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| 5 | [[folder:Janet "Greenback Jane" Bhai]] |
| 6 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/250px-Greenback_Jane_1032.jpg]] |
| 7 | ->Voiced by: Creator/MikiNagasawa (JP), Creator/KellySheridan (EN) |
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| 9 | An Indian counterfeiter whose goal is to create perfect counterfeit money. After members of the Floridian cartel that hired her lose patience with her due to continued {{schedule slip}}s and shoot one of her co-workers to death before giving her a 48-hours deadline to finish her job, she flees from the members of the cartel and eventually seeks sanctuary with the Church of Violence, unleashing a ''mad'' pursuit. |
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| 11 | * ButtMonkey: Her first time in Roanapur sucked incredibly hard. Her colleage gets shot and she has to run from a cartel. Jane goes to the Ripoff Church for sanctuary, and gets ripped off by Eda. Eda then betrays her to many contract killers to get more money. Jane gets a little rest in a bad motel, then gets chased by a [[CarnivalofKillers bunch of madmen]] the rest of the night. And Eda kept extorting more and more cash from the unfortunate sod, too. |
| 12 | %%* CuteClumsyGirl |
| 13 | * ComicallyMissingThePoint: Benny warns her that if they rent Mr. Bao's room to spend the night, they'll be main characters in an involuntary porn movie. Her reaction is to demand Bao to give her the room for free. |
| 14 | * GeekyTurnOn: She once says watching Benny break code turns her on. |
| 15 | * HarmlessVillain: She is so ineffectual in her villainy that it's hard to take her seriously. Then the tenth book came out, and changed that magnificently.[[spoiler: Though she gets screwed over in the end.]] |
| 16 | * InsufferableGenius: Listening to her detailed explanation on how she prints money is ''PAINFUL.'' She also takes no small amount of glee for proving Revy and Eda don't know how to recognize counterfeit cash. |
| 17 | * MasterForger: Allegedly the best counterfeiter in the business. The "Greenback Jane" arc has her being hunted down through Roanapur by a CarnivalOfKillers. Turns out that said carnival was hired by the same branch of TheMafia that hired her to produce counterfeit cash: her [[ThePerfectionist perfectionism]] cost them so much time and money that the Mafia deemed her project AwesomeButImpractical and decided to cut their losses and [[OffingTheAnnoyance just kill her]]. |
| 18 | * MsFanservice: Unintentionally so in her first arc, repeatedly giving (again, unintentional) {{panty shot}}s despite her overall conservative attire. That and she's very well-endowed in general, which got [[MaleGaze some lingering shots]]. As of her reappearance, she's embraced this wholeheartedly, from [[{{Underboobs}} dress]] to [[MyGirlIsASlut manner]]. |
| 19 | * MyGirlIsASlut: Not at first, but after having sex once with Benny in her intro arc, she returns to Roanapur as a "grade-A fuck freak" (As Revy puts it). She's also ditched the modest [[http://www.mangahere.co/manga/black_lagoon/v06/c039/18.html work shirt and skirt]] for [[http://www.mangahere.co/manga/black_lagoon/v08/c077/8.html this getup]]. Benny doesn't seem to care though, or at the very least is too flustered by her hyper sexual behavior to say anything. |
| 20 | * NaiveNewcomer: Starts like that, but CharacterDevelopment takes care of that. Though she didn't think about the possible consequences about letting her colleague, who had probably never been to Thailand, come from Bangkok to Roanapur BY HERSELF. Later on it's revealed that she planned from the beginning [[spoiler:to betray that colleague anyway]], it means she probably just didn't care. |
| 21 | * OutGambitted: [[spoiler:In the end, Feng gets the last laugh in their rivalry, as she manages to deposit a large sum of ill-begotten money on Janet's bank account and then tipping off her employer. Feng is aware that Janet is probably smart enough to evade arrest, but predicts that Janet will be forced to keep a very low profile for some time as the heat wears off and definitely won't be too happy about it; she is entirely right by the way, especially since the places she's suggested to lay low don't have internet or electricity. ]] |
| 22 | * PairTheSmartOnes: With Benny, Lagoon's hacker-man. [[GeekyTurnOn She once said watching him work turned her on.]] |
| 23 | * ThePerfectionist: The reason she got in trouble with the Cartel in the first place--she repeatedly ran over time and budget on her counterfeiting project, but even when Elvis and company said the bills she was making didn't need to fool the U.S. Mint, she refused to take the hint and kept trying to make a flawless counterfeiting process on the Cartel's dime. |
| 24 | * ReallyGetsAround: After visiting Roanapur for the first time. By the time she returns, it's implied she's gotten a bit out of control. You know it's bad when even [[NiceGuy Rock]] dismissively calls her a "harlot". Also revealed an interest in getting herself gangbanged. [[BullyingADragon And she planned on roping Rock into it.]] Revy was ''pissed'' about it. |
| 25 | * {{Technobabble}}: Over the finer details of counterfeit money. It's a long rant and Revy is not amused. |
| 26 | * ThreatBackfire: When Revy [[http://www.mangahere.cc/manga/black_lagoon/v08/c081/1.html#ipg6 threatens to screw Jane so hard]] that no-one but Revy will be able to sexually satisfy her ever again, Jane has a look on her face like she was either in awe of the boast, or thinking about making Revy go through with her threat. |
| 27 | * TookALevelInJerkass: After she showed up in Roanapur once again, [[spoiler:especially when she frames Li for hacking into the PLA.]] |
| 28 | * {{Underboobs}}: After her first arc, she's taken to wearing a slim tube-top and just plain skimpier clothes in general. |
| 29 | * UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Jane's actions in [[spoiler:framing Li sets off the events of the Wired Red Wild Card arc.]] |
| 30 | [[/folder]] |
| 31 | |
| 32 | [[folder:Shane Caxton]] |
| 33 | [[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/shane_black_lagoon.png]] |
| 34 | ->Voiced by: Creator/ShinjiOgawa (JP), Creator/RonHalder (EN) |
| 35 | |
| 36 | An US Army Major, and commander of the ISA black-ops unit "Gray Fox" under orders of the NSA - Caxton, like Dutch (supposedly...) is a Vietnam War veteran who has seen the ugly face of both sides, and as a result developed his own moral code and sense of honor, a trait that earns him the absolute respect and obedience of his men. |
| 37 | |
| 38 | Due to the accidental death of Diego Lovelace during a political assassination for which his unit was responsible for, he unwittingly made an enemy out of Roberta - who effectively declared war on him and the entire NSA. With his next assignment being the capture of Shue Yan, an opium harvester located in the Golden Triangle, Caxton and his men were temporarily stationed in Roanapur to await further orders - and giving Roberta a nice scent. This put '''all''' of Roanapur on edge; the Triads, Hotel Moscow, and especially the Cartel given their previous history with her. The [[spoiler:CIA]] too gets involved, due to having a nice fat stake in the opium trade - effectively making the whole ordeal a giant pissing match between the two organizations. As Caxton puts it, he just walked into a "[[BlastOut gigantic clusterfuck]]." |
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| 40 | * AchillesHeel: His is the fact that he's a FriendToAllChildren. While it made him a badass during Nam, nowadays it just serves to paint a target on his back - much to the dismay of his men. |
| 41 | * AffablyEvil: To the point where he can ''hardly'' qualify as "evil" at all. He's one of the only few genuinely decent people in the entire series. |
| 42 | * ArtisticLicenseMilitary: In a flashback, Caxton is shown to be a lieutenant during UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar. But during the events of the show (over two decades later) he only holds the rank of [[MajorlyAwesome major]]. A [[RealLife real-world]] American military officer would hold the rank of at least a [[ColonelBadass colonel]] (if not [[FourStarBadass higher]]) after so many years of service. |
| 43 | * TheAtoner: The moment he realizes that he's unwittingly responsible for destroying Garcia's family and driving Roberta insane, he aims to do right by it - to the point where he even hands Garcia a gun to shoot him if it'll satisfy him. |
| 44 | * BatmanGambit: [[spoiler:Together with Rock and Garcia, he orchestrated temporarily faking his death to help Roberta snap back to reality AND capture Shue Yan.]] |
| 45 | * {{Eagleland}}: An ''extremely rare'' positive portrayal of this trope; in ''[[CrapsackWorld Black Lagoon]]'' of all places. Shane embodies all of the ''positive'' attributes an ideal American soldier should have: Honorable, brave, righteous, and above all just decent while simultaneously being a top-tier leader adored by his men. |
| 46 | * EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler:It cost him practically all of his men, but in the end he accomplished his mission, gave Garcia closure and helped save Roberta. He's last seen on the boat at the end of El Baile de la Muerte arc - chapter 76. In the OVA, he's last seen standing together with son, and wife of the Japanese engineer at the Lovelace mansion.]] |
| 47 | * {{Foil}}: Balalaika's. They both went out of their way to save a child and were put in less than desirable situations as a result: Shane now operates assassinations and other wet-work assignments for the NSA, and Balalaika was discharged (the Soviet Union collapsed almost immediately afterwards anyway). The only difference is, Shane held onto his ideals and still had a place to call home, even if it's not what it used to be. Balalaika on the other hand had ''nothing'' but her men - the only place she could remotely call a home was the [[TheMafiya Russian mafia]] - remnants of the KGB and GRU. |
| 48 | * FriendToAllChildren: Single-handedly defended a little girl during the Vietnam War ''from his own men'', and current-day went out of his way to keep Garcia safe. |
| 49 | * HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:It can be assumed that he quit working for the United States as he's seen with Roberta and Garcia at the end.]] |
| 50 | * HeroAntagonist: He and his equally noble and heroic Gray Fox unit act as this towards Roberta and the denizens of Roanapur before forming an EnemyMine with Balalaika and the Lagoon Company to survive Roberta's rampage. |
| 51 | * HonorBeforeReason: Another one of his flaws. During Nam, he went up against his ''entire'' unit to protect a little Vietnamese girl from getting raped (his position on the line of dead Vietnamese shown in a ditch is less clear). He also nearly got shot by Garcia due to this. |
| 52 | * NiceGuy: One of the only few genuinely good people in this fucked up world. |
| 53 | * NobleDemon: His speciality is assassinations and other wet-wort, yet he still tries to put the safety of civilians above all else. If casualties can't be helped, then they're on him. |
| 54 | * OneManArmy: See that story up there, about how he got between his unit and a little girl they wanted to rape in 'Nam? It comes to a firefight between them, and, well, Shane appears in the story afterwards. The rest of his unit ''do not.'' |
| 55 | * PunchClockVillain: He did the black op bombing in Caracas, but he believed that his superiors were trying their best to make South America a safe place. Then he realized the devastating impact it made on the lives of Garcia and Roberta when he took Garcia's father away. |
| 56 | * UnderestimatingBadassery: When Shane first lays eyes on Rock, he's flabbergasted to see a meek Japanese businessman and compares him to a lamb in a lion's den in the city of [[WretchedHive Roanapur]]. He eventually comes to learn he's one of the [[TheChessmaster worst]] [[BewareTheNiceOnes people]] [[ManipulativeBastard there]]. |
| 57 | * UnfriendlyFire: A rare example of this trope where it's the ''commanding officer'' who's the heroic character. His unit in 'Nam found a little girl they wanted to rape. Caxton did not react positively to this. |
| 58 | * TheVietnamVet: Fought in the Vietnam War. He was most likely leading a Green Beret team based on the fact that his men wore Tiger stripes. [[spoiler: He later resorts to it again in the manga's version of the arc after Ray is about to shoot Roberta, unable to accept letting her live after she killed most of their Gray Fox comrades.]] |
| 59 | * WorthyOpponent: He has earned Balalaika's respect as a commander and soldier worth killing - on the ''battlefield''. In a shithole like Roanapur, the respect she has for him opts her to send the Desantniki to cover his escape. [[spoiler: The manga, and the anime are different in this case. In the manga Balalaika was indecisive about the Grey Fox, and she wished to attack them. Only after Mr. Chang persuasion she decided to send the Desantiki to cover their escape.]] |
| 60 | [[/folder]] |
| 61 | |
| 62 | [[folder:Ray [=McDougal=]]] |
| 63 | [[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mcdougal_black_lagoon.png]] |
| 64 | ->Voiced by: Nobuaki Fukuda (JP), Creator/BrianDrummond (EN) |
| 65 | |
| 66 | Caxton's second in command in the Grey Fox unit. |
| 67 | ---- |
| 68 | * HeroAntagonist: Towards Roberta and the denizens of Roanapur before forming an EnemyMine with Balalaika and the Lagoon Company to survive Roberta's rampage. |
| 69 | * NumberTwo: Shane's second in command, he defers orders down to the men when Shane is busy. |
| 70 | [[/folder]] |
| 71 | |
| 72 | [[folder:Horner]] |
| 73 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/horner_black_lagoon.png]] |
| 74 | ->Voiced by: Motoi Koyanagi (JP), Creator/JasonSimpson (EN) |
| 75 | |
| 76 | A Sergeant Major in the Grey Fox unit. |
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| 78 | * BigDamnHeroes: When Roberta nearly shoots Garcia (thinking he's a hallucination), Horner broke rank to save him and push her back. |
| 79 | * FriendToAllChildren: Disobeyed orders to save Garcia. His comrades speculate that he did it because Horner has kids back home. When Garcia pulls a pistol on Shane, Horner tackles and disarms him whereas some of the other foxes pulled their guns. |
| 80 | * HeroAntagonist: Towards Roberta and the denizens of Roanapur before forming an EnemyMine with Balalaika and the Lagoon Company to survive Roberta's rampage. |
| 81 | * MauveShirt: One of the foxes with a bit more characterization than the others on account of him saving Garcia. |
| 82 | * TakingTheBullet: When Roberta dropped down on top of the unit spraying gunfire, Horner tackled Garcia to shield him. After wards he reveals that he was hit and has to limp alongside the others. |
| 83 | [[/folder]] |
| 84 | |
| 85 | [[folder:Sanchez]] |
| 86 | ->Voiced by: Nobuaki Kanemitsu(JP), Creator/MichaelAdamthwaite (EN) |
| 87 | |
| 88 | The Grey Fox Unit's sharpshooter. |
| 89 | ---- |
| 90 | * FriendlySniper: An outgoing friendly man and the team sniper. Unlike a ColdSniper Sanchez works with a spotter to watch his back. |
| 91 | * HeroAntagonist: Towards Roberta and the denizens of Roanapur before forming an EnemyMine with Balalaika and the Lagoon Company to survive Roberta's rampage. |
| 92 | * ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: When Roberta goes around blasting metal bars at the soldiers, he manages to take the impact in his rifle and survive. [[spoiler:She throws her musket and impales him on the bayonet]]. |
| 93 | * MauveShirt: One of the Grey Fox members to get a decent amount of character and dialogue. [[spoiler:He's the only significant casualty in the battle with Roberta in the OVA]]. |
| 94 | [[/folder]] |
| 95 | |
| 96 | [[folder:Lotton the Wizard]] |
| 97 | [[quoteright:264:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/aba7f0ac1e820e035d8764f0b3ee1bbd.png]] |
| 98 | ->Voiced by: Creator/TomokazuSugita (JP), Creator/SamuelVincent (EN) |
| 99 | |
| 100 | A handsome, long-coated adventurer introduced during the Greenback Jane arc, he is one of the few survivors of the band of mercenaries hunting for Jane. He now lives with the other two, Shenhua and Sawyer the Cleaner. |
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| 102 | * ActionSurvivor: Basically the only thing he has going for him. He's dumb as a rock and may have more than a few screws loose but ''somehow'' he manages to not die despite his numerous screw-ups. And in a city like Roanapur, not being dead within your first week of arriving is an achievement in itself. |
| 103 | * AntiVillain: He's one of the nicest people in the show, and is only really antagonistic from the viewpoint of the protagonists (and even then, only in his first appearance). |
| 104 | * BadassLongCoat: Invoked and subverted. He wears a stylish trenchcoat mostly for dramatic effect... yet he's still laughably ineffectual, despite [[BornLucky his irritating good fortune]]. |
| 105 | * BeautyEqualsGoodness: Everyone up to Revy herself takes notice of how unusually handsome he is. Is also the TokenGoodTeammate every time he appears. |
| 106 | * BigEntrance: Has an obsession with announcing his appearance, striking a pose, and giving a speech. This is PlayedForLaughs. |
| 107 | * BountyHunter: What he's supposed to be, but he's too [[NiceGuy kind]], too obsessed with being flashy, and too dim-witted to be actually good at it. |
| 108 | * {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Whenever he speaks, he displays just how much of a space cadet he is, completely oblivious to the reality of the world around him, yet savvy enough to wear appropriate protection. And let's not even get to the actual content of his rare but completely out-of-place speeches... |
| 109 | * CoolShades: He ''tries'' to look cool with these, but fails. |
| 110 | * CrazyPrepared: He might not be all that bright, but he has a BulletproofVest unlike the rest of the CarnivalOfKillers and [[BallsOfSteel metal armor for his groin]], which helped save his balls when Roberta [[GroinAttack kicked them]]. |
| 111 | * CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Moron? Oh, lord yes. Badass? Well, when you consider that he's survived repeated encounters with both [[GunsAkimbo Revy]] and ''[[CharlesAtlasSuperpower Roberta]]''... |
| 112 | * DrinkBasedCharacterization: He prefers milk, since he CantHoldHisLiquor. |
| 113 | * TheDulcineaEffect: "There's no way I can just ignore an injured girl and let her die." |
| 114 | * TheFool: On the one hand, he seems to be a complete ''idiot'', what with his obsession with being "cool" leading him to trying to deliberately invoke shonen style actions that just cause him to get shot at. On the other hand, he also manages to survive by having the common sense to do things like wear body armor and positioning himself in advantageous positions, and even saves Sawyer and Shenhua from Roberta by intervening at the right time and allowing her to beat him up. And by being clearly BornLucky enough to avoid death when anybody else would have been killed off long ago. Basically, he's smart enough to be a merc in Roanapur and not be shot dead within three steps (which, given the [[WretchedHive nature]] of Roanapur, is an achievement in itself) but he's otherwise so [[TooDumbToLive stupid]] that he cannot be taken seriously as a real threat. |
| 115 | * GunsAkimbo: With two Broomhandle Mausers, except he hasn't gotten to use them onscreen yet. |
| 116 | * HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Sort of. He saves both [[PsychoForHire Shenhua]] and [[TheButcher Sawyer]], but given the CrapsackWorld setting of this series, both seem pretty nice--they then became semi-loyal allies instead of [[TheFarmerAndTheViper killing him immediately thereafter.]] Yes, they'll kill anyone if the price is right, but if that's the worst thing about you in [[WretchedHive Roanapur]], you can't be ''that'' bad, so he may have actually been on point with this one. |
| 117 | * IneffectualSympatheticVillain: He attempts to be cool and stylish, but he is very clumsy and really no good at the whole bounty hunter thing. In his first confrontation with Revy, he has barely finished his introduction speech before she unceremoniously incapacitates him. He manages to be quite sympathetic by the fact that he is quite endearing in his ineptness and really is a nice guy when he is not attempting the DareToBeBadass act. |
| 118 | * InTheNameOfTheMoon: Is very fond of pre-battle speeches. ''Manga/BlackLagoon'' being the kind of show that it is, it doesn't do him any good. |
| 119 | * JokeCharacter: He deliberately acts like a shonen action hero ''in Roanapur''. He never gets to do anything in battle because people shoot him down whilst he's posturing and/or monologuing. |
| 120 | * KarmicProtection: One of the only genuinely nice characters of the show, one of the easiest to discard and yet is still alive and kicking. |
| 121 | * LargeHam: Mostly thanks to his tendency to deliver InTheNameOfTheMoon speeches at the drop of a hat. |
| 122 | * TheLoad: For whatever reason, Revy recruits him along with Shenhua and Sawyer in tracking down Roberta during her rampage. All he really does is stand around trying to look cool, and when he finally ''does'' enter the fray he's immediately incapacitated. |
| 123 | * MadeOfIron: Played with. Even when he's shot, falling down from a building or being [[GroinAttack kicked in the balls]] (by Roberta of all people!), he just rises up again and continues on. Luckily, he's smart enough to wear a bulletproof vest and a metal codpiece, though he got kicked so hard that the codpiece ''dented'', and still fell from a rooftop onto solid asphalt. In general he takes far more punishment than most people could handle. |
| 124 | * MeaningfulName: The alternate translation of his name qualifies; his name is Rotton, pronounced "rotten", and he's [[{{Pun}} an absolutely rotten gunslinger]]. |
| 125 | * NiceGuy: Now that Rock no longer qualifies for this trope, he is the sole man of manners and morality in Roanapur. Shenhua mentions immediately upon meeting him that he would be more at home as a host in a brothel rather than as a bounty hunter. |
| 126 | * PrettyBoy: His excessive good looks lead Revy to first assume he's Shenhua's "man-whore", and even Shenhua admits he would look more at home in a brothel than on the streets. |
| 127 | * TheQuietOne: When he isn't giving a [[InTheNameOfTheMoon sweeping speech]], all he does is silently stand around while dramatically propping up his sunglasses. |
| 128 | * TokenGoodTeammate: |
| 129 | ** Compared to his fellow bounty hunters, who are either complete psychopaths at worst and a bunch of backstabbing cutthroats at best. |
| 130 | ** Also of the team of three he's formed with Shenhua and Sawyer. One's a gleefully violent assassin, the other is a macabre "cleaner" who hacks up living people and corpses alike with total aplomb. Then there's Lotton, who deliberately runs on idealistic action hero tropes. |
| 131 | * WhiteHairBlackHeart: Inverted. He's the whitest haired and nicest character in the series. |
| 132 | * WideEyedIdealist: Judging by how disconnected from the harsh realities of life he is, it's going to take a lot more to break him out of his "idealistic action hero" mindset than it did to break Rock. |
| 133 | * WrongGenreSavvy: Lotton acts like he came from a more idealistic series. Even Rock has become more savvy to the way the world works than he has, but at least the guy who behaves like he's got PlotArmor is savvy enough to wear ''actual'' armor. |
| 134 | [[/folder]] |
| 135 | |
| 136 | [[folder:Frederica Sawyer "the Cleaner"]] |
| 137 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sawyer_7.jpg]] |
| 138 | ->Voiced by: Asami Yaguchi (JP), Creator/SaffronHenderson (EN) |
| 139 | |
| 140 | A feared presence in the Roanapur underworld, who helps the various crime organizations dispose of corpses (and soon to be corpses) with her trusty [[ChainsawGood chainsaw]]. Actually a rather pretty young goth girl. |
| 141 | |
| 142 | She is the protagonist of ''Black Lagoon'''s spinoff manga ''Sawyer the Cleaner - Dismemberment! Gore Gore Girl''. |
| 143 | |
| 144 | ---- |
| 145 | * AxCrazy: Sawyer loved chopping up people with her chainsaw so much that she became a professional cleaner so she could slice up all the unfortunate people that pissed off the different mafia groups in Roanapur. |
| 146 | * BadassAdorable: She's capable of fighting people with her chainsaw, to the point she can ''deflect bullets with it'', but at the same time, she's a surprisingly cute, even vulnerable-looking goth-girl. |
| 147 | * TheButcher: Meat butchering is even her legitimate career, to hide her job as a body-cleaner, torturer-for-hire, and amateur bounty hunter. |
| 148 | * ChainsawGood: So good in fact that she can use her chainsaw to ''deflect bullets''. |
| 149 | * CleanupCrew: Everybody brings their human-shaped garbage to her, be it dead or still moving. |
| 150 | * CreepyMonotone: She has one of these whenever she uses her artificial voice box to communicate. |
| 151 | * CuteBruiser: A cute goth girl, but quite capable of beating the hell out of anyone, and won't think twice about slaughtering her way through a melee with her chainsaw. |
| 152 | * CuteMute: Downplayed; while she is cute in a goth-punk sort of way and does appear to be missing her vocal cords, she can be quite mouthy when she has her electrolarynx device. |
| 153 | * DissonantSerenity: She's quite cheerful; at one point [[spoiler: when she's explaining that the bad odor in a hotel room results from the ooze from rotted corpses she had to clean up there earlier]] she smiles happily while all around her, people are losing their lunch, and may in fact be giggling ''because'' the others are losing their lunch. |
| 154 | * EarnYourTitle: Sawyer "The Cleaner": she cleans up messes, specializing in body disposal, and the bodies being alive or dead doesn't matter to her. |
| 155 | * EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: Very pale, going with her overall {{Goth}} aesthetic, and is an experienced mercenary. |
| 156 | * ExpectingSomeoneTaller: Her fellow mercenaries have this reaction during the Greenback Jane arc, as most of them have never seen her in person, and those who have only saw her swathed in surgical dress which obscured her features. |
| 157 | * {{Foil}}: To Lotton. She's a short-framed, depressed and self-harming {{Goth}} girl with a grisly slashed-throat scar, who is skillful at her job and wields her weapons cleverly. Lotton is a tall [[BrainlessBeauty dashingly handsome but painfully stupid]], [[WideEyedIdealist deluded and idealistic]] BountyHunter who sucks at his job and whose survival is mostly due to being BornLucky. |
| 158 | * GirlWithPsychoWeapon: She's a cute-looking gothic woman whose weapon of choice is a ''[[ChainsawGood chainsaw]]''. |
| 159 | * GoodScarsEvilScars: Given her violent profession, her slashed throat signifies the evil scars. |
| 160 | * {{Goth}}: She dresses as a goth when not "on the job". She's basically the [[LonersAreFreaks Lone Psycho]] Goth, although she's more lone, due to having her vocal cords cut, and psycho, because everyone in this series is, than because she is a goth. She has her PerkyGoth moments, but even those are tempered by her usual deadpan expression. |
| 161 | * HandicappedBadass: Lost her ability for normal speech following a SlashedThroat injury. Still one of the most notorious mercenaries in Roanapur. |
| 162 | * LastNameBasis: Everyone refers to her by her last name Sawyer; her full name is Frederica Sawyer. |
| 163 | * MeaningfulName: Sawyer - Saw-er, one who saws. Not to mention the ShoutOut below. |
| 164 | * NightmareFetishist: She loves playing violent video games and discussing the clean-up jobs she does. |
| 165 | * OddFriendship: With the legendary dumbass Lotton. Following the Greenback Jane arc, the two are almost always seen together. |
| 166 | * OnlyInItForTheMoney: Averted, She enjoys the money, but she does enjoy [[AxCrazy the work]] too. |
| 167 | * OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: It appears that nobody knows her first name, only Sawyer the Cleaner. Revy also calls her by the nickname {{Goth}} Girl. |
| 168 | * ParryingBullets: Blocks bullets... with a chainsaw. She doesn't actually parry them, she turns the chainsaw sideways and uses it as a shield- she's small enough that it's effective. |
| 169 | * PsychoForHire: She really loves both her jobs; her job disposing of bodies after torturing that person, and her job as a bounty hunter. |
| 170 | * SamusIsAGirl: Several characters react this way InUniverse when they discover that she's female, since most people deal with her when she's covered head to toe in scrubs that obscure her face. |
| 171 | * SelfHarm: It's implied that she does this. In Chapter #41, scars can be seen on her wrist while she is climbing a ladder, and a few official artworks featuring her show a fairly large amount of scars on her wrists. |
| 172 | * ShoutOut: Her name and weapon of choice are one to the family in the original ''Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre'' series. |
| 173 | * SlashedThroat: She lost her voice to a throat injury, and the subsequent scar left a rather massive impression. |
| 174 | * VagueAge: She looks young enough to be in her mid teens, though looking at her status and "profession", it's possible she's already in her 20's. |
| 175 | * VillainousBSOD: |
| 176 | ** If she loses her ultravoice, she breaks out into a cold sweat, throws a tantrum, then curls up into a ball of pouty despair all within a minute. She later upgrades to a choker-mounted version to prevent such incidents. |
| 177 | ** She's later seen shaking in terror after the team confronts a crazed Roberta. Considering [[AxeCrazy Roberta's]] [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge state]] at the time it's understandable, since the woman broke Sawyer's chainsaw in half '''with her bare hands.''' |
| 178 | * VillainsOutShopping: When she, Shenhua and Lotton appear in Roberta's Blood Trail, she and Lotton are happily playing a videogame together. |
| 179 | [[/folder]] |
| 180 | |
| 181 | [[folder:Bao]] |
| 182 | [[quoteright:273:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/noname3_8973.jpg]] |
| 183 | ->Voiced by: Shiro Saito (JP), Alec Willows (EN) |
| 184 | |
| 185 | Bao is the owner and bartender of the [[BadGuyBar Yellow Flag Bar]]. His establishment is frequently filled with bullet holes, blown-up, and otherwise trashed, but he always survives by hiding behind his armored bar and firing a shotgun at any threats. Revy owes him for damages, but always manages to avoid paying. He also owns a brothel set up on the top floor of his bar and he is a former ARVN soldier who fought in UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar. |
| 186 | ---- |
| 187 | * BadGuyBar: The Yellow Flag, naturally. It seems to be the "main" bar of the city and it's where all of the place's criminal factions can meet up at any given time. Balalaika even foots the bill when Roberta blows the place up, indicating that it may be a front for Hotel Moscow (or at the very least is a convenient neutral ground for all of the gangs, considering how many hired guns hang out there). What that means, regarding Bao himself, is anyone's guess. |
| 188 | * ButtMonkey: A mild example. He and his bar have to take a lot of shit throughout the series, and it is treated as a RunningGag, but it's rarely ever targeted at him personally. He just isn't on anyone's radar, and that explains why he's survived for so long. |
| 189 | * CrazyPrepared: He's had the bar fortified to stop up to ''50 caliber bullets'' and keeps a semi-automatic shotgun back there too. |
| 190 | * HeroOfAnotherStory: Bao's exploits in the Vietnam War. |
| 191 | * MeaningfulName: Possibly for the bar; he's probably a former ARVN soldier and the flag of the [[BananaRepublic Republic of Vietnam]] was mainly yellow, in contrast to [[DirtyCommies the Communist red.]] Plus, his name rhymes with "bow", which tells you a lot about [[ButtMonkey how high he ranks on the Roanapur food chain.]] |
| 192 | * OvershadowedByAwesome: A war veteran who routinely survives having his establishment torn to pieces by nearly every faction in ''[[WretchedHive Roanapur]]''. In any other work of fiction, he'd probably be one of the most badass people around. Here, he's a very minor character who doesn't even rank on the local food chain. |
| 193 | * RetiredBadass: He is a former ARVN soldier who fought in the UsefulNotes/VietnamWar. |
| 194 | * TwoShotsFromBehindTheBar: He keeps a shotgun behind the bar handy for inevitable shootouts. |
| 195 | * TheVietnamVet: Was a member of the South Vietnamese Military during the UsefulNotes/VietnamWar. |
| 196 | * WillTalkForAPrice: Averted. Information isn't something Bao's in the business of. Occasionally if he hears gossip he'll tell Revy for free but when Roberta begins asking questions about the local gangsters, Bao blows her off. When Rock tries bribing him into giving him information on the local Italian gang, Bao promptly rejects his attempt, and says that he will gladly tell him what he knows for free, because it is just more convenient for all parties. |
| 197 | -->'''Bao:''' That won't work on me, idiot. I'm not a crook like the rest of them. |
| 198 | [[/folder]] |
| 199 | |
| 200 | [[folder:Rowan "Jackpot" Pigeon]] |
| 201 | ->Voiced by: Masaki Aizawa (JP), Creator/AdrianHolmes (EN) |
| 202 | |
| 203 | Rowan "Jackpot" Pigeon is the owner and manager of the [=GoofFest=] strip club on Rachiada Street in Roanapur. Of African descent, he has offered Revy a job as an S/M dancer more than once, possibly putting her as the role of a dominatrix. He is also a movie dealer who carries both legal and illegal genres (such as all forms of pornography and snuff films). |
| 204 | ---- |
| 205 | * EatingTheEyeCandy: Thinks Revy will finally join his brothel during his introduction, asking her if she's "finally gonna make good use of that sweet ass of hers". [[spoiler: She eventually does do a BDSM show a few arcs later, but not in earnest as it was only a set-up to smoke out an assassin who was after Lagoon's latest person-of-interest.]] |
| 206 | * HarmfulToMinors: Dude sells child pornography, and some dialogues imply some of his hookers are underaged. |
| 207 | * ALadyOnEachArm: Seen with his prostitutes beside him in his introduction, being a pimp and all. |
| 208 |
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