History Characters / BlackParadox

* BigBad: Or rather, the closet thing the manga has to one, though he is clearly the most actively malicious character in the story. He has pretty good intentions in mind, ending the energy crisis, but the ways he intends to fulfill this goal are utterly unethical. Otherwise, Suga is shown to be a liar and a cheater who takes advantage of the main characters.

* NecessarilyEvil: In an odd way, despite the fact that what he is doing is clearly wrong, you still can't help but get behind how dedicated he is to his cause. He is cultivating the protagonists' body parts in the hopes of ending a major energy crisis.

* TheOmniscient: Due to the portal in her brain to the afterlife, Maruso has a limited ability to see the future. When she's operated on by Dr. Suga to remove the gateway from her brain (as part of his plan to harvest more paradonite stones from inside the Afterlife), she gains the ability to become fully omniscient, and learns the full truth about what Suga has set in motion.

* TheFashionista: Baracchi is always concerned about her beauty, which is why she despises her birthmark. She also runs a jewelery store, and treats the paradonite as a valuable jewel rather than a capsule for human souls.
* PeekABangs: Baracchi's hair perpetually covers one side of her face. Maruso realizes that the first Baracchi she meets is actually a mirror double when she has a different side of her face covered than she describes.

* DubNameChange: The doctor is referred to as "Dr. Suga" in the VIZ edition, but was "Suka" in a previous lovalization..

[[folder:Marisou]]

* TheHeart: Marisou is the only unambiguously good character in the story, as she soft-hearted, empathetic, and tries to help others. She tried to help Piitan, who was on the brink of death, while Taborou and Baracchi were focusing on collecting the stones that came out of Piitan. She is also the one that kept the other two characters alive, and came up with a plan to prevent total extiction of the human race.
* TheOmniscient: Due to the portal in her brain to the afterlife, Marisou has a limited ability to see the future. When she's operated on by Dr. Suka to remove the gateway from her brain (as part of his plan to harvest more Paradoxical Night stones from inside the Afterlife), she gains the ability to become fully omniscient, and learns the full truth about what Suka has set in motion.
* OnlySaneWoman: Marisou is the first to point out how messed up and dangerous it is to be selling the paradoxical night in the first place. Though this could be the result of her psychic powers kicking in to a moderate extent.
* TheSmartGirl: Being a nurse, Marisou naturally knows a lot about physiology and anatomy. She even tells the other characters what a pylorus is, and where the word comes from.

[[folder:Taborou]]
* DirtyCoward: Even though Taborou does not realize this, his cowardice and his inability to take responsibility for his actions are his primary character flaws and the root causes of his insecurities, thus why he has his doppelganger, a reflection of all of the good qualities he doesn't have, following him around everywhere. This is ultimately what does him in when he abandons Marisou at the villa.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Taborou is a selfish, greedy, and shady man. At the same time though, he is shown to care for others when it counts. Before he leaves Suka's villa, he is genuinely empathic towards Marisou for all of the hardships she had gone through, and planned to free her from the villa to expose Dr. Suka's plan to the public. Unfortunately, he was too late. Marisou appeared to be so traumatized and vegetative that he saw no hope in rescuing her, and left her there.
* TheSmartGuy: Taborou is the one in the group that's the most quick-witted, and best cooks up plans and schemes. He is also one of the first in the group besides Marisou to realize how much the plan of cultivating the parodonite will fail, and attempts to book it out of Dr. Suka's villa.
* SurvivorGuilt: Taborou is implied to be experiencing this when he abandons Marisou at the villa, as his doppelganger, which was what initially goaded him to commit suicide, had come back, and eventually succeeds in killing him. His entrance to the Spirit Realm also happens to be his shadow, symbolizing this cowardly act.

* AlphaBitch: Baracchi is very self-serving and egotistical. She also rubs it in Marisou's face, despite her being in a fugue state, that Dr. Suka "doesn't love her anymore", and prefers Baracchi.
* TheDitz: Baracchi is not the crunchiest chip in the bag. She thought it was a good idea to sell stones that she had just found out had supernatural properties, and sent one to a personality that she was a fan of to promote them. She even falls head over heels for Dr. Suka, even when he's shown himself to be a corrupt individual, all because he compliments her for her looks.

* TheFashionista: Baracchi is always concerned about her beauty, which is why she despises her birthmark. She also runs a jewelery store, and treats the parodonite as a valuable jewel rather than a capsule for human souls.
* PeekABangs: Baracchi's hair perpetually covers one side of her face. Marisou realizes that the first Baracchi she meets is actually a mirror double when she has a different side of her face covered than she describes.
* TwoFaced: She has a large birthmark that covers half of her face, it's so large she uses her bangs to cover it up. Her insecurities surrounding the birthmark are also what gets her to want to commit suicide.

[[folder:Piitan]]

* TheEeyore: Piitan is the most pessimestic of the group, even more so than Marisou. Out of all of the four main characters, he wants to die the most.
* PutOnABus: Subverted. Even though it seems that he died after his stomach exploded and got extracted, and his robot doppelganger appeared to replace him, it turns out that the Piitan robot actually had Piitan's soul. The guy never really left the group at all. His soul was just transferred into a robot body instead.

* ShadowArchetype: In the grand scheme of things, they are personifications of the reasons as to why the main characters want to commit suicide. Even when they don't seem to be around all that much, it is the character's insecurities that nonetheless opens gateways into the spirit realm, so their influence is still all the more present. Taborou's own doppelganger even returns to haunt him when he leaves the villa, abandons Marisou, and loses his will to continue working on the Parodonite Project, the reason he initially gave up his suicidal thoughts. This gets him to open his own portal into the spirit realm through his own shadow.

[[folder:Dr. Suka]]
* AssholeVictim: Dr. Suka becomes a scapegoat by the rest of the world because of his discovery leading to the near-extiction of mankind. Not that he deserves any sympathy for this.
* BigBad: Or rather, the closet thing the manga has to one, though he is clearly the most actively malicious character in the story. He has pretty good intentions in mind, ending the energy crisis, but the ways he intends to fulfill this goal are utterly unethical. Otherwise, Suka is shown to be a liar and a cheater who takes advantage of the main characters.
* TheCasanova: Behind closed doors, Suka knows how to pick up chicks, or at the very least get in affairs with them against their will. He is also quick to jump between girl to girl, and isn't afraid to kill them if they interfere with his experiments.
* DubNameChange: The doctor is referred to as "Dr. Suga" in the VIZ edition.
* KarmicDeath: When Mairsou gets a tumor removed from her brain, she is able to project that Suka will die a gruesome death. When the world finds out that he's responsible for the near-extinction of mankind, he will be widley despised, and will be tortured to death.
* MadScientist: Suka extracts Piitan's stomach, enlarges it, puts it in a swimming pool, and puts a metal door on it. He also takes Baracchi's birthmark, and stretches it out onto a giant petri dish. And don't even get us started on what he does with Marisou's tumor.

* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: He begins having an affair with Marisou who is having continuous fits of terror, and is by this point mostly vegetative. What's worse is that he knows that she's close on the brink of death, and planned on disposing of her body when she does die.

* TheDitz: Barachi is not the crunchiest chip in the bag. She thought it was a good idea to sell stones that she had just found out had supernatural properties, and sent one to a personality that she was a fan of to promote them. She even falls head over heels for Dr. Suka, even when he's shown himself to be a corrupt individual, all because he compliments her for her looks.

* TheHeart: Marisou is the only unambiguously good character in the story, as she soft-hearted, empathetic, and tries to help others. She tried to help Piitan, was was on the brink of death, while Taborou and Baracchi were focusing on collecting the stones that came out of Piitan. She is also the one that kept the other two characters alive, and came up with a plan to prevent total extiction of the human race.

* TheEeyore: Piitan is the most pessimestic of the group, even more so than Marisou.

* DirtyCoward: Even though Taborou does not realize this, his cowardice and his inability to take responsibility for his actions are his primary character flaws and the root causes of his insecurities, thus why he has his doppelganger, a reflection of all of his bad qualities, following him around everywhere. This is ultimately what does him in when he abandons Marisou at the villa.

* DirtyCoward: Even though Taborou does not realize this, his cowardice and his inability to take responsibility for his actions are his primary character flaws, are the root of his insecurities, thus why he has his doppelganger, a reflection of all of his bad qualities, following him around everywhere. This is ultimately what does him in when he abandons Marisou at the villa.

* DirtyCoward: Even though Taborou does not realize this, his cowardice and his inability to take responsibility for his actions are his primary character flaws, and the root of his insecurities, thus why he has his doppelganger, a reflection of all of his bad qualities, following him around everywhere. This is ultimately what does him in when he abandons Marisou at the villa.

* DirtyCoward: Even though Taborou does not realize this, his cowardice and his inability to take responsibility for his actions are his primary character flaws, and the root of his insecurities, thus why he has his doppelganger following him around everywhere. This is ultimately what does him in when he abandons Marisou at the villa.

* DirtyCoward: Even though Taborou does not realize this, his cowardice and his inability to take responsibility for his actions is his primary character flaw, and the root of his insecurities, thus why he has his doppelganger following him around everywhere. This is ultimately what does him in when he abandons Marisou at the villa.

* DirtyCoward: Even though Taborou does not realize this, his cowardice and his tendency to avoid responsibility for his actions is his primary character flaw, and the root of his insecurities, thus why he has his doppelganger following him around everywhere. This is ultimately what does him in when he abandons Marisou at the villa.

* DirtyCoward: Even though Taborou does not realize this, his cowardice and his tendency to avoid responsibility for his actions is his primary character flaw, and the root of his insecurities. This is ultimately what does him in when he abandons Marisou at the villa.

* DirtyCoward: Even Taborou does not realize this, his cowardice and his tendency to avoid responsibility for his actions is his primary character flaw, and the root of his insecurities. This is ultimately what does him in when he abandons Marisou at the villa.