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Alex Hollis (Cure Romance)

Voice Actor: Harumi Sakurai (Japanese); Jennifer Hale (English)

The lovey-dovey dancer, I am Cure Romance!

Michelle Simmons (Cure Action)

Voice Actor: Michiko Neya (Japanese); Kath Soucie (English)

The blockbuster of all blockbusters, I am Cure Action!

Ruby Voorhees (Cure Drama)

Voice Actor: Marina Inoue (Japanese); Edie Mirman (English)

The writer of all things basic, I am Cure Drama!

Penny Arcadia (Cure Comedy)

Voice Actor: Ayana Taketatsu (Japanese); Wendee Lee (English)

The laser-guided laughter, I am Cure Comedy!

Lina Eastwood (Cure Western)

Voice Actor: Sachi Matsumoto (Japanese); Cristina Valenzuela (English)

The cowgirl with an attitude, I am Cure Western!

  • Anti-Hero (usually a Type II, but if provoked severely enough becomes a Type IV or Type V)
  • Berserk Button (Don't show her ANY video game made by LJN if you want to keep it intact unless it happens to be inside a video game store. Even then, she'll go into a profanity-laced tirade about how LJN ruined NES games for everyone with their licensed crap. Also, even insinuate that she'd look good in a dress, and don't expect to see a fury even close to the result from Hell itself; while Michelle never makes that mistake, she does know Lina well enough to know the consequences of such insinuations, as seen in episode 40:)

Deuce: Try wearing a dress for once, bitch!

Cure Western: You talking to me?

Cure Action: Uh-oh, he imagined my friend wearing a dress!

Cure Western: You talking to me!?

Cure Action: He shouldn't have done that!

Cure Western: YOU TALKING TO ME!?!?!?

Cure Action: Now he's in for it!

Cure Western: Me--in a dress!? IN YOUR DREAMS, MOTHERFUCKER!!!!!!

 [Cure Western proceeds to start beating Scratch to a pulp]

  • Bifauxnen (she virtually is one, even if her usual attire is gender-neutral, and then, after getting her eye gouged out, she starts wearing a black leather jacket whenever and wherever possible.)
  • Bullet Dancing (She finds herself doing this during a fight scene at what she'd probably consider the most inappropriate moment for someone like her—right before her friend Michelle is slated to perform in a ballet. Of course, Cure Western is described as doing a rapid tap dance to dodge the bullets.)
  • Celebrity Voice Actor (Emma Watson in the 3D Movie)
  • Chainsaw Good (does this to a group of hired killers in a similar way to how Lefty Enright deals with Leatherface and his family)
  • Character Development (she stops killing would-be murderers just two episodes after chainsawing a gang of hired killers sent after the Hollywood High principal, instead resorting to confiscating weapons the next time there's a situation where murder could be involved)
  • Civvie Spandex (her Cure outfit and Super Cure outfit basically consist of a gold tank top and denim shorts)
  • Cluster F-Bomb (Her mouth is enough to make a sailor blush, and at one point she uses the F word as a noun, a verb, an adjective, and an adverb in quick succession. As if her mouth can't get any dirtier, wait until she channels Christian Bale...)
  • Country Matters (In episode 23, when Scratch makes himself known by offing Krueger, she lands a Precision C Strike—a rare monent in any Pretty Cure series where someone says the word. Predictably, the very first word of Gratuitous Russian she speaks in-series is the worst in that language, its equivalent of "dick".)
  • Crazy Awesome (who'd have thought there'd be a chainsaw fight between an anti-heroine and an entire posse of hired killers?)
  • Crosscast Role (she was the Nutcracker Prince in a School Play of ETA Hoffmann's The Nutcracker and The Mouse King when she was younger)
  • Crucified Hero Shot (In episode 51, when she's actually nailed to the street by Lucifer with a nail gun right before he shoots her numerous times and subjects her to prolonged electrocution to torture her and finally pierces her side with a single bullet. To drive the point home, as her father Noel plays Psychopomp she says, "Father, into thine hands I commend my spirit." She's even the subject of Pietà Plagiarism by Cure Romance!)
  • Cybernetics Eat Your Soul (Noticeably averted; Lina is still perfectly human despite having a cybernetic eye starting in episode 23, though she usually wears an eyepatch around unknowing individuals who think this trope would apply to anyone. When Michelle expresses her concern about the effects the new eye will have on Lina's soul at the start of episode 24, she responds by asking, "Have you been reading too much Gunslinger Girl?")
  • Dance Battler (She's revealed to have shades of this in episode 50; while her capoeira training is subtle in most of the fight scenes, she goes all out with the capoeira in the last episodes.)
  • Deadpan Snarker (Here's Lina's response to Cam Black saying, "I'll be right back!":)

Lina: You see, you push the laws, and you'll end up dead, OK? I'll see you in the kitchen with a knife.

  • Death by Sex (Appropriately enough, averted. As she's still a minor, none of Lina's deaths result from a sex scene; the most notable death she underwent was a result of her snorting cocaine in a video store in exchange for a free porn tape the store had been meaning to get rid of. And this incident may as well be this trope as it's based on Randy's reasoning in Scream 3 behind his death in Scream 2, which he attributes to sex in a video store.)
  • Disney Death (At the climax of episode 51, Lucifer knocks her down, and she lands in the crucifix position. He then shoots a nail gun at her wrists at point blank range, then crosses her feet together so he can nail them to the ground with one shot. He then shoots her numerous times in the chest and electrocutes her as she screams in agony before killing her with a single bullet to the side as her comrades watch helplessly. As always, she gets better, though this time it looked like she really was gone for good.)
  • Disproportionate Retribution (How does she deal with death threats? She kills those that issue the threat before it's carried out. That's right, she doesn't wait for the death threats to be carried out before unleashing lex talionis on the would-be murderers, as seen in episode 47. She does get better about it later on, though—she simply confiscates another hired killer's weapons in episode 49 when she learns that said bastard was planning a grocery store massacre.)
  • Engineered Public Confession (she leaves a tape-recorded one with the bodies she leaves behind following the chainsaw confrontation against the hired killers in episode 47, revealing the punks' plans for the principal—plans that they would've certainly enacted had she not unleashed lex talionis too soon)
  • Even Evil Has Standards (Lina will gladly swear left and right, but she refuses to have sex or smoke.)

Scratch: Oh, really? You will now.

    • Also, even before she swore off blasphemy in a later episode, she'd sometimes take the Lord's name in vain when really angry, but she'd never blaspheme against the Holy Spirit.
  • Evil Laugh (OK, she's not really evil, but she regularly employs this. The one she delivers right when she pummels Scratch and takes his eyes out as revenge for taking one of her own eyes out is rather chilling, though. Another notable example is when she sends a homing bullet in Nick's direction. And then there's this little gem from episode 26:)

Lina: Guess what today is, Nazi motherfucker? The day you meet your death! And you know what your gravestone's gonna say? "Cyclops slain." Heh heh heh heh heh heh...

Alex: Now that is how a true professional volunteer crimefighter operates. Good show, Lina!

  • Hell-Bent for Leather (after her eye gets gouged out in combat and she receives a cybernetic eye and an eyepatch, Lina decides to accentuate the added coolness with a black leather jacket)
  • Hey, It's That Voice! (is that you, Kotaro?)
  • Hot Chick in a Badass Suit (Her formalwear is usually a black pantsuit; however, when she served as her teacher's flower girl in episode 15, she wore a white pantsuit. Just Lina being Lina, that's all.)
    • The white pantsuit returns as her own wedding outfit in the final scene, a Flash Forward to five years after the events of the series.
  • I Just Shot Alex In The Face (played for laughs during the Mexico arc as she actually shoots Alex in the face while riding shotgun in a Chevrolet Frontera after they finally succeed in crossing the border back into California and yet the bullet merely ricochets off his forehead, much to her relief)
  • TAK!*

Lina: Jesus H. Christ!
Driver: What the fuck's happening, man? Ah, shit, man!
Lina: Oh man, I shot Alex in the face.
Driver: Why the fuck did you do that?!
Lina: Well, I didn't mean to do it, it was an accident!
Driver: Oh man, I've seen some crazy-ass shit in my time...
Alex: I'm OK!
Lina: Whew.

  • Large Ham (a rare heroic example)
  • Last-Minute Hookup (after the bullets are removed and her bullet wounds bandaged up following the final fight, she confesses to Alex, and they get married in the epilogue)
  • Lovely Angels (with Michelle; when they work together in combat, the enemy won't know what hit him!)
  • Masculine Girl To Alex's Feminine Boy (to the point of wearing a white pantsuit to her wedding with Alex. Although, she was also wearing a white veil.)
  • Mistaken for Racist (In addition to her constant profanity, she seems to enjoy throwing in the odd ethnic slur, much to the author's disgust at having to type them into his episodes. So far she's used "dago", which earned her a slap from the newly-converted Fannie; "gook", which she uses to refer to Kim Jong Il during a politically-loaded rant against Communism; "kike", or more specifically, "kike hater", which she uses to refer to Nazis; and "spook", which is the farthest she's willing to go when referring to blacks.)
    • She also gets enraged when she realizes the Los Angeles Mafia tried to guilt-trip her by sending white hired killers to try to kill the Hollywood High principal disguised as various minorities. She even states that even if she didn't swear off blasphemy, she'd have a hard time finding one strong enough for such a disgraceful move--and she's having a hard enough time finding regular profanity "bad enough for such treachery" against vigilantes, both the extremist "shoot on sight" types and the more cautious "turn in the crooks like a good Boy Scout" types, as it stands.
  • Moral Event Horizon (Subverted; in the Christmas episode she orchestrates a school shooting on the Mafia's orders and isn't the least bit repentant, and then she kills Alex. Of course, all this only applies to the Alternate Universe where he doesn't exist; the real Lina would never kill in cold blood, and although she was willing to make exceptions of nine hired killers that threatened her principal, Word of God says that's the only time she'll ever shed human blood, even to protect someone else.)
  • Nice Hat (her cowboy hat as Cure Western)
  • No One Could Survive That (Cure Action actually says this after Cure Western's spirit reunites with her body, which is still riddled with bullet holes, and she still manages to get back on her feet. She responds by saying, "I'm really going to need some medical treatment when we get back.")
  • N-Word Privileges (Lina knows full well she doesn't have them; otherwise, she'd be dropping Cluster N Bombs all over the place. Instead, she confronts a token black gang member in episode 46 with the line "I can't believe a spook like you would fall in with some pretty shady guys." She's promptly offended when said gang member asks, "What you talkin' 'bout, cracka?")
  • Pay Evil Unto Evil (Puts a chainsaw to a group of hired killers who had threatened to kill the Hollywood High principal)
  • Pettanko ("If this was Australia, I'd never be able to do porn like the ones I have even once I'm of age! I'm just that flat.")
  • Pet the Dog (Has her moments, including in episode 35 when, in one of her most generous moments ever, she frees a Jewish couple with a baby. She even kisses the baby's forehead and is very careful not to say "Jehovah" or "Yahweh" (or any similar pseudonym with the YHWH consonants), instead using "El Shaddai" to refer to the big guy upstairs.)
  • Porn Stash (She has one, consisting entirely of VHS tapes, including Caballero Control Corporation Home Video releases such as Insatiable, Night Trips, and Night Trips II. Only her immediate family and her teammates in Pretty Cure know about the stash.)
  • Power Hair (She sports a pixie cut that's combed back whenever She Cleans Up Nicely, and combined with every outfit she's ever worn it's easy to mistake her for a boy—not that anyone has ever noticed in-series, of course.)
  • Pre-Mortem One-Liner (before chainsawing a group of hired killers, she yells, "SAY HELLO TO MY LITTLE FRIEND!")
  • Product Placement (As far as advertising PBS by inserting P-Heads everywhere goes, Lina is a frequent offender, as the P-Head appears on her gold top, facing either the right—with a split—or left—without a split—depending on the season.)
  • Psychopomp (She goes with her father to Heaven and is standing outside the Pearly Gates as they discuss the Cures' fight against Lucifer. In the end, her father tells her that her friends need her to help win the war against Satan, at which point she decides to return to her body. As her spirit descends back to Earth to rejoin her body, her father says, "I'll see you later.")
  • Real Women Never Wear Dresses (She's a Shorttank and Masculine Girl who's 99.9% into masculine stuff, and the one blatantly feminine activity she does—which is serving as a flower girl in episode 15--she does wearing a white pantsuit.)
  • She Cleans Up Nicely (And she wears exactly what you expect her to wear each time! Her Power Hair is also combed back in this state.)
  • Shirtless Scene (She's still wearing blue jeans while doctors operate on her to remove her bullets, but no shirt—not even a bra! However, the camera is positioned so her tits aren't visible, and Word of God says no fanservice is intended and that the shirtless scene is specifically for a medical operation)
  • Shown Their Work (She knows a lot about how stereotyping is wrong and takes some time while chewing out a group of hired killers—who happen to be minorities—to point out how a few stereotypes are inaccurate about the minorities in question. Granted, she is a bit blunt, and she has to be called out by Alex a few times for being blunt about her observations, but at least she's careful to call the minorities out for stereotyping.)
  • Tempting Fate (Remember when Lina got killed, at least temporarily, by Scratch in episode 32? That was because earlier in the episode, she said, "I'll be right back.")
  • They Killed Kenny (She dies the most times out of all the Cures, but Contractual Immortality means it never sticks. The most notable incident is in episode 22, when she gets dragged into a van and stabbed multiple times. At the end of the episode, she recovers.)
  • Tights Under Shorts (Her gold thigh-highs change into gold tights in episode 52, right before the climactic showdown against Lucifer. And that's the only real change to her Super Cure outfit.)
  • Token Evil Teammate (Like Shugo before her, Lina fits this trope just for being more antiheroic than the rest of her teammates. Lampshaded in episode 16 when she flat out says, "Yep, I'm evil" right after Alex tells Fannie how Lina is addicted to violent video games and swears a lot when she's not attending classes at Hollywood High.)
  • Tomboy To Michelle's Girly Girl
  • Vitriolic Best Buds (with Michelle)
  • What the Hell, Hero? (Gets one from Alex following the chainsaw confrontation in episode 47. Lina does admit to getting a little trigger happy with lex talionis.)
  • Who Wears Short Shorts? (She wears rolled-up jean shorts in both her Cure form and her Super Cure form, the latter whom even pairs it with Grade B Zettai Ryouiki! Lampshaded at the start of episode 23 by Krueger:)

Krueger: Is it me, or does your outfit kinda remind me of Misty Waterflower?

  • Zettai Ryouiki (Grade B as Super Cure Western—and this is despite the fact she wears short shorts—and denim, at that—in lieu of a skirt)


Antagonists

Nicholas Carpathia/Nick

Fannie Fredericks/Krueger

Krueger: There are still two more lieutenants before you face off against Lucifer. One of them is--[Scratch impales her In the Back]

Sonny Starr/Scratch

Draco Doublesworth/Deuce

  • Moral Event Horizon: He crosses it by robbing Lina's father's grave and runs aground by blowing up Hollywood High.

Shintaro Ishihara/Lucifer

  • Big Bad
  • Complete Monster: Why else would he get kicks out of nailing Cure Western to the ground with a nail gun and crossing her feet together to get them with a single shot, then using a revolver to shoot her chest numerous times and electrocute her for a prolonged period of time LAUGHING while she's screaming in agony before finally killing her by piercing her side?
  • Plot Twist: The real Shintaro Ishihara was incinerated during a run-in with him, and he's been impersonating him ever since. No wonder Ishihara has seemed so controversial recently!


Other Characters

Naelee Gabriev

Voice Actor: Chiwa Saito (Japanese), Kari Wahlgren (English)

  • Cybernetics Eat Your Soul (averted)
  • Expy (she's basically a female, more competent version of Inspector Gadget; her origin story even mirrors his from The Movie, as she starts out as a mild-mannered high school student and becomes a cyborg to save her life following a fatal accident she almost never recovered from)
  • Gratuitous French (she sings an entire song in French in episode 28, for crying out loud!)
  • Gratuitous Russian (when the author wants to remind you of her bloodline)
  • How Do I Shot Web? (she has to be shown the ropes by the scientist that saved her life and, in earlier appearances, is seen studying her manual so she can get the hang of her new cyborg abilities)
  • Red Shirt (subverted at the end of her first episode, when she's blown up by a victory cigar bomb and brought to a robotics laboratory by her new friends for a life-saving surgery that will turn her into a cyborg)
  • We Can Rebuild Him (her fate at the end of episode 26)
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