| “ | Just a whisper, I hear it in my ghost. | „ |
| ~ Motoko Kusanagi |
Summary
Motoko Kusanagi (草薙 素子, Kusanagi Motoko) is the main character in Masamune Shirow's Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex anime series. She is an advanced cyborg with highly advanced capabilities, recognized as a true professional in her line of duty. Often referred only as "The Major" (少佐), Motoko is one of the best police agents out there, and her squad, known as Section 9, is highly regarded as well. In the Stand Alone Complex continuity, Motoko Kusanagi is a confident, calculating, and somewhat aloof individual. Despite that, she is far from emotionless; she knows how to be friendly and her peers find her quite approachable, while her rage is something to behold. Yet deeper under the shell, she guards the story of her cyberization, or full-body prosthesis procedure, which damaged her memories from her childhood.
Over the course of the series, she and her team take on particular cases known as "Stand Alone Complexes": processes or events which harbor no point of origin, leading multiple independent people towards one mutual goal. Beneath the veneer of organized crime, she uncovers plots such as the Laughing Man, the Individual Eleven, the Solid State Society, and the post-human phenomenon.
Powers and Stats
Tier: 9-B, higher with self-destruct, guns and think tanks. Varies via hacking | Unknown
Key: On foot/with think tanks | Uploaded to the net
Name: Motoko Kusanagi, The Major, Major "Macho", Chroma (pseudonym)
Origin: Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
Gender: Female
Age: Prosthetic body appears 24, likely much older chronologically
Classification: Full-prosthetic humanoid, JGSDF officer (formerly), Section 9 field commander, Mercenary
Powers and Abilities:
Superhuman Strength, Speed, Durability, Endurance, Agility, Full Cyborgization, Skilled in Martial Arts and the Use of Firearms, Enhanced Senses, Cyber Mind, Expert Hacker (her expertise in this area allows her to Mimic such powers as Telepathy, Possession, Illusion Creation, Obtain Memories and Various Offensive Mind Control and mental powers, scrambling of the senses, Perception Manipulation, Technology Manipulation), Digital Interaction, Can use other bodies and objects as Duplicates, Thermo-Optical Camouflage (which allows her to become Invisible, Mask body Heat Emissions and Have Mastery of Stealth), Strategic, Tactical, Detective and Criminal Genius, Self-Sustenance (Types 1 & 2), Summoning, Vehicular Mastery, Information Analysis, Immortality (Types 1, 2 & 6), Smoke and Explosives, Self-Destruction, major Resistance to Hacking, Pain and Alcohol Immunity
All From Previous Via Technology Manipulation, Data Manipulation, Information Manipulation and Hacking, Self-Sustenance (Type 1, 2, & 3), Information Manipulation, Can Possess/Download into a Robotic Body
Attack Potency: Wall level, higher with self-destruct, guns and think tanks (Fired a high powered sniper rifle using only one arm,[1] can summon and command a fleet of Tachikomas or Uchikomas). Varies via hacking (Can gain control of people with cyberbrains and access to various machines) | Unknown
Speed: Subsonic+ (Can jump across very long distances, can easily climb up or jump down buildings unharmed as well as scale walls), Hypersonic reactions (Shot down bullets in mid flight with her own gun in mid combat)
Lifting Strength: Class 10 (Held back a moving helicopter, the helicopter had easily been dragging the Tachikoma, a miniature tank). Varies via hacking | Unknown
Striking Strength: Wall level (Comparable to Hideo Kuze who busted through walls by jumping through them and is capable of leaping hundreds of meters). Varies via hacking | Unknown
Durability: At least Wall level (Her cybernetic body is complete with a titanium skeleton and is essentially immune to most small arms fire, got slammed into the ground by a mech and then stomped on hard enough to have cratered the ground beneath her[1]), higher with think tanks. Varies via hacking | Unknown
Stamina: Superhuman (Her cybernetic body means she is unlikely to ever tire in a fight) | Infinite
Range: Standard Melee Range, Hundreds of Meters with guns, Planetary or more if her opponent is connected to the net in some way
Major's hidden weapons cache
- Seburo M5 pistol
- C26 submachine gun
- Seburo C-26A
- C-30 assault rifle (which includes a grenade launcher)
- Heckler & Koch VP70
- Walther WA 2000
- Grenades
- Knives
- Light urban combat armor
- Thermo-Optical Camouflage
- Visor
- Her various duplicates
- Optional Equipment:
- Seburo Sniper Rifle
- British Bullpup Rifle
- MAC-11[2]
- Can vary via hacking
- Can Summon/Pilot:
- Lancia Stratos HF
Intelligence: Unknown likely Gifted Motoko is extremely intelligent and experienced in the field both as a soldier and officer. In Solid State Society she was considered irreplaceable when she left her unit, Section 9. She can also hack into the minds of others to gather intelligence from them.
Weaknesses: Her body can be hacked
- Crushed a cyborg's arm with a flip kick.
- Jumped several meters into the air and kicked a cyborg hard enough to cave in its abdomen.
- Took out two robots with one clean blow each.
- Brawled with another cyborg and avoided every blow before taking him out with a single kick to the jaw.
- Restrained another Cyborg and broke her arm by wrenching it.
- Fired a high powered sniper rifle using only one arm.
- This feat took place immediately after the feats in the durability section in which her arm was blown off and she was stomped on by a mech.
- The aforementioned rifle has been used against tanks and can easily shred through tank armour.
- Flicked a coin with enough precision and strength to destroy a security camera.
- Stopped a very large military helicopter from flying off using a rope, the helicopter had easily been dragging the Tachikoma, a miniature tank.
- A Section 9 Trainee stated she could easily destroy aluminum grating.
- Indented a metal door and knocked out a cyborg by pulling on it's nose.
Notable Attacks/Techniques:
- Type 2902 Thermo-Optical Camouflage: An active camouflage system that renders Motoko nearly invisible in the visible spectrum of light (IE: to the naked eye).
- Attack Barrier: Essentially a computer virus that those with a Cyberbrain can use against others with Cyberbrains, killing them.
- Back Hack: Can hack into cybernetic parts of others including the senses, being able to see what they see, for example. She can also use this to obtain the memories of others as well as sense other phenomena on the net. Motoko can also use this technique to actively control the bodies of others, such as forcing an enemy to shoot his own comrades.
This technique can also be utilized to create illusions in the target's senses (as demonstrated by Batou).
- Self-Destruct: Motoko's body is filled with explosives that can detonate if she so wishes.
Note: This profile covers the SAC version of Kusanagi.
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Discussions
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