Mahou Sensei Negima/Tropes M-Z


 * 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.
 * Overnight Age-Up: Forward and reversed with the Age-disguising pills.