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1This is the main character page for the many characters of ''{{Literature/Durarara}}'':
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3[[AC:'''Warning!!''' The examples below may include {{spoiler}}s for the light novels, as well as the anime.]]
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5[[AC:If you're only following the latter, proceed at your own risk!]]
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7[[WMG:[[center: [-'''''Literature/{{Durarara}}''''' | [[Characters/{{Durarara}} Main Character Index]]\
8'''Main Characters''' ([[Characters/DurararaIzayaOrihara Izaya Orihara]]) | [[Characters/DurararaAnimeSupporting Anime Supporting Characters from Season 1]] | [[Characters/DurararaAnimeSupportingSeason2 Anime Supporting Characters from Season 2]] | [[Characters/DurararaNovelOnly Characters from Novel Only]] | [[Characters/DurararaGameOnly Characters from Game Only]]]]]]-]
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12[[folder:Celty Sturluson]]
13[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Durarara20-201320-20Large2021_4909.jpg]]
14[[caption-width-right:350:A legendary monster with a human side.]]
15->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MiyukiSawashiro (JP), Creator/KariWahlgren (EN)
16->''"The world isn't as cruel as you take it to be."''
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18The main character and resident [[HeadlessHorseman Dullahan]] of Ikebukuro. She used to roam the roads of Ireland, spilling blood on humans and riding down the hills with her headless horse. You know, typical stuff. One day, she awakened to find her head snatched and most of her memories gone. She managed to follow the perpetrator to Ikebukuro where she's still searching for her head to this day.
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20She lives with Shinra and makes a living by being a "transporter". She communicates with people by her cellphone and is seen riding a black motorcycle, wearing a helmet with kitty ears. [[CuteMonsterGirl She also has the cutest pink pajamas, loves chatting on the internet, and is afraid of space aliens]].
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22Affliated/allied with the Dollars.
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24* AchillesHeel: [[spoiler:One of the reasons Celty is so intent on recovering her missing head is that she is certain that destroying it is the means of killing her. Naturally, it's not something you want in the hands of someone you don't know, or a {{Yandere}} stalker who's had plastic surgery so her face looks like Celty's.]]
25* ActionGirl: She is a very skilled fighter who is adept at wielding scythes.
26* ActionGirlfriend: Much more capable in fighting than her boyfriend Shinra, and gets involved in heavy-handed action situations more frequently than he does.
27* AdaptationDyeJob: The first novel describes Celty's hair as "as black as darkness itself".
28* AgentMulder: Apart from her fear of TheGreys (which she's also convinced killed the dinosaurs), she also believes in various 2012 doomsday prophecies, the photon belt, evil tesseracts [[note]]A tesseract is a four-dimensional hypercube, formed by placing two cubes in the same three-dimensional coordinates and connecting corresponding vertices in the fourth dimension to form a four-dimensional polytope with eight cubic cells and 16 vertices[[/note]], and an impending robot apocalypse.
29* AggressiveSubmissive: Celty is a BadassBiker [[HeadlessHorseman dullahan]] who beats up crooks and saves people, while her boyfriend Shinra is a BackAlleyDoctor with a masochistic streak. She's a ''deredere'' type of {{Tsundere}} and he enjoys verbally provoking her, which often leads to her wrapping him in shadows as punishment. However, Shinra says "At night, Celty's actually like a little bunny—" which immediately causes her to try and shut him up because she's practically dying of embarrassment from having their sex life discussed in a room full of people.
30* AmnesiacDissonance: One of the reasons Shinra wants to keep her away from her head is because he's afraid of this. She's got hundreds of years of memories in her head, so who knows what she'll be like once she gets them back. [[spoiler:When she does regain her memories, she fakes being aloof and concerned only with her duty as a dullahan, but Shinra can tell she's faking because she thinks it will be easier for people to forget about her]].
31* AmnesiacHero: Most of Celty's memories of her old life are stored in her head, and she's lost it.
32%% Putting a trope into a secondary bullet of another trope is against the Examples Indentation rules. Leave BadassNormal at first level, please.
33* BadassAdorable: Given that she's more or less Death with a [[BadassBiker motorcycle]] and a kitty-cat helmet...
34%% Putting a trope into a secondary bullet of another trope is against the Examples Indentation rules. Leave BadassNormal at first level, please.
35* BadassBiker: Is usually seen riding on a jet-black motorcycle (which is actually her horse, Shooter).
36* BadLiar: Somehow manages this even without the ability to speak.
37* BerserkButton: She reacts rather strongly to having her PDA knocked out of her hands.
38* BizarreAlienBiology: She retains her senses of sight, hearing and smell with no head. Her dissection showed that she has no heart, while her other organs are non-functional.
39* BlemishedBeauty: {{Exaggerated|Trope}}. Since she is a [[HeadlessHorseman dullahan]], her head is naturally apart from the rest of her body, but both are very nice looking. Several characters fall madly in love with the head on its own, and not for one second do they wish it were attached to a body, content to just stare at it. Shinra, on the other hand, is in love with the rest of Celty, despite most others being shocked and afraid by her headless nature. He doesn't even see her lack of a head as an issue and prefers it when Celty isn't wearing her helmet to hide it, although she admits she fears he just has a fetish for headless women.
40* ButNowIMustGo: [[spoiler:In the finale, she decides to leave after gaining her head and regaining all her memories. After feigning amnesia, she admits that she had caused much trouble in the city and gives her presence as the reason why she should leave. Luckily, Shinra manages to get her to stay.]]
41* ButterFace: In a manner of speaking. She is rather self-conscious about the whole having-no-head thing. Her face is actually quite attractive. It's just separated from her body.
42* CarFu: Occasionally combats her enemies by ramming her motorcycle into them.
43* CastingAShadow: She can control shadows, which she typically uses to form her scythe and bind her enemies.
44* ClearTheirName: Happens to her twice; the first incident was someone riding around a motorcycle beating people up, which was resolved by Yoshimune. The second incident was someone using her identity to lure in people and kidnap them, which she, Yahiro, and a few others fixed together.
45* ConspiracyTheorist: She's a big believer in a number of ridiculous conspiracy theories, from ancient aliens wiping out the dinosaurs, to mind-controlling tesseracts and an impending robot apocalypse. But instead of making her come off as crazy, it just serves to make her more [[EndearinglyDorky endearing]].
46* CoolBigSis: [[spoiler:Becomes one for Anri after the two bond over their mutual supernaturality.]] She is also one for Shizuo and later [[spoiler: Mikado]].
47* CoolBike: It has no headlights, whinnies, and can jump over obstacles! Mind you, it ''is'' possessed by the spirit of an undead horse. With it, Celty is very capable of pulling off [[BadassDriver extremely implausible maneuvers]] such as what's shown in Episode One, wherein she [[CarFu smacks a human trafficker in the face with her bike's front tire]], then proceeds to ''smash him up against a pillar in a parking garage with nothing but said tire''.
48* CoolHelmet: It has cat ears.
49* CordonBleughChef: Let's start with the fact that her head and by extension, her mouth, is missing...
50* CrossPlayer: Celty prefers to keep her gender ambiguous on the internet. However, [[BadLiar she's not terribly good at it]], and both Kanra and Tanaka Taro caught on long ago (which Celty discovers, to her distress, when they both react rather strongly to a comment that she has a male roommate).
51* CuteClumsyGirl: Claimed to be a {{Dojikko}} by Shingen, and not without reason, surprisingly. She ''does'' tend to get clumsy when she's excited (which usually happens around Shinra).
52* CuteMonsterGirl: She is a incredibly friendly death spirit, and is afraid of space aliens. Adorable. [[spoiler:Her missing head also turns out to be quite cute, especially considering that Dullahans are supposed to have heads with horrible, twisted grins and skin like moldy cheese.]]
53* CuteMute: An interesting take on this one. Because she [[HeadlessHorseman doesn't have a head]], she can't speak or communicate using facial expressions, but she can communicate well enough by [[TalkingWithSigns typing things out on a cellphone or computer]]. (Her roommate and later fiancé Shinra can tell what she's thinking or trying to say from her body language, though — as Celty puts it, he "can read the expressions on the face I don't have.") Celty also averts the "clueless or childlike" stereotype; she's very intelligent and fully understands what's going on around her, and her twenty-odd years spent in Japan have given her a thorough understanding of Japanese social norms. She is very cute just not in the innocent, childish way you would normally expect.
54* DarkIsNotEvil: In Irish mythology, Dullahans act as {{Psychopomp}}s who douse anyone who gets in their way with blood, marking them as the next one to be yanked to the afterlife by that particular Dullahan. Here, we've got one going around saving kidnapping victims.
55* DisabledLoveInterest: A variant. Celty can't talk, but not because she's mute; she doesn't even have a mouth. This isn't a problem for her and Shinra, since he usually doesn't even need to read her text messages to know what she wants to say.
56* DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: She tends to beat on Shinra or wrap him up in her shadows when she's having her [[{{Tsundere}} tsun-tsun moments]], but justified in that Shrina ''[[TooKinkyToTorture enjoys]]'' [[TooKinkyToTorture the abuse]] and tends to goad her on.
57* EldritchAbomination: [[spoiler: In her attempt to rescue Shinra from Kasane, she ditches all semblance of human appearance and transforms into an incoherent mass of shadows that emit an unearthly screaming.]]
58* EasyAmnesia: Due to losing her head.
59* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: There are few things more embarrassing than being felt up by your boyfriend's stepmother. Also, Anri says she has a vague attraction to Celty, which persists even after learning about [[SamusIsAGirl Celty's true gender]].
60* EvilWearsBlack: Averted. She goes around in a black jumpsuit, but she's really a sweet and kindhearted character.
61%%* TheFairFolk: We've got a Dullahan.
62* FamousNamedForeigner: Shares a last name with Icelandic poet and politician Creator/SnorriSturluson. An Irish faerie running around with an Icelandic last name might seem weird [[FridgeBrilliance until you consider Izaya's hypothesis]] that [[spoiler:Dullahans have a connection with the Nordic Valkyries]]. This leads to more questions, as [[spoiler:Sturluson means [[WasOnceAMan "Son of Sturla".]] Assuming she was born in Iceland during those times, and that she was female, her last name would be Sturludóttir ("Daughter of Sturla").]]
63* FreakinessShame: Celty is understandably ashamed of her lack of a head, but Shinra thinks it's rather sexy. The pair are the current trope image(s), too.
64* FreakyIsCool: Ends up fangirling Shizuo during his fight against Saika's 'children', much like how Shinra did when he and Shizuo were in highschool.
65-->'''Celty:''' He's so strong... No, he's terrifying... No, he's ''awesome!''
66* FromRoommatesToRomance: Celty has been roommates with Shinra since he was four years old, as his father let her stay at their place in exchange of [[StrappedToAnOperatingTable allowing him to vivisect her once]]. Twenty years later, Celty starts to reciprocate Shinra's long-lasting attraction to her and they eventually become a couple.
67* {{Hammerspace}}: Apparently one of her abilities; she's pulled a cell phone, a shopping list, a kitchen knife, and a scythe from some kind of smoky darkness she can access.
68* HawaiianShirtedTourist: Despite never having left Japan during her six-month long vacation in the TimeSkip between series, she returns to Ikebukuro, wearing one of these. This has a BrickJoke in ''SH'' volume 2 when Kuon claims that she spent her entire vacation in Hawaii.
69* HeadlessHorseman: A more modernized version... that rides a CoolBike!
70* HeadTurningBeauty: Celty's head and face are so beautiful that it inspires fanatical devotion in at least two men and beguiled awe in the heart of an artist. [[{{Pun}} This is on top of]] [[CuteMonsterGirl the attention her body gets]].
71* HealingFactor: Any wounds and injuries she sustain would heal themselves almost instantly.
72* HeroicBSOD: [[spoiler:Celty all but snaps when she finally confronts her "head" (grafted onto the body of Mika Harima) during the Dollars meetup and confirms her greatest fear -- that she's never gonna get it back. She only calms down after both the reveal that it isn't actually her head and a big argument with Shinra over where her real head is.]]
73* TheHeroine: Despite being a personification of Death, she certainly doesn't want to do anything evil and will always pull her friends from any jam.
74* HouseFey: She lives with Shinra in a small apartment.
75* HumanoidAbomination: Essentially, although she's a benevolent one.
76* IAmWhatIAm: She recognizes that she is a headless monster and must accept it for the time being.
77* ImaginationBasedSuperpower: Celty's shadow constructs can take on a variety of forms and uses, including a scythe, a helmet, and gloves. Supposedly, her black suit is made out of these shadows too.
78* ImpossiblyCoolWeapon: Celty's scythe. It can't cut people, but it certainly incapacitates them.
79* InconspicuousImmortal: She's the OnlySaneMan in entire the cast, and lives with Shinra in an apartment while working as a courier, though her clients tend to be sketchy. Outside of her quest for her missing head, Celty doesn't typically go looking for adventure and usually has to be forced into becoming involved in the random chaos around her. When said chaos resolves, she likes to go back to her routine.
80* IntergenerationalFriendship: With Mikado and Anri.
81* InterspeciesFriendship: With any non-dullahan she's friends with.
82* InterspeciesRomance: She's in a relationship with Shinra, a human.
83* ItsAllMyFault: [[spoiler:When she gets her head back]], she says that pretty much everything that has happened in Ikebukuro is her fault. In particular, she says that [[spoiler:Mikado]] would never have attempted suicide if not for her presence, since she implies the existence of an afterlife.
84* ItWasAGift: Celty's PDA was a White Day gift from Shinra so she greatly treasures it.
85* TheKnightsWhoSaySquee: Despite being a living legend, Celty still fangirls over Shizuo's SuperStrength. Not to mention, both she and Shinra are huge fans of celebrities Yuhei Hanejima and Ruri Hijiribe.
86* LaserGuidedAmnesia: When she lost her head, the majority of her memories went with it. Furthermore, it's theorized that if she regained her head, the old memories would overwrite the new ones. One group even plans to give her her head and then cut it off again in order to render her easier to control. [[spoiler:When she does get her head back, she regains her memories, but they don't overwrite the new ones. She feigns amnesia, but Shinra knows she's faking. He then cuts her head off again, but this time she retains all her memories, since she was awake when it was cut off]].
87* {{Leitmotif}}: She's got a subtle one in the anime, which seems to be built around the tune of "Danny Boy". Its name is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rV_COKfihLA Green Memories]].
88* LivingEmotionalCrutch: To Shinra, who repeatedly states he couldn't stand a life without Celty and will do ''anything'' to keep her by his side.
89* LosingYourHead: It wasn't connected to begin with, but it had a link through her soul. [[spoiler:Shingen, wielding Saika]], cut through that link while she was sleeping and stole it.
90* MarriedToTheJob: Celty spends so much time working that she and Shinra rarely share real quality time together. She even turns him down when he asks her to go out in a date on her rare holidays.
91* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: Masculine Girl to Shinra's Feminine Boy. Celty works a courier, rides a motor cycle, has super strength, and doesn't have a head. Shinra works as a BackAlleyDoctor, is a HouseHusband when off the job, is gorgeous and barely has the strength to knock Celty's helmet off of her neck.
92* TheMasochismTango: Has bit of this with Shinra. {{Lampshaded}} when Walker concludes that they're both in a mild "Type M" relationship; though it's not abusive, both of them enjoy messing with each other.
93* MayflyDecemberRomance: Celty is presumably hundreds of years old and hasn't aged a day ever since she first met her 24-year-old boyfriend Shinra 2 decades ago.
94* MeaningfulName: Her name sounds very similar to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selkie Selkie]], a mythological Scottish creature that was a seal in water but shed their skin to become a human on land. Legends about Selkies tend to involve someone trapping them in a relationship by hiding their skin, with the Selkie leaving as soon as they find it again.
95* MonsterRoommate: Celty is a Dullahan who is living at her human boyfriend Shinra's apartment.
96* MsFanservice: Living proof that you don't need a head to be sexy.
97* MundaneUtility: Turns out that [[CastingAShadow control over darkness and shadow]] is surprisingly versatile -- though Shinra put his foot down at letting her use it for cooking.
98* MyHorseIsAMotorbike: Her motorcycle is an undead horse that just ''looks'' like a motorcycle. [[FluffyTheTerrible Its name is Shooter.]] She rode a horse in the old days but in modern Japan it merges with a motorcycle to fit in better. Shooter can shift back and forth between horse and motorcycle as it pleases (chariot optional).
99* MySuitIsAlsoSuper: Her clothes are made using her ability to manipulate shadows.
100* NiceGirl: Celty is very kind, friendly, helpful, and definitely heroic.
101* OfficialCouple: With Shinra. Celty gives into his advances after two decades of living together and officially becomes his girlfriend.
102* OnlySaneWoman: Ironically, among the major recurring cast, the amnesiac headless {{psychopomp}} is the sanest, most moral and most ''human'' member of the cast.
103* OpenSecret: Both Tanaka Taro and Kanra caught on to her [[CrossPlayer not-so-ambiguously-gendered chatroom persona]] pretty early on.
104* PlatonicLifePartners: She's best friends with Shizuo, whom she admires very much and would go to when she needs sort out issues regarding her missing head.
105* QuestForIdentity: Her primary motivation. [[spoiler:This eventually starts to change when she begins coming to terms with the fact that she's built up enough of an identity over the last twenty years that she doesn't really need her old memories anymore.]]
106* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Celty isn't quite sure how old she is, thanks to the amnesia, but the few fuzzy memories she does retain go back over a hundred years.
107* SamusIsAGirl: People tend not to immediately recognize that Celty is female due to her black catsuit. Shinra thinks they're blind.
108-->'''Shinra:''' ... Eh, Tom-san, What's with that face? Celty? Yeah, that's her name. She's the Black Rider..."So it's a she?" Shizuo, you didn't tell him that part?... Ehhh? You didn't know Celty was a woman either until recently!? But Shizuo, I can't believe it!
109* ScrewTheRulesIHaveSupernaturalPowers: A running sideplot is the cops deciding that no, her supernatural powers do not give her an exemption from traffic laws. Celty briefly gains the advantage by arguing that there are exceptions written into the laws for horses, but the cops point out that she still has to obey the speed limit.
110* SecurityCling: She runs to hug Shinra after her first scary encounter with the motor cops.
111* SexyFlaw: Shinra loves Celty ''because'' she's a headless Dullahan. He actually would prefer she never finds her head because he thinks she looks sexier without it.
112* ShyFingerTwiddling: When Shingen asks her if she's in love with Shinra.
113* SignificantGreenEyedRedhead: She's a Dullahan and her missing head looks like a young woman with auburn hair and jade green eyes.
114* SilentSnarker: Even though she can't speak due to lacking a head, she's generally snarky, especially when dealing with Shinra.
115* SinisterScythe: She wields a black scythe made of shadows. While Celty is far from evil, this weapon makes her absolutely terrifying to those who are against her.
116* SlapSlapKiss: With Shinra. [[spoiler:After she punches him for lying to her, she then hugs Shinra as they both lie on the floor exhausted.]]
117* SoreLoser: She doesn't take it well when she loses in video games.
118* TheSpeechless: Justified since she doesn't have a head; she can still "talk" by typing out words on a cellphone. From the fourth episode on, she is voiced as a matter of convenience; she's still not actually speaking and is simply typing out whatever she's "saying".
119* SpyCatsuit: Her jumpsuit presents the same effect.
120* StrappedToAnOperatingTable: Celty agrees to be vivisected by Shinra's father, Shingen, in return for a place to stay. Turns out human anaesthetics don't work on Dullahans.
121* StoryBreakerPower: [[spoiler:When she gets her head back, she puts a stop to Nasujima's ZombieApocalypse without any real difficulty. Though in fairness, if Celty hadn't fixed the problem, Anri would have; Nasujima was ''much'' less of a threat than he thought]].
122* StrongGirlSmartGuy: With Shinra. Celty is a BadassBiker with SuperStrength and shadow powers. Shinra is a BackAlleyDoctor who is always eager to analyze and dissect the strange people he encounters.
123* SwissArmySuperpower: She comes up with a lot of creative uses for her shadow-stuff.
124* TalkingWithSigns: Via her PDA. This serves as her primary means of communication. When this isn't possible, she relies on a HandSignals. Notably, people who are very close to her (like Shinra) can read her body language and interpret what she's feeling without needing to see her head.
125* {{Telepathy}}: She can communicate this way, but without her head she doesn't know how to do it consciously.
126* TheProtagonist: The closest thing the series has to one. Every arc has a major character that it revolves around, like the ''Mika Harima'' arc focusing on Mikado, or the ''Saika'' arc focusing on Anri. However, Celty receives lots of focus in every single arc, and is usually the driving force in solving the ongoing issue in some way. As well, her QuestForIdentity and subsequent CharacterDevelopment are arguably the focus of the series.
127* ThroughHisStomach: She decides to cook something for Shinra to thank him for letting her live with him. It doesn't go as expected when Shinra says he likes her food, but Celty is convinced that she screwed it up and forces him to stop eating.
128* {{Tsundere}}: Walker gets into a big argument with Erika over whether Celty is a "true" Tsundere. Celty is not amused. Walker feels that Celty is too even-tempered, and that Shinra mostly deserves the ass-kickings he gets. She would count as a ''deredere'' type of Tsundere, for those curious.
129* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler:During the end of the second season, she points out that people seeing her body caused many negative events; Mikado seeing her when he arrived at Ikebukuro was what set off a long chain of unfortunate events that led to Mikado trying to kill Masaomi and opt for suicide, endangering Shinra and many others, and Seiji becoming extremely delusional about her head while Maki underwent plastic surgery just to get him to like her.]]
130--->'''Seiji''': [[BlatantLies I'm not delusional.]]
131* {{Valkyries}}: Izaya has a theory that the legend of Dullahans and the legend of Norse Valkyries are based on the same thing; and one can somehow "trigger" Valkyrie Mode and [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt Ragnarok]].
132* VictoriasSecretCompartment: Uses it to store a wad of money from Izaya in episode 4.
133* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: She's started to fall into this after Shinra [[spoiler:got attacked by Ruri's stalker]]. The event caused her to become very protective of him. Also, in episode 14, she threatens Izaya for insulting Shinra.
134* WeaponizedHeadgear: Celty uses her helmet to strike foes or parry their attacks, when she doesn't want to use her SinisterScythe.
135* WhatTheHellHero: Celty gets ''pissed'' when she discovers that Shinra [[spoiler:knew exactly where her head was, but deliberately withheld the information]]. Even after he explains his actions to her and they get something of a resolution to the argument, [[MyFistForgivesYou Celty punches him]] [[PunchedAcrossTheRoom into a wall]] before she lets herself forgive him.
136* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Her fear of aliens and, thanks to Kinnosuke, motorcycle cops.
137* {{Workaholic}}: Shizuo implies her to be this in episode 3.
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140[[folder:Mikado Ryugamine]]
141[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mikado_ryuugamine_durarara_31609075_482_312.png]]
142[[caption-width-right:350:A newcomer that admires the supernatural.]]
143->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ToshiyukiToyonaga (JP), Creator/DarrelGuilbeau (EN)
144->''"But at that moment... I felt my body tremble as I sensed that a new world was opening up to me."''
145
146A [[NiceGuy nice]] [[NaiveNewcomer newcomer]] to Ikebukuro, where he attends Raira Academy with his best friend Masaomi and his crush Anri. Mikado decided to come to Ikebukuro on his own to seek something new from his boring life in the country. Initially, he isn't [[NonActionGuy a very courageous fellow]], but as the story progresses, he learns to become [[AwakeningTheSleepingGiant more determined and strong]].
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148* AdaptationPersonalityChange: The first anime paints him as meek guy who just wants to do the right thing. While this rings true, in the light novel, [[spoiler:he never really bothered that much in hiding that he has some really dark tendencies hidden away and implied that he created The Dollars ForTheLulz due to a boring everyday life, showing signs of his true colors very early on, instead of way later]].
149* AffablyEvil: Even at his worst and going full VillainProtagonist, Mikado maintains an incredible degree of politeness, and speaks calmly and gently even to the people he threatens. Izumii is impressed and offput when Mikado [[spoiler:takes a gun from him without even flinching and politely thanks him for the weapon.]]
150-->'''Aozaki:''' It's not always you come across a screwed-up kid with manners.
151* AffectionateNickname: Erika gives him the cutesy nickname "Mika-pon".
152* AmbitionIsEvil: Judging from his point of view about humans, what he apparently wants from all of this is [[TheDarkSide power]].
153* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: [[spoiler:It's revealed in ''SH'' that he's become a Saika child after being stabbed by Nasujima in the previous series, [[DownplayedTrope but the curse has faded over time and has little influence over him]]]].
154* ApologizesALot: He and Anri could both take first place for the amount of sorries they said in their lifetime.
155* AwakeningTheSleepingGiant: Aoba experiences firsthand the [[TranquilFury fury]] that Mikado can unleash when he threatened the existence of Dollars and Anri.
156-->'''Aoba:''' [[spoiler:Orihara Izaya, have you realized this? You and I, we've probably both underestimated Mikado-sempai. Even with what you and I already know about him... it could turn out that sempai... [[LetsGetDangerous had far from shown us his true character.]]]]
157* AwesomeMcCoolName: Basically reads "Emperor of The Dragon Fang Peak" in English. Lampshaded by Walker, who asks if it's a PenName and remarks that it sounds like it was pulled from some manga. For comparison, his screenname, Taro Tanaka, is roughly the equivalent of "John Smith" in Japanese.
158%% Putting a trope into a secondary bullet of another trope is against the Examples Indentation rules. Leave BadassNormal at first level, please.
159* BadassAdorable: He looks damn cute when screwing with Namie and making the Dollars gang up on her.
160* BaddieFlattery: [[spoiler:Izaya praises him after his FaceHeelTurn.]]
161* BeneathTheMask: [[spoiler:After making a deal with Mikado, Aoba fears that there's more to Mikado than he thought.]]
162* BewareTheNiceOnes: Namie [[LampshadeHanging acknowledges]] this in episode 11:
163-->'''Namie:''' You're a much quieter kid than I imagined. Or maybe kids like you are much more dangerous nowadays.
164* BitchInSheepsClothing: This is what he really is. As the series progresses, he borders on FauxAffablyEvil.
165* BreakTheCutie: He went through loads and loads of confusion and painful struggles, starting from novel vol. 5 to novel vol. 6. [[spoiler:The result of it, as shown in vol.8, is... [[CorruptTheCutie not nice at all]], [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope to say the least.]]]]
166* CannotSpitItOut: And when Mikado works up the courage to do so in Episode 12, [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments he finds Kida flirting with Anri and roundkicks him]].
167* CharacterDevelopment: Starts off as a [[NaiveNewcomer meek, shy, and awkward kid]] who [[IJustWantToBeBadass just wants to be awesome]] until it's revealed that he's [[spoiler:actually a very capable guy, as well as the leader of the Dollars]]. Afterwards, he becomes more and more sure of himself, and he slowly but gradually becomes [[spoiler:a [[AmbitionIsEvil power hungry]] {{Yandere}} with [[LackOfEmpathy little empathy]] for people who have hurt him or his friends]]. Aoba outright states that he hasn't even ''shown his "true colors" yet''.
168* TheChessmaster: Considering that he sometimes puts himself in his plan, he may even come across as a MagnificentBastard, though he himself likes to think he's a GuileHero. [[spoiler:Basically, by the later books, he starts to act scarily similar to Izaya in his operations... with TranquilFury replacing manic laughter, and Lawful replacing Chaotic in alignment (i.e. he manipulates people for a direct purpose only, not screws with them ForTheEvulz)]].
169* ChildhoodFriends: He grew up in the same town as Masaomi before the latter moved to Ikebukuro.
170* ClassRepresentative: He's assigned to be the representative of his class along with Anri.
171* ConvenientlySeated: Mikado gets a window seat that's in the second-to-last row.
172* ControlFreak: [[spoiler:Once he learns the Dollars are changing in ways he never intended, Mikado takes it upon himself to have Aoba and the Blue Squares forcibly kick out any undesirable members of the Dollars to maintain its image.]]
173* CuteAndPsycho: Despite his NiceGuy appearance on the outside, Mikado is pretty ''fucked up''.
174* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: He's an [[NiceGuy all around nice guy]] and even a bit shy ... just don't [[DudeWheresMyRespect push him too far]] or [[BerserkButton threaten Anri's safety]].
175* DecoyProtagonist: Despite the story opening with his arrival to Ikebukuro and the subsequent hijinks he got involved in as he tried to fit in, Mikado is ''not'' the primary protagonist. Celty is.
176* DemotedToExtra: [[spoiler:After the final novel, he decided to step back from any kind of extraordinary events and is in the background for the majority of ''Durarara!! SH''.]]
177* DissonantSerenity:
178** When Kida finally reunites with him in volume 8, he's smiling peacefully... [[spoiler:[[http://i726.photobucket.com/albums/ww262/CapZiggy/Untitled17.jpg while splattered in blood]] and while setting a guy on fire, no less.]]
179** In the anime, he doesn't lose that nice tone of his voice. Which makes the whole thing creepier.
180* DoggedNiceGuy: A Downplayed one to Anri.
181* TheDulcineaEffect: He is compelled to save Anri from the delinquents harassing her.
182* EvilCostumeSwitch: In season one, Mikado's go-to outfit is a green and white shirt. Once his role shifts completely as [[spoiler:the leader of the Dollars and Aoba's faction, he starts wearing a dark blue jacket.]]
183* FatalFlaw: His ambition. [[IJustWantToBeSpecial He just wants to make his life beyond mundane]] to such an extent that it ultimately [[spoiler:results in gang warfare, chaos in the streets, his allies in the Dollars suffering in the process, shooting his best friend and eventually attempting to commit suicide. When he does recover, he now wants to live a normal life away from the chaos]].
184* {{Foreshadowing}}: It's relatively easy to miss if you don't already know what happens, but the manga puts a lot of emphasis on his suspicious smiles throughout the series.
185* FreakyIsCool: He desperately wants to break out of the ordinary.
186* HeldBackInSchool: [[spoiler: After his injuries from the final episode of x2, he had to stay in the hospital to recover, so he missed a large portion of his third year and had to repeat his final year in school.]]
187* HeroicBSOD: [[spoiler: In episode 22, he disbands the Dollars by means of denying access to the site and seems to have become a recluse after seeing the escalating gang violence from the Yellow Scarves in response his scheme to rescue Anri.]]
188* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Masaomi. They have been best friends ever since they can remember and both will do anything to protect each other.
189* HiddenDepths: Seems like an ordinary NiceGuy until you piss him off.
190* HopelessSuitor: He has a crush on Anri, the girl who claims to be incapable of love. Although judging by the way Saika is starting to react when Anri is around Mikado[[note]]remembering that Saika is basically Anri's emotional barometer, considering she doesn't have enough experience with love or the emotional stability to recognise the difference between her feelings for different people[[/note]] , that may be changing. [[spoiler:Subverted by the time of ''Durarara!! SH'', where he and Anri are now dating.]]
191* IJustWantToBeBadass: [[spoiler: Played with. As the series progresses, it becomes clear that he was a badass all along.]]
192* IJustWantToBeSpecial: More like I Just Want My Life to Be Interesting. And considering that the last [[TheChessmaster Chessmaster]][=/=]ManipulativeBastard who decided he wanted his life to be "interesting" was Izaya, that's really not a good thing[[note]]Izaya pretty much gives him a gentle push in the right direction[[/note]]. [[BewareTheNiceOnes The later novels are starting to show that]].
193* IJustWantToBeNormal: [[spoiler:His attempts to have his life become extraordinary result in gang warfare, chaos in the streets, his allies in the Dollars suffering in the process, shooting his best friend and eventually attempting to commit suicide. When he recovers from the whole ordeal, he resolves to live a quiet and peaceful life with Masaomi and Anri.]]
194* ImagineSpot: Mikado's 'inner puppet theatre' -- the results are quite hilarious.
195* InnocentBlueEyes: [[spoiler:A subverted bait-and-switch. They are actually IcyBlueEyes.]]
196* IntergenerationalFriendship: With Celty, and to a lesser extent, with Shinra.
197* InterruptedSuicide: [[spoiler: He tries to kill himself with a headshot, only for Celty to save him.]]
198* TheLeader: Of the Dollars. He's a type I: Mastermind. Few dollars have any idea he's the one sending orders to their cell phones.
199* MeaningfulName: Mikado Ryugamine roughly means "Emperor of the Dragon's Peak."
200* MissionControl: For the Dollars.
201* MoodSwinger: [[spoiler: Mikado is capable of switching between "Mikado unassuming student" to "Mikado, leader of the Dollars" at the drop of a hat. Izaya admits that he's envious of how Mikado is able to balance the two while someone as AxCrazy as Izumi is completely unnerved by him.]]
202* MundaneMadeAwesome: MOUSE CLICKS OF FIRE!
203* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:After shooting Masaomi, Mikado realizes that he's taken things way too far and decides that [[RedemptionEqualsDeath suicide is the best option]], reasoning that if he could hurt his best friend, nothing could stop him from doing the same to himself, Anri or other people. Thankfully, he's stopped from going through with it.]]
204* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: See below. It gets worse in the novels.
205* NameThatUnfoldsLikeLotusBlossom: His name means Emperor of the Dragon's Peak. This is a bit of a DubInducedPlotHole, since its not translated into English, so English viewers are left confused as to why everyone keeps commenting on his name.
206* NaiveNewcomer [[spoiler: Subverted as he's very much aware of what's going on.]]
207* NeighbourhoodFriendlyGangsters: Even with being a major gang ringleader, Mikado is still very much a terribly nice guy who puts others before himself. The Dollars as a whole are also composed of generally decent guys.
208* NiceGuy: He appears to be a kind and helpful guy. [[spoiler: Subverted later on where he's revealed to be a very cold person.]]
209* NightmareFetishist: Though not quite in the same way as Shinra.
210* NonActionGuy: [[spoiler:Zigzagged. Mikado is physically one of the weakest characters in the setting, and even after becoming a significant player in the madness of the town, he is very aware he can't beat anyone at a fight. That being said, he is very willing to use whatever method he can to deal with the things that happen, including using gasoline and matches to set on fire a man he can't physically beat.]]
211* OfficialCouple: [[spoiler:With Anri. ''Durarara!! SH'' reveals they have officially began dating.]]
212* ThePenIsMightier: Mikado used a ballpoint pen to stab Aoba in the hand.
213* ProtagonistJourneyToVillain: [[spoiler:As the Dollars continues to get rowdier, Mikado decides that the only way to make the Dollars great again is to forcibly kick out the unfavorable members. He even accepts that the resulting violence will eventually cause a gang war with Kida's Yellow Scarves since he's using the Blue Squares to purge the group.]]
214* SanitySlippage: [[spoiler:He eventually loses his mind to the point of attempting suicide in the final episode of the anime.]]
215* ShrinkingViolet: He shows himself as meek and insecure. [[spoiler: Subverted later on. This is apparently a front that he shows to humanity.]]
216* ShutUpHannibal: [[spoiler:Performed in Episode 11 to Namie, when he reveals he has power in numbers.]]
217* SupportingProtagonist: He acts as the main viewpoint character especially early in the series, but it's stated by WordOfGod that Celty is the real main character.
218* TranquilFury:
219** Since he isn't the kind of person who likes to express their emotions much, his anger always results in this. Yes, even [[spoiler: that scene with Namie]]. The anime altered it a bit in order to make him look like an awfully nice person. In the novel, [[http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y129/lonefox/novel01.jpg however...]]
220** When Aoba indirectly puts [[spoiler:Anri in unnecessary danger with his scheming, Mikado's response is to stab Aoba's hand with a pen. And he eerily calm throughout.]]
221* TwoGuysAndAGirl: With Kida and Anri.
222* WalkingSpoiler: Mostly revolving around the fact that he's the leader of the Dollars.
223* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler:Later in the series, he allies himself with Aoba and his Blue Squares and decides to take extreme measures to take a better control of the Dollars and make Ikebukuro a more safe place for Masaomi and Anri. His ultimate goal is to turn the Dollars into an urban legend, creating chaos too widespread that the group will be forced to disband.]]
224* WhamLine: He's the master of them in the series.
225** From episode 11. "I have neither the power nor wisdom to oppose a foe who won't listen to reason. You won't even give me time to try. [[spoiler: And so... I'll rely on numbers!]]"
226** From the episode before that. "[[spoiler:I have all the pawns I need...]]"
227** And from volume six of the novel, which is also in episode 12 of ''Durarara!!x2''. "[[spoiler:But it's not like Dollars had any rules, to begin with, and making any rules now would just make Dollars not Dollars anymore. ......In a world without rules......the only thing you can rely on to have your dreams realized is power.]]"
228* WhoNamesTheirKidDude: His own impression of his AwesomeMcCoolname.
229* {{Yandere}}: Towards Masaomi and Anri. To sum it up, [[spoiler:threaten to involve Anri in any danger will result in you getting stabbed with a pen (Aoba learned that first[[{{Pun}} hand]]). Later on, being a disruptive element in Ikebukuro at all will get you targeted, in the name of cleaning the neighborhood to make it safe for Kida's return.]]
230* ZeroApprovalGambit: [[spoiler:Regarding The Dollars. His final plan includes making the group disband by throwing people too dangerous against The Dollars, in this case, he shoots up a police station and a Yakuza's home, making it so that now staying in The Dollars is too dangerous and causing them to disband.]]
231[[/folder]]
232
233[[folder:Masaomi Kida]]
234[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Durarara20-200520-20Large2020-1_358.jpg]]
235[[caption-width-right:350: A charming friend with a guilty past.]]
236->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MamoruMiyano (JP), Creator/BrycePapenbrook (EN)
237->''"I also... swore to myself I wouldn't go over to that side again."''
238
239Mikado's best friend and the one who suggested for Mikado to come to Ikebukuro. Masaomi is an extremely hyper fellow who loves [[GratuitousEnglish sprinkling English]] in his sentences and [[CasanovaWannabe hitting on older girls]]. He claims there is a love triangle between Mikado, Anri, and himself, and he's not above flirting with Anri, much to Mikado's chagrin.
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241* AuthorityGrantsAssKicking: The leader of the Yellow Scarves gang, and is the strongest of them all.
242* BadassNormal: [[spoiler: He's street smart, clever, surprisingly good in a fight and a natural leader. He's not nearly as powerful as Shizuo or smart as Izaya, and unlike Celty he's a powerless human, but for an average highschooler with a pretty face and chipper personality, orchestrating gang wars and cracking delinquent skulls is pretty damn impressive. Alongside Kyohei and Chikage, he's one of the only humans in the cast who is genuinely dangerous without any [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower freakish quirks]] or elite training.]]
243* BreakTheCutie: Izaya intentionally misled Kida, which resulted in somebody important getting hurt. [[StepfordSmiler The results weren't pretty.]]
244%%* BromanticFoil: To Mikado. [[spoiler:Subverted in the novel where Kida is pretending to be Mikado's foil.]]
245* CannotTellAJoke: Not that it stops him from trying.
246* CasanovaWannabe: He often flirts with girls, and many of his interactions with Mikado involve him inviting the latter to "pick up chicks" together.
247* ChildhoodFriends: With Mikado, as they grew up in the countryside before Masaomi moved to Ikebukuro.
248* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Despite behaving like a silly guy who thinks of nothing but girls, Kida is one of the stronger fighters in the series.
249* CuddleBug: At least early on, he ''loves'' getting extra cuddly with Mikado. It's as adorable as it is hilarious.
250* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: He has blond hair and yellow eyes, although his hair is dyed.
251* DeathSeeker: [[spoiler:When he decides to take down Horada, welcoming death in the process.]] Thankfully, he snaps out of this just in time. Anime only, since in the novels he never contemplates it.
252* DemotedToExtra: [[spoiler:He hasn't made an appearance in ''Durarara!! SH'' with his only mention in Mikado's thoughts, revealing that he pulled out of high school and entered the workforce.]]
253* DelinquentHair: He dyed his hair blonde at some point in middle school. Mikado almost didn't recognize him because of this.
254* DistressBall: A mild example and {{justified|Trope}}. [[spoiler: He was going through a {{Heroic BSOD}} when he found out that Mikado was the leader of Dollars and when he decided to kill Horada, [[DeathSeeker he was ready to die.]] However, he didn't think about being outnumbered 1 to 100+ members of Yellow Scarves despite the fact that he is a OneManArmy and then there was the fact that Horoda had a gun that he didn't know about.]]
255* FatalFlaw: Kida is very bad at handling shame and guilt. [[spoiler:Part of the reason he drops out of school and disappears from Mikado's life is because he can't bear to face him after the whole fiasco with the Yellow Scarves]]. Izaya is fully aware of this and sometimes rubs salt in the wound by deliberately making plans that Kida could easily foil if he could only own up to his past failings and [[CanNotSpitItOut spit it out]].
256* AFatherToHisMen: As the leader of the Yellow Scarves, he deeply cares for his members. Hell, he sometimes feels guilty for putting them out there in danger.
257* FlashbackToCatchphrase: Although he doesn't say it often enough for it to be a catchphrase, at one point he says "What's your answer? Three-two-one time's up! I win, you lose!" About twenty episodes later, we see that he learned it from [[spoiler:Izumi, the leader of the Blue Squares, when he was [[HarsherInHindsight torturing Saki]]. The question was "What bone did we just break?"]]
258* GratuitousEnglish: He tends to sprinkle in English words when he's his happy-go-lucky self.
259* HandsOffParenting: His parents have an extremely laissez-faire parenting style and don't mind that their son has involved himself with a gang of delinquents or dropped out of high school. Mikado seems very aware of how his parents are since even as a child, he was wondering how lenient they could be to let Masaomi wander around outside by himself at two a.m. in the night.
260* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Mikado, his best friend.
261* HiddenDepths: Comes off as an idiot at first, but the truth is a lot deeper.
262* {{Keet}}: Kida is the loudest and happiest out of the three at the beginning of the series.
263* LargeHam: Sometimes becomes this when explaining the ways of Ikebukuro to Mikado.
264* LightningBruiser: As shown in his fight against Chikage, speed and agility are what he's all about - and some rudimentary martial arts skills. Despite Chikage's own freakish strength, Masaomi was dead even against him.
265* LikesOlderWomen: Masaomi isn't picky when it comes to age. [[http://caressedsins.livejournal.com/1263.html The Gaiden short story that came with the third DVD]] shows that he's perfectly happy to flirt with ''grandmothers''.
266* MyGreatestFailure: Masaomi deeply regrets his forming the Yellow Scarves, especially after his girlfriend Saki was severely injured in a MobWar crossfire.
267* MeaningfulName: His name Righteous Vassal works a pair with Mikado's name.
268* MinoredInAssKicking: Masaomi usually does his ObfuscatingStupidity to glaze situations, with a hint of MagnificentBastard. However, underestimating him is very much an invitation for a serious ass-kicking.
269* NonUniformUniform: Wears a hoodie under his school jacket, rather than the required dress shirt and tie.
270* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: In regards to Mikado and sometimes Anri.
271* ObfuscatingStupidity: Apart from formerly leading the Yellow Scarves, he can also deal some serious amounts of damage with a Jimmy Bar. How good is he? He singlehandedly took out several rival gangs during his time in the Yellow Scarves.
272* OfficialCouple: With Saki.
273* OneManArmy: He's no Shizuo, but damn can he fight. He gets in many fights where he is heavily outnumbered but always wins. Even Izaya outright admits you'd have to be either an idiot or ''very'' confident to pick a fight with him.
274* RealMenWearPink: In the special 12.5 episode, he's wearing a pink shirt instead of his usual uniform.
275* SadClown: On the outside, he's cute, funny, and always cracking jokes. On the inside, he's a complete and utter wreck.
276* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Sort of. While the spelling of his name is more or less unequivocal, it's mostly that fans mess up the organization and think that his ''first name'' is Kida - probably because it's shorter than Masaomi and sounds more like a first name. His first name is definitely Masaomi, though.
277* StepfordSmiler: Masaomi is not naturally that chipper -- it's a front he puts up for Mikado's sake.
278* TranquilFury: [[spoiler: When he confronts Horada, he does it while acting like his cheerful self, even when talking about intending to kill him. This is in part because Kida sees the moment as a way to make-up for his failure to save Saki, and because he's something of a DeathSeeker at the time. That situation as well as the speech he made about was anime-only, in the novels Kida had not known about Horada trying to take over the Yellow Scarves until he returned to the hideout.]]
279* TwoGuysAndAGirl: With Mikado and Anri.
280* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler:Actually gets called out on this by Chikage; a lot of the events with Mikado and the Dollars spirals out of control in season 2 and it all could have been avoided if Kida didn't distance himself from Mikado and Anri.]]
281* WalkingTheEarth: Leaves Ikebukuro due to the trouble with the Yellow Scarves, taking Saki with him. [[spoiler:But they both return when Kida fears something's going down in Ikebukuro.]]
282[[/folder]]
283
284[[folder:Anri Sonohara]]
285[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/anri18.jpg]]
286[[caption-width-right:350:A timid girl that keeps to herself.]]
287->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KanaHanazawa (JP), Creator/MichelleRuff (EN)
288->''"Because it's so much easier to live while depending on someone. And I thought that was the only way for me to live."''
289
290A [[ShrinkingViolet shy girl]] who goes to Raira Academy with Mikado and Masaomi and eventually befriends them. She is looking for her friend [[{{Foil}} Mika Harima]], who disappeared shortly before the first day of school. In spite of her gradual friendship with Mikado and Masaomi, Anri is [[BrokenBird very reluctant]] to let anyone get close to her.
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292* AbusiveParents: Her father, though it's later suggested someone was drugging him into insanity.
293* ApologizesALot: She and Mikado could both take first place for the amount of sorries they said in their lifetime.
294* BadassAdorable: While the second part is obvious, she later reveals herself to be incredibly competent as the wielder of an EvilWeapon capable of using DemonicPossession to force most anyone into instant and total obedience. Despite being immune to the latter ability, Celty suggests that Anri would beat her in a fight. Reinforcing the notion, Volume 5 has her fending off a garden scissors-wielding Vorona with her sword skills, not relying on Saika's… "less savory" abilities.
295* BadPowersGoodPeople: A genuinely nice person, but her powers are based around DemonicPossession. She later starts using them to better Ikebukuro anyways, at Celty's suggestion.
296* BespectacledCutie: Has a pair of glasses to emphasize her shyness an overall cuteness. Her quiet and intuitive nature serves as the glue between Kida and Mikado.
297* BewareTheNiceOnes: Rather innocent and kind, but similar to Mikado in this respect; because both are quiet and shy (on the surface), people who are mean to them harm don't think they're a threat. Unpleasant things tend to happen to these people; with Anri, you're less likely to be screaming in agony, though that's probably because of the DemonicPossession.
298* BloodSplatteredInnocents: On more than one occasion; [[spoiler:both in her backstory, courtesy of her AbusiveParents, and in the present, when she witnesses one of the Slasher's attacks.]]
299* BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood: On occasion, Anri will invoke her status as the HiveQueen to Saika's children to do good around Ikebukuro, such as forcing members of the Yellow Scarves to stop the attacks on the Dollars. Additionally…
300* BrokenBird: [[spoiler: Her father's abuse and the witnessing of her mother murdering her father and killing herself]] left her without the ability to love.
301* BuxomBeautyStandard: Anri's impressive bust is one of the things Masaomi sings praise about her and it's no secret that Anri's many, many admirers are attracted by her bust size. She [[DCupDistress really doesn't appreciate the attention]] since it backfires on her on occasion, since "the girl in a Raira uniform with glasses and a nice rack" was enough of a description [[spoiler:for Horada to start a manhunt for the Dollar's "hypnotist"]].
302* CelibateHero: Well, Heroine: She tries to avoid romance as much as possible, to the point of convincing herself that she's incapable of feeling love. This is because she's the host of Saika and falling in love will make her vulnerable to possession by Saika.
303* ClassRepresentative: Took the position because it's the position Mika wanted.
304* CordonBleughChef: She gets a worse score on her cooking than ''Celty'', who lacks a sense of taste. The only one who got worse than her was Emilia, who seemed to think she was supposed to make a bomb (she got a -20).
305* CursedWithAwesome: Saika acts as this for Anri, since the sword lets her control people en masse, bestows amazing fighting prowess and SuperReflexes, and is incapable of possessing her with its HiveMind because of her inability to feel love. As the sword's host, Saika also has to protect her from any potential threats to physically harm her.
306* DarkAndTroubledPast: [[spoiler:Her mother killed her abusive father, and then killed herself, right in front of her]]; on top of that, immediately afterward, she was possessed by Saika.
307* DarkIsNotEvil: The powers granted to her by Saika certainly give her a ghostly, supernatural appearance, what with the red eyes and shadowed figure, but on the whole she's a shy, gentle person who just wants what's best for others.
308* DCupDistress: She feels embarrassed about her breast size. It also gets her sexually harassed by one of her teachers.
309* DeliberatelyDistressedDamsel: At first, she gets in trouble with everything from perverted teachers to street thugs. Then she's later revealed to be a WillfullyWeak HiveQueen.
310* DidIJustSayThatOutLoud: A digital variant. She never quite gets the hang of the private chat function in online messaging.
311* DistractedByTheSexy: An unusual variation of this. Anri herself doesn't have any notable attraction to Shizuo Heiwajima, but the EvilWeapon that she serves as a host to is completely {{Yandere}} for him. As a result, Anri's mind is flooded with obsessive thoughts and... ''uncomfortable'' physical sensations when she so much as looks at him, and she has to concentrate to push them down.
312* DudeMagnet: Thanks to her [[BuxomBeautyStandard assets]] and demure personality, guys are always talking about her.
313* EnemyWithin: Her relationship with Saika sometimes borders on this given her complicated issues about love.
314* EvilerThanThou: An incredibly strange example, since she's a heroic character but the fact remains that she defeats Haruna by basically out-[[GirlWithPsychoWeapon Girl-With]]-[[EvilWeapon Evil-Weapon-ing]] her, and her IAmAMonster attitude and usage of DemonicPossession certainly gives off this vibe.
315* ExtremeDoormat: To the extent that she considers herself a parasite feeding off the friendships she fosters with others, and with Saika as well.
316* {{Foil}}: To Mika. Their entire friendship is based off this contrast.
317* FriendlessBackground: Prior to befriending Mika, who was only using Anri to make herself look better. She forms genuine friendships with Mikado and Masaomi, though, despite the plot constantly getting in the way. Later novels have her starting to bond with Erika, as well.
318* GirlWithPsychoWeapon: A weirdly literal example, since her sword is an EvilWeapon and insane in its own right. One could say she's a [[{{Pun}} Girl With Saika Weapon]].
319* HarmfulToMinors: Watching [[spoiler:your mother kill your father (who's busy trying to kill ''you'') and subsequently slit her own throat [[DissonantSerenity with a smile on her face]]]] was demonstrably bad for her psychological health. What's even more disturbing is that it doesn't seem to affect her much at all at the time, though she was probably mostly desensitized to it by then, owing to the constant beatings from her father.
320* TheHeart: She definitely tries to be the peaceful one between Kida and Mikado.
321* HeelFaceBrainwashing: One of the powers she has using Saika is essentially this- cutting people to make them loyal, and then commanding them to do good. She tries it on Izaya in episode 24, but he manages to evade her.
322* HeroicSelfDeprecation: Considers herself to be a parasite because she depends so much on others.
323* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Mika, though Anri admits that both of them were just using each other as {{foil}}s. That is until Mika went missing and got together with Seiji.
324* HiddenWeapons: A bit more extreme than most examples, Saika is literally hidden ''inside of her body'', and she can bring it out at will. The sword can [[PocketProtector protect her body]] this way, too.
325* HiveQueen: An incredibly rare benevolent example. Also has elements of a VampireMonarch, given the [[TheVirus infectious nature of possession]] and the hub and spoke nature of her "children", who can't communicate telepathically if they're on the same "level".
326* IaijutsuPractitioner: When wielding Saika.
327* IAmAMonster: Being the host of a demonic sword and a HiveQueen, she developed this attitude.
328* IJustWantToBeNormal:
329-->'''Anri:''' Nothing ever happens. Nothing ever changes. This was her daily life.
330* InconvenientAttraction: Anri eventually finds herself more and more attracted to Mikado. This happens to be a huge problem for her, because the more she falls in love with him, the more vulnerable she becomes to Saika's possession.
331* IntergenerationalFriendship: With Celty, Akabayashi, and to a lesser extent, Shinra.
332* IOweYouMyLife: [[spoiler:Feels this way about Saika saving her life, otherwise her father would have killed her.]]
333* KidWithTheLeash: Saika would "love" a lot more people if she weren't keeping it under control.
334* KirkSummation:
335** [[spoiler: Her response to Haruna's TheReasonYouSuckSpeech is to agree with everything that she says, claim that it's actually what makes her ''strong'', then reveal that Haruna's Saika is a mere child of hers, the true Saika, with which she quickly and effortlessly defeats her]].
336** She tries to give one to Izaya, and while it's the first time Izaya gets pissed, it still barely phases him.
337* LetsGetDangerous: Any and every time she reveals Saika.
338* LoveIsAWeakness: Her inability to feel love is actually a ''good'' thing. Mainly because ''she'' possesses ''Saika'' rather than the other way around like most wielders happen to be. Although Saika was trying to take control of Anri by putting FakeMemories of her parents loving her so she can feel love, Anri wasn't fooled by those memories because she damn well knows that her father was ''very'' abusive and was never given the feeling of love from her parents. Not to mention that she is fully aware of the [[DemonicPossession possessive power of the sword]]. Unfortunately, Saika becomes more and more noisy, especially when she's around Mikado, or when someone mentions him. Anri ''still'' doesn't fully understand the situation, but it's becoming more clear that there ''is'' a possibility of Saika overcoming her.
339* MasterOfTheMixedMessage: She has no idea how to feel about Mikado and Masaomi because she can't comprehend love, so she tends to act awkward or reserved around them.
340* MoralityPet:
341** To Mizuki Akabayashi. Anything involving her instantly becomes a personal concern for him, rather than work-related. [[spoiler:This is because he was in love with her mother and his former boss was behind the drug-induced insanity of Anri's father, which eventually led to her mother's MurderSuicide.]]
342** To Mika. While Mika is a crazy stalker who only befriended Anri to have a {{foil}}, Mika has shown to truly care about Anri to some extent.
343* NiceGirl: In spite of [[DysfunctionJunction her MANY emotional problems]], Anri is a generally kindhearted and well-meaning person.
344* OfficialCouple: [[spoiler:With Mikado. In ''Durarara!! SH'', it's revealed that Anri has officially become his girlfriend.]]
345* PlotPoweredStamina: She has terrific agility and stamina, and is quite capable of outrunning people when she needs to. Lampshaded by Shinra in a phone call to Celty:
346-->'''Shinra:''' Anri-chan ran out of the apartment after she saw some message on her cell phone......I'm running after her right now......I think she's heading for the abandoned factory. I don't think I can stop her......breathe, I need to breathe.....she's fast! So fast! Anri-chan is so ridiculously fast!
347* ThePowerOfLove: Inverted. Saika's love for humanity [[LoveMakesYouCrazy is what makes it so dangerous]] while Anri's ''inability'' to feel love is what keeps Saika from taking control of her.
348* TheQuietOne: At first, she tries not to say too much. She starts to shed this once she makes some friends.
349* RedEyesTakeWarning: When using her powers as Saika, combined with GlowingEyesOfDoom.
350* ShrinkingViolet: She's unbearably shy despite the attention she always gets, but she tries to open up to her friends whenever possible.
351* SingleTargetSexuality: She eventually developed this for Mikado. Before falling for him, she thought she could never fall in love with anyone.
352* SkinshipGrope: A victim of one halfway through season 2 at the hands of Erika. She's ticklish.
353* ThirdPersonPerson: Her episodes tend to be narrated by other people, and even when she narrates, it's in the third person. This serves to foreshadow her deep dissociation issues.
354* TwoGuysAndAGirl: Mikado, Masaomi, and Anri.
355* UnwantedHarem: Is uncomfortable with the attention she receives, whether it is from Mikado, Masaomi, or that lecherous teacher Nasujima-sensei. It's suggested that the only reason it isn't bigger is that [[EveryoneCanSeeIt almost everyone just assumes she and Mikado are dating]] — Aoba's made mention of a waiting list.
356* WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove: Has difficulty understanding this concept, and therefore she cannot tell apart the feelings she feels for Mikado, Masaomi, ''and'' Mika.
357* YamatoNadeshiko: She has a passive, soft-spoken, and gentle personality, although she won't let others push her around all the time. To seal the deal, she wears yukata on occasion.
358[[/folder]]
359
360[[folder:Izaya Orihara]]
361-->[[Characters/DurararaIzayaOrihara See his page for more info]]
362[[/folder]]
363
364[[folder:Shinra Kishitani]]
365[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/shinra3.jpg]]
366[[caption-width-right:350:A back-alley doctor that hates the ordinary.]]
367->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JunFukuyama (JP), Creator/YuriLowenthal (EN), Gabriel Gama (Mexican Spanish)
368->''"Even if everyone in the whole world dies, I won't care, as long as my beloved survives."''
369
370The young BackAlleyDoctor of Ikebukuro who lives with Celty. Shinra is... odd. He has a huge love for supernatural events and loves to run his mouth, especially when Celty is involved. He went to high school with Izaya and Shizuo and knows the two very well.
371
372By proxy of Celty, he is affiliated with the Dollars.
373----
374* AboveGoodAndEvil: As Izaya describes it, Shinra's in his own little world as long as it concerns Celty; concepts like good and evil are irrelevant next to her.
375* AgentScully: To contrast with Celty's [[AgentMulder Mulder]]. There's even a chapter of the light novels devoted to Shinra assuring Celty that the dinosaurs weren't killed by TheGreys, the photon belt will not destroy the world (nor is it sentient), and evil tesseracts will not come from the 4th dimension to conquer us all.
376* ArbitrarySkepticism: It's difficult for his AgentScully arguments to be taken seriously when his roommate/girlfriend is a headless psychopomp and his best friend has SuperStrength.
377* BatmanGambit: Let's be honest here, [[spoiler:had he been [[FakingAmnesia truly wrong about Celty]] when he goaded [[WorldsStrongestMan Shizuo]] to throw him at her to get her to try and save him so he can severe her connection with her head and bring her back to her senses, he would have been a pretty ''messy'' stain on the ground.]]
378* BackAlleyDoctor: His main occupation.
379* BrainsAndBondage: Shinra thinks that Celty's powers would be great for BDSM.
380* BrutallyHonest: While perfectly willing to lie to preserve his relationship with Celty, he is extremely frank about everything else. It's one of the reasons Shizuo tolerates his company despite finding him really annoying.
381* BunnyEarsLawyer: Shinra ''is'' a pretty good surgeon (especially considering [[ImprobableAge his age]]), but he's also pretty weird. For example, he's probably the only BackAlleyDoctor to talk your ear off about White Day while extracting a bullet from your arm.
382* ChekhovMIA: Had left about six months before ''SH'' starts to go on a tour around Japan to see everything with Celty. [[spoiler: One of the places he went to was Akita and its famous hot spring inn. He talked to Yahiro briefly while there and is responsible for Yahiro deciding to go to Raira Academy.]]
383* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Not as evident in the current timeline but during his time as a middle school student, Izaya thinks he's one. [[spoiler: Naturally, this puts him above humanity in Izaya's book.]]
384* CruelToBeKind: [[spoiler:[[InvokedTrope Invokes]] this on [[OffWithHisHead Celty]] after she reunites with her head to save her from leaving Ikebukuro when she decides that [[NoPlaceforMeThere there's no place for her]] after seeing all of the chaos [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone she's caused just by being there]].]]
385* {{Determinator}}: Absolutely ''nothing'' will stop Shinra's love for Celty, [[spoiler:not even [[TheVirus Saika's will]].]]
386* DevotedToYou: Shinra has been obsessing over Celty nearly his entire life and has admitted he will do ''anything'' to make her stay with him.
387* DissonantSerenity: [[spoiler: Sees Yahiro violently beat up several teenager assaulters. It's just kids being energetic.]]
388* DoggedNiceGuy: He's been trying to get with Celty for ''twenty years''. She ignored him for most of them, but eventually his persistence wins her over.
389* DressedToHeal: Shinra almost never takes off the labcoat.
390* FreakyIsCool: Yeah, he's seriously effed in the head. From thinking Celty looks beautiful even without her head, to spending most of gradeschool and highschool fanboying Shizuo's crazy rage fits. Shingen did not raise that boy right.
391* FriendlessBackground: Both because most people generally regard him as a freak and because he's largely uninterested in forming friendships with normal people. This has not seemed to have changed in adulthood.
392-->'''Shinra:''' Were you calling someone in your group?\
393'''Shiki:''' No, Doctor, your friend. The one who isn’t Shizuo.\
394'''Shinra:''' You make it sound like I only have two friends to choose from.\
395'''Shiki:''' There’s more?\
396'''Shinra:''' No.\
397'''Shingen:''' My son has like, two friends, and that was one of them!
398* FriendToAllChildren: Shinra turns out to be inexplicably good with small children, [[MistakenForPedophile much to everyone's horror.]]
399* FromRoommatesToRomance: Shinra has been in love with his [[MonsterRoommate Dullahan roommate]] Celty since their first meeting. Due to him being [[PrecociousCrush four years old]] when they started living together, Celty ignored his romantic affections until he became an adult. After Celty reciprocates his feelings, Shinra makes very blunt statements about being sexually active with his Dullahan girlfriend, much to Celty's chagrin.
400* HandsomeLech: A good looking guy, but he tends to go on about his fantasies and fetishes a lot.
401* HarmfulToMinors: Much of Shinra's weirdness can be attributed to Shingen's less than stellar parenting techniques. These included such wonderful ideas as bringing Shinra into the operating room and encouraging him to vivisect a struggling, naked, headless woman at the age of four.
402* HeroicWillpower: [[spoiler:He fights off Saika's influence.]]
403%%* HornyScientist: And, unlike most examples, Celty has to live with him. At least he's pretty.
404* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Even after [[spoiler: Izaya ran away from Ikebukuro (albeit brutally injured from his final fight with Shizuo)]], Shinra believes Izaya to be genuine in his "love" for humanity and that he doesn't mean any harm in his chosen way of "loving" people. Let that sink in.
405* HouseHusband: He and Celty might not be married (yet). But he already is one.
406* HyperAwareness: He catches onto things very easily. [[spoiler: A major example during middle school is when he tried to talk to Izaya for the first time. The main reason he asked him to join the two person Biology club only is because Izaya loved humans and he was right on the mark to Izaya's surprise.]]
407* IJustWantToBeSpecial: Sort of. He greatly prefers the extraordinary and could care less about most of humanity due to his long-standing attraction to Celty, but doesn't have any gripes with lacking a supernatural ability and staying on the sidelines.
408* ImprobableAge: Shinra started practicing medicine straight out of high school. It's justified in that he's [[BackAlleyDoctor not practicing legally]].
409** And he started operating (well, ''vivisecting'') at ''four''. Shingen is called MadDoctor for a reason.
410* IntelligenceEqualsIsolation: Played with. While everyone around him considered Shinra a freak, he didn't bother making friends with people who were considered "normal". As a result, he only befriends Shizuo and Izaya and [[spoiler:goes as far as taking a knife wound for Izaya]].
411* InterspeciesRomance: He's in a relationship with Celty, a dullahan.
412* IronButtMonkey: Thanks to his tendency to annoy Celty and Shizuo on a regular basis, Shinra usually finds himself at the end of a SuperStrength-backed punch quite often. These do nothing to stop him from getting back up and annoying them again.
413* JerkassBall: Shinra isn't nearly half as bad as Izaya but he still has his moments. For example, he openly complains about Shizuo visiting him to treat his injuries or bringing wounded people. Not to mention his treatment of Izaya [[spoiler: after the latter got stabbed]]. And mind you, he considers those two to be his friends. Although the anime downplays this slightly, it's still there.
414* JustTheWayYouAre: Shinra's opinion on the whole deal with Celty's missing head; he believes Celty is perfect the way she is (even without her head) and doesn't want her to ever change. [[spoiler:However, there's the added complication that he's worried that, with her head and memories, she won't be the same Celty he knows and loves -- if she doesn't disappear altogether, that is.]]
415* {{Keet}}: A milder version, but mostly in his childhood.
416* KidWithTheLeash: If not for Celty and his father, he is with [[spoiler: Izaya]] of all people. Not that he ever actually ''attempts'' to control any of them - inhibiting the actions of the last one would be a ''real help!''
417* LabcoatOfScienceAndMedicine: Never, ever takes it off. Even other characters notice.
418* LimitedWardrobe: Shizuo finally asks him what the deal with wearing labcoats 24-7 is in Volume 5. Apparently he likesto wear white to go with Celty's black outfits.
419* LonersAreFreaks: In middle school, a lot of people kept their distance from him and labeled him as one.
420* LoveAtFirstSight: He fell in love with Celty the moment he saw her.
421* LoveMakesYouCrazy: He's willing to do so many things in middle school. He even [[spoiler: took a knife wound for Izaya because he thinks that it was heroic and that Celty would notice him more.]]
422* LoveMakesYouEvil: Has explicitly stated that there is absolutely no line he wouldn't be willing to cross for Celty's sake. The difference between him and [[StalkerWithACrush some of the other]] [[MadLove characters in the series]] is that he is fully aware of the morality of any situation (i.e. he would never try to justify himself or blind himself to the truth of what he was doing), and he might even feel bad about it... but that wouldn't stop him if Celty or his relationship with her were on the line (and he is absolutely serious when he says he'll sacrifice himself in that cause as well).
423* MadeOfIron: Naturally he qualifies if he's able to survive getting punched across the room by Celty and Shizuo. [[spoiler: This might have saved him from getting brutally attacked by Ruri's stalker.]]
424* MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter: A son variant. Although he didn't escape being raised by [[MadDoctor Shingen]] without a loose screw or two
425-->'''Celty:''' I expected Shinra would never grow up to be a decent human being raised by such a parent...And I was ''right''.
426* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: [[spoiler:When Shinra was stabbed in middle school by a student named Nakura, he's rather calm about it as he tells Izaya to stop the bleeding instead of panicking.]]
427* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: Feminine Boy to Celty's Masculine Girl. Shinra works as a BackAlleyDoctor, is a HouseHusband when off the job, is gorgeous and barely has the strength to knock Celty's helmet off of her neck. Celty works a courier, rides a motor cycle, has super strength, and doesn't have a head.
428* TheMasochismTango: With Celty, to a degree.
429* MayflyDecemberRomance: Shinra is a regular human while his girlfriend Celty is a Dullahan who is presumably hundreds of years old and hasn't aged a day ever since he first met her when he was four years old.
430* TheMedic: If somebody ends up getting hurt, they usually take that person to Shinra.
431* MistakenForPedophile: With Shinra being the very vocal pervert he is, most people tend to assume the worst when it turns out that he's very good with children. Shinra is offended - not because his friends are implying he's a pedophile, but [[ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne because they're implying that he's attracted to anything other than]] [[SingleTargetSexuality headless eldritch psychopomps named Celty]].
432* MoralityPet: He generally falls into the role for many characters, particularly Celty, his father, [[spoiler:and Izaya]]. Special mention for the last one. [[spoiler: Izaya will go to huge lengths to make sure that person (Nakura) who stabbed him would regret it for the rest of his life]].
433** However, this winds up biting him in the ass [[ShootTheMedicFirst several times]] in the second season. As his helping of Ruri [[spoiler:leads to her stalker almost killing him after the stalker fails on taking Celty's life]], as well as being targeted by [[spoiler:[[BigBad Kujiragi]] shortly after, [[TheVirus who infects him with Saika]] deliberately to instigate a chase with Celty just to [[BatmanGambit bring her to her head and make a profit]] [[DidYouJustScamCthulhu on a whole Dullahan after she's subdued]].]]
434* MrExposition: Shinra's usually the one to throw in [[{{Handwave}} a hypothesis or two]] for things like, "How does Celty see and hear without a head?" and, "Just how ''is'' Shizuo that stupidly strong, anyways?" Naturally, he's also the only one who ever seems to ''care'' about this sort of thing, as demonstrated by Shizuo (attempt at) relaying Shinra's explanation for his HollywoodHealing.
435-->'''Shizuo:''' I've wrecked my body a thousand times now, and each time, I come back stronger. Shinra once said... You know what, ''screw what he said!''
436* MrFanservice: The only male in the cast that was featured in both ShowerScene and ShirtlessScene.
437* NightmareFetishist: Perhaps a little more literally than others
438-->'''Celty:''' They called me a monster.\
439'''Shinra:''' How rude! I would have used the term "Naughty Lady" myself...
440* NonActionGuy: He's a doctor, not a fighter. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, this leaves him defenseless when someone attacks him and Celty isn't around to protect him.]]
441* OfficialCouple: With Celty. After twenty years of pursuing her, Celty gives in and becomes a couple with Shinra.
442* OneHeadTaller: A bit more literally than other examples. Shinra's girlfriend Celty is headless, so she really is a head shorter than him.
443* OnlyFriend: Shinra might be the only person Izaya has genuinely thought of as a friend.
444* PrecociousCrush: Shinra says that he's been attracted to Celty since the day that he met her. That would be when he was four.
445* RedOniBlueOni: Blue to Izaya's red in middle school.
446* ScaryShinyGlasses: At times. Shown prominently in the second OP, and [[spoiler:in the flashback when he's about to operate on Mika Harima.]]
447* SelfProclaimedLoveInterest: He has declared himself Celty's fiance most of his life.
448-->'''Shinra:''' Shizuo, Celty here is my roommate. Or should I say future wi-AAIIGH!
449* ShootTheMedicFirst: [[spoiler:Ruri's stalker decides to kill him after failing to kill Celty. Luckily, Celty saves him but not before getting critically injured...]]
450* ShowerOfAwkward: Tries to invoke this to see Celty in the shower and instead ends up seeing ''his father'' naked.
451* SingleTargetSexuality: A very vocal Celty-sexual. He fell in love with her when he was four and has never felt attracted to anyone else. Celty, for her part, is worried that he might be Dullahan-sexual.
452* SlapSlapKiss: With Celty, but he actually enjoys it.
453* StrongGirlSmartGuy: With Celty. Shinra is a BackAlleyDoctor who is always eager to analyze and dissect the strange people he encounters. Celty is a BadassBiker with SuperStrength and shadow powers.
454* TakingTheBullet: [[spoiler:In middle school, it turns out that he took a knife wound for Izaya instead of the assumption that Izaya stabbed him.]]
455* TooKinkyToTorture: [[IfItsYouItsOkay If it's done by Celty, it's hot]]. He also doesn't consider regular asskickings a barrier to his [[VitriolicBestBuds friendship with Shizuo]].
456* TooMuchInformation: Usually what gets him in trouble with Celty or Shizuo. Note, it takes supernatural strength to get him to ''shut up'' and even that's temporary. You can knock him unconscious mid-sentence; and he'll continue the conversation upon waking up.
457-->'''Shinra:''' But it's not like you to act so faint-hearted! I only really like it when you're frail in be--''[WHACK!]''
458** And from the last episode: "I'm going to have to take a shower and change the sheets!" [[JizzedInMyPants Really, Shinra]]? The Japanese see it as generally "proper" to shower and wash your sheets before having sex. Coming from Shinra though, it's hilarious either way.
459* UncannyFamilyResemblance: Implied. Though coming out of unconsciousness, Egor could clearly see Shinra, but mistook him for his father.
460* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: He was the one responsible for introducing Izaya and Shizuo to each other, [[HateAtFirstSight thus triggering their rivalry]]. The rest is history.
461* VitriolicBestBuds: He and Shizuo are friends for most of their lives, but being a resident {{motormouth}} of the series, he tends to prance on Shizuo's ''many'' {{Berserk Button}}s as a jolly pony. Which never really bothers either of them. Sometimes.
462%%* {{Yandere}}: A male example for Celty.
463[[/folder]]
464
465[[folder:Shizuo Heiwajima]]
466[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Durarara20-202120-20Large2011_1_182.jpg]]
467[[caption-width-right:350:A raging bull that hates to fight.]]
468->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/DaisukeOno (JP), Creator/CrispinFreeman (EN)
469->''"I hate violence... I'm not lying."''
470
471The most fearsome man in Ikebukuro and rage in human form. Shizuo has a hair-trigger temper and a tendency to react to anything that sets him off with uncontrollable violence, which is only made worse by the fact that he also has SuperStrength. Expect to see flying vending machines. WordOfGod states that Shizuo is ''the'' strongest character in the entire ''Durarara!!'' series.
472
473When he's ''not'' raging uncontrollably he's... actually, he's a pretty normal - if quiet and socially inexperienced - young man who [[IJustWantToBeNormal only wishes to be able to keep control of himself]] so he can stop hurting everyone around him. Except for Izaya. He ''will'' hurt Izaya if he can.
474
475Affiliated with the Dollars.
476----
477* AccidentalMurder: While the people he fights have a surprisingly high survival rate considering he's throwing vending machines at them, he does imply that he's accidentally killed a disturbing number of people. After the fight with the Slashers, he's ecstatic that nobody died.
478* AlwaysWantedToSayThat: Not the slightest bit threatened by Seiji's YouShallNotPass behavior, nevertheless decided to roll with it. "Leave him to me and go on ahead! Heh heh."
479* AntiHero: Hey, he was going to be an IdealHero if it wasn't for his HairTriggerTemper traits, his status as TheDreaded and tendency to deliver [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown No-Holds Barred Beatdowns]] to his opponents.
480* ArchEnemy: To Izaya. It was HateAtFirstSight, but the intervening years filled with numerous [[NoodleIncident Noodle Incidents]] is what really sealed the deal.
481* ArmorPiercingQuestion: Shizuo fires off a few about Seiji's love life when he [[CasualDangerDialogue stabs him with pens.]]
482* AxCrazy: Valid warning is that you do not want to piss off a person being described as "violence incarnate" or being the very definition of violence during a narration where you are brutally beating up a group of local gang members in a rage. Speaking of which invoking Shizuo into anger is the most dangerous thing someone can do to since he's basically a walking time bomb who will explode into a homicidal fury and will become wildly destructive.
483%% Putting a trope into a secondary bullet of another trope is against the Examples Indentation rules. Leave BadassNormal at first level, please.
484* BadassInANiceSuit: His Bartender suit is badass because it's associated with him.
485%% Putting a trope into a secondary bullet of another trope is against the Examples Indentation rules. Leave BadassNormal at first level, please.
486* BadassNormal: ''Technically'' Shizuo doesn't have any superpowers and Celty's admitted that he could easily beat her in a fight.
487%% Putting a trope into a secondary bullet of another trope is against the Examples Indentation rules. Leave BadassNormal at first level, please.
488* BadassUnintentional: He ''doesn't'' enjoy fighting, so what makes him so badass? Piss him off, and ''then'' you'll find out.
489%% Putting a trope into a secondary bullet of another trope is against the Examples Indentation rules. Leave BadassNormal at first level, please.
490* BadMoodAsAnExcuse: He puts holes in buildings and people in hospitals on an almost daily basis, all because someone or something pissed him off.
491* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: How did Tom get on Shizuo's good side? By showing him some basic human decency.
492* BerserkButton: Too many to list, but his utter [[ArchEnemy hatred for Izaya]] is the number one. Others include:
493** The subject of his brother. Mocking, threatening or just being too inquisitive about Kasuka is an easy way to earn yourself a beating. The same goes for his signature bartender getup, which was a gift from said brother. Laughing at or even spilling on his precious bartender uniform [[WardrobeWound is unforgivable]].
494** Delusions of love. There is nothing to suggest he has disdain for actual love, but people who wax poetic about 'true love' when their feelings are misguided, selfish, or toxic appear to infuriate him.
495** As a debt collector, Shizuo has absolutely no patience for excuses and no sympathy for sob stories. Justified in that he hears this routine all the time and it's usually a load a crap. But even outside of his work, self-pity and blaming others can work Shizuo into a frenzy.
496** Shizuo is a pretty practical, straightforward guy, so he does not appreciate overly complicated philosophical musings. Especially when someone is trying to justify their own actions or make him question his. It doesn't help that [[InsaneTrollLogic Izaya specializes in that kind of thinking]]. By his own admission, Shizuo once beat a Yakuza nearly to death for pondering the meaning of life, a thought Shizuo felt was better suited to an "emo middle schooler".
497* TheBerserker: Shizuo's rage is a terrifying event to witness due to the massive anger issues he's dealing with and has grown to be widely infamous for his wildly, destructive, rampages whenever he's in a fight or provoked by someone who is dumb enough to make him angry. In these moments of anger he'll let loose all of his restraints and cause massive collateral damage to whatever area he's in by smashing anyone or anything he's fighting against.
498* BewareTheNiceOnes: When not provoked, Shizuo is actually a nice guy, if a little shy and socially awkward. Unfortunately, he's also [[TheDreaded Shizuo]] [[HairTriggerTemper Heiwajima]], which tends to overshadow that facet of his personality.
499* BeyondTheImpossible: First of all he's super strong in a show that (some elements aside) is pretty realistic. More impossible, he's broken so many bones it's amazing he can even walk. His buddy Shinra, a doctor, stopped trying to figure out how he does it.
500* BigBrotherInstinct:
501** For his genuine little brother; don't ask questions about him and ''definitely'' don't insult him.
502** Develops this for a little girl named Akane in the novels and second season of the anime.
503** He also gets very protective Celty; wanting to beat the crap out of both the Slasher and Kasane on her behalf.
504** He also becomes extremely peeved when Yagiri orders Vorona to kill him, knowing that she herself might die in the process; he doesn't take kindly to his "trainee" and newest friend being put in danger so brazenly.
505* BizarreHumanBiology: First, he possesses [[SuperStrength monstrous strength]] but that is loosely explained by him not having unconscious limiters. Even Shinra can't explain how Shizuo got his RequiredSecondaryPowers such as HealingFactor and SuperToughness.
506* BlessedWithSuck: Turns out that SuperStrength isn't all that fun to grow up with, especially when you don't start off with the relative invulnerability that's assumed to go with it.
507* BloodKnight: He claims to hate violence so he doesn't go looking for trouble, but he's often sporting a [[SlasherSmile wicked grin]] and roaring when he's handing out his DisproportionateRetribution. Played straight with Izaya, the only person Shizuo is deadset on beating to a pulp.
508* BridalCarry: In the PSP game, he carries [[spoiler: Izaya]] this way. Yaoi Fangirls in and out of universe love it.
509* BrokenAce: On the surface, he's a legendary badass who could kick the ass of everyone in Ikebukuro if he wanted to. In truth, he hates his reputation for badassery, is disturbed by his predilection for ultraviolence, is depressed by the problems that haunt him because of the first two items aforementioned, and his fondest wish for his life is IJustWantToBeNormal.
510* BruiserWithASoftCenter: "Badass Dude" just wants to have friends and stay out of trouble.
511* BullyingADragon:
512** People at Shizuo's high school were not smart but then again they ''were'' manipulated into doing so by Izaya.
513** A sadly common scene is for him to be accosted by random punks in the street, shortly followed by them [[OhCrap emptying their bowels]] when they realize (too late) who he is.
514* CameBackStrong: Though he doesn't have to die for it to activate, this is basically his power.
515-->'''Shizuo:''' I've wrecked my body a thousand times now, and each time, I come back stronger. [[InexplicablyAwesome Shinra once said... you know what? Screw what he said!]] [[AchievementsInIgnorance I COME BACK TOUGHER EVERY TIME!]]
516* CharacterTics: Shizuo usually snaps a small, thin object (like a pencil or cigarette) in half, drops it on the ground, and crushes it underfoot when he's about to go into an UnstoppableRage.
517* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: No unconscious limiters + a lifetime of compulsively throwing heavy things at people = SuperStrength.
518* ClothingDamage: Shizuo can inflict the whole-body version with one punch.
519* CluelessChickMagnet: Let's see: Saika is totally {{Yandere}} for him, both [[ShipTease Vorona]] and [[PrecociousCrush Akane]] are heavily implied to have feelings for him, Orihara twins adore him, and one girl in the anime openly tries to pick him up. Yet he considers himself [[IAmNotPretty unpopular]].
520* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Even if the [[strike:crazy]] badass part tends to come out more readily than other examples he counts beause of his behavior when not in rage mode.
521* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Before he dyed his hair blond, it matched his eyes. Both fan and colored light novel illustrations like giving him gold eyes, thus reasserting the trope.
522* CuttingTheKnot: Shizuo's approach to any problem is violence because he prefers simple solutions. He's [[CharlesAtlasSuperPower freakishly strong]] and [[SuperToughness effectively invulnerable]], so taking a straight line through any obstacle, puzzle or threat usually works out surprisingly well for him in the end. It's taken to hilariously bewildering degrees, as Shizuo rarely stops to consider his options, or even notice if he has any, before smashing things to smithereens or knocking people into the stratosphere.
523* DefectorFromDecadence: [[spoiler: Quits being a Dollars member after several of them try to kidnap someone, being disgusted that the group would stoop so low (unbeknownst to him the entire event was orchestrated by none other than Izaya).]]
524* DelinquentHair: Starting from middle school, he started dying his hair blond as a [[DistinguishingMark warning]] for others not to take him lightly.
525* DescriptionCut: "I hate violence... I'm not lying."
526* DestructiveSavior: Starts leaning in this direction (as opposed to a mostly directionless PersonOfMassDestruction) after encountering Saika.
527* {{Determinator}}: He's spent years breaking or fracturing every part of his body but despite being a medical impossibility, he's too hardcore to be brought down by something as menial as ''permanently crippling injury''.
528* DisproportionateRetribution: He's the king of dealing out DisproportionateRetribution, for better or worse. His first violent episode involved him picking up a ''fridge'' (at age 7) and try to flatten his brother with it because Kasuka ate ''his'' pudding cup; he admits in retrospect that he went overboard and isn't even sure how he was able to pick the fridge up in the first place. Post-CharacterDevelopment he starts to tone it down a bit (annoying people are now flicked in the forehead instead of PunchedAcrossTheRoom), [[FingerpokeOfDoom but it's not as much a relief for the victims as one would think.]]
529* DistinguishingMark: Shizuo dyed his hair in middle school in order to [[InvokedTrope invoke this]]. Tom suggested that other kids would be less likely to pick fights with him if they knew who to not piss off. It worked up until Izaya got involved.
530* DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength: Shizuo once lightly tapped Shinra on the forehead for calling him stupid. [[FingerpokeOfDoom It gave him a concussion]].
531-->'''Shinra:''' Listen, your forehead flick does about as much damage as a normal person ramming their knee into my face, so be a little more judicial in how you use that, all right? How long did that concussion knock me out?
532* TheDreaded: Shizuo terrifies about half of Ikebukuro's population simply with his mere presence. The other half typically fails to connect him with his reputation until it's too late (after which they join the first half).
533-->'''Shizuo:''' You know looks can kill, right? You may not know this, but according to statistics, the chances of a stare killing a guy are .00000000000675%.\
534'''Horada:''' Just what the hell are you trying to say, huh?! Bartender? ''[{{Beat}}] '' [[OhCrap B-Barten... Oh, crap...!]]\
535'''Shizuo:''' So if you give someone stink-eye, then you can't complain if ''they kill you, can you?!''
536* DumbMuscle: Not outright stupid, but he's definitely not the sharpest tool in the shed. More than anything he's simple-minded, as any concept that requires deep thought or extensive explanation tends to [[HairTriggerTemper set him off]] pretty quickly.
537* DynamicEntry: Flying vending machines are Shizuo's special way of saying hello.
538* ExpectingSomeoneTaller: When reporter Shuji manages to secure an interview with the most terrifying man in Ikebukuro, he's a little shocked that Shizuo meets ''none'' of his physical expectations (except, perhaps ironically, in height) and insists that he [[HypocriticalHumor hates violence]]. Then Shuji gets the [[TooDumbToLive brilliant idea]] of trying to provoke him into action and namedrops [[BerserkButton Izaya]]. [[GoneHorriblyRight His plan works entirely too well]]. In the anime this scene is altered somewhat with said reporter asking too many questions about Shizuo's brother, the end result is the same.
539-->'''Shuji:''' I'm... flying...
540* FatalFlaw: His severe anger issues, which he acknowledges.
541* FeelNoPain: Implied, given his [[MajorInjuryUnderreaction response to grievous bodily harm]]. In the anime, it's far more clear. He got shot at one point, but didn't even notice until he saw blood.
542** Somewhat Played With. In episode 5 of season 2, Shizuo is assaulted [[spoiler: with a modified taser gun, courtesy of the young miss Akane Awakusu.]] He ''does'' acknowledge it hurts, so it's perhaps more accurate to say he has an ''abnormally high pain threshold'' rather than none at all.
543* FingerpokeOfDoom:
544** After Shizuo starts learning to reign in his temper a little, he responds to mildly annoying people by lightly flicking or poking them in the forehead. To the victims, [[DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength this feels like somebody smacked them in the face with a baseball bat]].
545** Poor Masaomi gets a taste of one, [[http://oi54.tinypic.com/9j154o.jpg here]] while trying to apologize to him. To be fair, Shizuo figured out that Masaomi wanted to be reprimanded, so he thought one flick would make them even.
546* FoeRomanceSubtext: Shizuo x Izaya. This fact is explicitly noted and lampshaded several times in the anime. Mainly only by [[YaoiFangirl Erika]], who appears to have her fangirl glasses on 24/7. The amount of subtext they get, particularly in the novels, is minimal compared to other examples in this show.
547* FreakinessShame: Not only is [[spoiler:Saika]]'s the only declaration of love Shizuo's ''ever had in his life'', but it's for the very reason he's been ostracized and come to hate himself for: his uncontrollable strength and violent temper.
548* FreudianExcuse: Inverted. Shizuo notes that, his own rage issues aside, his home life and upbringing were positively idyllic. There was no abuse or trauma, his parents were caring, his little brother was one of the best you can have -- heck, he didn't even watch any violent TV... Yet it just makes his problems ''more'' troubling for him because it's convinced him that he only has himself to blame.
549* FriendlessBackground: Shizuo's social circle during his adolescence (excepting one year in junior high where Tom befriended him) was restricted to [[VitriolicBestBuds Shinra]].
550* FriendToAllChildren: He has ''very'' soft spot on children. In fact, after [[TokenMiniMoe Akane]] tries to tase him thanks to [[ManipulativeBastard Izaya]], he holds no grudges against her and treats like a little sister[=/=]daughter to him (after all, it was Izaya who set Akane up on this). This trope is apparently {{justified|Trope}}, since he never had any friends throughout his childhood life (and still has hard time making friends around his age [[TheBerserker due to the fierce nature when he's angry]]) and is able to relate with children more.
551* FriendshipMoment: He does ''not'' take kindly to Kasane capturing and then trying to sell off Celty. Not only is she his best friend, but her kindness saved him and he outright states he'll do anything to protect her.
552* GagPenis: [[WordOfGod Narita's]] Bacon Lettuce April Fool strongly implies that Shizuo's manhood is as impressive as his rage is fearsome.
553* GoneHorriblyRight: Whenever someone tries to provoke him, it works. But the sheer magnitude of his retaliation is equivalent to a small fortune in property damage, and rarely works out in the antagonist's favor. Some mooks [[BullyingADragon don't realize who they're messing with]], but when antagonists [[TooDumbToLive don't learn their lesson the first time]] they get a much harsher punishment. And when the people who know him best attempt to manipulate him, friend or foe, his wrath is tremendous.
554* GoodIsNotSoft: Shizuo is quite a very kind man to everyone as long as you don't press any of his BerserkButton except for Izaya; he's pretty much contemptible for the former because Izaya is a charming but cruel man who wants to hurt the aggressive but likable guy by mocking him and worse of all: siccing a vengeful girl armed with a modified Taser on him with a malicious lie just because it's his jealousy at Shizuo for having an awesome ability to make friends.
555* HairTriggerTemper: Just about literally anything can set Shizuo off. This has been his main problem from the beginning as he has been trying to get control over himself to no avail thus leaving his severe anger issues to be determined by his own actions through a monsterous rampage. It's eventually revealed he hates this side of himself and would rather not be so angry all the time and would actually appreciate being at peace with himself.
556%%Although thing hasn"Getting stabbed with pens" is an exception, oddly enough (though that's because he found the situation very amusing).
557* HateAtFirstSight: He and Izaya were instantly at enmity: Shizuo can see through Izaya and see him for what he is and Izaya hates him in return for seeing through his plots despite being DumbMuscle.
558* HealingFactor: Shinra has made an offhand comment in volume 4 that Shizuo heals unnaturally fast. Whether or not this is how he survived [[spoiler:Horada shooting him]] is unknown.
559* HeartbrokenBadass: Shizuo's first crush [[http://i726.photobucket.com/albums/ww262/CapZiggy/hescrewedup.jpg did not end well]]. It makes his rage issues worse because he blames himself.
560* HeroesFightBarehanded: Averted. With his tremendous strength he could (and has) defeat most foes with a simple headbutt or uppercut, but his HairTriggerTemper compels him to pulverize the slightest nuisance with the closest [[ImprobableWeaponUser heavy]] [[ImprovisedWeapon object]].
561* HeroicRROD: Shizuo doesn't have the mental blocks that prevents humans from ripping muscle off bone or breaking bones from overexertion, so he naturally grew up (successfully) recovering from catastrophic injury. By the main narrative he's become strong enough to not hurt himself so easily, and he's grown a preposterously high pain threshold.
562* HeroicSelfDeprecation: Shizuo's issues with anger and being unable to control himself have shot his self-esteem to hell. It's bad enough that when [[spoiler:Saika declares its love for him]], he responds with confusion -- because he can't imagine ''why'' someone could love him.
563* HeroicWillpower: [[spoiler:Saika and her children enter a victim's mind through their pain and fear. Since Shizuo feels no pain and is afraid of nothing besides his own power, he's immune. In fact, it leads to [[NiceJobFixingItVillain Shizuo accepting himself for who he is]], leading to his NoHoldsBarredBeatdown on the Saika Army.]]
564* HeroInsurance:
565** As it turns out, Shizuo has something akin to ''literal'' hero insurance: the company he works for pays for the property damage he causes and docks it from his pay in turn.
566** The cops have given up on arresting him.
567* HeroWithAnFInGood: Because of his rage mode he is a poor hero, but if he could improve on this, he would be receptive to it.
568* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Tom, the one person not afraid of "badass dude" and has been his friend since middle school.
569* HeyYou: Shizuo's generally very bad at using [[UsefulNotes/JapaneseHonorifics honorifics]].
570* HighPressureEmotion: Sort of. While his expression doesn't seem to change, [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/3IvKD_2956.jpg he's too red]] to get away with a LuminescentBlush. Just compare it to the color of his hand.
571* HollywoodHealing: Just take a look at [[http://i726.photobucket.com/albums/ww262/CapZiggy/vlcsnap-2010-03-08-01h57m37s177.png his childhood X-rays]] and marvel at the fact that this man can even ''walk''.
572* HotBlooded: He can be counted on as roaring at the top of his lungs in the heat of a fight. He also is seen being very giddy whenever he's given an opportunity to beat the hell out of someone despite hating violence as he says.
573* HugeGuyTinyGirl: Shizuo eventually develops a BigBrotherInstinct[=/=]IntergenerationalFriendship with a ten-year-old [[MafiaPrincess Yakuza Princess]] named Akane. Given that Shizuo already [[http://i726.photobucket.com/albums/ww262/CapZiggy/vlcsnap-2010-03-14-13h35m48s42.png towers over most people]], the size difference between the two is large.
574* HumanHammerThrow: It's frighteningly easy for Shizuo to whip ''people'' around and chuck them into the stratosphere.
575* HypocrisyNod: Shizuo hates violence. Yes, really. He also hates the fact that he has violent unstoppable rages.
576* IAmAMonster: Thinks of himself as such because of his freakish strength and easy to trigger rage.
577* IAmNotPretty: Shizuo is unaware of his own attractiveness.
578-->'''Tom:''' Hey, don't worry. You'll find a cute girl one of these days. After all, you look like your hot idol of a kid brother.\
579'''Shizuo:''' Do we really look that much alike?
580* ICanStillFight: Bullets, extensive surgery, and heavy sedatives will ''not'' prevent Shizuo from getting right back up [[ImplacableMan and hunting your ass down.]]
581-->'''Shinra:''' Both your abdomen and right leg have sustained some serious damage. More importantly, how can you even stand up right now?!\
582'''Shizuo:''' What do mean how am I standing? Just because I am. Why the hell else?
583* IJustWantToBeNormal: He'd rather ''not'' be super strong and violent.
584* ImplacableMan: When he's '''especially''' angry (i.e. Izaya), there's ''very'' little that can stop him in his tracks. [[spoiler:[[BeyondTheImpossible Not even a bulldozer landing on his shoulder]].]]
585* ImprobableWeaponUser: Even though he's used everything including the kitchen sink as a weapon/projectile, Shizuo seems to have a preference for street signs and vending machines, depending on how far away [[strike:Izaya]] the object of his ire is.
586* ImprovisedWeapon: Street signs, chairs, desks, a fridge, a flagpole, soccer goalposts, guardrails, mailboxes, trash cans, vending machines, playground slides, motorcycles, the side door from Togusa's van, a crash barrier, a freeway sign...
587* ImprobableAimingSkills: He can launch a street sign like a javelin and lob a vending machine like a shot put, both with enough precision to hit a single target from a crowded city block away.
588* IncomingHam: '''IIIIIII-ZAAAAAA-YAAAAA'''
589* InexplicablyAwesome: ''Literature/{{Durarara}}'' is a mostly-realistic series outside of its supernatural elements. Shizuo and his SuperStrength are not among those supernatural elements. The causes of Shizuo's strength clearly would ''not'' work for the human body, and yet he explicitly ''is'' purely human, and he's stronger than any of the supernatural creatures.
590* InformedLoner: A mild example but Shizuo likes to complain about his supposed loneliness and even compares himself to Izaya in that matter. In reality he has three friends that care about him (Celty, Tom and Shinra), is on good terms with his brother and possesses a number of acquaintances (Simon, Kadota and his gang and also the Orihara twins). While his social life might not be particularly rich, a loner he is not.
591* InsaneTrollLogic:
592** Shizuo tends to get ''very'' irrational when he's angry (ie. insisting that beating the crap out of someone for looking at you funny is justifiable self-defense because [[LiesDamnedLiesAndStatistics there's a 0.0000000000000000000675% chance that you can kill someone with a glare]]).
593** Ironically, most uninformed people in-universe would accuse of him of this given how he swears Izaya is behind everything... because [[ProperlyParanoid he's absolutely correct.]]
594* ItsPersonal: Shizuo's relationship with Izaya did not originally start out as this. It was HateAtFirstSight, and the two just couldn't stand each other. It was only in the intervening years after their first meeting and the start of the series did it become personal, with Izaya making Shizuo's life a living hell by sicking nearly ever gang in the city on him and framing him for numerous crimes, and with Shizuo (most of the time unknowingly) screwing up Izaya's plans.
595* ItWasAGift: Shizuo's bartender suits were a present from his brother, which is why he continues to wear them despite being fired from the aforementioned job quite awhile ago. Damaging them, just like everything else, is one of his {{Berserk Button}}s.
596* IWasJustPassingThrough: Inverted; he literally ''was''...
597-->'''Shizuo:''' ''[stamps his foot on the ground, bellowing loudly at his phone]'' SHUT THE HELL UP! Stop freakin' beeping at me! I can't read all this crap! Girls with big boobs, bunny suits! WHAT THE HELL DO YOU WANT ''ME'' TO DO?!! SCREW THIS! ''[sees Horada leering at Anri, a nose bleed present on his face]'' RRRAAGHGHH ''[screenshot of Horada airborne]''
598* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Shizuo is rough, violent and has serious temper issues, but he's a good guy underneath all that.
599* JustAFleshWound: Silly Horada, [[spoiler:bullets]] can't kill Shizuo.
600* KnightTemplarBigBrother: Shizuo is nothing if not enthusiastic in protecting his little brother. It's generally a good idea for strangers [[BerserkButton NOT]] to ask him about his little brother...
601* LargeHam: During his rages he is loud and imposing but otherwise he's calm.
602* LazyBum: His official character profile lists his only hobby as "basking in the sun", he tells Celty that she "works too hard and needs to relax more", and in his "Special Voice" on the character CD he tells her that his favorite types of days are ones where there's "just nothing to do".
603* {{Leitmotif}}: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyxreBGriXU "The Legend of the Strongest Man in Ikebukuro"]]
604* LeParkour: Shizuo teaches it to himself to chase Izaya.
605* LetsGetDangerous: Put him in a situation where it's fine for him to abandon all restraint and ''you'll start begging for your life''.
606* LightningBruiser: [[SuperStrength Super Strong]], [[SuperToughness Super Tough]], and fast and agile enough to [[LeParkour swing from building to building]].
607* LikesOlderWomen: His PrecociousCrush aside, he is stated as one of these in the 8th novel.
608* LimitedWardrobe: Justified -- he does indeed have a closet full of bartender suits. [[ItWasAGift They were a gift from his brother]].
609* LogicalWeakness: For everything that Shizuo has going for him as a human powerhouse, he's still capable of being taken down by other things that can take down ordinary humans such as [[spoiler:''[[AlmostOutOfOxygen oxygen deprivation]]'']].
610* MadeOfIron: Shizuo technically doesn't have superpowers. The man gets stabbed in both legs and remarks "Doesn't even hurt." Later, he is shot in the leg and side and thinks he slipped in the rain until he sees the blood. Afterwards he simply walks to Shinra's house, and is still unfazed by his normally life-threatening wounds. Shizuo's apparent superhuman endurance is acknowledged in canon: [[BackAlleyDoctor Shinra]] hates treating Shizuo, because he never leaves an operation without destroying at least one of his best scalpels in the process. Shizuo's body isn't Made of Iron: it's ''harder'' than it.
611* MadnessMantra: "Kill'em kill'em kill'em kill'em..." This is Inversion of the trope in that it's an active attempt on Shizuo's part to ''not'' go into an UnstoppableRage. In his words:
612-->'''Shizuo:''' You know something, Celty? There's power in words. So what I'm doing now is holding myself back with words so I don't start destroying just about everything.
613* MajorInjuryUnderreaction:
614** Not phased at all at a ballpoint pen piercing straight through the palm of his hand. "Hmm... if I pull it out, it'll bleed. Should I get a bandage? Or maybe superglue?"
615** Shizuo was shot twice, one bullet in his leg and one in his stomach, [[spoiler: during a scuffle with some Yellow Scarves.]] He failed to realize he was shot ''at all'' until he started slipping in his own blood. Before noticing it, he thought he was on the ground because he tripped on something. His response? [[CaptainObvious "... Hey, I've been shot."]]
616* MeaningfulName: Double subverted. The meaning of his name ("Quiet man, peaceful island") is about as far from fitting as one can get. It's also exactly what he ''wants'' to be.
617* MegatonPunch: His inhuman strength allows him to deliver these effortlessly.
618* MemeticBadass: InUniverse; in Ikebukuro anyone who doesn't know who he is [[TheDitz is considered less intelligent than a public school dropout.]] The fandom also consider him as the biggest one to come out of the show, and WordOfGod states that not only is he the strongest member of the ''Durarara!!'' cast, he is one of the top 5 strongest characters to exist in TheVerse, on the same level as ''Baccano's'' own Claire Stanfield, who can supposedly equal him in combat.
619%% Putting a trope into a secondary bullet of another trope is against the Examples Indentation rules. Leave MemeticBadass at first level, please.
620* MusclesAreMeaningless: It's been noted that Shizuo's pretty skinny for a guy known to uproot vending machines and overturn cars on a regular basis. [[JustifiedTrope His muscle is denser than granite and real life people]] are limited to using only a third of their true strength and if they do it can injure them severely. Shizuo lacks this limit, hence the childhood spent with broken bones.
621* MyGreatestFailure: Seriously injuring the very woman he was attempting to save. The novels note that this was not an isolated incident.
622* NiceGuy: When not factoring in the temper, he's not only really nice, he's also insecure and a bit childish, even!
623* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Just about any of his fights that don't involve Izaya or Simon.
624* NoodleIncident: Shizuo's has a number of these with Izaya, ranging from an off-hand comment about being framed by him to something called the "Real Flesh In The Art Room" incident during their high school days, to being framed for an unspecified crime that causes Shizuo to lose his job as a bartender.
625* NoSocialSkills: A lot of Shizuo's general rudeness (such as forgoing [[HeyYou honorifics]], not remembering people's names, etc.) isn't because he's a jerk, but because he's [[FriendlessBackground never talked to people enough to learn basic social etiquette]].
626* OddFriendship: He's got a knack for collecting and caring for weird people. To date, his friends are: A loan shark, a quirky unlicensed mob doctor, a Dullahan, and a Russian assassin. Despite his own obvious issues, he ''does'' have a strange tendency in bringing out the best in those around him.
627* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: [[spoiler: After getting out of jail, he ''ignores'' Izaya's presence so that he can keep Vorona from fighting him.]]
628* OneManArmy: What other man can single handedly beat down [[spoiler:all but one of the Slashers]] with his bare hands?
629-->'''Shizuo:''' All right then, how many we got? Let's just call it ''a lot''. So now... this should do it. You know, I think I can fully embrace who I am now. Finally start liking myself. I've hated this power so much, I've wanted nothing more than to be rid of it. Now I can finally go all out.
630* PapaWolf: His reaction to [[spoiler: Izaya telling a girl that Shizuo will kill her family]] is [[TranquilFury terrifying to behold.]]
631* PerpetualFrowner: Shizuo is almost never seen without his trademark scowl.
632* PerpetualPoverty: Thanks to the arrangement mentioned above in HeroInsurance, Shizuo doesn't get a lot of extra funds. He doesn't mind -- in fact, he's surprised he's paid ''at all''.
633* PlatonicLifePartners: With Celty. It helps that they're both seen as 'freaks' due to the SuperStrength and headless thing.
634* PrecociousCrush: Shizuo had his own Precocious Crush on a shopkeeper when he was around ten or so. [[spoiler:Then he walked by her store one day and saw a group of thugs assaulting her. She was seriously injured in his resulting violent episode, and Shizuo was too ashamed to see her ever again.]]
635** Interestingly enough, he soon finds ''himself'' to be a recipient of someone else's PrecociousCrush: Akane Awakusu.
636* ProperlyParanoid: Shizuo maintains that 99% of all the weird crap that goes down in Ikebukuro is completely and utterly Izaya's fault, whether it be gang wars or hordes of knife-wielding zombies. Made-up-on-the-spot statistics aside, he's right.
637* PunchedAcrossTheRoom: Shizuo punches a thug so hard the thug's clothes flew off.
638* RedBaron: Ikebukuro's God of Destruction (occasionally with the added subtitle of "in a Bartender's Suit").
639* RedOniBlueOni: Red, to Izaya's blue. He's loud and passionate and very angry.
640** In spite of that, Shizuo is actually the ''less'' aggressive of the two of them. While he despises Izaya's very existence and would love nothing more than to murder him, he'd also be perfectly content if Izaya stayed out of his life completely. Izaya is usually the one who starts it, and even when Shizuo chases him down for something it's usually because Izaya provoked him in some way.
641* ReluctantWarrior: HairTriggerTemper aside, Shizuo doesn't like fighting.
642* RequiredSecondaryPowers: Averted when it turned out that Shizuo didn't build up the requisite physical resistance needed to handle his SuperStrength until around high school. Cue the montage of the many fractures he suffered from as a result.
643* RunningGag:
644** '''''[[FirstNameUltimatum IIIIIII-ZAAAAAA-YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA]]'''''
645** His inability to remember Anri.
646--->'''Anri:''' ''[Sees Shizuo bleeding copiously.]'' Shizuo... what are you doing here?\
647'''Shizuo:''' Huh? Man, this sucks. Who are you again?
648* SayMyName: IIIIIII-ZAAAAAA-YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
649* ScreamingWarrior: Screams in a rage while accompanied by any heavy objects he throws at Izaya.
650* ShipTease: [[http://i55.tinypic.com/jre5c0.jpg With Vorona.]] An episode even shows Vorona hanging out with Shizuo as her senpai.
651** Narita's Bacon Lettuce April Fool where even the author can't resist shipping Shizuo and Izaya.
652* ShootingSuperman: Blood aside but the fact that Seiji managed to damage him ''at all'' is impressive. Vorona couldn't penetrate his chest more than half a centimeter with a ballistic knife, and Shinra's destroyed some of his best scalpels operating on him. According to [[WordOfGod Narita]], the pens Seiji used are advertised to hold up against a ''tank''.
653* ShrinkingViolet: Not to Anri's extent, but when out of rage mode he's rather shy and awkward.
654* SiblingYinYang: With Kasuka who is weaker and meeker and better at interacting with others.
655* SlasherSmile: Shizuo is fond of sporting one of these right before he's about to hurt someone.
656* SmokingIsCool: Considering how his power works, it might make him ''stronger''.
657* SpannerInTheWorks: To Izaya. Just how much of one becomes apparent in volumes 5 and 6: [[spoiler:Most of Izaya's trolling and screwing over of Shizuo is an effort to keep him out of his ''real'' plans. One of these backfires spectacularly when Shizuo demonstrates just a smidgen more self-restraint than he did in a similar past setup and sets of a chain of events that brings [[{{Yakuza}} Awakusu-kai]] down on Izaya's head.]]
658* SuperStrength: You can tell Shizuo is out and about by the flying vending machines.
659* SuperToughness: Technically, you ''can'' injure Shizuo -- You'll just find it damn near impossible to make a wound any deeper than half a centimeter, and he probably won't feel a thing.
660* SweetTooth: His bio notes that he has a preference for sweet foods.
661* TameHisAnger: His goal is to someday become strong enough to control his anger.
662* TooDumbToFool: Shizuo is far too simple to be manipulated by Izaya. This is the very reason why Izaya detests Shizuo so much.
663-->'''Izaya:''' Unbelievable. One moment he's dumb as an ox, and the next he's sharp as a whip. And it's because of this very reason... that I hate him so much.
664* TooDumbToLive: Pissing him off is generally considered to be this. The ''only'' exception to this is Izaya, mainly because he is one of the few people capable of fighting him without suffering grievous harm, and mainly because he does it so often. Note that this isn't from any lack of trying on Shizuo's part.
665* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Shizuo ''really'' likes milk, as Tom found out when he once agreed to buy him dinner. It stems from his PrecociousCrush on the shopkeeper he knew as a kid. This can be further seen when Shizuo is at his place angrily mumbling which only serves to anger him even further until Kasuka pulls out a bottle of milk.
666* TranquilFury:
667** After finding out that [[spoiler: Izaya told a little girl that Shizuo was going to kill her family.]]
668--->'''Shizuo:''' Just a misunderstanding, Akane. Izaya obviously has the wrong idea about me. I'm no hitman. Izaya's a friend of mine, but we had a little falling out a while back, that's all. I'll go make up with him ''right now''. ''[To Tom, one they're out of earshot]'' If stuff goes down today and I get arrested for murder or worse, then I want you to make sure to tell our president that I was fired yesterday.
669** At the end of Volume 12 (episode 7 of ''Ketsu''), [[spoiler:Izaya finally decides to end his rivalry with Shizuo, with the following attempt nearly killing Vorona. He calls Shizuo to taunt him about it, but his enemy is uncharacteristically silent. After Izaya finally finishes, Shizuo simply tells him "So long", and hangs up. It's noted that Shizuo used ''abayo'', a more cultural version of ''sayanora'' which means goodbye... '''''forever'''''.]]
670* UltimateJobSecurity: Lampshaded in a side story. Most people (including and especially Shizuo himself) are surprised that Shizuo hasn't been fired yet.
671* UnderestimatingBadassery: Anyone who doesn't connect him to the "God of Destruction" gives him little respect. Then they're flying through the air and learn their lessons.
672* UninhibitedMusclePower: The source of his strength is his lack of restraint. He also shows why this inhibition is necessary in real life. He must have broken the same bones a dozen times growing up.
673* UnskilledButStrong: He doesn't know any formal styles of fighting. He sticks with 'rip a lamppost out of the ground and swing it' or 'lift the thug like a ragdoll toss them into the horizon'.
674* TheUnsmile: At one point in Vol. 5, Shizuo forgoes his usual SlasherSmile for the most [[http://i726.photobucket.com/albums/ww262/CapZiggy/rrmwec.png uncharacteristically dorky smile imaginable]]. Shinra has only one thing to say in response.
675-->'''Shinra:''' Forgive me, Celty. I might be ''beating'' you to the afterlife.
676** [[TranquilFury This is the angriest Shizuo has]] ''[[TranquilFury ever]]'' [[TranquilFury been]]. This is [[PapaWolf right after]] Izaya [[spoiler: told a little girl that Shizuo was going to kill her family.]] He's giving this face because he doesn't want to frighten the little girl.
677* UnstoppableRage: Often when growing up he had trouble controlling and harnessing his rage to the point where he's pretty much in this state 24/7. This is invoked even further if his most hated enemy Izaya is involved as he won't focus on anything else but beating the living shit out of him in a berserker rage while showing off his impressive strength. [[spoiler:At the climax of the Slasher arc, he learns to control it.]]
678** However, towards the end of the second season after [[spoiler:Izaya decides to finally kill him and almost gets Vorona killed in the process]], [[ThisIsUnforgivable he flat out snaps]] and decides to return the favor, [[spoiler:only stopping short of killing Izaya for good only because ''[[BloodKnight Vorona]]'' got to him first and dealt a fatal blow to him in Shizuo's place.]]
679* UnwantedHarem: Shizuo seems to attract dangerous females. His harem includes one yandere katana, an underage Yakuza princess and a certain Russian assassin. If Yaoi Fangirls (in and out of universe) are to be believed, Izaya should be added to this list.
680* VitriolicBestBuds: With Shinra. It's like his relationship with Izaya but with annoyance instead of malice and no flying vending machines.
681* WaistcoatOfStyle: Comes with the job of being a(n ex-)bartender.
682* WeaksauceWeakness: Despite his MadeOfIron against just about everything else, even he's in trouble if someone pulls a firearm on him [[note]]That being said, his FeelNoPain and HealingFactor mean that it would still take an above-average amount of bullets -- or at least a really good BoomHeadshot, as Vorona nearly invokes on him before being stopped by Celty -- to keep him down for the count.[[/note]]. Additionally, it's mentioned that he, just like anyone else, could also die from eventual lead poisoning if he unknowingly lets any bullet wounds fester for too long. Fortunately for him, though, Shinra's a really good BackAlleyDoctor.
683* WeWantOurIdiotBack: Downplayed. While Shizuo isn't an idiot, he's TooDumbToFool and hates it when things aren't straightforward, but on very rare occasions he's capable of surprising shows of intelligence contrary to his usual behavior. This tendency upsets Izaya, who already hates him but especially loathes the moments when Shizuo has the presence of mind to make smart decisions that defy his expectations, often upsetting his plans in the process.
684-->'''Izaya:''' Unbelievable. One moment he's dumb as an ox, the next he's sharp as a whip. And it's because of this very reason... that I hate him so much.
685* WhenSheSmiles: When Akane lets slip that Izaya was the one who convinced her Shizuo was after her family, he put on a positively ''radiant'' smile to reassure her. It's arguably the warmest and happiest we ever see him. But everyone else in the room knows perfectly well that [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness Shizuo smiling like that is a bad, bad sign]].
686* WorldsStrongestMan: {{Canon}} and WordOfGod contained in ''Narita Saikyou Q&A'' confirms that Shizuo is the strongest character in his home series and one of the top five in TheVerse. The other four are: Ronnie Schiatto and Claire Stanfield from ''Literature/{{Baccano}}'' rivaling him at 3rd place; Hawking from ''Literature/{{Vamp}}'', who is essentially a ''black hole'' fond of leaping through the universe; and No.37564 "Mob Combatant" from ''Literature/HariyamaSan, Center of the World'', a {{Mook}} who went FromNobodyToNightmare, topping all of them simply because Narita made "strongest man in the history of time" the basis for his character.
687* WouldntHitAGirl: Previous romantic developments have gone horribly, ''horribly'' wrong for just about everyone involved thanks to his temper (see HeartbrokenBadass and PrecociousCrush). As a result, Shizuo is generally disgusted enough at the thought of violence against women that it's difficult to provoke him into it.
688** Subverted in ''VideoGame/DengekiBunkoFightingClimax''; curiously enough, he has no problem fighting female adversaries in that game.
689* WouldntHurtAChild: Shizuo has it deeply ingrained into his head that ChildrenAreInnocent. Thus when a small child does something like try to murder him with a heavily modified taser, the event simply doesn't register.
690* YouWillBeSpared: Found Seiji attacking him amusing enough that he let him off lightly... by headbutting him. This was ''after'' he threw him into the side of a truck.
691-->'''Shizuo:''' I like you a lot more than Izaya, which is why I'm going to let you off the hook with just this.
692* YouWontLikeMeWhenImAngry: He doesn't like his own anger, and attributes his problems to his temper and resultant strength.
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694
695[[folder:Saika]]
696[[quoteright:150:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Saika_852.jpg]]
697[[caption-width-right:150:A cursed katana that "loves" humans.]]
698
699->''"I love you. I love you. I love you."''
700
701A [[EvilWeapon cursed katana]] with a consciousness that is driven by its desire to [[LoveFreak love as many humans as possible]]. Unfortunately, the only way it can show its love for them is through [[{{Yandere}} cutting them]].
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703* AbsurdlySharpBlade: The Yellow Scarves' base is a warehouse, with huge metal doors. Saika cut through them like they weren't even there. Also, Saika was able to cleave Celty's head from her body when Shingen was wielding it.
704* AncientArtifact: Saika has been recorded to have existed for centuries.
705* AssimilationPlot: Saika's ultimate goal is to merge its consciousness with the rest of humanity, en masse. To achieve this, it wants to infect every living human with its curse and fill them with its [[MadnessMantra "loving whispers."]]
706* AxCrazy: Whatever demonic mind is possessing the sword has a disturbing enthusiasm to cut people, and due to forcing this mindset upon others, can potentially inflict this to anyone who can't control it.
707* BadassFamily: A [[HiveMind very, very strange one]] and only through technicality but [[SinisterSurveillance the daughter blades have proven very useful.]] Doubles as a BadassArmy.
708* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Actually has pretty decent values, it just doesn't understand why humans might not like being cut and mind controlled.
709* BrokenRecord: She'll never stop telling its wielder to cut, repeating it over and over.
710* CoolSword: Or rather, a wickedly sharp katana.
711* EldritchAbomination: Saika is a demonic, mind-controlling entity that operates on BlueAndOrangeMorality and whose mere touch can manipulate an individual's mind.
712* EvenEvilHasStandards: Saika wants to cut people and infect them with its 'children', but in the light novels, it's noted Saika is disgusted by Izaya's awful personality and actions after Anri confronts him.
713* EvilWeapon: Saika is a {{Curse}}d sword that really likes cutting humans. Luckily, in Anri's hands, it can't act on those urges.
714* FaceFullOfAlienWingWong: "Saika's giving birth. It puts its children into the souls of those it cuts."
715* GoodWeaponEvilWeapon: The sword itself is demonic, but its wielder [[BadPowersGoodPeople can potentially use its powers for good]].
716* HiveMind: Saika's "children".
717* HiveQueen: The original sword lets its wielder do this.
718* HungryWeapon: Saika loves humanity so much that it will cut them to add them to its HiveMind.
719* HypocriticalHumor: Saika hates monsters and non-humans of any sort ([[AndZoidberg and Izaya]], but most people hate Izaya). Saika is demonic and, nominally, [[TalkingWeapon an inanimate object]].
720* InLoveWithYourCarnage: Saika ''really'' likes strong people, like Shizuo.
721* KatanasAreJustBetter: [[EvilWeapon Demon]] {{yandere}} katanas that can [[AbsurdlySharpBlade slice through STEEL DOORS]].
722* LoveFreak: Albeit, a very twisted one.
723* LoveMakesYouCrazy: It can overwhelm the mind of its wielder this way, causing them to become obsessive and violent over whoever they are in love with.
724* MadnessMantra: Saika communicates almost exclusively in various {{Madness Mantra}}s of "I love you."
725* MasterSwordsman: The sword grants its wielder incredible swordsmanship in exchange for hearing it endlessly talk about its love for humans.
726* MindRape: Anyone who cannot overcome its possession will succumb to this. It puts a literal twist on this too, considering how it is [[FridgeHorror impregnating human souls with its children]].
727* MugglesDoItBetter: Saika's children have a HiveMind, but when they were first created they were confused and unstable. They used the internet to get in touch with each other, allowing them to become more sane and coherent.
728* MurderIsTheBestSolution: Saika sometimes pops in with suggestions for whatever problem Anri has at the moment. The suggested solution is ''always'' to let Saika "love" them.
729* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: The Slasher.
730* OneGenderRace: Saika is referred to as a mother, and all of its children are called "daughters", regardless of their actual genders.
731* ThePowerOfLove: Subverted by Saika and its children. They constantly claim to be powered by the love that they have for humanity, but their actions are [[{{Yandere}} obsessive and violent]].
732* PsychicLink: The sword communicates to its wielder through their mind, where it talks nonstop about its love for people, how much it wants to cut them all, and to suggest what the wielder ought to let them do (i.e. cut more people). It also does this to anyone who gets cut by it and fears pain
733* RedEyesTakeWarning: An obvious symptom of either possessing the sword or getting possessed by it.
734* SockPuppet: Kanra attempts to ban Saika each time it enters the chatroom to no avail. This is because completely different people (infected by the sword) are logging in each time from different hosts, thus bypassing the IP ban.
735* SoulCuttingBlade: Saika can cut human souls with its blade, which is how it takes over their minds.
736* StalkerWithACrush: To Shizuo. [[http://i726.photobucket.com/albums/ww262/CapZiggy/shizuostalker.jpg One of its children can be seen staring fixedly at him]] from behind at one point.
737* TalkingWeapon: Loudly. ''[[MadnessMantra INCESSANTLY]]''. But only to [[HearingVoices its wielder]].
738* {{Troll}}: How the user Saika is perceived online at first due to its heavy spamming of the same messages on any message board related to Ikebukuro. It is [[MindRape far]] [[TheVirus worse]], though.
739* TheVirus: Saika can take control of any human it has injured, except those who don't fear pain.
740* VoiceOfTheLegion: Saika's "voice" sounds like a mass of people speaking all at once, repeating words of love endlessly.
741* WalkingSpoiler: Knowing who truly wields Saika is a huge spoiler.
742* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Despite being a non-human itself, Saika despises "monsters" like Celty and reserves its love only to humans.
743* WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer: When you're a sword, "cut it" becomes your answer to everything.
744* WordSaladPhilosophy: Saika's explanation for why it loves humans so much quickly devolves into this in the chatroom.
745* {{Yandere}}: For all of humanity, but ''especially'' Shizuo. Luckily, its wielder Anri is not.
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