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Death's Personal Weapons From Left to Right
Death Scythes are Demon Weapons who have been "forged." That is a Meister, or a collection of Meisters, have captured 99 evil human souls on Death's List and one witch soul and fed them to a candidate. Doing so creates Death Scythes who have qualities that the God of Death himself uses.
Expect lots of Badass Tropes.Beware of Unmarked Spoilers!
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Death Scythes in General
- Infinity +1 Sword: Death Scythes are characterized as being phenomenally more powerful than the average Demon Weapon, adopting powers based on the witch who's soul they've eaten and while they can be wielded by a human meister, are the preferred weapon for the God of Death.
- Non-Indicative Name: Sure, they're called "Death Scythes," but almost none of them are actually scythes. The number rises to two when Soul becomes one, but that does nothing to change the fact.
Spirit Albarn
Spirit Albarn
Voiced by: Tōru Ōkawa (Japanese), Hiroaki Hirata (Japanese - CD dramas), Vic Mignogna (English), Loris Loddi (Italian)
Lord Death's current weapon and Maka's estranged but affectionate father. Maka's mother was his former meister, but she divorced him due to his constant flirting with other women.
- The Ace: It's easy to forget, given his ridiculous demeanor, but he's the strongest of the Death Scythes and Lord Death's personal weapon.
- Action Dad: What with being a Death Scythe and all.
- Adaptation Dye-Job: The anime gives him blue eyes, but in the manga his eyes are as green as Maka's.
- Amazingly Embarrassing Parent: To Maka.
- Berserker Tears: He's weeping in utter rage at hearing Medusa's utter callousness for Crona. As a parent especially, he finds such behavior unforgivable.
- Broken Pedestal: Maka absolutely loved her father as a child, but after Spirit cheated on her Mother, her belief in her Father was shattered.
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Marie once mentioned Spirit's expertise in soul wavelength control in the same sentence she pointed out his womanizing.
- Cloud Cuckoo Lander:Stein: What on earth are you doing, Spirit?
Spirit: I'm sending positive energy to Maka so she'll do well on the test.
Stein: Okay...
Spirit: Anything else?
Stein: No. Continue.
Spirit: Yeah. - Cross Attack: His weapon form is a cross with a Sinister Scythe blade on it.
- Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: It's easy to forget that he is Lord Death's personal Death Scythe for a good reason. In the hands of Stein the two are nearly unstoppable, and when Death wields him.....
- Doting Parent: He is a doting father who really tries his very best for Maka. Unfortunately, while a doting father, he is a terrible husband.
- Establishing Character Moment: He's in the background when Maka and Soul first call Lord Death to report on collecting their 99th soul. After making a play for Maka's affection, he turns on Soul and demands he keep his distance; when Soul mentions a lack of interest in Maka and her small chest, however, Spirit immediately leaps to the defense of his daughter's beauty and demands to know why Soul hasn't made a move on her yet.
- Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": He is sometimes called by just his title, Death Scythe, probably to acknowledge he is Lord Death's Weapon.
- Foil: With Medusa, namely that both are parents of a Meister who end up having Black Blood in them. Spirit though is a Handsome Lech and Doting Parent that genuinely loves Maka while Medusa is a Abusive Parent who cares little for her child. There's also the fact that Spirit is a Deathsycthe and Medusa is a witch, making them naturally enemies.
- Handsome Lech: He's a dashing man in his prime and constantly goes out to the bar and flirts with the workers there.
- It's All About Me: Spirit, especially when getting emotional over Maka, has a tendency to interpret events either primarily in his own favor or to portray himself more sympathetically than deserved.
- Let's Get Dangerous!: Spirit is normally goofy and flirty, but when he needs to be serious, he's a major threat.
- Loser Archetype: The collapse of his family has left Spirit a colossal, pathetic mess, all but begging for attention from his daughter and sobbing over it in cabaret clubs when she denies him.
- Lovable Sex Maniac: Though not quite lovable enough to stop his wife from divorcing him. He deconstructs the trope by showing how being friendly and lovable while being a shameless lech clash too much for him to form stable relationships as his wife and daughter can attest.
- Morality Chain: To Stein, especially when they were students.
- Mum Looks Like a Sister: He looks more like Maka's older brother. Justified as he was 18 when Maka was born.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Like Death, if he's not joking around, it's a sign of trouble. His reaction to Medusa's abuse of Crona is the only time we see Spirit get angry. His response to Shinigami in the later chapters may also count; his meister is commenting on the circumstances of his own death and his normally talkative Weapon isn't saying a word.
- Odd Friendship: With Lord Death.
- Also to Stein, considering what he did to Spirit during their years and still willing to accept him.
- Over-Enthusiastic Parents: He gets excited about Maka in multiple ways.
- Papa Wolf: No matter how silly he is, the guy isn't going to hesitate going full-force to protect his daughter. Judging by his unusually aggressive reaction to Medusa, this trope may extend to children in general.
- Playboy Has a Daughter: Played with. Spirit didn't give up his playboy ways after he and his wife had Maka, and Maka's mother ended up leaving him for his infidelity. Despite this, Spirit REALLY wants to be a part of Maka's life, but unfortunately for him, Maka can't stand him.
- Really Gets Around: While they can be rare, there are flashes of Spirit's womanizing behavior here and there.
- Spirit throws himself at Medusa when she's posing as the new school nurse.
- In a flashback to the days when the death scythes were kids, Spirit is seen flirting outrageously with a girl as the Class Representative Azusa happens upon him.
- Maka learns on her daddy-daughter date with Spirit that every shop in Death City has a female employee that he's made a move on (and is so embarassed she refuses to return to some of her favorite shops because of it).
- Secret-Keeper: He was aware that the connection of Kid's Sanzu lines would eventually lead to Shinigami's disappearance well before the fact.
- Significant Green Eyed Red Head: Spirit has green eyes and crimson-red hair, a combination unseen in any of the other characters. On top of being Maka's father, he's the most powerful of the Death Scythes.
- Simple, yet Awesome: His incredibly precise control over his wavelength allows Spirit to toss himself to anyone, even a Red Shirt, and help them wield him like a pro, by boosting their specific skills. Have him jump around a battlefield to where he's needed, and suddenly the Red Shirt Army becomes a Badass Army.
- Sinister Scythe: Unlike Soul, Spirit looks more like a thin, long-shafted cross with the scythe blade coming out from one of the arms.
- Super-Empowering: His unique talent as a Death Scythe is the ability to dramatically boost the natural abilities of whoever wields him so that even a Red Shirt can become a One-Man Army. When teamed up with Stein, the two of them are practically unstoppable, especially considering that they're able to perform the Witch Hunter technique without difficulty.
- Talking Weapon: As with all weapons.
- Theme Naming: Note how the two primary scythes of the show are named Soul and Spirit.
- This Is Unforgivable!: While he had plenty of reason to dislike Medusa, what truly solidifies his resolve to defeat Medusa is learning what an awful mother she is to Crona. Spirit definitely has flaws as a husband, but he doesn't mess around when it comes to being a father.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: He and Lord Death annoy one another quite frequently, but he does seem to care about his meister (e.g the Sanzu Lines business) and his role as Death Scythe.
- Wacky Parent, Serious Child: With Maka.
- "Well Done, Dad!" Guy: He constantly tries to be an admirable father-figure to Maka and seeks her approval; she appreciates his love and hard work, but continues to be angered by his stupidity and shameless flirting.
Justin Law
Justin Law
Voiced by: Yoshinori Fujita (Japanese), Eric Vale (English), Gabriele Lopez (Italian)
The Death Scythe in charge of Western Europe. His weapon form, the guillotine, fits his title of "executioner". He's usually seen wearing priestly garb and a pair of headphones that he keeps on at high volume.
- Adaptational Heroism: In the anime, he never turns out to be evil. Which also means he never died.
- Art Shift: After his Face–Heel Turn, the panels depicting him grow steadily more warped and twisted.
- Ax-Crazy: When he shows his true colors.
- Badass Biker: Towing a coffin, to boot.
- Badass Boast: Justin's bike tows a coffin—apparently for his targets. Showing up with one of these in tow is an implicit boast that it's going to be filled.
- Bad Habits: He dresses like a Catholic minister, but is never stated to be a churchman of any kind, and of course, he is evil.
- Blade Below the Shoulder: His usual and most basic attack consist in sprouting a guillotine blade on his arm and shoot it or use it to slice in melee.
- Broken Ace: While a tremendously effective solo weapon, his ability to form relationships with other people is hobbled—his one relationship is his devotion to a god that he doesn't really listen to. Eventually his problems with isolation get the better of him and with the Evil Mentorship of a certain clown, he dives headlong into madness.
- Calling Your Attacks: Does this often. As he grow more and more insane he can't fully call out most of his longer attacks anymore.
- Child Prodigy: Attained Death Scythe status as a thirteen year old, as an improbable weapon type and without the help of any meister to boot.
- Church Militant: Even in the middle of battle, Justin never ditches his priestly clothes.
- The Dragon: He effectively become one for Kishin Asura.
- Evil Counterpart: To Stein. Both grappled with madness; Justin was much better at hiding it, but ultimately gave into it at the end, whereas Stein makes no secret of it and stays loyal to Lord Death. Both are also famed singular prodigies from the DWMA as a meister and weapon respectively, but while Stein remained loyal despite his own madness, Justin caved into his madness and became more corrupt.
- Evil Feels Good: He considers being Asura's Dragon a pleasant life because he's free of all the restrictions of living under Lord Death.
- Evil Makes You Ugly: After he commits his Face–Heel Turn, he progressively gets uglier and warped in the panels.
- Evil Mentor: Justin Law meets the clown before the Internal Investigation arc. The clown infects him with madness and begins to spend time with him, ultimately driving him into a Face–Heel Turn.
- Face–Heel Turn: Reveals that he's loyal to Ashura.
- Foil:
- With Soul, whose first encounter with Justin leaves him helplessly contemplating what it would be like to be a solo weapon while holding his defeated meister Maka in his arms.
- As a solo Death Scythe who and worships the Big Good, Justin contrasts Giriko, the weapon who fights alone for Arachne the Heretic witch.
- He further contrasts Stein, a meister who can work with any weapon and doesn't even need one, but whose struggles with madness are public knowledge. Justin keeps his struggles to himself before ultimately going Laughing Mad, while Stein only briefly succumbs in the anime and overcomes it entirely in the manga.
- Foreshadowing:
- Stein thinks that Justin Law's sheer devotion to the god of death puts him above the influence of Asura's madness—but given that all the normal people in the room see Lord Death as little more than a quirky boss, Justin's blatant and unusual religious pieties become immediately suspect.
- Justin Law's puts his headphones in when it's completely inappropriate, during the middle of a crisis meeting with the rest of the death-scythes. When it becomes apparent, Law is making a curiously moody face.
- Death describes Justin Law as a dependable ally when revealing he sent him to Loew village to rescue the kids. Justin ultimately goes mad and turns traitor.
- Fusion Dance: With any of the Kishin's Clowns. See One-Winged Angel.
- The Gimmick: Justin Law has one of the strongest gimmicks of the death-scythes—he's the only person who actually *worships* the god of death, and not only does he dress the part (he wears the zucchetto, mozzetta, and cassock of a bishop), he makes hammy displays of religious piety.
- Go Mad from the Isolation: His loneliness and inability to form any close relationships besides indulging in his unrequited worship of Lord Death is what ended up driving him insane.
- Good Shepherd: A holy man who venerates the Big Good and smites evil. In this manga this is inverted as he is truly a Sinister Minister that worships Ashura.
- Headphones Equal Isolation: One of his main Character Tics, Played for Laughs initially, but the manga ultimately has it Played for Drama. Justin wears headphones that play music so loud that he not only speaks with a constantly raised voice, he can't hear the sound of anyone talking to him—he only reads lips, which causes some inconvenience when speaking to masked or faceless characters—like the god he worships, Lord Death. Alas for Tezca Tlipoca, who finds Justin on the brink of absolute madness, Justin can't hear his Kirk Summation.
- Improbable Age: He became a Death Scythe at age 13, the youngest in DWMA's history. Coordinator of Western Europe by age seventeen, aka when we meet him.
- Improbable Weapon Person: Why is he the only Death Scythe who graduated without a partner? No one figured out how they were supposed to wield a guillotine in battle.
- Irony:
- In an Establishing Character Moment, Justin laments that he cannot hear the voice of his god, the grim reaper—completely blind to the fact that his pounding headphones are the exact reason that he cannot.
- Justin is a man who only reads lips and is apparently "friends" with Tezca Tlipoca, a man who loves to chatter but whose mask covers his whole face. This becomes tragic when Tezca's Kirk Summation goes unheard because there are no lips for Justin to read.
- Stein says that people like Justin are the least susceptible to the Kishin's madness. Stein later determines that his isolation is what lead him into madness to start with.
- Large Ham: A side effect of his frequent yelling, dramatic speeches and arm gestures, especially when talking to Shinigami-sama. Though it may be a subtle side effect of his insanity or an act to fit in better with the quirkier Death Scythes.
- Laser-Guided Karma: He's ultimately done in by Stein (the man he tried to frame as having gone off the deep end and murdered Joe Buttataki) and Marie (Joe's ex who she might have had a shot of rekindling something with).
- Light Is Not Good: Dresses in priest's garb, has an attack called "Law Abiding Silver Gun," and always aims to strike down enemies of his God... Except his God happens to be the Kishin.
- Limited Wardrobe: Justified, by the priest wearing proper vestments.
- Loners Are Freaks: He constantly isolated himself even as a child, and uses his headphones, speakers, and other noise to cut himself off from the world. Stein says his isolation is the reason Law gave into madness.
- Loves the Sound of Screaming: He only willingly takes off his earphones because of this.
- Madness Makeover: When he fuses with the Clown.
- Mirror Character:Justin Law is a bladed Shapeshifter Weapon who drives a bike just like Soul.
- The Mole: For the Incarnation of Madness itself, no less. Note, this is only in the manga.
- Names to Trust Immediately: Justin Law sounds like "Justice Law" which is a fitting name for one of the chief enforcers of the Incarnation of Order and Stability in the verse (I.E. Death). Inverted, in the manga, as he truly works for the Incarnation of Madness.
- No Body Left Behind: In the manga, Stein and Marie utterly obliterate him during the Final Battle on the Moon, leaving nothing behind.
- No Indoor Voice: He might as well be deaf when he has his head phones on, which means he can't hear himself either so he winds up talking loudly or yelling a lot.
- One-Winged Angel: By fusing with a clown, Justin gains a large helmet and the power to create all sorts of guillotine themed weapons at great distances.
- The Paragon Always Rebels: Justin Law is one of Lord Death's most effective death scythes and serves the Kishin likewise.
- Production Throwback: His most common attack, the "Law Abiding Silver Gun", is named after Yowhey Nanami's Swiss-Army Weapon in B.Ichi, Ookubo's previous series.
- Psycho Supporter: He is fanatically devoted to Asura, who he worships because he is the God of Fear and Madness.
- Punny Name: On "Justinian law" which was created in an attempt to unify the Roman Empire by requiring that all citizens convert to Christianity.
- Reading Lips: Which is good, considering his headphones. Unfortunately, he does not seem to get along well with Tezca Tlipoca, as he wears a mask, making him unable to read his lips. So usually, whatever Tezca has to say to him goes ignored unless accompanied by the Clown.
- Scars Are Forever: The scar he got when Tezca Tlipoca burned off half his face has stayed the same since it happened. Not particularly notable since that sounds reasonable, except for the fact that his eye has apparently been on fire since it happened.
- Shadow Archetype: Justin Law is a bladed Shapeshifter Weapon and Badass Biker just like Soul, but as a solo weapon Justin doesn't need to be wielded by a meister. Over time, it becomes apparent that Soul's relationship with Maka is one of his greatest strengths, while Justin's inability to connect with others is his greatest weakness.
- Slasher Smile: He's relatively low-key until Chapter 69, when he starts busting out grins that threaten to split his head in half.
- Talking Weapon: As with all weapons.
- This Is Your Brain on Evil: The longer he stays on Asura's side, the crazier he gets. By the time of his fight with Tezca Tlipoca, he's starts slipping into complete, incoherent raving madness. Then again, working for the embodiment of insanity can't be mentally healthy.
- Troll: Normally can't be bothered to remove his headphones, even when he can't hear what people are saying. Except he can read lips, and will sometimes refrain from saying so until he's sufficiently annoying. Giriko was not amused.
- Undying Loyalty: To Lord Death. In the manga he switches it to Asura.
- Use Your Head: Though ironically when he uses a headbutt in a fight he calls it "Headbutt of Love."
- Walking Spoiler: Mostly for those reading the manga.
- You Are Not Alone: Tezca makes this speech in the manga right before Justin kills him off for real... once Justin's started merging with Kishin clowns. So thanks to Kishin, he really doesn't have to be alone anymore.
Marie Mjolnir
Marie Mjolnir
Voiced by: Chieko Honda (Japanese), Colleen Clinkenbeard (US), Elena Gianni (Italian)
The Death Scythe in charge of Oceania. Her weapon form is that of a large hammer (though partially resembles a tonfa), and her last name is derived from the legendary hammer of Thor, Mjölnir. She wears an eyepatch with a thunderbolt insignia.
- Action Girl: What with being a Death Scythe and all.
- Alliterative Name: Marie Mjolnir
- Babies Ever After: With Stein. The extra soul wavelength in her womb is received quite well. The part where Stein declares the kid another guinea pig, not so much.
- Buxom Beauty Standard: Several Male Gaze shots in the anime, show that Marie is very well endowed, to the point she rivals Blair and Arachne for bustiest character, which is not an easy feat. Adds to her status as a Hot Teacher.
- Clingy Jealous Girl: The main reason she was single for long was because she kept coming off as this to her ex-boyfriends. She admitted to going to great lengths to keep her former boyfriends happy but finds them running out on her while Azusa claimed that this resulted because of her putting to much pressure on her relationships, coming off as clingy and scaring off her men.
- Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Again, tried to marry a toilet and then destroyed the same toilet because she thought it would cheat on her.
- Cool Teacher: Cares for her students a great deal and has a tight bond with them.
- Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: On one hand, oddball Christmas cake. On the other hand, formidable death scythe.
- Curb-Stomp Battle:
- With Stein, against Justin Law.
- Is also Curb-Stomped later on, by Justin. Then again, Noah was there too, so were her comrades. It wasn't pretty.
- Curtains Match the Window: Yellow hair yellow eye.
- Does Not Know Her Own Strength: Mild example. Yuma notes she seems to have no idea how much power her fists pack when she punches people.
- Expy: She bears a close resemblance in physical appearance to Nice Holystone from Baccano!, as far as having the same hair and eye color and sporting an eye patch. They even share the same voice actress, coincidentally.
- Eyepatch of Power: Has an eyepatch and is a powerful Death Scythe.
- Foil:
- To Medusa. While Marie is deathscythe, Medusa is a witch making them natural enemies. Their powers are also opposite, as while Marie uses strength and force with her hammer form, Medusa uses speed and cutting with her snakes, bonus points for how she has healing wavelength to calm souls, Medusa has snakes to spike peoples madness which she does to Crona and Stein especially. How they interact with everyone is also opposite, with Medusa being a Manipulative Bastard and Marie being a Team Mom and the relationships they share with Crona and Stein are where their difference become the most clear;
- With Crona, Marie treats them the most motherly out of all her students, to the point of Crona being Like a Son to Me, which Crona seems to reciprocate entirely viewing Marie as a Parental Substitute for them, while Medusa only sees Crona as Guinea Pig Family at best and living weapon/slave at worst. This really gets tuned up in the anime in the final episodes. She never leaves Crona's side in almost all her remaining scenes, cementing her bond with them
- With Stein, Marie acts as his Morality Chain, keeping him sane while Medusa tries to drive him to insane while both got ship tease with stein only one succeeds. in the anime medusa succeeded, albiet breifly under madness until Marie snapped him out of it, in the manga Marie succeeds as she is pregnant with his child
- To Spirit as well. While they are both death scythes and both have been partners with Stein, Marie acts as permenant teacher on staff while Spirit only acts as a substitute. Their weapon forms are sort of opposite with Spirit being a scythe and therefore a cutting weapon while Marie is a hammer based weapon, using strength and force. Both have special wavelengths to greatly help their meisters; Spirit enhances wavelengths to be much stronger while Marie has healing wavelength to calm madness, both of which are highly resourceful to Stein. Spirit is divorced and has his own daughter, Marie dreams of being married herself and can only be a Team Mom to her students, in particular being a surrogate mother to Crona. She does end up with stein at the end of manga, being pregnant with his child though.
- To Medusa. While Marie is deathscythe, Medusa is a witch making them natural enemies. Their powers are also opposite, as while Marie uses strength and force with her hammer form, Medusa uses speed and cutting with her snakes, bonus points for how she has healing wavelength to calm souls, Medusa has snakes to spike peoples madness which she does to Crona and Stein especially. How they interact with everyone is also opposite, with Medusa being a Manipulative Bastard and Marie being a Team Mom and the relationships they share with Crona and Stein are where their difference become the most clear;
- Heartbroken Badass: After Joe dies.
- Hot Teacher: She’s a teacher who’s quite easy on the eyes.
- Insane Troll Logic: She rationalizes why the toilet would be a good marriage candidate by the fact it takes and accepts anything she gives it.
- Just Friends: States that anything between her and Stein is ancient history. Naturally, they end up an Official Couple.
- Lightning Bruiser: In the manga she's this on her own. With her help, a compatible Meister can beat on someone so fast the victim doesn't even know what's happening to them. She calls this technique "Izuna", but also states that it can't be kept on for too long.
- Mama Bear: Protective of her students. Being a Christmas Cake they are the closest she has to children.
- Meaningful Name:
- In the anime her form actually is a hammer.
- The manga instead emphasizes the 'lightning' connection with her ability to allow her meister to move at extremely high speeds, and the 'internal generation' she uses to burn Medusa's snake. Her nickname, "the Crusher," also recalls the mythological hammer.
- Morality Chain: Chosen specifically to be Stein's weapon when fighting the Kishin for her healing wavelength.
- No Periods, Period: Averted, at least in conversation. Apparently, Marie's will cause her to talk anyone's ear off.
- No Sense of Direction: She's a DWMA alumna and it takes hours of trial and error for her to get anywhere.
- Official Couple:
- Had this status with Joe in the manga before the series proper, and again before he died.
- The final chapter shows her carrying Stein's child.
- Pregnant Badass: The final chapter reveals that she's pregnant with Stein's child; Maka's comment early in the chapter implies she was already pregnant during the Battle on the Moon.
- Ship Tease: With Stein. Confirmed.
- Shoryuken: She gives one to Spirit in chapter 70. And not the regular one, but the Metsu Shoryuken.
- Shock Stick: Marie's weapon form is either a hammer or a tonfa. True to her namesake, she's able to utilize her soul wavelength to generate electricity.
- Silk Hiding Steel: An extremely goofy version, but an example nonetheless. Follows Lord Death's orders to a T (indeed one of the few that showed up when he called after Ashura got out) and is put in charge of quietly reigning in Stein's madness. As for the steel, her nickname is "Crushing Weapon."
- Super-Strength: she is a deathscythe and (as Azusa notes) she "doesn't know the power of her punches"
- Talking Weapon: As with all weapons, she can talk in weapon form.
- Team Mom: As opposed to the other teachers' hardcore attitudes, Marie is downright motherly to her students, and in particular becomes a surrogate mother to Crona.
- Thunder Hammer: Marie's weapon form is either a hammer or a tonfa. True to her namesake, she's able to utilize her soul wavelength to generate electricity.
- Working with the Ex: When first introduced, Marie quite calmly tells Azusa that Stein's status as her First Love is ancient history. Then she's assigned as his new partner. Then at some point in the series, she and Stein develop at least enough feelings for each other to make a baby.
Yumi Azusa
Yumi Azusa
Voiced by: Yukana (Japanese), Brina Palencia (English), Angela Brusa (Italian)
The Death Scythe in charge of East Asia. She is bookish and analytical and is close friends with Marie. In weapon form she takes the form of a crossbow, able to fire high-velocity spirit shots up to 10 km accurately. She is also an extremely competent information gatherer and tactician, easily finding one of Arachnophobia's labs.
- Brutal Honesty: She didn't hesitate to tell Spirit and Stein what she thought about their failure to prevent Asura's revival. Even earlier, she gets clocked by Marie for telling her marriage woes aren't something she should be worried about.
- In-Series Nickname: Called "The Queen of Commitee Chairman" by Spirit and Stein, due to her strict and bossy behaviour back as a student. Much to her dismay.
- Meaningful Name: It's supposed to be a pun on the azusayumi, a type of Japanese bow (as in bow and arrow).
- Perpetual Frowner: She's never seen smiling.
- Psychic Powers: She uses clairvoyance to scout enemy territories remotely.
- Scary Shiny Glasses: So scary, in fact, that Spirit and Lord Death himself get visibly frightened when her glasses become shiny.
- Shipper on Deck: Repeatedly asks Marie what's going on between her and Stein, and somehow doesn't seem too disapproving (even though Yumi seems to disapprove of Stein as a general rule). Oh, and she's right.
- Talking Weapon: As with all weapons.
Tezca Tlipoca
Tezca Tlipoca
- Alliterative Name: By way of splitting the name of an Aztec deity down the middle.
- Badass Creed: "Life and death are bestowed equally on all people. I'm a mirror in which a person is reflected. So, how you die is up to you..."
- Chekhov's Gunman
- Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Snaps between this and his competent badass persona in the blink of an eye. For example, after faking his death, he disguises himself by putting on a giant gopher head.
- Cool Mask: That is one freaky bear head.
- Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass
- Faking the Dead: Thought to have been unceremoniously bitten in half, but turns out he used a dummy to fake his death and track Justin Law. Justin Law later decapitated him and checked the body to make sure - the body was real, but Tezca's soul survived..
- The Fighting Narcissist: One of his stated motivations is to create a perfect copy of himself because he thinks he's very good-looking under the mask, but can't reflect himself.
- Implacable Man: First he's seemingly killed by Noah, then he really dies fighting Justin, and now he's appearing in mirrors as some kind of twisted ghost thing. His dialog during this last time seems to imply that he could just come back to life if he found a new body, and may have done so before.
- Logical Weakness: His speech to Justin Law late in the series goes completely unheard because Justin Law only reads lips and Tezca wears a mask that hides his face.
- Magic Mirror: He can taking on another's appearance, show his enemies how they're going to die, and create numerous, independent copies of himself, which can rejoin their bodies in unsettling ways when "killed".
- Mask of Power: Subverted; not only does the mask not seem to serve any purpose, but it also makes it impossible for lip-reader Justin Law to understand him. Since they were apparently old friends, this means Justin hung around him for years
without catching a single word he said. - Meaningful Name: "Tezcatlipoca
" is the name of an Aztec god associated with mirrors. It literally means "Smoking Mirror" and the way it's separated, gives him his first name as "Mirror" in Nahuatl. - Not Quite Dead: Justin destroyed his body, but not his soul.
- Obfuscating Stupidity: He doesn't seem too quick on the uptake and constantly jokes around during combat, but gets serious in a big hurry.
- Paper-Thin Disguise: The man who can make himself look like anybody, but wears a giant bear mask, disguises himself... by replacing the bear mask with a giant gopher mask.
- Scarily Competent Tracker: This seems to be his area of expertise, as we've seen him acting as an independent tracker several times now.
- Shapeshifter Guilt Trip: Possibly. Justin and Medusa both see people they've wronged in the past while looking at him at least.
- Sympathetic Magic: After someone's soul is reflected in his mirror, he can track them wherever they go. He can even reflect his own soul, allowing it to exist after his body is destroyed.
- Talking Weapon: As with all weapons.
- Wave-Motion Gun: His Solar Ray attack is a beam of concentrated sunlight.
Tsar Pushka
Tsar Pushka
- Demon Slaying: One of only three characters in the series to be confirmed with the anti-demon wavelength. As noted by Medusa, he's particularly effective at fighting Crona as a result... up to a point.
- Epic Flail: Despite being called a "Cannon Bullet", he can also become a sort of flail (with his neck becoming a sort of chain).
- Meaningful Name: "Pushka" means "cannon" in Russian. "Tsar pushka" is the largest bombard by caliber ever built.
Ding Dinga
Ding Dinga
- Alliterative Name: Ding Dinga
- Light The Way: He can reflect back light beams and leaves large rainbows trails behind when swung.
- Rainbow Motif: Fittingly enough, in Africa rainbows are considered an omen of death.
Djinn Galland
Djinn Galland
- The Faceless: His face behind his turban has never been shown.
- Genie in a Bottle: Him performing Soul Resonance with his meister creates one.
- Heart Symbol: The attack called "The Lovers." Probably also an example of The Power of Love.
- Meaningful Name: His last name is most likely a nod to Antoine Galland, the first European translator of One Thousand and One Nights.
- Tarot Motifs: Two of his forms are called Tower and Lovers and are stylized accordingly.
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