History Characters / ParanoiaAgent

* AesopCollateralDamage: [[spoiler:She ends up calling Lil' Slugger down upon herself in her despair after learning that her father set up a hidden camera in her room to take naked pictures of her. The TraumaInducedAmnesia from her attack causes her to forget what she learned about her father. Despite this, it is her father who ultimately suffers the most from the ordeal.]]

* AesopCollateralDamage: [[spoiler:She has done nothing wrong, but she ends up calling Lil'Slugger down upon herself in her despair after learning that her father set up a hidden camera in her room to take naked pictures of her. She ends up "fine", but only because the brain damage from her attack caused her to forget what she learned about her father. The despair this causes her father makes it clear that he was the one to suffer from the whole event, but she was the one who got beaten half to death for it.]]

* SanitySlippage: [[spoiler:As result of Maria becoming more and more aggressive as Harumi tries to get rid of her. She's only "saved" when Lil' Slugger makes her his next target after she remembers Yuichi's words about Lil' Slugger setting him free]].

* BornUnlucky: It says a lot that right before she becomes Lil' Slugger's first victim, she was already having a miserable day and injured twice by stumbling and being scraped by a car. Basically, almost everything that can probably go wrong or stressful in her life, happens to her with gusto, and while some of it is klutziness, most other cases are completely out of her control or pure misfortune.

* DoomMagnet: Bad things seem to happen due to her presence or her creations.

* LoserProtagonist: Despite being the successful creator of a popular mascot, her coworkers badmouth her behind her back and show her little respect, she doesn't seem to have many friends, and spends a lot of time at home with Maromi.

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler:Refusing to take the blame for her dog getting hit by a car ten years prior to the start of the series effectively turns Tsukiko and her creation Maromi into vectors for the Lil' Slugger to perpetuate, which in turn causes a steadily-rising death count and especially to people around herself before nearly wiping Tokyo off the map. Despite her blatant [[TheMentallyDisturbed mental issues]], however, she's hardly malicious at all, and certainly didn't intend for any of it to happen.]]

* BigBad: [[spoiler:Although it's open to interpretation whether he's even sentient in the first place.]]

* SanitySlippage: [[spoiler:As result of Maria becoming more and more aggressive as Harumi tries to get rid of her.]]
* SplitPersonality: [[spoiler:Her mental problem and presumably the reason why Lil' Slugger seeks her out.]]

* TooSpicyForYogSothoth: Their despair naturally attracts Lil' Slugger, [[spoiler:but he's scared off when he realizes that they're ghost and presumably can't be killed again.]]

* TheScapegoat: Yuichi quickly comes to the conclusion that Ushiyama is the one telling everyone he's Little Slugger, because..., well he doesn't really ''have'' a good reason, he just doesn't like the guy and desperately wants to pin the blame on someone.

* TheScapegoat: Yuichi quickly comes to the conclusion that Ushiyama is the one telling everyone he's Little Slugger, because..., well he doesn't really ''have'' a reason, he just doesn't like the guy and desperately wants to pin the blame on someone.

* NiceGuy: Even when Yuichi threatens him and has pictures taken of the event, he tries to defend Yuichi by claiming that someone's trying to ruin his reputation. Although, [[{{Jerkass}} Yuichi]] doesn't seem grateful.

* GeenEyedMonster: It's heavily implied that the real reason Yuichi is convinced that Ushiyama is spreading the rumors about him is because he's jealous of Ushiyama's popularity.

* {{Jerkass}}: Even when the person he threatened was defending him, he still had it out for him. This grudge seems to have disappeared by "Fear of a Direct Hit", though.

* AmbiguousDisorder: Tsukiko routinely hallucinates and is perpetually stoic. She shows many symptoms of what could be interpreted as schizophrenia.[[note]]This includes having vivid hallucinations and delusions, having difficulty interacting with other people, emotional fragility, and the inability to comprehend life in a logical fashion.[[/note]] That said, this being the case might somewhat undermine the series' message of [[spoiler:having to deal with one's own problems]], since it'd be unfair to ask Tsukiko to acknowledge her delusions when schizophrenia would make it very hard for her to perceive the difference between them and reality.

* PaedoHunt: It is heavily implied that Hirukawa is [[spoiler:a pedophile who fantasizes about his underage daughter, Taeko, even going so far as to install a camera in her bedroom to watch her undress. It is also insinuated that he raped a young girl during one of his burglaries.]]

** When Saruta goes to the house of the animation director, Hitomi Kanie, to pick up the materials she was checking, he fails to notice that she [[spoiler:''dead from blunt force trauma'', complete with a pool of blood from her head.]]

* VillainousBreakdown: While Misae Ikari tells Lil’ Slugger her personal woes, he gradually becomes more impatient by the minute as she doesn’t succumb to despair, ultimately degrading into a screaming rage as she states her husband’s love and her pride as a loving wife gives her determination and hope for the future along how much of a fool he is to think he could deliver her an escape.