Irene Rapona
Irene Rapona (アイリン・ラポーナ, Airin Rapōna) is the protagonist of Gorgeous Irene. She is a teenage girl with a pure personality. Despite her innocent nature, she is secretly a skilled assassin nicknamed Gorgeous Irene (ゴージャス アイリン, Gōjasu Airin), with various techniques using makeup.
Appearance
Irene is a fair young girl with light shoulder-length hair. She styles her hair differently, sometimes being in pig-tails or a braided ponytail. With her battle makeup, she can disguise herself to drastically change her appearance.
When battling as an assassin, her hair grows darker with her battle makeup and she wears a frilly dress.
Personality
Irene is depicted as being purehearted but is also extremely gullible. She trusts anybody, including strangers she just met who actually want to harm her. She is caring of those she considers her friends, and listens to their assassination requests.
Abilities
Irene inherits the deadly assassination abilities of her father, a man born in the underworld who became a killer.
Battle Makeup
When Irene puts on makeup, her spirit can change her entire body to match her disguise. She uses it to disguise herself either as an old lady or a young girl. Wearing battle makeup promotes her killer instinct. She is capable of stopping a chainsaw that weighs 200kg and has a 1000cc engine with only her bare hands.[1] Her makeup is also capable of removing hazardous materials or objects that have entered her body by changing the muscles in her face. According to Irene, makeup in ancient times warded off diseases and the effects of poisonous insects.[2]
Fake Nails
Irene can fire sharp fake nails out of each finger. As projectiles, they are as strong as knives and can easily scar or kill someone.
Death Style
- Death Dance: Irene strips off her dress and performs a seductive dance. She is extremely flexible and can easily dodge attacks in this state as well as learn the opponent's movements.
- Heart Magic: If the opponent either smells Irene's perfume or gets her makeup on them, she can make the opponent her slave by controlling their heart, body, mind, and soul. An enemy with a "hard" soul will also have a hard body, no longer being able to move. With this, Irene can stop their movements and they will listen to what she tells them to do.
- Execution Makeup: Irene gives the opponent a kiss on the cheek and then shows them a mirror. She uses her lipstick to draw a line on the mirror and the opponent will copy what the mirror image looks like. When fighting Roba, Irene draws a vertical line on Roba's mirror image. Roba copies what the mirror version of herself looks like and cuts herself in half with her chainsaw.
Intelligence
Irene is intelligent and cunning in terms of battling. She is analytical and prepares ahead of time, such as when she disguises as an old lady to work for Roba's gang and then replaces all their bullets with blanks. She keeps the real bullets hidden in a glove to make it look like she caught their bullets later on when they fire at her.
She prepares for assassins who are targeting her by planting mines in the floors of Michael's home. By doing so, she would also be protected from any sneak attacks while she was sleeping.
History
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Gallery
Weekly Shōnen Jump 1985 Autumn Special Cover
Shueisha Jump Remix version of Gorgeous Irene
Title Page
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Ultra Jump 2003 Issue #1
Ultra Jump 2004 Issue #4
Jolyne Cujoh and Irene
Irene attacks with her fake nails
The Gorgeous Irene poster seen in Eyes of Heaven
Figure (World of Hirohiko Araki)
References
- ↑ Gorgeous Irene Chapter 1
- ↑ Gorgeous Irene Chapter 2
