History Characters / Trigun

* VocalDissonance: Sounds much older than your average kid, justified as he might be "possessed".
* WeHardlyKnewYe: [[spoiler: We don't get much on his character and Wolfwood guns him down just as Vash was starting to get through to him]], especially as to how he possessed the kid or how the kid came to think that way as well as how he came to have a device that controls insects.
** According to WordOfGod however, it may the demon that possesses him that might be speaking through it.
* WormThatWalks: [[spoiler: While not directly stated, it is implied that the aliens centipedes have taken over the boy's mind and possessing him to do his dirty work.]]

* TheWormThatWalks: Bizarre variant; [[spoiler:Zazie is the collective mind of many literal worms in a hijacked human body.]]

* TheGwenStacy: A non-romantic to Vash.

* BareHandedBladeBlock: Subverted. In the manga, [[after Vash discovers her involvement in Tessla's fate, he becomes depressed and when she brought a peach to cheer him up, [[DrivenToSuicide he tried to end his life with the cutting knife.]] She grabbed the ''blade with her bare hand'' to stop him, succeeding but badly hurting her hand in the process.]]

* TheGwenStacy: To Vash.

* DrivenToSuicide: In the manga, after learning of [[spoiler: Tessla's fate, partially due to the hands of Rem]] as a child, he became depressed and tried to starve himself to death.

* CatchPhrase:
** '''LOVE AND PEACE!''' Comes with a peace sign analogue in the form of crossed fingers.
** '''''GET DOWN!''''' counts as well, though it usually portends that very bad things are about to happen.

* Co-Dragons: She and Legato are Knives' closest lieutenants. Having to share this role angers them both.

* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Like all the Gung-Ho's besides Livio, Razlo, and Zazie]].

* Sadist: Enjoys toying and mocking her enemies as she fights and takes great joy at the thought of Knives massacring a town.

* VillainousCrossdresser: Biologically male, speaks & dresses female, gender status never clarified. Badass enough to terrify people despite that.

* AdaptationalNameChange: Refered to as Doctor in the English dub of the anime.

* ImmportantHaircut: In both the anime and manga, Vash goes into hiding after [[spoiler: the Fifth Moon incident, living as "Ericks" and growing out his hair]]. After Wolfwood finds him and brings him out of his TenMinuteRetirement, Lina gives Vash this, signalling his return as Vash the Stampede.

* HurtingHero: Especially later in the series. And let's not even get ''started'' on the manga, where he's a StepfordSmiler of epic proportion and has a few {{Heroic BSOD}}s and fits of UnstoppableRage (not to mention the scenes of epic alcoholism). Meryl is shocked when [[spoiler: she gets engulfed in his memories during one of his most spectacular {{Heroic BSOD}}s]] and realizes he's just a ball of pain.

* NiceGuy: Vash is a true sweetheart who sticks out his nose to help whenever he can, weeps TenderTears and risks his life for total strangers, and persistently believes in the best of humanity in the CrapsackWorld he lives in. Such efforts aren't always appreciated, and the suffering he endures for his constant niceness is part of why he's a HurtingHero.

->'''Voiced By:''' Creator/KyouseiTsukui (JP)

->'''Voiced By:''' Creator/ShigeruNakahara (JP)[[labelnote:Foreign [=VAs=]]]Antonio Sanna (Italian) [[/labelnote]]

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MayaOkamoto (JP)[[labelnote:Foreign [=VAs=]]]Rossella Acerbo (Italian) [[/labelnote]]

** BadlandsRumble seems to play it much harder than the TV series to the point of being offputting even to viewers, [[FridgeBrilliance but considering he's likely trying to get Amelia to leave the city]]...

** Also played straight in ''Badlands Rumble''.

->'''Voiced by:''' Kaneta Kimotsuki (JP), Milton James (EN)[[labelnote:Foreign [=VAs=]]]Eduardo Ménez (UsefulNotes/LatinAmerica, series), Vittorio Stagni (Italian) [[/labelnote]]

* DrivenToSuicide: In the manga, after learning of [[spoiler: Tessla's fate, partially due to the hands of Rem]] as a child, he is driven to this.

* BadassAdorable: As badass as he is, he's a massive dork.

* CelibateHero: Despite his reputation as a womanizer, particularly in the 1998 anime, he's really this. In both the manga and anime it's shown he will fake being passed out in order to avoid sleeping with people who might actively want to take things that far. This makes sense considering that he expresses that he doesn't want women to see that his body is CoveredWithScars. [[WordOfGod Nightow has also stated]] [[WeAreAsMayflies that he's afraid of making romantic connections with humans because he'll inevitably outlive them]].

* HandicappedBadass: Is missing his left arm, a result of [[spoiler: Knives confronting him in July]].

* PeekABangs: His hair typically covers one of his eyes, and also shadows his face. In the anime, combinated with his sharp features, the shadow sometimes makes him look like he has a thin moustache.

* LockedIntoStrangeness. [[spoiler:When he uses his plant power more and more, his hair slowly turns black.]]

* GirlygirlWithATomboyStreak: Milly's personality is fairly traditionally sweet and feminine. She's very dedicated to her family and wears her hair long - even ties it back with a bow at night. But her choice wardrobe is almost entirely made of men's clothing. The most common outfit she wears is a white dress shirt, tie, suspenders and trousers underneath a beige and green trenchcoat.

* TheStoic: At first, midway through his fight with Wolfwood he starts to become much more agressive, culminating with [[spoiler: [[SuperPoweredEvilSide Razlo coming out]].

* HellBentForLeather: In contrast to Livio's BadassInNiceSuit, he wears an entire leather getup with his chiseled chest exposed.

* DoesNotLikeShoes: Appears this way in Vash's memories, as they used to spend time together in an artificial paradisiac garden.

* KansaiRegionalAccent: In the original Japanese, Wolfwood speaks Osaka-ben. He is the only character in the entire series who does so. Regrettably, the English dub of the anime makes no effort to distinguish his accent, and the Dark Horse translation of the manga only occasionally does.
** The irony of this is that all of the show's main seiyuu ''except'' Show Hayami grew up in Osaka – he's from Kyoto but normally speaks Standard Japanese. [[note]] One of the radio dramas on the soundtrack pokes fun at this… and lets Masaya Onosaka speak in his natural (very thick) Osaka accent.[[/note]]

* TattooedCrook: His face has a huge black tatoo and his AxCrazy behavior doesn't help.

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator\DaisukeGori (JP), Joe Romersa (EN)[[labelnote:Foreign [=VAs=]]]Glauco Onorato (Italian) [[/labelnote]]

->'''Voiced by:''' Yukimasa Kishino (JP), ??(EN)[[labelnote:Foreign [=VAs=]]]Sandro Iovino (IT) [[/labelnote]]

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/UnshoIshizuka (JP), ? (EN)[[labelnote:Foreign [=VAs=]]]Nino Prester (Italian) [[/labelnote]]

** Keep in mind that, in a world of guns, s/he fights with a briefcase full of red nails and is probably the deadliest thing on the planet (because Knives is lazy and Vash is a staunch pacifist).

[[folder:Hopperd the Gauntlet]]

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MasashiEbara (JP), Michael McConnohie (EN)[[labelnote:Foreign [=VAs=]]]Luciano De Ambrosis (Italian) [[/labelnote]]