DOGS: Bullets & Carnage/Characters

Characters from the manga DOGS Bullets and Carnage:

Heine Rammsteiner

The main protagonist. More or less. Not completely right in the head.

• Animal Motifs: Black dogs.
  • More accurately, a doberman.
• Anti-Hero: Type IV.
• Ax Crazy: A rare, kinda heroic example.
• Badass
  • Back-to-Back Badasses: With Badou and Naoto, oddly enough.
  • Badass Abnormal
  • Badass Longcoat: Sleeveless, even.
• Battle Couple: Seems to be becoming this with Naoto.
• Berserk Button: Touching his guns, touching women, touching Nill, he's got a thing about touching.
• The Berserker
• Big Brother Instinct: Towards Nill.
• Cain and Abel
• Character Development: His revolves around opening up about his past and not going apeshit when a girl touches him.
• Child Soldier: Formerly.
• Dark and Troubled Past
• Dead Little Sister: Lily.
• Death Seeker: He seems strangely disappointed by Naoto's comment that being slashed by her sword probably won't kill him.
• Defrosting Ice King: Towards Naoto and most women these days.
• Designer Babies: He and all the other Cerebus spines are test-tube babies.
• Dissonant Serenity: Disturbingly calm whilst other people are getting killed.
• Does Not Like Women: Heine has some issues regarding women.
  • We eventually learn why: Einsturzen noticed Heine's exceptional abilities and wanted to experiment on him and attach the "Master" spine to his body. Heine accepts under the hope that with it, he'll be stronger and better able to help his friends escape. Unfortunately, once the spine begins to successfully fuse to his body, Einsturzen decides that she doesn't need the other test subjects anymore and has them kill each other. Heine escapes the "Master" process early but not enough to stop himself from disemboweling Lily in cold blood.
• Doom Magnet
• Enemy Within: Evil Heine says "hi."
• Everybody's Dead, Dave: Even worse, it's partially his fault.
• Fangs Are Evil: Has 'em. If you see them, he probably about to use them. On YOU.
• Flashback Nightmare: Haine gets something like this when females touch him.
  • Whole-Episode Flashback
• Gratuitous English: "Fuck up, gentlemen!" stands out, though there are other examples.
• Guns Akimbo
• Harmful to Minors: His childhood. It's a wonder he doesn't just go on a killing spree.
• Heroic Albino
• Heroic Neutral: Mostly wants to be left alone.
• Heterosexual Life Partners: With Badou.
• Iconic Item: His collar and his guns.
• "I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight: Against Naoto. As of now, it's unknown whether it works or not. It is a moment of great Ship Tease.
• Impossibly Cool Clothes: Admit it, you want Heine's awesome coat.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold
• Kleptomaniac Hero: Took one of Magato's knives without him even noticing.
• Lightning Bruiser: Skinny guy but HOLY SHIT IS HE STRONG WHEN HE WANTS TO BE.
• Mark of the Beast: The Cerberus spine.
• Murder Is the Best Solution
• My Greatest Failure: Heine inadverdently caused the deaths of all his friends/family before escaping the organization. He truly regrets accepting Einsturzen's offer.
  • Nice Job Breaking It, Hero/Shoot the Shaggy Dog: The only reason he accepted at all was to save them.
• Nigh Invulnerability: Nothing short of a bullet to the head will take him down...and now we're not so sure about that. See Giovanni.
• Orphanage of Fear: The kindergarten where all the people with Cerberus spines start out.
• Pet the Dog: His Big Brother Instinct towards Nill. Also, slowing Naoto's descent when she fainted.
  • He even tries to cheer Naoto up after her second Heroic BSOD.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning
• Self-Made Orphan: Tries it. Doesn't work.
• She Is Not My Girlfriend: Naoto.
• Ship Tease: He seems to be hanging around Naoto a lot these days...
• Slasher Smile
• Sociopathic Hero: Surprise.
• Spell My Name with an "S": Heine or Haine?
• Theme Naming: Rammstein!!
• Troubled but Cute
• Weapon of Choice: A Mauser C-96 and a Luger P08 connected by a chain. And he will fuck you up if you touch them.
• White-Haired Pretty Boy
• With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: INDEED.

Badou Nails

A private investigator slash occasional hired gun who sometimes teams up with Heine. Loves his ciggies something good. Missing an eye.

• Anti-Hero: Type II-IV, depending on his nicotine fix...
• Badass Long Hair
• Badass Normal
• Berserk Button: Running out of tobacco.
• The Berserker
• Butt Monkey
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Mostly harmless and willing to negotiate until you take his cigarettes and put a MAC-10 in his hands.
• Dark and Troubled Past
• Dead Older Brother: Who may not be dead.
• Eyepatch of Power
• Guns Akimbo
• Heroic Comedic Sociopath: A bit. Still has nothing on Heine, though.
• Heterosexual Life Partners: With Heine.
• Iconic Item: His eyepatch and cigarettes.
• Knowledge Broker
• The Lancer
• Laughing Mad: At one point during a gunfight.
• Men Can't Keep House: Averted. His brother couldn't.
• Mood Swinger: Thanks to his cigarettes. It's often funny.
• Plucky Comic Relief
• Real Men Wear Pink: He can sew and do housework. Heine, Naoto and Nill are all impressed.
• Redheaded Hero
  • Green Eyed Red Head
• Refuge in Audacity: Who throws desks at people to escape? Badou does.
• Scars Are Forever: Badou has scars on both his right hand and right eye (underneath the eyepatch). These are implied to have something to do with his older brother, but little more than a very brief, bloody flashback has been shown so far to explain the wounds.
• Smoking Is Cool: A trait he picked up from his brother who he idolized.
• Theme Naming: Nine Inch Nails.
• Weapon of Choice: Seems to always pick some MAC-10s.
• Weirdness Magnet

Naoto Fuyumine

A swordswoman wandering the city trying to find information on her parents' killer. "Naoto Fuyumine" is not her birth name.

• Absurdly Sharp Blade: We see how sharp in chapter 71.
• Action Girl: Easily capable of fighting on the same level as Heine.
• Anti-Heroine: Type III-IV.
• Badass Normal
• Berserk Button: Mentioning the other "Naoto," and badmouthing the man Fuyumine are a good way to get her riled.
• Bob Haircut
• Broken Bird
  • Dark and Troubled Past
  • Trauma-Induced Amnesia
• The Chick: She's the only main character who doesn't think Murder Is the Best Solution. Maiming people's alright though.
• Cloning Blues: The other Naoto calls her "Double" or "Spare."
• Cool Big Sis: She's very protective of Nill.
• Good Scars, Evil Scars / X Marks the Hero: It's on her chest.
• Heroic BSOD: When she glimpses a pair of eyes she recognizes from her past.
  • Naoto seems to be having a lot of these as of late. They're affecting her mind more than her body.
    • Heroic Safe Mode
• He's Not My Boyfriend: For Heine AND Magato.
• Hot Chick with a Sword
• Iconic Item: Her katana.
• Katanas Are Just Better: Her Weapon of Choice, a black katana, the same type that her killer used.
• Knife Nut: Also carries a few straight knives.
• Lady of War: One of the series' most graceful of ass-kickers.
• Meaningful Name: Naoto means "straight knife." It's also the name of her parents' killer.
• Mind Rape: One of the Einsturzens temporarily turns her into a Berserker.
• Ms. Fanservice: We're treated to many shots of the scars on her chest and her legs.
• Pretty Freeloader: Naoto essentially begins living at the church with Nill while Bishop is away.
• Raven Hair, Ivory Skin
• Revenge
• Scarf of Asskicking
• Scars Are Forever: At least 10 years later, the scar on her chest is still VERY vivid.
• She's Got Legs
• Shower of Angst
• Screaming Woman: During her Heroic BSOD.
• Tall, Dark and Bishoujo: She may have short hair but she's got the demeanor down pat.
• Technical Pacifist
• You Killed My Parents: The reason she trained with Fuyumine was to one day kill him. Subverted when he is killed by someone else and it turns out he was innocent anyway. She is now looking for their true killer.
  • • Ultimately averted, they weren't her parents.
  • You Killed My Father Figure:Seems to be keeping an eye out for his killer as well.

Mihai Mihaeroff

A retired assassin and occasional errand runner for the owner of Buono Viaggio. He gets lost. Often.

• Anti-Hero: Type III.
• Badass Bystander
• Badass Normal
• Baguette Beatdown: Weaponizes the restaurant bread at one point. It's about as hilarious as you think it is.
• Big Brother Mentor: To Ian, though they both saw each other more as father and son. He also seems to be becoming one of sorts to Badou as well.
• Career Killer: Former.
• Cool Old Guy: He's not that old but Mihai is noticeably older than the Power Trio.
• Dynamic Entry: Baran and Zack, meet the shoe.
• Heroic Bystander
• Hurting Hero
• Improbable Weapon User: From guns and swords to plates and bread!
• Made of Iron: He has fought with swords sticking out of his arms. Doesn't have a Cerberus spine, though.
• The Mafia
• My Greatest Failure: Is very bothered by the fact that he was unable to stop his student from murdering the woman he loved. He's even MORE bothered by the fact that his student even turned out that way.
• No Sense of Direction
• Oedipus Complex: Was on the recieving end of one and an Electra complex, both because of his student strangely enough.
• Papa Wolf: To Ian.
• Retired Badass
• The Stoic

Bishop

The priest of a local church. He serves as a guardian of sorts to Nill and mentor to Heine. Well, he lets Heine keep his guns there.

• Anti-Hero: Type III.
• Blind Seer: Given how he behaves, Heine wonders whether he's actually blind or not.
• Badass Abnormal
• Badass Long Hair
• Badass Preacher: Going hand in hand with...
• Bunny Ears Lawyer: Because in spite of everything else, he's a...
• Handicapped Badass: A Master Swordsman, despite being apparently blind.
• Heine, I Am Your Brother
• Hidden Depths
• Lolicon: For a blind man, he enjoys dressing up Nill a bit too much.
• Long-Haired Pretty Boy
• Mark of the Beast: He also has a Cerebus spine.
• Obfuscating Stupidity
• Rapunzel Hair
• The Reveal:His name, Ernest Rammsteiner and the fact that he is a failed Cerberus experiment.
• Sunglasses at Night
• Weapon of Choice: A Sword Cane.
• White-Haired Pretty Boy

Nill

A winged fourteen year old mute girl who lives in Bishop's church. Just about everyone who sees her agrees that she is the cutest thing ever.

• Big Brother Instinct: Inspires this in both Heine and Naoto.
• Cool Big Sis: Seems to have become one to Luki and Noki.
• Cute Mute
• The Cutie
• Elegant Gothic Lolita: Bishop buys these types of clothes for her. She wouldn't be so bothered about if he wasn't so creepy about it.
• Fragile Speedster: Not a fighter at all, but damn, girlie can run.
• Hair of Gold
• The Heart: Brings out the best in Heine, Naoto and Badou.
• I'm Taking Her Home with Me: The common reaction to her, both to fans & the characters in the story.
• Moe
• Morality Pet: To Heine, since she's the only female he's completely okay with touching him.
• Token Mini-Moe
• Winged Humanoid: Was nearly sold into child prostitution because of her prized white wings. They're too small to work, by the way.

Giovanni

Heine's brother. REALLY loves messing with his head.

• Badass Abnormal
• Badass in a Nice Suit: Always wearing a suit, regardless of what he's doing.
• Bound and Gagged: After being captured by the mayor.
• Cain and Abel
• The Complainer Is Always Wrong: He tried to get Arthur to stop looking for an escape from the crazy place.
• Cool Shades / Sunglasses at Night
• Dead Little Sister:Lily, of course.
• Designer Babies
• Everybody's Dead, Dave: Survives the Cerberus massacre, along with Heine.
• Evil Albino
• Guns Akimbo: He IS Heine's brother...
• Hannibal Lecture: LOVES giving these to Heine.
• In Love with Your Carnage: "Love" is a bit much, but he enjoys watching Heine rage.
• Jerkass
• The Load: He was the least violent of the Cerberus test subjects and it showed.
• Manipulative Bastard:... and so he encourages it, by bringing up Lily often.
• Mark of the Beast: He also has a Cerberus spine.
• Nigh Invulnerable
• Only a Flesh Wound: The first Cerberus spine subject in-comic to shrug off a headshot. Heine's face said it all.
• Orphanage of Fear
• Peek-a-Bangs: When he was younger.
• Shrinking Violet: As a kid. Go figure.
• White-Haired Pretty Boy
• The Unfavorite
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: To the point of being Adorkable. Too bad Einsturzen didn't appreciate this.

Angelika Einsturzen

A Mad Scientist working for an as of yet unnamed underground organization.Giovanni and Heine occasionally call her "Mother."

• Abusive Parents: To the Cerebus spine children, most of whom are probably not her actual children. She makes them fight huge monstrosities to earn her fleeting love.
• Affably Evil: When she first makes an appearance in the manga, she comes across as slightly matronly if weird. And then the madness shows itself.
  • Faux Affably Evil
• Ax Crazy: She has yet to pick up an actual weapon but someone who smiles while people are getting mauled barehanded is not right in the head.
• Back from the Dead: The original body is killed (or at least one of them is) by Heine. Another body walks up and keep talking to Heine and Magato as if nothing happened.
• Blondes Are Evil
• Body Surf: She's a Cerebus spine person too but instead of healing, she can just transfer her consciousness into another body. After Heine shoots the first one to death, her next body is Lily.
• Dissonant Serenity: Smiles and hugs Heine gently all the while telling him to brutally massacre a hulking man beast.
• Evil Genius
• Evil Matriarch: Considering Heine and co are test-tube children, it's entirely possible that they really were made from her eggs.
  • At least one of the Hive Mind is the mother of Luki and Noki. They are TERRIFIED of her.
• For Science!
• Good Thing You Can Heal: Actually she can't but she's made preparations for that inevitability too.
• Hannibal Lecture
• Hive Mind: There are at least three other Einsturzen working in her organization. All of them look relatively similar and are modified to share experiences and memories when one dies.
• Hot Mom: An Evil Matriarch, yes, but she IS smoking hot.
• Hot Scientist
• Mad Doctor
• Mad Scientist
• Manipulative Bitch
• Motherly Scientist: A villainous, Yanderesque take on the trope.
• Orphanage of Fear: Apparently runs the Cerebus spine place.
• Rapunzel Hair
• Red Right Hand: Has six fingers on both hands.
• Yandere: Showers those who do well against her creations with affection, is rather callous to those who don't but still have the nerve to survive.

Campenella Fruhling

A hired gun swordswoman who appears to be working with Einsturzen. She leads a troupe of helmeted, black-clad Nigh Invulnerable minions. Nuki and Loki's apparent guardian.

Recently revealed to be the original Naoto & also the killer of Naoto Fuyumine's parents.

• Affably Evil: Rather polite and formal to Bishop, even leaving him her name.
• Badass Boast:"Forgive the lack of ceremony but I have to kill anyone who sees us. Any last prayers?"Bishop escapes and is blind, so technically this is still true.
• Badass Normal: Assuming she doesn't somehow have a Cerebus spine.
• Boobs of Steel
• Dark Action Girl
• Hot Chick in a Badass Suit
• Hot Chick with a Sword
• Implausible Fencing Powers
• In-Series Nickname: "Fu-sama" by the twins. Magato calls her "Ane-ue" meaning "honored elder sister."
• Lady of War
• Katanas Are Just Better: The second woman in series to wield one.Implied to be related to Naoto's.
• Rapunzel Hair
• Raven Hair, Ivory Skin
• The Stoic
  • Not So Stoic: Magato and Naoto Fuyumine piss her off.
• Tall, Dark and Bishoujo
• Woman in Black: Her suit is dark-colored, at least.

Luki and Noki

Two young twin girls who are always together and work as bounty hunters. They are under Fruhling's care and apparently part of Einsturzen's organization.

• Adorable Evil Minions
• Arm Cannon: Noki.
• Badass Abnormal
• Bob Haircut
• Cheerful Children
• Creepy Twins
• Designer Babies: In all probability.
• Dissonant Serenity
• Early-Bird Cameo: The twins appear in the prequel book, in the first chapter.
• Enfants Terribles
• Eyes of Gold: One each.
• Giggling Villains
• Girls With Psycho Weapons
• Grotesque Cute
• Heine, We're Your Younger Sisters
• Heroic BSOD: Luki has one after one of the Einsturzen clones shows up.
• Hyperspace Arsenal: Where ARE those knives and gun coming from?
• Idiot Hair
• Knife Nut: Luki, if that claw of hers doesn't count as a bunch of BFSes.
  • Machete Mayhem: Or this.
• Little Miss Badass
• Mark of the Beast: More Cerebus spines.
• Mismatched Eyes, Technicolor Eyes: In reverse of each other.
• Nigh Invulnerability: Heine quickly tries to remedy this.
• Obliviously Evil: They don't seem to understand that killing is wrong. Then again, excluding Naoto, no one else got that memo either.
• Perky Female Minions
• Pretty in Mink: Those fur-trimmed dresses and hats they wear, in opposite color of each other.
• Small Girl, Big Gun: Noki, again.
• Theme Twin Naming
• The Thing That Would Not Leave: For some reason, they end up staying at the church with Nill and Naoto. Heine does not approve.
• Token Mini Moes
• Trademark Favorite Food: Spaghetti from Buon Viaggio.
• Twin Banter
• Tykebombs
• Villain Episode: "Hardcore Twins."
• You Gotta Have Green Hair

Mimi

An info broker who sometimes works with Badou.

• Belligerent Sexual Tension: With Badou.
• Hair of Gold
• Knowledge Broker
• Neutral Female
• The Nicknamer: Calling Heine "Bleachy."
• Tsundere: Type A.

Granny Liza

A short elderly demi-human woman who's the head of a gang of more demi-humans.

• Animal Motifs: Either cats or foxes.
• Catgirl: Possibly.
• Cool Old Lady
• Half-Human Hybrid: Mixed with... something.
• Little Bit Beastly
  • Unusual Ears
• Miniature Senior Citizens: Damn, she's tiny.
• Neighbourhood Friendly Gangsters
• Reasonable Authority Figure/Benevolent Boss: It's obvious she cares about her subordinates.
  • She's also willing give Heine the benefit of the doubt and listen to him when he explains his origins to her.
• Team Mom: Mostly to her subordinates, though occasionally to the Power Trio and Nill.

Dominico

A pig man in the underground.

• Animal Motifs: Sometimes squeals when he's angry.
• Butt Monkey: Especially around the "Terrible Twosome."
• Enemy Mine: With Calcerino. They're plotting to kill Heine.
• Jerkass Has a Point: He points out that horrible things tend to happen whenever Heine and Badou are around. And they do.
• Neighbourhood Friendly Gangsters
• Pig Man
• The Worf Effect: One of the few characters whose luck seems to be worse than Badou's.

Marcel Calcerino

Head of the Calcerino family.

• Ambiguously Gay: When his gang captures Heine, he seems like he's propositioning him.
• And Your Little Dog, Too: Threatens Nil when Heine tells him, no, he doesn't want to join his gang.
• Butt Monkey: Gets part of his mouth ripped off by Heine, Luki and Noki attack him, Badou kicks him in the face and throws a desk at his gang.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Fights in and survives the Underground Explosion/Massacre.
• Enemy Mine: With Dominico. They're plotting to kill Heine.
• The Mafia
• Mark of Shame: Heine bit part of his lips off for shooting him with his own weapons. It hasn't healed yet.
• Sissy Villain
• The Worf Effect: See Butt Monkey.

Lily

Heine's younger sister.

• Ax Crazy
• Back from the Dead: She resurfaces as Einsturzen's new body.
• Cheerful Child
• Cloudcuckoolander
• Dead Little Sister: THE dead little sister.
• Designer Babies
• Grand Theft Me: Einsturzen transfers into her reconstructed body after Heine shoots her to death.
• Half The Girl She Used To Be: Thanks, Heine.
• Mark of the Beast: A Collared girl.
• My God, What Have I Done?: She is HORRIFIED by her psycho-rages.
• The Ophelia
• Posthumous Character
• Super-Powered Evil Side: Only Heine's was strong enough to stop hers. Eventually having to stop it permanently.
• White-Haired Pretty Girl

Lott and Arthur

Heine's other brothers.

• The Big Guy: Lott.
• Big Guy Fatality Syndrome: Lott is the first of Heine's friends to die.
• Designer Babies
• Doomed by Canon: They only show up in Heine's flashback.
• Dropped a Bridge on Him: They're both killed when Lily goes berserk.
• Gentle Giant: Lott, usually.
• Heroic Willpower: Arthur is able to resists the collar's commands but unlike Giovanni, is killed anyway.
• I Die Free: Arthur doesn't care where he dies, so long as he escapes. He doesn't.
  • Tragic Dream
• Mark of the Beast: Collars.
• Orphanage of Fear
• Posthumous Character
• Pretty Boy: Arthur.
• The Quiet One: Lott.
• Sacrificial Lion: They're around just long enough for characterization.
• The Smart Guy: Arthur, who is hatching a plan to escape the Orphanage of Fear.
• Those Two Guys
• White-Haired Pretty Boy

Magato Fuyumine

A young man who was trained and raised by Fuyumine alongside Naoto. Never get within arms' length of him.

• Affably Evil
• Attempted Rape: To Naoto, when they were younger.
• Ax Crazy
• Badass Long Hair
• Badass Normal: For a degree of "normal."
• Big Brother Mentor: Fancies himself as one to Naoto. Naoto does not approve.
• Blood Knight: There's no benefit to him challenging Heine other than because he wants to.
• Career Killers
• I Have You Now, My Pretty: To pretty much any female nearby.
• Jerkass
• Knife Nut
• Meaningful Name: "Crooked Knife."
• Motor Mouth: Magato likes to talk, you see...
• Mr. Exposition: Runs his mouth about what he found out about Naoto's katana and Fuyumine.
• My Sister Is Off-Limits: Hilariously, he tells Heine that he's not good enough for Naoto.
• No Sense of Personal Space
• Pet the Dog: Expresses the sentiment that Naoto is not like Fruhling and is unhappy when she's mind raped to fight like her.
• Photographic Memory: About killing people.
• Psychopathic Manchild: He's just so chipper about killing people.
• Scars Are Forever: Still has the scar that Naoto gave him when she attacked him for killing Fuyumine.
• Vague Age: Or perhaps, Younger Than They Look. In the prequel, Magato seems noticebly older than Naoto (early 20's vs mid teens) whereas in the series proper, he seems 5 years older at the most.
• Wild Card: No one is sure who's side Magato is on. He seems a bit obsessed with killing Naoto but expresses something resembling fraternal concern when her fighting style becomes inexplicably more cutthroat. He also drops his fight with Heine over the suspicion that she's in danger. It's implied that the only thing Magato cares about in any intense manner is Naoto but for what reason, purpose or even if this is a good thing hasn't been explained yet.