History Characters / NoMoreHeroes

* MesACrowd: [[spoiler:In the third game, his Order of Emerald Night seems to be made of clones of himself. Maybe]]?

* SanitySlippage: [[spoiler:He suffers [[Anime/DragonBallZBrolyTheLegendarySuperSaiyan Original!Broly]] levels of this in the third game, to the point he becomes a walking ShoutOut of him (his hair resembles his and his swords become as green as his ki blasts). He completely breaks down in maddened lunacy before being cleaved in two, LaughingMad, screaming and ordering Travis to not cry before Travis smashes him into paste.]]

* VocalDissonance: In ''No More Heroes III'', where she's a small adorable cat that happens to speak in a very deep baritone.

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/QuintonFlynn ([=NMH1=], [=NMH2=]), Creator/MarkAllenStewart ([=NMH3=]) (EN), Creator/KatsuyukiKonishi (JP)

!!Randall Loivkov

* PinkIsErotic: Bad Girl is introduced bludgoning clones in S&M gear with a bat and is a representation of the dominance and submission fetish. Bad Girl is given a lot of sexual references and she's completely shameless and honest about her enjoyment of killing, unlike Travis who justifies his killings as desiring to be the best. The fact that the clones are wearing S&M gear implies that she takes sexual gratification from killing and the fight against her includes a raunchy theme called "Pleather for Breakfast". After the fight, Travis stabs her with his katana while saying "Naughty girls need spankings." but she refuses to submit and continues to beat Travis until he surrenders out of pity. Accepting his surrender, Bad Girl lays on top of Travis, recreating a sexual position and her final words almost sounds like she's climaxed from Travis's surrender. Her outfits have a pink color scheme and her fight against Travis has her wear a pink frilly dress.
--> '''Travis''': You're no assassin, you're just a perverted killing maniac.\\
'''Bad Girl''': "In essence, they're the same. Don't go on thinking you're better than me. You think you're hot shit! Who the fuck do you think you are?

* LaserBlade: The [[UsefulNotes/AppleII Orange II]], an ''enormous'' beam-edged weapon shaped like a cross between a straight razor and a meat cleaver, that can retract into a briefcase-like portable form. Despite its design, it is classified as a “beam katana” like every other laser blade in the series. If you're wondering why a company called “Orange Computers” would manufacture weapons, let alone ridiculous pieces like the Orange II... well, [[MindScrew you're clearly new]] [[ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext to Suda51's games]].

* ShoutOut: He appears to be wearing a UsefulNotes/VirtualBoy and [[UsefulNotes/NintendoEntertainmentSystem Power Glove]], his weapon is based on the UsefulNotes/{{Playstation 3}} and UsefulNotes/{{Xbox 360}} hardware and he even pulls a Music/MichaelJackson pose.

* DarkActionGirl: While characters like Shinobu and Holly are hardly villainous women and the player knows little about Speed Buster, Bad Girl stands out of the ranked assassins for being a violently unhinged woman and while she doesn’t have anything special about her moveset being armed with a simple, crude bat, she ends up being one of Travis’s most difficult opponents because of her violent and unpredictable nature with her technically winning the fight even with her death.

* DarkActionGirl: While characters like Shinobu and Holly are hardly villainous women and the player knows little about Speed Buster, Bad Girl stands out of the ranked assassins for being a violently unhinged woman and while she doesn’t have anything special about her moveset being armed with a simple, crude bat, she ends up being one of Travis’s most difficult opponents with her technically winning the fight even with her death.

* ArtificialLimbs: After she gets her right hand cut off after her boss fight, she presumably gets one under a [[Film/ReturnOfTheJedi Luke Skywalker-esque black glove]] [[spoiler:when she reappears to save Travis' life from Jeane.]] She's shown with it again, but it gets temporarily torn off while fighting [[spoiler: New Destroyman.]]AND THEN, [[spoiler:she loses it again (along with both of her arms) while fighting FU.]]
* BadassTeacher: By the time she returns for the ''Travis Strikes Again'' DLC, she's settled down and become a martial arts teacher for a bunch of kids. She also makes it a promise to ensure [[ChildrenAreInnocent they never learn of her being an assassin]]/

--> [[{{Catchphrase}} Trust your Force... And head for the Garden of Madness.]]

* CatchPhrase: In ''III'', her exposition before each ranking battle usually ends with "Welcome to the Garden of Insanity!" or a variant thereof, but in the first game it is "Garden of Madness".

* TrueFinalBoss: Henry only shows up to kill Travis's attempted assassin and challenge him to a showdown if you bought the Tsubaki Mk-III before fighting Jeane. In a gameplay sense, this is probably because [[MarathonBoss using anything less powerful than the Mk-III would make the fight an absolute slog]], and in a story sense, the Mk-III is what's shown on the portrait that overlays the credits, the same reason Travis is reverted to his default outfit for the fight.

* KnightOfCerebus: Functions as this in the first game. Unlike every other assassin before her, she has ''zero'' sympathetic or comedic quirks to her character, an absence which highlights [[DiabolusExNihilo just how sociopathic and violent of a person she is.]] Her battle ends up marking the plot's transformation from [[ToBeAMaster Travis' journey to being number 1]] to an examination of [[AxCrazy the violence and]] [[DarkAndTroubledPast sheer darkness of his life.]]

* LightningBruiser: She can run fast, hit you like a truck, and take a beating before coming at you again.

* BaitAndSwitchBoss: [[spoiler:Jeane (the human) takes him out before the battle begins, and takes over FinalBoss duties.]]

* BigBadEnsemble: Along with Sylvia in the first game. Namely, she's the one who [[YouKilledMyFather murdered Travis' parents in front of him]], and thus became Travis' target for vengeance.

* FinalBoss: She takes Dark Star's role as this after she kills him.

* BreakTheCutie: [[spoiler:Seeing her father dead in ''III'' leaves her a catatonic wreck and it takes quite some time before she recovers.]]
* BrokenRecord: [[spoiler:After seeing her father dead, she keeps only saying 'Daddy'.]]

* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler:Between the later revelations of her life before the first ''No More Heroes'', and being revived by her father Bad Man in ''Travis Strikes Again'' just for the man to himself get killed by Fu early on in ''III'' traumatizing her for most of the game; let's just say life's been a bitch to her to say the least. Eventually, she does recover enough to hang out and talk about movies with Travis and Bishop and even helps out in taking down Fu as revenge for her father. At the end of the game, Travis and all of his allies, new and old, gather to hold a funeral for Bad Man showing that [[BittersweetEnding no matter how fucked up her life turned out, she's not alone any more.]]]]

* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:Perhaps in exchange for sparing her life, she rescues Travis in the end of the final battle in the first game and then helps fight off [=FU=] in the end of ''III''.]]
* BreakoutCharacter: Went from a single boss fight in the first game, to [[PromotedToPlayable briefly playable]] in ''Desperate Struggle'', to having her own full-blown campaign in ''Travis Strikes Again'' as DLC.

* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler:Between the later revelations of her life before the first ''No More Heroes'', and being revived by her father Bad Man in ''Travis Strikes Again'' just for the man to himself get killed by Fu early on in ''III'' traumatizing her for most of the game; let's just say life's been a bitch to her to say the least. Eventually, she does recover enough to hang out and talk about movies with Travis and Bishop and even helps out in taking down Fu as revenge for her father. At the end of the game, Travis and all of his allies, new and old, gather to hold a funeral for Bad Man showing that no matter how fucked up her life turned out, she's not alone any more.]]

* VocalEvolution: [[spoiler:A truly '''drastic''' example. His new voice actor in ''III'' isn't even trying to replicate Quinton Flynn's Irish accent. Presumably, this is a result of Henry Cooldown's apparent ''revelation'' after ''Desperate Struggle'' about the "Cooldown Clan" supposedly giving him FalseMemories.]]

* {{Foil}}: If Jeane represents Travis being forced to come to terms with his past and accept that it was nowhere near as innocent and idealistic as he believed, Henry (in the first game) represents the drive to keep moving forwards in spite of it all. Both he and Jeane are Travis's siblings and rivals. However, whereas Jeane is nearly entirely motivated by personal revenge, Henry's is a BloodKnight who is more interested in fighting Travis just to see who is better rather than any personal enmity. Travis's fight with Jeane finishes with a decisive, brutal end, with a melancholy backdrop. The fight with Henry has no shown ending, with him telling Travis that it is Travis's responsibility to tie up any loose ends, and that all they can do is to keep running. The game ends with them mid-strike, on a more triumphant note on a sunny day, as opposed to the sad sunset of Jeane's fight.

* {{Troll}}: Practically his defining trait. [[spoiler: In the first game, he steals one of Travis's kills, taunts him about it, and disappears. In the second game, he steals ''three'' of Travis's kills, then posts pictures of them in his motel room, just as a reminder.]]

* EnemyWithin: Mimmy. Technically, she's supposed to be Travis', since she's a personification of all his anime-related fetishes, but it's Henry who ends up fighting her.
* EvilMakeover: [[spoiler:When he returns in ''III'', he's sporting a drastically darker appearance, reflecting the unknown SanitySlippage he went through between games.]]