History Characters / HigurashiWhenTheyCrySupportingCharacters

* KnightOfCerebus: In most arcs, he signals the end of comedy, or a [[FromBadToWorse sharper dive into tragedy]], not always in his first appearance, but in his first confrontation with the arc's protagonist. Lampshaded by Dr. Irie.

* BigBad: She's revealed to be the main perpetrator behind the Great Hinamizawa Disaster in multiple timeline.

* PosthumousCharacter: Although whether he died or not is an open mystery for the bulk of the series, the story largely treats him this way, with almost all of his character development done in flashbacks and the testimony of other characters due to his PresentAbsence. Near the end of the story, it is revealed once and for all that he is [[spoiler:comatose, not]] dead. At the end of Higurashi Sotsu, [[spoiler:he finally wakes up from his coma]].

* TechnicolorEyes: Pink.

* AxCrazy: [[spoiler: Normally, he's the opposite of this trope throughout the entire series. But in ''Gou'', he somehow comes down with L5 Hinamizawa Syndrome, and goes on a murderous rampage gunning down everyone at the festival.]] [[spoiler:Satoko also turns him into one in ''Sotsu'', which ends similarly, only this time he also dies once Satoko reveals her true colors by [[BoomHeadshot shooting him in the head]].]]

* AdaptationalVillainy: [[spoiler: In ''Gou'', under the paranoia-induced influence of the Hinamizawa Syndrome, he goes on a rampage and shoots everyone to death at the festival, with the exception of Rena.]]
* BatterUp: In ''Gou'', [[spoiler:he goes L5 at the end of Tataridamashi and beats Rika to death with a bat.]]

* DirtyCop: [[spoiler:Ooishi isn't normally this in the regular timelines, but when he comes down with Hinamizawa Syndrome in ''Gou/Sotsu'', he becomes far more unscrupulous to get to the culprits who he thinks are behind the annual murders of Hinamizawa, playing both sides in the war between the village and Teppei and escalating the situation and then later shooting up the Watanagashi festival in ''Tataridamashi/Tatariakashi-hen''.]]

** Played with in ''Gou'', where [[spoiler: he's directly responsible for at least one of the tragedies taking place. Case in point, in ''Tataridamashi-hen'' when it finally seems like things are starting to get better, he goes crazy and shoots everyone to death at the festival.]]

* MentorArchetype: The "old man". Ooishi's father died in a bombing just after the end of World War II, and Ooishi spent the few years after that reluctantly arresting starving people who bought rice on the black market. While he was chasing one, a guy who looked just like his father punched him and [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech scolded him in front of everyone.]] He started to consider that man as a second father.

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: In ''Gou'' [[spoiler: he comes down with L5 of the Hinamizawa Syndrome and goes on a murderous rampage, which has not happened in any of the arcs throughout the entire series.]]

* RightForTheWrongReasons: In Episode 11 of ''Sotsu'' [[spoiler:he accuses Satoko for being behind the Curse. Which is entirely correct, but only for this year and not for the overall incidents he's thinking of.]]

* AdaptationalUgliness: His facial features are slightly more weathered in Gou.

* BabiesEverAfter: [[ImpliedTrope Implied]]. She looks visibly more rotund in uncharacteristically baggy clothes when she returns to the clinic with Tomitake in the epilogue of ''Sotsu'', though whether that actually means pregnancy is never stated.

* DiscOneFinalBoss: During the Nekodamashi-hen arc, she willingly surrenders on the night of the Watanagashi festival and gives up on her ambitions resulting in an early version of the original story's GoldenEnding. This is the first clue that she's not actually the BigBad this time around.
%%zce* DissonantSerenity: To contrast all other [[UnstoppableRage infected ones]].

* HeelFaceTurn: But only at the very end of the series. And in later arcs she continues to terrorize the heroes.
** Episode 17 of ''Gou'' has Takano doing this at the beginning, where she tearfully begs for Rika's forgiveness stating she ''planned'' to kill her and her friends but, for some unspecified reason, she has given up her plan and is going to testify against the faction of Tokyo that planned to start the Hinamizawa Disaster.

* KarmicDeath: In ''Gou'', it's shown that in multiple timelines where her plans fails, she ends up going through with her suicide, being forced to shoot herself in the mouth, have her grandfathers research permanently rejected, and take all the blame for the planned massacre, however it can be difficult to have any sympathy for her since she murdered Rika's parents, of which she dissected her mother's brain with no anesthesia, and was planning genocide against a village that did nothing wrong to her.

* NotMeThisTime: ''Gou'' presents an interesting take on the trope: she readily admits to Rika that she was intending on killing her and her friends as part of her plan, but she ended up getting cold feet and opting to turn herself in. In her stead, the main villain turns out to be a looping Satoko who was receiving outside help from a supernatural source.

* SoftspokenSadist: She enjoys making people uncomfortable in casual conversation, typically with her lurid fascination with the curse. Soon after introducing herself to Keiichi, she advises him to come to her clinic so she can give him [[AfraidOfNeedles BIG shot]] foreshadowing her PlayingWithSyringes and other overt sadism.

* TearsOfRemorse: In the ''Gou'' anime, Takano cries as she confesses to Rika that she was planning to kill her and her friends until she decided to give up.
* TookALevelInKindness: Her first full appearance in the ''Gou'' anime shows Takano doing everything she can to atone for the actions she was ''going'' to take against Rika and the others, and even begs for Rika's forgiveness. Tomitake explains Takano has revealed Tokyo's plans to cause the Hinamizawa Disaster and is testifying against the faction that would've caused it all. Though when Rika asks why Takano changed her mind, Takano vaguely states Rika wouldn't believe her.

* {{Bishonen}}: He's noted to be quite good looking.