History Manga / Blame

* FoeYay: Between Dhomochevsky and Pcell. [[EpilepticTrees Maybe]]...

* {{Padding}}: Given that it's a WalkTheEarth story with a rather simplistic plot, this is to be expected.

* ChickMagnet: Just about every major female character falls for Killy.

** [[spoiler: At least one of them survive in a digitalize form in the netsphere, and there is strong implication that it's Cibo]].

* NotQuiteDead: Happens quite often. It is [[MindScrew arguable]] that no one really dies in the world of ''{{Blame}}!'', thanks to the [[spoiler:{{Cyberspace}} backups]]. It seems [[spoiler:Sana-Kan has managed to preserve at least part of her memories]], even though [[KilledOffForReal she was not supposed to]].

* [[spoiler:HasTwoMommies]]: [[spoiler:Sana-Kan and Cibo are the mothers of the child with the Terminal Net Genes]]. Just [[HandWave go with it]], okay?

* HeterosexualLifePartners: a very weird - and oddly justified - example is in Domochevsky and Iko. They are born from necessity to be partners, and are pretty much bound together and would literally die for each other and their cause.

* SweetOnPollyOliver: In ''Blame Academy'', the [[TheNudifier "Women's Clothing Dissolving Beam"-Emitter]] reveals that [[spoiler:Iko is actually female.]]

The story follows Killy, a silent loner possessing an incredibly powerful gun known as a "Graviton Beam Emitter", as he wanders an immeasurably vast [[CyberPunk technological world]] known as "The City". The City is inhabited by scattered human and transhuman tribes, as well as hostile cyborgs known as ''[[ArtificialHuman Silicon Creatures]]''.

* BackToBackBadasses: Killy and Dhomochevsky in one chapter.

* BadassNormal: Seu, so very much. In a world where baseline humans are armed with {{BFG}}s or hyper-sophisticated hacking equipment, and ''still'' die by the dozens, Seu stands alone, as an almost-baseline human who fights off dozens of cyborgs, including the genuinely BadAss [[DarkActionGirl Ivy and Maeve]] while armed with nothing more than a perfectly normal {{BFS}}.

** GEB's have a range mesured in dozens of Kilometers, no mater what is in their way. Killy's GBE is stated to have a range of 70 kilometers.

* CloningBlues: In one chapter, Killy and Cibo stumble across a machine that [[spoiler:has been continually cloning the same woman for untold centuries.]] The worst part? [[spoiler:the original woman - hooked up to the machine and completely incapacitated - [[AndIMustScream is apparently ''alive and conscious'' for all that time]]]]

** The one wielded by Susono in the {{Prequel}} Noise is a powered up version, easily slicing through an enormous building.

* {{Cyberpunk}}: Has its roots here. Monolithic [[MegaCorp megacorporations]], TheGovernment inept or out to get you, [[AntiHero anti-heroes]], and transhumanism that creates as many problems as it solves, are all taken to such extremes that, like TheMatrix, it becomes less like traditional cyberpunk. Post-post-cyberpunk, if you will.

* DentedIron: Though Killy spends most of the series as a [[ImplacableMan unstoppable]] [[{{Badass}} badass]], by the [[DistantFinale final volume]] he is visibly tired and injured - even forced to use a piece of bent metal as a crude prosthetic leg.
* TheDeterminator: Killy is the epitome of the Determinator trope. Sana-Kan and Dhomo fit, too.

* ElevatorActionSequence: Though it quickly ends up outside.

* FacelessGoons: Safeguard. Killed in the thousands, mostly because they [[{{HollywoodTactics}} line up]] and ZergRush the guy who has a pistol that can penetrate 50 miles of steel.

** Sana-Kan = Loli [=McBeamspam=] since she carries a [=GBE=] and is very small when she first appears, Sana-Kan the Forever Girl since she survives so much punishment, S. Snacks which is a 4chan reference

* TheFogOfAges: Killy is incredibly old, and admits to having forgotten a lot. This could be averted by the reactivation of the Netsphere, which is implied to house the memories of all humans. Though it isn't certain that [[spoiler:an ancient pre-Safeguard construct]] like Killy would be included in the deal.

* GreyAndGrayMorality: Since everyone is technically human they do what humans do best, fight so that their faction can prosper at the expense of others. Who do you side with? The freedom loving but [[{{AnarchyIsChaos}} utterly insane]] Silicon Life who want to maintain the chaotic decay of the City, and are willing to exterminate humans who have the net terminal gene to prevent the Authority from regaining control? The KnightTemplar Safeguard who will kill anyone to keep the City from decaying further than it already has, even though it is evidently [[{{HopelessWar}} hopeless]]? The inept bureaucrats of Authority who want to reverse the decay of the Megastructure and employ sometimes heroic, sometimes [[{{IDidWhatIHadToDo}} ruthless]] protagonist on a quest that has gone on for millenia without tangible results? Or the more human factions that struggle to get by in this crapsack dyson sphere?
* GuiltFreeExterminationWar: The Silicon Life have been hunting humans since the dawn of the city, as they pose a threat to the established state of the Net Sphere. Humans fare no better: [[spoiler:when they get a hold of the architects, they find no guilt in destroying entire hives, as told by Pcell in the sequel one shot.]] Neither seem to consider coexistence to be possible, even though the City is big enough to house both their civilizations. [[spoiler:She seems to value human life, however, so there might be hope after all]].

* HeterosexualLifePartners: a very weird - and oddly justified - example is in Domochevsky and Iko. They are born from necessity to be partners, and are pretty much bound together and would literally die for each other and their cause.

* IAmWho?: [[spoiler:Killy is related to the Safeguard. It is also theorized (and {{Lampshaded}} by the [[WordOfGod author]]) that he is also a kind of ''Internet Ghost'' that appears whenever humanity is in danger... And judging by the sequel, not only humanity. Everyone is [[{{TranshumanTreachery}} human]] in Blame! anyway.]]

* KickTheSonOfABitch: In chapter 4, Killy finds a factory were baby cyborgs are born. After eating all their food the nursebot becomes angry with him. His response? Blow things up. In the next chapter he taunts a pair of Silicon Life about killing their kids. Keep in mind that the Silicon Creatures as a whole are on a campaign to wipe out all of humanity, except for the one Silicon Life member who is apparently nothing more than a dedicated amateur [[{{UnnecessarilyLargeInterior}} astromoner]]. Killy shoots him just to be safe.

* LargeAndInCharge: In the [[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}} grim darkness of the far future]] every president of every remaining corporation is literally [[{{ThirdRockFromTheSun}} The Big Giant Head]]. [[{{BoomHeadshot}} Many headshots ensue.]]

* MessianicArchetype: Killy, and later [[spoiler:the Net Gene Child]].

* {{Mooks}}: Basic Exterminator units. At least if you have a [[{{BFG}} GBE]]. The Safeguard is apparently commanded by [[{{Futurama}} Zap Brannigan]], since they ZergRush targets armed with [[strike:kilo]] [[strike:mega]] teraton class weapons.

* [[MrExposition Ms Exposition]]: Cibo fills this role at times, if only to give the story a semblance of coherency. This is justified though as she was a scientist, and so most of the time she is trying to sort things out.

* NinetiesAntiHero: Killy is just a stoic, less muscle-headed version.
* NonindicativeName: But only if you assume the title is supposed to be ''Blame!'' in the first place. It's a misspelling of ''Blam!'', and there's certainly a lot of gunfire going on.

* TheNudifier: Women's Clothing Disintegrating Beam Emitter

* OrderVersusChaos: In Noise, the main character is a cop investigating a cult who worship the power of chaos who are kidnapping children to use for human sacrifices in their bizarre MagiTek rituals. When they kill her, she is resurrected by the Safeguard, protectors of order, but they turn out to be a pack of fascists who plan on disenfranchising or killing everybody who can't afford network implants and brainwashing the ones who do. Then in Blame!, we see the aftermath of this; the cult succeeded in throwing the world into chaos, but since they're so poorly organized their descendants, the Silicon Creatures, don't amount to much more than a bunch of roving cyber-barbarians. The Safeguard doesn't fare much better, as their directives become so corrupted that they essentially believe that everything that's not them must be exterminated with[[AbusivePrecursors extreme prejudice]].

* PowerGivesYouWings: Slight subversion. Most wings seen in ''Blame!'' are black, but they do coincide with the character having a notable upgrade. Considering that most power upgrades coincide with being able to change your body shape, it's fairly reasonable that you would want to have wings in a superstructure with huge chaisms of hundreds (or thousands) of kilometers.
* RedBaron: In the epilogue, the silicon beings referred to Killy as "The Calamity"

* SecondaryFire: Kind of. The GBE has 4 modes of firing. Though this is more of an UpToEleven thing, really.

* TheStoic: Killy defines stoic. Killy is also the latest and possibly leading contender for the title of [[{{VisibleSilence}} master of the ellipses]].

* TimeAbyss: One caption reads off how many seconds later it's been...in the quadrillions. A quadrillion seconds is about ten billion years.

* {{Transhuman}}: In It's entirety, we do not see a single purely biological human. Everyone is heavily modified, be they cyborgs, human-descended androids, or gene-modded superhumans. The closest to "pure" human we get is Seu, and he's an eight-foot giant with enough enhancements to fight in hand-to-hand combat with advanced Silicon Life warriors, who has been reconstructed and had his personality restored from backup countless times. Most "normal" humans were exterminated by either the Silicon Creatures or the Safeguard, given the events of ''[=NOiSE=]'','' [[{{Blame}} Blame!]]'s'' prequel.

* VisibleSilence: Take a shot every time someone shows the reader their best impression of [[{{DullSurprise}} Mt. Rushmore]] accompanied by ellipses. Enjoy your liver transplant.

** GEB's have a range mesured in dozens of Kilometers, no mater what is in their way. Killy's GEB is stated to have a range of 70 kilometers.

* TheRival: Killy and Sana-Kan, Seu and Ivy.

* TimeAbyss: One caption reads off how many seconds later it's been...in the quadrillions.

* LargeAndInCharge: In the [[{{warhammer40k}} grim darkness of the far future]] every president of every remaining corporation is literally [[{{ThirdRockFromTheSun}} The Big Giant Head]]. [[{{BoomHeadshot}} Many headshots ensue.]]

This story has a short spin off manga of three chapters, featuring all the characters of ''Blame!'' in...[[HighSchoolAU high school?]] That's right ''Blame Academy!'' Adventure-student Killy in the Cyber school quest! TsutomuNihei is obviously even more insane then we gave him credit for.

* NonindicativeName

* DentedIron: Though he spends most of the series as a [[ImplacableMan unstoppable]] [[{{Badass}} badass]], by the [[DistantFinale final volume]] he is visibly tired and injured - even forced to use a piece of bent metal as a crude prosthetic leg.

* TheDeterminator: Killy is the epitome of the Determinator trope. Sana-Kan and Dhomo fit, too.

** The one wielded by Susono in the [[prequel]] Noise is a powered up version, easily slicing through an enormous building.

This story has a short spin off manga of three chapters, featuring all the characters of ''Blame!'' in...[[HighSchoolAU high school?]] That's right ''[[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/blame_academy/ Blame Academy!]]'' Adventure-student Killy in the Cyber school quest! TsutomuNihei is obviously even more insane then we gave him credit for.

* GuiltFreeExterminationWar: The Silicon Life have been hunting humans since the dawn of the city, as they pose a threat to the established state of the NetSphere. Humans fare no better: [[spoiler:when they get a hold of the constructors, they find no guilt in destroying entire Silicon Life hives, as told by Pcell in the sequel one shot]]. Neither seem to consider coexistence to be possible, even though the City is big enough to house both their civilizations.

* EarthThatWas: As the ending of ''[[{{Prequel}} NOiSE]]'' shows, the Earth is completely engulfed by The City's automated construction system. By the time ''Blame'' takes place, nobody even remembers that there ''was'' an Earth.

* UnnecessarilyLargeInterior: At least one a chapter. ''Blame!'' is ''set'' in an endless series of Unnecessarily Large Interiors. One of the rooms Killy walks through is roughly ''the size of Jupiter'', and the radius of the ginormous sphere is the length of ''Earth to Jupiter''. This is what happens when you let mindless nanomachines go rampant.

-->''"Maybe on Earth, Maybe in the Future"''

** Wait a minute ! : [[spoiler : At least one of them survive in a digitalize form in the netsphere, and there's strong implication that's Cibo]].

* LargeAndInCharge: In the grimdarkness of the far future every president of every remaining corporation is literally [[{{ThirdRockFromTheSun}} The Big Giant Head]]. [[{{BoomHeadshot}} Many headshots ensue.]]