Line #17 Characters/TheGreatestGeneration


1	[[Administrivia/HandlingSpoilers Trope names will not be spoiler-marked.]] Read on at your own risk.
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3	[[folder:Americans]]
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5	!Admiral Tommy Briggs, Chief of Naval Operations, US Navy
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7	* BigGood: Seen as this by US Navy characters, since he's their ultimate superior and representative on the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
8	* LoopholeAbuse: Invoked this trope in Chapter 5 by giving Yvonne permission to break cover if she judged it was needed to survive. Come [[WhamEpisode Chapter 6]]...
9	* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: A level headed flag officer who tries to strike a balance between idealism and pragmatism.
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11	!Commander Yvonne Swanson, Office of Naval Intelligence, US Navy
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13	* ACupAngst: Is a tad annoyed when Kongo describes her as having a "flight deck chest." [[spoiler: It's just another very subtle hint as to who she actually is.]]
14	* CommandingCoolness: Yvonne Swanson, though it's also deconstructed: Yvonne doesn't feel any special; she was just a junior officer [[YouAreInCommandNow who was bumped up to Commander because people senior to her got killed.]]
15	* {{Expy}}: [[spoiler: Her physical description is a composite of [[Fanfic/PacificWorldWarIIUsnavyShipgirls Pacific's]] pre-refit Enterprise (slender build, flight deck chest) with Enterprise's unofficial post-refit design (really tall, long hair)]].
16	* ExtremeOmnivore: Her tastes are rather...diverse. Muhallabia, Khao Neow Ma Muang, Peanut Butter cups, Durian, Ice Cream...and [[WeightWoe that's just what she eats NOW.]]
17	* KingIncognito: [[spoiler:The legendary USS ''Enterprise'' (CV-6) herself.]]
18	* MagneticHero: She's VERY good at getting people onto her side
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20	!Lieutenant Dakota Leigh Gatch, Advanced Naval Weapons Research and Development Division, US Navy
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22	* GadgeteerGenius / WrenchWench: Involved in R&D to get the US Navy better weapons for fighting the Abyssals.
23	* KingIncognito: [[spoiler: Actually USS ''South Dakota'' (BB-57) in disguise]]
24	* OccidentalOtaku: Unlike Yvonne, who learned Japanese as part of her duties, Dakota learned from watching Anime.
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27	!Mildred Marshall, Military Reporter, [=CNN=]
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29	* IntrepidReporter: She manages to get herself on Yvonne's team, with the role of handling public relations, after she blackmailed Yvonne's superiors. [[spoiler:How did she do that and with what info? She knows that Yvonne is the ''Enterprise'', and knows about the [=USN=] ship girl program. How does she know those things? She's also a ship girl herself, the USS ''Washington'']]
30	* KingIncognito: This one is more of a doozy compared to the other instances on this page. [[spoiler:USS ''Washington'' (BB-56) in disguise. In fact, she was the very first ship girl summoned by the [=USN=], and was immediately whisked away by the CIA (Her being a reporter is actually a cover for her being a CIA spook). Furthermore, none of the other ship girls, nor their superiors or anyone in the need-to-know even know of her existence. All they knew is that ''Washington'' was one of the ships they tried to summon and failed to get.]]
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35	[[folder:Japanese]]
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37	!Admiral Shimada, JMSDF
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39	* AFatherToHisMen: He clearly cares for his ship girls. Whether he cares too much is left as an exercise to the reader.
40	* DirtyCoward: Seen as this in-universe, as evidenced by Yvonne's enraged accusations when he revealed that he had ordered a withdrawal from Okinawa... leaving 1.5 million civilians, and the refugees, to die.
41	* GeneralFailure: Is viewed as this by many parties for abandoning the Okinawa District. [[spoiler: Okinawa would've ended in the massacre of his entire shipgirl force regardless of what he did, if the sight of Yvonne hadn't caused the Abyssal leader to go ScrewThisImOuttaHere]]
42	* KnowWhenToFoldEm: Decides that discretion is the better part of valor and retreats from a battle his fleet cannot win. Unfortunately, this makes him look like a dirty coward.
43	* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Stonewalls Yvonne's request for a submarine kanmusu by sending the one she requested (along with all the other subs on base) on an important mission just before she arrived.
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45	!Colonel Sakai, JGSDF
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47	* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: He's just trying to provide for the refugees on Okinawa, and Shimada's making his job harder than it needs to be.
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49	!Lieutenant Matsuda, JMSDF
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51	* BewareTheNiceOnes: As Tenryu found out the hard way, push Matsuda far too many times with blatant insubordination and he'll scrap you.
52	* OnlySaneMan: Given that he's in charge of [=DesDiv=] 6, Tenryu and Tatsuta, he pretty much became this.

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