Motoko Kusanagi

Motoko Kusanagi, often addressed simply as The Major, is the main protagonist of the franchise, in all its various continuities. She is the head of the assault team of the Japanese task force known as 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'. Each series explore her origin story in a different manner; some allude she was never human while others directly explain tragic events that led to her transformation.
==Voices==
Japanese	the late (1995 movie, Innocence, Stand Alone Complex), (Arise)
English 	(1995 movie), (Innocence, Stand Alone Complex, Solid State Society), (Stand Alone Complex OVAs), (Arise)
==History==
=== 1995===
To be added.
===Stand Alone Complex===
At around age six, Motoko needed to convert into a full prosthetic body with only her brain and part of her spinal cord remaining organic, the rest of her body was entirely artificial and she spent years getting accustomed to using it, upgrading from one model to another as she aged. Motoko became a gifted hacker and was eventually recruited into the police force Public Security 9, an anti-cyber terrorism task force. In conjunction with her need to become cybernetically savvy due to her fully prosthetic body at a young age and her interest in cyber-brain technology Kusanagi was further trained in high-end technology for the task force and is one of the nation's most brilliant hackers and certainly the most brilliant one on government payroll in Japan.
==Section 9==
Kusanagi is the Major of Section 9, second-in-command to Chief Daisuke Aramaki, the official overseer of the entire project. Aramaki rarely gives orders directly, instead trusting the Major with most local oversight and at her own request field-work. The Major is talented enough to hack even active cyber-brains and uses her skill to directly access the memories of suspects, information from prisoners and on occasion even hijacks the bodies of criminals to undermine their own group's crimes. Her current prosthetic body is highly modified from its original model settings to be more useful for covert espionage and with Kusanagi's highly sophisticated, yet completely biological, brain at the helm she is essentially hack proof.
==Appearance==
In SAC, 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 victimized 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 close with both 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.
==Appearances==
===Movies=== 
* Ghost in the Shell (1995)
*Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (2004)
*Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Solid State Society (2006)
*Ghost in the Shell 2.0
*Ghost in the Shell: The New Movie (2015)
*Ghost in the Shell (2017)
===Anime===
*Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (2002-2005, 52 episodes)
*Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C 2nd GIG (2004-2005)
*Ghost in the Shell: Arise
*Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Alternative Architecture (2015)
*Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C_2045 (2020-2022)
===Comics===
*Ghost in the Shell (1995, 1 appearance)
*Ghost in the Shell (1998, 9 appearances)
*Ghost in the Shell 2: Man-Machine Interface (2003, 11 appearances)
*Ghost in the Shell 2: Man-Machine Interface (2005, 1 appearance)
*Ghost in the Shell 1.5: Human Error Processor (2006, 8 appearances)
* Ghost in the Shell 1.5: Human-Error Processor (2007, 1 appearance)
*The Ghost in the Shell (2009-10, 1 appearance)
*Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (2011, 2 appearances)
*Edge of Spider-Verse (2014, 1 appearance)
*The Ghost in the Shell Deluxe Edition (2017, 3 appearances)
*The Ghost in the Shell: Global Neural Network (2018, 1 appearance)
===Games===
*Ghost in the Shell (1997)
*Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (2004)
*Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (2005)
*Ghost in the Shell: First Assault - Stand Alone Complex Online (2016)
*Shin Megami Tensei: Liberation Dx2 (2018)
==External Links==
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*Motoko Kusanagi on the Ghost in the Shell Wiki
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