Line #164 Characters/TerrorInResonance


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3	[[folder:Sphinx]]
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5	!! Nine/Arata Kokonoe
6	[[quoteright:320:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/nine_tir_2437.jpg]]
7	[[caption-width-right:320:''They were weak. That's why they died. We were weak, too. That's why we couldn't save them.'']]
8	->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KaitoIshikawa (Japanese), Creator/ChristopherBevins (English)
9
10	A secretive young man with a bright mind and calm demeanor who moves to Tokyo and attends school as a high school student alongside Twelve.
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12	* BrainsAndBrawn: The brains to Twelve's brawn, as he's the mastermind in most of his terrorist plans.
13	* BadassBookworm: Nine enjoys dropping literary and mythological allusions in his riddles.
14	%%* TheChessmaster
15	%%* ChickMagnet
16	* ConvenientlySeated: When Nine transfers to Lisa's school, he's given the second-to-last seat next to the window, which is rather conveniently empty.
17	* CrazyPrepared:
18	** After Five manages to hack his Macbook laptop in the 5th episode, Nine disposes of it and pulls out another one from under his desk straight away to resume his hacking work.
19	** [[spoiler:Prepared to use the stolen atom bomb from Aomori in case he's killed or kidnapped near the end of the 10th episode.]]
20	* DarkAndTroubledPast: He apparently has been through a lot, and witnessed the deaths of quite a few fellow children when he was younger.
21	%%* DoomedProtagonist
22	* FarEastAsianTerrorists: One with Twelve to the duo group called "Sphinx".
23	* MadeOfIron: [[spoiler: After getting caught in the explosion of one of his own bombs, he suffers some burns but shakes off the injury.]]
24	* NotSoStoic: Nine has shown signs of stress in the past, but after [[spoiler: watching Twelve get shot, he just absolutely loses it.]]
25	%%* RedOniBlueOni: The blue to Twelve's red.
26	%%* SmartPeopleWearGlasses:
27	* TheStoic: Always stays quite calm and emotionless.
28	%%* StoicSpectacles
29	%%* TallDarkAndHandsome:
30	%%* TeenGenius
31	%%* ThePerfectionist:
32	%%* TheSpock:
33	%%* TheTrickster:
34	* ThouShaltNotKill: Ironically seems to abide by this, as his bombs are never intended to actually kill anyone [[spoiler:and he goes to great lengths to ensure that they don't, even shielding an innocent from an explosion and working with Shibasaki.]]
35	* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler:He wants to bring the Japanese government down for being responsible for the cruel experimentation on him, Five, and Twelve from the Athena Project, and to expose their involvement to the rest of the world through acts of terrorism.]]
36	* VictoriousLoser: [[spoiler:He loses his life through the drugs and experimentation used on him due to the Athena Project, but manages to succeed on his goal in toppling the Japanese government with an EMP attack; and with the help of Shibazaki, he exposes the world to the cruelty of the Athena Project.]]
37	* VillainProtagonist: He's one of the terrorists.
38	* YouAreNumberSix: He's more known by his number than his alias.
39
40	!! Twelve/Tōji Hisami
41	[[quoteright:320:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/twelve_tir_4644.jpg]]
42	[[caption-width-right:320:''Don't worry. I won't get too involved.'']]
43	->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/SomaSaito (Japanese), Creator/AaronDismuke (English)
44
45	A childish but mysterious young man who sees Nine as his brother, and is always with him.
46	----
47	* AttentionWhore: As part of Sphinx he enjoys publicly taunting the police via uploading videos.
48	* BadassBookWorm:
49	* BrainsAndBrawn: The brawn to Nine's brains, as he serves the right-hand man and "muscle" to Nine's plans.
50	* CannotSpitItOut: [[spoiler:To Lisa.]]
51	* TheCharmer:
52	* CloudCuckooLander: Is quite goofy and childish for the most part.
53	* DarkAndTroubledPast: He apparently has been through a lot, and witnessed the deaths of quite a few fellow children when he was younger.
54	* FarEastAsianTerrorists: One with Nine to the duo group called "Sphinx".
55	* InTheBack: [[spoiler:Twelve is shot in the back by American soldiers.]]
56	* {{Keet}}: A dark twist of this trope.
57	* KickTheDog: Makes fun of an evacuating child's fear in episode 1.
58	* RedOniBlueOni: The red to Nine's blue.
59	* ShipTease: It's implied he might have feelings for Lisa.
60	* StepfordSmiler: Acts childish and goofy but is quite capable of being cruel and ruthless.
61	* TastesLikePurple: Episode 6 reveals he has synesthesia, so he associates peoples' voices with colors. According to him, Lisa's is yellow.
62	* TheMcCoy:
63	* TookALevelInKindness: In Episode 2, he tells Lisa that he won't hesitate to kill her if she reveals their secrets. But in Episode 7, he is not okay with Nine leaving Lisa to die inside the plane where the bomb is located. Then in episode 8 and 9, he [[spoiler:chooses to go rescue Lisa from Five, despite having to betray Nine in the process.]]
64	* TheTrickster:
65	* VillainProtagonist: He's one of the terrorists.
66	* YouAreNumberSix: He's more known by his number than his alias.
67
68	!! Lisa Mishima
69	[[quoteright:320:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lm_318.jpg]]
70	[[caption-width-right:320:''Will we be able to see him again?'']]
71	->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AtsumiTanezaki (Japanese), Creator/JadSaxton (English)
72
73	A girl in the same school that Nine and Twelve transfer into. Her problematic life both in home and school leads her into their world, and changes her fate forever.
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75	* AbusiveParents[=/=]MyBelovedSmother: Her mother doesn't look really sane and seems rather overbearing towards her daughter out of fear, that she'll "abandon" her like her husband did.
76	* ButNotTooForeign: Played with throughout the show. Even though Lisa is obviously not a Japanese name, she has Japanese physical features.
77	* DamselInDistress:
78	** In Episode 7, [[spoiler:she gets captured and locked inside a moving plane with the bomb strapped inside it]]; she escapes, though.
79	** [[spoiler:She later gets kidnapped again by Five in Episode 8.]]
80	* DisappearedDad: We never find out what happened to her father.
81	* DueToTheDead: [[spoiler:She personally visits the graves of Nine and Twelve to pay her respects.]]
82	* IJustWantToHaveFriends: Part of the reason she joins up with None and Twelve is because her home and school life left her feeling lonely and miserable on a regular basis.
83	* LethalChef:
84	** In Episode 5, she cooks for Nine and Twelve. Both comment on how it tastes horrible, and even she agrees.
85	** In Episode 8, she adds ''strawberry Pocky'' to a cooking pot of curry.
86	* ParentalAbandonment: Her dad separated and/or divorced from his her mum, which may or may not be the cause or contributing factor for her becoming unhinged.
87	* TheRunaway: Starting from Episode 3.
88	* ShrinkingViolet: Rarely stands up for herself, seems to have few--if any--friends, and hides in the bathroom during lunch.
89	* TeamMom: Averted and lampshaded by Nine.
90	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: An odd example; while she does appear in the epilogue, we never find out what happened with her home situation. The question of whether she returned to her mother or if she's somehow supporting herself independently is left up in the air.
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93
94	[[folder:Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department]]
95
96	!!Kenjiro Shibazaki
97	[[quoteright:340:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ks_4603.jpg]]
98	[[caption-width-right:340:''I'd plan to settle this even... but I wanted to see their future.'']]
99	->'''Voiced by:''' Shunsuke Sakuya (Japanese), Creator/RobertMcCollum (English)
100
101	A plainclothes officer of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department who used to be part of of the police force's investigations division, but now works for its records division instead. His contemporary is currently in charge of looking into the terrorist attack in Tokyo.
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103	* AdultsAreUseless: Averted, as he's shown to be able to [[spoiler:solve Sphinx's cryptic riddles, even managing to prevent one of their bombs from detonating.]]
104	* BerserkButton: Nuclear weapons, being a second-generation bomb victim of Hiroshima from the 1960s.
105	* CheatersNeverProsper: [[spoiler: Invoked in episode four. With seconds left before the timer detonates Sphinx's "bomb", Shibazaki is correctly able to answer their riddle. Unfortunately, the rest of the department didn't play fair.]]
106	* DueToTheDead: [[spoiler:He personally vists the graves of Nine and Twelve to pay his respects.]]
107	* GreatDetective:
108	* HardboiledDetective:
109	* HeroAntagonist: He's one of the investigators going after Sphinx.
110	* TheLastDJ: Until the end of episode 2, when he returns to the investigations division. [[spoiler:The reason he got moved to the records division in the first place is that, fifteen years ago, he believed a Diet secretary's death was not a suicide but a conspiracy of the secretary's political faction, which turned out to be led by a member of the police.]]
111	* RaceAgainstTheClock: Especially with an EMP attack is imminent over Tokyo.
112	* SharpDressedMan: Wear a suit and tie in his younger days in the TMPD. Nowadays, not so much.
113	* SympatheticInspectorAntagonist: He becomes this once he is ordered to tackle cases related to Sphinx.
114	* ThoseTwoGuys: With Mukasa (With him priors at records) and with Hamura (his "partner" in investigating the terror attacks).
115	* {{Workaholic}}: Implied. His daughter, a university student is initially pleasantly surprised when he visits her at her dormitory. Her pleasure fades when she finds out that he's come to see her because of work.
116
117	!!Hamura
118	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hamura_5828.jpg]]
119	[[caption-width-right:350:''If you're doing some investigating, I'll help.'']]
120	->'''Voiced by:''' Keisuke Aigasa (Japanese), Creator/IanSinclair (English)
121
122	A plainclothes officer who investigates the Sphinx attacks, he later works with Shibazaki in uncovering a major conspiracy that led to the bombings.
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124	* CharacterDevelopment: Initially distrusting him because of his "past record" that led to his trasfer, Hamura grows to accept Shibazaki due to his brilliance in solving the case until he helps him find the culprits even after he was suspended by his superior.
125	* EurekaMoment: [[spoiler: He was able to help Shibazaki solve the problem of how Nine could use the atom bomb to be detonated over Tokyo.]]
126	* HeroAntagonist: One of the other detectives assigned to the Sphinx case.
127	* HypocriticalHumor: Tries to warn off his colleagues that some of their investigations could get into trouble before the FBI showed up. He later does the same thing after being ordered to be suspended from the Sphinx case.
128	* NiceGuy: As part of his character development after he works with Shibazaki over the Sphinx bombings [[spoiler:and the investigation on the unaccounted orphans for the Athena Plan.]]
129	* SharpDressedMan: Wears a suit, but without the tie, and a dress shirt.
130	* ThoseTwoGuys: With Shibazaki when they investigate the [[spoiler:the unaccounted orphans taken by the RPA.]]
131	* WhatTheHellHero: Initially does this to Shibazaki due to possible retaliation from Sphinx whenever he goes too far, such when the team makes a video for Shibazaki answering one of Sphinx's riddles.
132
133	!!Mukasa
134	[[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mukasa_8738.jpg]]
135	[[caption-width-right:225:''You shouldn't assume that fat people are experts on carbs.'']]
136	->'''Voiced by:''' Mitsuaki Kanuka (Japanese), Creator/JeremyInman (English)
137
138	A plainclothes officer who works with Shibazaki in the records division of the [=TMPD=], he helps solve riddles Sphinx leaves out in the most unlikely times.
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140	* BigEater: Mukasa enjoys eating those doughnuts when they're usually brought into the office.
141	* InkSuitActor: Mukasa looks like Mitsuaki Kanuka, which is the reason why he's one of the two seiyus (next to Megumi Han) to join in the stage adaptation.
142	* LazyBum: Acts as this whenever Mukasa's doing nothing. He usually eats, plays his games or surfs the internet using the computers provided by the [=TMPD=] in the office.
143	* NiceGuy: Treats Shibazaki nicely even after he was "transferred" to the records division.
144	* NonActionGuy: He only stays in the TMPD building, but he has his moments...
145	* StealthMentor: Some of Mukasa's actions have resulted in eureka moments where Shibazaki was able to decipher the riddles Sphinx sent to the National Police Agency. [[spoiler:His free time consists of playing a portable fantasy game, which allows Shibazaki to solve one of the riddles of Sphinx.]]
146	* ThoseTwoGuys: With Shibazaki prior to the events of the show.
147	* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Enjoys his doughnuts, alongside a big liter bottle of soda.
148
149	!!Kurahashi
150	[[quoteright:320:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kurahashi_1550.jpg]]
151	[[caption-width-right:320:''Will you ever learn from your past mistakes?'']]
152	->'''Voiced by:''' Hideaki Tezuka (Japanese), Sean Hennigan (English)
153
154	An officer in the TMPD, who happens to be the boss of Shibazaki. He's in charge of handling public relations in interacting with the government and with the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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156	* DaChief: He's officially the head of the TMPD's 1st Division in the Criminal Investigation Bureau.
157	* AFatherToHisMen[=/=]ReasonableAuthorityFigure: He really tries to do this, if not for the bureaucrats in the Japanese government and the National Police Agency trying to appease to the demands of the American government.
158	* LockedOutOfTheLoop: When Five starts to conduct "anti-terrorist" operations against Sphinx, the National Police Agency and the Prime Minister keep him and the other officers involved out of the loop.
159	* NervesOfSteel: Kurahashi is not fazed when Shibazaki and the other detectives accuse him of collaborating with Five and the FBI in order to discredit Sphinx.
160	* RedHerring: Played with when the show tries to make it appear that Kurahashi allowed the false flag op to go through at Haneda. Subverted when he informs Shibazaki's team that he didn't know that the Superintendent General did not keep him in the loop.
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162	[[/folder]]
163
164	[[folder:Federal Bureau of Investigation]]
165
166	!! Five
167	[[quoteright:320:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/five_4096.jpg]]
168	[[caption-width-right:320:''You're being careless, Nine.'']]
169	->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MegumiHan (Japanese), Creator/JamieMarchi (English)
170
171	An FBI agent who travels to Japan as part of her duties with NEST to lend support to the terrorist attack investigations.... and an extremely ruthless InspectorJavert using her position as a pretext for a personal vendetta.
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173	* BilingualBonus: She speaks English, bordering on the gratuitous type, and Japanese. [[spoiler:This foreshadows on her past as a Japanese orphan picked up by the RPA.]]
174	* BunnyEarsLawyer: A subversion of this. While it's very clear that she ended up where she is due to being one of the smartest (if also most eccentric) people in the room, the fact that her pursuit of Nine and Twelve is an entirely personal "game" based on a wish to psychologically torture them rather than a real attempt to bring bad guys to justice is kind of a problem. She is called on this by her ByTheBookCop partner Clarence several times.
175	* [[spoiler:ChildSoldier]]/[[spoiler:{{Tykebomb}}]]: [[spoiler:The only completely successful product of the Athena Plan... though this comes at the cost of her mental development.]]
176	* ColorCodedEyes: Her striking purple eyes immediately mark her as someone special, and she turns out to be a fellow alumna of the Athena Plan and a strong rival to Nine's cunning.
177	* TheCracker: She's as good of a hacker as Nine is, if not better, to the point that she can compromise his laptop and outwit him.
178	* DarkAndTroubledPast: She's from the same institution as Nine & Twelve.
179	* [[spoiler:DrivenToSuicide]]: [[spoiler:After beating Nine, she feels as if she has nothing left to live for and kills herself.]]
180	* ElitesAreMoreGlamorous: [[spoiler:Five actually was adopted and trained by the Intelligence Support Activity.]]
181	* FBIAgent: Was assigned to the FBI from NEST.
182	* [[PsychopathicManchild Psychopathic Womanchild]]: Sees investigating Sphinx as a game and has no problem endangering numerous lives to "play" with them and "beat" them.
183	* PiratesWhoDontDoAnything: She hasn't done any work related to her NEST occupation ever since she was posted in Tokyo with Clarence.
184	* SecretlyDying: [[spoiler:Five due to her condition thanks to the RPA.]]
185	* SoleSurvivor: [[spoiler:Aside from [[EscapedFromTheLab Nine and Twelve]] she is the only survivor of the Athena Plan.]]
186	* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Five is a known FBI agent.
187	* WhiteHairBlackHeart: She is as amoral and selfish as her hair is white.
188	* YouAreNumberSix: The only name she has.
189	* YoungerThanTheyLook: Due to her well-groomed appearance, she easily looks like a woman in her early or mid-twenties. [[spoiler: Then we find out that she's not much older than Nine and Twelve, meaning that she's probably somewhere in her late ''teens''.]]
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191	!!Clarence
192	[[quoteright:320:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/clarence_tir_3182.jpg]]
193	[[caption-width-right:320:''So you're saying that you'll acquiesce to the demands of a terrost, but not to the wishes of the American government?'']]
194	->'''Voiced by:''' Daisuke Takahashi (Japanese), Creator/DavidWald (English)
195
196	An FBI agent with its Counter-Terrorism Division, he works alongside Five as part of the American government's response to catching the terrorists responsible for stealing plutonium from Aomori.
197	----
198	* ByTheBookCop: He is a textbook LawfulNeutral character who simply wants to track down Sphinx with a sense of caution, and resolve any related crises as he has been assigned. Five has a... somewhat different mindset.
199	* TheDragon: To Five during their operations in Japan. A dutiful agent of the law stuck on the same mission as a PsychopathicWomanchild who has far too much autonomy for anyone's good.
200	* FBIAgent: Clarence is stationed with the Counter-Terrorism Division.
201	* HeroAntagonist: He's an investigator going after Sphinx. [[spoiler:At least, that was the reason why he was in Japan.]]
202	* SharpDressedMan: Wear a suit and tie.
203	* TheStarscream: What Five sees after Clarence aims his sidearm at her. To be fair, he was genuinely worried that her condition was not making her think straight.
204	* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Clarence is a well-known FBI agent.
205	* VoiceOfReason: Often questions Five on her wantonly destructive and harmful behavior, and decides she has gone way too far after [[spoiler: she launches an attack on the van transporting Nine and kills a Japanese police officer. Unfortunately she shoots him dead before he can secure her.]]
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207	[[/folder]]
208
209	[[folder:Athena Plan conspirators]]
210
211	!!Souta Aoki
212	[[quoteright:316:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/aoiki_7996.jpg]]
213	[[caption-width-right:316:''If you two hadn't come, I would taken this to the grave.'']]
214	->'''Voiced by:''' Takaya Hashi (Japanese), Creator/RBruceElliott (Engish)
215
216	Formerly in charge of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, he leads a secluded life after his retirement. He also was in charge of getting the Athena Plan working by getting orphaned children all over Japan.
217	----
218	* FaceDeathWithDignity: He has no problem accepting the fact that the conspirators may choose to kill him after he talks with Hamura and Shibazaki after his involvement with the plan.
219	* ForScience: The reason why he went along with the plan.
220	* FourEyesZeroSoul: Souta didn't regret his participation in the Athena Plan after the Allied occupation of Japan.
221	* JustFollowingOrders: He uses this excuse to justify his participation in the Athena Plan after he was confronted by Shibazaki. Shibazaki, in turn, reminds him that [[ThoseWackyNazis the guards at Auschwitz]] also said the same thing.
222	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The epilogue doesn't state about what happened to him, except that he's being brought to justice.
223	* YouMonster: A very, very angry Hamura calls out Aoki's participation in Project Athena [[spoiler:(a human experimentation project to artificially produce people with [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savant_syndrome Savant syndrome]] conducted by the Rising Peace Academy which Five, Nine and Twelve were the sole survivors of)]], "not human". Aoki calmly accepts this without reservation.
224
225	!!Shunzo Mamiya
226	[[caption-width-right:300:[[labelnote:Spoilers! Click here to see this character.]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mamiya_637.jpg[[/labelnote]]]]
227	->'''Voiced by:''' Shuuichirou Moriyama (Japanese), Grant James (English)
228
229	A known politician in Japanese politics, he was also responsible for jumpstarting the Athena Plan and working alongside the Rising Peace Academy to make the plan feasible.
230	----
231	* TheManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler: He's responsible for bankrolling the Athena Plan and the construction of the miniature prototype atom bomb.]]
232	* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler: Mamiya explains his reasons for launching the plan is to restore Japan back to its former glory after the end of the Pacific War. However Shibazaki calls him out on it saying that he's done more harm than good, to which Mamiya merely smirks at Shibazaki's response.]]
233	* ThePlan: [[spoiler:Mamiya ensured that the orphans taken in to the academy would be subjected to savant syndrome experimentation as a plan to help in the reconstruction of Japan.]]
234	* ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem: How he was able to ensure Shibazaki's transfer to the records division of the TMPD.
235	* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Mamiya is a known man in the Japanese political arena.
236	* WalkingSpoiler: You can expect much from the spoilered entries.
237	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The epilogue doesn't state about what happened to him, except that he's being brought to justice.
238	* WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler:Didn't seem to care that children died in the RPA as long as the Athena Plan worked in the long run.]]
239	[[/folder]]

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