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** What did the characters in the series did before, during and after the Gates show up.
** Some write their own fics to not take into Gemini of the Meteor into account.
** [[HeroOfAnotherStory Others include Contractors/non-Contractors who try to take on the Syndicate and their allies.]]

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** What did the characters in the series did before, during and after the Gates show up.
up and also what they did prior to the start of the show.
** Some write their own fics to not take into Gemini of the Meteor into account.
** [[HeroOfAnotherStory Others include Contractors/non-Contractors who try to take on the Syndicate and their allies.]]other like-minded factions.]] While some work together with Hei/Yin and Misaki.
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** How the Gates appear in the world.
** What did the characters in the series did before, during and after the Gates show up.
** Some write their own fics to not take into Gemini of the Meteor into account.
** [[HeroOfAnotherStory Others include Contractors/non-Contractors who try to take on the Syndicate and their allies.]]

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** Claude from the Gaiden is the nastiest Contractor in the anime. While most Contractors are simply amoral, Claude is a relentless sadist who enjoys tormenting people by disguising himself as their loved ones to get a rise from them. His ultimate goal to awaken [[EldritchAbomination Izanami]] to commit genocide on his fellow Contractors, solely [[ForTheEvulz for the fun involved]] in it. He compounds this by unleashing Izanami's powers to murder a group of Contractors who simply wanted to live in peace.
** From the manga, ''Flower Of Darkness'' we have Coach Daisuke Mioka, a perfect example of how HumansAreBastards in the series. Daisuke is the handsome young coach of an all girls' academy, but is also a serial womanizer and [[HotForStudent has affairs with his impressionable, starstruck students]], making web porn of them. When one of them, Azusa, finds out, Daisuke tries to silence her by convincing her best friend, his cousin, another conquest, to talk to Azusa so he can save the day from a group of his friends who want to rape them. Daisuke mentions to his friends to go ahead, but he'll just be 'a little late' so they can have their fun and later drugs a teacher so he can sleep with her. When Hei is talking the newly empowered Azusa from leaving Daisuke alone, he gloats how happy he made her, and how [[HeManWomanHater it's all the fault of women for what he's done]] and tries to fry Azusa with a stun gun, which enrages the normally taciturn Hei into trying to kill him in cold blood.
** The Contractor [[BigBad antagonist]] of ''Flower Of Darkness'', Harvest serves as an EvilCounterpart to Hei. While Hei embraces his humanity, Harvest [[FantasticRacism considers humans weak and pathetic]] an offers humans in mental torment his Black Dandelion, the 'Flower of Darkness' to grant them power at the price of [[DealWithTheDevil murdering their best friend]], not mentioning the flower strips the victim of morality and restraints...and he often gives it to the target as well to see who will kill the other first. Harvest's entire motivation is he was once informed he was inferior to the then fully human Hei. Unable to accept it, Harvest opens the Black Dandelion to infect every human in Tokyo, and from there on the rest of the world, to turn humans into amoral monsters like him so he can judge for himself if morality is necessary and there is "nothing within me." Defined his selfishness and narcissism, when the Black Dandelion is stopped, Harvest declares '''I alone am the future!''' before using his enhanced powers to attempt to simply obliterate [[OmnicidalManiac the entire remainder of the planet.]]

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** [[FantasticRacism Claude (real name Shichi)]] from the {{OVA}} Gaiden is the nastiest Contractor in the anime. While most Contractors are simply amoral, the human-hating Claude is a relentless sadist {{sadist}} who enjoys tormenting people by disguising himself as their loved ones to get a rise from them. His ultimate goal is to awaken [[EldritchAbomination Izanami]] to commit genocide on his fellow Contractors, solely [[ForTheEvulz for the fun involved]] in it.involved]]. He compounds this by unleashing Izanami's powers to murder a group of Contractors who simply wanted to live in peace.
** From the manga, ''Flower Of Darkness'' we have manga: The Contractor [[BigBad antagonist]], Harvest serves as an EvilCounterpart to Hei. While Hei embraces his humanity, Harvest [[FantasticRacism considers humans weak and pathetic]] and [[ManipulativeBastard offers humans in mental torment his Black Dandelion]], the "Flower of Darkness," which will grant them power at the price of [[DealWithTheDevil murdering their best friend]]. The flower strips the victim of morality and restraints, and Harvest he often gives it to the target as well to see who will kill the other first. Harvest's motivation is he was once informed he was inferior to the then fully human Hei. Unable to accept this, Harvest opens the Black Dandelion to infect every human in Tokyo, and from there on the rest of the world, to turn humans into amoral monsters like him so he can judge for himself if morality is necessary and there is "nothing within me." Defined by his [[ItsAllAboutMe selfishness and narcissism]], when the Black Dandelion is stopped, Harvest declares "'''I alone am the future! '''" before using his enhanced powers to attempt to simply obliterate [[OmnicidalManiac the remainder of the planet]].
** Also from ''Flower Of Darkness'' comes [[HumansAreBastards
Coach Daisuke Mioka, a perfect example of how HumansAreBastards in the series. Mioka]]. Daisuke is the handsome young coach of an all girls' girls academy, but is also a serial womanizer and [[HotForStudent has affairs with his impressionable, starstruck students]], making web porn of them. When one of them, Azusa, finds out, Daisuke tries to silence her by convincing her best friend, his cousin, another conquest, to talk to Azusa so he can save the day from a group of his friends who want to rape them. Daisuke mentions to his friends to go ahead, but he'll just be 'a "a little late' late" so they can have their fun and later drugs a teacher so he can sleep with her. When Hei is talking the newly empowered Azusa from leaving Daisuke alone, he gloats how happy he made her, her and how [[UsefulNotes/VictimBlaming it's all the fault]] of [[HeManWomanHater it's all the fault of women for what he's done]] and tries to fry Azusa with a stun gun, which enrages the normally taciturn Hei into trying to kill him in cold blood.
** The Contractor [[BigBad antagonist]] of ''Flower Of Darkness'', Harvest serves as an EvilCounterpart to Hei. While Hei embraces his humanity, Harvest [[FantasticRacism considers humans weak and pathetic]] an offers humans in mental torment his Black Dandelion, the 'Flower of Darkness' to grant them power at the price of [[DealWithTheDevil murdering their best friend]], not mentioning the flower strips the victim of morality and restraints...and he often gives it to the target as well to see who will kill the other first. Harvest's entire motivation is he was once informed he was inferior to the then fully human Hei. Unable to accept it, Harvest opens the Black Dandelion to infect every human in Tokyo, and from there on the rest of the world, to turn humans into amoral monsters like him so he can judge for himself if morality is necessary and there is "nothing within me." Defined his selfishness and narcissism, when the Black Dandelion is stopped, Harvest declares '''I alone am the future!''' before using his enhanced powers to attempt to simply obliterate [[OmnicidalManiac the entire remainder of the planet.]]
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** November 11 was [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff quite popular with North American fans]], at least partly due to his [[JamesBond classy bearing]] and sense of humour.

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* CrackPairing: Hei/Hazuki. [[spoiler:Hilariously enough, the only shipping pair to actually get any action. [[IntimateHealing That remuneration]] sure is awkward, huh?]]
* CrazyAwesome: Playing chicken with an ''airplane''. [[spoiler: Hei. Genma. Episode 9.]]



* CreatorsPet: This seems to be a common view of Suou; some fans even think that her [[SpotlightStealingSquad spotlight stealing]] is ''entirely'' responsible for [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot ruining an otherwise decent plot]].

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* EnsembleDarkhorse: November 11 was [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff quite popular with North American fans]], at least partly due to his [[JamesBond classy bearing]] and sense of humour.

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November 11 was [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff quite popular with North American fans]], at least partly due to his [[JamesBond classy bearing]] and sense of humour.humour.
** Goran, who in his less than half-episode of screentime managed to acquire a veritable real-life [[InstantFanClub Instant Fandom]].



* HoYay: Shichi enjoys [[MasterOfIllusion pretending to be a woman]] who was in love with Hei a little too much.
* IronWoobie: Havock

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Shichi enjoys [[MasterOfIllusion pretending to be a woman]] who was in love with Hei a little too much.
** Episodes 11 and 12. Hei and Nick became close ''very'' quickly, spent a whole night watching the stars together (and made plans to go watch them again afterward), and Hei [[spoiler:looked really sad and heartbroken after Nick "betrayed" him.]]
* IronWoobie: HavockHavoc.
--> '''Havoc''': Promise me one thing, though. If... If I revert back to [[EatsBabies my former self]], kill me right away.



* LauncherOfAThousandShips: Poor Hei gets shipped with ''everyone.''



* RootingForTheEmpire: Compared to the Syndicate and Pandora figures, Amber's far more likable and charismatic.
* StoicWoobie: It sucks to be Yin.
* TooCoolToLive: [[spoiler:August 7. Or so we thought.]]

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** If you [[LaughablyEvil somehow]] still harbored any sympathy for Genma, the throwaway comment in the last episode that [[spoiler:he was the one who killed Youko and the implications of having raped her prior or even worse; after her death]] pushes him straight into CompleteMonster territory.
* OneSceneWonder: Goran was on screen for maybe five minutes.
* RootingForTheEmpire: Compared to the Syndicate and Pandora figures, Amber's far more likable and charismatic.charismatic.
* TheScrappy: Norio, for being a [[{{Wangst}} whiny]], semi-delusional and just generally annoying {{lolicon}} stalker PlayedForLaughs and [[StalkingIsLove (attempted) sympathy]] who hits the wrong side of WhatMeasureIsANonBadass ''hard''. This is even lampshaded by the voice actors in the Darker than Black radio.

* StoicWoobie: It sucks to be Yin.
Yin. Or Hei.
* TooCoolToLive: TooCoolToLive:
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* TheWoobie:
** Havoc. Not bad for a reviled mass murderer who literally [[EatsBabies drank the blood of children]].
** In season 2, Genma invokes the trope in hopes that it can apply to him ("Hey, having an unfortunate past can score me some {{Moe}} points!"). [[note]]That'd probably work better if Hei didn't have the DarkAndTroubledPast thing cornered and Amber, Suo, and Yin weren't covering the {{moe}}.[[/note]]



* CrackPairing: Hei/Hazuki. [[spoiler:Hilariously enough, the only shipping pair to actually get any action. [[IntimateHealing That remuneration]] sure is awkward, huh?]]
* CrazyAwesome: Playing chicken with an ''airplane''.[[spoiler: Hei. Genma. Episode 9.]]
* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: See TakingYouWithMe and DyingMomentOfAwesome. Since Hei lives and breathes pure awesome, though, it can be hard to pick out specifics.

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* CrackPairing: Hei/Hazuki. [[spoiler:Hilariously enough, the only shipping pair to actually get any action. [[IntimateHealing That remuneration]] sure is awkward, huh?]]
* CrazyAwesome: Playing chicken with an ''airplane''.[[spoiler: Hei. Genma. Episode 9.]]
* CrowningMomentOfAwesome:
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See TakingYouWithMe and DyingMomentOfAwesome. Since Hei lives and breathes pure awesome, though, it can be hard to pick out specifics.



* CrowningMomentOfFunny: [[DarkerAndEdgier Not much]], but Huang [[FantasticRacism slighting]] Mao into near-hissing only to be [[InsultBackfire verbally drowned in vitriol]] by [[DeadpanSnarker absolutely calm]] Hei might count. And there's the PrivateDefective team... "I'll totally sue you."

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* CrowningMomentOfFunny: CrowningMomentOfFunny:
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[[DarkerAndEdgier Not much]], but Huang [[FantasticRacism slighting]] Mao into near-hissing only to be [[InsultBackfire verbally drowned in vitriol]] by [[DeadpanSnarker absolutely calm]] Hei might count. And there's the PrivateDefective team... "I'll totally sue you."



* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: Well, it's by YokoKanno, so what do you expect? "GO Dark" and "[[AutobotsRockOut Deadly Work]]" in particular. The first OP is also impressive, even given the NarmCharm and MemeticMutation.

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* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: CrowningMusicOfAwesome:
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Well, it's by YokoKanno, so what do you expect? "GO Dark" and "[[AutobotsRockOut Deadly Work]]" in particular. The first OP is also impressive, even given the NarmCharm and MemeticMutation.



* EnsembleDarkhorse: Goran, who in his less than half-episode of screentime managed to acquire a veritable real-life [[InstantFanClub Instant Fandom]]



* HoYay: Episodes 11 and 12. Hei and Nick became close ''very'' quickly, spent a whole night watching the stars together (and made plans to go watch them again afterward), and Hei [[spoiler:looked really sad and heartbroken after Nick "betrayed" him.]]
* IronWoobie:
--> '''[[spoiler:Havoc]]''': Promise me one thing, though. If... If I revert back to [[EatsBabies my former self]], kill me right away.
* LauncherOfAThousandShips: Poor Hei gets shipped with ''everyone.''



* MagnificentBastard: Amber.
* MemeticMutation: Post the first line of the first OpeningTheme on /a/ and see what happens.

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* MagnificentBastard: Amber.
* MemeticMutation:
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Post the first line of the first OpeningTheme on /a/ and see what happens.



* MoralEventHorizon: If you [[LaughablyEvil somehow]] still harbored any sympathy for Genma, the throwaway comment in the last episode that [[spoiler:he was the one who killed Youko and the implications of having raped her prior or even worse; after her death]] pushes him straight into CompleteMonster territory.



* OneSceneWonder: Goran was on screen for maybe five minutes.



* {{Sequelitis}} / SeasonalRot: A solid number of the fanbase are very and vocally dissatisfied with the new tone.

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A solid number of the fanbase are very and vocally dissatisfied with the new tone.



* StoicWoobie: It sucks to be Yin. Or Hei.



* TearJerker: More than you'd expect. Episode 14 is a big one.

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More than you'd expect. Episode 14 is a big one.



* TheScrappy: Norio, for being a [[{{Wangst}} whiny]], semi-delusional and just generally annoying {{lolicon}} stalker PlayedForLaughs and [[StalkingIsLove (attempted) sympathy]] who hits the wrong side of WhatMeasureIsANonBadass ''hard''.
** This is even lampshaded by the voice actors in the Darker than Black radio.
* TheWoobie: Havoc. Not bad for a reviled mass murderer who literally [[EatsBabies drank the blood of children]].
** In season 2, Genma invokes the trope in hopes that it can apply to him ("Hey, having an unfortunate past can score me some {{Moe}} points!"). [[note]]That'd probably work better if Hei didn't have the DarkAndTroubledPast thing cornered and Amber, Suo, and Yin weren't covering the {{moe}}.[[/note]]

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* FanNickname: Yin's [[spoiler: OppositeSexClone from the season 2 finale is often called "Yang"]]


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* JerkassWoobie: [[TheHandler Huang]] [[spoiler:was a cop until his best friend was horribly killed... by the woman Huang loved, who he discovered had just been using him to get to said best friend. He was left with no choice but to join the Syndicate or have his memories wiped, which he feels would be like killing his friend all over again.]] This resulted in Huang being a [[NobleBigot bigotted]] {{jerkass}}.
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* RootingForTheEmpire: Compared to the Syndicate and Pandora figures, Amber's far more likable and charismatic.
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* OneSceneWonder: Goran was on screen for maybe five minutes.
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* CompleteMonster: Ilya Sokolov, a creepy motherfucker even by Contractor standards (The first thing we see him do is to draw a picture of some pretty girls he saw comming down the stairs. They notice it, are thrilled, he shows them his drawing... They nearly shit themselves and scram, because he drew them mutilated, dismembered and beheaded! [[SarcasmMode A text-book case of sanity, ain't he?]]). Just in case his crimes as a contractor weren't horrifying enough, he casually revealed that he had been a SerialKiller '''before''' he became a Contractor. [[spoiler:''The guy who hired him'' thanks Hei for killing the psycho, since Ilya killed his niece before he became a contractor.]]
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** Mai's pyrokinesis burning her friend and her dad to death. Followed by the two police officer's being sliced to pieces.

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** [[spoiler: It's pretty clear that Genma is one by the end of the series.]]
** Havoc, before we meet her.
** Daisuke does an impressive number of horrible things in the [[spoiler: short]] time we see him. He sleeps with his charges ([[spoiler:including his ''cousin'']]), posts [[DigitalPiracyIsEvil web-porn of his conquests]], tries to deny it when confronted about it and when that fails, tries to blame his lovers for his wandering eye and refuses to apologize for anything he did. He apparently gets a teacher to agree to sleep with him by drugging her, hires a gang to "take care" of one of his mouthier lovers, and tasers his would-be [[spoiler:and eventual]] killer [[UngratefulBastard after she decides to spare him.]]
** Claude really has no redeeming qualities to speak of. He ends up slaughtering an entire building full of contractors who wished to live peacefully. All while wearing that [[PsychoticSmirk evil bastard smile]], no doubt.

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** [[spoiler: It's pretty clear that Genma is one by Claude from the end of Gaiden is the series.]]
nastiest Contractor in the anime. While most Contractors are simply amoral, Claude is a relentless sadist who enjoys tormenting people by disguising himself as their loved ones to get a rise from them. His ultimate goal to awaken [[EldritchAbomination Izanami]] to commit genocide on his fellow Contractors, solely [[ForTheEvulz for the fun involved]] in it. He compounds this by unleashing Izanami's powers to murder a group of Contractors who simply wanted to live in peace.
** Havoc, before From the manga, ''Flower Of Darkness'' we meet her.
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have Coach Daisuke does an impressive number Mioka, a perfect example of horrible things how HumansAreBastards in the [[spoiler: short]] time we see him. He sleeps series. Daisuke is the handsome young coach of an all girls' academy, but is also a serial womanizer and [[HotForStudent has affairs with his charges ([[spoiler:including his ''cousin'']]), posts [[DigitalPiracyIsEvil web-porn impressionable, starstruck students]], making web porn of his conquests]], them. When one of them, Azusa, finds out, Daisuke tries to deny it when confronted about it silence her by convincing her best friend, his cousin, another conquest, to talk to Azusa so he can save the day from a group of his friends who want to rape them. Daisuke mentions to his friends to go ahead, but he'll just be 'a little late' so they can have their fun and when that fails, tries to blame his lovers for his wandering eye and refuses to apologize for anything he did. He apparently gets later drugs a teacher to agree to so he can sleep with him by drugging her. When Hei is talking the newly empowered Azusa from leaving Daisuke alone, he gloats how happy he made her, hires a gang and how [[HeManWomanHater it's all the fault of women for what he's done]] and tries to "take care" fry Azusa with a stun gun, which enrages the normally taciturn Hei into trying to kill him in cold blood.
** The Contractor [[BigBad antagonist]]
of one of ''Flower Of Darkness'', Harvest serves as an EvilCounterpart to Hei. While Hei embraces his mouthier lovers, humanity, Harvest [[FantasticRacism considers humans weak and tasers pathetic]] an offers humans in mental torment his would-be [[spoiler:and eventual]] killer [[UngratefulBastard after she decides Black Dandelion, the 'Flower of Darkness' to spare him.]]
** Claude really has no redeeming qualities
grant them power at the price of [[DealWithTheDevil murdering their best friend]], not mentioning the flower strips the victim of morality and restraints...and he often gives it to speak of. He ends up slaughtering an the target as well to see who will kill the other first. Harvest's entire building full motivation is he was once informed he was inferior to the then fully human Hei. Unable to accept it, Harvest opens the Black Dandelion to infect every human in Tokyo, and from there on the rest of contractors who wished the world, to live peacefully. All while wearing that [[PsychoticSmirk evil bastard smile]], no doubt.turn humans into amoral monsters like him so he can judge for himself if morality is necessary and there is "nothing within me." Defined his selfishness and narcissism, when the Black Dandelion is stopped, Harvest declares '''I alone am the future!''' before using his enhanced powers to attempt to simply obliterate [[OmnicidalManiac the entire remainder of the planet.]]
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** Hei will die. But his soul will choose to go back in time, the time when he was happiest, and he will be at season 1 first episode. Suou who loves Hei wants to be with him too and wants to be in a time when Hei'd love her, but since he already loves Yin she'll go back in time before Hei is born, and become his mother.[[hottip:*:This copypasta jokingly places Hei, Suou, and Yin in the roles of three primary characters in the ShadowHearts series. Said explanation is a HotTip because it's also the [[spoiler: ending to the ''second game.'']]

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** Hei will die. But his soul will choose to go back in time, the time when he was happiest, and he will be at season 1 first episode. Suou who loves Hei wants to be with him too and wants to be in a time when Hei'd love her, but since he already loves Yin she'll go back in time before Hei is born, and become his mother.[[hottip:*:This [[note]]This copypasta jokingly places Hei, Suou, and Yin in the roles of three primary characters in the ShadowHearts series. Said explanation is a HotTip note because it's also the [[spoiler: ending to the ''second game.'']]'']][[/note]]



** In season 2, Genma invokes the trope in hopes that it can apply to him ("Hey, having an unfortunate past can score me some {{Moe}} points!"). [[hottip:* :That'd probably work better if Hei didn't have the DarkAndTroubledPast thing cornered and Amber, Suo, and Yin weren't covering the {{moe}}.]]

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** In season 2, Genma invokes the trope in hopes that it can apply to him ("Hey, having an unfortunate past can score me some {{Moe}} points!"). [[hottip:* :That'd [[note]]That'd probably work better if Hei didn't have the DarkAndTroubledPast thing cornered and Amber, Suo, and Yin weren't covering the {{moe}}.]][[/note]]
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* BestKnownForTheFanservice: In retrospect, it probably wasn't the most brilliant idea to make the episode where [[ShamelessFanserviceGirl November 11 lounges around naked]] be [[spoiler:the same one where he dies]] -- otherwise, you end up with fan memorials that [[http://community.livejournal.com/darker_than/115727.html#cutid1 get a little mixed up]].

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* BestKnownForTheFanservice: In retrospect, it probably wasn't the most brilliant idea to make the episode where [[ShamelessFanserviceGirl November 11 lounges around naked]] be [[spoiler:the same one where he dies]] -- otherwise, you end up with fan memorials [[spoiler:fan memorials]] that [[http://community.livejournal.com/darker_than/115727.html#cutid1 get a little mixed up]].
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** Of course, Suou also has her fans, who thought that she gave the season a fresh approach which it sorely needed, since season 1 all over again (just substituting Amber with [[spoiler: Yin/Izanami]] would have stagnated the plot.

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** Of course, Suou also has her fans, who thought that she gave the season a fresh approach which it sorely needed, since season 1 all over again (just substituting Amber with [[spoiler: Yin/Izanami]] would have stagnated the plot.plot).
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* MagnificentBastard: Amber. No surprise considering her powers to [[spoiler: travel through time]] gives her the upper hand to manipulate people and events.

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* MagnificentBastard: [[MagnificentBastard Magnificent Bitch]]: Amber. No surprise considering her powers to [[spoiler: travel through time]] gives her the upper hand to manipulate people and events.
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* CompleteMonster: Ilya Sokolov, a creepy motherfucker even by Contractor standards (The first thing we see him do is to draw a picture of some pretty girls he saw comming down the stairs. They notice it, are thrilled, he shows them his drawing... They nearly shit themselves and scram, because he drew them mutilated, dismembered and beheaded! [[SarcasmMode A text-book case of sanity, ain't he?]]). Just in case he wasn't horrifying enough, he casually revealed that he had been a SerialKiller '''before''' he became a Contractor. [[spoiler:''The guy who hired him'' thanks Hei for killing the psycho, since Ilya killed his niece before he became a contractor.]]

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* CompleteMonster: Ilya Sokolov, a creepy motherfucker even by Contractor standards (The first thing we see him do is to draw a picture of some pretty girls he saw comming down the stairs. They notice it, are thrilled, he shows them his drawing... They nearly shit themselves and scram, because he drew them mutilated, dismembered and beheaded! [[SarcasmMode A text-book case of sanity, ain't he?]]). Just in case he wasn't his crimes as a contractor weren't horrifying enough, he casually revealed that he had been a SerialKiller '''before''' he became a Contractor. [[spoiler:''The guy who hired him'' thanks Hei for killing the psycho, since Ilya killed his niece before he became a contractor.]]
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* CompleteMonster: Ilya Sokolov, a creepy motherfucker even by Contractor standards (The first thing we see him do is to draw a picture of some pretty girls he saw comming down the stairs. They notice it, are thrilled, he shows them his drawing... They nearly shit themselves and scram, because he drew them mutilated, dismembered and beheaded! [[SarcasmMode A text-book case of sanity, ain't he?]]). Just in case he wasn't horrifying enough, he casually revealed that he had been a SerialKiller '''before''' he became a Contractor. [[spoiler:''The guy who hired him'' thanks Hei for killing the psycho.]]

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* CompleteMonster: Ilya Sokolov, a creepy motherfucker even by Contractor standards (The first thing we see him do is to draw a picture of some pretty girls he saw comming down the stairs. They notice it, are thrilled, he shows them his drawing... They nearly shit themselves and scram, because he drew them mutilated, dismembered and beheaded! [[SarcasmMode A text-book case of sanity, ain't he?]]). Just in case he wasn't horrifying enough, he casually revealed that he had been a SerialKiller '''before''' he became a Contractor. [[spoiler:''The guy who hired him'' thanks Hei for killing the psycho.psycho, since Ilya killed his niece before he became a contractor.]]
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* CompleteMonster: Ilya Sokolov, a creepy motherfucker even by Contractor standards. Just in case he wasn't horrifying enough, he casually revealed that he had been a SerialKiller '''before''' he became a Contractor. [[spoiler:''The guy who hired him'' thanks Hei for killing the psycho.]]

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* CompleteMonster: Ilya Sokolov, a creepy motherfucker even by Contractor standards.standards (The first thing we see him do is to draw a picture of some pretty girls he saw comming down the stairs. They notice it, are thrilled, he shows them his drawing... They nearly shit themselves and scram, because he drew them mutilated, dismembered and beheaded! [[SarcasmMode A text-book case of sanity, ain't he?]]). Just in case he wasn't horrifying enough, he casually revealed that he had been a SerialKiller '''before''' he became a Contractor. [[spoiler:''The guy who hired him'' thanks Hei for killing the psycho.]]
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** [[spoiler:Genma, arguably, crossed into this territory.]]
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* FanNickname: Yin's [[spoiler: OppositeSexClone from the season 2 finale is often called "Yang"]]
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* EvilIsSexy: Amber
** Amber isn't evil. She's an antagonist, but she is never shown to be evil.
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* BestKnownForTheFanservice: In retrospect, it probably wasn't the most brilliant idea to make the episode where [[InnocentFanserviceGirl November 11 lounges around naked]] be [[spoiler:the same one where he dies]] -- otherwise, you end up with fan memorials that [[http://community.livejournal.com/darker_than/115727.html#cutid1 get a little mixed up]].

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* BestKnownForTheFanservice: In retrospect, it probably wasn't the most brilliant idea to make the episode where [[InnocentFanserviceGirl [[ShamelessFanserviceGirl November 11 lounges around naked]] be [[spoiler:the same one where he dies]] -- otherwise, you end up with fan memorials that [[http://community.livejournal.com/darker_than/115727.html#cutid1 get a little mixed up]].
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* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:Yoko]]



* AlasPoorVillain: Several of the Contractors -- Bertha and Itzhak are particularly prominent, although nowhere near as much as [[spoiler:Nick]].
** Although we really don't know what [[PutOnABus happens to]] [[spoiler:Nick]]. Stupid MindScrew-inducing [[EldritchLocation Gate]].

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* BestKnownForTheFanservice: In retrospect, it probably wasn't the most brilliant idea to make the episode where [[InnocentFanserviceGirl November 11 lounges around naked]] be [[spoiler:the same one where he dies]] -- otherwise, you end up with fan memorials that [[http://community.livejournal.com/darker_than/115727.html#cutid1 get a little mixed up]].



* EverybodyRemembersTheStripper: In retrospect, it probably wasn't the most brilliant idea to make the episode where [[InnocentFanserviceGirl November 11 lounges around naked]] be [[spoiler:the same one where he dies]] -- otherwise, you end up with fan memorials that [[http://community.livejournal.com/darker_than/115727.html#cutid1 get a little mixed up]].



** Veteran's Day (11/11) has been commandeered in honor of November 11. [[http://omaemo.dasaku.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/november-11-tribute.jpg Naked pictures]] [[EverybodyRemembersTheStripper are inevitably involved]].

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** Veteran's Day (11/11) has been commandeered in honor of November 11. [[http://omaemo.dasaku.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/november-11-tribute.jpg Naked pictures]] [[EverybodyRemembersTheStripper [[BestKnownForTheFanservice are inevitably involved]].
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* {{Sequelitis}} / SeasonalRot: A solid few of the fanbase are very and vocally dissatisfied with the new tone.

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* {{Sequelitis}} / SeasonalRot: A solid few number of the fanbase are very and vocally dissatisfied with the new tone.



* SurprisinglyImprovedSequel: To the second season.

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* SurprisinglyImprovedSequel: To the second season. season, for people who liked it.

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* FanonDiscontinuity: Some people ignore the second season entirely

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* FanonDiscontinuity: Some people ignore the second season entirelyentirely.
* HoYay: Episodes 11 and 12. Hei and Nick became close ''very'' quickly, spent a whole night watching the stars together (and made plans to go watch them again afterward), and Hei [[spoiler:looked really sad and heartbroken after Nick "betrayed" him.]]
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** This is even lampshaded by the voice actors in the Darker than Black radio.
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--->"I can't let that writer live!" * Pulls out pen with an [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome over-the-top]] sword sound effect* "[[Manga/DeathNote I'm writing his name in my notebook!]]"

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--->"I can't let that writer live!" * Pulls out pen with an [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome [[MundaneMadeAwesome over-the-top]] sword sound effect* "[[Manga/DeathNote I'm writing his name in my notebook!]]"
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** Hei will die. But his soul will choose to go back in time, the time when he was happiest, and he will be at season 1 first episode. Suou who loves Hei wants to be with him too and wants to be in a time when Hei'd love her, but since he already loves Yin she'll go back in time before Hei is born, and become his mother.[[hottip:*:Said meme is a copypasta that jokingly places Hei, Suou, and Yin in the roles of three primary characters in the ShadowHearts series. Said explanation is a HotTip because it's also the [[spoiler: ending to the ''second game.'']]

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** Hei will die. But his soul will choose to go back in time, the time when he was happiest, and he will be at season 1 first episode. Suou who loves Hei wants to be with him too and wants to be in a time when Hei'd love her, but since he already loves Yin she'll go back in time before Hei is born, and become his mother.[[hottip:*:Said meme is a [[hottip:*:This copypasta that jokingly places Hei, Suou, and Yin in the roles of three primary characters in the ShadowHearts series. Said explanation is a HotTip because it's also the [[spoiler: ending to the ''second game.'']]

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