History Characters / SengokuBasara

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* MeanBrit: In the English dub... [[OohMeAccentsSlipping Possibly]].
* MiniMecha

* VillainousBreakdown: He's pretty much in the midst of one at the start of the game.

* EvilSoundsDeep: Of course, it's Wakamoto. His voice in the third game's English dub is pretty intimidating as well.

* PetTheDog: DoubleSubverted with Ranmaru in which during Ranmaru's ending in the 1st game in the series Nobunaga rewards the boy with a few pieces of candy. While today this may make Nobunaga look like a cheapskate, FridgeBrilliance[=/=]ValuesDissonance would set in once one realizes Sengoku Japan didn't have a sugar refinery to make the candies, which are more likely imported from Portugal. Long story short: the candy is most likely NOT cheap.

* EvilLaugh: If anything manages to amuse him, it usually means you're ''screwed''.

* EvilSoundsDeep: Of course, it's Wakamoto.

* GlowingEyesOfDoom: After he is [[spoiler:resurrected]].

* LightningBruiser: Both moves and hits incredibly fast.

* PetTheDog: DoubleSubverted with Ranmaru in which during Ranmaru's ending in the 1st game in the series Nobunaga rewards the boy with a few pieces of candy. While today this may make Nobunaga look like a cheapskate, FridgeBrilliance[=/=]ValuesDissonance would set in once one realizes Sengoku Japan didn't have a sugar refinery to make the candies, which are more likely imported from Portugal. Long story short: the candy is most likely NOT cheap.

!!AkechiMitsuhide

* ThrowTheDogABone: Like Kanbe, joining up with Yoshihiro, like he does in Yoshihiro's blue and green paths, is more or less the best thing that can happen to him.
* YankTheDogsChain: His ending, where it seems that Sorin has forgiven him and wants to take him back. [[spoiler:Turns out he's just looking for revenge.]]

* ButForMeItWasTuesday: In the anime, claims to have a no memory of the incident that proved Hideyoshi's StartOfDarkness. Then again, he could've just been screwing with Keiji.

* HairDecorations

* FreudWasRight: He's got an enormous... cannon.

* EveryGirlIsCuterWithHairDecs

* BaddieFlattery: He only uses it to get his own way, particularly when it comes to bending Mitsunari or Tsuru to his will. However some of his comments to Motonari seem genuine.

* EmoTeen: Goes through periods of this in the anime when he doesn't do anything but sulk and/or brood for days over a minor defeat and gets violent for no reason.

** {{Fireballs}}: Can spit these out by drinking [[BoozeFlamethower what is probably alcohol]].

** {{Fireballs}}: Can spit these out by drinking some sort of liquid.

* SmugSnake: In the English dub. Sorich's delivery is far more emotional than his Japanese counterpart and makes Yoshitsugu sound more conceited, treacherous and manipulative.

* {{BFG}}: Wields two handheld cannons that he can also use as tonfas.

* CorruptChurch: He seems to promote violence, dishonesty, and frequently swindles his enemies and allies alike out of their money.

** In ''Utage'', his death animation has him blowing himself.

* EmoTeen: Goes through periods of this in the anime when he doesn't do anything but sulk and/or brood for days and gets violent for no reason.

* GetBackHereBoss: There will always be a stage where you have to get in a horse race with him (since the Date are expert horsemen and he lives up a mountain)), making it to the goal before he does.

* SuperMode: The Six Claws stance, which gives him a more powerful moveset though he sacrifices the ability to block.
* TakeOverTheWorld: His goal, although unlike Nobunaga or Hideyoshi he has no ill will and wants to make it a place of peace.

* TrashTalk: Does plenty of this. If he's not taunting them, you can assume he respects whoever he's up against.

* OlderSidekick: Has a good ten years on his master, yet follows him without question.

* AmbiguousGender: Borders on it. In the voice commentary of series 1 episode 9 sound director Iwanami Miwa says he asked producer Kobayashi Hiroyuki if Kenshin was male or female, and he [[ShrugOfGod didn't get a straight answer]]. So apparently everyone, including the staff, just ''assumes'' he's male...
** It doesn't help at all that aside of his [[CrossdressingVoices female]] [[RomiPark seiyuu]], in the games his lines are written in hiragana only, which gives him a decidedly feminine, but at the very least androgynous, aura. (The hiragana not only imply a sophisticated and not very manly delivery, but traditionally women used mainly or only hiragana in writing.)

** CulturedBadass: Kenshin talks like a philosopher most of the time. In the anime he's often shown performing tea ceremony.

** He also seems to flirt with Shingen Junior aka Yukimura a couple of times. Then there's him nicknaming Masamune the 'Beautiful Dragon'.

* AGodAmI: Once he comes back from Hell.

* RedBaron: Devil King of the Sixth Heaven, apparently a self-bestowed title. Older characters also call him the Fool of Owari.

* SinisterScimitar: It looks more like a falchion, but still fits like a glove.

* TearsOfBlood: [[spoiler:His story mode ending, after he kills Ieyasu.]]
** Due to the BlackBlood, some fans joked that it's just his mascara running.

* CreepyMonotone: In the Japanese dub. Tachichi's delivery is extremely hollow and raspy and leaves out or places inflections oddly, and makes Yoshitsugu sound almost completely devoid of emotion except when somebody's pushed his BerserkButton.

* GallowsHumour: Whenever the army gets into a bad situation.

* PoisonousFriend: He's the one who encourages Mitsunari to be so vicious and destructive.

* PowerGlows: His beads glow yellow whenever he uses them.
* SmugSnake: In the English dub. Sorich's delivery is far more emotional than his Japanese counterpart and makes Yoshitsugu sound far more smug, treacherous and manipulative.

* AnachronismStew: Despite being a new arrival to the cast and looking very young, historically he was already dead by the time Nobunaga rose to power.

* TheMario: In the games. Average attack, average defence, average attack speed, average reach. Has a good mixture of {{Spam Attack}}s, powerful single strikes, dash attacks, a ranged attack, and a SuperMode that turns him into a temporary GlassCannon.

* TheMario: Edging towards FragileSpeedster[=/=]GlassCannon. He has less attack and defence than Masamune and no ranged attacks, but his attack and movement speeds and his reach are higher and (in the third game) he has the ability to {{Combo}} near infinitely due to finishing all his ground attacks with a forward dash.

* CastFromHitPoints: His 'Scorched Earth' SuperMode in the third game drains health while active. However, it also prevents him from dying while active.

** His intro for [=SB2=] is basically him wandering around a battlefield until he comes up to Nobunaga, who gives him a rather creepy glare before scoffing and riding away on his horse. His reaction? "That dude's awesome!" His total loyalty as well as being a little brat makes it so that other characters quickly get over the fact of fighting a kid.

* ParentalSubstitute: He's sees Nobunaga and Nouhime as these.

* BadBoss: Is not what you would call 'a good motivator' by any stretch of the imagination. This is a nod to his RealLife counterpart, who by all accounts wasn't a 'people person' either and insulted several of his allies into abandoning him or turning sides during Sekigahara.

* VillainousDemotivator

* TheMario: Edging towards FragileSpeedster/GlassCannon. He has less attack and defence than Masamune and no ranged attacks, but his attack and movement speeds and his reach are higher and (in the third game) he has the ability to {{Combo}} near infinitely due to finishing all his ground attacks with a forward dash.

* ExcusePlot: His 'story' paths in ''Samurai Heroes'' have only one story-significant cutscene, which is against Mitsuhide in the red paths. His story modes can basically all be summarized as "Oda Nobunaga beats up ''everybody''", just in different orders.

* PurposefullyOverpowered: Again, in the third game, when he can resurrect multiple times and gets more powerful with each one.