Line #31 Manga/Crossfire


1	[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/crossfire2_1441.jpg]]
2	->''"Grace be with you all. Amen"''
3	-->--'''Heinkel Wolfe.'''
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5	'''''Crossfire''''' follows the adventures of {{Moe}}/{{Blood Knight}} Yumiko Tagaki, and gun-toting {{Bifauxnen}} Heinkel Wolfe, agents of TheMenInBlack-style Vatican Section XIII, also known as the Iscariot Organization. In their efforts to administer divine punishment, they slash and slaughter through three chapters of bloodshed and violence.
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7	Unlike the Hellsing Organization, Iscariot works to eliminate every threat (active or not) to Catholicism. Pagans, heathens, and the like are immediately demoted to [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman sub-human status]] and killed indiscriminately. Heinkel can get by with her gun skills but Yumiko, who oddly is a very sweet and gentle soul, [[SplitPersonality has to revert to her much more bloodthirsty half]], Yumie, when she has to get down to business. Needless to say, the end results aren't pretty after these two are done.
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9	Iscariot operates under the presumption that it ''is'' God's instrument of divine punishment, and the cheerful spirit of this dogma can also be found in Hellsing's version of Section XIII.
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11	''Crossfire'' exists as an extra in the first three ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'' volumes, but WordOfGod has said that it is not part of ''Hellsing'' {{canon}} (though oddly the characters do show up in that series).
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13	Not to be confused with the [[Film/{{Crossfire}} 1947 film]], the board game, or the CNN debate program[[UnCancelled (s)]].
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15	!! This show provides examples of:
16	* ADayInTheLimelight: Heinkel and Yumie are completely minor characters in the main ''Hellsing'' plotline.
17	* AnimeCatholicism: The basis of the entire plot.
18	* {{Antihero}}: Iscariot as a whole.
19	* AscendedExtra: The main characters of this manga show up in the later chapters of ''Hellsing'', playing a more active role in the story.
20	* AxCrazy: Yumie.
21	* BadassLongcoat: Heinkel.
22	* TheBerserker: Yumie
23	* BlackComedy: Oh Yes!
24	* BlackAndGrayMorality: Iscariot's regular massacres aren't exactly justified, but their enemies are {{Obviously Evil}}.
25	* ComedicSociopath: Yumie and Heinkel.
26	* DudeLooksLikeALady: Gloriously inverted with Heinkel, but played straight with Maxwell.
27	* {{Expy}}: Mr. Ridgeway looks quite a lot like Walter from the ''Hellsing'' manga, minus the RazorFloss.
28	* GunsAkimbo: Heinkel.
29	* ConservationOfNinjutsu: Added to the ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy this makes for excellent {{Plot Armour}}!
30	* KatanasAreJustBetter: Yumie wields one, and those people won't miss their limbs.
31	* KnowledgeBroker: The Ridgeway Company: "We sell weapons, ammunition, information, etc, to the highest bidder."
32	* PistolPose: The opening artwork.
33	* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: A staple of conversation, and used gratuitously.
34	* ScaryShinyGlasses: Something of a visual motif for Heinkel, and Maxwell.
35	* SlasherSmile: Yumie, in her first appearance no less!
36	* SplitPersonality: Yumiko breezes between a gentle girl and Yumie, a crazed and violent zealot.
37	* SuperpoweredEvilSide: Yumie.
38	* TheGlassesComeOff: When Yumiko's glasses come off, Yumie takes command.
39	* ThirteenIsUnlucky: Yeah, for everyone else that is.
40	* TooDumbToLive: The cultists, and their "[[MessianicArchetype Messiah]]".
41	* WesternTerrorists: East German FormerRegimePersonnel fight the protagonists.
42	* WunzaPlot: One's an nun, one's an assassin, they kill in the name of {{God}}.
43	* YouCanKeepHer: A terrorist holds a gun to a priest's head. They say to go ahead because he should be willing to die for his faith. The priest survives but doesn't take it well.
44	* YouDontLookLikeYou: Bizzarely enough, Maxwell in ''Crossfire'' resembles ''Integra'' more than he does his counterpart in ''Hellsing''.

Context Manga / Crossfire