Cutter

Cutter keeps a sharp corporate look, brown hair worn in an undercut above a dark suit that deliberately echoes Kazundo Gouda's wardrobe from 2nd GIG. A handful of small prosthetic fittings dot his face, most likely serving as built-in communication gear.

Emotionally detached and unmoved by the harm he causes, Cutter feels nothing resembling guilt. He measures greatness purely in terms of power, carries himself with unshakable self-righteousness, and refuses to accept any responsibility for the crimes he commits.

As Hanka's head he oversaw the company's push to build the first fully synthetic cyborgs, running secret abductions and experiments on unwilling subjects. Hideo Kuze came close before being written off as a failure, while the program counted Motoko Kusanagi as its first genuine success. Publicly, Cutter directs Aramaki and Section 9 to hunt Kuze, painting him as a hacker slaughtering Hanka staff. Dr. Ouelet's mounting unease exposes the deeper scheme, and when she frees the Major and confirms that Cutter tormented Kuze, he murders her and orders the Major eliminated. His bid to have Section 6 gun down Aramaki's team comes to nothing, and once the group slips beyond his control his plans unravel. Aramaki ultimately answers his crimes with a bullet.