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* BareYourMidriff: Not in canon, but it's common in fanart for Reimu's Windows-era outfit to expose her belly button whenever she lifts her arms. Given a nod to in the start-up screen of ''Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom'' where she does lift her arms and shows that her top and bottom clothes are indeed not connected. Though all we get to see is that her {{Sarashi}} goes over that area.
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* BareYourMidriff: Not in canon, but it's common in fanart for Reimu's Windows-era outfit to expose her belly button whenever she lifts her arms. Given a nod to in the start-up screen of ''Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom'' where she does lift her arms and shows that her top and bottom clothes skirt are indeed not connected. Though all we get to see is that her {{Sarashi}} goes over that area.
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* BareYourMidriff: Not in canon, but it's common in fanart for Reimu's Windows-era outfit to expose her belly button whenever she lifts her arms.
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* BareYourMidriff: Not in canon, but it's common in fanart for Reimu's Windows-era outfit to expose her belly button whenever she lifts her arms. Given a nod to in the start-up screen of ''Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom'' where she does lift her arms and shows that her top and bottom clothes are indeed not connected. Though all we get to see is that her {{Sarashi}} goes over that area.
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* OppositesAttract: Reimu is rather serious by Gensoukyou standards and has no tolerance for mischief, yet her closest friends tend to be extra-strength weird, such as the maniacal Marisa, the gregarious Suika, the whimsical Yukari or the erratic Aya.
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* OppositesAttract: Reimu is rather serious by Gensoukyou standards and has no tolerance for mischief, yet her closest friends tend to be extra-strength weird, such as the maniacal Marisa, the gregarious Suika, the whimsical Yukari or the erratic Aya. Topping all of them except Yukari would be Remilia, who swings between serious NobleDemon and childish little girl.
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* OppositesAttract: Reimu is rather serious by Gensoukyou standards and has no tolerance for mischief, yet her closest friends tend to be extra-strength weird, such as the maniacal Marisa, the gregarious Suika, and the whimsical Yukari.
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* OppositesAttract: Reimu is rather serious by Gensoukyou standards and has no tolerance for mischief, yet her closest friends tend to be extra-strength weird, such as the maniacal Marisa, the gregarious Suika, and the whimsical Yukari.Yukari or the erratic Aya.
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* FourIsDeath: If Marisa is a boss in the game, she will ALWAYS be the fourth boss in the game, and always rather tough. In addittion, she is 'different' in nature every time. In [=SoEW=], she was also the [[TheDragon Penultimate Boss]], in LLS, she was a normal boss. In IN, she was also the midboss, and in Great Fairy Wars, which only has three stages, she is the [[BonusBoss Extra Boss]], making her, again, the 4th boss in the story.
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* FourIsDeath: If Marisa is a boss in the game, she will ALWAYS be the fourth boss in the game, and always rather tough. In addittion, addition, she is 'different' different in nature every time. In [=SoEW=], ''[=SoEW=]'', she was is also the [[TheDragon Penultimate Boss]], Boss]]; in LLS, ''LLS'', she was is a normal boss. In IN, ''IN'', she was is also the a midboss, and in Great ''Great Fairy Wars, Wars'', which only has three stages, she is the [[BonusBoss Extra Boss]], making her, again, the 4th boss in the story.
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* [[FunetikAksent Funetik]] AccentAdaptation: As an attempt to render her {{Tomboy}}ish "ze" VerbalTic into English, fan translations usually give Marisa a mild [[UsefulNotes/AmericanAccents Southern drawl]], [[SelfDemonstratingArticle droppin' letters here an' there]].
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* [[FunetikAksent Funetik]] AccentAdaptation: As an attempt to render her {{Tomboy}}ish speech and "ze" VerbalTic into English, fan translations usually give Marisa a mild [[UsefulNotes/AmericanAccents Southern drawl]], drawl]] or "tough kid" speech pattern, using some nonstandard grammar and [[SelfDemonstratingArticle droppin' letters here an' there]].
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* HeterosexualLifePartners: with Reimu. While they seem to work alone in the games (or as momentary opponents), in the official manga, it's rare to see one without the other unless one is giving the other a flashback to earlier in the day. ''Manga/ForbiddenScrollery'' shows that while they do seem to initially strike out on their own when a job first starts, they run to each other's side and combine their talents when the plot thickens (implying that [[GameplayAndStorySegregation this happens in the games off-screen]] as well). They work as a team without thought or hesitation when the going gets tough, and when a job is done, they spend the rest of the chapter unwinding and having a good time with each other. The last panel we usually see is of them smiling and laughing side by side.
* HomeRunHitter: Her last word in ''Urban Legend in Limbo'' has her spin around before smacking her opponent with her broom sending them flying into a toilet where several demonic arms grab the victim.
* ILetYouWin: Sort of. She goes easy on Cirno during the extra stage of ''Fairy Wars'', using variant lasers that don't actually kill her, instead chipping away at her motivation gauge. However, multiple times during the battle, she finds that Cirno is stronger than she thought, and steps up the complexity of her attacks. At the end, she thinks that Cirno might have been a problem even if she ''was'' going all out, and the effort from the battle is still enough that she has to go home and lie down afterwards. On the other hand, it's ''Cirno'' rather than Marisa who gets a "beaten up" portrait after the fight.
* HomeRunHitter: Her last word in ''Urban Legend in Limbo'' has her spin around before smacking her opponent with her broom sending them flying into a toilet where several demonic arms grab the victim.
* ILetYouWin: Sort of. She goes easy on Cirno during the extra stage of ''Fairy Wars'', using variant lasers that don't actually kill her, instead chipping away at her motivation gauge. However, multiple times during the battle, she finds that Cirno is stronger than she thought, and steps up the complexity of her attacks. At the end, she thinks that Cirno might have been a problem even if she ''was'' going all out, and the effort from the battle is still enough that she has to go home and lie down afterwards. On the other hand, it's ''Cirno'' rather than Marisa who gets a "beaten up" portrait after the fight.
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* HeterosexualLifePartners: with Reimu. While they seem to work alone in the games (or as momentary opponents), in the official manga, it's rare to see one without the other unless one is giving the other a flashback to earlier in the day. ''Manga/ForbiddenScrollery'' shows that while they do seem to initially strike out on their own initially when a job first starts, they run to each other's side and combine their talents when the plot thickens (implying that [[GameplayAndStorySegregation this happens in the games off-screen]] as well). They work as a team without thought or hesitation when the going gets tough, and when a job is done, they spend the rest of the chapter unwinding and having a good time with each other. The last panel we usually see is of them smiling and laughing side by side.
* HomeRunHitter: Her last word in ''Urban Legend in Limbo'' has her spin around before smacking her opponent with herbroom broom, sending them flying into a toilet toilet, where several demonic arms grab the victim.
* ILetYouWin: Sort of. She goes easy on Cirno during the extra stage of ''Fairy Wars'', using variant lasers that don't actually kill her, instead chipping away at her motivation gauge. However, multiple times during the battle, she finds that Cirno is stronger than she thought, and so steps up the complexity of her attacks. At the end, she thinks that Cirno might have been a problem even if she ''was'' going all out, and the effort from the battle is still enough that she has to go home and lie down afterwards. On the other hand, it's ''Cirno'' rather than Marisa who gets a "beaten up" portrait after the fight.
* HomeRunHitter: Her last word in ''Urban Legend in Limbo'' has her spin around before smacking her opponent with her
* ILetYouWin: Sort of. She goes easy on Cirno during the extra stage of ''Fairy Wars'', using variant lasers that don't actually kill her, instead chipping away at her motivation gauge. However, multiple times during the battle, she finds that Cirno is stronger than she thought, and so steps up the complexity of her attacks. At the end, she thinks that Cirno might have been a problem even if she ''was'' going all out, and the effort from the battle is still enough that she has to go home and lie down afterwards. On the other hand, it's ''Cirno'' rather than Marisa who gets a "beaten up" portrait after the fight.
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* {{Jerkass}}<->JerkWithAHeartOfJerk<->JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Her motivations in solving the incidents vary from [[KleptomaniacHero wanting to loot the mansions she visits]], being bribed to solve the incident (IN), to just having nothing else to do at the time. In ''Undefined Fantastic Object'' however she raises the fair point of humans being unprotected from youkai to [[WellIntentionedExtremist Byakuren]]. On the minus side she's rude, condescending, arrogant, and a notorious thief; on the plus side she's hardworking, straightforward, and has ChronicHeroSyndrome (although most of the time she solves incidents just to beat [[TheRival Reimu]] to it). At the very least, her character alignment is firmly {{Chaotic Good}}.
** HiddenHeartOfGold: In some of the later games, like Subterranean Animism, Hopeless Masquerade, and Double-Dealing Character (Scenario B), she publicly acts like a jerk that solves incidents for wholly selfish reasons, but in private moments, it is revealed that she does care about the well-being of Gensokyo and its people when she sets out to solve an incident. In her SA Alice scenario, she says she wants to make the incident worse to spite Alice for stringing her along without explanation, but when Satori reads her mind, she reveals that she's actually just as concerned about the incident as Alice. In Hopeless Masquerade, she shows deep concern for the people in town when nobody's looking, but once the cause of the incident shows up, she goes back to being her usual rowdy, snarky self. In Ten Desires, she even downplays her skills and abilities, insisting with a sincere face that she is entirely ordinary, while Seiga insists that she must be someone special to make it as far as she has. Marisa responds by changing her title to "Amazingly Ordinary Magician."
** HiddenHeartOfGold: In some of the later games, like Subterranean Animism, Hopeless Masquerade, and Double-Dealing Character (Scenario B), she publicly acts like a jerk that solves incidents for wholly selfish reasons, but in private moments, it is revealed that she does care about the well-being of Gensokyo and its people when she sets out to solve an incident. In her SA Alice scenario, she says she wants to make the incident worse to spite Alice for stringing her along without explanation, but when Satori reads her mind, she reveals that she's actually just as concerned about the incident as Alice. In Hopeless Masquerade, she shows deep concern for the people in town when nobody's looking, but once the cause of the incident shows up, she goes back to being her usual rowdy, snarky self. In Ten Desires, she even downplays her skills and abilities, insisting with a sincere face that she is entirely ordinary, while Seiga insists that she must be someone special to make it as far as she has. Marisa responds by changing her title to "Amazingly Ordinary Magician."
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* {{Jerkass}}<->JerkWithAHeartOfJerk<->JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Her motivations in solving the incidents vary from [[KleptomaniacHero wanting to loot the mansions she visits]], to being bribed to solve the incident (IN), (''IN''), to just having nothing else to do at the time. In ''Undefined Fantastic Object'' however Object'', however, she raises the fair point of humans being unprotected from youkai to [[WellIntentionedExtremist Byakuren]]. On the minus side side, she's rude, condescending, arrogant, and a notorious thief; on the plus side side, she's hardworking, straightforward, and has ChronicHeroSyndrome (although most of the time time, she solves incidents just to beat [[TheRival Reimu]] to it). At the very least, her character alignment is firmly {{Chaotic Good}}.
** HiddenHeartOfGold: In some of the later games, likeSubterranean Animism, Hopeless Masquerade, ''Subterranean Animism'', ''Hopeless Masquerade'', and Double-Dealing Character ''Double-Dealing Character'' (Scenario B), she publicly acts like a jerk that solves incidents for wholly selfish reasons, but in private moments, it is revealed that she does care about the well-being of Gensokyo and its people when she sets out to solve an incident. In her SA ''SA'' Alice scenario, she says she wants to make the incident worse to spite Alice for stringing her along without explanation, but when Satori reads her mind, she reveals that she's actually just as concerned about the incident as Alice. In Hopeless Masquerade, ''Hopeless Masquerade'', she shows deep concern for the people in town when nobody's looking, but once the cause of the incident shows up, she goes back to being her usual rowdy, snarky self. In Ten Desires, ''Ten Desires'', she even downplays her skills and abilities, insisting with a sincere face that she is entirely ordinary, while Seiga insists that she must be someone special to make it as far as she has. Marisa responds by changing her title to "Amazingly Ordinary Magician."
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* MagicMushroom: Marisa uses phantasmal mushrooms as a common ingredient/fuel source for her magic. The Forest of Magic where she lives is known for being full of them... but even better known for being full of [[MushroomSamba "magic" mushrooms]]. Fandom pushes both ends of this routinely, with mushrooms that can have basically any effect imaginable for Marisa or her victims.
* MakingASplash: Despite relying mostly on [[LightEmUp light-based]] magic, Marisa's elemental affinity is actually ''water''. So far this has only come up in ''Mountain of Faith'' (where she can use the water-based shot ''Cold Inferno'') and ''Scarlet Weather Rhapsody'' (where her associated weather is Drizzle). Of course, her weather is also just a pun on her name (Kirisame meaning "drizzle").
* MakingASplash: Despite relying mostly on [[LightEmUp light-based]] magic, Marisa's elemental affinity is actually ''water''. So far this has only come up in ''Mountain of Faith'' (where she can use the water-based shot ''Cold Inferno'') and ''Scarlet Weather Rhapsody'' (where her associated weather is Drizzle). Of course, her weather is also just a pun on her name (Kirisame meaning "drizzle").
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* MagicMushroom: Marisa uses phantasmal mushrooms as a common ingredient/fuel source for her magic. The Forest of Magic where she lives is known for being full of them... but even better known for being full of [[MushroomSamba "magic" mushrooms]]. Fandom pushes both ends of this routinely, with mushrooms that can have basically any effect imaginable for Marisa or her victims.
* MakingASplash: Despite relying mostly on [[LightEmUp light-based]] magic, Marisa's elemental affinity is actually ''water''. Sofar far, this has only come up in ''Mountain of Faith'' (where she can use the water-based shot ''Cold Inferno'') and ''Scarlet Weather Rhapsody'' (where her associated weather is Drizzle). Of course, her weather is also just a pun on her name (Kirisame meaning "drizzle").
* MakingASplash: Despite relying mostly on [[LightEmUp light-based]] magic, Marisa's elemental affinity is actually ''water''. So
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** Also one of her color pallets in ''Hopeless Masquerade'' are a reference to her PC-98 color theme.
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** The BrilliantButLazy, blunt, dispassionate Reimu, passive and tricky in her fighting style, popular despite her lack of active socialising, associated with sunshine and spring -- and then the hard-working, energetic, dishonest, excitable Marisa who lives by brute force, bothers people everywhere she goes, and is associated with [[MeaningfulName rain]]. They're competitors and rivals. They're also best friends who spend a ''lot'' of time just hanging out.
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** The BrilliantButLazy, blunt, dispassionate Reimu, passive and tricky in her fighting style, popular despite her lack of active socialising, associated with sunshine and spring -- and spring—and then the hard-working, energetic, dishonest, excitable Marisa Marisa, who lives by brute force, bothers people everywhere she goes, and is associated with [[MeaningfulName rain]]. They're competitors and rivals. They're also best friends who spend a ''lot'' of time just hanging out.
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* PaletteSwap: In ''Hopeless Masquerade'', one of these makes her look like in earlier games (that is, her dress is black and white). Another one makes her look like Alice (if she wore a red hat rather than red hairband).
* ParentalAbandonment: It's notable that Marisa is one of the few Touhou characters to have a still-living family; AllThereInTheManual mentions she has a father that runs a second-hand shop in the human village. It's also notable that she's apparently cut off all contact with him; it's hinted [[FantasyForbiddingFather Marisa's father doesn't like magic]]. In ''Curiosities of Lotus Asia'', when Rinnosuke brings up her father Marisa responds that she [[ICantHearYou can't hear him]] and it's unclear whether she's lying or not.
** A popular fanon is that Mima was sort of a parental figure for Marisa... and she's now absent.
* ParentalAbandonment: It's notable that Marisa is one of the few Touhou characters to have a still-living family; AllThereInTheManual mentions she has a father that runs a second-hand shop in the human village. It's also notable that she's apparently cut off all contact with him; it's hinted [[FantasyForbiddingFather Marisa's father doesn't like magic]]. In ''Curiosities of Lotus Asia'', when Rinnosuke brings up her father Marisa responds that she [[ICantHearYou can't hear him]] and it's unclear whether she's lying or not.
** A popular fanon is that Mima was sort of a parental figure for Marisa... and she's now absent.
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* PaletteSwap: In ''Hopeless Masquerade'', one of these makes her look like she does in earlier games (that is, her dress is black and white). Another one makes her look like Alice (if she wore a red hat rather than red hairband).
* ParentalAbandonment: It's notable that Marisa is one of the few Touhou characters to have a still-living family; AllThereInTheManual mentions she has a fatherthat who runs a second-hand shop in the human village. It's also notable that she's apparently cut off all contact with him; it's hinted [[FantasyForbiddingFather Marisa's father doesn't like magic]]. In ''Curiosities of Lotus Asia'', when Rinnosuke brings up her father father, Marisa responds that she [[ICantHearYou can't hear him]] him]], and it's unclear whether she's lying or not.
** A popular fanon is that Mima was sort of a parental figure for Marisa... and she's now absent.
* ParentalAbandonment: It's notable that Marisa is one of the few Touhou characters to have a still-living family; AllThereInTheManual mentions she has a father
** A popular fanon is that Mima was sort of a parental figure for Marisa...
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** Then in ''Ten Desires'' her shots have picked up the explosive abilities of Sanae's Cobalt Spread, while Sanae herself ended up with something resembling Marisa's Super Shortwave. A con job rather than theft this time, it would seem.
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** Then in ''Ten Desires'' Desires'', her shots have picked up the explosive abilities of Sanae's Cobalt Spread, while Sanae herself ended ends up with something resembling Marisa's Super Shortwave. A con job rather than theft this time, it would seem.
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* PowerOfLove: The description of the aforementioned ''Love Sign: Master Spark'' includes the instructions "Mutter the spell to the Mini-Hakkero tenderly; aim at someone you don't like; now unleash your annihilation of love!". What exactly that ''means'' is still a matter for debate.
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* PowerOfLove: The description of the aforementioned ''Love Sign: Master Spark'' includes the instructions "Mutter the spell to the Mini-Hakkero tenderly; aim at someone you don't like; now unleash your annihilation of love!". love!" What exactly that ''means'' is still a matter for debate.
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* {{Roboteching}}: In ''Hopeless Masquerade'', her "Nano Spark" makes a sharp turn mid-flight, if she is using a Shinto-aligned set.
* SecularHero: While she's experimented with religious methods once or twice (even managing to [[SummoningRitual summon a tiny Kanako]] in one of her endings), it doesn't carry much deeper meaning for her. In ''Hopeless Masquerade'', a story about representatives of different religions, Marisa is considered the ''human'' representative. More implicitly she is also the moderator of the debates between various priests and deities in ''Symposium of Post-Mysticism''.
* SecularHero: While she's experimented with religious methods once or twice (even managing to [[SummoningRitual summon a tiny Kanako]] in one of her endings), it doesn't carry much deeper meaning for her. In ''Hopeless Masquerade'', a story about representatives of different religions, Marisa is considered the ''human'' representative. More implicitly she is also the moderator of the debates between various priests and deities in ''Symposium of Post-Mysticism''.
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* {{Roboteching}}: In ''Hopeless Masquerade'', her "Nano Spark" makes a sharp turn mid-flight, mid-flight if she is using a Shinto-aligned set.
* SecularHero: While she's experimented with religious methods once or twice (even managing to [[SummoningRitual summon a tiny Kanako]] in one of her endings), it doesn't carry much deeper meaning for her. In ''Hopeless Masquerade'', a story about representatives of different religions, Marisa is considered the ''human'' representative. Moreimplicitly implicitly, she is also the moderator of the debates between various priests and deities in ''Symposium of Post-Mysticism''.
* SecularHero: While she's experimented with religious methods once or twice (even managing to [[SummoningRitual summon a tiny Kanako]] in one of her endings), it doesn't carry much deeper meaning for her. In ''Hopeless Masquerade'', a story about representatives of different religions, Marisa is considered the ''human'' representative. More
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* StarPower: Marisa loves watching stars and meteor showers, she even has a large observatory built into her house in ''Manga/ForbiddenScrollery'', and as a result most of her spells are themed after space or heavenly bodies.
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* StarPower: Marisa loves watching stars and meteor showers, she even has a large observatory built into her house in ''Manga/ForbiddenScrollery'', and as a result result, most of her spells are themed after space or heavenly bodies.
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* SweetPollyOliver: In ''Manga/ForbiddenScrollery'' chapter 17 she ([[HumiliatingWager reluctantly]]) disguises herself as a boy as part of a plan to catch a youkai that's been controlling the men of the village.
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* SweetPollyOliver: In ''Manga/ForbiddenScrollery'' chapter 17 17, she ([[HumiliatingWager reluctantly]]) disguises herself as a boy as part of a plan to catch a youkai that's been controlling the men of the village.
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* UnskilledButStrong: Subverts the "unskilled" part somewhat, as she worked very hard for her powers, unlike most other inhabitants of Gensoukyo. However, her personal philosophy is that danmaku is all about power, so her basic attacks are usually very dense and unstructured. And when push comes to shove she will throw all pretense of finesse out the window and just start Master Sparking half the screen and/or trying to ram her opponent, which is borderline breaking the Spell Card rules as lampshaded by ZUN himself.
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* UnskilledButStrong: Subverts the "unskilled" part somewhat, as she worked very hard for her powers, unlike most other inhabitants of Gensoukyo. However, her personal philosophy is that danmaku is all about power, so her basic attacks are usually very dense and unstructured. And when push comes to shove shove, she will throw all pretense of finesse out the window and just start Master Sparking half the screen and/or trying to ram her opponent, which is borderline breaking the Spell Card rules rules, as lampshaded by ZUN himself.
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* VagueAge[=/=]NotAllowedToGrowUp: Like Reimu, she always seems to be in her mid-teens regardless of the passage of time.
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* VagueAge[=/=]NotAllowedToGrowUp: Like Reimu, she always seems to be in her mid-teens mid-teens, regardless of the passage of time.
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** It's a bit dubious however, as her attacks are actually more powerful than those of other characters.
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* CampingACrapper: Invoked with her last word in ''[=ULiL=]'' where she slams her opponent to a bathroom stall from where Hanako-san grabs the victim and pulls them in.
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* CostumeExaggeration: She wore a realistic {{Miko}} outfit in the PC-98 era, but in the Windows era she switched to a more stylized version of a miko's traditional wear.
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[[{{Miko}} Shrine Maiden]] of the Hakurei Shrine and the main protagonist of the ''Touhou'' series in general. [[BrilliantButLazy Extremely talented, but hates training and is very lazy]]. She's also a friendly person who gets along well with everyone, including {{Youkai}}. This passive attitude towards monsters doesn't sit well with most of the humans in Gensoukyou, which means her shrine doesn't get many visitors... or donations. Also [[MemeticMutation well known]] for her [[DetachedSleeves armpits]].
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[[{{Miko}} Shrine Maiden]] of the Hakurei Shrine and the main protagonist of the ''Touhou'' series in general. [[BrilliantButLazy Extremely talented, but hates training and is very lazy]]. She's also a friendly person who gets along well with everyone, including {{Youkai}}. This passive attitude towards monsters doesn't sit well with most of the humans in Gensoukyou, which means her shrine doesn't get many visitors... or donations. Also [[MemeticMutation well known]] known for her [[DetachedSleeves armpits]].
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* DetachedSleeves: Led to the fandom's [[MemeticMutation tongue-in-cheek]] armpit fetish.
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* TheCharmer[=/=]ChickMagnet: Fandom quite often turns Marisa into a LesYay version, which [[http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l302/Chris_Lv255/1230622921072.jpg results]] in [[HilarityEnsues comedy]]/drama.
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* TheCharmer[=/=]ChickMagnet: Fandom quite often turns Marisa into a LesYay version, which [[http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l302/Chris_Lv255/1230622921072.jpg results]] results in [[HilarityEnsues comedy]]/drama.
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: In [[WhamEpisode chapter 25]] of ''Forbidden Scrollery'' it's revealed that [[spoiler: a man from the human village set up an elaborate plan to become a youkai. When Reimu confronts the human-turned-youkai he explains that with his goal accomplished, he intends to live a peaceful life far away from any humans so Reimu doesn't have to needlessly kill him. Reimu responds that she doesn't particularily mind needless killing and unflinchingly ''splits his head in two with her gohei'', stating that a village human turning into a youkai is "the greatest sin there is."]] Yikes!
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: In [[WhamEpisode chapter 25]] of ''Forbidden Scrollery'' it's revealed that [[spoiler: a man from the human village set up an elaborate plan to become a youkai. When Reimu confronts the human-turned-youkai he explains claims that with his goal accomplished, he intends to live a peaceful life far away from any humans humans, so Reimu doesn't have there's no reason for the "youkai shrine maiden" to needlessly kill pretend to exterminate him. Reimu responds that she doesn't particularily mind needless killing and by unflinchingly ''splits ''splitting his head in two with her gohei'', stating gohei, killing him'', and states that a village human turning into a youkai is "the greatest sin there is."]] is".]] Yikes!
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** {{Deconstructed}} in that Reimu has trouble keeping her new "friends" away, and since officially most of them are [[FantasticRacism enemies of mankind]], this [[AllTheOtherReindeer leads other humans to distrust her]].
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** {{Deconstructed}} in that Reimu [[DropInCharacter has trouble keeping her new "friends" away, away]], and since officially most of them are [[FantasticRacism enemies of mankind]], this [[AllTheOtherReindeer leads other humans to distrust her]].
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* HatesEveryoneEqually: Noted for being equally rude to humans, youkai and ''[[DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu gods]]''. [[Characters/TouhouOtherOfficialWorks Kosuzu]] is probably the only person Reimu has been shown as not completely flippant towards, to the point of [[JapaneseHonorifics addressing the younger girl with the affectionate honorific "-chan"]].
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* HatesEveryoneEqually: Noted for being equally rude to humans, youkai and ''[[DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu gods]]''. [[Characters/TouhouOtherOfficialWorks Kosuzu]] is probably the only person Reimu has been shown as not completely flippant towards, to the point of [[JapaneseHonorifics [[UsefulNotes/JapaneseHonorifics addressing the younger girl with the affectionate honorific "-chan"]].
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** SlaveToPR: Later works have also started to emphasize the pressure she feels from the human village - most humans cannot accept the idea of a shrine maiden associating with youkai, and [[NeverAcceptedInHisHometown either don't know or don't care about the times she has protected them in the past]]. In ''Manga/ForbiddenScrollery'' it reaches the point where Reimu can't point out a disguised Mamizou even to foil her current scheme, since she'd have to reveal she knows her.
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*** It's been said that the walk to the shrine is a factor in why few visit/donate, the other being the tendency for youkai to stop by.
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*** It's been saidher. ''Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom'' reveals that the walk Reimu's "youkai shrine maiden" reputation has even spread to the shrine is a factor in why few visit/donate, the other being the tendency for youkai to stop by.''Moon''!
*** It's been said
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* [[FunetikAksent Funetik]] AccentAdaptation: As an attempt to render her {{Tomboy}}ish "ze" VerbalTic into English, fan translations usually give Marisa a mild [[AmericanAccents Southern drawl]], [[SelfDemonstratingArticle droppin' letters here an' there]].
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* [[FunetikAksent Funetik]] AccentAdaptation: As an attempt to render her {{Tomboy}}ish "ze" VerbalTic into English, fan translations usually give Marisa a mild [[AmericanAccents [[UsefulNotes/AmericanAccents Southern drawl]], [[SelfDemonstratingArticle droppin' letters here an' there]].
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YMMV. You already have this on the Video Game scrappy page and the Touhou YMMV page under The Scrappy. I understand the character is divisive, but this is not the page to copy and paste it to.
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** She also garnered some particular hate after later ''Wild and Horned Hermit'' and ''Forbidden Scrollery'' chapters. Highlights include: wanting to [[http://bato.to/read/_/325772/touhou-ibarakasen-wild-and-horned-hermit_v5_ch25_by_alpha-beta-kappa/15 scam people into buying her inner tubes in order to survive when a comet will supposedly remove air from the earth for a few minutes]], [[http://i.imgur.com/3Afcc5f.jpg exterminating]] [[TheWoobie Kogasa]] with brand new needles (that Kogasa just sold Reimu [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished in order to feel useful]]) to [[BallisticDiscount avoid paying her]] and [[spoiler: [[http://mangapark.me/manga/touhou-suzunaan-forbidden-scrollery/s1/v4/c25/6-4 exterminating a diviner]] that took pains in order to ressurect himself as a youkai and planned to peacefully live away from humans (him [[WhatTheHellHero pointing out the hypocrisy]] of Reimu being friendly with other youkai and her [[OffWithHisHead cleaving his head in half on-panel]] with [[ButForMeItWasTuesday nonchalant attitude]] ''did not help'').]]
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** She also garnered some particular hate after later ''Wild and Horned Hermit'' and ''Forbidden Scrollery'' chapters. Highlights include: wanting to [[http://bato.to/read/_/325772/touhou-ibarakasen-wild-and-horned-hermit_v5_ch25_by_alpha-beta-kappa/15 scam people into buying her inner tubes in order to survive when a comet will supposedly remove air from the earth for a few minutes]], [[http://i.imgur.com/3Afcc5f.jpg exterminating]] [[TheWoobie Kogasa]] with brand new needles (that Kogasa just sold Reimu [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished in order to feel useful]]) to [[BallisticDiscount avoid paying her]] and [[http://mangapark.me/manga/touhou-suzunaan-forbidden-scrollery/s1/v4/c25/6-4 exterminating a prophet]] that took pains in order to ressurect himself as a youkai and planned to peacefully live away from humans (him [[WhatTheHellHero pointing out the hypocrisy]] of Reimu being friendly with other youkai and her [[OffWithHisHead cleaving his head in half on-panel]] with [[ButForMeItWasTuesday nonchalant attitude]] ''did not help'').
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** She also garnered some particular hate after later ''Wild and Horned Hermit'' and ''Forbidden Scrollery'' chapters. Highlights include: wanting to [[http://bato.to/read/_/325772/touhou-ibarakasen-wild-and-horned-hermit_v5_ch25_by_alpha-beta-kappa/15 scam people into buying her inner tubes in order to survive when a comet will supposedly remove air from the earth for a few minutes]], [[http://i.imgur.com/3Afcc5f.jpg exterminating]] [[TheWoobie Kogasa]] with brand new needles (that Kogasa just sold Reimu [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished in order to feel useful]]) to [[BallisticDiscount avoid paying her]] and [[spoiler: [[http://mangapark.me/manga/touhou-suzunaan-forbidden-scrollery/s1/v4/c25/6-4 exterminating a prophet]] diviner]] that took pains in order to ressurect himself as a youkai and planned to peacefully live away from humans (him [[WhatTheHellHero pointing out the hypocrisy]] of Reimu being friendly with other youkai and her [[OffWithHisHead cleaving his head in half on-panel]] with [[ButForMeItWasTuesday nonchalant attitude]] ''did not help'').]]
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* StarPower: Marisa loves watching stars and meteor showers, she even has a large observatory built into her house in ''Manga/ForbiddenScrollery'', and as a result most of her spells are themed after space or heavenly bodies. According to the PC-98 games, she learned her first few spells of this type by copying Mima.
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* StarPower: Marisa loves watching stars and meteor showers, she even has a large observatory built into her house in ''Manga/ForbiddenScrollery'', and as a result most of her spells are themed after space or heavenly bodies. If the PC-98 games are canon then she learned her first few spells of this type by copying Mima.
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: In [[WhamEpisode chapter 25]] of ''Forbidden Scrollery'' it's revealed that [[spoiler: a man from the human village set up an elaborate plan to become a youkai. When Reimu confronts the human-turned-youkai he explains that with his goal accomplished, he intends to live a peaceful life far away from any humans so Reimu doesn't have to bother faux-exorcising him. Reimu responds by ''killing him on the spot''; she splits his head in two with her gohei, stating that a village human purposefully turning into a youkai is "the most grievous sin of all".]] Yikes!
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: In [[WhamEpisode chapter 25]] of ''Forbidden Scrollery'' it's revealed that [[spoiler: a man from the human village set up an elaborate plan to become a youkai. When Reimu confronts the human-turned-youkai he explains that with his goal accomplished, he intends to live a peaceful life far away from any humans so Reimu doesn't have to bother faux-exorcising needlessly kill him. Reimu responds by ''killing him on the spot''; that she splits doesn't particularily mind needless killing and unflinchingly ''splits his head in two with her gohei, gohei'', stating that a village human purposefully turning into a youkai is "the most grievous greatest sin of all".]] there is."]] Yikes!
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* ThouShaltNotKill: Averted, one can think this is the case due to the Spellcard Rules, but they are only in place to maintain Gensokyou's balance in the general sense, not in the individual sense. In fact she is not above needless killing, and she will if she finds reason to. The Jinyou from ''Manga/ForbiddenScrollery'' made the mistake of thinking she was under this rule, and it cost him dearly.
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** She also garnered some particular hate after later ''Wild and Horned Hermit'' and ''Forbidden Scrollery'' chapters. Highlights include: wanting to [[http://bato.to/read/_/325772/touhou-ibarakasen-wild-and-horned-hermit_v5_ch25_by_alpha-beta-kappa/15 scam people into buying her inner tubes in order to survive when a comet will supposedly remove air from the earth for a few minutes]], [[http://i.imgur.com/3Afcc5f.jpg exterminating]] [[TheWoobie Kogasa]] with brand new needles (that Kogasa just sold Reimu [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished in order to feel useful]]) to [[BallisticDiscount avoid paying her]] and [[http://mangapark.me/manga/touhou-suzunaan-forbidden-scrollery/s1/v4/c25/6-4 exterminating a prophet]] that took pains in order to ressurect himself as a youkai and planned to peacefully live away from humans (him [[WhatTheHellHero pointing out the hypocrisy]] of Reimu being friendly with other youkai and her [[OffWithHisHead cleaving his head in half on-panel]] with [[ButForMeItWasTuesday nonchalant attitude]] ''did not help'').
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::''Shrine Maiden of Paradise''
::'''Reimu Hakurei'''[[note]]PC-98 博麗 靈夢 Windows: 博麗 霊夢[[/note]]
-->''"Whatever, I won't lose! Let's go!"''
[[{{Miko}} Shrine Maiden]] of the Hakurei Shrine and the main protagonist of the ''Touhou'' series in general. [[BrilliantButLazy Extremely talented, but hates training and is very lazy]]. She's also a friendly person who gets along well with everyone, including {{Youkai}}. This passive attitude towards monsters doesn't sit well with most of the humans in Gensoukyou, which means her shrine doesn't get many visitors... or donations. Also [[MemeticMutation well known]] for her [[DetachedSleeves armpits]].
!!!Tropes associated with Reimu:
* AmbiguousInnocence: Reimu is consistently described as carefree at heart, guileless, and simple in her thinking. She also just plain doesn't see things quite the way everyone else does. It never seems to occur to her that her way of doing things can cause people a lot of unnecessary grief before the resolution, or that what seems straightforward to her might be a mind-bending trick to others, or that her own natural gifts can be an unfair advantage in some things... And as the flip side to her impartial view of others, ZUN says, she's not particularly ''attached'' to anyone either; no matter how popular she is, "[[AloneInACrowd she's actually alone in her heart.]]"
* AncestralWeapon: Reimu's main weapon are the Hakurei [[DragonsUpTheYinYang Yin-Yang Orbs]].
* ArtEvolution: Reimu's appearance has [[http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Reimu_Hakurei changed]] particularly often and dramatically since the start of the series -- after all, she's been in all games but two. Most infamous in ''Mountain of Faith'', where an oddly jaundiced skin tone led to the joke that Reimu had become an [[MemeticMutation undead zombie]].
* BadassNormal: While she possesses the powers of channeling gods now, back then in the PC-98 era she had absolutely zero powers and only relied on her giant [[HolyBurnsEvil yin-yang orb]] (which she used like a soccer ball) and her generic [[PaperTalisman [=Ofuda=]]]; she also had to use her turtle Genji in order to fly. Despite that, she managed to beat, in order of status: A realm-warping human with magical powers, an absurdly powerful evil spirit who even had Marisa as a henchman, the supposedly strongest youkai of all, the angel of death, and a [[PhysicalGod god that creates worlds]].
** EmpoweredBadassNormal
* BadLiar: Whenever she tries to lie, it's so painfully, obviously forced that it's practically impossible to not realize it immediately. She is really that incredibly bad of a liar. An excellent example is when she disrupts the meeting in ''Symposium of Post-Mysticism''. She ''claims'' it's to protect humans beyond all else, but it does ''not'' take long for other elements to slip out--not just her being a SlaveToPR, but that she's doing this on behalf of ''the weaker youkai as well''.
* BareYourMidriff: Not in canon, but it's common in fanart for Reimu's Windows-era outfit to expose her belly button whenever she lifts her arms.
* BarrierWarrior: Only actually seen in the fighting games.
* BeingPersonalIsntProfessional [=/=] PunchClockHero: It's Reimu's job to exterminate youkai (which she does quite aggressively), but that doesn't mean she dislikes them. She will make half-hearted attempts to stop them from loitering around her shrine, though, [[SlaveToPR as otherwise she would lose the Human Village's trust]].
* BerserkButton: Messing with the Hakurei Shrine is a very good way to bring down Reimu's wrath on your head, as the first two games and ''Scarlet Weather Rhapsody'' demonstrated.
** In Touhou fanworks, it is also not a good idea to cheat her out of donations, or worse, steal her donation box.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: In [[WhamEpisode chapter 25]] of ''Forbidden Scrollery'' it's revealed that [[spoiler: a man from the human village set up an elaborate plan to become a youkai. When Reimu confronts the human-turned-youkai he explains that with his goal accomplished, he intends to live a peaceful life far away from any humans so Reimu doesn't have to bother faux-exorcising him. Reimu responds by ''killing him on the spot''; she splits his head in two with her gohei, stating that a village human purposefully turning into a youkai is "the most grievous sin of all".]] Yikes!
* BonusBoss: The last extra boss of ''Shuusou Gyoku'', the first game of ''Touhou'''s sister series, ''Seihou''. She also shows up in ''VideoGame/MagicPengel''.
* BornLucky: Reimu is downright notorious for her luck and incredible intuition. It's why her default method of problem-solving seems to be to pick a direction and go, since she'll always manage to end up headed towards the BigBad eventually.
* BornWinner
* BrilliantButLazy: As noted above. Indeed, fans have noticed that [[Characters/TouhouOtherOfficialWorks Watatsuki no Yorihime]] owes her GodModeSue status to essentially being a version of Reimu that has trained herself.
* BrutalHonesty: The idea of lying often never even comes across Reimu's mind, and she'll bluntly, unabashedly say exactly what she thinks no matter who she's talking to or what the situation. This is in fact one of the major contrasts between her and Marisa - while Marisa will often lie just for the heck of it, Reimu is simply far too honest to even attempt it. Her sheer honesty is one of the reasons that the two Oni of the series take a liking to her, as honesty is a favourable trait to Oni.
* CanonImmigrant: Reimu's [[SmartBomb signature attack]] ''Fantasy Seal'' originates from [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOk2CCL8Fgk&t=5m30s her appearance]] as a BonusBoss in ''VideoGame/MagicPengel''; its name is derived from that game's keyword system.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Reimu's values and views of the world are... different from everyone else's, a trait that's frequently brought up both by ZUN and Rinnosuke. This is most often shown by her occasional strange comments and the abnormal conclusions she tends to draw.
* ColourCodedCharacters: Reimu and Yukari form the "Border team" in ''Imperishable Night''. It's rather convenient that the colors of their outfits [[GeniusBonus correspond to the borders between visible and invisible light]].
* DefeatMeansFriendship: Anyone she defeats tends to end up at her shrine for a tea party. May lead to {{Shipping}}.
** {{Deconstructed}} in that Reimu has trouble keeping her new "friends" away, and since officially most of them are [[FantasticRacism enemies of mankind]], this [[AllTheOtherReindeer leads other humans to distrust her]].
* DesperationAttack: In ''Highly Responsive to Prayers'', her bombs can damage bosses when she's out of extra lives.
* DetachedSleeves: Led to the fandom's [[MemeticMutation tongue-in-cheek]] armpit fetish.
* DetectEvil: As shown in ''Manga/ForbiddenScrollery'' chapter 16, she's able to tell when youkai have been active in an area from their lingering auras.
* DontThinkFeel: Reimu's powers seem to be tied to her impressive instincts; some of her most powerful spell cards have her enter a trance where she hands control over to them entirely.
* EnergyBall [=/=] LightEmUp: Her signature attack ''Fantasy Seal'' creates large balls of light around her in different colours, which then [[{{Roboteching}} home in on enemies]] and explode.
* ExpectingSomeoneTaller: This little exchange.
-->'''Shou:''' You're the human who gathered the flying treasure? You look a lot more scrawny than I imagined.
-->'''Reimu:''' How rude.
-->'''Shou:''' I'm sorry, you're quite right. I simply thought that if you'd made it this far, maybe you were some sort of ascetic scholar.
* FaceFault: Has one when talking to Rika in [=SoEW=].
* FantasticRacism [=/=] PretendPrejudice: Zig-zagged. While she ''is'' a youkai exterminator, she'll generally beat down anyone who gets in her way, no matter who or what they are, whether they're human (as Marisa, Sakuya, and Sanae can attest to) or gods (Kanako, Suwako). And afterwards, she'll sit down and have tea with them without the slightest malevolence whatsoever. Outside of duty, she treats youkai the same way she treats humans, with vague disrespect. ZUN has said that she doesn't particularly care about humans or youkai, and she personally considers everyone the same, neither negatively nor positively. This is supposedly part of why powerful youkai tend to be drawn to her.
** ''Manga/WildAndHornedHermit'' has given a motivation to her "jerkass" behavior. Youkai [[ShapedLikeItself by definition]] oppose humanity; and they are opposed by humanity. If they didn't do this, they wouldn't be youkai. (What would happen isn't stated, but it would likely be bad.) Pranks and "youkai extermination", softened by spellcard rules, [[LoopholeAbuse give some pretense to following this paradigm]].
** SlaveToPR: Later works have also started to emphasize the pressure she feels from the human village - most humans cannot accept the idea of a shrine maiden associating with youkai, and [[NeverAcceptedInHisHometown either don't know or don't care about the times she has protected them in the past]]. In ''Manga/ForbiddenScrollery'' it reaches the point where Reimu can't point out a disguised Mamizou even to foil her current scheme, since she'd have to reveal she knows her.
*** It's been said that the walk to the shrine is a factor in why few visit/donate, the other being the tendency for youkai to stop by.
* FinalBoss: She's the last character you fight in the regular final boss's Story Mode of ''Immaterial and Missing Power'', ''Phantasmagoria of Flower View'', ''Scarlet Weather Rhapsody'', and ''Hopeless Masquerade''.
* FlunkyBoss: As the TrueFinalBoss of ''Hopeless Masquerade''. The flunkies being [[FinalBoss Byakuren and Miko]], just to drive the point home how hard it is.
* FriendToAllLivingThings: Not shown often, unless you count the whole DefeatMeansFriendship routine, but animals seem to really like Reimu. She's been seen [[PetTheDog feeding wild rabbits by hand]], summoning birds with a whistle, and crossing a river ''without noticing it'' because '''fish rose up to form a bridge under her feet'''.
* GenreSavvy: One particularly amusing example in ''Perfect Cherry Blossom'' was Reimu waiting around for a boss to arrive.
* GoodIsNotNice: Not nearly as bad as the [[{{Flanderization}} fans (or Kasen) believe]], but when duty calls, she's a bit of a jerk.
* GradualGrinder: Reimu's [[HomingProjectile Homing Amulets]] are typically the weakest shot-type in any game they appear in, at least in terms of power, but they are almost constantly dealing damage to her opponent. And her small hitbox and slower (and thus more precise) movement speed means she can usually afford to be patient.
* GuestFighter: Has made appearances in ''VideoGame/{{Seihou}}'', ''VideoGame/MagicPengel'' (as [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOk2CCL8Fgk a boss]]) and ''VideoGame/GraffitiKingdom'' (as [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORpB26JlF0k a playable character]]) due to ZUN being involved in their development. She also shows up in the {{Massive Multiplayer Crossover}}s ''VideoGame/LordOfVermilion'' and ''VideoGame/NendoroidGeneration''.
* HairDecorations: Her large red-and-white bow and her "hair tubes".
* HatesEveryoneEqually: Noted for being equally rude to humans, youkai and ''[[DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu gods]]''. [[Characters/TouhouOtherOfficialWorks Kosuzu]] is probably the only person Reimu has been shown as not completely flippant towards, to the point of [[JapaneseHonorifics addressing the younger girl with the affectionate honorific "-chan"]].
* HeartIsAnAwesomePower:
** Reimu's ability is ''the power to float in the sky'', which every girl in the series is capable of doing already. Except then you reach [[BonusBoss Fantasy Nature]]. ZUN's description: "Supreme Master-Art. With Reimu's ability to float, she [[IntangibleMan floats away from physical reality]] and becomes invincible. If it wasn't [[HoldingBackThePhlebotinum just for play]] (with time limit), no one could beat her by any method". She can't be hurt, and the only way to win is to wait for her timer to run out while she's free to bombard her opponent at her leisure.
** One of the laughably MundaneUtility "powers" of the Hakurei Yin-Yang Orb - the power to eat sweets and never get fat - is believed to give her the smallest hitbox.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: with Marisa. Hard to see it being demonstrated in the games, because Reimu and Marisa are mutually exclusive characters. However, it is easily demonstrated in the official manga, where the two are practically inseparable. In ''Manga/ForbiddenScrollery'' they hunt Youkai as a team, and after they score a victory at the end of every minor arc, Reimu and Marisa can be seen relaxing, laughing, bantering, celebrating, and having a grand old time with each other.
* HimeCut: As a miko, this is the traditional haircut for her. She's depicted with a lot of different hairstyles throughout the series (from shoulder- to waist-length, with or without a ponytail, with or without hair tubes), but the early games and ZUN's art leans towards this more often than not.
* HolyBurnsEvil: The Yin-Yang Orbs. Before Reimu was able to use their powers properly, she {{exploited}} this trope by physically kicking them at enemies.
* HomingProjectile: Her signature ability in most games.
* HyperDestructiveBouncingBall: The Yin-Yang Orb in ''Highly Responsive to Prayers'', when it was used as a bludgeoning weapon and not an orbiting AttackDrone. One of her moves in the fighting games gives a nod to this.
* HyperspaceArsenal: Her [=ofuda=].
* IJustWantToBeNormal: When she breaks up the gathering in ''Symposium of Post-Mysticism'', she brings as evidence of the problematic nature of youkai some newspaper articles. Very few of which suggest anything baleful, no matter how much she fears Aya might have downplayed them--and how can anyone claim Kyouko and Mystia were guilty of anything worse than disturbing the peace? What many of them ''are'' is ''strange''. Add in her equivalent of HairTriggerTemper whenever an incident manifests, and it's strongly suggested that she (and more than a few other humans) desperately want life to be ''predictable''. She's just more...pro-active...about ensuring it. Her irritated comment about how the outside world must be barbaric in her B Extra Stage in ''Double Dealing Character''--just from Raiko commenting on how taiko drummers prize unthinking enthusiasm--further seals it in.
** It probably doesn't help that in traditional Shinto thought, misfortune ''presupposes'' impurity of some sort. A world with strange, startling occurrences, or otherwise not placidly predictable, is thus, by definition, defiled by something. The disturbing the peace from Kyouko and Mystia's new band? Chimeric ''because'' it jars others' routines.
** In a way, this serves to further differentiate her from [[IJustWantToBeSpecial Marisa]].
* IntangibleMan: When using her Last Word from ''Imperishable Night''.
* {{Irony}}: Despite being a {{miko}}, her powers and way of thinking are far more [[UsefulNotes/{{Taoism}} Taoist]] than UsefulNotes/{{Shinto}}, to the point where she's been compared to a [[EnlightenmentSuperpowers hermit]]. She possibly acts ''more'' Taoist than the actual hermits introduced in ''Ten Desires'', who only achieved their status through {{Soul Jar}}s (and one of whom has Shinto-based powers). The yin-yang orb further cements this, and indeed, her instinct-based combat style has much in common with the Taoist concept of "wei wu wei" - action without action, or ''effortless doing''.
* JackOfAllStats: Her attack and speed are just barely adequate, and she has no real glaring flaws, as far as standard gameplay goes. Her attacks are highly flexible and she's good for just about any situation. Reimu A is usually a homing type, and sacrifices power for range and accuracy. Reimu B is usually the forward-focus type, similar to Marisa's gameplay, but not quite as strong; in exchange, her attacks have a wider range, making it easier for her to hit the targets. Finally, she consistently has the smallest hitbox and longest deathbomb period, making her ideal for survival play.
* {{Jerkass}}: In canon, she beats up youkai she suspects of stealing, fights and insults multiple characters because they annoyed her, and even fights ''Byakuren'' out of sheer annoyance. In fanon, she's done just about anything from [[KickTheDog bullying everyone in reach]] to going AxCrazy and extorting donations from everyone after getting fed up of her PerpetualPoverty. However, other fans have adopted a [[JerkassFacade more charitable interpretation]] of her as having [[NoSocialSkills poor social skills]] and/or being forced by [[BarrierMaiden her position]] to keep everyone at arm's length.
** ''Symposium of Post-mysticism'' reveals through [[{{Telepathy}} Miko]] (the [[Characters/TouhouTenDesires character]], not the job) that despite how she acts, what Reimu truly desires is a peace that doesn't require violence.
* {{Leitmotif}}: She has a couple, but [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6r_826wNorw "Maiden's Capriccio"]] (and its remix [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBde0Kz-Bcc "Maiden's Capriccio ~ Dream Battle"]]) is her most iconic.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTMhoK8olvk "Eastern Mystical Love Consultation"]] from ''Phantasmagoria of Dim. Dream'', later remixed for the fighting games.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfBiwHIE4X8 "Witching Dream"]] from ''Lotus Land Story''.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-u7uBV4jsM "Dichromatic Lotus Butterfly ~ Ancients"]] from her cameo as a BonusBoss in ''[[{{Seihou}} Shuusou Gyoku]]'', remixed for ''Touhou Hisoutensoku''. Also has a variant, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNW7fb8de4g "Dichromatic Lotus Butterfly ~ Red and White"]] on the ''Dolls in Pseudo Paradise'' music CD.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StnyX4_PfPk "Spring Lane ~ Colorful Path"]] from ''Phantasmagoria of Flower View''. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fULTRKrF6zc Remixed]] for ''Hopeless Masquerade'' as a [[AutobotsRockOut more hard rock theme]].
* MacrossMissileMassacre: Can pull this off with [[PaperTalisman [=Ofuda=]]].
* {{Miko}}: In the PC-98 games she wore a traditional miko's outfit (white haori, red hakama). In the Windows games she wears a much more customized and non-standard outfit, though it still keeps the traditional red and white colours. Job-wise, she has all the usual duties a real miko would have (keeping the shrine clean, collecting donations, etc.) while also dealing with incidents.
* MoodSwinger [=/=] {{Tsundere}}: Tends towards the former in her off-hours and the latter when she's [[SlaveToPR trying to seem professional]].
** According to Reisen in ''Phantasmagora of Flower View'', people with short wavelengths to their personality are energetic while those with long wavelengths are carefree. She describes Reimu's as alternating between the two extremes, "a voice that matches with no one and clashes with no one".
** PlayedForLaughs in a chapter of ''Manga/WildAndHornedHermit'' set during the events of ''Hopeless Masquerade'', where a kappa is taking bets on a duel between Reimu and Byakuren. Kasen enthusiastically cheers an embarassed Reimu on... while betting against her.
-->'''Kasen:''' "Reimu always screws up when she gets cocky.[...]There's no safer bet anywhere."
* MythologyGag: In the FightingGame spin-offs, a portion of Reimu's moveset is taken from ''Highly Responsive to Prayers''.
* MrViceGuy: Lazy and greedy, but ultimately a good person who's [[LetsGetDangerous devoted to her job]].
-->'''Komachi:''' "That shrine maiden didn't have any evil thoughts to begin with. [...] Just about all humans have that level of worldly desires. Working hard despite that amount of desire isn't evil, it's innocent. Among the innocent ones, you get [[GoodIsNotNice people like that shrine maiden]]."
* NinjaLog: Reimu's ''Instant Dimensional Rift'' skill in ''Hisoutensoku'' switches her with a double that explodes into a shower of damaging [[PaperTalisman [=Ofuda=]]] if struck.
* NunTooHoly: While she defers to gods and treats youkai as enemies, she only does so because it's her job; she doesn't discriminate by such things personally. As multiple characters have commented, Reimu's attitude would be great for a hermit ([[EnlightenmentSuperpowers in the Taoist sense]]) but doesn't really fit a shrine maiden. She also has some gaps in her training, to the point where she didn't know until ''Double Dealing Character'' that tsukumogami should receive prayers to becalm them, and ''doesn't know what god she's serving''. Part of this may be due to [[Characters/TouhouPerfectCherryBlossom Yukari]]'s influence.
* OffModel: See the "zombie Reimu" meme.
* OppositesAttract: Reimu is rather serious by Gensoukyou standards and has no tolerance for mischief, yet her closest friends tend to be extra-strength weird, such as the maniacal Marisa, the gregarious Suika, and the whimsical Yukari.
* UsefulNotes/{{Onmyodo}}: [[PaperTalisman [=Ofuda=]]] (rectangular paper charms) are her weapon of choice along with giant yin-yang orbs.
* ParentalAbandonment: Despite the importance of her bloodline, it's unknown exactly what happened to the rest of the Hakurei clan, just that Reimu has been living alone since at least ''Highly Responsive to Prayers''. In ''Manga/WildAndHornedHermit'' Chapter 25, she bitterly mentions as the daylight goes away faster than she'd like that one would think things like daylight and parents would be around forever, implying she personally knew her parents but they're gone now.
* PetTheDog: In contrast to her infamous attitude during incidents, in a chapter of the three fairies manga, she kindly warns a fairy (that looks similar to Daiyousei) to find shelter before she gets blown away by the upcoming storm.
* PerpetualPoverty: Reimu doesn't get donations, and the Hakurei Shrine is often described as "shabby-looking", though she has no problems providing for herself. Apparently Yukari secretly provides some food donations.
* PersonalityPowers: Reimu is rather distant from other humans (both socially and in [[BornWinner her level of ability]]); she fittingly has [[BarrierWarrior two]] [[IntangibleMan powers]] which make her "untouchable". Her ability to float matches her habit of drifting from one emotion or idea to another without being truly attached to them, while her "treat everyone the same" attitude and concern with maintaining the balance likewise fit her use of yin-yang-themed weapons.
** ThePowerOfTheSun: How her disposition manifests as weather in ''Scarlet Weather Rhapsody''. [[LightIsGood Bright and pure]], but [[MoodSwinger easily obscured by anything that passes]].
* PortalCut: Basically how her [[LimitBreak Occult Last Word]] seems to work in ''Urban Legend in Limbo'', creating a "gap" in her opponent by slashing them with her gohei.
* ResignedToTheCall: A bit hypocritical about it though, in that she'll get bored if there ''aren't'' any incidents for her to resolve. In fan works, this can lead to her being depicted as a GrumpyBear or a KnightInSourArmor.
* RoundhouseKick: In the fighting games, her ''Ascension Kick'' is a backflipping ''vertical'' roundhouse which sends enemies flying upwards. She also has a HurricaneKick upgrade ''Divine Arts "Sky-Conquering Wind God Kick"''.
* ShoutOut:
** Reimu's infamous [[LimitBreak Last Word]] "Fantasy Nature"[[note]]"Fantasy Heaven" in older translations[[/note]] is a homonym to Kenshiro's Musou Tensei of ''FistOfTheNorthStar''. In ''Hisoutensoku'', [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8-SrmzsrkE using said spell card under certain conditions]] even causes a ''[[OneHitKill Fatal KO]]'' remix of Reimu's theme, "Mystic Oriental Love Consulation", to override the current music. For bonus points, if the opponent is stupid enough to actually let it activate, only a couple of characters even have the capability of dodging it long enough to avoid instant death without haxing off borders, and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLvjXdhc_Kg#t=1m48s only one can counter it]]. ''You are already dead'' indeed!
** One of her palettes in ''Hisoutensoku'' uses Toki's colours (even the hair), another thing fans have run away with.
** Another palette looks like either [[LyricalNanoha Nanoha]] (which homages their [[DefeatMeansFriendship similar method of making friends]]) or Reimu's [[WomanInWhite appearance]] in the fangame ''[[http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Concealed_the_Conclusion Concealed the Conclusion]]''.
* SpotOfTea: She takes tea breaks about every thirty seconds. Marisa ribs her about it.
* SteppingStonesInTheSky: In ''Hopeless Masquerade'' she can [[BarrierWarrior create barriers]] in midair and kick off them to launch herself at enemies.
* TeleportSpam:
** ''Dream Sign "Fantasy Dimensional Hole"'' and ''Divine Spirit "Fantasy Seal: Blink"''.
** Her final attack phases as the extra boss of ''Shuusou Gyoku'', which may have been the inspiration for ''Fantasy Dimensional Hole''.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: She's simultaneously the tomboy to Yukari's girly girl, and the girly girl to Marisa's tomboy.
* VagueAge[=/=]NotAllowedToGrowUp: Information provided in [[AllThereInTheManual print works]] and the passage of seasons in the games suggest that at least six years have passed between ''The Embodiment of Scarlet Devil'' and ''Hisoutensoku'', so Reimu should probably be over 20 years old by now -- more if the PC-98 games still count. However, she is always depicted as being somewhere in her teens. For what it's worth, the publishers of the official comics can get away with showing her drinking alcohol fairly often, so it's plausible that she's "officially" in her twenties.
* WrapAround:
** Her entire gimmick for her boss fight in ''Imperishable Night''. For her spell cards, she creates borders around and inside the battlefield to shoot danmaku through. Those shots will eventually reach around to aim at the player character from various directions. Her last spells involve flying off one end of the screen and coming out of the other while shooting at you.
** Her support power for her A type shot in ''Subterranean Animism'', since [[RealityWarper Yukari]] [[TeleportersAndTransporters is her partner.]]
** Also her gimmick in ''Hopeless Masquerade'', where performing a backdash while up against either side of the stage will allow Reimu to move to the opposite corner.[[folder:Marisa Kirisame]]
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::''Ordinary Black Magician''
::'''Marisa Kirisame'''
-->''"Move and I'll shoot!! I messed up. I mean, shoot and I'll move. In a flash."''
A magician who lives in the Forest of Magic, Marisa first appeared as the Stage 4 boss of ''Story of Eastern Wonderland'' and became a playable character in every game afterwards, eventually becoming the secondary protagonist of the ''Touhou'' series. She just so happens to be the "[[BossSubtitles Ordinary Magician]]" in the middle of a crowd of superpowered beings, so she worked her ass off HARD to eventually become one of the more formidable opponents in Gensoukyou. She's rude and loud-mouthed, but is a straightforward person. Also a notorious thief, and damn proud of it.
!!!Tropes associated with Marisa:
* AcquiredPoisonImmunity: In ''Manga/WildAndHornedHermit'' Marisa ignores a sign warning of toxic fumes, since she's been exposed to so many poisonous substances as part of her research. It's implied that she's even become resistant to ''mercury poisoning'' in this way.
* AlwaysSecondBest: Next to Reimu. In fact, Marisa has admitted several times that she is the second-best in Gensokyo, a fact she seems to, surprisingly, hold pride in. Given that Reimu can and, canonically, ''has'' kicked everyone's ass there, Marisa's pride is probably justified.
* AmuletOfConcentratedAwesome: The Mini-Hakkero, a pocket-sized octagonal magical furnace which Marisa uses for many things... including her [[KamehameHadoken Master Spark]].
* ArtShift: There's a MemeticMutation known as [[TestosteronePoisoning "Cho-Marisa"]] where Marisa is drawn to resemble a man more muscular than TheIncredibleHulk, often with a beard ([[RealMenWearPink while still wearing a frilly]] CuteWitch [[RealMenWearPink outfit]]).
* AscendedExtra: After her initial appearance as a villainous minion with no real backstory or motivation, she went on to become the second main character of the series.
* AssKicksYou: an attack in the fighting games, known as the "Flying Doombutt" for its surprisingly high damage and range. As it makes Marisa immune to projectiles, it has given rise to an obscure meme known as [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Marisa's Bulletproof Bloomers]].
* BadassBookworm: In spite of her apparent unconcern for obtaining anything honestly, all of her abilities were gained by either studying the necessary magical texts or inventing them herself.
** Doujins and fanvids take this further: one common and recurring storyline is her finding the secret to Alice's dolls, [[StuffBlowingUp only for it to blow up in an accident]]. She didn't just steal the spellcards; she's practically ''remaking them''. This justifies how she learned Master Spark from Yuka, and how she got the Non-Directional Laser from Patchouli and used them in later games.
* BadLiar[=/=]ConsummateLiar[=/=]BlatantLies: All of them, at various times. When the judge of the dead [[http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Phantasmagoria_of_Flower_View/Story/Marisa%27s_Scenario#Marisa_vs._Shiki_.28Episode_Final.29 tells you]] that you're going to hell for lying too much and your immediate response is that [[RefugeInAudacity you've never told a single lie in your life]], you just might have a problem.
* {{Blackmail Is Such An Ugly Word}}/InsistentTerminology: [[BlatantLies She's not stealing! She's just borrowing stuff until she dies!]] (Of course, that's not mentioning the fact that she's also looking for a way to be immortal...)
* BlackMagicianGirl
* BonusBoss: In both ''Shuusou Gyoku'' and ''Fairy Wars''. Granted, in the latter case she's the BonusBoss for ''[[SmallNameBigEgo Cirno]]''.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: Nearly the entire Alice scenario in ''Subterranean Animism''. Oddly enough, however, [[WrongGenreSavvy they're treating the game as an RPG]]. In ''The Story of Eastern Wonderland'' Marisa is aware of how many continues you used, and in the trial version informs Reimu that the game ends on the third stage
* [[BroughtToYouByTheLetterS Brought To You By The Letter M]]: In ''Undefined Fantastic Object''.
* TheCharmer[=/=]ChickMagnet: Fandom quite often turns Marisa into a LesYay version, which [[http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l302/Chris_Lv255/1230622921072.jpg results]] in [[HilarityEnsues comedy]]/drama.
** This is actually how she performs her infamous bookthefts from the SDM: She goes there acting like she's doing a friendly visit and most of the residents let it slide or actually hide her from Patchouli.
* CompositeCharacter: Spell attacks and books aren't the only things [[MemeticMutation she's stolen]] from people. In the transition from PC-98 to Windows, she's picked up Mima's habit of lying and her general personality, Chiyuri's speech patterns and Ellen's 2P costume[[note]]Or Yuki's costume. Or Yumemi's 2P costume. It's a design ZUN liked.[[/note]].
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow
* CuteWitch
* DoesNotLikeMagic: Not Marisa herself, but her father refuses to keep magic items at his shop and there's implied to be [[FantasyForbiddingFather a wedge between them]]. Marisa considers it a private matter, so the exact details have never been explained.
* DoppelgangerAttack: For her final attack phase in ''Shuusou Gyoku''.
* EdibleAmmunition: The projectiles in her Stardust Reverie spell card might be some kind of candy, as we learn in ''Manga/SilentSinnerInBlue''. During the futile series of battles on the moon, Yorihime nonchalantly dodges Marisa's star bits, and even takes a bite out of one, noticing their sweet taste.
* EvilRedhead: Her original appearance in ''Story of Eastern Wonderland''. Her hair was changed to blonde in the next game.
* FlyingBroomstick: Almost always shown riding it in the games. Oddly, she uses it for attacking but not for flight in the fighting games. WordOfGod states that she only rides the broom for appearances, to keep up the CuteWitch motif. She can fly on her own just like anyone else if she wants to.
** [[GogglesDoNothing Broom Does Nothing]]
** SkySurfing: Surfs on the broom for her "Sungrazer" [[LimitBreak Last Word]] in ''Hopeless Masquerade'', though it was common in fanart long beforehand.
* {{Foil}}: While she's most obviously one for Reimu, she also has the interesting talent of being the opposite of pretty much anyone she's paired up with. She can even play both [[StraightManAndWiseGuy The Straight Man And The Wise Guy]] with equal ease, depending who she's talking to.
* FourIsDeath: If Marisa is a boss in the game, she will ALWAYS be the fourth boss in the game, and always rather tough. In addittion, she is 'different' in nature every time. In [=SoEW=], she was also the [[TheDragon Penultimate Boss]], in LLS, she was a normal boss. In IN, she was also the midboss, and in Great Fairy Wars, which only has three stages, she is the [[BonusBoss Extra Boss]], making her, again, the 4th boss in the story.
* FrickinLaserBeams: Both Master Spark and the mini-ones. Fanon says she copied this from Patchouli.
* [[FunetikAksent Funetik]] AccentAdaptation: As an attempt to render her {{Tomboy}}ish "ze" VerbalTic into English, fan translations usually give Marisa a mild [[AmericanAccents Southern drawl]], [[SelfDemonstratingArticle droppin' letters here an' there]].
* GameplayAndStorySegregation: The plot of her A path in ''Double Dealing Character'' emphasizes just how powerful her bewitched mini-hakkero is... but the flamethrower is ''weaker'' than her alternative shot, and Dark Spark is exactly the same as Master Spark used to be.
* GenreSavvy: Sometimes the [[WrongGenreSavvy wrong genre]], like the Alice scenario in ''Subterranean Animism''.
* GlassCannon: She often has high firepower and speed compared to other characters in the Windows danmaku games. Of course, as with any other ''Touhou'' character, she'll [[OneHitpointWonder instantly die]] if just one bullet touches her hitbox.
* GuestFighter: Shows up alongside Reimu in ''VideoGame/{{Seihou}}'' and ''VideoGame/NendoroidGeneration''
* HairDecorations: Has a small bow tied to the end of her braid (that is, [[DependingOnTheArtist when she has a braid]]).
* HardWorkHardlyWorks: Played straight when compared to Reimu, but she's still extremely powerful thanks to her training, quite possibly the next strongest human in all of Gensoukyou.
** In ''Symposium of Post-mysticism'', Byakuren explains the Six Buddhist Perfections. Marisa dismisses the first two (Generosity and Discipline) but...
-->'''Byakuren:''' "Forbearance" is to withstand humiliation or pain from others. "Diligence" is the effort exerted to continue training.
-->'''Marisa:''' Everyone does that, not like you have a choice.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: with Reimu. While they seem to work alone in the games (or as momentary opponents), in the official manga, it's rare to see one without the other unless one is giving the other a flashback to earlier in the day. ''Manga/ForbiddenScrollery'' shows that while they do seem to initially strike out on their own when a job first starts, they run to each other's side and combine their talents when the plot thickens (implying that [[GameplayAndStorySegregation this happens in the games off-screen]] as well). They work as a team without thought or hesitation when the going gets tough, and when a job is done, they spend the rest of the chapter unwinding and having a good time with each other. The last panel we usually see is of them smiling and laughing side by side.
* HomeRunHitter: Her last word in ''Urban Legend in Limbo'' has her spin around before smacking her opponent with her broom sending them flying into a toilet where several demonic arms grab the victim.
* ILetYouWin: Sort of. She goes easy on Cirno during the extra stage of ''Fairy Wars'', using variant lasers that don't actually kill her, instead chipping away at her motivation gauge. However, multiple times during the battle, she finds that Cirno is stronger than she thought, and steps up the complexity of her attacks. At the end, she thinks that Cirno might have been a problem even if she ''was'' going all out, and the effort from the battle is still enough that she has to go home and lie down afterwards. On the other hand, it's ''Cirno'' rather than Marisa who gets a "beaten up" portrait after the fight.
* ImmortalitySeeker: On-and-off, since old age is still a fairly distant concern for her. While there are theoretically a few methods open to Marisa, she's yet to find one she likes enough to commit to.
** The standard route of becoming a {{youkai}} magician would mean giving up her humanity. Not only would this [[TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody affect her personality]], Marisa is proud of her underdog status compared to youkai.
** Becoming a [[CompleteImmortality Hourai immortal]] would require the disturbing act of cutting open an existing immortal and eating their liver (possibly against their will). The process is also completely irreversible, meaning that she wouldn't be able to die [[WhoWantsToLiveForever even if she later wanted to]].
** Becoming a [[EnlightenmentSuperpowers hermit]] requires devotion to Taoism (and/or a dangerous SoulJar ritual), and Marisa [[SecularHero has little interest in religion]].
* {{Jerkass}}<->JerkWithAHeartOfJerk<->JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Her motivations in solving the incidents vary from [[KleptomaniacHero wanting to loot the mansions she visits]], being bribed to solve the incident (IN), to just having nothing else to do at the time. In ''Undefined Fantastic Object'' however she raises the fair point of humans being unprotected from youkai to [[WellIntentionedExtremist Byakuren]]. On the minus side she's rude, condescending, arrogant, and a notorious thief; on the plus side she's hardworking, straightforward, and has ChronicHeroSyndrome (although most of the time she solves incidents just to beat [[TheRival Reimu]] to it). At the very least, her character alignment is firmly {{Chaotic Good}}.
** HiddenHeartOfGold: In some of the later games, like Subterranean Animism, Hopeless Masquerade, and Double-Dealing Character (Scenario B), she publicly acts like a jerk that solves incidents for wholly selfish reasons, but in private moments, it is revealed that she does care about the well-being of Gensokyo and its people when she sets out to solve an incident. In her SA Alice scenario, she says she wants to make the incident worse to spite Alice for stringing her along without explanation, but when Satori reads her mind, she reveals that she's actually just as concerned about the incident as Alice. In Hopeless Masquerade, she shows deep concern for the people in town when nobody's looking, but once the cause of the incident shows up, she goes back to being her usual rowdy, snarky self. In Ten Desires, she even downplays her skills and abilities, insisting with a sincere face that she is entirely ordinary, while Seiga insists that she must be someone special to make it as far as she has. Marisa responds by changing her title to "Amazingly Ordinary Magician."
* KamehameHadoken: one of her attacks in the fighting games.
* KillItWithFire: Adapts that mindset in her A path of ''Double Dealing Character'', due to her possessed hakkero messing with her head.
* KleptomaniacHero: Taken {{Up to Eleven}} in the fandom.
* KungFuWizard: Mild example. Marisa is a lot more physically fit than [[SquishyWizard most spellcasters of the setting]], and gets more physical attacks in the fighting games.
* {{Leitmotif}}: More so than any other character. Marisa has ''six'' themes so far with [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvehi-1cLGg "Love-Colored Magic"]] / [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ssmxWJftyo "Love-Colored Master Spark"]] being the most recognisable.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZiuvc57yxM "Dimensional Dream"]] from ''Phantasmagoria of Dim.Dream''.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kaXK4ab95M "Vessel of Stars ~ Casket of Star"]] from ''Lotus Land Story''.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8fBlLKjhVM "The Witches' Ball ~ Magus"]] from her cameo as a BonusBoss in ''[[{{Seihou}} Shuusou Gyoku]]''.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xG3Mlunqog "Oriental Dark Flight"]] from ''Phantasmagoria of Flower View''.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dJA_YLSPz0 "Magus Night"]] from her appearance as the BonusBoss of ''Fairy Wars''. Apparently started as a "Witches' Ball" remix that got out of hand.
*** Magus Night has now been [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUTgZ4iEKtE remixed]] for ''Hopeless Masquerade''.
* LethalJokeItem: Magic Absorber. Horrible range, low damage, and the only bomb in the series that has a shorter invincibility duration than attack duration. It also turn bullets into Ps, which, combined with ''Double Dealing Character'''s gimmick, allows a savvy player to turn it into a perpetual motion machine of lives and bombs.
* LightEmUp: Light and heat magic are her specialty. Interestingly, she has a stronger affinity for [[MakingASplash water]]; she just isn't particularly interested in using it.
* LoveableRogue: She's a [[ConsummateLiar compulsive liar]], a borderline {{Blood Knight}}, and a frequent [[PowerCopying spell]] and [[KleptomaniacHero book thief]]. Despite this, she still has a large number of friends and acquaintances in Gensokyo and the fandom has since then portrayed her as a barely-even-trying {{Chick Magnet}} who could practically win over everyone.
* MagicWand: Carries one in ''Undefined Fantastic Object'' and ''Story of Eastern Wonderland''.
* MagicMushroom: Marisa uses phantasmal mushrooms as a common ingredient/fuel source for her magic. The Forest of Magic where she lives is known for being full of them... but even better known for being full of [[MushroomSamba "magic" mushrooms]]. Fandom pushes both ends of this routinely, with mushrooms that can have basically any effect imaginable for Marisa or her victims.
* MakingASplash: Despite relying mostly on [[LightEmUp light-based]] magic, Marisa's elemental affinity is actually ''water''. So far this has only come up in ''Mountain of Faith'' (where she can use the water-based shot ''Cold Inferno'') and ''Scarlet Weather Rhapsody'' (where her associated weather is Drizzle). Of course, her weather is also just a pun on her name (Kirisame meaning "drizzle").
* ManaDrain: Her B shot in ''Double Dealing Character'' is flavoured as such. Given that the game doesn't have MP, this just results in lots of power items.
* MoreDakka: Everyone's danmaku attacks are like this, but Marisa is notable for constantly looking for ways to get bigger firepower from her magic.
* MouthfulOfPi: In ''Mountain of Faith'', Marisa gets impatient while travelling across levels and wonders if she could finish reciting pi by the time she got to her intended destination.
* MythologyGag: Marisa's Player 2 colour scheme in ''[=Phantasmagoria of Flower View=]''.
** Also one of her color pallets in ''Hopeless Masquerade'' are a reference to her PC-98 color theme.
* TheNapoleon: Very outgoing and energetic, and also unusually short for her age.
* NiceHat: She's never seen without her comically oversized witch's hat.
* ObfuscatingStupidity[=/=]SmarterThanYouLook: Marisa rarely draws attention to [[TrainingFromHell how hard she trains/researches]], either because she doesn't want [[ThinkNothingOfIt the attention]] or she doesn't want people like Reimu [[DontYouDarePityMe taking pity on her]].
* OjouRinglets: Back in the PC-98 days. Ultimately morphed into the side-braid of the Windows games.
* OppositesAttract:
** The BrilliantButLazy, blunt, dispassionate Reimu, passive and tricky in her fighting style, popular despite her lack of active socialising, associated with sunshine and spring -- and then the hard-working, energetic, dishonest, excitable Marisa who lives by brute force, bothers people everywhere she goes, and is associated with [[MeaningfulName rain]]. They're competitors and rivals. They're also best friends who spend a ''lot'' of time just hanging out.
** Marisa's numerous fandom couplings, romantically or otherwise, also tend to be based on this. Along with Reimu, the withdrawn bookworm Patchouli, the cold-hearted and tactically oriented Alice, and the shy Nitori are opposites of Marisa as well.
* PaletteSwap: In ''Hopeless Masquerade'', one of these makes her look like in earlier games (that is, her dress is black and white). Another one makes her look like Alice (if she wore a red hat rather than red hairband).
* ParentalAbandonment: It's notable that Marisa is one of the few Touhou characters to have a still-living family; AllThereInTheManual mentions she has a father that runs a second-hand shop in the human village. It's also notable that she's apparently cut off all contact with him; it's hinted [[FantasyForbiddingFather Marisa's father doesn't like magic]]. In ''Curiosities of Lotus Asia'', when Rinnosuke brings up her father Marisa responds that she [[ICantHearYou can't hear him]] and it's unclear whether she's lying or not.
** A popular fanon is that Mima was sort of a parental figure for Marisa... and she's now absent.
** DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: [[http://www.ocfoundation.org/hoarding/causes.aspx Hoarding]] can be interpreted as a sign of loss, in which people are trying to fill a hole that could never be filled by material things. Considering that her house is most often portrayed as [[TrashOfTheTitans filled with every possible object imaginable]] in fanon...
* PowerCopying:
** She has stolen several spells from other characters she has fought over time. Even her signature Master Spark was originally held by Yuuka Kazami. The whole point of the ''Grimoire Of Marisa'' is her cataloguing the spell cards of everyone she meets, with the stated plan of using them to learn more magic.
** This tendency spawned the fan-made game ''VideoGame/MegaMari'', which is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.
** Then in ''Ten Desires'' her shots have picked up the explosive abilities of Sanae's Cobalt Spread, while Sanae herself ended up with something resembling Marisa's Super Shortwave. A con job rather than theft this time, it would seem.
* PowerGivesYouWings: She sports a demonic pair of wings for her boss attack in ''Phantasmagoria of Dim. Dream'', and a pair of angelic ones in ''[[{{Seihou}} Shuusou Gyoku]]'''s Extra stage.
* PowerOfLove: The description of the aforementioned ''Love Sign: Master Spark'' includes the instructions "Mutter the spell to the Mini-Hakkero tenderly; aim at someone you don't like; now unleash your annihilation of love!". What exactly that ''means'' is still a matter for debate.
* RammingAlwaysWorks: Marisa's final spell card, ''Comet "Blazing Star"'', consists of her [[RecoilBoost firing a Master Spark backwards]] and trying to ram her opponent repeatedly.
* {{Roboteching}}: In ''Hopeless Masquerade'', her "Nano Spark" makes a sharp turn mid-flight, if she is using a Shinto-aligned set.
* SecularHero: While she's experimented with religious methods once or twice (even managing to [[SummoningRitual summon a tiny Kanako]] in one of her endings), it doesn't carry much deeper meaning for her. In ''Hopeless Masquerade'', a story about representatives of different religions, Marisa is considered the ''human'' representative. More implicitly she is also the moderator of the debates between various priests and deities in ''Symposium of Post-Mysticism''.
* TheSevenMysteries: Her occult theme in ''Urban Legend in Limbo'', specifically of the "seven school mysteries" variety.
* {{Shoryuken}}: Her Miasma Sweep move in the fighting games.
* ShotoClone: Her default skill set in the fighting games include a KamehameHadoken, a {{Shoryuken}}, and a [[HurricaneKick flying horizontal attack]], all with the traditional button inputs to use them.
* SociopathicHero: Marisa enjoys beating people up a bit too much. Although her true love has always been kleptomania.
* StarPower: Marisa loves watching stars and meteor showers, she even has a large observatory built into her house in ''Manga/ForbiddenScrollery'', and as a result most of her spells are themed after space or heavenly bodies. If the PC-98 games are canon then she learned her first few spells of this type by copying Mima.
* StickyFingers: In terms of items and skills. Her presence in both ''Lotus Land Story'' and ''The Embodiment of Scarlet Devil'' is explicitly due to her searching for new theft victims, and in ''Imperishable Night'' she introduces herself to the Eientei staff as a thief, much to Alice's exasperation. She figures that human lifespans are so short compared to those of Youkai, that the Youkai can have their stuff back after she's dead, so they shouldn't mind.
* SupernaturalIsPurple: Wears purple in her PC-98 appearances.
* SweetPollyOliver: In ''Manga/ForbiddenScrollery'' chapter 17 she ([[HumiliatingWager reluctantly]]) disguises herself as a boy as part of a plan to catch a youkai that's been controlling the men of the village.
* ThisIsForEmphasisBitch: In A FanTranslation {{Woolseyism}} version of her Pre-duel dialogue from ''Imperishable Night'' stage 4.
--> '''Alice:''' (About Reimu) Why the stuttering? Just yell at her like you always do. "Bitch, get out of the way!" Like that.\\
...\\
'''Marisa:''' (To Reimu) Okay, okay, I give up. You're right. The endless night, stealing the full moon, hiding the human village, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and putting hats on stone statues]], it's all Alice's fault. [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Now, bitch, get out of the way!]]
* ThrowDownTheBomblet: In the fighting games she has a number of attacks involving explosive flasks.
* {{Tomboy}}: Marisa speaks roughly for a girl and has a fighting style based around brute force. She's sometimes joked to be the manliest character in the series (though newer characters like Unzan give her competition).
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Fanon tends to expand the MagicMushroom thing to her being fond of mushrooms in general.
* TrashOfTheTitans: Her house is a real mess, crammed with everything she has stolen but hasn't yet bothered to sort. Legendary treasures have actually been found in her junk piles, completely unknown to her.
-->'''Marisa:''' ''(flying through Eientei)'' It'd take one hell of a janitor to clean a hall that long.
-->'''Alice:''' [[TakeThat Still easier than cleaning your house, Marisa.]]
* UnskilledButStrong: Subverts the "unskilled" part somewhat, as she worked very hard for her powers, unlike most other inhabitants of Gensoukyo. However, her personal philosophy is that danmaku is all about power, so her basic attacks are usually very dense and unstructured. And when push comes to shove she will throw all pretense of finesse out the window and just start Master Sparking half the screen and/or trying to ram her opponent, which is borderline breaking the Spell Card rules as lampshaded by ZUN himself.
* UselessUsefulSpell: The laser shot-type that hits the top of the screen instantly and pierces through enemies has no particularly great uses and is invariably weaker than the game's forward concentration shot-type[[note]]Except in ''Lotus Land Story'', where it ''is'' the forward concentration shot-type[[/note]]... except in ''Undefined Fantastic Object'', where there's actually enough things to hit at one time for piercing to be ''really useful''. This is generally to balance the fact that her laser shot-types also tend to have the most powerful bomb(s).
* VagueAge[=/=]NotAllowedToGrowUp: Like Reimu, she always seems to be in her mid-teens regardless of the passage of time.
* VerbalTic: Marisa tends to end her sentences with the [[UsefulNotes/GenderAndJapaneseLanguage masculine, informal and assertive "ze" particle]].
* WaveMotionGun: ''[[ThePowerOfLove Love Sign]] "Master Spark"'', her signature attack. ZUN's [[WordOfGod comments on the spell]] literally translate to "a freaking huge magical laser".
* WeakButSkilled: Compared to most of Gensoukyou's inhabitants, who rely on innate abilities and rarely improve upon them, while Marisa has none and is constantly seeking new spells.
** It's a bit dubious however, as her attacks are actually more powerful than those of other characters.
* WolverinePublicity: Has been in every Touhou game since her debut in ''Story of Eastern Wonderland'' except for ''Shoot the Bullet''... where she appears as the game's logo anyway. Furthermore, she has been the game logo for every ZUN-made Touhou game made in the Windows era except for ''Double Spoiler'' and ''Fairy Wars'', even though she does appear in both games.
** A a fan game lampshades this with the remark "You're still the icon for the games?"
* WhyDidntIThinkOfThat: This dialogue from ''Perfect Cherry Blossom'':
-->'''Marisa:''' Well, will you open the door?
-->'''Prismriver Sisters:''' This door does not open.
-->'''Marisa:''' Don't you go through it now and then?
-->'''Prismriver Sisters:''' We just fly over it.
-->'''Marisa:''' ... Oh.
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Wherever possible, character images come from portraits [[LetsSeeYouDoBetter not drawn by ZUN]] used in official games and print works. Images of characters without quality official portraits are labeled "''[--(fanart)--]''".
Please remember to only use examples that are either [[WordOfGod canon]] or have undergone mass MemeticMutation so that the page doesn't become overcrowded with tropes that only occur in one person/circle's works.
'''CONTAINS SPOILERS'''
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[[AC:Concerning the romanization of names]]
There are two principal methods for transcribing Japanese names into Latin letters: the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hepburn_romanization Hepburn System]] and the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunrei-shiki_romanization Kunrei-shiki System]]. In general, [[WordOfGod ZUN]] favored the Hepburn System before ''Phantasmagoria of Flower View'', but changed to the Kunrei-shiki System afterward. This page uses the Hepburn format for the sake of [[SpellMyNameWithAnS argument]], as it is the most widely recognized and makes the pronunciation obvious to English speakers.
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[[folder: Reimu Hakurei]]
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::''Shrine Maiden of Paradise''
::'''Reimu Hakurei'''[[note]]PC-98 博麗 靈夢 Windows: 博麗 霊夢[[/note]]
-->''"Whatever, I won't lose! Let's go!"''
[[{{Miko}} Shrine Maiden]] of the Hakurei Shrine and the main protagonist of the ''Touhou'' series in general. [[BrilliantButLazy Extremely talented, but hates training and is very lazy]]. She's also a friendly person who gets along well with everyone, including {{Youkai}}. This passive attitude towards monsters doesn't sit well with most of the humans in Gensoukyou, which means her shrine doesn't get many visitors... or donations. Also [[MemeticMutation well known]] for her [[DetachedSleeves armpits]].
!!!Tropes associated with Reimu:
* AmbiguousInnocence: Reimu is consistently described as carefree at heart, guileless, and simple in her thinking. She also just plain doesn't see things quite the way everyone else does. It never seems to occur to her that her way of doing things can cause people a lot of unnecessary grief before the resolution, or that what seems straightforward to her might be a mind-bending trick to others, or that her own natural gifts can be an unfair advantage in some things... And as the flip side to her impartial view of others, ZUN says, she's not particularly ''attached'' to anyone either; no matter how popular she is, "[[AloneInACrowd she's actually alone in her heart.]]"
* AncestralWeapon: Reimu's main weapon are the Hakurei [[DragonsUpTheYinYang Yin-Yang Orbs]].
* ArtEvolution: Reimu's appearance has [[http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Reimu_Hakurei changed]] particularly often and dramatically since the start of the series -- after all, she's been in all games but two. Most infamous in ''Mountain of Faith'', where an oddly jaundiced skin tone led to the joke that Reimu had become an [[MemeticMutation undead zombie]].
* BadassNormal: While she possesses the powers of channeling gods now, back then in the PC-98 era she had absolutely zero powers and only relied on her giant [[HolyBurnsEvil yin-yang orb]] (which she used like a soccer ball) and her generic [[PaperTalisman [=Ofuda=]]]; she also had to use her turtle Genji in order to fly. Despite that, she managed to beat, in order of status: A realm-warping human with magical powers, an absurdly powerful evil spirit who even had Marisa as a henchman, the supposedly strongest youkai of all, the angel of death, and a [[PhysicalGod god that creates worlds]].
** EmpoweredBadassNormal
* BadLiar: Whenever she tries to lie, it's so painfully, obviously forced that it's practically impossible to not realize it immediately. She is really that incredibly bad of a liar. An excellent example is when she disrupts the meeting in ''Symposium of Post-Mysticism''. She ''claims'' it's to protect humans beyond all else, but it does ''not'' take long for other elements to slip out--not just her being a SlaveToPR, but that she's doing this on behalf of ''the weaker youkai as well''.
* BareYourMidriff: Not in canon, but it's common in fanart for Reimu's Windows-era outfit to expose her belly button whenever she lifts her arms.
* BarrierWarrior: Only actually seen in the fighting games.
* BeingPersonalIsntProfessional [=/=] PunchClockHero: It's Reimu's job to exterminate youkai (which she does quite aggressively), but that doesn't mean she dislikes them. She will make half-hearted attempts to stop them from loitering around her shrine, though, [[SlaveToPR as otherwise she would lose the Human Village's trust]].
* BerserkButton: Messing with the Hakurei Shrine is a very good way to bring down Reimu's wrath on your head, as the first two games and ''Scarlet Weather Rhapsody'' demonstrated.
** In Touhou fanworks, it is also not a good idea to cheat her out of donations, or worse, steal her donation box.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: In [[WhamEpisode chapter 25]] of ''Forbidden Scrollery'' it's revealed that [[spoiler: a man from the human village set up an elaborate plan to become a youkai. When Reimu confronts the human-turned-youkai he explains that with his goal accomplished, he intends to live a peaceful life far away from any humans so Reimu doesn't have to bother faux-exorcising him. Reimu responds by ''killing him on the spot''; she splits his head in two with her gohei, stating that a village human purposefully turning into a youkai is "the most grievous sin of all".]] Yikes!
* BonusBoss: The last extra boss of ''Shuusou Gyoku'', the first game of ''Touhou'''s sister series, ''Seihou''. She also shows up in ''VideoGame/MagicPengel''.
* BornLucky: Reimu is downright notorious for her luck and incredible intuition. It's why her default method of problem-solving seems to be to pick a direction and go, since she'll always manage to end up headed towards the BigBad eventually.
* BornWinner
* BrilliantButLazy: As noted above. Indeed, fans have noticed that [[Characters/TouhouOtherOfficialWorks Watatsuki no Yorihime]] owes her GodModeSue status to essentially being a version of Reimu that has trained herself.
* BrutalHonesty: The idea of lying often never even comes across Reimu's mind, and she'll bluntly, unabashedly say exactly what she thinks no matter who she's talking to or what the situation. This is in fact one of the major contrasts between her and Marisa - while Marisa will often lie just for the heck of it, Reimu is simply far too honest to even attempt it. Her sheer honesty is one of the reasons that the two Oni of the series take a liking to her, as honesty is a favourable trait to Oni.
* CanonImmigrant: Reimu's [[SmartBomb signature attack]] ''Fantasy Seal'' originates from [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOk2CCL8Fgk&t=5m30s her appearance]] as a BonusBoss in ''VideoGame/MagicPengel''; its name is derived from that game's keyword system.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Reimu's values and views of the world are... different from everyone else's, a trait that's frequently brought up both by ZUN and Rinnosuke. This is most often shown by her occasional strange comments and the abnormal conclusions she tends to draw.
* ColourCodedCharacters: Reimu and Yukari form the "Border team" in ''Imperishable Night''. It's rather convenient that the colors of their outfits [[GeniusBonus correspond to the borders between visible and invisible light]].
* DefeatMeansFriendship: Anyone she defeats tends to end up at her shrine for a tea party. May lead to {{Shipping}}.
** {{Deconstructed}} in that Reimu has trouble keeping her new "friends" away, and since officially most of them are [[FantasticRacism enemies of mankind]], this [[AllTheOtherReindeer leads other humans to distrust her]].
* DesperationAttack: In ''Highly Responsive to Prayers'', her bombs can damage bosses when she's out of extra lives.
* DetachedSleeves: Led to the fandom's [[MemeticMutation tongue-in-cheek]] armpit fetish.
* DetectEvil: As shown in ''Manga/ForbiddenScrollery'' chapter 16, she's able to tell when youkai have been active in an area from their lingering auras.
* DontThinkFeel: Reimu's powers seem to be tied to her impressive instincts; some of her most powerful spell cards have her enter a trance where she hands control over to them entirely.
* EnergyBall [=/=] LightEmUp: Her signature attack ''Fantasy Seal'' creates large balls of light around her in different colours, which then [[{{Roboteching}} home in on enemies]] and explode.
* ExpectingSomeoneTaller: This little exchange.
-->'''Shou:''' You're the human who gathered the flying treasure? You look a lot more scrawny than I imagined.
-->'''Reimu:''' How rude.
-->'''Shou:''' I'm sorry, you're quite right. I simply thought that if you'd made it this far, maybe you were some sort of ascetic scholar.
* FaceFault: Has one when talking to Rika in [=SoEW=].
* FantasticRacism [=/=] PretendPrejudice: Zig-zagged. While she ''is'' a youkai exterminator, she'll generally beat down anyone who gets in her way, no matter who or what they are, whether they're human (as Marisa, Sakuya, and Sanae can attest to) or gods (Kanako, Suwako). And afterwards, she'll sit down and have tea with them without the slightest malevolence whatsoever. Outside of duty, she treats youkai the same way she treats humans, with vague disrespect. ZUN has said that she doesn't particularly care about humans or youkai, and she personally considers everyone the same, neither negatively nor positively. This is supposedly part of why powerful youkai tend to be drawn to her.
** ''Manga/WildAndHornedHermit'' has given a motivation to her "jerkass" behavior. Youkai [[ShapedLikeItself by definition]] oppose humanity; and they are opposed by humanity. If they didn't do this, they wouldn't be youkai. (What would happen isn't stated, but it would likely be bad.) Pranks and "youkai extermination", softened by spellcard rules, [[LoopholeAbuse give some pretense to following this paradigm]].
** SlaveToPR: Later works have also started to emphasize the pressure she feels from the human village - most humans cannot accept the idea of a shrine maiden associating with youkai, and [[NeverAcceptedInHisHometown either don't know or don't care about the times she has protected them in the past]]. In ''Manga/ForbiddenScrollery'' it reaches the point where Reimu can't point out a disguised Mamizou even to foil her current scheme, since she'd have to reveal she knows her.
*** It's been said that the walk to the shrine is a factor in why few visit/donate, the other being the tendency for youkai to stop by.
* FinalBoss: She's the last character you fight in the regular final boss's Story Mode of ''Immaterial and Missing Power'', ''Phantasmagoria of Flower View'', ''Scarlet Weather Rhapsody'', and ''Hopeless Masquerade''.
* FlunkyBoss: As the TrueFinalBoss of ''Hopeless Masquerade''. The flunkies being [[FinalBoss Byakuren and Miko]], just to drive the point home how hard it is.
* FriendToAllLivingThings: Not shown often, unless you count the whole DefeatMeansFriendship routine, but animals seem to really like Reimu. She's been seen [[PetTheDog feeding wild rabbits by hand]], summoning birds with a whistle, and crossing a river ''without noticing it'' because '''fish rose up to form a bridge under her feet'''.
* GenreSavvy: One particularly amusing example in ''Perfect Cherry Blossom'' was Reimu waiting around for a boss to arrive.
* GoodIsNotNice: Not nearly as bad as the [[{{Flanderization}} fans (or Kasen) believe]], but when duty calls, she's a bit of a jerk.
* GradualGrinder: Reimu's [[HomingProjectile Homing Amulets]] are typically the weakest shot-type in any game they appear in, at least in terms of power, but they are almost constantly dealing damage to her opponent. And her small hitbox and slower (and thus more precise) movement speed means she can usually afford to be patient.
* GuestFighter: Has made appearances in ''VideoGame/{{Seihou}}'', ''VideoGame/MagicPengel'' (as [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOk2CCL8Fgk a boss]]) and ''VideoGame/GraffitiKingdom'' (as [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORpB26JlF0k a playable character]]) due to ZUN being involved in their development. She also shows up in the {{Massive Multiplayer Crossover}}s ''VideoGame/LordOfVermilion'' and ''VideoGame/NendoroidGeneration''.
* HairDecorations: Her large red-and-white bow and her "hair tubes".
* HatesEveryoneEqually: Noted for being equally rude to humans, youkai and ''[[DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu gods]]''. [[Characters/TouhouOtherOfficialWorks Kosuzu]] is probably the only person Reimu has been shown as not completely flippant towards, to the point of [[JapaneseHonorifics addressing the younger girl with the affectionate honorific "-chan"]].
* HeartIsAnAwesomePower:
** Reimu's ability is ''the power to float in the sky'', which every girl in the series is capable of doing already. Except then you reach [[BonusBoss Fantasy Nature]]. ZUN's description: "Supreme Master-Art. With Reimu's ability to float, she [[IntangibleMan floats away from physical reality]] and becomes invincible. If it wasn't [[HoldingBackThePhlebotinum just for play]] (with time limit), no one could beat her by any method". She can't be hurt, and the only way to win is to wait for her timer to run out while she's free to bombard her opponent at her leisure.
** One of the laughably MundaneUtility "powers" of the Hakurei Yin-Yang Orb - the power to eat sweets and never get fat - is believed to give her the smallest hitbox.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: with Marisa. Hard to see it being demonstrated in the games, because Reimu and Marisa are mutually exclusive characters. However, it is easily demonstrated in the official manga, where the two are practically inseparable. In ''Manga/ForbiddenScrollery'' they hunt Youkai as a team, and after they score a victory at the end of every minor arc, Reimu and Marisa can be seen relaxing, laughing, bantering, celebrating, and having a grand old time with each other.
* HimeCut: As a miko, this is the traditional haircut for her. She's depicted with a lot of different hairstyles throughout the series (from shoulder- to waist-length, with or without a ponytail, with or without hair tubes), but the early games and ZUN's art leans towards this more often than not.
* HolyBurnsEvil: The Yin-Yang Orbs. Before Reimu was able to use their powers properly, she {{exploited}} this trope by physically kicking them at enemies.
* HomingProjectile: Her signature ability in most games.
* HyperDestructiveBouncingBall: The Yin-Yang Orb in ''Highly Responsive to Prayers'', when it was used as a bludgeoning weapon and not an orbiting AttackDrone. One of her moves in the fighting games gives a nod to this.
* HyperspaceArsenal: Her [=ofuda=].
* IJustWantToBeNormal: When she breaks up the gathering in ''Symposium of Post-Mysticism'', she brings as evidence of the problematic nature of youkai some newspaper articles. Very few of which suggest anything baleful, no matter how much she fears Aya might have downplayed them--and how can anyone claim Kyouko and Mystia were guilty of anything worse than disturbing the peace? What many of them ''are'' is ''strange''. Add in her equivalent of HairTriggerTemper whenever an incident manifests, and it's strongly suggested that she (and more than a few other humans) desperately want life to be ''predictable''. She's just more...pro-active...about ensuring it. Her irritated comment about how the outside world must be barbaric in her B Extra Stage in ''Double Dealing Character''--just from Raiko commenting on how taiko drummers prize unthinking enthusiasm--further seals it in.
** It probably doesn't help that in traditional Shinto thought, misfortune ''presupposes'' impurity of some sort. A world with strange, startling occurrences, or otherwise not placidly predictable, is thus, by definition, defiled by something. The disturbing the peace from Kyouko and Mystia's new band? Chimeric ''because'' it jars others' routines.
** In a way, this serves to further differentiate her from [[IJustWantToBeSpecial Marisa]].
* IntangibleMan: When using her Last Word from ''Imperishable Night''.
* {{Irony}}: Despite being a {{miko}}, her powers and way of thinking are far more [[UsefulNotes/{{Taoism}} Taoist]] than UsefulNotes/{{Shinto}}, to the point where she's been compared to a [[EnlightenmentSuperpowers hermit]]. She possibly acts ''more'' Taoist than the actual hermits introduced in ''Ten Desires'', who only achieved their status through {{Soul Jar}}s (and one of whom has Shinto-based powers). The yin-yang orb further cements this, and indeed, her instinct-based combat style has much in common with the Taoist concept of "wei wu wei" - action without action, or ''effortless doing''.
* JackOfAllStats: Her attack and speed are just barely adequate, and she has no real glaring flaws, as far as standard gameplay goes. Her attacks are highly flexible and she's good for just about any situation. Reimu A is usually a homing type, and sacrifices power for range and accuracy. Reimu B is usually the forward-focus type, similar to Marisa's gameplay, but not quite as strong; in exchange, her attacks have a wider range, making it easier for her to hit the targets. Finally, she consistently has the smallest hitbox and longest deathbomb period, making her ideal for survival play.
* {{Jerkass}}: In canon, she beats up youkai she suspects of stealing, fights and insults multiple characters because they annoyed her, and even fights ''Byakuren'' out of sheer annoyance. In fanon, she's done just about anything from [[KickTheDog bullying everyone in reach]] to going AxCrazy and extorting donations from everyone after getting fed up of her PerpetualPoverty. However, other fans have adopted a [[JerkassFacade more charitable interpretation]] of her as having [[NoSocialSkills poor social skills]] and/or being forced by [[BarrierMaiden her position]] to keep everyone at arm's length.
** ''Symposium of Post-mysticism'' reveals through [[{{Telepathy}} Miko]] (the [[Characters/TouhouTenDesires character]], not the job) that despite how she acts, what Reimu truly desires is a peace that doesn't require violence.
* {{Leitmotif}}: She has a couple, but [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6r_826wNorw "Maiden's Capriccio"]] (and its remix [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBde0Kz-Bcc "Maiden's Capriccio ~ Dream Battle"]]) is her most iconic.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTMhoK8olvk "Eastern Mystical Love Consultation"]] from ''Phantasmagoria of Dim. Dream'', later remixed for the fighting games.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfBiwHIE4X8 "Witching Dream"]] from ''Lotus Land Story''.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-u7uBV4jsM "Dichromatic Lotus Butterfly ~ Ancients"]] from her cameo as a BonusBoss in ''[[{{Seihou}} Shuusou Gyoku]]'', remixed for ''Touhou Hisoutensoku''. Also has a variant, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNW7fb8de4g "Dichromatic Lotus Butterfly ~ Red and White"]] on the ''Dolls in Pseudo Paradise'' music CD.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StnyX4_PfPk "Spring Lane ~ Colorful Path"]] from ''Phantasmagoria of Flower View''. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fULTRKrF6zc Remixed]] for ''Hopeless Masquerade'' as a [[AutobotsRockOut more hard rock theme]].
* MacrossMissileMassacre: Can pull this off with [[PaperTalisman [=Ofuda=]]].
* {{Miko}}: In the PC-98 games she wore a traditional miko's outfit (white haori, red hakama). In the Windows games she wears a much more customized and non-standard outfit, though it still keeps the traditional red and white colours. Job-wise, she has all the usual duties a real miko would have (keeping the shrine clean, collecting donations, etc.) while also dealing with incidents.
* MoodSwinger [=/=] {{Tsundere}}: Tends towards the former in her off-hours and the latter when she's [[SlaveToPR trying to seem professional]].
** According to Reisen in ''Phantasmagora of Flower View'', people with short wavelengths to their personality are energetic while those with long wavelengths are carefree. She describes Reimu's as alternating between the two extremes, "a voice that matches with no one and clashes with no one".
** PlayedForLaughs in a chapter of ''Manga/WildAndHornedHermit'' set during the events of ''Hopeless Masquerade'', where a kappa is taking bets on a duel between Reimu and Byakuren. Kasen enthusiastically cheers an embarassed Reimu on... while betting against her.
-->'''Kasen:''' "Reimu always screws up when she gets cocky.[...]There's no safer bet anywhere."
* MythologyGag: In the FightingGame spin-offs, a portion of Reimu's moveset is taken from ''Highly Responsive to Prayers''.
* MrViceGuy: Lazy and greedy, but ultimately a good person who's [[LetsGetDangerous devoted to her job]].
-->'''Komachi:''' "That shrine maiden didn't have any evil thoughts to begin with. [...] Just about all humans have that level of worldly desires. Working hard despite that amount of desire isn't evil, it's innocent. Among the innocent ones, you get [[GoodIsNotNice people like that shrine maiden]]."
* NinjaLog: Reimu's ''Instant Dimensional Rift'' skill in ''Hisoutensoku'' switches her with a double that explodes into a shower of damaging [[PaperTalisman [=Ofuda=]]] if struck.
* NunTooHoly: While she defers to gods and treats youkai as enemies, she only does so because it's her job; she doesn't discriminate by such things personally. As multiple characters have commented, Reimu's attitude would be great for a hermit ([[EnlightenmentSuperpowers in the Taoist sense]]) but doesn't really fit a shrine maiden. She also has some gaps in her training, to the point where she didn't know until ''Double Dealing Character'' that tsukumogami should receive prayers to becalm them, and ''doesn't know what god she's serving''. Part of this may be due to [[Characters/TouhouPerfectCherryBlossom Yukari]]'s influence.
* OffModel: See the "zombie Reimu" meme.
* OppositesAttract: Reimu is rather serious by Gensoukyou standards and has no tolerance for mischief, yet her closest friends tend to be extra-strength weird, such as the maniacal Marisa, the gregarious Suika, and the whimsical Yukari.
* UsefulNotes/{{Onmyodo}}: [[PaperTalisman [=Ofuda=]]] (rectangular paper charms) are her weapon of choice along with giant yin-yang orbs.
* ParentalAbandonment: Despite the importance of her bloodline, it's unknown exactly what happened to the rest of the Hakurei clan, just that Reimu has been living alone since at least ''Highly Responsive to Prayers''. In ''Manga/WildAndHornedHermit'' Chapter 25, she bitterly mentions as the daylight goes away faster than she'd like that one would think things like daylight and parents would be around forever, implying she personally knew her parents but they're gone now.
* PetTheDog: In contrast to her infamous attitude during incidents, in a chapter of the three fairies manga, she kindly warns a fairy (that looks similar to Daiyousei) to find shelter before she gets blown away by the upcoming storm.
* PerpetualPoverty: Reimu doesn't get donations, and the Hakurei Shrine is often described as "shabby-looking", though she has no problems providing for herself. Apparently Yukari secretly provides some food donations.
* PersonalityPowers: Reimu is rather distant from other humans (both socially and in [[BornWinner her level of ability]]); she fittingly has [[BarrierWarrior two]] [[IntangibleMan powers]] which make her "untouchable". Her ability to float matches her habit of drifting from one emotion or idea to another without being truly attached to them, while her "treat everyone the same" attitude and concern with maintaining the balance likewise fit her use of yin-yang-themed weapons.
** ThePowerOfTheSun: How her disposition manifests as weather in ''Scarlet Weather Rhapsody''. [[LightIsGood Bright and pure]], but [[MoodSwinger easily obscured by anything that passes]].
* PortalCut: Basically how her [[LimitBreak Occult Last Word]] seems to work in ''Urban Legend in Limbo'', creating a "gap" in her opponent by slashing them with her gohei.
* ResignedToTheCall: A bit hypocritical about it though, in that she'll get bored if there ''aren't'' any incidents for her to resolve. In fan works, this can lead to her being depicted as a GrumpyBear or a KnightInSourArmor.
* RoundhouseKick: In the fighting games, her ''Ascension Kick'' is a backflipping ''vertical'' roundhouse which sends enemies flying upwards. She also has a HurricaneKick upgrade ''Divine Arts "Sky-Conquering Wind God Kick"''.
* ShoutOut:
** Reimu's infamous [[LimitBreak Last Word]] "Fantasy Nature"[[note]]"Fantasy Heaven" in older translations[[/note]] is a homonym to Kenshiro's Musou Tensei of ''FistOfTheNorthStar''. In ''Hisoutensoku'', [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8-SrmzsrkE using said spell card under certain conditions]] even causes a ''[[OneHitKill Fatal KO]]'' remix of Reimu's theme, "Mystic Oriental Love Consulation", to override the current music. For bonus points, if the opponent is stupid enough to actually let it activate, only a couple of characters even have the capability of dodging it long enough to avoid instant death without haxing off borders, and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLvjXdhc_Kg#t=1m48s only one can counter it]]. ''You are already dead'' indeed!
** One of her palettes in ''Hisoutensoku'' uses Toki's colours (even the hair), another thing fans have run away with.
** Another palette looks like either [[LyricalNanoha Nanoha]] (which homages their [[DefeatMeansFriendship similar method of making friends]]) or Reimu's [[WomanInWhite appearance]] in the fangame ''[[http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Concealed_the_Conclusion Concealed the Conclusion]]''.
* SpotOfTea: She takes tea breaks about every thirty seconds. Marisa ribs her about it.
* SteppingStonesInTheSky: In ''Hopeless Masquerade'' she can [[BarrierWarrior create barriers]] in midair and kick off them to launch herself at enemies.
* TeleportSpam:
** ''Dream Sign "Fantasy Dimensional Hole"'' and ''Divine Spirit "Fantasy Seal: Blink"''.
** Her final attack phases as the extra boss of ''Shuusou Gyoku'', which may have been the inspiration for ''Fantasy Dimensional Hole''.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: She's simultaneously the tomboy to Yukari's girly girl, and the girly girl to Marisa's tomboy.
* VagueAge[=/=]NotAllowedToGrowUp: Information provided in [[AllThereInTheManual print works]] and the passage of seasons in the games suggest that at least six years have passed between ''The Embodiment of Scarlet Devil'' and ''Hisoutensoku'', so Reimu should probably be over 20 years old by now -- more if the PC-98 games still count. However, she is always depicted as being somewhere in her teens. For what it's worth, the publishers of the official comics can get away with showing her drinking alcohol fairly often, so it's plausible that she's "officially" in her twenties.
* WrapAround:
** Her entire gimmick for her boss fight in ''Imperishable Night''. For her spell cards, she creates borders around and inside the battlefield to shoot danmaku through. Those shots will eventually reach around to aim at the player character from various directions. Her last spells involve flying off one end of the screen and coming out of the other while shooting at you.
** Her support power for her A type shot in ''Subterranean Animism'', since [[RealityWarper Yukari]] [[TeleportersAndTransporters is her partner.]]
** Also her gimmick in ''Hopeless Masquerade'', where performing a backdash while up against either side of the stage will allow Reimu to move to the opposite corner.[[folder:Marisa Kirisame]]
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::''Ordinary Black Magician''
::'''Marisa Kirisame'''
-->''"Move and I'll shoot!! I messed up. I mean, shoot and I'll move. In a flash."''
A magician who lives in the Forest of Magic, Marisa first appeared as the Stage 4 boss of ''Story of Eastern Wonderland'' and became a playable character in every game afterwards, eventually becoming the secondary protagonist of the ''Touhou'' series. She just so happens to be the "[[BossSubtitles Ordinary Magician]]" in the middle of a crowd of superpowered beings, so she worked her ass off HARD to eventually become one of the more formidable opponents in Gensoukyou. She's rude and loud-mouthed, but is a straightforward person. Also a notorious thief, and damn proud of it.
!!!Tropes associated with Marisa:
* AcquiredPoisonImmunity: In ''Manga/WildAndHornedHermit'' Marisa ignores a sign warning of toxic fumes, since she's been exposed to so many poisonous substances as part of her research. It's implied that she's even become resistant to ''mercury poisoning'' in this way.
* AlwaysSecondBest: Next to Reimu. In fact, Marisa has admitted several times that she is the second-best in Gensokyo, a fact she seems to, surprisingly, hold pride in. Given that Reimu can and, canonically, ''has'' kicked everyone's ass there, Marisa's pride is probably justified.
* AmuletOfConcentratedAwesome: The Mini-Hakkero, a pocket-sized octagonal magical furnace which Marisa uses for many things... including her [[KamehameHadoken Master Spark]].
* ArtShift: There's a MemeticMutation known as [[TestosteronePoisoning "Cho-Marisa"]] where Marisa is drawn to resemble a man more muscular than TheIncredibleHulk, often with a beard ([[RealMenWearPink while still wearing a frilly]] CuteWitch [[RealMenWearPink outfit]]).
* AscendedExtra: After her initial appearance as a villainous minion with no real backstory or motivation, she went on to become the second main character of the series.
* AssKicksYou: an attack in the fighting games, known as the "Flying Doombutt" for its surprisingly high damage and range. As it makes Marisa immune to projectiles, it has given rise to an obscure meme known as [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Marisa's Bulletproof Bloomers]].
* BadassBookworm: In spite of her apparent unconcern for obtaining anything honestly, all of her abilities were gained by either studying the necessary magical texts or inventing them herself.
** Doujins and fanvids take this further: one common and recurring storyline is her finding the secret to Alice's dolls, [[StuffBlowingUp only for it to blow up in an accident]]. She didn't just steal the spellcards; she's practically ''remaking them''. This justifies how she learned Master Spark from Yuka, and how she got the Non-Directional Laser from Patchouli and used them in later games.
* BadLiar[=/=]ConsummateLiar[=/=]BlatantLies: All of them, at various times. When the judge of the dead [[http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Phantasmagoria_of_Flower_View/Story/Marisa%27s_Scenario#Marisa_vs._Shiki_.28Episode_Final.29 tells you]] that you're going to hell for lying too much and your immediate response is that [[RefugeInAudacity you've never told a single lie in your life]], you just might have a problem.
* {{Blackmail Is Such An Ugly Word}}/InsistentTerminology: [[BlatantLies She's not stealing! She's just borrowing stuff until she dies!]] (Of course, that's not mentioning the fact that she's also looking for a way to be immortal...)
* BlackMagicianGirl
* BonusBoss: In both ''Shuusou Gyoku'' and ''Fairy Wars''. Granted, in the latter case she's the BonusBoss for ''[[SmallNameBigEgo Cirno]]''.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: Nearly the entire Alice scenario in ''Subterranean Animism''. Oddly enough, however, [[WrongGenreSavvy they're treating the game as an RPG]]. In ''The Story of Eastern Wonderland'' Marisa is aware of how many continues you used, and in the trial version informs Reimu that the game ends on the third stage
* [[BroughtToYouByTheLetterS Brought To You By The Letter M]]: In ''Undefined Fantastic Object''.
* TheCharmer[=/=]ChickMagnet: Fandom quite often turns Marisa into a LesYay version, which [[http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l302/Chris_Lv255/1230622921072.jpg results]] in [[HilarityEnsues comedy]]/drama.
** This is actually how she performs her infamous bookthefts from the SDM: She goes there acting like she's doing a friendly visit and most of the residents let it slide or actually hide her from Patchouli.
* CompositeCharacter: Spell attacks and books aren't the only things [[MemeticMutation she's stolen]] from people. In the transition from PC-98 to Windows, she's picked up Mima's habit of lying and her general personality, Chiyuri's speech patterns and Ellen's 2P costume[[note]]Or Yuki's costume. Or Yumemi's 2P costume. It's a design ZUN liked.[[/note]].
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow
* CuteWitch
* DoesNotLikeMagic: Not Marisa herself, but her father refuses to keep magic items at his shop and there's implied to be [[FantasyForbiddingFather a wedge between them]]. Marisa considers it a private matter, so the exact details have never been explained.
* DoppelgangerAttack: For her final attack phase in ''Shuusou Gyoku''.
* EdibleAmmunition: The projectiles in her Stardust Reverie spell card might be some kind of candy, as we learn in ''Manga/SilentSinnerInBlue''. During the futile series of battles on the moon, Yorihime nonchalantly dodges Marisa's star bits, and even takes a bite out of one, noticing their sweet taste.
* EvilRedhead: Her original appearance in ''Story of Eastern Wonderland''. Her hair was changed to blonde in the next game.
* FlyingBroomstick: Almost always shown riding it in the games. Oddly, she uses it for attacking but not for flight in the fighting games. WordOfGod states that she only rides the broom for appearances, to keep up the CuteWitch motif. She can fly on her own just like anyone else if she wants to.
** [[GogglesDoNothing Broom Does Nothing]]
** SkySurfing: Surfs on the broom for her "Sungrazer" [[LimitBreak Last Word]] in ''Hopeless Masquerade'', though it was common in fanart long beforehand.
* {{Foil}}: While she's most obviously one for Reimu, she also has the interesting talent of being the opposite of pretty much anyone she's paired up with. She can even play both [[StraightManAndWiseGuy The Straight Man And The Wise Guy]] with equal ease, depending who she's talking to.
* FourIsDeath: If Marisa is a boss in the game, she will ALWAYS be the fourth boss in the game, and always rather tough. In addittion, she is 'different' in nature every time. In [=SoEW=], she was also the [[TheDragon Penultimate Boss]], in LLS, she was a normal boss. In IN, she was also the midboss, and in Great Fairy Wars, which only has three stages, she is the [[BonusBoss Extra Boss]], making her, again, the 4th boss in the story.
* FrickinLaserBeams: Both Master Spark and the mini-ones. Fanon says she copied this from Patchouli.
* [[FunetikAksent Funetik]] AccentAdaptation: As an attempt to render her {{Tomboy}}ish "ze" VerbalTic into English, fan translations usually give Marisa a mild [[AmericanAccents Southern drawl]], [[SelfDemonstratingArticle droppin' letters here an' there]].
* GameplayAndStorySegregation: The plot of her A path in ''Double Dealing Character'' emphasizes just how powerful her bewitched mini-hakkero is... but the flamethrower is ''weaker'' than her alternative shot, and Dark Spark is exactly the same as Master Spark used to be.
* GenreSavvy: Sometimes the [[WrongGenreSavvy wrong genre]], like the Alice scenario in ''Subterranean Animism''.
* GlassCannon: She often has high firepower and speed compared to other characters in the Windows danmaku games. Of course, as with any other ''Touhou'' character, she'll [[OneHitpointWonder instantly die]] if just one bullet touches her hitbox.
* GuestFighter: Shows up alongside Reimu in ''VideoGame/{{Seihou}}'' and ''VideoGame/NendoroidGeneration''
* HairDecorations: Has a small bow tied to the end of her braid (that is, [[DependingOnTheArtist when she has a braid]]).
* HardWorkHardlyWorks: Played straight when compared to Reimu, but she's still extremely powerful thanks to her training, quite possibly the next strongest human in all of Gensoukyou.
** In ''Symposium of Post-mysticism'', Byakuren explains the Six Buddhist Perfections. Marisa dismisses the first two (Generosity and Discipline) but...
-->'''Byakuren:''' "Forbearance" is to withstand humiliation or pain from others. "Diligence" is the effort exerted to continue training.
-->'''Marisa:''' Everyone does that, not like you have a choice.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: with Reimu. While they seem to work alone in the games (or as momentary opponents), in the official manga, it's rare to see one without the other unless one is giving the other a flashback to earlier in the day. ''Manga/ForbiddenScrollery'' shows that while they do seem to initially strike out on their own when a job first starts, they run to each other's side and combine their talents when the plot thickens (implying that [[GameplayAndStorySegregation this happens in the games off-screen]] as well). They work as a team without thought or hesitation when the going gets tough, and when a job is done, they spend the rest of the chapter unwinding and having a good time with each other. The last panel we usually see is of them smiling and laughing side by side.
* HomeRunHitter: Her last word in ''Urban Legend in Limbo'' has her spin around before smacking her opponent with her broom sending them flying into a toilet where several demonic arms grab the victim.
* ILetYouWin: Sort of. She goes easy on Cirno during the extra stage of ''Fairy Wars'', using variant lasers that don't actually kill her, instead chipping away at her motivation gauge. However, multiple times during the battle, she finds that Cirno is stronger than she thought, and steps up the complexity of her attacks. At the end, she thinks that Cirno might have been a problem even if she ''was'' going all out, and the effort from the battle is still enough that she has to go home and lie down afterwards. On the other hand, it's ''Cirno'' rather than Marisa who gets a "beaten up" portrait after the fight.
* ImmortalitySeeker: On-and-off, since old age is still a fairly distant concern for her. While there are theoretically a few methods open to Marisa, she's yet to find one she likes enough to commit to.
** The standard route of becoming a {{youkai}} magician would mean giving up her humanity. Not only would this [[TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody affect her personality]], Marisa is proud of her underdog status compared to youkai.
** Becoming a [[CompleteImmortality Hourai immortal]] would require the disturbing act of cutting open an existing immortal and eating their liver (possibly against their will). The process is also completely irreversible, meaning that she wouldn't be able to die [[WhoWantsToLiveForever even if she later wanted to]].
** Becoming a [[EnlightenmentSuperpowers hermit]] requires devotion to Taoism (and/or a dangerous SoulJar ritual), and Marisa [[SecularHero has little interest in religion]].
* {{Jerkass}}<->JerkWithAHeartOfJerk<->JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Her motivations in solving the incidents vary from [[KleptomaniacHero wanting to loot the mansions she visits]], being bribed to solve the incident (IN), to just having nothing else to do at the time. In ''Undefined Fantastic Object'' however she raises the fair point of humans being unprotected from youkai to [[WellIntentionedExtremist Byakuren]]. On the minus side she's rude, condescending, arrogant, and a notorious thief; on the plus side she's hardworking, straightforward, and has ChronicHeroSyndrome (although most of the time she solves incidents just to beat [[TheRival Reimu]] to it). At the very least, her character alignment is firmly {{Chaotic Good}}.
** HiddenHeartOfGold: In some of the later games, like Subterranean Animism, Hopeless Masquerade, and Double-Dealing Character (Scenario B), she publicly acts like a jerk that solves incidents for wholly selfish reasons, but in private moments, it is revealed that she does care about the well-being of Gensokyo and its people when she sets out to solve an incident. In her SA Alice scenario, she says she wants to make the incident worse to spite Alice for stringing her along without explanation, but when Satori reads her mind, she reveals that she's actually just as concerned about the incident as Alice. In Hopeless Masquerade, she shows deep concern for the people in town when nobody's looking, but once the cause of the incident shows up, she goes back to being her usual rowdy, snarky self. In Ten Desires, she even downplays her skills and abilities, insisting with a sincere face that she is entirely ordinary, while Seiga insists that she must be someone special to make it as far as she has. Marisa responds by changing her title to "Amazingly Ordinary Magician."
* KamehameHadoken: one of her attacks in the fighting games.
* KillItWithFire: Adapts that mindset in her A path of ''Double Dealing Character'', due to her possessed hakkero messing with her head.
* KleptomaniacHero: Taken {{Up to Eleven}} in the fandom.
* KungFuWizard: Mild example. Marisa is a lot more physically fit than [[SquishyWizard most spellcasters of the setting]], and gets more physical attacks in the fighting games.
* {{Leitmotif}}: More so than any other character. Marisa has ''six'' themes so far with [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvehi-1cLGg "Love-Colored Magic"]] / [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ssmxWJftyo "Love-Colored Master Spark"]] being the most recognisable.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZiuvc57yxM "Dimensional Dream"]] from ''Phantasmagoria of Dim.Dream''.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kaXK4ab95M "Vessel of Stars ~ Casket of Star"]] from ''Lotus Land Story''.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8fBlLKjhVM "The Witches' Ball ~ Magus"]] from her cameo as a BonusBoss in ''[[{{Seihou}} Shuusou Gyoku]]''.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xG3Mlunqog "Oriental Dark Flight"]] from ''Phantasmagoria of Flower View''.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dJA_YLSPz0 "Magus Night"]] from her appearance as the BonusBoss of ''Fairy Wars''. Apparently started as a "Witches' Ball" remix that got out of hand.
*** Magus Night has now been [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUTgZ4iEKtE remixed]] for ''Hopeless Masquerade''.
* LethalJokeItem: Magic Absorber. Horrible range, low damage, and the only bomb in the series that has a shorter invincibility duration than attack duration. It also turn bullets into Ps, which, combined with ''Double Dealing Character'''s gimmick, allows a savvy player to turn it into a perpetual motion machine of lives and bombs.
* LightEmUp: Light and heat magic are her specialty. Interestingly, she has a stronger affinity for [[MakingASplash water]]; she just isn't particularly interested in using it.
* LoveableRogue: She's a [[ConsummateLiar compulsive liar]], a borderline {{Blood Knight}}, and a frequent [[PowerCopying spell]] and [[KleptomaniacHero book thief]]. Despite this, she still has a large number of friends and acquaintances in Gensokyo and the fandom has since then portrayed her as a barely-even-trying {{Chick Magnet}} who could practically win over everyone.
* MagicWand: Carries one in ''Undefined Fantastic Object'' and ''Story of Eastern Wonderland''.
* MagicMushroom: Marisa uses phantasmal mushrooms as a common ingredient/fuel source for her magic. The Forest of Magic where she lives is known for being full of them... but even better known for being full of [[MushroomSamba "magic" mushrooms]]. Fandom pushes both ends of this routinely, with mushrooms that can have basically any effect imaginable for Marisa or her victims.
* MakingASplash: Despite relying mostly on [[LightEmUp light-based]] magic, Marisa's elemental affinity is actually ''water''. So far this has only come up in ''Mountain of Faith'' (where she can use the water-based shot ''Cold Inferno'') and ''Scarlet Weather Rhapsody'' (where her associated weather is Drizzle). Of course, her weather is also just a pun on her name (Kirisame meaning "drizzle").
* ManaDrain: Her B shot in ''Double Dealing Character'' is flavoured as such. Given that the game doesn't have MP, this just results in lots of power items.
* MoreDakka: Everyone's danmaku attacks are like this, but Marisa is notable for constantly looking for ways to get bigger firepower from her magic.
* MouthfulOfPi: In ''Mountain of Faith'', Marisa gets impatient while travelling across levels and wonders if she could finish reciting pi by the time she got to her intended destination.
* MythologyGag: Marisa's Player 2 colour scheme in ''[=Phantasmagoria of Flower View=]''.
** Also one of her color pallets in ''Hopeless Masquerade'' are a reference to her PC-98 color theme.
* TheNapoleon: Very outgoing and energetic, and also unusually short for her age.
* NiceHat: She's never seen without her comically oversized witch's hat.
* ObfuscatingStupidity[=/=]SmarterThanYouLook: Marisa rarely draws attention to [[TrainingFromHell how hard she trains/researches]], either because she doesn't want [[ThinkNothingOfIt the attention]] or she doesn't want people like Reimu [[DontYouDarePityMe taking pity on her]].
* OjouRinglets: Back in the PC-98 days. Ultimately morphed into the side-braid of the Windows games.
* OppositesAttract:
** The BrilliantButLazy, blunt, dispassionate Reimu, passive and tricky in her fighting style, popular despite her lack of active socialising, associated with sunshine and spring -- and then the hard-working, energetic, dishonest, excitable Marisa who lives by brute force, bothers people everywhere she goes, and is associated with [[MeaningfulName rain]]. They're competitors and rivals. They're also best friends who spend a ''lot'' of time just hanging out.
** Marisa's numerous fandom couplings, romantically or otherwise, also tend to be based on this. Along with Reimu, the withdrawn bookworm Patchouli, the cold-hearted and tactically oriented Alice, and the shy Nitori are opposites of Marisa as well.
* PaletteSwap: In ''Hopeless Masquerade'', one of these makes her look like in earlier games (that is, her dress is black and white). Another one makes her look like Alice (if she wore a red hat rather than red hairband).
* ParentalAbandonment: It's notable that Marisa is one of the few Touhou characters to have a still-living family; AllThereInTheManual mentions she has a father that runs a second-hand shop in the human village. It's also notable that she's apparently cut off all contact with him; it's hinted [[FantasyForbiddingFather Marisa's father doesn't like magic]]. In ''Curiosities of Lotus Asia'', when Rinnosuke brings up her father Marisa responds that she [[ICantHearYou can't hear him]] and it's unclear whether she's lying or not.
** A popular fanon is that Mima was sort of a parental figure for Marisa... and she's now absent.
** DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: [[http://www.ocfoundation.org/hoarding/causes.aspx Hoarding]] can be interpreted as a sign of loss, in which people are trying to fill a hole that could never be filled by material things. Considering that her house is most often portrayed as [[TrashOfTheTitans filled with every possible object imaginable]] in fanon...
* PowerCopying:
** She has stolen several spells from other characters she has fought over time. Even her signature Master Spark was originally held by Yuuka Kazami. The whole point of the ''Grimoire Of Marisa'' is her cataloguing the spell cards of everyone she meets, with the stated plan of using them to learn more magic.
** This tendency spawned the fan-made game ''VideoGame/MegaMari'', which is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.
** Then in ''Ten Desires'' her shots have picked up the explosive abilities of Sanae's Cobalt Spread, while Sanae herself ended up with something resembling Marisa's Super Shortwave. A con job rather than theft this time, it would seem.
* PowerGivesYouWings: She sports a demonic pair of wings for her boss attack in ''Phantasmagoria of Dim. Dream'', and a pair of angelic ones in ''[[{{Seihou}} Shuusou Gyoku]]'''s Extra stage.
* PowerOfLove: The description of the aforementioned ''Love Sign: Master Spark'' includes the instructions "Mutter the spell to the Mini-Hakkero tenderly; aim at someone you don't like; now unleash your annihilation of love!". What exactly that ''means'' is still a matter for debate.
* RammingAlwaysWorks: Marisa's final spell card, ''Comet "Blazing Star"'', consists of her [[RecoilBoost firing a Master Spark backwards]] and trying to ram her opponent repeatedly.
* {{Roboteching}}: In ''Hopeless Masquerade'', her "Nano Spark" makes a sharp turn mid-flight, if she is using a Shinto-aligned set.
* SecularHero: While she's experimented with religious methods once or twice (even managing to [[SummoningRitual summon a tiny Kanako]] in one of her endings), it doesn't carry much deeper meaning for her. In ''Hopeless Masquerade'', a story about representatives of different religions, Marisa is considered the ''human'' representative. More implicitly she is also the moderator of the debates between various priests and deities in ''Symposium of Post-Mysticism''.
* TheSevenMysteries: Her occult theme in ''Urban Legend in Limbo'', specifically of the "seven school mysteries" variety.
* {{Shoryuken}}: Her Miasma Sweep move in the fighting games.
* ShotoClone: Her default skill set in the fighting games include a KamehameHadoken, a {{Shoryuken}}, and a [[HurricaneKick flying horizontal attack]], all with the traditional button inputs to use them.
* SociopathicHero: Marisa enjoys beating people up a bit too much. Although her true love has always been kleptomania.
* StarPower: Marisa loves watching stars and meteor showers, she even has a large observatory built into her house in ''Manga/ForbiddenScrollery'', and as a result most of her spells are themed after space or heavenly bodies. If the PC-98 games are canon then she learned her first few spells of this type by copying Mima.
* StickyFingers: In terms of items and skills. Her presence in both ''Lotus Land Story'' and ''The Embodiment of Scarlet Devil'' is explicitly due to her searching for new theft victims, and in ''Imperishable Night'' she introduces herself to the Eientei staff as a thief, much to Alice's exasperation. She figures that human lifespans are so short compared to those of Youkai, that the Youkai can have their stuff back after she's dead, so they shouldn't mind.
* SupernaturalIsPurple: Wears purple in her PC-98 appearances.
* SweetPollyOliver: In ''Manga/ForbiddenScrollery'' chapter 17 she ([[HumiliatingWager reluctantly]]) disguises herself as a boy as part of a plan to catch a youkai that's been controlling the men of the village.
* ThisIsForEmphasisBitch: In A FanTranslation {{Woolseyism}} version of her Pre-duel dialogue from ''Imperishable Night'' stage 4.
--> '''Alice:''' (About Reimu) Why the stuttering? Just yell at her like you always do. "Bitch, get out of the way!" Like that.\\
...\\
'''Marisa:''' (To Reimu) Okay, okay, I give up. You're right. The endless night, stealing the full moon, hiding the human village, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and putting hats on stone statues]], it's all Alice's fault. [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Now, bitch, get out of the way!]]
* ThrowDownTheBomblet: In the fighting games she has a number of attacks involving explosive flasks.
* {{Tomboy}}: Marisa speaks roughly for a girl and has a fighting style based around brute force. She's sometimes joked to be the manliest character in the series (though newer characters like Unzan give her competition).
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Fanon tends to expand the MagicMushroom thing to her being fond of mushrooms in general.
* TrashOfTheTitans: Her house is a real mess, crammed with everything she has stolen but hasn't yet bothered to sort. Legendary treasures have actually been found in her junk piles, completely unknown to her.
-->'''Marisa:''' ''(flying through Eientei)'' It'd take one hell of a janitor to clean a hall that long.
-->'''Alice:''' [[TakeThat Still easier than cleaning your house, Marisa.]]
* UnskilledButStrong: Subverts the "unskilled" part somewhat, as she worked very hard for her powers, unlike most other inhabitants of Gensoukyo. However, her personal philosophy is that danmaku is all about power, so her basic attacks are usually very dense and unstructured. And when push comes to shove she will throw all pretense of finesse out the window and just start Master Sparking half the screen and/or trying to ram her opponent, which is borderline breaking the Spell Card rules as lampshaded by ZUN himself.
* UselessUsefulSpell: The laser shot-type that hits the top of the screen instantly and pierces through enemies has no particularly great uses and is invariably weaker than the game's forward concentration shot-type[[note]]Except in ''Lotus Land Story'', where it ''is'' the forward concentration shot-type[[/note]]... except in ''Undefined Fantastic Object'', where there's actually enough things to hit at one time for piercing to be ''really useful''. This is generally to balance the fact that her laser shot-types also tend to have the most powerful bomb(s).
* VagueAge[=/=]NotAllowedToGrowUp: Like Reimu, she always seems to be in her mid-teens regardless of the passage of time.
* VerbalTic: Marisa tends to end her sentences with the [[UsefulNotes/GenderAndJapaneseLanguage masculine, informal and assertive "ze" particle]].
* WaveMotionGun: ''[[ThePowerOfLove Love Sign]] "Master Spark"'', her signature attack. ZUN's [[WordOfGod comments on the spell]] literally translate to "a freaking huge magical laser".
* WeakButSkilled: Compared to most of Gensoukyou's inhabitants, who rely on innate abilities and rarely improve upon them, while Marisa has none and is constantly seeking new spells.
** It's a bit dubious however, as her attacks are actually more powerful than those of other characters.
* WolverinePublicity: Has been in every Touhou game since her debut in ''Story of Eastern Wonderland'' except for ''Shoot the Bullet''... where she appears as the game's logo anyway. Furthermore, she has been the game logo for every ZUN-made Touhou game made in the Windows era except for ''Double Spoiler'' and ''Fairy Wars'', even though she does appear in both games.
** A a fan game lampshades this with the remark "You're still the icon for the games?"
* WhyDidntIThinkOfThat: This dialogue from ''Perfect Cherry Blossom'':
-->'''Marisa:''' Well, will you open the door?
-->'''Prismriver Sisters:''' This door does not open.
-->'''Marisa:''' Don't you go through it now and then?
-->'''Prismriver Sisters:''' We just fly over it.
-->'''Marisa:''' ... Oh.
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