History Characters / QueensBladeSupportingCharacters

Leina & Elina's biological mother (as well as Claudette's stepmother) who died years before the events of the series takes place.

* CynicismCatalyst: She's the reason why everyone in the Vance family (minus Leina, in less degree) are so mentally scarred, due of her death.
* {{Expy}} - Besides looking a lot like Leina, background-wise she shares many quirks with ''Marie'' Heinlein, Geese Howard's wife and Rock Howard's mother from [[VideoGame/FatalFury Garou: Mark of the Wolves]], since both were blondes, their respectives sons loved her and their respective deaths affected their sons even as grown-ups. [[MultipleChoicePast Depending of the continuity]], she died fighting (anime) or died of an illness (manga), just like Marie Heinlein died in ''Garou''.
** In the novels [[spoiler:she is a expy of both Marie and her husband ''[[VideoGame/FatalFury Geese]]'' when the Swamp Witch brings back her to life]].
* KilledOffScreen: The animated series is the only adaptation who shows the aftermath of her death in a flashback scene, when some soldiers bring to her husband her blood-stained armor, meaning she is dead for good.
* MasterSwordswoman: In life
* MeaningfulName - OK, her name is ''Maria'' and her battle name is ''The Holy Warrior''. [[Literature/TheBible Where I heard about that name before?]]
** Not to mention one of the [[SpellMyNameWithAnS many translations of Leina's battle name]] is ''The Exiled Virgin''.
* MultipleChoicePast - In the anime and the gamebooks, she died while fighting in a Queen's Blade tournament, but in the ''Hide and Seek'' manga she died due of illness instead.
* NotSoSmallRole: As you can see, despite being dead before the events of the series began, she is the ''Anime/QueensBlade'' version of [[spoiler:[[Manga/{{Naruto}} Rin Nohara]]: '''Her entire family goes straight to hell.''']]

* PosthumousCharacter: Her death affected the whole Vance family ''really hard'', to the grade her daughters are still ''dealing'' about the topic as grown-ups.
** DeathByOriginStory: But her death becomes the motivation for Leina to become a warrior at the beginning of the series
* [[HeWhoMustNotBeSeen She Who Must Not Be Seen]] - Even more than her husband in the ''Hide and Seek'' manga, since we don't see her face there, only her body, but averted later in the anime in the second season and in the novels.
* StrongFamilyResemblance - She's basically Leina as an adult, with long hair and without Leina's braids. Averted in the novels, since she looks too different from Leina
* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth - According with Echidna in the QB's novelizations, she considers her as a "kindred spirit" and as a really, nice woman in her lifetime. In fact, it's really implied her death also affected ''Echidna'' in some way, since she's trying to protect her daughters in her own way, no matter what.

* AuthorAvatar - He's a collective avatar for Hobby Japan (the creators of the ''Anime/QueensBlade'' franchise) as a whole.
* CanonForeigner - Played with it: He only appears physically in Menace's [[AllThereIntheManual sidestory]], in the ''Spiral Chaos'' games as the store owner who sell stuff to the players (until Cattleya and Ymir replaces him later on game) and as the faceless blogger in the Hobby Japan's ''Anime/QueensBlade'' homepage, but he doesn't appear in the anime series or in the manga adaptations.

* [[QuicklyDemotedWoman Quickly Demoted Man]] - We don't see him ever again after Cattleya and Ymir demoted him.

* CanonForeigner
* {{Expy}}: Of Fiotiel from the novels (see below), [[spoiler:except he is a girl dressing as a boy, rather than a boy dressed as a girl.]]
* [[ImTakingHerHomeWithMe I'm Taking Him Home With Me!]] - How some of the females react to him.
* IOweYouMyLife - He's thankful for Claudette for saving him and thus continue to serve her and sisters despite how bad Elina treats him.
* NaiveNewcomer
* SweetPollyOliver: [[spoiler:At the end of the manga.]]

* UndyingLoyalty - To Elina.

* ActionGirl - Subverted: she's the only female with no combat experience. [[spoiler: At least until the 5th OVA.]]
* [[ByTheBookCop By-the-Book Angel]]: Unlike Nanael, she follows the laws of the heaven to the core, no matter what. [[spoiler:Even if that means trying to kill her friend Nanael after becoming a FallenAngel, albeit Nanael attacked her first]].
* CanonForeigner - She's an anime-exclusive character.
* {{Expy}} - She looks like an angelic version of [[Manga/ToLoveRu Momo Velia Deviluke]]. What makes it funnier is that Momo has a twin sister named ''Nana''.

* InSeriesNickname - "Hachi" ("eight" in Japanese)
* {{Keigo}} - She's very polite towards everyone, even with Nanael, who is her ''junior''.
* MoralityPet - For Nanael.
* SatelliteCharacter
* SenpaiKohai - Inverted: Despite being Nanael's senior, she address her (in the Japanese version) as ''Nanael-san'' [[spoiler:but she dropped this for a moment, when Nanael become a FallenAngel in the 5th OVA.]]
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse - As a result of Nanael being DemotedToExtra, she doesn't appear in the ''Rebellion'''s animated adaptation anymore.

* DirtyOldMan - Has the personality of one, at least.
* MeaningfulName - And also PunnyName, his name is a combination between the Spanish word "cetro" (Scepter) and the name of the tragedy ''Sethona'', written by the Scottish orientalist Alexander Dow and based in Menes, whose name Menace is based of.

* TheBlacksmith
* DisappearedDad

* {{Expy}} - Of his own son Rana, and also of Franchise/ConanTheBarbarian, possibly. He's also possibly inspired, taking into account how Cattleya describes him in the original gamebook continuity, in Xemn Worzen from ''VideoGame/LegacyOfTheWizard'' (aka ''Dragon Slayer 4: Drasle Family'' in Japan), except Owen uses swords, compared with Xemn's axes and he doesn't have a mustache like Xemn.
* TheGhost: Despite being the main motivation for Cattleya for entering the tournament, he never appeared physically in any adaptation, excluding the animated one, and his physical description according with Cattleya in other continuities is different from the anime, including having a mustache and scars.
* HeWhoMustNotBeSeen - We don't see his face (only his body), and he finally appears in the final episode of the second season, but played straight in the 3rd OVA, when we only can see him behind his back.
* InformedAbility: For the man said be a Dragon Slayer, he sure didn't show off such abilities, or [[spoiler:how Aldra defeated him in the first place, did he put a fight or was easily overthrown? We will never know]].

* SatelliteCharacter: Given how little characterization Owen has, if any at all; it merely serves to stabilish Cattleya as an ActionMom and give her a reason to compete on the Queen's Blade, she had to consumate with a man for Rana to exist after all.
* WalkingShirtlessScene

* {{Expy}} - Possibly (in the anime version), of [[http://hokuto.wikia.com/wiki/Tesshin_Kasumi Tesshin Kasumi]], [[Manga/FistOfTheBlueSky Kenshiro Kasumi's father.]]
* TheGhost: Just like Owen, he never appeared in any other adaptation, excluding the animated and he's partly visible in the ''Hide And Seek'' manga and the videogames. Also, his physical description is different between adaptations.
* HeWhoMustNotBeSeen - Played with: we don't see his face in the first episodes, but appears entirely in the rest of the series (and later playing an important role), but still played straight in the original gamebooks, the videogames (he appears as a shadow, but his silhouette is identical to his form in the anime) and the manga (albeit with a different character design).
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold - He can be cruel to Claudette, but he still worries about her in his own way.
* KarmaHoudini - He's pretty lucky that Claudette, despite hating nobility, and disliking the way he treats her, still loves him, even if she had the chance of kill him [[spoiler:or let him die at Risty's hands]] if she wanted it, especially when he arrested her for not being able to bring Leina back. Instead, she tries to getting Leina back home once again, after getting rid of the guards that arrested her.

* NonHumanSidekick

* AscendedExtra: From being a minor character in Cattleya's backstory whose only role was being TheLoad for her mother to having a bigger role in the animated adaptations.

* DudeLooksLikeALady: You'd be forgiven if you thought he was girl at first.

* GenreBlind:[[spoiler:He's affected by this in the [=OVAs=], when he tries to go after Airi, forgotting he's JustAKid and the fact, being a male, he doesn't have a place in a female-oriented society]].
* HumanShield: Her mother uses him as a shield sometimes and he doesn't see to mind.

* MommasBoy
* MoralityPet: for Airi.
* TagalongKid
* VagueAge: Averted, as he's 7 years old, even if the art in many adaptations [[DependingOnTheArtist depicts him a bit older than he should be]].
* [[WhoNamesTheirKidDude Who Names Their Kid "Frog"?]] - While "Rana" could sound exotic for Japanese ears, his name is the Spanish word for ''frog''.

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* [[spoiler:DistressedDude: Aldra had him in her clutches for who knows how long]].

Elina's servant boy from the ''Hide & Seek'' manga. [[spoiler:It's later revealed in the manga he is a girl.]]

* [[spoiler:SweetPollyOliver: At the end of the manga.]]

->''The Holy Warrior'' (anime), ''The Master Swordswoman''[[note]]''Kensei'' or Sword Saint[[/note]] (Gamebook continuity) and [[spoiler:''The Beast Princess'']] (novels)

* [[spoiler:BackFromTheDead - The Swamp Witch revives her in the novels...]]
* [[spoiler:CameBackWrong - ...with the added skill of being able to transform herself into a weretigress.]]

A pair of plushies that Aldra had in her house in ''Rebellion'', and they're possesed by a pair of two evil spirits summoned by Aldra [[spoiler:after Ymir forces her to work for her in exchange of her husband.]]

* [[spoiler:KarmaHoudini: The only thing he gets from all the crap he did in the ''Vanquished Queens'' first [=OVA=], at best, is [[LiteralAssKicking being bitten in the ass by some wild squirrel]], as Tomoe forgives him and Branwen, and she let both of them them go scot free. This also overlaps with ForegoneConclusion as the whole plot of the [=OVAs=] takes place before the events of the ''Rebellion'' TV series]].

A duo of Wraith maids [[spoiler:working under both Werbellia The Swamp Witch and Airi's orders]] who appears retroactively in the ''Rebellion'' continuity (both animated and gamebook respectively), albeit their roles in each continuty differs from each other.

** InformedFlaw: Also, according with the Swamp Witch's gamebook, Meena is very ambitious and she wants to rule the world of the living along her master as her consul, since she came from a noble family of wraiths, but this point is never explored in any adaptation

* [[TalkingToHimself Talking to Themselves]]: In the English dub with his mother, as they share the same voice actress and in Japanese, with Melona.

->'''Voiced by:''' Atsushi Ono (Japanese), DanGreen (English)

->'''Voiced by:''' Kokoro Kikuchi (Japanese); Elizabeth Williams (Season 1), Emlyn Morinelli (Season 2) (English)

* {{Expy}} - Of his own son Rana, and also of ConanTheBarbarian, possibly. He's also possibly inspired, taking into account how Cattleya describes him in the original gamebook continuity, in Xemn Worzen from ''VideoGame/LegacyOfTheWizard'' (aka ''Dragon Slayer 4: Drasle Family'' in Japan), except Owen uses swords, compared with Xemn's axes and he doesn't have a mustache like Xemn.

* {{Expy}} - She looks like an angelic version of [[ToLoveRu Momo Velia Deviluke]]. What makes it funnier is that Momo has a twin sister named ''Nana''.

* Expy: Of [[Literature/LittleRedRidingHood]]'s grandmother, but portrayed as a HotterAndSexier warrior.

* TheHighQueen: The ruler of Mel Fair Land.

* {{Expy}}: Judging by his background, of [[SaintSeiya Andromeda Shun]], including both being effeminate, having IntimateHealing skills and [[spoiler:being a LivingMacGuffin, in Fio's case, of the Great Unicorn, just like Shun is the one for Hades.]]

Supporting characters in ''[[Anime/QueensBlade Queen's Blade]]''.

* NotSoSmallRole: As you can see, despite being dead before the events of the series began, she is the ''QueensBlade'' version of [[spoiler:[[Manga/{{Naruto}} Rin Nohara]]: '''Her entire family goes straight to hell.''']]

* AuthorAvatar - He's a collective avatar for Hobby Japan (the creators of the QueensBlade franchise) as a whole.
* CanonForeigner - Played with it: He only appears physically in Menace's [[AllThereIntheManual sidestory]], in the ''Spiral Chaos'' games as the store owner who sell stuff to the players (until Cattleya and Ymir replaces him later on game) and as the faceless blogger in the Hobby Japan's QueensBlade homepage, but he doesn't appear in the anime series or in the manga adaptations.

* {{Expy}} - Possibly (in the anime version), of [[http://hokuto.wikia.com/wiki/Tesshin_Kasumi Tesshin Kasumi]], [[FistOfTheBlueSky Kenshiro Kasumi's father.]]

* {{Expy}}: Backstory-wise, of Ougai (Souther's sensei) from ''FistOfTheNorthStar''.

* BFS: The current weilder of the Queen's Blade.

* {{Expy}}: Of both [[Anime/KikisDeliveryService Tombo]] and JimmyOlsen

The ruler of Mel-Fair Land, and the one who started the Queen's Blade tournament.

* TheHighQueen: The ruler of Mel- Fair Land.

* SatelliteCharacter: Their job is basically helping the Swamp Witch in her plans, albeit they both have a {{Backstory}} in her master's gamebook, not that really matters in their personalization anyways.

* {{Expy}} - Besides looking a lot like Leina, background-wise she shares many quirks with ''Marie'' Heinlein, Geese Howard's wife and Rock Howard's mother from [[FatalFury Garou: Mark of the Wolves]], since both were blondes, their respectives sons loved her and their respective deaths affected their sons even as grown-ups. [[MultipleChoicePast Depending of the continuity]], she died fighting (anime) or died of an illness (manga), just like Marie Heinlein died in ''Garou''.
** In the novels [[spoiler:she is a expy of both Marie and her husband ''[[FatalFury Geese]]'' when the Swamp Witch brings back her to life]].

* TheGhost: Despise being the main motivation for Cattleya for entering the tournament, he never appeared physically in any adaptation, excluding the animated one, and his physical description according with Cattleya in other continuities is different from the anime, including having a mustache and scars.

* KarmaHoudini - He's pretty lucky that Claudette, despise hating nobility, and disliking the way he treats her, still loves him, even if she had the chance of kill him [[spoiler:or let him die at Risty's hands]] if she wanted it, especially when he arrested her for not being able to bring Leina back. Instead, she tries to getting Leina back home once again, after getting rid of the guards that arrested her.

* SenpaiKohai - Inverted: Despise being Nanael's senior, she address her (in the Japanese version) as ''Nanael-san'' [[spoiler:but she dropped this for a moment, when Nanael become a FallenAngel in the 5th OVA.]]

* NotSoSmallRole: As you can see, despise being dead before the events of the series began, she is the ''QueensBlade'' version of [[spoiler:[[Manga/{{Naruto}} Rin Nohara]]: '''Her entire family goes straight to hell.''']]

* TheVoiceless: He doesn't speak in the videogames, despise having a voice actor in the Drama [=CDs=], unlike Cattleya and Ymir.

* {{Expy}} - Of his own son Rana, and also of ConanTheBarbarian, possibly.

->'''Voiced by:''' Binbin Takaoka (Japanese), MikePollock (English)

* [[spoiler:KarmaHoudini: The only thing he gets from all the crap he did in the ''Vanquished Queens'' first [=OVA=], at best, is being bitten in the ass by some wild squirrel, as Tomoe forgives him and Branwen, and she let both of them them go scot free. This also overlaps with ForegoneConclusion as the whole plot of the [=OVAs=] takes place before the events of the ''Rebellion'' TV series]].