Characters / Baccano! Anime

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Warning: Since Trope Names are not allowed to be spoiler tagged, all spoilers for the anime^note Or the first three light novels will be unmarked below.

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Isaac Dian and Miria Harvent

Not pictured: Any sort of intelligence.

Isaac voiced by: Masaya Onosaka (JP), J. Michael Tatum (EN), Sam Riegel (EN, Durarara!!)
Miria voiced by: Sayaka Aoki (JP), Caitlin Glass (EN), Jennie Kwan (EN, Durarara!!)

Isaac: Miria, there's these people on the other side of this screen staring at us! Why do you suppose that is?
Miria: Well, we're disguised as magicians, so... I think they want to see us put on a show!

Two less than brilliant partners in crime whose hyperactive enthusiasm for their work is only matched by their staggering lack of common sense. Their history isn't very well known, seemingly appearing out of the blue a couple of years ago and starting one of the most bizarre crime sprees known to man. They've also somehow managed to become literally immortal along the way, a feat which even they are unaware of. Currently, they're attempting their "redemption" by going down the Robin Hood path and stealing the ill-gotten gains of The Mafia... Yeah, no one else quite gets it either.

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• Abstract Apotheosis: The Big Bad of 2002 calls Isaac and Miria the embodiment of hope, and excludes them from the hijackings.
• All-Loving Hero: Or, as the title of one episode puts it, "Isaac and Miria Unintentionally Spread Happiness Around Them."
  Firo: If there were more people like them, the world would probably become peaceful and harmonious.
• The Atoner: By 1930, Isaac and Miria decide they should "atone" for their (previously rather harmless and silly) crimes Robin Hood style. They mean well but, as the narrator points out, most people would consider that things like stealing the Genoard family inheritance so the family wouldn't fight over who gets what as worse than what they've been doing before. If nothing else, it was bigger in scale.
• Bad Habits: Isaac and Miria dress up as a priest and a nun as one of their many, many pairs of disguises.
• Beta Couple: To Firo and Ennis. No intimacy problems here!
• Beware the Silly Ones: After they run over Dallas, the dialogue makes it clear that they did it on purpose. He had beaten them up in an alleyway for no reason and they wanted to get back at him.
• Birds of a Feather: Both harmless robbers with a staggering lack of common sense.
• Born Lucky: From accidentally becoming Immortal to never learning that they are in fact Immortal and everything before and in-between.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Despite being about as odd as they come, they are still extremely competent thieves.
• Catchphrase:
  • "Say, Isaac?" "What's that, Miria my dear?"
  • "Incredible!"
  • "I'm so excited!"
• Character Overlap: They show up in Durarara!! as members of the Dollars.
• Chewbacca Defense: Overlapping with Logical Fallacies. Played for laughs with a lot of Isaac's arguments for behavior. A shorter list would involve lines where this does NOT apply.
  • The second episode has an amusing argument for theft, where he asserts that since cows eat vegetables, if you eat steak you're eating vegetables too; thus, if you steal a purse, whatever is inside the purse belongs to you.
  • No, Miria, you can't "win" conversations. Even if the other guy starts crying.
• Cloudcuckoolander: They once stole a museum door to prevent people from entering. Additionally they continued on their cuckoolander robberies for 70 years without even being aware that they were immortal, until they suddenly realized in 2001 that they didn't appear to be aging. As you can expect, they had a Freak Out and then invented an explanation that was even more impossible than 'immortality elixer'.
• Common Law Marriage: They aren't actually married, but they may as well be.
• Cosplay Otaku Girl: and Cosplay Otaku Guy. No, the fact that the term "cosplay" wouldn't even be coined for the next fifty years or so doesn't stop them from partaking in it. A pair of life-long fancy dress party goers.
• The Ditz: Realizing 70 years later that they haven't aged a day since the 1930s, and freaking out about it.
• The Dividual: Twindividual type. They share the same wacko train of thought.
• Drives Like Crazy: Never let Isaac drive your car. It'll only end in pain; horrible, hilarious pain.
• Dumb Blonde: Isaac is a dirty blonde, Miria a flaxen blonde, and neither is of high intellect.
• Dumb Is Good: They are still thieves, so it's for a given value of "good", but that nevertheless puts them at as good if not better than the entire rest of the cast, and the universe certainly seems to rewards their tireless and infectious optimism.
• Eternal Love: An immortal Outlaw Couple who are in constant company for about 75 years.
• Felony Misdemeanor:
  • They consider some of their petty crimes as big hits.
  • "NOOO! We forgot to buy Ennis a present!"
• The Fool: They are SO clueless and blessed by luck that they become Type III immortals accidentally mere moments before the Big Bad pulls out a machine gun.
• From a Single Cell: Even though it took them seventy years to realise.
• Genius Ditz: Isaac and Miria share a surprising amount of foreign literary knowledge — they're inexplicably fluent in Japanese and can name one of the few true female Samurai in history, for example — considering the fact that they are blithering idiots otherwise. They also mix up details a lot such as when they claim Billy the Kid is the hero of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
• Genki Girl: Miria is full of energy.
• Gratuitous Japanese: Yes, even in a series written in Japanese. In The Slash Firo manages to massively piss them off enough ^note by knocking over their domino setup too early. It's Serious Business, people that they start yelling at him in Japanese. Firo was just as confused as you are.
  Isaac and Miria: わああん!フィーロの唐変木!無知蒙昧!底抜け凡愚の世間知らずーっ!^note AAAAGH! Firo, you cretin! You ignoramus! You empty-headed, absolutely unworldly peasant!
  Firo: Wuh, where're... What?
• Greek Chorus: Serve as this in regards to the previews for the next episodes up until 13, with them reading the title cards, which are direct descriptions of what happens in that episode, and them commenting on it. Taken to the point of absurdity in their narration for "Isaac and Miria Unintentionally Spread Happiness Around Them", where they don't realize that they're the ones the card is referring to. In addition, they offer small moments of commentary on the plot while taking part in it, with the most notable example being their observations of Eve crying over a photo of Dallas moments before robbing the Genoard home blind.
• The Heart: Their innate goodness inspires everyone they befriend, completely by accident.
• Hero with an F in Good: Downplayed, but as mentioned before, they haven't quite got the whole Atoner part quite right.
• Hidden Depths: In Volume 7's prologue, Miria appears to be a much deeper character than we thought. In Alice In Jails, Isaac isn't quite as airheaded as he looks.
• Horrible Judge of Character: After briefly chatting with him in Alcatraz, Isaac decides that Ladd Russo is a real swell guy and most definitely not Ax-Crazy in any way.
• Innocent Blue Eyes: While blue isn't at all an unusual color in this series, they tend to be given to minor or Ax-Crazy characters. However, Isaac's blue eyes are meant to highlight his innocence and simple mind.
• Insane Troll Logic:
  • If we can't steal a whole museum...what if we just steal the entrance? Then nobody can get in! Cue door theft. Except that stealing the door would cause the police to shut the museum down for an investigation, which means that it worked perfectly.
  • So how does one commit a "train robbery" again? Oh that's right! Take the train somewhere, commit a robbery in town, and then take the train again to escape!
• Keet: Virtually nothing gets them down and are always excited.
• Kindhearted Simpleton: Definitely not the brightest crayons in the box, but certainly the nicest.
• Know-Nothing Know-It-All: The main personality trait that separates Isaac from Miria is how he is in confident in the nonsense of his own making. For example, he says in one episode that since cows are herbivores, eating beef means eating meat and grass together. He's an interesting example, because rather than this being an irritating flaw, it's actually kind of endearing, in a weird sort of way.
• Large Ham: Barely take a day without screaming.
• Living Forever Is Awesome: It takes them 70 years to realize it, then they freak out, then they're estatic.
• Lovable Rogue: Yes they're robbers, but they're so friendly and charming and harmless.
• Monumental Theft: They've stolen several buildings, such as a museum... kind of...
• Ms. Fanservice: Miria, considering her various nice dresses, pretty face, and friendly personality, it isn't that surprising.
• Mysterious Past: Isaac is implied to have a bad relationship with his family in San Francisco. Miria, meanwhile, is hinted to have a Dark and Troubled Past.
• Obfuscating Stupidity:
  • In "Alice in Jails", Isaac spots an undercover cop and sends Miria to go retrieve a missing wallet just before he's arrested, suggesting that he's not quite as profoundly stupid as he usually acts.
    Man: You could've gone and gotten it yourself. You're lazier than you look, friend.
    Isaac: Maybe... Alright, then. Let's go and see what you've got in your store.
    Man: Hmm? What, you're not going to wait for your lady friend?
    Isaac: Of course not, silly. Why would I want to bring her along to the police station?
  • It's implied in the same story that Miria's partially figured out the truth about Ronny.
• Obliviously Superpowered: They don't notice their immortality for 70 years.
• Outlaw Couple: Instead of killing people, they dress up in funny costumes, and are convinced their various robberies are acts of heroic justice.
• Playing Card Motifs: The opening styles them as the Joker, representing how kooky they are and how likely they are to shake up any situation they find themselves in.
• Only Sane Woman: Miria is an extremely marginal example; she's the one who usually asks the obvious questions Isaac's stupid claims and plans bring to mind when he talks out of his ass. However, she's very quick to accept Isaac's ridiculous and nonsensical excuses and explanations.
• Plucky Comic Relief: The funniest non-violent characters in the series and also the most immune to physical harm.
• Poke the Poodle: They've committed the heinous crime of non-illegal hat shop robbery (which was, in their opinion, a dangerously close call).
• Refuge in Audacity: Invoked. This is why their crimes work. They are so hammy and their outfits so outlandish bystanders think they're Dada artists and leave them alone.
• Serious Business: A good bit of humor comes from the fact that they're idiots who take things too seriously.
  • Dominoes are serious business, my friends.
  • Even being a part of Dollars in Durarara!! is serious for these two!
• Spanner in the Works: To Szilard in 1930.
  • They were nice to Ennis, resulting in her betraying him at a crucial moment to save their lives.
  • Later, they mugged a group of his pawns and stole the complete Elixir that said pawns were delivering to him. Having no idea what it was, they took it to the Martillo family, thus giving a dose to both the Martillo and Gandor families as well as themselves and enabling Firo to devour Szilard.
  • Inverted in 2002, where their absence from the cruise ships is what Huey believes is the cause of Fermet's Evil Plan being derailed.
• Super Gullible: Miria sometimes question Isaac's bizarre logic but she's very credulous in accepting his explanations afterward.
  Isaac: We've committed eighty-seven robberies these past months. Has there ever been a time that I exposed you to danger?
  Miria: Er, about eighty-seven times.
  Isaac: ...See? It hasn't even been a hundred yet!
• Supporting Protagonist: Given how much screen time they get, and the fact that they serve to unify the otherwise disjointed plot strands, they may be the closest thing the show has to central protagonists. Yet their main accomplishment lies in helping other characters, who act more like traditional heroes, succeed.
• Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth: Inverted (too mild for yog whomever). While Ladd's favorite sort of person to kill is someone who never sees it coming, he has no urge to kill Isaac, as the man is simply too oblivious for killing him to be any fun. After all, what's the point laying a man's mortality out before him if he can't tell it from a horse's ass?
• Totally Radical: Dabbled in it in 2001.
• Unlimited Wardrobe: Isaac and Miria love donning new and outlandish "disguises" for every caper. Seeing which ones they're currently wearing is the easiest way to sort through the Anachronic Order of the series.
• Unusual Eyebrows: Isaac has eyebrows that evoke the shape of a hand-scythe.

The Martillo family and associates

Firo Prochainezo

Not the main character, but the ladies don't care.

Voiced by: Hiroyuki Yoshino (JP), Todd Haberkorn (EN)

An uprising Camorrista that may as well have "MAIN CHARACTER HERE" written on his face, given his brash, cocky nature and talent for kicking people's ass. Firo grew up on the streets of Hell's Kitchen before a run in with the Camorra's primo voto sends him up the ranks as one of their best street fighters. Things become even more interesting after a chance run-in with a mysterious suit-clad woman leads him spiraling unwittingly into a scramble for two wine-bottles that happen to contain the Elixir of Life...

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• Actually, I Am Him: The first book is framed as a story being told in the present day to a nameless Japanese tourist by a glasses-wearing camorrista whose description leads the tourist, and the reader, to assume that he's Maiza... until the end of the book, when he reveals that he's actually Firo, seventy years of immortality and a pair of Purely Aesthetic Glasses later.
• The Artful Dodger: Before joining the Camorra, he stumbled into the organization while attempting to pickpocket the organization's primo voto.
• Badass Adorable: He looks like he's still in his teens and can be rather sweet, and he can kick any given man to next month. Lampshaded by Graham in Another Junk Railroad.
  Graham: That damned capo... Firo, or whatever his name was… Who could have expected such a cute face to ever be capable of such horrifying cruelty?
• Badass in a Nice Suit: He has to look nice to run a dangerous business.
• Beneath the Mask: In "The Slash", while he puts up a good front, he isn't as trauma-free about having Szilard's Ghost Memory as he lets on. He's terrified that Szilard's sadism might eventually affect his own personality.
• Berserk Button: Firo hates being called baby-faced. Ennis recalls that he once broke a man's fingers for doing that.
• Book Dumb: Inverted. By the end of the anime, as well as the first novel, Firo's head is a veritable database of alchemical knowledge. Firo claims he's too dumb to make sense out of most of it but he seemed to have eventually sorted it out, as Maiza is considering asking for Firo's help in dealing with a homunculus made by Szilard's grandchild in 2001. Firo also figured out Huey's way of communication within and outside prison after a few hints being dropped, as Huey merely perfected a method that Szilard researched.
• But Not Too Foreign: Half-Italian and raised in an ethnically segregated neighborhood in New York.
• Card Sharp: Comes with managing the Martillo Family casino.
• Celibate Hero: He is implied to be one in the novels. The woman he's in love with is asexual and he's terrified of the whole deal. It took about 50 years or so for her to agree to marriage and they're suffering from a case of Twice Shy on their twenty-years belated honeymoon.
• Chastity Couple: Wth Ennis, beyond humanly possible levels. Even after living together for seventy years and being married for twenty of them, they still haven't done it.
• Deadpan Snarker: Occasionally.
  Edward Noah: That's exactly why we are overlooking your excessive self-defense.
  Firo: ... My tears of gratitude won't stop flowing.
• Decoy Protagonist: When Gustav and Carol debate who the protagonist of the series is, Firo is Carol's pick on account of being "Main Character-ish." There is no main character, even though he does narrate the first book.
• Devoted to You: Firo spent fifty years of his life waiting patiently for Ennis to understand the concept of romantic love and reciprocate his feelings, completely ignoring the possibility of romance with anyone else. Part of it is that Firo's prone to unconditional Undying Loyalty towards loved ones in general.
• Dogged Nice Guy: Firo has been smitten with the asexual Ennis from day one. While he never pressed the issue beyond mentioning to her that he was attracted to her, he did "save himself" for her on the minuscule chance that she'd come around. She does, but not for a long time.
  Firo: I ended up spending a damn long time in the blind pursuit for marriage... Only, what... 50 years...?
• Dude Looks Like a Lady: Firo is rather feminine looking and is very unhappy with it. This has not gone unnoticed by his enemies in the NYPD and FBI, who love calling attention to it just to piss him off. It's also caused him more serious problems as a child, as it once led him to be kidnapped by a pervert who mistook him for a young girl.
• Empowered Badass Normal: What happens when someone spikes the celebratory wine at your Capo promotion party with the Grand Panacea.
• Enemy Within: Firo admits to Maiza in The Slash that he's terrified that consuming Szilard might eventually lead to this. While his fears don't ever come true, a "test" he tried to see if was true set off a chain of events leading to the climax of the story.
• Eternal Love: Firo and the love of his life Ennis are both immortal, which is actually lucky for him since Ennis is so dense that it took her fifty years to even figure out she's in love with him.
• Expecting Someone Taller: Because of his unassuming form, others don't realize he's an immortal ass kicker.
• Eye Scream: He gives this to Huey at the end of 1934.
• Fedora of Asskicking: Special attention is drawn to it by dedicating a scene to how Maiza bought it for him to celebrate his new position in the mob.
• Fool for Love: Prone to Undying Loyalty in general, but Ennis is first in line.
• From a Single Cell: Like all immortals in Baccano!
• Ghost Memory: Of twenty-odd people, by way of devouring Szilard. One of those people is Feremet, horrifyingly enough.
• Happily Adopted: Firo considers the Martillo Family to be nothing less than his true one, and has been noted to have nothing less than a nigh-suicidal loyalty for them.
• Happily Married: To Ennis. After a fifty year delay, they tied the knot.
• Honorary Uncle: To Charon and Claudia Walken.
• Idiot Hero: He's aware that he is one and even plays it up on occasion — such as explaining to Maiza that he can't go and die on him simply because he's too dumb to take his place as the Martillo family bookkeeper.
• Immortal Immaturity: 2002 Firo tries to avert this; Tries.
• Improbable Age: Probably one of the more realistic examples, but still commented upon since he is pretty young considering his position in his family and how he looks younger than he is as well.
• Just a Kid: Dallas's reaction before being curb-stomped.
• Justified Criminal: Back when he was a Street Urchin. He stayed in organized crime afterwords because he considered the Martillo clan the closest thing he had to a family.
• Living Forever Is Awesome: Because the whole "bleeding in reverse" is a party trick that never gets old — even after seventy-two years. He even talked his world weary mentor into enjoying life again.
• Love at First Sight: Firo professes falling in love with Ennis at first sight and goes through the longest courtship process ever because she's all but asexual.
• Magnetic Hero: Ennis notes in Bullet Garden that Firo has a knack for getting people on his side, as he's demonstrated with Angelo, Christopher, and Ladd.
• Mistaken Age: He's annoyed about the time he was detained for trying to leave the country with a "fake" passport that stated he was seventy. Victor's got him a legit ID that conveniently has an error in his birthdate to make it look like he's twenty-five, but even that gets raised eyebrows, as most people assume that he can't be any older than sixteen.
• Mouthy Kid: Firo's a little too old to truly match the trope, but gives everyone he comes in contact with the impression of one.
• Neighborhood-Friendly Gangsters: As Luck puts it, Firo is "someone who is perfectly suited to being a camorrista, and incredibly unsuited to being a criminal."
• Nominal Hero: As affable as he is in the presence of his friends, Firo has absolutely no issue with causing excruciating pain to anyone who bothers the Martillos - cheating in his establishment earns anything from a crushed trachea to ten broken fingers. That said, he does have Unscrupulous or even Pragmatic Hero moments at times.
• Not So Above It All: When it comes to Isaac and Miria's dominos. Initially he was annoyed that took up so much space in his business, but in the end he was as excited as they were.
• Obfuscating Stupidity: Firo is prone to deliberately playing up his Idiot Hero status because he's smart enough to know that Dumb Is Good.
• Oblivious to Love: Firo is as oblivious to Liza's obvious crush on him as Ennis is to his.
• Occidental Otaku: He mastered Japanese by reading raw manga.
• Older Than He Looks: Pre-immortality, he was an eighteen to nineteen-year-old frequently mistaken for around fifteen. Post-immortality, he's upwards of ninety and still being mistaken for midpubescent.
• Only Sane Man: Firo can't help but notice that a good deal of his friends are very, very weird and tend to do things like emptying his speakeasy without permission for the sake of a giant dominoes structure.
• Paralyzing Fear of Sexuality: Hand-holding is terrifying, okay?
• Pretty Boy: Regularly noted in the light novels to look rather young and feminine, much to his annoyance. This did not do him any favors during his stint in Alcatraz.
  Inmate: Welcome to Broadway, doll.
• Professional Gambler: Firo is disturbingly good at games of chance, thanks to decades of managing a casino. He once did a Self-Imposed Challenge at a casino aboard the Entrance to see how much he could rake in without cheating. He started with a hundred and ended with a hundred thousand. It took less than two hours.
• Purely Aesthetic Glasses: After he takes Maiza's place as conta è oro. He says they're there to make him look smarter and older.
• Satisfied Street Rat: As a child he did well with a criminal lifestyle. Then he grew up and joined the big boys.
• Sexless Marriage: He and Ennis eventually get married, but Ennis still hasn't quite caught on to the sex thing.
• Shameful Strip: Has this happen to him at one point in Alice in Jails. Not only did he get strip searched, he had to be walked to his cell naked while other prisoners made suggestive comments. He makes a mental note to kill them later.
• Single-Target Sexuality: Holding out fifty years for your nigh-asexual crush to reciprocate against the odds, or try your luck with someone else? Celibacy it is!
• Straight Man: To Isaac and Miria. The domino scene wouldn't be half as funny if he weren't there to look confused.
• Tsundere: Type A variety. He's a confrontational smartass unless he's around people he likes, where he's goes deredere. When Maiza gets him his hat, Maiza even thinks to himself that it's hard to imagine that the Firo he is talking to now was the same one threatening the police only five minutes ago.
• Twice Shy: With Ennis; he's afraid of sex and she's doesn't understand sex.
• Uke: Whether he is one is up to the Yaoi Fangirls to decide but, as Detective Edward notes, he certainly looks like one. Maiza does not respond to this well.
• Underestimating Badassery: As Czeslaw puts it, Firo has "a face that could make children see him as someone to be trifled with."
• Undying Loyalty: It's been noted that Firo would do anything the Martillo family asks of him, up to and including killing himself.
• Waif-Fu: Discounting the permanently prepubescent Czeslaw, Firo is the second-smallest man in the cast. This will not stop him from kicking your ass.
• Weirdness Magnet: If Firo has a significant role in a book, then it's a given that the craziest guy in the area will gravitate towards him. This is taken to its logical conclusion in Deep Marble, wherein Ladd, Graham, Christopher and Claire all wind up visiting Firo's casino at the same time.

Maiza Avaro

Voiced by: Mitsuru Miyamoto (JP), Sean Hennigan (EN)

Firo's mentor, and the current bookkeeper of the Martillo family. Maiza's a seemingly unflappable and serene man who rarely seems fazed by anything. It might have something to do with that past he never talks about for some reason...

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• Be Careful What You Wish For: He summoned Ronny to gain immortality. It results in his brother being absorbed by Szilard, who planned to do the same to him to get his hands on the grand Panacea for himself.
• Berserk Button: Do not mess with Firo in any way, shape, or form. Even insulting him will provoke Maiza to a physically harmless but terrifying Tranquil Fury, and implying, as Victor does in 1934, that you may have harmed him will get you implied death threats in return.
• Big Brother Instinct: Towards Firo. Sylvie mentions that Firo is a bit like Maiza's late brother, which might explain why.
• Big Brother Mentor: To Firo, whom he teaches the ropes of mafia life to.
• Blue Blood: In 1705, we find out he's the son of a Spanish aristocrat.
• Dark and Troubled Past: The Advena Avis incident, followed by 200-odd years of massive guilt issues. Considering that in 1705 he was a delinquent and the son of a drug-dealing aristocrat, it may go even farther back than that.
• Delinquent: In 1705 he was not the polite and friendly gentleman he becomes by the 1930s.
• Eyes Always Shut: Most likely as foreshadowing his mysterious past and imply he is wise or at least hint that he isn't as young as he looks.
• From a Single Cell: Like all immortals in Baccano!
• I Cannot Self-Terminate: Attempted in 1930 in the novels, but Firo refuses.
• Living Forever Is Awesome: He takes up this attitude a few years of Szilard's death. By 1934 he's quite content with the idea of being an eternal gangster.
  Ronny: Do you wish you were still an alchemist?
  Maiza: ... No. No, I don't. There was a time when I regretted ever summoning you on that boat... but I do not for a second regret my place here right now.
• Mercy Kill: In the epilogue of The Drugs and the Dominoes (set in 2002), Maiza contemplates doing this to Begg, who seems doomed to be in a coma for all eternity, but decides against it when he realizes that Begg is in his Happy Place.
• Minored In Ass Kicking: He's the head bookkeeper. No one except Firo has ever won an initiation fight against him.
• My Greatest Failure: The Advena Avis incident, particularly the death of his brother.
• Not Distracted by the Sexy: The Children of Bottle makes a point of noting that Maiza is entirely unaffected by Sylvie's incredibly distracting sexiness.
• Obi-Wan Moment: In the light novels, takes Firo aside and politely asks the kid to kill him. Firo's response? "Hell, no!"
• The Older Immortal: The Martillo family all become immortal eventually but he is several hundred years older than them.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: The first time Firo ever sees Maiza lose his composure is when Szilard arrives at Alveare in 1930. Firo immediately realizes that if Maiza is visibly alarmed, then the situation must be serious.
• Really 700 Years Old: He looks like thirty to forty but he's closer to three hundred.
• Seen It All: Weary traveler type, though he's been known to dip a bit into Smug Know-It-All after getting over his dead brother.
• Stoic Spectacles: Mostly when we see him on the Advena Avis.
• Tranquil Fury: A detective once made the mistake of calling Firo the Camorra's Uke in the presence of Maiza. Maiza proceeds to terrify the everlasting shit out of the cop by walking up to him with a polite smile — giving the distinct impression that he'd slash his throat then and there if he said another word ("We could take what you just said as an insult, you know..."). In the light novels, we see Maiza maintain his calm demeanor while actually engaged in violence.
• Walking the Earth: Sometime around 1970, Maiza decides to embark on a journey to reassemble the survivors of the Advena Avis and gives Firo his position as conta è oro.
• Who Wants to Live Forever?: "The harshness of living for eternity..."

Ronny Schiatto

Voiced by: Nobutoshi Canna (JP), Chuck Huber (EN)

The Martillo family's chiamatore, and one of the few in the group that knew of Maiza's past. In reality he's the "demon" (he considers the term a misnomer) summoned aboard the Advena Avis that granted Maiza and the other alchemists immortality. Partly due to Elmer's request and mostly out of boredom, he's assumed human form and has been hanging around Maiza for the last two hundred years or so. Word of God states that Ronny is the strongest character in the entire Baccano! series, tied only with Claire Stanfield.

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• All-Powerful Bystander: Do you want him to die of boredom?
• Chessmaster Sidekick: To be fair to Maiza, it's hard to compete with omnipotence.
• Curtains Match the Window: When fashioning a human form, why bother creating different colors?
• Damn, It Feels Good to Be a Gangster!: So good even Eldritch Abominations want in on it!
• Deadpan Snarker: As best demonstrated when he decides to have a man-to-man chat with Huey.
  Huey: At first, I had only planned on observing Maiza. It is purely coincidence that I happened to stumble upon you as well, demon... Or do you prefer Ronny Schiatto? Is that your true name? Immortals cannot use false names when talking to one another, but I would have only your word that the same law applies to demons as well.
  Ronny: ... My name is Elmer C. Albatross.
• Did We Just Have Tea with Cthulhu?: Got to admit, watching him set up dominoes was hilarious.
• The Dreaded: Ronny can freeze a room simply through sheer fear.
  "Mister Ronny's quite... intimidating, when he's on the job."
• Eldritch Abomination: He's not a demon in the sense of hell spawn, but a superantural creature of boundless power and age whose true form mortals cannot grasp.
• Expy: A less overtly evil version of Nyarlathotep.
• The Faceless: His true form. Normal humans can't grasp it anyways.
• Fluffy the Terrible: When's the last time you met an omniscient, amoral, reality-warping Eldritch Abomination named Ronny?
• A Form You Are Comfortable With: His true form is too weird for humans to comprehend. He manifested as a smoke cloud first and then as a human.
• Humanity Is Infectious: As Huey comments.
  Huey: Though I must say that all things considered, you are surprisingly human.
• Humanoid Abomination: Downplayed. He's taken a human form that is indistinguishable from real humans.
• Intrigued by Humanity: His reasons for sticking around even though he's already followed Elmer's request to stick by Maiza until he could smile again.
• It Amused Me: Why he does anything.
• I Was Just Passing Through: When Elmer recognizes Ronny and realizes he followed his request to stay by Maiza's side as a human, Ronny says it was mostly because he was bored.
• Mundane Utility: Rather than doing anything useful with it, Ronny typically whips out the omnipotence for inane things like repairing broken bottles, scaring small children, and sparing himself the cost of a transcontinental train ticket.
• The Omnipotent: His power enables him to do whatever he wants, which is why he doesn't bother looking for challenges.
• The Omniscient: He finds the whole deal tremendously boring, so he usually keeps it turned off.
• Our Demons Are Different: Ronny doesn't consider himself to be one. The truth is that Our Homunculi Are Different he is a "true homunculus" with omniscience and omnipotence who was once confined to a bottle, and was created around 300 BC. He eventually found a way out and became what he is today.
• Prescience Is Predictable: Ronny ignores his own omniscience for this reason.
• Reality Warper: He refuses to use his powers for anyone besides the Martillo family and inane tasks.
• Really 700 Years Old: Created around 300 BC and he was an alchemist before then.
• Secret-Keeper: Maiza's. The roles reverse after 1930.
• Smoking Is Cool: Subverted — Smoking Is Cool only until somebody surprises you and makes you choke on your cigarette.
• Something Only They Would Say: Ronny is all but revealed as the demon from the Advena Avis when it's shown that he shares the aforementioned demon's Verbal Tic.
• Time Abyss: Implied, although his true age is never given.
• Touched by Vorlons: "Strictly speaking, I am no demon... Just an alchemist who had obtained too much knowledge during ancient times..."
• Tsurime Eyes: Frequently described as sharp/fox-eyed, much like Luck.
• Verbal Tic: Typically ends his speech with "well, no matter^note まあいい/maa ii in Japanese."
• Walking Spoiler: Why are there so many spoiler tags here? Because he's not an ordinary gangster.
• The Watcher: Ronny puts large self-imposed restrictions on his own abilities to keep things interesting. He's sticking around to watch, not act.
• World's Strongest Man: Canon and Word of God contained in Narita Saikyou Q&A confirms that Ronny is one of the strongest characters in his home series and one of the top five in The 'Verse. The other four are: Shizuo Heiwajima and Claire Stanfield rivaling him at 3rd place; Hawking from Vamp!, who is essentially a black hole fond of leaping through the universe; and No.37564 "Mob Combatant" from Hariyama San, Center of the World, a Mook who went From Nobody to Nightmare, topping all of them simply because Narita made "strongest man in the history of time" the basis for his character.
• You Cannot Grasp the True Form: A man once demanded from Ronny proof that he was a demon. He obliged by showing him his true form. Immediately afterwards, the only thing said man can remember about it is the overwhelming feeling of fear he experienced.

Others

The other members and associates of the Martillo family. This includes Molsa Martillo, Yagulma, Lia Linshan, Sena, Randy, Pecho and Annie.

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• Anime Chinese Girl: Both Lia Linshan and her brother Fan are half-British but fill the other trope aspects.
• The Don: Molsa Martillo is The Leader; he conducted Firo's promotion.
• Fat and Skinny: Randy and Pecho; otherwise you can't tell them apart.
• From a Single Cell: All the executives and some of the speakeasy staff as of November 1930.
• The Mole: Annie, a waitress who is really one of Hilton/Liza's vessels and a spy for Huey Laforet. She's more of a Friendly Enemy than an actual threat, however, in part due to her Villainous Crush on Firo.
• Neighborhood-Friendly Gangsters: Similar to the Gandor family, they are well behaved for 1930s gangsters.
• Old Master: Yagulma, the older gentleman that is their second-in-command. Despite his age he can still teach others how to fight such as teaching Firo jujutsu.
• Those Two Guys: Randy and Pecho have little screentime and serve as extras.
• True Companions: The Martillo family acts like a surrogate family for certain members like Firo.

The Gandor Family and Associates

In General

An up-and-coming mafia family in New York led by Keith Gandor and his two younger brothers, Berga and Luck.

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• Affably Evil: They still do the violent things like a normal mafia, Neighborhood-Friendly Gangsters notwithstanding.
• Badass Family: The three (technically four) brothers are formitable in the underworld.
• Card Games: The Gandors brothers are usually seen playing these in their spare time. Keith always carries around a deck of cards, and spends most time shuffling or playing solitare with them.
• Even Evil Has Standards: All of the Gandors, particularly Keith, have lines they refuse to cross — particularly on the matter of drugs.
• Freudian Trio:
  • Keith (Super-Ego) because of his rule setting
  • Berga (Id) because he's the muscle
  • Luck (Ego) because he's The Face of the three.
• From a Single Cell: Like all immortals in Baccano.
• The Mafia: Much humor is derived from how unlike Mafia they are despite their business.
• Neighbourhood-Friendly Gangsters: Even lampshaded by Firo when asked about them: "Yup, real men: just like the outlaws in movies. That's the key reason why these three guys aren't like the Mafia."
• Wouldn't Hit a Girl: Hilarity Ensues in Drug & the Dominos when they realize they have to punish one of their speakeasy waitresses for insubordination while trying to get around the fact that hitting women back then was something that you just didn't do. Luckily for them, Tick worms his way into the conversation and suggests a Traumatic Haircut, while Claire wonders to himself how they can possibly call themselves gangsters. To top it off, the haircut improved the woman's hairstyle.
• Youngest Child Wins: Firo believes that Luck, the youngest of the Gandor siblings, is the one best fit for running their family.

Keith Gandor

The oldest of the brothers, Keith is the head of the Gandor family. He strongly believes in using traditional mafia rules, as well as refusing to deal with drug dealing. Also has a tendency to go without speaking for long amounts of time. However, he seems to be quite talkative over the phone.

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• Beware the Quiet Ones: During his fight against Maria in Drug & the Dominoes, Claire mocks her for taking pride in her status as an assassin and goes on to say that there's no point in clinging to Evil Virtues or believing in Honor Among Thieves. Anyone who disagrees with him can fight him over it. Keith takes him up on the offer, and becomes the only man to make Claire back down and apologize.
• Card Sharp: Keith cheats the hell out of poker. At least one of the decks he carries is composed of 52 jokers for this very purpose.
• Face of a Thug: "A man who, no matter how one looked at him, didn't seem like he did proper business."
• The Fettered: Operates by a number of rules. One of which is no drug running.
• Happily Married: To Kate. She's the only one who can break his silence.
• Horrifying the Horror: Think of it this way, he's the only character who can intimidate Claire Stanfield and can get him to give a verbal apology.
• Perpetual Frowner: This helps establish him as the serious, silent, stoic type and makes him seem even more intimidating.
• The Quiet One: Keith does not speak often, and even then he never says more than four or five words. The only person that can get him to say more than half a sentence is his wife, Kate — and even then, only very rarely. Kate, an accompanist for silent films until the advent of "talkies" put her out of work, describes Keith as being "just like a silent movie." The Daily Days waive their usual fee for information if a matter is so important as to cause Keith to speak, meaning his words have monetary value.
• The Stoic: Since he doesn't talk much, doesn't change expressions much and doesn't react too much to others he is very stoic.
• Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: Keith isn't exactly ugly - just intimidating and suspicious-looking - but Eve is nonetheless surprised to discover that his wife is fricking gorgeous, as well as willing to accept that her husband isn't running one of the most legitimate businesses.
• The Voiceless: In the anime, which doesn't include any of the very rare instances in which he speaks aloud.

Berga Gandor

Voiced by: Kenta Miyake (JP), Phil Parsons (EN)

The second oldest, Berga is more rough-and-tumble than his brothers and prefers to use his physical strength against opposing forces.

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• The Berserker: Even before immortality. He's even better at this trope afterward.
• The Big Guy: Class 1, Berserker-type.
• Dumb Muscle: As Firo puts it: "He's an idiot, no matter how you look at it. A big, endearing idiot."
• Henpecked Husband: A few lines in the novels suggest that he is quite submissive to his wife Kalia.
• Implacable Man: Combined with the immortality, Berga's ability to completely ignore even extreme levels of pain makes him someone you really don't want to screw with.
• The McCoy: He is the most expressive and impulsive of the brothers.
• Never Bring a Knife to a Fist Fight: Berga is effectively Immune to Bullets. You can shoot him repeatedly in the knuckles at point blank range, and he'll just keep on punching you.
• Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: Implied. Berga's under the impression that everyone else thinks this, at least.
  Firo: Say... how'd you end up marrying Kalia?
  Berga: ...What? You sayin' you can't believe I married a beauty like her? Huh?!

Luck Gandor

Voiced by: Takehito Koyasu (JP), Jason Liebrecht (EN)

Although the youngest of the siblings, Luck does most of the talking and business for the family. He's acquainted with Firo, leading the Gandors and Martillos to have good relations.

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• Affably Evil: Luck is so fettered for a Mafia executive, and so generally likable and polite to everyone, that it's easy to forget that he would not hesitate to arrange a Fate Worse than Death for anyone who crosses him. —Although he would give his condolences to their family.
• Berserk Button: Laying a finger on any of Luck's subordinates is tantamount to assisted suicide.
• Big Damn Heroes: He comes to Firo's rescue in the 1930 arc, and to Eve's in Drug & the Dominos, rationalizing all the way.
• The Face: Keith doesn't talk much, and Berga isn't too bright, so Luck is the one who does the talking for the brothers.
• A Father to His Men: Luck is good friends with many of his subordinates, and tends to get very, very cross when people attack them — especially unprovoked. If you're lucky, he'll just beat you to death with a chair. If you're not...then you end up like Dallas Genoard.
• Grievous Harm with a Body: In Drug & the Dominos, Luck stabs Gustavo in the throat with the wet end of his own severed arm.
• Improbable Age: Luck's just about the same age as Firo, and has been shown to have been in an executive position of the Mafia for at least five years before that. The difference is that, while Firo clawed his way up from the bottom for his position, Luck landed his mostly due to family connection — a fact that he's painfully aware of.
• I Was Just Passing Through: Luck rationalizes his more heroic actions, even if the excuses only serve to convince himself. At the end of Drug & the Dominos, he finally admits that he's fooling himself, but feels he's gone too far to be redeemable..
• Just a Kid: In the light novels that reveal Luck's early teenage years in the Gandors' business.
• Karmic Death: What he gives to Dallas Genoard; see the latter's profile, under And I Must Scream.
• Minored In Ass Kicking: Luck would rather guile his way out of a situation than fight. However, when sufficiently motivated, he performs insane feats that'd make Chuck Norris's jaw drop — like, say, killing a man three times his size with his own severed arm...
• Nepotism: Luck didn't have an executive position in the mafia because he was great at it, but because his brothers were in charge.
• Post-Victory Collapse: In Drug & The Dominos, Luck manages to take out Gustavo with a severed arm, reattach it, make a pithy Bond One-Liner, and even make sure the resident Ingenue hasn't been completely and utterly traumatized before he finally passes out from the pain.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: In episode 6, he explains to Dallas Genoard what a waste of space the Gandors think he is.
• Shoot the Dog: In Drug & the Dominos, he nearly kills Gustavo Bagetta after deliberately preventing Eve Genoard from doing so.
• Team Dad: After the Gandors acquire Maria. Keeping her in line is a lot like babysitting.
• Tough Leader Façade: Luck goes through great lengths to be taken seriously as a mafioso, both because he knows he's not naturally cut out to be that ruthless and out of a deep-seated fear that not being so could get him killed.
• Tranquil Fury: When he learns about the deaths of his subordinates in the first light novel, the calm, patient way he explains how much he wants to murder those responsible with his own hands - to the point that he believes if he lets himself act on his anger he could kill police or even innocent bystanders if they get in his way - is enough to scare even Berga.
• Tsurime Eyes: The novels call attention to it regularly; the most common description given of him is "fox-eyed."
• Younger Than They Look: Luck's Improbable Age isn't immediately obvious because he doesn't look or act like he's under 20.
• Youngest Child Wins: Luck is both the youngest and most focused upon of the three Gandors, and also the one running the family business.

Tick Jefferson

*Snip*

Voiced by: Kappei Yamaguchi (JP), Adam Dapkus (EN)

A young man working for the Gandors to take care of their enemies. He was taken in by them as a child after his step-father sold him to pay off an overdue loan. Tick has a strangely chipper demeanor for his job, as well as constantly carrying around multiple pairs of scissors.

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• Aloof Big Brother: His younger brother seems to have considered him one.
• Big Brother Instinct: Dallas gets a pair of scissors to his shoulder, his side, and his spine for threatening to throw Tack off a skyscraper.
• Cheshire Cat Grin: Barely seen without that big toothy grin of his.
• Creepy Child: He even weirded out Luck when they first met as kids.
• Dissonant Serenity: Chic is constantly smiling, no matter what he's doing.
• Extreme Doormat: Villainous version. He promises Luck he'll do anything to prove his worth to the Gandors. He'll also do anything that lets him use his scissors.
• Eyes Always Shut: Which make him appear constantly happy, suspicious and creepy at the same time.
• Holding Hands: With Maria, at the end of the 1933 novels.
• Leitmotif: A quirky and faintly creepy whistling theme accompanies his appearances in the anime.
• Parental Abandonment: His step-father sold him to the Gandor family in exchange of not being able to pay them back $1200. He doesn't mind, knowing that his dad will do okay with his younger brother.
• Psychopathic Manchild: He keeps his chipper child-like expressions and quirks even when he's he on the job.
• Punch-Clock Villain: He only works for the Gandors because he’s obligated to.
• Shear Menace: Tick tends to forget he has his scissors in hand and they became part of his body.
• Smarter Than You Look: His step-father, his brother and even Tick himself consider him to be dumb; this isn't entirely true, Tick has shown that he is aware of his surroundings and situation. His interactions with young Luck and later with Maria proves this.
• Torture Technician: From the time he joined the Gandors five years before where the anime starts off, this is his prime MO. And he loves it.
• Verbal Tic: He has a tendency to elongate words. "Uuum, Dad borrowed money from youuu. Then I've been sold to you as collaaateral for the debt, right? To Mr. Luuuck-"

Claire Stanfield

"The power of immortality can do nothing for me. Because you see, there's no way I can possibly die."

Voiced by: Masakazu Morita (JP), Jerry Jewell (EN)

Claire Stanfield, also known as Vino and the Rail Tracer, is the little-known "fourth Gandor Brother" that decided to forgo the career in The Mafia for one much, more ruthless. Claire is the most effective assassin in America, known to strike anytime, anywhere, and with his only trace being the exceedingly bloody remains of his targets. Initially he appears as the seemingly unimportant young conductor, who is "killed" near the start of the 1931 arc. However, this is turned on its head, making him one of the biggest Walking Spoilers in the series. He also has been rumored to have something of a warped sense of justice. Hope to God that you never end up violating it. Word of God states that Claire Stanfield is the strongest character in the entire Baccano! series, tied only with Ronny.

Did we mention that he's convinced that he's God?

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• The Ace: Claire fits all the criteria as diversely and immensely skilled individual that is either well liked or well feared by others. Unsurprisingly, in the series' merchandise deck of playing cards, Claire is literally an ace—the Ace of Spades.
• A God Am I: His philosophy is less "god complex" and more of an extreme form of solipsism: basically, instead of thinking himself as God and everyone else as mortals, he thinks that he is the only person who truly exists and that every other person and thing is just some illusion/show, so it is thus impossible for him to die. Whenever someone tries to disabuse him of this notion (that is, by killing him), they fail. Miserably.
• Amazon Chaser: He appreciates Chané's prowess with knives and proposes after seeing them.
• And This Is for...: Ladd's buddy Dune gets a particularly gruesome death - even as compared to Claire's other victims - after he gleefully admits to having killed Tony, the old man who mentored Claire in becoming a conductor.
• Anti-Hero: He may be an assassin who works for criminals but he works for criminals to kill other criminals. He even has a code to never harm innocent people. It's ironic that one of the most brutal characters in the series is one of the most heroic, too.
  • Case in point: During the Flying Pussyfoot incident, Ladd Russo and his white suit gang wanted to kill the passengers, the black suits and Chané planned a kidnapping (Chané didn't agree to this but still participated), Jacuzzi Splot's gang planned a robbery, Czeslaw planned to kill the innocent passengers, Rachel boarded the train without buying a ticket. The most heroic person was Claire Stanfield. What did he do? He was just doing his job as a conductor until the bad guys ruined the peace. After that, Claire killed most of the white suits and black suits, tortured Czeslaw, saved the "good customers" of the train, warned Jacuzzi... and asked Rachel for her ticket.
• Ax-Crazy: The guy has a few screws loose. Off the job, he's just a Cloudcuckoolander. When on the job, his grotesque and occasionally sadistic methods of taking out targets pushes him towards this trope.
• Badass in a Nice Suit: The conductor suit becomes badass when is covered in the blood of bad customers.
• Badass Longcoat: Default attire, when he's not wearing that blood-soaked conductor's uniform.
• Badass Normal: Claire has absolutely no use for the elixir of immortality, a point which he cheerfully uses as part of his effort to convince Chané to marry him. Books set at the later end of the timeline confirm that he never takes it and is still kicking ass at the age of ninety. Word of God states that despite having no supernatural powers whatsoever, he is as strong as Ronny, a literally omnipotent immortal demon.
• Berserk Button: Claire really does not like it when people suggest that his talents are God-given, as this would imply there's something in the universe that has power over him. As far as he's concerned, any God that exists answers to him.
  Claire: I call up God in my mind and make him do what I say. That's what's called effort.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Despite his unsavory career path and solipsism, Claire is an extremely likable, laid-back, and even sometimes goofy guy who gets along with anyone that can put up with his bizarre quirks. Unless you upset him, in which case he will hurt you in ways you didn't know were possible.^note We're not kidding about that last part. During their encounter, Czeslaw says, straight to his face, that there's nothing he could do that could be more horrible than the stuff Fermet put him through. Claire promptly proves him wrong by biting his fingers off, before moving on to... well, we don't see what Claire put the "kid" thorough, just the aftermath. Issac and Mira found him loosely chained up under a moving train, getting ground up every time his limbs regenerated.
• Big Bad Ensemble: With Goose and Ladd in the Grand Punk Railroad arc.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: When not on the job, Claire seems to be a flighty, overly energetic Cloudcuckoolander with a habit of proposing to women he barely knows. Granted, he's pretty kooky on the job too, but in a much more violently proactive way.
• The Butcher: His most common alias, "Vino", refers to his tendency to go so way overboard on the bloodshed that his crime scenes look they're drenched in red wine.
• Ceiling Cling: Crawls around both cielings and walls, and on the outside of a moving train, no less.
• Charles Atlas Superpower: The most severe case in the entire series; he outclasses everyone from humans to any other supernatural being, except Ronny, in terms of pulling off the absurd.
  • Anime — Kicking at ludicrous speeds, dodging bullets, effortlessly pulling a rope with 3 people hanging on the other end, on the top of a moving train no less. Able to swing around while holding other passengers including grinding them under train wheels without a bit of effort while also able to hold onto the side of the train himself.
  • Novels — Parrying swords with scissors, parrying spears with two fingers, reading the trajectory of projectiles fired from behind him by looking at their reflection in the eyes of the opponent in front of him, and then catching said projectiles to fire them back. Tearing a security door off its hinges with one hand (twisting like almost like play-dough), effortlessly holding a similarly sized opponent up with one hand like they're nothing.
• Chekhov's Gunman: Remember that redheaded train conductor in the second episode, and how it totally looked like he got the Red Shirt treatment just before all hell broke loose? Well...
• Circus Brat: Grew up as one. He gained his Charles Atlas Superpower on the highwire.
• Cloudcuckoolander: Not as bad as, say, Isaac and Miria but he does tend to act like flighty oddball when off the job.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Claire Stanfield versus anybody except maybe Ronny because Ronny is a demon.
• Curtains Match the Window: Not the Rail Tracer kind. In a page spread for Another Junk Railroad, Claire literally has red eyes, the same shade as his hair. He also appears to have red eyes in some of his Rail Tracer scenes in the anime.
• Clap Your Hands If You Believe: The closet thing to an "explanation" Claire's abilities get is that his absolute faith in his perception of how reality works (that it's all just his dream and therefore, anything he wants to happen will happen) is so great that it has a tangible effect on the real world.
• Determinator: If he actually isn't supernatural, then everything Claire has achieved comes only from hard work and sheer willpower. For emphasis, Claire is tied with an omnipotent demon and a superhumanly strong man as the third strongest character in the Naritaverse.
• Deus Exit Machina: Word of God states that Claire isn't allowed to have his own book because he could solo the entire Baccano! universe in less than thirty pages if properly motivated. Luckily, he's a rather flighty, irresponsible Wild Card, so he's easy to write both in and out of the story.
• Dodge the Bullet: On the Flying Pussyfoot, he dodges machine-gun fire and later, Spike's sniper bullets.
• Does Not Know His Own Strength: In the anime there’s blood splatters all over the wagons where Claire was more active in killing the goons from the Lemures and the Russos, but it doesn’t go in detail why is that; the novels makes it as one of the first introductions of Claire’s physical strength, Claire wasn’t actually trying to paint the wagon’s ceiling in red, he just didn’t adjust his strength well enough after grinding the goons against the railroad, so when he threw their bodies back on the wagon the carcass would be lunched into the ceiling by accident painting the scene red; Claire was handling bodies as if they were featherweight ragdolls.
• Dogged Nice Guy: Claire's back-up plan in case Chané didn't think anything of him when he finds her. Claire admits that he would make her love him even if it would take a long time for her to reciprocate. Luckily for him, Chané is a lot faster at reciprocating his feelings than Ennis is at reciprocating Firo's feelings.
• The Dreaded: Tied with Ronny for the position of the most terrifying entity in New York.
• The Dulcinea Effect: Claire is heroically devoted with every woman ever, to the annoyance of his stepbrothers.
• Engaging Conversation: All the time. Chané's just the first person to (eventually) accept the proposal.
  Claire: I just thought of something. If you and I marry, I will become Huey's son. Then I will be your family as well, so the problem will have disappeared. You can think of it as a joke if you will, but I'm serious. Unlike your "friends," I won't betray you. I won't try to obtain the secret of immortality from Huey either because I don't need something like that. Knowing that whether I am immortal or not, I won't die no matter what... That's what I believe, so keep silent and just believe me. I am a guy who will never die.
• Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": The fandom universally refers to the redheaded conductor that shows up in the second episode and credits as the Young Conductor. It's eventually revealed that he does have a name — Claire Stanfield — but the reveal of it is so spoileriffic that people usually refer to the Young Conductor and Claire as if they're entirely different people until The Reveal.
• Eviler than Thou: He proves to be this for Ladd Russo. However, it's this more of a case of Crazier Than Thou, since compared to Ladd, Claire is actually quite heroic and virtuous. For those who didn't know, nobody's more insane than Claire Stanfield.
• Eye Scream: One of Claire's feats that did not make it into the anime was him gouging Spike's eyes off, right after the scene where Claire proposes to Chané and saves her from getting shot in the back by Spike.
• Fearless Fool: He's convinced that he's immortal so he does outrageous things.
• Finger Wag: Claire does this in the middle of episode 13 to the poor schmoo he's up against at the moment.
• Five-Finger Fillet: Does this for fun with his own hand and Chic's scissors in ''Drug & Dominos".
• Foreshadowing: To avoid spoiling The Reveal that, not only is Claire alive, he's an assassin and the Rail Tracer, he's never named in the opening and there's nothing to indicate he isn't just a Red Shirt. However, when he is briefly focused on, he's grabbing a bottle of wine and passing it off-'Vino' is the Italian word for wine, which just so happens to also be his alias.
• Gender-Blender Name: Turns out he was named after his grandfather—Claire was a masculine name before the 1900s. While Clair was an unpopular boy's name at the time he was born, Claire was a significantly more popular girl's name at the time of the series proper. The Grand Punk Station: Express Episode notes his annoyance with this. No wonder he goes by so many different nicknames. This is indirectly lampshaded in The Grand Punk Railroad by Isaac and Miria when discussing Frankenstein's monster (or, as Isaac calls him, "Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelly")
  Miria: You're so smart, Isaac!... But isn't 'Mary' a girl's name?
  Isaac: There are plenty of men out there with feminine names! Besides, there's no telling what kind of name a monster might have!
• The Gift: Something he loathes to have pointed out.
  Claire: D'you really think that I just sat there and had this strength handed to me on a silver platter?"
• Glowing Eyes of Doom: As the Rail Tracer, supposedly a monster of the night.
• Happily Married: To Chané. They're still married when he's ninety.
• I Am Not Left-Handed: Christopher seemed to be fighting against Claire on equal grounds and they had a lengthy conversation during their bout; Claire taking care of his front while Chané watched his back against Liza, it looked like he needed help as Chris was enough of a problem to him. It turned out they weren’t. Claire prolonged the fight on a whim because he wanted to fight alongside Chané for as long as possible; as soon as Claire told her to leave and assist their friends, he overthrew Chris and Liza in an instant.
• I Have Many Names: Much to the annoyance of the Gandors, who have trouble keeping up with all of them. After the 1931 incident, he settles for the name "Felix Walken" and enforcing that no one may call him Claire ever again, except for Chané.
• Improvised Weapon: Claire isn't picky with what he uses to hurt people. Past examples include guns, knives, scissors, train tracks, his own teeth...
• Inconsistent Coloring: Katsumi Enami had varying colors for Claire's eyes during the Light Novels run.
• Informed Ability:
  • Claire is supposed to be a genius. The prologue for The Slash arc had Huey very interested in a rumor about a "red-haired kid adopted by The Gandors" who could assimilate any knowledge or ability properly taught to him fast. Because of this, Huey himself tried to recruit Claire for his purposes. Unfortunately for Huey this happened after Claire had already left for the Circus.
  • Also his overall strength; Narita seems to be fond of placing Claire at an immensurable pedestal when asked just how strong Claire really is. In the 3rd book Narita says Claire is the strongest character in the series by far, and in The 'Verse he is comparable to Eldritch Abomination. In fact, Claire is often used as indicator of strength in the series by being compared to other characters, with them being weaker, comparable or an equal to him.
• Inexplicably Awesome: No explanation for why he's the strongest person in the world is ever given. He simply is.
• Insane Troll Logic: Claire's theory as to why the world revolves around him is built upon this. Firo and the Gandors have long ago given up on trying to prove him wrong.
• Insufferable Genius: Claire will not let you forget that he is better than you.
  Nick: Please, I'm beggin' you! Just havin' you on our side'd make us almost invincible!
  Claire: Take out the "almost" part.
• Irony: Claire (as Felix) only allows Chané to still call him Claire. The irony of a mute woman being the only person in the world allowed to use such a "sacred" name has not gone unnoticed by other characters, although no one's been bold enough to comment on it to Claire's face.
  Felix: Claire is the name of my soul. Only Chané's allowed to call me that. What part of that don't you understand?
• It's All About Me: Claire is literally convinced that the world revolves around him, much to the dismay of everyone around him.
• It's Personal: Part of his grudge against the Russo family is that they killed his mentor Tony, just for fun.
• I Will Find You: Towards Chané after he's forced to separate from her. He eventually finds her in Episode 15.
• Karma Houdini: Despite all the cruelty he inflicts, be it torture for thought crimes, or the numerous assassinations he gleefully carries out, he is never shown to suffer any consequences for his actions.
• Keet: When off the job he is very upbeat and talkative.
• Late-Arrival Spoiler: For anime fans the fact that the Young Conductor is Claire Stanfield is the ultimate spoiler for the series; it is revealed on the 9th episode of a 13 episode anime (sans the extras), so it should be discussed with caution. In Japan however, where the novels fared better than the anime, this is less of a big deal; the Rail Tracer is revealed in the 3rd book of a series that has surpassed more than a dozen of volumes and he is one of the most popular characters to boot, and since the reveal Claire has done too many notable things to be kept in secrecy on discussions.
• Let's Get Dangerous!: Unthreatened or off the job, Claire tends to behave more like an energetic Cloudcuckoolander than a notoriously infamous assassin. Then he bites your fingers off.
• Lightning Bruiser: He has shown Super-Strength and he is extremely fast; fast enough to dodge bullets. It's unknown how much damage he can take, but at one point, when he was holding back almost all of his strength against Christopher, he managed to get shot in the shoulder, and this did not slow him down at all. To Claire's credit, he has yet to face a foe who can even come close to damaging him if he doesn't want them to, and if he ever does, it looks like they would have to hit him quite a bit before he went down.
• Love at First Punch: Aside from Love at First Sight Chané might be the first girl that Claire actually remained stuck on, even after she potentially rejected him, because she's actually (albeit unwittingly) one of the few people to ever land a hit on him, nicking his ear with one of her knives when she was climbing up the outside of the train.
• Love at First Sight: Claire believes that when he first told Chané that he would save her, it was Love at First Sight for him. Granted, he thinks this for every cute girl he meets...
• Luminescent Blush: Has one when gushing over Chané at one point. It's weirdly adorable.
• The Mad Hatter: He knows he's nuts. He even lampshades it.
  Rachel: (after Claire gushes about Chané) Y'know, this is the first time I've ever seen you as human...
  Claire: (with an adorable grin on his face) You didn't think I was human at first? That's okay, sometimes even I wonder!
• Madness Makeover: Covering himself in blood when he becomes the Rail Tracer.
• Make Sure He's Dead: Claire is very thorough with his kills to make absolutely sure there's no way his target couldn't be dead.
• Man Bites Man: Claire severs Czeslaw's fingers with his teeth on the Flying Pussyfoot.
• Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: It's never made clear if his impossible level of skill is just the product of a lot of training or if his beliefs has a grain of truth to it.
• Meaningful Name: He soaks himself in his victims' blood, which is described as red as wine. "Vino" means "wine" in Italian.
• Meaningful Rename: To Felix Walken, since the legally dead Claire can't marry anyone.
• Mutilation Interrogation: To put it simply, there was a lot of blood and screaming. Not that, you know, the series was short on either blood or screaming.
• Not Named in Opening Credits: An interesting case: he goes unnamed in the credits, but still appears in them as a seemingly bit character.
• One-Man Army: The train contained two groups of a dozen or so armed thugs apiece. Claire slaughtered most of them singlehandedly with what seemed like very little effort, and still found time to torture Czeslaw for trying to get more innocent passengers killed, convince Ladd to throw himself off the train, save Isaac and Miria, and propose to Chané while covered in blood.
• Pay Evil unto Evil: Although very brutal, Claire has a personal code of honor and reserves most of his horrors for the people who violate it in some way — for instance, by threatening the safety of the passengers of the Flying Pussyfoot while he's on the job as a conductor. He also rethinks his original plan to wait out Ladd and Chané's fight and kill the winner, instead siding with Chané after learning that she's opposed to the Lemures' plan, and he goes out of his way to save Isaac and Miria because they're good customers.
• Playing Card Motifs: Is associated with the Ace of Spades, the death card. Fitting for a top-ranked Professional Killer.
• Pre-Asskicking One-Liner: When Claire decides to finally pull one out in Drug & the Dominos, he decides to make it count — by quoting the first spoken lines of dialog in the history of film.
  Claire: You ain't heard nothing yet!
• Professional Killer: A well known assassin.
• Reality Warper: Believes himself to be one and he just might be right...
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Despite being the best professional assassin in the United States, with others in the same line of work even wanting to take him out to prove their worth, Claire laughs at the idea of people having pride at being an assassin, mocking other assassins for thinking this job is glamorous in any way; this ends up pissing Keith off, speaking out that loud that Claire should not mock the living and their pride, it is the only time Claire ever apologizes for something he said.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: As the Rail Tracer he resembles a red-eyed monster.
• Red-Headed Stepchild: The literal redheaded stepchild of the Gandor family before running off to the circus.
• Red Herring Shirt: Masquerades as a Red Shirt up until The Reveal, at which point he cuts loose and instantly doubles the show's body count.
• Red Is Heroic: What happens when you have a literal Red-Headed Stepchild as one of your "heroes".
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Claire goes on one after discovering that one of the white-suits killed his conductor buddy, Tony, starting with the murderer and extending to anyone who's vaguely associated with said murderer.
• Retired Badass: A conversation in one of the books set in 2002 indicates that Claire's spending his 90th entirely mortal year on a Caribbean treasure hunt for long-lost pirate treasure. Firo can't help but be annoyed at the unfairness of it all.
• Sacrificial Lamb: A subversion: He initially starts off as a textbook case — he shows up in both the OP and ED (though never quite as a named character), is voiced by a particularly well known seiyuu, gets a fair number of lines in his introductory episode, and finally gets unceremoniously killed off at the very end of episode 2. Then episode 9 rolls along and...
• Samus Is a Girl: Inverted.
  Ennis: From what you're saying, I suppose Miss Claire must be a strong-willed, outgoing person.
  Luck: ... Firo? Looks like you forgot to tell the lady something important.
• Serial-Killer Killer: An incredibly violent assassin, he generally prefers to kill by smashing his targets' faces into the ground from a moving train. However, he takes pride in only killing other criminals, and refuses to do jobs on people who are not guilty. Aboard the Flying Pussyfoot, Claire actually can be considered the most heroic of those involved, as his brutal murder spree only involves the cultists and gangsters who were trying to harm the passengers.
• Serial Romeo: Claire's a bit too invested in the idea of Love at First Sight for his own good ("You proposed to a complete stranger again, didn't you?"). His dating strategy consists of falling madly in Love at First Sight with a random woman, proposing to them within their first conversation, getting rejected, and then quickly moving on to his next One True Love. Much to the Gandors' surprise, this eventually ends up working.
• Showy Invincible Hero: Only played straight in the novels. Claire has won every single fight he has been in, and by this trope's sake all of them with little to no effort at all, and exploited by being often the final and/or decisive battle of a particular arc. Lord may help any future villains if Narita ever drops Claire's resident status as the Wild Card and makes him pull the Let's Get Dangerous! card for the first time ever.
  Claire: When you’re fighting demons in those fairy tales, you’ll need the hero in fairy tales! In other words, me.
• Sixth Ranger: He would partially count for the Gandors, working for them at request, but Claire was always a Gandor by a technicality. The real example comes when he becomes Felix Walken. He swore loyalty towards Chané and extended it to Jacuzzi's gang, which Chané is part of.
• Slasher Smile: When he begins the torture, he flashes a brief one to show subtlely how much fun he's having.
• Stalker with a Crush: The Light Novel narration points that the measures he takes in order to pursue Chané would be known today as stalking. Rachel was a bit unsettled to hear it then.
  Rachel: I'm starting to feel sorry for the girl he's in love with.
• Super-Strength: Though not often demonstrated, The Slash: Bloody to Fair shows that he's capable of warping a steel door by simply pressing his hand against it.
• That Man Is Dead: Claire Stanfield is legally dead, as he was counted as one of the victims of the Pussyfoot massacre. He bought the Felix Walken name from the retired assassin to legally marry Chané without complications, and insists that people call him Felix Walken instead of Claire.
• There Is No Kill Like Overkill: He makes a point of doing a 'thorough job' when killing someone. His brutality is naturally one of the reasons he's so feared.
• Torture Technician: Knows how to inflict pain in ways not even Fermet thought of in 100 years.
• Two Aliases, One Character: Claire's penchant for erratic name-changing leads to a situation where someone hires him to kill himself. He plays along. Violent hilarity ensues.
• Übermensch:
  Claire: Those who are strong can afford to show compassion... and I am strong!
• Unholy Matrimony: With Chané. They're Happily Married.
• Unscrupulous Hero: His moral code is quite heroic, if you put aside the fact he kills for a living and employs countless methods of torture.
• Vague Age: "Around twenty years old" in 1932, and "Around ninety years old" in 2002.
• Wacky Marriage Proposal: While covered in blood and standing on top of a speeding train too.
• Walking Spoiler: It's really hard to talk about the series without revealing that he is the young conductor and the Rail Tracer.
• What a Drag: Inflicts this on various mooks (and Czeslaw) in 1931, off the back of a train no less.
• Wild Card: The only loyalties he has are towards the Gandors, Chané and by proxy Jacuzzi's Gang — and he's even willing to dick around with the former for shits and giggles. Luck still doesn't like to rely on him that much. Claire is too much of a Wild Card that Luck deliberately refuses many of Claire's offerings for help, claiming that it would make their henchmen useless and lazy to do anything.
• World's Strongest Man: Canon and Word of God contained in Narita Saikyou Q&A confirms that Claire is the strongest characters in his home series and one of the top five in The 'Verse. The other four are: Shizuo Heiwajima and Ronny rivaling him at 3rd place; Hawking from Vamp!, who is essentially a black hole fond of leaping through the universe; and No.37564 "Mob Combatant" from Hariyama San, Center of the World, a Mook who went From Nobody to Nightmare, topping all of them simply because Narita made "strongest man in the history of time" the basis for his character.
• Would Hit a Girl: Claire Stanfield supports gender equality.

The Russo Family and Associates

Ladd Russo

Thank you! Fuck you! The star is here!

Voiced by: Keiji Fujiwara (JP), Bryan Massey (EN)

Ladd Russo is a man of few wants. He likes to talk a lot and he likes to kill a lot, and anything beyond that is superfluous. He works as the hitman of the Russo family because they figured that if they had to deal with his constant homicidal tendencies anyway, they might as well put them to good use. Even the regular opportunities for gratuitous slaughter are sometimes not enough for him, and he has to go search for his own means of bloody amusement. Hijacking the Flying Pussyfoot, for example...

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• Adaptational Attractiveness: He's not "ugly" per se, but he's very Bishōnen in the manga whereas in the anime and the light novels...Look at the picture above and compare it to any picture in the manga; the latter definitely plays up the beauty angle. Also played with, as while he is more "pretty" in the manga, he's drawn in a way that also makes him look considerably more deranged.
• Affably Evil: He may be a deranged lunatic, but he's also an energetic and jovial guy.
• All Girls Want Bad Boys: Or just Lua. Although Caitlin Glass (Miria's VA) also admits some Perverse Sexual Lust for him on the DVD Commentary.
• Anti-Hero: As Baccano! is a series that loves it's sense of Irony, Ladd often gets thrown into the "Hero" role (It helps that he's really entertaining to watch). Notably, during the Flying Pussyfoot incident, he ends up defending the passengers from the Black Suits, though mainly because the latter pissed him off.
• Artificial Limbs: Gets one before his stay in Alcatraz in the Alice in Jails arc.
• Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: Ladd shows off his love for Lua — in his own psychotic, demented way— during his Life-or-Limb Decision to save her.
• Ax-Crazy: He gets called on it by his uncle but he just takes it as a compliment.
• Badass in a Nice Suit: He wouldn't think of getting his sick kicks without doing so in style.
• Badass Normal: In a world of immortals and people with Super-Strength and super reflexes, he still manages to be one of the most dangerous characters.
• Beast and Beauty: With Lua. Ladd being Ladd, love is usually professed through gratuitous death threats.
• Berserk Button: There are two kinds of people who Ladd will desire to kill on sight, regardless of whether it benefits him or hinders him—those who believe that they'll never die, and those who fancy themselves heroes. And wouldn't you know, Claire Stanfield happens to be both kinds.
• Big Bad Ensemble: With Goose and Claire in the Grand Punk Railroad arc.
• Blood Knight: Of all the characters, he loves violence the most.
• Break the Haughty: Invoking this trope is his forte; he hates the arrogant. When people try it on him, he just takes it in stride.
• Card-Carrying Villain: He takes pride in being a mafia family's greatest assassin.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He spared his uncle because they were family.
  • Averted in the novels, where he spared his uncle simply because it's best to enjoy killing on "an empty stomach." Also averted in the manga where he goes back in and kills his uncle anyway.
  • His relationship with Lua plays this trope straight. Even if he's going to kill her someday (and that's just fine with her), it's clear that he really loves her and he seems to be genuinely kind to her as well.
• Even Evil Has Standards: His seemingly one and only rule is that he only likes killing people who don't think they will ever die. This is why he spared Graham's life when the two fought; Graham had given up and said Ladd was free to kill him, which ruined all of Ladd's fun. This is because he detests the arrogant.
  • He also doesn't kill Isaac, even though Isaac falls right into his killzone, because Isaac is completely out of it. It'd be like killing a puppy.
• Evil Gloating: In 1934 - Alice in Jails, he notes how stupid it is when people indulge in this trope...while indulging in this trope himself, which he is both thoroughly aware of and rather amused by.
  "Let me tell you how important it is to keep your mouth shut. Me, I've seen so many damn people going on and on about 'these will be the last words you ever hear' and 'take these words with you to the afterlife,' and then that gives whoever they're fighting an opening to strike back. Crazy, isn't it? I see it all the time, in books, in plays, even in real life! I don't even know why, but somehow the more comfortable someone is with killing, the more they flap their mouth when it comes time to do the deed, yakking on and on and on. As you might have guessed, I myself happen to be such a person! And therefore, as such, in light of that revelation, I'll say that one is enough, and since that one is of course myself, I want you all to shut up. You're boring. Swallow those words and take them to the afterlife yourself if you want them delivered there so damn much."
• Evil Has a Bad Sense of Humor: Headshotting ten-year-olds is hilarious, amirite?
• For the Evulz: All the killing, maiming, and other assorted horrible deeds that Ladd gets up to are generally because of this and nothing more.
• Freudian Excuse: Inverted. Ladd was a homicidal lunatic to begin with, but the death of his first girlfriend Leila limited his range of targets to people who don't believe they can be killed.
• I Call It "Vera": in the novels and manga, his shotgun is named "Blasty"
• Implausible Deniability: Ladd Russo always pleads self defense to his murders or assaults, even when he commits them right in front of the guards. In his defense, he doesn't really seem to think they'll buy it.
• Incoming Ham: "THANK YOU! FUCK YOU! THE STAR IS HERE!" All while posing and flailing dramatically.
• Insult Backfire: "Your attempts at flattery are so ham-handed..."
• Kick Them While They Are Down: 47 times.
• Lacerating Love Language: Ladd's way of expressing love? "I'll kill you last".
• Lady and Knight: A very weird example with Lua. Ladd has traits of the white knight (attraction to Lua because of her gentle personality, protects her at the cost of his arm and is engaged to her) but he doesn't want anyone to kill her because he wants to be the one to do it.
• Large Ham: From his shouting, to his shooting, to punching someone while listing famous American boxers, his presence is huge.
• Laughably Evil: He's very energetic and hammy, so he's still somewhat likable even when he's dancing on someone's corpse. It helps that, while he's perfectly willing to kill all kinds, the vast majority of the people he ''actually' ends up slaughtering are Asshole Victims.
• Life-or-Limb Decision: Ladd sacrifices his left arm in preventing Claire from killing Lua.
• Light Is Not Good: On his killing spree on the train, Ladd and all his men, plus Lua, all wear pure white. This is because Ladd thinks bloodstains will look nicer splattered on white.
• Made of Iron: He punches a rail post so hard that it (and his arm) explodes. In a flashback, he takes a high-speed wrench to the gut without flinching.
• Mask of Sanity: Bizarrely enough, Ladd is capable of acting as if he's completely and perfectly sane for long periods of time - he served as a model prisoner for two years until he discovered that he could get himself transferred to Alcatraz (and thus closer to his target, Huey), if he fell back on his usual antics.
• Motor Mouth: While not quite so bad as Graham, he still talks more than anyone else in the anime and gets very passionate.
• No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Ladd's specialty is to beat someone to pulp and then kill them.
• Odd Friendship:
  • During Alice in Jails, he forms a good friendship with Firo and Isaac, of all people.
  • Along with his childhood friend Who.
• The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: Both to Lua and Graham. It's his sick little way of showing his love.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: In the novels, Lua speaks out when he doesn't kill his uncle, saying it's "unlike him." Of course, it turns out he had his own sick reason behind it, but if something's enough of an issue for Lua to speak out, it's probably a big deal.
• Practically Joker: An extremely hammy and very much insane killer who laughs as he kills.
• Psycho for Hire: Ladd's an interesting variation in that he gets work because he's the nephew of the head of the Russo family.
• Psychopathic Manchild: Can get pretty child-like in his homicidal glee, and is usually shown skipping, babbling excitedly, dancing in pools of blood, or any combination of the three.
• Put the "Laughter" in "Slaughter": Ladd finds murder to be very entertaining.
• Slasher Smile: As a hammy pyschopath this is his default expression.
• Sociopathic Hero: He's a sadistic gangster hitman but the lemures are a murderous terrorist cult.
• Star-Crossed Lovers: His first girlfriend Leila was from the family of an influential politician. Ladd is the nephew of the Russo Family boss. She was killed during elopement.
• Villain in a White Suit: He barely goes without it. In fact, he wants to wear one when the blood spills.
• Villain Protagonist: Everyone is technically a protagonist but he serves this role to Claire on the Flying Pussyfoot.
• White Shirt of Death: The Plan was to get it splattered with other people's blood. It worked out okay for a bit... until he ran into the Rail Tracer.
• Would Hit a Girl: Leeza would have learned the hard way, if not for Firo's intervention.
• Would Hurt a Child: Ladd blows off a $10,000 job just to demonstrate that, yes, he would kill a child.
  Ladd: You're just so sure I'm not going to do this? *BOOM!*
• Younger Than He Looks:
  • His looks and voice (either in Japanese or English) doesn't make one realize that he just turned 25 years old.
  • Averted in the manga, where he really does look twenty-five (if not a bit younger).
• You Will Be Spared: "I'll kill you last" is Ladd's way of telling you he likes you.

Lua Klein

Voiced by: Eri Yasui (JP), Carrie Savage (EN)

Ladd's fiancee, a soft-spoken and docile Death Seeker. Ladd has promised to kill her after he's killed everyone else, being uninterested in killing people who want to die.

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• Affably Evil: The only thing "evil" about her is that she's on Ladd's side—though the fact that she never questions nor objects to her lover's monstrous deeds shows that she's not necessarily "good" either.
• Beast and Beauty: Look at her fiance, and then at her.
• Curtains Match the Window: Both are a soft brown; like her. The anime changes her eyes to green.
• Death Seeker: One of the major factors of her character (and the reason she and Ladd get along so well) is that she wants to die, although why she wants to die has yet to be explained.
• Dissonant Serenity: Never appears to be bothered by her lover's carnage but she looks a bit disgusted when Ladd starts messing with Dune's corpse.
• Dull Eyes of Unhappiness: The novels emphasize that despite her beauty, there is absolutely no life in her eyes. The only time she looks "alive" is when she's trying to save Ladd from the Rail Tracer.
• Everyone Has Standards: She's usually quite enamored by Ladd's bloodthirsty nature, but she looks somewhat disgusted when Ladd starts playing around with Dune's corpse.
• Extreme Doormat: In general, Lua just kind of goes along with whatever Ladd wants, despite hints that she does kind of want him to be a bit less of a boisterous maniac. Ultimately deconstructed when Claire uses her against Ladd, by looping a rope around her neck on top of the train, hooking the other end on a passing bit of railroad equipment, and letting go of her. He correctly assumes that she'll make no effort to save herself, forcing Ladd to intervene and taking himself out of the equation.
• Hidden Depths:
  • In the novels she seems to understand Ladd's emotional dependency on her and stays around because she loves him.
  • She's also implied to be implacable and quite intelligent, since she can put together several hundred pieces of blank puzzles at once.
• I Cannot Self-Terminate: The novels clarify that "suicide is a foolish option for her," for whatever reason.
• Interplay of Sex and Violence: At one point Ladd brags about how many people he's going to kill while tightening his fist as though he's strangling someone. Lua's response? To stare at his fist with an enormous grin on her face.
• Lady and Knight: A very weird example with Ladd. Lua would be a Bright Lady (beauty, innocence, emotional support for her knight) if she weren't looking forward to being killed by (and under the proverbial thumb of) such a Black Knight.
• Meaningful Name: Her last name, at least, means "small" in Dutch and German, which is a good indicator of her personality and her frame.
• Morality Pet: While she's in the near-perfect position to be the morality pet, she serves to underscore Ladd's crazy rather than cull it. Ladd sacrifices his arm to save her.
• Nightmare Fetishist: Towards her ax crazy finance.
• The Quiet One: In contrast to her lover, she rarely speaks and it's always in a soft voice. The only time she raises her voice is when she's trying to tell Ladd to run from the Rail Tracer.
• Spider-Sense: Mild version. In the novels, Ladd claims that Lua's intuition had saved him from death multiple times. Unfortunately for him, Lua warns him of danger just as she is climbing onto the roof of the Flying Pussyfoot.
• Unholy Matrimony: To her and Ladd, "I'll kill you last" means "I love you." Granted, Lua herself might not count as "evil", but given the fact that she has absolutely no problem with her lover's actions, she's certainly not traditionally good either.

Graham Specter

Another character you don't want to see smiling.

Voiced by: Tomokazu Sugita (JP), Chris Patton (EN)

One of Ladd's loyal underlings. After being defeated by Ladd in battle, Graham decided to follow him. His favored weapon is a gigantic wrench, and he had the uncanny ability to strip cars down to nuts and bolts in mere seconds. Also, he never stops talking.

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• Affably Evil: Oddly polite, even at his most psychotic.
• Amazon Chaser: He appreciates Chané's prowess with knives.
• Ambiguously Bi: He mentions that his first love was his sister, yet he doesn’t seem to mind falling for Ladd and Jacuzzi either.
• Ax-Crazy: Rivals Ladd's. While he'll never kill, he's as likely to dislocate all of your bones as Ladd is to shoot you.
• Brother–Sister Incest: A line in the novels say that Graham's "first love" was his sister. No other information has been released about her yet. This has lead fans to speculate that Graham may be bisexual.
• Catchphrase: "Let's make a sad, sad story..." is the most common. Graham's rants tend to fixate on certain topics and all have their own special catchphrases.
• Charles Atlas Superpower: Possibly the most extreme example after Claire in that he can use his wrench to smash a ten-foot-wide crater, deflect bullets, and even take apart a car in seconds. In fact, he's so good at taking things apart that his default fighting style is to grab an opponent's joints with his wrench and dislocate them, and he can do this with ease.
• Cheshire Cat Grin: His default expression, although it oftentimes turns into a Slasher Smile.
• Chewing the Scenery: This guy doesn't have a 'low key' mode.
• Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Between all his inane/contradicting rants and fixation on taking things apart, he's an oddball to be sure.
• Defeat Means Friendship: How did Ladd Russo become his bestest friend in the whole wide world? By kicking his ass.
• Depraved Bisexual: Graham's bromantic fanboying of Ladd — and liking Jacuzzi — certainly says much. He also comments that Firo has a "cute face" and in the light novels, he briefly falls in love with Huey's homunculus, Sickle. However, he also stated that he prefers older women. Also, his "first love" was his sister. He briefly takes a liking to Chané, but it has probably has more to do with Chané being a Worthy Opponent and Graham having a In Love with Your Carnage moment while they were fighting. ^note  It should be noted that Graham saying he likes older women could just be read as he likes to kill older women as he is talking about killing Eve at that moment. He could also be defending himself from... certain accusations...
• Even Evil Has Standards: Contrary to what you may expect, Graham does not like to kill and even the thought of doing so leaves him feeling incredibly guilty — hence why he prefers non-lethal forms of inflicting pain on people. Downplayed as he's not against other people doing it, hence his fanboying of Ladd.
• Fanboy: # 1 fanboy of Ladd Russo and proud of it.
• Fetish: For disassembling or just flat out breaking stuff.
• Gratuitous English: In the Japanese dub. LAVU AND PEEEEEEES!
• Hero-Worshipper:
  • Graham is convinced that Ladd is the second coming of Christ.
  • He idolizes Raz Smith and Elmer C. Albatross as well, but Ladd will always be his number one hero.
• Horrible Judge of Character: Let us reiterate: Hero Worships Ladd Russo (among many others, too).
• Improbable Hairstyle: As the cast commentary notes, there is no way to justify how Graham — a loony mechanic living in the 1930s — is capable of maintaining that J-rocker haircut of his.
• Improbable Weapon User: A monkey wrench
• Insane Troll Logic: Not very noticeable in the anime where he only demonstrates his extreme bipolar tendencies, but prone to it during some of his longer rants in the novels.
• Keet: He's almost always doing something very active onscreen, usually either running, dancing or jumping around and babbling nonstop.
• Large Ham: You know he never stops talking? He never talks quietly either and he tends to be constantly moving and breaking things while monologuing.
• Laughably Evil: Even moreso than Ladd, due to how utterly random he is.
• Let's Get Dangerous!: He shares one of these moments with Christopher in the Light Novels. Neither of them like killing, which forces them to constantly hold back, but when they come face to face with a small army of half-immortals, they let loose because it's impossible for them to kill any of their opponents, no matter how brutally they fight. Needless to say, they won that one.
• Likes Older Women: This is his claim.
  Graham: Kidnapping a growing woman is exciting in itself, but unfortunately, I am into older women!
  • In the dub, his choice of words and tone of voice makes it sound more like he's trying to keep everyone from assuming that he's a pedophile.
• Mad Artist: Graham thinks taking apart things - and people - is a beautiful goal in life.
• Made of Iron: Survives his battle with Ladd. He also fights and defeats Christopher, one of Lamia's best fighters.
• Moment Killer: He tries to kill the moment for Claire. Claire doesn't let him.
• Mood-Swinger: Rapidly cycles from one emotion to another and always expressing it in its extreme.
• Motor Mouth: Damn near to the point of full out schizophasia.
• Noble Top Enforcer: He's still as nuts as Ladd, he can even be selfish at times, and he really enjoys "dismantling" anybody who pisses him off (read: dislocating every joint in their bodies), but his thing is he never kills. Unlike Ladd, he doesn't enjoy it one bit, and actually feels extremely guilty about it afterwards. He's also noted to be very quick to help any of his friends.
• No Sense of Personal Space: He likes getting in people's space. Especially with men.
• Parrying Bullets: He can use a monkey wrench to catch shotgun bullets.
• The Philosopher: One who changes his philosophy as it suits him but nonetheless.
• Pretty Boy: Described as having "girlish features" in the novels, though it's downplayed in that his build is also "decently muscular" (granted he always wears coveralls so it's hard to tell).
• Psychopathic Manchild: He's apparently in his 20s, but he tends to act like a kid on a sugar rush. He's also totally insane.
• The Rival: To Christopher as of 1935.
• Talkative Loon: Graham loves to talk and keeping track of his rants is a feat.
• Technical Pacifist: Graham's not a pacifist by any means, but he'll never kill anyone because it makes him feel guilty afterwards.
• Warrior Poet: We have no idea what the hell he's saying, but it sounds poetic...
  • "Time spent in boredom is good." This, following a long rant about "DEATH TO TEDIUM". True wisdom, Graham.
• Wrench Whack: Graham engages in a more refined form of this: instead of just whaling on people, he grabs their joints with a wrench and dislocates them.

Shaft

A member of Graham Spectre's gang, and one of the only ones with speaking lines in the anime. He's the one whose plan gets him a vicious beating from Graham in Episode 14, and his personal space invaded◊ in Episode 15. He plays a slightly bigger role in the novels.

Voiced by: Wataru Hatano (JP), Chris Burnett (EN)

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• Deadpan Snarker: Unfortunately for Shaft, his sarcasm is not lost on Graham, who tends to beat him up for it.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Graham, whether he likes it or not.
• Iron Butt Monkey: Graham tends to beat him up; A lot; In humorous fashion.
• The Lancer: Graham's second in command, and the only member of his gang who can keep up with his ramblings.
• Only Sane Man: His schemes make sense and his speech can always be understood.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Blue to Graham's red.
• The Reveal: He's revealed to be a vessel of Sham, one of Huey's homunculi.
• Sarcastic Devotee: For whatever reason, he sticks with Graham to the end, though that doesn't stop him from snarking at the guy.
• Straight Man: Graham wouldn't look as crazy without this guy for contrast.

Jacuzzi and Nice's Gang

In General

• Foil: To Dallas's boys. They're both petty street trash, but where Dallas and company are assholes and incompetent losers at the mercy of real criminals even after obtaining supernatural powers, Jacuzzi's gang are fundamentally decent people, if rough around the edges, who ultimately come out on top during the Flying Pussyfoot incident despite being easily the least well-armed, well-informed, or well-prepared of the criminal factions on the train, and remain completely mortal doing it.
• Four-Temperament Ensemble:
  • Sanguine: Nick- An friendly enough guy who tends to be in charge of crowd control.
  • Choleric: Nice- The Hot-Blooded explosives expert who loves her job a bit too much.
  • Melancholic: Jacuzzi- The panicky, shy, Crybaby "leader" who will do whatever it takes to protect or avenge his friends or those around him.
  • Phlegmatic: Donny- The silent and calm Big Guy of the group who acts as the muscle.
  • Leukine: Chané- A new member who is hard to read and is very effective in hand-to-hand combat.
• Rag Tag Bunch Of Misfits: Led by a Nervous Wreck crybaby and his Mad Bomber girlfriend, and their ranks consist of immigrants expelled from their own communities, delinquents, and general outcasts. The narration also tends to describe the group as one.

Jacuzzi Splot

How he reacts to everything.

Voiced by: Daisuke Sakaguchi (JP), Joel McDonald (EN), Anastasia Muñoz (young) (EN)

Nice's long-time boyfriend and co-leader. Jacuzzi may look like a sniveling, hopeless coward, but that's only because he is a sniveling, hopeless coward...most of the time. It's not a good idea to piss him off, or else you might find out just why the Russo family has such a high bounty on his head.

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• All-Loving Hero: Jaccuzi makes a point of trying to be nice to anyone and everyone he meets, provided they're not looking to hurt his friends.
• Apologises a Lot: Jacuzzi offers apologies for things including being run into and introducing himself.
• Badass Adorable: Jacuzzi's a timid, adorable, baby-faced teenager who can out-badass many of the badasses in a World of Badass.
• Badass Normal: He's not immortal, he doesn't have Charles Atlas Superpower, he's just a kid and yet he's able to tangle with those that are and do and survive.
• Badass on Paper: He's The Leader of a gang of bootleggers, destroyed 18 Russo Family speakeasies in a single night, survived the Pussyfoot Train incident that included fighting with a single, tiny bomb against someone with a flamethrower, stood up to Ladd Russo, willingly confronted Claire, sacrificed himself to protect someone from being harmed, and has a sword tattoo on his face. He's also a timid Shrinking Violet who cries all the time, not the least bit physically intimidating, has no special skills, and one of the nicest characters in the entire cast.
• Berserker Tears: He cries even especially while kicking ass.
• Beware the Nice Ones: The reason he has a bounty on his head despite being such a sensitive Nice Guy he struggles to introduce himself without bursting into Tender Tears is that he's a Cowardly Lion par excellence.
• Chastity Couple: Even though they've effectively been "together" for ten years, Jacuzzi doesn't kiss Nice until he goes to drive the Lemures off the train and thinks he might not be coming back.
• Childhood Friend Romance: With Nice. In the anime we see a heartwarming flashback.
• Cowardly Lion: While capable of outstanding bravery when needed, he is incredibly awkward around people he doesn't know and is easily scared by everything to the point of tears otherwise. The title of episode five sums it up - "Jacuzzi Splot Cries, Gets Scared, And Musters Reckless Valor".
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Don't fuck with this kid! He looks like a crybaby (and he is) but he earned that bounty on his head.
• Distinguishing Mark: The sword tattoo on his face. Emphasis on "distinguishing": depending on the version, he either got it so that Nice would be able to recognize him despite her eyesight being damaged in an explosion, or so that people would have something to stare at other than her scars.
• Embarrassing Tattoo: Jacuzzi treats his facial tattoo like one. It was sort of the point, even, as he got the tattoo as sign of solidarity with Nice's and her scars.
• Expecting Someone Taller: This guy robbed eighteen Mafia-owned speakeasies? In one night!?
• Foreign Sounding Gibberish: His name in a nutshell. Not the only one, as you may have noticed, but certainly the most amusing example.
• Heroic Self-Deprecation: Tends to beat himself up over every mistake, including ones that weren't his.
• Let's Get Dangerous!: "Jacuzzi Splot Cries, Gets Scared and Musters Reckless Valor."
• Magnetic Hero: There's a reason he's co-leader is his charisma.
• Martyr Without a Cause: Has demonstrated this tendency on a relatively regular basis. For example — attempting to turn himself in to Graham in return for Chané's safety, even though he's known her for mere hours at most.
• Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: Feminine Shy timid Boy to Nice's Masculine outgoing aggressive Girl.
• Nervous Wreck: He's wracked with nerves whether he's meeting someone new or confronting a guy with a flame thrower.
• Nice Guy: One of the nicest, but also one of the most dangerous.
• Not So Weak: Part of the reason the Lemures failed; they underestimated him.
• Older Than He Looks: While the disparity between apparent age versus real age starts off small (maybe a year or two), Jacuzzi's boyishness persists over the course of the series. By Alice in Jails he's in his early twenties, but still looks like he's in his mid-teens. ^note  His age was nineteen in the Grand Punk Railroad arc, and was later retconned to sixteen, both in the Alice in Jails arc and the anime.
• One-Man Army: Once again, he raided eighteen Russo speakeasies single-handedly, in a single night.
• Prone to Tears: The other party doesn't have to do anything; he'll cry just introducing himself.
• Screams Like a Little Girl: Unfortunately for his enemies, this is his battle cry.
• He Will Not Cry, so I Cry for Him: Gender-inverted towards Nice after that incident with explosions that left her scarred.
• Shrinking Violet: Shy, awkward, timid. It's why no one takes him seriously.
• Socially Awkward Hero: Jaccuzi once broke down crying trying to introduce himself, but crippling social anxiety doesn't prevent him from single-handedly raiding eighteen mafia-run speakeasies in one night.
• Tattooed Crook: A sword over his face makes it easy for bounty hunters to ID him.
• Turn the Other Cheek: If he's threatened, he'll willingly take the beating. If others are being threatened, he'll insist on taking their beating for them with very little consideration for who they are.

Nice Holystone

Burn scars have never looked this good.

Voiced by: Yuu Kobayashi (JP), Colleen Clinkenbeard (EN)

One of two leaders of a small-time gang of delinquents and rum-runners. Nice's highly apparent scars hint at her sometimes dangerous fondness for explosions and by fondness, we mean full-blown fetish. Best not to let this girl near a lighter.

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• Blemished Beauty: She is a pyromaniac and also quite attractive. As a teenager, she was in an accident with her explosives that resulted in her arms and face being scarred, and shrapnel penetrating one of her eyes. She currently wears an eyepatch over the empty socket and glasses to help her see. This does not take away from her looks.
• Cargo Ship: In-Universe. Nice really likes explosives. Yes, in that way.
• Chastity Couple: Even though they've effectively been "together" for ten years, she and Jacuzzi had never kissed before he goes to drive the Lemures off the train and thinks he might not be coming back.
• Childhood Friend Romance: With Jacuzzi. In a flashback, they have a heartwarming scene.
• Cool Big Sis: Acts this way towards most of Jacuzzi's gang.
• Eyepatch of Power: She hides a bomb in it.
• Eye Scream: Her eye patch ain't for show; That explosives fetish of hers has caused problems in the past.
• Fetish: For explosions.
• Good Scars, Evil Scars: Anti-Hero scars.
• Mad Bomber: Did we mention she likes to see things go boom? Because she really likes to see things go boom, fire safety be damned.
• Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: The impulsive crazy Masculine Girl to Jacuzzi's nervous but calmer Feminine Boy.
• Ms. Fanservice: The straightest example in the series. Jacuzzi's a lucky dog.
• Scars Are Forever: After her disastrous experiments with explosives as a child.
• Scary Shiny Glasses: On occasion when she's feeling more explosive than usual.
• Single Woman Seeks Good Man: Men don't come nicer than Jacuzzi.
• Specs of Awesome: Has a nice looking pair of glasses in addition to being an awesome explosives expert, even though she only has one eye and she needs to take them off to access her emergency "eye bomb".
• Stuff Blowing Up: If she's in a scene then an explosion will be too.
• There Is No Kill Like Overkill: Stabbed a mook in the head with a knife and left a bomb attached to the hilt.
• There Was a Door: Nice does not care if your door was already open — she will blow it up anyway. This is Lampshaded by Donny and Nick in Episode 15:
  Donny: Nice, the place was open. Why'd you blow it up?
  Nick: Now Donny, what kind of question is that? The boss likes to blow stuff up.
• Throw Down the Bomblet: Have we mentioned she likes explosives?
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: She becomes tomboy to Chané's Girly Girl once Chané falls in with the gang because of her masculine outfit and explosions.
• Tomboy with a Girly Streak: Despite her actions, attitude, and appearance she still has her "girly" moments.
• Victoria's Secret Compartment: Keeps bombs there too, naturally.
  Gangmember: Precisely where around her chest did she get it from?"
• Violently Protective Girlfriend: Hurt Jacuzzi, and she'll give you a bomb. Fortunately for you, really hurting Jacuzzi is very, very difficult.
• When All You Have Is a Hammer…: Everything can be solved through the liberal application of explosives.

Donny

He's every bit as tough as he looks.

Voiced by: Yoshinori Sonobe (JP), Bob Carter (EN)

Originally from Mexico, Donny traveled by himself to the US. As a member of Jacuzzi and Nice's gang, he's responsible for taking out anyone who threatens the gang.

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• Big Damn Heroes: When Jacuzzi was cornered by a Russo thug, Donny broke the guy's hand.
• The Big Guy: The biggest and strongest of The Team and a pretty friendly guy too.
• Dumb Muscle: Averted. While his size and strength come in handy, he has at least average intelligence. Also, since he's from Mexico, he speaks two languages.
• Glowing Eyes of Doom: Does this when a Russo mook pulled a gun on Jacuzzi.
• Hulk Speak: In the Japanese version.
• Only Sane Man: He's the only one who notices when Nice's explosives are a problem.
  Donny: Boss, you did notice the door was wide open, right?
• The Quiet One: Never raises his voice above a mumble.

Nick

Voiced by: Kunihiro Kawamoto (JP), Charles Baker (EN)

A member of Jacuzzi's gang, chosen by Nice to help them rob the Flying Pussyfoot in 1931.

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• Butt-Monkey: He is forced to give up his hijacking attempt after being out gunned by the Lemures and Russo family and gets captured by the former.
• Dumb Muscle: Not incredibly dumb, just...more Street Smart than anything else.
• Never Bring a Knife to a Gun Fight: Played for laughs on the Flying Pussyfoot when he bursts into the dining car with a knife, notices many others armed with guns, and quietly apologizes before walking off.
• Shipper on Deck: Towards Nice and Jacuzzi. He's absolutely shocked to learn that their kiss aboard the Flying Pussyfoot is their first kiss after ten years of being together.
• Stress Vomit: Only once, aboard the Flying Pussyfoot after seeing the Rail Tracers handiwork.
• Those Two Guys: With Jack in the novels.

Jon Panel

Voiced by: Tetsuharu Ohta (JP), Andy Mullins (EN)

An Irish bartender working as staff aboard the Flying Pussyfoot to help with the gang's robbery. In the aftermath, he and Fang end up working for Eve Genoard.

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• The Bartender: He works as one while on the Pussyfoot.
• The Exile: Jon was kicked out of his immigrant community for causing some sort of unspecified trouble.
• Only Sane Man: He's one of the more rational and authoritative members of the group, not to mention observant.
• Those Two Guys: With Fang.

Fang Lin-Shan

Voiced by: Tsutomu Densaka (JP), Anthony Bowling (EN)

A Chinese cook, whose staff position aboard the Flying Pussyfoot proves advantageous for the rest of the gang. He ends up working for Eve Genoard along with Jon in the aftermath.

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• Hostage Situation: In 1933, when Maria forces him to take her and Tick to Jacuzzi's hideout.
• Team Chef:
• The Exile: Like Jon, Fang was kicked out of his immigrant community after causing 'trouble.'
• Those Two Guys: With Jon.

Chaini

Voiced by: Mary Morgan (EN)

A member of Jacuzzi's gang. Nothing is known about Chaini aside from her infamous Hyahah~ moments. It's unknown if she's greeting anyone like it appears in the dub, or if it is just one of her tics.

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• No Name Given: In the anime.
• Opaque Nerd Glasses: We don't see through round her glasses and they invoke the Blank White Eyes trope
• Perpetual Smiler: Most likely the only character in the series to show a genuine innocent smile all the time, unlike all the others.
• The Speechless: Even in the novels.
• Tag Along Kid: She appears to be younger than most of the gang and doesn't have a prominent role it.
• Those Two Guys: In the anime, she's shown to be accompanied by a boy who has the same verbal tic as her. They have a hilarious conversation that borders on a Big-Lipped Alligator Moment.
  Boy: Hyahah?
  Chaini: Hyahah!
  Boy: Hyahah!
• Verbal Tic: Hyahah!

The Genoard Family

Eve Genoard

Yeah she's deadly too.

Voiced by: Marina Inoue (JP), Jad Saxton (EN)

A young lady on the lookout for her older brother, Dallas, after he disappeared from the Genoard household two years beforehand after her family was robbed of their money by a pair of thieves.

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• Beware the Nice Ones: Once she learns that Gustavo murdered her father and brother in Drug & the Dominos, Eve loses all semblance of her ingenue status and immediately tries to blow off his head with a discarded revolver. The only thing that stops her is Luck deliberately taking the bullet and dealing with the guy himself.
• Curtains Match the Window: Her average brown eyes match her plain but pretty brown hair.
• Damsel out of Distress: A lady who escapes her kidnappers and doesn't hesitate to avenge her father. She may not know about the family business, but she has the same iron will.
• The Ingenue: A sweet and polite young lady. Trying to use her for his own ends gets Nick into trouble with Claire. Subverted in Drug & the Dominos — see Beware the Nice Ones and "Not So Different" Remark.
• Lonely Rich Kid: It's implied that her older brother is her only friend. When Issac and Miria stop by, the house is empty except for her and a few servants.
• Mafia Princess: She believes her family makes most of its money from textiles.
• Morality Pet: To Dallas because she is the only person he's not an absolute jerkass to. Once he finally sticks around at home, she helps reform him.
• "Not So Different" Remark: After trying to call Luck out for what he did to Dallas, Eve realizes that she can be just as remorselessly vengeful as he. This happens when she responds to the discovery that Gustavo murdered her father and oldest brother by trying to blow his head off. She admits as much, and apologizes to Luck for her previous words, just before pulling the trigger.
• Oblivious Younger Sibling: She has no idea what Dallas is up to when he's not home.
• This Is Unforgivable!: In Drug & the Dominos after Gustavo Bagetta brags that he killed her father and oldest brother. See Beware the Nice Ones.

Dallas Genoard

He's an asshole. This is the truth.

Voiced by: Atsushi Imaruoka (JP), Ian Sinclair (EN)

Eve Genoard's missing brother and grade-A asshole. Spent most of his time picking fights, pissing away money on booze, and generally being a dick. The one chink in his armor is his sister Eve, of whom he is protective.

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• And I Must Scream: Since they can't be killed by any normal means, Luck resorts to stuffing Dallas and his friends in barrels filled with cement and dumping them in the Hudson river, where their Healing Factors keep them constantly drowning to death. However, their incomplete version of the elixir means they would have eventually died of old age, and a couple years later Luck lets Eve drudge them out as long as they don't mess with the Gandors anymore. However, he's rescued by the Larvae in "The Slash".
• Asshole Victim: If he weren't an asshole, the audience might feel bad for the crap that happens to him.
• Back from the Dead: He is given an And I Must Scream treatment in 1930, but the ending of the final episode of the anime shows Eve finally finding the barrel he was in... only to find it empty.
• Big Brother Instinct: He slugs a fellow for suggesting they use his sister for money but, as with everything else he does, he fails at acting on it.
• Butt-Monkey: Dallas gets kicked around by everyone. Given what kind of person he is, we might enjoy it.
• Cement Shoes: Luck does this to him for crossing the Gandors and Martillo families.
• Delinquents: Unlike the dignified mobsters that make up most of the cast, Dallas and his crew are petty street trash who bum around picking fights in back alleys.
• Even Evil Can Be Loved: One of the anime's three storylines involves his little sister Eve, who's everything he's not (namely competent, kind, likable, and thoroughly badass), desperately trying to find him simply because she loved him.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Dallas is a thoroughly unsympathetic person, but he does genuinely love his little sister Eve, yelling at one of his goons for even suggesting they try to involve her in one of their criminal schemes. When Nicholas calls Dallas an infamous scumbag, Eve retorts that he was always kind to her. That said, the anime also shows a flashback where, after being nice at first, he insults and yells at her, saying only stupid children believe in God.
• Eviler than Thou: He's terrified of Szilard after he devours one of his partners. The only reason he's working for him is because Szilard promised him money.
• Hate Sink: Dallas basically exists to make other criminal characters look better by comparison because he's just so dang unlikable.
• Healing Factor: Dallas is an "incomplete" immortal, meaning he'll recover from any sort of physical harm, but still ages naturally.
• Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: High on the "ineffectual", low on the "sympathetic."
• Iron Butt-Monkey: Dallas when his deaths are Played for Laughs. It's justified in that he is immortal.
• Jerkass: He's rude, arrogant, bullies people weaker than him, and seeks revenge for self-inflicted slights. However, once he is pulled out of the river in The Slash and finally returned to Eve, he turns over a new leaf and becomes a beloved philanthropist.
• Kick the Dog: Dallas has many of these which is why he gets his ass kicked so often.
• Living MacGuffin: In Drugs & the Dominoes/the 1932 arc, though it's debatable if someone in a state of perpetual drowning can really be considered "living".
• Out-Gambitted: After murdering some of the Gandors' men, Dallas figures he can pin it on that Street Urchin that kicked his ass earlier that day — two birds with one stone, right? Not when said Street Urchin is Luck Gandor's childhood friend, you can't.
• Pet the Dog: His only redeeming quality is his affection and protectiveness of his little sister, Eve.
• Smug Snake: His ego far exceeding his ability and sense is what gets him in trouble time after time.
• Straw Loser: When you get right down to it, half of his purpose in the story is to suck at everything and make the various other criminals roughing him up look good.
• Super Loser: He's given a powerful Healing Factor, but gets comparatively little mileage out of it because of his arrogance. It doesn't take long for him to face an opponent who knows they can just injure him, tie him up while he's recovering, then use his healing against him.
• Unknown Rival: Ever since their fight, and especially since being fished out of the river by the Larvae, Dallas considers Firo to be his arch-nemesis and the root of all that is bad in the world. Firo, on the other hand, considers him an annoying dick.
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Eve says as much, and while she's his sister, and therefore not the most reliable witness, it does seem like he was at least kind and gentle with her.
• With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: Though he doesn't go crazy, Dallas does turn his Jerkass behavior up to eleven once he realizes he can't be killed for it.

The Runorata Family and Associates

Bartolo Runorata

Voiced by: Ryûnosuke Ôbayashi (JP), Michael Serrecchia (EN)

The Don of the Runorata Family.

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• The Chessmaster: His intelligence and planning ability is why he is the leader of the Runorata family.
• The Don: Head of the Runorata family.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Bartolo has designated the Martillo Family off-limits to his men because he is from the same town as Don Molsa Martillo.
• Immortality Seeker: His motive for seeking Dallas out is become immortal like him.
• The Man Behind the Man: He is the power behind Gustavo.
• Shoot the Dangerous Minion: Bartolo sets Gustavo Bagetta up against the Gandor Family in order to get rid of him after Gustavo becomes more trouble than he's worth. In the anime, Don Bartolo blows Gustavo away personally as a gesture of good faith to Eve Genoard; in the Light Novels, Luck Gandor does the honors, but not before pointing out to Gustavo that Don Bartolo is aware of his shenanigans and will be glad to be rid of him.
• You Have Failed Me: In the anime, he executes Gustavo for this reason and to patch his relationship with Eve's family.

Gustavo Bagetta

Voiced by: Seiji Sasaki (JP), Chris Rager (EN)

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• The Brute: He's muscle for Bartolo and nothing more.
• Death by Adaptation: In the anime, he is unceremoniously shot and killed by Bartolo Runorata. In the novels, Gustavo is beaten by Luck and stabbed in the neck with Luck's severed arm, but survives… only to go to jail and get trounced by Ladd.
• Dumb Muscle: He's not much good for anything other than shouting and shooting.
• Inconsistent Spelling: Bagetta/Ragetta.
• Unwitting Pawn: Since all he's good for is being Dumb Muscle he never gets the full picture.

The Beriam Family and Associates

Manfred Beriam

Voiced by: Kazuhiro Nakata (JP), Bill Jenkins (EN)

A US Senator. His wife and daughter were passengers on the Flying Pussyfoot and were taken as hostages to force Manfred use his political power to free Huey from prison. He does not comply. In the anime, Beriam's main goal seems to be becoming immortal, for which purpose he and Don Runorata hope to find and experiment on Dallas.

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• Affably Evil: As noted with the last trope, he appears to be a rather friendly, polite, normal guy and acts the part but he's a senator with mob connections and he's not afraid to use those connections either.
• Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: In the anime Beriam seems very uncaring towards his family, even when they were safely rescued. In the novels he wonders why Rachel didn't like receiving his reward money. His wife calls him on it, saying that he should be happy to have his family back in one piece. Manfred thinks about it for a moment, and he does feel happy as he sees his daughter smiling.
• Fantastic Racism: In the books, he hates all immortals for unknown reasons aside from being a proud human himself.
• The Stoic: Nothing that passes through his mind seems to move the muscles of his face, not even his family being held hostage.
• The Unfettered: He doesn't care who may get hurt by his actions or choices, even if it's his own family on the line.
• Villain with Good Publicity: A corrupt senator who is in cahoots with the mafia. In the anime, he shows no concern for his family's well-being.

Natalie Beriam

Voiced by: Miki Itō (JP), Amy Rosenthal (EN)

Manfred's wife and a passenger on the Flying Pussyfoot. When the train is hijacked, the Lemures take her and Mary hostage in the hopes of persuading the Senator to arrange Huey's release.

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• Damsel in Distress: Held hostage on the Flying Pussyfoot.
• Satellite Character: To Manfred, who already is a Flat Character himself.
• Nice Gal: The novel notes that she's perfectly respectful and friendly to the shabbily-dressed, disreputable-looking Nice and Jacuzzi and the utter weirdos Isaac and Miria. She even gently rebukes her daughter for staring at Jacuzzi's tattoo.
• Silk Hiding Steel: In the novel, lies to the face of the terrorist holding her hostage about where her daughter is, displaying some impressive acting ability in the process. This is after she's turned down an opportunity to hide from the terrorists after her, because if she vanishes the other passengers might be in danger from them.

Mary Beriam

Voiced by: Saori Goto (JP), Cherami Leigh (EN)

Manfred and Natalie's daughter. Taken hostage along with her mother.

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• Damsel in Distress: With her mother.
• Locked Out of the Loop: She is unaware Czes is an immortal.
• Morality Pet: For Czes in the novel, where he decides to not hand her over to the white suits because he didn't want to betray a child like he was betrayed by Fermet.
• Satellite Character: Just like her mother.
• Tears of Fear: Breaks into these in the novel while hiding in the closet.

The Lemures

In General

• All for Nothing: Even if they did succeed in taking the Barium family hostage, Manfred actually doesn't care about them enough to release Huey to save them.
• Cult: A bunch of fanatics that follow Huey Laforet.
• Dark Is Evil: They wear black and are fanatical immortality seekers.
• Dramatic Irony: The Lemures believe that serving Huey will eventually result in them becoming immortal. In truth, Huey finds them annoying and useless and couldn't care less about granting them immortality.
• Evil Versus Evil: They end up fighting the psychotic Russo family for the right to take the Beriam family hostage.
• Immortality Seeker: A major reason they follow Huey is because they think he can give them immortality.

Goose Perkins

We have no reason to fear death, for we have become ghosts while still alive.

Voiced by: Takayuki Sugou (JP), Mark Stoddard (EN)

Leader of the Lemures and one of Huey's cohorts.

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• Big Bad Ensemble: With Claire and Ladd in the Grand Punk Railroad arc.
• Cult: The Lemures, which he leads.
• The Dragon: To Huey, in the grand scheme of things, he sees himself as carrying out Huey's will.
• Driven to Suicide: After being defeated by Jacuzzi, he takes his own life when he realizes how badly his plans have fallen apart.
• Eyes Always Shut: He only opens them during his Villainous Breakdown.
• Fatal Flaw: Hubris and inexperience. Despite what he thinks about himself, he isn't a real soldier and has never trained in military tactics at all. His inability to accept his faults and adapt to the spanners that entered his plan cost him everything.
• Faux Affably Evil:
• Fire-Breathing Weapon: He wields a flamethrower at the climax.
• Flamethrower Backfire: The flamethrower he uses in his fight against Jacuzzi explodes after he's kicked off the train's roof.
• Hate Sink: You know you're this when both Ladd Russo and Claire Stanfield are more likeable by comparison.
• Immortality Seeker: He serves Huey in the hope that he will be rewarded with immortality. Huey and Chané believe this to be true of all the Lemures.
• It's All About Me: All he cares about is his own desire to claim immortality for himself.
• Jerkass: As if hijacking a train wasn't enough, he has to be a dick about it.
• Karmic Death: He's killed when he's thrown off the train and his flamethrower explodes.
• Kick the Dog: He enjoys telling Mrs. Beriam his plan, which involves murdering her daughter, a little too much.
• Lack of Empathy: He makes it clear that he doesn't care about how many people die because of his plan, as long as he gains immortality.
• Laughing Mad: While chasing Jacuzzi with the flamethrower, he can be seen laughing maniacally with a massive Slasher Smile.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Twice! Once when he claims he's "too much of a gentleman" to have his men strip search Nice, giving her the perfect opportunity to attack them with hidden explosives. Then when he fights Jacuzzi with a flamethrower... while Jacuzzi's desperately trying to light Nice's cherry bomb.
• Satellite Character: Everything about him is related to Huey and immortality.
• Smug Snake: Just listen to his speech to Mrs. Beriam. It can easily be translated to, "I'm the greatest terrorist on Earth and anyone who tries to stop me is an idiot!"
• The Stoic: Keeps up a calm if not extremely arrogant demeanor at all times, until his Villainous Breakdown.
• The Starscream: Chané and Huey assume him to be this; although he does not specifically plan to bring about Huey's downfall, Huey knows that he would if said downfall would enable him to become immortal himself.
• Straw Hypocrite:
  • He isn't really devoted to Huey. He just wants immortality.
  • He also claims to be "too much of a gentleman" to let his men search a woman yet, he shows no remorse at the possibility of killing one or a little girl.
• Villainous Breakdown: Has one when he's beaten down by Jacuzzi.
• Would Hurt a Child: He plans to murder the senator's daughter and leave her body on the side of the railroad as a terrorist threat against Senator Beriam.

Chané Laforet

"..."

Voiced(?) by: Ryō Hirohashi (JP), Monica Rial (EN)

The mute daughter of Huey Laforet, with whom she shares a psychic connection. Ruthlessly loyal to her father, she is also a skilled fighter with daggers. Chané is uncomfortable with friendly relationships, but starts to warm up to Jacuzzi's offer of friendship and Claire's love proposals as time goes on.

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• Aloof Dark-Haired Girl: She's beautiful, dark-haired, pale-skinned, and acts as The Stoic most of the time.
• Badass Normal: An ordinary girl who can hold her own with people like Ladd and Graham.
• Battle Butler: For her father.
• Because You Were Nice to Me: She becomes deeply attached to Claire and Jacuzzi's gang because they were the first people to genuinely care about her without expecting anything in return.
• Berserk Button: Even mentioning Huey's name wrong or claiming to know any of his secrets (such as his immortality) can press her buttons.
• Charm Point: According to Claire, it's the remembrance of the note she left for him, when she killed the White Suits, being a Cute Mute, and how she's an Emotionless Girl that makes Claire fall in love with her even more.
• Composite Character: The anime combined some elements of her little sister with her character (specifically Leeza's use of birds to relay orders from Huey while he was in captivity in Newfoundland).
• Cute Mute: Claire thinks her inability to talk is hot.
• Dark Action Girl: Ruthless, stoic, dark color scheme and knife expert that fought to a draw with Ladd Russo.
• Defrosting Ice Queen: She starts as emotionless and solely devoted to her father, but later warms up thanks to Jacuzzi's friendship and Claire's love for her.
• Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: She is extremely pale with really dark brown or black hair in addition to seeming rather off at times.
• Elective Mute: A variation; she is actually physically incapable of speech, but she asked her father to make her mute so that she would never betray his secrets.
• Emotionless Girl: Played with. She doesn't show emotion (much less express it, being mute) but there's plenty of it in her telepathy with her father, making her more of The Stoic.
• Engaging Conversation: With Claire. They become informally engaged after just two meetings — and right after they try to kill each other.
• Friend-or-Idol Decision: Her greatest fear is that she'll be forced to choose between Claire and her loyalty to her father.
• Happily Married: To Claire. See his entry.
• High-Heel–Face Turn: The only female member of the Lemures is the one who turns and lives.
• Inner Monologue: The only times we hear her "talk" (aside from the flashbacks of back when she had a voice) is inside her head, having "conversations" with her father. This may seem like telepathy, but in the novels it's made clear that she simply knows her father well enough to figure out roughly what he would say and want her to do.
• Keeping the Handicap: She asked for a handicap. Namely, she asked her father to make her mute so that she would never betray his secrets.
• Love Martyr: Towards her father. Huey doesn't even consider her human, but she'll still bend over backwards to please him. She was actually perfectly willing to die in service to the Lemures if it meant they would manage to free her father (who she had absolute faith that he would easily outsmart them once he had escaped).
• Love Revelation Epiphany: She only fell in love with Claire because he told her he loves her and proposed to her, which showed her that someone could love her without gaining anything from it. They end up Happily Married.
• Mad Scientist's Beautiful Daughter: She's afraid of the 'betrayal' aspect of this trope. Otherwise she fits perfectly.
• Muggle Born of Mages: She's the daughter of an original immortal or rather two immortals but she doesn't have any regenerative abilities. That being said, while she's confirmed to still be alive (and fairly hale) at around ninety, whether she's physically aged at all is never mentioned.
• My Master, Right or Wrong: Whatever her father says, that's what she does.
• Not So Stoic: Chané remains expressionless up until Claire shows up at which point she's warmer. She also becomes very, very pissed off when Ladd insults Huey.
• Odd Friendship: With Miria, after Isaac is arrested in the Alice in Jails arc; The Stoic and the Genki Girl.
• Parental Abandonment: Chané's mother left her to be raised by Huey and skipped off without a care. The only resistance she put up was a complaint about the fact that Huey called her too clumsy to raise a child.
• Pimped-Out Dress: Claire has one sent to her as a gift. He had it thoughtfully custom-made to include a holster for her knife.
• Platonic Life-Partners: Chané is just as homicidally loyal to Jacuzzi as she is to her love interest Claire and - it's entirely platonic.
• Rei Ayanami Expy: Short hair? Check. Pale skin? Check. Supernatural Gold Eyes? Check. Eerily stoic and quiet behavior? Check. Deeply devoted to her evil father? Check. Warms up thanks to her love interest and friends? Check.
• The Reliable One: Huey regards her as the only Lemure with any real usefulness, believing they couldn't have taken the Pussyfoot hostage without her.
• Sexy Flaw: Claire thinks that her inability to talk is kinda hot.
• The Silent Bob: Despite Chané's muteness, Claire has managed to hold surprisingly long conversations with her, much to the confusion of onlookers. He's not sure how he does it either, and just chalks it up to The Power of Love.
• Sixth Ranger: Officialy joins Jacuzzi's gang after defecting from the Lemures.
• The Speechless: She's mute, but we do hear her voice when she "talks" to her father in her mind.
• Sugar-and-Ice Personality: She's pretty nice, but still mainly very quiet, aloof and ruthless.
• Supernatural Gold Eyes: She's the daughter of an immortal and her yellow eyes remark her mysterious and unsettling nature.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: After falling in with Nice, Jacuzzi, and co., she becomes a sort of Girly Girl to Nice's tomboy because her feminine manner of dressing and quiet personality.
• Tranquil Fury: Often and is likely her maximum range due to lack of emotions.
• Tyke-Bomb: Technically speaking, Huey didn't initially intend for her to be a living weapon. However, discovering that she had a natural inclination towards trying to make him happy gave him... ideas.
• Undying Loyalty: Towards her father. It seems to be a natural tendency of hers, as she develops the same obsessive "protect at all costs" loyalty towards Jacuzzi's gang once she joins them.
• Unholy Matrimony: With Claire. They end up quite Happily Married.
• The Unreveal: It’s never explained or shown, how her father Huey took her voice away. Presumably, he paralyzed her vocal cords, but it's unknown if this is true. It’s also unknown if Chane ever met her mother Renee or not.
• "Well Done, Son" Guy: Everything she does is weighed on whether or not it would make Huey happy.
• What Is This Thing You Call "Love"?: Chané has a good deal of difficulty understanding that relationships don't have to be utilitarian. When Claire proposes to her despite him having nothing tangible to gain from it, her mind breaks.

Spike

Voiced by: Riichi Nishimoto (JP), Chris Cason (EN)

The Lemures' sniper. In the anime the audience is led to believe that he dies aboard the Flying Pussyfoot - whereas in the novels he survives the blast, albeit blinded and scarred. He ends up working for Senator Beriam alongside the Former Felix Walken, and begins training Sonja Bake in the ways of sharpshooting.

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• Blind Weaponmaster: While Spike is training Sonja to act as a sniper in his place, he may not be completely helpless with a gun. After all, in 1933 it seems that he's the one who shoots Chi in the shoulder through a window, despite being blind.
• Covered with Scars: After nearly dying aboard the Flying Pussyfoot.
• Jerkass: He's coarse, rude, and the way he sometimes talks about women is hardly something to emulate.
• Only in It for the Money: Money is Spike's prime motivator, which is why he finds it very easy to start working for the same man the Lemures considered an enemy in 1931.
• Sniper Rifle: Spike's sniper rifle is custom-made, and its barrel is longer than regular models.

Immortals and Related Characters

Szilard Quates

Run.

Voiced by: Kinryū Arimoto (JP), R. Bruce Elliott (EN)

One of the original immortals on the Advena Avis. He fights with Maiza over whether or not to share the secret of immortality with the world at large, and after Maiza and the others reject his plans, he murders several of them and escapes with half the formula for the immortality elixir. Since then, he's experimented to try and recreate the entire elixir. He's also dabbled in creating Homunculi, including his current servant, Ennis.

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• Above Good and Evil: Would argue this in the name of science but it's really bull because he's just a ghost-memories junkie.
• Arbitrary Skepticism: During his initial time on the Advena Avis, he insists that the elixir is nothing more than a sham. This persists even mere seconds after being handed said elixir by an invisible Eldritch Abomination and drinking it. Of course, it's immediately subverted when the elixir does its work...
• Arch-Enemy: To Maiza because the events on the Advena Avis set them against each other. Specifically, Szilard murdering and absorbing Maiza's brother to gain the Grand Panacea for himself.
• Arc Villain: For the Rolling Bootlegs/1930's arc, he's the main villain.
• The Assimilator: He's spent the last two hundred years hunting down other members of the 1711 group so he can devour them and absorb everything they have. He gets devoured by Firo after having fire burning on his head.
• Classic Villain: Gluttony and Ambition, with a dash of Wrath in there as well.
• Dirty Old Man: When he corners Sylvie in 1711, he confesses to lusting after her, and his subsequent attempt to devour her is framed in a disturbingly sexual light. It is subtly implied that he's only acting that way because he's devoured Gretto and has either picked up the younger man's attraction to her or is mocking her with this fact. Neither of those possibilities make it any less creepy, though.
• Elderly Immortal: Among the 1711 immortals, he was already old.
• Evil Old Folks: Lampshaded. Szilard mentions that he actively mistrusts anyone younger than himself. Ennis points out that this means everyone.
• Evil Plan: Driven to acquire the "Finished Product"/complete elixir. This is the catalyst for everything in in the 1930 storyline.
• Eviler than Thou: The terrified look on Dallas' face when Szilard devours one of his partners says it all.
• Faux Affably Evil: The few times he isn't just a straight up Jerkass, he's usually acting cordial and polite to people he wishes to gain something from. It's all just a charade, of course, and one he's perfectly willing to drop if it ceases to benefit him.
• Feel No Pain: In the novels, he is stated to have alchemically modified his body so that he does not feel pain.
• For Science!: According to him, this is his motivation for everything he does, although in truth he's just as driven by straight power-madness and a personal grudge against Maiza.
• From a Single Cell: Like all immortals.
• Ghost Memory: He has more ghost memories than legitimately acquired memories. The same can be said of Firo once he devours Szilard.
• Grumpy Old Man: On top of being an evil old fart, he's also extremely sour and impatient. Unless the tide turns in his favor, of course.
• Hate Sink: In a story filled to the brim with funny, likeable and often times even attractive villains, Szilard stands out as a cruel, repulsive and hideous excuse for a human being, and watching him obtain his comeuppance is very satisfying indeed.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: Szilard is killed when his creation, Ennis, teaches Firo (granted immortality by an elixir Szilard sponsored the creation of) the method of killing other immortals — meaning that Szilard is destroyed by two of his own creations working together. All of which only happens after he gets run over by his own car.
• I Control My Minions Through...: fear and the promise of immortality.
• Identical Grandson: His several-greats grandson in the 2001 novel looks a lot like him.◊
• I'm a Humanitarian: Technically speaking "consuming" immortals isn't quite cannibalism, but...
• Immortal Genius: Quates was already a skilled alchemist before becoming immortal, and he's spent the last two hundred years conducting research to expand his knowledge, wanting to someday learn everything. He has enough alchemical knowledge to create his own homunculus servant and recreate the immortality elixir when he had only half the original recipe. In addition to his own research, Szilard has been hunting down other immortals to absorb them and add their knowledge to his own. When Firo becomes immortal and absorbs Szilard, he gains all of Szilard's knowledge but refuses to use it out of fear that it might tempt him into becoming as cruel and power-hungry as Szilard.
• Implacable Man: "Maiza... why is that old guy still standing?" Said after Szilard gets hit with enough Tommygun ammo to reduce his surroundings to matchwood. He barely flinches.
• Jerkass: There is nothing pleasant about him. Even before he went evil, he was still a massive jerk to everyone on the Advenna Avis.
• Mad Scientist: Originally he was a garden variety scientist, but then he started eating his fellow immortals.
• Meaningful Name: Possibly to Leó Szilárd, Hungarian physicist who patented the concept of a nuclear reactor with Enrico Fermi.
• Omniscience: His goal, if the fact that he was researching "true" homunculi which would be omniscient at the price of being confined to a bottle is anything to go by.
• Pragmatic Villainy: Why does Szilard prefer to have not hit Isaac and Miria with a car? Only because running over random pedestrians attracts attention, which when you're a mad immortal running a top-secret Elixir-brewing operation is the last thing you need.
• Rasputinian Death: Shot full of holes, hit by a car, stabbed in the back, set on fire, getting his arm sliced in half the long way, and then finally consumed by Firo.
• Really 700 Years Old: The only immortal to look like an old person.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: To Maiza in 1930; also the closest he gets to a Motive Rant.
• Truly Single Parent: Ennis is the only the latest servant he's created from himself.
• Villain Ball: Had he taken father lessons from Huey, then his creation wouldn't have revealed the method of killing him after all the abuse she's taken.
• Villainous Glutton: He's more of a symbolic example, as "consuming" immortals isn't quite literal "eating", but gluttony is easily his biggest vice due to his desperate desire to consume all knowledge.
• With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: Give this man a means of advancing his knowledge by "eating" other people and he goes absolutely nuts.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness/You Have Failed Me: Somewhat more justified^note rationally, not morally than most other frequent perpetrators of these in that he gains something from killing his subordinates.

Ennis

"Just Ennis."

Voiced by: Sanae Kobayashi (JP), Brina Palencia (EN)

Szilard's Homunculus and reluctant servant, only following his orders because he could kill her with a single thought should she ever refuse. Deeply troubled by what she is forced to do, she is touched by a brief encounter with Isaac and Miria and their kindness towards her. Now if only she can protect them from getting all caught up in this with her...

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• Action Girlfriend: Before Firo met her, he was an ordinary gangster. After meeting her he's an immortal gangster with centuries worth of alchemic knowledge.
• The Atoner: Ennis blames herself for not being brave enough to stand up against Szilard. Her eventual retaliation against him for the sake of Isaac and Miria was a deliberate attempt at Redemption Equals Death. Luckily, Firo proved that that wouldn't be necessary.
• Battle Butler: She is Szilard's driver and does dirty work on his behalf.
• Be All My Sins Remembered: Is reluctant to forgive herself for those she's killed under Szilard's command. The fact that he could and would kill her with a single thought only makes her feel worse for not being brave enough to die for others.
• Because You Were Nice to Me: To Isaac and Miria. Their enthusiastic niceness to her during a chance meeting leads to her being willing to sacrifice her life to buy them time to escape from Szilard.
• Bifauxnen: A very masculine looking female, and wearing that suit all the time doesn't help.
• Blank Slate: She was "born" as one of these. She's mostly grown out of it by the start of the series, primarily because Szilard was able to directly transfer any information to her as he wished (and she developed a conscience from that one guy she "devoured").
• Born as an Adult: Szilard didn't want to raise a servant that was likely to betray him as that would be a waste of time.
• Chaste Heroine: Oblivious to anything related to romance and sex. It took her fifty years to figure out what romantic love is and even after being married to Firo for twenty years, she still doesn't really get what sex is.
• Chastity Couple: With Firo, to ridiculous levels. Seventy years of knowing each other and twenty of being married, and somehow they're still virgins.
• Cool Big Sis: Ends up as one for Czeslaw Meyer after Isaac and Miria get it into their heads they should get her a little brother for a vacation souvenir. Turns out rather well, all things considering.
• Demoted to Extra: In the second half of the 2002 arc.
• Emergent Human: On the tail end of this, as devouring an immortal under Szilard's command helped her jump from barely sentient and Obliviously Evil to a self-aware and functional, if emotionally underdeveloped, human being.
• Emotionless Girl: At first because she wasn't created to have emotions.
• Eternal Love: With Firo once she works out what love is. See his entry.
• From a Single Cell: A similar deal as the immortals.
• Happily Married: To Firo. See his entry.
• Heroic Self-Deprecation: She doesn't think highly of herself. Being an artificial life form made by a crazy immortal does that to a person.
• Little Black Dress: Wears one when going aboard the Entrance in 2002.
• Love Martyr: Subverted, making her something of a foil to Chané. Ennis claims that the only reason she listens to Szilard is because he's the closest thing she's ever had to a "family". The way she says it makes it clear that this isn't out of any actual affection for Szilard and more because she doesn't think she has any better options.
• Mad Scientist's Beautiful Daughter: While she does betray her 'father' and fall for Firo, they're separate events. She betrayed for the sake of Isaac and Miria, not the protagonist.
• Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: If Szilard didn't treat her like crap she wouldn't have betrayed him at the worst possible moment.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Once devouring an alchemist gave her enough self-awareness to recognize what she'd been doing.
• Mysterious Waif: Starts out as a mysterious woman that Firo follows to return something.
• Nice Girl: The reason for all her guilt is that she's a genuinely good person forced to do terrible things.
• Obliviously Evil: Up until devouring Victor's alchemist friend. After that, she was very aware of what she was doing, and not at all happy about it.
• Oblivious to Love: She doesn't realize Firo's in love with her for a while. For that matter, she doesn't realize she's in love with him for a while.
• Only One Name: Szilard Quates created Ennis, but he never viewed her as family and didn't give her permission to use his surname. After she gets married to Firo, she takes his surname Prochainezo.
• Our Homunculi Are Different: A homunculus created by Szilard that functions as a slave with a kill switch.
• Punch-Clock Villain: During her time as Szilard's slave—she served him partly because he threatened to kill her if she didn't and partly because she didn't really have anywhere else to turn at the time. Isaac, Miria and Firo fixed that for her.
• Redemption Equals Death: She intended it to, but Firo had better ideas.
• Red Is Heroic: Her hair is red and she is another one of our "heros".
• Rei Ayanami Expy: A pale-skinned, short-haired Artificial Human created by a major antagonist (who considers her replaceable at any time), who starts off as emotionless but slowly gains emotions over the course of the story, and who betrays her creator when his plan is about to come to fruition. For bonus points, she and Rei are both voiced by Brina Palencia.
• Sexless Marriage: As of 2002, she and Firo have been married for about twenty years and still haven't gotten as far as second base.
• Single-Target Sexuality: Once she figures out what romantic love is, Ennis decides Firo is the one and only she loves that way and marries him. However, she still has to learn about the whole sex thing.
• Sugar-and-Ice Personality: She's a kind and affectionate person, with a quiet outer coating.
• Trapped in Villainy: There's not many other options when your evil Mad Scientist boss can kill you with a single thought.
• Twice Shy: With Firo. In her case it's because she doesn't understand intimacy.
• The Ugly Guy's Hot Daughter: Even though Ennis is an Artificial Human, she was still created from Szilard's own cells. Firo comments that she's way too hot to be related to Szilard.
• Vague Age: The only real hint to her age, chronological or biological, is that she identifies Firo to be "her age, maybe younger" when they first meet. Given that disproportionately youthful looks are Firo's defining physical characteristic, this helps jack shit.
• What Is This Thing You Call "Love"?: Ennis understands and experiences the concept of love. However, she has a great deal of difficulty comprehending the difference between different types of loves, particularly stroge and eros, and thus can't tell the difference between what she feels for Firo from what she feels for Isaac and Miria. It took her awhile to grasp the concept of romantic love.

Huey Laforet

All he sees are "Raw Materials"

Voiced by: Susumu Chiba (JP), Eric Vale (EN)

Chané's father, and considered by the other surviving Advena Avis passengers to be the creepiest one of their kind. Huey is a self-proclaimed man of science that doesn't let silly, intangible concepts like "ethics" or "sanity" get in the way of a good experiment. Currently, he's been imprisoned for acts of treason and terrorism against the United States. He's also the figurehead of a Cult known as the Lemures, who are convinced that Huey can give them the secret to immortality.

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• Above Good and Evil: Everything is For Science!.
• Abusive Parents: Emotionally abusive towards his daughters, and physically too, if you count homunculi created by him as his children.
• Age-Appropriate Angst: In 1705, fifteen-year old Huey's angsty Straw Nihilist ideas are pointed out by the narration to be an extremely teenaged line of thought.
• Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: Huey claims that his ultimate goal is to either create or become a demon like Ronny. His actual goal is to attain ultimate knowledge so he can (hopefully) resurrect Monica, even if it means becoming a demon himself.
• Blue-and-Orange Morality: In Huey's book, "good" is defined as "whatever produces the most intellectually stimulating result."
• Break the Cutie: Huey was ten when his mother was arrested and tried for witchcraft. His mother's accusations, in turn, are what led to the trials that wiped out the entire village that Huey trusted.
• The Chessmaster: His experiments require this type of maneuvering and especially the ones involving social science rather than alchemic science. If all are raw materials than it is equally true that all are chess pieces.
• Chick Magnet: Back when he was studying alchemy at the Third Library. Troubled, but Cute worked on girls back in 1705 as it does in 1935 and later.
• Combat Pragmatist: Is Huey strong or skilled in combat? Not really. Is he willing to use every dirty trick there is? Yep!
• Corruption by a Minor: He began the counterfeiting operation in Lotto Valentino before he turned fifteen.
• Cult: Has one dedicated to him; the lemures.
• Demolitions Expert: Turns out the first time bomb wasn't invented by David Bushnell - Huey beat him to it by 65 years. And puts them to good use.
• Dissonant Serenity: Of the "say something horrific casually" variety.
• Dude Looks Like a Lady: "It's a man... I think."
  • The extent of Huey's androgyny is shown in The Children of Bottle. After not seeing Sylvie or Huey for centuries (and not realizing that Sylvie waited a few years before taking the Elixir of life), Elmer mistakes the former for the latter^note Although he adds a "Just Joking" Justification after the whole bit. Huey does not get mistaken for a beautiful woman — beautiful women get mistaken for him.
    Elmer:You're Huey! Huey Laforet, aren't you! Why're you dressed like a woman?
    Sylvie: I'm not!
    Elmer: Eh, you're not? I'm wrong? I could've sworn that Huey was the only one on that boat who was this pretty...
• Even Evil Has Standards: Huey will not let any harm befall anything that is outside the designated parameters of his experiments. He also refuses to take hostages.
• Even the Guys Want Him: Huey does not look like a beautiful woman - beautiful women look like him.
• Everyone Looks Sexier if French: He's French and he has many fans, both in-universe and real life.
  • In the original novels, he comes from an Italian town. So, this is anime only.
• Eye Scream: In 1934, Firo takes one of his eyes, and keeps it in a jar to prevent it from returning to the host. He ends up inflicting this himself on Renée at the end of the arc.
• Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon: When Tick's brother Tack encountered him, he took him to be an angel due to his looks and ethereal appearance. Dear lord, was he wrong...
• Faux Affably Evil: Huey Laforet is invariably polite and well-mannered, even when he's just screwing with people.
• For Science!: Huey's excuse for everything is intellectual pursuit.
• French Jerk: In the dub, at least. He speaks with a french accent and, as noted elsewhere on this page, has little regard for anyone else's well being.
• From a Single Cell: Like all immortals.
• Gentleman Snarker: Huey is sure to always be courteous and polite even when mocking someone relentlessly.
• Greater-Scope Villain: In the 1930s because he is nominally the head of the Lemures but he doesn't care about their train hijacking and is otherwise involved except for some telepathy with Chané.
• Harmful to Minors: At about ten, Huey got to get an eyeful of both his mother dragged out in front of the populace naked and extensively mutilated and all of his village's people burned at the stake after they were outed as witches by his mother's confession.
• Hates Everyone Equally: As a teenager. Now he just doesn't give a damn about anyone (except Elmer).
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Elmer. According to Huey, Elmer's the only human being that he saw as something beyond "experimental guinea pig," and Elmer's been noted to be one of the only men in the world not creeped the fuck out by him.
• Identical Stranger: Fans have noticed that Kasuka Heiwajima (from a different series, but in the same 'verse) looks like a brown-eyed clone of Huey despite the fact that they're not even the same ethnicity, much less related. Volume 8 of Durarara confirms that people in-universe get the same impression, as Saki notes Huey's strangely identical grandson looks a hell of a lot like a younger version of the Japanese model/actor in question. Considering by the usual implication this 'verse places on people who look like Huey Laforet...
• It's All About Me: Huey's gone on record to say that the only person he even considers human besides himself is Elmer C. Albatross. Everyone else is prospective "raw materials."
• Le Parkour: Demonstrates its use in Dr. Feelgreed.
• Locked Out of the Loop: For most of 1705, Huey doesn't realize that every named character knows about his counterfeiting operation. He also doesn't know the true identity of the Mask Maker until the very end.
• Long Haired Prettyboy: In the 1700s, both as a teenager and an adult.
• Mad Scientist: A low key one for sure but he still has done horrible experiments.
• Manipulative Bastard: Elmer is the one person exempt from his Manipulative Bastardry.
• Misanthrope Supreme: As a teen. Now he's just apathetic towards the world.
• Odd Friendship: With Elmer considering Elmer is For Happiness and he is For Science!. Considering they're both sociopaths, maybe it's not so odd.
• Offing the Offspring: He's considering getting rid of Leeza, just to see how Hilton will react to losing her favorite vessel and her blood relation to daddy.
• The Promise: In the 1711 story, he takes Monica's dying words ("Let's meet again") as a promise and intends to keep it by finding whatever way he can to "find" and reunite with her.
• Pyromaniac: A more subdued one than, say, Nice, but his inclination towards fire has been noted.
• Raven Hair, Ivory Skin: Where do you think Chané got it from? She's a beauty because she's a female version of him.
• Really 700 Years Old: Like All 1711 immortals.
• Renaissance Man: Huey's field of research doesn't just extend to alchemical science, but social science as well. His current experiment is to see what kind of impact an immortal could make on the country. He's also fond of collecting and reading the blueprints of genius inventors.
  Huey: I have no interest in humans, but I truly delight in seeing their ideas.
• Smug Snake: He'd probably be a little more magnificent if he weren't so dang full of himself.
• Start of Darkness: Monica's death in 1710 in the start of his social experiment evilness. The 1710 arc centres around this.
• Straw Nihilist: As a teenager, Huey had what the narration calls "extremely normal thoughts for a fourteen-year-old."
• Strong Family Resemblance: Huey has several children/grandchildren/great^x grandchildren over the course of the various Light Novels. They're pretty easy to pick out too, as they all look exactly like him - male or female. The only known exceptions are Luchino, who got all his looks from the Campanella family side; and Claudia, who took all her looks from her great-grandfather Felix. Both Aging and Elmer note that Luchino does have some noticeable resemblance to Huey. Luchino finds this a bit ridiculous, as the two are three hundred years removed.
• Supernaturally Young Parent: Being perpetually twenty-one, Huey looks close enough to his daughter's age that a number of Lemures assumed Chané was his Hot Consort rather than daughter.
• Teen Genius: When he was a teen in 1705, he was already highly intelligent.
• Troll: Sometimes, instead of For Science!, Huey just screws with someone for the Hell of it. Mostly Victor, but also Firo.
  Huey: I did tell you that sometimes I get the urge to play childish pranks, did I not?
  Firo: ... You weren't very popular with the other alchemists back then, were you.
• The Unfettered: There's nothing he won't do For Science!.
• Unholy Matrimony: With Monica, sometime after 1705.
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: The first line in the 1705 novel is a quote from his mother talking about how innocent he was. Now compare that to a few hundred years later...
• Weak, but Skilled: Huey's not particularly strong, but his lack of mercy and hesitation makes him a dangerous fighter nonetheless.
• "Well Done, Son" Guy: Unlike most examples, he encourages this sort of behavior in his children.
• Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: His motivation as a teenager. He looks back on the mindset as rather silly now.

Elmer C. Albatross

Looks like a nice guy, eh? You're sort of right, but don't get too comfortable.

Voiced by: Shintarou Oohata (JP), John Burgmeier (EN)

An old friend of Huey's, and a very weird one at that. A constantly cheerful British man that, rather than bringing happiness to people, seems to unnerve or disturb them. Most believe that there's a seriously messed up mind behind that omnipresent smile of his, and chances are that they're right...

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• Affably Evil: He's incredibly affable for a sociopath.
• All-Loving Hero: He wants to make everyone smile, no matter who they are or what they've done. With Czeslaw Meyer he makes a serious case of demonstrating the Power of Friendship and Trust. The only problem with this trope is that he's not really a hero, making him a subverted example.
• The Anti-Nihilist: Elmer openly proclaims that he finds no meaning or purpose in life, but uses this perspective as a reason to indiscriminately spread happiness throughout the world.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Pretty much. On the surface he appears to be an altruistic and cheerful All-Loving Hero, but on the inside, he is actually an uncaring and arguably twisted sociopath whose kind deeds and desire to make everyone smile is purely selfish and is not even above doing evil things to make people smile.
• Blue-and-Orange Morality: Elmer's brand of utilitarianism can be a little... off:
  Elmer: You should smile more when you hit someone.
  Delinquent: ... What?
  Elmer: People aren't normally happy to get hit, so at least the person doing the hitting should laugh, right? I think that might at least strike a balance. In your case, you like beating people, right? My teacher told me... looking down on other people is generally a source of pleasure, so it's understandable. I don't really get it myself, though. Anyway, I want you to smile when you hit someone, just so I won't have any trouble knowing that you're having fun."
• Conditioned to Accept Horror: Elmer, for one, doesn't really understand why a lot of people don't smile more when they hurt others. After all, his parents were always smiling when they hurt him.
• Covered with Scars: From his childhood, when he was routinely tortured by the cult into which he was born.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Elmer was born into a cult in which his only purpose of existence was to suffer. He wasn't rescued until he turned ten.
• Dissonant Serenity: Elmer maintains his cheerful demeanor no matter the situation.
• Eyes Always Shut: He has blue eyes when they're occasionally unshut.
• Artistic License – Economics: States that he originally began studying alchemy in order to create enough gold to go around for everyone and bring happiness to people by eliminating poverty. He gave up after realizing that the economy does not work that way.
• For Happiness: His motto for living is "Make everybody smile".
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Huey. See his entry.
• Horrible Judge of Character: He's best friends with Huey, of all people and thinks Szilard is redeemable but on the other hand, (he picked up on Monica's homicidal misanthropy long before Huey did.) He just doesn't care in the slightest whether they're are good, evil or completely insane. In his eyes, everyone deserves happiness.
• Identity Impersonator: For Monica and the Mask Maker.
• Incorruptible Pure Pureness: Elmer isn't incorruptible because he's an iron-willed force of good but because there's nothing to corrupt. He's a sociopath and doesn't care about anyone's well-being. Smiles just make him feel good, so he tries to make people happy.
• It's All About Me: Admits it outright to Huey.
  Huey: "What is it that you want? What do you gain from making people in the world laugh? Why don't you just find your own happiness? 'Your world' can't extend much farther than what you can reach your hands out to. Isn't your own happiness enough? You can just laugh your way through your own life..."
  Elmer: That's exactly what I'm planning. You see, I want to see people smile sincerely, but it's all just for myself.
• Keet: Very optimistic, friendly, energetic and almost child-like in his "innocence".
• Lack of Empathy: Elmer cares about people's happiness. The actual people, on the other hand, he cares nothing about. Suffering and the loss of a life mildly disappoint him at most. Even then it's only because it makes other people sad, and thus he loses his source of happiness.
• Living Lie Detector: A variation in that he can see through fake smiles.
• The Matchmaker: In 1705, he tries to get Huey and Monica together.
• Morality Chain: To Huey; he once disclosed to Chané the only reason he isn't conducting experiments in mass and screwing with other people's lives in general is because: "Elmer would be sad". In addition, Huey has asked Elmer to serve as his link to his old self by remaining exactly the same as he was in their youth. In Huey's mind, there would be no point in bringing back Monica if he had changed completely from what he once was by then. Elmer has the job of bringing a little bit of his old self back to him.
• Moral Sociopathy: People matter to Elmer only in the sense that it feels good to see people happy - he has no consideration for anyone's actual feelings. He's perfectly willing to let people harm or torture others if that's what makes them happy. His only rule is that he'll neither personally kill nor die for someone else.
• Mysterious Middle Initial: We have no clue what it stands for and considering the "no false names around other immortals" rule it may become important later on.
• New Transfer Student: He joins Huey and Monica's alchemy class early on in 1705.
• The Nondescript: It's noted that his only distinguishing physical feature is that he's constantly smiling.
• Odd Friendship:
  • Somehow befriended Esperança pre-series.
  • His heterosexual life partnership with Huey.
• Only Friend: Stated by the narration in 1933 to be Huey's one friend in the entire world.
• Perpetual Smiler: He smiles all time to make others happy. His goal is to make everyone this trope.
• Please Kill Me if It Satisfies You: Elmer isn't willing to die a permanent death for someone else's happiness, but Immortal Life Is Cheap. Anything for a smile, right?
• The Pollyanna: His "smile and look on the bright side of life" attitude sometimes comes off to others as oblivious, unhelpful and insensitive at times: for example, expecting Sylvie to cheer up and laugh with him just after she discovered her fiance was killed and was nearly murdered herself.
• Secret-Keeper: Elmer finds out the Mask Maker's true identity within days of coming to Lotto Valentino, and decides to help her win Huey over.
• Sociopathic Hero: While Elmer may be a complete and utter sociopath on levels that terrify Fermet, he nonetheless strives only For Happiness. Why? why not?
• Spanner in the Works: One of the reasons Fermet hates him; he ruins plans.
• Stepford Smiler: Nobody's quite sure if he's an Empty Shell or Cute and Psycho under the mask. The light novels reveal that he's neither, though the former isn't far off.
• Stupid Good: Let Szilard live because he wanted to convince him to atone for his acts. This led to a lot of death and pain because Szilard has zero interest in redemption. Unlike some examples, it's more symptomatic of Elmer lacking genuine empathy, as he cares little about who he helps as long as it gets them to smile.
• Totalitarian Utilitarian: Hasn't quite gone this far in action, he certainly has the mentality for it.
  Elmer: I'd sell the souls of all humanity to the devil if I thought it'd get us a happy ending.
• Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth: Fermet is so utterly terrified and repulsed by his existence that he is incapable of devouring him - his mind rebels at the mere thought of Elmer, blocking the mental incantation needed to initiate the process.

Sylvie Lumiere

Voiced by: Ayahi Takagaki (JP), Leah Clark (EN)

The fiancee of Gretto and one of the Advena Avis passengers. In the 1930s she makes her living as a singer.

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• Best Served Cold: She drank the elixir for the sole and express purpose of devouring Szilard. She let herself age a little before drinking so that he would not recognize her when she tracked him down.
• Color-Coded Eyes: Her gray eyes match her hair and fits both her "innocent" teenage self before her immortality and her beautiful but colder vengeance-seeking adult self afterwards.
• Curtains Match the Window: Silver eyes to match her silver locks.
• Damsel in Distress: Once in 2001, courtesy of Felt, and once again in 2002 by SAMPLE and Bride.
• Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life: Sylvie drank the elixir solely for the purposes of killing Szilard and avenging Gretto's death. Unfortunately, someone else got the job done for her. She's not quite ready to die just yet, though, so she decided that she'll try to find a new Goal in Life, using "What Would Gretto Do?" as a sort of makeshift one until she can find it.
• Even the Girls Want Her: Sylvie attracts quite a bit of attention on the Exit, from men and women alike.
• Glamorous Wartime Singer: Her job in the 1930s is in speakeasies.
• Her Heart Will Go On: Following the death of her fiance Gretto, she looks for something to do with her eternal life.
• Mystical White Hair: An immortal woman with white hair.
• She Is All Grown Up: Sylvie waited a while until she drank the elixir so that she could kill Szilard while unrecognized by him.
• Shrinking Violet: As a teenager in 1711.
• '20s Bob Haircut: Sports one in her 1930's look.
• Uptown Girl: The 1711 - Whitesmile story reveals that Sylvie (and Gretto) were not alchemists. Sylvie was a maid at the Avaro manor, and Gretto's father did not approve of their relationship. Gretto later convinces Maiza to allow them passage onto the Advena Avis, posing as "assistants".
• What Would X Do?: Questioning what would Gretto is her emotional crutch while she's Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life.
• World's Most Beautiful Woman: She says that this was her goal in becoming an alchemist and seeking eternal life. Which was true until 1711, at which point her goal in life became revenge for her murdered fiance.

Gretto Avaro

Voiced by: Daisuke Namikawa (JP), Jason Liebrecht (EN)

Sylvie's fiancee, and Maiza's younger brother, Gretto is a young alchemist aboard the Advenna Avis in 1711. He is devoured by Szilard, becoming his first victim, which kicks off a lot of the storyline.

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• Blue Blood: Just like his brother Maiza.
• Curtains Match the Window: Plain brown eyes and average brown hair.
• Death by Origin Story: All the way back in 1711, shortly after his brother became immortal.
• The Lost Lenore: To Sylvie; the goal of avenging his death was the only thing keeping her going for 220 years.
• Posthumous Character: A strange case considering the series layout in the anime.
• Sacrificial Lamb: Why did Maiza have to bestow information upon him when he had an ambitious fiend like Szilard on his ship?
• Too Good for This Sinful Earth: Maiza describes him as "pure of heart"; naturally no one that pure can survive Szilard's rampage.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: Very little is known about beyond his connections to Maiza and Sylvie.

Czeslaw Meyer

Don't try cheering him up. You can't do it.

Voiced by: Akemi Kanda (JP), Maxey Whitehead (EN)

The youngest passenger to be made immortal on the Advena Avis. He was taken in by a fellow immortal, Fermet, who experimented on him, testing the limits of their immortality until Czeslaw finally snapped and ate him. Despite his cynical, tough exterior, Czes is still struggling to trust anyone and constantly fears that other immortals are going to kill him. He is present in the 1931 arc, and appears to be an innocent young child until The (first) Reveal at the start of the third volume.^note This is a major spoiler in the light novels, but in the anime it isn't treated as a spoiler at all. He now lives with Firo and Ennis.

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• And I Must Scream: He was strapped down for those 'experiments'.
• Being Tortured Makes You Evil: After the extremely horrific "experiments" Fermet put him through for 200 years, Czes is quite screwed-up and will do anything in order to survive.
• Berserk Button: Because other immortals are the only thing that can truly kill him, Czes tends to go completely nuts around them and especially if any try to touch him with their right hand.
• Blessed with Suck: You can argue the whole immortality before puberty thing as this.
• Break the Cutie: One hundred years of torture by his 'caretaker' Fermet.
• Crazy Survivalist: Thanks to 200+ years of bad experience, Czeslaw tends to go to extremes to preserve his own safety.
• Creepy Child: Over two hundred years of constant, barbaric torture enacted by a man he trusted has had less than a positive impact on him. The result is a paranoid survivalist mentality that ranges from callous (ditching Mary because he thought she would get in the way) to flat out murderous (bargaining with Ladd to kill everyone in his passenger car to weed out the other immortal on the train).
• Cynicism Catalyst: Not the decades of daily torture, surprisingly enough, but rather the realization that Fermet did it solely because he liked to watch him suffer.
• Deliberately Cute Child: He does this both to throw people off of his true nature and to get what he wants.
• Despair Event Horizon: Fermet's return in 2002, which leaves him absolutely speechless and frozen in horror.
• Does This Remind You of Anything?: While it's fairly obvious that he was abused by Fermet, a lot of their interactions and the psychological consequences the whole thing had on him (trust issues, fear of physical contact, etc.) are also remniscient of rape...
• The Dog Bites Back: How Czes brought about Fermet's well-deserved demise.
• Enfant Terrible: Prior Character Development and Redemption Equals Life, he was a creepy and ruthless child.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Pre-Heel–Face Turn. Due to his own experiences, Czeslaw will compromise for one rule, which is that he will never betray a child. (He was, surprisingly enough, expecting to come back for Mary after his negotiation with Ladd). He admits he readily Would Hurt a Child if it meant securing his own safety (he has no belief that Children Are Innocent), but he absolutely refuses to sink as low as Fermet.
• Freudian Excuse: Given the horrible daily tortures he had to endure for a couple of centuries, it's understandable that he ended up as a paranoid Crazy Survivalist.
• Ghost Memory: He ate all the memories Formerly belonging to Fermet.
• Good Thing You Can Heal: Or, considering those last 200 years of living hell, maybe not.
• Happily Adopted: By Firo and Ennis, though it takes him a long time to feel that he at all deserves it.
• Harmful to Minors: Czeslaw was not only at the receiving end of two-hundred years of torture, but he escapes by consuming Fermet and assuming all of his past knowledge, meaning he now has memories of gleefully torturing himself running around in his head. No wonder he's messed up...
• Immortality Hurts: He was tortured by Fermet for 200 years under the pretenses of "testing the limits of immortality". The "experiments" included being stuck in the eyes with a pair of heated tongs, put in an acid bath and thrown into a fireplace alive.
• Immortal Life Is Cheap: Fermet spent a couple hundred years taking advantage of Czeslaw's immortality to perform every kind of gruesome "experiment" on poor Czes that he could think of.
• Mouthy Kid: Even when not in Crazy Survivalist mode is often this and it's why Ladd blew his head off; arrogant.
• Never Be Hurt Again: His motivation for hunting down and eating other immortals before they can do the same to him, after being cruelly tortured by Fermet for years.
• Out of the Inferno: In 2001, he throws himself into a fireplace to burn off some ropes that were binding him. See the series CMOA page.
• The Power of Trust: A part of Throw the Dog a Bone involves Czes learning this when Isaac and Miria rescue him during the Flying Pussyfoot Massacre.
• Puppy Love: He still often thinks fondly about his time spent with Mary, decades after the Flying Pussyfoot incident.
• Really 700 Years Old: Like all the 1711 immortals, but more so because he was a child at the time.
• Throw the Dog a Bone: After the shitstorm that was the Flying Pussyfoot massacre, Czeslaw finally gets something resembling a real, functional family when Isaac and Miria invite him to join the group as Ennis's "little brother".
• Walking the Earth: Traveled the world with Maiza between 1970 and 2002.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Being terrified of another immortal "devouring" you? Understandable. Making a deal with Ladd Russo to kill everyone on the passenger car so you can find out who you need to get rid of? Not cool, Czes. The Rail Tracer calls him out on this, by biting off his fingers.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Firo's a bit confused as to why Czes has a pathological fear of redheads. The readers/viewers are aware though *cough*Claire*cough*.

Fermet

Lebreau Fermet Viralesque

Voiced by: Ken Narita (JP), Robert McCollum (EN)

One of the original alchemists aboard the Advena Avis who sought immortality. After the incident with Szilard Quates, he lived with his young charge, Czeslaw Meyer, and spent his immortality torturing the boy in the most gruesome ways. Czeslaw eventually devoured him.

Since the 1700s arc is covered in more depth the novels, it should be noted that spoiler tags below contain spoilers for beyond Volume 3 and his backstory with Czes.

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• Abusive Parent: The majority of his characterization in the anime is his abuse of Czes.
• The All-Concealing "I": The opening color pages of the 1705 novel is a series of questions posed to multiple characters between 1700 and 2002. At the end of the color pages, the questioner is revealed to be Fermet, hinting at his mysterious return from death.
  • Similarly, in the prefaces of 2002, he writes strange passages as "Copycat".
• Berserk Button: Elmer, of all things - Elmer's bizarre form of Moral Sociopathy basically makes him a warped form of Incorruptible Pure Pureness entirely indifferent to any sort of suffering Fermet tries to pile on him. This drives Fermet utterly nuts.
• Big Bad: A good chunk of the horrible things in the series are his fault to begin with. For instance, he's the reason Huey is the sociopath he is today, due to his murdering of Monica.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: When Czes was orphaned in 1705, Begg commented that Fermet was too nice to be able to raise a child.
• Break the Cutie: Fermet's stated favorite hobby. He finds "toys" like Czes to play with and torment.
• Chekhov's Gunman: In the anime as it stands, he remains a satellite character; later in the novels, he turns out to be the Big Bad.
• The Corruptor: He tortured Czes into becoming a Creepy Child and turned Huey into a sociopath after murdering his mother and wife for kicks.
• Create Your Own Hero: Fermet is a monstrous supervillain who happened to create his own antithesis. He was ultimately behind the cult that raised Elmer, and Elmer is Fermet's kryptonite. His unique brand of insanity is so utterly anathema to Fermet's thinking that Fermet is utterly unable to devour him; his mind rebels at the mere thought of having Elmer's Ghost Memory in his brain and he can't think of the incantation.
• Cult: A member of the one that tortured Elmer.
• Diabolus ex Machina: Fermet intentionally sets one up for the 1710 arc.
• Does This Remind You of Anything?: Sometimes, he comes off less as a torture technician and more as a child molester. Many fans believe he actually is one.
• Double Agent: He's working with all three of the main factions involved in the 2002 hijacking case—as Life of the Mask Makers, Angelo's ally the Demolisher, and Viralesque of SAMPLE.
• Dramatic Unmask: At the end of 2002, Angelo takes off Life's goggles and discovers that he is the Demolisher.
• Foreshadowing: In the anime, a hint to his evil nature appears when he pats Czeslaw on the head. Czes responds by wincing (as though afraid that Fermet is going to hurt him) and then looking at him with an expression of complete and utter dread.
• For the Evulz: Fermet caused most of the 2002 incident, which resulted in multiple deaths and would have sunk two cruise ships if The Plan had been successful, just so he could torment Czes.
  • Let’s be honest this trope perfectly describes nearly everything he does throughout the series.
• For Science!: Subverted. He makes this claim as he uses torture to test the limits of immortality. After Czes gets back at him, his Ghost Memory reflects that he just did all that for kicks.
• Hate Sink: He spent 200 years getting his kicks out of mutilating and torturing an innocent child, murdered Huey's wife for no real reason and caused pretty much every horrible thing that has happened in the series to date. Needless to say, no one likes this guy.
• Hidden Eyes: Via the bangs.
• I Have Many Names: Somehow, despite the "no false names" rule. In addition to the names derived from his full name "Lebreau Fermet Viralesque", he is also "Life" from the Businessmen who hijack the cruise ships, and the "Demolisher" who is working with Angelo.
• Loophole Abuse: Gets past the "no false names" clause by going by parts of his full name. Thus, he's "Fermet" to the 1711 immortals, while other times he goes by "Lebreau" or "Viralesque".
• Mad Scientist: All those "experiments" on Czes and the horrific mental scars that resulted from them.
• Manipulative Bastard: Upham, a surviving Lemures mook that encountered him on the Flying Pussyfoot, describes him as an "audience member" whose words can sway The Powers That Be quite a bit.
  Upham: That voice just spins round and round, reaches an actor or a writer's ears, and controls their actions without them even noticing. That's how he directs the play the way he likes, from a total safe zone as an audience member.
• Master Actor: Can effortlessly throw himself into a role, and leave everyone around him none the wiser to his true character.
• Meaningful Name: Possibly to Enrico Fermi, an Italian-American physicist who patented the concept of a nuclear reactor with Leó Szilárd.
  • "Viralesque," was it?
• No Sense of Personal Space: Towards Czeslaw, which only serves to make his interactions with him ten times creepier.
• Not Quite Dead: In the novels, it's revealed that he somehow survived being devoured by Czes. He later survived being eaten by a second immortal years later.
• Offing the Offspring: Repeatedly. For upwards of 200 years.
• Promotion to Parent: When his alchemy teacher died in 1705, Fermet took in his teacher's orphaned grandson Czes. It's implied that he was the cause his teacher met an early end.
• Sadist: Relishes in causing pain to others, whether it be physical or emotional.
• Sarcastic Confession: Fermet has a habit of giving entirely accurate statements of his character framed as Self-Deprecation, which everyone takes to be humility.
• The Sociopath: Years of hellish torturing of a child and all he felt was sadistic glee. He even turns other people into sociopaths, like Huey.
• Torture Technician: We've only gotten bits and pieces of what was done from Czeslaw. Considering the immortality thing, he might be the best example of this in a show filled with this trope. Claire, on the other hand, considers him an amateur compared to him.
• Two Aliases, One Character: He is revealed to be have five separate identities, all of which had been thought to be different entities throughout the Volume 13.
• Xanatos Speed Chess: Since his ultimate goal - screw people over for fun and profit - is rather simple and open-ended, Fermet is not adverse to changing or switching out plans on the fly when the opportunity presents itself.

The Daily Days Bunch

In General

The President voiced by: Show Hayami (JP), Cole Brown (EN)

An information agency in Chinatown, hiding behind a newspaper business.

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• Chinese Laborer: There are several Chinese men working in the offices, mostly because of its proximity to New York's Chinatown.
• Crazy-Prepared: The front office is designed with trench warfare in mind, and every employee has a loaded gun under their desk.
• He Who Must Not Be Seen: The boss of the Daily Days is never seen. The desk he sits behind is covered in so much paperwork and money that it completely obscures him.
  • Nicholas and Elean freak out a bit when the guy who eats the sugarcubes goes behind the paperwork (thus seeing the President) and gives him some sugarcubes.

Gustav St. Germain

Voiced by: Norio Wakamoto (JP), Kent Williams (EN)

The Vice President of the Daily Days. He is a well-spoken man who prefers to be on the scenes of the incidents he covers.

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• 20% More Awesome: The "points" he awards Carol.
• Badass Bookworm: He looks like he should be giving lectures in a college and yet he fought off Graham.
• Historical Domain Character: There was a man known as The Count of St. Germain who lived in the 18th century. He was rumored to be, amongst other things, immortal. This fact is even mentioned in one of the novels.
• High-Class Glass: A refined gentleman who wears one.
• Improvised Weapon: Once successfully beat down a group of robbers with a newspaper.
• Informed Ability: Lampshaded in the very Dramatis Personae that notes its existence.
  Gustave St. Germain
  Vice Director of the Daily Days Newspaper. A highly capable journalist with a dignified voice. Possesses an eidetic memory, though this fact is never brought up in the story.
• Intergenerational Friendship: With Carol.
• Knowledge Broker: He works for the Daily Days.
• Large Ham: This should come as no surprise since he's played by Norio Wakamoto himself. Hell, they give him a whole narration track on the soundtrack all to himself to ham all over, it's beautiful.
  • Props to Kent Williams for a more subtle, yet hammy, job.
• Meta Guy: With his assistant Carol. He gives the series' page quote on the 'no protagonist' thing.
• Photographic Memory: He supposedly has perfect memory "though this fact is never brought up in the story".

Carol

Voiced by: Chiwa Saitō (JP), Kristin Sutton (EN)

Gustav St. Germain's assistant. She is an inexperienced young photographer working at the Daily Days who is prone to bouts of anxiety when facing authority figures.

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• Damsel in Distress: In 1934, she is taken hostage by the Russo Family.
• Kid Sidekick: To Gustav St. Germain.
• Meta Guy: In the first episode of the anime, she participates in a discussion of this nature. She says that Firo is "main characterish".
• Naïve Newcomer: To the entire information business.
• The Team Normal: Is not particularly badass, nor does she have special skills as a member of the Daily Days.

Rachel

Biggest, Damndest Hero ever.

Voiced by: Shizuka Itō (JP), Trina Nishimura (EN)

One of the informants for the Daily Days. Has a habit of hitching a ride on trains, since her father, a train conductor who was screwed over by the train companies, taught her a contradictory love for trains and hatred for the train companies.

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• Action Survivor: All of Rachel's skills are intended for laying low and getting out of the fray.
• Adaptation-Induced Plot Hole: Claire being so comfortable around Rachel to ask for love advice sounds a bit out of nowhere in the anime where the scene in which Rachel cries for Claire to stop killing and shows her selfless nature to the point it charms him wasn’t shown, in the Anime she was just a stowaway he gave a little scare.
• Adapted Out: Claire and Rachel’s first bonding did not make its way into the Anime, by the time Claire pretty much had finished cleaning the Train’s mess, she saw Rachel being held at gun point by an old man who happened to be her father’s colleague, the one responsible for the mistake her father was framed with, Claire saved her on a whim and was about to kill the old man, Rachel however pleaded in tears for him to stop killing, she didn’t want so see the Trains and Rails her father and herself loved so much being stained, he could kill her if it would satisfy him but no one else, this impressed Claire to the point of even remarking that if he had not made a proposal to Chané just shortly before then Rachel would be the one he would propose to now.
• Big Damn Heroes: Rachel ends up responsible for more rescues than anyone else in the show.^note To elaborate: She saves Natalie and Mary Beriam from the Lemures and then saves Nice and Nick. Afterwards, she also plays a part in a long chain of rescuing Isaac and Miria (as do Claire and Donny)
• Chekhov's Gunman: Rachel's first appearance is during the three-way cabin hold-up, where she slips out unnoticed and goes ignored for about an episode or two. She becomes surprisingly important, both in the events of the Flying Pussyfoot itself and in relaying the story later.
• Curtains Match the Window: Both a light shade of brown.
• Deadpan Snarker: Particularly around Claire.
• Femme Fatalons: Rachel is noted in the books to have long, blade-like fingernails — some of which are even serrated. She files them like this just to make sure she always has something sharp on hand.
• Heroic Bystander: Railway stowaway turned Big Damn Hero.
• Knowledge Broker: The boss debriefs her about the Flying Pussy Foot incident.
• Odd Friendship: with Claire, the novels ^note Another Junk Railroad in particular make it clear that Rachel and Claire eventually became good friends, case in point she cleaned up twice to meet him; to settle it the man himself states that concerning female relatives and acquaintances, Rachel is second only to Chané, for obvious reasons.
• Only One Name: She probably has a last name, unlike Ennis, but damned if we know what it is.
• Only Sane Woman: On the Flying Pussyfoot. Claire certainly thinks so — he asks her for relationship advice!
• Rail Enthusiast: Her father worked on a train and she likes riding trains. She also hates train companies because they screwed her father over. This is what led to her to being the Big Damn Hero.
• Red Herring: 1931- The Grand Punk Station: Local Episode presents Rachel in a way that heavily implied she was Claire Stanfield, the assassin aboard the Flying Pussyfoot that the Gandors were bringing in. This charade goes on until the very last few pages of the book, when Ennis refers to "Miss Claire", and Firo realizes he forgot to mention something important. The anime also tries to carry this over, repeatedly drawing attention to her without letting her speak and showing her climbing outside the train just before the Rail Tracer starts its rampage... and only showing her being confronted by the Rail Tracer one episode before the big reveal of Claire Stanfield.
• She Cleans Up Nicely: As evidenced in the image above and here◊, Rachel knows her fashion out of the average work clothes. In the novels, she got rid of said work clothes as soon as she got off the train.
• Tsurime Eyes: Strong willed and courageous. Claire likes this kind of women.

Nicholas Wayne

Voiced by: Tōru Furusawa (JP), Christopher Bevins (EN)

Another of the Daily Days informants, usually working at the front desk. Has a tempestuous relationship with Rachel. Nicholas is responsible for leaving the Daily Days well-protected (read: heavily armed); a remnant of his days in military intelligence. He also has a bit of a mercenary streak, and is willing to sell or buy information from anyone.

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• Bullying a Dragon: Don't mistake him and his employees for just civilian journalists. They come to work armed.
• Cheshire Cat Grin: Perpetually when dealing information but especially after outgambitting a pair of mafia thugs.
• Composite Character: The anime version of Nicholas is a composite of two characters from the Light Novels. Nicholas in the novels is a less morally dubious character; the other character, Henry, is the one who gets into trouble with Claire for trying to use Eve Genoard as a pawn.
• Crazy-Prepared: Credit where credit is due, the man is fully aware of the dangers of running a newspaper in a Mafia town. Two of Gustavo Bagetta's guys quickly figure this out, when they try to hold up the front desk of the Days with Tommy guns, everyone behind the counter, down to the most lowly filing clerk, pulls out his own Tommy gun in response.
• Knowledge Broker: He is the one most seen doing the dealing.
• Manipulative Bastard: When people come to him for information, they usually end up giving him information.
• Oh, Crap!: It seems the only way for Nicholas to learn not to manipulate The Ingenue Eve Genoard from getting into dangerous situations anymore was from a serious "persuasion" by our favorite Sociopathic Hero, Claire Stanfield. Nicholas should be grateful that he didn't lose any limbs or his life.
• Running Gag: Nicolas frequently mentions Rachel's habit of getting a free ride on trains, much to the President's disapproval.
• Those Two Guys: With Elean.

Elean Duga

Voiced by: Taiten Kusunoki (JP), Daniel Drumm (EN)

Works the front desk at the Daily Days along with Nicholas. However, he shows a bit more compassion than Nicholas, especially to Eve Genoard. He's also the editor of the Chinese edition of the Daily Days.

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• Composite Character: Similarly to Nicholas, but to a lesser degree. Part of Elean's role in the anime was carried over from Roy Maddock from the Light Novels.
• Knowledge Broker: He works for the Daily Days but we don't see him "working the beat" so to speak as much as other characters.
• Those Two Guys: With Nicholas.
• Token Minority: While he's certainly not the only non-white guy in the series, or even the only black person, he definitely is the only black guy at the Daily Days.

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