History Characters / Diabolik

* BerserkButton: Harming Eva, interfering with his heists or his possessions when you aren't supposed to (cops, victims, and people who work for his victims get a pass), harming his few friends or people that he owe something to.

* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight/BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Saved Diabolik from arrest because he had saved her life and exposed himself to capture to try and save her from drowning in an hideout that was going to be flooded.

* AFatherToHisMen: He's like a second father to the athletes at his gym, picking them from the streets, teaching them boxing to keep them busy and have something to vent their instincts with, and taking care of them until he manages to find them a honest job.

* BadassGrandpa: At least in his fifties. Diabolik compared his fist to being hit by a freight train.

** LightningBruiser: In his prime.

* VillainRespect: His strength, personality, and heart gained him the respect of almost ''everyone''. Aside for Ginko, who considered him his childhood hero, mob boss Sonia Yanez respected him enough that when she thought he and his athletes had robbed her she decided to let him have the satisfaction without retaliating, and when one of her thugs murdered him Diabolik beat him up to death with his bare hands.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: He always keeps his word, and tries to not kill if he can't. He also despises human trafficking, and being caught by him practicing it is a quick way to get jailed (early on) or killed (most recent run-ins with traffickers), and forcefully addicting someone to drugs (especially someone with intelligence and willpower) is something he considers almost unforgivable (almost: while he killed the ones who did that to [[spoiler:Ginko]], he spared the ones who did it to [[spoiler:Eva]] as they were aiming to the daughter of a drug lord and accidentally got the wrong target).

** Used in RealLife with Diabolik being the testimonial in numerous social campaign, because if even Diabolik calls something disgusting then there must be something seriously wrong with it. Diabolik appeared as testimonial in campaigns against abandoning pets, dog fighting, scientific vivisection, driving too fast, riding bikes without helmet (with Diabolik calling those who do it fools), and, proving that [[DidntThinkThisThrough social campaigners sometimes don't think things through]], death penalty (Diabolik just happens to have one on his head).

** EveryoneHasStandards: The knowledge she had accidentally saved a paedophile from justice [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness made her scream murder and swear a bloody revenge]].

* AssholeVictim: Diabolik killed him because he was a paedophile.

* {{Ephebophile}}: And he likes them unwilling.

* PosthumousCharacter: [[DoubleSubversion Doubly Subverted]]: he's still alive in the present time sequence of "The True Story of King's Island" and is kidnapped and replaced by Diabolik, who then [[BerserkButton finds out he's a paedophile and kills him]].

* BoxingBattler: [[CaptainObvious He's a former boxer]].

[[WMG: Ronin and Master Cheng]]

The greatest smuggler of all times (Diabolik's words) and a martial arts master training his bodyguards. Ronin owed Diabolik a favour, so he took him under his wing and taught him some tricks before being murdered by [[spoiler: Walter Dorian]]

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[[folder: King and his organization]]
The men who raised Diabolik, and made him what he is: the King of Terror.

[[WMG: Altea's Fox Uncle]]

[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Altea's uncle]], and possibly the most cunning character in the series.

Tropes associated with Altea's uncle:

* NoNameGiven: His name has ''never'' been mentioned. Even Altea only calls him 'uncle', with Ginko regularly calling him "Uncle Fox".

* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: A good part of the respect his gym's athletes have for him is owed to him being pretty much undefeatable in a straight fight.

* BoxingBattler: [[CaptainObvious: He's a former boxer]].

* SmugSnake: As he admitted himself years later, as a teen he was, in his own words, "A stupid boy... That thought himself smart." He then proceeded to admit that his life as a street urchin ended when [[MuggingTheMonster he tried to snatch the purse of a plainclothes officer.

** Diabolik's word is considered so good that him accusing a mob boss of killing another one caused the son of the victim to ''hunt down'' the other one.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: He always keeps his word, and tries to not kill if he can't. He also despises human trafficking, and being caught by him practicing it is a quick way to get jailed (early on) or killed (most recent run-ins with traffickers), and forcefully addicting someone to drugs (especially someone with intelligence and willpower) is something he considers almost unforgivable (almost: while he killed the ones who did that to [[spoiler: Ginko]], he spared the ones who did it to [[spoiler: Eva]] as they were aiming to the daughter of a drug lord and accidentally got the wrong target).

** EveryoneHasStandards: Finding out he had accidentally helped a paedophile to escape justice made him ''furious''. He also despises rapists.

* {{Badass}}: In his prime he could have won the world heavyweight championship, had he not got his leg broken for refusing to take a dive. He never stopped training.
** BadassGrandpa: At least in his fifties. Diabolik compared his fist to being hit by a freight train.
** HandicappedBadass: Can't properly use his left leg. He still hits like a freight train.

* GenreSavvy: Why the mob let him run his gym and take away their low-level workforce: he put together a "Bible of Crime" and flat-out told them that if they killed him it would come out, and limits himself to the petty criminals and couriers so the damage he does them is not enough for them to take the risk.
** DeathByGenreSavvy: Was tortured and killed for his Bible by a mobster who thought himself smarter than he was.

* VillainRespect: ''Everyone'' respected him. Aside for Ginko, who considered him his childhood hero, mob boss Sonia Yanez respected him enough that when she thought he and his athletes had robbed her she decided to let him have the satisfaction without retaliating, and when one of her thugs murdered him Diabolik beat him up to death with his bare hands.

* ItsPersonal: Walter Dorian had [[spoiler: Master Cheng]] killed and personally [[spoiler: tortured Ronin to death]].

* BrokenBird: He never quite recovered from discovering that [[spoiler: his father had been ''rightly'' imprisoned for being a corrupt judge]].

* GoodOldFisticuffs: Among his many differences with Diabolik, he favours bar brawling-style punching to sophisticated exotic martial arts. Whenever they fight each other in hand-to-hand, Ginko punches out Diabolik nine times out of ten, including that occasion where Ginko uppercutted the King of Terror ''before even realizing it wasn't a {{Mook}}''.

* ABNegative: Identified as this precise blood type in "The Bird of Prey"-with the corollary that [[RealityEnsues the sudden disappearance of multiple donors of this blood type immediately clues Ginko in on Diabolik needing a transfusion, as the police knows his blod type since his first arrest]].

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[[folder: King and his organization]]
The men who raised Diabolik, and made him what he is: the King of Terror.

* AffablyEvil

* MoreDeadlyThanTheMale: By now, the worst Diabolik will do you when you piss him off is to kill you or let you live knowing Diabolik knows where you are and one day ''will'' grow bored enough to come and kill you. Eva, however, will lock you into your own secret vault with no water nor food save for two guys she and Diabolik have just killed, wait for you to [[HopeSpot realize she doesn't know of the emergency keyboard inside the vault from which you can open it]] and then digit the wrong combination enough times to deactivate both the external and the internal one, telling you what she's doing as she does it.

* HumiliationConga: Chased out of his country, beaten up and thrown in a flooded river by a lookalike, captured by soldiers planning to start a coup, imprisoned for years as a spy, nearly killed in an ''helicopter attack'' during the revolution, finds out the lookalike confessed his murder and all his money and properties were confiscated because he had no heirs, and then meets the lookalike to have him pay him back the damages only to end with a knife in a lung for accidentally revealing he had a good reason to kill him.

* [[EvilGloating Heroic Gloating]]: Whenever he defeats Diabolik he ''has'' to tell someone how he did it. He does it when Diabolik is already foiled, and tries to do so away from Diabolik's bugs.
** That said, the story "Mocking Diabolik" has him tell Altea how he did defeat Diabolik while he ''knew'' Diabolik had bugged him (in fact he even admitted his plan hinged on Diabolik having bugged him), playing the trope straight.

* ByTheBookCop: [[GenreSavvy Because otherwise criminals will get out on technicalities]].

* GenreSavvy

* [[EvilGloating Heroic Gloating]]: Whenever he defeats Diabolik he ''has'' to tell someone how he did it. Being GenreSavvy, he does it when Diabolik is already foiled, and tries to do so away from Diabolik's bugs.
** That said, the story "Mocking Diabolik" has him tell Altea how he did defeat Diabolik while he ''knew'' Diabolik had bugged him (in fact he even admitted [[GenreSavvy his plan hinged on Diabolik having bugged him]]), playing the trope straight.

* GenreSavvy: He's too smart to directly put himself against Diabolik or try to force himself on Eva.

* TheChessmaster: Capable of manipulating ''Diabolik'', of all people. [[GenreSavvy Being as smart as he is, he won't even try getting Diabolik doing something he wouldn't be inclined to do, but simply make him know there's something he would be inclined to do that would help the Fox's interests]], and then enjoy the show.

* GenreSavvy: Surprisingly so. After what he pulled with Natasha Morgan you wouldn't expect this, but when he decided to make Diabolik pay he first looked up all available information on him, and when he managed to put him into a position of weakness he just demanded a lot of money and the promise Diabolik wouldn't try and get revenge on him for that. He only got killed due sheer bad luck...

* {{Badass}}

* {{Badass}}
** KillerRabbit: You look her, and you think she's harmless. Then she'll beat the crap out of anyone stupid enough to give her a reason, even when completely disarmed and shackled (during one of her brief periods in prison, a guard made an homophobic remark to a gay friend of hers. Said guard 'mysteriously' fell to the ground and hit the face the same moment Eva rose from her chair, and Ginko saw fit warning him to shut up and watch where he walked before he died).

* {{Badass}}: Crack shot, utterly fearless, and whenever he and Diabolik (who is a very capable martial artist) get in hand-to-hand fighting, Diabolik usually loses. ''Hard''.
** BadassBiker: Used to be one when young.

* {{Badass}}
** FourStarBadass: He's a general, and has fought in multiple wars. Thanks to that, he ''browbeat Ginko into submission''.
-->"[[BadassBoast If I could get the armies to obey me, I can get a mere inspector to do the same]]"
** CombatPragmatist: He usually won his battles through clever misdirection.

* {{Badass}}: Every single one of them, no matter their specialization, can kick serious ass.

* {{Badass}}: Of the kind she could face a furious Diabolik unarmed and not only not flinch but ''mock'' him.
** RetiredBadass: She retired in the story she appeared in. Then King's men decided to kidnap her...

* DangerouslyGenreSavvy
* DoesNotLikeGuns: He ''really'' prizes stealth, and guns are just too noisy. [[DangerouslyGenreSavvy Hence why he trained himself throwing knives until his victim started dying on the spot every time]].

* EvilGloating: He loves to. Being DangerouslyGenreSavvy, he always does it when his victim is about to receive a knife in the heart or can't do anything about it anyway.

* DangerouslyGenreSavvy

** In another story, Eva muses that Ginko has no idea the mummy he's flying to Clerville is actually ''Diabolik in disguise''. At Clerville, Ginko already had an infrared sensor ready to verify if Diabolik was disguised as the mummy ([[DangerouslyGenreSavvy Diabolik being Diabolik, he had a suit that blocked his life signs]]).

* DangerouslyGenreSavvy

* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: A lot. For example, she expected the Walter Dorian that had just returned to Clerville to be a lookalike (after all, the real deal had been left alive on condition he ''never'' returned to Clerville, and she didn't expect him to be that stupid) and waited for some decisive evidence before kidnapping him and have him murdered ([[DidntSeeThatComing she was thus caught by surprise when she realized Diabolik had killed Dorian, replaced him and faked the decisive evidence]]), and it was her who suggested Diabolik to use the lack of information about himself and his growing infamy to become a figure [[TheDreaded so fearsome]] and [[ShroudedInMyth larger than life]] that nobody in his right mind would even consider going against him.

[[WMG: Lorenzo

* InsistentTerminology: [[DeadpanSnarker Her husband's death devoured by a panther was an hunting accident]], as [[spoiler: he was hunting ''her'' using the panther, and she didn't mean to set it on him]]. Also, she stopped using the name 'Diabolik' as soon as she met him: for her, he's "Dear", "Love", "''Him''", and "The Man I Love".