Heat Guy J/Characters

The denizens of Judoh. A man should beware of spoilers.

Daisuke Aurora

• Anti-Hero Has heroic qualities (desire for justice) and not-so-heroic ones (laziness)
• Arc Words "Yeah, yeah." and "You piss me off."
• Badass Normal
• Bishie Sparkle Manga only
• Bishounen
• Cain and Abel
• Contemplate Our Navels
• Cool Bike
• Deadpan Snarker
• Distress Ball Gets handed this * every now and then* , but not too often to the point where it's annoying.
• Estrogen Brigade Bait
• Hair of Gold
• Likes Older Women Has a crush on Antonia
• Masaya Matsukaze
• Steve Staley

Clair Leonelli

• Angst Coma
• Anti-Villain
• Ax Crazy
• Badass Nickname Vampire refers, here, not to undead bloodsucking creatures, but to the leader of the Mafia in Judoh.
• Berserk Button Woe be to you if Clair thinks you're being someone/something you're not! There's some Irony there, as he carries more angst than he lets on
  • Also, mentioning his father.
• Bishounen
• Contemplate Our Navels
• Daddy Issues He is crazy because of his abusive father
• Daisuke Sakaguchi
• Death by Childbirth: This is what happened to his mother, assuming Lorenzo wasn't lying. Which resulted in a Lonely Rich Kid being introduced to Giovanni.
• Distress Ball A Corrupt Politician takes over The Mafia, forcing Clair to escape from it and go into the aforementioned Angst Coma. Then, it turns out they need his left eye to unlock a money-filled safe protected by a retinal-scan device.
• Driven to Madness: By his own father.
• Dual-Wielding: Does this in the last episodes. (Once, even with a pair of sub-machine guns a la Master Chief!)
• Evil Laugh Kind of overlaps with Laughing Mad, too.
• Eye Scream His left eye is needed to open a safe protected by a retinal scanner. He's rescued by Daisuke, who needs to keep him safe in order to (hopefully) obtain some information from him when he comes out of the Angst Coma.
• Foe Yay Many fans like to pair him with Daisuke. Generally, Wimpification ensues.
• Hates Everyone Equally Well, almost everyone...
• Hair-Trigger Temper
• Heel Face Turn
• Hell-Bent for Leather
• Ill Boy It's mostly mental, but seems to take a toll on him physically, too.
• Johnny Yong Bosch
• Just a Kid Because he's only 19, the other higher-ups in the various Mafia factions don't think he'll be a good leader.
• Kick the Dog Most of his evil plans have little to do with the central plot. And it's revealed later that he isn't the Big Bad, Daisuke's brother is.
• Lean and Mean
• Likes Older Women (manga version only) Has a girlfriend or "friend with benefits" (it's never explained which, though this troper would guess the latter) who is in her mid-to-late-20's, and he's 19.
• The Mafia
• Moral Myopia
• Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette
• Pants-Positive Safety
• Rich Bastard
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech He tends to give a lot of these, and gets one from Daisuke.
• Self-Made Orphan: A Flash Back shows he killed his father (note the perspective). Whether he was fully cognizant of it at the time (and how he got away with it) is not known.
• Smug Snake
• Took a Level in Badass
• "Well Done, Son" Guy Oh, so much...
• You Gotta Have Blue Hair Or, at least blue highlights.

Kyoko Milchan

• Action Girl: Though she only shows it once.
• Chickification My God, the manga! She went from an intelligent girl who just happened to have a crush on Shun to an absolute bimbo!
• Brainless Beauty: In the manga. In the anime, she's actually fairly smart.
• The Chick
• First Girl Wins
• Generic Cuteness
• Hollywood Pudgy Spends an entire manga dieting (read: starving herself) to look good in a bikini to impress her crush at a pool party turns out he wasn't even there! even though she's really not fat.
• Idiot Hair: Is meant to symbolize her innocence (along with its Anvilicious piiiink color) compared to the other characters
• Kari Wahlgren
• Office Lady
• Pink Girl, Blue Boy
• Rose-Haired Girl
• Saeko Chiba
• Tsundere
• Women Are Wiser: In the anime, often serving as a voice of reason for Daisuke (although he usually brushes her off with his Catch Phrase.)
• You Gotta Have Pink Hair

Boma

• Bare Your Midriff: Shows off a nice six-pack!
• Bishounen
• BFS: Not quite on par with that of Cloud or Gin, but it's pretty big. And it can literally be pulled out of thin air!
• Big Badass Wolf
• Black Knight
• Cloudcuckoolander
• Contemplate Our Navels
• Cool and Unusual Punishment
• Creepy Monotone: Most likely a result of the torture he underwent in prison
• Flash Step
• Mind Rape
• Our Werewolves Are Different: Started off as completely human, then surgically and genetically altered as punishment for murder to have the head of a wolf, which he disguises with a holographic mask.
• Sugar and Ice Personality

J

• A.I. Is a Crapshoot
• Androids and Detectives The whole premise for the whole series!
• Artificial Human
• Badass Longcoat
• The Computer Is Your Friend

Shun Aurora

• Angst Coma When he was 13, just after his father was killed
• Best Served Cold: Has detailed plans for avenging his father. Saying anymore, however, involves massive spoilers.
• Big Bad
• Bishounen
• Blond Guys Are Evil
• Cain and Abel
• The Chessmaster
• Contemplate Our Navels
• Estrogen Brigade Bait And how!
• Hannibal Lecture: gives one to Daisuke when it's revealed which side he's really on
• Hey, It's That Voice!: Shares the same VA with Allen Schezar
• Jerkass
• Long-Haired Pretty Boy
• Omniscient Morality License

Antonia Bellucci

• Broken Bird She lost her father at a young age. J is sort of based off him.
• Christmas Cake Although, strictly speaking, she has another year to go before reaching true Cake status, she does receive comments from J about her lack of a husband. She takes it with a grain of salt, though.
• Hot Scientist
• Stepford Smiler
• Shout-Out Her character design and last name is a reference to actress Monica Bellucci
• Team Mom
• Wendee Lee

Monica Gabriel

• Bratty Half-Pint A rare female example
• Cool Pet Has a donkey named Parsley, who is apparently housetrained and makes noise in response to what people say.
• Fiery Redhead
• Just a Kid Even though she's only 10, she has to earn money to support her family, because of her alcoholic mother and her Disappeared Dad. Because of her difficult life, she is more adult-like than kid-like, but is dismissed as this because she's only 10.
• Money Fetish
• Mouthy Kid
• Wise Beyond Their Years Is able to discern that a man her mother has started seeing is nothing but trouble long before her mother, or even Daisuke does
• The Informant
• Token Mini-Moe
• Tsundere

Giovanni Gallo

• Anti-Villain
• Bodyguard Crush: One interpretation of his relationship to Clair.
• Cool Shades
• Deadpan Snarker
• The Dragon
• Eighties Hair He has a mullet, just like Folken Fanel.
• Elite Mook
• Heel Face Turn
• Heterosexual Life Partners with Clair
• Important Haircut
• Knight Templar Big Brother Subverted, as although not actually related to Clair, is like a big brother to him...and takes his duty very seriously.
• Lex Lang
• Manly Tears
• More Dakka To the point where he has a Mecha similar to (if less clunky than) Heavyarms
• Perma-Stubble
• Sunglasses at Night
• What Beautiful Eyes! When he takes his sunglasses off, that is

Ian Naruse

• A Death in the Limelight
• Bash Brothers Is almost always with Mitchal
• Bishounen
• Brainy Brunette
• Deadpan Snarker
• Elite Mook
• Geek
• Gory Discretion Shot Ian is shot by Senator Noriega while spying on him. Afterwards, his hand with the Phi Beta Kappa ring on it is chopped off, packaged up, and sent to Clair's office. All we see is the look of horror on Clair, Giovanni, and Mitchal's faces when they open the box.
• Killed Off for Real
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse The smallest of Clair's bodyguards, but still pretty badass
• The Smart Guy Graduated Phi Beta Kappa, and is in charge of all the technical crap.
• Spy Catsuit A rare male example
• The Quiet One
• What Measure Is a Mook?

Mitchal Rubenstein

• Affably Evil Arguably, the most amiable of all of Clair's minions.
• Ambiguously Jewish: Never confirmed in-series, but the last name (and stereotypically curly hair) are suggestive.
• Bash Brothers Almost always with Ian
• Bishounen
• Elite Mook
• Evil Redhead
• Killed Off for Real
• Large Ham
• Long-Haired Pretty Boy

Ken Edmundo

• Deadpan Snarker
• Defective Detective
• Hair-Trigger Temper
• Hey, It's That Voice! His Japanese seiyuu is none other than...Reno.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold
• Messy Hair
• Meta Casting His seiyuu, Keiji Fujiwara, was picked (in part) because he looks kinda like Edmundo.
• No Indoor Voice Almost always yelling in the dub
• Perma-Stubble
• Promotion to Parent Adopts Monica, because he sees that she is suffering (and far too jaded for a 10-year-old) without a father figure (or a good mom) in her life.
• The Rival Has a bit of a rivalry with Daisuke
• Tsundere A male example of a Type A Tsundere

Lorenzo Leonelli

• Abusive Parents: Was one to his "beloved son."
• Archnemesis Dad: See above
• Blue Blood
• The Dog Bites Back: Is killed by his own son
• Don't Make Me Take My Belt Off: A non-comedic example.
• Education Papa
• Expy: Of Don Vito Corleone
• Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant
• The Mafia: In fact, the head of it, and actually started his particular faction.
• Parental Neglect
• Pet the Dog: Rescues Giovanni from the slums of Judoh and gives his depressed son a friend.
• Posthumous Character
• Shoot the Dog: Killed Daisuke's father...on orders from Shop Echigo.
• Sugar and Ice Personality: Mostly ice.
• Younger Than They Look: Looks old enough to be Clair's grandfather
• What Beautiful Eyes!: Says this to then 12-year-old Giovanni

Sensei

• The Alcoholic: Is implied to have a drinking problem, although he denies that the substance in the bottle is alcohol.
• Back-Alley Doctor: Is not licensed, but is still very competent
• Bunny Ears Lawyer
• Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": No one knows his real name; he is only referred to as "Sensei" ("Doc" in the dub)
• Eyepatch of Power
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold

Rumie

• Brown Eyes
• The Chick
• Curtains Match the Window
• Door Step Baby: Was washed down a manhole into the city's Absurdly Spacious Sewer and found, raised, and trained by Sensei
• Hello, Nurse!
• Kawaiiko
• Naive Everygirl
• Put on a Bus: Leaves with the Celestial she fell in love with

Kia Freeborn

• Bishounen
• Blue Eyes
• Cooldown Hug: Receives one from his half-brother Ray
• Curtains Match the Window
• Dark Is Not Evil
• Dysfunctional Family
• The Ishmael: Subverted, as he is not a narrator, but otherwise fits the trope to a T.
• Odd Friendship: Shares one with both Daisuke and Clair
• Street Musician
• You Gotta Have Blue Hair

Maskmaker

• Bare Your Midriff
• Bishounen
• Camp Gay
• Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"
• Handsome Lech: Flirts a lot, particularly with Boma (who does not reciprocate)
• Hell-Bent for Leather: Wears leather pants
• Keet: Sometimes
• Long-Haired Pretty Boy
• Rose Haired Guy

Hime

• Bratty Teenage Daughter
• Curtains Match the Window
• Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": She is known only by her title "Hime" ("Princess"), as amongst her people, only family members and spouses have the right to know each other's real names.
• Everything's Better with Princesses
• Funny Foreigner: Is regarded as this in-universe
• Ludd Was Right: Believes technology is evil
• Manic Pixie Dream Girl: A non-romantic variety for the duration of the one episode she appears in
• Miko: Appears to play this role somewhat, as she is very religious and performs an exorcism on a bunch of Mooks
• Nubile Savage: Somewhat
• Precocious Crush: Develops one on Shun and asks (read: orders) him to marry her. Hilarity Ensues.
• Space Amish: Her civilization lives outside the city limits, independent from Judoh's technologies. It is, however, a Crap Saccharine World, because its people are very cold towards one another
• Tsundere

Marius Aurora:

• Chekhov's Gunman
• Disappeared Dad: Has been killed by Lorenzo
• Nice Guy
• Posthumous Character
• Reasonable Authority Figure

Nona Aurora:

• Cloudcuckoolander
• Fourth Date Marriage: Married Marius pretty much right away
• Green Eyes
• Hair of Gold
• Happily Married: Until her evil brother got in the way
• Hot Mom
• Love At First Sight: With Marius
• Missing Mom: Went back to the Land of the Celestials
• Sibling Marriage Veto: Her brother Echigo does not like her marrying Marius
• Superior Species: Is a Celestial
• Yamato Nadeshiko

Echigo:

• Blond Guys Are Evil
• The Chessmaster: Ordered Lorenzo to kill Marius using an android, after Marius sought to allow them again.
• Generation Xerox: Looks like an older version of his nephew Shun
• I Did What I Had to Do: Or so he tells Shun
• Knight Templar Big Brother
• Long-Haired Pretty Boy
• Love-Obstructing Parents
• Posthumous Character: Sort of. Shun took over his identity
• Superior Species

Cynthia, Janis, and Vivian

• Brainless Beauty
• Dumb Blonde: Vivian, though she's arguably somewhat less ditzy than the other girls
• Fiery Redhead: Cynthia
• Gossipy Hens: Makes them good informants for Daisuke
• Hooker with a Heart of Gold: No one comes right out and says it, but it is implied that they are prostitutes. (Most evident when they are seen going to a hotel with some businessmen.)
• The Informant
• Stripperiffic: Justified, as they are supposed to be prostitutes.
• Tsundere: Type B
• Wendee Lee: Voices Janis
• You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Janis

Christina Gabriel:

• Adult Child
• Bottle Fairy
• Brainless Beauty
• Broken Bird: It's implied that many of her current problems (drinking, poverty) are because her boyfriend (Monica's father) left her.
• Children Raise You: Because of her drinking and generally irresponsible behavior, she cannot take care of herself. It's Monica that brings home the bacon and cooks it.
• Fiery Redhead
• Generation Xerox: We know where Monica gets her looks, and Christina lampshades it.
• Horrible Judge of Character
• Hot Mom
• Love Makes You Stupid: Gets involved with a man who wants nothing more than to take her out of Judoh to either be killed or used as a Sex Slave, and doesn't realize it until it's too late.
• Mama Bear: At times, such as when Daisuke tries to adopt Monica.
• Missing Mom: Is prepared to leave Judoh with her new boyfriend, with or without her daughter
• Naive Everygirl: Despite being an adult and having a child, she still has shades of this trope.
• Omniscient Morality License: Takes one anyway (see above), believing that Monica will join up with her later on and accept Christina's boyfriend as her father.
• Second Love: Eventually begins a relationship with Edmundo
• Stripperiffic: Is seen walking around in public wearing booty shorts on a date, and usually wears a slinky nightie.
• Teen Pregnancy: Is 26, and Monica is 10
• Tsundere

Trinity:

• Brainy Brunette
• Canon Immigrant: Was created specifically for the manga, and does not appear in the anime series.
• Dark Chick
• Expy: Of Antonia
• Hot Scientist
• Nerds Are Sexy
• Of Course I Smoke
• The Rival: Implied to be in some kind of rivalry with Antonia regarding who is better at robotic engineering.
• The Smart Guy
• Stripperific: Wears nothing but lacy lingerie under her labcoat
• Unholy Matrimony: With Clair. That, or Friends with Benefits.
• The Vamp
• Wine Is Classy

Shogun:

• Badass
• Cool Old Guy: Think of a male version of Genkai
• Grumpy Old Man: Sometimes
• Heel Face Turn: Used to be a prominent member of the Mafia, but became disillusioned and gave all of that up. He is now "retired", and supports himself by running a store.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Took Daisuke and Shun in when their father was killed, and gave Clair a place to stay after Noriega took over
• Old Master
• Retired Badass