Mahou Sensei Negima/Tropes M-Z

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 * Made of Iron: Jack Rakan, one of the names people have given him is "That damn guy you can stab with swords all you like and it won't do a thing, dammit"
 * Magic Missile Massacre: a common spell, with Roboteching for good measure.
 * Magic A Is Magic A
 * A Magic Contract Comes with a Kiss: Pactio. It's implied that Blood Magic can be used if a kiss would be awkward or otherwise unwise, but since the one who taught them about the pactios is Chamo...
 * Magic Contract Romance: Negi notes that there is a trend where Mages are known to marry their Minister/Ministra Magi.
 * Magical Incantation: Typically in unfamiliar languages, such as Latin, Greek, Sanskrit, and archaic Japanese.
 * Magically-Binding Contract: Pactio is the most obvious, but least straight, example. A straighter invocation occurs when each try to make Negi sign one which would have the power of a geas.)
 * Magic Land: This would be the near-literal translation of Mundus Magicus.
 * Magic Missile: The functionality of the light-elemental Sagitta Magica attack spell is very similar to your standard Magic Missile. Other-element variations have more varied effects.
 * Magic Wand: The Thousand Master's staff works this way, as does the ring Eva gives Negi. Straighter examples appear when Yue and the rest of Ala Alba learn beginners' magic.
 * Magitek: Chao's Deadly Upgrade and Powered Armor, as well as Chachamaru's very existence. Oh, and a magic gun. And then there's the Paru-sama
 * The Magocracy: The Megalomesembrian Senate
 * Maid Corps: Evangeline's Robot Maids
 * Make It Look Like a Struggle: tells Negi to attack her when they accidentally meet, all the while wondering what exactly is she doing and why.
 * Male Gaze: It's Ken Akamatsu.
 * Mana
 * 20 Points
 * Marilyn Maneuver: Every single eligible female on panel, every single time Negi sneezes.
 * Marshmallow Hell: trope namer
 * Masquerade: Mages are not supposed to reveal themselves to Muggles. Doing so puts them in danger of severe punishment, and Laser-Guided Amnesia for all involved if discovered.
 * Mass Teleportation: The portal to Mundus Magicus bears a strong resemblance to an airport.
 * Measuring Day
 * Medium Awareness: The characters comment several times on the images that appear in the back of the panel to illustrate one of their thoughts or a flashback
 * Konoka hastily readies the Relax-O-Vision card used some chapters back when Rakan's taunting of the Amazon Brigade that's trapped them edges too close to Hentai for comfort.
 * During Misora's hilarious attempt to attempt to deny her identity through Blatant Lies, big glowing letters appear above her head proclaiming her name. She frantically tries to wave it away.
 * Megaton Punch: Rakan For-the-Hell-of-It Right-hand Punch!!
 * Meido: A favorite of Evangeline and Fate, and apparently standard uniform for Magic World slaves.
 * Metafictional Device/Harsh Word Impact: Chisame gets stabbed with a speech bubble.
 * Mismatched Eyes
 * Misplaced Accent: In the English dub, Negi speaks like an American attempting the I Am Very British Received Pronunciation accent, not in anything like a Welsh accent.
 * Mobile Shrubbery
 * Modesty Towel: sometimes...
 * Monster Mash: Negi's associates include a ghost, a vampire, a half-bird demon, and a dog demon. On the other side, the REALLY monstrous-looking bounty hunters are later seen casually relaxing in the same baths as Negi and company.
 * Mood Whiplash:
 * Negima!'s left-field ending; the gateport incident in Vol. 21.
 * A more minor one comes when  and then gives Negi a We Can Rule Together offer. An otherwise serious moment is made funny with the inclusion of an RPG-style 'Yes/No' dialogue option.
 * More Magic Dakka: Sayo with a Sagitta Magica Gatling Gun.
 * Ms. Fanservice: Takane D. Goodman
 * Multiple Endings: See Adaptation Overdosed, a few screens above.
 * Also thoroughly Lampshaded by Paru's drawings depicting all the different "Bad ends" that could happen at one point or another. such as
 * Mundane Utility: Noticeable in Negima! and early in the manga. As the focus shifts to combat, these uses become less frequent and tend to be implied rather than shown.
 * Muscles Are Meaningless
 * Mutually Exclusive Magic: Ki and magic are incompatible for the vast majority of people.
 * For those people that can use them together (only three so far have been shown), it becomes a Yin-Yang Bomb.
 * My Kung Fu Is Stronger Than Yours: Not only do the major characters spend almost all their time off-screen either training or sleeping (and have been doing so for years), the training itself is a frequent plot point on-screen -- especially if it's Training From Hell.
 * Mysterious Parent
 * Mysterious Protector: The manga shows Negi thinking of his father this way, even
 * Myth Arc
 * Naked Apron: Setsuna's version of Cosmo Entelecheia involves Konoka dressed like that.
 * Names to Run Away From Really Fast: Alexander "Twilight" Zaytsev, fitting the criteria for Conquerors, Scary Nouns, Xtreme Kool Letterz, and Anything You Can't Pronounce On The First Try all at once.
 * Naughty Tentacles: upon landing in Magicus Mundus, Chisame is attacked by a clothes-eating-octopus that seems to exist solely for putting in tentacle-rape-esque scenes
 * Not to mention Paio (of "Boobies!" fame), with sandworm familiars that used their tentacles to strip and almost sexually assault Nodoka.
 * Back in the Kyoto arc, Fate subdues Asuna by turning a bath into a bunch of watery hands that tickle her until she can't move. And this is after he accidentally destroys all her clothes.
 * Near Misses: stronger character vs. anyone using the time-warping bullets
 * Neck Lift: Negi's father does this to a demon in the flashback to the destruction of his village, and finishes it with a nice squeeze too.
 * Never Trust a Hair Tonic: A female variation, when short-haired Ako thinks she should grow her hair out to be more attractive. A (not so) helpful denizen of the magic world promptly gives her a magic hair-growth potion, which works perfectly for all of a minute before the hair begins to engulf her.
 * New Year, Same Class: Taken Up to Eleven. Negima's class doesn't change at all, despite there being around twenty other classes in the grade.
 * Hand-waved before it happened. It was stated that Mahora doesn't split up its classes.
 * Newspaper Dating: A short-term version.
 * Nice Job Breaking It, Herod:
 * Ninja Pirate Robot Zombie: Would fit right in besides the Welsh ten-year-old kung-fu wizard school teacher  who is the protagonist. Never mind , the time-traveling Magitek-wielding Martian mad-scientist restaurant owner who . And that's just to start.
 * Albino Half-Demon Schoolgirl Lesbian Bodyguard Samurai.
 * Nipple-and-Dimed
 * No Dialogue Chapter: Number 166, if you want to know
 * Non-Fatal Explosions
 * Non-Lethal Warfare
 * Noodle Incident: There're actually quite a few. One including "Chizuru and a large number of spring onions", and another about Chisame's "First time on the net".
 * We also have Negi's "troubles" during Christmas and Valentine's Day.
 * Nosebleed
 * Not Just a Tournament: There's a tournament whose hidden purpose is to gather evidence of the existence of magic and flood the media with it.
 * Not So Different: From Fate to Negi and most recently from Tsukuyomi to Setsuna.
 * Not the Fall That Kills You
 * Not What It Looks Like
 * The Nudifier: Negi essentially is The Nudifier. Also, just go read the Clothing Damage entry.
 * Numerological Motif: Each member of the class their seat number takes great importance they are referred to by number at the start of the series and are on their Pactio Cards.
 * Negi's Pactio card number is 496 The Perfect Number of his 31 students. (As in he wouldn't be who he is without each of his students)
 * Rakan and Albireo's Pactio's with Nagi numbers are both 1001
 * Obake
 * Obfuscating Idiocy: Kotaro can hold a perfectly coherent and fairly intelligent conversation with.
 * Occult Blue Eyes:
 * Fate fits as this: He is what Evangeline called a 'doll', being a magical creation of the Lifemaker, extremely proper and The Stoic early in the story, but prefers to drink coffee instead of tea.
 * Evangeline herself is a blue-eyed vampire who is Really 700 Years Old.
 * Ocular Gushers
 * Odango Hair
 * Oddly Visible Eyebrows
 * Of Corsets Sexy
 * Offhand Backhand: Setsuna, without even knowing that she was doing it... while worrying about getting weaker, no less.
 * Evangeline while contemplating new information about . The poor guy never saw it coming.
 * Off-Model: Mostly fixed in Negima!'s DVD release.
 * Crops up again in the second Mou Hitotsu no Sekai OVD, the bit where . There's less Conspicuous CG, with better physics, in GaoGaiGar.
 * Offscreen Moment of Awesome:
 * Oh Crap: regular occurrence
 * And then there's Jack making shit puns before confronting Fate's minions during Godel's ball. He says he has to go take a dump, and then tells Fate that everyone has to wipe their own asses. Truly, the shit has hit the fan.
 * Old School Building: In the first anime this is the setting for the "kiss catch" game.
 * One-Hit Kill: Time-displacement bullets. (Interesting in that it's not a "kill" in the traditional sense, but tactically there's little difference.) Also,.
 * 108: "We've managed to capture 108 of the frogs-aru..."
 * One-Sided Arm Wrestling: Negi vs Ku Fei
 * One-Winged Angel: Played straight with Inugami Kotarou-kun.
 * Subverted later on; after Negi single-handedly wipes out a gang of bounty hunters, the leader starts muttering about revealing his true form. Negi gives him a mean look, and he goes back to cowering on the ground.
 * The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: In chapter 314,
 * Only Six Faces
 * Only Smart People May Pass
 * On the Money: = one martial arts tournament.
 * Actually an inversion:
 * "On the Next..."
 * OOC Is Serious Business: When Kaede opens her eyes, something big is going down.
 * Opera Gloves: Some have noted that Negi's newest accessory from Chapter 282, a pair of long gloves accompanying his chinese-styled garb, seem to be almost a new form of Zettai Ryouiki. The fangirls love it, of course.
 * Orwellian Retcon: How old is Negi, chronologically? Well, the initial magazine releases said he was born in the summer of 1993, making him about 9 years old in the prologue. The bound volumes changed this to simply "1994", consistent with his earlier admission that he's only 10 if you use kazoe, and Word of God reportedly has him at about eight and a half at the start of the series.
 * Our Demons Are Different
 * Our Time Travel Is Different
 * Out-of-Clothes Experience: Everyone when they use magic to wander into the mind of another character
 * Over and Under the Top
 * Overdrawn At the Blood Bank
 * Overly Long Tongue: A Negi golem created by Haruna has a 23.5 cm tongue.
 * Overly Pre-Prepared Gag
 * Overnight Age-Up: Forward and reversed with the Age-disguising pills.
 * Panty Fighter: Lampshaded a bit during the Mahora Budokan, when Asuna and Setsuna change into their provided combat attire, they discover after they are already into the sexy lingerie just what they are putting on. They have no real choice, so they go into battle as combat maids.
 * Panty Shot: Hoo boy...
 * Paper Fan of Doom: The weaker form of Asuna's pactio artifact.
 * Parental Abandonment:
 * Beside the obvious examples of Negi and Asuna, both orphaned, nearly all the characters live alone in a boarding school with no parents in sight. The two dads that showed up were extremely plot relevant.
 * And then there's Kotarou -- apparently any half-Youkai where he's from will be abandoned at birth.
 * Parental Incest: No actual incest occurs, but Yuuna really loves her dad. She even says that she wouldn't mind giving a "deep, passionate kiss" to her dad, which elicits a squicked "No. Just... No" Reaction from Ako.
 * Party Scattering: The main cast is at a Gateport, having just arrived in the Magic World from Wales. The Bad Guys pick that moment to launch their attack on the Portal Network to cut the Magic World off from the real one. As the system explodes, there's all kinds of swirly craziness and the cast end up scattered in ones and twos across a surface area nearly a third that of Earth. It takes an interminable period to get everyone back together, but when they do, everyone has, as they say, taken a level in badass.
 * Pensieve Flashback:
 * Negi and Asuna use a spell to get an Out-of-Clothes Experience inside Negi's memories of the destruction of his Doomed Hometown.
 * Done again, and to the same flashback, by Kurt Godel, while trying to convince Negi to join him. Negi's subsequent Berserk Mode is only stopped by ... and an Armor-Piercing Slap from the the Loli-Catgirl.
 * Perpetual Molt: Not as bad as some others, but it still applies.
 * Personality Blood Types: Tons and for almost every character. Check here for the full list.
 * Person of Mass Destruction: If you hear someone starting an incantation with "To Sumbolaion Diakoneto Moi", RUN.
 * Perspective Flip:
 * Perverse Puppet: Chachazero has a bit more free will than a normal old puppet, but she is definitely psychotic. In the most adorable way possible.
 * Petal Power
 * Pillar of Light
 * Pillow Fight: During their Kyoto vacation/school field trip, several of the girls of 3-A had an epic pillow fight with their boy teacher's kiss as the prize. Despite what you may assume from the previous sentence, very little of it was used as Fetish Fuel. [[media:Pillow_Fight.jpg|Also take note that the girls will indulge in the occasional pillow fight given the opportunity]].
 * Pinball Projectile
 * Pixellation
 * Place of Power: Twelve of them, including Mahora itself
 * Playing with a Trope: One of the big reasons this series is so popular is because Akamatsu goes out of his way to toy with tropes common to the Shonen genre and winds up coming up with twists and turns that catch even his own long-time readers by surprise, to say nothing of the people who were expecting this series to be little more than "Dragonball Z meets Harry Potter / Love Hina". See Beam-O-War for one example among many.
 * Please Put Some Clothes On: Right after Ala Alba gets spread out across the Magic World, Negi comes to and finds a bathing Chachamaru.
 * Plot-Relevant Age-Up: The pills everyone's favourite Ermine orders in. The author of the manga has a lot of fun playing with these.
 * Plucky Girl: Several, most notably Asuna, Anya, and later on, Yue. Even later on,
 * Point That Somewhere Else: During their big fight, Negi has Setsuna's magic daggers hovering at Jack Rakan's throat. He decides to bite down on a couple, and the others get nervous.
 * Pool Scene
 * Poor Communication Kills: If.
 * Porn Stash:
 * Subverted; it's merely used as a distraction.
 * Asakura's secret report on Negi's room makes a note on the lack of this in Negi's drawer since, y'know, he's 10.
 * Post Episode Trailer
 * Post-Kiss Catatonia: After gets her artifact in a ravishing Pactio kiss that goes on for four pages, and after.
 * Power Dyes Your Hair: Negi's hair turns white during his Magia Erebea.
 * Powered by a Forsaken Child: Asuna  while bound in chains as a child. Later she was used to power the magic-cancelling spell   The resulting mental trauma from being used as the power source to destroy   was probably one of the reasons Nagi and party decided to
 * Power Levels: In the manga's Magic World arc, Jack Rakan, with his own personal ranking chart, puts a major villain's power in context with an oddball list that includes: a cat (0.5), a normal human teen girl (1), a tank (200), a magic teacher (300), Negi (500), a dragon (650), an Aegis Battleship (1500), and the villain (3000). Meta Girl Chisame doesn't even know where to begin in pointing out all the problems with such an arbitrary list (which probably shouldn't be taken very seriously.
 * The Power of Blood
 * Power Perversion Potential: Some of the cast are more aware of this than others. Rakan uses his speed and power to flip girls skirts and take their panties off before they notice. His "secret ultimate technique" is Silent Flipping and Stripping, Combined with the Rakan Gentle Breeze Tempest Fist, oddly enough it actually works as a battle strategy.
 * Princess In The Mountain:
 * Psychic Link:
 * Any pair with a Pactio can communicate telepathically.
 * Later we see other people using this without a Pactio.
 * Psycho Lesbian:
 * Tsukuyomi.
 * And Chichigami, the queen of Skinship Grope.
 * Public Domain Artifact
 * Puppy Dog Eyes: Usually Negi.
 * Pure Magic Being: In some way, this could be said of
 * Put Them All Out of Their Misery: The Fatettes contain aspects of both type three and four, having been wronged (they're all war orphans or worse) and deciding they're going to fix society by completely redoing it. Whether they like it or not. As it's rather bluntly stated to Ala Alba, they at least don't even care what Negi's plan is or if it will work because they're more concerned with making a peaceful world than saving all the people. Having the people saved is a nice bonus to them.
 * Quivering Eyes: Negi again.
 * Radial Ass-Kicking: Asuna and Setsuna's battle against the demons in Kyoto played out like this. Once they began to realize that either girl could cut them down with a single stroke, they kept their distance and attacked more strategically in this fashion.
 * Rain Aura
 * Rain of (Magical) Arrows: There doesn't seem to be a limit to how many Magic Arrows you can shoot off, although it's usually a prime number.
 * Razor Wind: Wind-type spells, including Negi's old standby Jovis Tempestas Fulguriens, run on this trope. Griffins also have Razor Wind breath.)
 * Reality Ensues:
 * "The Reason You Suck" Speech:
 * Fate Averruncus tends to do this to Negi.
 * After Negi starts to crack after one of Fate's speeches, Asuna gives Negi her own The Reason You Suck Speech, the point being that he's an idiot for even considering what Fate is saying. The next time Fate attempts one of these, he gets a punch in the gut and a Shut Up Hannibal for his trouble.
 * Evangeline has a knack for these, against Setsuna, Asuna, Negi...
 * Reference Overdosed
 * The Red Planet: Went from what at first seemed like a joke from Chao to being
 * Red String of Fate: Lampshaded in one of the first two OVAs: Nodoka and Yue find a spell in Yue's Artifact that seems to indicate who the caster's tied to. Instead, it just ties things together with magical, glowing red string that can't be cut. Since Nodoka was thinking of Negi when she cast it... Hilarity Ensues.
 * Reed Richards Is Useless: Justified by the Masquerade. We hear several times in the beginning that mages try to help the world through NGOs, but 99% of what we see magic being used for is destroying the landscape during fights.
 * Relationship Voice Actor: Quite a few actually.
 * Rescue Arc: The school trip to Kyoto evolves into a Rescue Arc when.
 * Ridiculously-Fast Construction: 3-A's festival project is remarkably detailed for the amount of time they spent on it.
 * Robe and Wizard Hat: Most noticeable in Yue's Pactio outfit, which is practically the essence of this trope. Very noticeable when she summons her item while in a 1-piece swimsuit -- yes, 1-Piece Swimsuit, Cloak and a Wizard Hat.
 * Robot Maid: Evangeline's resorts are staffed by older (but younger-looking) versions of Chachamaru, usually referred to as Dash-Chachas or Chacha s.
 * Roof Hopping: Chao, in the chase that sets up the plot of the Mahorafest mega-arc.
 * Rousseau Was Right:
 * All over the place, at least for the first few arcs. Once the Ala Alba head to the Mundus Magicus, however...
 * Even then it mostly holds up enough that Negi is extremely surprised when
 * RPG Episode:
 * The climax of Mahorafest, AKA Mahora vs. Mars.
 * The entire Magic World arc could count, as the plot is decidedly on the Final Fantasy end of the spectrum, and an enormous number of videogame terms are used to explain the mechanics of how magic works. Not to mention the fact that
 * Rubber Face: Asuna does this a LOT to Negi.
 * Rule 63: An odd canonical example played for laughs or fanservice with Negi during the Mahorafest Arc as a joke by the class to bring in more customers.
 * Rule of Cool: A good chunk of the manga runs on this and...
 * Rule of Funny: Anything that isn't totally logical or awesome is going to be this.
 * Running Gag: Many, including Setsuna's Cannot Spit It Out-ness and how Jack Rakan tends to ignore the laws of magic that don't suit him.)
 * People mistaking Rakan's attack techniques for terrorist bombings.
 * Takane getting stripped.
 * Chisame notes that Jack Rakan bleeding after he tries dark magic, for the first and only time, is becoming one. Every time he said that he was invincible he would start to bleed.
 * Several characters have noted that Negi really needs to get his ass kicked one of these days, for a variety of reasons (mostly his harem).
 * Saintly Church: Played with in Misora's focus chapter after Mahorafest. She pretends to be a kindly old priest in the confessional, but she is actually very mischievious and sometimes downright sneaky.
 * Sand in My Eyes: Used by both Konoka and Yue.
 * Sapient Cetaceans: Dolphin-men are one of the many denizens found in the Magic World. One of them works as a trucker who pilots an airship.
 * Say It with Hearts: Almost always used ironically; sometimes Konoka will fall into it, though.
 * Scenery Porn: Done with CG models of the environments, many of which are ridiculously detailed and have huge polygon counts.
 * Scooby-Dooby Doors
 * Schedule Slip:
 * "Negima will be taking a break next week" "Negima will be taking a break next week" "Shonen Magazine (which Negima is in) will not be sold next week" "Negima will be taking a break next week" Repeat ad infinitum.
 * The scanlations can be even worse given that the translators are unpaid, and tend to be students with exams and suchlike.
 * Schematized Prop: Logistifying Chiu's artifact.
 * School Festival: Quite possibly the largest one in fiction. It runs for about a week and takes in several million dollars.
 * Science Destroys Magic: Side material adds in the interesting fact that the ability to use magic is based on a certain way of thinking the world works, such as the four classical elements. As science advances and disproves these theories, the number of magic users dwindles.
 * Sealed Evil in a Can: Waking up a legendary demon was the motivation for the villains during the Kansai arc. Also, Eva technically qualifies; although she was sealed less for her evil (which was, if you believe her, considerable) and more because Nagi couldn't get her to leave him alone. Ironically, the protagonists defeat the first abovementioned Sealed Evil by temporarily breaking the seal on the other one.
 * Sensei-chan: Negi is a rare male version.
 * Serial Escalation: Negi vs. . Negi reveals that he isn't left-handed at least five times before the match is over, culminating in a spell that definitely deserves the name "Titan Slayer". And still stands up like nothing happened.
 * Serious Business: A tense meeting between Fate and Negi derails for one page into a heated argument over coffee and tea -- Negi is British, after all. Negi prefers milk tea and refers to coffee as "muddy water". Fate drinks seven cups of black coffee every day, and occasionally lemon tea.
 * Seiza Squirm: During the Claim Negi's Lips Tournament Asakura organizes in Kyoto, almost everyone gets caught and made to seiza by Nitta-sensei.
 * Sexy Secretary: In Chapter 337,  to become this to Negi as he's working himself to death (apparently enough to literally kill a normal human), even mentioning that she is the only one of the girls who can really help him this way. After confronting him directly about it and telling him that she truly wants to be there to help him,.
 * Naturally there is also a hilarious daydream before that where  envisioned herself working in this role starting with simple help, moving into what might be several years in the future where they've gotten quite familiar, and ending with  . Cue Did I Just Say That Out Loud?.
 * Sex Slave: Averted in the Magical World. Slaves may not have many rights but they are protected from being used as sex slaves.
 * Shipper on Deck:
 * Everyone Ships Konoka and Setsuna.
 * Jack Rakan ships.
 * The ENTIRE Ala Rubra ships.
 * Evangeline sometimes ships Negi/Chachamaru and derives endless amusement from poor Chachamaru's plight, though deep down she really is quite supportive.
 * Ship Sinking: Possibly the only real one in the series since Negi/Konoka and Negi/Setsuna; In Chapter 353, Negi tells which girl he likes. Her reaction makes it clear that A, it's not her, and B, she has no problem with that.
 * Chapter 355
 * Ship Tease: So much that it is impossible make any truly definitive declarations as to which girl will "win" until one of them actually does.
 * Shirtless Scene: In-universe, on the poster advertising.
 * Shock Collar: Applied to the girls under slavery in the magical world.
 * Shoot the Medic First:
 * During the Gateport Incident, Fate uses the confusion caused by  to try to petrify Konoka.
 * A variation happens when Fate's subordinate Koyomi targets Ako over other low-tier fighters, although Ako is not a healer but a support-type.
 * Shotacon: Poor Negi is such a Chick Magnet that half of his fourteen-year-old class is outright discussing how to confess their love for him within days of his arrival. It's made somewhat less squicky by the fact that at least a few of them are more concerned with how badass he's going to be in a few years, but at least one girl is very happy to have herself a yummy little ten year old -- although to be fair it's less about sex and more about replacing a baby brother who died at birth.
 * Shout-Out: Has its own page
 * Showgirl Skirt
 * Shown Their Work: Shown mainly in the compiled volume extras and magazines, which give descriptions on both in-universe physics and real world data, such as the use of surprisingly good Latin... And Greek. And Sanskrit. Other examples are the Hakkyokuken, Negi and Ku-Fei's martial arts style and the physics behind Negi's Raisoku Shundo. And . And
 * Show Within a Show: Mahou Shojou Biblion, a Magical Girl Warrior series.
 * Shrines and Temples: Mana is ostensibly the Miko of Tatsumiya Shrine, near Mahora.
 * Single-Stroke Battle
 * Skilled but Naive:
 * Negi is an incredibly skilled mage, but he's still a ten-year-old.
 * In another light, Negi is an incredibly skilled (natural) Chick Magnet nicknamed the Thousand Pimpster by some of the fans, but he's still a ten-year-old.
 * Skinship Grope: Chichigami-sama is a serial groper to the point of Unfortunate Implications. See Psycho Lesbian above.
 * Sleep Cute:
 * Happened to Ako & Makie, Konoka & Setsuna, and Negi & Asuna. Kazumi & Ayaka, and Haruna & Yue were close...
 * The credits of Negima! (Awww...)
 * Smoke Shield
 * Sneezing: Negi used to be affected by frequent bouts of clothing shredding sneezes in the early volumes of the manga. The sneezing decreased when the story grew more serious, the Fan Service didn't: Notably, sneezing mostly occurs in the downtime between major, action-filled arcs.
 * Snot Bubble
 * Snow Means Death:
 * The destruction of Negi's village.
 * Nearly literal when Eva strands Asuna on a blizzard-wracked mountain as part of her training. Asuna freezes solid while sleeping, then wakes up dead. Ask any doctor. Being Asuna, however, this is not sufficient to keep her down. Evangeline later hits her with an insta-kill freeze spell; once again this is insufficient, although in this case her ability to cancel magic may have helped. She was still stuck in an ice crystal long enough to suffocate.
 * Sorting Algorithm of Evil
 * Sparkling Stream of Tears
 * Spell Construction
 * Spider Tank: Literally. Lampshaded to hell and back during Mahorafest, when Misora finds the Martian Army stashed in the sewers.
 * Spit Take
 * Spot of Tea: Negi takes tea with, and each criticizes the other's tastes in a truly epic bout of passive-aggressiveness.
 * Spotting the Thread: Yue figuring out that  was an illusion in Chapter 143.
 * Squeaky Eyes
 * Stable Time Loop: The three days of Mahorafest. Done inconsistently, though: Their week-long jump back does end up changing the past, but it ends up being stable due to it being consistent with Chao's timeline. Basically it's a sort of destiny thing, otherwise there would be like a huge paradox, and if they hadn't succeeded, Chao would never come back in time to do it.
 * Strip English Lesson
 * Summoning Ritual: Typically, these invoke Valkyries, Undines or Salamanders, or other types of spirits, for offensive spells.
 * Summon Magic
 * Super-Deformed: Infrequently, and usually only when characters are under stress. Except Misora. She does it more often.
 * Super-Powered Evil Side:
 * Super-Powered Robot Meter Maids: Chachamaru serves tea. She also has a BFG, Kung Fu skills, and transforming blade arms.
 * Superpower Lottery: Pactios act as this, giving a artifact with a different ability depending the individual's personality. Some are good for fighting, some are stuff outside of fighting.
 * Super Speed: Raiten Taisou. Koyomi's artifact ability. Also one of the effects of artifact.
 * Supporting Harem: At least it started out as such, lately it's more of a Balanced Harem.
 * The Sweat Drop
 * Swirling Dust
 * Synchronization:
 * Take a Third Option:
 * Taken for Granite: Adds to the horror feel of the series, without too much Squick.
 * Taking the Bullet: Several times, including a 'defendee-tossing-would-be-defender-out-of-the-way-to-take-the-hit' subversion.
 * Talking in Your Sleep: "No way, lady, I can't smoke that..."
 * Talking to Himself: The American dubs.
 * Taste the Rainbow: Here's the class roster. And that's only the starting point.
 * Tele Frag
 * Telepathy
 * Teleporters and Transporters
 * Tempting Fate: Ayaka says that she has a bad feeling about going to the Magic World and Asuna claims that Ayaka's premonitions are usually wrong. Guess what happens to Ala Alba.
 * That Didn't Happen: Twice. Both times involve Forceful Kisses from Negi.
 * There Are No Therapists:
 * And Negi, from what Nodoka's diary showed us, needs one badly.
 * Subverted early on, however, when Negi gets cheered up by Satsuki during Mahorafest.
 * There Is Only One Bed: Weirdly inverted -- the girls understand and accept that no matter how many beds are present, Negi is likely to crawl into one a girl is already occupying. (Especially Asuna.) They even turn it into a game of Keep-Away on one occasion, fighting over who gets him. Of course, it's debatable whether ...
 * Thirty Second Blackout
 * This Is Something He's Got to Do Himself: As of Chapter 285, this seems to be.
 * This Is Sparta:
 * "Chachamaru-san! Is not! A DOLL!!!"
 * Not as cool and more of a joke, but "Eternal! Negi! Feverrr!!!"
 * Thundering Herd
 * Time and Relative Dimensions In Space
 * Timeline-Altering MacGuffin: Chao's "ultimate weapon."
 * Time Machine
 * Time Stands Still
 * Time Travel: Stable Time Loop as Negi starts running into earlier versions of himself...
 * Timey-Wimey Ball:
 * ...until the part where he has to change the future after being sent ahead.
 * Title Drop: The White Wing initially call themselves the Negima Club until the better name is suggested.
 * To Be a Master
 * To Be Lawful or Good: Negi gets this from time to time, having to choose when to break laws and when to let things slide, often while under threat. He's fairly flexible, coming down on both sides depending on the severity of the issue.
 * Token Girl:
 * Token Yuri Girls: Setsuna serves as Konoka's protector, and admits it precludes hooking up with anyone else. Naturally, other characters assume this is a complicated way of saying that they are a romantic couple, or will be. Konoka certainly has no problem being her (kissing-activated) partner in their magical contract. It's pretty much just Setsuna who isn't aware of this. Naturally, when Setsuna proved to be a popular character, the overtones became a lot more obvious in the Negima?! remake, with a more knowingly teasing Konoka and a more flusterable Setsuna, to the point of Setsuna stuck between embarrassment and ogling at Konoka in a swimsuit. Considering that in the early manga the way Setsuna acts around Konoka is exactly the same as someone with a really strong crush (complete with blushing and a loss of the ability to speak whenever she's around) makes the subtext already quite strong.
 * Took a Level In Badass: Pretty much automatic if someone gets an artifact. This includes
 * Yue is arguably the queen of this trope, having done this no less than three times. See her character entry for details.
 * Yue's best friend Nodoka is the goddess of this trope.
 * Too Much Information: Asuna gets an earful from Makie during the shower scene: "Negi-kun's you-know-what is touching my you-know-where! ... His you-know-what's getting you-know-what-er!"
 * Torch the Franchise and Run: The series' rather abrupt ending is the result of Akamatsu dropping the series in protest against his publisher's attempt to take ownership and copyright of the series away from him.
 * Total Party Kill: Discussed a few times after they entered the magical world arc as with so many other game tropes, especially when they were separated.
 * Tournament Arc
 * Training From Hell:
 * Lampshaded with Ku Fei's martial arts training, as her trying to create a "quick-powerup" training regimen for Negi based on old manga and kung fu movies fails miserably. She then tries training him conventionally, which works, and teaches him so quickly that she gets depressed about it.
 * Played straight, however, with Evangeline's training methods, which actually seem to work.
 * Transformation Trinket: The pactio cards.
 * Translation Convention: Scenes that take place in Britain are spoken in Japanese. The girls, even the ordinary ones, also have no trouble in the magical world -- averted though, in that it was colonized from Earth (Mundus Vetus, "the Old World"), and two of its major languages are "Anglicum" and "Japonense." Interestingly, though, the writing dotted around the Mundus Magicus suggest that the lingua franca is actually Latin.
 * Translation Style Choices: Most fan translations fall into Category 2 or Category 3, while the former official translation was a solid Category 2.
 * Trapped in Another World: The entire plot of the Magic World arc.
 * Triang Relations
 * Troperiffic: Akamatsu seems to be on a quest to use every trope ever. He is disturbingly close to succeeding. Naturally, this leads to...
 * Truce Zone: Megalomesembria's public baths.
 * Truer to the Text: An interesting case. The recent OVA releases have been faithful to the manga, but they're so deep into a story that none of its multiple previous adaptations properly covered, that they won't make much sense to anyone who hasn't read the manga.
 * Two Roads Before You: Father's or the Master's?
 * Two Scenes, One Dialogue: Variation: just as Fate finishes explaining the secret of the Magical World, the next chapter begins with confirming the same explanation for Negi and company.
 * Translation Convention: Scenes that take place in Britain are spoken in Japanese. The girls, even the ordinary ones, also have no trouble in the magical world -- averted though, in that it was colonized from Earth (Mundus Vetus, "the Old World"), and two of its major languages are "Anglicum" and "Japonense." Interestingly, though, the writing dotted around the Mundus Magicus suggest that the lingua franca is actually Latin.
 * Translation Style Choices: Most fan translations fall into Category 2 or Category 3, while the former official translation was a solid Category 2.
 * Trapped in Another World: The entire plot of the Magic World arc.
 * Triang Relations
 * Troperiffic: Akamatsu seems to be on a quest to use every trope ever. He is disturbingly close to succeeding. Naturally, this leads to...
 * Truce Zone: Megalomesembria's public baths.
 * Truer to the Text: An interesting case. The recent OVA releases have been faithful to the manga, but they're so deep into a story that none of its multiple previous adaptations properly covered, that they won't make much sense to anyone who hasn't read the manga.
 * Two Roads Before You: Father's or the Master's?
 * Two Scenes, One Dialogue: Variation: just as Fate finishes explaining the secret of the Magical World, the next chapter begins with confirming the same explanation for Negi and company.


 * Two-Teacher School: In the entire Elaborate University High, few teachers are shown other than Negi, Takamichi, Gandolfini, Nitta, Seruhiko, and Shizuna. Justified in that the manga focuses explicitly on the teachers who are also mages.
 * Unblockable Attack
 * Unlimited Wardrobe: When the girls are not attending class, and wearing the Mahora uniform, they each have fair amount of unique casual clothes. It's obvious reading the manga, that Akamatsu and company spent a lot of time coming up with fun looks for all of the girls.
 * The Unmasqued World: Negi and friends pay a brief visit to a "bad" future in which the current antagonist has recently succeeded in revealing the existence of magic, but aside from the excited attentions of some local girls and talk of all mages being recalled to the Magic World, we don't see much of the effects.
 * The Un-Reveal: 355 chapters and we never learn
 * Unsound Effect: "Pettan" for Yue and Nodoka.
 * Unspoken Plan Guarantee
 * Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Chachamaru uses her booster jets to fetch a little girl's balloon at one point, and nobody comments on it except Asuna and Negi.
 * The Unwanted Harem: Double Subversion: the professor surrounded by 31 female students sure looks like a set up for one of these, but, while the students may find Negi cute, they don't want to go out with him. Except, of course, that several of them do develop romantic feelings for Negi, though nowhere near as much as the premise would lead you to believe.
 * Justified in that they develop romantic feelings for him after he shows how mature, badass or awesome he is, and most of them look at him and realize that the ten year old kid will turn into the epitome of sexy and badass in five years tops.
 * Upgrade Artifact: Literally.
 * Urban Fantasy: Though it's shifted to a more Final Fantasy feel as of the Entry to the Magic World arc.
 * Vampiric Draining: Evangeline uses type II.
 * Vancian Magic
 * Verbal Tic: Some of the girls show this from time to time, but Kaede is the most promanint in the manga with her saying "De Gozaru" in almost every sentence.
 * The Very Definitely Final Dungeon: Lampshaded by Rakan.
 * Victoria's Secret Compartment:
 * Mana prominently has one. In chapter 276, she pulls out an anti-tank rifle. It's lampshaded ("I mean... how the heck did you pull that thing out? From the "magical valley"?)
 * Earlier on, in chapter 35, Asakura stores Chamo in there. Bet he enjoyed it.
 * This rule isn't just limited to just big-breasted girls in Negima, as Nodoka, who is a bit of a Pettanko, is seen hiding one of the smaller versions of her Pactio item in her cleavage in chapter 280.
 * Villain Ball
 * Villainous Rescue: Evangeline saves the gang's collective ass in Kyoto, demonstrating her true power in the process by curb-stomping both a recently-summoned demon god and a later arc's Big Bad in quick succession.
 * Further along the line, parallel to another one of Negi's Big Damn Hero moments,
 * Chapter 330 shows
 * Visible Silence
 * Wacky Homeroom: On Steroids and/or Crack
 * Walk On Water
 * Walk the Plank: in chapter 268.
 * Wall of Text: Played for Laughs with Hakase's incredibly long rant about AIs and love in an early chapter.
 * Also often played for laughs when Yue is in a pinch, showcasing her tendency to overanalyze everything.
 * Waterfall Shower: Done on several occasions, most notably during the descent into the Library in volume 3, and then again much later in the Magical World by Asuna and Setsuna. and the Crowning Moment of Funny when Rakan and Chisame catch each other doing it.
 * The Watson: Usually the normal or inexperienced girls. The trained warriors are usually the ones explaining.
 * Wave Motion Gun
 * Weapon, Jr.: Small wands are used for magic training and as emergency magical foci. Chamo even describes them as beginner wands.
 * Weapons That Suck
 * We Are as Mayflies
 * Well-Intentioned Extremist: want to "save the world" through means that others think are going too far.
 * We Will Not Use Photoshock In The Future: Kosmo Entelekheia edits video of the fight at the Gateport to make it look like Negi's group had destroyed it instead of themselves, causing Negi's group to become wanted criminals.
 * Chisame lampshades this early on, when Negi notices how much better she looks in her idol pictures but doesn't put two and two together.
 * Wham! Episode:
 * Chapter 277, in which the Big Bad's allies reveal they can simply, and do so to several minor-but-named characters.
 * Chapter 294: the reveal of  Fans shat bricks, and Chisame lampshaded it in the next chapter.
 * Note that
 * Her role may have been vaguely foreshadowed in the first chapter, but that's one hell of a delayed Chekhov's Gun if true. Small Version; Big Version.
 * And then, it's all undone by
 * (Then again, there's a lot of misleading foreshadowing in that collage, starting with the fact that the size of most of the characters' pictures is inversely proportional to their later role in the story.)
 * Chapter 311.
 * Chapter 329
 * Chapter 330 Doubles as Oh Crap.
 * Chapter 331 features  giving the impression that Akamatsu is out to either give his readers a concussion or just straight out split their skulls open.
 * Chapter 334 which ends up revealing the current Lifemaker to be.
 * Chapter 346 in which Negi reveals that
 * Chapter 352 alone blows them all out of the water.
 * What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?: From the summer OVAs: Zazie. Chachamaru. PING-PONG.
 * And in Chapter 261, epic arm wrestling between Ku Fei and Negi. In formal attire.
 * Rakan's technique "Eternal Negi Fever" that he wants to teach Negi.
 * Rakan's Secret ultimate technique: Silent flipping and stripping. Also his Rakan Gentle breeze tempest fist. Made exclusively to use against female enemies.
 * What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?
 * What Measure Is a Non-Human?: Negi and Team Good fall squarely on the side of "has a mind, is a person". seems to think only the human inhabitants of the Magical World are worth anything..
 * What Happened to the Mouse?: Numerous characters or plots are Left Hanging:
 * During the, no mention is ever made of Anya or her fate. Interesting, as almost every other 'harem member' is addressed.
 * Shiori and the rest of Fate's girls are similarly absent from not only the 6-month time skip, but also during the.
 * The whereabouts and activities of remain unclear, even though he survived his battle with Negi and promised that they would meet again. He suggested that he may know how to reverse the petrification cast on the inhabitants of Negi's village when he attacked it some time before the main story begins, but  and he vanishes completely.
 * Negi's mother, Queen Arika, despite being incredible important and surviving the events that destroyed her country, is never mentioned again. Her reasons for abandoning Negi, or her inability to help, for the less cynical, are never revealed.
 * What the Hell, Hero?: Not quite so serious one in chapter 349: Yotsuba calls out the girls for trying to force Negi to say . Her rationale? He's only ten, they already know about his magic and parentage, several of them have pactios with him and he's trying to save the world. Is he really not allowed to have any secrets at all?
 * When All You Have Is a Hammer: Negi has a tendency to solve his problems with kissing; such as
 * Whip It Good: Ayaka's weapon in Rare form.
 * White Magic
 * Who Would Want to Watch Us?: Asakura mentions that Negi would make a great main character, although Negi himself disagrees.
 * Wife Husbandry: The rationale of at least one of Negi's "admirers".
 * Who Writes This Crap?: Chisame is vocally annoyed by the lack of foreshadowing for
 * Wingding Eyes: More "wingding speech" than eyes. Negi, being ten years old, doesn't get the connotations of "winding up" Chachamaru, and does it pretty vigorously. Even with she clamps her hand over her mouth, her speech bubbles fill with wingding characters.
 * Witch Species
 * Wizard Duel
 * Wizarding School
 * The Worf Effect:
 * Takane, the girl with the shadow puppets. She's supposed to be at least reasonably competent, but has a tendency to go up against stronger enemies (that is, Negi and friends), get her ass handed to her, and have all her clothes blown off.
 * Any dragons that appear are likely going to be defeated in a spectacular manner.
 * The World Is Not Ready
 * World of Badass
 * The World Tree
 * Writer Revolt:
 * Akamatsu wanted to do an action series all along.
 * Also, the series' seemingly abrupt ending could be attributed to this, as Akamatsu ended the series early in protest to a proposed Japanese law giving publishers greater control and ownership over writers' work. This would also be a guarantee that he keeps the rights to his own work if the law passes.
 * Wrong-Context Magic: Negi can break the rules by kissing hard enough.
 * In the situation of Negi and Jack Rakan, whenever they break a seeming rule, it is brought to our attention, such as Chisame calling Rakan the man with infinite cheats, the one time he doesn't break a rule.
 * Wuxia: Euro-centric magic and fantastic setting aside, the manga is increasingly gravitating towards this genre. Ku Fei's, and therefore by extension Negi's fighting style is emblematic of those found in the Classic Shaw Brothers Kung Fu films and Jet Li films of the 1990s.
 * Xanatos Gambit / Crazy Prepared: If the fandom's theories are correct, defines this trope. Basically, she's trying to avert some disaster in the future. The best way to do this is to reveal magic to the world. But if Negi is able to stop her, then that means he will also be able to avert the future disaster... well done, my dear. Well done.
 * It goes even further. Turns out that the entire "Martian Invasion" event was . Dear gods girl.
 * Note that there is no proof for any of this.
 * Year Inside, Hour Outside: Eva's "resort-in-a-bottle" (24:1 ratio), Theodora's similar training ground (10:1), and Eva's scroll (max of 72:1, though it can only be used for mental training, not physical).
 * Years Too Early
 * Yin-Yang Bomb: Kanka.
 * Magia Erebea also counts, given that Negi uses the darkest of magic with the light based lightning spells he's most proficient at.
 * Magia Erebea itself is not dark, and lightning spells are just lightning spells. Magia Erebea is 'dark' because of how badly it screws around with the person using it. Magia Erebea actually counts for Yin-Yang Bomb out of technicality, but would really be better called an 'Everything Bomb'. Which is how it works: Magia Erebea accepts all facets of magic equally, light and dark.
 * You Are Not Alone: The last two episodes of Negima! (the first anime) revolve around this on multiple levels.
 * You Can Leave Your Hat On
 * You Can't Fight Fate: Both straight and subverted, for the same event. Not to be confused with the character named Fate, although fights against him have been Unwinnable more often than not.
 * Jack Rakan vs Fate played this straight as can be.  And he ultimately
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair
 * Youkai
 * Younger Than They Look: Most of the girls. Lampshaded when two of them try to get discount tickets to a movie, but the ticket saleslady refuses to believe that they're middle school students.
 * Later, Mana gets a hold of a de-aging candy and is able to buy an elementary student ticket. After having a big laugh about beating the system, she realizes that, with the cost of the candy, she actually lost money overall, making it something of a Pyrrhic victory. Then Kaede shows up in a child's body, but tells Mana that it's due to one of her ninjutsu techniques, so it's free.
 * Your Door Was Open: Negi wanders into Chisame's apartment while she's dressed as her alter-ego "Chiu-chan".
 * You Remind Me of X: Everyone tells Negi about how he reminds them of his father.
 * Your Vampires Suck
 * You Shall Not Pass:
 * You Wanna Get Sued?
 * Zettai Ryouiki: Lots, but notably both Asuna and Anya have achieved Grade S, although sadly it isn't a consistent thing.
 * Wuxia: Euro-centric magic and fantastic setting aside, the manga is increasingly gravitating towards this genre. Ku Fei's, and therefore by extension Negi's fighting style is emblematic of those found in the Classic Shaw Brothers Kung Fu films and Jet Li films of the 1990s.
 * Xanatos Gambit / Crazy Prepared: If the fandom's theories are correct, defines this trope. Basically, she's trying to avert some disaster in the future. The best way to do this is to reveal magic to the world. But if Negi is able to stop her, then that means he will also be able to avert the future disaster... well done, my dear. Well done.
 * It goes even further. Turns out that the entire "Martian Invasion" event was . Dear gods girl.
 * Note that there is no proof for any of this.
 * Year Inside, Hour Outside: Eva's "resort-in-a-bottle" (24:1 ratio), Theodora's similar training ground (10:1), and Eva's scroll (max of 72:1, though it can only be used for mental training, not physical).
 * Years Too Early
 * Yin-Yang Bomb: Kanka.
 * Magia Erebea also counts, given that Negi uses the darkest of magic with the light based lightning spells he's most proficient at.
 * Magia Erebea itself is not dark, and lightning spells are just lightning spells. Magia Erebea is 'dark' because of how badly it screws around with the person using it. Magia Erebea actually counts for Yin-Yang Bomb out of technicality, but would really be better called an 'Everything Bomb'. Which is how it works: Magia Erebea accepts all facets of magic equally, light and dark.
 * You Are Not Alone: The last two episodes of Negima! (the first anime) revolve around this on multiple levels.
 * You Can Leave Your Hat On
 * You Can't Fight Fate: Both straight and subverted, for the same event. Not to be confused with the character named Fate, although fights against him have been Unwinnable more often than not.
 * Jack Rakan vs Fate played this straight as can be.  And he ultimately
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair
 * Youkai
 * Younger Than They Look: Most of the girls. Lampshaded when two of them try to get discount tickets to a movie, but the ticket saleslady refuses to believe that they're middle school students.
 * Later, Mana gets a hold of a de-aging candy and is able to buy an elementary student ticket. After having a big laugh about beating the system, she realizes that, with the cost of the candy, she actually lost money overall, making it something of a Pyrrhic victory. Then Kaede shows up in a child's body, but tells Mana that it's due to one of her ninjutsu techniques, so it's free.
 * Your Door Was Open: Negi wanders into Chisame's apartment while she's dressed as her alter-ego "Chiu-chan".
 * You Remind Me of X: Everyone tells Negi about how he reminds them of his father.
 * Your Vampires Suck
 * You Shall Not Pass:
 * You Wanna Get Sued?
 * Zettai Ryouiki: Lots, but notably both Asuna and Anya have achieved Grade S, although sadly it isn't a consistent thing.
 * Zettai Ryouiki: Lots, but notably both Asuna and Anya have achieved Grade S, although sadly it isn't a consistent thing.