Characters of the anime ''Anime/{{Noir}}''.

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[[folder:Kirika Yuumura]]
->Voiced by: Creator/HoukoKuwashima (JP), Creator/MonicaRial (EN), María Teresa Hernández (LA)
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A teenage high school girl with amnesia who lives in Japan; however during her journey she goes to stay with Mireille in her apartment which resides in Paris. The only things she remembers are the word Noir and her instinctual killing abilities.
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* [[AntiHero Anti Heroine]]: On the one hand, she's a lonely young woman desperately searching for her past and fleeing a mysterious organization that apparently wants her dead. On the other hand, she is extremely good at killing people and makes her living doing just that.
* BadassAdorable: One of the most adorable characters in the series, who is practically Woobie incarnate when she's hurting, and also an incredibly lethal shootist and incredibly creative with all kinds of {{Improvised Weapon}}s, with one of the biggest killcounts of the entire cast.
* DarkActionGirl: Protagonist example. Not only is she a good fighter, she's [[MacGyvering extremely creative]] in dealing with various handicaps caused by terrain or injury.
* DarkMessiah: [[spoiler: What Kirika-chan becomes when she attains the legendary mantle of "The True Noir."]]
* EmotionlessGirl: Subverted. She isn't truly emotionless, just simply having a hard time expressing her emotions [[spoiler:until near the end, when her "real" personality takes over]]. She has no hesitation in killing large numbers of people; that lack of feeling distresses her.
* EnfantTerrible: [[spoiler:Raised by the Soldats to be a Noir candidate. Her first assignment was to kill the Boquets when she was ''age six'', complete with overall straps askew.]]
* {{Expy}}: She's an assassin, she has amnesia, she's hunted by the orginization she belongs to, and she [[ImprovisedWeapon kills people with items that are SUPPOSED to be harmless.]] Essentially a DistaffCounterpart of [[Franchise/TheBourneSeries Jason Bourne]].
* GoodEyesEvilEyes: When she gets HellishPupils, it's ''very'' bad.
* GunStripping: Demonstrates this in the first episode with her eyes closed as Mireille is talking to her, and says she's disturbed by the fact that she even knows how to do it.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: Even [[VideoGame/MetalGear Revolver Ocelot]] would think twice fighting this cutie.
* KungFuJesus: [[spoiler:She is basically viewed as a savior by the superstitious followers of Soldats: an Invincible Warrior destined to destroy evil and injustice in the world.]]
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: She has no memory of her first fourteen years and only knows her name because of a student ID card, which could very well be fake.
* MeaningfulAppearance: Her rather distinctive pink shoes have received a degree of MemeticMutation among fans. They're also nearly identical to the ones she wore as a young child, [[spoiler:when she killed Mireille's family, and since the reveal is shot from her feet up it's the first indication of who the shooter was]].
* ObliviousToLove: Seemingly towards Chloe. It might just have been because she was [[spoiler:in "True Noir" state]] but the fact that Chloe [[spoiler:kisses her on the lips while they were both ''completely naked'']] and gets ''no reaction whatsoever'' points to this.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Her normal eye colour is hazel but sometimes it turns into red. This is usually the moment to take cover.
* ReiAyanamiExpy: Seemingly-emotionless, struggles with identity and humanity, short hair, permanently sad expression. The only thing different compared to the other examples is that she has natural hair, eye and skin colors.
* SugarAndIcePersonality
* TykeBomb: [[spoiler:Was about ''five'' when she killed Mireille's family.]]
* UnscrupulousHero: Unscrupulous Heroine. She's more concerned with the ethics of killing than Mireille and is mostly concerned with solving the mystery of herself. That doesn't stop her from going into business with Mireille and being ''very'' good at it.
* WaifFu: Not as bad as some examples as she's never shown lifting more than would be conceivable for her body frame (with any instances of her flipping mooks over explicitly showing her using their combined weight and momentum to do so) but she does pull off some pretty impressive stunts.
* WhenSheSmiles: The first time she does is [[CutenessProximity she meets the cat]] in Episode 6.
* YouWakeUpInARoom: Her first memory is waking up alone in a deserted house with photos of parents on the wall but no sign of the parents themselves. After searching for a bit she found a pocketwatch, a school ID with her name on it and a gun. Shortly after she kills a bunch of {{Mook}}s who showed up to harass her and is disturbed by how she knows how to use the gun.
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[[folder:Mireille Bouquet]]
->Voiced by: Creator/KotonoMitsuishi (JP), Creator/ShelleyCaleneBlack (EN), Claudia Nieto (LA)
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A Corsican woman born into a powerful crime family. Mireille and her uncle are the sole survivors of a brutal attack on her family, whereafter he trained her to become an assassin.
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* AffablyEvil: She's a fairly decent person when out in public. She's also an assassin, so murder is what she does for a living.
* AnimalMotifs: The producer describes her as a "[[CatsAreMean female panther]]" in his notes.
* [[AntiHero Anti Heroine]]: Although she's an amiable person who has no problem having a friendly chat with a shopkeeper, she is a contract killer and has no moral qualms about it.
* BadassNormal: Compared to the [[spoiler:other]] candidates for the title of Noir, who have probably been trained since the time they could walk. It doesn't stop her from having as high a body count as Kirika or Chloe.
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Mireille goes through quite a bit over the course of the series, yet she never looks anything short of drop-dead gorgeous.
* CantCatchUp: Compared to the impossibly skilled Kirika and Chloe, even though by normal standards she's still a badass and not someone you cross.
* CombatStilettos: Not as unrealistic as some examples, but her boots still have decent heels on them. DeconstructedTrope on at least one occasion: she nearly fell from a house roof to her death since her boots lack grip. How much heel her boots have is also rather [[OffModel inconsistent]] between animators.
* CoolShades: Sadly, she only wears them in ''one'' episode.
* DarkActionGirl: Protagonist example. She's a very successful assassin. "Successful" meaning that she survives all of her jobs.
* DefrostingIceQueen: She's twenty-ish at the start of the show, but about fifty-five in terms of cynicism.
* HeroesGoneFishing: The first few minutes of the show are her going back to her apartment on a bright yellow scooter with a bag of groceries. Then she checks her e-mail to see if she has any hit job offers. She also has a tendency to window-shop.
* LoveRedeems: Towards Kirika, whether one interprets it as platonic or romantic.
* LimitedWardrobe: She wears more action and climate-oriented outfits in some episodes, but the majority of her time is spent in the red shirt and black skirt. She is also quite fond of wearing a lavender colored jacket.
* MafiaPrincess: Was one as a child.
* MagicSkirt: Many cosplayers will attest to the impossibility of replicating Mireille's short skirt without flashing people.
* {{Nominal Hero}}ine: She’s fighting against a murderous AncientConspiracy, but is an assassin herself.
* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: When Creator/ADVFilms dubbed ''Noir'', they decided not to give Mireille a Corsican accent. The reason for this was to avoid confusion among viewers unfamiliar with the language.
* PhenotypeStereotype: A blond, blue eyed Corsican isn't impossible, but it's not very likely either.
* PsychoForHire
* SelfMadeOrphan: Subverted, [[spoiler:she doesn't kill her parents — but she ''does'' (regretfully) kill her ParentalSubstitute uncle Claude, who was her only remaining family.]]
* SpannerInTheWorks: [[spoiler:Not only Chloe attacking her brought Kirika out of her BrainwashedAndCrazy state, but she ended up ''totally'' tearing through Altena's plans.]]
* StrongFamilyResemblance: To her mother. [[spoiler:This ends up being a plot point.]]
* SugarAndIcePersonality: She's actually rather pleasant when dealing with the general public, but maintains strict personal boundaries for all but a few due to her job.
* [[VillainProtagonist Villainess Protagonist]]
* YoungerThanSheLooks: According to the series timeline Mireille is at most 20 during the show, while most people guess that she's a good deal older. Part of this is due to VagueAge, since we're not entirely sure how old she actually is. There's also the fact that she's implied to have been living on her own — and working as an assassin — for quite some time now, which borders on the horrifying if she's only 20 ''now''.
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[[folder:Chloe]]
->Voiced by: Creator/AyaHisakawa (JP), Creator/HilaryHaag (EN), Creator/RebecaAponte (LA)
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A skilled assassin who uses throwing and handheld knives instead of guns. Like Kirika and Mireille, Chloe is a candidate to become Noir. Chloe idolizes Kirika for her exceptional killing skills, and she believes that she and Kirika are destined to become Noir together.
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* [[AntiHero Anti Heroine]]: Mixed with AntiVillain. She shows up as an antagonist, but she also aids the duo several times and loves Altena. She is, however, a little too enthusiastic about killing people.
* BadassCape: Which comes with a high collar that was likely added [[FilmingForEasyDub so they didn't have to animate her mouth flaps]] for part of her screentime.
* DarkActionGirl: She is an assassin, just like the protagonists.
* ADayInTheLimelight: Episode 12.
* EnfanteTerrible: The flashback to [[spoiler:Kirika's assassination of the Bouquets]] shows five-year-old Chloe looking on and smiling eagerly as the deed is done.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: She works with Shao-Li only because she has to, and it's clear that she doesn't particularly like doing so [[spoiler:and offs her as soon as she sees an indication that she's turning]].
-->'''Chloe''': ''Poisonous insect''.
* EvilRedhead: Her hair changes based on the lighting, sometimes it's purple, more often a deep, dark shade of red. Either way, it looks pretty sinister.
* GoodEyesEvilEyes: Her eyes are noticeably more narrow than Mireille and Kirika's [[spoiler:except when Kirika is in "true Noir" mode]] which highlight her being on the darker side of the GreyAndGreyMorality. They also make determining her exact ethnicity difficult, and the show never clarifies either way.
* GreenEyedMonster: Becomes blatant in episode 25 when she screams about how "it should have been me!" with Kirika and [[spoiler:tries to MurderTheHypotenuse by going after Mireille]].
%%* ImplausibleFencingPowers: She is to knives what Kirika is to guns.
* ImplausibleHairColor: In a series of realistic hair colors, she stands out by having ''purple'' hair.
* NominalHero: Although she often helps Mireille and Kirika and is something of a {{Tritagonist}}, she never questions her job and was raised by a WellIntentionedExtremist.
* OneWomanArmy: She takes down a whole battalion of police officers in full gear, three assassins, etc., all singled-handed.
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: As a matter of professionalism, she will kill other assassins who are targeting her hits.
* PsychoForHire
* PsychoLesbian: Lesbian is implied, though it may be a case of SingleTargetSexuality, given her seeming obsession with Kirika and we never see her show interest in anyone else. Psycho? Debatable, at least until [[spoiler:the second half of episode 25]]...
* PsychoKnifeNut: She prefers knives to guns and is shown to be excited about killing people.
* PurpleIsPowerful: She has a lot of purple in her person (hair, eyes and outfit) and is one of the deadliest assassins in the world.
* UnluckyChildhoodFriend: Becomes especially apparent when [[spoiler:she kisses Kirika]] and Kirika does not react ''at all''. Even with the latter in BrainwashedAndCrazy mode at the time it's clear it wasn't mutual.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Kirika and Mireille usually wear outfits that [[TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse you would see on the street and not think twice about]]. Chloe, however, is almost always in that long green cape of hers but no one seems to bat an eye. The black bodysuit she wears under it is a little more plausible but still sticks out.
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[[folder:Altena]]
->Voiced by: [[Creator/{{Tarako}} Tarako Isono]] (JP), Creator/TiffanyGrant (EN), Citlalli Godoy (LA)
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The high priestess of the Soldats. She believes that the Soldats have been corrupted by power and greed, and she attempts to return the Soldats to its "original state" by reviving Noir. She lives a medieval lifestyle in a place the Soldats consider as their holy site called "The Manor", located somewhere on the border between France and Spain, where she raised and trained Chloe.
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* AffablyEvil: She's not just affable, she's downright gracious. She is also plotting something that has even other members of the ''[[AncientConspiracy Soldats]]'' worried.
* [[AntiVillain Anti Villainess]]: Depending on your interpretation.
* TheBeautifulElite: Altena is stunningly beautiful, impeccably dressed, sophisticated and gracious, and works for a secret society that controls the world.
* BigBad: As the high priestess of Les Soldats, she is the one sending the assassins after Mireille and Kirika.
* BrokenBird: [[spoiler:Her backstory is very HarmfulToMinors. When she was a child, her homeland was devastated by war and atrocities at the hands of soldiers, and she herself was raped by one of them.]]
* TheChessmaster: [[spoiler:Everything in the series was part of her plan to turn Kirika into her personal hitwoman.]]
* DarkMessiah: "If love can slay, then hatred can save the world."
* DissonantSerenity: One thing that makes her so frightening.
* DoesNotLikeMen: [[ImpliedTrope Never explicitly stated]], but she's never seen interacting with a male character on screen, and the male Soldat leaders only show up at the Manor [[spoiler:after everything's over and she's dead]]. Given [[spoiler:her RapeAsBackstory]], this makes a lot of sense.
* KnightTemplar: So much so that [[EvenEvilHasStandards even the other Soldats think that she's too extreme]].
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Even with RuleOfSymbolism in effect, there are a number of things she does which don't seem possible unless she has some manner of magic/psychic powers, such as the three candles representing the "saplings" and how [[spoiler:when one goes out]] she not only seems to understand what it means but also ''which'' "sapling" it was referring to. Also there's the fact that she lives [[spoiler:on a friggin' active '''volcano''']].
* MyDeathIsJustTheBeginning: [[spoiler:One interpretation of the ending, especially since if you look really close at her face while she's falling to her death, you can see that she's ''smiling''.]]
* ParentalSubstitute: She treats Chloe with the care and affection that she would a daughter.
* RapeAsBackstory: [[spoiler: She was raped by a soldier when she was a young girl, which contributed to her villainy.]]
* VillainsOutShopping: Her first few appearances show her tending to her grapes and writing letters without any dialog. It gives an [[NothingIsScarier extremely sinister feel to her]] even before she does anything.
* VisionaryVillain: She wants to use Noir to cleanse the world of evil and impurity.
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[[folder:Silvana Greone aka "Intoccabile"]]
->Voiced by: Creator/YumiTouma (JP), Heather [=LeMaster=] (EN), Lileana Chacón (LA)
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* CreepyChild: Her idea of "playing" as a kid is running at Mireille with a knife.
* DarkActionGirl: Although she lets her elite assassins do most of the work, she's a very capable combatant herself.
* DissonantSerenity: She never seems to lose her temper and remains calm whether she's trying to have Noir killed or torturing a man by having his loved ones killed in the next room. When she reacts with genuine shock at [[spoiler:Kirika shooting her knife and preventing her stab at Mireille from being fatal]] [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness you know things have gotten serious]].
* TheDreaded: Everyone who knows about the Intoccabile is either terrified of her or reverential of her ruthlessness. Mireille in particular has never gotten over her fear.
* KissOfDeath: Gives an [[NoYay excessively long]] one to Mireille.
* LadyOfWar: A villainous version.
* MafiaPrincess
* PsychoKnifeNut: She favors a single, curved dagger.
* PureIsNotGood: One translation of "Intoccabile" is "the inviolate" "the untouchable" or "the pure", but Silvana is ''anything but'' good.
* PurpleIsPowerful: Has both purple hair and wears a purple dress, probably to emphasize her status as a MafiaPrincess.
* YoungAndInCharge: Since, as stated above, Mireille is at most 20 during the show Silvana by extension is probably not any older than 25, since while it was obvious that she's slightly older that Mireille in the flashback to them as children it's clear it's not by much.
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[[folder:Shao Li]]
->Voiced by: Creator/UraraTakano (JP), Creator/KellyManison (EN), Elena Díaz Toledo (LA)
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* AcquiredPoisonImmunity: She uses a poisoned incense burner in one episode, which kills her victim but leaves her unharmed.
* TheDreaded: People who know about her do not want to meet her.
* DragonLady: An assassin in Hong Kong's mafia community.
* {{Expy}}: She bears a striking resemblance to one [[Anime/CowboyBebop Faye Valentine]].
* FemmeFatalons: Her fingernails are actually ''her weapon''.
* MasterPoisoner: Can create a poison that can kill after only a single nick from one of her nails.
* PsychoticSmirk: Her default expression.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: She offs her own comrades in exchange for alliance with the Soldats. [[spoiler:Then Chloe flips this trope on her and kills her.]]
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[[folder:Laurent Bouquet]]
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* TheMafia: Laurent at the very least had dealings with the Greones, and it's implied he was involved in a lot more.
* PosthumousCharacter: His death still affects Mireille years later and he appears in flashbacks.
* ScreeningTheCall: [[spoiler:The Bouquets refused to hand young Mireille to Les Soldats. Shortly afterwards, they were killed.]]
* TheVoiceless: Apart from some grunts, he only has one line in the whole series. [[spoiler: He says his daughter's name while thinking about not handing her over to the Soldats. Those would be his last words as Kirika appears after this to kill him, his wife, and their son.]]
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[[folder:Odette Bouquet]]
->Voiced by: Creator/KotonoMitsuishi (JP), Creator/ShelleyCaleneBlack (EN), Edylu Martínez (LA)
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* DefectorFromDecadence: [[spoiler: The Bouquets refused to hand young Mireille to Les Soldats. Shortly afterwards, they were killed.]]
* FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler: She didn't show any fear or hatred towards little Kirika when she came to kill her, just softly asked her to take care of Mireille.]]
* LineageComesFromTheFather: Played with. While Laurent was obviously a huge influence on Mireille and the direction her life took, it was Odette who probably had the largest impact, [[spoiler:what with what she said to Kirika before she was killed]].
* MamaBear: [[spoiler:As soon as she saw Laurent get shot, her first instinct was to reach for Mireille's brother, who was reading next to her chair. She was too late, and the poor boy was killed. Then there's her request to Kirika, where she calmly asks her soon-to-be killer ''to protect her daughter''. (And boy, would Kirika later follow these words.)]].
* MissingMom
* PosthumousCharacter: Like Laurent, her death continues to haunt her daughter and she appears in flashbacks.
* ScreeningTheCall: [[spoiler:The Bouquets refused to hand young Mireille to Les Soldats. Shortly afterwards, they were killed.]]
* SignificantDoubleCasting: Shares Mireille's VA in both the Japanese and English versions.
* SpannerInTheWorks: [[spoiler:Her making Kirika promise to protect Mireille took a long time to pay off, but when it did it put the final nail in the coffin as far as Altena's original plan for a Chloe/Kirika Noir went.]]
* StrongFamilyResemblance: Looks nearly identical to her daughter, to the point that an old retainer of the family mistook Mireille for her mother when she went back to Corsica.
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[[folder:Claude Feyder]]
->Voiced by: Creator/HochuOtsuka (JP), Creator/JasonDouglas (EN), Creator/LuisCarreno (LA)

Mireille's uncle (presumably on her mother's side due to his name) who raised her after the deaths of her parents.
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* TheDandy: His style of dress suggests this.
* TheMole: [[spoiler:He was really working for Les Soldats in exchange for them leaving Mireille alone.]]
* ParentalSubstitute: To Mireille.
* PromotionToParent: Claude doesn't look out of his teens when he and Mireille flee Corsica.
* WellIntentionedExtremist
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[[folder:George Madelin]]
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* HeKnowsTooMuch: [[spoiler: Tries to tell Mireille ''why'' her parents died, and gets sniped for it.]]
* NumberTwo: To Mireille's parents.
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[[folder:Belladonna Lily Woman]]
->Voiced by: Fumiko Ōkasa (JP), Creator/ChristineAuten {EN), Aura Caamaño (LA)
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* FloralThemeNaming: She even points out the difference between the infamously poisonous Belldonna flower, and the more benign but less well-known Belladonna Lily.
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* MissionImpossibleCableDrop: Attempts this on Mireille.
* NeverBringAKnifeToAGunFight: This causes her demise, since the light hits her knife and attracts Mireille's attention.
* NoNameGiven: She's never given a name.
* SpyCatsuit
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