History Manga / BlackLagoon

** Subverted with Rotton the Wizard. While he has all elements that'd point that'd he'd be the coolest badass ever, he ends up being a JokeCharacter. To his credit, he's survived getting his balls crushed and getting knocked off a 20 foot building.

* CarnivalOfKillers: In the "Greenback Jane" arc, we have an obese pyromaniac who is always smiling, a chainsaw-wielding "cleaner" goth lady with an artificial voicebox, a flamboyant gunslinger calling himself "Rotton the Wizard," a cowboy, and a Chinese knife fighter hired to hunt down and kill the titular Jane.

->''"Rock, if you think about it, other than this, what do we really value in life? {{God}}? [[ThePowerOfLove Love?]] [[StrawNihilist Don't make me laugh.]] [[DarkAndTroubledPast When I was a brat, crawling around in that shithole city]], it seemed [[WorldHalfEmpty God and Love were always sold out when I went looking]]. Before I knew better, I clung to God and prayed to Him every single night -- yeah, [[HollywoodAtheist I believed in God right up until that night the cops beat the hell out of me for no reason at all]]. All they saw when they looked at me was another little ghetto rat. With no power and no God, what's left for a poor little Chinese bitch to rely on? It's [[MiserAdvisor money]], of course, and [[MoreDakka guns]]. Fuckin' A. With these two things, the world's a great place."''
-->-- '''Revy'''

* AntiHero (Type V)/ VillainProtagonist: They ''are'' [[APirate400YearsTooLate pirates]]. And [[RuthlessModernPirates not fun ]][[PiratesOfTheCaribbean Captain Jack Sparrow]] [[RuthlessModernPirates pirates either]]. Hell, they're introduced by having them hijack a boat...during which time Revy proposes that they execute Rock to tie up loose ends.

* AnimatedActors: The setting of the official Winter 2012 Comiket doujinshi. Benny is a NiceCharacterMeanActor, everyone else are in MeanCharacterNiceActor group, both of the twins are girls, and Revy is wearing a dominatrix suit.

** The theme song contains GratuitousEnglish that puts such gems as [[FistOfTheNorthStar "YOU WA SHOCK!"]] to shame. It still sounds rather threatening, however.

** Mr. Chang: AffablyEvil --> FauxAffablyEvil Rock (and probably most readers) saw Chang as the OnlySaneMan in Roanapur, until his HannibalLecture in El Baile de la Muerte.
*** And even still, his rationality is more intact than most of Roanapur's crime bosses. He's just revealed that being the friendliest of that bunch means ''nothing''.

* HeWillNotCrySoICryForHim: Rock, [[strike:the only truly decent human being]] one from just of handful of genuinely good people (and the only one optimistic enough to believe in redemption) in the CrapsackWorld of ''Black Lagoon'', listens with sadness and horror rather than disgust at the coldly delivered HannibalLecture of Gretel, a little girl so traumatized by rape and torture with her twin brother Hansel back in Romania that murder has become the sole source of joy for them. He holds her in a tight embrace and weeps, begging her to accept the possibility that there is hope, and still a possibility of a new and happy life for a little girl like her. This act of ''sincere'' kindness, so alien to Gretel, was enough to move even a mass murderer like her to blush like a ''real'' little girl for the briefest of moments... Cue one of the few {{Squick}}y {{Tear Jerker}}s in existence with [[EvilCannotComprehendGood how she tried to]] ''thank'' him: lifting her skirt and giving him a show.

** One of the longest one is during the Toyko arc and from Yukio Washimine after she was saved in the bowling alley. The camera just stares at her panties while she is [[HannibalLecture yelling at]] Rock. It's [[FanDisservice disturbing on so many levels.]]

* HeWillNotCrySoICryForHim: Rock, [[strike:the only truly decent human being]] one from just of handful of genuinely good people (and the only one optimistic enough to believe in redemption) in the CrapsackWorld of ''BlackLagoon'', listens with sadness and horror rather than disgust at the coldly delivered HannibalLecture of Gretel, a little girl so traumatized by rape and torture with her twin brother Hansel back in Romania that murder has become the sole source of joy for them. He holds her in a tight embrace and weeps, begging her to accept the possibility that there is hope, and still a possibility of a new and happy life for a little girl like her. This act of ''sincere'' kindness, so alien to Gretel, was enough to move even a mass murderer like her to blush like a ''real'' little girl for the briefest of moments... Cue one of the few {{Squick}}y {{Tear Jerker}}s in existence with [[EvilCannotComprehendGood how she tried to]] ''thank'' him: lifting her skirt and giving him a show.

* StealthParody: ''BlackLagoon'' is either a Stealth Parody of the action movie genre, or just turned UpToEleven. Probably both.

* ImprobableUseOfAWeapon: GangstaStyle, GunsAkimbo, [[KukrisAreKool Throwing Kukris]], [[ImplausibleFencingProwess Chainsaw bullet block]], [[UpToEleven using pistol guards to twist apart said chainsaw]]...

** More acurately, most of the characters outside of our "heroes" are CaptainErsatz of notable action characters/movies. Hansel and Gretel are GunslingerGirl (with bits of {{Hellsing}} due to them being from Romania ([[spoiler:A.K.A.: Dracula's homeland]] and being called the "Vampire Twins") dialed to 13, Greenback Jane looks and acts (down to the above-noted pantyshots) like she came over from GunsmithCats. "Babe" ''is'' Chow Yun Fat, etc..

** More acurately, most of the characters outside of our "heroes" are CaptainErsatz of notable action characters/movies. Hansel and Gretel are GunslingerGirl (with bits of {{Hellsing}}) dialed to 13, Greenback Jane looks and acts (down to the above-noted pantyshots) like she came over from GunsmithCats. "Babe" ''is'' Chow Yun Fat, etc..

* BadassBoast: Heavily subverted. [[ThoseWackyNazis Wacky Nazi]] [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Fritz/Blitz Stanford]] boasts about his [[HandCannon .454 Lugers]]... giving Revy enough time to calmly reload, and shoot him.

** Revy uses an APS Assault Rifle during the Neo-Nazi arc. This is a gun designed to shoot ''underwater'', and was given to her as a gift from Balalaika. Needless to say, they're pretty hard to get ahold of, as it's strictly special issue by the Russian government. Its use is justified though, what with her and Rock going diving. It isn't that sup rising that Balalaika can get her hands on one when you know she has the clout to get diplomatic immunity despite being a gang leader.

* NonSequiturThud: Leigharch is ''made'' of these when on coke (manga) or pot (anime). To whit:

** Late in the series, while Roanapur is [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt going to hell in a hand basket]], Dutch and Benny are relaxing inside the Lagoon office. At one point, they comment about the craziness going on outside their front door and each one agrees that it would be much worse if Rock actually learned how to shoot a gun. [[ItGotWorse Think about it for just a second.]]

** The Vampire Twins arc has a few ''Film/TheShining'' references, one of which was exclusively manga, in which gretel sings a song from the shining (in the anime she has a song written for her).