swore she would never do). Other dere-dere moments include: inviting Rock to join the Lagoon Company at the end of Episode Two, the infamous "Cigarette Kiss" in Episode Seven, threatening to kill Gretel if she ever fucks with Rock again (Hey, we did mention that Revy was [[AxCrazy psychotic]]?), and trying to stop Rock from watching [[spoiler: Yukio's]] suicide. She also smiles several times at Rock during the Yakuza Arc.

* RomanticismVersusEnlightenment: Strongly romanticist from art style and shot composition to character motivations to the heavy RuleOfCool , Romanticism, in action scenes. Balalaika's rationalist ideology and fighting style, Enlightenment, make her that much more intimidating as a result.

* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: [[spoiler: The Lovelace family maids]] are prone to these. [[spoiler: Revy]] could also have been said to indulge in them [[spoiler: in Japan and on the Nazi vessel]], except that her anger wasn't directed at the people she was killing.

* RoaringRampageofRevenge: [[spoiler: The Lovelace family maids]] are prone to these. [[spoiler: Revy]] could also have been said to indulge in them [[spoiler: in Japan and on the Nazi vessel]], except that her anger wasn't directed at the people she was killing.

--> '''rock:''' What a strange taste this cig has. What brand is this?

* EliteMooks: Balalaika's enforcersformer Russian Special Forces, and the name is, surprisingly, ''not'' just for show.

-->'''Dutch:''' Somebody set '''my''' dock on fire! MOTHER FUCKER!!

** Garcia's hit puberty in El Baile de la Muerte, but is obviously a tad older when in the boat with the Gray Foxes. Compare when he [[spoiler:tried to kill Caxton earlier.]]

** It should be noted that Hansel is literally [[AnAxeToGrind axe-crazy.]] He kills people with a hatchet almost as big as he is.

** Chaka. Just... Chaka. At the same time you're seething with [[CompleteMonster loathing]] for him, you're also shaking your head in disbelief at just how incredibly ''dumb'' he is. Revy and Genji are more than happy to point this out to him. [[invoked]]

** The Vampire Twins arc has a few TheShining references, one of which was exclusively manga, in which gretel sings a song from the shining (in the anime she has a song written for her).

-->~ '''Rock''', ''quoting Jean-Paul Sartre''

->''"Rock, if you think about it, other than this, what do we really value in life? {{God}}? [[ThePowerOfLove Love?]] [[NietzscheWannabe Don't make me laugh.]] [[DarkAndTroubledPast When I was a brat, crawling around in that shithole city]], it seemed [[WorldHalfEmpty God and Love were always sold out when I went looking]]. Before I knew better, I clung to God and prayed to Him every single night -- yeah, [[HollywoodAtheist I believed in God right up until that night the cops beat the hell out of me for no reason at all]]. All they saw when they looked at me was another little ghetto rat. With no power and no God, what's left for a poor little Chinese bitch to rely on? It's [[MiserAdvisor money]], of course, and [[MoreDakka guns]]. [[PrecisionFStrike Fuckin']] A. With these two things, the world's a great place."''
-->~ '''Revy'''

-->'''Dutch:''' ''Somebody set '''my''' dock on fire! MOTHER FUCKER!!''

--> '''Stanford:''' Are you afraid?! There's no way you're not! Now witness the awesome power of—
--> '''''*BANG*'''''
--> '''Revy:''' Shut the ''[[PrecisionFStrike fuck]]'' up.

--> "And another thing, smack talk has no effect on those stronger than you. You and your men have the power to bring men and whole companies to your heels, but we have the power to bring entire nations to our heels, if not to ruin."

-->'''Revy:''' It's like you gathered together all the "ifs" in the world for this lameass plan.
-->'''Eda:''' Hey, this has worked four of the last seven times I tried it!

* BiTheWay / SituationalSexuality: As of Chapter 81, Revy.
---> Revy: In prison... I've won over some sex-starved dykes by playing the man's role. And... after that, their fingers just weren't enough for them ever again.

---> '''Revy''': Hold on a sec...Is she taking it up the ass?!
---> '''Balalaika''': Sure is.

* [[WorldOfBadass City of Badass]]: If you live in [[WretchedHive Roanapur]] and you have a name, you are a ''survivor''. Even if your name is [[JokeCharacter Rotton]].

* FlippingTheBird: [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome You got]] [[PrecisionFStrike FUCKED!]]

* IndirectKiss: The notorious "cigarette kiss" between Revy & Rock right after their heated confrontation is a definite winner and also one of the series' numerous CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming.
* InfantImmortality: [[spoiler: The creepy twins [[EnfantTerrible Hansel & Gretel]] and the two civilians unwittingly used by them as decoys [[AvertedTrope didn't]] get any special treatment.]]

* [[AFatherToHisMen A Mother To Her Men]]: Balalaika.
** The male version of this trope is in effect as well, as the commanding officer (the Major) of the US Special Forces team is fully willing to sacrifice himself if it means that the rest of his team will survive.

* PrecisionFStrike: Despite the company he keeps, when Rock swears at you, you know he is VERY angry!

* [[SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids Silly Rabbit Idealism Is For Kids: The Anime]] : So much so that this entire franchise seems to be an AuthorTract of ''"It's pointless to even ''try'' to be a decent human being in the real world. Fight, Fuck, Kill, Don't Care About '''Anybody''' and Be Content."''

* VillainousCrossdresser: Hansel & Gretel OH SO MUCH! They are very good at swapping genders, and more disturbingly personalities, to the point that there is literally no way to tell what their true genders are. All we really know is that the "Gretel" carries the [[{{BFG}} Browning Machine Gun]] and [[AnAxeToGrind Hansel carries the Axe]].

** That's not saying much. Barely anyone is "completely" jaded. Revy is protective of Rock, even when she [[spoiler:shouts for him not to watch Yukio's suicide]], fearing that it would harden him, Balalaika is completely devoted to looking after her men, and the list goes on. It's all shades of gray...albeit often very, ''very'' dark shades of gray.

* WorldOfBadass: [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg And Rotton]].

* YouHaveFailedMe: What sets off the Greenback Jane arc. The boss of the counterfeiting ring decides to do this to motivate everyone else. Problem is he just killed the only person that can access the servers that has the patterns on it. So he just destroyed the entire operation.

-->'''Sister Eda''': Do you want us to save you? Think hard. If you don't want to hand over the plates, I guess we don't have a choice. You'd better run to a mosque next time. What do you think? [snip]
-->'''Greenback Jane''': 30,000 dollars!
-->'''Sister Eda''': Rock, it's almost my bedtime. I'm going back to the church.
-->'''Greenback Jane''': You monster! 100,000!

-->! '''Rock''' quoting '''Jean-Paul Sartre'''

-->I said '''KNEEL'''!

* DarkActionGirl: See WorldOfActionGirls below. Just about every female warrior on this show counts. [[spoiler:Well, except Fabiola.]]

** This could also be considered a GaijinSmash (the act for which the blog is named.)

* HandCannon: Seventy-year old nun with a gold-plated Desert Eagle. She fires it one-handed.