History Characters / TwentiethCenturyBoys

* EvilIsPetty: '''And how.''' Even after Kenji apologizes to him, he refuses to accept it purely because the act of doing so would go against his worldview.

* SignificantBirthDate: August 20th. It was noted by Kanna to be the final day Music/TheBeatles recorded ''Abbey Road'', their last album before they broke up, and [[spoiler:why she plans an uprising against the Friends on this date.]]

* UnknowRival: [[spoiler:He hates Kenji for getting more of his attention and vowed to defeat him. While Kenji never saw him as more than a simple classmate.]]

* FatBastard[=->=]{{Bishonen}}[=->=]IWasQuiteALooker: Hilariously, they go from portly in childhood, to slim and attractive in adulthood, back to fat and ugly when they become elderly.

* EyesAlwaysShut
* GoodEyesEvilEyes: He had ''incredibly'' narrow eyes.
* TheMole

* AxCrazy
* BaldOfEvil

* PsychoForHire

* BeardOfEvil

* FauxAffablyEvil

* VillainWithGoodPublicity

* AffablyEvil

* {{Otaku}}

* SmugSnake

* SimpleStaff: He's skilled with a bo, but usually uses [[PipePain a pipe]] instead of a wooden one.

* NiceHat: Eventually gives it to Kanna as a memento.

* NiceHat: She got her cap from Kenji as a memento.

'''WARNING: Several characters are [[WalkingSpoiler Walking Spoilers]]. Open directories at your own risk.'''

* JerkAss

* WrestlerInAllOfUs

* ActionGirl: Sort of.
* AMotherToHerMen

* GuileHero

* ParentalAbandonment
* PluckyGirl

* CoolOldGuy
* CrazyHomelessPeople

* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname

* UnwantedFalseFaith
* WisdomFromTheGutter

* ButtMonkey

* MarriedToTheJob

* {{Retirony}}

* ChekhovMIA

* TheAtoner
* BadassPreacher

* TurbulentPriest

!!Father Luciano
* TheAtoner
* BadassPreacher
* TattooedCrook
* TurbulentPriest

* BadassBeard: When you put a Badass in prison for several years, you get this. He never bothers shaving it after his escape.

* FamousLastWords: "I just want to live as long as possible!"

* ForgottenFallenFriend: Notably averted. Everytime a character [[spoiler: enters the Virtual World]], they take the time to seek him out to see him again.

* FatBastard[=->=]{{Bishonen}}[=->=]IWasQuiteALooker: Hilariously, they go from portly in childhood, to slim in attractive in adult-hood, back to fat and ugly when they become elderly.

* {{Adorkable}}: Both as a kid and as an adult, he doesn't mind making a fool of himself if he believes that it's the right thing to do or that it will be fun. It's one of the main reasons people like him and he ends up becoming TheLeader.

* BadassBiker: [[spoiler:How he enters the stage at the beginning of the third arc.]] [[{{Adorkable}} Of course, his Badass Bike is out of gas after a couple of panels]].

* {{Adorkable}}

* FreudianExcuse: Katsumata was was desperately lonely, he devoted his life to Fukubei's plan because he was the only one who would acknowledge him at all.

* PsychicPowers Near the end of the series it's implied that he has the same kind of powers as "God", having seen the end of the entire series in a dream while he was still a child, which is why he wrote it down in the New Book of Prophecy.
* PsychopathicManchild: This trait is of the few things that first differentiates him from Fukubei.

* ReverseMole: He infiltrates Friend Land by working there as a janitor.

* TheAtoner: [[spoiler:Left Kenji's band to join another and felt obligated to help him when the time comes.]]
* ReverseMole

* CoolMask: No, the fact that it's a cartoon monkey mask does nothing to stifle it. Probably because it's really a

* ProfessorGuineaPig: [[spoiler: Subjects herself to the experimental vaccine for the virus

%% * RedemptionEqualsDeath

* ProfessorGuineaPig

* TheDitz

* GirlishPigtails

* ResignedToTheCall

* FauxAffablyEvil

* SlasherSmile

* NoNameGiven

* ProfessionalKiller

* VillainousBreakdown
* WalkingShirtlessScene

* HiddenVillain: His identity is unkwnown.

* CreepyChild: [[spoiler:Creepy as a child, creepy as an adult.]]
* DeadPersonImpersonation: [[spoiler:Takes up the mantle of Friend after Fukubei dies.]]
* TheFaceless: [[spoiler:We never actually see his face ''before'' he underwent plastic surgery to look like Fukubei. In the virtual reality game, he simply has no face.]]
* FreudianExcuse: [[spoiler:Despite being even worse than Fukubei as ''Friend'', he actually has one.]]
* FromNobodyToNightmare: [[spoiler:And ''how''. In fact, it is ''because'' he was almost literally nobody that he became a nightmare.]]
* PsychicPowers [[spoiler:Near the end of the series it's implied that he has the same kind of powers as "God" does, having seen the end of the entire series in a dream while he was still a child, which is why he wrote it down in the New Book of Prophecy.]]
* PsychopathicManchild: [[spoiler:This trait is of the few things that first differentiates him from Fukubei.]]
* StartOfDarkness: [[spoiler:Several factors lead to him to becoming the second Friend.]]
* UnPerson: [[spoiler:Unacknowledged, forgotten and even [[TheFaceless faceless]].]]

* BadassGrandpa: During the second and third arc he's visibly old, but he doesn't seem to have lost even a bit of his strength and skills.
* TheBerserker: In Friend's virtual reality game, and occasionally in real life.

* TheSociopath: [[spoiler:Especially Fukubei, who was manipulative, callous and egocentric ever since childhood.]]

* [[spoiler:GoOutWithASmile: He dies peacefully and smiling in his bed.]]
* [[spoiler:HeelFaceTurn: He starts working for Friend, but ends up betraying him.]]
* [[spoiler:HeelRealization: After talking with Kyoko.]]
* [[spoiler:RedemptionEqualsDeath: Died while confronting Friend.]]

* [[spoiler:HeelFaceTurn: Originally sold Kenji's group out to Friend but eventually turned against him.]]
* [[spoiler:HiddenDepths: They started defecting against Friend after a longtime employee of their company died from TheVirus.]]

!![[spoiler:Katsumata]]
* [[spoiler:CreepyChild: Creepy as a child, creepy as an adult.]]
* [[spoiler:DeadPersonImpersonation: Takes up the mantle of Friend after Fukubei dies.]]
* [[spoiler:TheFaceless: We never actually see his face ''before'' he underwent plastic surgery to look like Fukubei. In the virtual reality game, he simply has no face.]]
* [[spoiler:FreudianExcuse: Despite being even worse than Fukubei as ''Friend'', he actually has one.]]
* [[spoiler:FromNobodyToNightmare: And ''how''. In fact, it is ''because'' he was almost literally nobody that he became a nightmare.]]
* [[spoiler:PsychopathicManchild: This trait is of the few things that first differentiates him from Fukubei.]]
* [[spoiler:StartOfDarkness: Several factors lead to him to becoming the second Friend.]]
* [[spoiler:UnPerson: Unacknowledged, forgotten and even [[TheFaceless faceless]].]]
* WalkingSpoiler

* [[spoiler: LukeIAmYourFather: She's Fukubei a.k.a Friend's biological daughter.]]

* [[spoiler:PsychicPowers: Specifically precognition, and more rarely telekinesis and mental communication.]]

* [[spoiler:ProfessorGuineaPig]]

* [[spoiler:{{My God What Have I Done}}]]: [[spoiler:Realizes sometime after Friend's "resurrection", that the man was a fake who was planning something terrible. This is what led to his near poisoning so he could be replaced with a Friend-allied clergy]].

* [[spoiler: TheAtoner: Left Kenji's band to join another and felt obligated to help him when the time comes.]]
* [[spoiler:ReverseMole]]

[[folder:(Other) Members and Allies of Friend's Cult]]

* [[spoiler:LegacyCharacter: There are two of them]]

* [[spoiler: VillainousBreakdown: Has a pretty epic one when Kenji apologizes to him at the end, which makes him decide to speed up his plans to [[OmnicidalManiac kill everyone]] out of spite.]]

* [[spoiler: HeelFaceTurn: Unclear exactly when it started except when he realized the first Friend was truly dead, but he ended up helping the heroes in the very end.]]

* [[spoiler: RedemptionEqualsDeath: Dies in the process of killing the second Friend.]]

* [[spoiler: DeadAllAlong: His mind was stuck in the virtual reality game and didn't realize he had died until Kenji came in and told him.]]

* [[spoiler:GoOutWithASmile: His VirtualGhost self fades away after he finally does a good deed. It's surprisingly moving considering what a dick he was for most of the series.]]
* [[spoiler:IHatePastMe / MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Only really sees the whole nature of his actions in the story when he watches his past self as a VirtualGhost.]]

* [[spoiler:RedemptionEqualsDeath: Well, technically he was already dead.]]

* [[spoiler:VirtualGhost: Becomes/makes one of these when killed while in a virtual reality game.]]

* [[spoiler:TheStarscream: To Manjoume.]]

* [[spoiler:DrivenToSuicide: He tries to off himself with a gun when Kenji makes him realize he's not as monstruous as he'd like to think, but is stopped.]]

* [[spoiler:VillainousBreakdown]]

* [[spoiler:WhatHappenedToTheMouse: His fate is never explained. He might have been killed when the tower was stormed.]]