Characters / Soul Eater Witches And Allies

aka: Soul Eater Witches

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Witches

In General

• Always Chaotic Evil: Witches, with few exceptions, are considered by DWMA this due to the "Sway of Magic", which leads them towards destruction by nature. However, witches themselves consider it a part of Propaganda Machine that justifies DWMA hunting them, and the only really evil witches are seen have been the Gorgon Sisters, who are considered renegades even among witches. It's ultimately deconstructed in the end. Although witches are inherently drawn towards destruction, the story highlights that said destruction doesn't necessarily need to be evil, opening the door for the witches and the DWMA to finally put an end to their centuries-long battle.
• Animal Motifs: They have animal motifs in their names, appearances, and powers:
  • Mabaa's seems to be crows. The courthouse was full of them (including a giant bird skeleton in a bowl), and her sleeves make her arms look like wings.
  • Foxes for the Witch Judge.
  • Medusa has a snake motif. Her vector arrows resemble snakes, and much of her magic takes the form of snakes. Her chant is also "snake snake, cobra cobra."
  • Arachne's motif is spiders and her magic takes the form of them, while she is often seen sitting in a web high above the ground.
  • Eruka, for frogs. Her magic takes the form of frog-shaped bombs, she croaks as a Verbal Tic, and she can take on the shape of a frog. Her familiar seems to be a giant tadpole.
  • Mizune, for mice. The Mizune sisters speak in mouselike squeaking, sport mouse ears, and have mouse-themed spells. Their fused form also has a tattoo on her stomach resembling mouse whiskers.
  • Angela, for chameleons. Her last name is quite literally "chameleon" and her hat resembles a chameleon with a long tongue as a decorative ribbon.
  • Kim, for raccoon-dogs.
  • Shaula from Soul Eater Not!, for Scorpions
  • Lisa and Arisa (the witches-in-hiding who run Chupa Cabra's), have butterfly and firefly for their themes.
  • Blair subverts this by not actually being a witch, so rather than being a cat-themed magical witch, she's a witch-themed magical cat.
• Fantastic Racism: DWMA considers just being a witch a crime, though Shinigami decides to stop this after allowing Kim to stay, while witches treat all Meisters like criminals as well.
• Forever War: The mutual animosity between DWMA and the witches started 800 years ago when Shinigami and Arachne started a Lensman Arms Race, which dragged in more and more people from both sides, and by the present, both sides try to kill each other on the spot.
• Magic Is Evil: There is such a thing as a good witch, but they're pretty rare, and they tend to get targeted along with the bad ones. There seem to be forms of magic besides witchcraft, though. Eventually subverted in the manga, as even though their magic makes almost all witches predisposed toward being chaotic, that doesn't make them evil. It's why Kid is able to bring a truce between the Witches and DWMA.
• Magic Is Feminine: Witches are shown though not acknowledged as exclusively female. The only male magic user shown in the series got his power by stealing a witch's eye.
• Our Witches Are Different: Witches are humans born with magical power, which seems to be somewhat affected by genetics (Medusa, Arachne, and Shaula are sisters that are all witches) but mostly random (Rachael and Kim are witches but seem to have no relatives that are, while Medusa's gender-ambiguous child definitely isn't a witch). Witches are shown but not acknowledged as exclusively female, and the only male magic-user got his power by stealing a witch's eye. Most witches live or at least cooperate under a sort of government. Their magic gives them chaotic tendencies, which has long put them at odds with the order-based followers of Lord Death, but the manga shows them as not generally evil.
• Witch Classic: Blair the Cat fits into this, although she's technically a cat with strong magic (and thus the ability to shapeshift into a Cat Girl form). Angela (a child witch) is the only other non-antagonistic witch in the series who wears black. The rest of the witches are either a Wicked Witch (and wear the standard outfit, but modified with an Animal Motif and different colours) or avert the trope entirely (particularly Kim, although her non-witch partner just happens to have a flying broom form).

Leaders

Mabaa

Mabaa

Voiced by: Tomie Kataoka (Japanese), Wendy Powell (English)

The current leader of all witches. She is held in high regard for being almost as powerful as Shinigami. Her left eye was taken by Free, and is now covered by a bandage with 1/2 written across it. Her specialty is Spatial Magic.

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• The Archmage: She is the ruler of the witches' realm.
• Asskicking Leads to Leadership: She is a witch who is almost on par with Shinigami, and is considered the leader of her race.
• Barrier Maiden: Uses her magic to warp an unknown area so witches can have a haven to reside in and hide from the DWMA.
• Big Damn Heroes: She uses her magic to save Spirit, Sid, and Marie from getting sealed on the moon in the manga's last chapter.
• Eyepatch of Power: Wears one with 1/2 written on it. Covers the socket of the eye that Free took from her.
• The Faceless: Differs from Face Framed in Shadow to "only seen from the neck down." However, you can see her eye.
• Gondor Calls for Aid: Kid manages to establish a truce with the Witch Order since their Soul Protect magic is the only thing that can stop the Clown army on the Moon.
• Pokémon Speak: "Nyamu!"
• Reasonable Authority Figure: She's the only witch who listens to Death the Kid's pleas for aid. She also doesn't seem to bear a grudge against Free for stealing her eye, and even works in tandem with him to help evacuate the moon.
• Secret Test of Character: Even though she agreed on the truce by Kid's request, she didn't come to him until the last moment to see if he would still trust her. He did.
• Space Master: Her specialty.
• Teleportation: By virtue of her magic, she can do teleportation as well.

Witch Judge

Witch Judge

An elder witch and Mabaa's assistant.

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• Court Mage: Shes’s Mabaa’s right-hand and a witch.
• Hanging Judge: If the name wasn't a dead giveaway, she is completely unreasonable. In fact, she was the main reason Kim was cast out witch society in the first place because she didn't have any destructive magic.
• Honor Before Reason: Or possibly revenge from a certain point of view, she practically refuses Kid's plea for help against Asura despite him actually getting to his knees and groveling and Kim likewise doing the same, not to mention the danger Asura possesses for everyone on the planet. Thankfully Mabaa was more than willing to cooperate much to the Witch Judge's chagrin.
• Moral Myopia: She believes humans are monsters for hunting witch souls to complete a Death Scythe. While it's possible she may have a point (considering that Angela and, to an extent, Blair who aren't evil yet were hunted), a good number of witches that were seen in the series weren't exactly moral and sought to bring harm. Also rather hypocritical of her as well in regards to Kim who's healing magic could've actually proven quite useful to the witches. Yet cast Kim out of the society because her magic had no offensive capabilities, leaving Kim to fend for herself and knowing she could be killed for her soul if she was found out (i.e.: helping the enemy). For all her talk of hating Lord Death, it says something that he was at least more reasonable and accommodating toward Kim.
• Mouth of Sauron: Seemingly, she's the one who usually speaks on on Maba's behalf, though doesn't make all the decisions in her name.
• No Name Given: Just known as the Witch Judge.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: After Mabaa offers her aid to help the DWMA against Asura, it's obvious she isn't enjoying working with her former enemies.

Gorgon Sisters

In General

• Animal Motifs: With poisonous animals. Medusa with snakes, Arachne with spiders, and Shaula with scorpions.
• Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: Out of the Gorgon sisters, Medusa has blonde hair, Arachne is an Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette, and Shaula has magenta hair with multicolored floral patterns inside.
• Family Theme Naming: Double Subverted.
  • Medusa Gorgon's name would imply her sisters would be named after the original Medusa's—Stheno and Euryale.
  • However, her older sister Arachne is not named for either sister Gorgon, but another transgressive woman who earned the enmity of the gods from Classical Mythology.
  • The youngest sister, Shaula, is given the traditional name of the star Lambda Scorpii; the star belongs to the constellation Scorpio, which in classic myth was the creature created explicitly to kill the hunting giant Orion. Shaula's name doesn't complete either the Gorgon motif or the women of mythology motif, but it does enable the three to share poisonous Animal Motifs.
• Legacy Character: Fire Force's final chapter reveals that Inca was a progenitor of all witches seen in Soul Eater. In that regard, if they are her direct descendants, the Gorgon Sisters may have inherited aspects of Inca's twisted personality.
• Religious and Mythological Theme Naming: They share their surnames with three sisters of snake-haired monsters in Classical Mythology. The older of them, Arachne and Medusa, share their names with women who became associated with venomous creatures as a result of the goddess Athena's curse.
• The Weird Sisters: The Gorgon sisters are a trio of evil witches themed after venomous animals.

Medusa Gorgon

Medusa Gorgon

Voiced by: Houko Kuwashima (Japanese), Luci Christian (English), Laura Lenghi (Italian)

^{Click here to see her disguised as the school nurse}

^{Click here to see her second body}

^{Click here to see her third body}

Medusa is the first Big Bad in Soul Eater, Arachne's younger sister, and Crona's abusive mother. She's a deadly combination of Manipulative Bitch and Mad Scientist, and she consistently refuses to just die. Her magical theme is snakes.

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• Abusive Mom: She used her child Crona as a lab rat, injecting them with madness-inducing black blood and forcing them to butcher animals or be locked in a sensory deprivation room without food or water for days as part of the "experiment."
• Action Mom: Villainous example.
• Arch-Enemy: To Maka. Besides just the obvious conflict of being on opposing sides of good and evil, Medusa's abusive control over Crona has earned her Maka's hatred. Part of the reason for Maka's determination to take her down is to get payback for everything she's done to Crona.
• The Bad Guy Wins:
  • Very nearly happens in the anime. Medusa gets everything she wants through manipulation and bargaining. She gives the DWMA all the tools they need to stop Arachne, thus making sure Arachne can't dispose of her in her weakened form, and secured a promise from the very lawful Shinigami that in exchange she would be left alone forever. Stein joins her in madness and becomes her minion, and there's nothing the DWMA can do about it. However, in one last ditch effort, Marie quits the DWMA, abusing a loophole, and she takes Crona with her. This makes Maka eventually decide to screw the rules and go off to save Crona, leading to Medusa's defeat.
  • In the manga, she is given a prophecy that Crona will kill her. She decides to use this to her advantage and causes Crona to completely snap into a Humanoid Abomination, which succeeds... at first. Medusa is correct in her belief that Crona will be able to contain Asura after they complete their Black Blood, but Medusa's inability to truly understand interpersonal bonds proves to be her undoing. Namely, she falsely believes that she had managed to permanently sever the bond between Crona and Maka, a critical oversight which causes all of her machinations to come tumbling down.
• Blasphemous Boast: "Defying Gods is in a Witch's job description".
• Big Bad Ensemble: A nefarious witch whose schemes threaten to destroy the world, she still has to share the spotlight with Asura, who, despite spending much of the series as a Greater-Scope Villain, still gets a lot of focus by the heroes. Even though Medusa is taken out before the manga's climax, her influence, particularly in regard to Crona, persists until the very end of the series.
• Body Horror: Medusa's triangular blood-snakes, which she uses to eviscerate fellow witch Mifune from the inside (Eruka Frog has some of the same type inside her, too), or to subject others to Demonic Possession—she possesses a dog and a little girl named Rachel by forcing one of her snakes literally down their throats.
• The Chessmaster: Especially during the Arachnephobia/Brew Island arc, where she managed to pull the a fast one on both without either realizing it.
• The Comically Serious: She's a bit puzzled by light-hearted folks such as Death, Spirit, and Tezca, and generally tries to stay away.
  Medusa: Shibusen never ceases to amaze me...
• The Corrupter: In her own way, more dangerous about this than even the Kishin. She knows exactly what she's doing and saves her effort for the most effect.
  • In the anime, she specifically has Crona embed a snake in Marie to corrupt Stein when he resonated with her.
• Curtains Match the Window: Until changing to Arachne's body, which (going by the cover of volume 20) somehow made her keep her original eye-color but get black hair like Arachne.
• Dark Action Girl: As capable a fighter as everyone else in the cast, Medusa serves as the anime's Big Bad, almost always sporting a smug smile.
• Dark Is Evil: She wears a black hood and her magic is completely dark as it is black mixed with purple.
• Deadpan Snarker: Wields snarky tendencies with Manipulative Bitchiness, in order to best tweak others' noses out of line.
• Devil in Plain Sight: When she's working at DMWA as a nurse as she can mask her presence as witch.
• Dies Differently in Adaptation: She dies in both versions of the manga and anime. But the circumstances are different.
  • In the anime, she has a final battle with Maka and Soul, Maka is stronger but Medusa's also in the body of an innocent child and Maka can't risk hurting her to kill Medusa. Least until she taps into a power that allows her to rip Medusa's soul harmlessly from Rachel's body, to which Maka finishes her off and Soul devours her... soul. Though the ending implies she may have survived somehow.
  • In the manga, she leaves Rachel's body and takes Arachne's discarded body before escaping with Crona. After an encounter with Tezca, she realizes the only way to bring out the true potential of Crona's Black Blood is for them to kill her. So she treats them with false kindness which causes Crona's already fragile mind to snap since, up to that point, she's never done so. And indeed, they kill her in a fit of rage with Medusa more then content to allow it since, to her, her experiment was a complete success.
• Die Laughing: Through her own death, she has the last laugh on Crona...until her plans get spoiled.
• Disc-One Final Boss: Although her machinations continue to cause problems for the heroes, Medusa is killed before they go off to face Asura in both the anime and manga.
• The Dreaded: She is absolutely feared by most of the characters, specially Chrona, because of her sinister and manipulative nature. Many characters who know of or met Medusa have noted of how evil she is and because of that don't take her as a joke but instead as true business.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Medusa comes to Maka asking for help with saving Crona from Arachne, stating that she still loves her child and doesn't want them to be harmed. Subverted in that she was lying. Medusa was the one who kidnapped Crona and continued her experiments on them; the only reason she went along with the "rescue plan" was to hijack her sister's body.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: She was raised sorely on chaos and destruction so things like compassion and love are completely foreign to her and she'll simply scoff at such concepts when presented to her. It's pretty much the basis of a lot of her actions, she feels the world is too boring and wants to cover it in madness.
• Evilutionary Biologist: She believes that the world under the DWMA has been forced by it into remaining "stuck" in a certain status quo where nothing ever changes. Thus, she she experiments on Crona and frees the Kishin for the purpose of spreading madness around the world in order to make it move "forward" or in her words "evolve".
• Evil Makeover: Gives one to Rachel when possessing her, looking like a fun-sized version of herself.
• Evil Matriarch: As mentioned above, the level of abuse she's given to Crona is the stuff of legends.
• Evil Plan: Thinks the world under Shinigami's rule is boring so her initial plan was to release Asura For Science!.
• Eviler than Thou: Is one of the few who is seen as an enemy by the DWMA and the Witches. The only other person who held this trait was her older sister.
• Expy: Often described as a female equivalent of Naruto's Kabuto and Orochimaru, as a snake-themed Mad Scientist with a penchant for child abuse. Naruto itself possibly referenced this when Kabuto started dressing very similarly to Medusa.
• Fatal Flaw: Her inability to truly understand interpersonal bonds. For all the grooming and manipulation she put Crona through, Medusa was never truly able to sever her child's friendship with Maka. This one seemingly insignificant variable proves to be the flaw that causes all of her machinations to come tumbling down. In the final battle, after Crona successfully consumes Asura and seeks to carry out Medusa's plans, Maka's and Spirit's flawed but still loving relationship makes Crona waver in their resolve, giving Asura the window of opportunity he needs to seize control of Crona from the inside. While that would be enough on its own, what takes the cake is that when Maka and Soul manage to reunite with Crona from inside of Asura, Maka's and Crona's friendship gives Crona the courage to stand up against Asura and seal him for good, thus rendering all of Medusa machinations completely and utterly pointless.
• Foil: Arachne and Medusa. While Medusa was a subversive sort who acted on her own initiative and effectively turned part of the witch community to her own ends, Arachne broke away from the witches entirely and founded her own organization—Arachnophobia—to rival the DWMA itself. On top of that, Arachne's elegant noblewoman style contrasts sharply with Medusa's tattooes and street clothes.
• Fun Size: After she possesses the body of a little girl.
• Fur and Loathing: During the first on-screen appearance of a witch's meeting, she is shown leaving wearing a fur coat.
• Game Face: When she really goes all out, her face resembles a snake. Her mouth stretches into a wide grin, her nose seems to vanish, and her eyes become wide and threatening.
• Grand Theft Me: Survives her encounter with Stein and Spirit by possessing a little girl. In the manga she later trades up for Arachne's uninhabited body.
• The Heavy: Almost everything in the story happened because of Medusa's plan to revive Asura.
• Hellish Pupils: To go along with the snake-like look.
• Hoist by Her Own Petard: Invoked the first time she shows maternal affection towards Crona: Crona, who is now thoroughly insane, butchers her for it, believing that the real Medusa could never be so kind. Being The Chessmaster that she is, however, she fully saw it coming and, in fact, invoked it as part of her plan. Furthermore, it could be argued that there is another present example in her ultimate plan being foiled due to her own prized experiment.
• Hospital Hottie: By the start of the show she's infiltrated the DWMA as a nurse, occasionally taking the chance to use students as test subjects. Spirit could barely control himself when around her.
• Hot Witch: Again, Spirit certainly thinks so as she's fairly attractive for such a heartless witch and he keeps viewing her as attractive once she's outed. Though, learning the depths of her evil, especically in her abuse of Crona, makes him change his mind.
• Humanoid Abomination: She looks like a lady, but she's clearly nothing resembling human. Her body is filled with indefinite numbers of snakes which she can control and infest others with at will and she can perform a Body Surf by taking the form of a snake and performing an Orifice Invasion on another's body.
• I Lied: Certainly not trustworthy in the slightest. She pretty says this word for word after she gains Arachne's body for her own.
• Iconic Outfit: Medusa wears a sleeveless hood, even when possessing the little girl Rachel.
• In Love with Your Carnage: Claims she loves Stein after he kills her. He disagrees, claiming she's just like him and cannot love.
• In the Hood: Medusa's outfit is iconic for its hood with the snake eyes stitched on top.
• Jerkass: Calling Medusa a massive asshole would be an understatement.
• Joker Immunity: Was nearly killed by Stein and Spirit, but survived her body getting too beaten to be of any use, she breaks her soul into pieces and hides them inside one of her snakes and pulls a Grand Theft Me on a little girl. After pulling a successful Enemy Mine against Arachne, she manages to get away despite Maka's attempts to kill her. She manages to keep out of sight for the rest of the series, and only dies because she wanted to.
• Killed Off for Real:
  • In the manga, she wanted to die in order to turn Crona into a Humanoid Abomination. Even in death, she gets what she wants...at first anyways.
  • In the anime, Maka takes her out with Genie Hunter. However, there is a Sequel Hook that indicates she may have survived.
• Knight of Cerebus: The series is mostly comedic before her appearance, but after she does, it starts becoming FAR more serious and contain far more Nightmare Fuel.
• Kung-Fu Wizard: Though she rarely uses physical attacks, she uses a lot of acrobatics to get around and keep herself positioned far away from harm.
• Lack of Empathy: She makes Stein look warm-hearted by comparison and has no attachment to anyone except her whims for chaos.
• Leitmotif: "Lady of Gorgon".
• Lies to Children: Especially her own. And that child's friends. And everyone else, of course.
• Magical Barefooter: Medusa is a barefooter, and was actually introduced feet-first. Aside from her vector-shaped nail polish, she only wears shoes when she is in disguise. Snakes don't have feet to wear shoes on, after all.
• Magical Incantation: Snake, snake, cobra, cobra...
• Manipulative Bitch: Although plenty powerful in a direct confrontation, she generally prefers to exploit people.
• Meaningful Name: If you consider that "Gorgon" is also the Greek word for "horrible"...
• Morally Ambiguous Doctorate: She apparently has an M.D., or at least faked the credentials for one because students used the title "Doctor" when referring to her on multiple occasions. Considering how she dabbles into Mad Scientist territory occasionally, post-graduate education might be reasonable.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain:
  • By the end of the series, her plan to drown the world in madness by creating a new kishin has not only failed, but resulted in a more peaceful, stable world where the DWMA and witches make peace, while the new Lord Death isn't bound to one city like the previous. The cherry on top is that she wound up giving her own child the means they use to stop the series' Big Bad.
  • In the anime, she willingly gives up BREW, which allows Death to directly engage with Asura by turning his city into a Humongous Mecha. However, this was completely intended by her, as she wanted to cause both sides of the conflict to destroy each other.
• Not Quite Dead: Implied in the anime, as a snake with her signature arrow pattern can briefly be seen in the end credits for the final episode (presumably intended as a Sequel Hook). Averted in the manga, which makes it very clear that she is absolutely dead.
• Offing the Offspring: In the anime she impales Crona with one of her vectors, very nearly killing them. She wasn't aiming for them, but shows absolutely no remorse when it happens, even laughing about the situation.
• Orifice Invasion:
  • During a confrontation, she shoved her arms down Eruka's and a Mizune's throats, secretly depositing a number of magical snake constructs into their bodies. As demonstrated with Mizune, the snakes can tear them apart from the inside with a simple command from Medusa.
  • Also attempts this on Stein via a vector-laced kiss, only to be foiled by a pesky distraction. She later succeeds in getting one into Marie by having Crona slip it into her tea, where its wavelength reaps all manner of havoc on Stein until it's caught. Eventually.
• Paper-Thin Disguise: Apparently, she braid's hair in the other direction, compared to how she usually has it, in order to disguise herself when infiltrating DWMA. But, besides that and a change of clothes, she looks the same as when the heroes met her before when she was in full witch mode. Though to be fair she wasn't in very close view, but still.
• Science Wizard: Of the Mad Scientist variety, she's shown definite shades of this, with all her work and "experiments" to perfect the Black Blood and artificial Clowns. May also partly explain why she seems so attracted to Dr. Stein.
• Self-Disposing Villain: In the manga, Medusa ultimately sets up Crona's madness fit that gets her killed as part of her plan to make Crona the ultimate weapon.
• Sigil Spam: Arrows. Her motif is snakes, but her snakes are almost always represented by black arrows, or "vectors". She uses them as ranged weapons (Vector Arrow), as a tag on the floor to shove her enemies around (Vector Plate), as close-range weapons attached to her body, and various other things. Even her blood and organs take the shape of arrows after her battle with Stein.
• Slasher Smile: Her grins distort her entire face.
• Smug Snake: Despite her intellect and usual temporary success with her plans, she has a long track record of underestimating most of her enemies. It fits given her snake motif.
• Snakes Are Sinister: Considering that she has a snake motif, and is the nastiest villain in the series...
• The Social Darwinist: Her stated motivation for unleashing madness: People will get stronger.
• The Sociopath: Medusa is utterly incapable of even understanding love or empathy, is a masterful actor and manipulator, commits heinous crimes just for her own stimulation, and will torture and murder her own family without thinking twice.
• Strike Me Down with All of Your Hatred!: Thanks to Tezca Tlipoca's prophecy, she found out that Crona would be the death of her, so she put it to good use by provoking Crona's festering hatred of her by showing Crona kindness, thus completing her research into black blood.
• Supernatural Gold Eyes: Besides being a witch these are no doubt meant to underscore her snake motif.
• Terms of Endangerment: Persists in calling Maka "Maka-chan." Maka hates it, obviously.
• Tsurime Eyes: Medusa's sharp eyes, on top of adding to her mature good looks, help give her an eternally sneaky expression and can be described as snakelike.
• The Unfought: Not by the main protagonists in the manga anyway as she's way too powerful. Most gotten was trying to get around her to stop Euruka and Free from reviving Asura after which Stein and Spirit take over. She's in a child's body the next time Maka meets her and takes over Arcahne's body in their last meeting after which Crona kills her. Averted in the anime, where Maka ultimately engages her and takes her down with Genie Hunter.
• Unholy Matrimony: In the anime she tips Stein completely over onto her side and she treats him as her lover for a short while before his madness is reversed. During this short time they are a very effective evil fighting pair.
• The Vamp: To Stein, though the large majority of this comes from the anime.
• Villainous Breakdown: In the anime, after Stein is restored to sanity, Medusa begins to lose it big time, attacking wildly and starting to panic.
• Villainous Crush: She seems to be rather interested in Stein, but he rejects her by saying she doesn't even know what love is. In the anime, they do work together for a while while Stein is corrupted by madness caused by Medusa.
• Villains Never Lie: In the manga she calls an Enemy Mine with the DWMA against Arachnophobia, claiming it was because they kidnapped Crona and she want to save them. Maka definitely wanted it to be true, and in spite of Soul's advice started to trust Medusa by the end. She was lying.
• Wicked Witch: You don't get much more wicked than abusing a child to the point of driving them mad.
• Would Hurt a Child: Has no qualms about taking on the DWMA regardless of age. Heck when she lost her first body she quickly hijacked the body of a young girl.
• Yandere: Only applicable in the anime, where she is more interested in Stein and goes out of her way to corrupt and seduce him, then mocks Marie for him leaving her. When Stein returns to sanity and fights her, she enters a Villainous Breakdown.
• Yellow Eyes of Sneakiness: Or maybe that should be snakeiness.
• You Will Not Evade Me: Can use her Vector Plates to trap her opponents. Prominently, she formed a circle of these around her and Stein in their first battle.

Arachne Gorgon

Arachne Gorgon

Voiced by: Michiko Neya (Japanese), Stephanie Young (English), Laura Boccanera (Italian)

^{Click here to see her soul}

The second Big Bad in Soul Eater, Medusa's older sister, and a powerful witch. She is the leader of the massive Organization "Arachnophobia" and is referred to as the mother of all Demon Weapons. Her magical theme is spiders.

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• Arachnid Appearance and Attire: Arachne, meaning spider in Greek, is nicknamed the "Spider Witch" and the "Spider Queen". She's an Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette of tall height with an hourglass figure and long, thin limbs. She wears her hair in a bun that ends in the shape of a spider's pedipalps. She has web patterns on her irises, the collar of her black dress, and her hand fan.
• Arc Villainess: For the combined Brew Island/Capture Baba Yaga's Castle arcs.
• Assimilation Plot: In the manga, Arachne's ultimate goal is to shed her physical body and become madness itself, uniting all people in insanity (and the feeling of their brains being eaten by spiders).
• Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance: She looks exactly like one wold expect a witch named "Arachne" to look- like a spider given human form.
• Benevolent Boss: Many of Arachne's subordinates served her willingly and Giriko even sought to avenge her death. This is a complete contrast to Eruka, Mizune and Free who abandoned Medusa's agenda the moment she died and didn't seem saddened by her demise.
• Big Bad Wannabe: She talks a good game, but it's almost hilarious how utterly Medusa outclasses her in every way.
• Buxom Beauty Standard: As appropriate for her seductress persona, she has a sizable bust that is emphasized by her cleavage and several Male Gaze shots aimed at her breasts.
• Conflict Ball: In the manga, Arachne neglects to tell Mosquito her plans to become a living field of madness, causing Mosquito to suspect Noah is up to no good when Arachne disappears; Mosquito then picks a fight with Noah in the hopes of avenging Arachne, only to get himself killed.
• Create Your Own Hero: Shinigami established DWMA to take care of children of Demon Weapons that Arachne created.
• Dark Action Girl: Though she tends to stay out of it, Arachne is perfectly capable of holding herself in a fight, all while being as elegant as can be.
• Death Glare: To rival Medusa's. Web patterns creep across her face when she decides to look scary.
• Dies Differently in Adaptation: Like Medusa, Arachne's death is different depending on the medium:
  • In the manga, she dies fighting Maka when she discarded her physical from to become pure madness itself. But Soul to use his Soul Wavelength to counter her, allowing Maka to finish her off. Her soul would later be eaten by Soul to become a full-fledged Death Scythe.
  • In the anime, she attempted to romance Asura in an effort to control him. It almost works but he realizes he is starting to care about her and kills her to prevent it from happening. He then eats her soul to gain a major power boost due to her magical power.
• Didn't See That Coming:
  • What's the matter, Arachne? Didn't think that losing your physical body would be a hindrance, even though you'd be almost incapable of defending yourself? Too bad.
  • In the anime: What was that? Didn't think Asura would betray you? Wow, tough.
  • Even before that in the anime, she's shocked to hear that Medusa betrayed her location to the DWMA, as she was expecting Medusa to be too weak to make any moves against her.
• Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: Arachne is a few shades away from being chalk white with rich black hair.
• Everything's Sexier in French: Her theme song in the anime.
• Evil Aunt: She's Crona's aunt and briefly tries to get them to join Arachnophobia by offering them the affection Medusa never would. When Crona rejects her, Arachne continues their fight and their relation is never brought up again.
• Exotic Eye Designs: Arachne has a white spiderweb design in both of her irises.
• Face Death with Dignity: In the manga, she comments that abandoning her body drained her offensive magic and cost her the battle with Soul and Maka, accepting it as her own tactical error as she dies.
• Foil: Arachne and Medusa. While Medusa was a subversive sort who acted on her own initiative and effectively turned part of the witch community to her own ends, Arachne broke away from the witches entirely and founded her own organization—Arachnophobia—to rival the DWMA itself. On top of that, Arachne's elegant noblewoman style contrasts sharply with Medusa's tattooes and street clothes.
• A Glass of Chianti: Is often toying with a glass of wine, to illustrate how she's Wicked Cultured.
• Goth Girls Know Magic: A luxuriously gothic witch with eccentric tastes and lady-like mannerisms. That and her spider-based magic adding a lovely dose of malevolence and creepiness to her true nature.
• The Heretic: She's hated and feared by the other witches for experimenting on them too.
• Hoist by Her Own Petard:
  • In the Anime, Her plan to make Asura fall in love with her works too well since Asura rushes to kill her as soon as he realizes that he cares about her.
  • In the manga Soul uses her own madness-spreading web to cast the anti-madness wavelength and nullify her powers.
• Hot Witch: She's an Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette and a voluptuous Lady of Black Magic in a low-cut black dress.
• Hunter Of Her Own Kind: Arachne made Human Sacrifices of other witches to make a race of demon weapons.
• Lady and Knight: Dark Lady to Giriko's Black Knight.
• Lady of Black Magic: She's calm and aristocratic, as well as a powerful witch. Her spells don't attack directly, but from within and she can blast people's minds.
• Manipulative Bitch: She's a schemer who prefers to manipulate others rather than doing the dirty work herself. She was easily able to convince Mifune to work for her by giving Angela shelter, and has an entire cult-like organization that views her as a benevolent leader and mother-figure, but doesn't really seem to care about them.
• Meaningful Name: Arachne of Greek mythology was a very talented woman who abused her talent which invoked the wrath of a god who caused her to become a spider for her heresy.
• Mind Rape: Her Insanity Attack. By blasting others' minds with insanity, she took out Medusa in one blow and almost gained control over Soul (until Maka snapped him out of it).
• Noblewoman's Laugh: Arachne lets one out during her introductory scene.
• Older Than They Look: Her physical beauty didn't change one bit in 700 years.
• Orcus On Her Throne: She's much less action-prone than Medusa, and she spends most of the time slouched on her web-throne. Justified in that she was out of practice due to eight centuries spent as a millions of spiders.
• Proud Beauty: She's an arrogant woman who's very aware of how attractive she is.
• The Queenpin: Arachnophobia is as much a criminal empire as a cult of personality centered around her.
• Really 700 Years Old: Her physical beauty didn't change one bit in that timespan.
• Seductive Spider: A spider-themed Hot Witch who wears an Arachnid Appearance and Attire, acts as The Vamp and flaunts her beauty more than her sisters. She becomes a literal spider later on.
• Ship Tease: With Giriko in the manga, whose relationship to her is comparable to Soul's relationship with Maka.
• Smug Snake: What she turns out to be. While always acting like everything is All According to Plan, all her plans end up in failure. The greatest example is while she believed that she had Medusa 'entangled' in her webs, it was actually the opposite: Medusa was capable of outsmarting her more than once and used her for her own goals.
• Soul Jar: She placed her soul in a golem eight centuries ago as a means of hiding.
• Spider People: Upon leaving her mortal body she now takes the form of her former self' torso on a giant spider's black body.
• The Stoic: She's calm even as her underlings decide to ruin her dinner by fighting each other.
• Surveillance as the Plot Demands: She can see and hear through any spider in the world.
• Unholy Matrimony: She and Asura appeared to be headed in this direction in the anime, with the noticeably intimate ways they interacted. Once he realizes he loves her, though, Asura fears the power she has over him and kills her without hesitation.
• The Vamp: She uses her sexual prowess to manipulate or gain an advantage over others.
• Wicked Cultured: She's much more refined than her younger sister, as hinted by her theme song. She is often seen drinking wine in her spare time.
• Woman Of Wealth And Taste: She enjoys basking in luxury and owning expensive things, such as often drinking wine, making grand entrances with red carpets or collecting top-of-the-line vehicles.

Shaula Gorgon

Shaula Gorgon

Voiced by: Ami Koshimizu (Japanese), Elizabeth Maxwell (English)

The apparent Big Bad of Soul Eater Not! and does not appear in the main series. She's the younger sister of Arachne and Medusa.

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• Ambition Is Evil: Her drive to be the superior of the Gorgon sisters and crushing the DWMA.
• Big Bad: Of Soul Eater Not!.
• Big Bad Wannabe: Seeks to prove herself as being superior to Medusa and Arachne but gets killed by non-Spartoi students, showing she never had a hope of matching up to either of her sisters.
• Exotic Eye Designs: She has yin-yang shaped eyes.
• The Faceless: Her face didn't appear in the anime until episode 5.
• Freudian Excuse: In the anime, she states that she's looking to make the DWMA feel the same despair and loneliness that she has experienced because of their persecution of witches.
• The Ghost: In the main series, it's mentioned perhaps that there are three Gorgon sisters, but she's never named or alluded to again. The spinoff was her first actual appearance and pretty much the only time she is active in the series.
• Knight of Cerebus: Like Medusa, she makes the story head in a darker direction even if she does not consume the mood completely.
• Manipulative Bitch: Her behavior so far suggests this. Apparently, it runs in the family.
• Mooks: "Traitors" who fight the heroes and those brainwashed by her rings.
• Odd Name Out: She is the only member of the Gorgon sisters whose given name have nothing to do with Classical Mythology.
• Oh, Crap!:
  • Her last expression in the anime when the heroines manage to push through her attack and proceed to strike her down.
  • In the manga, it's seeing all the Death Scythes lead by Lord Death and Kid as she's trying to escape from the heroines. Realizing even if she could counter or dodge the girls' attack, there's nowhere for her to run to.
• People Puppets: Her rings seem to give her this power over people.
• Posthumous Character: As NOT! is a prequel, she's long dead by the main timeline in original series and has had her soul captured. Apparently waiting for the day when Tsugumi can gain the 99 evil souls to eat her.
• Prehensile Hair: In a large braid with a stinger on the end.
• Sailor Fuku: She wears a long-sleeved, long-skirted black sailor uniform with a white blue-trimmed collar and a red tie.
• School Uniforms are the New Black: Wears a Sailor Fuku for some reason.
• Sigil Spam: Those under her mind control gain design representing a scorpion's claws in their right eye.
• Smug Snake: She looks down upon her older sisters and wants nothing more than to prove her superiority to them but the main trio, not even Spartoi students, are able to defeat her together before mastering any advanced combat moves seen in the regular series. It's clear that Medusa and Arachne are on a completely different level.

Medusa's Faction

Crona

Voiced by: Maaya Sakamoto (Japanese), Maxey Whitehead (English), Gilberta Crispino (Italian)

Crona is Ragnarok's meister of intentionally unclear gender, and initially worked for Medusa due to being a Tyke-Bomb. Crona is unusual for a meister because they and Ragnarok share the same body, which is a source of Squick for the heroes. Crona alternated between being homicidally insane and fearful when under Medusa, later showing a nicer side when at the DWMA.

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• Adaptation Dye-Job: Their hair was pink in the manga but purple in the anime (though there are a few manga illustrations where it's purple, it's usually pink).
• Adaptational Heroism: Due to the anime ending much before the manga and diverging from its storyline, Crona ends firmly on the side of the DWMA by the end of it, rather than going through major Sanity Slippage and fusing with Asura.
• Ambiguous Gender: Crona's gender is unspecified and besides Patty asking once, characters basically ignore it. The author has refused to answer it as well.
• Ambiguous Innocence: In the penultimate chapter, they confessed to Maka to not understand what was wrong with their actions. Which, to be clear, had included killing people and eating their souls and trying to destroy the world. Despite this, they decide to save the world simply to make Maka happy.
• And the Adventure Continues: At the end of the manga, Crona seals Asura and themselves, yet both Crona and Maka both express the belief that they'll meet again. There's no idea given as to how, leaving this the biggest loose end of the manga.
• Anti Anti Christ: Medusa intended for Crona to become the new kishin for the goal of enveloping the world into madness and terror For Science!. they ultimately reject this path in both the anime and the manga, though how they reject it varies between the versions
• Anti-Villain: The Woobie Variety.
• Ax-Crazy: Seems to be this, as of recent manga chapters. Yeah... It's going to take a lot more than a hug to fix them now, Maka.
• Badass Adorable: Admit it — even during their scarier moments, Crona manages to inspire the desire to hug them out of a good portion of the audience.
• Barrier Maiden: Attempts this in the penultimate chapter. Confronting their fear, Crona decides to use Brew to trap Asura on the moon.
• Because You Were Nice to Me: Sacrifices themselves because Maka was the very first person to be nice to them and it would mean she would get to live afterwards.
• Big Bad Wannabe: Played with. Manages to kill Medusa and beat Noah, before taking center-stage at the series' climax as the primary threat. However, contrary to what Medusa believed, the bond connecting Crona to Maka was never truly severed, which causes Crona's resolve to waver during the final battle and allows Asura to seize control of Crona.
• Bloody Murder: Crona can use all their blood as a weapon. Heck, their blood is a weapon!
• Body Horror:
  • Taken for granted, but doesn't become fully apparent until chapter 68, when we see that between the corruption of Medusa, Ragnarok, and the Black Clown, their soul has become twisted and deformed almost beyond recognition.
  • When Ragnarok was still huge, he always forced his way out fully formed from Crona's back, in a pretty clearly painful way.
  • Even chibified Ragnarok managed to make Crona wince a bit while forcing himself out.
• Brown Note: Their poetry is so depressing that it makes ANYONE, even the normally hyperactive Black Star, sulk in a corner wishing they were never born.
• Bully and Wimp Pairing: The wimp to Ragnarok's bully.
• Calling the Old Man Out: After Medusa shows Crona affection for the first time in their life and even apologizes for her cruel treatment, Crona quite epically freaks out and rants about how she made them throw away everything, and how they too was "thrown away," all the while stabbing her to a bloody pulp. And it was all part of Medusa's plan. The anime's version, in which Crona tells Medusa that they are done following her, child or not, is a straighter played example.
• Character Catchphrase:
  • "I don't know how to deal with this..." and "My blood is black." The former quickly turns into a Madness Mantra:
    Crona: Kill you. Kill you. I don't know how to deal with you, so I'll kill you. Kill you. Kill you.
  • And from their debut episode: "Those doors only open inward." Maka should've listened to that one...
• Character Development: Especially in the anime. Going from an insane weapon of Medusa, to the ultimate woobie, to becoming a stronger person and facing Medusa, the person who tormented them all their life, is a hell of an achievement, character-wise.
• Cooldown Hug: Maka first connects with Crona through one, becoming their friend in this way.
• Combat Tentacles: As of Chapter 96, they have Maleficent-esque thorns made of Black Blood that they use like tentacles to attack/defend/look badass.
• Cowardly Lion: Has shown a willingness to stand up to and even nearly die fighting some very threatening enemies in order to help their friends. Like Giriko, Medusa, and even Asura.
• Covert Pervert: Apparently not getting motherly attention from Medusa eventually leaves Crona with some kind of boob fixation, which eventually manifests in the main cast, and eventually the majority of the DWMA, catching the "Madness of Boobs" after Crona seals Asura away and making the other characters more perverted for a while.
• Creepy Blue Eyes: They switch between pale blue and black, usually the former when they're going batshit.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Try everything before befriending Maka.
• Dark Magical Girl: Gender-neutral example. Crona is a lonely, tormented soul who deep down wants to make real connections with other human beings while being manipulated and tormented by their evil mother, Medusa. Depending on the continuity, Crona either earns their happy ending and is able to forge those bonds with the other DWMA members, or falls to their mother's manipulations and becomes a much larger threat that nonetheless saves the world because of their bond with Maka.
• Despair Event Horizon: When Maka first visits Crona's Mental World, Crona's shadow is having a conversation with its source. Crona's shadow asks its source a total of forty-two questions before withering and disappearing in despair because Crona has passed on answering every single one^note The number 42 can be read "shini", which is the standard reading of 死に, the Japanese term for "death; dying". Crona's shadow is ultimately restored when Maka befriends Crona and is seen holding hands with Maka's shadow.
• Disappeared Dad: According to the author, when asked about who Crona's father is, he is "A man without a name", which shows that Crona does indeed have a father, at least.
• The Dragon: To Medusa before betraying her, twice.
• Earn Your Happy Ending: In the anime they deal with massive guilt from betraying their friends after pulling a Heel–Face Turn. Later they fight against Medusa and nearly die saving Maka in an attempt to make up for their misdeeds. Makes you real grateful for Gecko Endings.
• The Eeyore: Given their upbringing, it's understandable.
• Exotic Eye Designs: Their iris and pupils sometimes are replaced by spiraling thorns, especially after absorbing Asura.
• Expository Pronoun: Crona uses the pronoun "boku" (a pronoun primarily used by young boys, but it's not uncommon for girls to use it as well) to refer to themself. In their case, this serves to make it even harder to tell if they're a boy or a girl.
• Expy: Crona bears a strong resemblance to Emine, the main antagonist of Ohkubo's first manga B.Ichi.
• Foil: You know how Maka and Soul have a deep and affectionate relationship and defeat their enemies with weaponized friendship? Crona's relationship with Ragnarok is about as far as one could go in the other direction. Their relationship with Medusa makes a second contrast, with them desperately seeking approval from their Jerkass mother. Also Crona is Maka's rival and after their Heel–Face Turn becomes extremely attached to her.
• Forgiveness: A major part of Crona's storyline in either version becomes seeking forgiveness for betraying their friends. While Maka is quick to forgive any misdeeds, others require more convincing. Marie, in the anime says that she'll be unable to forgive them until they rescue Stein (which she later regrets saying). The manga has Crona explicitly state that their action in letting themselves be imprisoned alongside Asura is an attempt to "put burdens on [their] heart" in order to return.
• A Friend in Need: One of the main driving forces of the story is Maka's desire to save Crona from Medusa's machinations. In the end, Crona manages to recover their sanity from the Madness thanks to Maka's friendship, but they're left on the moon keeping Asura sealed. Maka, however, makes it very clear that she has every intention to come back and ultimately rescue Crona.
• Friendless Background: Had never even been shown kindness until Maka befriends them, prompting a Heel–Face Turn.
• Guinea Pig Family: Medusa's.
• Hartman Hips: Not helping the "what gender is Crona anyway" discussions at all.
• Heel–Face Revolving Door: Ultimately does a full heel->face->heel->face turn in both the manga and anime, albeit in incredibly different ways.
• Heroic Sacrifice: In the penultimate chapter, they overcome the Madness long enough to use Brew to seal the Kishin away. While still inside the Kishin. The anime moment of jumping in front of Medusa's vector arrow to save Maka, while getting hit themself also counts.
• Humanoid Abomination:
  • Has been gradually edging closer to this as the Black Blood nears completion.
  • Later, they officially become this when they absorb Asura.
• I Will Wait for You: Indicates this to Maka when she asks them to wait for her to return to them.
• Irony: Voluntarily lets themself be trapped in a ball of mad blood, knowingly suffering a similar fate to what they inflicted on a city full of people.
• "It" Is Dehumanizing: While everyone else in the English dub uses "he" for Crona for simplicity (and acknowledge they actually don't know), Medusa, who's the one person who would actually know which one to use, uses either "my child" or, more disturbingly, "it". This says a lot and also counts as a Woolseyism.
• Like Brother and Sister: Their relationship with Maka (if any potential signs of romance are in fact meant to be interpreted platonically).
• Like a Son to Me: (Though the 'son' part is up for debate) Seems to have this relationship with Marie, who has been a bit of a Parental Substitute for them, being the most motherly towards Crona out of all her students (given that they are the closest thing she has to children, acting as a Team Mom), not showing as much kindness and friendliness to any other character in the series. This gets tested in the anime, when Crona's betrayal is revealed, she has a hard time forgiving them, saying she would only do so when Stein was returned from Medusa's control and madness. she later regretted saying this, as Crona was severely injured as a result of the battle with her, but Stein reassures her that Crona will forgive her, cementing the bond between them
• Look What I Can Do Now!: As of Chapter 96, they can easily defeat Black Star, the DWMA's strongest student. This is noted by both Ox and Maka.
• Lovecraftian Superpower: They can weaponize the body horror monstrosity that lives in their blood.
• Love Redeems: Of a friendship variety. Makas kindness is the reason they wanted to make a Heel–Face Turn and join the DWMA. This is why they stop Asura and seal him away on the moon with themselves, not to save the world, just Maka
• My Master, Right or Wrong: They seem to have this relationship with Medusa.
  Crona: She said it was OK to eat the human souls. I don't see what was wrong with it if she said it was OK.
• Nice Guy: Shown to be rather kindhearted, if nervous when not under Medusa's influence.
• Nervous Wreck: Thanks to being raised to become a new Kishin by Medusa. They're even quite jittery when they're Axe-Crazy.
• Noodle People: While all of the characters are drawn to look rather skinny, they're the most obvious example. And it gets worse as they edge closer to insanity...
• Only One Name: Oddly, the character is only referred to as "Crona", never "Crona Gorgon".
• Parental Abandonment: Why any Soul Eater fan who looks beyond Medusa's Magnificent Bastard status wants to strangle her for being a grievously bad mother.
• Pronoun Trouble: Since Japanese doesn't have to use gendered pronouns, none of the characters use one for Crona for the sake of Ambiguous Gender issues. This plagued Funimation for the dub. Despite going with male pronouns for simplicity^*This was a few years before "they" started really catching on as singular pronoun for people of indeterminate or non-binary gender, some of the English actors and the dub director still refer to Crona as "him/her". The manga's English translation initially went with he/him as well, but in later reprints Crona is referred to as they/them instead.
• Redemption Equals Affliction: Lets themself become trapped in a ball of mad blood alongside Asura in order to stop him for an unknown period of time. Could also be interpreted as Redemption Equals Death (or eternal imprisonment), depending on whether you believe Maka eventually frees them.
• Rose-Haired Sweetie: Averted in the beginning, but played straight later on.
• Sanity Slippage: Medusa's gamut of experiments on Crona is solely intended to induce this on them. It worked.
• Self-Made Orphan: And Medusa gives every indication that this is what she wanted.
• She's a Man in Japan: Crona's gender is completely ambiguous in the Japanese version. The official English translations of both the anime and the manga minimize gendered terminology (for instance, Medusa only calls Crona her "child", never "son/daughter", while Marie calls Crona "a good kid"), but still use male pronouns. Reprints of the manga were changed to use exclusively they/them pronouns for Crona.
• Shrinking Violet: Kind of a gloomy/creepy version, but still fits.
• Sixth Ranger: When they're a Face.
• Sixth Ranger Traitor: When going back to Medusa before killing her.
• Spared by the Adaptation: While ending the manga imprisoned on the moon to stop Asura, the Anime's Gecko Ending has Crona end living happily at the DWMA with their friends after turning against Medusa.
• Stronger Than They Look: Crona's a spindly little twig, but having the Black Blood harden in their vessels means they can deceptively sustain a lot of punishment. Bladed weapons in particularly barely break their skin.
• Talkative Loon: Normally very quiet, but turns into one of these when under Medusa's influence.
  Crona: Oh, okay! You're saying I can kill the girl? I didn't realize that...maybe I can play with her hair first, just for a little while. Hey, everyone! These doors open inward! THEY ONLY OPEN ONE WAY!
  • Of course, once in a while there is useful information in Crona's rants. Maka and Soul would have done well to pay attention to, "These doors open inward," because while trying to escape from Crona, they tried to open them outward, which didn't work.
• Taking the Bullet: They take a Vector Arrow for Maka, saving her life while nearly dying themselves.
• Third Eye: Gains one while powering up to seal Asura.
• Tyke-Bomb: Raised seemingly from birth to make a new Kishin. Unlike most examples, Medusa really didn't have a clear use for a Kishin, she just wanted to see if she could make one.
• "Well Done, Son" Guy: This, plus fear, binds Crona to Medusa. They free themself from this by killing her, but then suffers extreme guilt over killing the only bond they ever had, it doesn't help that Spirit rubs his bond with Maka is their face.
• When She Smiles: They get one in the middle of the series.
• Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Could be the trope definition.
• Yank the Dog's Chain: Right when Crona manages to find happiness at DWMA by being put in an environment that actually accepts them, they're gaslit and coerced by Medusa playing on the poor kid's need for affection.
• You Are Not Alone: In the ending of the manga, it's made clear that, no matter how much Medusa tried to convince them otherwise, Crona is and always will be Maka's friend. In the penultimate chapter, Maka and Soul manage to reunite with Crona inside of Asura, at which point Maka reminds Crona that she will never give up on them, no matter what. Even as Crona chooses to stay behind to seal Asura, Soul has Crona mark their own note at the start of Soul's piano score, symbolically making it clear that Crona is still a part of the world, and so will always have a place where they belong. Although Crona's ultimate fate is left up in the air, it's unambiguous that Maka and the others will come back for Crona and continue fighting to save them, no matter how many times it takes.

Ragnarok

When depowered

Voiced by: Keiji Himeno (JP), Sonny Strait (EN)

Ragnarok is Crona's Demon Sword partner. He shares a body with his meister and loves to bully and torment them at every opportunity.

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• Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: In the anime when Crona jumps in front of Medusa's vector attack to save Maka, Ragnarok comes out of the resulting pool of blood saying that they're both going to die and it's all Maka's fault, "but at least stupid Crona isn't alone in the end."
• Black Swords Are Better: Ragnarok's sword form is a solid black blade.
• Bloody Murder: He's Crona's Equippable Ally made out of Black Blood, after all.
• Body Horror: He was melted down in weapon form and fused into Crona's blood permanently binding them together.
• Brown Note: His screams can cause this, incapacitating his opponents or at the very least, making it harder for them to defend and attack.
• Bully and Wimp Pairing: Bully to Crona's wimp.
• Cartoon Creature: No clue what race of species Ragnarok is. He's only vaguely humanoid in a way more suited towards a Monster. Except he can't be a Monster because, well, only Humans have the Weapon Gene. He could be artificial, but no evidence is given towards that.
• Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Manga only. After Crona is absorbed by Asura, Ragnarok seems to just disappear and isn't even mentioned again. In the Anime however, he remains with Crona to the series' conclusion.
• Equippable Ally: Not only is he able to turn into a sword, he really is Crona's blood.
• Expy: Heavily resembles Ansem's Guardian from Kingdom Hearts, at least initially.
• 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 Imp: When depowered his bullying turns into this nature.
• Jerkass: Has been a pretty consistent one throughout all his different forms.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He has his moments; in particular, he tends to at least try and motivate Crona when they're battling people.
• Katanas Are Just Better: After the Aracnophobia Arc, Ragnarok forms three swords, two of which resemble thin katana (with one being barbed), while the remaining sword resembles a cleaver.
• Mysterious Past: We're never given any clue as to what his life was like prior to being melted in Black Blood.
• No Mouth: His humanoid form seems to lack a mouth, at least while talking. He does have a mouth in this form, although it just seems to be for eating and scaring people.
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse: He fares pretty well against Giriko and knocks over a golem while in Sleep-Mode Size! Maka even wonders how she was able to defeat him.
• Power Gives You Wings: After absorbing the souls on the Nidhogg, he can turn into the "Black Dragon".
• Shoo Out the Clowns: He's stays around for a while, but after Crona killed Medusa he basically didn't say a word. After Crona is absorbed by Asura he disappears completely for the entire rest of the manga.
• Sleep-Mode Size: Losing all of the souls he consumed made him shrink from highly muscular to even skinnier and shrimpier than Crona.
• Super-Scream: Many of his attacks involve screaming.
• Talking Weapon: With giant, fleshy lips, no less.
• Token Evil Teammate: After Crona's Heel–Face Turn.
• Vibroweapon: He vibrates by screaming.

Eruka Frog

Eruka Frog

Voiced by: Misato Fukuen (Japanese), Kate Oxley (English), Ilaria Latini (Italian)

A witch in Medusa's employ. Eruka has no particular loyalty to Medusa, but ends up doing her dirty work anyway because Medusa threatened her with gory death if she refused. Seems to be good friends with the Mizune sisters. Eruka's magical theme is frogs.

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• Anti-Villain: She doesn't want much of anything to do with Medusa, but isn't free to act on her own.
• Berserk Button: She gets rather upset when anyone does something to her pet/familiar Tadpole Jackson.
• Butt-Monkey: Since losing to Medusa, she's been subject to quite a lot of humiliation and physical abuse (like Medusa ordering her to turn into a frog so she can step on her, or Black Star threatening to eat her), basically all of which is played for laughs.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Tends to be the Butt-Monkey in a given fight (to be fair, a given fight in Soul Eater is rather insane), ducking and covering before maybe doing something rather useful. Place her in a support role with her magic calculation, however, and she becomes far more powerful. In chapter 111, she ends up calculating coordinates for Kilik and Azusa to snipe Asura all the way on the moon, which is every bit as insane as it sounds.
• Cute Witch: She's not as sexualized as Medusa or Blair, but is still conventionally attractive.
• Explosive Leash: Medusa put countless magical snakes into Eruka's body that will rip her apart on-command. When the DWMA captures her they subject her to a literal explosive leash at the same time. Luckily for Eruka, she's not given any contradictory orders before both are removed.
• Facial Markings: Eruka has small black circles at the end of her lips, reminiscent of a frog's cheeks.
• Familiar: Has one named Tadpole Jackson, whom she rides on and cares for very much.
• Good with Numbers: Her magical ability is average at best, but her calculation-and-location spells in particular are where she really shines. So much so, she plays a crucial part in DWMA's final fight against Kishin Asura himself. She's even able to pinpoint and call a shot from the Earth all the way to the Moon!
• Having a Blast: Most of her spells involve creating exploding tadpoles that look like Cartoon Bombs.
• Heel–Face Turn: In the manga, Eruka joins the heroes in the final battle against Asura. She's shown alongside Free in the final chapter, expressing that she's pretty okay with the idea of finally living in harmony alongside humans.
• Lovable Coward: Mostly "lovable" thanks to her Chew Toy status and by being one of the less evil witches.
• Mad Bomber: She's far from indiscriminate, but she does state blowing things up is why she enjoys being a witch.
• Meaningful Name: Eruka Frog.
• The Pardon: Both the Witches Council and DWMA let her off the hook in the end thanks to her crimes being far from voluntarily, her help in defeating in Asura, and the treaty between the two.
• Pragmatic Villainy: She was one of the first witches to realize how much bad news Medusa was (justifiably so), but trying to kill her was mostly because Eruka thought Medusa was drawing too much attention from the DWMA.
• Ship Tease: With Free. The two are almost always partnered together, and are on remarkably good terms compared to the rest of the villainous characters.
• Significant Anagram: Her name rearranges into "kaeru" (Japanese for "frog").
• Smug Snake: Was one until she got taken down a peg or two by Medusa.
• Spell My Name With An S: It's Eruka, not Elka (as per the localizations).
• Throw the Dog a Bone: After spending most of the story press-ganged into service or imprisoned, always with a gun to her head, she walks away a free woman.
• Trapped in Villainy: She likes seeing stuff blow up, but Eruka's only voluntarily act of violence was a very-justified attempt at Medusa's life. However, she was pressed into service by Medusa under constant threat of immediate death.
• Underestimating Badassery: She really, really had no idea what kind of person Medusa is until she saw one of the Mizune sisters get ripped apart.
• Verbal Tic: ...geko.
• Villainous Friendship: With Free. As the series goes on, the two of them clearly become close friends, even if the "villainous" part is done away with at the manga's climax.

Free

As a Werewolf

Voiced by: Rintarou Nishi (JP), Travis Willingham (EN)

An immortal werewolf placed in jail for taking Mabaa's left eye. Despite being so dangerous and powerful, his personality is quite silly. He can also be serious and cunning when needed, but he usually isn't since he can't die.

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• Affably Evil: One gets the idea that he's more "dangerously silly" than "maliciously evil" because he's a friendly guy when he's not beating you up or releasing monsters.
• Barefoot Captives: He has no shoes in his prison attire and remains so through the series.
• Breath Weapon: His Magic Eye Cannon (despite the name) has him firing a huge laser from his mouth. It's called "Magic Eye" because the energy takes the form of an glowing eye before he fires it.
• Catchphrase: He's got at least two: the chant "Wolf, wolves, wolf, wolves," and the more informal "GODDAMNSHIIIIT!"
• Cloudcuckoolander: Free originally let himself be imprisoned because he wanted to try to dig his way out of a prison with a spoon, like in the movies... Unfortunately, all the meals were served with chopsticks.
• Complete Immortality: Free regenerates from all and any damage and doesn't age. He explicitly states that the Grand Witch Mabaa locked him up because not even she could kill him.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: As a much of an idiot he is, keep in mind the eye he stole belonged to someone who is nearly equal to Death in power and is a Reality Warper. Even for an immortal, it takes a lot of balls.
• Cutlery Escape Aid: Free tries to invoke this: he allows himself to be captured because he thinks it would be cool to dig his way out with a spoon like in the movies. Unfortunately he forgot he was in a Japanese series, and all of his meals were served with chopsticks. He ends up spending about 200 years in prison as a result.
• Didn't Think This Through: He didn't consider the idea of chopsticks with his "get into prison so he can break out with a spoon" thing.
• Enemy Mine: Teams up with Kid to take on Mosquito during the battle of Baba Yaga Castle. They do pretty well...up until Mosquito goes to his 400-year-old form and stomps them. From there, it's up to Kid powering up to keep Mosquito busy while Free uses his illusion magic to get to the tower leg and blow it up.
• Epic Flail: Free has weaponized the ball and chain on his leg more than once to deadly effect. He can make it even more deadly by encasing the ball in a larger ball of ice.
• Eyes Do Not Belong There: When using the Magic Eye Cannon, an eyeball grows in the back of his throat to use his Breath Weapon.
• Genius Bruiser: Even though he admits that he isn't great at coming up with ideas, he takes good advantage of his illusion magic to trick his foes.
• Good Thing You Can Heal: If he wasn't immortal, he would have accidentally killed himself dozens of times over.
• Gratuitous English: The tattoo over his left eye reads "NOFUTURE". Ironic for an inmortal like him.
• Half the Man He Used to Be: Suffers this while fighting Mosquito. Being immortal, he just heals up and uses Kid and an illusion to distract him while he goes on ahead with the mission.
• Heel–Face Turn: In the manga, Free joins the heroes in the final battle against Asura. He appears alongside Eruka in the final chapter and seems to share her appreciation of finally getting to live in harmony alongside humans.
• Heinz Hybrid: Not biologically, but his soul is some kind of combination of human, witch, and monster.
• Hologram: One of his powers is create illusions that are projected like holograms. During his "fight" with Kid at DWMA, he buys himself and Eruka time by casting one such hologram to distract the Reaper, firing off a Magic Eye Cannon from a distance to sell the illusion and capitalizing on Kid's ranged fighting style to make him think that the shots actually passing through him were being tanked with his immortality. He gave himself up only when he started avoiding Black*Star's physical strikes, as a solid connection would have passed right through him with ease with no resistance and given up the act, and Kid realized an immortal would have had nothing to fear from such blows to try and avoid them.
• Hunk: Especially compared to the Cast Full of Pretty Boys, Free stands out tremendously.
• An Ice Person: Free uses Ice based magic, but his personality is a little off from the usual.
• Institutional Apparel: Continues to wear his prison duds and ball-and-chain long after breaking out of prison.
• The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort: He doesn't bother to dodge or block, because, as he often brags, he's immortal. He still feels pain, but it clearly doesn't bother him too much considering how much he brags. In fact, the only times he's ever bothered blocking is when using himself as a meat shield for Eruka, and the one time he bothered to dodge away from Black Star's sword strikes was all Kid needed to realize it was just an illusion to buy time.
• Lightning Bruiser: Is tremendously strong, surprisingly fast and unquestionably tough.
• Living Forever Is Awesome: He was imprisoned and restrained for a long time with the knowledge that not even death could free him, but does this bother him? No. The first time Soul impaled him, he bragged about it.
• Magic Misfire: Happened two times during his first fight after 200 years, the second time resulting in him becoming a Wolfman Popsicle.
• Master of Illusion: One of the powers he got from Mabaa's left eye is the ability to cast powerful illusions that can mimic his every movement and even let him see what the illusion sees. However, because they have no substance and mimic his movements, he has to get creative in order to keep his enemies from figuring out the deception.
• Meaningful Name: Names himself Free after being freed by Medusa.
• Nice Guy: For all his faults, Free is a genuinely nice person, seen when he spontaneously offers himself to repay Medusa when she gets him out of jail and later when he tries to rescue Eruka, remembering that after all she did saved him before.
• Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: He was born an Immortal Werewolf, but got Witch powers by stealing an Eye.
• No Name Given: Free is known only by his nicknames. So far he has been called (Man of the) Demon Eye, Free & (The Legendary) Werewolf. Free himself forgot his own name after years of imprisonment.
• No Sense of Direction: In the Baba Yaga arc of the manga. He was supposed to destroy tower 1 and he went toward tower 2 instead. In the end he ended up at tower 8. Towers 2 and 8 were opposite to each other.
• Not So Great Escape: When Eruka got him out of jail and he was still restrained. He talked pretty darn loud. The guards found out and surrounded them. He then kills them all in about thirty seconds. He was about to bust Eruka out of Jail but he was easily caught
• Our Werewolves Are Different: Voluntary shapeshifting, full control of his mental faculties, just as strong in human form as in wolf form (but no tail or claws/bite) and immortal by nature before he stole Mabaa's eye. It's unknown if this is what everyone from his clan of immortals are like, or it's just him.
• Perma-Stubble: Free's human form always has a little facial hair.
• The Smurfette Principle: Free is techincally a witch due to possessing Mabaa's eye, making him the only male witch in the series.
• Stealth Pun: His first fight takes place in the capital of England. He's a werewolf of London.
• Tattooed Crook: Has a tattoo on his right shoulder that resembles an eye.
• Too Dumb to Live: Or he would be, if he could die. During his fight on the bridge, he hits himself with his own attacks and accidentally freezes himself with ice magic in midair, plumetting into the water below. Slightly justified in that he's been out of practice for centuries, and he certainly shows cunning and skill in later battles, but his continuous ditziness and ineptitude in other areas suggest he really might not be the sharpest tool in the shed. Whether his immortality has made him careless to mortal danger or he really is that dim is never made clear.
• Tunnel King: Free wanted to escape prison using this method but the guards only gave him chopsticks.
• Unskilled, but Strong: After years of imprisonment, Free has gotten a little bit rusty with his magic skills. At one time, he encased himself in a block of ice! However, when he does get it right, he's a major threat. Besides, he can afford to be unskilled because he is immortal.
• Villainous Friendship: With Eruka. As the series goes on, the two of them clearly become close friends, even if the "villainous" part is done away with at the manga's climax.
• Voluntary Shapeshifting: Free has stated that his werewolf form is his true form.
• Wolf Man: His true form is a bi-pedal wolf. Because of this even his human form is wolf like.
• Worf Had the Flu: His first fight on the bridge ended as a loss not because his opponents were powerful or clever (in fact all four of them were dealing with major issues) but because Free KO'd himself...twice. He was rusty, to say the least, after his long imprisonment.
• Wrong Genre Savvy: He wanted to try the classic prison escape via digging out with a spoon he saw in the movies but forgot he was in an anime.

Mizune

Mizune

Voiced by: Mayuki Makiguchi (Japanese), Trina Nishimura (English)

Mizune is the surname of a family of witches who all look alike and whose animal theme is mice. One of them, along with Eruka, attempted to kill Medusa, but she was killed in the process. Eruka then told the sisters she was killed by the DWMA, and they joined Medusa to seek revenge. The five family members can merge into a single larger being.

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• Adorable Evil Minions: The individual Mizune have the appearance of mouse-like children, despite apparently all being adult.
• Avenging the Villain: The five sisters assist Medusa because she's the witch most actively threatening the DWMA, who Eruka said killed the sixth sister for no reason but being a witch. What they don't know is they're helping the actual culprit. After Medusa is killed and Eruka released, she presumably told them the truth and the Mizune sisters on board with the truce.
• Bishōnen Line: They're individually small, strange, mice-like women, but can merge together to increase their power while looking progressively more like a sexy lady. Played with in that their five-member form is presumably the strongest, but never uses any magic on-screen, and is only formed once simply to show off her body.
• Cat Fight: They get a literal one against Blair. With an all-male audience watching, of course.
• Flight: Unlike other witches who use brooms, the Mizune can fly with their own power. Said power makes it look like they have rocket engines under their dresses.
• Fusion Dance: The Mizune sisters can merge together into one being—or two.
• Intelligible Unintelligible: Medusa shows she can understand their chittering in the Capture Baba Yaga's Castle arc.
• Laser Blade: Whisker Beam, which they can use in all their forms.
• Marked Change: In their fused form, the Mizune sisters have whisker-marks radiating from their belly-button.
• Underboobs: Normal Mizune all wear a cylinder-shaped garment that cover pretty much everything, but on combined Mizune it only goes from her shoulders down to most of her breasts. Lampshaded by Blair during their "confrontation". It's also implied that the only reason it's like this is because Medusa had killed one of the sisters, and that the top part of the outfit is normally longer.
• Sdrawkcab Name: Their name is the Japanese word for mouse ("nezumi") with the syllables reversed.
• The Unintelligible: At least while they're not fused.
• Verbal Tic: They make mouse chittering when fused (except for their 5 people fusion).

Arachnophobia

Members of the long-lasting, cult-like organization known as Arachnophobia who follow Arachne Gorgon in their quest to supplant the DWMA.

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Giriko

Voiced by: Nobutoshi Canna (JP), J. Michael Tatum (EN), Stefano Brusa (IT)

Giriko is a Demon Weapon and an ally to the witch Arachne. He lives for fighting and destruction, and takes the form of a chainsaw in weapon form.

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• Armed Legs: His favourite method of fighting is to run sawblades along his legs and kick with them.
• Assist Character: Giriko is a Shapeshifter Weapon who's found away around his dependence on a meister by letting himself be used as an Equippable Ally by a Golem he created.
• Attempted Rape: He tries to rape Maka with a chainsaw in chapter 75 before being interrupted by Soul. It's every bit as unhinged as it sounds.
• Ax-Crazy: Giriko is an extremely violent and unhinged individual who absolutely loves to tear out his opponents' insides. It's taken far further when he faces Maka and Soul after they had killed Arache. Giriko completely loses what miniscule self-control he had, to the point that he tries to rape Maka with a chainsaw.
• Actually a Doombot: When he fights Maka and Soul in the Book of Ebion, the pair seem to have triumphed and killed him. And then he shows up in a female body, explaining the body the pair killed was a golem and he had transferred his mind to a new one awhile ago.
• Beneath the Mask: Giriko has apparently been sucking up and playing nice for eight hundred years to stay off the DWMA's radar. He's hated every second of it, and rips the mask off in the very chapter he's introduced.
• Body Surf: While waiting for Arachne to return he hid in the village of the golem-makers, had children, and swapped his memories with them before his current body died.
• Blood Knight: He literally dies from his soul exploding because it couldn't contain 800 years of pent-up bloodlust anymore.
• Chainsaw Good: He is the chainsaw.
• Curtains Match the Window: Brown hair and brown eyes.
• Death by Irony: He dies in a Sloth chapter of the Book of Eibon, surrounded by chairs and sofas. His soul literally implodes because he couldn't calm down his bloodlust even for a second.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Giriko is... many things, but it's clear that he genuinely respects and looks up to Arachne, possibly even having romantic feelings for her.
• Evil Counterpart:
  • Giriko is a wicked Foil to Soul, who is also a bladed Shapeshifter Weapon but completely dependent on a meister. Giriko gets around needing a meister by letting himself be used by a Golem, and even better his Saw Leg technique enables him use high-speed martial arts in his own right.
  • Giriko is also a sharp contrast to Justin Law, strongest of the death-scythes, and is so annoyed by Justin's existence that he takes it personally. Justin also attacks with blades and can fight on his own like Giriko, but Justin's hammy pieties infuriate Giriko, who has been kissing butt for eight centuries to stay off od Death's radar. Later developments like Justin's Face–Heel Turn add a layer of Irony to this relationship.
  • As a father, Giriko also contrasts Spirit, whose doting but damaged relationship with Maka is contrasted by Giriko, who steals the bodies of his own children to stay alive over the centuries.
• Familial Body Snatcher: Has been taking over the bodies of his descendants for centuries to stay alive.
• Gender Bender: Since his latest kid was a girl he had no choice but to transport his mind into her, effectively changing genders. He finds this pretty annoying, though he dies permanently not long after.
• The Hedonist: He drinks in every other chapter, he's lazy as sin, and he acts touchy-feely with the teenage girl he's attempting to massacre.
• Immortality: He may have been able to swap bodies and memories to remain alive, but 800 years of pent-up bloodlust does NOT have its benefits to the soul.
• Immortality Immorality: Implanting your memories into your artificially created children? More than a little bit creepy, and definitely not ethical.
• Interplay of Sex and Violence: The longer his fight goes on with Maka, the more it descends into this. It gets to the point that you could replace "chainsaw" with "penis" and it would make just as much sense.
• It's Personal: From the moment Giriko learns who Justin Law is, he hates everything about him. He pretends not to actually care before vowing to murder the death-scythe himself.
• Jerkass: There is nothing pleasant about this guy.
• Karmic Death: Giriko's sole desire in life, to unleash his bloodlust that was pent-up for 800 years, becomes his downfall when his soul is unable to withstand it any longer and EXPLODES.
• Master Race: Subverted in that he works with witches and he's a human/weapon (also he's quite lazy when it comes to Arachnophobia's world domination plans), but the amount of hatred he possesses for Mosquito and other weapons is jarring. The only other weapon he has , or rather, had any respect for is Justin, due to Justin being an autonomous weapon as well. Amongst telling him to "Know your place", The abuse he screams at Soul in their fight in the Eibon chapter of Sloth as he's sawing into Soul's torso is palpable with his complete and utter contempt of weapons who need meisters.
• Mirror Character: Both Soul and Giriko have jagged teeth, Anime Hair, an insane amount of loyalty toward one person, and some form of attraction toward Maka. For Giriko, it eventually manifests itself in Les Yay. For Soul, it comes in the form of a weird but extremely loyal friendship and various amounts of Ship Tease.
• My Master, Right or Wrong: Towards Arachne.
• Near-Villain Victory: Actually one of the more deadly foes that the protagonists face that he nearly comes close to killing them.
  • In the encounter in the golem village, neither Maka, Soul or Chrona can harm the golem who wields Girko's chainsaw form. He would've killed them had Justin not arrived and took over the fight.
  • In their last encounter, he actually had Maka and Soul dead to rights that they couldn't match him even with their power ups. They're only saved because of his pent up bloodlust that he had acquired over 800 years that was too much for his current body to handle and ultimately implodes him when Maka angers him enough before he can deal the killing blow.
• Partial Transformation: He's only ever seen in full chainsaw form once. All other times he only grows sawblades along his body to fight with.
• Phlebotinum Overload: Ironically of his own design. He had such pent up bloodlust over the years his body couldn't take it and ultimately ends up killing him for real.
• Punny Name: Giriko can be see as a mangled anagram of "Nokogiri", meaning "saw".
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Towards Maka and Soul for Arachne's death.
• Rollerblade Good: Can use the chainsaws on his feet to work like this.
• Sanity Slippage: By the time Maka and Soul fight him in the Sloth Chapter he's... gotten a bit worse in the sanity department.
• Self-Disposing Villain: See Karmic Death.
• Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: Arachne's Co-Dragons, the classy midget Mosquito versus the hard-drinking, foul-mouthed Giriko.
• Ship Tease: With Arachne. It's every bit as unhealthy as you'd think.
• Slasher Smile: Giriko almost always has a toothy grin on him.
• Spared by the Adaptation: In the anime, he abandons Arachnaphobia when Mosquito opens fire on his location and lives to the end, but later died in the manga.
• Undying Loyalty: For Arachne.
• Unholy Matrimony: Possibly with Arachne.
• Unknown Rival: To Justin, before joining him.
• Unstoppable Rage: In the "Salvage" arc, his anger and energy was so tremendous that it made him practically untouchable; the air around him was a whirling death trap of chainsaw blades, while the "noise" from his soul made Soul's piano worthless. However, the sheer magnitude of his rage was too much even for him, and his soul ruptured from the strain of his 800 years' worth of hatred.
• Villainous Breakdown: He didn't take Arachne's death very well at all.

Mosquito

Voiced by: Takashi Inagaki (JP), Mark Stoddard (EN), Giorgio Lopez (IT)

Mosquito is Arachne's butler. His appearance is a short old man with a large pointy nose which is used to suck the blood out of a victim.

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• Animal Motifs: The mosquito of course, save for his form from 400 years ago where he was represented by bats.
• Bad Boss: One mook makes the unfortunate mistake of being a loyal servant and checking if Mosquito is okay following a fight with some DWMA students. Mosquito does not hesitate to use his nose to stab and drain the poor guy of his blood. Ouch.
• Beard of Evil: He has a handlebar moustache that ends in sharp points.
• Big Ol' Unibrow: It's hidden under his hat most the time but it's there.
• Battle Butler: For Arachne.
• Bat Out of Hell: Mosquito's form from 400 years ago controls a swarm of bats to attack for him.
• Bishounen Line: Apparently, Mosquito was very popular with the ladies 400 years ago.
• The Dragon: To Arachne.
• Gag Nose: Which is actually a weapon, similar to a mosquito's proboscis.
• Miniature Senior Citizen: Present day Mosquito is one of the shortest characters in the entire series. Giriko points out he's shrunk down quite substantially in the eight hundred years since Arachne's disappearance.
• Our Vampires Are Different: Mosquito drinks blood like his namesake, and his form from 400 years ago resembles one of the common depictions of vampires in modern media.
• One-Winged Angel: His forms from 100 and 200 years ago are decidedly inhuman, he crosses his Bishounen Line at 400, and his form from 800 years ago resembles some sort of Eldritch Abomination before he gets promptly oneshotted by Noah.
• Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: Arachne's Co-Dragons, the classy midget Mosquito versus the hard-drinking, foul-mouthed Giriko.
• Shout-Out: His "Police Stinger" is reference to both the band The Police and its lead singer, Sting.
• Spared by the Adaptation: In the manga he is killed by Noah. In the anime, he loses to Death in a giant robot battle, but is not killed and leaves after Arachne dies.
• Top-Heavy Guy: His form from 100 years ago has a giant chest and gorilla like arms, but his legs are exactly the same as they are in his present day form.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: He begrudgingly allies with Giriko, whom he hates, to please Arachne.
• Vampiric Draining: Mosquito can regenerate even great wounds by consuming the blood of others. When an Arachnophobia facility comes under attack, Mosquito murders one one of the researchers who's come to warn him of the need to evacuate for enough blood to recover from a sniper's bullet.
• Volleying Insults: Even in presence of Arachne, he does this with Giriko.
• Voluntary Shapeshifting: Mosquito can control his body entirely and force it to regress back to previous points in his long lifespan.
• The Worf Effect: Loses easily to Noah to show how powerful he was.

Mifune

Voiced by: Kenjiro Tsuda (JP), Robert McCollum (EN), Luca Ward (IT)

A samurai with a soul so strong that it counts for ninety-nine souls by itself. Black Star was about to take his soul but stopped when he saw how Mifune was protecting the young witch, Angela. He acts like a big brother or even a father to Angela. Once Arachnophobia is reformed Mifune starts working for them in exchange for protection for Angela.

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• Adaptation Dye-Job: A color spread in the manga depicts him as golden-blond. The anime instead gives him a pale brown of some sort.
• Anti-Villain: Though he did join Arachnophobia, slaughter more than a dozen DWMA military staff, and serve as a warrior-for-hire by crime families in the past, his soul is still displayed with a blue "good" hue and he only seeks to protect Angela from the DWMA witch persecutions.
• Badass Normal: When you consider that he isn't a Meister or Weapon, his feats are even more impressive. Not only does he hand Black Star his ass often, but has fought on even footing with Sid, who was using a Death Scythe.
• Badass and Child Duo: The badass to Angela's child.
• Blade Spam: One of Mifune's techniques is a very unique take on this trope. He'll use a sword and slice it into his opponent (or smack it in place if he uses the back end) and leaves it in place. He'll repeat this process as many times as he wishes. After his victim is covered in swords, Mifune will use yet another sword to physically strike the other weapons, causing all of them to reverb and strike the victim again.
• Coat Cape: Sometimes, he drapes a coat over his shoulders. Dramatic Wind and moving around don't send it flying, so it's clearly there to look cool.
• Charles Atlas Superpower: His supernatural skill with the sword and superhuman physical prowess are implied to be the result of hard work and training, which makes him an impressive rarity in the series since he doesn't use any Weapons, is not a Meister, nor is a user of magic, but can keep up or surpass many who use the former.
• Combat Pragmatist: When it comes to combat, the man is ruthless. Whether it be breaking fingers mid sword clash, jamming fingers into an enemy's wounds, slashing through the bottom of an opponent's feet, or attacking an opponent when they're down, Mifune employs any tactics he can to win.
• Disappears into Light: His death in the manga.
• Everything's Better with Samurai: Despite not being Japanese, he considers himself one.
• Field of Blades: Creates one of these as part of his attack style. It's called "Infinite Sword Style" for a reason.
• Foil: The humble, shaggy Mifune and the vain, flashily-dressed Blackstar.
• Friend to All Children: His primary motivation. Just in case, y'know, him being an Anti-Villain wasn't clear enough.
• I Let You Win: Blatantly done with Mifune in his first fight with Black Star due to his tendency to hold back when fighting children. The first fight was ended when he was caught off-guard and held back due to Black Star being a child, while the second fight ended when he utterly decimated Black Star when he took him more seriously but still sparing his life due to not liking to hurt children.
• Katanas Are Just Better: All of Mifune's weapons are katanas.
• Master Swordsman: Thanks to his style, he can take advantage of his many blades in countless ways, even using them as projectiles or stepping stones.
• Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: It's hard to tell where his pure skill with swords ends and something more begins—if it does. "Jumbled Line", for example, are just swords surrounding him because of constant collisions, but it looks and behaves like a special technique Meisters and Weapons would do. Stuff like that is a recurring thing with his Infinite One-Sword Style.
• Meaningful Name: Toshiro Mifune was a prolific Japanese actor with a wide range of roles, though many of his most iconic were ronin and samurai.
• Occidental Otaku: Word of God is that Mifune is actually one of these since he is actually a foreigner who is a strong admirer of both samurais and ninjas, eventually working to become a legendary one himself. Mifune isn't even his real name, but a name he chose due to his admiration of samurais, hence the Meaningful Name entry.
• Oral Fixation: A straw.
• Rōnin: He started out using his skills as a killer-for-hire before dedicating himself to protecting Angela.
• Simultaneous Blade Spam: Mifune can do this with his "infinite sword style" moves. Not only can he trap his opponent by pinning them down with some of his many swords but he can make each sword strike multiple times by making them vibrate.
• Spared by the Adaptation: Unlike in the manga, he survives his battle with Black Star, pulls a Heel–Face Turn, and possible becomes a teacher for the DWMA in the anime.
• Western Samurai: It's stated multiple times how unusual a blonde-haired, blue-eyed samurai is. With that said, he's one of the most talented human fighters in the series.
• Worthy Opponent: To Black*Star.
• Wouldn't Hurt a Child: Although he feels free to fight one if needed, he avoids seriously injuring them. He eventually makes an exception for Black*Star once he accepts him as a genuine opponent he can't hold back against.
• You Killed My Father: Anime only, in which he is responsible for killing Black*Star's father, White Star. Subverted in that not only does Black*Star not kill him, he holds no grudge against Mifune for that specifically, as he knows his father deserved what was coming to him.

Fisher King

One of Arachnophobia's assassins, a rather ditzy evil human who wears an equally odd orange deep-sea diving suit. He is sent to take the Eternal Spring from the Runaway Express, and fights Kid over it with his hook firing cannon.

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• Abnormal Ammo: Hooks.
• Ambiguously Human: If you didn't know he was an evil human you'd probably assume this. His body moves in such a way that one could think he was a balloon monster.his whole body even looks like it deflated when he dies by Sid's hand, despite being shot in the abdomen a little while earlier by Kid and still moving that way.
• Assassin Outclassin': He's distinctly referred to as an assassin by Kid, but seems to be an Informed Attribute, as he's only sent to get the Eternal Spring and is never shown hunting somebody down.
• Blood from Every Orifice: After he is killed by Sid, blood is seen coming out of an eyehole of his mask, since this eyehole is facing up, its unlikely that it is runoff from his forehead (where he got stabbed with the knife).
• The Ditz: He disconnects the trains cars to stop Kid from advancing, but jumps to avoid Mizune's bombs...landing right next to kid on the train cars he just disconnected. It takes him about half a minute to realize his mistake.
• The Faceless: His face is never ever seen under that mask.
• Grappling-Hook Pistol: what his weapon doubles as, though its more of a grappling hook cannon.
• Hand Cannon: one that fires giant fishing hooks, no less.
• His Name Is...: While he does reveal that Death and Eibon were associates, he's killed by Sid before he can reveal to Kid who exactly Eibon was.
• Jiggle Physics: Whenever he moves fast, his entire suit jiggles about
• Laughably Evil: Fisher is EXTREMELY hard to take seriously until he drops his goofy attitude to reveal Eibon's connection to Death.
• Outside-Context Problem: He's a scuba diver assassin on a train speeding through the desert.
• Soft-Spoken Sadist: his voice becomes calm and serious when he reveals that Death and Eibon were partners in some way at some point, the shift is quite jarring considering how eccentric Fisher was up until then.

Risa and Arisa

Risa and Arisa

Risa voiced by: Mayuki Makiguchi (Japanese), Cynthia Cranz (English)

Arisa voiced by: Izumi Koike (Japanese), Trina Nishimura (English)

Two women who work in the cabaret club with Blair. In the manga, they turn out to be witches and spies for Arachnophobia, and are taken into custody.

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• Adaptational Heroism: They're only witches in the manga. If they are in the anime, it is never revealed since the story never dwells on the other witches outside the Gorgon Sisters, though they are seen helping Joe along with Blair.
• Chekhov's Gunman: In the manga they're freed to help save Kid from the Book of Eibon.
• The Mole: They try to spy on the DWMA through Spirit, but their efforts are always fruitless because all he ever talks about is his family. If anything, it made DWMA more suspicious of them and eventually outed them out in the end.
• Those Two Girls: They're never seen apart.
• Stepford Smiler: Averted. They smile because it's their job to be friendly.
• Stripperiffic: They do work in a cabaret club.

Angela Leon

Angela Leon

Voiced by: Ayaka Saitou (Japanese), Majken Bullard (English)

A child witch under the protection of Mifune, to whom she is very devoted. Angela's magical theme is geckos.

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• Badass and Child Duo: The Child to Mifune's badass.
• Bratty Half-Pint: To basically everyone but Mifune, especially Black Star. In particular, she seems to find hitting people in the balls very fun.
• Children Are Innocent: Unusual, considering the nature of witches. Supposedly, all of them start out innocent, but their magic makes them prone toward destruction (with the exception of one other witch).
• Cute Witch: Angela is still a child and so is cute unlike the antagonistic Hot Witches.
• Meaningful Name: Angela Leon is a good witch with a chameleon motif.
• Morality Pet: To Mifune.
• Satellite Character: Causes some comic antics with her misbehavior, but otherwise her role is being Mifune's Morality Pet. With Mifune's dead, she's taken into DWMA custody and isn't seen again until the epilogue.
• Sword and Sorcerer: She’s the Sorceress to Mifune’s Sword.
• Visible Invisibility: She can turn invisible, but because she's not very good at it she leaves at least part of herself still visible.

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Blair

Blair

Voiced by: Emiri Katou (Japanese), Yuko Sasamoto (Japanese - CD dramas), Leah Clark (English), Monica Ward (Italian)

^{Click here to see her cat form}

Not actually a witch, Blair is just a cat with strong magical powers. When in human form, she's a Hot Witch and often flirts with Soul in order to fluster him, much to Maka's irritation. Still, however, there's much more to her than she lets on and is a consistent enigma in the series. Blair's magical theme is pumpkins.

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• Accidental Hero: During the Kishin arc, Blair halts the Mizune sister's diversionary attack on Death City because they got too close to hurting her, then further wastes their time by arguing over who has the better body.
• Aloof Ally: She doesn't work for the DWMA, but sometimes comes along and fights alongside her roommates, apparently just to kill the time.
• All Witches Have Cats: Of the extreme variety. She's a magic cat that likes dressing like a witch, possibly because of this trope.
• Attractive Bent-Gender: When the Lust chapter of the Book of Eibon switches everyone's gender, Blair becomes a man handsome enough to distract a succubus.
• Back from the Dead: Dies in her first encounter against Maka and Soul. Then promptly shows back up, much to the pair's confusion. Since she's a cat, she has nine lives.
• Big-Breast Pride: She's aware of the appeal of her buxom figure and enjoys flaunting, especially to get a reaction out of Maka or Soul.
• Blush Sticker: Whenever she's acting catty, she gets a blush sticker on her cheeks.
• Buxom Beauty Standard: She's pretty busty and wears an outfit that emphasizes her curves. Soul openly lusts after her breasts while Maka is incredibly envious of them.
• Calling Your Attack: Halloween Cannon, among others.
• Cat Girl: She is a magic cat who can shapeshift into a human. In human form, she takes on the appearance of a young Hot Witch with a set of purple catlike ears. She also has a curled up purple cat tail that resembles her cat form one.
• Cats Are Magic: She's a cat with magical powers and the ability to transform into a Cat Girl who looks like a Hot Witch. Soul and Maka mistake her for an actual witch in her introduction, and since the witches are thought of as Always Chaotic Evil, they kill her and take her soul to turn Soul into a Death Scythe, which fails because no matter how witch-like she is, Blair is not an actual witch. Fortunately, as a cat, Blair has nine lives and nine souls, so being killed doesn't matter much to her. It doesn't help Soul or Maka that Blair's human form happens to have the iconic pointy hat and flowing robe, though Blair's robe is only flowy in the sleeves and the rest consists of a miniskirt and a tank-top.
• Cats Are Superior: Blair is proud of her looks and magic, and basically moves into Maka and Soul's apartment because she wants to. Like any real cat, Blair only involves herself when it suits her mood.
• Cats Have Nine Lives: Blair has her soul eaten by Soul and Maka. She survives and explains it by saying "Do you know how many souls cats have?". In a later chapter, she's stuck inside a massive pressure cooker in the Flying Duchman's Nidhogg Factory, supposed to be hot enough to melt down a soul. When she shows up on a subsequent page without a scratch after the process, the only explanation she offers is "Because I'm Blair".
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: It's easy to forget she was handing Maka and Soul's asses several times in the first episode without trying much. There is also the fact she can use her explosive magic power and kick the Mizune Sisters' asses in cat form. That goes without saying, do not underestimate this feline.
• Cute Kitten: In her cat form she looks and acts like a regular cat.
• Cute Witch: Straddles between this and Hot Witch. She is an attractive young woman either way.
• Defeat Means Friendship: Soul and Maka kill her, but once she turns out to have survived (and isn't a witch) she decides to move in.
• The Ditz: Her magic must be in-born because she's not exactly the brightest bulb in the sign.
• Easily Forgiven: Maka and Soul invade Blair's home and kill her basically because they wrongly believed she was a witch. After she revives, Blair holds no grudge and even moves in with them.
• Femme Fatalons: In human form, Blair's nails are still long, and she's a very dangerous fighter.
• Form-Fitting Wardrobe: She usually wears a form-fitting dress, accentuating her curves.
• Fun Personified: Is there any scene that Blair can't make better just by showing up?
• Heroic Seductress: She is a magical cat who likes to take the form of a voluptuous woman. While not really a hero — she's the main characters' roommate and enjoys teasing Soul, she does help out when the son of Death gets trapped in a book. When they enter the book, it temporarily flips everyone's gender and a succubus tries to distract the heroes. Cue Blair turning into Mr. Fanservice and blasting it.
• Holiday Motif: A young witch with the archetypal pointy hat, the ability to turn into a black cat, and pumpkin themed magic-giving her a very spot-on Halloween theme. She even makes her home in a giant pumpkin.
• Hot in Human Form: Her human form is acknowledged as attractive in-universe. See also Heroic Seductress above.
• Hot Witch: Straddles between this and Cute Witch. She is cute as a cat, but is meant to be attractive and seductive in her human form. She is even acknowledged as such in-universe.
• Genki Girl: When she's not being smug, Blair is almost always perky as can be, and is easily excited.
• Little Bit Beastly: Her humanoid form qualifies as such, having cat ears.
• Lovable Sex Maniac: She's very flirty and the actual last person to regain her usual form after the cast gets genderflipped for an amount of time proportional to the amount of lust they have. When the second to last asks if she's back to a girl yet she replies "Of course I'm still a tom" with a clear tone of "What are you, stupid?"
• Magical Incantation: Pu-Pumpkin, Pumpkin...
• Mars Needs Women: She's a cat who constantly hits on human men, though always in her human form.
• Marshmallow Hell: Puts Soul in this at least three times.
• Meaningful Name: Her name is a Shout-Out to The Blair Witch Project.
• Mr. Vice Guy: She can be a bit perverted and ditzy, but she is very friendly.
• Ms. Fanservice: Blair is flirty, busty, and loves to wear bikini tops and loves to give Soul a Marshmallow Hell. She even has a Cat Fight with the Mizune combined form, who is also a Ms. Fanservice.
• Naked First Impression: When they first meet, Soul falls on her while she's in the bathtub. The rest of Maka's friends end up meeting her this way as well.
• Naked on Arrival: She's introduced taking a bath.
• No Shirt, Long Jacket: When the Lust chapter of the Book of Eibon switches everyone's gender, Blair wears nothing but a hat, an open jacket, pants, and shoes.
• Our Werebeasts Are Different: Inverted. She is a magical cat that can take on a more human form. Her Cat Girl form looks mostly human except for her cat ears and tail.
• Pretty Boy: Downplayed. When the Lust chapter of the Book of Eibon switches everyone's gender, Blair becomes a tall, slim muscular man with fine features. She's so attractive that she manages to distract a succubus.
• Pretty Freeloader: She just sort of invades Soul and Maka's house after they eat one of her souls. One presumes they let her stay because she's usually in an unintrusive cat form, sometimes helps with her magic, and they owe Blair for trying to kill her on false pretenses.
• Proud Beauty: She's proud of her good looks and often flaunts her body.
• Sexy Cat Person: She is a magic cat who can shapeshift into a human. In human form, she's a woman who dresses very skimpily and flirts with any man she meets. In one Gender Bender story where she's temporarily changed into a man, she's just as sexy and sexually active.
• Shameless Fanservice Girl: Soon after Soul trashed her place and ate one of her souls (by mistake), she started living in his and Maka's place, and she's been a perpetual tease ever since: not afraid to crawl up to a snoozing Soul in the nude or to "accidentally" drop the towel she was wearing in front of the entire gang when they first come over. She also works nights at the cabaret frequented by Maka's father.
• Supernatural Gold Eyes: Fitting, as she's a cat with magic powers.
• The Tease: Blair loves to tease practically every guy she meets, and has no shame in being nude in front of any and all house guests. She prefers to tease Soul in particular, which unfortunately ignites Maka's wrath. It's unclear if she's this flirtatious with tomcats while in her normal form.
• Team Pet: After her debut she decided to move in as Maka and Soul's pet cat. She sometimes gets involved in the fighting, but not often.
• Unusual Ears: Her cat ears in humanoid form.
• Weaponized Headgear: Blair's hat, Zukun, can stretch out and grab and sling things outside of Blair's reach with surprising strength.

First Witch (Spoilers)

Inca Kasugatani

A member of the White Clad cult who became the first witch in existence.

Fire Force: White-Clad

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