Motoko Kusanagi

Motoko Kusanagi is the main protagonist from the Ghost in the Shell anime and manga.

Motoko is the head of the assault team of the Japanese task force titled Section 9, which patrols for and works against acts of cyber-terrorism. Her body is entirely synthetic, with the only thing that makes her human being her soul, or 'ghost'.

Appearance
Kusanagi is a somewhat tall, thin young woman with blue-purple hair and red-violet eyes (though in the original movie, these was changed to black and blue-grey respectively). When on the job, her two main outfits are her JGSDF khaki military uniform and form fitting combat suit.

Personality
For the most part Kusanagi is a no nonsense cop. Technically all field work such as spying, breaking and entering and the purchase of black market goods are illegal but all such activities are expected of Section 9 and covered up due to an understanding with the Prime Ministry. Also though Kusanagi may occasionally circumvent normal police procedure to spare those that might normally become victimised by the system by in large, she is dedicated to her job and safe guarding the public, and so is more than willing to make sacrifices if she deems it necessary.

A defining trait of Kusanagi's is her unrelenting fearlessness. It is shown very frequently that she is overconfident to the point of being suicidally brave and feels no fear in situations where ever her hardened comrades are inclined to back down. There are many occasions in the franchise where Batou will tell her not to "do anything stupid" and she proceeds to do it anyway. Part of this is some definitely justified self-confidence, given she can demonstrably outperform almost any member of her highly skilled team in any given area, and is more resourceful than all of them combined, She is also very stoic and seems to be fazed by almost nothing; Batou even notes this once, asking if there's anything she's afraid of. Ultimately, however, Kusanagi is still very much human and can be taken by surprise and overwhelmed.

Despite her seemingly cold attitude, Kusanagi is far from heartless. She considers her fellow officers not just partners but friends and is good friends with Batou and Chief Aramaki in particular. She despises anyone who harms children, since she was fatally wounded as a child herself and was only saved by her cybernetic upgrades.

Abilities
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, Technological Manipulation), can use other bodies and objects as duplicates, Thermo-Optical Camouflage (which allows her to become invisible and Stealth Mastery), Strategic, tactical, detective and criminal genius, major Resistance to Hacking, Summoning, Vehicular Mastery, Information Analysis, Immortality (Type 1, 2 & 6), Self-Destruction | Information Manipulation.

Attack Potency: Wall level, higher with self-destruct and think tanks (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

Lifting Strength: Class 10 (Held back a moving helicopter). Varies via hacking

Striking Strength: Wall Class (Comparable to Hideo Kuze who busted through walls by jumping through them and is capable of leaping hundreds of meters). Varies via hacking

Durability: Wall level (Her cybernetic body is complete with a titanium skeleton and is essentially immune to most small arms fire), higher with think tanks. Varies via hacking | Unknown

Stamina: Superhuman+ (Her cybernetic body means she is unlikely to ever tire in a fight) | Limitless

Range: Melee range, several hundred meters with guns, planetary or more if her opponent is connected to the net in some way

Standard Equipment: Seburo M5 pistol, C26 submachine gun, Seburo C-26A and C-30 assault rifle (which includes a grenade launcher), Heckler & Koch VP70, Seburo Sniper Rifle (used in ep. 21), MAC-11, Thermo-Optical Camouflage, Tachikoma (which is equipped with GE M134 Minigun and a standard 50mm grenade launcher), Uchikoma, her various duplicates

Intelligence: 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 (doing so will certainly be no easy task though)

Trivia

 * Shares Atsuko Tanaka voice with Trish from Devil May Cry and Bayonetta from Bayonetta.
 * Outfits from various Ghost in The Shell series are used in the live action movie.