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The Desmond Family

One of the most powerful and influential families in Ostania. It’s rumored that the patriarch of the family, Donovan Desmond, is preparing to start a war between Westalis and Ostania.

The Family As A Whole

Ambiguously Evil: To varying degrees with each family member. As a whole, they are suspected of being pro-war Right Wing Militia Fanatics, hence why <WISE> wants to keep a close eye on them, particularly the influential Donovan. Although nothing has been truly confirmed at this time, it’s very obvious that they are a Big, Screwed-Up Family.
Big, Screwed-Up Family: As the story goes on, it becomes more and more clear that the whole family is very emotionally distant from one another. The parents are neglectful to their children to the point where they don't show up to their youngest son's entrance ceremony for Eden. The eldest son, Demetrius, is unable to understand anyone else's thoughts or feelings, including his family, and doesn't see it as worthwhile to try, and as a result he's an Aloof Big Brother towards Damian. Then there's Melinda's simultaneous love and hate for Damian, with the latter triggered upon the mention of her husband.
Brainy Brunette: Each family member has dark brown hair (although Donovan's is starting to grey), and are regarded as very intelligent people by their peers.
Foil: To the Forger Family as a whole. Despite their outward appearance as a more "traditional" nuclear family, there is plenty of evidence to suggest that the Desmonds are a Big, Screwed-Up Family, in contrast to the Forgers, who secretly regard themselves as a "fake" family but manage to have a very loving and healthy relationship with each other.
Psycho Rangers: With the exception of the eldest son Demetrius, each family member is a Foil to someone within the Forger Family, including the dog.
- Loid and Donovan are the fathers of the family and each has some distance from their family, but while Loid is slowly learning to bond with Anya and Yor, Donovan seems incapable of understanding other humans.
- Yor is an assassin who nonetheless has a great love for her husband and daughter, while Melinda is a normal woman but has some very conflicted feelings about her husband and sons.
- Anya is a Book Dumb telepath who puts in significant effort to help her parents with their goals and is loved wholeheartedly by them. Damian is Book Smart, but only seems to be interested in his studies in the hopes that they will get him acknowledged by his father.
- Bond and Max downplay this, since we haven't seen much of Max, but by all accounts he appears to be a normal Big Friendly Dog happy to be the family pet, while Bond is a Seer and is just as invested as his owners in achieving world peace, if only so he can enjoy said peace.
Shadow Archetype: In contrast to the Forger Family, who became a truly loving family despite it all being fake, the Desmond's affection for one another is close to non-existent.
Two First Names: "Desmond" can also be used as a first name.

Donovan Desmond

Voiced by: Takaya Hashi (JP), John Burgmeier (EN) ^{Foreign VAs}

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A former Prime Minister of Ostania, the current leader of the National Unity Party of Ostania and Damian's father. He has the honor of being the primary target of Operation Strix, Twilight's current mission.

Abusive Parents: When he finally speaks fully in Mission 38, he tells Loid within earshot of his own son that he considers his children strangers.
Alliterative Name: Donovan Desmond.
Ambiguously Evil: Despite being the main target of Operation Strix, neither Twilight nor the audience can say with absolute certainty how truly bad he is due to his reclusive and mysterious nature. In fact, one of the main objectives of Operation Strix is just to figure out what he is planning and if he really intends to harm the truce between Ostania and Westalis.
Animal Motifs: The owl. His eyes are perpetually wide and staring like an owl's, and WISE has made him the target of Operation Strix (Latin for "owl").
Big Bad: Functionally so, even if his plans and what danger he poses remain a mystery. He is the main target that Twilight must discover the secrets of in order to prevent a possible war between Ostania and Westalis.
Clint Squint: He has a habit of narrowing his normally wide-staring eyes into this expression whenever he's looking at someone with stern, judging intent. It's just as unnerving as his default expression.
Control Freak: Loid speculates that Donovan seeks control over the other nations because he believes he can't trust them to act on their own accord.
Education Papa: He's said to have accompanied Demetrius studying in the past, barely leaving his side. Considering this likely resulted in Demetrius becoming an Empty Shell, this had a profoundly deleterious effect.
Evil Is Not Well-Lit: The anime adaptation of his introductory chapter uses this to great effect. Walking into the scene while surrounded by armed escorts, Donovan is the only one to be almost completely shrouded in shadows until he finally steps into the sunlight to meet Loid face to face, his ghastly features slowly unveiled. Certain manga panels and anime shots also strategically place him in dim, shadowy lighting to further emphasize his ominous presence.
Evil Sounds Deep: Takaya Hashi gives him a gravely deep, chilling voice that befits his dark and menacing appearance, though the "evil" part still remains ambiguous (only alluded to).
Foil: To Twilight. Both of them are powerful fathers (more or less) who work to shape international politics, complete their work in the shadows of the public eye, and are often suspicious of the intentions of people around them. However, Loid ultimately strives for world peace, works hard to understand the people around him, and is increasingly caring towards his adopted daughter. Donovan’s paranoia has resulted in a man who actively promotes war and is clearly disinterested in his son’s life.
Gonk: As if his personality wasn't hideous enough, he looks like a dehydrated corpse that just decided to get up and start walking again.
Good Scars, Evil Scars: Though hard to spot when looking at him from the front, Donovan has two ugly, Frankenstein-like stitch marks located on his temples, implying a past case of surgical operation done to his brain area...
Greater-Scope Villain: As the target of Operation Strix, Desmond is the biggest overall threat in the story, but he hasn't directly appeared that often and much of his plans and motivations remain a mystery for now.
Jerkass: While Ambiguously Evil, his (so far) only on-screen appearance doesn't paint him in an even remotely favourable light, what with his speech of how he considers everyone, even his own family, as strangers, despite knowing full well his 6-year-old son can hear him. While his wife Melinda at least makes an effort to be nice to others, Donovan at most seems to only go through the motions of social niceties (as done when he politely declines Loid's offer of an apology gift and visit, which Twilight recognizes as a firm "no" that he cannot push against).
Knight of Cerebus: In contrast to the rest of the series, his appearances are always treated very seriously and full of ominous vibes given the great danger he represents to the overall narrative. Notably, every major arc since his introduction has been mostly serious.
Lack of Empathy: Coldly tells Loid within earshot of his own son that he doesn't care for Damian's problems and considers him a stranger, not even minding the fact his child was assaulted on the first day of school.
Looks Like Cesare: He's permanently pale and drawn, with Exhausted Eye Bags around his massive, bulging eyes.
Minor Major Character: Despite being the reason for the overall plot, he doesn't appear in person until Mission 37; prior to that, all we'd seen were photos and Imagine Spots.
The Paranoiac: The philosophy he espouses to Loid in Mission 38 paints him as this. As he puts it, everyone around him is a stranger (even his children), and one cannot fully understand strangers, so there's no way to feel true sympathy towards them.
Parental Neglect: At least in Damian's mind, his father couldn't care less about his well-being. Mission 38 confirms that he thinks very little of Damian or his problems.
Pet the Dog: Despite his aloof and dismissive attitude in general, when Damian tells him that he earned a Star for the midterms, Donovan tells the boy to continue striving, which is high praise coming from him.
Properly Paranoid: He's a recluse who hardly ever makes appearances to the public out of fear for his safety. Considering Loid's agency is targeting him (albeit not for his life), his paranoia is completely justified.
Reasonable Authority Figure: Being the leader of a large party with many connections within the school, he could've easily used his clout to have Anya expelled after she hit his son. Instead, he says it's fine and chalks it up to kids being kids. However, it's implied this is less about him being reasonable but more on how he considers his son's troubles unimportant.
Thousand-Yard Stare: He has huge, staring, wide-open eyes that make him look like a particularly deranged owl. Which is appropriate, considering that the "Strix" in Operation Strix means "owl" in Latin.
Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: He's basically a shriveled-up corpse with wide owl-like eyes, while his wife is a conventionally attractive woman.
Vile Villain, Saccharine Show: In contrast to the light-hearted nature of the series, Donovan is the psychotically paranoid head of what is implied to be an extreme right-wing political faction, an emotionally abusive father to Damian, and has aspirations of controlling other nations to the extent of being a threat to national security.
Villain Has a Point: His philosophy about how one can never fully understand strangers, even among family, has Loid internally agree that while trying to potentially start a war isn't the right way to go, Donovan Desmond isn't exactly wrong about his philosophy in several respects: ultimately, the concept of being able to achieve peace through communication and democracy isn't an easy path, and it's an idealistic outlook that may not hold up to the grimier realities of life. Sometimes, people can't fully see each other eye to eye no matter how much you try to understand the other. His managing Ostania during The War Just Before, having taken over from the previous prime minister (as said by Melinda in Mission 91), hints that what he saw during such times may have fueled this outlook.
When He Smiles: Subverted. He briefly flashes a cheerful, somewhat dorky expression that considerably lightens up his grim features. Yet this smile emerges while he completely dismisses his son Damian's pain, making his apparent cheerfulness uncomfortably callous instead of disarming.
When You Coming Home, Dad?: Damian doesn't see much of a point in returning home for the holidays because he knows his father won't be there.

Melinda Desmond

Donovan Desmond's wife and mother of their sons. Far more socially active and approachable than her husband, Melinda befriends Yor by chance. However, not everything may be as it seems.

Abusive Parents:
- Implied to be of the emotional neglect abuse sort. Yor's first encounter with Melinda shows that this woman is just as unconcerned as her husband when it comes to her own child's wellbeing, and even casually dismisses Yor's concerns when Yor tries to apologize for Anya punching Damian in school, then with a stone-cold expression bluntly tells Yor that that incident isn't worth any concern. Melinda's friends charitably describe her parenting style as very "hands-off."
- Mission 75 heavily indicates that something far more sinister is going on behind the scenes. When Anya peers inside Melinda's mind when she comes to pick-up Damian from the school trip incident, she discovers that this woman actually both loves and hates her son, enough to keep alternating between wanting to shower him with affection to a Yuri-like degree and then wishing to see him die a horrible death. Something that seems related to her husband, as the hate was only triggered immediately after Damian mentioned his father.
- Downplayed in Mission 88, as Melinda - while not having any physical contact with her son - did go to some trouble to get Damian the special cakes he wanted to give Anya (to 'repay his debt'), though Damian only found out about this later through his butler.
Affably Evil: What distinguishes her from her husband is she at least makes an effort to be nice, as shown by how she gives Yor a bunch of cakes for saving her and compliments her massive strength. The fact that she attends a social group says something too. By Chapter 91, it's ambiguous if she could actually be even considered strictly evil as she doesn't seem to support her husband's warmongering.
Ambiguously Evil: There are implications that she's aware of her husband's activities and may be a secret supporter of him, if not his direct accomplice, but nothing's confirmed as of yet. Chapter 91 at the very least suggests she doesn't support his warmongering, as her sympathy for Millie losing her father in the war appears genuine, and she admits that while he may not have started the war with Westalis, Donovan continuing it when he took office makes him just as responsible, and she holds herself accountable when placating Millie. Of course, it's entirely possible that she said that because she couldn't resist taking a jab at her husband.
Awful Wedded Life: Not outright stated beyond the implications of Loid noting that what intelligence has been gathered on her indicates she is "somewhat estranged" from the rest of the family, but heavily implied to be the case with Donovan as of Mission 75. Melinda arrives at Eden Academy to check on Damian, obviously worried sick for her son's safety like any other normal parent. But as soon as the boy mentions his father, Melinda's attitude suddenly turns icy cold and she tells Damian not to tell Donovan she came over to see him, bitterly referring to Donovan as simply "that man." In-between her sudden mood swing and her thoughts being filled with a conflicted desire to love her son while hating him enough to wish him dead because she sees him as a "burden" and a "curse" put upon her, it paints a very disturbing and twisted peek into the Desmond matriarch's status with her husband, whatever it may be. Chapter 76 clarifies she doesn't actually live with the rest of her family, instead having her own residence that she can freely return to, so it's unclear just how much she may or may not be constrained by the marriage.
Bait the Dog: She spends most of her introductory chapter acting like a grown-up version of Becky, forming an endearing Interclass Friendship with the insecure Yor and gushing over her incredible feats of superhuman strength. The ending reveals that she's the wife of the Desmond family, and the very next chapter has her display a more unsettling side to her personality by coldly dismissing her son along with the implication that she might be more deeply involved with her husband's machinations than it seems at first blush. Mission 75 complicates things further by indicating that she both loves and loathes Damian, the former for being her son and the latter for reminding her that she's stuck in a marriage with Donovan. It's ultimately Played With in that, outside of the subject of her family, she seems to be a legitimately sweet woman.
Berserk Button: When Melinda's reunited with Damian in Mission 75, Anya reads her thoughts and sees her showering Damian with affection. Then Damian brings up Donovan and her thoughts immediately shift to wanting Damian dead (alongside the affectionate ones).
Everyone Has Standards: Melinda certainly isn't the most friendly or empathetic person, but she seems genuinely disgusted by her fellow Patriots' Lack of Empathy towards Millie, going so far as to say they're acting little different from those who started the war in the first place.
Eye of Providence: The design on her earrings resembles this.
Family Eye Resemblance: Her youngest son Damian has a similar eye shape to her, including the eyelashes.
The Ghost: Her existence is briefly mentioned by Henry Henderson and Twilight in Chapter 8, but she does not physically appear until Mission 65.
Hero-Worshipper: She acts like one towards Yor after the latter saves the former from a nasty fall down a flight of steps in Mission 65. Unlike most other characters who would at least be a little freaked out by Yor's feats of superhuman strength, Melinda instead gushes over how incredible Yor is for being able to pull them off.
Interclass Friendship: She is the wife to the leader of the National Unity Party of Ostania and surrounds herself with other women who are clearly from society's upper crust. But Melinda takes a liking to and befriends Yor despite their middle-class status. Melinda also stops a member of the Lady Patriots from slapping Millie, and apologizes to her on Donovan's behalf, since Millie holds him responsible for her father being sent to fight and die during the war. Melinda also tells Millie that even if she doesn't like her because she's married to Donovan, she doesn't want Millie to hate Yor for being friends with her.
Lack of Empathy: Like her husband, Melinda cares not one bit that her son got physically assaulted on his first day at school. She casually dismisses the incident so quickly that even Yor is shocked by her behavior. Yor is further unnerved when Melinda suddenly drops the smile and coldly tells Yor to drop the issue when she tries to press it further. The truth, it seems, is far more complicated and disturbing, because Mission 75 reveals that Melinda wants to love her son but also secretly resents him enough to want him dead and gone from her life.
Odd Name Out: She's the only member of the Desmond family who doesn't have an Alliterative Name. The reveal of her deeply cracked mental state regarding her family, Donovan especially, in Chapter 75 helps to paint this as a means of symbolically showing her distance from the rest of her family; most loving families aside from the Forgers (themselves a fake family) within the context of the story typically revolve around alliterative names, so Melinda's maverick deviation from the norm helps illustrate how she's something of an outsider.
Parental Neglect: While she seems much more friendly and social than her reclusive husband, she too was not present during the family photo for the students accepted into Eden for as-yet-unknown reasons. It's also said that the reason she and her friends regularly gather is because, though their kids are their own flesh and blood, they have no idea how to handle them sometimes. One friend even directly describes the Desmonds' parenting style as "hands-off". Mission 75 indicates that she keeps her distance from her son because of her incredibly complicated feelings towards him, at once loving him like any mother would and despising his very existence for reminding her of her marriage to Donovan.
Parents as People: She's a very neglectful mother, but the distance she puts between her and Damian seems deliberate so as to not deal with her conflicting emotions towards him. She does love him, but the very knowledge that he's Donovan's son reminds her of the unhappy marriage she's stuck in.
Pet the Dog:
- In Chapter 76; though she doesn't join her son for breakfast, one of the butlers covertly mentions to Damian that she personally made the meal for him.
- In Mission 88, Damian learns that the incredibly expensive and rare tea cakes he wants to give Anya as a thank-you gift were obtained personally by Melinda, who went to great lengths to do so.
- In Chapter 91, she stops a member of the Lady Patriots, the club she's part of and organizes a yearly wounded veterans event, from slapping Millie after they got into an argument. She also apologizes on behalf of her husband since Millie holds Donovan responsible for starting the war and being the reason her father died in battle; even though Millie is actually wrong about this (it was Donovan's predecessor as PM who started the war and Donovan inherited leadership during the conflict), she still says Donovan bears a share of responsibility for Millie's pain.
Stepford Smiler: When it comes to her family at least, she's presented as having something much more unnerving behind her smiles. Yor telling her that Damian is happy in school has her visibly shaking and looking mortified despite the smile she keeps trying to maintain. Chapter 75 provides the first look inside her head, courtesy of Anya, and it more than lives up to expectations.
Token Good Teammate: For contextual values of "good". She's the only member of the Lady Patriots who doesn't discriminate against the younger generation out of a perceived and unfounded belief that they suffered less during the war. She also doesn't discriminate against class unlike her peers, as seen by her Interclass Friendship with Yor and the fact that she was completely willing to apologize to Millie on her husband's behalf for the death of Millie's father during the war.
Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: Melinda has a much more conventionally attractive appearance compared to her husband, and Damian seems to have inherited most of his looks from her.
Uncanny Valley Girl: Despite having conventionally good looks, after she reveals her name, her appearance becomes rather unnerving as a result of her seeming Lack of Empathy towards her own family among other implied issues that she's keeping just beneath the surface of her smiles.
Unwanted Spouse: Darkly implied. Anya's initial reading of Melinda's mind depicts a woman who wants to smother her son with affection. Then Damian asks Melinda not to tell Donovan about what happened, and her thoughts immediately shift to wanting Damian dead (in addition to the former affection). She also refuses to refer to Donovan by name or even as Damian's father, instead addressing him as "that man."
Villains Out Shopping: The only reason Yor and Melinda even meet is due to a chance encounter at a shopping mall.

Demetrius Desmond

Voiced by: Aoi Ichikawa (JP)

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The first son of Donovan Desmond, and Damian's older brother, a second-year middle schooler at Eden Academy.

The Ace: He is an Imperial Scholar at Eden Academy and is an exceptional student. Unfortunately, he sets the bar high for what is expected of his younger brother, which inadvertently puts Damian under a great deal of stress.
Alliterative Name: Demetrius Desmond.
Aloof Big Brother: He's like this with Damian, but it's not personal - he's like this with everyone, because he doesn't understand them.
Ambiguous Situation: When Anya goes to read his mind for the first time, it's strangely blank, no thoughts whatsoever, and she only manages to pick up on him thinking how he doesn't understand people soon after, and that thinking in general is a waste of time. It's unclear if he's simply on autopilot most of the time and only thinks when someone interacts with him, if there's something about his thoughts that Anya can't necessarily pick up on even with her powers, or if he just for the most part doesn't think anymore.
Book Smart: Just like his younger brother, if not more so. According to Twilight, he only ever missed one question during midterm exams. In the finals, he earned six Stellas for his exam scores.
Broken Ace: He's the best student at the Academy, netting 6 Stellas in the finals alone, but if Anya's reading of his mind means anything, he may be dead inside.
Brutal Honesty: He coldly tells Damian not to get his hopes up when his brother asks him to tell their father he wants to catch up with him.
Empty Shell: While Demetrius presents the image of being a normal student well enough, Anya's shocked when she hears nothing from his mind at first. The only impressions she manages to get are the occasional "I don't understand [X]", and even those are in reaction to related stimuli, rather than because it happens to be on his mind in the first place.
Establishing Character Moment: Twofold.
- In his debut merely as a voice on a phone, he is used to establish the strained state of the Desmond family's relationship, as he is cold to Damian.
- In his proper introduction, he is awarded with no less than 6 Stellas at once as he was either the highest or second-highest scoring student in several subjects. He is later shown to be weird and distant when Anya's attempt to read his mind reveals his mind is mostly blank, aside from mentioning he doesn't understand people and doesn't care to try.
The Ghost: He was this up until Mission 93; while he didn't appear on screen, he was referenced frequently, and was heard speaking on the phone with Damian at one point.
Lack of Empathy: In a different way from his father; he genuinely doesn't understand other people.
Like Father, Like Son: Demetrius shares his father's wide-eyed stare, lack of empathy, withdrawn behavior and peerless status.
No-Sell: Downplayed. When Anya tries reading his mind, she doesn't get anything from him, only registering something when he starts thinking about how he doesn't understand people.
Parental Favoritism: Played with. He was very much this as a child, his father personally being present for and supporting his studying, and stories of this meant Damian grew up believing that because he was The Ace Demetrius was able to earn his father's approval and attention. He is thus shocked to learn from Demetrius in Mission 93 that in truth he has almost as little contact with Donovan these days as Damian does.
Pet the Dog: While the first brief interaction we witnessed between him and Damian was not exactly warm, the fact remains he did stay true to his word and told his father about Damian wanting to meet with him at the school, despite there being no personal benefit for him.
Strong Family Resemblance: Contrasting Damian taking more after Melinda, Demitrius takes after both his parents, sharing Donovan's Thousand-Yard Stare but having Melinda's hair and eyelashes.
Thousand-Yard Stare: Shares his father's owl-like eyes, wide-open and staring. Whereas Donovan's are used to highlight how disturbing the man is and make him look more suspicious, Demetrius's are used to make him seem vacant or broken. Damian's flashback to when Demetrius was younger suggests he didn't always have this, as he had more normal eyes similar to Damian's.
Unseen No More: Finally appears in Mission 93.

Damian Desmond

See Eden Academy.

Max

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The Desmond Family's pet dog.

Big Friendly Dog: He is a large German Shepherd, but gets along very well with Damian.
Satellite Character: So far his only role is being the family pet dog that Damian adores.
Small Role, Big Impact: Although Max has only appeared in one scene so far, from Damian's memories as Anya was reading his mind, his existence is what convinces Anya to try to get a dog, believing that she could get closer to Damian through their connection as dog owners. This resulted in Bond being adopted by the Forger Family, saving Loid's life, and stopping another world war.
White Sheep: In a manner of speaking. He is the only member of the Desmond Family who has a good relationship with Damian.

Berlint City Hall

The current workplace of Yor Forger and Matthew McMahon for their civilian identities.

General

Tropes that apply to Yor's co-workers.

A Day in the Limelight: Chapter 91 gives all of the characters connected to City Hill - Yor and Matthew included, as is Dominic, who is seldom seen - more focus, helping to flesh out their dynamic further. Dominic in particular gets to play off the rest of the group, and Millie, as noted in her own entry, has her own small arc throughout the chapter as she faces her fears and confronts some of her personal demons regarding the war and how it affected her.
Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: Camilla is a blonde, Sharon is a brunette, and Millie is a redhead.
Girl Posse: Camilla, Millie, and Sharon form one despite all three of them being adult women. They also love to passively-aggressively pick on Yor, although Yor is too socially awkward to realize this and just assumes that they are giving her "constructive criticism".
Gossipy Hens: Camilla and her friends are constantly talking about rumors and stories around them.
No Full Name Given: Most of the employees of Berlint City Hall had only their first names revealed, with a few exceptions like Yor Forger, Matthew McMahon, and Millie Myers, and the latter's last name wasn't revealed until nearly 90 chapters after her introduction.
Slap-Slap-Kiss: Most of them gripe about their partners during the ladies' night, but they seem to be happy enough in their relationships. Humorously, Yor starts to worry that her own relationship is suspicious and incomplete because she doesn't have any Belligerent Sexual Tension with Loid.
The Three Faces of Eve: Yor's three female coworkers have this trope covered; Genki Girl Millie is the Child, mature Deadpan Snarker Sharon is the Wife, and Alpha Bitch Camilla is the Seductress.
Took a Level in Kindness: Camilla, Millie and Sharon all become progressively kinder to Yor overtime. Dominic lampshades this in Chapter 91, wondering exactly when the four women got so friendly with each other.

Camilla

"There's no way Yor can have a husband this smart and hunky!"

Voiced by: Umeka Shoji (JP), Morgan Garrett (EN) ^{Foreign VAs}

Yor's co-worker and a fellow civil servant.

Alpha Bitch: She's the dominant personality among Yor's coworkers, which means she's also generally the meanest to her. Even when she invites Yor to her party, she does little but try to humiliate her in front of everyone. Later chapters toned it down a bit, though she still has her eruptions of ugly envy.
Curtains Match the Window: She has blonde hair and yellow eyes when seen in color.
A Day in the Limelight: Chapter 24/Episode 16 is this for her as it focuses on Camilla teaching Yor how to cook.
Disproportionate Retribution: Her first reaction to Yor showing up with a handsome (fake) husband (i.e. Loid) is to throw a tray of hot food at them, which could've caused some serious burns if not for Yor's Super-Reflexes.
Green-Eyed Monster: When Loid turns up at the party in Chapter 2 and introduces himself as Yor's husband, Camilla gets jealous she got such a handsome and apparently well-educated man, and tries to embarrass her. In general, in later stories, Camilla's friendship with Yor only gets toxic when Camilla gets so envious of Yor that she says or does something mean.
Hoist by Her Own Petard: She attempts to humiliate Yor at her party by tossing piping-hot gratin at her under the guise of tripping. Yor simply catches the tray on her leg, which causes some of the gratin to go flying and burn the tip of Camilla's nose.
I Am Not Pretty: Implied. Despite acting like an Alpha Bitch, Camilla tends to react negatively or surprised when someone gives her a genuine compliment about her appearance or character. The way Dominic reassures her (telling her she is lovely and should have more confidence in herself) implies that Camilla's prickly nature toward Yor is due in part to her envy of Yor's good looks.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Mean and condescending as she can be, Dominic states she is a good person, just "prickly." Later chapters put much more emphasis on the "heart of gold" side, with her having multiple Pet the Dog moments to balance out her haughtiness.
Opposites Attract: Despite being an Alpha Bitch, Camilla's boyfriend, Dominic, is a kind and friendly Nice Guy who has been nothing but cordial to Yor.
Pet the Dog:
- Despite her animosity, she does help Yor finish and perfect her first good dish by adding a missing ingredient, going beyond what she needed to do. She seems genuinely moved by Yor pleading with her shortly before this as well. In this same event, she takes a notably softer tone with Yor once she remembers she and Yuri grew up without their parents, which is an understandable reason as to why they would end up as "train wrecks" (which she calls Yuri to his face.)
- In a later chapter, when Yor goes out drinking with the girls for the first time, she eventually realizes that Yor is making herself uncomfortable while trying to fit in and makes an effort to reassure her.
- When the employees of City Hall are setting up for a wounded veterans event, Camilla acts understanding towards Millie when the latter says the event reminds her of her father dying during the war. When the Lady Patriots show up and start causing a scene, Camilla even ignores the fact that the Lady Patriots have enough connections to sic the SSS on them and stands up for Millie.
The Resenter: Camilla seems to have it out for Yor from the start. Mission 24 has Dominic reveal her bad attitude towards Yor is due in part to jealousy over Yor's good looks.
Reused Character Design: Her design is at least partially based on the enemy spy woman from Endo's I SPY one-shot whose MC inspired Loid's character.
Slut-Shaming: Her last-ditch attempt to get Loid wary of Yor is claiming that she visited a lot of guys at hotels for "massages" (Yor silently corrects it as acupuncture but even then it's actually a Deadly Euphemism for her work as an assassin). Unfortunately for Camilla, Loid sees this as a positive reinforcement of Yor's dedication to do anything to raise her brother.
Supreme Chef: According to her boyfriend, Dominic. To her credit, she was able to teach Yor how to cook at least one decent dish, which is a lot more challenging than it sounds. She also seems to have substantial knowledge of the cooking cultures in various parts of Ostania, being able to figure out the missing ingredient in the stew Yor made simply based on where Yor grew up.
Tsundere: In both the romantic and platonic sense:
- When it comes to her interactions with Dominic, she clearly loves him but is also terrible at conveying it other than through blustering.
- After some Character Development, Camilla becomes a non-romantic example towards Yor later in the story. She is still pretty snippy, but there is a clear underlying fondness that Camilla has for her co-worker that wasn't there at the start of the series. Even calling Yor her "angel" during Mission 79, when Yor offered to help Camilla with her overtime work, but goes back to her prickly self when reminded that Yor still owes her for the cooking lessons.
Unknown Rival: She tries to be Yor's Sitcom Arch-Nemesis, however, Yor is too socially oblivious to realize that Camilla is bullying her and views Camilla as a "good person", much to Camilla's own surprise.

Millie Myers

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Voiced by: Manaka Iwami (JP), Katelyn Barr (EN) ^{Foreign VAs}

One of Yor's co-workers who is a part of Camilla's Girl Posse.

A Day in the Limelight: Chapter 91 gives her a bit of extra nuance, revealing that her father died in the war, leaving her resentful of the government officials she blames for starting it and causing her to have trouble looking at soldiers that remind her of him.
Alliterative Name: Millie Myers.
Beta Bitch: She acts as the supportive secondary bitch to Camilla's Alpha Bitch.
Disappeared Dad: Her dad died during the war; she was very young at the time and doesn't remember him too well, but she's still in emotional turmoil at things that remind her of him.
Fair-Weather Friend: Early on, in contrast to Camilla, who does the bare minimum to hide her dislike of Yor, and Sharon, who is mostly just indifferent towards her, Millie is outwardly the friendliest to Yor among the Girl Posse. However, that didn't stop Millie from making fun of Yor behind her back and joining in with Camilla in their microaggressions against their co-worker. Later it becomes downplayed, as after Yor stands up for her at the Lady Patriot-organized event, she admits that her opinion of Yor has improved (albeit she says so in an Innocently Insensitive manner).
Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: Subverted, if not deconstructed. At a special event, Millie reveals that she feels uncomfortable around war veterans, believing that they take their lives for granted since whatever trauma or injuries they may have suffered, they at least came back from the war alive, which is more than can be said for her father. Upon hearing this, the Lady Patriots state bluntly that that's no excuse for "shirking [her] duties", pointing out that she's not the only one who lost family in the war and accusing her of making a "solemn occasion" all about her. Yor, Camilla and Sharon, however, come to Millie's defense, pointing out to the Patriots that not everyone can be as strong as they are and what they see as the younger generation making light of their suffering is simply them pointing out that they suffered just as much in their own way (perhaps even more so since they were only children at the time). It doesn't help that the Patriots' attitude is dripping with hypocrisy, i.e. they claim the event is about "supporting each other" yet are showing No Sympathy to a grieving woman who lost her father.
Genki Girl: She is an extremely lively and mischievous woman. Chapter 91 reveals this is at least partially a façade, however, with her having some deeply-buried trauma from losing her father.
Hates Being Alone: A result of losing her dad at an early age.
Jerkass Has a Point: Once she sees that Yor really is friends with Melinda Desmond, Millie, already on the verge of a breakdown, is pushed over the edge, demanding to know how Yor could be friends with the wife of the very man who started the war in the first place. While McMahon points out that it was actually Desmond's predecessor who was Prime Minister when the war started, Melinda admits that Millie isn't entirely wrong, since while her husband may not have started the war, he was Prime Minister for most of it, and as such bears responsibility for keeping it going as long as it did. She even goes so far as to say that Millie has every reason to hate her.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Downplayed compared to Camilla, since she gets less focus, but as Yor opens up and becomes more of a friend to her coworkers, Millie becomes friendlier to her, even if she still likes teasing Yor.
Kick the Dog: In Chapter 2/Episode 2, when she suggests to her friends that they should maybe report Yor to the authorities after she came to Camilla's party without a date. Even with the general Cold War attitudes of the setting, this was still after Yor was stood up (though they think she just lied about having a boyfriend).
Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: With her section chief whom she believes is a Dirty Old Man. During her introduction, she tries to convince Yor to put boogers in his coffee. Later on, she stated that she wishes for the section chief to be arrested by Ostanian's Secret Police, all while he is in earshot.
Trauma Button: Veterans are a sore spot for her, even disabled ones; they managed to make it home while her dad didn't, and as a result, she finds it difficult to be around them for any length of time.

Sharon

Voiced by: Mirei Kumagai (JP), Leah Clark (EN) ^{Foreign VAs}

Another one of Yor's co-workers who is a part of Camilla's Girl Posse and internally was the only married woman among the female city hall clerks before Yor met Loid.

Aloof Dark-Haired Girl: She is the most composed of Yor's co-workers and happens to have dark hair.
Curtains Match the Window: Has dark colored hair and eyes.
Deadpan Snarker: Although Sharon is the least hostile member of Camilla's Girl Posse, she is still pretty snarky and isn't above giving digs to her co-workers.
Everyone Has Standards: While she happily gossips about Yor just like the others, she chides her two friends for suggesting something as ridiculous as reporting her as a spy just because she's a lonely weirdo who lied about having a boyfriend, and tells them to leave her alone.
Insult Backfire: In chapter 43, when noticing that Yor is more cheerful than usual, Sharon quips that Yor might be happy because she has become "somewhat normal". Upon hearing this, Yor becomes ecstatic and is relieved that her co-workers think she's "normal". Camilla chastises Sharon for building up Yor's confidence.
Pet the Dog: She's the one who invites Yor along to their girls' night get-together, which, while very embarrassing for Yor who Can't Hold Her Liquor, helps humanize her to the rest of the gang.
Smoking Is Cool: She is usually seen with a cigarette in her hand, which is likely meant to highlight her as the maturest of Yor's co-workers.
Unkempt Beauty: In the same vein as Yor as she doesn't put much effort in dolling herself up despite her natural good looks. She claims to have stopped caring about her appearance after having her first child.

Dominic

Voiced by: Shōhei Kajikawa (JP), Jordan Dash Cruz (EN) ^{Foreign VAs}

Camilla's boyfriend and Yuri's best friend outside of his Secret Police work.

Best Friend: Seems to be Yuri's closest friend outside of his Secret Police work.
Locked Out of the Loop: He doesn't know that Yuri is a member of the Secret Police despite being good friends with him.
Lovable Coward: He's a Nice Guy for sure, but in Chapter 91, he's the only one of the office group who doesn't stand up for Millie when she's getting insulted and patronized by the Lady Patriots- not because he doesn't care that it's happening, but because he's too afraid of making a scene or getting reported to the Secret Police.
Morality Pet: To Camilla. He frequently tries to get her to be nicer to Yor and is able to convince Camilla to teach Yor how to cook, despite Camilla's protests. He's also one to Yuri to an extent, given that the two men being friends is definitive proof that Yuri cares about people other than Yor.
Nice Guy: He is a lot more cordial and friendly compared to his girlfriend Camilla. Camilla, for her part, thinks he's too nice for his own good, which is actually shown to hold weight in Chapter 91; when the office ladies all present a united front against the Lady Patriots and defend Millie, he's too concerned with being rude or rocking the boat to join in.
Opposites Attract: He is a Nice Guy who is very friendly to Yor, while his girlfriend is an Alpha Bitch that low-key despises her (but secretly does have a heart, somewhat).
Satellite Character: Doesn't get much characterization other than being Camilla's Nice Guy boyfriend, and Yuri's friend.

State Security Service

Ostania's Secret Police whose primary work includes hunting down spies like Twilight and maintaining order via the suppression of various forms of public and private speech and behavior that the government considers taboo. They are widely feared by the citizens of Ostania and are a major obstacle to Operation Strix's success.

General

Tropes that apply to the organization as a whole.

Became Their Own Antithesis: Yuri and the operatives he works with regularly are all utterly convinced that they are the best defense Ostania has against terrorists and insurgents. Given Yuri's own understandable but ultimately misplaced motive to defend his sister and the country he loves at any cost, it's implied most of them went in with lofty intentions and never really noticed the moment they became willing to get their country's children caught in their crossfire.
Beware the Nice Ones: The Director of the SSS seems to be jovial, and even jokes with subordinates, like Yuri. In Mission 82 he took one of his agents and began to have a friendly chat with him before the conversation took a dark turn by telling him he relayed some incorrect information to the sector where other agents are awaiting to greet Wheeler with the captured Westalis intelligence. The SSS Director angrily ousts this agent as the WISE mole, and has him arrested as an enemy spy.
Create Your Own Villain: Because of their violent and brutal nature, the SSS is responsible for the evolution of the Red Circus into a terrorist group. Billy Squire even lampshades this in Mission 73 as he explains to Professor Henderson that the Red Circus was originally a peaceful group that merely protested against the SSS for what they thought was right. However, the SSS cracked down on the peaceful protest march they once had, resulting in Billy's daughter, Biddy, getting killed along with many others. This, coupled with Billy being labeled an accomplice despite not even being a member of the Red Circus at the time, caused him to snap and join the Red Circus, the remaining members of which were rapidly descending into terrorist activity to enact vengeance. Billy would serve as the Arc Villain of the Red Circus Arc.
Creator's Culture Carryover: While most of the things about the SSS are based on different German counter-espionage corps in the twentieth century, Endo left in one very Japanese thing: the rank badges. The rank badges worn by SSS personnel are based on those used by the Imperial Japanese Army, only rotated 90 degrees.
The Dreaded: Everyone in Ostania is understandably afraid of them. Both Twilight and the Thorn Princess do everything they can to avoid being noticed by these guys. It's not that most of them are individually all that capable, but everyone knows being put in their custody means likely torture and death. The SSS are well aware themselves that most of the citizens hate them, but rarely let it bother them as they are convinced what they do is necessary.
Evil Versus Evil: They are a constant looming threat to the Forger Family, and the story makes it very clear that they are not the good guys. However, they will take action against terrorists like Keith Kepler and the Red Circus if the safety of their country is threatened, even if their methods are often not much better than the terrorists they fight against.
Fascist, but Inefficient: The SSS's brutal methods haven't stopped WISE's intelligence network from penetrating all over Ostania. We see more than one terrorist attack in Berlint thwarted only thanks to intervention from WISE. Overall their main claim to fame simply seems to be making their own citizens fear and hate them.
Inconsistent Dub: The official English translations are inconsistent in their translation of Yuri and his handler's ranks. The author uses the IJA titles Shōi and Chūi for the two respectively, which in the rank systems of most Anglophone militaries would equate to the ranks of Second and First Lieutenant, a translation also used by both Crunchyroll's dub and subtitles. However, Netflix's Asian English subtitles use "Second Lieutenant" and "Lieutenant," and Viz's translation outright gives the handler a rank up^note as the Captain, with Yuri as the Lieutenant.
Leitmotif: "State Security Service", a dark and ominous brass-heavy melody with electronic accents emphasizing their looming presence over freedom in Ostania.
My Country, Right or Wrong: The SSS are willing to do anything and everything to ensure that Ostania remains politically stable, even if it means the arbitrary arrest of any citizen that may, or may not, be an enemy spy, torturing citizens to get any useful information out of them, violently cracking down on a peaceful protest march, or even allowing the children of the nation's financial and political elite, including the Chairman of the National Unity Party's youngest son, to get killed by terrorists, or die in the crossfire.
No Historical Figures Were Harmed: Their uniforms, ranks, and methods all peg them as being based specifically on The Stasi, the East German Secret Police.
Obliviously Evil: Ultimately their major flaw is that they are completely unaware of just how corrupt and vile their actions ultimately are in the name of defending their country. Their actions are all done in defense of their nation, but often the cure is worse than the sickness. Government protestors are kidnapped and exiled at best; lethal force is not uncommon during group protests; their paranoia regarding terrorists and insurgents leads them to occasionally terrorize people who don't fit the social norm, like women who haven't found husbands and boyfriends past their mid-twenties; and they're quick to resort straight to violence, even if children are caught in the crossfire, utterly convinced that is not just the best option, but oftentimes the only option. The members of the SSS are so convinced of the sanctity of their mission to defend their nation that they rarely stop to question if they at some point Became Their Own Antithesis.
Police Brutality: In Mission 10, Yuri is seen beating a treasonous government official after the said official was shown evidence of selling state secrets to fund his extramarital affairs, with the heavy implication that if Yuri didn't kill him right there, he would've been executed soon after, all within a day and without a trial. In Mission 73, Billy Squire tells Professor Henderson that he became the leader of the Red Circus after his daughter, Biddie, was killed when the SSS cracked down on the peaceful protest march she was taking part in.
Secret Police: Exactly What It Says on the Tin. They are the mostly morality-free law enforcement within Ostania. They openly admit their priority is protecting the country rather than the citizens, and in practice "protecting" the country for them often amounts to covering up anything that could mar the appearance of stability in Ostania rather than actually fixing its problems. Notably, they aim to make it seem like terrorist groups don't even exist in the country.
Shoot the Hostage: As shown in the Red Circus arc, while they will try to save hostages when it is convenient for them, they will readily sacrifice citizens to eliminate a high-profile target, even if the hostages are school children of powerful citizens.
Well-Intentioned Extremist: They could be considered this as the majority of its members genuinely want to protect their country from terrorists and spies and believe they are doing what is right (or at least necessary "dirty work"). But their methods are questionable at best and they have been known to arrest and even kill innocent people for the flimsiest of reasons (i.e. arresting a woman who is suspected of being a spy for being single, or killing people for peacefully protesting) and their work encourages a sense of paranoia and fear among the citizens. Of course, they prioritize "protecting" the country above anything else.
Would Hurt a Child: They were ready and willing to Shoot the Hostage when Billy Squire and the Red Circus kidnapped two buses full of Eden Academy students.

SSS Lieutenant

Voiced by: Yasuyuki Kase (JP), Aaron Campbell (EN)

A scarred lieutenant who acts as Yuri Briar's direct superior and handler within the SSS.

Good Scars, Evil Scars: He has some pretty nasty scars on the left side of his face, and is a high ranking member of the Secret Police.
The Handler: Acts as this for Yuri.
Jerkass Has a Point: In chapter 14/episode 9, he tells Yuri that he should distance himself from Yor, claiming that his relationship with her is a hindrance that will keep him from doing his job properly. Given that Yuri's sister complex is precisely the reason he can't figure out that Loid is Twilight, the Lieutenant has a point, even though it's obvious he's just saying this as a means to fully convert Yuri to their cause.
No Name Given: Despite being a major recurring character, he is only ever referred to as "Lieutenant".
Straight Man: To some of Yuri's comedic tendencies in regards to his Big Sister Attraction towards Yor.
Unusually Uninteresting Sight: He complains about how often Yuri gets hit by cars and urges him to pay more attention, apparently resigned to Yuri's impossible resilience.
Villainous Cheekbones: Has high cheekbones and is a very intimidating man.

Yuri Briar

See Forger Family & Associates.

Winston Wheeler

A former member of WISE who turned out to be a double agent working for the SSS. He stole important documents from Westalis regarding WISE's operations in Ostania, including Operation Strix, putting Twilight's mission in jeopardy.

The Ace: Is the most capable Ostanian agent introduced thus far, with Twilight himself calling him "extremely skilled". He's demonstrated Twilight-like awareness of his surroundings, fooled WISE for many months as a deep cover agent, and manages to escape across the border to Ostania while killing or eluding all his pursuers when he is finally discovered. He later escapes capture with impressive physical feats despite his hands being tied, throws a knife into the barrel of Nightfall's gun, and sees through Twilight's Yuri disguise simply from reading his footsteps before proceeding to defeat him with minimal injuries to himself (admittedly, Twilight was already exhausted and injured from fighting the real Yuri).
Alliterative Name: Winston Wheeler.
Arc Villain: Of the WISE Traitor arc.
Broken Ace: His skills and accomplishments are nothing to scoff at, but they belie a man so paranoid that he is willing to turn a large-scale conflict into a personal game just to keep himself from gaining any personal attachments.
Deep Cover Agent: He was a member of WISE who has been secretly working for the SSS. He even worked with Twilight on a mission at one point.
Didn't See That Coming: Being an extremely skilled former WISE agent, he can easily read the movements of others or how they would react. However, thanks to his lack of personal connections, Wheeler didn't expect Nightfall's feelings towards Twilight to cause her to go berserk and attack much harder and faster than he anticipated. He even becomes shocked and confused as to how and why she managed to hit so hard and continued her assault even with both arms broken/dislocated.
Dirty Coward: Nightfall accuses him of being this while delivering a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown. For all his talk of being ahead of everyone else by having no emotional attachments, she believes he's divorced himself of all convictions because he's too afraid of dying or being betrayed and is looking for any excuse to cut his own losses.
Double Agent: He is a spy from Ostania who was sent to infiltrate the Westalian Intelligence. It is theorized by WISE that he was the one who leaked information on the other agents, hence why WISE is so short-staffed throughout the story.
Evil Counterpart: His introduction chapter quickly establishes him as the State Security Service's version of Twilight, being a highly skilled and competent Deep Cover Agent who even worked with the man himself on a past mission and can attest to his skills. The two also wear very similar suits. Twilight even disguises himself as Wheeler in Chapter 82. A major point of difference between the two that furthers them being counterparts is summarized by Nightfall, namely where Twilight values his comrades and genuinely believes in his work to the point of massive self-sacrifice, Wheeler treats the whole conflict as a game and prioritizes his own amusement and survival over anything more noble.
Fatal Flaw: He can predict a number of actions his opposition would take, but his one blind-spot is his lack of personal connections. Without them, he has no idea the capacity for wrath one is capable of if their loved ones are threatened, which he painfully finds out when Fiona goes berserk in response to him harming Twilight, causing her to hit much harder and faster than he anticipated.
Hyper-Awareness: Like Twilight, he can sense the intentions of people watching him, realizing instantly when Nightfall identifies who he is.
Love Is a Weakness: In Mission 85, when he confronts Nightfall, he tells her that she can never beat him because he doesn't trust or care about anyone, which allows him to never get betrayed and focus on his mission. Nightfall then charges at him and completely obliterates him (though at the cost of severely injuring herself), telling him that the reason he can't beat her is because she deeply cares for someone (Twilight), and is willing to do anything for that person. She further condemns him as weak because he is afraid to die, and afraid to care about anything including his own mission and his own people, instead treating his mission as if it is a game to play for his personal amusement.
The Mole: Wheeler's an Ostanian double agent who was discovered working within the Westalis government and is likely responsible for the recent spy hunts that decimated WISE's numbers shortly before the series began. When he was finally discovered, Wheeler escaped with a load of top-secret information, including the plans for Operation Strix and the names and locations of the remaining WISE agents in Ostania. Having worked alongside him at one point, Twilight knows how capable, and dangerous, Wheeler is, and conversely, after seeing what an effective spy Twilight was during their joint mission, Wheeler is the reason why Twilight has become Ostania's most wanted enemy spy.
No-Nonsense Nemesis: His Establishing Character Moment in Mission 81 is him killing off his pursuers with deadly efficiency in the span of 4 pages and later managing to evade several of WISE's top agents without them noticing he's already gone, making it very clear that this guy is both competent and dangerous. He's also very capable in close-quarters combat, as he managed to defeat (the admittedly already exhausted and injured) Twilight in chapter 84 by the time Fiona arrived at the scene.
Small Role, Big Impact: Although he isn't introduced until Mission 81, it is theorized in-story that he is the one who caused WISE to lose many of its agents and why the organization is so short-staffed at the beginning of the series. This would make him indirectly responsible for Twilight having to take on so many additional missions and even the creation of the Forger Family, since a suitable female agent was not available at the time to play the part of Loid's wife.

Chloe

One of Yuri's former classmates in college and someone who both respects and is frustrated with him as a fellow intelligence officer.

A Day in the Limelight: Mission 89 is this for her as it gives Chloe a proper introduction to her character and explores her relationship with Yuri as the two go on a mission together. Before the chapter she was a seemingly minor SSS officer during the WISE Traitor arc.
Anti-Villain: Even more so than Yuri, given how she calls him out for not considering his sister's feelings more, in contrast to the Lieutenant trying to get Yuri to distance himself from her.
Foil: To Fiona, bordering on Good Counterpart. Both are female secret agents who work with Yor's brother and husband, respectively, and oppose their male colleague's actions in one way or another. However, Fiona is the Token Evil Teammate of <WISE> who disapproves of Loid's "family man" antics and tries to get him to focus on his mission more, while Chloe is the Only Sane Man of the SSS who disapproves of Yuri's fixation on his work and tries to get him to consider his family more.
Get A Hold Of Yourself Man: After having to save Yuri's life when he recklessly charges into a crime den and almost gets knifed, Chloe fetches him with two of these that somehow manage to hurt him right through his impossible resilience.
Only Sane Man: She has a normal human reaction to some of the crazy things Yuri does, both in terms of the depth of his creepy obsession with his sister and his wild antics as a secret policeman.
"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Delivers one to Yuri after she saved him from getting stabbed after he took out most of a gang of militants. She tells him that eventually he's going to get himself killed for recklessly rushing headfirst into a mission while trying to prove that he's the only one strong and smart enough to protect Yor, who'll be sad if that were to happen. Chloe even tells him that for as talented as he was skipping high school and going straight to college, he never made an attempt at making any meaningful relationships besides Yor, and he has been putting his health on the line ever since, such as apparently pulling all-nighters for a week studying for an exam that he was one day late for anyway.
Remember the New Guy?: Chloe apparently joined the SSS around the same time as Yuri and has known him since he was 14. However, she doesn't appear in the story until Mission 80 and isn't given a proper introduction until Mission 89.
Signature Headgear: Chloe wears her black beanie wherever she goes, even when she's undercover. This is somewhat justified as she readily admits the SSS, as mainly a domestic counter-espionage agency, are used to being the authority wherever they go and thus aren't as accustomed to 'cloak-and-dagger' activities as other covert organizations, so she has less of a reason to refrain from such a personalized touch that could get her picked out of a crowd than someone from WISE.
The Smurfette Principle: She is the first and currently only known female operative among the SSS.
Undercover as Lovers: Subverted. In Mission 89, when Yuri doesn't want Yor seeing him on the job, Chloe points out that he really has nothing to worry about since they are not in uniform, and if they get caught together then Yuri could just claim that the two of them are lovers to avoid suspicion. However, Yuri refuses the proposal as he can't stand the idea of his sister believing that he is in a relationship, even a fake one, with another woman. Naturally, Chloe takes some offense to this.
Women Are Wiser: Chloe is generally more realistic about Yuri's weaknesses as a human being than her male coworkers, including Yuri himself. Even though she doesn't have Yuri's superhuman resilience or incredible detection skills, she still manages to save his life because of her sensible attitude while he's charging into a fight without proper prep work while exhausted and beaten up.

Leonardo Hapoon's Crime Syndicate

An organization who took control of Ostania's criminal underworld after the Gretcher family's fall from power. Their leader is the mysterious Leonardo Hapoon. The group serves as the main antagonistic faction of the Great Cruise Adventure arc.

Leonardo Hapoon

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The man who usurped the Gretcher family's underworld organization. While the family before would use their influence to try and keep bloodshed to a minimum and maintain the peace, Leonardo is much more merciless. He's an arms dealer who's making money off of pro war extremists.

Ambiguously Related: His physical appearance is identical to the scientist who experimented on Anya and Bond. However, a connection between the two has yet to be made in-universe, so currently it is up in the air if they are related to each other, or if they are quite possibly both the same person.
Arms Dealer: This seems to be his main source of income. It may also be why he is interested in starting a war between Ostania and Westalis. It's noted his clients include many of the rich and powerful in Ostania. The assassin Snoops believes he'd readily accept the deaths of these clients and friends if it could cause such a war.
The Don: He usurped the Gretcher crime family's organization and is the current head of Ostania's criminal underworld.
Greater-Scope Villain: Of the Great Cruise Adventure arc since he was the one who put the hit on Olka and Gram Gretcher, but never actually shows up in person.
Klingon Promotion: Becomes the leader of a crime organization by killing his leader and the leader's two sons.
Scary Shiny Glasses: His round glasses obscure his eyes to give him a more intimidating appearance. They are eerily similar to the glasses the scientists who experimented on Anya and Bond would wear.
Small Role, Big Impact: Throughout the entire manga, we've only seen him in flashbacks and exposition sequences, but he's the reason the entire cruise ship arc happens.
There Is No Kill Like Overkill: Hiring over two dozen elite warriors, all of whom are individually some of the most formidable fighters in the series, just to take out a non-combatant mother and her helpless infant son, is frankly the equivalent of knocking out a bad tooth with a rocket launcher. He simply wants them dead that much.
The Unfought: Due to being the Greater-Scope Villain of the cruise ship arc who avoids getting his hands personally dirty, none of the main cast, let alone Yor, ever directly encounter him.
War for Fun and Profit: Stated to be his ultimate goal.
Would Hurt a Child: He orders the death of Olka and her son, the latter of whom is still a toddler.

Snoops

Voiced by: Kazuyuki Okitsu (JP), Nazeeh Tarsha (EN)

An informant or "ops guy" who works for the Carnival of Killers sent after Olka and Gram Gretcher. "Snoops" possesses almost superhuman hearing abilities, being able to process multiple conversations at once. He has a multitude of bugs placed all over the Princess Lorelei cruise ship and listens to everything that is going on aboard the ship through these bugs in order to obtain information for the assassins.

Arc Villain: He along with the Assassins' Leader serves as the main antagonist of the Great Cruise Adventure arc. Although he seems like another underling at first, his attempt to bomb the cruise ship and betray his allies at the climax of the arc puts him on equal footing with the assassins' leader.
Beard of Evil: He has a somewhat small beard that ends in a triangular shape befitting his overall villainous appearance
Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: It's implied that he was planning on turning on the other assassins even if their assassination had gone off as planned, as he had planted time bombs all over the ship without telling anyone else. When the leader of the assassins finds out about it and attempts to flee with him on Snoops' raft, Snoops pulls a gun on him.
Creepy Monotone: His voice is calm, soft, and eerily monotonic, never showing emotions other than cold-heartedness and malice.
Dark Is Evil: Both his outfit and hair are black and he is an outright eerily horrible guy.
Didn't See That Coming: His plan to sink the cruise ship with hidden bombs to both kill Olka while pinning the blame on Westalis to spark further conflict between the countries likely would have gone off without a hitch. However, Snoops could not have anticipated Twilight happening to be on the ship, who helps disarm the bombs before they can go off. Furthermore, Twilight ends up tossing the last bomb overboard right where Snoops' raft is, throwing both him and the Asassins' Leader into the ocean.
Dissonant Serenity: He always speaks in a disturbingly calm tone no matter the situation and never loses his composture, even when his plan is thwarted.
Establishing Character Moment: His first appearance has him sitting cross-legged in the dark surrounded by various monitors and speakers, listening in on countless conversations at once. And he hones in further the moment he catches Gram's name, setting him up as the Arc Villain.
Evil Plan: Snoops was willing to sink a cruise liner full of civilians and VIPs if it meant restarting the Westalis-Ostania war, as it would allow his boss, and himself by extension, to make a fortune in trafficking weapons.
Eviler than Thou: Attempted. The assassins attempted to keep civilian casualties to a minimum, whereas he was willing to blow up the entire ship while his cohorts were still on it, with the implication being that he was planning to betray them from the beginning. He fails to completely one-up them when not only does Twilight disable all the bombs but the Assassins' Leader discovers his betrayal and directly confronts him just as he's making his escape.
Exit, Pursued by a Bear: Once Yor and the Director killed the assassins sent to kill the remaining Gretchers, Snoops climbed aboard a dingy, with the intent to sail to safety while the cruise ship was sunk by the time bombs he planted aboard. However, as he and the Assassin Leader fought in the dingy, Loid threw overboard the last bomb Snoops hid in the ship, the blast capsized the dingy, and Snoops and the Assassin leader are last seen surrounded by a school of hungry sharks.
Hoist by Their Own Petard: He hid bombs across the cruise ship so he could bring the ship down with everyone on board once the mission was complete. Twilight manages to help disable almost all the bombs and when he runs out of time to disarm the final one, he tosses it overboard...right near where the raft he and the assassins' leader are on.
Knight of Cerebus: Nothing about the threat he poses is played for laughs; he's an evil bastard through and through. His plan involving the murder of hundreds of innocent people with bombs installed in the cruise ship and the sadism he takes in it with a disturbing calm make him a truly sinister and dangerous menace.
Loves the Sound of Screaming: Admits that he loves to hear people scream in fear and states that he is looking forward to the "serenade" once the bombs he rigged sink the cruise ship.
Mad Bomber: Snoops always intends to abandon his cohorts when the mission is completed, leaving them and everyone else to die when he blows up the ship with the bombs he rigged. He is pretty gleeful at the idea of hearing everybody scream as the ship sinks.
Mask of Sanity: He seems calm and collected on the surface, but he's bloodthirsty enough to blow up everyone on the ship, including the other assassins.
Mission Control: Takes on this role among the Carnival of Killers, as he helps them track down their targets.
Mysterious Informant: Works for a Carnival of Killers and is a very shady man.
The Nameless: His actual name is never mentioned, so he is only referred by his nickname, Snoops.
No Honor Among Thieves: From his control room on the ship he directs the other assassins to the location of the Gretchers, with the intent that the other assassins would do the dirty work. Once the hit was complete, he would then bomb the cruise ship, sink it, and sail back alone to claim the prize money for eliminating the Gretchers once and for all.
Obviously Evil: His black outfit, dark and unkempt hair, blood-red eyes, pointed beard, cold, ruthless personality and eerily calm attitude quickly make you know he is someone with truly horrible intentions.
Red Eyes, Take Warning: You immediately know he's not a nice guy from a close-up of his blood-red eyes.
Screw This, I'm Outta Here: After most of his cohorts were killed by Yor and the Director, Snoops decides to cut his losses and flee the Princess Lorelei. But not before blowing up the ship to cover his tracks and in a last attempt to kill both the targets and the Garden assassins. Although the fact that these were well-hidden bombs with timers implies he always intended to betray his teammates.
Sinister Surveillance: Thanks to the bugs he planted around the Princess Lorelei, he can hear everything that going on around the ship, with the exception of a few select spots.
Soft-Spoken Sadist: He expresses the genuine pleasure he takes in planning to murder hundreds of people with the bombs he installed within the Cruise ship with Dissonant Serenity.
Super-Hearing: He can listen to multiple conversions at once and fully understands everything that is being said despite the overlapping noise. Thanks to this ability, he can listen to multiple radio transmissions at once from the many bugs he planted on the Princess Lorelei and is given a general idea of everything that is going on aboard the massive cruise ship at all times.
Suspiciously Similar Substitute: He is actually very similar to Keith Kepler, the villain of the previous long arc, being a Mad Bomber with limp black hair willing to incite a war with Westalis through an act of terrorism. Besides being physically older, the only major difference is that he personally isn't a Right-Wing Militia Fanatic but rather is being paid by one.
Team Killer: He planned to kill everyone on the entire ship by blowing it up, including his assassin teammates, but all the bombs were safely disposed of. When he attempts to kill the only remaining assassin left in the leader, he doesn't go too far before the final bomb that was thrown overboard cuts the fight short.
Uncertain Doom: The last time we see him, he's left stranded in the middle of the sea, after Loid destroys his safety raft, with his own bomb no less, along with the Assassins' Leader as they are being surrounded by sharks.
Vile Villain, Saccharine Show: He somehow manages to be the most evil person among a Carnival of Killers that wants to assassinate a mother and her infant son. Snoops planned to kill everybody, including his own cohorts, with the bombs he planted on the cruise ship, intending to frame Westalian terrorists for his own crimes, and expressed a desire for the soon-to-be sinking ship to "serenade" him with the screams of the passengers.

Assassins' Leader

Voiced by: Kosuke Toriumi (JP), Reagan Murdock (EN)

The unnamed leader of the Carnival of Killers hired by Leonardo Hapoon to kill Olka and Gram Gretcher.

Affably Evil: For a hit-man who's willing to kill a baby and his mother, he is pretty friendly and laid-back. He makes it very clear that he doesn't want any infighting among the Carnival of Killers, pointing out there is plenty of award money for everybody. He also wants to keep the civilian causalities to a minimum, killing another assassin for daring to suggest that the group should kill every baby and mother on the cruise ship just to be sure they got their target. With that being said, when he finds out that the Princess Lorelei is set to explode, he still cuts his losses and abandons his supposed comrades, fleeing in a lifeboat to fight another day.
Arc Villain: He along with Snoops serves as the main antagonist of the Great Cruise Adventure arc.
Combat Pragmatist: Attempts to fire at Yor when she and the sword-wielding assassin rush in for a Single-Stroke Battle. Unfortunately for him, Director was down but not out, and shoots him in the arm to disrupt the attempt.
Consummate Professional: To him, assassination is simply a job with a steady paycheck, one that he takes no unprofessional pleasure in, any more than a butcher would killing cattle for his daily bread. Therefore, anyone who takes unnecessary sadistic joy in killing is a disgrace to the profession, and a mad dog that should be put down as quick as possible.
Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: Serves as this to Keith Kepler and Cavi Campbell, the antagonists of the previous long story arcs.
- Keith, to put it bluntly, was a vile terrorist driven to bring both Westalis and his own country to ruin through a mass bombing out of a fanatical hatred for all Westalians, made worse by the fact that he was just a college student. The assassins' leader, on the other hand, is not only middle-aged in appearance but also Affably Evil. While his mission to kill a mother and child is still grim, it's also a goal that's smaller in scope and driven only by his need for a paycheck. He also tries to keep civilian casualties and attention overall to a minimum.
- Cavi is a Non-Action Guy Corrupt Corporate Executive who is so rich that money is no longer a concern for him. He happily spends his fortune on an underground tennis tournament. Despite his vast resources, Cavi at the end of the day turned out to be a Harmless Villain. This contrasts with the Assassin Leader who is Only in It for the Money and is willing to kill a baby and his mother to make ends meet.
Even Evil Has Standards: He was pretty disgusted when he realized Snoops planned to bomb the cruise ship, although mostly because Snoops intended to kill him and their teammates.
Exit, Pursued by a Bear: Once Yor and the Director killed the assassins sent to kill the remaining Gretchers, the Assassin Leader made his way to the dingy Snoops planed to sail to safety on while the cruise ship was sunk by the time boms he planted aboard. However, as he and Snoops fought in the dingy, Loid threw overboard the last bomb Snoops hid in the ship, the blast capsized the dingy, and Snoops and the Assassin leader are last seen surrounded by a school of hungry sharks.
The Leader: Takes on this role among the Carnival of Killers sent after Olka and Gram.
Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Accidentally sniffs out Snoops's last bomb and realizes what his cohort is planning. Thankfully, Anya was reading his mind at the time, and was able to inform the cruise's staff (and by extension, Loid) of the bomb's location. It gets even better when Loid unintentionally uses the bomb against him when Loid throws it out to sea as the leader and Snoops were fighting over a life raft.
Nightmare Face: His normally relaxed smile morphs into a disturbingly wide and twisted grin when he realizes he has located Olka's group.
No Name Given: He has yet to be given a name, or even a code name, despite being one of the main antagonists in a major arc (the longest one thus far).
The Nose Knows: Has an almost supernatural sense of smell that lets him track down his targets. It becomes a Chekhov's Skill when he accidentally sniffs out Snoops's last bomb while Anya was reading his mind. That he can't sense any scent from Yor also clues him in that she's no ordinary person and to be wary of her.
Only in It for the Money: While giving Yor a "Not So Different" Remark, he tells her that he has nothing against her or the Gretcher family, and just sees his profession as a way to put food on the table. He even offers Yor a cut of the bounty if she just stands aside. However, Yor finds the act of killing solely for money with no greater motive beyond that to be loathsome, and asks that he not compare himself to her.
Pragmatic Villainy: Though his desire to keep the ship's passengers from being caught in the crossfire is primarily motivated by consideration for his client, Leonardo Hapoon, who has several important customers on the cruise and who may withhold payment to the assassins if something happened to these clients; The Nameless Leader also considers Assassination to be a gentlemanly profession that should be conducted with a code of honor and decorum; kill only those who you are paid to, no less and no more.
Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Although he fully intended to complete his mission even after most of his underlings have been killed and being injured by the Director, he decides to cut his losses when he realizes that his teammate, Snoops, has planted bombs on the Princess Lorelei as a means to killing everyone on the ships, including the other assassins.
Uncertain Doom: The last time we see him, he is left stranded with Snoops in the middle of the sea surrounded by sharks, after Loid destroys the safety raft he is on with Snoops's last bomb.
Villain Respect: Towards Yor during the climax of the Great Cruise Adventure arc after realizing that she is Not in This for Your Revolution when she offers to let the remaining assassins leave with their lives. He refuses on the grounds that he was already given a down-payment, he and his minions can't exactly "walk away" from a cruise ship in the middle of the sea, but most importantly he knows Yor's superior, the Director, has already made up his mind to kill all of the assassins sent after Olka and Gram (the Director explaining that he believes the world will be better off without assassins who seek war for profit). He still appreciates the sentiment. In return, he makes it clear that he would spare Yor if she either fled from the fight or stood aside. He even offers to give Yor a share of the bounty as an incentive, under the assumption she was Only in It for the Money.

Cruise Ship Assassins

Sickle-and-Chain Barnaby voiced by: Masafumi Kobatake (JP)

A huge group of assassins hired by Leonardo Hapoon to kill Olka and Gram Gretcher so they can claim the bounty for themselves.

Always Someone Better: They are described as renowned killers, but the majority of them are effortlessly taken out by both Yor and the Director (who notes they are "hardly in the Garden's league").
Blade on a Rope: Sickle-and-chain Barnaby wields a kusarigama. He's defeated when Yor ties him up with it and knocks him unconscious.
Carnival of Killers: All of them are assassins trying to kill Olka and Gram Gretcher, and all of them are only in it for the bounty. Numbering among them are masters of a wide array of exotic medieval weaponry and martial arts. Notably they were mostly all working alone to begin with, only allying with each other when it was discovered the Garden was protecting their targets.
Carry a Big Stick: A bowler hat-wearing assassin uses one to fight Yor.
Cold Sniper: One of the assassins is a sniper that nearly manages to shoot both Olka and Gram, but Yor saves both of them and only gets grazed by the shot. Thanks to the far distance between him and Yor, he also sees and (barely) evades Yor's thrown dagger.
Conservation of Ninjutsu: Most of them that attacked Yor and Director en-masse or in quick succession failed to hurt them or do any meaningful damage. In contrast, the Swordsman who fights mostly by himself manages to knock out Director and comes the closest to actually killing Yor (in part due to her being tired from the previous fighting). Sickle-and-Chain Barnaby also chose to fight Yor on his own, and gave her a much harder fight than the assassins that attacked as a group; although, to be fair, Yor also had to worry about the civilians surrounding them during their fight because they thought they were just street performers (and Barnaby at least believed himself superior in combat to the other assassins).
Cruel and Unusual Death:
- Knocker, the assassin disguised as a room service worker gets one of Yor's daggers right through the head, pinning him to a wall. His feet are shown twitching after this, for his sake hopefully just post-death spasms.
- The Static Stun Gun user gets his own electrified baton shoved into his mouth, electric-end first, with such force that his teeth are broken and the baton is left impaled in his skull.
- The brawler assassin gets his entire torso torn apart courtesy of Yor's Razor-Sharp Hand.
Curb-Stomp Battle: Most of them who fight Yor fail to land a hit on her before being dispatched unceremoniously. Those who did manage to weren't able to do much beyond annoying her before being killed off. After all of them (except the sword-wielder) are dealt with, the only prolonged damage Yor complained about was a jammed finger from using Razor-Sharp Hand on the brawler assassin.
Even Evil Has Standards: Though they’re otherwise quite morally bankrupt and seemingly have no qualms about going after children, the Cruise Assassins nonetheless try to keep collateral damage to a minimum and they won’t kill anyone who they haven’t explicitly been hired to kill. When one of their numbers suggests making their job easier by just killing every woman and child on the ship, the rest of them are utterly disgusted and execute him on the spot.
Exotic Weapon Supremacy: Although about half a dozen or so of the assassins utilize semi-automatic pistols and high-caliber sniper rifles, the majority of the Carnival of Killers are elite warriors who exclusively specialize in the use of melee medieval weaponry coupled with martial arts, and unlike their firearm-bearing compatriots gave Yor an actual challenge to survive.
Killed Mid-Sentence: The "King of Chakrams" doesn't even get to finish his introductory speech before Yor offs him with a dagger to the head.
King of Chakrams: I am the King of Chak-
(cut to next panel, with him lying on the ground and a hole through his head)
Only in It for the Money: All of them want to be the ones to assassinate Olka and Gram, as the bounty goes to the one who manages to do so.
Neck Snap: The Cold Sniper assassin is killed by Director via this method, with his head horribly tilted when his body is shown. We actually see the neck snap from his own perspective as his view through the sniper scope suddenly tilts to the side.
Poisoned Weapons: One of the assassins had a poison smoke disperser in his mouth, stated to be enough to kill a bear. Unfortunately, Yor's Acquired Poison Immunity made that have little to no effect on her.
Quantity vs. Quality: The Quantity compared to Yor's and Director's Quality. There's a few dozen of these assassins, but all of them (bar the swordsman) are relatively easily dispatched by the duo. Director even remarks to Yor that while their enemies are capable and she can't afford to hold back against them, none of them is a match for a Garden assassin.
Razor Floss: "Esmerelda, Master of Wire" uses razor floss. She never gets to use it due to Yor offing her right after she does her introductory speech.
Rings of Death: The King of Chakrams wields a few razor chakrams. He never gets to use any of them due to being Killed Mid-Sentence in his introductory speech.
Room Disservice: Knocker attempts to kill the Gretchers by pretending to be serving room service. Too bad Yor is able to detect him cocking his silenced pistol a split-second early—which is good enough to push the Gretchers out of the line of fire... and then pins Knocker to the wall with her stilettos—through his skull.
Static Stun Gun: One of the assassins manages to strike Yor with an electrified baton. He shortly gets rewarded with said baton jammed through his mouth, electric end-first.
Talking Is a Free Action: Defied. Esmerelda, Master of Wire, and the King of Chakrams are shown dead on the floor in the very next panel after verbally introducing themselves. The latter doesn't even get to finish his introduction.
Team Killer: Two of them kill one of their own when he decides to suggest killing every woman and child on board.
Use Their Own Weapon Against Them:
- Sickle-and-chain Barnaby gets tied up by his own kusarigama chains courtesy of Yor.
- The Static Stun Gun wielding assassin gets killed by having his own stun gun stabbed into his mouth, electric end-first.
Wide Eyes and Shrunken Irises: Most of them have these, to signal just how ready to kill they are.
Wolverine Claws: A diminutive assassin uses a pair of these. While Director is capable of fending them off with his mop, he's too agile for him to shoot. Yor proves even quicker though and dispatches him.
Would Hurt a Child: All of them are very willing and eager to kill Gram, who's only a baby.

Swordman

Voiced by: Fuminori Komatsu (JP)

One of the assassins among the Carnival of Killers hired by Leonardo Hapoon to kill Olka and Gram Gretcher. He is regarded as the strongest fighter within the group.

Boss in Mook Clothing: At first he seems to be just another colorful assassin among the Carnival of Killers, that is until he knocks out an operative of the Garden and Yor's superior, Director McMahon, with relative ease. Yor even states that he is in a league of his own compared to the other killers.
Climax Boss: Of the Great Cruise Adventure arc. He is Yor's final and strongest opponent of the arc. Additionally, it is through fighting him that Yor has her Epiphany Comeback. However, Anya and Loid still have to deal with Snoops' bombs after the swordsman's defeat.
Conservation of Ninjutsu: All the previous assassins that attacked Yor and Director in numbers or in rapid succession are quickly curb-stomped. In contrast, this guy fights mostly by himself and not only knocks out Director but also comes the closest to actually killing Yor.
The Dragon: To the unnamed leader of the Carnival of Killers, being his strongest fighter.
Honor Before Reason: Gives Yor the opportunity to surrender and even points his blade at her instead of finishing her off, even after seeing how dangerous she is. It ends up being his undoing when Yor gets her Epiphany Comeback and Heroic Second Wind.
Iaijutsu Practitioner: His main fighting style.
Katanas Are Just Better: His weapon of choice is a Katana of "Shirazaya" (White-wood scabbard) make that's usually wielded by Yakuza bosses of significant status, and his fighting prowess is on the same level as a Garden assassin.
Master Swordsman: His mastery of the Katana and sheer strength is such that not only is he Yor's equal as a warrior, but the one character who came closest to slaying her in single combat in the manga up to volume 12.
No Name Given: Despite being Yor's strongest opponent among the Carnival of Killers, we never did learn what his name is.
Sheath Strike: As his opponents put priority on evading his blade's slashes, he makes repeated use of his sword's sheath as a follow-up bludgeoning attack that they can't avoid after committing to the initial dodge. He catches both Matthew McMahon and Yor off-guard with this maneuver, knocking the former out for several minutes and heavily dazing Yor.
Single-Stroke Battle: His final attack against Yor is one of these, with her dagger versus his katana. He loses.
Villain Respect: He admires Yor's skill, tenacity and absolute devotion to her mission enough to offer her more than one chance to surrender, even when he has her knocked down for the count.
Worthy Opponent: When Yor grabs onto his Katana and snaps the tip off, conclusively demonstrating her willingness to give her life to protect those of Olga and Gram Gretcher's, the Swordsman formally challenges her to a final Single-Stroke Battle out of his respect for her as a fellow warrior.

Red Circus

An extremist far-left terrorist group that initially started as a student movement advocating for peace and equality for the weakest members of Ostanian society. The organization turned violent due to the Ostanian government's brutal attempts to suppress the movement. The group has come into conflict with the Forger Family on more than one occasion.

General

Tropes that apply to the organization as a whole.

Chekhov's Gunman: The Red Circus appears as seemingly one-off antagonists in Chapter 15.5: Extra Mission 2. Over 40 chapters later, they appear again in Chapter 69 as the next major antagonistic faction of the arc.
Evil Versus Evil: Most of the Red Circus arc pits them against Ostania's State Security Service, who prove to be just as bad as the terrorists throughout the story. The SSS have made it clear that they will Shoot the Hostage to wipe out the Red Circus but are waiting for a convenient excuse to do so, so as not to receive backlash from the students' parents who are among Ostania's elite.
Foreshadowing: A number of the Red Circus would be slain by a Briar sibling, who would be injured by a Red Circus member in the attempt, and a member's mission to blow up themselves and their hostages was sabotaged, and the other members would be talked into surrendering for the sake of a loved one by Anya. In Special Mission 2, Yor, as the Thorn Princess, gets injured as she slaughters a Red Circus cell, minus one member who worked as a waiter at the restaurant Loid took her the following night. When the waiter can't kill Yor with a fugu-spiked drink, he decides to, mentally, say goodbye to his girlfriend as he attempts to make a homemade bomb to blow up her, himself, and half the restaurant, but Anya instead sets off a non-lethal variant of the bomb, telling him to go back to his girlfriend, and the waiter decides that he's not cut out to be a militant extremist, and decides to live a normal life with his girlfriend. In Mission 75, half of the remaining Red Circus members are killed by a squad of Secret Police led by Yuri, who took a bullet in the arm during the engagement, and the other half, led by Billy Squire, give themselves up when Anya tells Billy he didn't mean for the situation to get to that point, and he's reminded of his daughter Biddy. After Billy and the other members surrender, Vadim decides to drive off in the school bus, ram into a government building, and set off the bomb they brought on board, but he's stopped before he gets too far, and is apprehended by Martha.
No Celebrities Were Harmed: The Red Circus is a fairly obvious pastiche of the United Red Army, a far-left student protest group that later morphed into a violent terrorist organization following escalating crackdowns from the police. As with its inspiration, the organization's remnants end up collapsing during a hostage crisis as a result of ideological infighting. They also have some hints of the Red Army Faction, who also had their origins in similar crackdowns on student protests, operated in Germany, and were infamous for their bombings and assassinations.
The Remnant: A cell of the organization was wiped out by Yor in Chapter 15.5 while their leader, Billy Squire, was out of the country. He returns to Berlint in Chapter 69 to lead a bus jacking with the surviving members of his group.
Sane Boss, Psycho Henchmen: Easy to say when Billy is more of a Noble Demon when everyone who works for him is fully willing to murder a bunch of children and see no problem causing as much carnage as possible.
Start of Darkness: It was originally just a peaceful protest movement advocating equal rights for all Ostanians. After the government cracked down on it and killed Billy's daughter, it steadily slipped into becoming a terrorist organization.
Un-person: The Red Circus wasn't just mostly eliminated, the SSS are trying to cover up that they ever existed, even if they kill civilians in the process.

Red Circus Survivor

Voiced by: Daisuke Kishio (JP), Bradley Gareth (EN)

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The lone survivor of a squad of Red Circus members who were assassinated by Yor.

Didn't See That Coming: He squeezes the poison from a fugu blowfish into a wineglass and has it served to Yor, thinking it will kill her. He is totally floored to find out she is immune to poison.
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He is a terrorist, but has a girlfriend named Catherine who he apparently loves. While confronting him, Anya tells him to live a normal life and make Catherine happy; the terrorist is shocked to realize she knows about Catherine and concludes that Thorn Princess must be raising a master spy child.
Heel–Face Turn: Anya blows him up with her own IED, foils his plan to kill Yor and tells him to live a normal life with his girlfriend. He is so shocked that Thorn Princess is raising such a crazy kid, he decides trying to kill her isn't worth it and stops being a terrorist.
Hoist by His Own Petard: He thinks about how to make a bomb, which allows Anya to read his mind and make her own improvised bomb out of peanuts which blows him up.
Know When to Fold 'Em: After Anya sabotages his assassination of Yor, she tells him to leave the Thorn Princess alone and go back to his girlfriend, which makes him think that the Thorn Princess has a squad of child assassins watching her back, so he decides to stop trying to be a militant revolutionary and make a life with his girlfriend.
No Name Given: His name is currently unknown. Out of universe, he is just called "Red Circus Survivor".
One-Shot Character: Only appears in Extra Mission 2/Episode 26 of the anime.
Tampering with Food and Drink: He serves Yor a cocktail made entirely of fugu blowfish poison. Not only does it not kill her, it also numbs the pain of the gunshot wound in her butt that was preventing her from enjoying her date with Loid.

Billy Squire

The leader of the extremist terrorist group the Red Circus. His plans involve kidnapping many of Eden Academy's students by hijacking their school bus during a field trip.

Accomplice by Inaction: The actual role he believes he played in Red Circus's devolution into a terrorist organization. It wasn't his direct decisions that led to its fall, but he turned a blind eye to the growing extremist mindset within its members despite knowing it was wrong because he was just that emotionally dead inside from Biddy's death.
Anti-Villain: There's no doubt that Billy is a terrorist and a dangerous criminal, but deep down, he's also a desperate man fighting for what he believes is the only course of action left to force the oppressive Ostanian government to answer for their own crimes against humanity, including the unjust murder of Billy's daughter. It's made clear that there are still moral standards he adheres to and lines he isn't willing to cross.
Arc Villain: He's introduced as the main threat of the Red Circus arc, though his subordinate Vadim actually turns out to be a lot worse than he is and ends up causing more harm than Billy ever does.
Cold Sniper: Is a skilled enough marksman to take out a tire of a pursuing car chasing after the school bus he hijacked, and operates with an eerie calmness to him.
Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: To the villains of the previous long arcs, being the first Arc Villain thus far to have real, sympathetic reasons for his actions and something resembling moral standards. Keith Kepler was just a young Right-Wing Militia Fanatic who tried to kill Ostanian civilians to start a war with Westalis, while the unnamed leader of the assassins, alongside his partner Snoops, an information broker, was trying to kill a mother and her infant child to score a paycheck while having installed bombs within a cruise ship in order to murder hundreds of innocent people. Billy, on the other hand, has legitimate grievances against the Ostanian government, which killed his daughter just because she was protesting against their policies, and while he'll dish out threats, he is actually incredibly reluctant to kill the children he has taken hostage.
Dark and Troubled Past: The Red Circus was originally a nonviolent student movement advocating for peace and equality until the state used violence against them with his daughter as one of the casualties.
Dull Eyes of Unhappiness: Billy has perpetually tired, soulless-looking eyes to go along with his haggard appearance. At first, it gives the impression that he's yet another cold-hearted monster like Keith Kepler was, but it's actually meant to portray how spiritually broken he's become after the Ostanian government's cruel and senseless murder of his daughter, which drove Billy down the path of terrorism to begin with.
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He loved his daughter and frequently tried to talk her out of protesting against the SS out of fear for her well-being. Even after her death, he still loves her and surrenders himself after seeing how low he's fallen.
Even Evil Has Standards: At first he seems like yet another morally bankrupt monster like previous Arc Villains, but it soon becomes clear he has some genuine scruples through the fact that the "explosive collar" he straps to Anya is a fake, and his thoughts show he never even considered bringing a real one — he wanted his hostages to shut up, not to kill them. His allies, however, are not on the same page, having secretly intended to use the bus as a massive suicide bomb against a government building and kill as many as possible.
From Nobody to Nightmare: Before joining the Red Circus, Billy was an ordinary father who just wanted to support his daughter. But her death at the hands of the SSS triggered Billy's Roaring Rampage of Revenge. Now he is the competent leader of a terrorist group who was able to kidnap several children from Ostania's elite families.
Hates Rich People: Billy's rather sarcastic monologue to the children suggests he really loathes Ostania's elite and their palatial lifestyle.
Heel Realization: He has one in Mission 74, after realizing that Anya, despite supposedly being an "elite", has compassion for the less fortunate as Biddy did, leading him to surrender to the police.
Billy: The Red Circus's methods are wrong and I've never had any delusions about that. And yet I never did a thing to stop them. But I can't... I can't stand by and let my daughter die a second time. Because I still want to be able to call myself her dad.
He Who Fights Monsters: When Henderson trades himself for the ailing tutor chaperoning the trip, he asks Billy to show mercy by letting the students go by trying to appeal to his paternal side. Billy responds that the reason he's doing this is because the Red Circus started as a student-led movement that asked for more political rights and freedoms, however during a peaceful protest march, Ostanian security forces cracked down on the crowd, and his daughter was killed. Thus he feels no guilt over threatening the lives of the children of Ostania's political and financial elite. He pulls himself back from going full-in on this after Anya makes him realize that even the children of the "elite" that he despises are capable of being as compassionate as his daughter.
Know When to Fold 'Em: In Chapter 74, after Anya reads Vadim's thoughts, she gets up and defiantly asks for more rations. Billy yells at her to shut up and sit down, but she's adamant that she's still hungry (though it's actually just an excuse, as she deduced that if she told them that she knows a SWAT team is getting close to storming the bus, they'll set off the bomb). When Billy tells her again to sit down, she reads his mind and tells him that she knows he doesn't really want to hurt anybody, but the situation got out of hand. Billy takes off her (fake) bomb collar, and then orders Anya, and only Anya, to get off the bus and run to safety, but she refuses until she and the rest of the class gets more rations. Anya's actions make Billy think that Ostania has suffered an economic collapse while he was hiding abroad, and the children of the elite are just as miserable as the lower class with Anya's selflessness also reminding him of Biddy's loving and caring nature. When Vadim threatens Anya at gunpoint, Billy yanks it away and orders the rest of the group to surrender before anyone gets killed, and he decides to take full responsibility for planning the highjackings.
Love Makes You Evil: His daughter Biddy was killed by the State for the "crime" of peacefully protesting against the government for more equal treatment among its citizens, so he sees no reason why he shouldn't resort to extremism for his movement to get its way. Ironically, it's Anya making him remember his love for Biddy that makes him turn himself in, as he realizes that his daughter wouldn't approve of what he has become.
My God, What Have I Done?: Anya invoking his deceased daughter causes him to realize just how far Red Circus has fallen from its original ideals, and that he did nothing to stop it despite knowing what they were doing was wrong. He ends up surrendering to the police because of this.
Named After Somebody Famous: His name is an alternate spelling of singer Billy Squier.
Noble Demon: In spite of his behavior in holding Anya and her classmates hostage at gunpoint, Billy never intended to truly harm the kids, just shut them up. The bomb collars he puts on Anya and Damian are also fake, and he's never truly able to bring himself to harm them, but just wants them to shut up.
One-Steve Limit: Technically, he would have the same first name as Bill Watkins, the student at Eden Academy. Ironically, Bill becomes one of his hostages.
Taking the Heat: In Mission 74, Billy claims that he masterminded the whole thing and that the others were only coerced into going along with his plan in hopes that the authorities will be lenient with them.
Then Let Me Be Evil: In Mission 73, it's revealed that Billy was an ordinary man who was trying to keep his daughter safe and wanted nothing to with the Red Circus. But after his daughter was killed during a protest, Billy was marked by the SSS for suspicion of being a member of the Red Circus and he was forced to flee the country. Sometime later, Billy became the leader of the group who changed from a peaceful student movement to a terrorist organization. Subverted in that Anya makes him realize that he can't truly commit to being evil, as he still wants to be a man worthy of his daughter's respect and admiration even in spirit.
Tragic Villain: Easily the most sympathetic of all the villains shown so far. Billy's descent to crime was caused by his hard-living arrangements trying to make ends meet with his daughter, who was killed by the SSS for peaceful protesting. He was later labeled an accomplice solely because he was her father, and it caused him to snap over the corruption of the government. Even as he's kidnapping Anya and her classmates, he shows no pleasure in what he's doing and has a tired and even broken look in his eyes over having lost everything.
Vile Villain, Saccharine Show: While we already had a few of these by the time Billy arrives, it's very jarring to see a dangerous terrorist appear during the Eden Academy side of the story, which has previously been devoid of villains, let alone seriously dangerous and terrifying ones. It's later downplayed in that he actually has the most standards of every Arc Villain shown thus far, being unwilling to kill the children he has taken hostage, unlike the previous villains. However, his backstory and current actions also bring to the forefront the most dangerous aspects of Ostania's totalitarian government, revealing just what it's willing to do for the sake of maintaining the illusion of peace.
Villain Has a Point: While his actions in kidnapping children were way over the line, he's completely right in pointing out how amorally corrupt the Secret Police force really is. As his conversation with Henry Henderson shows, his daughter was killed for merely protesting peacefully against needless violence. His point is even further proven right with the SSS having many higher-up members who are willing to kill the children on the bus just to ensure Billy and his group are killed and use them as a scapegoat to avoid the parents of the children they kill.
Would Not Hurt A Child: Although he was perfectly fine in kidnapping children and holding them at gunpoint, given how his bomb collars are fakes, coupled with him having been a father himself, implies that no matter how much he desires revenge, Billy just can't bring himself to harm, let alone kill a child.

Vadim

A member of Red Circus who acted as the driver during Billy's bus jacking.

Arc Villain: Despite Billy Squire being the primary antagonist, Vadim takes the rest of the stage as the true main threat as his actions turn out to be a lot worse than Billy's.
Co-Dragons: Vadim along with Bruce seem to serve as this to Billy.
Dragon with an Agenda: While its implied that Billy had no intention of actually hurting the Eden Academy students, its revealed that Vadim's plan with the students is to ram Ostania's state council building with the bus and the blow it up with the hostages still inside. Although, he did state he only came up with this idea as a "last resort".
Fat Bastard: He is an overweight man who is willing to kill innocent children for his beliefs.
Mad Bomber: In Mission 73, it is revealed that Vadim secretly rigged the school bus to explode to kill all the hostages without informing Billy.
More Despicable Minion: To Billy Squire. While Billy eventually is revealed to be a Noble Demon who never intended on hurting the Eden Academy students, to the point where he refused to bring an actual bomb on the bus, Vadim is more than willing to kill every child on the bus to see his plans through.
Villainous Breakdown: Once Billy surrenders, Vadim loses it and crashes the bus in a last-ditch effort to escape and, once that fails, takes Anya hostage as he desperately tries to escape.
Would Hurt a Child: He willingly takes part in a plan to kidnap several innocent children and has no reservations about killing the hostages if he feels that the situation calls for such extremes. He uses Anya as a human shield during a last-ditch attempt to escape, which puts her at risk of the police shooting her by mistake.

Biddy Squire

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A former member of the Red Circus when it was still a student movement and Billy Squire's daughter. She was killed by the Ostania's State Security Service before the start of the story.

Dub Name Change: In non-English translations, her name is changed to "Bridget Squire."
Plot-Triggering Death: Her death at the hands of Ostania's State Security Service is the catalyst for the Red Circus arc.
Posthumous Character: She was killed by SSS before the start of the story.
Strong Family Resemblance: She is almost uncannily similar in appearance to what a younger version of Billy would have looked like. In fact, it's very easy to mistake her for a younger Billy Squire given her boyish looks, down to the overall shape of their faces being similar if a touch more feminine on Biddy's end.
Tempting Fate: Claimed that she was not afraid to die for what she knew was right, on the very same day she was killed during a protest.
Too Good for This Sinful Earth: Billy's flashbacks paint her as a kindhearted and selfless girl who unhesitatingly stood up for what she believed in. No surprise that Ostania's oppressive government would end up killing her during a peaceful protest.
Youthful Freckles: Likely to emphasize her young age and naivete.

Criminals

Edgar

"Honesty's important in politics."

Voiced by: Atsushi Ono (JP), R. Bruce Elliott (EN) ^{Foreign VAs}

A rich and powerful man plotting behind the scenes to tip the scales of the Cold War against Westalis.

Arc Villain: Of the Introduction Arc, the first story arc.
Blackmail: He plots to force the Ostanian Minister of Foreign Affairs to resign by revealing that he is secretly wearing a wig which would imply that he can't be trusted as a politician.
The Commies Made Me Do It: He intends to do that with Twilight by keeping Anya hostage and forcing him to take pictures of the Minister's wig himself. He fortunately never had the chance to even start this scheme.
Disproportionate Retribution: He shot one of his henchmen in cold blood and without warning just because he dared to question his "wig blackmail" ploy.
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He backs off attacking Twilight or Anya further once his daughter is threatened.
Evil Parents Want Good Kids: He's incredulous when Twilight reveals that his daughter has a criminal record.
Knight of Cerebus: He tries, breaking the sweet introduction of the Forgers finding one another by kidnapping a helpless child and murdering a man in front of her, but Twilight is so far out of his league that Edgar decides to exit the story with his life rather than continue pursuing him.
Man of Wealth and Taste: He is impeccably dressed, especially compared to his underlings.
Mutually Assured Destruction: He and Twilight stopped pursuing each other because it would put both of their daughters at risk.
Patriotic Fervor: His main reason to blackmail the Minister of Foreign Affairs is that he is a Westalis sympathizer, which he considers an act of treason.
Starter Villain: He is a generic mob boss who only appears in the first chapter, mainly to showcase Twilight's skills and determination. Following Twilight's threat towards his daughter, he hasn't appeared since.

Keith Kepler

Voiced by: Hiroki Takahashi (JP), Clifford Chapin (EN) ^{Foreign VAs}

The leader of a group of isolationist college students from Berlint University who tried to assassinate the Foreign Minister of Westalis, Minister Brand. He hopes to spark a huge war between Ostania and Westalis in order to prove that Ostania is the superior country.

Alliterative Name: Keith Kepler
Ax-Crazy: A fanatical and violently unstable warmonger who wants to kick-start a bloody conflict between Ostania and Westalis to satiate his own lust for carnage, gleefully and unhesitatingly stooping to indiscriminate terror bombings and murdering children to get what he wants.
Arc Villain: Of the Doggy Crisis/Inusan Crisis arc.
Awesome, but Impractical: The dogs strapped with bombs he and his colleagues plan to use in their assassination attempt. They can seek out their targets' scent and their enhanced intelligence allows them to understand fairly complex instructions, but giving even a single dog military training costs as much as a missile and should be well outside the ability of college students to afford (and blowing up such dogs would likely be deemed a waste of resources in most circumstances). It turns out that Keith's plan only ever got off the ground simply because the remnants of the previous government's animal experiments were being sold off for relatively cheap on the black market and he managed to get several of them.
The Bad Guy Wins: In the Bad Future foreseen by Bond where Anya doesn't intervene at all, a bomb he rigged to a door not only kills Twilight, but also achieves his goal of sparking war between Westalis and Ostania due to the damage it caused.
Bad People Abuse Animals: Literally kicks a dog just to show how morally bankrupt he is. There is also his plan to strap bombs to dogs and send them after Minister Brand.
Boring, but Practical: In the Bad Future foreseen by Bond, he was able to kill the master spy, Twilight, and all it took was a simple booby trap and a bomb. A far more practical approach compared to the methods that other antagonists would use, even including his own bomb dog plan. That said, even then Twilight only died due to the reckless actions of another agent who opened the boobytrapped door.
Casting Gag: Clifford Chapin once again voices a violent and erratic teenager with a fondness for explosives.
Combat Pragmatist: He is no match against Loid or Yor in a fight and has to rely on his trained attack dogs, not that they do him any good against a world-class spy and assassin. But he was surprisingly resourceful enough to keep them on their toes and nearly killed the super spy Twilight with a Boring, but Practical booby trap.
From Nobody to Nightmare: From college student to international terrorist. Twilight believes that this might be a The Man Behind the Man situation as no ordinary college student should have gotten the resources (i.e. trained military dogs) that Keith had.
Hate Sink: A truly monstrous individual who doesn't care who he hurts as long as he gets what he wants, namely a war that will cause even more death and suffering, especially for the country he claims to want to give glory back to.
Hero Killer: In the future seen by Bond where without Anya's intervention, Keith becomes this to Twilight thanks to a bomb trap.
Humiliation Conga: As befitting a monstrous character like him, his plan not only goes off the rails but his ultimate comeuppance is very undignified; his conspirators are all captured by WISE with the other dogs seized in the process, he fails to murder Minister Brand, who completely outruns and evades him despite being 60 years old (he doesn't know it's actually Loid in disguise, while the real Brand is safely away from the chaos), and his remaining bomb-strapped dog is quickly (and non-lethally) dispatched by Loid despite him being cornered, causing Keith to drive off in fear... only to run into Yor, who kicks his car away, making him crash into a pole. The last we see of him, he's barely conscious and bleeding out as Yor contacts the authorities.
Kick the Dog: It says a lot about someone when they are willing to use dogs as suicide bombers to carry out a terrorist plot. He later does this literally to Bond after he refuses to come with him.
Knight of Cerebus: He’s one of the darkest and most sadistic villains in the series, and everything about him and his plan is played completely straight. More to the point, his introduction in the story heralds an increased seriousness to the overall plot, as prior to his introduction Loid and Yor were plenty capable of immediately dealing with threats and the story mostly dealt with lighthearted and low-stakes scenarios, while the Inusan Crisis arc he's the Arc Villain for paves the way for plenty more monstrous villains like Snoops and more arcs with genuine danger like the one involving the Red Circus.
Mad Bomber: His plan to assassinate Minister Brand involves turning dogs into weaponized animals by strapping bombs on them. He was also able to make an explosive-laden door that would have killed Twilight, had Anya and Bond not intervened.
Mistaken for Pedophile: Yor thinks Keith is chasing Anya because he wants her as a child bride, when he actually wants to kill her for finding out about his plans.
The Needs of the Many: Keith realizes the explosive trap he set up for the police will kill a lot of people in the building, but claims it's for the greater good.
Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: Keith claims his terrorism and warmongering against Westalis is for the sake of Ostania as a country, but he doesn't care about Ostanians as people and only cares about satisfying his bloodlust towards Westalis. He doesn't care that his bombs will kill Ostanian citizens nor that war will bring them untold suffering and death. Also, judging by the Bad Future vision Bond saw where he was successful in his plot, Ostania ends up just as much in ruins as Westalis.
Obviously Evil: His face is always construed in a deranged scowl, making it pretty clear that he's not meant to be sympathized with.
Politically Incorrect Villain: Like his underlings, he's motivated by nothing more than a seething hatred for all Westalians.
"The Reason You Suck" Speech: While not directed at Keith personally, Sylvia gives a scathing one that applies to him and his organization as a whole, pointing out how Keith and his followers are nothing but sheltered college students who have never experienced the horrors of a real war or the costs of it, so they have no idea how much they will regret getting what they want.
Right-Wing Militia Fanatic: He is the leader of a group of college-aged nationalists/isolationists that desire to bring Ostania to her former glory and end the collusion between Ostania and Westalis by starting a war; Keith's idea of carrying this out involves bombs strapped to dogs in an attempt on the life of the Westalian Foreign Minister.
Sadist: He's a sick maniac who doesn't care who he hurts, even if it's a 6 year old child.
The Sociopath: Whether it be turning dogs into suicide bombers, being the only one of his co-conspirators who is perfectly willing to kill a little girl like Anya just to keep their plans a secret and not caring how many civilians would get caught in the crossfire of his actions, the story makes it no secret that he has no attachments and is willing to sacrifice everyone just to bring destruction to Westalis.
Teens Are Monsters: Despite being only a college student, Keith stands out for being one of the most vile villains in the story. He is fully willing to murder a child to keep their plan secret when the rest of his group is uncomfortable about the idea and is uncaring of potential Ostanian causalities from his plans, thinking they should be proud to die for their country.
Tom the Dark Lord: Most antagonists in the series have notably special names, such as Edgar, Donovan, and Leonardo, so "Keith" stands out for how normal and common it is, befitting a lower-class college student. Despite the normalness of both his name and status, he's amongst the most monstrous characters in the series for his plans to kill dogs, children, and his own countrymen, all for the sake of starting a war just to sate his own bloodlust.
Vile Villain, Saccharine Show: Keith stands out for being one of the most vicious antagonists in an otherwise light-hearted story. His crimes include strapping explosives to a pack of dogs to be sent after Minister Brand, attempting to kill Anya for eavesdropping on him and his co-conspirators, callously threatening the lives of Ostanian civilians, and nearly killing Twilight with a booby trap.
Wake-Up Call Boss: He is the first major Arc Villain that the Forger Family has to deal with, and was dangerously close to becoming a Hero Killer had Anya and Bond not intervened.
Weaponized Animal: He uses dogs as suicide bombers.
Would Hurt a Child: The second he finds that Anya - a little girl - has snuck into his base and overheard his plans, he immediately tries to murder her - something even his collaborators blanch at.

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“So get ready to witness… the birth of a legend!”

Voiced by: Yuichi Nakamura (JP), David Matranga (EN) ^{Foreign VAs}

An incompetent, idiotic, but inexplicably lucky spy who fancies himself Twilight's rival.

Attention Whore: Why else would he leave behind evidence (his signature) that he broke into school and tampered with the answers of a test...?
Bait-and-Switch: After Daybreak completes his first mission, he is happy how people will now be aware of how great of a spy he is, only to remember that if he does his job perfectly in his line of work no one would know that he did it. Twilight shows some sympathy to him. Only for him to then come up with the idea of writing his name on the test he altered.
Born Lucky: How he makes it through his first serious mission. Somehow, his antics fail to get anyone's attention aside from Twilight, who finds himself having to help him out of a number of tight spots just for the sake of keeping him from alerting security.
Deliberately Bad Example: Played for Laughs. He is so incompetent and working on sheer dumb luck (which he has plenty of, the idiot) that all of the other spies in the plot can at least boast about not being so damned idiotic (evil, yeah. But not idiotic).
Didn't Think This Through: He seems to put very little work into scouting and planning his missions.
- He seemed to think he could just walk into one of the most elite schools in the country, break into its vault filled with its most valuable documents, and leave his name on documents he altered. If it wasn't for Twilight he would have been caught early into his mission.
- Just to drive home how little research he does, in Mission 32 he is seen in an underground tennis tournament, where doping, sabotaging and using technology in the match is perfectly fine. Daybreak comes equipped with a table tennis bat and is promptly knocked out.
Foil: He is everything Twilight is not: attention-seeking, a bad liar, sloppy, flamboyant; in short - incompetent. His first real mission is also the opposite of what Twilight intends to do: Daybreak tries to mess with someone's test to kick him out of school, while Twilight wants to correct Anya's tests so she doesn't get kicked out. In that regard, choosing his code name to be the opposite of Twilight is very fitting.
The Fool: A clumsy and incompetent idiot, who luckily manages to finish his first job without being caught because Twilight was around to help him.
Ironic Name: He chose the name Daybreak because he thought of himself as Twilight's rival, where in fact he is Twilight's Foil.
Irony: He fully sees himself as Twilight's equal rival to the point of seeing an epic clash between them one day, completely unaware the guy with him at the time is Twilight. The irony gets even heavier when his mission is foiled by Twilight.
Meaningful Name: He chose the code name Daybreak because he sees himself as a rival to Twilight. Since he is an agent of the East and Twilight is an agent of the West he believes one day they will have an epic clash.
Offscreen Moment of Awesome: In the third round of the underground tennis tournament, he faces Twilight and Nightfall on his own, with only a table tennis paddle. He predictably gets stomped, but the fact that he made it to the third round of a doubles tennis tournament on his own, using a table tennis paddle when his opponents had rackets, and seemingly without cheating in a tournament where blatant cheating is allowed, means that despite all of those disadvantages, he actually won at least one match. Possibly two, depending on whether or not he got a bye.
Overt Operative: He craves infamy in a field where anonymity is practically required. When he completes his assignment, he sees fit to actually leave a signature behind. It's so idiotic that Loid actually blows his cover to call him out on it.
Parody: Of the Highly-Visible Ninja approach to spy fiction in various anime and films. His entire joke is that Twilight is mentally critiquing every action Daybreak takes that might look cool in various other media devoted to ninjas, spies, assassins, and the like, but turns out to be highly impractical in actual practice. Daybreak doesn't use disguises or even make a token effort to blend in with his surroundings, doesn't have a plan going in, rolls around with the intention of being stealthy, loudly announces his presence so he can become famous, has no combat skills whatsoever, and doesn't even research the most basic aspects of the areas he's infiltrating. This works in cartoons and anime where the hero's grit and resolve lets them get away with this; in a somewhat more grounded setting like the manga he's actually in, it means that Twilight has to do his job for him half the time, and the other half of the time he succeeds purely on dumb luck.
Signature Headgear: His straw hat, which is more evidence of his Overt Operative ways.
Small Name, Big Ego: He chose his codename specifically because he sees himself as Twilight's worthy rival. From how he operates, it's clear that Anya is a better spy than him.
Stronger Than They Look: Able to perform a human flagpole, which he uses to evade detection once, impressing Twilight.
Stupid Crooks: Twilight is endlessly baffled by Daybreak's total incompetency and lack of self-awareness as a spy. Daybreak fails at almost every basic principle of spycraft from intel-gathering to stealth to being able to properly minimize threats. In the end, after tampering with student exams and escaping Eden, he doesn't even complete his mission because Twilight coming in to repair all of his blunders.
Unknown Rival: He sees himself as Twilight's equal, so much that he chooses his codename to mirror Twilight's and sees them one day having an epic clash. Twilight doesn't even register him as anything besides a complete idiot.
Unnecessary Combat Roll: Does this whenever he "sneaks" around. Obviously, this does nothing but make him stand out even more.
Unwitting Instigator of Doom: His boneheaded break-in at the Academy leads to increased security, so Twilight can't try to fix Anya's grades. Twilight even bitterly wonders if he was actually some kind of super-spy deliberately making a hash of things. (The narration assures us that no, he was not.)
With Cat Like Tread: He is terrible at keeping a low profile. In the chapter he's introduced in, he sees fit to constantly make unnecessary acrobatic maneuvers between cover and break a window in broad daylight to unlock a door.
Wrong Genre Savvy: He has referenced a couple of times he has seen spy shows, and he seems to have gotten no damned clue of how spies actually work from them. Put in perspective, he thinks he is James Bond when he really is Maxwell Smart - and Maxwell Smart shoved into The Bourne Series, at that.
You Get What You Pay For: You pay a child's allowance (albeit a well-off child) when hiring a saboteur/spy, and you get Daybreak.

Cavi Campbell

Voiced by: Yoji Ueda (JP), Kent Williams (EN) ^{Foreign VAs}

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A wealthy 56-year-old entrepreneur who is one of the world's foremost collectors of classical art and the organizer of the underground tennis competition, Campbelldon. His art collection includes the Lady in the Sun, a painting that holds a clue to finding the Zacharis Dossier, which is rumored to "reignite the flames of war" if they ever go public.

Affably Evil: Although he is a Corrupt Corporate Executive with connections to Ostania's criminal underworld, he actually is one of the nicer antagonists in the series, as he genuinely loves his children, is a Graceful Loser when he loses his bet, and honors his word that the winners of his competition can keep one item from his art collection. Although he could not give away the Lady in the Sun, as the Secret Police were on their way to claim it, he does give Nightfall some extra jewelry as an apology. Keep in mind that she and Twilight did just cost him millions.
Alliterative Name: Cavi Campbell
Arc Villain: Of the Campbelldon Tennis arc.
Corrupt Corporate Executive: Uses his vast wealth to organize an "anything goes" underground tennis tournament so he and his rich friends can gamble millions, and is willing to rig the competition in favor of his children.
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He is the organizer of an illicit underground tennis competition who would rig the matches to his favor. That said, he is a genuinely caring father to his children.
Graceful Loser: Takes his children's loss during the final match of his tennis tournament surprisingly well considering he lost millions betting on them to win against Twilight and Nightfall. He was actually more happy to see that the match has helped his son grow as a person.
Harmless Villain: Downplayed. Although Cavi is willing to do some pretty underhand methods to win a bet, including arranging for his competition to be physically harmed, he does seem to try to avoid causing permanent damage, let alone death. Additionally, it turns out that Twilight never needed to steal the Lady in the Sun from Cavi, as the Zacharis Dossier, the secret document believed to be able to "reignite the flames of war" should it go public, turns out to be actually a collection of theater starlet photos, which Colonel Erik Zacharis's wife disapproved of. In other words, the "flames of war" it would reignite aren't between the East and West, but Erik's family.
Man of Wealth and Taste: He made his fortune in the energy sector and is one of the world's foremost collectors of classical art. He is also a huge tennis fan.
Non-Action Guy: He lets his goons and children do the dirty work and tennis playing, respectively, for him.
Plot-Irrelevant Villain: Despite being the main antagonist of the Campbelldon Tennis arc, the arc's main focus is actually the drama caused by Nightfall trying to replace Yor as Twilight's (fake) wife. In fact, the spies didn't have to win and/or steal the Lady in the Sun from Cavi, as there was no actual danger of the Zacharis Dossier causing a war. His tennis competition is just a means to let Nightfall show off her skills to the audience as she tries to get closer to Twilight.

Other Citizens

Martha Marriott

Voiced by: Shoko Tsuda (JP), Linda Leonard (EN) ^{Foreign VAs} Zhang Naiwen (TW Mandarin)

A senior valet employed by the Blackbell family to serve as Becky's personal caretaker, driver and bodyguard. Despite her advanced age, she's a highly trained combatant and uses her skills to great effect in looking after her young charge, whom she is quite close to.

Action Girl: Not to the extent of Yor or Fiona given her age, but Martha's still more than capable of engaging in physical combat when the situation calls for it.
Alliterative Name: Her first and last names both start with "Mar".
Battle Butler: During the Eden busjacking incident, she personally visits the site of the hostage situation, and in the last-moment chaos, jumps right into the fray to save Anya's life, demonstrating remarkable athleticism and marksmanship skills by leaping off a policeman's head and then shooting Vadim (Anya's captor) with a long-ranged taser while she's airborne.
Cool Old Lady: A valued and reliable asset of the Blackbell household, Martha possesses keen insight and wisdom to impart on the young heiress she looks after, and uses her formidable martial prowess to keep Becky and others safe from harm. She's also amazingly fit and spry for a woman past her prime, able to perform athletic feats that most people in their twenties would struggle at.
Disapproving Look: Martha's prone to making this face every time one of her employers does something foolish in her line of sight. Usually, it's Becky and her crazy "forbidden romance" fantasies with Loid, but she also gives this look to Mr. Blackbell (Becky's dad) when disciplining him for going overboard.
Hidden Depths:
- In Mission 59, Loid notes that she carries herself like an experienced ex-soldier. While there's been no external confirmation, Loid's analysis is generally accurate, as her skills during the busjacking incident certainly attest to.
- She appears to have a history with Henry Henderson, being the only person to date who's shown to be on First-Name Basis with him. They even have a dance together "for old time's sake" in Chapter 96.
Hired Help as Family: Like Alfred of Batman, Martha shares a loving bond with the child under her care, but due to being an employee, she is not quite family in spite of being more than a mere friend. Nevertheless, Martha is still Becky's closest positive maternal influence besides her own mother, and is able to offer sage advice to the little girl on life and responsibility with biting yet affectionate sarcasm, due to her unique position as an "outsider" to the actual family. She may very well have been a nanny to Becky's father, as he respects her authority and wisdom enough that she can get away with literally slapping some sense into him when he panicked, almost sending tanks and planes to rescue Becky at the news of her school bus being captured by terrorists.
Never Mess with Granny: In Chapter 74, after Billy and the Red Circus surrender themselves on his orders to the authorities before anyone gets killed, Vadim decides to use Anya as a Human Shield and drives off in the school bus. Luckily, the bus is rammed by two nearby armored police cars before it goes too far, and as Vadim staggers out of the bus carrying Anya, Martha, who seems to be in her sixties, uses a SWAT team member's helmet as a platform, jumps over the police barricade, zaps the would-be fugitive with a taser before he can do anything else, and catches Anya in midair when she's suddenly released.
Old Retainer: A long-tenured servant of the Blackbell family who looks aged enough to be around her mid-sixties, but in an interesting twist, she's still a physically fit Action Girl instead of the trope's usual frail sage archetype.
Only Sane Man: Downplayed and Played for Laughs, but when Becky has her childish fancies, Martha is quick to internally comment on the wrongness involved. In fact, one of the first things the audience reads/hears from her is thinking that "You mustn't commit adultery, my lady" when Becky is talking about how Yor "will be a tough rival". During the busjacking incident, she's also not afraid to Dope Slap her own employer, Becky's father, when he goes overboard and tries to send every tank and jet under the Blackbell company's employ to save his daughter, bluntly pointing out that such drastic measures would only lead to mass casualties (including Becky).
So Proud of You: When thinking of how Becky was prior to Eden Academy, Martha smiles at how Becky came back claiming she'd made a new friend (Anya), and how their friendship changed her for the better.

Erik Zacharis

Voiced by: Katsunori Okai (JP)

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A late Colonel of Ostania, famed both for his love of theatre and his role in ending the war between Westalis and Ostania around a decade before the series starts.

Closet Geek: Of theatre starlets and collecting photos of them.^note His wife didn't understand his hobby despite his best efforts to teach her, and she became enraged by how much money he spent on the photos, ordering them to be thrown out. In response, he decided to keep the rarest ones hidden away and continue to maintain his hobby in secret. This ended up creating the legend of the "Zacharis Dossier" by accident after he took some Westalis diplomats to a theatre show, but made them swear never to tell anyone about this, or his wife would get angry. Eventually, this got mixed up with his job in Intelligence and people assumed what he hid was a disgusting secret of Westalis or Ostania which would "reignite the flames of war" if it was discovered.
Nice Guy: His eccentric level of interest in certain entertainment aside, he is depicted as a wise and kind family man treated with respect by many in both Ostania and Westalis to this day.
Posthumous Character: He has been dead for some time by the events of the series, but things he left behind become the focus of the Tennis Arc. He has a great deal of historical significance for the series as well, as his diplomatic work is credited with the war between Westalis and Ostania being able to end when it did.

Carrol and Kim Campbell

Carrol voiced by: Yūki Shin (JP), Kevin Thelwell (EN) ^{Foreign VAs} Ou Zuhao (TW Mandarin)
Kim voiced by: Satsumi Matsuda (JP), Kelsey Maher (EN) ^{Foreign VAs} Lian Siyu (TW Mandarin)

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Carrol (left), Kim (right)

Cavi's high-school-aged children and the reigning champions of Campbelldon.

The Ace: When it comes to tennis, they were the only team in the underground competition that could put up a decent match against Twilight and Nightfall. Granted, it was mostly the absurd amount of cheating they were doing that kept the spies on their toes but it's pointed out that their tricked-out tennis racquets would have required an insane amount of training and skill to actually use effectively.
Bratty Teenage Daughter: Kim does show shades of this, as she hates her father's "micro-managing" and decides to quit tennis after losing to Twilight and Nightfall.
Brother–Sister Team: They are twins and were the reigning champions of their father's underground tennis competition.
Co-Dragons: To their father, Cavi.
Dick Dastardly Stops to Cheat: Twilight notes that they're already extremely talented tennis players, and yet majorly rely on tricks and cheats which don't even help them against the twin spies they're up against.
Graceful Loser: Zigzagged with Carrol. While he sobs openly after losing the match, he's also moved by Twilight and Nightfall's sheer prowess and, after a bit of encouragement, decides to focus solely on honing his own skills moving forward.
I Am Not Left-Handed: They didn't break out their modified racquets until their match against Twilight and Nightfall and managed to win the first set (almost) solely through their equipment advantage.
Impossibly Cool Weapon: "Impossibly Cool Sports Equipment" to be exact. Carrol uses a jet-powered racket, while his sister Kim uses a whip racket.
Navel-Deep Neckline: Carrol wears a shirt with a low-cut V-neck that exposes his chest and some of his abdomen.
One-Steve Limit: Kim actually shares the same name as one of Keith Kepler's accomplices. They even look very similar to one another.
Passionate Sports Girl: Subverted with Kim. In contrast to her brother who genuinely loves tennis, Kim is just playing for her father and decides to quit the sport only after one loss, dismissing the results of the whole affair as stupid.
Rocket-Powered Weapon: Carrol's jet-powered racquet allows him to deliver inhumanly powerful shots. They still fall short of Yor's ball-shredding, racquet-piercing serves.
Strong Family Resemblance: They look very much like their father in sharing his eye-shape and even the one strand falling out of their swept-back hair.
Worthy Opponent: After Carrol becomes upset with his loss against Twilight in the final match, "Twain Foney" assures Carrol that he is still a talented athlete who can hone his skills to one day become a great (legitimate) tennis player. Carrol was touched by the sentiment and promised to work hard.

Olka and Gram Gretcher

Olka voiced by: Aya Endo (JP), Mallorie Rodak (EN)
Gram voiced by: Marie Oi (JP), Lisette Monique Diaz (EN)

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A mother and her infant son who are the last surviving members of the Gretcher family, a crime family who managed Ostania's underworld in an honorable fashion. After most of the Gretcher family was wiped out due to an internal dispute, Leonardo Hapoon, the man who usurped the Gretcher family's organization put on huge bounty on Olka and Gram. However, thanks to the connections the family has with the Garden, the assassin organization agrees the help smuggle Olka and Gram out of the country, resulting in them becoming Yor's clients that she has to protect against a Carnival of Killers that was sent after them.

Alliterative Name: Gram Gretcher.
Arc Hero: Of the Great Cruise Adventure arc, being the clients that Yor has to protect from a Carnival of Killers.
Birds of a Feather: Olka and Yor both find a kindred spirit in one another over their devotion and desire to protect their loved ones, despite their lives otherwise being so hectic.
Cheerful Child: Gram, not being old enough to be aware of the danger he's in, is a cheerful, giggly, adorable baby.
Damsel in Distress: Olka, and by extension her son, is this as they are being hunted down by a Carnival of Killers and needs Yor's constant protection to survive the ordeal.
I Just Want to Be Normal: With most of her family gone, all Olka wants to do is start over and leave the country so she can raise her son in peace, far away from Ostania's criminal underworld.
Mafia Princess: Olka was one before most of her family were killed in an internal dispute.
Magic Plastic Surgery: Subverted. Since they're in hiding, Olka does have to change her face and hair, but it's nothing too unreasonable, just a minor nose job and dying her hair blonde, cutting it short and styling it differently. She considers it a big enough change, specifically noting how she's amazed Gram could recognize her as his mother despite looking different, chalking it up to his eyesight not being fully developed yet and thus relying more on her voice and scent to recognize her.
Mama Bear: Olka will do anything to protect her son Gram, including drastically changing her physical appearance and hiring assassins to protect them from a Carnival of Killers.
My Nayme Is: Olka's son is named Gram, rather than Graham.
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Olka telling Yor Gram's real name after she addresses her by her undercover name gets picked up by one of Snoops's listening devices, allowing him to cross-reference her undercover name with the list of passengers and their rooms, resulting in their nearly being killed were it not for Yor saving them.
Oblivious to Love: She has no idea Zeb has romantic feelings for her. Granted considering her husband was killed recently and their lives are at stake, it's understandable.
Put on a Bus: By the end of the Great Cruise Adventure arc, Olka and her son were able to successfully escape the country thanks to Yor.
Sins of Our Fathers: Although Gram is just a baby, Leonardo Hapoon still wants him dead because of his family connections.
Spoiled Sweet: Despite being a Mafia Princess from a powerful crime family, Olka is shown to be a cordial woman and a loving mother. Zeb remembers her as a very kind person back when they were kids.
Undercover as Lovers: Olka pretends to be the wife of "Furseal Grey"/Zeb while aboard the Princess Lorelei as to draw attention away from herself.

Zeb

Voiced by: Junta Terashima (JP), Josh Bangle (EN)

A former underling of the Gretcher family who remained loyal to Olka after Leonardo Hapoon seized control of their organization. Going by the alias of "Furseal Grey", he pretends to be Olka's husband during their journey to escape the country.

Arc Hero: Along with Olka and Gram during the Great Cruise Adventure arc.
Cowardly Lion: Despite being terrified of the Carnival of Killers and being pretty useless in a fight, he still remains by Olka and Gram's side throughout the Great Cruise Adventure arc. He even went so far as to take bullets for them.
Expecting Someone Taller: His initial thoughts when meeting Yor for the first time. He wasn't expecting Olka's main bodyguard to be a "spindly" woman.
I Owe You My Life: Part of his Undying Loyalty towards Olka stems from a childhood memory of Olka giving him some bread when he was on the verge of starving to death, leading him to join her family's criminal organization and later become her bodyguard when she's on the run.
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: He contacts his parents three days before the Cruise Ship Arc begins to say his goodbyes to them. This backfires horribly as Hapoon's men are able to track his call and confirm his, Olka and her son's location on the ship and their aliases resulting in around two dozen assassins coming after them throughout the arc and making things much harder for Yor and the Director. The Director even lampshades this calling him such a fool for making such a huge mistake.
Parental Substitute: He is basically Gram's new father-figure after Olka's husband passed away. Zeb pretends to be Gram's biological father while aboard the Princess Lorelei cruise ship as part of his cover story and ultimately stays with Olka and Gram following their successful escape.
Put on a Bus: He escapes the country with Olka and Gram at the end of the Great Cruise Adventure arc.
Subordinate Excuse: His Undying Loyalty to Olka is due to his romantic feelings for her, just too bad Olka seems to be unaware of his attraction to her.
Taking the Bullet: In Mission 52, he uses his body to shield Olka and Gram when an assassin tries to gun them down. Luckily, he survives thanks to the Bulletproof Vest he's been wearing at the time.
Undercover as Lovers: Pretends to be Olka's husband while they are aboard the Princess Lorelei, as a single woman with a baby would definitely draw the attention of the Carnival of Killers who are looking for a single mother and her son.
Undying Loyalty: To Olka. Largely due to his feelings for her.

Gerald Gorey

The Chief Medical Director at the hospital where Twilight's cover identity works. Insanely jealous of Loid's charisma, popularity, and the attention he gets from Fiona.

Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Gorey's suspected of improperly accepting political donations, falsifying medical reimbursement requests, and also eating all the break room doughnuts and then blaming it on a chubby subordinate.
Crazy Jealous Guy: Resentful of Loid's popularity, and of being the object of Fiona's affections, he spends chapter 67.1 trying to play pranks on Loid to make him look bad, which invariably backfires.
Disproportionate Retribution: He decides to try and sabotage Loid's work and goes so far as to report him to the secret police with trumped up charges for the sole crime of being more popular than him.
Driven by Envy: His entire character is based on how angry he is that Loid is more popular and charismatic than him with both patients and fellow hospital workers despite Gorey's seniority.
Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: He constantly complains in private about how his colleagues and patients get on his case for minor screw-ups, while those same people laugh it off when Loid mildly embarrasses himself (via incidents that Gorey deliberately orchestrated). It doesn't seem to occur to him that this is because everyone likes Loid due to his humble and hard-working nature, while Gorey only got to where he was through Nepotism and constantly talks about his status and reputation.
Evil Is Petty: He enters the story when Fiona warns Loid that he's never going to get any of the patients he wants because Director Gorey will deny him access out of spite.
The Friend Nobody Likes: He thinks he was "the talk of the town" before Loid arrived. However, by how people treat Loid when he screws up compared to him, how Fiona mentions he values his status and reputation above everything, and him being the chief medical director by Nepotism, it's implied the staff only put up with him because of his position.
Heel–Face Turn: Once Loid "saves" him from getting arrested, he finally warms up to Loid and thanks him profusely.
Hopeless Suitor: He's in love with Fiona, who only has eyes for Loid and despises everyone else.
Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: None of his attempts to make Loid look bad actually work and are played for laughs given how easily Twilight sees through them all, making Gorey look like a pathetic and silly joke. His call to the secret police seems to imply that he's done messing around... until it turns out that Loid's associates have also intercepted that and are able to concoct a plan to stop Gorey's antagonism for good.
Jerkass: He's an unpleasant, corrupt, and extremely jealous man who gets on everyone's nerves, to the point where Loid simply not being him makes Loid extremely popular among the staff and patients. He does come around at the end of his introductory chapter, however.
Morally Ambiguous Doctorate: As Loid's secret investigation had discovered, Gorey is guilty of a lot of corrupt dealings such as improperly accepting political donations, falsifying medical reimbursement requests, and reselling hospital supplies in the underground market.
Nepotism: He achieved his position through careful networking and cares more about status and reputation above everything else.
Not-So-Harmless Villain: After spending an entire chapter childishly pranking Loid and seeing it backfire on him every time, he ultimately calls the secret police and reports that there's a spy on his staff. The following chapter, however, reveals Loid was one step ahead of him the whole time.
Out-Gambitted: Loid and Fiona realized he would report Loid to the SSS just to retaliate against him eventually, so they hijacked his phone and used said scheme essentially to blackmail him into leaving Loid alone.
Right for the Wrong Reasons:
- He leaps to the conclusion that Loid is trying to start an affair with Fiona when they hang out and talk for less than five minutes... but he's not wrong that he is the object of Fiona's love/obsession.
- Out of pettiness, he reports Loid to the SSS as a spy just as a last resort to get him fired, unaware that he's actually correct.
Small Name, Big Ego: Downplayed. While he is the chief medical director of Berlint General Hospital, he got that position through Nepotism and he self-describes himself as "the talk of the town" before Loid's arrival, viewing the latter's popularity and charisma among the staff and patients as a personal threat. However, it's indicated the staff only put up with him because of his position, judging by how they react to his screwups compared to Loid.
Stalker with a Crush: The reason Gorey sics the SSS on Loid is because the former has a crush on Fiona, and is jealous that Loid gets to spend a lot of time with her. Luckily, Fiona and Frankie intercept the call and give Gorey a scare not to waste the "SSS's" time. After the capture of Wheeler and the stolen intelligence, Gorey visits Fiona in the hospital to give her some patient files that she could pass on to Loid. When Fiona says that he should just give Loid the files himself, Gorey says that Loid is also taking the day off, thinking that dropping off the files in Fiona's hospital room gave him an excuse to talk to her in private, and avoid Loid whom he fears. It takes Sylvia sneaking in wearing a nurse's uniform to get Gorey to leave.

Sigmund & Barbara Authen

The Forgers' new next-door neighbors, a sweet elderly couple.

Absent-Minded Professor: Both literally true, and inverted. Sigmund isn't a professor anymore, but he used to be (presumably before his memory issues caught up with him) with a broad general knowledge in many fields, and teaching Anya seems to help stabilize his thinking. He's noticeably less absent-minded while he's teaching her.
Birds of a Feather: To Anya's joy, Sigmund is revealed to be very familiar with "Spy Wars" in Mission 92 after he purchased a copy of the first edition to discuss with his students. He uses this to teach Anya to love knowledge and learning for their own sakes, something Twilight never thought of since, to him, these things are just means to an end.
Cloudcuckoolander's Minder: Barbara often has to bring Sigmund back to earth whenever his senility causes him to drift off to an unrelated tangent.
Gentle Touch vs. Firm Hand: In contrast to Loid's firm and direct approach trying to teach Anya, Sigmund manages to make even further progress tutoring her by developing an approach she genuinely finds fun, such as saying a line from "Spy Wars" in a classical language.
Kindhearted Simpleton: Even though Sigmund's decayed mind struggles to follow a thought across the street, he's a good, gentle person rather than lashing out at the world, and deeply appreciates Anya and Yor's kindness during their attempts to help him find his home.
Miniature Senior Citizens: Both of them are only slightly taller than Anya, who's potentially not even six years old yet.
Mysterious Past: Sigmund at one point wonders out loud exactly what he did during the war, and Barbara kindly but firmly changes the subject.
No Sense of Direction: Sigmund winds up leading Anya and Yor all over the city just trying to find where his house is and constantly mistakes various buildings for his home due to his senility. Besides his mind not being all there, it turns out this is a result of him being new to the area, as he had just moved in there with his wife.
Parental Substitute: Yor muses that, since neither she nor Loid have any parents left, Sigmund is the closest Anya's ever come to having a grandfather.
Punny Name: "Authen" evokes "authentic", which contrasts "Forger" (someone who makes forgeries). Their first names are more subtly punny as well: Sigmund's name in Japanese (romanized as "Jikumunto"^note) and Barbara's name invoke "jiji" and "baba" (grandfather and grandmother), respectively.
Scatterbrained Senior: Sigmund's going senile, and its effects on him are presented seriously, even when it has funny results. When Yor, Anya, and Bond meet him in a park, they end up spending all day travelling all over the city looking for his home because he's just moved and can't remember where it is. Even when Anya reads his mind, she can't tell what he's thinking because his thoughts are so scattered.
Sickeningly Sweethearts: The Forgers are a little put off by how openly over-affectionate they are with one another after they're finally reunited in their debut.

The Lady Patriots

A group of upper class, middle aged, women who organize numerous government sponsored events, and who have connections with the government and industry due to their familial lineages.

Hypocrite: They claim the wounded veterans event is all about supporting each other... while at the same time showing No Sympathy towards Millie for the loss of her father in the war (despite the fact that they also lost relatives) and acting like they're above her. Melinda rightfully calls them out for this.
It's All About Me: Since some of their husbands and other male relatives were killed or maimed during the war, the Lady Patriots feel that the younger generations have no concept of suffering. This in spite of the fact that a large number of young adults were just children when they lost relatives during the fighting, were directly affected by the conflict (i.e, were caught in an air raid or were evacuated before a battle destroyed their homes), or even had to go through war time rationing and scarcity if they were far enough from the frontlines.
Jerkass: They are very rude, condescending, and outright aggressive towards Yor and her coworkers to the point where they make Yor's coworkers look NICE in comparison.
Obnoxious Entitled Housewife: This is generally how others see the members of the Lady Patriots, especially Yor's coworkers, who do everything in their power to avoid them lest they get criticized or shamed for the most minor of infractions.
Rich Bitch: They are wealthy women who include Melinda Desmond as one of their members, and do not take kindly to someone of lower social standing talking back to them.

The Ski Lodge

A group of people whom the Forgers interact with when they get stranded by a blizzard at the end of their ski trip.

Dub Name Change: The English translation renamed all the residents in order to keep the puns intact.
Punny Name: Everyone in the lodge has a pun based name: the Forger family consisting of a spy posing as a psychiatrist, his wife, a deadly assassin posing as a civil servant, their daughter, a runaway telepath, and the family dog, a discarded experiment that can predict the future; the lodge's owner, Rodger Hostman, his wife Spoussa Hostman; Max Slacker, Adrahma Queen, Shorton Kreditz, and Needa Jobsoon, a group of college students on their yearly vacation; Porter Partheimer, the lodge's bell man; Guy Luvstaski, an avid skier; and Hack Skriver, a tabloid reporter.
Rage Breaking Point: After one of the college students is found stabbed, Anya helps Loid in solving the case, and it's discovered that Rodger got sick and tired of the college students being noisy and trashing the room they rented on their yearly trip so he decided to make it seem like the work of a mythical killer.
Ten Little Murder Victims: The local urban legend of the Red Snowman Killer tells the story of a deranged lunatic that stalks the area looking for victims, and it seems like the legend may be true when one of the college students gets stabbed by a frozen carrot. Anya reads the mind of the enraged lodge owner and learns he plans to murder the college students one by one for being noisy and trashing the room they rent on their yearly vacation. However, thanks to Anya's mind reading and Bond's clairvoyance, Loid solves the case before the lodge owner attacks anyone else.

SPY WARS

Bondman

Voiced by: Taisuke Nakano (JP), Aaron Campbell (EN) ^{Foreign VAs}

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The hero of SPY WARS, a cartoon show Anya likes to watch.

Battle Harem: Subverted. He manages to convince several women as proficient in combat as he is to just live with him and they all do love him - at first. When they catch onto the fact that Bondman isn't planning on picking one of them and is more or less just stringing them all along, they turn on him and give him a good beating.
Coat, Hat, Mask: His signature costume, as befitting a fictional master spy.
A Day in the Limelight: Short Mission 7, which features Anya watching an episode of Bondman's show with Loid. Anya takes his Love Freak tendencies to mean the show has a lovey-dovey aspect to it.
Expy:
- To James Bond, the world's most famous fictional spy. Besides the name, Bondman is shown to be a casanova with women and a talented spy besides.
- The show's tone and action setpieces are very reminiscent of Lupin III.
Harem Seeker: Tries to convince all of the women in love with him into this; they don't agree.
Identical Stranger: Played for Laughs where he happens to be a dead-ringer for the real spy Twilight, much to his chagrin and Anya's amusement.
Informed Attribute: He's described as a gentleman by both the show's announcer and himself. However, as Loid lampshades, stringing a bunch of women along with promises of love without telling them that they'll have to share you with about a dozen other ladies you charmed in the same manner is anything but gentlemanly.
Love Freak: Combined with The Charmer in a parody of James Bond. He believes he needs to bring joy to all the ladies of the world by having them fall in love with him... but given most of the women who fall for him aren't into polyamory, this has the expected results.
The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: He's supposedly a spy, but is otherwise more akin to a swashbuckling pulp hero who wears a Tuxedo Mask-esque outfit and saves princesses; the closest thing we get is mentions of how he's good at infiltration. Short Mission 7 finally averts this, showing him in more James Bond-style adventures.

Military Intelligence

Snidel

Voiced by: Banjo Ginga (JP), John Swasey (EN) ^{Foreign VAs} Fu Shuang (TW Mandarin)

Colonel of the Military Intelligence who plans on a conflict between the West and East of Ostania.

Bad Boss: His propensity to quickly and painfully kill subordinates who even hesitate at his cruel orders makes sure that his solidiers obey him in a state of constant, unquestioning fear.
Big Bad: Of SPY×FAMILY CODE: White.
Blood Knight: Gleefully tries to provoke conflicts at every opporunity, be it on an interpersonal level by pulling the weight of his military rank to bully a restaurant into breaking tradition and prioritizing his needs, or to reignite the full scale war between Westalis and Ostania, all to enjoy the fear and suffering that would result thereafter.
Casting Gag: Banjo Ginga is famous for playing Emperor Thouzer of Fist of the North Star forty years ago, another Bad Boss General who is a wasteful enthusiast of gourmet food, who also does not hesitate to gleefully commit acts of cruelty towards children.
Evil-Detecting Dog: You know that General Snidel is trouble even before he actually appears onscreen when his mere shadow entering the frame is enough to cause Bond, a normally timid dog, to menacingly growl in anger and fear.
Evil Sounds Deep: Banjo Ginga and John Swasey give him a deep, commanding baritone voice.
Flat Character: In order to maintain focus on the Forger family, his character isn't explored very much and he's mostly just shown as an extreme jerkass obsessed with starting a war between the East and West. He does have a couple notable quirks, like being a massive foodie, but a quirk does not a rounding quality make.
Hate Sink: The Colonel spends most of his screentime being as cruel and reprehensible as possible. He is introduced forcing his way into a restaurant that only serves families with threats and forcing them to give him a small child's dessert, then has multiple scenes showing his nature as a Bad Boss and cruelty towards Anya to drive this home.
Kick the Dog: The first sign that he is not a good guy is taking the restaurant's last Meremere cake from Anya just as she's about to eat it, just to have his fix of sweets, on top of the fact he forced his way into a restaurant that only serves families. It's unlikely he knew of the convoluted manner in which it would have helped with Operation Strix, but it's an unpleasant experience for the Forgers nonetheless.
The Nose Knows: The Colonel is enough of a gourmand that his refined palate can even distinguish the exact types and quantities of sugar in desserts to the gram with a taste. When Loid tries to infiltrate the bridge of his airship, the Colonel makes him immediately by recognizing Loid's individual smell.
Uncertain Doom: The last time we see him, an unconscious Snidel is being carried away by his men after Twlight disguise himself as Snidel, convinces the soldiers that the real Snidel is the impostor after knocking the colonel out, and orders the crew to abandoned the airship. Snidel's fate is left unclear as his men could have carried him off to safety, executed him since they assume the real Snidel is a spy, or were unable to escape in time before the airship crashed. Even if they got to the ground, did they return to the safety of Ostania, follow Twilight's orders to "continue the mission," or get stopped on the way to Aldo by border security?
Would Hurt a Child: Has no problems whatsoever ordering Anya to be cut open so the microfilm in the chocolate she ate can be retrieved.

Type F

Voiced by: Shunsuke Takeuchi (JP) ^{Foreign VAs} Cao Jilu (TW Mandarin)

Secret weapon of the Military Intelligence.

Achilles' Heel: The exhaust vent of his ammunition chassis used to keep him from overheating is what ultimately allows for Yor to kill him as it gives Yor the chance to create a Vapor Trail to set the highly flammable ammunition on fire.
Arm Cannon: His right arm is a pair of machine guns and his left arm can swap between a gatling gun and a Grenade Launcher.
Battle Amongst the Flames: During the climax of 'Code:White, he fights Yor in the hanger of Snidel's airship while the place is on fire. Funnily enough, the setting ends up being a non-video game example of Boss-Arena Idiocy, as Yor uses the flames and a Vapor Trail created from her lipstick to attack his Achilles' Heel.
Bottomless Magazines: Cooly tells Yor during their battle that it's futile to wait for the ammo of his Gatling-Gun-arms to run dry, smugly showing her that since he biologically generates his ammunition from a chassis in his torso, he will never run out of ammunition as long as he is alive. This actually gets used against him since said ammunition is also highly flammable, allowing Yor to use a lipstick to create a Vapor Trail that makes him explode.
The Brute: Unlike Dmitri and Luca, who are incompetent but can be ordered to do various tasks for the Colonel, Type-F is only dispatched by Snidel when he wants someone dead, and not much else. Most of the cast would stand no chance against him in a fight since he is a massive Outside-Genre Foe in the world of SPY×FAMILY, but is an even match-up against Yor.
Cyborg: The Ostanian military experiments performed on Type-F has granted him inhuman strength, arms capable of transforming into gatling guns fueled by ammunition generated from his own body, and a metallic under-skin that renders his remaining organic components virtually invulnerable.
Flat Character: He is mostly in the movie to give Yor Forger an opponent that can hold his own against her for the climax, otherwise the audience learns nothing about Type-F other than the fact he is a dangerous nigh-invulnerable Cyborg who fully supports starting another war and whose existence is a military secret.
Knight of Cerebus: Unlike the laughable Dmitri and Luca, or even Snidel who has a few silly quirks, Type F is the only villain in Code:White who is played completely seriously as a dangerous killing machine with no humorous traits whatsoever.
Nigh-Invulnerability: Has an unknown alloy reinforced underneath his human skin, rendering him impervious to Yor's already monstrously powerful melee attacks. Even her usual kill method for dangerous foes (a knife through the skull and into the brain) doesn't even pierce his skin before the knife breaks, and while a Spectacular Spinning-enhanced strike to his chest from a fire axe she grabs knocks him down, it fails to do any real damage (and he doesn't even seem to have any organs left there to damage). Fortunately for Yor, the scientists who crafted Type-F's monstrous metallic body left a wide exhaust vent on the ammunition chassis of his torso, likely to prevent overheating, as the high caliber and volatile bullets within are very flammable...
Out of the Inferno: His proper introduction has him doing an Unflinching Walk out of the fires on Snidel's airship to face off against Yor.
Outside-Genre Foe: While rocket-powered tennis rackets and super-steroids featured in the underground tennis tournament, and Yor has Charles Atlas Superpowers and once fought a Carnival of Killers, Type-F is the first overtly unnatural entity in the world of SPY×FAMILY, being an outright transforming robotic cyborg that would fit better in a Diesel Punk or Cyberpunk Sci-Fi Horror film like Westworld or The Terminator than in a (relatively) grounded work of Cold War Dirty Martini Spy Fiction. Even Yor, upon discovering just how heavily augmented his body is, has to admit how out of her depth fighting him makes her feel.
Yor: What are you?
Smug Super: He repeatedly boasts of the lethality of his armaments and Yor's inability to hurt him with conventional weapons and tactics during their battle.
Terminator Impersonator: He is a nigh-invulnerable Cyborg sent out to kill an Action Mom.
Too Powerful to Live: Type-F is the only villain in Code:White who Yor had to use lethal force against because of how dangerous he is. Unlike Snidel and the rest of his men who are subjected to Uncertain Doom, Type-F is seemingly the only antagonist to be unambiguously killed after Yor sets fire to the ammunition rounds in his chest which causes him to explode.

Dmitri & Luca

Dmitri voiced by: Tomoya Nakamura (JP) ^{Foreign VAs} Zhong Shaoting (TW Mandarin)
Luca voiced by: Kento Kaku (JP) ^{Foreign VAs} Meng Qingfu (TW Mandarin)

Lieutenants of the Military Intelligence and Snidel's right-hand men.

Bullying a Dragon:
- Luca tries to pull a gun from behind his back and kill a seemingly helpless Yor and Anya. Yor, sensing his Killing Intent, tells Anya to close her eyes and effortlessly cleans both their clocks in seconds.
- Later in the movie when Loid infiltrates the airship disguised as a Lieutenant, he passes by Luca and Dmitri and overhears their conversation about how they kidnapped Anya and hurt Bond. Clearly not taking this lightly, he gives them a very through beatdown offscreen before he continues his search for Anya.
Co-Dragons: To Snidel.
Dowsing Device: Dmitri uses two L-shaped metal rods when he and Luca encounter Anya for a second time.
Even Evil Has Standards: Both are very uncomfortable with cutting Anya's stomach to retrieve the microfilm after being ordered by Snidel, but obey his orders when he threatens to cut them both if they don't follow through.
Fortune Teller: Dmitiri is extremely superstitious and uses various fortune telling items and techniques like dowsing rods as a Running Gag throughout the film, with varied results.
Uncertain Doom: The last we see the two, they were knocked out by Twilight just before his fight with Snidel. The movie leaves it ambiguous if they escape the airship when Twilight, while disguised as Snidel, orderd the crew to abandon ship, or if they were killed when the airship crashed.
Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey: The Laughable Lackey to Snidel and Type F's Vile Villains.
Would Hurt a Child: While they're eventually uncomfortable with the thought of digging around in Anya's guts with a knife, Luca's established as being willing to kill her and Yor just to be sure in their very first scene.

Characters / SPY×FAMILY: Ostania

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The Desmond Family

Voiced by: Takaya Hashi (JP), John Burgmeier (EN) Foreign VAs Carlo Vázquez (LAT), Marc Brétonnière (FR), Pietro Ubaldi (ITA), Cao Jilu (TW Mandarin), Armando Tiraboschi (BR)

Voiced by: Aoi Ichikawa (JP)

Berlint City Hall

Voiced by: Umeka Shoji (JP), Morgan Garrett (EN) Foreign VAs Jocelyn Robles (LAT), Sílvia Tarín (SP), Chantal Baroin (FR), Manja Doering (GER), Jolanda Granato (ITA), Zhang Naiwen (TW Mandarin), Adriana Torres (BR)

Voiced by: Manaka Iwami (JP), Katelyn Barr (EN) Foreign VAs Nayeli Hidalgo (LAT), Paula Yuste (SP), Valerie Bescht (FR), Özge Kayalar (GER), Chiara Leoncini (ITA), Qian Xinyu (TW Mandarin), Luana Stteger (BR)

Voiced by: Mirei Kumagai (JP), Leah Clark (EN) Foreign VAs Lizzette García (LAT), Paula Navalón (SP), Antonella Colapietro (FR), Jessica Rust (GER), Annalisa Longo (ITA), Lian Siyu (TW Mandarin), Luciana Baroli (BR)

Voiced by: Shōhei Kajikawa (JP), Jordan Dash Cruz (EN) Foreign VAs Arturo Cataño (LAT), Carles Teruel (SP), Igor Chometowski (FR), Lucas Wecker (GER), Davide Fumagalli (ITA), Meng Qingfu (TW Mandarin), Bruno Sangregório (BR)

State Security Service

Voiced by: Yasuyuki Kase (JP), Aaron Campbell (EN)

Leonardo Hapoon's Crime Syndicate

Snoops

Voiced by: Kazuyuki Okitsu (JP), Nazeeh Tarsha (EN)

Assassins' Leader

Voiced by: Kosuke Toriumi (JP), Reagan Murdock (EN)

Sickle-and-Chain Barnaby voiced by: Masafumi Kobatake (JP)

Swordman

Voiced by: Fuminori Komatsu (JP)

Red Circus

Red Circus Survivor

Voiced by: Daisuke Kishio (JP), Bradley Gareth (EN)

Billy Squire

Vadim

Biddy Squire

Criminals

Voiced by: Atsushi Ono (JP), R. Bruce Elliott (EN) Foreign VAs Esteban Desco (LAT), Rafa Nácher (SP), David Kruger (FR), Klaus-Dieter Klebsch (GER), Oliviero Corbetta (ITA), Cao Jilu (TW Mandarin), Luiz Carlos Persy (BR)

Voiced by: Hiroki Takahashi (JP), Clifford Chapin (EN) Foreign VAs Aldo Guzmán (LAT), Álvaro Esteve (SP), Stéphane Marais (FR), Fu Pincheng (TW Mandarin), Mckeidy Lisita (BR)

Voiced by: Yuichi Nakamura (JP), David Matranga (EN) Foreign VAs Manuel Campuzano (LAT), Darío Torrent (SP), Meng Qingfu (TW Mandarin)

Voiced by: Yoji Ueda (JP), Kent Williams (EN) Foreign VAs Dafnis Fernández (LAT), Bertrand Dingé (FR), Thomas Schmuckert (GER), Meng Qingfu (TW Mandarin), Marco Antonio Abreu (BR)

Other Citizens

Voiced by: Shoko Tsuda (JP), Linda Leonard (EN) Foreign VAs Zhang Naiwen (TW Mandarin)

Voiced by: Katsunori Okai (JP)

Carrol voiced by: Yūki Shin (JP), Kevin Thelwell (EN) Foreign VAs Ou Zuhao (TW Mandarin) Kim voiced by: Satsumi Matsuda (JP), Kelsey Maher (EN) Foreign VAs Lian Siyu (TW Mandarin)

Olka voiced by: Aya Endo (JP), Mallorie Rodak (EN)Gram voiced by: Marie Oi (JP), Lisette Monique Diaz (EN)

Voiced by: Junta Terashima (JP), Josh Bangle (EN)

SPY WARS

Voiced by: Taisuke Nakano (JP), Aaron Campbell (EN) Foreign VAs Antonio Sánchez (LAT), Meng Qingfu (TW Mandarin)

Military Intelligence

Voiced by: Banjo Ginga (JP), John Swasey (EN) Foreign VAs Fu Shuang (TW Mandarin)

Voiced by: Shunsuke Takeuchi (JP) Foreign VAs Cao Jilu (TW Mandarin)

Dmitri voiced by: Tomoya Nakamura (JP) Foreign VAs Zhong Shaoting (TW Mandarin) Luca voiced by: Kento Kaku (JP) Foreign VAs Meng Qingfu (TW Mandarin)

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Voiced by: Umeka Shoji (JP), Morgan Garrett (EN) ^{Foreign VAs}

Voiced by: Manaka Iwami (JP), Katelyn Barr (EN) ^{Foreign VAs}

Voiced by: Mirei Kumagai (JP), Leah Clark (EN) ^{Foreign VAs}

Voiced by: Shōhei Kajikawa (JP), Jordan Dash Cruz (EN) ^{Foreign VAs}

Voiced by: Atsushi Ono (JP), R. Bruce Elliott (EN) ^{Foreign VAs}

Voiced by: Hiroki Takahashi (JP), Clifford Chapin (EN) ^{Foreign VAs}

Voiced by: Yuichi Nakamura (JP), David Matranga (EN) ^{Foreign VAs}

Voiced by: Yoji Ueda (JP), Kent Williams (EN) ^{Foreign VAs}

Voiced by: Shoko Tsuda (JP), Linda Leonard (EN) ^{Foreign VAs} Zhang Naiwen (TW Mandarin)

Carrol voiced by: Yūki Shin (JP), Kevin Thelwell (EN) ^{Foreign VAs} Ou Zuhao (TW Mandarin)
Kim voiced by: Satsumi Matsuda (JP), Kelsey Maher (EN) ^{Foreign VAs} Lian Siyu (TW Mandarin)

Olka voiced by: Aya Endo (JP), Mallorie Rodak (EN)
Gram voiced by: Marie Oi (JP), Lisette Monique Diaz (EN)

Voiced by: Taisuke Nakano (JP), Aaron Campbell (EN) ^{Foreign VAs}

Voiced by: Banjo Ginga (JP), John Swasey (EN) ^{Foreign VAs} Fu Shuang (TW Mandarin)

Voiced by: Shunsuke Takeuchi (JP) ^{Foreign VAs} Cao Jilu (TW Mandarin)

Dmitri voiced by: Tomoya Nakamura (JP) ^{Foreign VAs} Zhong Shaoting (TW Mandarin)
Luca voiced by: Kento Kaku (JP) ^{Foreign VAs} Meng Qingfu (TW Mandarin)