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* PrivateMilitaryContractors: CAT ("Sold Out" notes, however, that they fall under the jurisdiction of the US Department of Defense, even if their management resembles a private company) (though "Team A" does show other divisions being involved in more dubious contracts, where the troops understand that they're essentially installing a dictatorship by defeating the local guerillas).
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* PrivateMilitaryContractors: CAT ("Sold nominally is a civilian organization that gets contracted by various nations to handle terrorist incidents. In "Sold Out" notes, however, it's revealed that they fall under the jurisdiction of CAT is affiliated with the US Department of Defense, even if their management resembles Defense. While CAT normally is given a private company) (though positive, action hero-like portrayal, "Team A" does show other divisions being involved in more dubious contracts, where the troops understand that they're essentially installing a dictatorship by defeating the local guerillas).guerillas.
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* {{Ecchi}}: Nudity is common in the manga, though it's not ever-present in every story.
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* CultureClash: In "Black Banquet", Mariko helps train several Japanese police officers in combat tactics, not helped by their inexperience with life-or-death gunfights and Japan's gun laws.
->''"In America, a gun is a tool. But... in Japan they are lethal weapons".''
->''"In America, a gun is a tool. But... in Japan they are lethal weapons".''
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* HeroOnHiatus: "Heaven's Gate" has Mariko herself sidelined due to a life-threatening injury, forcing Helga to takeover amid a bomb threat in Rome.
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* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:At the end of "Double Spade", the President of the United States fails to pull off a genocide that would weaken the EU in the future, but still gets a publicity coup that will secure his reelection amid a scandal-hit administration. Mariko isn't in a position to do anything, though she at least tells him he won't have the satisfaction of her or her Division's votes.]]
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* ConspiracyThriller: "Double Spade" has Division M embroiled in a plot involving the US Secretary of State, the European country Vesbania, NATO intelligence, and the impending European Union.
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* EvilCounterpart: "Double Spade" has the ArcVillain Quincy Miller of NATO Intelligence, formerly of the sadistic Division Q in CAT. Compared to Mariko, who's interested in saving the lives of civilians and her troops, Quincy is a sadist and manipulator who demands blind obedience from her men and employs psychological torture to torment CAT and run a conspiracy.
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* PocketProtector: In "Double Spade" [[spoiler:Lin]] takes a round to the chest, seemingly killing her, until she returns to save Mariko's life. When questions about the chest injury, Lin shows the MAC-10 she had under her shirt was what got hit instead.
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* BadassPacifistBadassPacifist: In "The Angel's Fang", Division M gets a military surgeon, Dorothy "Dolly" Barnes, attached to their unit for a mission. While they doubt her usefulness when she refuses to take arms, Dolly eventually earns their respect by saving Helga's life with battlefield surgery.
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* DrugsAreBad: Cartels aside, the manga tends to portray all drugs as turning users violent and mentally unstable. In "The White Emperor" Mariko has to sideline a valued front line fighter after the latter turns to cocaine to deal with the stress of their work, and subsequently attempts suicide during a withdrawal. The idea reaches its nadir in the last storyline, "Forever Rose", when Gryphon tries to unleash a HatePlague in the US by spreading a psychotropic drug called "Green Blood".
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* DrugsAreBad: Cartels aside, the manga tends to portray all drugs as turning users violent and mentally unstable. In "The White Emperor" Mariko has to sideline a valued front line fighter after the latter turns to cocaine to deal with the stress of their work, and subsequently attempts suicide during a withdrawal. The idea reaches its nadir apex in the last storyline, "Forever Rose", when Gryphon tries to unleash a HatePlague in the US by spreading a psychotropic drug called "Green Blood".
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* FanDisservice: While the story does follow a division of beautiful fighting women, they can rack up some pretty gruesome injuries on the field. In "The Angel's Fang", Helga is nearly killed, and her shirt has to be ripped open for battlefield surgery, with shots of her innards pretty much stopping any indications of fanservice dead.
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* BluffTheImposter: Markoff in "The Flowers That Blooms In White Nights" gets suspicious of Mariko while she claims to be a member of the YRF. He baits her by making small talk about another YRF member, Johnson the Crow, and how he used to leave black crow insignias on his bombs. Mariko, having down her research however, is able to point out that Johnson actually used red and white insignias, keeping her cover for a little longer.
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* BluffTheImposter: Markoff in "The Flowers That Blooms In White Nights" gets suspicious of Mariko while she claims to be a member of the YRF. He baits her by making small talk about another YRF member, Johnson the Crow, and how he used to leave black crow insignias on his bombs. Mariko, having down done her research however, is able to point out that Johnson actually used red and white insignias, keeping her cover for a little longer.
