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Exorcists

In General

Third and most recent uniform.

^{First uniform.}

^{Second uniform.}

Also known as Accommodators, they are humans working at the Black Order with the power of wielding the Innocence, a legendary substance of divine properties that is the only way to destroy an Akuma. Despite their vital role in saving humankind, they are very scarce, thus one of the biggest priorities of the Order is to find more of them to get more manpower in the Holy War.They were originally classified into two types; Parasitic (who wield the Innocence inside their bodies) and Equipment (whose Innocence is reformed into a weapon they carry). However, after the attack of the Level 4 Akuma in the European HQ of the Black Order, a new type known as Crystal appeared, which is an evolved version of the Equipment type that uses the blood of the Accommodator instead of a weapon, thus making them easier to control.

Blessed with Suck: Parasitic-type Exorcists are generally stronger than the Equipment-type ones, as, due to having the Innocence inside their bodies, they can access to greater power and control over their Innocence, as well as surpass their limits more easily. However, such usage of the Innocence produces such a big physical strain on them that it severely shortens their lifespan.
Color-Coded Characters: Exorcists are mainly identified with black. As members from the Black Order, their predominantly black uniform (made like that to make Akuma detect them and reveal their position) is their primary characteristic. This contrasts with the Noah, who use white outfits instead.
Dangerous Forbidden Technique: In rare instances when Exorcists reach the maximum activation of their Innocence and reach the 100% of synchronization, they get access to a powerful technique way above their normal level. However, this power comes at the cost of taking a huge strain on the Exorcist and putting their life in grave danger, while also severely damaging their anti-Akuma weapon and leaving them vulnerable, so it can only be used in situations of extreme crisis and only depending on how synchronized an Accomodator is with their Innocence.
Dark Is Not Evil: Their uniforms are predominantly black, but they are the ones charged with saving the world from the Akuma and the Noah.
Demon Slaying: A curious variant, as Exorcists in D.Gray-man don't exactly combat The Legions of Hell or other escapees from the Underworld, but instead machines of carnage known as Akuma (named after the Japanese word for Devil).
Good Is Not Soft: Exorcists have to be ruthless in their mission, as any small mistake can result in their deaths. As such, they rarely have mercy on their targets and never mourn or humanize them. The only exception is Allen, mainly to honor the will of Mana, whom he turned into an Akuma as a child.
Hunter of Monsters: While usually a byproduct of having to retrieve Innocence fragments, Exorcists often face the Akuma in their missions and engage them in fierce fights. The title of the first episode of the anime references this, referring to Allen as "the boy who hunts Akuma".
Killed Offscreen: General Klaud had three Exorcists under her tutelage (named Tina Spark, Gwen Flail and Sol Galen) who died during the incident where Suman told Tyki the positions of his comrades in exchange for his life. We never get to see them at any point and the only information we get from them are their names and the fact they were killed by the forces of the Earl.
Non-Uniform Uniform: The uniforms of the Exorcists are highly customized in order to meet the necessities of the individual and their fighting style. For example, Lenalee's uniform always have shorts or very short skirts for her to use her legs freely, and Lavi's one has pants as he needs a thigh holster to held his hammer.
Power Degeneration: Exorcists with a Parasitic type Innocence tend to have shorter lifespans than those with an Equipment type Innocence because the effort of holding their Anti-Akuma Innocence in their bodies kills them slowly the more they use it.
Properly Paranoid: With the exception of Allen, Exorcists normally cannot detect Akuma in their human disguises, so they have to stay on guard all the time to avoid being attacked by surprise.
Red and Black and Evil All Over: Inverted. The third uniform the Exorcists wear in the series is a more military-like one that replaces the white parts of the black coat that the first two uniforms had with stripes of intense red. Despite this, the Exorcists are the good guys of the series and fight to save the world from the Earl.
Synchronization: In order to use an Innocence, first an Exorcist must be compatible with it. Once the Innocence accepts the Exorcists as its master, it will synchronize with them in order to use its special abilities. Depending on how high the synchronization is, the power of the Exorcist will increase or decrease. Some Exorcists such as Lenalee can invoke a second level of their Innocence when their synchronization rate grows, and in some cases, Exorcists can go beyond the 100% of synchronization and reach the Critical Point, which unlocks a special power of their Innocence and make them candidates for the title of General (the highest ranked Exorcists). On the other hand, an Exorcist with an Innocence synchronization rate below 0% will be rejected by their Innocence, and they risk becoming Fallen Ones and suffer a painful death.

Allen Walker

See Allen Walker

Yu Kanda

Voiced by: Takahiro Sakurai (JP, 2006 anime), Takuya Sato (JP, Hallow), Tsubasa Yonaga (JP, Hallow, as a child), Travis Willingham (EN, episodes 1-51), Ian Sinclair (EN, episodes 52-103 (2006 anime), 2016 anime), Justin Briner (EN, 2016 anime, as a child), Artur Palomo (SP)

In Hallow

^{Appearance at the beginning of the series}

^{As Yu during his childhood}

"This world is dark. It's hard to breathe here. But that time... when I tried laughing like you... it seemed like it got a little easier."

A cold and aloof swordsman from Japan. Kanda is an extremely efficient Exorcist who prefers to work alone, though he is nominally under General Tiedoll's command. He has a tattoo of a strange rune on his left pectoral that sucks his life force to heal him if he is injured.

Kanda's Innocence is Mugen, a black-bladed katana that allows him to use several 'Illusions' in combat. These range from an eight-sided slash similar to the Kuzu Ryu Sen to a second blade made of Innocence energy. Now it upgraded to the crystal-type as well.

As of chapter 217, he has accepted the position of Exorcist General.

Anti-Hero: He seems pragmatic, saying he'll leave his teammates behind if they become a burden to the mission, but he does the right thing more often than not.
Artificial Human: Well his body anyway.
The Atoner: Chapter 210 reveals that the only reason he came back to the Order is that he feels responsible for Allen's transformation into a Noah. He says that his regrets won't let him die in peace.
Berserk Button: Calling him by his first name, Yu, is not the best of ideas.
Brain Transplant: As part of the "Second Exorcist" program, his brain got transplanted into an articifial body after his original body died.
Broken Bird: He was killed and lost his lover in his past life and the childhood he had to live after his "rebirth" included going through horrible experiments and being forced to kill his best friend. With that in mind, you begin to understand where Kanda's cold and cynical personality comes from.
The Bus Came Back: Near the end of the Alma Karma arc, Allen uses an Ark Gate to send Kanda and a dying Alma to Mater so they can be free from the Order and at least spend their final moments together in peace. Kanda is presumed dead afterwards, but he returns because he still feels responsible for Allen's transformation into a Noah and wants to help him to thank him for giving him Alma's final moments.
Byronic Hero: He's cynical and brooding, has a painful past, and definitely fits the physical description of the trope. In spite of this, he returns to the Order and back to being an exorcist to atone by helping Allen.
Cast from Lifespan: His Ascending Flower: Triple Illusion technique taps into his life force for power, strengthening his blade at the expense of his own life.
Character Development: While he spent most of the series especially antagonistic towards Allen, even by his standards, after he returns to the Black Order and meets Allen—who is on the run, he chooses to help him and abandons most of his negativity towards him. This is apparently because he partially blames himself for Allen's near-awakening as a Noah and subsequent fugitive status.
Childhood Friend Romance: With Alma. They were each other's first and only friend during their harsh childhood as test subjects of the "Second Exorcist" program until they discovered the truth of the project and Kanda had to kill Alma. When they meet again nine years later, their relationship turns to romantic when Alma is revealed to be the reincarnation of Kanda's past lover.
Clothing Damage: His whole shirt is blown off during his fight with Skinn Bolic.
Covert Pervert: In chapter 208, he drinks the Crystal-type Innocence liquid out of Lenalee's hand, much to everyone's surprise and her embarrassment. The whole time he has a very questionable look in his eye.
Dark and Troubled Past: Kanda is one of the experimental Second Exorcists, an apparently failed super Exorcist program. In a past life he was an exorcist who was killed in battle by an Akuma, since Exorcists are scarce they transplanted his brain into an artificial body, having no clear memories of the person he once was, but tortured by flashes of a romance he once had. And not only that, but he was raised and treated as an expendable tool by the Order, only being allowed to live after he had to murder his best friend. Kanda's past is so bad that using an Exposition Beam to show it to someone qualifies as Mind Rape. Even Road was horrified by it.
Death Glare: Oh, so often.
"Hey. If you ever use my first name again, I'll kill you."
Deuteragonist: Kanda is second to Allen in screentime and development. This becomes very prominent in the Searching for Allen Walker arc, which focuses on Kanda (obviously) finding Allen and their interaction.
Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: So far he's the only exorcist who managed to kill a noah.
Dual Wielding: Kanda's Double Illusion Sword technique, which covers Mugen in a coat of energy to create an energy blade, wielding to swords simultaneously to quickly cut up an enemy.
Dude Looks Like a Lady: He was mistaken for a girl by Lenalee the first time they met as children. Even now, Allen has been known to use "girly face" as an insult for Kanda. In chapter 210 there's a scene where a random guy in a bar hits on Kanda, thinking he's a girl.
Embarrassing First Name: It's the name his best friend, Alma, called him by. Alma and Kanda fought to the death nine years before the beginning of the story; Kanda won. So he probably doesn't want to be reminded of that fact. There also the fact that the characters speak English, so hearing "hey, Yuu!" when called by your first name can be quite embarassing…
Every Japanese Sword is a Katana: Averted. Kanda's blade, Mugen, is originally a chokuto, a straighter sword than the traditional katana. It's reforged into a katana after he breaks Mugen killing Skinn Bolic.
Exotic Eye Designs: Kanda's pupils changes to dots while using his Illusion Sword techniques.
Flower Motifs: Associated with the lotus flower. He recurrently sees them in his visions and they are deeply connected to the memory of his past lover.
Freudian Excuse: His Dark and Troubled Past is a very good reason to hate the Order. He doesn't even make a secret out of it.
Good Is Not Nice: He says often that he doesn't care about other people, but will save them and protect them, often after saying he was using them as bait.
Hair Color Dissonance: His hair is blue in the anime, and some coloured arts. Even purple at times. However, it's officially stated to be black, and the author has admitted at some point that the different colours are just the result of her and/or editor fooling around.
Heal It with Blood: Blood-to-blood contact with Kanda can heal injuries. He uses this to save Noise Marie in his backstory flashback, and Johnny after he nearly got his head split open by the 14th/Allen.
Healing Factor: He can heal himself, regenerating entire lost limbs and surviving getting his skull crushed, but it drains away some of his life force.
He's Back!: After running away from the Order with Alma to spend the rest of his life with him, Kanda returns three months later and this time decides to become an exorcist again of his own free will.
Hime Cut: A Rare Male Example, to reflect his role as a traditional, samurai-like Japanese warrior. Thus, the associated personality is perfect but the hair style is missing the even bangs so its downplayed in that aspect.
Irony: Nine years ago, Kanda killed his best friend Alma because he wanted to survive and find his past lover. Then it's revealed Alma was the reincarnation of his lover the entire time.
I Was Just Passing Through: Despite saying he won't save his teammates if they get themselves into trouble, he often does. Then denies he was helping them.
I Will Find You: Spends most of the series looking for "a certain person", who turns out to be his girlfriend from a past life, reincarnated as Alma Karma.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: A heart of gold that's buried deep down beneath layers of jerkassery and indifference, but heart of gold nevertheless.
Jerkass Realization: In his first mission with Lenalee, he vents his rage on her for failing to save an Akuma. Following their recovery, Allen realizes he went too far and apologizes to her.
Kill the Ones You Love: He was forced to kill his best friend Alma when he was a child in order to survive and find "that person". It only becomes the more tragic when it's revealed Alma was the reincarnation of his lover.
The Lancer: His cynicism, brooding nature, and rudeness to his teammates is a sharp contrast to Allen's idealism, cheerfulness, and friendly nature to his comrades.
Long-Haired Pretty Boy: His long hair only contributes to his pretty boy looks.
Meaningful Name: In-Universe – he was given the surname "Kanda" to join the Order (a surname is required to become a member) because it has the same meaning as "Mitoshiro World", a rice paddy from which rice is offered to the gods, which is where he was born.
Mr. Fanservice: The biggest one after Allen. And the Alma Karma arc has revealed that there's a good reason why he's such a jerk, which is likely to make him even more fangirl-tastic.
My God, What Have I Done?: He has this reaction when he realizes that by blaming Allen for Alma's transformation into Akuma and attacking him in his moment of rage, he stabbed Allen with his Innocence and awoke the Fourteenth Noah.
Nobody Touches the Hair: Kanda is testy about others touching his hair, getting mad at Lavi when he attempted to braid it.
Only Friend: He was Alma's first and only friend.
Perpetual Frowner:
- 200 chapters and he wasn't seen cheerful even one. The only times he's ever even smirked have been during battle, and he doesn't exactly look friendly then. What's weirder he doesn't show any signs of Wangst (and is in fact annoyed by people who do). He just seems to be always angry.
- To exemplify it, he's probably the only person in the entire order who gets annoyed by Lenalee's company. And she's probably the closest he has to childhood friend since they both were living in order since they were kids.
Pet the Dog: He does have quite a few redeeming moments of kindness towards his teammates, especially when it comes to Lenalee or Alma.
Power Dyes Your Hair: His hair turns light purple when he uses the Fifth Illusion Style.
Power Tattoo: He has a tattoo on his chest that is the seal of his Second Exorcist regenerative abilities, letting him recover entire limbs and even survive getting his skull crushed.
Pretty Boy: Lavi comments that Kanda is a "pretty-type character", and Allen occasionally calls him "girly face".
Progressively Prettier: Downplayed. He was never drawn ugly, but early on, Hoshino complained that it was hard to draw him particularly good-looking. Clearly, it isn't, anymore.
Raven Hair, Ivory Skin: Kanda has pale skin and black hair (blue in the anime). He's also regarded as handsome by quite a few people who've called him a Pretty Boy.
Real Men Hate Sugar: Tells Bolic, who has an extreme love for sweets, that he hates them. And he's a powerful, aloof swordsman who wields a katana.
Reincarnation Romance: In his past life, he was in love with a woman and in his current life, he falls in love with her again after finding out her soul is inside his friend Alma.
Samurai Ponytail: He sports the tidy kind of samurai ponytail, complete with a katana as a weapon.
Sanity Slippage: Played with; started to fall into this when beginning to remember his past life before the 2nd exorcist program. After he realized the truth Yu went into spasmic jactations coupled in a fit of uncontrollable laughter while revealing he knew who and what he was.
Serious Business: Do not mess with Kanda's hair tie:
- When Bookman Sr. stole his hair tie, he fought his way through the entire Order to find out who took it.
- Even during battle he's gone out of his way to grab Road (in doll-form) just so he could take one of her ribbons to tie his hair back up with it.
Shirtless Scene: When he receives Clothing Damage from Skinn Bolic, Kanda spends the chapters afterwards with no shirt.
Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids!: He thinks Allen is much too naive, and doesn't hesitate to tell him this.
Slip Knot Ponytail: Almost all of Kanda's battles so far have had his hair fall out of his ponytail, though the most notable is his fight against Skinn. Others include when he was injured by the level 2 akuma during the Ghost of Martel Arc and when the Earl leveled Edo.
Sour Outside, Sad Inside: He's aloof, arrogant and moody, but he became like that as a result of a very nasty childhood.
Star-Crossed Lovers: He has the soul of an Exorcist who died and was separated from his lover, who has also passed. Since Kanda has that person's soul, that means he is this with said dead lover and thus Alma.
Stock Shōnen Rival: Kanda has many of the traits: aloof, arrogant, handsome, experienced, and often butts heads with Allen over their different personalities and opposing views on the worth of others' lives. However, Kanda begins to have a better relationship with Allen after returning to the Order, regretting his past behavior and feeling the need to repay Allen for his kindness.
The Stoic: His emotional range appears to go from "apathetic" to "pissed off." But this breaks down during the Alma arc. In so many ways.
Sugar-and-Ice Personality: As in 99% "ice" and 1% "sugar". He saves the latter side for his old friend and past lover Alma Karma.
Super-Soldier: He's one of the "Second Exorcists," one of the Black Order's more horrific projects. He was created as part of a project to create "artifical apostles" with regenerative powers to fight Akuma.
Tall, Dark, and Handsome: Tall at 175 cm (later 181 cm), long black hair in a Samurai Ponytail, and has been called a Pretty Boy by Lavi, Allen, and Galmar.
Tall, Dark, and Snarky: Minus the charisma and Instant Fan Club, even the one minor character who initially fangirls him is annoyed by his attitude.
Trademark Favorite Food: Soba noodles.
Understanding Boyfriend: Alma absolutely didn't want Kanda to find out he had the soul of the woman he had been looking for because he didn't believe Kanda could accept his current self. When Kanda learns the truth, he has no problem with it and is just happy about having been able to find that person and reconciling with his best friend at the same time.
Unstoppable Rage: He enters one when his childhood friend Alma Karma is revived as an Akuma and he's forced to fight him to the death again. It turns out horribly bad when in his berserker-like state he ends up stabbing Allen with Mugen and awakening the Fourteenth Noah.
Unwitting Pawn: To the Earl and the Noah during the Alma Karma arc. First, they use his memories to revive Alma and turn him into an Akuma. Then, they take advantage of Kanda's Unstoppable Rage in his fight with Alma to make him use his Innocence in Allen and awaken the Fourteenth Noah.
Vitriolic Best Buds:
- With Allen. The 'buds' part is still debatable.
- It's far clearer case with Lavi. Both snark at each other, but Kanda has no problem in behaving respectfully towards Lavi and going Back-to-Back Badasses with the other when needed .
When He Smiles: Kanda has smiled a few times, and it really changes the way he looks. However, he's been known to smile while saying very sad things such as "This regret simply won't let me die in peace," so it's also entirely possible that he has gone straight from Perpetual Frowner to Stepford Smiler.
Wrecked Weapon: Mugen gets broken into pieces during his fight with Bolic, who overloads it with his energy. He reconnects the broken pieces using his life-force to finally kill Bolic, and it later gets reforged by Zu Mei into a katana.
Younger Than He Looks: His artificial body ages at a more rapid rate than a regular human. He is physically 19 years old, but has lived for only nine years.

Lavi

Voiced by: Kenichi Suzumura (JP, 2006 anime), Natsuki Hanae (JP, Hallow), Jason Liebrecht ^noteEpisodes 13-26 and Episode 40 onward & Chris Patton ^noteEpisodes 27 to 39 (EN), Jesús Barreda (SP)

In Hallow

^{Appearance at the beginning of the series}

^{In his childhood}

"There isn't anyone who doesn't feel regret or sadness."

A mysterious young man set to become the next Bookman, a historian who records the secret wars that shape the world. Originally sent to the Black Order solely to document the war between Exorcists and akuma, Lavi finds himself becoming more and more attached to his fellow Exorcists.

Lavi's Innocence is Tettsui, or Iron Hammer. It is capable of extending and expanding to massive sizes; Lavi uses the head as a platform to travel on. Lavi can also harness elemental powers through Tettsui with various 'seals'. Unlike other Exorcists in the main cast, Lavi has yet to defeat Akuma that's above level 2. He isn't a very strong fighter likely because of his need to keep distance from his Innocence, but it's been shown that he's quite competent fighter barehanded. Apparently he also knows how to use a knife.

Adaptation Expansion: In Hallow, he appears in some scenes of the manga where he's not present (most noticeably the one where the Exorcists arrive at the new european headquarters of the Order, where he replaces Johnny) in order to increase his scarce screentime.
Adaptational Badass: In the anime, with the help of Krory, he's shown to defeat the three Level 3 Akuma that the Cross unit found at the beginning of their journey to Japan before engaging into a fight with the Noah. Such scene was not present in the manga, where Lavi and his group go against Tyki and the fused giant Akuma from the start.
Advertised Extra: In the promotional material from Hallow, he was featured a lot alongside Allen and Kanda, despite having at best 5 minutes worth of screentime in the whole anime.
Art Evolution: There's a large difference between his appearance early in the story and more recent. To be fair, Hoshino most likely just got accustomed to drawing him, but still.
Badass Bookworm: His favorite hobbies are reading and sleeping. So yes, he likely qualifies.
Becoming the Mask: Originally, Lavi was not intended to feel attached to the Black Order. During the Ark Arc, Lavi must defeat his original Bookman personality, who refers to humans as 'splashes of ink' to break free of an illusion cast by Road.
Calling Your Attacks: Lavi's hammer uses elemental seals, which he has to activate with a short incantation.
Chivalrous Pervert: Lavi has an appreciation for beautiful women with big chests, and has the tendency to call out "Strike!" when he sees one.
Conflicting Loyalty: Between the Black Order and his duties as a Bookman.
Demoted to Extra: After Destruction of Black Order his appearances have grow less and less frequent. And then he kind of disappears from sight altogether for two story arcs.
Distressed Dude: Variation, as he's not completely helpless when put in such situation (the fight with Road). But now, as of chapter 202, he's being held hostage by Noah, injected with some sort of parasite that will kill him if Bookman doesn't cooperate with them. Lavi has also been in a few near-death situations during fights with Akuma so his fellow exorcists have often saved his life. Most notable is one time when he got shot on the neck and Krory sucked the Akuma poison out of him.
Does Not Like Spam: His least favorite food is wasabi.
Dull Eyes of Unhappiness: When he loses his mind as result of Road's Mind Rape during the Ark arc.
Elemental Powers: He uses seals to control several elements, such as fire and lightning.
Eyepatch of Power: Lavi's right eye is covered by a standard black eyepatch. The reason has yet to be unrevealed, although in the second Reverse novel, he tells Colette it isn't there because of an injury when she asks him about it. According to Lavi's narration, it's subject that he really doesn't wish to talk, let alone think about.
Good with Numbers: Lavi is noted to have a particular fascination with numbers. He attributes this to his occupation as a chronicler.
Heroic Neutral: As the next Bookman, Lavi is supposed to be this, with Bookman reminding him that he's supposed to be watching everything without taking sides and not forming an opinion so that his account is unbiased. Thanks to bonding with the exorcists, not so much.
Hidden Depths: Lavi acts like a cheerful, carefree goof, but is much smarter than he initially seems. He's an apprentice bookman, somebody who's supposed to record secret wars, and grew up exposed to so much violence he was emotionally barren by the age of sixteen. He got better once he joined the Black Order, but we see this side of him when Road temporarily reverts him to his old self via Mind Rape.
Humongous-Headed Hammer: His Innocence, simply known as the "Iron Hammer", is a size-shifting hammer. It can grow ("man") and extend ("shin") at Lavi's command. He also uses it as a mode of transportation by standing on the handle and continuously extending it in one direction, carrying himself in the ehad of the hammer. The weight increases with its size, but since Lavi is the Accommodator of the weapon, this weight change does not affect him.
Idiot Hair: During his early appearances in manga he sported one like this, but after a while it wasn't drawn again.
Inconsistent Spelling:
- Is it Lavi, Ravi, Rabi, or Labi? Oh dear... (Word of God is that it's Lavi.)
- His 48th alias/Bookman personality/whatever it is gets this treatment as well. The name he's called most often among fans is "Deak", but as the name was used only once and katakana read "Dikku", fans have made billion different versions of it. The Japanese fandom doesn't have this problem, they just call him Dick.
Keet: Lavi is pretty cheerful and joking most of the time, liking to hug his friends. He gets scolded by Bookman often for talking too much.
Jade-Colored Glasses: Lavi was excited with the idea that he would know and see things no one else did when he had just become Bookman's apprentice. After ten years of watching meaningless wars and bloodshed between people his opinion of humans lowered to considerable level. But as the series goes on, he starts to regain that hope on humanity as he sees how people are fighting for their True Companions around him. Doesn't stop him from disapproving news about declared wars though.
Likes Older Women: In both the omake and the drama CD, he says that his favorite type of woman is widows.
Mr. Fanservice: A young, good looking guy whose body gets shown off in a Halloween illustration◊.
The Nicknamer: He calls Bookman "Panda", Krory "Krorykins" ("Kro-chan"), Link "Two-spot"(Or pimple-face, depending on translation), asks Allen if he can call him "Beansprout", and names a converted Akuma "Chomesuke".
No Name Given: As the next Bookman, "Lavi" is just an alias. It's actually his 49th one, with his previous being "Deak".
No Sense of Personal Space: Really likes to hug his friends and make physical contact with them in general.
Obfuscating Stupidity: What he says to Bookman after they arrive to Black Order implies that at least part of his actions are just acting.
"Let's be frivolous and friendly like always."
Only Known by Their Nickname: Lavi's original name - or even a surname for his current name, if one even exists - has yet to be told.
Playing with Fire: The elemental seal he uses the most often is a huge snake made of fire.
Put on a Bus: For actual years, thanks to the slow progression of the plot and the manga's hiatuses.
The Smart Guy: Because of his occupation, Lavi can actually be very intelligent and insightful, thinking up battle strategies on the go and frequently using his Bookman skills to win fights.
Stepford Smiler: This was the kind of guy he was before joining the Order and becoming friends with Allen and fellow exorcists. Acting friendly helps a lot with gathering information, no matter what you might think of them in reality after all. This is also lampshaded in Reverse novel 2 where it's mentioned that when he first came to Order one Finder (Doug) refused to talk with Lavi because he saw through his smiles and eyes- that it was all so fake and that they only reflected people's own around him. As Reverse novel 2 is set before actual series' events, he gets better over the time.
Thunder Hammer: While his hammer is not exclusively lightning-based, one of the elemental seals he can conjure is one that creates storms.
To Be Lawful or Good: As a Bookman, Lavi is strongly discouraged from forming attachments with the exorcists in the Black Order to remain neutral as they record the true history of the world. Over time, Lavi becomes increasingly conflicted over following this principle as he bonds with exorcists such as Allen, Kanda, and Lenalee. He begins veering to Good instead of Lawful as he fights with his friends against the akuma and Noah.
Trademark Favorite Food: His favorite food is yakiniku.
Vitriolic Best Buds: With Kanda. Both snark at each other, but Kanda has no problem in behaving respectfully towards Lavi and going Back-to-Back Badasses with the other when needed.
The Worf Effect: After being established as a strong Exorcist with a powerful weapon, he's then used to show Eshi's strength and gets easily beaten twice by the Akuma, who casually tanks all of his attacks and ends up unscathed.
Wrecked Weapon: His Iron Hammer gets shattered into pieces while fighting in Noah's Ark. It later gets rebuilt as a more sleeker war hammer.

Lenalee Lee

Voiced by: Shizuka Itō (JP, 2006 anime), Ai Kakuma (JP, Hallow), Luci Christian (EN), Blanca Hualde (SP)

Current appearance

^{Appearance at the beginning of the series}

^{Appearance from episodes 063- 103}

^{Appearance in Hallow (episodes 01-12)}

^{In her childhood}

"Please, God I hate so much. Grant me power. For the first time, I want the Innocence so much."

The 16-year-old sister of the Black Order's Supervisor Komui Lee, Lenalee is a powerful Exorcist. After her parents were killed by an akuma, she was found to be compatible with an Innocence at a young age, pretty much abducted by the Order and forced to synchronize with it. After nearly killing herself during several attempts to escape the Order, Lenalee is persuaded to stay when Komui joins to be near her. She is very kind, and fights not for the cause of the 'holy war' that the Black Order is fighting against the Millennium Earl, but for the safety of her family and friends.

Lenalee's Innocence are the Dark Boots. An equipment-type, they allow her to run faster than normal, jump great heights, and make her heels deadly weapons. They have recently upgraded to a previously unseen type of Innocence that forms the user's blood into equipment; this has been termed crystal-type by the Science Department.

Action Girl: Lenalee is an incredibly skilled Exorcist and one hell of a trooper on the battlefield.
Adaptational Badass: The Lenalee of Zone (a one-shot made by the author Katsura Hoshino that would create the bases for D.Gray-man) is a normal human without any known power. In D.Gray-man, however, Lenalee is an effective Action Girl who can hold her own in a battle and is a skilled fighter.
Adaptation Dye-Job:
- Black hair and black eyes in the manga to green hair and purple eyes in the anime. In the colored art of the series, her hair has also being depicted as blue or purple.
- Her sprite in Jump Ultimate Stars is depicted with blue hair instead.
Adaptation Expansion: The anime expanded her role a bit compared to the manga, being included in some scenes where she didn't appear originally. Some worth mentioning examples include:
- Since the second half of the first arc was moved after the Ghost of Matter arc (when Allen joined the Order), she intervenes in the Jan plotline and helps Allen fight the Akuma the Earl unleashes in the graveyard. As a result, she ends revealing her powers a bit earlier than in the manga.
- Through she's absent from The Travelling Clergyman chapter from the first Reverse novel (since by that point Allen didn't arrive to the Order), in the anime, given that by the point the series adapted the chapter Allen is a full-blown Exorcist, she's present here and helps Allen through the two-part episodes.
- In Hallow's very first scene, she appears during the retrieval operation of the Innocence of Mr. Martin in the graveyard. In the manga she's (along with Lavi and Krory) absent from that mission, who was only given to Allen, Kanda and Miranda.
Alliterative Name: Lenalee Lee.
Anime Chinese Girl: Mostly downplayed. While she was born in China and has been shown to wear quipaos as casual clothing in extra material and during her childhood, as a result from being taken from her brother at such a young age she has lived a mostly occidentalized life in the Order and doesn't falls into most of the stereotypes associated with the trope (she styles her hair into ordinary pigtails rather than Odango Hair, her fighting style involves quick, powerful acrobatic kicks rather than being a martial art expert and her favorite food is stated to be chocolate cake instead of some typical or traditional Chinese dish). A scene in the anime during the beginning of the Fallen One arc even has her tearfully noticing that despite being Chinese, she doesn't feels like she belongs to the country, as she has been outside it for so long and remembers so little about her time there she feels like a stranger when arriving in the city of Guangzhou to search for Cross.
Armed Legs: She wears the Dark Boots, her Empathic Weapon which take the form of boots.
Ascended Extra: In Zone, though the original Lenalee was given importance, she was, in the great scheme of things, a mere human who met Robin/Julia and would probably stay away from the main plot. In D.Gray-man, Lenalee becomes a main character with her own set of powers and gets a lot of focus through the manga and anime.
Author Appeal: Hoshino mentions in one of the early volumes how Lenalee is her ideal. She's also based on a real person.
Awesome, but Impractical: Her Iron Shackles attack is this in a nutshell. In one hand, it allows her to impale, then crush the enemy with the power of a meteorite. On the other, is an slow technique, and if not used carefully, the enemy can evade it easily. Its also practically a suicide move, as the user also suffers the effects of the friction of the impact, and will die for sure if the attack is used. Fortunately for Lenalee, she was lucky because two factors played in her favour; the first was that Eshi was confident enough in his sturdiness and tried to stop the attack with his hands himself instead of evading it (before realizing, when it was too late, of what he was truly confronting); and the second was that her Innocence protected her in the last moment from the impact of the technique, only burning her hair in the process. It is likely a last resort technique, and in this case, her gamble paid off.
Badass Adorable: A very cute, sweet, nice girl who is able to kick asses as much as the rest of her friends. She was also the first person to beat a Level 3 Akuma on screen.
Beware the Nice Ones: She's a kind, caring, and sweet young woman who is a very skilled Exorcist, unafraid to fight someone who harms her friends.
Birds of a Feather: With Allen. Both are nice people with a penchant of having Chronic Hero Syndrome, and think of their comrades as family. Both also happen to attract a significant number of people of the opposite sex.
Blow You Away: One of the Dark Boots's abilities, Waltz: Mist Wind (Enbu: Kirikaze) allows her to create a tornado by a whirling kick of her Innocence. It is able to destroy Akumas on level 1 and 2 easily, as well to act as a defensive technique. After her Innocence gets crystallized, she's shown to be able to destroy Level 3 Akumas (the same kind whom she had to gave all she had in order to defeat in the past) easily with this attack.
Boyish Short Hair: Her hair got burned off after her fight with the first L3 akuma shown in the series, giving her this. It grows back to a bob hairstyle at the end of the 2006 series, and carries over into the 2016 series.
Broken Bird: Though she hides it well. She secretly hates the Black Order because of what she went through, to the point of wishing her experiences were all a bad dream. She does eventually accept her role.
Chickification: She suffered of this after she pushed her Innocence too far in her fight with Eshi and went into a Heroic RRoD that left her unable to use her legs properly, which lead her to become a Damsel in Distress whom the Noah try to capture her. She gets better after she gains her new crystal-type Dark Boots.
Close-Call Haircut: Lenalee's fight with the first L3 akuma shown in the series gives her one of these, combining it with Important Haircut as she discovers the depths of her resolve.
Combat Stilettos: The Dark Boots. They start out as thicker high heels, but after going crystal-type they become stilettos.
Custom Uniform of Sexy: Her Exorcist outfits leave her legs (who are a great source of fanservice) exposed and also emphasize her curves (especially her second uniform). Justified in her case, as her fighting style makes having her legs uncovered more practical at the time of getting into action.
Dance Battler: Her Innocence is a pair of boots, so she fights with plenty of kicks, flips, and spins. One of her techniques is even called "Waltz".
Demoted to Extra: Suffers from this a little bit after Lulubell's attack on the Black Order Headquarters.
Decomposite Character: Along with Moore (the policewoman who Allen meets in the first chapter and first episode of the manga/anime) both of them retain elements from the original Lenalee from Zone. Lenalee gets her appearance and Chinese ancestry, while Moore gets her role as a normal person who meets the main character at the beginning of the story and gets involved with the Earl and the Akuma.
Despair Event Horizon: When Allen is "killed" by Tyki Mikk and she isn´t allowed to see him. She pretty much becomes a vegetable until Eshi comes along.
Does This Remind You of Anything?: Her reaction to meeting Inspector Lvellier again is quite similar to that of a rape victim's...
Dude Magnet: She is clearly Allen's counterpart in that domain. Allen probably likes her more than just a little, in fact a guidebook has him refer to her as "very cute". Lavi says he is totally interested in her. Bak is… well, Bak. Cross blatantly hits on her once. She also can make Cross stay at the Order, as he was going to run off again, but found Lenalee too cute to refuse. Like Cross, Regory Peck apparently refused to leave because he found her too cute at several different times. And Li Kei falls in love with her the first time they meet.
Extra-ore-dinary: Her strongest ability so far (before her Innocence evolved to Crystal Type, at least) is the Falling Technique: Iron Shackles (Shittsui no Tōgi: Tetsukase), that condenses the power of her Dark Boots to create a very big amalgam of iron blades. This also increases her weight, and is able to crush her enemies with a weight equivalent to the one of a meteorite.
Even the Girls Want Her: In the Rewinding Town arc Road dresses up Lenalee in an Elegant Gothic Lolita-looking gown and curls her long hair. Road also calls her "cute" while releasing heart marks, fawning over her, and holding her close.
Feminine Women Can Cook: Downplayed as she's not seen cooking much in the series, but the feminine, elegant Lenalee is shown to be able to make some delicious coffee that the Science Division adores, and extra material reveals she likes to cook in her spare time.
Flight: Arguably, one of the advantages she has over her fellow Exorcists is that her Dark Boots possesses the ability to fly. Considering that all the Akuma have the ability to fly or float, this skill comes handy to take them down, since that way she can maneuver her acrobatic attacks better. A good example of this was during her battle with Eshi, where she was the only one able to properly fight him due being the only Exorcist in Anita's ship able to stand in the air without the risk of falling into the sea.
Girlish Pigtails: Somewhat subverted. She has her long green hair in pigtails and has a sweet personality, but she can and will mess you up if you threaten her or her friends. While she loses the pigtails after most of her hair gets burnt off during her fight with Eshi, she starts wearing them again once her hair grows enough for them to be held into pigtails again, with her new ones being shorter as for the moment her hair hasn't grown enough to match her original length.
Girly Bruiser: While sweet and feminine, she's quite the Action Girl.
Go-Go Enslavement: During the Rewinding Town arc, after she's defeated by the Akuma trio serving Road, the Noah dresses her up in an Elegant Gothic Lolita-style burgundy gown and changes her normal pigtails to curled ringlets to give her a more doll-like appearance.
Heroic BSoD: She completely snaps when Allen is presumed dead after Tyki had his way with him and is pretty much stuck in the Despair Event Horizon for several episodes.
Hidden Depths: The sweet, sunny-natured Nice Girl, is actually bitter and broken due to the horrific training she went through, to the point where she hates the Black Order, the Innocence, and God.
I Just Want to Be Normal: To an extent Lenalee dislikes being an exorcist and wants to be a normal girl due to the trauma she suffered under the Order as a child, admitting that she hates some of the Order's ideals, the Innocence, and even God. Her motivation to stay being an exorcist is to help those in the Order she's come to see as family.
Important Haircut: In a combination of this and Traumatic Haircut, during her battle with a Level 3 Akuma, Lenalee's long Girlish Pigtails are burned off, leaving her hair boyishly short. It counts as an Important Haircut as she discovers the depths of her resolve.
In a Single Bound: Her Dark Boots allows her to jump to impossible distances by impulsing herself in the air. It can make her float too.
Inconsistent Spelling: Hers gets wrongly romanized to everything from Linali Li to Rinari Ri.
Kick Chick: She's practically this trope personified, due to her fighting style.
Kicking Ass in All Her Finery: When Road’s Akuma trio kidnap her in the Rewinding Town arc after defeating her and Allen, Road dresses her in a fancy gothic dress for fun while she takes her as a captive “doll”. However, once Allen rescues her by dragging her to Miranda’s time barrier and she recovers from her wounds, she spends the rest of the fight against Road and her Akuma wearing the dress, remaining a competent fighter even with an impractical outfit, assisting Allen in destroying one of the Akuma and personally destroying the last one standing when he tried to attack Miranda.
Lady of War: She's feminine and softspoken, and she's always graceful in battle.
Leg Focus: Thanks to her thigh-high boots and wearing of skirts and short shorts, a lot of focus is put on Lenalee's legs.
Lightning Bruiser: Of the "hard-hitting speedster" variety.
Long Hair Is Feminine: Before her Close-Call Haircut, her hair used to reach her hips when not held in pigtails, and she's shown as a girly female with equally girly hobbies such as cooking. Her hair is a source of pride for her, as her brother loves it and because the promise she made with Anita before her death that she would let it grow to the previous length again.
Magic Skirt: Despite said fighting style, there hasn't been one single panty shot. That doesn't prevent her from being Ms. Fanservice though.
Mercury's Wings: The crystallized version of her Dark Boots has the ability to unfold butterfly wings from the back of its heels to increase Lenalee's speed.
Meteor Move: Her Iron Shackles attack is one of the Flying Takedown variety, as Lenalee crash the blades of her Innocence against the unfortunate enemy, just to fall to wherever battlefield they are currently fighting it. It is a literal example of the trope, as the attack hits the weight of 40,000 metric tons, which is equivalent to a meteorite.
Modesty Shorts: As seen in the trailer for the 2016 series, Lenalee wears a pair of black shorts under her skirt.
Ms. Fanservice: Her legs are always given tons of attention.
Nice Girl: Downplayed. She is a kind person and gets along with nearly every person she interacts, be friends, acquaintances or complete strangers, but at the end of the day she mainly cares about the people she's close to. She's painfully aware of it.
Older Than She Looks: She is one year older than Allen, but she is quite shorter than him.
The Power of Blood: Lenalee's Innocence becomes a crystal-type (an evolved equipment-type), producing a weapon in exchange for its accommodator's blood that can repair itself as long as the accommodator has enough blood.
Sci-Fi Bob Haircut: After spending most of the second half of the 2006 series with very short hair after it got burned off, her hair grows back to a bob hairstyle at the end of the 2006 series, and carries over into the 2016 series.
She-Fu: She uses many graceful acrobatics in battle, courtesy of her Dark Boots.
Ship Tease: With Allen. She goes into a Heroic BSoD when she thinks he died. When the Earl was about to kill her, Allen performs a Big Damn Heroes, reappearing to her the first time since she thought he was dead. Later she falls asleep waiting for Allen to wake up. And not to mention the tearful farewell when Allen hugs Lenalee and tells her that he loves her...and everyone else.
Single Woman Seeks Good Man: Is strongly implied to be attracted to Allen Walker; who happens to be an All-Loving Hero, Nice Guy, and Wide-Eyed Idealist.
Sleep Cute: What she does with Allen. Cue Squeeing.
Stepford Smiler: She hides a lot of bitterness over the Order's past horrific treamtn of her behind a sweet and cheerful exterior.
Super-Speed: Her Innocence gives her a big amount of speed, to the point that she's fast even without it equipped. This culminates with one of the techniques from her Innocence in Level Two, Burden, Acoustic Technique: Sound Shackles (Onkyō no Tōgi: Otokase), allowing her to travel at the speed of sound by interfacing with sound waves, that solidifies the sound of each step into a surface. The pressure of the speed is strong enough to broke her hair ties, as well as anihiliting Akumas by impacting with them at high speeds.
- Once her Dark Boots evolved to Crystal Type, she is able to increase her speed by unfurling butterfly like wings from the back of her heels.
Swiss-Army Superpower: In theory, the main power of Lenalee's Dark Boots is the manipulation of the user's movement. What may sound like simple ability becomes a myriad of possibilities when the true powers of the Innocence are shown. It gives Lenalee a great amount of strength, speed and agility in her legs, making her able to give powerful kicks and maneuver easily while confronting her enemies. It also gives her abilities such as Flight, jumping impossible distances, creating tornadoes with single kick, walking on liquid surfaces, moving at the speed of sound, or creating a mass of blades from her Boots that are able to hit with the power of a meteorite. And that without counting her improved, new Crystal Type Innocence. Considering she still hasn't reached to the Critical Point yet, there is the possibility for her to develop new skills before the end of the series.
Taking You with Me: Pulled this as her last resort in fight with level 3 Akuma establishing her badass status forever. She doesn't die, thanks to her Innocence, but was fully prepared to.
Tender Tears: She cries a lot as a result of both losing a lot of comrades through the war with the Earl and being forced to participate in a conflict she never wanted to be part of.
Took a Level in Badass: After being unable to fight throught the Noah's Ark arc due the sequels of her battle against Eshi, her Dark Boots syncronize with her even more and evolves, gaining enough power to being able to fight against a Level 4 with the aid of Allen and developing the first Crystal Type Innoncence ever seen in the manga.
Trademark Favorite Food: Her favorite food is chocolate cake.
Traumatic Haircut: Lenalee gets most of her hair burnt off because of the high air friction after using her Iron Shackles technique to kill a Level 3 Akuma at sea, which also nearly leaves her dead.
Tricked-Out Shoes: Her Innocence is her Dark Boots, thigh-high black boots that increase Lenalee's leg power to move/jump great distances and delivery devastating kicks. They get upgraded when her synchronization rate increases and eventually become a Crystal Type.
True Companions: Lenalee's reason for fighting.
Walk on Water: With her Innocence activated in her Level Two, she can do this with a technique called Burden, Water Surface Technique: Water Shackles (Suijō no Tōgi: Mizukase), allowing her to walk on liquid surfaces.
Yamato Nadeshiko: At one point someone new to headquarters tries to yell at the Science Division for having an Exorcist serve them coffee. Someone has to explain that Lenalee does it because she likes to.
Yaoi Fangirl: She looks awfully fascinated when she sees Lavi hugging Allen at one point.

Arystar Krory III

Voiced by: Mitsuo Iwata (JP, 2006 anime), Noriaki Sugiyama (JP, Hallow), Eric Vale (EN), Eduardo Bosch (SP)

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A vampire-like exorcist from Romania. After he gained his Innocence, he instinctively attacked and drained the blood of Akuma, causing the villagers to believe he was a vampire. The only person who accepted him was a girl named Eliade, who later turned out to be an Akuma. When he found out what she really was, she tried to kill him. He ended up killing her as she said she only wanted to love him, despite her Akuma nature. The reason he joined the Black Order is so that Eliade's death would have a purpose.

Krory's Innocence is his teeth. When activated, he can drink the blood of Akuma, which has no negative effects on him since a parasitic-type Innocence can break down the blood virus. Akuma blood allows him to heal quickly, and boosts his speed and strength. During the Ark arc, he gains the ability to remove the blood from his body and turn it into a living, virtually invulnerable replica of himself.

Actually Not a Vampire: Though he looks a lot like one, he's actually pure human. However, he's the Acommadator for a parasite-type Innocence, which gives him a massive array of fangs and a strong instinct to drink the blood of Akuma. The fact that drinking blood literally increases his powers and even enables him to heal from mortal wounds doesn't really help him prove he's not a vampire.
Adaptation Dye-Job: The dark part of his hair has been depicted as dark brown in the manga (and Hallow). The 2006 anime however portrays it as black colored.
Bad Powers, Good People: His unnamed Innocence consists in a set of sharp, huge fangs which give him generally vampiric abilities (such as being able to suck blood, super strength, super resilience, inject and manipulate his blood at will...), which make him creepy and terrifying at first. However, he's a nice guy who only wants to have friends and would never harm an innocent. In fact, when he killed the Akuma who were disguised as the villagers near his castle, he was absolutely heartbroken thinking he did kill people thanks to his (apparent) vampiric nature.
Bare-Fisted Monk: As his Innocence isn't a traditional weapon, he fights barehanded, having a really strong body able to tear Akuma to pieces with his hands and fight a Noah in unarmed melee for a while. Most of the time, however, he simply resorts to bite the enemy and suck them dry.
The Big Guy: One of the tallest Exorcists, and quite strong and resilient.
Black Eyes of Crazy: The sclerae of his eyes turns black when he consumes Akuma blood and his violent side takes over, reflecting his wilder and more feral state.
Blood Knight: His other side is very much this trope.
"I live only for the pleasure of the kill!"
Bloody Murder: After the Ark arc, he gains the ability to control his own blood as a weapon.
Creepy Good: In spite of his scary appearance, vampiric Innocence and his more ruthless split personality, Krory is firmly on the side of the good and is shown to be a genuinely heroic man able to give everything for his friends.
Dark Is Not Evil: With his dark clothes (both as a baron and as an Exorcist), reclusive behavior, scary vampire-like appearance (Including Scary Teeth, Pointy Ears, Black Eyes of Crazy and occassionaly sharp claws), a nightmarish split personality and a set of powers who wouldn't be out of place for a villain, Krory looks evil as they come. However, underneath it all he's a really nice person who craves for love and companionship. This is a plot point in his introductory arc, as the villagers who live near his castle feared and hated him thanks to these reasons even before they mistook his attacks on the disguised Akuma as him killing innocent people.
Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: He has black hair and pale skin, which give him the looks of an undead.
Healing Factor: Consuming Akuma blood evidently allows him to regenerate his injuries, seen most prominently towards the end of his introductory arc, in which he survives being dehydrated to nothing more than empty skin wrapped around bones by the power of a level 2 Akuma and then restores himself to normal by draining it dry of blood.
Horrible Judge of Character: He is way too trusting.
Interrupted Suicide: In the manga only. After destroying Eliade, Krory feels that he has no reason or right to continue living anymore. So he provokes his carnivorous flowers and soon he, Allen and Lavi are all in mouth of one. It's Allen who snaps him out of it, telling Krory that if he becomes Exorcist everything would've been for greater good and her death would have a purpose.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Krory's split personality is battle-hungry, arrogant and violent, but his loyalty towards his friends remains unwavering in that state too.
Man Bites Man: This is the core of his fighting style. Again, his Innocence is his teeth, and his fang-filled maw is a devastating weapon. Needless to say, this is pretty unsettling to watch for anyone else in the vicinity.
Misunderstood Loner with a Heart of Gold: He had tried making friends with the villagers in the past, only to have them shout at him, threating to stab a stake through his heart. Then his Innocence activated and his reputation got worse. Before meeting Eliade the only company he had were his grandfather's man eating flowers.
More Teeth than the Osmond Family: He doesn't just have the classic vampire fangs. When he activates his Innocence, his mouth turns into a nest of needle-sharp ivory spikes.
Naïve Newcomer: He was secluded for so long that he knows very little about the outside world.
Our Vampires Are Different: He's technically not a vampire but he does have a number of vampiric powers due to his Innocence, including Super-Strength, Super-Speed, Super-Toughness, the ability to increase all of these traits by ingesting more Akuma blood, and the ability to heal any wound by drinking blood.
Pointy Ears: He has long, pointed ears, which, unfortunately for him, help to emphasize his image as a vampire even more.
Poisonous Person: A variation. Arystar's blood is infected with Innocence, making it poisonous enough to kill an Akuma and him weaponizing it.
The Power of Blood: Arystar powers up from drinking the blood-oil of akuma, storing it in flasks. The blood can cover his muscles and strengthen them thanks to his Innocence. However, it becomes lethal to him if his ability to neutralize the Akuma virus is weakened.
Put on a Bus: After his fight against Jasdevi, he's so exhausted that he spends almost all the subsequent arc in bed, unconscious. He has made very few appearances since his awakening.
Inconsistent Spelling: Bizarrely, considering that he's named after a real person. Depending on the scan or fansub you can get either "Alesteir Crowley" to "Arystar Krory".
Split Personality: When he activates his Innocence, he goes from shy and gentle to cocky and aggressive.
Split-Personality Makeover: When his Innocence-driven self takes over him, his normally droopy strand of white hair raises up, his eyes become black and his sclera turns golden, all while his fangs become more prominent.
Suck Out the Poison: He can suck out Akuma poison from others if he drinks the victims's blood.
Super Gullible: So gullible that he gets swindled by a little girl who wants to get money for her "10.000 year old grandfather and her 2000 siblings".
Star-Crossed Lovers: With his Akuma lover Eliade. He ends up killing her himself.
Tuckerization: He is named after real life occultist Aleister Crowley.
What Have I Become?: At first, he had no idea that the people he was attacking were Akuma, and he believed himself to be a monster.

Miranda Lotto

Voiced by: Megumi Toyoguchi (JP, 2006 anime), Ami Koshimizu (JP, Hallow), Colleen Clinkenbeard (EN), Raquel Martín (SP)

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"I've never had anyone say "thank you" to me. That means I've never been helpful to anyone. I wanted somebody to say "thank you" to me and I wanted them to accept me."

A shy, clumsy and insecure German woman who was the subject of ridicule in her hometown due to her inability to hold down a job. She has been fired from over 100 jobs, and often feels useless because of this. When her clock caused the same day to repeat over and over in her town after she connected with Innocence inside it, Allen and Lenalee helped her to revert the time flow to normal. She joined the Black Order soon afterwards, determined to be a useful exorcist.

Miranda's Innocence is the Time Record, which she can use to heal people and repair broken objects by reversing time. However, when she deactivates her power, the damage returns. Her Innocence also allows her to create a barrier of frozen time, negating attacks.

Adaptation Dye-Job: She has brown hair in the manga, but it's black hair in the first anime. The 2016 anime does give her brown hair.
Adrenaline Makeover: Subverted. After finishing her training, she makes her grand entrance wearing a tight black leather uniform that's quite a change from the demure outfits she usually wears. Then she trips up. Shortly after that, she freaks out and has a frantic apologising fit over doing something right, which shows she hasn't changed at all.
Apologises a Lot: Doesn't she just. Thanks to her insecurity from being fired from over 100 jobs, she often apologises, and does this a lot to Allen and Lenalee when she accidentally traps the town in a time loop.
Ascended Extra: She was originally only supposed to appear in one arc, and she wasn't going to be an exorcist at all, but the author started to really like her character, so she joined the Order.
Barrier Warrior: She is the only exorcist with a purely defensive Innocence.
Beautiful All Along: At the beginning of the Rewinding Town arc, she looks unhealthy and much older than she is, but turns out to be quite pretty once she lets her hair down.
Born Unlucky: In her hometown, she was notorious for having "bad luck," and has had over one hundred jobs, all of which she was fired from. It's until she becomes an exorcist that she finds something she's good at.
Clock of Power: Her clock causes the town she resides in to undergo a time loop. The clock later becomes her main weapon and Innocence Time Record that gives her various time-related powers.
Cloud Cuckoo Lander: A little bit. She's... rather neurotic, to say the least, though considering what she went through you can't exactly blame her.
Creepy Loner Girl: She's an introverted, neurotic and friendless young woman wracked by a lifelong streak of bad luck. Being the Only Sane Woman in a town stuck in a never-ending "Groundhog Day" Loop probably doesn't help her mental health, and she tends to stay in as much as she can with her beloved grandfather clock. She also dresses in such plain, conservative outfits that she appears at least thirty years older than she actually is. She cleans up her act a little bit after becoming an Exorcist, starting to wear more relaxed outfits and Letting Her Hair Down, but her awkward and neurotic personality still stays, as do the baggy eyes.
Curtains Match the Window: Her hair and eyes are dark brown.
Cute Clumsy Girl: She is very clumsy, though in a cute and funny way.
Determined Defeatist: This says it all: "Even when I said I wouldn't try anymore, I kept on trying anyway."
- She made the entire trip to the Black Order HQ lugging around a Grandfather Clock as her luggage, and even climbed up a cliff with it strapped to her back^note
Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: Initially thanks to her disheveled, creepy appearance, pale skin, and dark hair and gloomy personality when Allen and Lenalee first meet her.
The Eeyore: Initially, as she is rather gloomy and exhausted by virtue of being stucked inside a Ground Hog Day Loop. She grows out of it though.
Exhausted Eye Bags: Has them when she's first introduced, thanks to her insomnia. Not so much when we see her again in the later chapters.
Groundhog Peggy Sue: When we first meet her, her Innocence is causing the same day to keep repeating itself, and she is the only one who is aware of it.
Harmful Healing: What her Innocence ultimately amounts to. She doesn't so much heal injuries as temporarily remove them. When it's finally deactivated, the target will still have to face the full brunt of their injuries after (and depending on the severity, possibly even face their own death.)
Healing Hands: A complicated case. She can use her Innocence to "reverse" recently inflicted wounds, but they'll start to reappear should she deactivate it or the person steps outside its area of effect (and if the wounds are fatal, then obviously they die). It's not limited to just people, either. Her power restores anything within its radius to prime condition, be it animate or inanimate.^note For example, she returned a ship to seaworthy shape after it had be trashed in an Akuma battle.
Heroic Self-Deprecation: Miranda has a very low opinion of herself due to being ridiculed for being fired from over 100 jobs.
The Insomniac: Due to being high-strung, depressed, and jobless before becoming an Exorcist, she's learned how to go for weeks without any sleep. This is actually a pretty useful skill considering the nature of her powers, but it does kinda creep out the rest of the cast.
Lethal Chef: In a filler episode, the food she cooks tastes bad to everyone else.
Named After Somebody Famous: She's named after Australian actress Miranda Otto.
Progressively Prettier: Justified. She originally looked like a ragged old woman with heavy bags under eyes. At the time she was trapped in a "Groundhog Day" Loop, not to mention that she was dealing with some serious self-worth issues, and after the arc is over and Allen and Lenalee help her out with both, it shows that Miranda really doesn't look all that bad after all. Once she was upgraded to a recurring character, she was redesigned to look more gothic than old. In one one-off drawing, she's even part of fanservice. Hoshino states that she can eat and sleep properly now and allow her prettiness to show.
Scars Are Forever: In the manga, she has scars on her hands that resemble stigmata. They seem to come from her introductory arc, when Rhode captured her and Lenalee and nailed Miranda's hands to a clock.
She Cleans Up Nicely: After she recovers from the exhausting experience of her "Groundhog Day" Loop and dons the Black Order's clothes, she looks noticably younger and prettier.
Ship Tease: Several hints with her and Marie.
Shrinking Violet: Acts shy and nervous when first meeting someone.
Sixth Ranger: She joins the team after having been Put on a Bus for several arcs.
Suicide as Comedy: When she uses her powers to repair a damaged ship, everyone stares at her in amazement. She immediately thinks she's messed up and tries to off herself by jumping into the ocean.
Time Loop Fatigue: In her introduction, her Innocence had trapped her hometown in a "Groundhog Day" Loop with only her being aware of what was going on. By the time she meets Allen, Miranda has almost gone insane from living through the same day 30 times.
Time Master: Her Innocence gives her control over time, being able to heal people and repair broken objects by reversing time and create a barrier of frozen time.
Time Stands Still: She can do this within an area, preventing enemy attacks from reaching her.
Unkempt Beauty: Ironically, she becomes this once Beautiful All Along kicks in.
Younger than She Looks: She is 25 years old when we first meet her, but she looks closer to a middle-aged woman thanks to her old-fashioned dress sense and her exhausted face features. After her makeover, she looks her actual age.

Bookman

Voiced by: Takeshi Aono (JP, 2006 anime), Hōchū Ōtsuka (JP, Hallow), R. Bruce Elliott (EN), Ángel Amorós (SP)

^{Appearance at the beginning of the series}

Lavi's mentor, a wise man from a clan tasked with the recording of history, whose title he took after becoming the leader of the clan. He is a short old man whose Facial Markings made him look like a panda according to Lavi. His anti-akuma weapon is a set of needles called Heaven's Compass.

Ambiguously Evil: While he now works for the Order, in the past he was allied with the very malovolent Noah, making his moral compass questionable.
Animal Motifs: Lavi often compares him to a panda due to the dark circles around his eyes, to his chagrin. Sometimes this is emphasized by him wearing a panda costume as he hits Lavi.
Berserk Button: Calling him a panda is a bad idea (especially if you are Lavi), as he will resort to brief violence.
The Comically Serious: As he's normally no-nonsense and committed, most of his comedic moments have him react with apathy to the mayhem around him.
Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Bookman is simply a title. His true name is unknown and likely abandoned time ago.
Facial Markings: Panda-esque rings around his eyes.
Heroic Neutral: Bookmen are officially neutral in the Millennium Earl's war with the Black Order, and this Bookman was associated with the previous generation of Noah before the events of the story. He came to the Black Order after the 14th Noah's fight with the Earl.
Hypocrite:
- Despite preaching that Bookmen should remain neutral and not intervene directly in history, as well as claiming his alliance with the Black Order is only out of convenience to record historical events better, he has helped the Order blatantly multiple times by fighting against the Akuma and the Noah, thus intervening very directly in the Holy War.
- He also tells Lavi that he shouldn't get attached to the people they work with, but in some instances Bookman has been seen having fun and clearly caring about his Exorcist colleagues in things unrelated to his mission.
Miniature Senior Citizens: He's shorter than most of the other Exorcists.
Not So Above It All: Despite usually behaving with seriousness and stoicism, there are times when he joins other characters in their antics, like when he gets into a fight with Kanda for one of his hair ties.
Papa Wolf: Despite bickering a lot with him, he truly cares about Lavi and will protect him if he's in danger, like when Eshi was about to kill him.
Perpetual Frowner: His default expression is a serious scowl, only smiling a couple of times through the story.
Tsundere: Non-romantic towards Lavi, as he was crying when Lavi came back from the Ark.
Weak, but Skilled: He is very skillful and his innocence affords him many useful abilities, but it also lacks the raw power most of the other innocences have. Because of this he has trouble fighting against level 3 akuma even after most of the other characters are able to one shot them.
The Worf Effect: During his fight with Eshi, he's established as a skilful Innocence user when he saves Lavi's life and then traps the Akuma in a needle prison. Like Lavi, however, he's then easily defeated by the Level 3 in order to show his strength compared to the Level 2s.

Daisya Barry

Voiced by: Hiroshi Yanaka (JP), Kumiko Higa (JP, as a child), Justin Cook (EN), Antonio Cremades (SP)

A cheerful 18-year-old exorcist from Bodrum, Turkey. His anti-akuma weapon is the Charity bell. He was one of the first exorcists to be killed by Tyki.

Adaptation Expansion: While in the manga, he's just an exorcist who briefly joins Kanda to search for Tiedoll and is promptly killed by Tyki, the anime gives him an entire backstory, and a few extra scenes of fighting Akuma.
Dead Guy on Display: After killing him, Tyki hangs upside down with chains his corpse in a lamp post, to make sure his partners get clear that he's dead.
Defiant to the End: Even when Tyki has him beaten and hung upside down, his response is to tell him to Get It Over With already, even when Tyki offers him a final request.
Facial Markings: Two purple triangle shaped ones under his eyes.
I Know Madden Kombat: his fighting style is based on soccer by kicking his anti-akuma weapon.
In the Hood: His Exorcist uniform features a hood, who wears his Innocence at the end of it.
It Amused Me: His motivation is to never be bored.
Magic Music: His anti-akuma weapon used soundwaves to tear apart several low level akuma at once.
Mauve Shirt: As an Exorcist, he has cool powers who allow him to defend himself from the Akumas (unlike the Finders), a fun personality, a fresh way to fight and even the anime created a backstory for him. Too bad he had to run in front of one of the Noah...
Small Town Boredom: The reason he joined the Black Order in the anime, he wasn't driven by some higher calling, he just hated the idea of never leaving his town.
We Hardly Knew Ye: Is killed off in the same chapter he's introduced.
Wrecked Weapon: A shame as his was one of the coolest.

Noise Marie

Voiced by: Kiyoyuki Yanada (JP, 2006 anime), Yasuhiro Mamiya (JP, Hallow), Ray Gestaut (EN), Fernando Elegido (SP)

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Noise Marie is a blind exorcist who has excellent hearing. His anti-akuma weapon is the Noel Organon, a bunch of strings which he can use to ensnare akuma. He also lost 2 of his fingers to a level 4 akuma's bullet.

Ambiguously Brown: The first anime depicted him with dark skin and the broad nose he possessed in his first appearances during the manga, but colored manga pages and covers show his skin to be fair. Hallow goes with the manga color scheme.
Bald Head of Toughness: After the mission in Japan ends, he shaves his head completely. He's also the most bulky and tallest of the Exorcists, and is shown to be skilled in martial arts as well.
Baritone of Strength: Both anime and most dubs have his voice to be deep to match his burly appearance.
Disability Superpower: He may be blind, but he has extravagant hearing to compensate for it.
Early Installment Character-Design Difference: Marie’s early manga design portrays him with a rather unfriendly face with a broad nose, more prominent lips and a stoic expression. Following the Noah’s Ark arc he appears with a slimmer nose, smaller lips and more lighthearted factions, which makes him come across as a more approachable big brother figure.
Fingore: Cuts off his own fingers when they're hit by an Akuma's bullets to keep the infection from spreading.
Gender-Blender Name: His surname Marie is a female name, certainly weird for a guy as manly and tough-looking as him.
Handicapped Badass: He's blind, but still kicks butt. Applies even more now that he's also lost two fingers. Poor guy can't catch a break.
Hoist by His Own Petard: His accute sense of hearing ends up being his undoing when the Level 4 Akuma who appears in the Black Order headquarters unleashes a bloodcurling Super-Scream, the sound defeating him instantly.
Living Lie Detector: By listening to others' heartbeats, he can tell whether or not they're telling the truth.
Magic Music: The melodies his Innocence is able to perform are lethal for the Akuma, making them contort in fear and pain when they hear it.
Meaningful Name: As a character who uses melodies to fight against the Akuma, his first name is Noise.
Musical Assassin: The strings he can create with his Innocence Noel Organon can produce certain melodies that help him weaken or destroy the Akuma who hear them, with his attack Aria of Grief being able to paralyze his targets.
Nice Guy: Just like his master, Tiedoll, Marie is very caring for others.
Only Sane Man: Compared to the eccentric Tiedoll, the easily irratated Kanda and the unruly Daisya, Marie comes as the most level-headed and composed of his unit.
Razor Floss: His anti-akuma weapon.
Super-Senses: He's blind, but his hearing is most likely the best of any of the characters. This causes him some problems when he ends up on the wrong end of a Level 4 Akuma screaming its lungs out. He winds up curled up in a corner, pretty much totally paralyzed.

Chaozii Han

Voiced by: Mamoru Miyano (JP, 2006 anime), Hiroshi Okamoto (JP, Hallow), Ian Sinclair (EN)

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One of the surviving members of Anita's crew. While inside Noah's Ark, he manages to synchronize to one of the Innocence and ends up joining the Exorcist. His anti-akuma weapon is the Arms of Baptism.

Anime Hair: Once he unties his ponytail.
Bad Liar: His shipmates comment on this before Anita arrives.
The Mole: Fiddler is using the parasite in his body to spy on the Order.
The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: He's taken this stand against Allen in the wake of the break out.
Super-Strength: The power of his innocence, Arms of Baptism.
Survivor's Guilt: One of the very few crew members to have survived the attack.
Undying Loyalty: To Anita and his friends.

Alma Karma

Voiced by: Ryouta Asari (JP), Megumi Han (JP, child) Josh Grelle (ENG)

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Yu Kanda's childhood friend and thus another product of the Black Order's experimental Second Exorcist program. In Kanda's flashbacks, he's shown as cheerful, a bit silly, optimistic boy who talks a lot (too much in Kanda's opinion) and who's big fan of mayonnaise. They didn't really get along at first, but after some Bloody Hilarious moments they became friends. Apparently enduring everything became little easier for them after that...up to certain point.

And Then John Was a Zombie: Became part of the Third Exorcist Project, where in he became part Akuma.
Artificial Human: His body at least.
Big Ol' Eyebrows: Look at that picture. Considering how other characters' eyebrows look like they were plucked, his really stand out.
Brain Transplant: As part of the "Second Exorcist" program, Alma's brain was transplanted into an artificial body after his original body died.
Cheerful Child: He was always peppy and cheerful as a child, always trying to cheer Kanda up or talk to the other subjects cheerfully as he waited for them to wake up. He loses this cheeriness when he realizes what the "Second Exorcism" was.
Convenient Coma: He spent nine years in a coma after Kanda "killed" him.
Died in Your Arms Tonight: He spends his final moments in Kanda's embrace.
Dissonant Serenity: When he sees Kanda after murdering the scientists in the Asia Branch.
Dying Declaration of Love: Right before the Dark Matter consumes his soul, Alma tells Kanda that he loves him.
Expository Pronoun: He uses the boyish pronoun boku to refer to himself. He switches to the gender-neutral watashi when referring to his past female self.
Facial Markings: Somehow gets these after waking up from the said coma, along with Holy Halo and a tail.
Flower Motifs: The lotus flower, same as Kanda. Alma is the reincarnation of Kanda's lover and in their past lives they promised to meet again in a field of lotus flowers.
Gender-Blender Name: Alma is a feminine name in several cultures. This is a hint that Alma was originally a woman in his past life.
Go Mad from the Revelation: He was driven mad into a massive killing spree when he discovered the truth of the "Second Exorcist" process.
I Just Want to Have Friends: When he was a child, he always waited eagerly for the other subjects to wake up and become his friends. When Kanda woke up, Alma tried his best to befriend him, but Kanda's bad attitude made it difficult.
Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Kanda impaled him in the past once Alma started going crazy and when they meet again as he kills him.
Keet: He was very cheerful and silly boy before going batshit crazy.
Meaningful Name: Could be coincidental (or not...) on author's part, considering her usual naming choices, but Alma means soul in few languages. Karma explains itself.
Motor Mouth: He never stops talking, which was one of the reasons Kanda initially couldn't stand him. He usually talks to fill in the silence and when going to greet their sleeping comrades, wanted them to not get bored of him.
One-Winged Angel: His parasite-type Innocence is literal example of this. It's no less deadly though.
Pointy Ears: He has pointed ears in his Akuma form.
The Pollyanna: Even though he had to live in a place Kanda considered Hell and they had to go through horrible experiments every day, Alma was always cheerful and smiling, something Kanda found creepy. Alma's optimism couldn't put up with the truth of the "Second Exorcist" program, though.
Power Tattoo: Just like Kanda, he has a tattoo on his chest that is the seal of his Second Exorcist regenerative abilities.
Redemption Equals Death: In his final moments, Alma acknowledges all the bad things he did out of hatred for the Order and asks Kanda to let the Dark Matter consume his soul, because he deserves to "sink in the mud".
Reincarnated as the Opposite Sex: In his past life, Alma was a woman with the same name. After dying, Alma's brain was transplated into a male body.
Reincarnation Romance: He is the reincarnation of Kanda's past lover. Despite being a man now, Alma still loves Kanda and once Kanda finds out the truth, he accepts all of Alma as both his past and present incarnations are important to him. It doesn't end well.
Revenge: When he's revived, it seems he wants to kill Kanda as revenge for trying to kill him and leaving him in a coma for nine years, resulting in the Order turning him into part Akuma. Then it's subverted when it's revealed Alma is the reincarnation of Kanda's girlfriend and wanted to kill Kanda so he wouldn't find out.
Stalker with a Crush: When they were children, Alma would follow Kanda around to try and befriend him. Kanda even called him a stalker. Considering they were lovers in a past life and their feelings for eachother bled over into their current lives, it's very probable that this was partly motivated by romantic feelings.
Star-Crossed Lovers: With Kanda. Twice, on top of that. In their past lives, they were lovers who were killed by Akuma in battle. Years later, they were brought back to life by the Black Order as part of the "Second Exorcist" program and Alma was driven mad into a massive killing spree and Kanda was forced to kill him. Only for Alma to not be dead and fought Kanda to the death again when he was revived. But this time, thanks to Allen, Kanda is able to send Alma to the afterlife in more or less peace.
Super-Soldier: Like Kanda, he was created as part of a project to create "artificial apostles" with regenerative powers to fight Akuma.
Taking You with Me: After he finds out about the project that brought him and Kanda back to life and kills all of the scientists involved, he impales Kanda in the chest and pleads for the other to die with him. It fails as Kanda manages to defeat Alma for some time before he's brought back.
Used to Be a Sweet Kid: He was a cheerful and sweet little boy until he discovered the truth of the "Second Exorcist" program and started a massive killing spree.
Walking Spoiler: There's not much that can be said about Alma without spoiling some really major things, since he's very important character regarding Kanda.
Younger Than He Looks: Like Kanda, Alma's artificial body ages more rapidly than a regular human. He looks like 20, but has lived for only ten years.

Timothy Hearst

Voiced by: Sayuri Yahagi (JP), Brittney Karbowski (EN)

A young boy from France who was taken to a local orphanage when his thief father was arrested after making him swallow a jewel he had stolen. Shortly afterwards, the gem fused with Timothy's forehead and gave him the power to possess people. Wanting to save his orphanage from closing down he uses this newfound power to become "Phantom Thief G" and steal enough valuables to earn money and keep them afloat. His innocence is Tsukikami, which allows him to possess Akuma. This process purifies the dark matter they are created from and allows him to use whatever abilities they had for as long as he is controlling them. Upon exiting the body the Akuma crumbles to dust and is destroyed.

Demonic Possession: Inverted. He can possess Akuma, though only up to Level 2 ones so far.
Dirty Kid: He's constantly groping Emilia's boobs and is later on even shown doing this to Lenalee to demonstrate how his possession power works.
Inelegant Blubbering: When he says goodbye to the lady at the orphanage who took care of him.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Is abrasive, but turned to crime to help the orphanage.
Justified Criminal: He used his powers to steal valuables to help keep his orphanage from shutting down.
Phantom Thief: During his days before joining the Black Order. He even used the moniker "Phantom Thief G" during his introductory arc.
Power Copying: He can copy the abilities of any Akuma he possesses but only while he is actually controlling them. When he leaves the body behind it crumbles to dust, and he doesn't retain the power afterwards.

Suman Dark

Voiced by: Hozumi Gouda (JP), Robert McCollum (EN), Alejandro Martínez (SP)

^{Fallen Suman}

A member of Winters Socalo's team who was ambushed by Tyki Mikk in India. Seeing his comrades fall before him terrified Suman and caused him to enter into an agreement with the Noah. In exchange for the information that would later lead to the deaths of six exorcists and over a hundred finders, Suman would be spared. The innocence detected his grave betrayal and turned Suman into a Fallen One, a monstrous creature that rampages until it expires. Despite being saved by Allen and having his innocence severed from his arm, Suman died anyway after his soul was removed and his body destroyed by Tyki. His innocence was a strange gauntlet that let him control wind.

Adaptation Expansion: In the manga, he only appears during the arc where he dies. The anime gave him more screentime by having him have a A Day in the Limelight episode along with Lenalee where his personality and his powers (that were never fully revealed in the manga) are expanded upon, as well as showing his relationship with Lenalee. This was likely done as a way to establish his character, considering what his tragic fate would mean in the future.
Adaptational Badass: While in the manga his Innocence is only shown when he falls and we never see him using it, the anime shows him in action as an Exorcist and portrays him as a competent fighter able to easily destroy Akuma (though weaker than a Noah).
A Day in the Limelight: The 35th episode of the anime is dedicated to him and Lenalee saving a little girl and her mother from three wolf-like Akumas who are controlling a pack of wolves to terrorize the villages situated between a forest. It explores his pre-Fallen One personality, as well as showing him bonding with the little girl.
Arc Villain: He (or rather, his Fallen form) is the main antagonist of the Fallen One arc, where he goes into a rampage after transforming into a Fallen and starts destroying a village close from the place where he fell, with Allen trying to stop and save him before it’s too late.
Badass Longcoat: His Exorcist uniform is stylized as a long, unzipped jacket. Given the ability of his Innocence, it allows for some Dramatic Wind effects who make him look more impressive.
Blow You Away: His Innocence is established to summon and control wind, though it is only shown in the anime. Generally, he uses it to create powerful tornadoes from his gauntlet.
Body Horror: As punishment for betraying his duty as an exorcist, he was transformed into a Fallen One, a gigantic floating torso with Suman embedded inside it. After Allen freed him from this form, he was killed by the Teez nesting inside him bursting forth from his soulless body.
Chekhov's Gunman: Hoshino confirmed in an interview in the Fanbook Gray Log that the mysterious eyes observing Allen and his friends as they entered China (that they thought belonged to a panda) belonged to Suman.
Dirty Coward: His fear of dying led him to betray his comrades by selling information to a Noah. This action got over a hundred of his allies killed. His Innocence punished him for this by turning him into a Fallen One.
Empty Shell: He is reduced to this, moments before his death at the hands of Tyki.
Fallen Hero: His betrayal caused his own Innocence to judge him as no longer worthy of being its accommodator and transformed him into a Fallen One, a mindless horror that kills until it dies.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He is depicted as one during the 35th episode of the anime. At first he appears as a cold and abrasive Exorcist who only cares about completing his mission and has no concern for the lives of the normal people. However, as the episode advances, he's shown to bond with Jessica by playing chess, showing a more amiable side of him. It culminates with him defending her, her mother, and Gozu from the Akuma wolves, and returning to Jessica the coin she gave him to rescue her mother.
Madness Mantra: As the pain from his Innocence destroyed him, and the deterioration of his sanity consumed his mind and body, all he could say was a repeated curse against God, the Innocence, and everything.
Man Bites Man: In his madness, while Allen was trying to save him, he bit Allen's right arm to the point of breaking it.
Only in It for the Money: In episode 35, after Jessica offered him a gold coin (that her mother gave to her to use in case she encountered problems while alone) to convince him to rescue her mother, he took it and claimed that, despite wanting to finish his mission as fast as possible, he didn't mind taking a detour if he was getting paid. Subverted when he gives the coin back to Jessica by the end of the episode.
Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves: Even if he hadn't gotten punished by the innocence itself, Tyki was planning on killing him anyway with the Teez he implanted inside his body. After Allen rescues him, his soulless husk is ripped apart when the Teez explode out of his body.
Sanity Slippage: After becoming a Fallen One, his mind and body deteriorate, leaving him as a wrathful and savage being that repeatedly curses God and the Innocence and is willing to attack his own comrades. It is implied this is an effect from the Innocence punishing him rather than being Suman's true feelings, as, moments before his death, Allen manages to make him return to his former self.
Sore Loser: When Komui and the rest of the Science Division discuss Suman's betrayal with Lenalee, Johnny tearfully mentions that Suman never took losing in chess well, and that in the instances where Johnny won, he would ignore him any time he found him in the dinning room, resenting his defeat.
Small Role, Big Impact: Suman was just a throwaway character made to show what happened to those who betrayed the Innocence, but his death led to Allen encountering Tyki, which would led to his near death and eventual return, stronger than ever, to aid his comrades in Edo after unleashing the true abilities of his Innocence. His transformation into a Fallen One was also the first hint of the dark side of the Innocence, as well as the reveal that the Black Order, despite being the good guys in the war against the Earl, hid some dark secrets too.
Tragic Villain: Despite his actions, he was never truly malevolent or malicious. In the end, he was just a father who desperately wanted to come home and see his daughter again, even if it meant turning against his allies.

Kazaana Reed and Chalker Laboun

Reed and Laboun

Reed

Laboun

Two other Exorcists who were under General Socalo's tutelage. They along with Suman went to India in search of the General, but ended ambushed by the forces of the Earl. After barely escaping, they were found by Tyki Mikk, who proceeded to dispatch them easily before he went for Suman.

Adaptation Expansion: Not by much compared to other characters who got killed soon in the manga but received more screentime and characterization in the anime, but their Innocence and fight against Tyki are shown in the anime, while in the manga they appear already killed by the Noah in a flashback of Suman.
Adaptational Badass: Downplayed. In the anime, their Innocence powers are revealed and they manage to fight Tyki for a few seconds, though they still end up massacred.
Automatic Crossbows: In the anime, Reed's Innocence is revealed to be a crossbow able to shoot light arrows without the need of recharging the weapon.
Curb-Stomp Battle: Implied in the manga, but the anime shows how out of their league Tyki was when he's shown to murder them without breaking a sweat.
BFS: In the anime, Laboun's Innocence is revealed to be a rather big claymore whose special ability is to increase its size and hit the enemy with its sheer volume. Similarly to Lavi's hammer, he doesn't has trouble maneuvering and lifting it despite the size.
Gory Discretion Shot: Their demise in the anime isn't directly shown, instead having them screaming in pain and horror offscreen while their comrades react with similar dread.
Leeroy Jenkins: Horrified at how easily Tyki finished up Laboun, Reed attempts a desperate charge against the Noah, but it is useless and ends up killed too.
We Hardly Knew Ye: They barely get any characterization and personality before being mercilessly killed by Tyki. Even worse in the manga, where they are shown already killed in their first and only appearance.

Hevlaska

Voiced by: Yuko Kaida (JP), Wendy Powell (EN)

A strange parasite type exorcist who remains at the Black Order HQ and watches over the Innocence pieces that haven't found someone to synchronize with yet. Very little is known about her aside from the fact that she is very old and has been with the Order for a very long time. Her innocence is Cube, that is, the piece of innocence that held the prophecy of the end of the world. With it she has the abilities to store other innocences inside her own body and probe exorcists anti-akuma weapons to learn more about them.

Creepy Good: She's a giant ghostly eel woman with lots of tendrils and no eyes, but is firmly on the side of the exorcists and Black Order.
Energy Being: Her body is heavily implied to be made of light generated by her innocence. Notably, she is over a century old, making it very unlikely her human body would still be intact after so much time.
Eyeless Face: She has no eyes and her "hair" covers up most of her head and body which gives her an otherworldly appearance.
Psychic Powers: She is able to sense when an exorcist exceeds 100% synchronization with their anti-akuma weapon and makes accurate predictions about the futures of the exorcists she examines.
Weak, but Skilled: She doesn't seem to have any offensive abilities at all but her innocence provides the Black Order with several useful abilities, making her an invaluable asset to the other exorcists.

Maria

A woman with a parasite-type innocence that was killed at some point in the past and is now used by General Cross thanks to some sort of necromancy spell. Not much is known about her past or what led to her death. The name of her innocence is also unknown, but is referred to as "Grave of Maria" while under the control of Cross.

Cool Mask: She wears some sort of butterfly mask over her face. It's unknown if it was hers originally or something Cross himself added after taking control of her corpse.
Master of Illusion: Her "Magdala Curtain" ability hides the presence of others by casting illusions.
Mind-Control Music: Her "Carte Garde" ability allows her to control someones body through her singing. Interestingly, it works not just on humans but even high-level akuma as well.
Navel-Deep Neckline: Her dress has a neckline that reaches her midriff.
Posthumous Character: She died at some point before her introduction and had her body and power commandeered by Cross.
Weak, but Skilled: Similar to Miranda and Hevlaska her innocence lacks any sort of attack strength in exchange for a powerful ability.

Characters / D.Gray-Man - Exorcists

Exorcists

Yu Kanda

Voiced by: Takahiro Sakurai (JP, 2006 anime), Takuya Sato (JP, Hallow), Tsubasa Yonaga (JP, Hallow, as a child), Travis Willingham (EN, episodes 1-51), Ian Sinclair (EN, episodes 52-103 (2006 anime), 2016 anime), Justin Briner (EN, 2016 anime, as a child), Artur Palomo (SP)

Lavi

Voiced by: Kenichi Suzumura (JP, 2006 anime), Natsuki Hanae (JP, Hallow), Jason Liebrecht ^noteEpisodes 13-26 and Episode 40 onward & Chris Patton ^noteEpisodes 27 to 39 (EN), Jesús Barreda (SP)

Lenalee Lee

Voiced by: Shizuka Itō (JP, 2006 anime), Ai Kakuma (JP, Hallow), Luci Christian (EN), Blanca Hualde (SP)

Arystar Krory III

Voiced by: Mitsuo Iwata (JP, 2006 anime), Noriaki Sugiyama (JP, Hallow), Eric Vale (EN), Eduardo Bosch (SP)

Miranda Lotto

Voiced by: Megumi Toyoguchi (JP, 2006 anime), Ami Koshimizu (JP, Hallow), Colleen Clinkenbeard (EN), Raquel Martín (SP)

Bookman

Voiced by: Takeshi Aono (JP, 2006 anime), Hōchū Ōtsuka (JP, Hallow), R. Bruce Elliott (EN), Ángel Amorós (SP)

Daisya Barry

Voiced by: Hiroshi Yanaka (JP), Kumiko Higa (JP, as a child), Justin Cook (EN), Antonio Cremades (SP)

Noise Marie

Voiced by: Kiyoyuki Yanada (JP, 2006 anime), Yasuhiro Mamiya (JP, Hallow), Ray Gestaut (EN), Fernando Elegido (SP)

Chaozii Han

Voiced by: Mamoru Miyano (JP, 2006 anime), Hiroshi Okamoto (JP, Hallow), Ian Sinclair (EN)

Alma Karma

Voiced by: Ryouta Asari (JP), Megumi Han (JP, child) Josh Grelle (ENG)

Timothy Hearst

Voiced by: Sayuri Yahagi (JP), Brittney Karbowski (EN)

Suman Dark

Voiced by: Hozumi Gouda (JP), Robert McCollum (EN), Alejandro Martínez (SP)

Reed and Laboun

Hevlaska

Voiced by: Yuko Kaida (JP), Wendy Powell (EN)

Maria

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Exorcists

Yu Kanda

Voiced by: Takahiro Sakurai (JP, 2006 anime), Takuya Sato (JP, Hallow), Tsubasa Yonaga (JP, Hallow, as a child), Travis Willingham (EN, episodes 1-51), Ian Sinclair (EN, episodes 52-103 (2006 anime), 2016 anime), Justin Briner (EN, 2016 anime, as a child), Artur Palomo (SP)

Lavi

Voiced by: Kenichi Suzumura (JP, 2006 anime), Natsuki Hanae (JP, Hallow), Jason Liebrecht note Episodes 13-26 and Episode 40 onward & Chris Patton note Episodes 27 to 39 (EN), Jesús Barreda (SP)

Lenalee Lee

Voiced by: Shizuka Itō (JP, 2006 anime), Ai Kakuma (JP, Hallow), Luci Christian (EN), Blanca Hualde (SP)

Arystar Krory III

Voiced by: Mitsuo Iwata (JP, 2006 anime), Noriaki Sugiyama (JP, Hallow), Eric Vale (EN), Eduardo Bosch (SP)

Miranda Lotto

Voiced by: Megumi Toyoguchi (JP, 2006 anime), Ami Koshimizu (JP, Hallow), Colleen Clinkenbeard (EN), Raquel Martín (SP)

Bookman

Voiced by: Takeshi Aono (JP, 2006 anime), Hōchū Ōtsuka (JP, Hallow), R. Bruce Elliott (EN), Ángel Amorós (SP)

Daisya Barry

Voiced by: Hiroshi Yanaka (JP), Kumiko Higa (JP, as a child), Justin Cook (EN), Antonio Cremades (SP)

Noise Marie

Voiced by: Kiyoyuki Yanada (JP, 2006 anime), Yasuhiro Mamiya (JP, Hallow), Ray Gestaut (EN), Fernando Elegido (SP)

Chaozii Han

Voiced by: Mamoru Miyano (JP, 2006 anime), Hiroshi Okamoto (JP, Hallow), Ian Sinclair (EN)

Alma Karma

Voiced by: Ryouta Asari (JP), Megumi Han (JP, child) Josh Grelle (ENG)

Timothy Hearst

Voiced by: Sayuri Yahagi (JP), Brittney Karbowski (EN)

Suman Dark

Voiced by: Hozumi Gouda (JP), Robert McCollum (EN), Alejandro Martínez (SP)

Reed and Laboun

Hevlaska

Voiced by: Yuko Kaida (JP), Wendy Powell (EN)

Maria

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Voiced by: Kenichi Suzumura (JP, 2006 anime), Natsuki Hanae (JP, Hallow), Jason Liebrecht ^noteEpisodes 13-26 and Episode 40 onward & Chris Patton ^noteEpisodes 27 to 39 (EN), Jesús Barreda (SP)