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Characters: Madlax

MADLAX (The Gatekeeper of Hell is All Alone)

Voiced by: Sanae Kobayashi (Japanese) Nancy Novotny

An agent for hire in the war torn country of Gazth-Sonika. She is a part of Margaret, released after the horrible plane crash incident.

Action Girl: Naturally
Anti-Hero
Ass Kicking Pose
Badass Adorable: Madlax is oh so very sweet and cute for a mass-murderer.
Bi the Way
Big Damn Heroes
Code Name: Her name has always simply been known as MADLAX.
Cursed with Awesome: Her immortality
Dissonant Serenity
I Just Want to Be Normal
Innocent Fanservice Girl
Impossibly Cool Clothes: The red and white cocktail dresses.
Legacy Character: Madlax isn't the first person to go by that title. The first one was Margaret's father.
Meaningful Name
The Messiah
Moe Moe
Ms. Fanservice
Mysterious Past: Just one of many.
Out of the Inferno: Episode 1
Theme Music Power-Up: Yanmaani!
Trademark Favorite Food: "Yeah, PASTA!"

Margaret Burton

Voiced by Houko Kuwashima (Japanese) Luci Christian (English)

A usually sleepy eyed and slightly amnesic aristocrat.

Awful Truth
Badass Adorable:Becomes this in later episodes
Cloudcuckoolander: Somewhat spacey most of the time (the first episode has her walking to school in the wrong direction). She's far from stupid, though.
Easy Amnesia
Evil Costume Switch: Dark Margaret
Hidden Eyes: Dark Margaret
Idiot Hair
Mysterious Past
Small Girl, Big Gun
The Three Faces of Eve:Margaret is the Mother, Laetitia is the Child, Madlax is the Seductress
Trademark Favorite Food: PASTA! Yeah, Pasta!
Zettai Ryouiki

Elenore Baker (Everyday Gatekeeper)

Voiced by Ai Uchikawa (Japanese) Kira Vincent-Davis (English)

Margaret's loving and very devoted personal assistant and maid.

ActionGirl: In certain circles it's joked er...hinted that she's the teacher of Roberta from Black Lagoon.
Beach Episode: Episode 9. One of the few times in the series that you see her wearing something other than her maids uniform.
Beware the Nice Ones
Cool Big Sis: To Margaret
Gainax Ending: Her fate and that of Vanessa and Carrossea has been the cause of some intense debates over if Margaret ressurected her or not.
Heterosexual Life Partners: With Margaret, though Margaret tends to be oblivious to the fact that Elenore is a lesbian.
Just Friends: Vanessa and her in the first half of the series, until Vanessa hooks up with Madlax.
Kick Chick: Watch eps 6 and 24 for prime examples of this.
Killed off for real Episode 24
Kira Vincent-Davis
Let's Get Dangerous: Episode 6
Mama Bear: A surrogate one for Margaret
Meganekko: Episode 14
Meido
Messianic Archetype: Tragically becomes one.
Ninja Maid: Oh God, does she ever prove it.
Old Retainer: Her grandpa was this, and she'd fit if not for her age since the Bakers have served the Burtons for generations.
Plucky Girl: Pretty much one the entire series
Small Girl, Big Gun: One episode she gets on a mounted gun and starts firing off like hell.
Undying Loyalty
Zettai Ryouiki: Episode 14. The only other episode that she wears something other than her maids uniform.

Vanessa Rene (Gatekeeper of Happiness)

Voiced by Satsuki Yukino (Japanese) Kelly Manison (English)

Margaret and Elenore's friend who determined to find the truth and clear her parent's names. She's also an employee of Bookwald in order to find thier connection to the civil war Gazth-Sonika.

Bodyguard Crush: On Madlax, mutual
Cool Big Sis: To Elenore and Margaret
Died Happily Ever After:Vanessa is reunited with her parents after saying goodbye to Madlax
Heroic Sacrifice
Just Friends: With Madlax and Elenore (in earlier episodes)
Les Yay With Madlax and to a lesser extent Elenore.
The Promise:Her's to Madlax and vice versa
Teach me How to Fight

Friday Monday

Voiced by: Masashi Ebara (Japanese) Mike Kleinhenz (English)

Friday Monday is the enigmatic founder and head of the Enfant organization. Very little is known about his past before 1999, when he used his Gift to open the Door of Truth in a failed attempt to plunge the world into a total war, which, as he believes, is its natural state.

Big Bad
Blue Eyes
Cool Mask
Light is Not Good
Villainous Breakdown:Margaret! What happened to you?! YOU BITCH!!!

Limelda Jorg

Voiced by: Aya Hisakawa (Japanese), Christine Auten (English)

A deadly Dark Action Girl whose boss dies at Madlax's hand. She's very displeased by that, and as such she starts chasing after Madlax.

Cold Sniper
Dark Action Girl
Depraved Bisexual: She slept with Carrossea Doon and she is Very, VERY fixated on Madlax.
Good-Looking Privates

Laetitia

Voiced by: Tomoko Kaneda (Japanese), Cynthia Martinez (English)

A strange and very creepy little girl seen more than once. She is also a part of Margaret, and the keeper of her memories. As such, she's stuck in the Sanctuary.

Creepy Child
Happily Adopted: Margaret accepts her fully at the Grand Finale, and takes her in as her sister.
Meaningful Name: She's named after both a chara in Mashimo's favorite movie and the Roman Goddess of gaiety.
Thethree Faces Of Eve: The Child to Madlax's Seductress and Margaret's Mother.

Colonel Richard Burton

Voiced by: Toru Ookawa (Japanese), Ben Hamby (English)

Margaret's Disappeared Dad. Killed by the recently "born" Madlax after Monday uses the Words of Awakening on him.

Brainwashed and Crazy
Colonel Badass
Offing Theoffspring: Tried to kill Margaret when driven insane. It backfired horribly.

Carrossea Doon. Aka Poupee.

Voiced by: Toshiyuki Morikawa (Japanese), Vic Mignogna (English)

Carrossea is officially an independent contract worker for Bookwald Industries, although, in reality, he is one of Enfant's best operatives and the right-hand man of Friday Monday himself.

Creepy Child: As Poupee.
Dead All Along: He only was alive due to his Gift and his unyielding wish to protect Margaret. Once he realizes this... he fades away of existence.
The Dragon: To Friday Monday
Dragon with an Agenda
Gainax Ending: His fate and that of Vanessa and Eleonore has been the cause of some intense debates over if Margaret ressurected him or not.
I Will Protect Her: For Margaret.
Unlucky Childhood Friend: Sort-of, to Margaret. Poupee was another survivor of the plane crash, fell for Margaret, vowed to protect her... and died Taking the Bullet for her. His Gift kicked in and he sort-of lived on; then, Friday took the amnesiac kid in and named him Carrossea, with his Poupee self remaining stuck at the Sanctuary.