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'''WARNING: Several characters are {{Walking Spoiler}}s. Open directories at your own risk.'''

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[[folder:Kenji and his former classmates]]

!!Kenji Endou

* ActionSurvivor: When shit starts happening, he's just an average guy with no special skills who ''really'' believes in justice. He still [[JumpedAtTheCall Jumps At The Call]], because ''somebody'' has to do it, and slowly becomes a Badass.
* AntiHero: Starts out as a former rock guitarist now living with his mother and working at a convenience store. [[spoiler: He later starts LaResistance, and finally becomes a Rock and Roll Messiah!]]
* BadassBiker: [[spoiler:How he enters the stage at the beginning of the third arc.]] Of course, his Badass Bike is out of gas after a couple of panels.
* BadassPacifist: When confronted by a self-appointed CardCarryingVillain, who's acting as an EvilOverlord of sorts and who [[spoiler:killed his sister's fiancee]], Kenji still refuses to fight and [[spoiler:brings him down by talking]].
* BreakingSpeech: During the third arc, he manages to [[DrivenToSuicide Drive To Suicide]] a guy who spent his whole life [[EvilIsCool trying to be a villain]] simply by explaining to him how pointless his way of life is and how he comes off more pathetic than menacing.
--> '''Kenji''': "It's not that easy to be evil incarnate, is it? Personally, [[GoodFeelsGood I think it's easier to be a man of justice]]."
* CoolShades: [[spoiler:Wears them during the third arc, as part of his new Rock'n Roll persona]].
* DecoyProtagonist:
** Once the first story arc finishes, the story stops focusing on Kenji to shift to Kanna for most of the remainder of the series.
** {{Subverted}}: [[spoiler:During the last third of the story, after everybody finally accepted his death, he comes back to be a protagonist again.]]
* {{Determinator}}: His main trait, even noted as such in Friend's virtual reality game.
* TheHero: As a kid he loved heroes, always wanting to play as one in pretend games. As an adult, despite being an underachiever in his daily life, he demonstrates he ''is'' willing to be truly heroic when the situation calls for it.
* MessianicArchetype: [[spoiler:Finds himself in the desert, spends three days simply grieving, seemingly dies and comes back to save the world?]]
* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler:At the beginning of the third arc it turns out he survived his apparent death, though he needed several years to come to terms with his failure]].
* OurHeroIsDead: At the end of the first arc. Several characters spend the whole second arc coming to terms with this.
* SignificantBirthDate: August 20th. It was noted by Kanna to be the final day Music/TheBeatles recorded ''[[Music/AbbeyRoad Abbey Road]]'', their last album before they broke up, and [[spoiler:why she plans an uprising against the Friends on this date.]]
* TookALevelInBadass:
** During the first arc he takes a couple of levels after founding LaResistance, even physically training himself.
** [[spoiler:When he returns for the third arc he hasn't gained any new skill, but he has pushed his {{Determinator}} trait to its extreme]].

!!Otcho (Chouji Ochiai)

* TheAtoner: After [[ParentalNeglect indirectly causing his son's death]], he spends the rest of his life trying to atone for it.
* BadassLongcoat: He wears this all the time after his TrainingFromHell.
* TheBerserker: In Friend's virtual reality game and occasionally in real life.
* CoolOldGuy: During the second and third arc he's visibly old, but he doesn't seem to have lost even a bit of his strength and skills.
* TheLancer: Both in his childhood and as an adult in the LaResistance. Despite being the smartest and strongest member of the group, Otcho acknowledges that Kenji is the better leader; other characters often informally treat Otcho as the second-in-command, especially when Kenji isn't there.
* ParentalNeglect: He spent so little time with his family that his son thought a stranger was his father and chased him into the street, where he was hit by a car. Otcho blames hiself for his death.
* RedBaron: He's called "Shogun".
* {{Salaryman}}: Originally was one, but quit after he realized the effect his workaholism had on his family.
* TrainingFromHell: He went through this as part of his [[TheAtoner atonement]], then used his new skills to mantain a bit of order in a very poor and unruly part of the city.

!!Yukiji Setoguchi

* CloserToEarth: A subversion when younger, being a rather fiery CuteBruiser, but sort of grows into the role post-timeskip.
%% * CoolBike
* CoolOldLady: After the timeskip. Her physical strength doesn't come into play often, but her inner strength and determination are very notable to the end.
* CuteBruiser: As a child she was the strongest of Kenji's group.
* HeirToTheDojo: By the year 2017 she has taken over the dojo in question.
* ParentalSubstitute: She is this to Kanna during the first timeskip, after Kenji's disappearance.
* OldMaid: Even after the timeskip it's shown that she never married.

!!Yoshitsune (Minamoto)
* TheChainsOfCommanding: He ''really'' doesn't want to be the leader after being separated from the rest of the group, especially since the job requires a great deal of pragmatism he's frankly too nice to be comfortable with.
* HeroicSelfDeprecation: At first it's just regular SelfDeprecation but as time goes by [[spoiler: and he reluctantly becomes leader of the heroes it turns into this.]]
* TheMole: He infiltrates Friend Land by working there as a janitor.
* RebelLeader: [[spoiler:After Kenji's death and Otcho's capture, he's forced into this.]]
* {{Salaryman}}: Before joining LaResistance he's a pretty pathetic example of this.
* TookALevelInBadass: After the timeskip he becomes legitimately badass in his own quirky way.

!!Maruo

* BigEater: One of his most noticeable traits since he was a child.
%% * TheBigGuy
* FlashbackEcho: He seems to develop post-traumatic stress disorder after the Bloody New Year's Eve.
* TakingYouWithMe: Comes very, very close to doing this [[spoiler: with Friend and a bomb. Remembering Kenji's words about not hurting innocents convinces him not go through with it at the very last minute.]]

!!Mon-chan (Masaki Shimon)

* ForgottenFallenFriend: Notably averted. Every time a character [[spoiler: enters the Virtual World]], they take the time to seek him out to see him again.
* SecretlyDying: Until Bloody New Years when he reveals his illness to Yukiji.
* YourDaysAreNumbered: He suffers from this during the first arc.

!!Yamane
* CreepyChild: When he was a kid, of course.
* MadScientist: [[spoiler:He considers it a game to make as terrible a virus as possible to see how long it will take Kiriko to develop a vaccine for.]]
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: His reaction to finding out [[spoiler:Friend planned to kill 99% of the world's population.]]
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler: He kills Friend to prevent the spread of the virus he created... and gets offed by Friend's forces moments later.]]

!!Keroyon
* AnimalMotifs: With the frog, both in looks and name ("kero" is the Japanese onomatopoeia for a frog's croak).
* BadassNormal: Lacks the kind of training that Otcho has, but [[spoiler:still rushes into a burning factory to save lives regardless of his burns.]]
* {{Gonk}}: Sort of. Keroyon isn't hideous, but he has a very froglike visage.
* RefusalOfTheCall: Ignores Kenji's request to stop Friend, and terribly regrets it.

!!Fukubei
* AttentionWhore: [[spoiler:His desire to rule the world is due to him wanting to be the center of everyone's attention and admiration.]]
* BigBad: He decides to be this to Kenji's [[TheHero Hero]].
* TheBully: [[spoiler:He was quite a jerk as a kid. Notably, he's the one directly responsible for Katsumata's StartOfDarkness.]]
* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler:Turns out Friend ''did'' die before things started falling apart.]]
** In the film version, [[spoiler:he died in fifth grade and all his supposed appearances after that were actually Katsumata.]]
* RivalTurnedEvil: [[spoiler:He pushes his childhood rivalry with Kenji to utterly insane heights.]]
* SurprisinglySuddenDeath: [[spoiler: He's fatally shot by Yamane during their reunion at the Science Lab. He's so bewildered by it that it takes him a few moments to even register that he's dying]].
* UnknownRival: [[spoiler:He hates Kenji for getting more of his attention and vowed to defeat him. While Kenji never saw him as more than a simple classmate.]]

!!Donkey (Saburou Kido)
* AgentScully: Even as a child he firmly believed in science over superstition.
* HeKnowsTooMuch: What ultimately leads to his death is [[spoiler: the fact that he happened to witness Fukubei's faked "miracle," and would know that any other resurrection he would have as Friend would be fake as well.]]
* ThePigpen: As a child he didn't take many baths.
* PosthumousCharacter: His death starts the story.
%% * MassiveNumberedSiblings
* NeverSuicide: The plot is started by Kenji not believing his death to be a suicide and starting to look further into it.
* StartsWithASuicide: The story starts with his "suicide". [[NeverSuicide Which is, obiviously, ''not'' a suicide]].

!!Sadakiyo (Kiyoshi Sada)
* TheFaceless: He always wears a mask [[spoiler:and can't even remember what he looked like as a child.]]
* GoOutWithASmile: [[spoiler:He dies peacefully and smiling in his bed.]]
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:He starts working for Friend, but ends up betraying him.]]
* HeelRealization: [[spoiler:After talking with Kyoko.]]
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:Died while confronting Friend.]]

!!Yanbo and Manbo
* FatBastard[=->=]IWasQuiteALooker: Hilariously, they go from portly in childhood, to slim and attractive in adulthood, back to fat and ugly when they become elderly.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Originally sold Kenji's group out to Friend but eventually turned against him.]]
* HiddenDepths: [[spoiler:They started defecting against Friend after a longtime employee of their company died from TheVirus.]]
%%* JerkAss
* SingleMindedTwins: Up until they grew very old, they acted entirely as one.
* SchoolyardBullyAllGrownUp: They don't even ''realize'' they were bullies.
%%* WrestlerInAllOfUs

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[[folder:Other good guys]]

!!Kanna Endou

%%* ActionGirl: Sort of.
%%* AMotherToHerMen
* AlmightyJanitor: waitress in a crappy restaurant who ''breaks up mob gunfights''.
* CunningLinguist: Dealing with various mafias has given her a command of Thai and Chinese.
* EarlyBirdCameo: [[spoiler: The unnamed girl in the very first volume reacting in horror to Friend's robot is her post-timeskip.]]
* {{Expy}}: Of [[Manga/{{Monster}} Nina Fortner]].
%%* GuileHero
* HeroicBSOD: Twice. First when [[spoiler: she finds out that Friend is her father]] and again when [[spoiler: Friend succeeds in killing 90% of the Earth's population and scattering the main characters again.]]
* [[LikeFatherLikeSon Like Uncle Like Niece]]
* LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler:She's Fukubei a.k.a Friend's biological daughter.]]
* MessianicArchetype: Unites enemies, has unique abilities [[spoiler: born to a "holy mother"]]. In a subversion [[spoiler: her father would be "the devil" in the situation, so this overlaps a bit with AntiAntichrist.]]
%%* ParentalAbandonment
%%* PluckyGirl
* PsychicPowers: [[spoiler:Specifically precognition, and more rarely telekinesis and mental communication.]]
* RebelLeader: In the final arc.
* ShipTease: There's some notable tension between her and Shouhei.
* TagalongKid: On the Bloody New Year's Eve.

!!'God/Kami-sama' ([[spoiler:Kamigama Kyutaro]])

* BunnyEarsLawyer: A homeless man with psychic powers and obsessed with bowling. He eventually uses his precognitive abilities on the stock market to become one of the richest men in Japan.
%%* CoolOldGuy
%%* CrazyHomelessPeople
* InsistentTerminology: "Don't call me God."
* MadOracle: He loves to use [[CloudCuckooLander bowling metaphors left and right]] but most characters acknowledge his intelligence and insight. Being an actual psychic helps too.
** Though he himself casts some doubt on his powers, attributing them instead to the PowerOfTrust. It is left ambiguous.
* MagicalHomelessPerson: A wise homeless man with psychic powers.
%%* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname
* RagsToRiches: Goes from homeless man (with psychic powers) to self-made millionaire and the first Japanese person to go into space.
** RichesToRags: How he became homeless in the first place. He invested all his money into a bowling craze that never hits [[spoiler: and by Year 3 of Friend, he loses it again.]]
* SeriousBusiness: takes bowling ''very'' seriously.
%%* UnwantedFalseFaith
%%* WisdomFromTheGutter

!!Shouhei Chouno
%%* ButtMonkey
* ByTheBookCop: Was one until [[spoiler:he discovered Friend controlled most of the police force.]]
* EarlyBirdCameo: An off-screen example, but he's the young grandson who's birthday party Chou-san is supposed to attend.
* EmbarrassingNickname: "Chou," pretty much the equivalent of ''Butterfly.''
* EnsignNewbie: A detective, but incredibly inexperienced and living in his grandfather's shadow.
* ShipTease: With Kanna.

!!Chou-san
* GreatDetective: So great that he [[spoiler:found the complete answer to the DrivingQuestion of the series ''21 years'' before anyone else.]]
* HeKnowsTooMuch: With one week to retirement, he passes on all the info he's collected on Friend to a colleague. Unfortunately, said colleague turns out to be working for Friend.
%%* MarriedToTheJob
* MemeticBadass: Invoked among the police force.
%%* {{Retirony}}

!!Kiriko
* TheAtoner: [[spoiler:Spends all of her time trying to treat people for the virus she created.]]
%%* ChekhovMIA
* MissingMom: Left Kanna to Kenji shortly after she was born
* ProfessorGuineaPig: [[spoiler: Subjects herself to the experimental vaccine for the virus.]]

!!Kyoko Koizumi
* AccidentalMisnaming: Her name itself isn't generally mistaken, but she's often annoyed by people claiming the "kyo" in her name means "misfortune/disaster" instead of "echo/reverberation".
* BreakTheCutie: Her experience at [[AmusementParkOfDoom Friend Land.]] Slightly subverted in that, traumatic as that was, she seemingly remains as adjusted as ever after her ordeal.
* ButtMonkey: Provides most of the comic relief in the seriously dark series.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Well, not exactly a Badass, but she did some very important things in the series.
* TheDitz: Introduced sneaking her way to class late and clumsily signing up for the first project she points to in a book. She lives up to that first impression.
* TheGift: For... bowling, [[BlessedWithSuck which she doesn't really like and mostly just gets her pestered by an old man.]]
* GirlishPigtails: Her standard appearance, although she seems to lose it [[spoiler: after the second TimeSkip.]]
* IntergenerationalFriendship: With [[spoiler:Sadakiyo. This is actually one of the reasons he has a HeelFaceTurn in the first place.]]
** She also has one with Yoshitsune, [[spoiler:both the adult and the virtual version of him in the Bonus Level.]]
* ResignedToTheCall: She eventually gives up on trying to return to a normal life once she catches on that TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive.

!!Father Nitani
%%* TheAtoner
%%* BadassPreacher
* TattooedCrook: Back when he was a criminal.
%%* TurbulentPriest

%%!!Father Luciano
%%* TheAtoner
%%* BadassPreacher
%%* TattooedCrook
%%* TurbulentPriest

!!The Pope
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:Realizes sometime after Friend's "resurrection", that the man was a fake who was planning something terrible. This is what led to his near poisoning so he could be replaced with a Friend-allied clergy]].
* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: To the point that after the second major TimeSkip near the end, [[spoiler:he's the only one close to having enough clout to match Friend's]].

!!Shikishima
* ForScience: One of the primary reasons for [[spoiler:making his giant robot: he thought the fake one was such a piece of crap that he felt obligated to make a real one.]]
** [[spoiler:It was probably all he had left, given he eventually realized (off-screen) that his daughter wasn't being held hostage, but had actively joined the Friends]].

!!Haru Namio
* TheAtoner: [[spoiler:Left Kenji's band to join another and felt obligated to help him when the time comes.]]
* ChekhovsGunman: Appears early on as a successful enka singer who works with Friend, [[spoiler: Later revealed that he's protecting Maruo and helping the LaResistance covertly.]]
%%* TheMole
* StepfordSmiler: [[spoiler:Subverted when he turns out to be one of the good guys. Then you realize it's probably necessary to get close to Friend.]]

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[[folder: Friend (Spoilers)]]

!!Friend[[note]]To avoid spoilers, this will be listed separately from any other characters he may secretly be.[[/note]]

* TheAntichrist: He is a monster, but the world believes his lies about him being some sort of Messiah and Kenji (the true MessianicArchetype) being the BigBad. Pretty textbook, despite his non-satanic origins.
* BigBad: Of the whole series.
* BigBadFriend: It's even in his name.
* TheChessmaster: He has planned for everything.
* CoolMask: No, the fact that it's a cartoon monkey mask does nothing to stifle it.
* DarkMessiah: "Our Friend! Our Friend!"
* DisproportionateRetribution: Combined with EvilIsPetty.
* FauxAffablyEvil: On the surface, he seems to have a polite and classy demeanor. In reality, he is a sadistic bully and PsychopathicManchild.
* HiddenVillain: His identity is unknown.
* LegacyCharacter: [[spoiler:There are two of them.]]
* LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler:The first Friend is revealed to be Kanna's father.]]
* ManipulativeBastard: Manipulative as they get.
* OmnicidalManiac: [[spoiler:Especially the second one.]]
* {{Plaguemaster}}: His main method of mass-killing, [[spoiler:though mostly the first one.]]
* PsychopathicManchild: [[spoiler:They]] never really grew up. That's why [[EvilIsPetty evil is so petty.]]
* TheSociopath: [[spoiler:Especially the first Friend, who was manipulative, callous and egocentric ever since childhood.]]
* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:Has a pretty epic one when Kenji apologizes to him at the end, which makes him decide to speed up his plans to [[OmnicidalManiac kill everyone]] out of spite.]]
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: And ''HOW''! He managed to become World President and got every leader in the world eating out of his hands. ''Willingly''.

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[[folder:(Other) Members and Allies of Friend's Cult]]

!!Police Officer Assassin
* AstonishinglyAppropriateAppearance: He has a [[StealthPun mole]] on his face.
%%* EyesAlwaysShut
%%* GoodEyesEvilEyes: He had ''incredibly'' narrow eyes.
%%* TheMole

!!Prisoner #13 (Masao Tamura)
%%* AxCrazy
%%* BaldOfEvil
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: Unclear exactly when it started except when he realized the first Friend was truly dead, but he ended up helping the heroes in the very end.]]
* ProfessionalKiller: Hitman for the Friend group, though he's in it for loyalty rather than money.
%%* PsychoForHire
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:Dies in the process of killing the second Friend.]]

!!Manjoume
%%* BeardOfEvil
* TheDragon: To Friend.
* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler:His mind was stuck in the virtual reality game and didn't realize he had died until Kenji came in and told him.]]
%%* FauxAffablyEvil
* FromNobodyToNightmare: Went from a penniless SnakeOilSalesman to the second most powerful man on the planet.
* GoOutWithASmile: [[spoiler:His VirtualGhost self fades away after he finally does a good deed. It's surprisingly moving considering what a dick he was for most of the series.]]
* HeelFaceDoorSlam: [[spoiler: He attempts to kill second Friend, only to get immediately dethroned by Takusugi. He gets his chance to genuinely help out the heroes much later.]]
* IHatePastMe / MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:Only really sees the whole nature of his actions in the story when he watches his past self as a VirtualGhost.]]
* IJustWantToBeSpecial: [[spoiler: His ghost in the virtual reality machine]] claims that all he wanted to be was a somebody.
* OurGhostsAreDifferent: [[spoiler:Takusugi kills him while he is in the virtual reality game. So, while his ''body'' dies, his ''consciousness'' remains there, unaware he had even been killed until someone ''from'' the real world explains everything to him. He disappears completely after attempting to preform an act of kindness.]]
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:Well, technically he was already dead.]]
* SnakeOilSalesman: Used to sell simple nick-nacks like astronaut food on the street before he started working with Friend.
* VirtualGhost: [[spoiler:Becomes/makes one of these when killed while in a virtual reality game.]]
%%* VillainWithGoodPublicity

!!Takusugi
* AllForNothing: Her quest for power leads to a ''lot'' of deaths and is willing to [[spoiler: ignore that Friend has clearly been replaced]] and even alleges to be pregnant with Friend's child. [[spoiler: Then Friend announces to the world he's a phony, he's killed soon after, and she subsequently discovers that she isn't the only woman Friend slept with.]]
* FauxAffablyEvil: Puts on a big show of being a kind Friend follower, but the joy she gets from cruelly brainwashing people is clear from moment zero.
* LadyLooksLikeADude: At one point, two characters confuse her for a man.
* LadyMacbeth: Tries to be one of these to [[spoiler:Manjoume]] after [[spoiler:the first Friend dies]], but he doesn't show much interest. [[spoiler: So she eventually kills him and takes the power for herself.]]
* SlasherSmile: Her trademark feature when she sentences people to Friend Land.
* TheStarscream: [[spoiler:To Manjoume.]]
* StepfordSmiler: When acting as a "Dream Navigator".

!!Moroboshi's killer
%%* AffablyEvil
* CardCarryingVillain: He is ''very'' insistent that's he's evil and even compares himself to many famous anime villains. [[spoiler:Then subverted when Kenji gets him to admit he's full of it.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:He tries to off himself with a gun when Kenji makes him realize he's not as monstruous as he'd like to think, but is stopped.]]
* NoNameGiven: Despite Kenji's best efforts to learn it.
%%* {{Otaku}}
* ProfessionalKiller: [[spoiler: Although, as Kenji points out, its possible the only person he ''has'' killed was Moroboshi. Everything else was delivering orders.]]
%%* SmugSnake
* ReusedCharacterDesign: He has the face and hair of Johan Liebert from ''Monster''.
* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler: When he realizes Kenji isn't going to give him the grand confrontation he craves, his smug villain act vanishes completely.]]
* WalkingShirtlessScene: Invoked [[spoiler: after the second TimeSkip, leaning into his villain persona.]]
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler:His fate is never explained. He might have been killed when the tower was stormed.]]

!!Shikishima's Daughter
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: A realistic example. Seduced and manipulated from a young age, she became a firm believer of Friend's ideology and will do ''anything'' to support it. [[spoiler: To the point she goes OmnicidalManiac in the final arc, attempting to follow through on Friend's vision.]]
* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler: Reappears after ''eighteen years'' of irrelevance to make a final attempt to complete the second Friend's doomsday plot.]]
* DamselInDistress: Invoked. She's seduced in order for Friend's group to force Shikishima to build a robot... but she's willingly going along with Friend.
* NoNameGiven: Just like her lover.
* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler: She can't cope with Friend's confession that he faked everything and instigates the final battle because otherwise ''she's wasted her life.'']]

[[/folder]]

[[folder: Spoiler Character]]
!!Katsumata
* CreepyChild: Creepy as a child, creepy as an adult.
* DeadPersonImpersonation: Takes up the mantle of Friend after Fukubei dies.
* DisproportionateRetribution: His motive for becoming a tyrannical despot and planning to destroy the world? To spite Kenji over a childhood incident where he stole a prize at a candy store and Katsumata became the scapegoat, despite Kenji having no idea what happened or any role in Katsumata's bullying.
* EvilIsPetty: '''And how.''' Katsumata kills 99% of the world population because of something that happened in the fifth grade. Even after Kenji apologizes to him, he refuses to accept it purely because the act of doing so would go against his worldview.
* TheFaceless: We never actually see his face ''before'' he underwent plastic surgery to look like Fukubei. In the virtual reality game, he simply [[TheBlank has no face]].
* ForgottenCharacter: Before he became Friend, he was forgotten and even [[TheFaceless faceless]].
* FreudianExcuse: Katsumata was desperately lonely, he devoted his life to Fukubei's plan because he was the only one who would acknowledge him at all.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: And ''how''. In fact, it is ''because'' he was almost literally nobody that he became a nightmare.
* PsychicPowers: Near the end of the series it's implied that he has the same kind of powers as "God", having seen the end of the entire series in a dream while he was still a child, which is why he wrote it down in the New Book of Prophecy.
* PsychopathicManchild: This trait is one of the few things that first differentiates him from Fukubei.
* StartOfDarkness: Several factors lead to him to becoming the second Friend.
* StrawNihilist: His severe bullying and ostracization resulted in Katsumata believing that the world was "unnecessary" and wanting to destroy it all.
* WalkingSpoiler

[[/folder]]