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1[[center:[[WMG:''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes'' character index\
2[-[[Characters/NoMoreHeroesTravisTouchdown Travis Touchdown]]\
3'''''No More Heroes''''' | ''[[Characters/NoMoreHeroes2DesperateStruggle 2: Desperate Struggle]]'' | ''[[Characters/TravisStrikesAgainNoMoreHeroes Travis Strikes Again]]'' | ''Characters/NoMoreHeroesIII'']]-]]]
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5Here's the cast of misanthropes, miscreants, and general ne'er-do-wells (plus one adorable kitten) found in ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes''.
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7[[foldercontrol]]
8
9!Main Characters
10[[folder:Travis Touchdown]]
11!!Travis Touchdown
12!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/RobinAtkinDownes (EN), Creator/KazuyaNakai (JP)
13!!!'''Theme:''' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThXV6T-Pq9k N.M.H.]]
14
15[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/travis_touchdown_nmh1.png]]
16[[caption-width-right:350:No More Heroes]]
17[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Click to see him in No More Heroes 2]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/travis_touchdown_nmh2.png[[/labelnote]]]]
18[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Click to see him in Travis Strikes Again]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/travistouchdowntsanmh.png[[/labelnote]]]]
19[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Click to see him in No More Heroes III]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/travish_touchdown_nmh3.png[[/labelnote]]]]
20--> ''"[[LetsGetDangerous It's game time!]]"''
21
22The HeroicComedicSociopath AntiHero of the game, who is out to go from loser {{Otaku}} to would-be badass assassin. Begins the game as the 11th ranked assassin in the United Assassins Association. His life becomes significantly more complicated by becoming an assassin, including running into several levels of {{Squick}} and family he didn't even know he had.
23----
24->See [[Characters/NoMoreHeroesTravisTouchdown his page]] for tropes on him.
25[[/folder]]
26
27[[folder:Sylvia Christel]]
28!!Sylvia Christel
29!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/PaulaTiso (EN), Creator/MarinaInoue (JP)
30
31[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sylvia_christel_nmh1.png]]
32[[caption-width-right:350:No More Heroes]]
33[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Click to see her in No More Heroes 2]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sylvia_christel_nmh2.png[[/labelnote]]]]
34[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Click to see her in No More Heroes III]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sylvia_christel_nmh3_7.jpg[[/labelnote]]]]
35--> [[CharacterCatchphrase Trust your Force... And head for the Garden of Madness.]]
36
37The mysterious woman who is supporting Travis through his endeavors, using the cash he brings from part-time jobs and small hits to arrange his fights to progress in the UAA rankings. She toys with Travis' affections, offering to sleep with him if he should become #1 on the list.
38----
39* AmbiguouslyEvil: While the fact she's a good person is hardly in question, how malicious or manipulative she is towards Travis is something of an AmbiguousSituation in the first game when at the end [[spoiler: it's suggested the UAA may or may not actually exist and Sylvia's been conning Travis (and potentially all the other assassins) the whole time]]. By the second game, however, the UAA definitely exists and she's legitimately on Travis' side against Jasper Batt Jr. [[spoiler:In ''III'', this is subverted as she is fully on the good side as she only intentionally works with the aliens so she can deliberately set them up to be killed by her husband Travis and save the world.]]
40* ButNotTooForeign: You'd never know by looking at her, but she's half-Japanese.
41* CharacterCatchphrase: In ''III'', her exposition before each ranking battle usually ends with "Welcome to the Garden of Insanity!" or a variant thereof, but in the first game it is "Garden of Madness".
42* CleanupCrew: Each time Travis kills an assassin, Sylvia shows up leading her UAA henchmen Talbot and Weller to clean up their remains and exchange banter with Travis along the way.
43* CrazyInTheHeadCrazyInTheBed: Sylvia is a bizarre woman who's prone to [[MoodSwinger sudden mood shifts]] and often gets violent and demanding, but she's also a highly sexual person, with ''Desperate Struggle'' showing [[SexGoddess all her bragging about her sexual prowess to be no mere boasts]]. Travis finds himself both extremely attracted and annoyed by her.
44* DefrostingTheIceQueen: ''Desperate Struggle'' shows a much softer and more vulnerable side to her... [[{{Tsundere}} eventually]].
45* DesecratingTheDead: She shows up to direct the cleanup crews after assassin fights... with a vacuum and nothing else to honor the fallen.
46* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: Literally--in ''Desperate Struggle'', she actually changes hairstyles and outfits every time you see her just to give exposition.
47* EverythingSoundsSexierInFrench: Her French accent serves to make her voice into pure sultry {{fanservice}}.
48* FemmeFatale: [[spoiler: As it turns out, she's playing Travis [[SpannerInTheWorks for a fool]]. Then, in the second game, she does it again, but this time she makes good on her promises. In the third game, she stops doing this to Travis since she is married to him.]]
49* {{Flight}}: She somehow has this ability as shown in ''III''.
50* HappilyMarried: [[spoiler:Subverted with Henry, as the two have divorced since the events of the first game. In fact, Sylvia hooks up with ''Travis'' in the sequel. They finally make good on Sylvia's promise, and in the epilogue, she affectionately calls him "''my'' No More Hero".]] [[spoiler:The trope is downplayed as of ''Travis Strikes Again''. Travis and Sylvia ended up getting married and even raised a family, but Travis abandoned them for their safety due to assassins continuing to show up and threatening the peace. That said, she seemingly doesn't harbor any ill will for Travis' actions, as she always assumed it was an inevitability, and both her and Jeane genuinely seem to still love him.]]
51* ImprobableAge: At the end of the first game, it's revealed that [[spoiler: she and Henry married in college]] 10 years prior. Since Sylvia is 24 that would mean that [[spoiler: Sylvia was ''attending college and got married at 14'']].
52* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: She's an unpleasant and vain woman who's deeply involved in the assassination business and mostly treats Travis like crap, but she also seems to care for him deep down and does help him accomplish his goals in both games. [[spoiler:In ''III'', she no longer mistreats Travis (her now husband) and just shows him more calm professionalism though she does keep dodging his questions and desire to speak with her, she still occasionally messes with him but it’s more of just her teasing Travis than being outright Cruel to him.]]
53* KarmaHoudini: For someone who sets up a bunch of hits, nothing bad happens to her [[spoiler:and Travis ends up glad that she set up all those fights, even after he learns he's been cheated by her.]] It later turns out that [[spoiler:she ''did'' give Travis what he wanted, which was a chance to get revenge for what happened to his parents, which he drunkenly said to Sylvia when he first met her. Subverted in the events after the sequel, where she is shown to be miserable and working at a strip club, being paid to recount the events of the game to a mystery client--Travis.]]
54* KickTheDog: [[spoiler: She guns down the defeated Ryuji the moment it looks like Travis is gonna spare him. Notably, this is the only time she ever kills an assassin Travis has spared, which makes it all the more jarring.]]
55* LegFocus: Her legs are usually the first thing that appear on-screen whenever she's present.
56* LoveInterest: For Travis in every game. She mostly acts as TheTease in the first two games, but they have a RelationshipUpgrade at the end of the ''Desperate Struggle''. By ''Travis Strikes Again'' and ''III'', they're married with children.
57* LustObject: For Travis, even though he starts to dislike her MoodSwinger and TheTease antics, he still can't help but be extremely attracted to her.
58* MaleGaze: Played almost to the point of satire during the "Phone Speak" segments in ''Desperate Struggle'', with the camera often zooming in on her butt or breasts [[spoiler:though considering it's from the point of view of Travis himself, it makes a lot more sense.]]
59** This is actually toned down in ''[=NMH3=]'', in which she is much more conservatively dressed.
60* ManipulativeBitch: [[spoiler:In the first game, she sets Travis up for money. She stops doing this by the third entry.]]
61* MoodSwinger: Sylvia tends to swing violently between personalities. In the second game, she starts off nice and sweet to Travis, seducing him back into the ranking battles, then she acts somewhat cold, then a few cutscenes afterward, she's violently screaming at him that she doesn't have time for a scrub of Travis' low rank at the time, and gunning down Travis' opponents when he doesn't finish them off quickly enough. Other times she'll be somewhat mean to him, but it's PlayedForLaughs, such as making Travis try to jump into her helicopter, reaching out to grab his hand, only to pull it away and saying [[TheGadfly "Oh yeah, there's no more seats."]] However, in the third game, she seems to have stop having this.
62* MsFanservice: She's a HeadTurningBeauty who often acts like TheTease towards Travis, and wears many revealing outfits, including always having her bra exposed due to the NavelDeepNeckline in her clothes. She's also seen nude a couple of times albeit covered via ModestyBedsheet, SceneryCensor or ToplessnessFromTheBack. In ''III'', she is dressed more modest and professional.
63* NewRulesAsThePlotDemands: In ''Desperate Struggle'' she decides to start changing the rules to the UAA matches, seemingly to help Travis rise the ranks faster, such as setting up a Battle Royale, allowing Charlie and his 24 cheerleaders to fight as a team, allowing Shinobu to fight for Travis but giving Travis the ranking, and [[spoiler:killing assassins who lose the ranking match without dying by their opponent's hand.]]
64* OhCrap: When she watches FU slaughter Damon's board early in the third game, she screams in horror when he talks back to her.
65-->'''FU:''' Don't worry, you're a good secretary. I'll allow you to live.\
66'''Sylvia''': AAAAH!
67* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Sylvia is usually calm and aloof in everything she does. So the fact that she's downright terrified of FU is a good indicator that things aren't looking good (However she doesn’t have that fear when confronting FU about breaking the League Rules implying her moment of being terrified was just an act). In the second game, during one of her phone calls, she confides in Travis at how Margaret Moonlight was actually able to make her pass out for a week just by hearing her song from a 100 yards away.
68* PaintingTheMedium: Her phone calls before the ranked battles actually begin are actually played through the Wii remote speaker.
69* PlatonicProstitution: The FramingDevice of ''Desperate Struggle'' is Sylvia, reduced to working a phone sex line, narrating the events of the game that led to her fall from grace to a customer who only comes in to listen to her. [[spoiler:The end of the game indicates that the customer is Travis, who did it to get Sylvia to open up and get her feelings out.]]
70* ProudBeauty: She's very vain and is often seen taking care of her appearance and health, such as applying make-up, doing workouts or other beautifying procedures.
71* SensualSlavs: She's apparently half-Ukranian, though [[EverythingSoundsSexierInFrench raised in France]].
72* SexGoddess: One of the things she uses to manipulate Travis is the promise of sleeping with him if he reaches 1st place in the UAA, and she often brags about her sexual prowess, such as flaunting to him she's a [[FlexibilityEqualsSexAbility yoga master]]. [[spoiler:Her claims are revealed to be actually true when she sleeps with Travis [[PreClimaxClimax at the end]] of ''Desperate Struggle'', given Travis's amazed reaction and the DestructoNookie she causes at his apartment]].
73* {{Sexposition}}: {{Downplayed|Trope}}, since there's no actual sex, but her exposition cutscene before each assassination often involve {{Fanservice}}, with her telling Travis about his next target as she does all sorts of sexy activities, such as lounging on the beach in a bikini or having massages, workouts, and tans and the scenes often come with a heavy dose of MaleGaze.
74* ShootTheDog: In ''Desperate Struggle'', she undramatically guns down Ryuji with an Uzi after it looks like Travis is about to spare him for being a WorthyOpponent, to make a point to Travis that he's an assassin and mercy and honor shouldn't be things he should aspire to have.
75* ShutUpKirk: When Travis delivers his angry KirkSummation to her in the ''Desperate Struggle''.
76--> '''Sylvia''': Are you done bitching?
77* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Most official source material spells her name as "Sylvia", yet the subtitles and credits of the first game spell it "Silvia". Notably, the katakana uses "Shiruvia" for both variations.
78* {{Stripperific}}: Of course, in the second game she's literally a stripper [[spoiler:after the supposed dismantling of the UAA after the events of the game]], but as a FemmeFatale, she uses her body to her advantage.
79* TheTease: She seems to love rilling up Travis, to almost sadistic levels. In the first two games, the promise of her sleeping with him if he's ranked 1st is one of his motivations to keep fighting.
80* {{Tsundere}}: Something that Travis is sick of by the second game.
81-->'''Travis:''' How many personalities do you have?!
82* WildCard: For the first two games, it's hard to say what side she's on other than her own. In the third game she is firmly on the good side.
83* {{Yandere}}: In the first game anyway, how much she cares is never quite established, but she does threaten to kill Travis if he [[ClingyJealousGirl makes her jealous]].
84-->'''Sylvia:''' If I ever hear you mumble another woman's name in your sleep, you'll wake up the next morning with [[FreudianThreat your joystick missing]].
85[[/folder]]
86
87[[folder:Jeane (Kitten)]]
88!!Jeane (Kitten)
89!!!'''Voiced by:''' Kris Zimmerman-Salter (TSA), Creator/IkeAmadi ([=NMH3=]) (EN), Creator/ShinichiroMiki ([=NMH3=]) (JP)
90[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jeane_cat_nmh.png]]
91
92Travis' pet Scottish Fold kitten, who can be played with between missions. In the second game, she's grown up... and apparently eaten a bit too much. In ''Travis Strikes Again'', she's still with Travis, and apparently she can speak to him now. [[MindScrew Yeah...]]
93----
94* {{Animesque}}: During the visual novel parts of ''Travis Strikes Again'', she looks more similar to [[Franchise/SailorMoon Luna and Artemis]] than to an actual cat.
95* AllThereInTheManual: Jeane's breed. Also, her name comes from being a replacement for the other Jeane, who dumped him.
96* AscendedExtra: Her importance seems to grow with each game. She goes from a very minor side character [[spoiler:outside of her role in Thunder Ryu's death]] in the first game to a side quest in the second to Travis's TalkingAnimal companion in ''Travis Strikes Again'' to his ''MissionControl'' and combat commentator in the third game.
97* BitchInSheepsClothing: ''Travis Strikes Again'' reveals that her actual personality isn't that far removed from the actual assassin she's named after, though in ''III'', she [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold isn't all that bad]].
98* BreakTheFourthWall: Like owner, like kitten. She does this a few times in ''Travis Strikes Again''.
99* CatsAreMean: She turns out to be pretty harsh and blunt beneath her cute exterior once she [[MindScrew suddenly gains the ability to talk]] in ''Travis Strikes Again'', but it's downplayed in ''III''.
100* CombatCommentator: In ''III'', she is this as during a fight, she comments immediately after Travis calls out either of his berry attacks or other phrases.
101* CuteKitten: She's even cute after growing up and gaining about fifteen pounds too many.
102* DeathByNewberyMedal: Toyed with. During the Speed Buster fight leadup it totally looks like the game is going to kill Travis' cute kitten to make it personal. [[spoiler:Though Jeane ''does'' play a major part in the battle, distracting Thunder Ryu long enough to throw him off his guard and ultimately getting him killed, she toddles off almost immediately afterward and makes it back to Travis's apartment without a scratch on her.]]
103* FormerlyFit: An entire sidequest is dedicated to helping Jeane lose all the weight she put on between the first two games.
104* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: She proves to be fairly abrasive and snarky once she [[SuddenlyAlwaysKnewThat inexplicably starts talking]], especially in ''Travis Strikes Again''. However, she still is loyal to her owner and offers active support when Travis has to fight against FU's forces in ''III''.
105* MeaningfulName: Travis' ex-girlfriend was also named Jeane. Sylvia's daughter is ''also'' named Jeane.
106* MissionControl: She becomes this for Travis in ''III'', being able to inhabit the Death Glove.
107* MoralityPet: How bad can Travis be? He's got such a cute widdle kitty!
108* NoHeroToHisValet: While Jeane does love Travis, ''III'' reveals that she considers him to be an "immature, little bitch" after he uses that same insult against [[spoiler:Destroyman True Face]], however, even she thinks that her master is ''way'' better than the guy he is insulting.
109* SaveThePrincess: One of the main recurring sidequests in ''Travis Strikes Again'' involves Jeane accidentally wandering into the Death Drive games and having to go back into the games to locate her.
110* SpannerInTheWorks: [[spoiler:Jeane's random decision to follow Travis to the rank 3 battle in Speed City is what ends up keeping Travis alive for Speed Buster's initial volley. However, it also leads to Thunder Ryu's death.]]
111* SuddenlyAlwaysKnewThat: Her ability to speak, as introduced in ''Travis Strikes Again'', was never mentioned or brought up before. Or her ability to send faxes, apparently.
112* TalkingAnimal: In ''Travis Strikes Again'', she suddenly learned how to talk like a human.
113* VocalDissonance: In ''No More Heroes III'', where she's a small adorable cat that happens to speak in a very deep baritone.
114* XMarksTheHero: Along with her {{Animesque}} appearance in the visual novel parts of ''Travis Strikes Again'', she also has what appears to be a large X-shaped scar across above her nose.
115[[/folder]]
116
117!The Original Rankings in the United Assassins Association
118[[folder:(11)-Helter-Skelter]]
119!!Helter Skelter
120!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/DeeBradleyBaker (EN)
121
122[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/helterskelter.png]]
123
124--> Hear the lullaby? Rest in peace, baby.
125
126The 11th ranked assassin, he's a wanderer that was baited into a fight with Travis. Never actually fought in-game; he appeared in the trailer for ''Heroes'', which eventually developed into this game. He ''does'' show up in the final game... in the intro cutscene. [[WeHardlyKnewYe Briefly.]]
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128* DecoyProtagonist: Shown in the trailer as your typical cool, badass video game protagonist... that gets killed by the actual main character.
129* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Travis only knows him as "The Drifter".
130* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: Is seen smoking a cigar in the trailer. Until his JawDrop, that is.
131* GunsAkimbo: He carries two revolvers. He also has two wrist mounted missile launchers with minigun attachments that have retractable swords inside them.
132* MacrossMissileMassacre: Tries this against Travis. [[JawDrop It doesn't work]].
133* MoreDakka: His second phase is to just shoot and shoot and shoot and shoot.
134* PetTheDog: The official [[invoked]] ''[[WordOfGod No More Loser]]'' comic reveals that Helter had been using the money he earned through killing to fund his brother's college education with the hopes that he would not end up an assassin as well. [[spoiler:Evidently, it wasn't enough.]]
135* SirNotAppearingInThisTrailer: Inverted, he nearly ''only'' appears in the trailer.
136* SmokingIsCool: Lights up after apparently killing Travis. Then drops the butt when he realizes Travis is alive.
137* TakeThat: Seems to be a deliberate potshot at overly-edgy brooding {{bishonen}} action game protagonists. In the trailer, he looks and acts an awful lot like Dante from ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry'', and the trailer seems to play ''him'' up as the protagonist until Travis decapitates him with little effort.
138--> '''Travis''': "I couldn't tell if he was the shit or just plain ol' shit."
139* WeHardlyKnewYe: Especially in the game, where he only appears for a few frames in the introduction.
140* WhiteHairBlackHeart: As part of his stereotypical "edgie anime bishie" look.
141[[/folder]]
142
143[[folder:(10)-Death Metal]]
144!!Real Name: Count Townsend
145!!!'''Voiced by:''' J. Grant Albrecht (EN), Creator/KenNarita (JP)
146!!!'''Theme:''' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9t13o-WcU0 Hell On Bare Feet]]
147
148[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/nmh_death_metal.png]]
149[[caption-width-right:350:Listen well, young one. The wall is high, higher than you will ever know...]]
150
151--> Quite beautiful, wouldn't you say? Paid for with the lives of many. When you have the strength to take life for yourself... That is true wealth. I am free of desire. So long as I have this scenery to look upon. I need nothing more. Please, leave me be.
152
153The 10th ranked assassin, who awaits Travis in his opulent estate. He's apparently quite disgusted with his own lifestyle, and eagerly awaits his fight with Travis. He also sees himself as a bit of a rival to Travis, as he also uses a beam katana.
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155* AffablyEvil: The guy is genuinely friendly, even to the guy here to kill him. He also takes his death in stride.
156* AllThereInTheManual: Apparently he was in a band (hence his name) and is a [[BlueBlood British nobleman]].
157* BattleStrip: He shrugs off his robe in a DressHitsFloor fashion when he stands up to fight Travis.
158* {{BFS}}: It looks more like a giant straight razor than anything, and is apparently a product of "[[ShoutOut Orange Computers]]".
159* CoolOldGuy: He's 55 years old by the time Travis fights him.
160* DeathSeeker: He's genuinely relieved when Travis is about to kill him, calling it "The moment I've been waiting for."
161* DoppelgangerSpin: After he takes enough damage, Death Metal breaks out two copies of himself. Annoyingly, they have the same health he had when he summoned them, making them quite a bit more durable than most uses of the trope.
162* EvilBrit: A British noble and an assassin though at this early in the plot, Travis acts more evil than he does.
163* GracefulLoser: Happily bestows his title (Holy Sword) upon Travis upon defeat.
164* LaserBlade: The [[Platform/AppleII Orange II]], an ''enormous'' beam-edged weapon shaped like a cross between a straight razor and a meat cleaver, that can retract into a briefcase-like portable form. Despite its design, it is classified as a “beam katana” like every other laser blade in the series. If you're wondering why a company called “Orange Computers” would manufacture weapons, let alone ridiculous pieces like the Orange II... well, [[MindScrew you're clearly new]] [[ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext to Suda51's games]].
165* LonelyAtTheTop: Death Metal's monologue suggests this is the fate of all successful assassins. Not that Travis pays attention.
166* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: Barely reacts at all to having his hands cut off and bleeding profusely aside from maybe sounding a bit more excited than he did when he first met Travis.
167* RedBaron: Another nickname of his is "Holy Sword,” and as mentioned above, he is actually a British noble.
168* ShadowArchetype: He's someone who has achieved all of the things Travis wants, only he's become deeply unhappy at the end results and waits for someone to kill him.
169* ShoutOut: Count Townsend: Count Grishnack and Devin Townsend, a pseudonym for Black Metal artist Varg Vikernes (Burzum), and Devin Townsend, leader of Extreme Metal band Strapping Young Lad, respectively.
170* WalkingShirtlessScene: Travis catches him sunbathing, and as such he fights without a shirt on. It also lets him show off the tattoos covering his upper body.
171* WarmUpBoss: Death Metal's fight is intended to ease the player into the game, as his attacks are fairly simplistic and have obvious openings.
172* WickedCultured: Spews out philosophy before and during the fight.
173[[/folder]]
174
175[[folder:(9)-Doctor Peace]]
176!!Real Name: Pastel Brankino
177!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/RichardMcGonagle (EN, NonSingingVoice), Brad Holmes (EN, Singing) Creator/ChikaoOhtsuka (JP)
178!!!'''Theme:''' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_3Incmmkt0 Steel Python]]
179
180[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/nmh_dr_peace.png]]
181[[caption-width-right:350:Listen to my song...]]
182
183--> Don't die on me too quickly...I wanna gorge myself on this sense of fulfillment 'til I vomit.
184
185The 9th ranked assassin, a crooked cop with a long and sordid past, who apparently spent Travis' entry fee to have a nice dinner with his daughter and have center stage at the local baseball stadium to sing. He uses twin gold-plated revolvers.
186----
187* AffablyEvil: He's a killer for sure, but he certainly respects Travis enough to not immediately open fire on him, and even share some chatter about his personal life before engaging in combat.
188* AlasPoorVillain: He's estranged from his family and his career destroyed his personal life. While dying, he says his family will be glad he died. Travis also appears to be affected by his death but he pushes himself forward anyway. After Travis wins, he places the microphone in Dr. Peace's hands as a sign of respect.
189-->'''Travis:''' "It's open-mic night in hell, old man. Sing all you want down there..."
190* AnimalMotif: He compares himself and Travis to sharks due to their nature as predators and how they are drawn to combat through blood. He's also dressed in grey, like a shark, and remarks that the [[FishOutOfWater dinner with his family felt awkward]] because his own daughter wouldn't look him in the eyes, and the expensive food only tasted like blood to him.
191* BadassNative: He's got Native American blood, and he's ranked #9 in the UAA.
192* BlingBlingBang: Uses a pair of golden revolvers with explosive bullets.
193* BloodKnight: When he claims that his expensive dinner with his daughter just tasted like blood to him, Travis calls him a "blood junkie" which he he doesn't disagree with. He does seem to be enjoying his fight to the death with Travis.
194* BlownAcrossTheRoom: Travis attempts to swat away Dr. Peace's first shot of his revolver, ''and it explodes,'' knocking Travis into the wall behind him so hard that Travis' body ''dents it.'' Get hit by this attack in the actual boss fight and it will send you flying quite a ways.
195* {{Foreshadowing}}: As noted above, his boss intro involves Travis trying to knock away Dr. Peace's first shot only for it to explode and send him flying. [[GameplayAndStoryIntegration In the actual boss fight,]] he'll heavily telegraph the same attack by holstering his guns, pausing and glowing invincibly before performing a quickdraw shot. It's the one attack he has that isn't blockable as it explodes sending knocking Travis a considerable distance away if it connects.
196* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Sort of. He mentions how he's divorced and he has an estranged relationship with his daughter, Jennifer, but he uses Travis' entry fee to reserve a dinner and have karaoke with her, even if "the food tasted like blood." Even as he dies, he uses his last words to speak about her.
197* TheGunslinger: The GunsAkimbo type.
198* HiddenDepths: Corrupt cop, ruthless hitman... a diffident husband and parent, and has an ''incredible'' singing voice.
199* MafiaPrincess: It's strongly implied his estranged daughter is one.
200* PressXToNotDie: When you've depleted his health, you have to go through one of these in the form of a quick draw to finish him off. Fail, and Travis takes damage, and the fight resumes. Win, and Peace is defeated.
201* RevolversAreJustBetter: Golden ones, no less.
202* ShoutOut: Visually based off of Charles Bronson. He's also a doctor, a cop, and a gunslinger, characters that gave Mr. Bronson his status as a celebrity.
203* StationaryBoss: He spends the entire fight shooting at Travis from the pitcher's mound and will prioritize running back to it if he ever gets knocked off of it by Travis' attacks.
204* UnblockableAttack: The one attack of his you can't block is his heavily telegraphed quickdraw shot.
205[[/folder]]
206
207[[folder:(8)-Shinobu]]
208!!Real Name: Scarlet Jacobs
209!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KimberlyBrooks (EN), Creator/EriKitamura (JP)
210!!!'''Theme:''' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIFSi2oOG2s Season of the Samurai]]
211
212[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/nmh_shinobu.png]]
213[[caption-width-right:350:"What's that in your hand? A toy?"]]
214[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Click to see her in No More Heroes 2]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/nmh2_shinobu.png[[/labelnote]]]]
215[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Click to see her in Travis Strikes Again / No More Heroes III]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/shinobu_12.png[[/labelnote]]]]
216
217
218--> ''At last, I have my chance! I will now avenge my father!''
219
220The 8th ranked assassin, a cold-blooded schoolgirl living a double life. She's out to kill Travis just as he's out to kill her - she believes that he killed her father. [[WakeUpCallBoss By far the most frequently cited to mess you up if you're not ready for her.]] She returns in the sequel as Travis' self-proclaimed apprentice and scores some kills in his place.
221----
222* AfroAsskicker: She has an impressive, white[[HairColorDissonance -ish]] one.
223* AnArmAndALeg: Loses her right arm in her battle against Travis [[spoiler:and she loses ''both'' against FU.]]
224* ArrogantKungFuGuy: She's very cocky and constantly taunting and insulting her foes whether as a boss fight or as a playable character.
225* ArtificialLimbs: After she gets her right hand cut off after her boss fight, she presumably gets one under a [[Film/ReturnOfTheJedi Luke Skywalker-esque black glove]] [[spoiler:when she reappears to save Travis' life from Jeane.]] She's shown with it again, but it gets temporarily torn off while fighting [[spoiler: New Destroyman.]] AND THEN, [[spoiler:she loses it again (along with both of her arms) while fighting FU before she gets new replacements at the finale of ''III''.]]
226* BadassTeacher: By the time she returns for the ''Travis Strikes Again'' DLC, she's settled down and become a martial arts teacher for a bunch of kids. She also makes it a promise to ensure [[ChildrenAreInnocent they never learn of her being an assassin]].
227* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:Perhaps in exchange for sparing her life, she rescues Travis in the end of the final battle in the first game. Later, she helps fight off [=FU=] in the end of ''III'' once she's recovered from her grievous injuries in Dr. Juvenile's lab.]]
228* BreakoutCharacter: Went from a single boss fight in the first game, to [[PromotedToPlayable briefly playable]] in ''Desperate Struggle'', to having her own full-blown campaign in ''Travis Strikes Again'' as DLC. It's not so surprising since she's the SoleSurvivor of the original UAA rankings.
229* CallingYourAttacks: "Sonic Sword!" "Bloody Sunday!" "Black Monday!" "Genkoken!!"
230* TheCameo: Appears at the end of ''Travis Strikes Again'' prior to the credits.
231* ChargedAttack: Her charged attack in ''Desperate Struggle'' lets her unleash her SwordBeam based attacks like Sonic Sword and Genkoken which requires a full charge. Also of note is that unlike Travis, she can run around when charging her attacks. Hell, she actually gets faster once fully charged.
232* CombatStilettos: In ''Desperate Struggle.'' Upgrades them to high-heeled sandals in ''Travis Strikes Again'' and ''No More Heroes III'' with built-in blade sharpeners!
233* CruelCheerleader: Dresses as one in the "Very Sweet" Mode of ''Heroes Paradise''.
234* DefrostingIceQueen: Compare the cold and aloof Shinobu to her [[spoiler:[[SheIsAllGrownUp older]], more cheery and cockier self who is fawning over Travis in the sequel.]]
235* DissonantSerenity: In the first game, she displays no emotion when she coldly kills her classmates just for ''maybe'' witnessing evidence of her double life, only getting vaguely irritated at Travis questioning if they fought back at all. She only gets emotional when she thinks Travis is her father's killer.
236* {{Fanservice}}: [[spoiler:Save the game as Travis, you hit the can. Save as Shinobu in the sequel, you get a ShowerScene with a gratuitous ToplessnessFromTheBack shot.]]
237* FragileSpeedster: She can avoid all of Travis's attacks with ease, vault around the battle arena, dodge so quickly she nearly [[FlashStep turns invisible]] and can outright ignore Travis's own FlashStep technique. The only saving grace of the fight is her HP is relatively low for a boss. She still has shades of this in ''Desperate Struggle'' as her Jump lets her avoid attacks and she has the unique ability to run around when charging attacks.
238* GlassCannon: She can dish out enough damage to effectively be an OHKO on higher difficulties, but has less HP than most other bosses.
239* GratuitousJapanese: Invoked, as she regularly intersperses her battle cries with "Main/{{Moe}}", or claims her opponents have none of it [[spoiler:in the sequel, akin to her "mentor" Travis]]. The way she uses (and clumsily pronounces) the word implies that she has ''absolutely no idea what it means'', and is only saying it because she heard her mentor say it once or twice.
240* HeKnowsTooMuch: She kills her classmates after they learn she's an assassin. Travis calls her out on it.
241* HotForTeacher: [[spoiler: In the sequel, she's adopted Travis as her master and appears to have a crush on him. Travis turns her down, and while the last we see of her in ''Desperate Struggle'' shows that she didn't exactly take it well, her later appearances downplay this aspect to focus more on her being a devoted follower and close friend to Travis, which he does reciprocate.]]
242* {{Joshikousei}}: Fights assassins in her schoolgirl outfit. [[spoiler: She's ditched it by the second game for a [[LittleBlackDress black]] MiniDressOfPower.]]
243* IShallTauntYou: Does this so much because of her arrogance that it's effectively a gameplay element for her when she's playable. Landing any combo finishers on enemies will have her pause to dramatically mock them, effectively giving these attacks considerable ending lag. While the finisher itself will knock most enemies to the ground long enough for the taunt to pass safely, it leaves her completely vulnerable in a crowd so [[AwesomeButImpractical it's rather situational]] for 1-on-1 fights against a single mook. Of the two bosses she can fight, it's generally not worth trying to land finishers on them since they recover too quickly for it to be safe. At least this doesn't apply to aerial combos.
244* KarmaHoudini: She's one of the game's assassins explicitly shown to have killed civilians in cold blood but, even though it's hinted he disapproves it, Travis doesn't kill her. The others (such as Destroyman) weren't so lucky.
245* KatanasAreJustBetter: She uses a katana called the [[ShoutOut "Three Girl]] [[Music/{{Wire}} Rhumba's Sword",]] and it's decorated with little stuffed animals. Notably, one of the few bladed weapons in the series that ''isn't'' a [[LaserBlade beam katana]], but it still appears to have some kind of enhancement, given that it glows with energy and can fire off [[SwordBeam sword beams.]]
246* LittleMissBadass: She's the youngest assassin in the association, but just as deadly as the others, [[WakeUpCallBoss if not more so.]]
247* MeaningfulEcho: After Travis beats her, she tells her to "Do it" (To kill her). [[spoiler:When she arrives to save Travis from Jeanne, she slices Jeanne's arm and says, "Do it". (Kill Jeanne)]]
248* {{Otaku}}: Downplayed (especially compared to Travis), but she has a few hints of this. She takes on a Japanese pseudonym, wields a katana, and as Travis notes, she talks and thinks like a protagonist of a Main/{{Samurai}} movie. She's also just about the only one in her school that wears a schoolgirl outfit, implying that it's a fashion choice rather than a mandatory uniform. [[spoiler:In the sequel, she even starts using GratuitousJapanese.]]
249* PromotedToPlayable: Gains a couple of unique playable levels and bosses partway through the plot of ''Desperate Struggle'' and has her own DLC in ''Travis Strikes Again''.
250* SamuraiShinobi: Shinobu combines aspects of Ninja and Samurai while living a double life as a schoolgirl (at least until the second game, when she's graduated and become a full-time assassin). Notably her outfit and fighting style suggests a stereotypical ninja, but she uses a katana and is fond of at least giving lip service to honour and duty (such as avenging her father). It's made clear this is because she's invoking the trope InUniverse as part of her aesthetic.
251* ScarfOfAsskicking: In the sequel. Seems that looking up to Travis makes one more apt to play out tropes.
252* SwordBeam: Her Sonic Sword/Gentoken attack.
253* TeleportSpam: Used during her ultimate attack.
254* TookALevelInBadass: While by no means an incompetent assassin, [[spoiler:by the time of the sequel, she's become recognized as one of the most prestigious assassins in all of Asia and took out an upgraded version of Destroyman who was ranked 7th previously.]]
255* TookALevelInCheerfulness: She's a lot more cheerful and upbeat in ''Desperate Struggle'' compared to how cold she was in the first game. She cools down a bit in ''Travis Strikes Again'' and ''III'' but she still seems happier than before.
256* UnorthodoxReload: In contrast to how she used to "recharge" in ''Desperate Struggle'', Shinobu has taken to sharpening her katana against the heels of her CombatStilettos.
257* WakeUpCallBoss: In ''No More Heroes''. Death Metal and Doctor Peace can be mostly brute-forced by [[AttackAttackAttack mashing the attack button]]. Shinobu's speedy, aggressive, and ''deadly'' combos make her the first assassin who asks you to fight more defensively, memorise attack patterns and tells, and wait for the correct moment to counterattack. She's the first ranking battle to emphasise the importance of wrestling moves, the first one where it's practically ''required'' to know how to [[FlashStep Dark Step]] on higher difficulties, and the first assassin who can potentially kill you in a single hit (it's not technically an instant kill, but you'll only survive - barely - if you've collected every health upgrade you can at this point ''and'' you're at full health when she does it).
258* WrestlerInAllOfUs: As a playable character, she can pull a frankensteiner on stunned enemies if you're locked onto them and press one of the jump buttons near them.
259* YouKilledMyFather: She doesn't seem to care about the fight... until Travis turns on the beam katana. Then she goes ballistic and starts yelling this. [[spoiler:For the record, he didn't.]]
260-->'''Shinobu:''' You will pay with your life! At last, I have my chance. I will now avenge my father!
261[[/folder]]
262
263[[folder:(7)-Destroyman]]
264!!Secret Identity: John Harnet
265!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JoshKeaton (EN), Creator/KoichiSakaguchi (JP)
266!!!'''Theme:''' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1OsfKEwp9E Stop Hanging DJ's]]
267
268[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/nmh1_destroyman.png]]
269[[caption-width-right:350:''Come and get some, punk!'']]
270
271--> ''You're as good as dead!''
272
273The 7th ranked assassin, an actor in indie films that uses his character's superhero gimmick suit to hide deadly weapons. In really questionable places. He's initially taken by surprise by Travis, but is able to prepare thanks to quickly tossing Travis an IdiotBall.
274----
275* AmbiguouslyBi: Destroyman's superhero appearance is very campy. His primary superhero outfit color is light purple, has machineguns in located in his nipple area and his crotch area has briefs with a built-in laser system. He made some suggestive comments towards Travis and when defeated, screams for help. [[spoiler: His overtly sexual comments towards Shinobu suggest that he's at the very least attracted to women.]]
276* AscendedFanboy: The financier and star of the independent "Destroyman" movies.
277* AxCrazy: Dude's unhinged, competing with Bad Girl as the craziest assassin in the first game. In the second game, only one of New Destroyman is (overtly) AxCrazy.
278* BadVibrations: Before the start of his battle, sudden rumbles occur just before he transforms.
279* BreakoutVillain: Despite being an early assassin you fight in the scheme of the game [[spoiler:and playing no greater role in the plot due to dying]], his "evil superhero" gimmick and FauxAffablyEvil personality made him popular enough to reappear in both ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes2DesperateStruggle'' and ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroesIII'', which makes him one of the few characters to appear in almost every game (he does not appear in ''Travis Strikes Again'').
280* CallingYourAttacks: "Destrooooy BEAM!" Deconstructed though, as Destroyman's hammy shouting and posing only serves to open him up for attack and makes him easy to telegraph. Also [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in-universe, since [[AllThereInTheManual his suit is powered by a built-in SFX converter,]] meaning he can't use the attacks ''unless'' he yells them out.
281* CampStraight: He's this [[AmbiguouslyBi if he's not bi.]]
282* CaptainPatriotic: His alter ego is presumably named after the "Destroy" in "Santa Destroy". Although only small parts of his costume coincide with the colors of the town's flag.
283* ChangingClothesIsAFreeAction: Asking Travis to [[NoPeekingRequest turn around]] was just so he could get a cheap shot; he went from mailman uniform to full-body spandex in about the space of a second.
284* ClothesMakeTheSuperman: He only fights with his Destroyman outfit.
285* CombatPragmatist: Before his first fight, he tries to shoot Travis in the back when Travis allows him to suit up.
286* EstablishingCharacterMoment: He [[FauxAffablyEvil initially]] comes off as fairly polite and unassuming despite standing in an empty room absolutely full of bloody corpses, but ''immediately'' tries to kill Travis after asking him to [[NoPeekingRequest turn around and let him change into his costume]], giving a good indicator as to his [[AxCrazy murderous personality]] and willingness to [[CombatPragmatist do anything to win]].
287* FauxAffablyEvil: He's a psychotic, unrepentant bastard and his attempts to appear as a pleasant, ordinary postal worker is undermined by the odd shaky camera and his boss arena being covered with fresh corpses and blood though [[IdiotBall Travis doesn't seem to catch on.]] But he's just ''[[RuleOfFunny so]]'' [[LargeHam over-the-top]].
288* GoingPostal: Referenced with his apparent civilian identity of a humble postal worker. During his introduction, he starts complaining about the annoying demands of his customers while the camera zooms in and shakes ominously. Naturally, he's also one of the series' most deranged assassins.
289* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: [[spoiler:How Travis ultimately takes him out.]]
290* HeroicBuild: He's the largest assassin Travis meets in the first game with a body-builder type physique fitting for a Superhero.
291* ISurrenderSuckers: After his first fight with Travis. Whereupon he unleashes his nipple machineguns [[spoiler: (only to be almost immediately diced in half by Travis)]].
292* LargeHam: Contender for the hammiest assassin.
293* LightIsNotGood: What with being a superhero and all.
294* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: After taking advantage of Travis' stupidity, he basically says this, including surprise on not being killed himself. [[spoiler: Also, he came back for the sequel. Despite being bisected down the middle at the end of his fight in the first. And '''then''' he somehow appears in ''III'' even after Shinobu takes care of him]]
295* PsychoForHire: The first ''real'' crazy "assassin" you fight. Illustrated by the game itself before he reveals what's BeneathTheMask--the screen shakes and pulses wildly as he cheerfully talks with Travis, hinting at his mental instability. And note his day job as a mail carrier, a profession widely believed to be the domain of complete lunatics in the United States. There's a reason they call it "going postal"...
296* RecurringBoss: He makes an appearance as a boss in ''Desperate Struggle'' and ''III''.
297* SmugSnake: Despite mocking Travis for falling an obvious trick (the length of one would qualify for a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech if not for the fact that he kept more paraphrasing the same thing), he's not nearly as clever as he seems to believe.
298* SplitPersonality: In the first game, it seems he's simply putting on a facade between his civilian identity and the Destroyman persona. [[spoiler:In the sequel, it is a more ''literal'' split.]]
299* UnusualWeaponMounting: He's got laser beams on his ears, nipple-mounted machine guns, and a WaveMotionGun codpiece.
300* VillainHasAPoint: He's the only assassin in the game to point out how ludicrous ranking battles are. However, his pride and bloodlust have him go along with these death matches anyway.
301* WeCanRebuildHim: [[spoiler:Both halves of him.]]
302[[/folder]]
303
304[[folder:(6)-Holly Summers]]
305!!Holly Summers
306!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KimMaiGuest (EN), Creator/FumikoOrikasa (JP)
307!!!'''Theme:''' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jahSpftYKqg Samurai Summer]]
308
309[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/nmh_holly_summers.png]]
310[[caption-width-right:350:''Still just a bud...'']]
311
312--> A bud that will never blossom...farewell, my sweet seventh.
313
314The 6th ranked assassin, a former model with a prosthetic leg. She takes full advantage of Travis' unwillingness to hurt a woman, setting up pit traps for him and using the rocket launcher in her fake leg on him when he slips up.
315----
316* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:Her death is played tragically as Travis is unable to kill her, and she decides to go out with a literal bang so that the UAA can't torture her. Travis realizes too late that she's essentially committing ''seppuku'' and is ashamed of unable to let her die a noble death.]]
317-->'''Travis:''' Forgive me Number 6, I never meant to shame you.
318* ArmorPiercingQuestion: Seems to try this to Travis at the beginning of her match. It doesn't take.
319-->'''Holly''': Do you like fighting?\
320'''Travis''': Yep.\
321'''Holly''': Do you like killing?\
322'''Travis''': Live for it.\
323'''Holly''': Do you like fear?\
324'''Travis''': Can't say. [[BadassBoast Never felt it.]]
325* BadassBookworm: She fights far more intelligently than the other ten (at least [[MacrossMissileMassacre most of the time]]) and is explicitly referred to as an "academic."
326* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: Inverted, as Holly would ''much'' prefer Travis to kill her. When it becomes clear that he won't, [[spoiler:she does it herself]].
327* CulturedBadass: One of the more intellectual assassins, and one who muses to Travis about the honor (or lack thereof) in their violent business before their duel to the death.
328* DeathTrap: She uses pitfall traps to harm Travis during battle.
329* DiedStandingUp: [[spoiler: Her headless body is still standing after she [[YourHeadAsplode eats a grenade.]]]]
330* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Decides to kill herself after she loses to Travis seeing as he can't kill her and would rather not have the UAA do the deed.]]
331* FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler: She notes that the loser has to die in a ranked battle. Rather than await what the UAA has in store for her, she puts a grenade in her mouth after giving Travis the pin. What makes it even more heartwrenching is that it seems like she all but wanted to have a normal life where a knight in shining armor like Travis saved her from the hell she was trapped in given how she states how "academics like to fantasize too"]].
332* GetBackHereBoss: She's not averse to fighting up close, but just as often she'll book it for the other side of the arena, both to safely [[MacrossMissileMassacre fire homing rockets at you]] and to potentially lure Travis into a sand trap.
333* GoOutWithASmile: [[spoiler: And a grenade in her mouth!]]
334* AHandfulForAnEye: Some of her shovel attacks involve striking the beach to send sand into Travis' eyes. If you don't avoid or block it, Travis will be too blinded to attack or even move allowing her to run away to a safe distance.
335* HandicappedBadass: She's got a rocket launcher in her fake leg. That alone is pretty badass. She's also able to dig holes in sand surprisingly fast.
336* IDieFree: [[spoiler:She dies on her own terms instead of letting the UAA get a hold of her.]]
337* LastRequest: "Open your eyes and never look back. Promise... never forget me."
338* LegCannon: Fires missiles from her prosthetic leg.
339* LoveAtFirstPunch: Travis really seems to connect with her [[spoiler:and treats her body with respect. Also, she's the only one who Travis loves for her soul and nothing else. It's implied that Holly also wanted to fantasize the idea of falling in love and being able to leave the life of assassins for good]].
340* MacrossMissileMassacre: From her fake leg, no less.
341* OffWithHerHead: [[spoiler: Puts a grenade in her mouth that takes her head and left arm off.]]
342* PuzzleBoss: Much of the fight is figuring out how to avoid her traps.
343* RocketJump: She does a unique variation for an evasive move: she slams a landmine down at her feet, then [[ShovelStrike drives her shovel into it]], [[ExplosionPropulsion with the resulting explosion harmlessly knocking her away.]]
344* ShovelStrike: She can kick your ass five ways to next week with her shovel.
345* SmallRoleBigImpact:
346** Her appearance is relegated to a single boss fight scenario, but she ends up causing a few significant changes in Travis' character arc, revealing that he in fact has [[WouldntHitAGirl a somewhat consistent sense of chivalry]], and putting the first dent in his psyche that the business of killing is way more complex and tragic than he might've believed.
347** On a much more minor note, Holly also leaves behind a cache of “military secrets” that Travis can take to Dr. Naomi, who will use them to create his next weapon upgrade, the Tsubaki Mk-II.
348* TrapMaster: Holly ''immediately'' establishes herself as one right at the start of her battle, as no matter how you intend to chase her down, Travis ''will'' fall in a hidden sand trap, of which there are several on the beach. Should you fall into one, [[CombatPragmatist Holly will happily toss a grenade for you]] that will also kill Travis should he not escape in time.
349* YouAreNumberSix: She's the sixth-ranked in the UAA, and Travis calls her Number 6 (as he didn't know her name at this point) when he [[spoiler: watches her kill herself via grenade.]]
350* YourHeadAsplode: [[spoiler: And most of her right shoulder, too.]]
351[[/folder]]
352
353[[folder:(5)-Letz Shake]]
354!!Letz Shake
355!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/DeeBradleyBaker (Letz Shake - EN), Creator/FredTatasciore (Dr. Shake -EN), Setsuji Sato (Letz Shake - JP), Takaomi Ashizawa (Dr. Shake - JP)
356
357[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/nmh_letz_shake.png]]
358[[caption-width-right:350:''Nyahahahaha!'']]
359
360--> [[HerrDoktor Oh Ja!]] I feel a good undulation. Your rumbling is excellent. [[BowelBreakingBricks I think I'm going to lose ze bowel control!]]
361
362The 5th ranked assassin, an immigrant from Singapore who made off with an experimental military earthquake generator. He awaits Travis quite far out of town.
363----
364* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: He's said to be from Singapore. His accent is anything but, sounding more like German. It's really hard to tell anyway, since [[spoiler: he only gets a few lines before he is killed by Henry]].
365* BaitAndSwitchBoss: The battle isn't going to be you against that hulking monstrosity. Nor is it going to be you against its wielder to stop said monstrosity. [[spoiler: In fact, Travis doesn't have to fight at all, not even against the guy who bogarts the kill. At least, not until the end of the game.]]
366* BrainInAJar: Belonging to Doctor Shake, his father.
367* EarthquakeMachine: His "Disaster Blaster," an enormous, silo-like device seemingly powered by the brain of its inventor, Letz Shake's father, Dr. Shake, and is apparently capable of unleashing a ''magnitude 20'' seismic blast when fully charged. [[spoiler:We never get to properly see it in action though, as it's sliced in half and blown up by Henry at the very last second.]]
368* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Real name is never revealed in the first game, though the brain in the jar is that of Dr. Shake, his father.
369* FunnyForeigner: A goofy, hammy, insane Singaporean, with a stereotypical German accent slapped on top.
370* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler:Turns out he survived the encounter through an EmergencyTransformation and makes a return appearance in ''No More Heroes 2'' as the 10th ranked assassin, and you actually get to fight him this time]].
371* NoKillLikeOverkill: He's a ProfessionalKiller, but one has to wonder how exactly he keeps that inconspicuous when his weapon is an enormous EarthquakeMachine.
372* ShoutOut: He appears to be wearing a Platform/VirtualBoy and [[Platform/NintendoEntertainmentSystem Power Glove]], his weapon is based on the Platform/{{Playstation 3}} and Platform/{{Xbox 360}} hardware and he even pulls a Music/MichaelJackson pose.
373* TechnologyPorn: PlayedForLaughs. The earthquake generator takes a solid two minutes or so to charge up, [[spoiler:unfortunately for Letz]].
374* TheUnfought: [[spoiler:To Travis's chagrin. Dr. Shake (the machine) and Travis get a proper duel in the sequel, however.]]
375[[/folder]]
376
377[[folder:(4)-Harvey Moiseiwitsch Volodarskii]]
378!!Harvey Moiseiwitsch Volodarskii
379!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JamesHoran (EN), Creator/KojiYusa (JP)
380!!!'''Theme:''' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8IggphUZr8 Violectrolysis]]
381
382[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/nmh_harvey_moiseiwitsch_volodarskii.png]]
383[[caption-width-right:350:''Let's see what you're made of, country boy!'']]
384
385--> It'll be a killer night, so let's get started!
386
387The 4th ranked assassin, an illusionist and escape artist that prefers using both death traps and DualWielding {{Laser Blade}}s (although smaller than the ones Travis uses). Also gives Travis an IdiotBall before the fight, although Travis wises up much faster this time.
388----
389* AffablyEvil: Even though he nearly tricks you into being sawn in half for the magic act, he doesn't seem all that mad when you escape, even seeming to congratulate you for doing so. He never directly insults Travis in their fight, and even apologizes [[InnocentlyInsensitive for accidentally touching upon Travis' dead parents.]] [[spoiler: And even after Travis sliced his eyes out, his VillainousBreakdown is more concerned with "the lights going out" rather than Travis being the cause of it.]]
390* AmbiguouslyJewish: The only clue is that his name sounds Jewish. Beyond that is anyone's guess.
391* BishieSparkle: While Harvey's bishieness is debatable under that ''Literature/ThePhantomOfTheOpera'' mask, he still sparkles.
392* CatAndMouseBoss: You run from his death traps. He runs from you.
393* CharacterDevelopment: Not for himself, but he unintentionally instigates this with Travis before they fight, where he accidentally treads [[MyParentsAreDead into his backstory]], making it clear that he isn't just a SociopathicHero on a bloody quest to become the top killer.
394* DeathTrap: His flagship attack. If Travis doesn't escape from it, he dies instantly.
395* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: Harvey really loves the word "lucky" in the beginning.
396* DualWielding: He fights with two blades.
397* EyeScream: [[spoiler:How Travis ultimately dispatches him, without somehow destroying his head.]]
398* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:He eventually gets put into his own DeathTrap.]]
399* InnocentlyInsensitive: When he brings up Travis' parents regarding his name, Travis tells Harvey that "MyParentsAreDead". Harvey immediately apologizes for bringing it up.
400* InterfaceScrew: He's capable of messing with the game's interface during battle.
401* LaserBlade: The Magic Double Saber, a dual-wielded set of beam katanas. Oddly, their lasers appear to entwine the hilts when ignited, and they resemble small lances or staves more than blades.
402* MasterOfIllusion: It's his day job as a stage magician, and also his gimmick in combat.
403* OverlyLongName: He is the only assassin in the game with three names and the latter two are fairly lengthy to the point where the electronic narrator's voice seems to struggle to pronounce them properly.
404* PressXToNotDie: [[ZigZaggedTrope A fairly avoidable one, and even then it's fairly easy to beat.]] Once you lower his health to a certain point, he will disappear and send a spotlight after you. You can avoid it entirely by running away from it, but if you do, Harvey and his assistants trap Travis in a box. You then have to shake the Wii remote to get out of the box before it [[OneHitKill explodes.]]
405* ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: [[spoiler: Travis throws his beam katana boomerang style to [[EyeScream cleanly slice out Harvey's eyes]]. Even more unbelievable, it ''only'' took out his eyes, as opposed to the rest of his head.]]
406[[/folder]]
407
408[[folder:(3)-Speed Buster]]
409!!Speed Buster
410!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MitziMcCall (EN), Creator/KimikoSaito (JP)
411!!!'''Theme:''' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCZMqLG7rR4 Mach 13 Elephant Explosion]]
412
413[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/nmh_speed_buster.png]]
414[[caption-width-right:350:''Fuck you, [[DoesNotLikeMen ya little prick!]]'']]
415
416--> Why are all men so freakin' ignorant? They never learn, no matter how old they get...''they never learn.''
417
418The 3rd ranked assassin, a seemingly senile elderly homeless woman who turns out to have a WaveMotionGun in her shopping cart. She apparently has some history with Thunder Ryu.
419----
420* AffablyEvil: It's a little unclear as to whether she's this or FauxAffablyEvil -- she's introduced as a polite, if not a perfectly normal old woman... until we get to see her WaveMotionGun and hear her [[ClusterFBomb obscenity-filled boss banter]]. [[spoiler:Once Travis has her dead to rights, however, [[GracefulLoser she takes her defeat fairly well]], sharing Travis' sympathy and respect of Thunder Ryu before she gets executed.]]
421* AnimalMotifs: Her WaveMotionGun starts out as a shopping cart, then an egg, then a chick, then a chicken, and finally a rooster.
422* BaitAndSwitch: Sylvia refers to her as a witch in her phone call before the fight, and her letter says that she has powerful magic... but she's really just an old lady with a laser cannon.
423* BenevolentArchitecture: Her laser beam can't hit you if you're hiding in one of the many dilapidated buildings or alleys, and attacking the right street light will cause a chain reaction of street lights falling like dominoes, ending with one striking her cannon and breaking it, giving Travis an opening to approach.
424* CorridorCubbyholeRun: Her boss fight (and stage) is running down a street, avoiding blasts from her WaveMotionGun by ducking into alleys.
425* DoesNotLikeMen: [[spoiler:Though she makes an exception for Thunder Ryu and Travis.]]
426* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Again, even the supplemental materials list no name.
427* FaceDeathWithDignity: She accepts death after Travis defeats her.
428* FanDisservice: Averted, as she is exempted from the Playstation 3 version's "Very Sweet Mode" that puts all the female characters in swimsuits.
429* GlassCannon: Completely powerless without her laser cannon. And her laser cannon can be taken out by simply dropping a street light onto it.
430* GracefulLoser: Compliments Travis's skills and gives him a peck on the cheek right before [[spoiler:he decapitates her.]]
431* ObfuscatingStupidity: Acts like she can't hear Travis... as her shopping cart obviously and visibly unfolds into a massive laser cannon. Then again, firing that thing probably demolished her hearing.
432* NeverMessWithGranny: If you don't want a huge-ass laser to the face. Just ask [[spoiler:Thunder Ryu]].
433* NoKillLikeOverkill: Compared to every other assassin. Travis and his various opponents use laser blades or guns... Speed Buster uses a gigantic laser cannon that can devastate cities and instantly kill her targets, along with anyone behind them for miles.
434* OffWithHerHead: The way Travis kills her.
435* PuzzleBoss: It's really all about dodging her cannon until you can get close enough to sabotage it; she's too old to put up much of a fight.
436* ShoppingCartAntics: She appears in battle with a random shopping cart full of produce in it... which after a lengthy transformation period, turns into an enormous [[WaveMotionGun radioactive particle beam cannon called the "Buster Launcher."]]
437* SirSwearsALot: Her intro card line is "Fuck you, you little prick!" and she frequently yells the F-bomb as she fires off the beam.
438* VillainousBreakdown: As you get closer to her WaveMotionGun, her battle dialogue changes from taunts and insults to screaming at you to stay away.
439* WaveMotionGun: Let it hit you and [[OneHitKill it's bye-bye]]. You'll survive two or three hits on the lower difficulties (although it ''will'' burn out the Beam Katana), but on Bitter you ''have'' to get out of the way.
440* WorthyOpponent: She doesn't exactly have the best words to describe the male gender as a whole, but admits that Thunder Ryu was an exceptional man, and expresses her opinion that she hopes Travis will one day be as great as he was.
441[[/folder]]
442
443[[folder:(2)-Bad Girl]]
444!!Real Name: Charlotte Birkin
445!!!'''Voiced by:''' Kathryn Fiore (EN), Creator/YukoSanpei (JP)
446!!!'''Theme:''' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeTvEpDj0D8 Pleather for Breakfast]]
447
448[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/nmh_bad_girl.png]]
449[[caption-width-right:350:No More Heroes]]
450[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Click to see her in Travis Strikes Again / No More Heroes III]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tsabadgirl.png[[/labelnote]]]]
451
452[[caption-width-right:350:"You think you're bad, don't 'cha?"]]
453--> Pop quiz: why am I such an angry bitch? Seriously, no matter how many I kill, it's all the same. They're all going to pay! Yeah! With their fuckin' lives!
454
455The 2nd ranked assassin, who is an overly made-up woman in a pink baby doll dress and carrying around a bloody baseball bat. While all of the assassins, including Travis, are obviously unhinged to some degree, Bad Girl is out-and-out psychotic, and not at all ashamed of it. Easily the most unnerving of the opponents. Her death forms a big part of the plot of ''Travis Strikes Again'', with her father seeking revenge against Travis and later teaming up with him to use the death balls to resurrect her.
456----
457* AbnormalAmmo: Gimps. ''Cloned'' gimps, to be specific. [[WeHaveReserves Killing them]] has become her day job until Travis arrives.
458* ArmorPiercingAttack: Her main gimmick as a [[spoiler:[[PromotableToPlayable playable character]] in ''Travis Strikes Again'']] is using her "Cleanup" Skill Chip to make all her melee attacks capable of breaking an enemy's guard and knocking them out of whatever they were doing. If she manages to corner an opponent with this ability on, she can potentially barrage them with blows while effectively keeping them stun-locked.
459* AntiHero: [[spoiler:She is this in ''III'' as she is still the same AxCrazy GirlyBruiser who helping Travis fight off the alien invaders from space.]]
460* AssKicksYou: Her [[spoiler:heavy attack in ''Travis Strikes Again'' features her swinging her bat once, followed by launching her backside toward the opponent.]]
461* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: [[spoiler:A very tragic example. The aftermath of finally being revived in the DLC of ''Travis Strikes Again'', has Bad Man and Bad Girl realizing that in the ten years since they've last seen each other, they no longer recognize each as the family they once were. They end up deciding to go their seperate ways without so much as a single hug though Bad Man insists that they're still blood family no matter what. In ''III'' however, Bad Man's death at the hands of FU ''[[BreakTheCutie breaks]]'' Bad Girl to the point where she spends most of the game [[TroubledFetalPosition huddling in her bedroom]] calling out to her deceased father whilst clutching his mask muttering ''Daddy'' to herself over and over. In the ending after recovering and assisting Travis and his friends in taking down FU once and for all, they all hold a funeral for Bad Man with Bad Girl giving a final eulogy describing the fond memories she had of her father as a child, the way he was an inspiring baseball player and how she would eat the marble ice cream he bought her and pretend it was her favorite flavor just because he thought it was and she wanted him to be happy.]]
462* AxCrazy: She has a conveyor belt that bring in a line of cloned gimps that she hits and kills one by one, and also hits them at Travis like baseballs. This trope doesn't begin to describe her.
463* BackFromTheDead:
464** [[spoiler:Her father brings her back to life in ''Travis Strikes Again'', except she comes back in the body of a dog.]]
465** [[spoiler:She gets brought back for real in the DLC, though she still retains her infantilized personality from the original resurrection.]]
466* BadassNormal: The assassins leading up to the rank 2 battle have all been visibly-dangerous killers, and utilized various forms of [[LaserBlade beam katanas]], guns that shoot extremely explosive bullets, a rocket launcher mounted into a prosthetic leg, a building-sized earthquake generator, and a WaveMotionGun disguised as a shopping cart. Bad Girl is a young woman, wearing a dress, armed with a completely normal baseball bat. She is tough as nails, and if you aren't careful, she will ''absolutely destroy you.''
467* BatterUp: Her weapon. She even says this phrase verbatim when using her most basic attack.
468* BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil: She was kidnapped and subject to brutal electric shock torture by her father's "sponsor" in an attempt to replicate the violent circumstances that turned Shigeki from a humdrum alcoholic to a talented hitman. The result was a far more powerful killer, albeit one who was much less sane and stable.
469* BrainlessBeauty: As of ''Travis Strikes Again'', she's boiled down to a single-minded killing machine.
470* BreakoutCharacter: She was just a late-game assassin that Travis fights, with [[DiabolusExNihilo no explanation as to who she is or why she's the way she is]], but became fairly popular, with her father eventually becoming a playable character in ''Travis Strikes Again'', and she becomes a playable character in the "Bubblegum Fatale" DLC where her backstory gets greatly expanded upon. By the time of of ''III'', she's now part of Travis' circle of friends and allies, even living in a motel room near his and joining in on a discussion of movies between him and Bishop.
471* BreakTheCutie: [[spoiler:Seeing her father dead in ''III'' leaves her a [[BrokenRecord near-catatonic]] [[TroubledFetalPosition wreck]] and it takes some time before she recovers.]]
472* BrokenRecord: [[spoiler:After seeing her father dead, she can only bring herself to call out to "Daddy" while clutching his mask.]]
473* ButNotTooForeign: Turns out she's part-Japanese on her father's side.
474* CameBackWrong: [[spoiler:When her father wishes her back using the Death Balls. It turns out one of the Balls was incomplete, so she returns in the body of a dog. Even after she gets her actual body back, her mind has become much more childish than she was originally.]]
475* CombatStilettos: She wears extremely high spike heels during your fight. Unusually for this trope, they visibly affect her ability to walk or run--but she's still one of the toughest fights in the game. One wonders what she could have done if you'd interrupted her in different shoes.
476* CoolCrown: She wears one in her ''Travis Strikes Again'' and ''III'' outfit.
477* CuteAndPsycho: As part of the send up of the "hot blonde cheerleader" trope. Her cuteness is seriously undermined by her nature as one of ''the'' most unhinged assassins in the game.
478* DaddysLittleVillain: Loved by her father despite being over the top insane and violent. [[spoiler:She takes his death by FU ''hard''.]]
479* DarkActionGirl: While characters like Shinobu and Holly are more anti heroic in nature and the player knows little about Speed Buster, Bad Girl stands out of the ranked assassins for being a violently unhinged woman and while she doesn’t have anything special about her moveset being armed with a simple, crude bat, she ends up being one of Travis’s most difficult opponents because of her violent and unpredictable nature with her technically winning the fight even with her death.
480* {{Determinator}}: [[spoiler:Even getting run through by a beam katana doesn't stop her from beating Travis to a pulp. Travis only wins by surrendering to make her stop hitting him, at which point she finally bleeds out. Revealed in ''Travis Strikes Again'' to have gotten it from her dad.]]
481* DiabolusExNihilo: Throughout the first ''No More Heroes'', the assassins Travis faces at least have some explanation as to who they are. Death Metal has a mansion and a life of luxury, Dr. Peace has an estranged daughter, Harvey is a stage magician, Speed Buster is an old woman who hates men but seems to have an odd friendship with Thunder Ryu... With Bad Girl? You get ''nothing''. There's no FreudianExcuse [[note]]though we do later learn she was kidnapped and tortured to turn her into an assassin like her father (see BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil above)[[/note]], no mention of friends or family [[note]]at least until her father's revealed in ''Travis Strikes Again'', but it has no bearing on the first game, and it takes place long after she's killed[[/note]]... she doesn't even seem to have an occupation other than being a killer. Travis does ''not'' expect this and the fact that there is literally ''nothing'' else to her character beyond murder [[EveryoneHasStandards disgusts him.]] He even drops his [[WouldNotHitAGirl few shreds of chivalry]] for the fight with her.
482* DistaffCounterpart: To her father, Bad... Man.
483* DoNotCallMePaul: [[spoiler:She does not like being called by her real name 'Charlotte' to which Travis and Bishop calls her by in ''No More Heroes III''.]]
484* DrunkenMaster: It's not-so-subtly implied that she's totally hammered during the fight, but she will kick your ass into next week with that bat.
485* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler:Between the later revelations of her [[BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil literally tortured life]] before the first ''No More Heroes'', and being revived by her father Bad Man in ''Travis Strikes Again'' just for the man to himself get killed by Fu early on in ''III'' traumatizing her for most of the game; let's just say life's been a bitch to her to say the least. Eventually, she does recover enough to hang out and talk about movies with Travis and Bishop and even personally helps out in taking down FU out of revenge for her father. At the end of the game, Travis and all of his allies, new and old, gather to hold a funeral for Bad Man showing that [[BittersweetEnding no matter how fucked up her life turned out, she's not alone.]]]]
486* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Even more so than the other assassins in their cutscenes - in her first thirty seconds, she kills five gimps with a baseball bat while cheering and laughing about it, swears like a sailor, gets a beer out of a fridge filled only with beer cans, and downs said beer in only a few seconds.
487* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: [[spoiler:Despite her AxCrazy personality, she truly loves her father Badman and was devastated that he was killed by FU.]]
488* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: With her, though, it's likely that she doesn't even care to have a name, through ''Travis Strikes Again'' reveals she has one.
489* FanDisservice: Her imagery definitely invokes fanservice, but it gets kinda lost underneath her [[AxCrazy utterly deranged]] and [[StrawNihilist disturbing personality and philosophy.]]
490* FauxAffablyEvil: She offers Travis a beer before fighting him, and soon reveals that she's an utter psycho. Soon as she notices that Travis thinks he's better than her, she goes from zero to murder in fifteen seconds.
491* {{Foil}}: To Bishop [[spoiler:and Jasper Batt Sr]]. The deaths of two comically unmemorable characters are the catalysts to the second game's dramatic revenge plot despite being nothing more than footnotes in their own original game and irrelevant to the audience, now the fan-favorite Bad Girl has someone mourning her in ''Travis Strikes Again'' (her father) and avenging her despite being the worst and most deranged person Travis has ever met.
492* ForTheEvulz: Judging by her monologue, this is what drives her.
493--> "Pop quiz. Why am I such an angry bitch? Seriously, no matter how many I kill, it's all the same. [[PunctuatedForEmphasis They're all. Going. To pay.]] Yeah. With their ''fucking lives''."
494* FlamingSword: When her health gets to about half, there's a short cutscene where she takes a swig of whiskey and ignites her breath to set her bat on fire. From that point on, her downward swing attack makes a large explosion that's hard to dodge.
495* FlunkyBoss: Several times during the fight she runs to the conveyor belt and uses her bat [[GrievousHarmWithABody to launch the clones at Travis]] like projectiles (the player [[TennisBoss can deflect them back at her]] with a pinpoint attack) The clones then fight like regular Mooks.
496* GirlWithPsychoWeapon: Cute girl, bloody bat.
497* GirlyBruiser: That pink dress, heels and make-up don't hinder her ass-kicking abilities in the least. She's even now the trope picture for the former.
498* HardDrinkingPartyGirl: A very violent version, as she's a twenty-something girl gleefully plastered on nautical gallons worth of beer, but her [[AlcoholInducedIdiocy Alcohol-Induced Shenanigans]] are less [[ChandelierSwing swinging from a chandelier]], [[BatterUp and more beating people to death with a baseball bat]].
499* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: In ''No More Heroes III'', she's now working with Travis and Shinobu to fight FU and the other aliens. But it seems only because Bad Girl sees killing the alien invaders as "looks like fun", still it's better having her as an ally than as an enemy... Until FU comes and murders her dad.]]
500* HeroicBSOD: [[spoiler:Let's just say, she doesn't take FU's attack on Badman very well.]]
501-->[[spoiler:''Daddy...daddy...daddy...'']]
502* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Although it takes a while to kill her.
503* KnightOfCerebus: Her original appearance in the first game is radically different from pretty much all of Travis' previous opponents, in terms of tone. Unlike every other assassin before her, she has ''zero'' sympathetic or comedic quirks to her character, an absence which highlights [[DiabolusExNihilo just how sociopathic and violent of a person she is.]] Her battle ends up marking the plot's transformation from [[ToBeAMaster Travis' journey to being number 1]] to an examination of [[AxCrazy the violence and]] [[DarkAndTroubledPast sheer darkness of his life.]]
504* LadyDrunk: A rather young example. During the cutscene before the fight, Bad Girl downs a whole can of beer - taken from a refrigerator that has ''only'' beer inside it - in under five seconds. She does it again in less time later-in between a cut to Travis and her throwing a beer can, Bad Girl emptied it entirely (you can tell by the clinking on the ground).
505* LadySwearsALot: Every third word from her mouth is a swear.
506* LateToTheTragedy: In ''III'', she arrives after FU decimated Travis, Shinobu and her father, [[spoiler: and thus has to see her father's corpse in front of her.]]
507* LetThemDieHappy: After she has a Beam Katana impaled through her, she keeps beating Travis while stating she won't lose. Travis tells her that he gives up, causing her to smile and giggle a bit before she finally dies from blood loss.
508* LightningBruiser: Bad Girl hits like a truck, can take a helluva beating, and will run circles around Travis with little issue when prompted.
509* LikeFatherLikeSon: Turns out to share weapon affinity and drinking habits with her father.
510* MiniDressOfPower: Which emphasizes her SupermodelStrut.
511* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: If you fall for her WoundedGazelleGambit, her ensuing smackdown from [[BatterUp her baseball bat]] [[OneHitKill will kill you]] and look extremely painful. [[spoiler:When Travis finally "defeats" her, [[TakingYouWithMe she proceeds to use her dying moments to lay another one down on him]], and while previous violence against him has generally skewed towards [[IronButtmonkey comical]] {{slapstick}}, this moment is legitimately brutal and almost kills him.]]
512* NominalImportance: In the first game she was only a minor character, without much relevance in the plot and she was one of the assassins who didn't get a real name and was only called "Bad Girl". So when in ''Travis Strikes Again'' her death causes the events of the game her given name was finally given by her father.
513* NothingNiceAboutSugarAndSpice: Bad Girl is a young woman who wears a pink frilly dress and high heels. She's also an AxCrazy maniac who beats people to death with a baseball bat.
514* NotSoDifferentRemark: During the prefight cutscene Travis says "You're no assassin, you're just a perverted killing maniac." Her response: "In essence, they're the same."
515* PerfectPlayAI: In battle, she'll usually just saunter towards Travis very slowly and go ballistic when he's actually within attack range. If the player tries to stay away, she'll resort to her [[GrievousHarmWithABody gimps]] instead.
516* PinkIsErotic: Fights in a vibrantly pink dress, which punctuates the fetishistic undertones of the rest of her character design, from her habit of bludgeoning clones in S&M gear to her vaguely sexual posing whenever approaching or [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown beating the ever-loving crap out of Travis]].
517* PinkMeansFeminine: Bad Girl is, well, a pink girl, a violent one at that.
518* PlayingTennisWithTheBoss: You can hit her gimps back at her. Careful though, because she'll sometimes send them right back at you.
519* PlayingWithFire: After she TurnsRed, she douses her bat in alcohol and sets it on fire.
520* PromotedToPlayable: The major selling point for the "Bubblegum Fatale" DLC for ''Travis Strikes Again''.
521* PsychoPink: Wears pink and is absolutely ''insane'' compared to the other assassins. Unlike the rest of them, she hides under no such pretences of honor or pity and is simply killing because she enjoys it, something that utterly disgusts Travis.
522* PsychopathicManchild: [[spoiler:Her full resurrection post-DLC in ''Travis Strikes Again'' evidently couldn't completely fix the damage Badman's handler did to her psyche, as she's still murder-happy despite her mind having reverted back to a more childish state. At the very least, she doesn't seem to be hostile towards Travis anymore come her return in ''III''.]]
523* PyrrhicVictory: [[spoiler:Technically, [[GameplayAndStorySegregation her duel with Travis ends with him losing]], as he surrenders to make her stop hitting him; not that it does her much good, as she dies about five seconds later, making Travis the winner by default.]]
524* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Subverted. Why is she such an angry bitch? She doesn't ''need'' a reason. She just wants to make people "pay with their fucking lives" ForTheEvulz.
525* RuleOfGlamorous: Deconstructively defied, she ''does'' wear a frilly dress while being a mentally unstable assassin doin' her job, this dissonance creates a more ''unnerving'' effect, rather than a pleasant one for the viewer. [[spoiler:Even more so, when we learn about how she was ''recruited'' in ''Travis Strikes Again''...]]
526* SmallRoleBigImpact: A relatively minor character in the game as a whole, but her death is what sets off the plot of ''VideoGame/TravisStrikesAgainNoMoreHeroes'', in which her father, known as Bad Man, decides to get revenge on Travis.
527* StealthPun: [[spoiler:When she's brought back from the dead, she gets revived as a dog. Well, she was a pretty big bitch.]]
528* StrawNihilist: Unlike the other assassins, there is ''nothing'' truly that could be considered "humane" about her. She kills people ForTheEvulz and doesn't even seem to take pleasure in ''that''. What's more, she's coherent enough to ''know'' that she's a nihilistic killing machine and has more or less resigned herself to it. [[spoiler: Being tortured into a pure killer didn't really help.]]
529* SupermodelStrut: Two variations of it during her boss fight, one with dragging the bat and less hip swaying and the other holding the bat like a cane; swinging her hips enough to bounce her skirt side to side.
530* TakingYouWithMe: She tries her damnedest to do this to Travis. [[spoiler:He actually ''does'' concede to her, and he goes unconscious from her blows as she dies. Travis doesn't so much win this fight as much as he just loses last.]]
531* TokenEvilTeammate: Easily the most bloodthirsty and ruthlessly unpleasant playable characters in [[spoiler:''Travis Strikes Again''.]]
532* TookALevelInDumbass: [[spoiler:Her resurrection ended up regressing her mental constitution into that of a child, making her much more unhinged and violence-prone compared to her original personality that was more bitter and intelligent enough to call out Travis on his own hypocrisy. This wasn't remedied by her getting her human body back.]]
533* TragicKeepsake: [[spoiler:After her father dies to FU, she's seen clutching his mask all while muttering "Daddy..."]]
534* TragicVillain: Revealed to be this in ''Travis Strikes Again''. She was a normal girl until [[spoiler:her father's handler kidnapped her and subjected her to near-death torture that broke her mind, turning her into the AxCrazy monster Travis ends up fighting.]]
535* TranquilFury: Just look at how her mannerisms shift after Travis tries to pull EvenEvilHasStandards on her. She goes from being openly unhinged, flitting from FauxAffablyEvil to AxCrazy at the drop of a hat, to ''much'' calmer and more collected. Travis quite clearly hits a nerve with her.
536* UnderestimatingBadassery: She isn't ranked 2nd for nothing. It's not just that Travis underestimates her skill, but also that she's ''batshit crazy'', making her unpredictable. She is easily Travis's toughest opponent in the first game, if not the whole series. Even after he defeats and impales her, she proceeds to beat his ass half to death, finally giving up and dying only after he "concedes" defeat. Travis admits to Sylvia's mooks that he almost lost that one.
537* UsedToBeASweetKid: Was like this before [[spoiler:her dad's handler 'recruited' her through kidnapping and near-death torture.]]
538* VillainHasAPoint: Despite being a "perverted killing maniac", she isn't wrong in telling Travis that he shouldn't try to spout his own ethical superiority. Regardless of the justifications and his supposed moral high ground, he is still killing people for his own entertainment and gratification, no matter how far he'll go to prove otherwise. There's no real need for him to be ashamed or to have the need to justify his actions, and even less need to think he's somehow better than other assassins.
539* VocalEvolution: There's over a decade of time between Bad Girl's first appearance in which she died and her later appearances. Kathryn Fiore's take on her is a bit shriller these days though it does suit her [[TookALevelInDumbass mental regression]] past her resurrection.
540* WorthyOpponent: Some of the bosses she beats in [[spoiler:''Travis Strikes Again'']] manage to win her respect with either their fighting skills or characters.
541* WoundedGazelleGambit: And [[SchmuckBait if you fall for it,]] it's an OneHitKill. On you, not by you. [[spoiler:To tell the difference, look at her hands when she starts crying. [[CrocodileTears If she has one hand on her baseball bat]]? Stay away. [[BrokenTears If she has both of her hands on her face]]? Hack 'n' slash away!]]
542* YoureInsane: And if it comes from Travis, you know she's messed up.
543[[/folder]]
544
545[[folder:(1)-Dark Star]]
546!!Dark Star
547!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/SteveBlum (EN), Creator/TesshoGenda (JP)
548
549[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dark_star_28.png]]
550[[caption-width-right:350:"Welcome to my castle."]]
551
552--> Welcome to my castle. I heartily receive you, [[LukeIAmYourFather my son]].
553
554The number one ranked assassin of the UAA, and Travis' ultimate target. Lives way out of town in a large castle, and awaits Travis' approach for a very special reason... to start messing with his mind before he kills him, of course. He's a guy that enjoys that sort of thing.
555----
556* AnimalMotifs: Dragons, [[TigerVersusDragon to mirror]] Travis' tiger motif.
557* BadassCape: A very badass full mantle. [[spoiler: Shame he doesn't actually wind up doing anything badass]].
558* BaitAndSwitchBoss: [[spoiler:Jeane (the human) takes him out before the battle begins, then serves as the [[FinalBoss actual final opponent]] in his place.]]
559* CoolMask: Complete with a retractable dragon tail-shaped laser whip.
560* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: [[spoiler:Though he tries to convince Travis that he's his father, who presumably does have a name Travis knows.]]
561* EvilSoundsDeep: Part of being the #1 highest ranked assassin.
562* FeetFirstIntroduction: Your first view of the man is his snake-skin loafers befitting his expensive-looking and sinister attire.
563* ImpossiblyCoolWeapon: The "blade" of his "Horse Saber" is an ''enormous'' energy whip-thing that resembles a giant laser dragon. [[spoiler: Even when Dark Star's killed off and you instead fight Jeane, it still forms the giant ring that you two fight in, which gradually shrinks as you duke it out.]]
564* LaserBlade: The Horse Saber, easily the least katana-like of the various beam katanas shown in the series. Its "blade..." well, just see above. [[spoiler:You don't even get to see it ''being used for its intended purpose;'' Jeane kills Dark Star before he gets the chance to "swing" it, using its blade to circle an arena for your fight with her.]]
565* LukeIAmYourFather: Dark Star is Travis' father. [[spoiler:[[BlatantLies Actually a lie]]; Dark Star said it to mess with Travis and get in his head before their fight.]]
566* SpikesOfVillainy: On his armor.
567* TheUnfought: [[spoiler: He's killed before the ''real'' final battle begins.]]
568* VaderBreath: Audibly breathing somewhat heavily when he first appears though he quiets down once he opens his helmet.
569[[/folder]]
570
571!Other Assassins
572[[folder:Unknown Assassin]]
573!!Unknown Assassin (real name possibly Ermen Palmer)
574[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ErmenPalmer_5829.png]]
575
576--> I'm afraid not. These fights don't work like that. It's time to die, Mr. First Rank!
577
578An assassin below Travis in the ranks. He appears in the game's ending to challenge Travis' position.
579----
580* BaitAndSwitchBoss: [[spoiler:Don't worry, you won't have to run around Travis' apartment, trying to fend the guy off while getting your own beam katana.]]
581* CombatPragmatist: What kind of ''monster'' attacks a man while he's on the crapper?
582* DidntThinkThisThrough: Travis killed assassins above him to take their positions without thinking about how he was also inheriting their status as a target.
583* {{Expy}}: Looks (at least from what little you see of him) like Garcian Smith from ''VideoGame/{{killer7}}''. The circumstances of [[spoiler:trying to kill an assassin in a hotel by catching them off-guard]] are also very similar to Garcian's [[spoiler:(or rather, Emir Parkreiner's)]] backstory, even more so if you've completed Lovikov's sidequest. Doesn't help that Garcian and the Smiths' first target was also named Travis. And then ''VideoGame/TravisStrikesAgainNoMoreHeroes'' made [[spoiler:''No More Heroes'' and ''killer7'' a part of the same universe. Make of that as you will.]]
584* TheFaceless: You never get a good look at him.
585* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: Courtesy of Henry.
586* LaserBlade: His apparent weapon of choice. Fitting, since if the second game is any indication, Travis ended up popularizing beam katanas among professional assassins during his climb to rank 1.
587* UnknownRival: He bursts into Travis's bathroom, also with a beam katana, out to take Travis' position. Travis has no idea who this guy is, and particularly why he won't respect the sanctity of the restroom.
588[[/folder]]
589
590[[folder:Jeane (Person) ('''SPOILERS UNMARKED!''')]]
591!!Jeane (Person)
592!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KariWahlgren (EN), Creator/MamikoNoto (JP)
593!!!'''Theme:''' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1EcoeJK_Oo Rocket Surgeon]]
594
595[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/nmh_jeane.png]]
596
597--> Go ahead. Draw, brother.
598
599Travis' ex-girlfriend, revealed to be half-sister, who he hasn't seen in two years.
600----
601* AchillesHeel: Agile enough to dodge just about anything Travis can throw at her... except for charged attacks which can consistently hit her at close range. Worse, they can even briefly stagger her for basic combos if she gets hit at the right time.
602* AllThereInTheManual: Literally, her only mention before her actual appearance is in the instruction manual.
603* BareFistedMonk: Unlike the others Jeane is not armed with fancy robots, guns, swords or anything else. Just unarmed punches, kicks, and a few wrestling moves. She ''will'' kick your ass.
604* BigBad: She ends up being primary antagonist of the first game. Namely, she's the one who [[YouKilledMyFather murdered Travis' parents in front of him]], and thus became Travis' target for vengeance.
605* BrokenPedestal: The truth about Jeane is the killing blow to idealism in Travis's world. The first we see of Jeane, all we see of her is a photo of her on Travis's desk smiling happily in an open field, wearing a sunhat and a sundress. It is clear that Jeane represented a more innocent and idealistic time in Travis's life. However, in the game proper, Jeane reveals through her horrific backstory that she is nowhere near as pure or innocent as she appeared, and that her relationship with Travis was tainted from the start with revenge against their father being the primary motivation, and twofold for being incestuous. The photo of the bright long-haired Jeane mentioned before is contrasted with the shot of a short-haired, bloodied Jeane enveloped in shadow, right after killing Travis's parents. Killing Jeane with his own hands symbolizes Travis killing the illusion of an idealistic past, and coming to terms with reality as it is
606* BrotherSisterIncest: She slept with her half-brother--Travis--who didn't know it at the time. So when he learns the AwfulTruth in the present, [[EveryoneHasStandards he's]] suitably {{Squick}}ed out.
607* CainAndAbel: She's this with Travis, but it's notably very muddy which of them is Cain and which is Abel. Jeane struck first by killing their father and Travis's mother, but Travis's main goal in joining the UAA is the chance to kill Jeane, and even when he learns that she's his sister, he's still determined to kill her.
608* ContinuityNod: [[spoiler:In ''III'', Henry recalls how when Travis and him ran away from home to escape their SerialKiller father, Henry was carrying the much younger Jeane acknowledging for the first time how she's technically his half-sister too.]]
609* {{Cowgirl}}: Dresses as one in Very Sweet Mode of ''Heroes Paradise''.
610* ChekhovsGunman: Aside from her passing mention in the manual, there's also a picture of her in a white dress next to Travis's answering machine. In ''Desperate Struggle'', the picture has Jeane's face [[ContinuityNod scribbled out with a marker]].
611* DeathEqualsRedemption: Well, more like Death Equals Reconciliation, as she and Travis make peace with one another before Travis kills her. Jeane [[FaceDeathWithDignity has no qualms with death]], [[GracefulLoser complimenting Travis]] and holding her head high. She even ''[[GoOutWithASmile smiles]]'' before Travis [[MercyKill deals the final blow]], delivering the line "Good night, Travis".
612* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: "You know that {{manga}} called ''Manga/{{Miyuki}}''? The Japanese one?"
613* FaceDeathWithDignity: Barring an initial plea for Travis not to kill her, she calmly accepts her loss, saying that she's had enough killing. Her last words before Travis deals the mortal blow is bidding her half-brother goodnight.
614* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: Depleting all her health results in a final power struggle that always ends with her defeating Travis, who is only saved thanks to the intervention of Shinobu.
615* FastForwardGag: Her exposition towards Travis, as a means of slipping in some... [[AwfulTruth heavy truths]] past the age rating system. You can pick up on the general mood of the conversation just by watching Travis's horrified reactions, but you can also record the audio and slow it back down if you want to hear the gory details.
616* FinalBoss: Jeane serves as the final opponent of the game by default, [[BaitAndSwitchBoss in place of Dark Star]].
617* FragileSpeedster: Her health is actually quite low for a boss for the point in the game she's fought, but she has a nasty habit of dodging/countering ''everything''. Oh, and she {{Flash Step}}s all over the place.
618* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: After explaining how she and Travis are half-siblings, her history of being sexually abused by their father, and how she had to prostitute herself so she can afford to protect herself and avenge her mother. Travis is sympathetic to her but chooses to kill her anyway so he can avenge his father and mother, also because Jeane wouldn't share his clemency even if he chose to spare her, which was shown after Shinobu cuts her arm off while it was in Travis' chest. After this, Travis kills her when she begs for her life and tries to appeal to him by saying they're brother and sister, though soon gives this up and accepts his reasoning for what he has to do. Travis wishes her the best in the afterlife before he kills her.
619* GoodOldFisticuffs: She uses no weapon, and is apparently an expert at hand-to-hand fighting--even moreso than wrestling-fan Travis.
620* GroinAttack: She takes Dark Star down by launching her fist through his crotch.
621* HiddenVillain: Taken to its extreme conclusion, as she isn't seen or mentioned ''at all'' before her boss fight, aside from a passing reference in the instruction manual.
622* KnightOfCerebus: She brings some darker overtones to what was previously an ultraviolent yet very silly game about a guy winning a lightsaber on eBay and testing it out by killing people by revealing that Travis' true motive was {{revenge}} for his dead parents.
623* LukeIAmYourFather: "Travis, I am your half-sister".
624* MercyKill: In the end, both Travis and Jeane feel that she has to die. The latter admits she's tired, the former being solemn in his actions.
625* MundaneUtility: That awesome and massive energy dragon emanating from Dark Star's beam katana? She simply uses it to form simple fighting ring to fight Travis in. As the battle progresses, she'll make the ring smaller to constrict Travis more while she's capable of dodging in place.
626* MythicalMotifs: Dragons, she takes the dragon motif from Dark Star and is shown to be a professional fighter. This reflects the [[TigerVersusDragon tiger and dragon philosophy with Travis]]; Jeane is a professional fighter who is trained to kill others, while Travis just bought a beam katana and decided to be the number 1 assassin for the thrill of the hunt.
627* NoSell: The only human-sized enemy in either game that Travis can't grapple, since she'll turn it against him every time he tries. [[JustifiedTrope Makes sense]], given how well she's trained in MMA. On the other hand, Travis can instead use charged attacks against Jeane, who's very vulnerable to them.
628* ParentalIncest: Her (and Travis's) father molested her in a "rotten apartment" for a long time during which she says she was [[SexSlave "his slave"]].
629* RapeAndRevenge: Amounts to her reasoning for killing her father. As she puts it:
630-->'''Jeane:''' Ever since I can remember, he molested me. We lived in this rotten apartment. And I was his slave. Every day I cursed his soul. I swore that I would kill him one day. But cursing didn't change anything. That's when I decided to become a killer.
631* RedEyesTakeWarning: One of the most dangerous bosses, and she's got red eyes.
632* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Jeane's motivation for everything she's done, which includes killing Travis' parents and messing with him.
633* RushBoss: She's vicious, powerful, and rarely leaves herself open, but doesn't have much health to spare once you start landing hits.
634* SelfMadeOrphan: Well, half true. Her mother died by the hands of her father (or committed suicide because of his abuse). Jeane bided her time to learn how to kill before killing him.
635* SexForServices: Tells Travis that she paid for her training to be an assassin "with [her] body" due to having no money.
636* ShoutOut: Compares her situation to that of the manga ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miyuki_(manga) Miyuki]]''.
637** It's little coincidence that a character named Jeane fights pretty much identically to Gene from ''VideoGame/GodHand'', right down to her dodging animation. Then there's her alternate {{Cowgirl}} outfit in the Super Sweet mode ''Heroes Paradise'' which mirrors Gene's Wild West-based outfit.
638* {{Stripperiffic}}: To a degree; all she's wearing is a tank top and shorts that are cut to show off her panties.
639* TakeThat: She delivers the immortal "''[[VideoGame/DukeNukemForever No More Heroes Forever]]''" line.
640* UndignifiedDeath: PlayedWith. She accepts her death rather calmly and accepts this is what it has to be, but Travis' killing blow essentially turns her body into a bloody heap with only her legs intact, which is far from a dignified way to end up.
641* SuperReflexes: The only assassin that can consistently evade and dodge all of Travis' combos aside from very rare moments of weakness like after her telegraphed long-range thrust punch.
642* WalkingSpoiler: She plays an integral part in the final act of the game, and is only obliquely referenced through the cat named after her outside of [[AllThereInTheManual the manual]].
643* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Her life ''completely'' sucked. Her response was to kill the man responsible for ruining it. Given that she became an assassin afterwards, it seems that this wasn't enough for her and she's now making a living out of killing. By the end, it's little wonder she's perfectly fine with finally letting go.
644* WorldsStrongestWoman: She's the strongest assassin in the game. Until you get to the TrueFinalBoss...
645* WoundedGazelleGambit: If you land a punch or kick on her, or even simply win a power struggle, she'll instantly dizzy rather than be knocked down. But since attempts to grapple with her always end badly for you...She also tries to guilt Travis out of killing her, though she accepts her fate soon enough.
646* WrestlerInAllOfUs: Puts Travis in an armbar if he moves to grab her.
647[[/folder]]
648
649[[folder:Henry Cooldown]]
650!!Henry Cooldown
651!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/QuintonFlynn ([=NMH1=], [=NMH2=]), Creator/MarkAllenStewart ([=NMH3=]) (EN), Creator/KatsuyukiKonishi (JP)
652!!!'''Theme:''' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DAJ2k7U5_w We Are Finally Cowboys]]
653
654[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/nmh1_henry_cooldown.png]]
655[[caption-width-right:350:No More Heroes]]
656[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Click to see him in No More Heroes 2]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Henry_NMH2_6265.png[[/labelnote]]]]
657[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Click to see him in No More Heroes III]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/eudihtkuyaaycol.jpg[[/labelnote]]]]
658
659--> You're a disgrace to yourself and all those you've killed...
660
661A mysterious man with an Irish accent that first runs into Travis when the latter is the 6th ranked assassin and the one who actually [[spoiler: kills Letz Shake.]] He promises to meet Travis again and go into more detail next time.
662----
663* AllThereInTheManual: His last name was revealed as "Kuurudaun" ("Cooldown") on the Japanese ''Desperate Struggle'' site.
664* AmbiguousSituation: Just ''what'' exactly is going on with him in ''III'' regarding his radically different personality, strange new appearance, and [[spoiler:his sudden crew of HiveMind doppelgangers]].
665* AxCrazy: [[spoiler:He's suddenly become this in ''III'' having become psychotically obsessed with killing his own little brother. Getting horizontally bisected isn't even enough to stop his bloodlust and when an apparent clone of him with his personality reappears to take Travis down while he's using the bathroom, he starts yelling at Travis to suffer as he slices him to pieces.]]
666* BadassInANiceSuit: Impeccably dressed, even when he's kicking ass.
667* BadassLongcoat: In the first game. Noticeably missing in ''Desperate Struggle'', where it's replaced with a WaistcoatOfStyle. He gets it back when he returns in ''III''.
668* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:In ''Desperate Struggle'', showing a small part of his BigBrotherInstinct thanks for Travis' hospitality while he was recovering, Henry saves Travis from Jasper Batt Jr. after the attempted MindScrew. He then distracts some {{Attack Drone}}s and later sits on the sidelines before leaving.]]
669* {{Brainwashed}}: [[spoiler:Speculated. It's implied that in ''Travis Strikes Again'' that Henry was brainwashed and indoctrinated into/formed a cult due to watching the movie ''Thor''. This explains his entire personality shift, lack of an accent, attire change, as well as his false memories.]]
670* CainAndAbel: Initially the Abel to Travis's Cain, [[spoiler:this becomes flipped in ''III'' with the added bonus in that Henry will kill Travis in the future.]]
671* ClimaxBoss: [[spoiler: He is the third-to-last opponent in ''III'', and his fight comes right after a string of shocking [[TheReveal Reveals]]. After said fight, and Travis coming back from his [[DeathIsCheap temporary death]], the only antagonists left to deal with are [[BigBadDuumvirate FU and Damon]].]]
672* CoolShades: [[spoiler:Gains these in his surprise appearance in the "Bubblegum Fatale" DLC for ''Videogame/TravisStrikesAgainNoMoreHeroes'' and carried over into ''III''. Overlaps with SinisterShades since they make him look more menacing than ever before to go with his much darker personality.]]
673* {{Cult}}: [[spoiler:By the time of ''III'', he's fallen in with a cult known as the Order of the Emerald Night. Which [[MindScrew may or may not be made of Henry clones]]]].
674* DarkReprise: [[spoiler:His boss theme in ''III'' is a slowed down and menacing version of "We Are Finally Cowboys", reflecting the drastic change in his personality and the darker mood of the battle.]]
675* DualWielding: He dual-wields two beam katanas in the third game.
676* DuelBoss: [[spoiler:With him being Travis's [[EvilTwin non-evil twin]] (until ''III'') and fighting with the same weapon and style as him]], this one's a given.
677* DynamicEntry: How he [[spoiler:takes out Letz Shake and his earthquake generator.]]
678* EmeraldPower: [[spoiler:In the third game, his forehead symbol emits a green light while he fights. His swords and his entire body start glowing green when he powers up in the second phase.]]
679* EnemyWithin: Mimmy. Technically, she's supposed to be Travis', since she's a personification of all his anime-related fetishes, but it's Henry who ends up fighting her. Presumably this is why her accent sounds vaguely Irish.
680* EnergyBall: His one projectile attack in the first game is to pause and summon three energy balls from his beam katana before launching them at Travis. In ''Desperate Struggle'', this attack returns as his ChargedAttack even retaining its I-frames from the first game.
681* EvilMakeover: [[spoiler:When he returns in ''III'', he's sporting a drastically darker appearance with wild hair, black sunglasses, and a mysterious emerald embedded in his forehead, reflecting the unknown SanitySlippage he went through between games.]]
682* EvilSoundsDeep: [[spoiler:His new voice in '''III''' is noticeably deeper than it was before, befitting his darker appearance and personality after whatever happened to him between games.]]
683* EvilTwin: Nope. Compared to Travis, Henry is very much the ''good'' twin. Neither of them are angels, of course, but Henry tends to be nobler and much less pragmatic than his brother. By the end of ''Desperate Struggle'', with Travis having dropped most of his assholish traits and Henry [[spoiler:apparently not holding too much of a grudge against him for sleeping with his wife]], this aspect of their relationship is essentially gone. [[spoiler:Played straight in ''III'' thanks to Travis's CharacterDevelopment making him more heroic and some unknown event causing Henry to devolve into an unhinged psychopath. Even his new hair style and sunglasses make him look more like his brother Travis than he ever did previously.]]
684* FalseMemories: [[spoiler:In ''III'', he claims that his entire background of being raised in Ireland by the Cooldown family was something his subconscious fabricated to bury the traumatic memory of his and Travis's SerialKiller father trying to murder them. Might explain the drastic change to his voice and absence of his Irish accent.]]
685* {{Foil}}: If Jeane represents Travis being forced to come to terms with his past and accept that it was nowhere near as innocent and idealistic as he believed, Henry (in the first game) represents the drive to keep moving forwards in spite of it all. Both he and Jeane are Travis's siblings and rivals. However, whereas Jeane is nearly entirely motivated by personal revenge, Henry's is a BloodKnight who is more interested in fighting Travis just to see who is better rather than any personal enmity. Travis's fight with Jeane finishes with a decisive, brutal end, with a melancholy backdrop. The fight with Henry has no shown ending, with him telling Travis that it is Travis's responsibility to tie up any loose ends, and that all they can do is to keep running. The game ends with them mid-strike, on a more triumphant note on a bright sunny day, as opposed to the somber sunset of Jeane's fight.
686* GoMadFromTheRevelation: [[spoiler: Heavily implied to have occurred to him between ''Desperate Struggle'' and ''TSA''. Henry's dialogue in ''III'' suggests that watching [[Film/{{Thor}} a certain movie about a god and his sibling]] reawakened latent trauma when a young Henry and Travis ran from their serial killer father with their younger sister Jeane only to be captured by a group of adults and had their memories locked away and overwritten. Henry now appears to associate this horrifying memory with Travis's crying and thereby Travis himself, as he repeatedly brings it up. His inexplicable obsession with killing Travis could be explained as an attempt to bury his own past.]]
687* GreaterScopeVillain: [[spoiler: He is seemingly this, or rather ''will become this'', for the entire ''No More Heroes'' storyline, as a threat far eclipsing FU and the Jess-Baptiste bloodline, as Travis's future children claim he has allied himself with aliens and has already killed Travis in the future. In the game proper, Henry himself appears unconcerned about FU, leaving him to his brother.]]
688* HarmlessFreezing: [[spoiler:Dr. Letz Shake defeats Henry before the Rank 10 fight in ''Desperate Struggle'', then freezes him in carbonite and parades him around as a trophy]].
689* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: [[spoiler:He starts out as a rival meaning to fight Travis to the death, but becomes an ally in ''Desperate Struggle''. Then, in ''III'', through a series of unknown events, he suddenly warps into a coldly vicious killing machine set on ending Travis's life.]]
690* HeroKiller: In ''III'', He succeeds in something everyone else in all the games failed to do. [[spoiler:He kills ''Travis Touchdown himself''. Fortunately, it's just a temporary death and he comes back after meeting Deathman.]] [[spoiler:The future versions of Hunter and Jeane reveal Henry was able to kill Travis permanently later in their timeline, and saving him from that is the main reason they went back in time.]]
691* HourglassPlot: [[spoiler:A series-wide example. Travis started the series as a vulgar, gleefully murderous psycho while Henry is introduced as a more cool-headed, pragmatic, and noble foil. By the time of ''III'', Travis has mellowed out, becoming friendlier and more heroic while Henry's become just as violent and ''more'' psychopathic than Travis ever was.]]
692* KillSteal: It's how he's introduced, performing one on Letz Shake. He does so again in ''Desperate Struggle'' to the ranked assassins #6 and #5.
693* LaserBlade: The Cross Sword, a beam ''claymore'' complete with four stubby beams in place of a hand-guard. For the record, Henry was rocking the laser-crossguard ''way'' before [[Film/TheForceAwakens that other guy]]. Just like Travis's Tsubaki Mk-III, the Cross Sword was custom-made for Henry by a skilled technician. By ''III'', he appears to have upgraded to a new set dubbed the "Cursed Crucifix Blade" that he [[DualWield dual-wields]], boasting it is a sword that cuts like no other.
694* LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler:It turns out that he's Travis' long-lost twin and Sylvia's husband of ten years. Their battle is technically unresolved, but both brothers return in the sequel as playable characters.]]
695* KnightOfCerebus: [[spoiler: In ''III''. Whereas every character has some form of levity to them, Henry is treated completely seriously by the narrative, and his fight is uncharacteristically brutal, even for the series standards. Travis, who is completely seasoned to murder now, is so unnerved by him that he is reduced to a screaming mess in trying to just get him to die.]]
696* MadeOfIron: [[spoiler:Whatever warped his personality and appearance before the events of ''III'' also made him seriously hard to kill. At the end of his boss fight, Travis cuts him in half, only for Henry's bleeding upper torso to rapidly crawl towards his twin. Travis has to literally beat him into paste to finally stop him. [[FromBadToWorse And then it's revealed that Henry has clones of himself...]]]].
697* MarathonBoss: Has an absurd amount of health on Bitter in the first game. It can take well over a thousand hits to bring him down.
698* MediumAwareness: Almost all of his appearances are between this and LeaningOnTheFourthWall.
699* MesACrowd: [[spoiler:In the third game, his Order of Emerald Night seems to be made of clones of himself. Maybe]]?
700* MirrorMatch: He and Travis have a lot in common in terms of swordplay.
701* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: His appearance in the first game is based off of the late Ian Curtis, lead singer of Music/JoyDivision.
702* NoFourthWall: When he shows up, the fourth wall goes bye-bye, both for him and Travis.
703* NotHimself: [[spoiler:Noticeably refers to himself almost entirely in the third person during his appearance in ''Travis Strikes Again'' implying he may be BrainwashedAndCrazy. The uncharacteristic behavior carries into ''III'' where he's suddenly much more dour and overly intense. And [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking he no longer has his Irish accent]]. Him now somehow being part of a HiveMind of multiple clones might have something to do with it.]]
704* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler:Even though Travis bisects him and keeps slashing until there's nothing left at the end of their fight in the third game, the ending reveals [[BeyondTheImpossible he]] ''[[BeyondTheImpossible still]]'' [[BeyondTheImpossible somehow survived the encounter]]. Given he seems to be part of a HiveMind now, it explains it.]]
705* PetTheDog: {{Subverted}}. He "thanks" Travis in ''Desperate Struggle'' for rescuing him from Dr. Letz Shake by killing [[TheUnfought two of the next ranked assassins]] Travis would've fought. Travis is much less appreciative of Henry once again [[KillSteal stealing his kills]] while Henry's tone makes it clear that [[CondescendingCompassion he's mocking Travis,]] [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou and presumably the disgruntled player as well]] about removing potential boss fights from the game.
706** PlayedStraight later on when Travis gets completely overpowered and captured partway into his fight against Jasper Batt Jr until Henry jumps in to rescue him.
707* PurpleIsPowerful: His beam katana has a purple blade and he's one of the strongest foes Travis faces in the series.
708* SanitySlippage: [[spoiler:He suffers [[Anime/DragonBallZBrolyTheLegendarySuperSaiyan Original!Broly]] levels of this in the third game, to the point he becomes a walking ShoutOut of him (his hair resembles his and his swords become as green as his ki blasts). He completely breaks down in maddened lunacy before being cleaved in two, LaughingMad, screaming and ordering Travis to not cry before Travis smashes him into paste.]]
709-->'''Henry:''' [[spoiler:Don't cry, Travis. Don't cry! DON'T YOU FUCKING CRY!! '''TRAVIIIS!!!''']]
710-->'''Travis: '''[[spoiler:'''GRAAAAAAH!!!''']]
711* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: His response to [[spoiler:Jasper Batt Jr. turning into a giant balloon thing]].
712-->'''Henry:''' It's not happening, brother. I can't be associated with that travesty. I mean I've got ''standards'', for fuck's sake!
713* SeparatedAtBirth: The reason why Travis didn't know about him until the end of the first game. [[spoiler:In ''III'', Henry claims that it's because the two of them were actually repressing the memory of their father ''trying to murder them''.]]
714* ShirtlessScene: In the second game, when he wakes up from his nightmare.
715* ShoutOut: There's a CastingGag about [[VideoGame/MetalGear Raiden]] in the first game. In the second, he also manages to do one to [[spoiler:Han Solo's fate in ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'']]. [[spoiler:In the third, he mirrors [[VideoGame/MetalGear Liquid Snake]] even down to his iconic [[MemeticMutation "It's not over yet"]].]]
716* SophisticatedAsHell: It may just be the accent, but he seems classy. When he's not dropping f-bombs all over the place.
717* ThemeTwinNaming: With Travis. Their last names are Cooldown and Touchdown.
718* TookALevelInJerkass: [[spoiler:Becomes an unhinged maniac between ''Desperate Struggle'' and ''III'' (while being uncharacteristically an outright jerk in ''Travis Strikes Again'', which is before ''III''), losing all of his previous affability.]]
719* {{Troll}}: Practically his defining trait. [[spoiler:In the first game, he steals one of Travis's kills, taunts him about it, and disappears. In the second game, he steals ''three'' of Travis's kills, then posts pictures of them in his motel room, just as a reminder.]]
720* TrueFinalBoss: If you bought the Tsubaki Mk-III before fighting [[FinalBoss Jeane]], then Henry serves as the very last opponent of the first game.
721* VideoGameDashing: For his brief playable appearance in ''Desperate Struggle'', instead of having unarmed attacks like Travis or a jump like Shinobu, he has a simple dash with I-frames. They can be spammed in quick succession to traverse large distances with ease which is pretty useful against Mimmy who usually tries to attack Henry from great distances.
722* VocalEvolution: [[spoiler:A truly '''drastic''' example. His new voice actor in ''III'' isn't even trying to replicate Quinton Flynn's Irish accent. Presumably, this is a result of Henry Cooldown's apparent ''revelation'' after ''Desperate Struggle'' about the "Cooldown Clan" supposedly giving him FalseMemories about being from Ireland.]]
723* TheWorfEffect: [[spoiler:Somehow gets captured by Dr. Letz Shake in ''Desperate Struggle'' before being frozen in carbonite.]]
724[[/folder]]
725
726!Civilians
727[[folder:Thunder Ryu]]
728!!Thunder Ryu
729!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/PaulNakauchi (EN), Creator/RikiyaKoyama (JP)
730
731[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/nmh_thunder_ryu.png]]
732
733--> I have nothing left to teach you. Aim for the top! Remember... master your katana, and the power will be yours.
734
735Former wrestler and Yakuza member who now runs a gym. There, Travis can train to become stronger, learn new moves, and get hit on by his mentor. He has a history with Speed Buster.
736----
737* {{Engrish}}: Played with. While Thunder Ryu speaks fluent English in cutscenes, his words in text (when you meet with him for training, for example) tends to be very insanely broken English.
738* {{Expy}}: After [[spoiler:his death]], his role in the final stage is identical to that of a [[spoiler:Remnant Psyche]] from ''VideoGame/{{killer7}}''.
739* KatanasAreJustBetter: Ryu's beam katana is one of only three in the first game that both look like actual blades (his specifically being a katana) and do not have the end-cap that makes them look like fluorescent bulbs. This appears to be a rare and/or unfeasibly-expensive form of the weapons; the other two were also made by extremely skilled weapons technicians, and one of them [[spoiler: has to be made by harvesting and rebuilding the technology from ''this one'']].
740* LaserBlade: You only briefly see him using it, but yes, Ryu's weapon is a beam katana. His model, the D.O.S., was designed by "an infamous Japanese hitman". The D.O.S. has no on/off switch; it ignites automatically when drawn from the "scabbard", and can only be turned off by "sheathing" it again. [[AwesomeButImpractical This makes it an extremely unsafe and difficult weapon to use without skewering yourself.]]
741* MeaningfulName: Named after Thunder Ryu (aka Wrestling/GenichiroTenryu), a regular wrestler who appears in the VideoGame/FireProWrestling games, a gag from Creator/Suda51 from his previous job in Human Entertaiment before the company went bankrupt.
742* ObiWanMoment: [[spoiler:He calmly tells Travis that Travis has nothing more to learn from him and to master the katana, just before getting overwhelmed and vaporized by Speed Buster's WaveMotionGun.]]
743* SpiritAdvisor: [[spoiler:After being killed]].
744* TakeUpMySword: [[spoiler:After killing Speed Buster, Travis can pick up Ryu's burnt-out D.O.S. and bring it to Dr. Naomi, who will end up rebuilding it into Travis's ultimate beam katana: [[InfinityPlusOneSword the Tsubaki Mk-III]].]]
745[[/folder]]
746
747[[folder:Doctor Naomi]]
748!!Doctor Naomi
749!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/VanessaMarshall (EN), Kana Uetake (JP)
750
751[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/nmh_doctor_naomi.png]]
752
753A scientist in the warehouse area of Santa Destroy who specializes in beam katanas. She sells both the katanas and the upgrades for them to Travis.
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755* CoolShades: Yellow ones in both games.
756* DarkIsNotEvil: A brunette who primarily dresses in black, she is nonetheless on Travis' side and doesn't try to kill him like [[spoiler:her primarily white-colored sister, Doctor Juvenile.]]
757* FanservicePack: Her breasts are much larger in ''2''. There's the [[EpilepticTrees popular theory]] that all of the money Travis spent on beam katanas and upgrades in the first game went straight to her chest. However crazy this idea might be, this is ''Creator/Suda51'' [[MindScrew we're talking about]].
758* HypocriticalHumor: Dresses in some fantastical clothing that borders on cosplay, but she nonetheless disparages Travis for being an otaku.
759* JigglePhysics: Her breasts physics are some of the most gratuitous non-combat uses of the engine in the game.
760* LongLostRelative: [[spoiler:Suda has confirmed that the character Dr. Juvenile in ''Travis Strikes Again'' is her sister. Despite the game itself not bearing any hints to their relationship, they share more than a number of similarities, and Naomi's own shrouded past and age makes this a very logical twist.]]
761* MaleGaze: Yup. She even calls you out for it in ''Desperate Struggle''.
762* OlderThanTheyLook: [[AllThereInTheManual The Japanese website lists her age at 63 years old]]. She looks like she's in her 20s.
763* RedHerring: The manual mentions some kind of dark secret of hers, even though she experiences no character development and never leaves the lab. Not addressed in ''2'', but still a possible ChekhovsGun. The Japanese website states that [[OlderThanTheyLook she's actually 63]]--she apparently uses her science to make herself younger.
764* {{Transflormation}}: For reasons unexplained, in ''III'', [[spoiler:she's somehow been transformed into a giant, sentient cherry blossom tree in Travis' basement.]]
765* {{Tsundere}}: Though she's dismissive of Travis' {{Otaku}} lifestyle, she still flirts with him. Though that could be just to get him to buy more stuff (not that there's anyone else selling beam katanas nearby).
766* WelcomeToCorneria: Where's that "new toy" you keep promising, Naomi? May refer to the [[spoiler: Glastonbury]] introduced in ''2''. Of course, after you've bought everything available in the sequel, she refers to ''another'' unnamed new toy. That, of course, could be referring to the [[spoiler:[[VideoGame/DaemonXMachina Arsenal]]]] in ''III''.
767[[/folder]]
768
769[[folder:Randall Lovikov]]
770!!Randall Lovikov
771!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/FredTatasciore (EN), Nobuaki Kanemitsu (JP)
772
773[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/nmh_randall_lovikov.png]]
774
775A drunk ex-wrestler who hangs out in a bar down a side street, he'll offer to teach Travis extra moves if he can be presented with seven "Lovikov balls". Given that his training involves beating Travis up, he might be the fastest at putting someone through TrainingFromHell ever.
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777* TheAlcoholic: You can only find him at the bar, and he's impossible to converse with.
778* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: According to his death scene [[AllThereInTheManual in ''No More Heroes 1.5'']], Lovikov managed to use his techniques ''very'' effectively to fend off a mafia hit squad [[spoiler:(probably sent by Jasper Batt Jr.)]] until one of them managed to shoot him in the back. Despite being past his prime and constantly drunk, he still had skill and knew how to use it to the bitter end.
779* DrunkenMaster: He teaches various special techniques to Travis, albeit his teaching methods aren't exactly painless.
780* KilledOffForReal: [[AllThereInTheManual In ''No More Heroes 1.5.'']].
781* ShoutOut: The Lovikov balls themselves are an obvious reference to ''Franchise/DragonBall'', and the moves he teaches are all named after Iwazaru's nicknames for the various titular assassins in ''VideoGame/{{killer7}}'' (the Hellion, the Punk, etc.). He even describes them as "souls".
782* TrainingFromHell: His is a contender for the fastest ever. He teaches Travis techniques in the space of one five-second beating.
783* VodkaDrunkenski: He's Russian and spends most of the time in the bar.
784[[/folder]]
785
786[[folder:Georgy Bishop "Sidaks"]]
787!!Georgy Bishop "Sidaks"
788!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MatthewMercer
789
790[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/nmh_bishop.png]]
791
792The owner of the video place near Travis' apartment, and Travis' best (and only) friend. He only generally appears if you're far from your bike, as he's the one who drops it off when you call. He'll also rent new wrestling videos to Travis to teach new moves.
793----
794* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler:He is killed by at least four bullets to the head, and then his head is removed and delivered to Travis.]]
795* CaughtWithYourPantsDown: He is seen masturbating to Bizarre Jelly 5 when [[spoiler:his killers barge through the storefront door.]]
796* DeadSidekick: [[spoiler:Bishop's death is the catalyst for a RoaringRampageOfRevenge in ''Desperate Struggle''.]]
797* MeaningfulName: Possibly. Travis is the Crownless ''King'', after all.
798* OnlyFriend: To Travis, at least in the first game. Thunder Ryu constantly berates him, Lovikov only tolerates him long enough to teach him new abilities (by [[TrainingFromHell beating the everloving hell out of him]]), and Dr. Naomi and Sylvia maintain strictly professional relationships with him, but Bishop is always happy when Travis stops by the video store and never complains about bringing Travis his bike. [[spoiler:No wonder Travis [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge completely loses it]] when he finds out that Bishop was killed as a threat to him...]]
799* PsychoExGirlfriend: His ex leaves him a text message repeating "DIE" over and over again.
800* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Bishop's last name has been spelled "Shidux", "Shidax", and all sorts of other ways. [[spoiler:His gravestone]] gives it the official spelling of "Sidaks".
801* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: [[spoiler:After appearing throughout the first game, he dies immediately after the tutorial boss in the second.]]
802* WrestlerInAllOfUs: Like Travis, he’s a huge fan of wrestling.
803[[/folder]]
804
805[[folder:Talbot and Weller]]
806!!Talbot and Weller
807!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/DeeBradleyBaker (Weller)
808
809The United Assassins Association's registration and clean-up crew.
810----
811* AllThereInTheScript: Even though they've been present in every numbered installment up to this point (only being absent in ''Travis Strikes Again'' due to there being no Ranking Battles and the boss fights taking place inside video games), their names were never spoken in-game and could only be found in the first game's Design Materials cards (which could only be accessed in a NewGamePlus) and credits (Weller only, since Talbot is always silent). With their character designs changing to feature-obscuring hazmat suits and being completely silent, it isn't obvious that they are the same characters in the second game aside from their height differences. This gets lampshaded in ''III'' when Sylvia addresses them by name for the first time on-screen, with Travis pointing out that he didn't know they ''had'' names until now despite being recurring characters since the first game (and given the SequelGap and TimeSkip between the second game and ''Travis Strikes Again'', this is 12 years InUniverse).
812* BigGuyLittleGuy: Talbot's the tall silent guy, while Weller is the shorter but slightly more talkative one.
813* CleanupCrew: Their job boils down to disposing of the loser's remains at the end of a Rankings Battle (with the exception of Shinobu, who was defeated but spared).
814* DeadpanSnarker: While he speaks with professional stoicism most of the time, Weller sometimes snarks at Travis in his answering machine messages. One time, he leads his message with asking Travis if he's "[[ToiletHumor on the throne again]]".
815* DemotedToExtra: Downplayed. While the both of them have always been extras, Weller had the additional role of handling the UAA's registration phone calls in the first game. From the second game onward, he is completely silent and only part of the clean-up crew.
816* TheFaceless: From the second game onward, they are always seen wearing feature-obscuring hazmat suits and gas masks. While this didn't apply to Weller in the first game, a RunningGag was that Talbot's face is always hidden, either with him being so tall that his head gets cropped off-screen when facing forward, or after the Speed Buster Ranking Battle, his face being hidden by Speed Buster's severed head after Sylvia throws it at him.
817* TheQuietOne: When they are accompanying Sylvia, they almost always quietly do their work. Weller, however, does speak a few times during the first game, usually to handle the registration phone calls, and speaking in Sylvia's place when she suddenly goes quiet near the end of the game.
818* TheStoic: From what little personality we get from them when Weller speaks, they are almost robotically professional.
819* ThoseTwoGuys: They are usually seen accompanying Sylvia at the end of each Rankings boss fight to clean up the battlefield and dispose of the killed assassin's remains (if they left any remains behind or they died at all).
820[[/folder]]

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