* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic:
** The opening, "Aoki Flamme," in both the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1zWqnMz1as tv version]], and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_-q7B4O_pQ full length]].
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZp944YaCrE Toten Sie]], which almost unfailingly plays whenever Randel [[{{LetsGetDangerous}} turns on the lantern]].
* CompleteMonster:
** [[AristocratsAreEvil Viscount Wolkins]] is a noble that represents the pinnacle of the corrupt nobility. A man obsessed with his privileges, Wolkins uses his power to degrade those around him, hiring women that have nowhere to go as his maids and abusing them for fun, such as forcing them to eat on the floor or even using them as his enforcers. Out of self-indulgence, Wolkins takes commoners to play his game where he'll chain them together and [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame hunt them down]] in an open field with his tank, promising them riches if they can survive. Nobody has ever came out alive, due to Wolkins secretly modifying the tank to be inescapable. When the Pumpkin Scissors Brigade came to investigate him, Wolkins had accumulated countless victims and decide to take them hostage, forcing the men to play his sadistic game. A tyrannical blue blood, Wolkins crushed hundreds of lives for his own sadistic fun.
** [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Albert Mion]] is the president of Mion Waterworks Company who secretly runs the waterway drug ring. Taking advantage of the war victims inhabiting the waterways, Mion has his men sell [[FantasticDrug Himmel]] to turn them into drug addicts to exploit for money while allowing them to abuse the residents. When the Pumpkin Scissors Brigade catches on to his operation, Mion tries to kill them, sending the mentally tormented {{pyromaniac}} Hans to burn them, having done this before to other soldiers who investigated him, and floods the waterways, [[BadBoss not caring if his own henchmen died in the process]]. When his drug ring was compromised, Mion tried to turn on his benefactors to save himself before attempting to escape with Hans, incinerating his numerous pursuers. A greedy criminal mastermind, Mion has no qualms killing and exploiting anyone just to line his pockets and gain more power.
* IronWoobie: Randel Oland. Not only is he remarkably reserved about all of his trauma, he's a MadeOfIron Woobie as well.
* NightmareFuel: The Anti-Ares assault in the manga spares the reader nothing. People torn apart by claymore mines, crushed by rubble, and the madness of the terrorists. They purposefully pump themselves up on stimulants to become more bloodthirsty, charging into the battle knowing they're bound for death.
* {{Squick}}:
** For a show about war, ''Pumpkin Scissors'' has very few graphic deaths until episode 14 where they show a cornered man getting hit with a flame thrower with '''disturbing''' attention to detail. Then there's the armored train arc where [[spoiler: Randel cuts up soldiers manning said vehicle with giant scissors. We never see the actual moment of the cutting, but that just [[NothingIsScarier makes it more disturbing...]]]]
** The armored train battle ''does'' show us what that would look like, save for one, which Randel [[spoiler: presumably ''cut into pieces''.]]
** The Anti-Ares arc shows what happens when the inside of a tank gets heated up to the extreme with a flamethrower.
** The Anti-Ares arc, period. Graphic depictions of lacerations, shootings, explosive wounds, people being crushed and blown up? The entire arc spares nothing.
** The more you think about Hans’ situation, the worse it gets. He quite literally [[TwentyFourHourArmor lives in that suit]]. He’s apparently able to open his faceplate safely, so he can eat and drink, but what goes in eventually comes out…