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In Black Lagoon, Hänsel and Gretel are deranged children suffering from
Dissociative Identity Disorder.

![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/EWSb0.jpg)

Each of them have distinct personalities, but from time to time, they switch
places with each other - clothing, weapons, voice, personality, and
everything.

In episode 15, both of them are killed. Hänsel (the boy) dies in front of
Balalaika after being shot by a sniper. Gretel (the girl) dies at the end of
the episode when a hitman headshots her from behind.

But do we know if they were themselves when they were killed? Did Hänsel
really die first?  
Or were they switched? Are there any clues anywhere?


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Who died first? Hänsel or Gretel?


While Gretel is on the boat talking to Rock, she says that it's OK that Hansel
is dead because they are always together. She takes off her wig and her voice
changes into the lower Hansel voice, then puts the wig back on and is back to
Gretel's voice. So they are indistinguishable from their appearance and
voices.

The only hint we get is right before Rock leaves the cabin Gretel is in:

![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/8tzDe.png)

Gretel takes off her underwear and lifts up her skirt giving Rock a "view" as
a "gift". Rock is shocked and leaves the room disgusted.

So is it:

  1. She is really "Hansel" and Rock is shocked because Gretel is actually a boy. _Gretel died first_
  2. She is really "Gretel" and Rock is shocked because he's being flashed by a little girl. _Hansel died first_
  3. Rock isn't shocked by whether she's a boy or girl but that she/he thinks flashing him is supposed to be a "gift". _Inconclusive_

Other _inconclusive_ possibilities could be that her genitalia was mutilated
from all the snuff films, or even she is a hermaphrodite. But it's most likely
that we never know who was killed first. They are always
interchanging/swapping, it's likely neither of them knows whether they are
Hansel or Gretel anymore, so that facet of their character would be undermined
if we were to know who was who.


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I think Hansel died first because it's possible that Hansel might have just
been a girl the whole time.

It's possible that Hansel and Gretel suffer from gender confusion or multi-
personality disorder, especially after Gretel suddenly took her/his wig off
and started to sound like Hansel, and also when Gretel showed of her/his
Genitals.


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Gretel may have died second. After Rock leaves the room and stands on top the
boat, he says

> They turned HER into a monster!

It didn't seem to sound that he wasn't really as disgusted as when he was
shown Gretel's genitals. Rock's reaction could've been worse if the Gretel in
the boat was male, so in my opinion Hansel died first and Gretel died second.


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I believe Gretel died second.

Since yes, Rock did refer to her as a "she" when she revealed her gift. And
people have theories it's a dismembered.. gift in attempts to be female as
well. Or because of her past- being raped and filmed, she thought that
offering herself will make him feel better.


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Hansel died first because in episode 14, they took the Russian man from the
bar to the car. "Hansel" (in reality it was Gretel who carried him) carried
him and said

> He is too heavy; help me

He (she) said it because "he" is a girl and the man was to heavy for her.

The real Hansel said to the real Gretel:

> NOW you are the boy; you have to carry him

After that, they change again and the last one in the hotel.

In the end, the real Hansel died as Hansel (himself) and the real Gretel died
as Gretel.

Rock was shocked because Gretel thought it's a gift to give him a view (or
because Gretel has some injuries there (because the people who make the videos
hurt the kids or something like that)).


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Gretel died second, Hansel died first.

If you watch episode 15 "Swan Song at Dawn", after Gretel exposed herself to
him, he continued to refer to the child as a female, stating,

> DAMNIT! DAMNIT! WHY? Why did this have to happen? Everyone in 'her' life
> betrayed her. They turned her into a monster, they turned her into a fuck'n
> monster. Goddamnit...

Benny steps in and says,

> Rock, sometimes its best to look the other way, you have to do that to
> survive here.

Rock grips Benny and pins him against the ship and says,

> I'll

then Benny says,

> You'll what?! Adopt her? Forget it; you can't just undo what's been done to
> her. If only someone had shown them a little kindness they might have gone
> to school made friends and lived happily ever after. Who knows right? But
> that didn't happen, now did it? I'm sorry; but stories like this don't have
> happy endings, Rock.

After this dialog, I would think that if the child had been the male sibling,
Rock would've referred to them as such.


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