Samurai Champloo/Characters

Voiced by: Kazuya Nakai (JP), Steve Blum (EN)
Mugen's a murderous crazy break dancing Pirate. While not the main character, Mugen is probably the face of the show, as he was voiced in the dub by Steve "Spike Spiegel" Blum. Despite Mugen picking fights with everybody, and generally being a total dick, he sticks with Fuu on her quest.

"Mugen: "I don't believe in anyone, but me, and what I can do"."
 * Afro Asskicker
 * Anti-Hero: Type V->.
 * Axe Crazy: Mugen's response to someone telling him to shut up? Cut off their arm of course.
 * Badass: Mugen pulled off a Ki blast by simply mimicking the movements of his opponent (who perhaps took a few months or more of training to accomplish just that feat), and regularly kicks the crap out of armed soldiers with his feet.
 * He's a self-taught swordsman who's been officially stated to have created his own style of fighting (based on break-dancing, dubbed "champuru kendo". Translation: "champloo kendo", automatically certifying the show's premise and half the title) by taking bits and pieces from all forms of martial arts and making up the rest as he fights his opponents. And for not being properly trained, he's sure as hell one of the most powerful. The dude seems to have a natural talent.
 * Balloon Belly: Tends to happen when he seriously overeats.
 * Berserk Button: Not that it takes much to piss Mugen off, but he really can't stand when Japanese people mistreat foreigners like the Dutchman (and the Russian from the manga). Obviously, it hits a little close to home for him.
 * Blood Knight: In one episode, he tries to start a fight with Fuu's pet squirrel.
 * In fact, the only time he ever turns away from a fight is when . And that said, he knew he was running towards another fight anyway.
 * Book Dumb: Interestingly enough, he takes learning how to write rather enthusiastically.
 * But for Me It Was Tuesday: Cut off one guy's arm and didn't care enough to remember. When his victim tracked him down with a Giant Mook and an elaborate murder plot and promised to make him pay for his crimes, all he got in return was a blank look.
 * Character Development: He slowly comes to care about someone other than himself, most notably Fuu.
 * Combat Pragmatist: Mugen doesn't know the meaning of fair play.
 * Cruel Mercy: To Kohza.
 * Dance Battler: Break dancing to be specific, he even has steel plates on the soles of his sandals.
 * Determinator: The man through sheer determination!
 * Evil Counterpart: Mukuro.
 * Foe Yay/Ho Yay: With Jin.
 * Freudian Trio: Firmly in the Id.
 * Jerkass
 * Hidden Heart of Gold: A very small heart, but it is still there. Mugen may threaten murder against anyone who implies this.
 * Improbable Age: Although no one's quite sure of his age, Mugen is generally thought to be no older than twenty, which is pretty young for a man of his abilities and experiences.
 * I Work Alone/Informed Loner:

"Mugen: "I don't work for no one, but me"."

"Mugen: "Now I lived my whole life without takin' help from nobody, and I'd be damned if I let you guys help me into my grave"."


 * Part of his character development is the realization that he's not alone after all.
 * Kavorka Man / Handsome Lech: He's both, most women find him a socially backwards ape, but some women find his skirt chasing endearing.
 * Informed Flaw: His ugliness.
 * Made of Iron: He's been been in close proximity to massive explosions, had his belly slashed open, was shot in the back with a musket ball, tortured, mauled by a psycho with a scythe, and And each time he recovered completely within a short space of time with no apparent lasting effects.
 * The McCoy
 * Never Learned to Read
 * Noble Demon
 * No Guy Wants an Amazon: Inverted, Mugen prefers strong women to the more quiet ones that he meets.
 * No Social Skills
 * Perma-Stubble
 * Perpetual Frowner
 * Rebellious Spirit
 * Red Oni, Blue Oni: With Jin. They even have the clothing choices to match.
 * The Rival: To Jin.
 * Satisfied Street Rat
 * Sociopathic Hero
 * Sword Drag: Does this in Hellhounds for Hire when charging at Jin. Totally for the Rule of Cool, by the way.
 * Tall, Dark and Snarky
 * Technician vs. Performer: The performer to Jin's technician.
 * Token Evil Teammate
 * The Unfettered: He gives his all to every single thing he does.

Rodriguez
Mugen's prize beetle. Rodriguez is her name.


 * Badass: She's as badass as a beetle can get.
 * Blood Knight: she's a beetle.
 * Cool Pet
 * Sliding Scale of Anthropomorphism: she's a beetle.
 * Hot Amazon: If she were human. Which she isn't.
 * Strong Beetles: They took this trope, tied it onto a rock, and made Rodriguez drag it almost beyond its logical extreme, although this is Truth in Television if somewhat exaggerated.
 * Training From Hell: She spends much of the episode dragging a rock around.
 * What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?: intense, detailed fight choreography that includes sparks igniting each time the beetles collide with each other.

Kohza

 * Anti-Villain
 * Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
 * Chronic Backstabbing Disorder
 * Manipulative Bitch:
 * Oh Crap
 * Unlucky Childhood Friend
 * Manipulative Bitch:
 * Oh Crap
 * Unlucky Childhood Friend
 * Unlucky Childhood Friend
 * Unlucky Childhood Friend

Mukuro

 * Chronic Backstabbing Disorder
 * Et Tu, Brute?
 * Evil Counterpart: to Mugen
 * Pragmatic Villainy
 * The Unfought: To Mugen anyway..

Yatsuha

 * Action Girl
 * All Amazons Want Hercules
 * Boisterous Bruiser
 * Hot Amazon
 * Motivational Lie: Convinces Mugen to help her by using one.
 * Ninja

Denkibou

 * Ax Crazy
 * Gonk
 * Psychopathic Manchild
 * Wolverine Claws

Voiced by: Takehito Koyasu (JP)

 * Ax Crazy
 * Hoist by His Own Petard
 * Sinister Scythe

Toube

 * Dumb Struck
 * Sympathetic POV
 * Taking You with Me

Pantu/Grim Reapers/Ancestor spirits

 * Mirror World
 * Phantom Zone
 * Spirit World

Voiced by: Ginpei Sato (JP) Kirk Thornton (EN)
Jin is everything Mugen isn't: Polite, honorable, and introspective. A ronin who barely speaks, Jin helps Fuu on her quest out of a sense of obligation, while running away from his own past troubles.


 * Anti-Hero: Type III
 * Badass Normal: Doesn't use any Ki, even Mugen pulled off that weird spirit blast thing.
 * Badass Long Hair
 * Bishonen: Is able to successfully dress up as a woman.
 * And he's hot as a woman.
 * Blood Knight: Although he doesn't go out of his way to start trouble, Jin never backs down from a fight.
 * Subverted in his fight with Yukimaru, which is a major characterization point. Jin urges Yukimaru to withdraw, so that he will not have to put an end to the fight.
 * Born in the Wrong Century: According to Jin, there isn't any worthy lord to serve nowadays. The clan symbol on his kimono indicates he's descended from the Takedas or their close retainers. The Takeda clan was one of the Tokugawa clan's 2 main rivals prior to their securing the shogunate, but was exterminated in the power struggle. So Jin is literally a relic of a bygone family and era.
 * Character Development: Just like Mugen, Jin gains human connections during the series, so he finally has something he wants to protect.
 * Chivalrous Pervert: Jin is just as interested in women as Mugen is, he's just a little more quiet about it.
 * The Comically Serious: After being...entertained by at least two prostitutes, he gets up and takes out an attacking group of five men in two slices. Then doubles over. "My back!"
 * "I have heartburn..."
 * Dangerous Forbidden Technique:
 * Deadpan Snarker
 * Defrosting Ice King
 * Determinator/Made of Iron: Gets a sword through his stomach and keeps going. Able to fight at peak level after being tortured for a whole day. Also falls off bridges a lot.
 * The Fettered
 * Foe Yay/Ho Yay: With Mugen.
 * Freudian Trio: Super Ego, he rarely shows emotion and is dispassionate about everything.
 * Good Is Not Nice: Card-Carrying Samurai., will not serve the currently corrupt Government in return for wealth and respect, and refuses to use force if he doesn't have to. However, he is not exactly friendly, starts off with a small superiority complex, has sex with prostitutes even after he rescues a severely traumatized one, and in the first episode he saves a peasant from the the corrupt lord that was going to have the peasant beaten or killed for not giving the lord a sufficient bribe, but he takes the peasant's cash too. Of course, the peasant is probably happy to not be on the wrong end of katana. Then again, saving said peasant proved useful as he later gives Fuu the pipe needed to start the fireworks that would save Mugen and Jin from their executions.
 * Honor Before Reason: See The Last DJ below.
 * Knight Errant: Prior to the series. He wandered around Japan searching for a purpose until Fuu makes him her bodyguard.
 * Knight in Sour Armor: He knows damn well that it doesn't pay to be good or honorable in the world he's been honed in. But he just can't help himself from doing the right thing.
 * The Lancer: Jin is much less likely to instigate an episode's events than Mugen and Fuu are, and rarely involves them in his conflicts.
 * The Last DJ: He could be a famous and wealthy warrior, but the lords aren't good enough for him.
 * Lethal Chef: In "Gamblers and Gallantry", Jin mans a grilled eel stand alongside a woman he ran into earlier in the episode. After the dinner rush, he agrees to cook her an eel. Her reaction? "...Wow. Your cooking is really quite amazing. I'm pretty sure this the worst thing I've ever eaten! But I suppose that's a talent in and of itself..."
 * Long-Haired Pretty Boy
 * Megane
 * Mistaken for Gay: Both Mugen and some random assassin think he walks down the left side of the street. There are some suggestions that Jin's old school friend Yukimaru was more like an old flame. On the other hand he does have sex with several women and falls in love with one of them.
 * Mugen claims to be relieved when Jin hugs their money to go to a prostitute. Mugen had allegedly begun to suspect that Jin was gay.
 * Mr. Fanservice: Very much so, especially when you factor in his detached personality and Shirtless Scenes.
 * Not So Different: With Mugen, both highly trained fighters who don't really enjoy themselves (except in combat) and put a lot of emphasis on martial prowess. Neither experienced love in their lives until they met up with each other (and Fuu). Yes, that was intentionally hoyaytastic.
 * Perpetual Frowner
 * Purely Aesthetic Glasses
 * The Quiet One
 * Raven Hair, Ivory Skin
 * Red Oni, Blue Oni: Blue.
 * Ronin
 * Sacrificed Basic Skill for Awesome Training: He's a fearsome, near-unbeatable kenjutsu prodigy who can't cook, catch fish, hold a conversation (especially with women), or drink more than two shots of sake without falling asleep.
 * Shirtless Scene: With torture scenes, hot springs and good old fashioned sword fights, he gets a couple.
 * Slipknot Ponytail
 * The Spock
 * Stoic Spectacles: He's quite fond of them too.
 * The Stoic
 * Stoic Woobie
 * Tall, Dark and Handsome AND Snarky
 * Technician vs. Performer: The technician to Mugen's performer.
 * Technician vs. Performer: The technician to Mugen's performer.

Mariya Enshirou

 * Flash Back
 * Parental Substitute: He was this to Jin.
 * Red Baron: Slayer of a Thousand Men.
 * Parental Substitute: He was this to Jin.
 * Red Baron: Slayer of a Thousand Men.
 * Red Baron: Slayer of a Thousand Men.

Ogura Bunta

 * Avenging the Villain
 * Badass Normal
 * Obfuscating Stupidity
 * Not So Harmless
 * Red Herring Shirt

Yukimaru

 * Flashback Echo
 * Foe Yay/Ho Yay

Shino

 * Beauty Equals Goodness
 * Hooker with a Heart of Gold
 * Love Redeems
 * Platonic Prostitution
 * Yamato Nadeshiko

Niwa Juunosuke

 * Driven to Suicide
 * Take a Third Option

Niwa Tatsunoshin and Niwa Kazunosuke

 * Cain and Abel: played for comedy.

Kariya Kagetoki

 * Big Bad
 * Blood Knight
 * Born in the Wrong Century
 * Charles Atlas Superpower
 * Elemental Powers
 * Flash Step
 * Intangible Man
 * Ki Attacks
 * Cultured Badass
 * Obfuscating Stupidity/Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass
 * Evil Counterpart: To Jin.
 * Manipulative Bastard
 * Man Behind the Man:
 * Red Baron: the fabled "Hand of God". He surpasses his reputation. One can only wonder what he must have been like in his prime.
 * Sphere of Power

Voiced by: Ayako Kawasumi (JP) Kari Wahlgren (EN)
The driving force behind the story. Fuu is a Nice Girl looking for a samurai who smells of sunflowers, who is. She has some connections with the underground Christian movement, a movement she doesn't know about.

"Mugen: You're some kind of low-grade monster."
 * A-Cup Angst
 * Berserk Button: While not driving her into a murderous rage, she gets pissed whenever Mugen calls her ugly.
 * Big Eater: Interestingly, she fits both the "surprisingly skinny" and "fat" versions of the trope, as she's normally pretty lanky, but will temporarily swell up and get a Balloon Belly after some particularly serious eating.

"Excuse me, miss, have you seen a really fat girl around your age?"
 * She is a teenager, a time when metabolisms are at their highest.
 * Used to hilarious extremes in one episode, when after eating a huge meal, after which she looks like she's put on 200 kg, she is seen by a set of guards with Jin and Mugen when they've just gotten themselves into trouble (again). The guards run into her again after she's slimmed down and ask her:


 * Bodyguard Crush: Possibly on Jin, Mugen, or both. While most interpret her as being closest to Mugen, she's more openly affectionate with Jin.
 * The Chick
 * Curtains Match the Window
 * Distressed Damsel: A fairly justified version, since while Mugen and Jin have pasts which justify their combat prowess, Fuu is just a normal teenager.
 * Freudian Trio: The Ego - see below.
 * Gag Boobs: In the first episode, she hides some bombs in her dress and runs through town with them bouncing to and fro.
 * Gainaxing: See above.
 * Green-Eyed Monster: She's angry whenever Jin or Mugen visits another woman.
 * Interesting to note though that whenever Jin gets interested in another woman she gets seriously concerned and worried about him, while when Mugen gets interested in another woman she just gets furiously jealous.
 * The Heart: She keeps Mugen and Jin from killing each other, and takes it hard whenever they try to leave.
 * Heavy Voice: Has one on the occasions that she gorges herself to obesity.
 * The Kirk
 * Memento MacGuffin: The skull charm on her knife's sheath..
 * The Messiah: Not a mean bone in her body, and due to her actions she saved both main's lives and an innumerable number of side characters.
 * Neutral Female: Not quite. She's physically weak and small, and probably should stay out of fights, but she intercedes on more then one occasion. Personality-wise, she is a very strong, determined person and is by no means completely helpless when she's stuck in a tight spot. Hellhounds for Hire comes to mind.
 * Plucky Girl: She runs off with two guys she's never met, one of dubious morality, saves their asses from the government, to find some guy whose face she doesn't remember. Does she give up? No. Does she give in? Hell no! Face it, Fuu is stronger willed then either Mugen or Jin. Or just plain insane.
 * For a specific example, in one episode a thug tries to threaten her with a knife and tells her if she screams, he'll kill her. She goes ahead and screams before he has time to actually put the knife in a threatening position.
 * Spell My Name with an "S": A single example--the Impression soundtrack CD has a song called "Who's Theme".
 * Ted Baxter: She thinks the men are lining up to ravish her. She's usually wrong.
 * Ted Baxter: She thinks the men are lining up to ravish her. She's usually wrong.

Momo
Fuu's pet flying squirrel.


 * Big Damn Heroes
 * Everythings Nuttier With Squirrels
 * Non-Human Sidekick

Fuu's mother.


 * Posthumous Character

The Sunflower Samurai -

 * The Reveal:
 * Samurai: Obviously.
 * The Reveal:
 * Samurai: Obviously.

Hotaru

 * Lady in Red: Red lipstick, yes.
 * Punch Clock Villain
 * The Vamp: Shows traits of this

Osuzu

 * Beauty Equals Goodness
 * Shrinking Violet
 * Yamato Nadeshiko

Fortune Teller

 * Cryptic Conversation: "Watch out for pots."
 * Gonk

Hishikawa Moronobu
Yes, he counts.


 * Bishonen
 * Dude Looks Like a Lady
 * Even the Guys Want Him

Sawa

 * Abhorrent Admirer: Played for laughs, perhaps naturally.
 * BBW

"Yamato Nadeshiko"

 * Attractive Bent Gender
 * Bishonen
 * Dude Looks Like a Lady
 * Dropped a Bridget On Him

Osen

 * Big Breasts, Big Deal: Type 3 to type 4.
 * Bottle Fairy
 * Expy: Of Faye Valentine.
 * Gag Boobs
 * Ms. Fanservice
 * Fetish Fuel

Takegawa and Suyama

 * Gonk

Yuri

 * Beauty Equals Goodness: Played absolutely straight.

Sara

 * Anti-Villain
 * Beauty Equals Goodness: Played with.
 * Blind Weaponmaster: If she used a sword, she'd deserve the title Master Swordsman. Instead she's a Master Yari-user?
 * Bullying a Dragon: Subverted in the beginning (where those guys that hassle her have no idea that they're a mood change away from being bloody puddles on the floor), and played straight in the end where Mugen provokes her because she is stronger than he is.
 * Career Killer: Professional Killer
 * Charles Atlas Superpower: Like Kariya,, her insane skills are derived from training in the martial arts themselves, not an incidental superpower. Her Hyper Awareness is derived from her blindness.
 * Disability Superpower
 * Blind Seer
 * Hyper Awareness: It cracks wooden bridges.
 * Living Lie Detector
 * Handicapped Badass: It's interesting to note that her skills and competence do not originate from her disability. Her enhanced senses - derived from her blindness - simply compensate for her loss of sight (and enhance her awareness).
 * I Did What I Had to Do
 * Lady of War: She is a fighter on the level of 'Hand of God' Kariya, and is actually more skilled - and probably more experienced - than both Mugen and Jin. She is also quite a bit older than them and seems to have been doing her shtick for a very long time.
 * Let's Get Dangerous
 * Mama Bear
 * Punch Clock Villain
 * The Stoic: Taken to the extreme and lampshaded several times.
 * Not So Stoic:
 * Too Powerful to Live: She's the second most skilled opponent in the entire show (second only to Kariya Kagetoki). The only reason why Mugen and Jin are alive by the end of her arc is that . Suffice to say Mugen is significantly pissed off.
 * Case in point: the only way Jin can get out of their fight alive is to.
 * Unwitting Pawn: . Doubles as a Tear Jerker.
 * Unwitting Pawn: . Doubles as a Tear Jerker.

Oniwakamaru

 * Berserk Button
 * Gonk
 * The Power of Friendship
 * Rule of Drama
 * Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds

Ichiemon Ochiburi

 * The Narrator

Voiced by: Unsho Ishizuka (JP), Michael McConnohie (EN)

 * Catchphrase: "For Pete's sake!"
 * Cloudcuckoolander
 * Clueless Detective
 * Fan Disservice: A heavyset middle-aged man in just a loincloth... bursting out of a barrel.
 * Large Ham
 * The Narrator
 * Breaking the Fourth Wall
 * No Fourth Wall
 * Red Baron: Manzo the Saw, if only to him...
 * Secret Police: He's a member

Inuyama

 * Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass
 * The So-Called Coward: A not-so-positive potrayal of such.
 * Not So Harmless
 * Punch Clock Villain

Ishimatsu

 * Ambiguously Brown
 * Anti-Villain
 * Redemption Equals Death

Kawara Heitaro

 * The Stoic
 * Doomed Moral Victor
 * Failure Is the Only Option

Kawara Sosuke

 * Bratty Half-Pint
 * Kid Samurai: Deconstructed. He tries to act like one, but gets beaten, berated and chewed out for his stupidity.

Isaac Kitching/Jouji

 * As Long as It Sounds Foreign: No, that is not a Dutch name. Not that most Japanese (or Americans, for that matter) would realize it.
 * Big Eater
 * Gentle Giant
 * Gratuitous Japanese
 * Otaku
 * Straight Gay
 * Ho Yay: Turns it into a personal philosophy.

Voiced by: Johnny Yong Bosch (EN)

 * Birds of a Feather: With Fuu.
 * Curtains Match the Window
 * Disappeared Dad
 * Failure Is the Only Option
 * Lima Syndrome: Towards Fuu. After holding her hostage, he lets her escape after they sort of bond over their sickly mothers. They even make a promise to not forget about each other.
 * Ship Tease: With Fuu.

Saganshougen Nagamitsu

 * Ephebophile: Has a crush on Fuu
 * Dirty Coward or Lovable Coward, YMMV
 * Miles Gloriosus
 * Plucky Comic Relief
 * Ugly Guy, Hot Wife

Tajima Munetada

 * Sacrificial Lamb / Red Shirt: He gets taken out very quickly.
 * Body Horror: ...and very painfully.
 * Single-Stroke Battle

Ukon/Shoryuu
Born into the royal bloodline of the samurai, Ukon studied kenjutsu under the tutelage of Zuikou before he was sent on a voyage to the mainland. However, the journey was interrupted by violent seastorms and the boat he was traveling on was wrecked by the waves. Even so, Ukon survived the journey and he was found lying unconscious on the mainland by a group of shaolin monks, from whom he learnt of a mysterious fighting technique called 'Hakkei'. The tenth episode is a character study of this martial arts student-turned-renegade as he travels to challenge and defeat the fighters he encounters across the country in the hopes of achieving national recognition for what he deems to be superior fighting skills.


 * A Pupil of Mine Until He Turned to Evil: Is this in relation to his former teacher Zuikou.
 * Arrogant Kung Fu Guy: Oh yes. It's also interesting to note that he takes pride in a martial artform that was taught to him by shaolin monks.
 * With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: It's loosely hinted that despite having trained rigorously at using Hakkei and knowing how to use it efficiently as a result, Ukon might not fully understand the power of his technique. When dojos kick him out because of his inability to understand or realise this fact, he became greatly insulted as he thought they simply did it to shun him.
 * Although in the conversation he holds with Mugen for the first time over the bridge, he shows that he appears to be aware of what he is turning into.
 * Ax Crazy
 * Blood Knight: A very bloodthirsty one as well.
 * Charles Atlas Superpower
 * Dangerous Forbidden Technique: The aforementioned Hakkei. He probably didn't know it was one of these.
 * Ki Attacks
 * Sword Beam
 * Hey, It's That Voice!: Voiced in the Japanese version by Aizen Sousuke.
 * It's All About Me: This comes in motherfucking spades.
 * Dude, Where's My Respect?: ...but only initially. By the time he gets to fight Mugen, he may or may not have confessed that he doesn't really care about this any longer.
 * That Man Is Dead: He completes his transformation into 'Shoryuu' by announcing this trope in a private conversation he has with his former instructor.
 * Serial Killer: 'He made the mountains his home, and he became a demon.'
 * Villainous Breakdown: Aside from the motivation that gives him his reputation as tsugiri, the reaction he has to Mugen duplicating his Ki blast with only a month of training (which betrays the possibility that it may have taken him much longer to practice with his own ki attacks) might be a flicker of this.

Zuikou
Formerly a martial arts teacher, with Ukon having been one of his most talented followers. Becomes a priest to compensate for being unable to stop his student from turning rogue. Offers Fuu and company food and shelter in return for help with maintaining the temple and other domestic chores. Appears to be a canny and an highly intuitive individual.


 * The Atoner
 * Mister Exposition: the source of Ukon's backstory.
 * Bald of Awesome: It's big and shiny. Mugen compliments him greatly for it and gets rewarded accordingly.
 * Charles Atlas Superpower: with subtle implications, and the justifications thereof.
 * Coconut Superpowers: he is highly intuitive, and has great reflexes.
 * It's not completely absurd to suggest that he may also have done some research into the art of Hakkei, and the explanation he gives to Mugen of the offensive uses of this technique gives fruition to that possibility.

Momoi Seishirou
Nicknamed 'the lightning dynamo', Momoi is a poser who lives by a false reputation as an accomplished dojo instructor and surrounds himself with a group of flunkies. Mugen goes after him in order to ask about the tsugiri, but is mistaken for the tsugiri himself. In the ensuing scuffle, the flunkies are quickly disposed of and in as much time, dynamo exposes himself for the coward that he is.


 * Dirty Coward
 * Miles Gloriosus

Shiren

 * The Mole

Otawa Hankichi

 * Bishonen
 * Ninja

Momochi Ginsa

 * Diabolical Mastermind

Okuru

 * Anti-Villain
 * The Archer
 * Automatic Crossbows
 * Charles Atlas Superpower
 * In a Single Bound
 * Dull Eyes of Unhappiness/Thousand-Yard Stare: In his flashback we see his eyes change from normal to this. Mugen compares them to the eyes of someone who has just died.
 * Fall Guy: For the death of his clan.
 * Friend to All Living Things
 * Heartbroken Badass
 * Heroic BSOD: When his wife died.
 * Last of His Kind
 * No One Could Survive That: But Mugen thinks that he does anyway.

Francisco Xavier III

 * Badass Spaniard
 * Mister Danger

Johnny
A crazy old hermit who fishes Jin out of the river after his fight with Sara. When Jin comes to, Johnny teaches him how to fish, and it is awesome.


 * Cloudcuckoolander: He calls himself Johnny.
 * Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Despite the above trope, the first time Jin asks his name he replies " ." Whether he's serious or not is up for debate given the show's screwy timeline.
 * Eccentric Mentor: Shows traits of this.
 * Chekhov's Skill: The fishing lesson.

Kagemaru

 * Instant Awesome, Just Add Ninja
 * Sacrificial Lion
 * Sanity Slippage: Doubled with some Angrish. In sign language.

Alexander Joy Cartwright

 * Mighty Whitey
 * Precision F-Strike

Abner Doubleday

 * Gratuitous Japanese