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Great Old Ones
The Great Old Ones are five immensely powerful god-like beings, each of whom preside over a particular form of Madness with their Wavelength, which is born from their very existence. In General
- Ambiguous Situation: While Fire Force, being a Stealth Prequel, revealed that Lord Death was created by Shinra, Excalibur by Arthur, and that Asura was likely influenced by the Evangelist, it doesn't clarify how the other Great Old Ones like Eibon came to exist.
- Brown Note Being: The defining trait of a Great Old One is that their very soul wavelengths induce some form of madness on a planetary scale. They mostly suppress this wavelength, the exception of this being Asura, who's wavelength is so powerful it can manifest physically as a Clown Species.
- Our Gods Are Different: While it's implied that humans can achieve godhood artificially via becoming a Kishin, the Great Old Ones are all true gods.
- Single Specimen Species: No two examples are the same. The exception to this being Asura and Shinigami, and even then Asura had become a Kishin before his imprisonment.
Excalibur
The legendary sword used by heroes and kings. In spite of his immense powers, Excalibur hardly ever has a meister because no one can put up with his unbearably grating, loudmouthed, egomaniac personality. He usually resides in a cave full of fairies, who also can't stand him. Fire Force reveals his origins.
- Absurdly Sharp Blade: Can cut through Dimensions; just one reason why he's called THE most powerful weapon in the setting
- Awesome, but Impractical: He is the most powerful weapon in the setting. He can synchronize his soul wavelength with anyone, but he's so immensely annoying that no one can stand being near him.
- Brick Joke: In one of the tales about his past, he managed to get Watson arrested. Later, when watching a Sherlock Holmes movie, he again accuses Watson of being guilty. Watson, on screen, panics after being accused.
- Captain Ersatz: Excalibur's character design comes straight out of The Moomins.
- Catchphrase: Several times, he starts with "My legend began in/dates back to the 12th century" to then say a bunch of random stuff that has nothing to do with his legend, leaving everyone who listens annoyed.
- Catchphrase Insult: He almost never can say even one sentence without yelling "BAKAME/FOOL!"
- Cloud Cuckoo Lander: He tells long stories that go nowhere and end without warning, his list of rules are baffling, and he'll randomly say "BAKA". According to the anime, he was a lot more coherent in King Arthur's day and also had a cool beard. Apparently his sanity is directly proportional to his amount of facial hair. He also has a tendency to stare at insects as they cross his path, sometimes stopping what he's doing to walk over to one. Before calling it a fool.
- The Cuckoolander Was Right: Towards to the end of the anime, he gives out some info during the fight against Asura and calls Azusa on fighting Asura without a meister... in between being a Cloud Cuckoolander of the nth degree.
- Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: Gives Asura a talking to about honor and emotions in the anime. Asura doesn't seem to mind too much; his response to being called a fool is "aw, I missed you too."
- Difficult, but Awesome: For those who can put up with his quirks, the rewards are worth it. A certain meister aside, everyone who has been able to tolerate him ends up going down in legends for a reason.
- Eldritch Abomination: He's one of the five remaining Great Old Ones, beings so powerful and mighty, their mere presence induces madness. His specialty is Madness through Rage; he spreads madness by infuriating people and driving literally mad with anger through his quirks and pride (but like Shinigami, appears to control it instead of causing widespread inducement of wrath.) The cover spread of chapter 77 possibly shows him alongside Shinigami, Asura, Eibon and The Great Old One of Power, all of whom are confirmed eldritch horrors (second from the left).
- Excalibur in the Stone: Like its namesake's common image, it is first found engraved in stone until Black☆Star releases him. Star soon comes to regret this.
- Expecting Someone Taller: Meisters who go through the effort of seeking him out will be thrown off by his rather bizarre appearance.
- Fearless Fool: He's the only one who isn't afraid of Asura's power. Justified since he is that powerful himself, thus subverting the 'Fool' aspect.
- Foil: Living Weapons Ragnarok and Excalibur. Both have humanoid transformed states and are forceful egotists, but one is dark and the other light. Excalibur is a colossal nuisance who can be removed, but Crona is stuck with Ragnarok the bully forever. Excalibur has phenomenal power in his own right, but Ragnarok's power is mostly potential—he needs to beef up on souls before he can compete with Excalibur.
- The Gadfly: He riles up almost anyone to rage with his quirks, pride and just endless bizarre traits. Given he represents Madness Through Rage, this is not surprising and he can be be quite civil when need be.
- Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal: It's lampshaded by Black☆Star that he's naked beneath the waist.
- Infinity +1 Sword: Is the most powerful weapon in existence... if you're willing to take his absurd crap. Some of the known abilities he grants his wielder are Heavenly Wings, light speed movement, and the ability to slash everything with gigantic explosions of golden fire. When Liz used him (briefly) in the Book of Eibon, he was able to cut a large hole through another dimension.
- Informed Ability: Supposedly, Excalibur is the most powerful weapon in all existence. Despite that, he participates in very few fights and doesn't have many onscreen feats to speak of. Justified since Excalibur is relentlessly annoying and nobody in their right mind would put up with him.
- It's All About Me:
- Don't talk with him; he will steam roll you with an endless barrage of stories and rules and "FOOL!"
- If you watch the episode where he talks about doing detective work with Sherlock Holmes, the wallpaper, pictures, and background are filled of images of him.
- Jerkass: He's so friggin annoying it makes sense why the only people who can wield him are called heroes. King Arthur must've been a saint. Or, as Fire Force shows, incredibly foolish.
- Large Ham: Picking Takehito Koyasu for his Japanese voice role and Troy Baker for his English couldn't possibly have been unintentional. Yes, they overact like hell and obviously had fun doing it.
- The Long List: Any meister who wants to wield him must obey a 1,000 rule list and he will recite them in a random order if you ask (or if you don't ask but are nearby.) In his first appearance, Excalibur was willing to cut his list of 1,000 requirements down to 800 in return for being wielded as a weapon by Kid or Star. Presumably, a sufficiently persuasive Meister could negotiate him down to something manageable. In the Book of Eibon he was willing to lend his power to good guys with no requirements (in the Eibon Chapter Pride, they were too proud to accept his offer).
- Multiple-Choice Past: The only concrete things are the people who have wielded him and went on to become legends. As for the rest, it jumps all over the place.
- Averted with the reveal that Fire Force is a prequel of Soul Eater, Excalibur revealed to initially be Arthur Boyle's sword brought to life from his original owner's thoughts and Shinra influenced the adolla energy.
- No-Sell: In the anime, he is completely unfazed by the shockwaves of Asura and Death's battle. Even Asura's direct attack that leaves Azusa, Spirit, and Kid battered has no visible effect on him.
- Obfuscating Stupidity:
- Hinted at during the Battle on the Moon arc. His interactions with Shinigami regarding his apparent death as a result of Kid becoming a full Shinigami at least show he's capable of carrying a normal, serious conversation.
- Considering he was pretty serious during King Arthur's time, he seems capable of reigning in his quirks. Alternately, his quirks exist because he is a Great Old One, powerful beings whose mere existence causes madness! Specifically, the Madness Through Rage. Makes sense that he tends to piss off everyone who meets him...
- Only the Chosen May Wield: Defied Trope. Everyone can wield the ultimate legendary sword. The problem is no one can wield him for very long, because Excalibur's personality is so unbearably irritating and egotistical, he drives his partners insane.
- Pet the Dog:
- Moments such as when the gang needs his abilities in the Book of Eibon, or Shinigami-sama needs someone on the level to be there for Kid after he dies show he may well buckle down when necessary and can actually stop being annoying for a while.
- Offered Spartoi his services no strings attached and seriously when they needed to save Kid. Unfortunately, being in the Pride chapter, they refused.
- Phrase Catcher: "SO ANNOYING!"
- Power Gives You Wings: One of the powers a meister gets when wielding Excalibur are a pair of wings made of light capable of flight.
- Pride: He is well aware of how powerful, legendary, etc he is. Ironic that in the Chapter of Pride, HE was humble enough to offer his services without rules.
- Public Domain Artifact:
- "Excalibur" is from Arthurian lore and so is centuries old.
- The anime shows that as well as having been the Excalibur, he was also present for at least one Sherlock Holmes case (where he gets Watson arrested as the murderer), as well as having been Tony from West Side Story. Given his status as a Cloud Cuckoo Lander, this Backstory is obviously questionable.
- Random Events Plot: All his stories about his past. Any attempt to connect the events he describes to each other, or to some kind of point or theme, is utterly futile.
- Ret-Canon: The "Excalibur Song" was originally made for a filler episode in the anime. It eventually found its way into the manga, where Excalibur was able to torment even more people with it.
- Running Gag: The 'I-Have-Met-Excalibur' face
◊. - Secret Test of Character: Almost every question that comes out of his mouth is a Secret Test of Character...that only makes sense to him.
- Shoo Out the Clowns: Inverted. He comes back for the climax in the anime, despite everyone's (both villain and hero) best attempts at ignoring him. In the manga, he invites himself to witness the climax with Shinigami at Death Academy.
- Small Name, Big Ego: Even for his power, he's full of himself. He barely lets other people talk near him.
- Smug Super: He brags quite a lot, but has every ounce of the power needed to back up his claims. Enough to elevate the worst meister in the school to three-star status simply for wielding him (though the partnership didn't last). Furthermore, he's a being of the same nature as Shinigami, it's really not surprising his ego is so inflated.
- Super Prototype: Lord Death reveals that Eibon, who would continously deny, based his research on making the Demon Weapons using Excalibur. Furthermore, Fire Force reveals that Excalibur existed since the creation of the current reality.
- Talkative Loon: The singing... and dancing... and never shutting up...
- Talking Weapon: To everyone's horror, he talks and talks and talks regardless of what form he's in.
- World's Strongest Man: Has been stated several times in the series to be the most powerful weapon ever made, more so than even modern day death scythes, inspiring the creation of the demon weapon race by Arachne in the first place. He even served in the Eight guardians legion alongside Asura and Death centuries before the DWMA was formed and in the anime was unimpressed by the intense battle between Asura and Death (Both were at their strongest by then!). Problem is, he is gainfully aware of it, making him unbearable to pretty much every meister who tries to wield him.
Kishin Asura
- Voiced by: Toshio Furukawa (JP), Chris Patton (EN), Roberto Certomà (IT)
The strongest and most dangerous antagonist in Soul Eater, as well as the Greater-Scope Villain for the entire series and the first demon god. He was supposedly once human, a meister and Death's apprentice who ate his own weapon partner after going insane with fear. Before the start of the series, he was defeated by Shinigami-sama and imprisoned. However he is eventually released and begins to spread "madness" throughout the world.
- Adaptational Wimp: The anime version is considerably much weaker than in the manga. In the anime, Maka, Black Star and Death The Kid put a good fight and he was defeated by Maka, even after he already managed to defeat Shinigami and consume Arachne's soul. In the manga, even after Soul became a Death Scythe, Black Star went Beyond the Impossible to become a god-like fighter, Maka controlled the Black Blood and wielded her Death Scythe father, and Kid ascended as the new Lord Death, they could not defeat Asura and Crona knew, since he will exist as long fear exists, the only they could defeat him was to seal him in the moon... for a while.
- And Then What?: Subverted in the anime. Excalibur asks him what he intends to do after filling the world with his madness. Asura replies that madness is enough for the world.
- Antagonistic Offspring: To Shinigami.
- Anthropomorphic Personification: Asura isn't so much an actual person as much as he is Madness and Paranoia incarnated into a physical body.
- Arch-Enemy: To Shinigami and the whole Academy, in particular the Spartoi unit.
- As Long as There Is Evil: Crona reveals that as long as there is intelligent life, there will always be fear. Because Asura is the embodiment of madness caused by terror, the presence of life means his presence will always remain no matter how hard they try to eliminate him. Thus the best they can do is make him Sealed Evil in a Can again, but hopefully more effective this time.
- Ax-Crazy: Seems quite happy to slaughter a bunch of kids, namely Maka, Death The Kid and Black Star.
- Bandaged Face: Despite not covering any injuries, Asura's fear of everything leads him to cover up his face in bandages whenever he gets the chance. Like much of his characterization, this emphasizes his unstable and insane nature.
- Barbie Doll Anatomy: Justified when he was first revived, since he hadn't finished putting his skin back on yet, meaning his shape wasn't fully formed.
- Big Bad Ensemble: Although he spends much of the series as a background villain, he's always number one on Shibusen's hit list and they are always trying to locate and stop him, even while dealing with other immediate threats, such as Arachne, or Noah. Medusa also has great sway on the plot and they both cause a huge threat to Shibusen.
- Bishounen Line: In the Anime, after fighting his giant self, Asura turns back into his more human form, though with the same light blue skin as his previous form.
- Body Horror: Not only was he skinned alive and kept within his flayed flesh for hundreds of years but he can also stretch his skin and use it to form bandages around himself like clothing.
- Breath Weapon: Thanks to swallowing his weapon partner, Vajra. He can also naturally summon them with his instant runes as well.
- Cain and Abel: He's technically Death the Kid's older brother due to being made from Death's body. Regardless, Asura doesn't hold even the tiniest pit of "love" for his younger brother.
- Cannibalism Superpower: It was stated several times he devoured his weapon partner and can use his powers because of it.
- Collapsible Helmet: Played with. His face is wrapped up frequently, but the fabric/skin often opens up to show his face.
- Combat Sadomasochist: Maybe.The most nasty attacks from Black Star and Maka blades just made him laugh.
- The Corrupter: Asura creates an army of clowns and has them corrupt people such as Justin.
- Cowardly Lion: Villainous example. Even though Shinigami is the only character who can match him, he still retreats to the moon and doesn't fight himself until all his minions are killed. He is filled with the madness of Fear, after all.
- Deadpan Snarker:
- Has dryly mocked Shinigami and Kid a couple of times when they tried to attack him.Asura: So courageous, you're making me quiver...
- And with Excalibur in the anime as well when getting scolded.Asura: Aww, I missed you too.
- Has dryly mocked Shinigami and Kid a couple of times when they tried to attack him.
- Death by Adaptation: In the manga his goals are thwarted and he's back to being Sealed Evil in a Can, but is technically alive so long as human fear exist. In the anime he unambiguously died.
- Dissonant Serenity:
- Especially in the anime, he can be creepily calm at times. He doesn't even bat an eyelid at Shinigami's threats to skin him alive again.
- His only response to Noah going One-Winged Angel and impaling him like a bug on a pin is to bemusedly ask why the latter is "poking" him.
- Dissonant Laughter: Being hit by Shinigami Chop and sent crashing in the ground,bleeding? Just laugh.Being slashed multiple times by Black Star special move and then bleeding for it? Just laugh. Being nearly bisected and then sealed by Maka and Chrona?Just laughs and mocks the heroes. This guy is really nuts.
- Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Asura is defeated in the anime because he cannot comprehend the concept of courage.
- Eviler than Thou: In the manga Crona absorbs him completely. But once their resolve starts to waver, Asura's madness overwhelms Crona, reversing the absorption.
- Exotic Eye Designs: His red eyes have white details over the iris to give the appearance of additional vertical eyes inside of his regular ones.
- Eyes Do Not Belong There: Not on your hands, your forehead, your hair, and especially not inside your normal eyes!
- Fate Worse than Death: Having your skin ripped off and turned into a bag with which to seal your soul for all eternity. No wonder he's even crazier when he comes out.
- Feels No Pain: Maybe. He says that he doesn't fear pain, so it can't affect him. He barely flinches from being stabbed repeatedly and almost cut in half by Maka's scythe.
- Freak Out: His original one was what caused him to become the first Kishin.
- Giggling Villain: Extremely high-pitched and disturbing.
- Greater-Scope Villain: The most powerful antagonist in the series, with all the other villains wanting him for one reason or the other. Until the Battle on the Moon arc, he rarely gets any screen time and is only briefly seen in flashbacks, or mentioned at all. But he still remains a major threat.
- Good Hurts Evil: Inverted. In the anime Maka uses Anti-Demon Wavelength, a wavelength that can destroy evil, which was capable of killing Medusa, and failed. This is because Asura was being driven by madness, not by malice or sadism like Medusa. Insane people cannot be considered completely evil because they are not completely in control of their thoughts and judgment and thus do not act according to the concepts of good and evil.
- Guyliner: Whether it's makeup or just his natural eyes, they have this effect.
- Healing Factor: Due to the Black Blood, he can regrow whole limbs in the anime, though it seems to be pretty painful. He also likely can do this on his own.
- Humanoid Abomination:
- Despite appearing human, he is one of eight "Great Old Ones", representing "the madness of terror." His very presence causes horrible death-filled hallucinations and monsters, can create violent weather, and even warps reality in distorted ways.
- In the finale, he is revealed to be a fragment of Shinigami, just like his "younger brother" Death the Kid. Specifically, he is all of Shinigami's fear.
- Humans Are Insects: In the manga, he constantly refers to Maka as scum for being a weaker human and feels humans in general are weak creatures beholden to their fears.
- Improbable Weapon User: A vajra that fires laser beams?
- Informed Attribute: Despite being noted as a "scaredy cat", Asura is unnervingly serene most of the time and seems to not worry when openly mocking Lord Death in his face. Keep in mind he knows he is more than willing to skin him alive again.
- Instant Runes: Summons them by clapping his hands.
- Knight of Cerebus: When he's onscreen... the comedy STOPS.
- Limp and Livid: His default way of moving, although it's explained by the fact that he has to learn to walk all over again. By the end of the anime he's standing upright.
- Living Macguffin: Especially in the manga, where the other three Big Bads (Medusa, Arachne, and Noah) are all trying to find and control him to use his madness for their own ends. On his own, Asura simply fled and hid on the Moon to be left alone and took no action until other people came to attack/control him. To be fair though, he didn't need to come to Earth, as the influence of his Madness of Fear was growing large enough to encompass the whole planet anyway.
- Loves the Sound of Screaming: His reaction to Maka's bloodcurdling scream as he crushes her ribs certainly gives this impression.
- Luke, I Am Your Father: Pulls one on Kid, bluntly telling him the darker side of his family tree, not to mention father. Needless to say, Kid is not amused.Asura: What a stupid younger brother, you shouldn't have decided to become a true Shinigami.
Kid: Just now... what did you say? ...I'm your little brother? - Mad God: The embodiment of all Madness of Terror.
- Meaningful Name: "Asura" are minor Buddhist gods, associated with violence and mad desire.
- Monster Progenitor: His madness wavelength is so potent, Clowns are spawned from concentrated pockets of it. By the time DWMA found him hiding on the moon, they have to get past an entire army of clowns, all of whom are unkillable as long as they have Asura's wavelength to feed on.
- Mood-Swinger: He can be composed and polite on one minute and then on the next one he starts laughing like the maniac he truly is. Curiously, he acts in a more cool and sane way while he doesn't hide his face with his mask.
- Mook Maker: His madness is able to endlessly produce murderous Clowns.
- No-Sell: Everybody's attacks are rendered useless against him.
- No Sense of Personal Space: After Shibusen destroys his Clown army with the help of the witches, Asura causes a mass hallucination that blankets the Moon, causing everyone to go temporarily insane. When it is dispelled by Maka, it is revealed that he is literally
inches away from Sid's face. - Not Quite Dead: In the manga, after what appears to be the buildup to a massive battle royale with Crona, he is unceremoniously sucked into Crona's Mad Blood attack and absorbed completely. But when Crona has a breakdown in the face of Maka and her father's familial bond, the Kishin overwhelms Crona from within.
- Ominous Latin Chanting: Some sort of chanting always plays just before he uses Vajra or his beams in the anime.
- One-Man Army: Remember the trouble Maka had to beat Blair and even Stein had difficulty in facing Medusa? Asura was capable of slaughtering large groups of witches by himself. And this was before turning into a Kishin.
- One-Winged Angel: His giant True Kishin form in the anime. Although from there he reverts back into an even more powerful human shape. Averted in the manga.
- Orcus on His Throne: Due to his agoraphobia, he mainly spends time by himself cloistered away from others. In the anime, Arachne had to come to him directly for aid and in the manga he spends his time hiding in the moon after being freed from his prison. Unfortunately his Madness Wavelength is so immense, the world starts plunging into chaos and spawning monsters just by him existing.
- The Paragon Always Rebels: Asura was by far the best and strongest of the original eight guardians who served Lord Death centuries before the academy was formed, and by extension the strongest meister in the series, second only to Lord Death himself. He was also the frightening one of them all, leading to his fall from grace.
- The Paranoiac: According to Lord Death, Asura was like a "huge ball of paranoia", always wearing between five or six layers of clothes and keeping himself cloistered away. While he was the strongest of the Eight Shinigami Legions, he was always afraid of something and sought power, till the point he started hunting for souls and ate his own partner, who he was terrified of.
- Person of Mass Destruction: Potent and infectious madness wavelength, extremely deadly beams from Vajra, and being a Great Old One puts him in this category.
- Physical God: Being a Mad God , it's no surprise. The only one that can match him is Lord Death himself.
- A Pupil of Mine Until He Turned to Evil: He was a fragment of Lord Death that he ripped out, who then learned from and then betrayed him.
- Reactive Continuous Scream: With Eruka when he first opened his eyes mere inches from her face.
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: In the anime he gives one to Shinigami (while beating each other to a pulp) and another to Maka.
- In the manga he gives one to Shibusen and the witches, surprisingly similar to the one he gave Maka in the anime. He states that the madness his presence causes was really there all along beneath the mask of order they enforce, he simply brought it to the surface.
- Room Full of Crazy: Anywhere he inhabits for a long enough time becomes this, resembling a bizarre shrine covered in talismans and chains.
- Satanic Archetype: Asura was created by the series Big Good (and Top God) Shinigami-Sama/Lord Death as a means of creating the perfect world (both in creating a warrior to fight the forces of evil as well as a way of purging himself of his own fears). Asura then betrayed him and was punished by being banished into a less destructive form beneath him, but is still able to influence others subconsciously, complete with his own line of worshippers. He also has a motif of threes, not unlike the Devil (who had three sets of wings and three faces) in Dante's Inferno.
- Scarf of Asskicking: Can function as an actual weapon. Plus they're made of his own super-stretchy, impervious skin.
- Sealed Evil in a Can: He was sealed in a bag. Now in the moon courtesy of Crona's Heroic Sacrifice.
- Sigil Spam: His three-eyed pattern shows up a lot to show his madness wavelength is at work.
- Slasher Smile: Not with great regularity, but being madness incarnate and all it's no surprise how well he can pull them off when he wants to.
- Third Eye: His main motif. Appropriate considering the Buddhist theme. It may also be a shout-out to Atsuhi Ookubo's former Big Bad, Emine the Hakutaku.◊
- Ãœbermensch: Anime-only, from his "Reason You Suck" Speech to Shinigami in episode 48, he can be seen as this. He believes by plunging the world into madness will allow true freedom and despises the rules of law and morality enforced by Lord Death.
- Uncanny Family Resemblance: To Death the Kid.
- Villainous Breakdown:
- He's so paranoid and fearful that he has these at the drop of a hat, but his one at the end of the anime was a topper.
- Inverted with his defeat in the manga, as rather than terrified, he's not impressed that he managed to be sealed away again, proclaiming that he'll one day return.
- Wave-Motion Gun: When using Vajra. The beam is even powerful enough to wound Lord Death if it hits directly.
- Wham Line: To Death the Kid in Chapter 107: "Stupid little brother."
Eibon
- Voiced by: Yasuyuki Kase (JP), Christopher Sabat (EN)
The mysterious creator of BREW, the Eternal Spring, and the Book of Eibon, among other demon tools. Eibon was one of Shinigami's eight warriors, alongside Asura. Not much else is known about him.
- Anthropomorphic Personification: Represents the madness of knowledge.
- The Atoner: Anime only. He sided with Arachne to save his lover from death, and turns himself into the key to unlock BREW for Shinigami to use when he failed.
- Eldritch Abomination: Called a Great Old One, along with the other Eight Warlords.
- The Engineer: Creator of the Demon Tools (Magic Tools in the English anime dub), which all take the some form of mechanical object.
- The Faceless: Due to wearing several masks and an ornate robe during his only comfirmed appearance.
- Hidden in Plain Sight: In the manga he lives in the Tempest, where most people assume he's just another illusion.
- Necromantic: In the anime.
- Shout-Out: To Clark Ashton Smith and, by corellation, H. P. Lovecraft.
- Sealed Good in a Can: The anime incarnation hid himself inside the Key of Eibon.
- The Smart Guy: He represents the Madness of Knowledge.
- Stupidity-Inducing Attack: Eibon's soul emits the Madness of Knowledge, a madness that scrambles a person's capacity to think clearly, if at all.
The Great Old One of Power
- Ambiguous Gender: It's a massive, inky black mass, and only very vaguely humanoid. So it seems safe to say that Atshushi is justified in this case.
- Anthropomorphic Personification: Represents the madness of power, hence its title.
- Cthulhumanoid: Even though the it barely looks human, its face sort of resembles Cthulhu's, probably done to emphasize its status as an Eldritch Abomination.
- Eldritch Abomination: See for yourself◊. Also, see what it calls itself.
- It's All My Fault: It states that the Great Old Ones' very existence influenced madness and that they were ultimately responsible for the madness that was Asura.
- No Name Given: He only refers himself as one of the Great Old Ones.
- Power at a Price: As stated above, he can give people power at the cost of their sanity, throwing them into madness.
- The Reveal: "''Fragment of the Madness of Law... Fragment... of Shinigami."
- Sealed Evil in a Can/Sealed Good in a Can: Though reasons for how and why aren't clear, it seems to be existing within the Book of Eibon and though it starts out antagonizing, its alliance is ultimately sort of ambiguous. It's also staying there by choice, for its own vague reasons, and has the power to get out any time.
- Secret Test of Character: To what end no one knows, but exposing Kid and Black*Star to madness was meant to be beneficial to them.
Noah's Group
An entourage formed by the titular mage possessing the mysterious Book of Eibon, following the destruction of Arachnophobia. Noah
Seemingly the third Big Bad of the series, Noah originally appeared to work for Arachne, until it's revealed that his true goal is to use the Book of Eibon to absorb and "collect" everything, which he feels in essence would make him "everything".
- Ambiguously Brown: And apparently no biological heritage to speak of.
- Artificial Human: After he gets killed, the "Table Of Contents" in the Book of Eibon reveals he was a manifestation of the Greed chapter, called a "statue." Another one is sent out, this time of the Wrath chapter.
- Big Creepy-Crawlies: His personal magic revolves around caterpillars and centipedes. On Nightmare Fuel.
- The Collector: His entire shtick is to collect anything worthwhile and his goal is to one day collect everything. He decided to add Kid to his Tome of Eldritch Lore along with anything else he finds interesting.He's programmed to be that way
- Collector of the Strange:
- Such "interesting" things include demons, sins, and a massive, inky abomination calling itself a Great Old One.
- He also collected Excalibur; Freaking "He's So Annoying Everything Wants To Kill Him" Excalibur. You do NOT get stranger than that.
- Dissonant Serenity: Never shows anything stronger than mild irritation, even when he's sucking people up into his book. Reverses completely for the Wrath model.
- The Dragon:The Greed Incarnation was built up to be the Big Bad in the Book of Eibon arc, but was actually working for the Table of Contents, who operated behind the scenes.
- Flat Character: Even Kid notices that something is wrong with Noah, who collects everything just for the sake of collecting and has very straightforward goals, compared to other villains. It turns out his "Greedy collecting machine" remark was very close to the truth.
- Godhood Seeker: He wants to become "God" by collecting everything in the world into the Book of Eibon.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: The Noah from the Wrath chapter flies off the handle at virtually everything.
- The Heavy: He's the villain driving the plot for the Book of Eibon Arc, though he's in service to the Index.
- Karma Houdini:
- He's still alive at the end, and Gopher is escaping with him.
- Although Greed, the only Noah that actually managed to do anything evil, is dead.
- Legacy Character: It would seem Noah would at least like to be something like this, as he's used Eibon's name for "brand recognition", as mentioned above.
- Let's Get Dangerous!:
- With Glowing Eyes of Doom and Instant Runes to go with it.
- When he twists his cap around, he's really decided to get serious.
- Mark of the Supernatural: He has purple eyes and is certainly a powerful mage, and certainly not human, so all bets are off for pigmentation. Of course, such an unusual eye color just makes him that much more special.
- The Minion Master: When he decides to get serious, he fights by summoning hordes of monsters and artifacts from the Book of Eibon. These include giant worms, flying gremlins, a Cyclops, tentacles with faces, a three-headed dragon with a cemetery on its back and each head wearing the mask of a famous slasher film star, and MICHELANGELO'S DAVID.
- Never Found the Body: Strongly implied to have disappeared into the Book of Eibon at the end of his battle against Kid. He's later back, with a new personality.
- No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Stein, Sid, Marie, Nygus and Tezca never stood a chance.
- One-Man Army: As Spartoi found out.
- Tome of Eldritch Lore: The book of Eibon. He thinks by collecting everything in the world that he will become a god. The Tables of Contents is actually responsible for this.
- Unstoppable Rage: The Wrath model of Noah. Hair-Trigger Temper included.
- Villain Decay: After coming back as the Noah of Wrath, he spent most of his time yelling at everyone and being mostly comic relief.
- You Have Failed Me: Defied, no matter how annoying his minions get. He even points out to Gopher that losing to Maka just means that he wasn't strong enough. Even though Gopher made things even worse by screaming his boss' name everywhere, Noah still keeps the guy around, if only as a guinea pig. As Wrath, this completely saves his ass after Noah eats him, and Gopher is the only one fighting for him.
Gopher
A fanatical servant of Noah. Gopher has a rather aggressive and violent nature, especially if it is concerning insults made towards Noah, whom he is both extremely protective over and obsessed about. Gopher personally believes that he is the only one who can satisfy Noah. Justin also describes Gopher as always being uptight. He later demonstrates a tendency to bite his top lip whenever he becomes enraged.
- Camp Gay: Pretty much, although he's only gay for Noah.
- Death Glare:
- Subverted; he tries, but just achieves a ridiculously pouty inverted-V face. Unfortunately for Death the Kid, his pout is silly, but asymmetrical.
- It doesn't look asymmetrical at first, but Kid could see the differences, they're near microscopic.
- Subverted; he tries, but just achieves a
- Ignored Enamoured Underling: Desperately in love with Noah, but Noah doesn't seem to notice.
- Karma Houdini: He not only lives, but he gets to be with six clones of his beloved Noah forever.
- Meaningful Name: Gopherwood was what the biblical Noah built his ark from. Guess who SE Noah uses as a tool to create his own 'ark'?
- Villain: Exit, Stage Left: Although he's hardly a villain at this point, the manga ends with him seen happily carrying off the six remaining Noahs Asura and Crona spat out while they're still unconscious.
- Winged Humanoid: Gopher is one of the rare souls capable of Flight.
- Yandere: To the point of parody. Gopher seems to think everyone is a rival for "Noah-sama's" affection.
Table of Contents (TOC)/The Index/The Directory
- Affably Evil: Its motivations certainly aren't good, but it's still polite, helpful, and true to its word.
- Arc Villain: It was responsible for creating the Noahs, both the first Greed incarnation who acted as the Big Bad for the Book of Eibon Arc, while The TOC was operating behind the scenes, and the second Wrath.
- Beyond the Impossible: Even TOC has made the "I've-meet-Excalibur" face, despite not having a face.
- Eldritch Abomination: A relatively minor and benign one.
- Evil Knockoff: Excalibur says it was modeled after him, but unlike his, Index's Gag Nose isn't turned up. Appropriately, Index's Mr. Exposition traits are toned down in comparison, and even it finds its model frustrating.
- Evil Mentor: It wants to be one of these for the whole world, corrupting everything with the knowledge and secrets that Eibon locked away.
- Madness Mantra: A quite epic one:Index: I want to give guidance. I want to teach. I want to point. I want to show. I want to guide. I want to inform. I want to teach. I want to instruct. I want to explain. I want to enlighten. I want to initiate. I want to introduce. I want to instruct. I want to educate. Anyway...I want to teach.
- The Man Behind the Man: Is revealed to be the one behind Noah's actions (and who created him in the first place).
- Mr. Exposition: Index is the rescue team's guide through the Book of Eibon and explains each chapter and its effects to them.
- Tome of Eldritch Lore: It essentially is one.
- Verbal Tic:
- Depending on the translation, "squideed" or "outdeed" for "indeed", followed by a hasty correction.
- In the Italian translation he often says "come persona e come pagina" (as person and as page).
Asura's Forces
The Clown
Insanity incarnate, it was born as a result of the madness Asura released into the world. Maka and Soul first encountered it in a twisted factory where it tried to drive them both insane, but they defeated it with Maka's anti-demon wavelength. It escaped, and has since allied itself with Noah's team and with Justin Law in particular. Until they find the Kishin on the Moon and they abandon Noah for Asura's clown armies.
- Adaptational Heroism: The Clown and its Palette Swapped double appear in the anime, but instead of having anything to do with Asura they're mechanical guardians of the key to Brew. They stilled killed quite a few innocent people, though.
- Combat Tentacles: White Rabbit's main weapons.
- The Corruption:
- It and the Black Clown spread insanity just by existing.
- In turn, the Clowns rise from the corruption of Asura's insanity. Asura's dwelling is packed with them.
- Energy Weapon: Moonlight's main form of attack.
- Fusion Dance: The Clown can merge with other beings to empower them. Justin fuses with a clown to become more powerful himself, while Medusa fuses her artificial Clown with her snakes.
- Hypocritical Humour: Kaguya, the one accusing Kid to be a peeping pervert, not only is nearly naked but has circled breasts to boot.
- Mind Rape: Pulls a particularly nasty one on Maka.
- Monster Clown: On top of being scary as hell, its body is so twisted that it's barely recognizable as a clown at all. Presumably, one look at it would make Death the Kid's head explode.
- Mooks: Asura has his own army of Clowns.
- Elite Mooks: Moonlight, White Rabbit and Kaguya are basically this, since they are more powerful than the other Clowns and have their own powers. Others appeared later.
- Giant Mook: the giant spider-like clown on the Moon.
- Superpowered Mooks: Moonlight, White Rabbit and Kaguya again.
- Not Quite Dead: After being cut in half by Maka's Demon Hunter, it revived, freaked them out one last time, and disappeared. The attack apparently caused some lasting damage, because now its head is even more deformed than usual.
- Playing with Fire: Kaguya can also use fire attacks.
- Shameless Fanservice Girl: Clown Kaguya is aware she's practically naked and constantly teases Kid about it.
- Shout-Out: Kaguya and her attacks are modelled after her mythological self.
- Troll: Kaguya costantly treats Kid and the other attackers as a bunch of sick perverts wanting to molest her and mocks them about it. Non-stop.
- Wrestler in All of Us: The First Clown tries to kill Maka with a lariat.
The Flying Dutchman
- Voiced by: Yasunori Matsumoto (JP), Phil Parsons (EN)
The Dutchman is the soul of the ship Nidhogg, who fought Death the Kid while collecting souls for the Kishin. He later appeared as a factory which housed The Clown. Ultimately, he was destroyed, after being toyed with by Blair.
- Berserk Button: Becomes furious to the point of madness when Blair steals his hat.
- Genius Loci: A ship, and, later, a factory.
- Go Out with a Smile: For some reason when he's tricked into making himself dissolve he looks as if he's ascending into heaven.
- Hand Cannon: His weapon of choice during his time on the ghost ship.
- Immortality: As long as Nidhogg isn't completely destroyed, he can survive through anything. For example he was bisected to pieces several times by Crona and didn't die.
- Nonstandard Character Design: Dude looks like an evil Muppet...
- Self-Destruct Mechanism: His second form included one that would kill anyone who touched it; he tried to goad Blair into pressing it by claiming it would kill him. However, Blair tricked him into pressing it himself, so he died, taking the factory with him.
- Spared by the Adaptation: The anime kept the scene after the battle on the Nidhogg of him rowing away, but he never shows up again, implying he's still alive
Evil Humans / Kishin Eggs
Humans whose souls have been so thoroughly corrupted by their own evil that Lord Death as judged them to be threats to society and lets his students hunt them down. In the anime, some of these enemies have eaten souls to gain the same evil, perverting their souls into "Kishin eggs." Masamune
- Voiced by: Hiroshi Tsuchida (JP), Kyle Hebert (EN), Roberto Certomà (IT)
A demon blade called the Uncanny Sword. Also Tsubaki's estranged older brother, he resented her for being a more gifted weapon than he.
- Alas, Poor Villain: Masamune is given a rather sympathetic death. In his last moments, he breaks free from the Madness and implicitly tells Tsubaki that, contrary to what her insecurities might tell her, she truly is a strong person.
- Bequeathed Power: In Masamune's last moments, he entrusts Tsubaki with the Uncanny Sword, confident that her inner strength will allow her to not fall victim to the bloody path that he took.
- Black Eyes of Crazy: Anyone he possesses gaines black sclerae. His own sclerae go black partway through his fight with his sister as well.
- Cain and Abel: The Cain to Tsubaki's Abel.
- Death Equals Redemption: It's clear that, despite the cruel and bloody path that Masamune took in life, Tsubaki still loves him and sees him as her brother. In Masamune's last moments, he was able to revert to the man he used to be, allowing Tsubaki to briefly reunite with her brother one last time. After Masamune's death, Tsubaki is shown asking Masamune for guidance on how to help Star, making it clear that she still sees him as the loving brother he used to be.
- Don't You Dare Pity Me!: Part of the reason he resents Tsubaki so much is that he projected his own feelings of self-loathing onto her, interpreting Tsubaki's kind but submissive nature as her looking down on him. When Tsubaki flies into a rage and wildly stabs him to death inside of his soul, Masamune seems at peace. As his body fades away, he tells her that the tsubaki flower has a wonderful fragrance.
- Dying as Yourself: When Tsubaki kills him, Masamune breaks free from the Madness in his final moments, telling Tsubaki that the camellia blossom, her namesake, truly does have a lovely fragrance no matter what others might tell her.
- Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: He's more pale than Tsubaki.
- Evil Makes You Ugly/I Was Quite the Looker: Compare the picture above to what he looked like as a kid◊.
- Evil Weapon: One possible state of the demon blade form; possessing people, acts of violence, and soul-destroying all present while Masamune had that particular Weapon form.
- Emo Teen: Has the appearence of one at the very least.
- Facial Markings: Another sign of his possession, black wave patterns form on his victim's cheeks.
- Katanas Are Just Better: His sword form as the Uncanny Blade.
- Loners Are Freaks: Probably not a coincidence that Masamune went mad while alone and misunderstood, whilst Tsubaki's partnership with a meister (first from the family to join Shibusen) has allowed her to unlock the 'true' form of the demon blade.
- Psychological Projection: When he and Tsubaki fight inside of his soul, Masamune makes it blatantly clear that he's projecting his self-loathing onto her, interpreting her kind but submissive nature as her pitying him. When she flies into a rage and attacks him with bloodlust, however, he seems at peace, seeing Tsubaki for who she truly is in his last moments.
- Public Domain Character: His name is based on the famous smith Masamune(in Japan, swords tend to be named after the smith). When Masamune was the one to be said as the peace-loving one in real life.
- Shadow Archetype: To Star. It's heavily implied that Tsubaki sees Star as something of a surrogate to Masamune, with both of them having the same drive to get stronger, and as such she's terrified of the prospect that Star will go down the same path that Masamune did. However, once the spirit inside Tsubaki shows Star the suffering of those who tried and failed to take on the Uncanny Sword, Star resolves not to follow in Masamune's footsteps, but rather to carry on the despair that he and those like him fell victim to, telling Tsubaki that he'll make her brother's dream come true for him.
- Start of Darkness: It's shown that Masamune set out on his bloody path simply because he desired to become stronger, but didn't have anyone there to stop him from succumbing to the temptation of madness.
- Uncanny Family Resemblance: He's a male version of Tsubaki, to put it bluntly. Becomes even more obvious in the Book of Eibon when Tsubaki undergoes a Gender Bender and looks incredibly like him◊.
- Used to Be a Sweet Kid: He was once an adorable kid who loved his sister. And then...
- Weapon Wields You: When he gets someone to hold his weapon form, he'll possess them to fight on his behalf.
- Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe: He seems rather fond of talking like this.
Jack the Ripper
A power-hungry Evil Human serial killer, Jack is the first character introduced in the series. Fights with long metal claws attached to his arms.
- Ambiguously Human: Jack barely resembles a human after consuming souls.
- Bald of Evil: Is balding, with hair on either side of his head.
- Body Horror: The entirety of the front of his face is stitched on, and his body is twisted due to soul consumption.
- Bondage Is Bad: His outfit invokes this to a safe-for-work degree.
- Call-Back: later on in the anime, Maka is shown to wear slippers with his face on them.
- Fan Disservice: He barely has anything on.
- Gory Discretion Shot: Subverted, His brutal act of cutting a woman's torso open is shown in shadows on the alley walls. However the freshly-bleeding body is still seen after the act has been done.
- Obviously Evil: He doesn't even try to be subtle.
- Overly-Long Tongue: Best seen right before his attack, and when he licks his claws.
- Not-So-Harmless Villain: Compared to many other characters, he's really outclassed, but had the deadly potential to become a Kishin. Its implied that he was extremely close to this point when Maka confronted him.
- Serial Killer: It's a distinct title of his.
- Single-Stroke Battle: How he's finished off.
- Starter Villain: The first Evil Human introduced and actually the very first character to appear on-screen and in-manga.
- Unskilled, but Strong: Evil Humans generally don't do much in terms of strategy, preferring straight-forward attacking. in the anime at least, Jack had no strategy, but has agility, speed, and raw power would've made him a much greater threat if Maka had had less experience when she went after him.
- Your Soul Is Mine!: As a general rule, Evil Humans generally want to eat more souls so they can get more power.
Sonson J.
An evil human in Florence, Italy, who carries a knife and wears a bag over his head. Killed people who went to Emerald Cove.
- Ax-Crazy: What little characterization he has is envy and childish whining that Demon Weapons and the Meisters who wield them get to kill as many people as they please wehnever they please. This is in spite of the fact that they only kill Evil Humans who have become monsters on their path to becoming Kishin.
- Flat Character: He really wasn't given enough time in either the anime or the manga, to establish much characterization.
- In a Single Bound: He can jump extremely high, evidenced when he attacks Maka.
- Single-Stroke Battle: He falls victim to this.
- Shout-Out: To Jason Voorhees, what with the Machete, the 13 on his back and the fact that he kills people who come to a cove.
- What the Hell, Hero?: He sobs that Demon Weapons and Meisters as a whole get to kill as they please. Maka is quick to point out this is not the case after beating him.
Evil Monk Rasputin
An evil human monk who appears briefly when Maka gets back to collecting souls.
- Badass Boast: Claims to be very resilient, which is immediately followed by him being cut in two.
- Implacable Man: Claims he is, but averted.
- Rasputinian Death: Despite what he's based on, he doesn't suffer this kind of fate. He does mention that not even bullets hurt him, which is not only a homage to the original Rasputin's mythical near invulnerability, but also ironic considering his real-life counterpart died easily via gunshot.
- Single-Stroke Battle: Seems to be a reoccurring theme with Maka's fights.
Alcapone
An evil human mobster leader who believes a Witch's soul will make him and his gang unstoppable. He escapes his initial encounter to go after Angela Leon.
Master Thief, Lupin
An Evil Human who steals souls. He's encountered by Death the Kid in his first appearance, but escapes while Kid, Patty, and Liz distract each other with their bickering.
- Phantom Thief: His title.
- The Bad Guy Wins: He gets away with a large bag of souls due to Kid's OCD and apparently has yet to be captured.
- Villain with Good Publicity: He has his own comic book, which Black Star seems to enjoy thouroughly while working on the academy's library.
Frey D. Sadoko
An evil human that kills people by making them listen to a cursed word, which allows her to kill them in their dreams. Attacks with her long nails.
- Dream Walker: Like Freddy Krueger, she's a serial killer that kills people in their dreams.
- Shout-Out: She's a combo of Freddy Krueger and Sadako Yamamura. In addition her main attack is called Nine Inch Nails.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: Her soul is swiftly taken by Maka and Soul as the penultimate one before the 100th one required for Soul's upgrade.
Miscellaneous
Rachel Boyd
- Voiced by: Houko Kuwashima (JP), Carrie Savage (EN)
A little girl who lives in Death City with her parents.
- Back for the Finale: Has a cameo in the manga's last chapter looking with her parents at the newly reshaped moon.
- Bowdlerise: Her possession scene was censored a bit in the anime due to the fact Medusa does so through Orifice Invasion. We see it clearly in the manga and the poor girl succumbing to Medusa's control. While, in the anime, the screen cuts off the top of Rachel's head and we just see Medusa's tail wiggling up to her to give the indication of what happened.
- Creepy Child: Not her fault. Dammit, Medusa.
- Evil Costume Switch: She wears a black dress similar to Medusa's own when possessed.
- Human Shield: Medusa not only possesses her, but uses her as a hostage: yeah, she did promise to leave Rachel's body, but it doesn't mean she can't use Rachel's age and pawn condition to her advantage. In the anime, Medusa really turns this up in the final battle as she knows Maka can't afford harm the girl's body. Least until Maka manages to separate Medusa's soul from her body.
- Fille Fatale: Sorta, since Medusa keeps acting as The Vamp while in the poor little girl's body, doing so specially to drive Stein and others mad.
- Grand Theft Me: On the receiving end.
Ahab
A weapon who takes the form of a giant harpoon gun. He is traditionally wielded by a different person for his village's annual sky whale hunt.
- Handicapped Badass: He's got a peg leg. Not that it stops him any.
- Meaningful Name: He's named after Captain Ahab of Moby-Dick. But unlike his namesake, who hunts one particular whale out of revenge, this guy hunts one type of whale for the genuine threat it poses against his village, and the world for that matter.
- Student–Master Team: He's far older and more experienced than his meisters, and guides them during their hunts.
Little Ogre
Voiced by: Hōchū Ōtsuka (JP), Barry Yandell (EN)
An ogre in a suit that resides in Soul after he's infected by the black blood. Constantly tries to tempt him into tapping into the power.
- Adaptational Villainy: In the anime he tries to take over Soul's body the more he used the Black Blood's power. This was due to the fact the manga hadn't ended yet and the showrunners wanted to do something with him. The manga does lampshade and poke fun at this though.
- The Corrupter: As he's a representation of the black blood inside Soul. Subverted in the manga, while the Black Blood gave him form, it's revealed he's really Soul's potential that's he's been suppressing due to his doubt.
- Deal with the Devil: Gives off this vibe. He even looks like a red devil.
- Eaten Alive: In the anime, he attempts this on Soul when he taps into too much of the black blood's power. Soul returns the favor after regaining control of his body.
- Enemy Within: Soul treats him like this, as he's the embodiment of Black Blood that constantly tempts him to use it in a pitch, but doing so the first time turned the Soul into The Berserker. In the anime Soul is Properly Paranoid, as the Ogre is trying to take over his body. In the manga the Orge truly has Soul's best interests at heart and Soul eventually masters the use of Black Blood.
- Jerkass Has a Point: In some cases in losing fights, the only way out of them is to use the black blood's power.
- Make My Monster Grow: In the anime, grows to huge size when Soul feeds him too much power. He appeared to do this in the manga as well, but in that case it was just a mech he was driving.
- No Name Given: He's never referred to by any name; even "little ogre" just comes from the anime's credits.
- Perpetual Smiler: Bordering on Slasher Smile at times.
- Shout-Out: Has a serious Twin Peaks vibe going on.
- Superpowered Evil Side: Gives off this vibe given he is what Soul and Maka go to for black blood power-ups.
- Trickster Mentor: In the manga, he turns out to also be Soul's potential if he stops doubting himself.
Paraponera
Members of the Monotone Princess-only organization that help their princess, Ponera, get her revenge against the DWMA. Killbell
A hunchback evil human that appears exclusively in the video game Monotone Princess. He guards a cocoon with a soul inside of it and is the second boss. He fights with a huge bell.
- Badass Normal: Moreso than a lot of other Evil Humans, he's not fast, but he is very skilled with that bell, attacking and defending in equal measure. In fact he's one of the few Evil Humans Maka has faced that has actually managed to hurt her.
- Improbable Weapon User: He weilds a large copper bell to smash people with and can summon more to fall on top of people.
- Lantern Jaw of Justice: one that always covers one side of his mouth.
- Mighty Glacier: he moves rather slowly, but can perform such feats as deflecting Black Star's weapon with his bare hand, and smash through architecture.
Alone
A werewolf from Germany who steals one of the cocoons with an evil human's soul inside it during the events of Monotone Princess. He attacks those who enter his castle with metal claws.
- Jagged Mouth: A square shaped one, as opposed to the usual serrated version. it adds on to his skeletal appearance.
- Our Werewolves Are Different: He's a bony, nearly hairless werewolf who eats souls and cannot turn back into a human.
- Made of Iron: He doesn't have immortality like Free does because he ate an innocent soul, but he still takes a lot of concentrated effort to finally bring down.
- Stock Ninja Weaponry: His metal claws.
- Blow You Away: Alone's main fighting style is called "Wind Wolf Fist" and allows him to attack his opponents with air.
Nals
An evil human Garnier who appears in Monotone Princess. Uses belts and a sword.
- Badass Normal: Similar to Killbell, and unlike other evil humans, Nals seems to have much more skill with his weapon as opposed to blunt force. He takes on Death the Kid in an almost even fight using fencing and speed to deflect his bullets and force him back a bit.
- Badass in a Nice Suit: It is rather spiffy, belts aside.
- Improbable Weapon User: A sword is common, using belts against opponents is not.
- Too Many Belts: He has a lot wrapping around his face and right arm, and muffle his speaking.
Gigant
An evil human who was released when the soul cocoon retrieved from Alone hatched while Stein was studying it. It fights Black Star in the library, where it attacks by spinning and stabbing.
- Ambiguously Human: The only reason he's considered an evil human at all is because an evil human's soul was used to make him.
- Implacable Man: Nearly got the better of Black Star because of its armor, strength, and reflexes. It took one of Star's most powerful attacks to actually take it down.
- Big Creepy-Crawlies: He's a huge ant creature.
- Single-Stroke Battle: Notable in that it was impossible to take down beforehand, and it was fully protected when it happened.
- Spin Attack: Can tuck himself up and spin like a top in order to crush people.
- Strong Ants: A big one, at that.
- Was Once a Man: Nals's soul was put into a cocoon, where it turned into Gigant.
