History Characters / Takotsubo

* LawfulGood

* BandageBabe: GenderInvertedExample. They're hot Asian men [[WalkingShirtlessScene who wander around in strips of gauze.]]

* NervesOfSteel: Roland laughs in Lamont's face when he and Cord are getting carjacked, because Lamont clearly doesn't have the nerve to actually shoot them. When Lamont finally manages to, Roland not only slashes him with his knife, he laughs that [[RealityEnsues Lamont isn't used to fighting.]]

* NervesOfSteel: Roland laughs in Lamont's face when he and Cord are getting carjacked, because Cord's called 911 already and an actual criminal would have shot them by now. When Lamont ''does'' manage to shoot him, Roland not only slashes him with his knife, he laughs that [[RealityEnsues Lamont isn't used to fighting]].
* NeverBringAKnifeToAGunfight: PlayedWith. Roland has a knife and Harry Lamont has a gun, but Roland basically taunts him into shooting. After Roland gets shot, he just shoves through the pain and cuts Lamont, who runs away. Lamont technically "wins" in the sense that he killed Roland, but he didn't even manage to steal the car and he's clearly been outclassed by [[MuggingTheMonster two former gangsters.]]

* WickedWitch: InvokedTrope. She wore an all-black outfit when she beat up the Gatewalkers for killing her parents, and when they found out she had magic, they immediately left her alone. She later becomes East 13's "witch" because all the black reminded Cord of [[{{Wicked}} Elphaba.]]

* AffectionateNickname: He likes [[TheNicknamer giving people nicknames]]; Blake is "ComicBook/CaptainAmerica / Cap," and Juliana is "[[{{Wicked}} Elphaba]] / Elphie." For his part, Roland calls him "shug" a lot.

The character sheet for ''[[{{WebOriginal/Takotsubo}} Takotsubo: The story of a superhero.]]''

* [[EqualOpportunityEvil Equal Opportunity Gangster]]: Cord tries to keep Juliana from joining East 13 not because she's a woman, but because she's ''Asian'' and [[StopBeingStereotypical he doesn't want her to be a stereotype]] [[InternalizedCategorism like he is.]] He gives up and takes her on because [[GenreSavvy he knows she's just going to keep getting herself in trouble,]] and he might as well watch her. He also says if people call her names because of her magic, she should punch them in the face.

* AffectionateNickname: He likes [[TheNicknamer giving people nicknames]]; Blake is "CaptainAmerica / Cap," and Juliana is "[[{{Wicked}} Elphaba]] / Elphie." For his part, Roland calls him "shug" a lot.

A new police officer in Oakland, playfully nicknamed "CaptainAmerica" by the Tin Man.

** When he helps Thad get his stuff back from a mugger, [[TheCoatsAreOff he makes a show of taking off his jacket]] to reveal an accumulated sleeve of hearts, one partial sleeve, and several neck tattoos, which [[OhCrap instantly freaks the mugger out.]] Cord later mentions [[RacialProfiling he can't wear short sleeves anymore without getting stopped by police.]]

* PlotTriggeringDeath: Thanks to the story being Cord's SuperheroOrigin. He shows up later as a spirit when Cord is getting dragged off the Golden Gate Bridge.
* PostHumousCharacter: He appears as a spirit after his death, [[WalkingShirtlessScene half-dressed in filmy white gauze.]]

* TwoLinesNoWaiting: The South Wind knows Juliana, but can't talk to her.

* TwoLinesNoWaiting: The South Wind knows Juliana, but can't really talk to her.

* TattoosAsCharacterType: The South Wind is Filipino and has indigenous tattoos.

* TinMan: InvokedTrope. The open, expressive Cord takes "Tin Man" from ''TheWizardOfOz'' as his alias, wears a giant red heart necklace, and uses broken-hearts as his gang's tags.

A black police officer. She worked on Cord's case when Roland was murdered, and is currently working with East 13. Her new partner is Detective Blake, who is replacing Gerald.

* FantasticRacism: He was born with weather-magic, wound up in foster-care, and he scared people at ten years old just by accidentally burning a blanket.

* NaiveNewcomer: Doesn't know the rules in Oakland yet, and will probably function as an AudienceSurrogate.

* RestrainingBolt: She can only curse the attackers of foster-children if the children are under eighteen. For adults she cares about, [[BroughtDownToBadass she's "limited" to beating people up.]]

* RestrainingBolt: She can only curse the attackers of foster-children if the children are under eighteen. Once that happens, [[BroughtDownToBadass she's "limited" to beating people up.]]

* ArcWords: In the prologue. ''"My name is Cord Cai. My fiance got shot for his car, and nobody gave a fuck except me."''