List of Black Butler characters

Ciel binds Sebastian to his will to exact his revenge upon the people that humiliated and tortured him and killed his family in order to make them suffer the same pain.

As a demon, he has also shown to be extremely ruthless, sadistic, and manipulative to his opponents and is intrigued with humans' behaviors and attitudes, as he finds them interesting because of their insatiable greed.

In addition to the services that they provide for the Queen, the Phantomhive family runs a famous toy and confectionery corporation called the Funtom Company.

He is portrayed as an innocent, optimistic character who loves his work, but is dubbed an idiot by Sebastian for destroying everything he touches in spite of being warned to take caution beforehand.

During the Emerald Witch Arc, Tanaka showed skill in slicing bullets fired at him with a sword, silently closing in his target; however, he admits that at his age, he cannot keep up such strenuous activity for long.

His snakes all take names after famous Victorian writers and poets: Wordsworth, Emily, Goethe, Oscar, Wilde, Webster, Brontë, Donne, and Keats.

Unable to bear her misery at ending so many pregnancies when she herself wanted one so badly, she began to kill her patients with Grell Sutcliff and the two become known as Jack the Ripper.

Although he acts carefree, comical, and easy-going, he can be very coldblooded and cryptic, willing to go further than Ciel would, such as having Harold West and his wife Mina killed because they cheated in a curry competition.

All Grim Reapers are humans who committed suicide, forced to work until having fully repented for the sin of taking their own lives.

Except for his left eye, his entire face was covered by bandages after hiring the Doctor to perform surgery as a way to make himself more appealing to Ciel, only to believe it was all a waste when he heard the Phantomhives had been murdered.

She was later killed by Baldroy when she and the other first-string members of the circus (except for Doll and Snake) invaded the Phantomhive manor to kidnap Ciel (unaware that he wasn't there at the time).

He was later killed by Baldroy when he and the other first-string members of the circus (except for Doll and Snake) invaded the Phantomhive manor to kidnap Ciel (unaware that he wasn't there at the time).

He was later killed by Mey-Rin when he and the other first-string members of the circus (except for Doll and Snake) invaded the Phantomhive manor to kidnap Ciel (unaware that he wasn't there at the time).

She was later killed by Mey-Rin when she and the other first-string members of the circus (except for Doll and Snake) invaded the Phantomhive manor to kidnap Ciel (unaware that he wasn't there at the time).

He was later killed by Finnian when he and the other first-string members of the circus (except for Doll and Snake) invaded the Phantomhive manor to kidnap Ciel (unaware that he wasn't there at the time).

As the Viscount of Druitt (ドルイット子爵, Doruitto Shishaku), Aleister Chamber is a noble who is known for his taste in fine art, wine and food and his popularity with women.

Although he is loyal to the Queen and trusts her decisions, he loathes Ciel as he sees him as nothing more than a brat and considers the Phamtomhive family to be iniquitous when dealing with cases.

Mina appeared at the curry fair being held at the Crystal Palace after West lost the Royal Warrant to Ciel's Funtom Company, where she revealed her self-centered personality and hatred to Soma.

Being a fan of his stories, Ciel invites him to attend a banquet being held at his manor for Georg von Siemens, where he becomes a prominent figure in assisting with solving the murders that took place there.

Beneath his façade of being a genial and boisterous man to the public, he was secretly an arms dealer that sold illegal weapons obtained by his wealth in warring countries and the murderer of Steiger Roze, a president of a company that mines diamonds.

In the manga, she is seen as an intelligent and cunning woman, although she occasionally makes disturbing comments, like when she says that it would be wonderful if the Undertaker's revived monsters where at their side.

Earl Grey appears as guest at Ciel's private party, where he is later revealed to be the murderer of Georg von Siemens by the order of the Queen.

He appears quite carefree and comical on most occasions, however, he is short-tempered and prone to using violence whenever he gets the chance, such as when he uses his sword to slice open the doors in the Phantomhive manor.

At Weston College, he was Herman Greenhill's fag and later replaced him as prefect of the Green Lion Dorm after he was expelled for the murder of Derrick Arden.

Prefect of the Green Lion Dorm (翡翠の獅子寮, Hisui no Shishi/Gurīn Raion Ryō), Herman Greenhill is a serious young man who excels at sports, particularly cricket.

To manipulate her into creating a deadly chemical weapon for the German government, she was physically handicapped by bounding her feet and was tricked to believe she was responsible to save the village from the wolfmen.

Hilde Dickhaut, Anne Drewantz and Grete Hilbert, formally Major Hilde Dickhaut, First Commando Squad Captain Anne Drewantz and Second Commando Squad Captain Grete Hilbert, were high-ranking soldiers of the German military who took part in the Emerald Witch Education Project.

Professor Sullivan, informally called "the village crone", was the founder of the Emerald Witch Education Project, where she had her genius daughter, Sieglinde, become its test subject.

Like Ciel, he suffered from a tragic past as a slave and formed a contract with the demon Claude Faustus in order to avenge the death of his younger brother Luka and the destruction of his village.

However, after learning the truth about what happened to Luka from his demon maid Hannah, he directed his affections to her and stopped trying to win Claude's approval.