

The 2001 anime also revealed that Black Ghost's cybernetic modifications to her eyes and ears caused her to suffer from extreme Sensory Overload, and she was thrown into a battlefield without warning where she panicked even at the slightest sounds. 003 was either kidnapped in broad daylight in front of her older brother Jean-Paul (manga, Archaia novel), or tricked into accepting a position in a fake professional dancing business thought up by Black Ghost (2001 anime).In addition, earlier adaptations depicted him as becoming a gang leader while still a teenager, which brings up more implications about his home life. The 2001 anime also reveals that 002 saw other street children being bullied by criminals yet he did nothing to help them, and the guilt from his inaction stayed with him for many years. 002 was a teenage delinquent who lived on the streets to survive, and became a fugitive of the law either due to committing Accidental Murder (Manga, '79 anime, Archaia novel) or getting into violent street fights (2001 anime).Gamo Whisky, who either attempted to unlock the secrets of the human mind through his son (manga), or drove himself to insanity trying to find a cure for 001's terminal illness (2001 anime, Archaia novel). 001 was subjected to horrible brain-enhancing experiments by his own father, Dr.Dark and Troubled Past: All of the 00-Cyborgs have horrible, tear-jerking pasts.Cyborg: All nine individuals were normal humans turned into cyborg weapons by Black Ghost at some point in their lives.Blue Is Heroic: The 00-Cyborgs' outfits were changed to dark blue in the God's War manga and its OVA adaptation.But all of the 00-Cyborgs really work well when put in a battle that requires team effort, and it often shows. Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: In the GOD'S WAR manga, the 00-Cyborgs become light spirits after they are all killed by the gods, and are reborn in the "World of Light" as humans.The Ageless: Although all of the 00-Cyborgs are chronologically estimated to be in their 40's or 50's or even beyond that, they always remain the age they were captured by Black Ghost in, due to being cyborgs and thus having different bodily functions than normal humans.
