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** This is played for laughs in one SAC episode, where a raid goes wrong and the Major's normal outfit gets trashed. At the debriefing, she's wearing a much more revealing outfit (basically workout clothes) and is visibly uncomfortable about the humiliation she just went through (thrown to a garbage heap by run-off-the-mill combat android), and Aramaki [[Lampshaded Trope|Lampshades]] it.

* [[Tranquil Fury]]

* [[Tomboyish Sidetails]]

* [[Unstoppable Rage]]: Episode 21 displays this very well.

 

=== The Laughing Man ===

 

Voiced by [[Koichi Yamadera]] in the Japanese and [[Steve Blum]] in the dub.

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* {{spoiler|[[Anti-Hero]]}} {{spoiler|His mission was to expose a great deal of political corruption especially in the medical industry. However, his methods included extensive hacking, kidnapping, threatening someone at gunpoint, cyber-data-theft, and inadvertently setting off a chain reaction of imitators who caused just as much, if not more problems than he did alone}}.

* [[The Adjectival Man]] His "alias". {{spoiler|Which is ironic since even he admits he never came up with nor goes by the name himself. It was just the media and his imitators that made the name popular.}}

* [[Badass Abnormal]] Depending on who you ask. He seems like an average guy overall, except that he has arguably the best hacking skills in the whole series.

* [[The Faceless]]: For most of the season, he's never seen directly, but either his face is obscured (whether by his disguise or one of his hacks) or he's ghost-hacking someone else's body.

* [[I Did What I Had to Do]]: He invokes this as his explanation to the Major.

* [[Memetic Mutation]]: An [[In-Universe]] example {{spoiler|Aoi, the original Laughing Man, only carried out the kidnapping of Ernest Serano prior to the start of the series. However, this spawned multiple imitators who carried out crimes under the name of "The Laughing Man".}}

** Even in real life some people, most notably Anonymous, use his logo to make a similar statement

** Another example. {{spoiler|Do you know how he originally found the information that lead to the kidnapping of Serano and all the crap that followed? No? Well ''neither does he.'' He just found a file that had the info on Serano one day, and despite '''years''' of extensively searching for the originator of that file, ''he never found it.''}}

* [[Rage Against the Heavens]]: During his [[Motive Rant]] in episode 23, he expresses his hatred of God.

* [[Shout-Out]]: [[Catcher in The Rye|"I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes."]]

* [[The Dog Was the Mastermind]]: {{spoiler|Watch out for that ''deaf, dumb mute'' kid in the wheelchair, Togusa.}}

* [[The Bad Guy Wins]] {{spoiler|Sort of. He wasn't a bad guy, though he DID commit some crimes, he is never actually punished for them. Beyond having spawned imitators who passed themselves off as him to commit more crimes. But in the end, his mission is accomplished, and even when the Major and Chief meet with him at the end of the 1st season, they actually try recruiting him instead of arresting him. He politely declines, and they just leave him be.}}

* [[Visual Pun]]: {{spoiler|While pretending to be a vegetable, Aoi carries around a left-handed catcher's mitt; slang for something which is thought to exist, but doesn't.}}

 

=== Hideo Kuze ===

 

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