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Anti-Hero: Classical Antihero
Badass
- Badass Normal
Back From the Dead
Butt Monkey: Outside of missions.
Chris Ayres: SEVERELY Playing Against Type.
The Determinator
Hopeless Suitor: to Kishimoto
Jerkass--> Jerk with a Heart of Gold
The Lancer --> The Hero
Lovable Sex Maniac: Kurono. Though, the 'loveable' is disputed among fans.
Love Hurts
Messiah Creep
Official Couple: With Tae.
Our Hero Is Dead: Kurono gets killed in a fight with vampires, although it doesn't take that much (in story) time to get him revived.
Ordinary High School Student
Playing Against Type: Chris Ayres normally plays deep-voiced characters, so it's surprising he'd play a young teenager. Plus, where else have you seen Chris play a lead character?
Survival Mantra
Technician vs. Performer: The Performer to Kato and Izumi's Technician.
Took a Level In Badass
Took a Level In Kindness

Masaru Kato[]

Badass
Back From the Dead
Cartwright Curse
Chronic Hero Syndrome
The Combat Pragmatist
The Determinator
Good Is Not Dumb: He is about as morally upstanding as they come, but he'll still pre-emptively ambush a guy on the toilet in order to defend himself and head off further violence.
The Hero
The Messiah
The Obi-Wan: To Kurono
Ordinary High School Student
Promotion to Parent
Technical Pacifist
Technician vs. Performer: Technician to Kurono's Performer.

Action Girl
Anguished Declaration of Love
Bath Suicide - Kishimoto finds herself in the Gantz room after one. ...except she survived. This causes complications later.
The Chick
Cloning Blues
Gag Boobs
Hello, Nurse!
Heroic Sacrifice
Ms. Fanservice
Naked on Arrival
Sacrificial Lion
Stupid Sacrifice: An alien throws a highly corrosive acid at Katou. Instead of, say, pushing him out of the way, Kishimoto runs around him, blocks him with her body, and takes the blast.

"Remember how I thought you had a little bit of potential last time? I was wrong. You should be the first one to die!"

Anti-Hero: Type V.
Ax Crazy: After his classmates throw him out the window of their classroom (on the second story of the school), he comes back and slaughters the entire class except for one girl because she was nice to him.
Chris Patton
Back From the Dead
Dirty Coward
Eye Scream: Nishi, when he is killed by Suzuki Seiji
Ineffectual Loner
Jerkass
Lack of Empathy
Not So Different: He does that with Kei in the third episode.
Ordinary High School Student
Psycho for Hire
Serial Killer
The Social Darwinist
Token Evil Teammate
Tsundere: In the Gantz Play Station 2 game if you follow his route. He even says something along the lines of "Don't get the wrong idea; I didn't come here to help you" during one event. This is mind-meltingly weird for anyone who's familiar with the Jerkass Nishi from the manga and anime, to say the least.

Anti-Hero: Type V-> Type IV.
Ax Crazy
Badass
- Badass Long Hair
Blood Knight
Broken Ace
Dissonant Serenity
Ineffectual Loner
Inferiority Superiority Complex
Jerkass
Lack of Empathy
The Lancer
Nominal Hero
Omnicidal Maniac: He goes on a shooting rampage just so he can get killed and return to the game. This also bulks up the team's roster.
Ordinary High School Student
Pet The Panda: Cold-blooded killer Izumi will not hesitate to murder dozens of innocent Tokyo citizens, including Kurono's girlfriend, but he will save Hoi Hoi when escaping a bunch of dinosaurs.
Psycho for Hire
The Resenter: Towards Kurono.
Sacrificial Lion
Serial Killer
Sociopathic Hero: For any given definition of hero.
Suicide by Cop
Tall, Dark and Snarky
Technician vs. Performer: The Technician to Kurono's Performer.
Token Evil Teammate

Badass Normal
The Big Guy
Blood Knight
Gentle Giant: Towards Takeshi.
In-Series Nickname: "Muscle Rider"
Manly Tears: After finding out Takeshi's 'stepfather' beat him to death over a pudding cup, while his mother did nothing to stop it.
Papa Wolf: Kaze to Takeshi. When one of the Nura alien's attacks hurt Takeshi, Kaze went apeshit and attacked it, dealing more damage than Oka Hachirou did even with his Power Armor.
Promotion to Parent: for Takeshi.

An Arm and a Leg: Turns out to be fatal
Back From the Dead
Badass
Beware the Nice Ones: If you're a Giant alien, you are screwed if Sakurai catches you snacking on people.
From Nobody to Nightmare: Sakurai goes from twisting candle flames to popping giants' heads left and right.
Go Out with a Smile
Heroic Sacrifice: As the building collapses, he uses his remaining strength to divert the rubble from falling onto two alien children mourning their dead mother.
Killed Off for Real: The explosion removes all of his limbs. As if that wasn't enough, the building's roof collapses on him.
My God, What Have I Done?: Sakurai experiences this after realizing that his massacre of giant aliens involved taking the life of an infant and an elderly giant woman in Chapter 340.
Ordinary High School Student
Psychic Nosebleed
Sanity Slippage
The Smart Guy

Action Girl
Anguished Declaration of Love
Badass
Battle Couple: With the second Kurono.
The Chick: In Kurono's team.
Dying Offscreen Moment of Awesome: She finishes the monster that was about to kill Kei-2, but pays the ultimate price as a result.
Fan Girl: A Kurono fangirl.
Gag Boobs
Hello, Nurse!
Heroic Sacrifice: Heavily implied between chapters 356 and 357.
Hopeless Suitor: To Kurono.
Idol Singer
I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Reika uses her 100 points to resurrect Kurono's girlfriend...and then later subverts the trope by resurrecting another Kurono for herself.
Killed Off for Real: She saves Kei-2 at the cost of her own life between chapters 356 and 357.
The Lancer: In the Osaka arc.
Love Makes You Crazy: It seems like Reika is starting to head down this road after being rejected by Kurono. She resurrected a second copy of him after getting 100 points in Italy.
- She feels guilty about it imediately afterwards though and when the Alien Invasion begins she seems more eager than usual to sacrifice her life in the defence of other as some sort of atonement
Ms. Fanservice
Ordinary High School Student
Smurfette Principle
Stalker with a Crush: Crush on Kurono.
Took a Level In Badass
Unlucky Busty Girl
Yandere

Butt Monkey: In the Tokyo team.
The Chick
Dirty Coward
Hopeless Suitor
Mauve Shirt: Inaba among others. Interestingly, he was perfectly fine as long as he kept a Red Shirt status, and got killed off right after receiving his Character Development.
Redemption Equals Death: though more of an Usefulness Equals Death or Action Equals Death, as he'd stopped being a Jerkass a bit earlier.

Panda-ing To The Audience
Team Pet
What Happened To The Panda?: Hoi Hoi disappears after the Italy arc; presumably he was killed, but it was never shown.