| 1 | Character page for ''Manga/CityHunter''. |
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| 5 | !XYZ Sweepers |
| 6 | [[folder:Ryo Saeba]] |
| 7 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ryo_saeba.jpg]] |
| 8 | -->Voiced by: Creator/AkiraKamiya (Japanese), Martin Blacker (English, ADV), Creator/StephenFu (English, ''[[Anime/CityHunterShinjukuPrivateEyes Shinjuku Private Eyes]]''), Creator/VincentRopion (French) |
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| 10 | Ryô Saeba is the protagonist of the story. Living in Tokyo, Shinjuku. He's the most feared sweeper in town. He's a master of hand to hand combat, weapon manipulation and warfare tactics. He would be almost unstoppable if not for his only weakness: women. |
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| 13 | Tropes associated with Ryo: |
| 14 | * TheAce: Ryo is the best there is in almost anything to do with his job. Crazy shooting skills, ace driver, superhuman reflexes, and is a great fighter. [[spoiler: Part of this is to do with the Angel Dust drug forced on him though.]] |
| 15 | * AmbiguouslyBi: Is a regular at various gay bars (to the point that, in a pinch, the staff of one let him pretend he worked there himself), and in one occasion acted with Umibozu the same way he acts with beautiful women. |
| 16 | * BadassLongcoat: Occasionally and played with, as the coat is also badass (see CrazyPrepared for why). |
| 17 | * BerserkButton: |
| 18 | ** Don't make a woman cry in his presence. Just don't. Also, if you're a professional killer, don't tell him you do the same job, nor hit children or defenseless people. |
| 19 | ** Being caught contrabanding weapons to countries at war or in the middle of a civil war is a surefire way to get your house trashed, your nose broken, and the police at your home. [[spoiler:Because he participated in a brutal war himself as a child]]. |
| 20 | ** PlayedForLaughs when he's called "old" in some way (e.g. "uncle" or "father") -- the result is ComicalOverreacting. |
| 21 | * BewareTheSillyOnes: Make no mistake, this guy who's constantly trying to cop a feel of every attractive woman he crosses path with is one of the deadliest men alive. |
| 22 | * TheBigDamnKiss: [[spoiler: With a brainwashed Kaori in the "Farewell, Hard boiled city" episode]]. |
| 23 | * BunnyEarsLawyer: His antics are really crazy, but he's the best Sweeper in Tokyo. |
| 24 | * CannotSpitItOut: Whenever he finally decided to tell Kaori he loves her, he's unable to finish the phrase. |
| 25 | * CantActPervertedTowardALoveInterest: Ryo's two only serious love interests are Saeko and Kaori. While he can ''act'' perverted toward Saeko, he ''ran away'' the one time she was actually willing to do the deed, and can't even get an erection for Kaori. Both are {{Justified}}: Saeko and him were in a LoveTriangle with the late Hideyuki, and when time came to do the deed he found himself unable to actually do it out of respect for his late friend, and not only he told Kaori he wouldn't consider her a woman anymore if she became his partner, but he's also in denial of his feelings for her and unsure if he actually wanted to keep her as partner or sending her back in the normal world, and was trying (unsuccessfully) to prevent his enemies from targeting her to get at him. |
| 26 | * CharlesAtlasSuperpower: He's physically strong enough to fire a Magnum one-handed and use large marble ''gravestones'' as weapons, and is shown training himself ''hard''. |
| 27 | * ChildSoldier: [[spoiler: How he learned to fight]]. |
| 28 | * ChivalrousPervert: Sometimes this, and sometimes just a HandsomeLech. The "chivalrous" part is mainly when he's getting serious. He also WON'T let women harm/kill others, his reasoning being he doesn't want their hands to get soiled like his hands did. [[spoiler:He did the same with Kaori, explaining her [[ATeamFiring horrendous shooting]], but he relented after she [[WhatTheHellHero called him out for it]]]]. |
| 29 | * CollectiveIdentity: City Hunter started as the collective identity of Ryo and Mick in Los Angeles. Ryo took it for himself once he returned to Japan, but he later declared it a CollectiveIdentity again, this time for Kaori and him. |
| 30 | * ComicalAngryFace: He has his fair share of doing this, though not as often as Kaori. |
| 31 | * ComicalOverreacting: This is how he reacts to labels of old age (e.g. "uncle" and "father") being aimed at him. |
| 32 | * ContractOnTheHitman: Got multiple contracts on himself. [[spoiler:The most important of which, plot-wise, was Union Teope sending Ryo's American rival/buddy, Mick Angel, to kill him]]. |
| 33 | * CrazyPrepared: Almost to Batman levels. Often hides a back-up gun on his calf. His belt has a knife hidden in it. Secret pockets of his coat contains a disassembled revolver with ammunitions, plastic explosive with time detonator, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking condoms]]. The sleeves of his coat emit tear gas when set on fire, and the coat itself will ''[[StuffBlowingUp explode]]'' if shot in the right place. His tooth has a sleeping pill hidden in it, and he routinely carries other sleeping pills and powders. His ''underwear'' contains sleeping and paralyzing substances to contaminate people's food supply. |
| 34 | * CreepyCrossDresser: Has done this a few times for the job. In a particularly glorious instance, Ryo even faked doing it ''as his job''. |
| 35 | * CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Ryo will ignore his work to chase women, and then beat the crap out of anyone stupid enough to get on his wrong side. |
| 36 | * CruelToBeKind: Ryo does this constantly. Since it is dangerous to become acquainted with him due to his profession, whenever a client is getting too attached to him, Ryo becomes (more) insensitive, rude or lecherous in order to drive her away. |
| 37 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: [[spoiler:When Ryo was 3, the airplane he was travelling on with his parents was shot down and he survived that, instilling in him [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes a terrible fear of riding planes]]. To survive, he joined a guerrilla band in a civil war. He learned how to handle weapons, close combat, warfare tactics. And it turns out Ryô was very good at being a soldier. He met another Japanese man during the civil war, and the man named Ryô "Ryô Saeba". After losing comrades during the war, his father figure drugged him with [[PsychoSerum Angel Dust]] and set him on a military platoon - ''[[FriendlyEnemy Umibozu]]'s'' platoon. He eventually ''survived'' Angel Dust's side-effects and withdrawal symptoms, a feat very few people could manage. After the rebels group was disbanded, Ryô went to a rehabilitation clinic to cure him from the Angel Dust side effects and addiction.. where he was found by the same foster father who drugged him and is defeated. When it was all over, Ryo came out a ShellShockedVeteran with near-crippling depression, daddy issues and and a whole lot of other problems [[StepfordSmiler that he keeps hidden with his perverted, goofy exterior]]]]. |
| 38 | * DoesntKnowTheirOwnBirthday: Due to his dark past mentioned above, Ryo has no idea when his birthday is. |
| 39 | * TheDreaded: Yakuza clans prefer being bankrupted than facing Ryo. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]]: the one time a Yakuza clan was stupid enough to piss him off, their skyscraper was demolished that very night, and the entire clan was beaten up and left for the cops. |
| 40 | * DubNameChange: |
| 41 | ** In the Italian dub of the TV series, he is called just "Hunter" invoking the ProtagonistTitle trope, however the Italian dubs of the all of the movies and specials reverted back to using his original Japanese name. |
| 42 | ** His name in France is "Nicky Larson", which is also [[ProtagonistTitle the name of the show in France]], as well as Phillipe Lacheau's live action adaptation and ''Shinjuku Private Eyes''. The French dubs of the movies and specials (with the exception of the above mentioned ''Shinjuku Private Eyes'') kept his original Japanese name, however despite the name inconsistency, he still has the same French voice actor (Vincent Ropion). |
| 43 | * {{Expy}}: According to Tsukasa Hojo, Ryo is inspired from "The Rat" character in Cat's Eye. The pervert aspect and his overall dementor is very similar. |
| 44 | * EmbarrassingNickname: Subverted; Umibozu nicknamed him "Shinjuku's Stallion" in revenge for Ryo giving him an embarrassing nickname, [[InsultBackfire but he likes it]]. |
| 45 | * EveryoneHasStandards: He'll never touch a minor, no matter how sexy she is, nor will he force himself upon a woman. |
| 46 | * FastestGunInTheWest: |
| 47 | ** Or in Japan. He's so fast he once won a duel with an empty gun by ''drawing the gun and throwing it at his foe's head faster than the opponent could draw his gun''. |
| 48 | ** {{Subverted}} in the anime, where Geruma of the Lodos Mafia manages to outdraw Ryo while using an AutoMag, a gun ''stated to be bad for a quick draw''. Ryo still won by being fast and accurate enough to ''[[ShootTheBullet shoot Geruma's bullet]]'' before shooting Geruma while he was too stunned by Ryo's stunt to fire again. |
| 49 | * FiringOneHanded: Where most professionals can pull it off, Ryo is notable for doing it with a large and powerful Magnum and ''still'' be incredibly accurate. [[LampshadeHanging He pointed out it's not easy himself]], and [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower explained it with years of training and exercise]]. |
| 50 | * GagPenis: His 'little friend' is positively enormous, and hard enough to break through bulletproof glass. |
| 51 | * GoodIsNotNice: Ryo has a mean streak a mile wide that tends to manifest with humiliating punishments for the villains (ranging from being shot multiple times with short but large crossbow bolts to being forced to wet yourself and photographed) and [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment rather unusual tortures]] (if he's in a hurry, he'll grab the balls of the {{Mooks}} and ''[[GroinAttack squeeze hard]]''. If he has time, [[ItMakesSenseInContext he'll break out the chickens and the nitroglycerine]]). And that's without getting into his CasanovaWannabe personality... |
| 52 | * TheGunslinger: His main characteristic as a sweeper are his [[ImprobableAimingSkills impressive aim]] and incredibly quick draw. While ''all'' sweepers aside for Kaori [[spoiler: (partly because of Ryo modifying her gun to aim off)]] in the series are good shots and fast drawers, they all tend to specialize in something else (Umibozu and Kaori are trap and demolition experts, The Bat is specialized in explosives, Miki and a one-shot character are hypnotizers, and Silver Fox is a MasterOfDisguise), but Ryo's specialization is shooting extremely fast without missing a target. |
| 53 | * HandCannon: His favourite gun is a Colt Python. He has a lot of other pistols, including two other BFG (a Colt King Cobra and a Smith & Wesson Model 51). |
| 54 | * HandsomeLech: Quite the ladies' man and skirt-chaser, but he doesn't get a chance to take advantage of his success. Other times, [[ChivalrousPervert he turns down the chance willingly]]. |
| 55 | * HeroWithBadPublicity: Aside for his justified fame as a pervert, most professional killers in Japan consider him their role model and try to emulate him as much as possible, not knowing he's an HitmanWithAHeart. |
| 56 | * HiddenDepths: He's much smarter and sensible than he looks. [[spoiler:He's also a traumatized man with major PTSD from being the survivor of a plane crash that killed his parents and a ChildSoldier, and being drugged with Angel Dust and ''surviving'']]. |
| 57 | * HiddenHeartOfGold: He'll always be a devil-may-care lech who'll only save the day if there's no other choice, but is saddened by Hideyuki's death and deep down, cares about Kaori. |
| 58 | * HitmanWithAHeart: He's willing to kill, but only if your reasons can move him. Also, he's willing to work for a little girl for 500 yen if she has good reasons, and will slip the money back in her pocket when she's distracted. |
| 59 | * HypocriticalHumor: Ryo has criticized someone else of being perverted or immature despite being a HandsomeLech ManChild himself. |
| 60 | * ImprobableAimingSkills: |
| 61 | ** With his Python he can fire six shots in the same hole at 15 meters, and his S&W Model 58, due a quirk of fabrication, allows him to do the same at 50. Also, using a Remington Model 700 he can shoot the barrel of another rifle, buttons of a shirt and a belt (the latter without harming the guy wearing them) at about ''one kilometer''. |
| 62 | ** Ryo's choice of guns is intended to maximize his already extreme aiming skills: the Python and the Remington Model 700 are known for being very accurate weapons, and the Model 58 is chambered for the .41 Magnum round, known for being as powerful as the .44 Magnum while being more accurate. Then he went and had his Python made even more accurate, and, as stated above, his Model 58 is almost impossibly accurate due a quirk of fabrication... |
| 63 | * ImprobableWeaponUser: He weaponized not only his own underwear, but also a collant filled with lingerie! |
| 64 | * InformedAttribute: He claims hating children, but how he acts shows he ''adores'' them, and he will go PapaWolf on anyone who dares to so much as harm a child in his presence. |
| 65 | * ItsPersonal: With Kaibara. After all, how would ''you'' react if [[spoiler: your father figure dosed you with a drug that made you a mad berserker and nearly killed you with both its effects and the withdrawal]]? Even after he got over that hate, Ryo considers it personal, as he sees stopping his madness as his duty as [[spoiler: his son]]. |
| 66 | * IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Whenever an opportunity for Kaori to leave him and be with someone else comes along, he will give it as much chance as possible so that Kaori can live a safer life, no matter how much he may suffer for it. |
| 67 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He's goofy, perverted and lecherous... but he will always bend himself backwards to help a woman, no matter what the situation is. |
| 68 | * KilroyWasHere: He enjoys mocking his adversaries and pulling pranks on them, is quite fond of playing this trope when he infiltrates into his enemies' lairs. Before leaving, he vandalizes pictures, writes insults on the walls -or comments about their enemies' penis size-, paints drawings of them... He makes this because an angry enemy is prone to commit mistakes... And also because he gets a good laugh out of pissing them off. |
| 69 | * LadyKillerInLove: He is a notorious and successful Casanova in spite of his job as a ProfessionalKiller, and is in love with his partner Kaori, even if he doesn't want to admit it. |
| 70 | * LegallyDead: Courtesy of his plane being one of the many shot down in South America when he was a child too young to even remember his real name. He had to go back to Japan as a stowaway, and can't legally own anything, hold a job (thus he's stuck on the wrong side of the law), administer his own money, or get married. |
| 71 | * LetsGetDangerous: Ryo often spends the first half of the story being goofy and hitting on women, but when real danger rears its head, he'll stop fooling around and beat the crap out of the villains. If they're particularly unlucky, he'll beat them up ''[[BunnyEarsLawyer without stopping fooling around]]''. |
| 72 | * LovableSexManiac: He has a sex drive of truly epic proportions, and a physique guaranteed to make just about any woman happy to be its focus... which is just about the only RestrainingBolt this Lovable Sex Maniac has — he knows that he's everything he claims to be, and is thus always patient enough to wait until the girl's in the mood to get wild. He's not above what most would consider outright sexual harassment, however... as long as the girl seems amused by it (and the one time he got an early confirmation the girl would ''not'' be amused he cut it out immediately). |
| 73 | * MalingeringRomancePloy: In one of the earliest episodes, Ryo passes himself as a patient of the hospital where works the pretty nurse he's tasked to protect. Later, he's wounded for ''real''. |
| 74 | * MarkedChange: As a gag. The entire series - with one exception - is drawn with realistic proportions, and Ryo himself has a sculpted, angular face that everyone sees as devilishly handsome... Most of the time. When the little head starts doing the thinking, he instantly becomes a rubber-faced and -limbed goofball straight out of a Creator/TexAvery cartoon, complete with popping eyeballs and literal wolf whistles. People even ''comment'' - '''regularly''' - that he doesn't look human when he's chasing a beautiful woman. |
| 75 | * MayDecemberRomance: He's at least ten years Kaori's senior. Him having met Kaori when they were younger emphasizes this, though neither of them mind it. |
| 76 | * MrFanservice: He's ridiculously handsome, has a lot of WalkingShirtlessScene. |
| 77 | * ObfuscatingStupidity: He ''is'' an idiot half the time. That said, he often plays it up so him going all out will have a greater effect. He also does it to not be identified as City Hunter by too many people, to help his clients to not think about why they hired him by amusing them, and to [[StepfordSmiler help himself not to think too much about his near-suicidal depression]]. |
| 78 | * OlderThanTheyLook: He has no clue of his real age, so he settles for being around 30. |
| 79 | * OneManArmy: Definitely. There's a reason why he's TheDreaded in all of Japan. Goofy and perverted he may be, but he will wreck you and ''humiliate'' you if you piss him off. [[OhCrap It gets worse]] when he pairs up with Umibozu... |
| 80 | * OOCIsSeriousBusiness: If he doesn't react to a beautiful woman that isn't underage, something weird is happening: |
| 81 | ** With Kaori, he flat-out swore to never see her as a woman - and is trying to make sure his enemies won't target her as his girlfriend. |
| 82 | ** In one memorable occasion, the reason he didn't react was that the woman was actually ''a man'' and his penis caught on it before his brain. |
| 83 | ** Both he and Kaori were weirded out when he didn't get an erection from a series of ads that showed off a model from behind and in particular her shapely butt... Up until Ryo found out it was Rosemary Moon. |
| 84 | * PayEvilUntoEvil: As explained in GoodIsNotNice, Ryo has a terrifying mean streak, and the villains are ''lucky'' if the police is around or Ryo is working for Saeko (or the client's circumstances act as a restraining bolt), for they'll get arrested or, at worst, a quick and painless death. If not... Well, the lucky ones gets completely and utterly humiliated in the worst possible way, the very good ones die a quick death because Ryo can't afford to take a chance to make them suffer, and the unlucky ones die in the most painful and humiliating way Ryo can think of. |
| 85 | ** Exhibit A: Koji Inagaki's fate. He was a boxer who made a career by blackmailing his opponents into throwing the fights, and when the chosen opponent of the champion refused to give up his chance he murdered him and started blackmailing the champion, leading to Ryo being hired to kill him. During his championship bout, Ryo shot him in the ear with a gold-tipped bullet fired from a [[{{BFG}} elephant rifle]] and timed it with the champion's hook, so it would appear the champion killed him with a punch strong enough to throw him out of the ring (the bullet being gold-tipped, it rebounded inside the skull, leaving no marks for anyone to realize his involvement). |
| 86 | ** Exhibit B: the fate of a serial killer who raped his victims. Upon being hired to kill him, Ryo baited him so he'd try and kill Ryo, allowing himself to be identified in the process, then made ''very'' clear that Ryo could kill him any moment without even showing himself, even throwing off his act to bait his victims. ''Then'' he put four crossbow bolts in his arms and legs, the bolts designed and shot in such ways to hurt like hell and being impossible to take out without crippling him in the process. ''Then'' Ryo killed him, and that was because his client had put herself on the line of danger and Ryo had to stop tormenting him and finish things fast. |
| 87 | ** Exhibit C: the epic trolling of the General at Ryo's hands. First Ryo hit ''all'' of his {{Berserk Button}}s just for the hell of it, then stole a crapload of Union Teope money the General was supposed to deliver to his boss and left him alive, ''then'', when they finally fought, Ryo shot him in the stomach and leg before shooting him in the chest to let him bleed out painfully. But the General had taken [[PsychoSerum Angel Dust]] and wouldn't stay down, so Ryo put knives in his forehead and throat and then ''blew him up''. |
| 88 | * PornStash: He has quite a collection of porn magazines, hidden inside several spots in the residence. |
| 89 | * ProperlyParanoid: Go read the CrazyPrepared voice on this entry, and remember: we know about what he hides in his coat ''because he had to use them''. |
| 90 | * SadClown: [[spoiler:His goofy and perverted antics are his way of hiding his multitude of psychological issues, including near-suicidal depression.]] |
| 91 | * SecretIdentity: He has one as City Hunter due to the need to not get arrested (he's still a criminal, after all) and to be left alone by that part of the criminal underworld he never fought. |
| 92 | * SelfDeprecation: He called himself a murderer unworthy to accept money for a job from a little innocent girl. |
| 93 | * SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: The dynamics of his relationship with Kaori. The feeling is mutual. |
| 94 | * ShellShockedVeteran: [[spoiler:Survived a plane crash when he was 3, became a ChildSoldier who participated in a war, then was turned into a drugged monster with [[PsychoSerum Angel Dust]] by his own father figure and set upon what was Umibozu's former platoon so Roy could brutally massacre them. He's getting over it, but he's far from recovered. [[StepfordSmiler He's just very good at hiding it]].]] |
| 95 | * ShootTheHostageTaker: |
| 96 | ** Early in the manga, Ryo meets a robber who holds hostage the female cashier of a bar Ryo's visiting. When Ryo confronts the robber, he is given a SadisticChoice - put down his gun and let the robber get away (with the cashier surely getting injured or worse), or try shoot the robber and risk having the bullet of Ryo's Magnum penetrate the window behind and take out a civilian. Ryo instead takes the third option by ''shooting through his own hand'' to soften the Magnum bullet's impact so he can kill the robber and rescue the cashier without collateral damage. |
| 97 | ** He does it again to rescue his then-future partner Kaori from a sex trafficker - he shoots a bullet at the ground, and the sparks from it ricocheting allows him to locate the trafficker. He then shoots him [[EyeScream through the lens of his infrared vision eyepiece]] while the sparks were still active, which was ''in a split-second''. |
| 98 | * ShroudedInMyth: As City Hunter, he has a level of fame comparable to a ''superhero''. |
| 99 | * StepfordSmiler: [[spoiler:Due to his DarkAndTroubledPast and his apparently hopeless fight for Shinjuku's freedom and happiness, Ryo is ''heavily'' depressed, just on the verge of becoming a DeathSeeker, and only Hideyuki and (later, after his partner's death) Kaori's presence kept him from eating the gun. Once in a while, going in a certain place to remember himself that Shinjuku is worth fighting for prevents him from doing just that. It took a one-time character with the ability to ''read into people's minds and hearts'' to see through his facade]]. |
| 100 | * SuperSoldier: As a subject of the Angel Dust drug, Ryo is faster and tougher than a normal human. He was also once a ChildSoldier who spent much of his childhood on a battlefield. |
| 101 | * VagueAge: The fact that Ryo doesn't know when he's born or how old he is himself leads to multiple characters wondering how old he is. At about half of the story, Kaori gives him 26 March as his birthday. His real age is probably early 30's or late 20's when the manga starts. |
| 102 | * VitriolicBestBuds: Has this relationship with Umibozu - they mock and insult each other all the time, but when the shit hits the fan for one of them the enemy will have to face ''both''. They also help each other in ways they don't want to: initially Umibozu didn't want to get engaged with Miki in spite of loving her, but Ryo, after tricking him into revealing his true feelings, successfully roped them together. |
| 103 | * VocalEvolution: At the start of the anime, Ryo's voice is typically deep and macho, with the 'pratfalls' he does perform during the rarer mokkori scenes of the earlier episodes tending to sound fairly deep and raspy. By episode 10, however, as Ryo's mokkori antics began to increase in frequency, the earlier deeper voice was used increasingly less (although Ryo does still lapse into it during dramatic scenes) and his pratfalls are much higher-pitch and less raspy than in earlier episodes. |
| 104 | * VoiceChangeling: With a penchant to wear a ''bad'' and ridiculous disguise of the person he's imitating. |
| 105 | * WeHelpTheHelpless: Often takes this sort of jobs ([[HitmanWithAHeart always, if it's an assassination]]). That's why you write "XYZ" on the message board of Shinjuku Station to ask for his help: those are the last letters of the alphabet, and he may well be your last chance. |
| 106 | * WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Ryo is aerophobic (in travel only, helicopters are fine) [[spoiler:which is most probably attributed to his previous childhood experience with planes]]. |
| 107 | ** There are also a few episode of the anime (such as the second episode of the first season) where he flies with no problem that were made before this was revealed in the manga, though. |
| 108 | ** Also, he's getting over it: when this fear first appeared he was terrified even by the sound of airplanes or the sight of a ''toy airplane'' (partly because that arc started with a plane ''crashing in his house and nearly hitting him'' during an attempt at an emergency landing), but when the villain of another arc tries to attack him with toy airplanes filled with explosive he casually shoots the planes and states he's scared of ''going on planes'', not of airplanes. |
| 109 | ** And he'll fully (if temporarily) get over it if Kaori is in danger, [[OhCrap to the horror of the Bat running away on a plane with her as hostage]]. |
| 110 | * WillfullyWeak: He could dodge Kaori's hammer with ease, but rarely does. |
| 111 | * WouldntHitAGirl: Embodies this trope. He'll flirt with, and (try to) grope a woman, but he'll ''never'' hit them. In fact, people who treat women badly will earn his undying hatred (and a bullet through the skull). |
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| 113 | |
| 114 | [[folder: Hideyuki Makimura]] |
| 115 | -->Voiced by: Creator/HideyukiTanaka |
| 116 | |
| 117 | Ryo's first partner in Japan, and his best friend before being killed. He's the reason Kaori works with Ryo. |
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| 119 | Tropes associated with Hideyuki: |
| 120 | * BerserkButton: Don't threaten Kaori in his presence, or you'll find a knife in your hand. Woe is you if you try and attack her. |
| 121 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: If sufficiently provoked he can easily overpower two mafia thugs before they realize they pissed him off. |
| 122 | * CowboyCop: Used to be one while he was partnered with Saeko. |
| 123 | * ADeathInTheLimelight: He was a marginal character for most of his presence in the manga, but was the protagonist of the chapter where he was killed. |
| 124 | * DubNameChange: In Italy his name is "Jeff Mancinelli", while in France his name is "Tony Marconi" |
| 125 | * DyingMomentOfAwesome: People dosed with [[PsychoSerum Angel Dust]] become super strong and near unkillable zombies. When Union Teope set a GiantMook dosed with Angel Dust on him, Hideyuki died from the wounds, but not before killing him and walking all the way to Ryo's home to warn him of the danger. |
| 126 | * KilledOffForReal: He's killed by a drug cartel early in the manga. More specifically, by the guy the cartel had drugged with [[PsychoSerum Angel Dust]]. |
| 127 | * LateArrivalSpoiler: His death at the hands of a drug cartel is to be mentioned to explain why Kaori works with Ryo. [[spoiler:The drug cartel is Union Teope]]. |
| 128 | * {{Leitmotif}}: In the anime his flashbacks are associated with an instrumental version of Bruce Hornby's "The Way It Is". In the anime-only two-parter where Red Pegasus (the anime counterpart to Union Teope) returns, the song is played in-universe, and is revealed to be his favorite song. |
| 129 | * LoveTriangle: Was in one with Ryo and Saeko. While Ryo flirts with Saeko all the time, he never goes farther than that out of respect for his deceased partner. |
| 130 | * MoralityChain: [[spoiler:In life, he was the only thing preventing Ryo from slipping back into depression and being a DeathSeeker. His sister, Kaori, would replace him as Ryo's Morality Chain after his death]]. |
| 131 | * MyGreatestFailure: Quit the police after failing to dismantle a kidnapping ring, causing the death of another cop in the process. |
| 132 | * NiceGuy: His most defining characteristic. |
| 133 | * NotSoStoic: Whenever Kaori or a child is involved. |
| 134 | * OnlySaneMan: Noticeably the sanest character in the whole series. |
| 135 | * PosthumousCharacter: After his death. |
| 136 | * RedOniBlueOni: A stoic, reasonable man who tries to keep his goofy, perverted partner Ryo in line. |
| 137 | * SacrificialLion: [[spoiler:In the manga his death serves to show how dangerous Union Teope is]]. |
| 138 | * {{Sidekick}}: Was Ryo's sidekick and his co-protagonist for the first few chapters of the manga and episodes of the anime before being KilledOffForReal and replaced by Kaori. |
| 139 | * TheStoic: Most of the times he appears as utterly bored and stoic. |
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| 142 | [[folder: Kaori Makimura]] |
| 143 | [[quoteright:276:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/chunter80_cityhunterep86_season2_006.jpg]] |
| 144 | -->Voiced by: Creator/KazueIkura (Japanese), Pamela Ribon (English, ADV) Creator/MorganGarrett (English, ''City Hunter: Shinjuku Private Eyes'') |
| 145 | |
| 146 | Hideyuki's little sister and Ryo's current partner. She's the only thing standing between Ryo and the female clients he lusts after. |
| 147 | ---- |
| 148 | Tropes associated with Kaori: |
| 149 | * ACupAngst: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. Her breast circumference is a whooping ''89 cm'' (''35 in'' in the Imperial system), but has the bad luck of being compared to Saeko and Kasumi, whose breasts are ''[[BuxomBeautyStandard even bigger]]'' (she took Saeko relatively well, but Kasumi, who had a bigger bust ''at sixteen'', nearly sent her in an HeroicBSOD). |
| 150 | * ActionGirl: She won't hesitate to bust out the hammer [[{{HammerSpace}} or whatever's in her purse]] if it'll get results. |
| 151 | * AmusinglyAwfulAim: It's safer to give the bad guy a gun than let Kaori have one. It is eventually revealed that the reason she's so bad is because Ryo deliberately screwed up the sights of her pistol because he didn't want her to kill anybody and "taint herself" -- she is a bit better when she is able to use [[{{BFG}} a rocket launcher]]. |
| 152 | * ArentYouGoingToRavishMe: Sometimes, she would get annoyed by Ryo's inability to get horny from her. |
| 153 | * BadassAdorable: Kaori is beautiful-looking, but doesn't hesitate to stand up for herself. |
| 154 | * BerserkButton: Ryo's goofy advances to women regularly set her off, but on occasions where it appears Ryo has a closer relationship with another person than her, she gets truly furious. Examples include a time when Ryo was cozying up to a male client (actually a woman in disguise found out by Ryo) and a time when Ryo may have been the father of a client's baby. |
| 155 | * {{Bifauxnen}}: She's a beautiful woman, but due to her short hair and masculine personality and tastes, she tends to be mistaken for a man rather often. |
| 156 | * BoyishShortHair: Her default haircut is very short, which only [[LadyLooksLikeADude makes her look more like a guy]]. |
| 157 | * ClingyJealousGirl: Partially the reason she protects Ryo's clients from him. |
| 158 | * CollectiveIdentity: Ryo declared her City Hunter alongside him. |
| 159 | * ComicalAngryFace: she pulls this when she's particularly angry at Ryo. |
| 160 | * CrazyPrepared: Not at Ryo's level, but still carries various things you just wonder ''why'' she should take with her, including a hand grenade with a wire tied to the pin (in case the enemy manages to take the grenade before she can remove the pin, [[ProperlyParanoid as it happened once]]) and a ''defibrillator''. In one of the movies, taking a page from Ryo, she was also wearing an ''explosive bra'' (and forgot to carry a lighter to set it on fire). |
| 161 | * DamselInDistress: Tends to get captured rather often, sometimes overlapping with BadassInDistress. {{Lampshaded}} at one point in the manga when, while tied up with a strip of tape over her mouth, Kaori thinks to herself "I must be the unluckiest woman in all of Japan!" |
| 162 | * DubNameChange: |
| 163 | ** In the Italian dub of the TV series, she is called "Kreta Mancinelli", the Italian dubs of the movies and specials however refer to her by her original Japanese name. |
| 164 | ** In France, her name is "Laura Marconi", the French dubs of the movies and specials however refer to her by her original Japanese name, but for ''Shinjuku Private Eyes'' she's back to being "Laura Marconi". |
| 165 | * DudeMagnet: Despite her tomboyish personality, she does have a lot of guys fall for her. |
| 166 | * EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Noted to have a large following among girls and women, even those who realize she's a woman. |
| 167 | * TheGhost: In VideoGame/JumpForce - even though Ryo is the only character from City Hunter to appear there, whenever Ryo tries to hit on ladies a hammer from her smashes into him. |
| 168 | * {{Greed}}: {{Justified}} by how often they're short of money. |
| 169 | * HappilyAdopted: Was the daughter of a robber who died while chased by Hideyuki's father (another cop). Hideyuki and his father both died before telling her, so she doesn't know. [[spoiler: Except she found out on her own when Hideyuki was still alive and doesn't care]]. |
| 170 | * {{Hammerspace}}: She can keep a hand grenade, a pistol, a portable defibrillator, two lunches and two giant hammers (of course) in her purse. |
| 171 | * HumongousHeadedHammer: Kaori wields a hammer that's as big as her and with a head that dwarfs her torso to punish our LoveableSexManiac hero. |
| 172 | * HyperspaceMallet: The giant hammer she uses to beat up Ryo when he's acting like a pervert usually pops out from nowhere. |
| 173 | * ImprobableAimingSkills: Subverted: she can't hit anything with her pistol if not by accident. Turns out Ryo had surreptitiously modified her gun to make sure she never kills anyone. But in a case of GoneHorriblyRight, Kaori ended up becoming adept at [[PinballProjectile ricochet shots]], even being able to teach someone how to shoot that way. |
| 174 | ** Apart from the gun, her aim with the bazooka has been described as bad enough to always miss her target but good enough to knock her foes out with the shockwave. |
| 175 | * TheLadette: Her fashion sense and language are distinctly masculine. |
| 176 | * LadyLooksLikeADude: It's a RunningGag for her to be mistaken for a man. |
| 177 | * MayDecemberRomance: Is at least ten years younger than Ryo. |
| 178 | * MementoMacGuffin: Her pistol was previously Hideyuki's. |
| 179 | * MoralityChain: [[spoiler:The one thing that keeps the PTSD-ridden Ryo from reaching for the gun, a role that she took over from Hideyuki after her brother's death]]. |
| 180 | * NoGuyWantsAnAmazon: Her masculine ways and taste in clothing and aggressive temper scare away most potential suitors after they discover she's a woman. |
| 181 | * ObliviousToLove: The ''only'' person who hasn't guessed Ryo's actual feelings for her, and will constantly misunderstand other people's attempts at making her realize them. |
| 182 | * OldMaid: She isn't 25 yet, but has dropped hints that Ryo should hurry up and marry her before her 25th birthday, at least until she learned that he doesn't legally exist. |
| 183 | * SheCleansUpNicely: Dress her elegantly, or just give her a wig and some make up, and she'll rival ''Saeko''. |
| 184 | * SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: Her relationship with Ryo. |
| 185 | * StatuesqueStunner: She's taller than most men. The reason it's not immediately obvious is that Ryo is even taller. |
| 186 | * SuperStrength: Not from the start, but by the end of the manga, she can move out of house bringing her ''bed'' with her with no effort at all. |
| 187 | * TookALevelInBadass: At the start she was barely good enough in combat to play the bait. At the end of the manga she's a competent [[TrapMaster Trap Mistress]], can physically beat up anyone short of Umibozu, has finally learned to shoot, and managed to sneak up on Miki and Umibozu (the latter believed to be impossible due Umibozu's very good senses of hearing and smell). |
| 188 | * TrapMaster: She learned from Umibozu, and is very good at it. |
| 189 | * {{Tsundere}}: She is a pretty classic Harsh type, with her wrath most often triggered by Ryo's [[ChivalrousPervert mokkori]] ways. [[HyperspaceMallet Expect hammers labeled "100 tons" or "National Shame"]] to follow. But if Ryo does anything affectionate towards her, blushing ensues. |
| 190 | * VocalEvolution: An extreme more extreme example than Ryo in the anime, where in her earlier appearances (mainly before she became Ryo's partner) her voice is relatively high but deeper and more 'normal-sounding' than the higher, harsher voice she later adopts. {{Lampshaded}} in the anime episode where Kaori receives amnesia; when affected, her voice sounds more similar to her earlier incarnation. As the episode also establishes [[spoiler: that she had forgotten all the events of her prior anime appearances]], it is possible that her life [[LoveMakesYouCrazy with Ryo]] initiated this evolution. |
| 191 | * VoiceChangeling: Thankfully she doesn't share Ryo's penchant for bad disguises... |
| 192 | * WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: She's afraid of ghosts. The story arc featuring the spirit of a deceased woman who [[SplitPersonalityTakeover borrows her twin sister's body momentarily to communicate with her and Ryo]] is particularly nerve-wrecking for her. |
| 193 | [[/folder]] |
| 194 | |
| 195 | !Allies |
| 196 | [[folder: Saeko Nogami]] |
| 197 | [[quoteright:280:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/saeko.jpg]] |
| 198 | -->Voiced by: Yoko Asagami (Japanese), Jana Brockman (English, ADV), Creator/MarissaLenti (English, ''City Hunter: Shinjuku Private Eyes'') |
| 199 | |
| 200 | A gorgeous police inspector who tends to give Ryo very ungrateful jobs. She's also a good friend of him, and was Hideyuki's partner when he was in the police. |
| 201 | ---- |
| 202 | Tropes associated with Saeko: |
| 203 | * ActionGirl: A lady cop who's capable of fighting (most often via [[FlechetteStorm throwing knives]]). |
| 204 | * AllAmazonsWantHercules: |
| 205 | ** She ''says'' she [[BestHerToBedHer vowed to marry only a man stronger than herself]], but knowing her it could be a way to get out of her father continuously trying to get her in an ArrangedMarriage. So far, the first six men who her father tried to marry her off to ended to the hospital when she "tested" them, and she wasn't interested at all in the one who actually passed the test (who fell for Kaori and then left town anyway). |
| 206 | ** Could also be played straight, as her two known love interests are Ryo and Makimura, who ''are'' stronger than her (or were, in Makimura's case). |
| 207 | * BuxomBeautyStandard: Her buxom figure is a huge part of why she's considered so attractive, and she [[IHaveBoobsYouMustObey often makes use of them to distract men]]. |
| 208 | * CoolCar: Drives a Porsche from the second season of the anime onward. |
| 209 | * CowboyCop: On one hand, she's a very good and fair cop. On the other, she covers for Ryo and Umibozu (both professional killers), uses Ryo in her job (''offer her own body to pay'', only to [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking skirt out of the payment]]), and has framed a man for a murder he had failed to commit (Ryo foiled him, and convinced Saeko to frame him. To be fair, the man was a criminal with a record black enough he would have gotten a death sentence anyway...). |
| 210 | * DCupDistress: Has such a large bust she needs to have her bra ''custom made''. |
| 211 | * DubNameChange: |
| 212 | ** In the Italian dub of the TV series, she is called "Selene", the Italian dubs of all of the movies and specials however refer to her by her original Japanese name. |
| 213 | ** In France, her name is "Hélène Lamberti", though the French dubs of the movies and specials refer to her by her original Japanese name, but for ''Shinjuku Private Eyes'' she's back to being "Hélène Lamberti". |
| 214 | * FairCop: An attractive lady cop. |
| 215 | * FemmeFatale: A rare case of one of the (anti-)heroes being this. Ryo keeps a long and detailed list where Saeko owes him for the various favours he's done for her, which she always manages to avoid repaying. |
| 216 | * FlechetteStorm: She's capable of using a gun, being a cop and all, but her combat specialty lies in throwing knife/knives with pinpoint accuracy. |
| 217 | * HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: In one case, she sided with an obvious DirtyCop, but once Ryo exposed the cop she was quick to express her disgust. |
| 218 | * KnightOfCerebus: If she shows up, the story arc tends to be more serious and less wacky than usual. |
| 219 | * LoveTriangle: Was in one with Ryo and Hideyuki. |
| 220 | * MirrorCharacter: Ryo: they often have similar antics, such as both claiming they're twenty or feigning to seduce people of their same gender for kicks. |
| 221 | * MsFanservice: The hottest character in the series and she takes advantage of this. |
| 222 | * ObfuscatingStupidity: She is quite prone to act the part of the beautiful and vapid girl to get into knife range of her target. |
| 223 | * OldMaid: Her age isn't specified, but she's implied to be over 25, possibly 30 near the end of the manga. She doesn't care, but her crazy father does... |
| 224 | * SexyCoatFlashing: In episode 17 of Season 2 Saeko Nogami enlists Ryo Saeba's professional sniper skills in taking out terrorists holding a plane hostage on the tarmac. To prove she has no weapons, she boards the plane wearing nothing but her bra and panties under her trench coat. |
| 225 | * SexySlitDress: As part of her sex appeal, she sometimes wear slit skirts, in one case writing on her thigh a job offer for Ryo when she was filmed in an airport during a hostage situation. |
| 226 | * ShowSomeLeg: She's willing to put her legs out on display for the sake of [[FemmeFatale seducing her male target in order to get what she wants]]. The SexySlitDress she frequently wears makes it easy for her to do this. |
| 227 | [[/folder]] |
| 228 | |
| 229 | [[folder: Reika Nogami]] |
| 230 | -->Voiced by: Creator/YoshinoTakamori (Japanese), Katherine Catmull (English, ADV) |
| 231 | |
| 232 | Saeko's younger sister, and Ryo's neighbour. Just as sexy and manipulative as her sister, and even more overbold. |
| 233 | ---- |
| 234 | Tropes associated with Reika: |
| 235 | * CowboyCop: She's implied to have been one. |
| 236 | * DoesNotLikeMen: At the start, due the enormous line of perverts at her door. |
| 237 | * DubNameChange: In France, her name is "Rachel Lamberti" with the exception of the French dub of ''.357 Magnum'' where she's referred to by her original name. |
| 238 | * FairCop: Was one before quitting the police. |
| 239 | * FemmeFatale: It runs in the family. |
| 240 | * HopelessSuitor: To Ryo, to an extent: Ryo finds her gorgeous and sexy, but is utterly terrified of her attempts at marrying him. |
| 241 | * MirrorCharacter: From Ryo and Saeko: |
| 242 | ** She's usually way more serious than Ryo, but when Kaori caught him as he was about to dig a tunnel from her building to Ryo's their fight was stopped by the discovery ''Reika had already dug one and was using one of Ryo's guns on their shooting range''. |
| 243 | ** She claims to be [[FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling the responsible sister to Saeko's foolish]], and that she'd never use her sex appeal to get a man to help her-[[DistinctionWithoutADifference she just manipulates them with her beauty]]. She also has some of her sister's antics, just not as often-but way crazier whenever they emerge. |
| 244 | * RefugeInAudacity: A corrupt cop had her partner killed and dishonored, so she reacted by ''blackmailing the Yakuza clans paying the corrupt cop until they begged him for help, and duping City Hunter into protecting her when she lured the corrupt cop out''. Oh, and she kept the evidence against the Yakuza under Ryo's bed. |
| 245 | [[/folder]] |
| 246 | |
| 247 | [[folder: Umibozu/Hayato Ijuuin]] |
| 248 | [[quoteright:319:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/falconumibozu.JPG]] |
| 249 | -->Voiced by: Creator/TesshoGenda (Japanese), Lou Perryman (English, ADV), Chris Rager (English, ''City Hunter: Shinjuku Private Eyes'') |
| 250 | |
| 251 | A gigantic sweeper and the only man in Tokyo that can fight City Hunter and hope to win. |
| 252 | ---- |
| 253 | Tropes associated with Umibozu: |
| 254 | * AbsurdPhobia: Cats. Might not seem that ridiculous at first, but he's scared ''shitless'' when Ryo {{troll}}s him by forcing a really cute kitten in his face. |
| 255 | * AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Ryo is considered this by virtue of besting Umibozu ''twice'' (first when [[spoiler: they were fighting on opposite sides of a civil war and Ryo, under the effects of [[PsychoSerum Angel Dust]], wiped out Umibozu's platoon and left him for dead]], and then, during the series, when they have an epic DuelToTheDeath where Ryo's last bullet destroys Umibozu's gun). This gets on Umibozu's nerves, as he and Ryo have absolutely no idea on who would win in a straight fight (the DuelToTheDeath had multiple interferences, so for them it doesn't count). |
| 256 | * BaldHeadOfToughness: He's strong enough to bring down a tree with a single punch or casually juggle with three grown men and so tough .38 Special bullets can [[MadeOfIron barely wound him]]. |
| 257 | * BetaCouple: With Miki. |
| 258 | * TheBigGuy: He towers over pretty much everyone in the show and is massively built, to the point that even an athletic and trained man like Ryo can easily be pushed around by him. |
| 259 | * {{BFG}}: His sidearm is a HandCannon. His usual weapons are the machine gun and the bazooka. |
| 260 | * CannotTalkToWomen: A constant problem for him whenever he interacts with women. However, this tends to fade if he knows the woman in question for long enough and by the middle of the series, he can interact normally with Kaori, Saeko and especially Miki, whom he ends up dating and then marrying. |
| 261 | * CrazyPrepared: This guy brought a ''bazooka and a machine gun'' to ''his own marriage''. [[ProperlyParanoid He had to use them]]. |
| 262 | * TheDreaded: Pretty much on the same level as Ryo... |
| 263 | * DualWielding: When pissed off enough, he'll attack with a machine gun and a ''bazooka''. |
| 264 | * DubNameChange: In the Italian dub, they just stuck with "Falcon" as his nickname, the Italian dub of ''Shinjuku Private Eyes'' however refers to him by his original Japanese name. |
| 265 | ** In France, he's known as "Mammouth" or "Sargoss" and instead of "Hayato Ijuuin", it's "John Arteu", however in the French dubs of the movies and specials, they just stuck with "Falcon" like the Italian dub, but for ''Shinjuku Private Eyes'' he's "Mammouth" again. |
| 266 | * EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: At first he didn't wear his sunglasses, spending his first appearance (still unnamed) and half of the second without them. |
| 267 | * EmbarrassingNickname: Umibozu is a kind of sea monster thats name means "Sea Priest" (as in a Buddhist Priest), resembling a giant shadowy humanoid, and the nickname was given to him by Ryo due to Hayato being a large man with a bald head. [[SubvertedTrope He still prefers it to his actual name]]. |
| 268 | * FiringOneHanded: Thanks to his enormous size and strength, he can do it with a machine gun and a bazooka. ''[[DualWielding At the same time]]''. |
| 269 | * GentleGiant: He's so tall he can barely stand in a normal-sized home, but he's really gentle. |
| 270 | * HandCannon: Due his size he can only wield enormous guns, as a Smith & Wesson Model 29. |
| 271 | * HandicappedBadass: [[spoiler: He's nearly blind, yet he can fight on the same level as Ryo. Later he gets completely blind... And it doesn't slow him down in the slightest]]. |
| 272 | * HitmanWithAHeart: Mostly averted. He does have occasional moments of this, but is generally too lawful and heroic to qualify. |
| 273 | * ImmuneToBullets: He can be wounded by bullets, but they need to be high powered for him to notice. |
| 274 | * KnightOfCerebus: {{Averted}}: differently from the characters related to Ryo's time in the US and Central America, he never introduces more drama, and the one time he does it's by mentioning a NoodleIncident that becomes HarsherInHindsight only during the final battle with Kaibara, when he finally provides the context (already known to Ryo, who nonetheless refrained from mentioning it at first). |
| 275 | * ItsPersonal: His hatred for Kaibara is caused by him [[spoiler: dosing Ryo with Angel Dust and sicking him on his platoon during the war, resulting in the death of everyone in the platoon but the commander and Umibozu himself, who got his eye wound in the process]]. |
| 276 | * LuminescentBlush: Every time he's embarrassed. |
| 277 | * MadeOfIron: While every sweeper in the series has survived enormous punishment, Umibozu is by far the toughest. In the anime-only Lodos Mafia story arc, he survived having a hand grenade explode on his face, dozens of dynamite stick blowing up around him and a ''skyscraper'' demolished with him inside in very rapid succession, and still had enough strength to leave the building's remains and walk away, and fought off a small army of Lodos Mafia {{Mooks}} the day after. |
| 278 | * MoreDakka: He wields a machine gun more often than a pistol. |
| 279 | * MayDecemberRomance: With Miki. While his actual age isn't revealed, he was already a grown man when she was eight, implying he's ''at least'' twelve years her senior and probably more. |
| 280 | * NoodleIncident: His time as a mercenary is barely mentioned beyond him and Ryo being on opposite sides and the fact at one point his platoon was destroyed in an ambush due the treason of a comrade. |
| 281 | ** ResolvedNoodleIncident: The ambush eventually receives more context, first by revealing that he was wounded at the eyes [[spoiler:and suffers poor eyesight, and eventually goes fully blind, because of it]], and later that [[spoiler:the platoon was destroyed by Ryo under the effects of Angel Dust]]. |
| 282 | * OnlyKnownByHisNickname: He demands to be called either Falcon (the codename he used before returning to Japan) or Umibozu, as he's embarrassed by his real name. |
| 283 | * PunchClockVillain: First appearance only, where he was hired to kill the person Ryo was protecting. |
| 284 | * ScaryBlackMan: Sort of: he's dark only when compared to other Japanese people, but he's ''really'' scary. |
| 285 | * ShellShockedVeteran: Has mostly recovered from it, but still has some SurvivorGuilt, and his former hatred for Ryo was born because ''Ryo'' was unwillingly the cause for this. |
| 286 | * ShipperOnDeck: Ships Ryo X Kaori. Too bad that Kaori always misunderstands him when Umi tries to tell her Ryo's true feelings... |
| 287 | * SpecialPersonNormalName: His real name is Hayato Ijuuin, an embarrassingly normal name for someone like him. |
| 288 | * SunglassesAtNight: {{Justified}} by him [[spoiler: being nearly blind, and later becoming fully blind]], so it's not as troublesome as it would be for normal people. |
| 289 | * SuperStrength: Due his enormous size, he's strong enough to ''shatter concrete with a punch'' or DualWield a machine gun and a ''bazooka'' and fire them ''at the same time''. |
| 290 | * TrapMaster: Every sweeper worth his salt can put together some decent traps, but Umibozu is the best. |
| 291 | * UglyGuyHotWife: At the end of the manga, due their marriage, his scariness and Miki's beauty. |
| 292 | * VitriolicBestBuds: While he used to hate his guts, he now has this relationship with Ryo: they insult and mock each other all the time (Umibozu once ''ran all the way from the Cat's Eye to Ryo's home'' just to mock Ryo with some particularly humiliating gossip), but when the shit hits the fan for one of them the enemy will have to face ''both''. |
| 293 | ** Two {{Mooks}} once decided to hire Umibozu to kill Ryo and his current clients (that Umibozu had convinced Ryo to work for). Umibozu personally delivered them at Ryo's home while they complained [[DidntSeeThatComing they couldn't have known they were allies]]. |
| 294 | ** They also try and help each other in ways they don't want. Like Umibozu's attempts at setting Ryo and Kaori together. |
| 295 | * WarIsHell |
| 296 | * WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: He's absolutely ''terrified'' by cats. The cuter they are, the more he's scared. Even someone meowing will cause him to jump. |
| 297 | ** "Shinjuku Private Eyes" reveals he's also terrified of [[spoiler: the [[Manga/CatsEye Kisugi Sisters]] due to knowing ''exactly'' who they are... And the fact that they still own the Cat's Eye, Umibozu and Miki just operate it for them]]. |
| 298 | * TheWorfEffect: Was hit with this ''twice'' in the final Union Teope arc to showcase the terror of facing someone dosed with Angel Dust, first by revealing that [[spoiler: the platoon destroyed by Ryo when dosed with Angel Dust was ''his'']], and then by having him fight a dosed [[spoiler: Mick]] and lose. |
| 299 | [[/folder]] |
| 300 | |
| 301 | [[folder: Miki]] |
| 302 | -->Voiced by: Creator/MamiKoyama (All 4 TV series, 1st Movie, 90's TV specials, 2019 movie), Creator/MikiIto (Movie 2 [[note]]''Bay City Wars''[[/note]] & Movie 3 [[note]]''Million Dollar Conspiracy''[[/note]] only) (Japanese), Amalia Stifter (English, ADV), Creator/MichelleRojas (English, ''City Hunter: Shinjuku Private Eyes'') |
| 303 | |
| 304 | When a merc, Umibozu saved a small girl and taught her to defend herself, only to run away when he realized he accidentally made her a ChildSoldier in love with him. After over twenty years, Miki finally found him... And succeeded in marrying him. |
| 305 | ---- |
| 306 | Tropes associated with Miki: |
| 307 | * ActionGirl: Is a former servicewoman. |
| 308 | * BerserkButton: Don't call Umibozu with that name in her presence, but use the codename Falcon or his actual name. |
| 309 | * BetaCouple: With Umibozu. |
| 310 | * CareerVersusMan: Averted and shot to pieces. |
| 311 | * DubNameChange: In France, her name is either "Mirna" or "Mimi", the French dubs of the movies and specials however refer to her by her original Japanese name, but for the French dub of ''Shinjuku Private Eyes'' she's back to being "Mimi". |
| 312 | * HeadTurningBeauty: She constantly gets this reaction from people. |
| 313 | * HypnoticEyes: A skill she didn't learn from Umibozu: she can hypnotize people who look in her eyes for too long. |
| 314 | * IJustWantToBeNormal: Subverted: she may prefer working at her cafe, but she has no problem going out and helping Umibozu on the job. |
| 315 | * MayDecemberRomance: With Umibozu, who is ''at least'' 12 years older than her. |
| 316 | * MythologyGag: She's the current owner of the Manga/CatsEye Cafe. |
| 317 | * ShipperOnDeck: Ships Kaori and Ryo. |
| 318 | * SmallGirlBigGun: Her usual sidearm is a [[HandCannon Colt King Cobra]] grabbed from Umibozu's closet. |
| 319 | * SnipeHunt: When she first showed up in the series, Umibozu tried to refuse her request for marriage by telling them to kill Ryo ([[OvershadowedByAwesome something she couldn't possibly do in spite of her skills]]), and then, after Ryo found out, told her to shoot him with one of ten paint bullets in a week. To Umibozu's chagrin and happiness, Ryo saw the giant sweeper's true feelings and set ''Umibozu himself'' to shoot him with one of the two last paint bullets (Ryo shot Umibozu with the other to make it look that Miki set them up). |
| 320 | * UglyGuyHotWife: At the end of the manga she becomes Umibozu's hot wife... But is convinced he's not ugly, just solemn. |
| 321 | * WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: "Shinjuku Private Eyes" reveals she's terrified of [[spoiler:[[Manga/CatsEye the Kisugi Sisters]] due to knowing ''exactly'' who they are... And the fact they still own the Cat's Eye, she and Umibozu just operate it for them]]. |
| 322 | [[/folder]] |
| 323 | |
| 324 | [[folder: Doc]] |
| 325 | -->Voiced by: Creator/{{Chafurin}} (Japanese, ''City Hunter: Shinjuku Private Eyes''), Creator/RBruceElliott (English, ''City Hunter: Shinjuku Private Eyes'') |
| 326 | |
| 327 | The man who introduced Ryo to the sweeper job and to perversion. |
| 328 | ---- |
| 329 | Tropes associated with Doc: |
| 330 | * BunnyEarsLawyer: He may be a pervert and have a sense of humour even more childish than Ryo, but he's still a very competent medic and can find or plant any information. |
| 331 | * DirtyOldMan: He once groped Kaori ''while fainted''. |
| 332 | * EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep |
| 333 | * KnightOfCerebus: A most subtler example than the other Americans, as this will be hidden under his crazy antics and the fact [[CerebusRetcon the context of the events he talks about is provided only much later]]. |
| 334 | * KnowledgeBroker: His current job. |
| 335 | * TheMedic: Since the times in Central America. |
| 336 | * OnlySaneMan: The most well-adjusted of the characters linked to Ryo's past in America. |
| 337 | * PutOnABus: Disappeared with Kazue after Silver Fox's second story arc, [[TheBusCameBack reappearing, much later, at the end of the final Union Teope arc]]. |
| 338 | [[/folder]] |
| 339 | |
| 340 | [[folder: Kasumi Aso]] |
| 341 | -->Voiced by: [[Creator/MinaTominaga Miina Tominaga]] |
| 342 | |
| 343 | A PhantomThief who hired Ryo to help her, first for a heist and later to avoid an ArrangedMarriage. She then went to work for Miki at the Cat's Eye, having been kicked out of home until she could get her heart back from Ryo (her grandmother's way to give her permission to marry her beloved Ryo). |
| 344 | ---- |
| 345 | Tropes associated with Kasumi: |
| 346 | |
| 347 | * ArrangedMarriage: The traditions of the Aso family require that the daughters will stop stealing and marry at age 20, with their groom chosen by the family among the best thieves around. The only way out is that the woman choose their own candidate husband that will have to prove himself better than the chosen of the family... And this for Kasumi means Ryo, even if she didn't love him (yet). |
| 348 | * BuxomBeautyStandard: She has huge breasts, especially for her age which causes ACupAngst in even decently sized women like Kaori. |
| 349 | * CovertPervert: Turns out to be quite happy to get confirmation that Ryo's penis is the biggest in Shinjuku. |
| 350 | * DemotedToExtra: After her second story arc. |
| 351 | * DubNameChange: In France she's "Samantha" |
| 352 | ** In the Italian dub of the TV series, she alternated between either "Carmen Aselli", "Clara" or "Serena", to make things more confusing she still was voiced by the same actress despite this. |
| 353 | * {{Expy}}: Of the Kisugi sisters from ''Manga/CatsEye'', even ending up working at the Cat's Eye Cafe. |
| 354 | * KarmicThief: Her family only steals when commissioned to do this. |
| 355 | * MythologyGag: A phantom thief working in a coffee house called Manga/CatsEye? [[LampshadeHanging Why does Miki find this familiar?]] Also, her debut scene included her being chased by Takeshi Hirano, one of the member of the squad specifically assigned to catch Cat's Eye, and her first story had a mention of Inunari (the fictional area of Tokyo where the Kisugi sisters lived). |
| 356 | * PhantomThief: From a long line of phantom thieves who work on commission. |
| 357 | * SpyCatsuit: One that looks like a gymnast's outfit, as per her being a walking ''Manga/CatsEye'' ShoutOut. |
| 358 | [[/folder]] |
| 359 | |
| 360 | [[folder: Kazue Natori]] |
| 361 | -->Voiced by: Creator/YurikoYamamoto (Japanese), Creator/KristiRothrock (English, ''City Hunter: Shinjuku Private Eyes'') |
| 362 | |
| 363 | An immunologist who ended up hiring Ryo for protection from a CorruptCorporateExecutive. She later fell in love with Ryo and started working as Doc's assistant. |
| 364 | ---- |
| 365 | Tropes associated with Kazue: |
| 366 | |
| 367 | * BeeAfraid: Her late fiancee was duped in creating them, and she wants to destroy them to avenge him. |
| 368 | * DubNameChange: |
| 369 | ** In France, her name is "Christelle Martin" |
| 370 | ** In the Italian dub of the TV series, her name is "Katia Natoli", the Italian dub of ''Shinjuku Private Eyes'', however, refers to her by her original Japanese name. |
| 371 | * FlorenceNightingaleEffect: [[spoiler: How the PairTheSpares entry happened, as she develops romantic feelings for Mick Angel while nursing him back to health.]] |
| 372 | * IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: She willingly renounces the chance to get with Ryo because she knew he loved Kaori. |
| 373 | * TheLoinsSleepTonight: She had to do this to Ryo: he got stung by a killer bee, and the initial antidote had this effect. |
| 374 | * OnlySaneWoman: She's a rational and (mostly) normal person who has around such madmen as Ryo, Kaori and Doc. |
| 375 | * PairTheSpares: [[spoiler: She ends up with Mick Angel.]] |
| 376 | * PutOnABus: Disappeared with Doc after Silver Fox's second story arc, [[TheBusCameBack reappearing, much later, at the end of the final Union Teope arc]]. |
| 377 | [[/folder]] |
| 378 | |
| 379 | [[folder: The Kisugi Sisters]] |
| 380 | ->See ''[[Characters/CatsEyeManga Cat's Eye]]''. |
| 381 | [[/folder]] |
| 382 | |
| 383 | !The Americans |
| 384 | [[folder: Rosemary Moon]] |
| 385 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/blood_mary.png]] |
| 386 | -->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MakotoKosaka |
| 387 | Ryo's first partner in the US, and a top model to boot. |
| 388 | ---- |
| 389 | Tropes associated with Rosemary Moon: |
| 390 | * ActionGirl: She's capable of kicking ass, which she demonstrates in both story arcs where she appears. |
| 391 | * AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Kaori can't help but feel insecure around her, given Rosemary is Ryo's old partner who seems much more competent and knows him much better than she does. |
| 392 | * BuxomBeautyStandard: She has large breasts, which Ryo describes as "extraordinary". |
| 393 | * DefrostingIceQueen: At first, she's hostile towards Kaori, seeing her as an inept assistant who's not worthy of Ryo, but she warms up to her after they start working together. |
| 394 | * DislikesTheNewGuy: She initially disapproves of Ryo's new assistant Kaori, seeing her as too green to be a proper partner to someone like Ryo, and even attempts to scare her off by telling her of Ryo's DarkAndTroubledPast. But eventually, Kaori manages to win over her respect when they work together to rescue her boyfriend. |
| 395 | * DrivenToSuicide: She becomes suicidal after failing to assassinate Ryo, assuming that if she's dead then at least the men holding her boyfriend captive will have no more reason to keep him. She's prevented from doing it by Ryo, Umibozu, and Kaori. |
| 396 | * FakingTheDead: Ryo arranged for her death to be faked, so she could live a normal life as a civilian without having to worry about the enemies she acquired during her life as a sweeper. |
| 397 | * FanserviceModel: Her "normal" job is as a model, something she gained international fame over due to a commerical that only showed her from the back while doing a SupermodelStrut in a SexyBacklessOutfit, becoming known as a "backside beauty". |
| 398 | * FeetFirstIntroduction: The first time the viewer sees her in the flesh in her leg stepping out of her car.. |
| 399 | * FemmeFatale: She's a female sweeper who uses her sex appeal to give her an advantage in her work. Best seen when she tricks Ryo into thinking she's taking a shower by faking a SexySilhouette in the glass, just to lure him inside where she's waiting for him fully clothes and holds him at gunpoint. |
| 400 | * ForcedIntoEvil: Her LoveInterest Eric was kidnapped by an old enemy of hers, and she was {{Blackmail}}ed into assassinating Ryo, or else he'd be killed. At the ends, she managed to rescue her lover with Ryo's help. |
| 401 | * HardDrinkingPartyGirl: She usually doesn't drink much, but is a heavy drinker when attending social events, to the point of passing out drunk. |
| 402 | * HeadTurningBeauty: Being a supermodel, she easily turns heads when she walks past people. |
| 403 | * IJustWantToBeNormal: She wants to leave her life as a sweeper behind and live a normal life, but has made too many enemies for this to be a real possibility. She gets her wish when Ryo [[FakingTheDead fakes her death]], allowing her to live as she pleases as a normal civilian. |
| 404 | * JustFriends: Despite Ryo's obvious physical attraction to her and their LikeAnOldMarriedCouple dynamic, they never hooked up and don't have romantic feelings for each other. |
| 405 | * LustObject: Even though she and Ryo are JustFriends, he can't help but be attracted to her good looks, such as getting {{distracted|ByTheSexy}} by the idea of [[UndressingTheUnconscious having to undress her]] even though she had just tried to kill him. |
| 406 | * TheMasqueradeWillKillYourDatingLife: {{Subverted|Trope}}. She's dating her modeling manager, who has no idea she's secretly also a sweeper. Him getting kidnapped makes her assume he'd want nothing to do with her anymore, but he proves her wrong, and still wants to be with her regardless. |
| 407 | * MsExposition: As Ryo's old partner, she's one of the few people who know about his DarkAndTroubledPast, and her arc involves her telling it to Kaori (and the audience). |
| 408 | * MsFanservice: She's a gorgeous woman who gets plenty of MaleGaze shots of her body during her brief screentime, and even SleepsInTheNude in Ryo's apartment, save for a ModestyBedsheet and SceneryCensor. |
| 409 | * NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: As a sweeper, she's known as "The Bloody Mary". |
| 410 | * NoodleIncident: She and Umibozu have a hostile history from back when she worked as Ryo's partner, but the specifics are never elaborated on. |
| 411 | * ObfuscatingStupidity: She acts like a ValleyGirl, but seeing her is enough to make ''Umibozu'' wary. |
| 412 | * PhenotypeStereotype: She conforms to the Japanese stereotype of American women being blue-eyed blondes with large breasts. |
| 413 | * RedBaron: As a sweeper, she's known as Bloody Mary. Ironically, it's actually because her favorite drink is called Bloody Mary, and not because of any of her feats. |
| 414 | * ShamelessFanserviceGirl: She shows to have little care for modesty. When Ryo wakes her up as she SleepsInTheNude, she just casually gets up, not caring the ModestyBedsheet slips away, and teases him about becoming a prude when he tells her to PleasePutSomeClothesOn. |
| 415 | * ShipperOnDeck: She's supportive of Ryo pairing up with Kaori, often teasing both about their obvious feelings for each other. |
| 416 | * SleepsInTheNude: She sleeps with no clothes on, to reaffirm her image as an exotic beauty. She does it even when staying at Ryo's apartment, much to his and Kaori's shock. |
| 417 | * SultryBangs: Her hair often covers one of her eyes, to give her a FemmeFatale allure. |
| 418 | * TheTease: She constantly acts flirtatious towards Ryo, but doesn't actually mean anything by it, only seeming to enjoy getting him riled up. |
| 419 | * VitriolicBestBuds: Due to being old partners, she and Ryo and used having SnarkToSnarkCombat and riling each other up with InsultOfEndearment. |
| 420 | |
| 421 | [[/folder]] |
| 422 | |
| 423 | [[folder: Sonia Field]] |
| 424 | -->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/RicaMatsumoto |
| 425 | |
| 426 | The daughter of Ryo's second partner in the US. She arrived in Japan to kill Ryo by hiring Umibozu for the job. |
| 427 | ---- |
| 428 | Tropes associated with Sonia: |
| 429 | * ActionGirl |
| 430 | * IJustWantToBeSpecial: Wanted to be Ryo's partner, but her father and Ryo wanted her out of the criminal underworld. |
| 431 | * IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Why she encourages Kaori to stay with Ryo. |
| 432 | * JailbaitWait: Inverted: ''she'' was in love with Ryo since she was a child. |
| 433 | * PunchClockVillain: She had her good reasons to kill Ryo. On the other hand, so did Ryo for [[spoiler: killing her father]]. |
| 434 | * WomanScorned: [[spoiler:It happens, when you find out your love killed your father...]] |
| 435 | * YouKilledMyFather: Her reason to try and kill Ryo. |
| 436 | [[/folder]] |
| 437 | |
| 438 | [[folder: Kenny Field]] |
| 439 | -->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/HidekatsuShibata |
| 440 | |
| 441 | Sonia's late father, killed by Ryo in a duel. |
| 442 | ---- |
| 443 | Tropes associated with Kenny: |
| 444 | * DaddyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou: Namely, [[spoiler: a criminal organization wanted him to kill Ryo and threatened Sonia's life]], so he challenged Ryo at a duel he knew he couldn't win. |
| 445 | * EvilParentsWantGoodKids: Not really evil, but he still wanted Sonia out of the criminal underworld, and made sure, both in his will and by telling Ryo about it, that Sonia wouldn't follow in his footsteps. Then she found out how he died... |
| 446 | %%* PunchclockVillain |
| 447 | * SuicideByCop: [[spoiler: He did have Ryo kill him...]] |
| 448 | [[/folder]] |
| 449 | |
| 450 | [[folder: Mick Angel]] |
| 451 | -->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KenNarita |
| 452 | |
| 453 | A friend of Ryo from Los Angeles, he's practically an American version of Ryo in both abilities, antics and perversion. |
| 454 | ---- |
| 455 | Tropes associated with Mick: |
| 456 | * BrainwashedAndCrazy: [[spoiler: After being found dying by Union Teope, Kaibara has him healed and brainwashed in a killing machine to sick on Ryo]]. |
| 457 | * BunnyEarsLawyer: Just as Ryo. |
| 458 | * TheCasanova: Walks the fine line between this and HandsomeLech, but his preference for married and engaged women puts him into this category. |
| 459 | * CollectiveIdentity: In the US City Hunter was the name for Ryo and him. He later made a bet to exclude Ryo from the name, but lost. |
| 460 | * CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: His antics are even crazier than Ryo (and between the two of them Kaori was going mad), and when the time comes he's just as badass as Ryo. |
| 461 | * DisneyDeath: [[spoiler: The end of his introductory arc ends with a bomb exploding on his face while he's on a plane. The immediately following arc reveals he survived the bomb and was healed by Kaibara]]. |
| 462 | * EstablishingCharacterMoment: We first see him [[TheCasanova seducing a hostess who was about to marry.]] |
| 463 | * ExoticWeaponSupremacy: {{Averted}}: he himself considers it a downgrade, and calls his new weapons toys. |
| 464 | * {{Expy}}: He's based on the anime-only character Robert Harrison in pretty much everything, the only difference being that Robert tends to be more serious. |
| 465 | * FlorenceNightingaleEffect: [[spoiler: How the PairTheSpares entry happened, as Kazue develops romantic feelings for him while nursing him back to health.]] |
| 466 | * FlechetteStorm: Starts using this after [[spoiler:crippling his arm to the point he can't shoot anymore]]. |
| 467 | * FriendlyEnemies: Ryo's reaction to Mick announcing he's there to kill him? Inviting him out to drink, and then letting him stay at his home! Friendlier than that... |
| 468 | * TheGunslinger: He's on Ryo's level, to the point that Umibozu and ''Ryo and Mick themselves'' can't tell who would win in a duel. |
| 469 | * HandicappedBadass: [[spoiler: During his time under Angel Dust, he crippled his right arm to the point he can't shoot a gun anymore, but he can still give Ryo a run for his money and kick the ass of lesser foes.]] |
| 470 | * IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Why he renounces to kill Ryo: he's truly fallen for Kaori. |
| 471 | * LadykillerInLove: Falls for Kaori while trying to seduce her before killing Ryo, and renounces the hit because of this. [[spoiler: He later falls for Kozue]]. |
| 472 | * KnightOfCerebus: Much more than the other Americans, as his arrival in Japan [[spoiler: heralds Union Teope's return in the story]]. |
| 473 | * LetsYouAndHimFight: His way to announce his arrival in Japan is to barge in his home, cry "Ryo! You're a dead man!" and start shooting, with Ryo firing back until they empty their guns. Then they start laughing. |
| 474 | * OnlyInItForTheMoney: According to Umibozu he'd kill his lover for money. |
| 475 | ** His anime counterpart showed the same philosophy, to an absurd degree: hired to kill a princess if she survives a series of attempts on her life, he helps Ryo defending her as a favour to his friend, and when she survives all the other attempts he calmly shoots her. |
| 476 | * PairTheSpares: [[spoiler: He ends up with Kozue]]. |
| 477 | * PetTheDog: Subverted: he says he seduces the women of his male targets so they won't suffer when he kills them, but both Umibozu and his own actions make clear [[TheCasanova he just likes proving himself more charming than other men]]. |
| 478 | * PunchClockVillain: Of course, he comes to Japan to try and kill Ryo, and has a very good reason for it. |
| 479 | ** According to Umibozu, he'd kill his lover for money, if paid well enough. Also, back when Umibozu and Ryo were mortal rivals, he had the habit of joining Ryo in a mission and Umibozu in the following, depending on his client. |
| 480 | ** His anime counterpart went farther than that: he showed up helping Ryo defending a princess as a favor to him, then, after she had survived a series of attempts on her life, he shot her because he had been hired to kill her if she survived those, and continued trying to kill her even after the death of the villain because it was his job. |
| 481 | * RedBaron: The original City Hunter when he worked with Ryo. |
| 482 | [[/folder]] |
| 483 | |
| 484 | !Union Teope |
| 485 | [[folder: In General]] |
| 486 | The great drug syndicate of Central America, and the main antagonist of the manga. |
| 487 | ---- |
| 488 | Tropes associated with Union Teope in general: |
| 489 | * AdaptationDistillation: The anime cut out most of the Union Teope parts, replacing it with the small drug cartel Red Pegasus to kill off Hideyuki. The film ''Angel Dust'' eventually reveals that Red Pegasus was in fact Union Teope's Japanese proxy. |
| 490 | * TheDreaded: Even other criminal organizations are ''terrified'' of the Union, and with good reasons. In fact, Ryo's reputation as TheDreaded stems from [[DefeatingTheUndefeatable kicking Union Teope out of Japan when they first tried to expand there]]. |
| 491 | * LaserGuidedKarma: A good chunk of the money Ryo stole from them was given to the rehabilitation clinic where Ryo had sent a few dozens of women they had addicted to drugs. |
| 492 | * PsychoSerum: Angel Dust make the victim stronger and near-immune to pain, resulting in them being practically unstoppable unless you behead or blow them up (they will be harmed by bullets, but will continue 'till they bleed out unless the bullet hits something vital). The victim will also obey any order, and the withdrawal is 99% lethal. |
| 493 | * TheSyndicate: They are involved in drugs, prostitution, illegal gambling, jewelry theft (with the jewels sold in apparently legitimate shops owned by the Union), and probably more. |
| 494 | * YouHaveFailedMe: |
| 495 | ** If you fail at your job, you have 24 hours to redeem yourself before the whole Union will hunt you down. Luckily, this only applies if your failure is particularly dire or embarrassing (like having Ryo steal a crapload of Union money from under your nose and sparing your life because 'he can kill you when he wants, but can steal the money only in that occasion'), and only if the [[BigBad Major]] finds out before your immediate superior (in that case you'll get a quick death). |
| 496 | ** If you aren't a member of the Union and refuse their orders they'll apply this trope anyway and sick a guy dosed with Angel Dust on you. |
| 497 | [[/folder]] |
| 498 | |
| 499 | [[folder: The Major / Shin Kaibara]] |
| 500 | Union Teope's founder and boss. Also [[spoiler: Ryo's adopted father]]. |
| 501 | ---- |
| 502 | Tropes associated with Kaibara: |
| 503 | * AbusiveParent: He used his ''adopted son'' as test subject of Angel Dust! |
| 504 | * BadBoss: Seriously, ''firebranding'' your men when they fail their job?! |
| 505 | %%* BigBad |
| 506 | * DeathSeeker: [[spoiler: In the back of his mind he hopes he'll get killed and stopped.]] |
| 507 | * TheDreaded: He can terrify Ryo and Umibozu, and Mick preferred killing Ryo to facing his wrath. |
| 508 | * FaceHeelTurn: Was once a freedom fighter, until the war hit his psyche a little too much... |
| 509 | * FauxAffablyEvil |
| 510 | * HandicappedBadass: Before his FaceHeelTurn, he lost his leg saving Ryo. He's still just as good as him, and sometimes he'll keep a bomb in his fake leg. |
| 511 | * TheHeavy: Directly or indirectly, he did the following: |
| 512 | ** [[spoiler: The destruction of Umibozu's platoon during the war in Central America]]; |
| 513 | ** Umibozu's [[spoiler: poor sight and eventual blindness, a consequence of a wound in the destruction of his platoon]]; |
| 514 | ** Turned Ryo and Umibozu into [[ShellShockedVeteran Shell-Shocked veterans]]; |
| 515 | ** Killed Makimura; |
| 516 | ** Caused the fight with Snake and the near-death of Umibozu's protege; |
| 517 | ** Forced Mick to try and kill Ryo; |
| 518 | ** Was likely the one who ordered Kenny Field to [[spoiler: try and kill Ryo]], causing his death and his daughter's hate for Ryo; |
| 519 | ** Implied to be the one gunning for Miyuki Kobayashi through the agents of a government he controlled. |
| 520 | * KickTheDog: His reaction to [[spoiler: Mick's surviving being blown up?]] Healing him and then brainwashing him with Angel Dust. |
| 521 | * KnowWhenToFoldEm: Union Teope first retreat from Japan after Ryo killed the General because he had nobody else on that level, and sending other men against Ryo would only weaken the Union. |
| 522 | * PetTheDog: Dosing [[spoiler: Mick]] with Angel Dust saved his life (at the time he was literally too weak to live, and the drug gave his body the strength to survive long enough to heal), and it could have been intentional. Mixed with KickTheDog, given what he did with him after saving his life... |
| 523 | * RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler: After being shot by Ryo he gives him a way out of his sinking ship]]. |
| 524 | * ShellShockedVeteran: Why he created Angel Dust in the first place and did everything else he did. |
| 525 | %%* WarIsHell |
| 526 | * WellIntentionedExtremist: He originally created Angel Dust to help the freedom fighters winning the war. |
| 527 | [[/folder]] |
| 528 | |
| 529 | [[folder: The General]] |
| 530 | -->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/RokuroNaya |
| 531 | |
| 532 | The leader of the Union's army, and their strongest fighter. |
| 533 | ---- |
| 534 | Tropes associated with the General: |
| 535 | * AdaptationDistillation: One of only two Union Teope characters to appear in the anime, killing Hideyuki in place of an Angel Dust addict. He also gets an {{Expy}} when Red Pegasus tries to recover. |
| 536 | * ArmCannon: He has an assault rifle with grenade launcher in place of his right forearm, throwing knives hidden under the rifle mount, and a [[LegCannon bigger grenade launcher in the thigh]]. |
| 537 | * BerserkButton: He likes beautiful things over anything, and his jewel shop and art collection over that, and absolutely ''hates'' pigs. [[{{Troll}} To throw him off and make him an easier target, Ryo demolished his jewel shop and filled it with pigs, fed the jewels to the pigs, and as he was assessing the damage there destroyed his art collection and vandalized his home.]] |
| 538 | * TheDragon |
| 539 | * HumiliationConga: Ryo first revealed that his jewelry sold stolen jewels, then devastated it and fed his jewels to pigs (he ''hates'' pigs), then destroyed his art collection, and finally stole from under his nose a crapload of money he was supposed to give to the Union. After the latter, Kaibara [[YouHaveFailedMe firebranded him and gave him 24 hours to kill Ryo before sicking the whole Union on him]]. |
| 540 | * ManOfWealthAndTaste: He's always dressed with fine suits, and had a magnificent art collection before Ryo ruined it. |
| 541 | * MoreDakka: See the list at ArmCannon. |
| 542 | * PsychoSerum: Took Angel Dust before his final confrontation with Ryo. |
| 543 | * RasputinianDeath: In the manga he was shot in the chest, the arm and again the chest, knifed in the forehead and the throat, and finally blown up when Ryo shot in his thigh-mounted grenade launcher. |
| 544 | * ShoutOut: When he revealed the LegCannon Ryo compared him to [[Manga/{{Cyborg 009}} 004]]. |
| 545 | * YouHaveFailedMe: Apart being a victim of this, he pulled it on some of his subordinates, the guards that failed to even notice Ryo sneaking in his house and ruining his art collection and a subordinate who not only failed to stop Ryo's stunt in the jewelry (and got beaten up and nearly ''eaten by the pigs'' when he tried) but didn't realize Ryo had planted a bug on him. To be fair, he only applies it when you screw up ''hard'' (the guy who got beaten up by Ryo was initially going to survive, as [[OvershadowedByAwesome it wasn't his fault Ryo was so much better]]. The bug, on the other hand, was too much). |
| 546 | [[/folder]] |
| 547 | |
| 548 | [[folder: The Baron]] |
| 549 | The director of a Union-owned illegal casino. |
| 550 | ---- |
| 551 | Tropes associated with the Baron: |
| 552 | * CardSharp: He plays in his own casino and cheats at the roulette. Ryo got his attention by out-cheating him. |
| 553 | * OhCrap: Had a magnificent one when Ryo presented himself. Then he died from the poison Ryo injected into him when they shook hands. |
| 554 | [[/folder]] |
| 555 | |
| 556 | [[folder: Silky Club's director]] |
| 557 | The director of a night club owned by the Union, and the man who had Hideyuki killed. He's also one of the only two Union Teope characters to appear in the anime, and the only one with his role unchanged. |
| 558 | ---- |
| 559 | Tropes associated with the director: |
| 560 | * FauxAffablyEvil: He tries to give this impression, and fails utterly. |
| 561 | * ItsPersonal: Ryo went out for him first because he had Hideyuki killed. |
| 562 | [[/folder]] |
| 563 | |
| 564 | !Recurring villains |
| 565 | [[folder: Silver Fox]] |
| 566 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screen_shot_2021_10_30_at_10921_am.png]] |
| 567 | -->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KoichiYamadera |
| 568 | |
| 569 | A professional killer with a long story with Ryo (mostly unscreen). We met him when he tried to kill Ryo's charge and when he decided to kill Kaori in revenge for being humiliated by Ryo. |
| 570 | ---- |
| 571 | Tropes associated with Silver Fox: |
| 572 | * BringMyBrownPants: In his first appearance he's defeated when Ryo fools him into pissing himself and has an accomplice take a picture of him. |
| 573 | * ButtMonkey: While competent, he's ''really'' unlucky and the butt of some of the craziest jokes of the series. |
| 574 | * {{Fingore}}: He's defeated for good when Ryo shoots off his index finger, preventing him from ever firing a gun again. |
| 575 | * GoodGunsBadGuns: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]: he may be a villain, but uses what should be guns for good guys. |
| 576 | * IronButtMonkey: He survived stepping in a field that [[TrapMaster Kaori]] had filled with mines, spears, and other potentially lethal traps. |
| 577 | * MasterOfDisguise: He's really good at disguising himself. Sadly he tends to do some small mistakes due things he doesn't know (how to act as a professional photographer) or being ''too good'' in the acting (he knew that Ryo could get horny from Kaori, while Kaori didn't), allowing Ryo and Kaori to see through them. |
| 578 | * MeaningfulName: Silver Fox is tied to the Japanese legend of the ''[[AsianFoxSpirit kitsune]]'' as a trickster and shapeshifter, and his kills are done with tricks and disguises. |
| 579 | * MundaneMadeAwesome: He and Ryo have a MexicanStandoff... ''With Polaroids!'' Granted, one of them was a gun in disguise and only Ryo knew which, but still... |
| 580 | * OnlyKnownByHisNickname: His real name remains unknown. |
| 581 | * OvershadowedByAwesome: He's good, but Ryo is better. That's why he brings a bra to distract him in the event he'll have to face him. |
| 582 | * ProfessionalKiller: The coolest in Tokyo, he says. |
| 583 | * RememberTheNewGuy: Ryo and Silver Fox have some sort of history, but we only saw their last two encounters. |
| 584 | [[/folder]] |
| 585 | |
| 586 | [[folder: Unryu chief]] |
| 587 | The clever leader of a Yakuza clan. Has a bullying son who [[MuggingTheMonster picked a fight with Ryo]]. |
| 588 | ---- |
| 589 | Tropes associated with the Unryu Chief: |
| 590 | * KnowWhenToFoldEm: He knows better than to mess with City Hunter, and is rather quick to give up the moment he realizes he's being dragged in just that situation. |
| 591 | * MuggingTheMonster: People involved with him have the habit of picking fights with City Hunter without knowing who they're dealing with. |
| 592 | * OhCrap: Pulled a very epic one upon recognizing Ryo, and an even bigger one when they met again. |
| 593 | * OhNoNotAgain: His reaction to Ryo visiting his home. |
| 594 | * PapaWolf: First appeared to try and avenge his son being continuously beaten up by Ryo. [[MuggingTheMonster Of course he still didn't know it was Ryo...]] |
| 595 | [[/folder]] |
| 596 | |
| 597 | [[folder: The Bat]] |
| 598 | A professional hitman who found himself having to fight Ryo and didn't appreciate the result. |
| 599 | ---- |
| 600 | Tropes associated with the Bat: |
| 601 | * AnimalMotifs: The bat. And to drive it home, has a bat drawn on the gun he uses in his first appearance, goes drinking in the Bat Shot Bar, and looks like a vampire. |
| 602 | * CombatPragmatist: Never forgets to rig the situation to his advantage, even handing Ryo an empty gun for their duel when Ryo proposes they exchange guns. |
| 603 | * HumiliationConga: In both his appearances: |
| 604 | ** When he first appears Ryo shoots his hand to stop him, and when he's trying to escape in a plane Ryo appears and shoots him in the shoulder ''left-handed''. |
| 605 | ** In his second appearance he gets the duel with Ryo he broke out of jail for, a duel he rigged when Ryo proposed they exchanged guns by handing him an empty one, but Ryo ''hits him with the empty gun right between the eyes faster than he could draw'', breaking his glasses in the process, then, when he tries to fight on, Ryo shoots his hand with Umibozu's gun (a [[HandCannon .44 Magnum]]), then he gets knocked down by Kaori, and finally Umibozu, pissed off for having been made a fool of previously, grabs him and says he'll bring him back to jail after [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown thanking him]]. |
| 606 | * {{Jerkass}}: Let's see... After Ryo beats him he kidnaps Kaori to use as hostage and plans to kill her as soon as he's far enough, after being thrown into jail he threatens to kill the ''three years old daughter'' of the best gunsmith around if she won't improve his gun... |
| 607 | * JerkassHasAPoint: When he handed Ryo an empty gun for their duel he declared himself the better gunslinger because Ryo had apparently not noticed. Had Ryo actually not noticed, he'd have been right. |
| 608 | * MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: His specialization. |
| 609 | * OnlyKnownByHisNickname: Real name unknown. |
| 610 | * OvershadowedByAwesome: He's a competent killer... It's just that Ryo is ''better'', and so fast that he beat him in a duel by ''drawing his unloaded gun and throwing it at his head faster than he could draw''. |
| 611 | * SoreLoser: After being humiliated by Ryo in his first appearance he didn't take it well. |
| 612 | * SunglassesAtNight |
| 613 | * WouldHitAGirl, [[WouldHurtAChild and a Child]]: His mark when he first showed up was a woman, he threatens to kill Kaori and hits another girl, and then threatens to murder a ''three years old girl''... |
| 614 | [[/folder]] |
| 615 | |
| 616 | !Others |
| 617 | [[folder: Sayaka Ryujin]] |
| 618 | -->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YukoMita |
| 619 | |
| 620 | Daughter of a Yakuza boss. Ryo was hired to guard her from a biker gang. |
| 621 | ---- |
| 622 | Tropes associated with Sayaka: |
| 623 | * AbhorrentAdmirer: She becomes one for Ryo. The abhorrent part exists only because she's a minor, no matter how sexy she is. |
| 624 | * AndNowYouMustMarryMe: Gender-inverted example: ''she'' tried to force Ryo to marry her by moving in his apartment ([[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments getting mistaken for Kaori's wife in the process]]). |
| 625 | * ArrangedMarriage: She is in one with the son of another Yakuza boss. Given her fiancee is a moron, she's not thrilled. |
| 626 | * OnlySaneWoman: Her father is an half-crazy yakuza boss who is not above ogling on her or trying to set her with Ryo, Ryo and Kaori antics are already known, her fiancee is a short BigBadWannabe fixated with [[AllBikersAreHellsAngels biker gangs]] and using a muscolar lookalike to try and impress people (even those who know how he really looks like. His antics caused ''[[BunnyEarsLawyer Ryo]]'' to get embarrassed)... Can you blame her for being on a short fuse and [[FacePalm facepalming]] almost constantly? |
| 627 | * ReverseCerebusSyndrome: The manga chapter where she appeared signaled the shift from the dark beginnings to the wacky tone of most of the series. |
| 628 | * WhatHappenedToTheMouse: She disappeared with no apparent reason. |
| 629 | * YakuzaPrincess: Her father is a Yakuza boss and supports her life, but she ''hates'' the Yakuza and left home for this. It's not clear how much this is out of actual dislike for the Yakuza (she lives in an apartment owned by her father and gets an allowance from him) and not out of [[OnlySaneWoman being annoyed at his crazed antics and getting her an idiotic fiancee]]. |
| 630 | [[/folder]] |
| 631 | |
| 632 | [[folder: Sayuri Tachiki]] |
| 633 | -->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YoshikoSakakibara |
| 634 | |
| 635 | Kaori's biological sister, who searched her for years. |
| 636 | ---- |
| 637 | Tropes associated with Sayuri: |
| 638 | * DoesntLikeGuns: And doesn't like Kaori using them either. |
| 639 | * HyperspaceMallet: How Ryo accepted her identity as Kaori's sister: she malletted him. |
| 640 | * IntrepidReporter: Director of Weekly News, she has no qualms at inquiring over corrupted politicians, and will calmly destroy letters of threat without even opening them if they aren't grammatically perfect. |
| 641 | * SharedFamilyQuirks: At first glance, Roy couldn’t believe someone as beautiful and graceful-looking as Sayuri could be Kaori’s biological sister, until he tries to put the moves on her did she responded with a HyperspaceMallet. |
| 642 | * ShipperOnDeck: Before leaving for America she started shipping Ryo and Kaori together. |
| 643 | * TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Where Kaori is a tomboy, Sayuri is a proper and feminine woman. |
| 644 | [[/folder]] |
| 645 | |
| 646 | [[folder: Police superintendent-general Nogami]] |
| 647 | -->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KinryuuArimoto |
| 648 | |
| 649 | The chief of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police. Also Saeko's father, and an embarrassment for his daughters. |
| 650 | ---- |
| 651 | Tropes associated with Nogami-san: |
| 652 | * AmazinglyEmbarrassingParent: And ''how''! |
| 653 | * BumblingDad: No matter how serious he tries to be and regardless of the topic(s) at hand, his antics only end up embarrassing his daughters, most often Saeko. |
| 654 | * HeirClubForMen: The reason he has ''five daughters'' and is [[IWantGrandkids obsessed with having grandchildren]] is that he can't father a male child. |
| 655 | * HypocriticalHumor: He insists on having Saeko address him as "inspector general" instead of "dad" in the police office in an attempt to keep work and personal issues separate, but he spends more time at work talking to Saeko about getting her a fiancee/husband than anything that's remotely "work-related". |
| 656 | * IWantGrandkids: ''Male'' grandkids, to be accurate. And [[OldMaid Saeko]] should be the one to provide them... Too bad she doesn't care in the slightest. |
| 657 | * ModernMajorGeneral: He's totally ineffective as police superintendent. |
| 658 | * PapaWolf: Subverted: he may have jumped on Ryo when he believed he was having sex with his third daughter, but was completely ineffective. |
| 659 | * PoliceAreUseless: Seriously, how did he become the highest-ranking cop of ''all Japan''?! |
| 660 | [[/folder]] |
| 661 | |
| 662 | [[folder: Hirotaka Kitao]] |
| 663 | A police inspector who hates ProfessionalKillers and arrived in Tokyo to gun for the most famous of all: [[HeroWithBadPublicity City Hunter]]. |
| 664 | ---- |
| 665 | Tropes associated with Kitao: |
| 666 | * AccidentalPervert: Saeko keeps her knives on the thigh, and called him out for ''putting an hand under her skirt and caressing her thigh in the process without her realizing''. |
| 667 | * ArrangedMarriage: Police superintendent Nogami tried to set him with Saeko, but he left at the end of his arc. |
| 668 | * ByTheBookCop |
| 669 | * IdenticalStranger: Clothing aside, he's identical to Hideyuki, to the point Kaori's reaction at seeing him was to hug him and calling him brother. On the other hand, the personalities are very different, and [[HiddenDepths Ryo saw this immediately]]. |
| 670 | * ItsPersonal: Hates hitmen because one of them killed his older brother (a cop himself), and hates City Hunter because [[HeroWithBadPublicity most hitmen consider him a role model and a goal to defeat]]. |
| 671 | * SympatheticInspectorAntagonist: Well, he's hunting Ryo because he's a criminal. In the end, when he realizes Ryo is good to some extent, he lets him go. |
| 672 | [[/folder]] |
| 673 | |
| 674 | [[folder: Yuka Nogami]] |
| 675 | Saeko and Reika's older little sister, and a famous mystery novelist to boot. |
| 676 | ---- |
| 677 | Tropes associated with Yuka: |
| 678 | * FilleFatale: Still too young to be a FemmeFatale like her older sister, but already drop-dead gorgeous and manipulative. |
| 679 | * OhNoNotAgain: Ryo's reaction to her: he knew perfectly what was about to happen. Happens again when she reveals she has two younger twins ''and'' her father is still trying to have (male) children. |
| 680 | * OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: As a novelist she goes by Yuka Kitano. |
| 681 | * ShipperOnDeck: Ships [=RyoXKaori=] because not only do they act as an old married couple already (to the point she initially mistook them for a married couple), but her new novel has protagonists based on them and her readers would want them married. |
| 682 | * SmugSnake: Still too inexperienced to be a MagnificentBastard like her older sisters, but she still can force Ryo to let her live there by hiring him through Kaori. |
| 683 | * WriteWhatYouKnow: In-universe. The protagonists of her award-winning novels are heavily based on Reika and Saeko (she even ''stole information from the police'' for the second novel), and decides to crash at Ryo's when she got the inspiration to write a novel about a sweeper. |
| 684 | [[/folder]] |
| 685 | |
| 686 | [[folder: Eri Kitahara]] |
| 687 | -->Voiced by: Creator/EmiShinohara |
| 688 | |
| 689 | A high school friend of Kaori, now a famous fashion designer. |
| 690 | ---- |
| 691 | Tropes associated with Eri: |
| 692 | * CloudcuckooLander: If it's not about fashion, she is unable to care. Landed her in big trouble when she accidentally entered in possession of a microfilm with the formula of a chemical weapon and used its drawing to ''decorate a swimsuit''. |
| 693 | * IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: After falling for Ryo, she decides to try and get him with Kaori because she realized their feelings and knows Kaori enough to see through her denial. |
| 694 | * OldShame: In-Universe. Near the end of her story arc she decides to create a coat inspired to Ryo's BadassLongcoat and [[CrazyPrepared the weapons and other needed items he hides in it]] and make it elegant by using the weapons as decoration, but it's so ridiculous she's embarrassed by it in the very following chapter. |
| 695 | * OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Eri Kitahara is her professional name. Her actual first name (mentioned by Kaori) is Eriko, but her real family name remains unknown. |
| 696 | * OnlySaneMan: Inverted: ''the rest of the world'' is sane and has this reaction to her. Including [[SeenItAll Saeko]]. |
| 697 | * SeriousBusiness: She is absolutely obsessed with fashion, good taste in clothes (and will criticize even her own kidnapper if he's not elegant) and finding models for her clothes (she tried to hire Saeko ''while she was arresting her''). |
| 698 | [[/folder]] |
| 699 | |
| 700 | [[folder: Miyuki Kobayashi]] |
| 701 | -->Voiced by: Creator/YurikoYamamoto |
| 702 | |
| 703 | A freelance courier for criminals: as long as the money is good, she'll transport anything and anyone (well, ''[[EvenEvilHasStandards almost]]'' [[EvenEvilHasStandards anything and anyone]]). She hires City Hunter as a bodyguard after being attacked by unknown criminals. |
| 704 | ---- |
| 705 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: Had to kill [[spoiler: ''[[SelfMadeOrphan her own father]]''. And she was ''eight''.]] |
| 706 | * DeathByOriginStory: Her parents' deaths are the reason for her hate of drugs. |
| 707 | * DrivesLikeCrazy: Seriously, don't get in a CarChase against her. |
| 708 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: Won't transport drugs or people and things involved in murders. Also, the one time she was hired by a nuclear plant to dispose of radioactive waste she left it at the door of a police precint, and her 'ethics' impose her to deliver her package or message only to the specified recipient. |
| 709 | * FemmeFatale: Played with: she acts like one, but, once there's nobody to listen her, she'll admit she prefers not earning (or sparing) money that way. |
| 710 | * HitmanWithAHeart: She may be in it for the money, but she favours working for [[JustifiedCriminal people who have no honest way to survive]], and loves giving trouble to usurers and irresponsible nuclear plants. |
| 711 | * HollywoodToneDeaf: Her singing has been compared to the cry of a beast having her throat being cut. |
| 712 | * JustifiedCriminal: The reason she does her job is [[spoiler: to get the money to open a rehabilitation clinic for drug addicts ''and their families''.]] |
| 713 | * KnightOfCerebus: Her story arc brings back the darker theme of drug trafficking, and the villains of her arc are implied to be affiliates of [[spoiler: Union Teope]]. |
| 714 | * MiserAdvisor: The greediest character in the series. |
| 715 | * OnlyInItForTheMoney: As long as you pay her, she'll deliver anything. Even ''nytroglicerin''. |
| 716 | * WeHelpTheHelpless: The kind of job she prefers. |
| 717 | [[/folder]] |
| 718 | |
| 719 | [[folder: Kreutz]] |
| 720 | A general from [[{{Ruritania}} Latoania]], whose coup was indirectly ruined by Ryo, who was bodyguarding the president while he was in Japan. |
| 721 | ---- |
| 722 | * ArmiesAreEvil: {{Subverted}}: ''he'' and his men are soldiers, but their coup is defeated by soldiers from the same army. |
| 723 | * CombatPragmatist: His direct intervention in the series starts with one of his soldiers [[spoiler:shooting Miki on her wedding day to distract Umibozu and Ryo from the group that kidnaps Kaori]]. |
| 724 | * FinalBoss: The last enemy of the series. Also literally, as he's the last guy to be taken down. |
| 725 | * GeneralRipper: He originally intends to have the president of Latoania assassinated through hired assassins in order to take over the nation. After Ryo thwarts his assassins and he is forced into exile following his failed coup, he decides to head to Japan to eliminate Ryo personally for {{Revenge}}. |
| 726 | * GoodGunsBadGuns: {{Subverted}}: He and his soldiers carry a mix of 'good guns' (the [=MP5s=] and the [=M79s=]) and 'bad guns' (the [=RPG-7s=] and the [=P38=]). |
| 727 | * HoistByHisOwnPetard: Ryo takes out his bodyguards thanks to two [=RPG-7s=] he took from his men that he had already killed. |
| 728 | * TheManBehindTheMan: He's the one who pays the assassins to take out the president while he's in Japan and lets his assassins do the dirty work as he makes his move within Latoania. |
| 729 | * {{Revenge}}: Comes to Japan to kill Ryo for indirectly foiling his coup. |
| 730 | * UnderestimatingBadassery: While he knows that Ryo and Umibozu are dangerous enemies he fails to realize just ''how'' dangerous they are until he's told that [[OneManArmy they've wiped out half of his remaining men]]. |
| 731 | * WouldHitAGirl: Has Miki shot [[spoiler:on her wedding day]], and was willing to personally kill Kaori. |
| 732 | * WrongGenreSavvy: Thinks that having Kaori (that he identified as Ryo's beloved) as hostage will ensure his victory. Too bad that Ryo considers dying for the woman he loves as a really stupid action... |
| 733 | [[/folder]] |
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