Action Girl: She is a very competent fighter, and as shown in episode 17 can hold her own against a full regiment of highly-trained soldiers from Section I (that, unlike Section III, are specifically trained to relentlessly attack and kill enemies).
Can't Hold Her Liquor: As noted on the main page, gets completely smashed off a single glass of wine.
Determinator: Alice will complete her mission, even if it means arresting drug dealers released on bail by powerful friends dozens of time, or having to march four hours on steep and snowy mountain slopes to deliver a package to a village after losing their squad's car.
Honor Before Reason: Downplayed. While there are certainly times when Alice's principles and bravery are shown as reckless, if not outright foolish (for instance, when she orders her lightly-armed squad of three to charge at a heavily-guarded fortress of bandits), Alice ultimately remains mostly rational and cool-headed during the missions, and when the situation calls for it, is willing to take actions contrary to her beliefs (usually, with some convincing from her squad). It's also Subverted, to an extent, since while she isn't generally very subtle about how she deals with wrong-doers, her and her squad's competence, as well as her status as a Blue Blood, are usually enough to solve the situation.
In one episode, while trying to deliver medicine to a village in the middle of a snowy mountain, she and her squad are separated from their rations and must use whatever they have on them to make it through the night. Oreld, being who he is, has of course stolen items from the army's supplies, and while Alice scolds him, she concedes that this is useful in the moment.
Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: She has bright blonde hair, and is certainly one of the most straightforwardly heroic, selfless, and just plain nice, characters in the entire series.
The Idealist: Her most defining trait, and the main reason she works at Section III. Despite the monumentality of the task she's given herself, and the sheer amount of cynicism she faces daily (since she mainly deals with people who are desperately attempting to survive in a crappy, devastated, post-war country with an economy in the dumps), she always sticks true to her principles, genuinely believes that the war relief efforts she's devoted her life to will help society, and has never allowed herself to become disillusioned from the state of the world around her and the army's corruption. See also Non-Idle Rich and Rich Kid Turned Social Activist below.
Lady of War: She amazes her sisters and the troops of Section III with how graceful and elegant her moves are during a duel.
Rich Kid Turned Social Activist: She comes from a prominent family of very wealthy nobles (and will not hesitate to use her background as an additional tool during her missions, for example by getting people fearful of the nobility to hesitate to shoot her); but unlike her family members, she has chosen to devote herself fully to helping the people of her country after a devastating war, including by organizing food drives with her men, and helping villages rebuild railroads personally.
Straw Hypocrite: Unfortunately (and mainly due to the setting), this is how a majority of society, and the army, view both Alice and her team; a mere PR exercise for a government and army that couldn't actually care in the slightest about the plight of the people, and are just trying to further exploit impoverished citizens while looking sorry for them. Not helped, of course, by Alice being from a long lineage of nobles.
Best exemplified in episodes 11 and 12 wherein, following a newspaper's reporting on Section III, and one of her passionate speeches being featured on the front page, the Section receives a lot of responses, some of which are positive, but many of which criticize them and their efforts as performative at best. Alice also ends up kidnapped by the sister of a journalist that was assassinated by the army, and is explicitly called out as a hypocrite trying to cover-up corruption when she hesitates to publish their manuscript.
Corporal Randel Oland
Voiced by:Kenta Miyake (Japanese), Adam Dudley (English)
Badass Adorable: His clueless antics make him rather amusing to be around rather than someone you'd keep facepalming for.
Berserk Button: When someone hits his metaphorical button, he turns on what is basically a literal Berserk Button—-the Blue Lantern.
Bullying the Dragon: Gets subjected to this sometimes since he's practically harmless when not in combat.
Covered with Scars: Unsurprising, as his job was to run up to tanks and attack them with a pistol.
Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Very DOWNPLAYED. Outside of battle not a genius and a bit slow and somewhat guilable but he's not blatantly stupid either. In battle he can execute strategies that would take plenty of training and knowledge of military matters to carry out.
Feel No Pain: Under the influence of the Blue Lantern
Gentle Giant: Usually, except when under the effects of the Blue Lantern.
Hand Cannon: He wields one with fantastic skill. A hand cannon designed to take out tanks, that he wields one-handed— the real-life equivalent, a full-size rifle, has the power to dislocate your shoulder even when used properly.
Batman Gambit: Judging by the latest chapters, Hunks always has a plan for every eventuality.
Cool Old Guy: A calm and methodical officer who handles the affairs of Section 3, especially dealing with Major Connery.
Dark and Troubled Past: The District Zero chapter notes this when Hunks meets with Connery of Section I.
Subverted in the Anti-Ares arc. While Hunks was a part of the Empire's counter-intelligence section that specialized in interrogations, he would get into the subject's head rather than use torture. His skill in gathering the information was what convinced the intelligence sections that he was a cold-blooded torturer.
Spell My Name With An S: His name has been both romanized as Hunks and Hanks by Iwanaga himself.
Badass Bookworm: He's not exactly bookish, but the closest of all of them to it. Takes down a man with a knife and a huge brute twice his size all by himself.
Badass Driver: Frequently drives across dangerous terrain while being chased by foes armed with machine guns.
Covert Pervert: Implied by Stecchin, accidentally. Also implied when one section 2 soldier stood watch when he slept and overheard him talking in his sleep.
Spell My Name With An S: Del Rey has used both Martis and Machs in the manga, and Funimation went with Martis. But both are wrong; the official romanization used by Iwanaga is Marchs.
Badass Normal: Probably the best fighter in unarmed hand to hand combat in the unit.
Street Smart: Contrary to first impressions, Oreldo grew up as a poor Street Urchin and spent most of his life fighting for his next meal. As such he's learned to live by his wits, and has a number of useful skills (such as lock-picking). He's also a Really dirty fighter.
Street Urchin: As previously mentioned. He joined the military for the free meals and a roof over his head.
Hidden Depths: Reveals to Randel that she was part of the military's music corps, but that she was forced to only play approved music. When she learned that joining the intelligence sections would let her learn music from the Republic of Frost, she transferred.
Non-Idle Rich: It turns out her father is the president of a leading corporation in the Empire, and that she could've gotten any job she wanted instead of becoming a lowly military mechanic.
Hidden Depths: One of the earlier episodes implies she's excellent at withstanding torture.
Hans
Body Horror: His fate if he ever takes off his pressure suit, as the flamethrowers of the 908 Altschmeidt Jäger troopers damage their users' bodies, which is only prevented from killing them by the fluid in their suits. He was forced to watch the other members of his unit literally fall apart from their horrible burns.
Cool Helmet: Vaguely reminiscent of the Big Daddy helmet, and even periodically exudes gouts of vapor.
Creepy Monotone: The metallic reverberation from his helmet gives this an especially disturbing effect.
Fire-Breathing Weapon: A really nasty flamethrower with what appears to be a pump-action design.
Heel–Face Door-Slam: Hans is eventually gunned down by Claymore One Operatives— mere seconds after Oland was beginning to talk him down from his psychosis. Oland doesn't take this well at all, suffering a Heroic BSoD throughout the next episode.
I'm Cold... So Cold...: His catchphrase. A variation of the common trope because he isn't (technically) dying, but his suit is filled with an anesthetic that prevents him from feeling anything, and he's been emotionally traumatized due to the horrifying deaths of his comrades. In fact, if you hear him say this, you're probably the one who's going to die— and painfully.
24-Hour Armor: He never takes off his armor. If he does, he'll die.
Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Sure, he's an unhinged sociopath, but it's very hard not to feel sorry for him after all he's been through. Especially when you realize he's only nineteen.
Lionel Taylor
The Sociopath: Taylor hits four of the five points. He thinks nothing of harming and maiming others, manipulates both peasants and nobles to try and kill each other, caused a riot to keep himself entertained, and sees Alice as a prize to be broken and taken. It's implied that everything he's done in-series is because he wants to keep himself entertained.
Walking Spoiler: About everything about him after he's revealed to be part of the Silver Wheel.
