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3!Main Characters
4[[folder:Madlax]]
5[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/madlax_2_3465.jpg]]
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7-->''Voiced by: Creator/SanaeKobayashi (Japanese) Creator/NancyNovotny''
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9An agent for hire in the war torn country of Gazth-Sonika. [[spoiler:She is a part of Margaret, released after the horrible plane crash incident.]]
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11* ActionGirl: As the highest rated mercenary in Gazth-Sonika, this is a given.
12* AllLovingHero: She's kind to everyone, sticks her neck out for people she barely knows, and only fights to bring an end to the war in Gazth-Sonika. A perfect example of this is when she's hired to publicly assassinate the commander of Gazth-Sonika's armies, Guen [=McNichol=]. When she's told that the target was also the person who commissioned the hit, she sneaks into his residence at night and, after discerning his motives, comforts him before leaving.
13* AmbiguouslyBi: She shows some interest in a couple of men, and then there's her [[HomoeroticSubtext subtext-fueled]] relationships with Vanessa and Limelda. She also says that she loves Margaret during the final battle, [[spoiler: when the [[LiteralSplitPersonality true nature of their relationship]] is revealed]].
14* AntiHero: She's not a bad person once you get to know her, she'll stick her neck out for friends and even acquaintances, and she's only fighting to put an end to the war as quickly as possible, but she's still a mercenary-- considered to be the very best (read: possessing the highest bodycount) in Gazth-Sonika-- who kills hundreds without really batting an eye.
15* AssKickingPose: She has a lot of these.
16* BadassAdorable: Madlax is oh so very sweet and cute for a mercenary.
17%%* BigDamnHeroes
18* BodyguardCrush: It's heavily implied that she develops a mutual one with Vanessa.
19* CartrightCurse: Virtually everyone who expresses romantic interest in her ends up dead. Two of them end up dead after asking her out, but before the date can actually happen.
20* CodeName: Her name has always simply been known as MADLAX.
21* CompressedHair: Her hair disappears whenever she wears a motorbike helmet.
22* CursedWithAwesome: [[spoiler: Her {{Immortality}}.]]
23* DissonantSerenity: She's terrifyingly calm whenever she fights. Sometimes, she even closes her eyes.
24%%* GunFu
25%%* TheGunslinger: Well, naturally.
26* IJustWantToBeNormal: Although she didn't know the meaning of what it meant to be "normal" at first in Episode 8.
27%%* InnocentFanserviceGirl
28%%* ImpossiblyCoolClothes: The red and white cocktail dresses.
29* ImprobableAimingSkills: She can snipe a target from farther away than even an expert sniper thought possible. Then there's her hitting her targets despite not looking directly at them from a considerable distance away using just a pistol. And finally, she also brought down an attack helicopter by firing a FAMAS while she was hugging it like a stuffed toy.
30* LegacyCharacter: [[spoiler: Madlax isn't the first person to go by that title. The first one was Margaret's father.]]
31%%* MeaningfulName
32%%* MsFanservice
33%%* MysteriousPast: Just one of many.
34* [[OneManArmy One Woman Army]]: Platoons- even companies- of soldiers can do nothing but die in droves when Madlax starts fighting.
35* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: "Madlax" is her codename, but everyone uses it. She does have an ID giving her name as "Laetitia Lune", but that only comes up in one episode, and is clearly just another alias.
36%%* OnlyOneName
37%%* OutOfTheInferno: In Episode 1.
38* PrinceCharming: Sees herself as this for Vanessa. Her exact line from Episode 12 as she's about to face off against Limelda once again:
39-->'''Madlax:''' Vanessa Rene, you're the princess. And... I'm the prince. So I have to go. Because the scary person is coming.
40* ShipTease: With multiple characters. She has some with Guen [=McNichol=] (a person she kills later on in that episode), and Chris (a young boy she's assigned to protect in Episode 5). However, [[AmbiguouslyBi she has the most teasing]] with [[AmbiguouslyGay Vanessa Rene]], whom she spends protecting for a majority of the series.
41* ThemeMusicPowerUp: Yanmaani!
42* TomatoInTheMirror: [[spoiler:She later realizes that she's Margeret's survival instinct (along with some other parts of her personality) given form]].
43* TrademarkFavoriteFood: "Yeah, PASTA!"
44* TheUnfettered: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]. She seems to be completely matter-of-fact with regards to her job (and the body count it entails), and when Vanessa [[WhatTheHellHero calls her out]] on her apparent callousness, she calmly defends herself saying it's what she [[IDidWhatIHadToDo needs to do]] to survive. [[spoiler:In the final episode, however, Margaret states that Madlax actually [[TheFettered torments herself]] over every person she's killed, which is what makes her a "kind killer"]].
45* UnscrupulousHero: While she's a very nice person, she's still a mercenary and as a result of her job, she leaves a considerable amount of bodies behind in her wake.
46[[/folder]]
47
48[[folder:Margaret Burton]]
49[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/margaret_burton_74_7875.jpg]]
50
51-->''Voiced by Creator/HoukoKuwashima (Japanese), Creator/LuciChristian (English)''
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53A usually sleepy eyed and slightly amnesiac aristocrat.
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56
57* AmbiguouslyBi: She appears to grow quite fond of Luciano (which Vanessa and Eleanor notice and make knowing smirks about), but also at one point tells Elenore that she loves her. She's also heavily implied to have been in love with her classmate Anne Morey.
58* AwfulTruth: [[spoiler:''She'' is the killer of her father- more specifically, she [[LiteralSplitPersonality subconsciously created Madlax]] to do the deed that she could not do herself.]]
59* BadassAdorable: [[spoiler:Becomes this in later episodes.]]
60* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Somewhat spacey most of the time (the first episode has her walking to school in the wrong direction). [[GeniusDitz She's far from stupid]], though.
61%%* EasyAmnesia
62%%* EvilCostumeSwitch: Dark Margaret.
63%%* HiddenEyes: Dark Margaret.
64%%* IdiotHair
65%%* MysteriousPast
66* ObliviousToLove:
67** She doesn't know what her classmates meant when she's on "someone else's mind" and she actually thought that she did something wrong to the guy instead.
68** She also doesn't seem to notice [[spoiler: Elenore's feelings for her]]. Or [[spoiler: Carrossea's/Poupee's]].
69* SelfMadeOrphan: [[spoiler:Technically. Madlax is the one who killed her father, but she's actually one of Margaret's [[LiteralSplitPersonality Literal Split Personalties]]]].
70%%* SmallGirlBigGun
71* TrademarkFavoriteFood: “PASTA! Yeah, Pasta!”
72[[/folder]]
73
74[[folder:Elenore Baker]]
75[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/elenore_2_9336.jpg]]
76
77-->''Voiced by: Creator/AiUchikawa (Japanese), Creator/KiraVincentDavis (English)''
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79Margaret's loving and very devoted personal assistant and maid.
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81* ActionGirl: In certain circles it's joked er... hinted that she's the teacher of Roberta from ''Manga/BlackLagoon''.
82* BeachEpisode: Episode 9. One of the few times in the series that you see her wearing something ''other'' than her maid uniform.
83* BewareTheNiceOnes: She's very nice but if harm comes to Margaret, she will show no mercy to the perpetrator. Lopez found this out the hard way in Episode 6 and when Margaret revealed that her wrist hurt because of Lopez's grip, Elenore didn't hesitate to break Lopez's wrist in turn.
84* CannotSpitItOut: In Episode 21. When she finds out that [[spoiler: Margaret went through the Gate of Truth with Carrossea]], she states that this can't be possible because [[spoiler: Margaret]] is... Something to her. Elenore couldn't say it out properly but it's clear what she was going to say.
85** And again in Episode 24 during a flashback. As she takes up Vanessa's offer of being driven back home after doing some grocery shopping, Vanessa asks if looking after [[spoiler: Margaret all the time is tedious. Elenore denies this and says that protecting Margaret is the most important thing to her and that Margaret is... Something to her once again. Despite prodding by Vanessa to continue, Elenore doesn't but once again, it's made clear what she meant to say]].
86* ClingyJealousGirl: Downplayed example towards Margaret as she doesn't want Margaret to grow fond of any guys. She does deny it when Vanessa asks her about it, though.
87** Later cranked up in Episode 17, though. She doesn't take kindly to Carrossea getting closer to Margaret.
88* GainaxEnding: Her fate [[spoiler:and that of Vanessa and Carrossea]] has been the cause of some intense debates over [[spoiler:if Margaret resurrected her or not.]]
89* JustFriends: Vanessa and her in the first half of the series, until Vanessa hooks up with Madlax.
90* KickChick: Fights mainly through kicking her enemies.
91* LetsGetDangerous: She reveals that she is actually a skilled martial artist when Margaret's date tries to assault her.
92%%* {{Meido}}
93* NinjaMaid: Zigzagged. Eleanor is Margaret's bodyguard as well as her maid, and she's a skilled martial artist, but she isn't trained with firearms because Margaret hates guns and so she's not much use in a life or death fight.
94* OldRetainer: Her grandpa was this, and she'd fit if not for her age since the Bakers have served the Burtons for generations.
95* PluckyGirl: Pretty much one the entire series.
96* SmallGirlBigGun: One episode she gets on a mounted gun and starts firing off like hell.
97* UndyingLoyalty: To Margaret. Regardless of the circumstances, she will always protect her master.
98[[/folder]]
99
100[[folder:Vanessa Rene]]
101[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/vanessa_3487.jpg]]
102
103-->''Voiced by: Creator/SatsukiYukino (Japanese), Creator/KellyManison (English)''
104
105Margaret and Elenore's friend who's determined to find the truth and clear her parent's names. She's also an employee of Bookwald in order to find their connection to the civil war Gazth-Sonika.
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107* AmbiguouslyGay: While she shows no interest in men, her relationship with Madlax is implied to develop into a mutual BodyguardCrush, and she's also, on occassion, rather flirty with Elenore.
108* CoolBigSis: To Elenore and Margaret.
109* [[spoiler:DiedHappilyEverAfter: Vanessa is reunited with her parents after saying goodbye to Madlax.]]
110* GainaxEnding: [[spoiler: Her ultimate fate at the end of the series. Whether Margaret used the books to [[BackFromTheDead resurrect]] her was left up in the air.]]
111* GainingTheWillToKill: The ActualPacifist Vanessa has trouble coming to terms with shooting a guy to protect Madlax until the latter confirms that she only wounded him. Still, this leads to quite a bit of CharacterDevelopment in Vanessa, who eventually asks Madlax to [[TeachMeHowToFight teach her to shoot properly]].
112* GuileHeroine: Considering she has no combat experience and has never even picked up a gun [[spoiler: (at first anyway)]], she relies on her wit in order to survive and get the information that she needs. Best shown when she finally arrives at Gazth-Sonika and she [[spoiler: needs to find the terminal containing the data that will expose her company's illegal dealings in the country]].
113* HeroicBSOD: She has one at the beginning of Episode 17 after she shoots a soldier that was about to kill Madlax. While Vanessa fails to actually kill the soldier and only wounds him (he's shown to be alive later on in the episode with his right arm in a sling), she still considers the act of just shooting someone "unforgivable." She later snaps out of it and asks Madlax to teach her how to shoot.
114* HeroicSacrifice: Shields Madlax [[spoiler: from getting shot by Limelda]].
115* JustFriends: With Elenore.
116* SenselessSacrifice: She [[spoiler: takes a bullet for Madlax near the end of the series]]. However, considering [[spoiler: Madlax is immortal and immune to all forms of conventional damage, she died for nothing]].
117* ShipTease: With Madlax.
118* ThePromise: Her's to Madlax and vice versa.
119* TeachMeHowToFight: When shit's about to go down, she asks Madlax to teach her how to use a gun.
120* WhatTheHellHero: She delivers one to Madlax in regards to her apparent indifference towards killing people for a living. Madlax simply responds that she [[IDidWhatIHadToDo does what she has to]] in order to stay alive.
121[[/folder]]
122
123[[folder:Carrossea Doon]]
124[[quoteright:223:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/0b8a5eff_b841_4349_bc8c_c4f572cb3bae.jpeg]]
125
126-->''Voiced by: Creator/ToshiyukiMorikawa (Japanese), Creator/VicMignogna (English)''
127
128Officially an independent contractor working for Bookwald Industries, and secretly one of Enfant's best operatives and the right-hand man of Friday Monday himself.
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132* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: He wants to uncover the truth behind his buried memories. [[spoiler:When he succeeds, he realizes that he died twelve years ago and that his continued existance depended on him not remembering this.]]
133* CreepyChild: [[spoiler: As Poupee.]]
134* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler:He only was alive due to his Gift and his unyielding wish to protect Margaret. Once he realizes this... he fades away out of existence.]]
135* TheDragon: To Friday Monday, serving as his spy to keep tabs on Margaret and Elenore.
136* DragonWithAnAgenda: He only cares about discovering his past, and holds no loyalty to his boss.
137* EnigmaticMinion: Before it's made clear that he has his own agenda separate from Friday's plans, he comes off as this.
138* TomatoInTheMirror: [[spoiler:When he realizes that he's been DeadAllAlong]].
139* UnluckyChildhoodFriend: [[spoiler:Sort-of, to Margaret. Poupee was another survivor of the plane crash, fell for Margaret, vowed to protect her... and died TakingTheBullet for her. His Gift kicked in and he sort-of lived on. Then, Friday took the amnesiac kid in and named him Carrossea, with his Poupee self remaining stuck at the Sanctuary.]]
140[[/folder]]
141
142[[folder:Friday Monday]]
143[[quoteright:240:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/4ee67d6d_55c3_49c9_bbc1_2ac86aa602c9.jpeg]]
144
145-->''Voiced by: Creator/MasashiEbara (Japanese) Creator/MikeKleinhenz (English) ''
146
147The enigmatic founder and head of the Enfant organization. Very little is known about his past before 1999, when he used his Gift to open the Door of Truth in a failed attempt to plunge the world into a total war, which, as he believes, is it's natural state.
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149* AxCrazy: He laughs like a maniac while trying to [[spoiler:turn the world into a global battlefield]].
150* BadBoss: Killed one of his henchmen for basically [[DisproportionateRetribution annoying him]].
151* BigBad: He's the leader of Enfant, the most dangerous opposition to the protagonists. [[spoiler:He's also behind everything that happened in the series, including the civil-war.]]
152* BullyingADragon: [[spoiler:He apparently thought that shooting at the most powerful RealityWarper in the series was a good idea. [[CurbStompBattle It didn't end well.]]]]
153* CoolMask
154* DiabolicalMastermind: He runs a NebulousCriminalConspiracy, which [[spoiler:incited and prolonges a brutal civil war in order to complete a mystical ritual to turn everyone on Earth into a homicidal maniac]].
155* HiddenAgendaVillain: His goal is left unknown until late in the series.
156* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:By brainwashing Richard Burton into trying to murder Margaret, he indirectly contributed to the creation of Madlax- who ultimately kills him.]]
157* KnightTemplar: He really is convinced that [[spoiler:bringing out humanity's darker, self-destructive nature on a global scale is the right to do]].
158* LightIsNotGood: He wears white clothes, and is also the BigBad crime boss.
159* [[spoiler:RealityWarper: He's one of the few Gift users in the series, although he's less powerful than he was twelve years ago.]]
160* SmugSnake: At the end of the day, Friday is simply a man who thought that realizing that the world is twisted makes him a visionary. [[spoiler:For all of his bluster, Friday's plan hinges on getting the far more talented Margaret to obey him and when she turns against him everything falls apart for him. After Friday's death, Quanzita reflects on how her order has observed countless people like him and they all fade into history.]]
161* StrawNihilist: He believes that things like peace, love, and even basic human decency are all lies, and only war is real.
162* [[spoiler:ToCreateAPlaygroundForEvil: He ultimate goal, in a nutshell, is to brainwash humanity into starting a global ForeverWar]].
163* VillainousBreakdown: “''Margaret! What happened to you?!'' ''' YOU [[PrecisionFStrike BITCH]]!!!'''”
164* WalkingSpoiler: Aside from the fact that he's the leader of [[NebulousCriminalConspiracy Enfant]], everything about him is a spoiler.
165* WarForFunAndProfit: What appeared to be his goal when it was revealed that [[spoiler:the Enfant organization has provided both sides of the civil-war with weapons and recruits. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] when it was revealed that the organization did it for free.]]
166[[/folder]]
167
168[[folder:Limelda Jorg]]
169[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/572718cd_b3cf_454a_a77a_bb16f69d172f.jpeg]]
170
171-->''Voiced by: Creator/AyaHisakawa (Japanese), Creator/ChristineAuten (English)''
172
173A beautiful and deadly DarkActionGirl whose boss dies at Madlax's hand. She is ''very'' displeased by that, and as such she starts chasing after Madlax.
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176
177* ColdSniper
178* DarkActionGirl
179* DepravedBisexual: She sleeps with Carrossea Doon (and seemingly develops feelings for him), and becomes obsessively fixated with Madlax. She even says that she loves her later on.
180* MurderTheHypotenuse: She gives off this vibe with regards to Vanessa. Though Vanessa's relationship with Madlax is left ambiguous, Limelda becomes increasingly frustrated by Vanessa's "interference" in her and Madlax's fights, and [[spoiler:is ultimately the one to kill her]].
181* StalkerWithACrush: She's an interesting example of this. She starts off as a StalkerWithoutACrush, hunting Madlax after she snipes Gazth-Sonika's Army Commander, because she wants to [[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou defeat her in one-on-one combat]]. However, after [[spoiler:discovering the truth behind Gazth-Sonika's civil war]], she decides that her life has no meaning outside her battles with Madlax, and falls in love with her while continuing to try and kill her. [[spoiler:She gets better by the end of the series]].
182* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Ever since her first encounter with Madlax, which had the latter sniping a general that Limelda was assigned to protect, she becomes very fixated with defeating Madlax.
183[[/folder]]
184
185!Supporting Characters
186
187[[folder:Laetitia]]
188[[quoteright:112:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/6ab5592b_f4b2_4d0d_8547_6d795dcc4033.jpeg]]
189
190-->''Voiced by: Creator/TomokoKaneda (Japanese), Creator/CynthiaMartinez (English)''
191
192A strange and very creepy little girl seen more than once holding on her handmade doll. [[spoiler: She is also a part of Margaret, and the keeper of her memories. As such, she's stuck in the Sanctuary.]]
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194
195%%* CreepyChild
196* HappilyAdopted: [[spoiler:Margaret fully accepts her in the GrandFinale, and takes her in as her sister.]]
197%%* LonelyDollGirl
198* MeaningfulName: She's named after both a character in Mashimo's favorite movie and the Roman Goddess of gaiety.
199[[/folder]]
200
201[[folder:Colonel Richard Burton]]
202-->''Voiced by: Creator/ToruOkawa (Japanese), Ben Hamby (English)''
203
204Margaret's DisappearedDad. [[spoiler: Killed by the recently "born" Madlax after Monday uses the ''Words of Awakening'' on him.]]
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206
207* BrainwashedAndCrazy: [[spoiler:After Friday reads him the Words of Awakening, he loses it and tries to [[OffingTheOffspring kill Margaret]]]].
208* ColonelBadass
209* LegacyCharacter: [[spoiler:"Madlax" turns out to have been his military callsign. It's the only word Margaret and Madlax remember, because that's what Friday called him before rendering him BrainwashedAndCrazy]].
210* OffingTheoffspring: [[spoiler:Tried to kill Margaret when driven insane. It backfired horribly.]]
211* WalkingSpoiler: Given that what happened to him is the crux of the AwfulTruth concerning Margaret, most of the information about him contains spoilers.
212[[/folder]]
213
214[[folder:Quanzitta Marison]]
215
216A mysterious woman who knows about the true cause of the civil war in Gazth-Sonika. She is later revealed [[spoiler: to hold the third of the three Books of Truth, Thirstari]].
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219
220* MysteriousWatcher
221[[/folder]]
222
223[[folder:Nakhl]]
224
225A woman who serves under Quanzitta. Much like her master, she also knows about the true cause of the civil war in Gazth-Sonika.
226
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228
229* BadassNormal: Compared to Madlax, Nakhl has no known confirmed supernatural abilities yet can still fight against the mercenary evenly.
230* MysteriousWatcher: Watches over both Carrossea and Margaret early on in the series.
231* StealthHiBye: Pulls this off multiple times throughout the series. She's so good at this that even ''Madlax'' herself has difficulty sensing her presence.
232[[/folder]]

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