History Characters / GoodnightPunpun

* UncertainDoom: It is left ambiguous [[spoiler: whether or not he died in the Pegasus Ensemble's mass suicide at the end]] or is suffering from amnesia following the incident.

* TheCaretaker: He has taken care of Shimizu since his mother's death, though he wishes he finds his independence.

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* BookDumb: Due to his life's problems, he never performed well in his education and eventually drops out of school altogether.
* TheCaretaker: He has always taken care of Shimizu since his mother's death, though he wishes he finds his independence.
* {{Foil}}: To Punpun. Seki goes through many similar hardships in life but assumes great responsibility and becomes a mature, hard-working adult. He also maintains a meaningful, relatively healthy relationship with Shimizu in contrast to Punpun and Aiko.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Seki is outwardly very abrasive, but ultimately has a good heart.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Has a pathological fear of fire due to an incident where he accidentally causes a factory explosion with a cigarette.

* TheCaretaker: He has always taken care of Shimizu since his mother's death, though he wishes he finds his independence.

* NiceGirl: She is a sweet person as most characters can attest to.

One of Punpun's childhood friends and is best friends with Koh Shimizu.

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* BabiessEverAfter: Eventually has a child with Yuuichi.

* ButNotTooForeign: Her mother is a foreigner, apparently.

* VitriolicBestBuds: Is this with Miyuki.

* RealityEnsues: [[spoiler:She has a change of heart on her deathbed and apologizes to Punpun for being a terrible mother, but even after that he can't bring himself to love her. Even if he could, a single apology, no matter how sincere, can't make up for a lifetime's worth of abuse.]]

* BrokenBird: Just as bad, if not moreso, as Punpun. Her crippled mother abuses her physically, emotionally, and verbally, and forces her to take part in her cult. The mutual PuppyLove she and Punpun shared in their youth was such a massive HopeSpot for her that didn't go anywhere, thanks to Punpun's insecurities coupled with circumstances just plain out of their control. As such, when Aiko grows older [[spoiler:she remains largely stuck in the past, desperately clinging to her memories of Punpun well into her adult years as a means of escape]].

* RealityEnsues: [[spoiler:She has a change of heart on her deathbed and apologizes to Punpun for being a terrible mother, but even after that he can't bring himself to love her. Even if he could, a single apology, no matter how sincere, can't make up for a lifetime of abuse.]]

* DomesticAbuser: He gets caught by Punpun standing above his mother, lying unconscious on the floor with a huge bump in her head. The two get divorced shortly afterwards. [[spoiler:It's eventually subverted when it's revealed that he was actually trying to prevent Mama Punpun from badly hurting herself.]]

* AntiVillain: Though he started off the series as an innocent boy, [[TheOneThatGotAway his obsession with Aiko]] and his [[GuiltComplex shame at how that whole affair fell apart]] affects his emotional and mental development well into his young adult years. It isn't helped by the fact that [[spoiler:Midori statutorily raped him in a moment of emotional weakness for the both of them]], driving him further and further down an emotional sinkhole of selfishness, self-loathing, and social ineptitude.

* BrokenBird: Just as bad, if not moreso, as Punpun. Her crippled mother abuses her physically, emotionally, and verbally, and forces her to take part in her cult.

* ManicPixieDreamGirl: Invoked by Punpun. Is horribly, horribly deconstructed in later chapters.

* NonStandardCharacterDesign: Starts out as a bird, [[ArtShift and from there changes into several different forms]]. No one ever comments on his strange appearance, implying that the Punpun we see is actually a reflection of his feelings.

* ParentsAsPeople: Played for tragedy, as, in Chapter 67, [[spoiler: we see that she's had high aspirations for herself and didn't really want to have a child, along with how luckless in love she was. Her circumstances leading to her the life we see her have turned her into the woman we see her as]].

* ButNotToForeign: Her mother is a foreigner, apparently.

* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: She gets pregnant by [[spoiler:her ex-husband]], and initially plans on getting an abortion, but decides to keep the child in the end (going on to have a daughter.

* NotToForeign: Her mother is a foreigner, apparently.

* MortonsFork: Her ruminations in

!!'''Aiko Tanaka'''

* HairColorDissonance: Canonically has [[http://38.media.tumblr.com/c42e377e19432b2c00fc9dedc1eca1b0/tumblr_n9skgbL5B51s6w5tao1_1280.jpg brown hair]], but the majority of fans depict her with red or greenish-blue/black hair instead. The many official images/manga color spreads depicting her with different hair colors do not help at all.

%%* TroubledChild
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: One of the [[http://img.batoto.net/comics/2012/12/25/o/read50d978e0c361c/img000023.jpg colour spreads]] in volume 11 gives her black-green hair, or at least black hair with green highlighting.

!!'''Sachi Nanjo'''

* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: She gets pregnant by [[spoiler:her ex-husband]], and initially plans on getting an abortion, but decides to keep the child in the end.

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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone:[[spoiler:She has this and apologizes to Punpun for how she's treated him while she's terminally ill]].

* YourCheatingHeart: He has a ''major'' problem staying faithful to one woman. This causes him immense guilt and [[spoiler:nearly leads him to commit suicide after he cheats on Midori]].

%%* CantHoldHisLiquor

%%* TheQuietOne

* ClassicalAntiHero: Is meek, withdrawn, depressed, bad with people and plagued with self-loathing.

* DidNotGetTheGirl: [[spoiler: Aiko ends up hanging herself]], and after the timeskip the state of his relationship with [[spoiler:Sachi]] is ambiguous.

* TheEveryman: One of the interesting things about the way the story is structured is the contrast between Punpun's unusual design and how much of an ordinary japanese boy he is otherwise.
* EyeScream: Aiko stabs him in the left eye with a fork after [[spoiler:fleeing the scene of her mother's murder]]. She stops herself, though.

* KingOfAllCosmos: The God Punpun summons whenever he is stressed and in need of advice. He's... [[{{Understatement}} kind of weird.]] [[spoiler:He reveals later on that he knows that this "God" is really just him speaking to himself.]]

* TroubledChild:His upbringing has had its consequences on his mental state
* UsedToBeASweetKid: He was very innocent, quirky and optimistic as a child, but the neglect, abuse and negative influences from everyone around him causes him to eventually become bitter, cynical, abusive and even [[spoiler: a murderer, though he was partly doing it to "save" Aiko.]]

* BumblingDad: He's much warmer to Punpun than his wife, but has trouble holding down jobs, is implied to be a bit of a drunk, and is generally kind of a goofball. He also writes silly letters to Punpun filled with obvious lies about how he's saving the world from aliens, which causes Punpun to write him off as an idiot. [[spoiler: It's eventually subverted a little when it's revealed that Mama Punpun was sending the letters so Punpun wouldn't hate his father.]]

* DomesticAbuser: He gets caught by Punpun standing above his mother, lying unconscious on the floor with a huge bump in her head. The two get divorced shortly afterwards. [[spoiler: It's eventually subverted when it's revealed that he was actually trying to prevent Mama Punpun from badly hurting herself.]]

* AbusiveParents: She isn't actively abusive, but is generally a very cold and neglectful parent to Punpun. [[spoiler: When she gets cancer and is on the verge of dying she realizes how awful she was and apologizes to Punpun saying that she genuinely loved him and wished she could have been a better parent. It ends up being too little too late, since even after that, Punpun can't bring himself to love his mother.]]

* IllGirl: [[spoiler: She comes down with cancer and eventually dies]]

* YourCheatingHeart: He has a ''major'' problem staying faithful to one woman. This causes him immense guilt and [[spoiler: nearly leads him to commit suicide after he cheats on Midori.]]

%%* CantHoldHisLiquor

* DemotedToExtra: After he gets divorced, he moves to a different town and has a much smaller presence in the story, only appearing every now and again.

Tropes pertaining to the cast of Manga/GoodnightPunpun.

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* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Attempts this by stabbing himself in his injured eye in the final chapters]]. [[spoiler:Luckily, he doesn't succeed, as Sachi saves him at the last moment]].

!!Mama Punpun Onodera