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* [[Air Vent Passageway]]: Subverted. In Volume 17, Touma asks if he could use the ventilation ducts in the plane, but the flight attendant says that the ducts are too small. Instead, Touma asks for some hot tea and coffee to pour down the duct, causing thermal expansion and making the terrorist on the other side ''think'' that there's someone crawling through the ducts. As a result, said terrorist gets some boiling hot tea to the face when he checks the ducts.
* [[Alertness Blink]]: Two in a row from Mikoto in the first episode of season 2 of ''Index''.
* [[All There in the Manual]]: From the novels, manga, and anime, we see them spawning character relationship charts, timeline charts explaining the flow of events in the [[Fan Nickname|Indexverse/Toaruverse]] in chronological order, [[Blah Blah Blah|etc., etc., etc.]]. inWithout which if you don'treading at least read one of these, wouldit's resulteasy into confusionbe regardingconfused about who, what, why, when, where, and how things go about in the series. And it might be not an exaggeration to say those are just the tip of the iceberg... To give just a few examples:
** The full backstory to the Sisters arc is only given in the corresponding arc in [[A Certain Scientific Railgun]].
** Two members of SCHOOL, Rakko and Banka, aren't even named in the original series, nor are their abilities mentioned. The former is a [[Posthumous Character]] who's only mentioned as having been killed by ITEM. They receive more development in the Dream Ranker arc of [[A Certain Scientific Railgun]].
** It is implied that Touma {{spoiler|has multiple entities sealed in his body}}. This is outright confirmed at the climax of the Daihaseisai arc in [[A Certain Scientific Railgun]], where {{spoiler|severing his right arm releases eight dragons.}}
* [[Alternate Character Reading]]: It's all over the place in the series. The trope page has some examples, but something to keep in mind: A lot of the [[Gratuitous English]] Esper ability names simply originate from furigana attached to that ability's kanji. In some cases, the English reading provided may simply a translation of the ability's kanji (eg. "Super Electromagnetic Cannon" is read as "Railgun"), or at times, may be an embellished [[Gratuitous English]] variant (eg. As mentioned under [[Catch Phrase]], kanji that means "Illusion Killer" or "Fantasy Killer", is giving the English reading of "Imagine Breaker"). And then there are the terms whose English reading may have NOTHING to do with the given kanji whatsoever (eg. Kanji that means "One-Way Street" is read as "Acclerator").
* [[Alternate History]]: The combination of magic always existing and the existence of Academy City has given rise to this. For example, the United States has had three Hispanic Presidents, and Britain is not a nuclear power.
* [[Always a Bigger Fish]] / [[Serial Escalation]]: Each villain is absurdly more powerful than the last, regularly topping the previous winner of the [[Superpower Lottery]]. Even the [[Big Bad]], {{spoiler|Fiamma of the Right}} is outclassed by three more characters. Currently, the biggest fish title goes to Aiwass, but Kamachi may have an '''''[[Up to Eleven|even more]]''''' powerful character prepared.
** Divine Beingsbeings in this series go above the norm, in some ways absurdly so. We have Angels, who have the power to utterly destroy the world. God, who is above them. Then 'The One Above God' {{spoiler|a position Fiamma briefly reached}}, who is [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|above God]],. andBut noweven {{spoiler|the One Who Cleanses God}}, who, according to [[Word of God]],this is moredwarfed powerfulby thanthe evenso-called that."Invisible By the wayThing", {{spoiler|the latterstrange twoentity cansealed bothby beImagine translated as {{spoiler|KamijouBreaker}}. And then Aiwass, as mentioned above, is stronger than all of the above.
** In New Testament 4, OdinOthinus has possibly topped them all. {{spoiler|sheShe ripped off Touma's Imagine Breaker and effortlessly defeated the invisible force inside it, with magic no less}},. This was something even Fiamma couldn't do, and she seemed bored at how easily she did it.
** The end of New Testament 10 introduces {{spoiler|the true Gremlin, an entire ''organisation'' of Magic Gods who claim to be more powerful than Othinus. Then, two volumes later, [[The Worf Effect|they're killed or greatly weakened by Aleister and Noukan Kihara]]. And after that, Kakeru appears and banishes all of the survivors (save Othinus) to another world. Though unlike the others, the last two examples don't win due to pure power, but because their abilities are particularly effective against Magic Gods}}.
* [[Anime Catholicism]]: Or rather, Anime Christianity, given that the Roman Catholic Church is one of three major churches in the setting.
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{{quote|{{spoiler|'''Accelerator'''}}: This is not a negotiation. It is not a suggestion, not a trade, not a petition, not an agreement, not a compromise, not a surrender. This is my victory march, you stupid bastards.}}
 
{{quote|{{spoiler|'''Accelerator to KakineTeitoku'''}}: Between me and you, there is an impassable wall.}}
 
{{quote|{{spoiler|'''Fiamma, [[Irony|just before all his plans crash and burn]]'''}}: I'm about to save this world. Therefore, I have no more use for you. Feel the glory, meatbag. Your value as a human being, obediently let me have it.
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** Touma pushes {{spoiler|Accelerator's}} pretty hard when he {{spoiler|slaps his hand aside}}, something that likely hasn't happened to him in years.
** Harm Last Order and {{spoiler|Accelerator}} will show you no mercy.
** And if you try to kill {{spoiler|Touma}} in front of {{spoiler|[[Beware the Nice Ones|Itsuwa]]}}, prepare to suffer the consequences even if you are {{spoiler|[[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|a Saint]]}}!
* [[BFS]]:
** Kanzaki Kaori's katana, which is easily as long as she is tall.
** Acqua of the Back's sword, Ascalon, is ~3.5 meters.
** The Knight Leader's sword, Hrunting, is ~3.9 meters.
** Fiamma of the Right beats them all: his [[Flaming Sword]] is about '''''forty fuckin' kilometers long'''''!
* BigBad[[Big Bad]]: Aleister Crowley is set up as this for most of the series, being [[The Chessmaster]] behind almost everything in the series. Lola Stuart also seems to be this, as Aleister's counterpart on the magic side.
* [[Big Brother Is Watching]]:
** Underline, a system of nanomachines that allows Aleister to {{spoiler|''view everything in Academy City''! No wonder he's always in control...}}
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** New Testament Volume 2. Part of the novel is a [[Recap Episode]] regarding all the magical incidents, justified in that Shiage and Accelerator are being introduced to magic, and Leivinia Birdway wants to provide context to the new magical threat targeting them. Other parts include the numerous comedic interactions between the characters, the fate of the other members of GROUP, and seeing how Touma's associates dealt with his disappearance. {{spoiler|There was some drama involving a possible [[Colony Drop]], but there wasn't much combat in averting it.}}
** After the non-stop action of the Magic God Othinus arc, NT Volume 11 is a much lighter volume focusing on the previously-minor character Misaki. The central conflict is far smaller in scale and motivated by purely personal reasons.
* [[Brick Joke]]: In New Testament Volume 14, Touma goes out to buy dinner early on. When the Kamisato Faction visits the same shop, one of them comments that everything good has already been bought.
* [[Brown Note]]: Index' Sheol Fear, which incapacitates the religious by pointing out contradictions in their teachings.
* [[But for Me It Was Tuesday]]: Stiyl assumes this is why Touma doesn't remember fighting him.
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** Touma is never, ever able to take a break. It's best illustrated by a look at the series timeline, which shows him getting involved in world-shaking events often no more than days apart.
** {{spoiler|Othinus}} becomes this after being depowered. Being a fifteen-centimetre-tall fairy, she's at the mercy of Sphinx, who routinely plays with her like a toy.
* [[Call Forward]]: In the manga, Touma has a dream of some of the future events of the series, including the Angel Fall incident. Too bad he forgottenforgots about it, {{spoiler|since he lostloses his memories}}.
* [[Captured Super Entity]]: Aleister has managed to {{spoiler|call Aiwass, the angel of the pure world without magic, to the world}}. Though the exact situation (such as whether {{spoiler|Aiwass}} is staying there willingly) isn't quite clear.
* [[Casual Danger Dialogue]]: During {{spoiler|the war between the UK and France}}, in the middle of heated battle, Knight Commander wonders if he should send a message to the queen for permission to spank Carissa. The response is speculation that she'd empower him with all the power of Curtana Second to do it.
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* [[Cliffhanger]]: The ending of any volume that's part of a multi-volume arc (and isn't the final one in the arc). The biggest one has to be the ending to New Testament Volume 8, {{spoiler|where Othinus gains her full power as a Magic God and destroys the world instantly}}.
* [[Clingy Jealous Girl]]: Kuroko, who threatens Touma the moment she sees him out of suspicion over his relationship with Mikoto, telling him that if he wants to make a go at Mikoto he'll have to go through ''her'' first. Though despite her jealousy, she never tries to sabotage or otherwise impede Touma's conversations with Mikoto. While clingy and jealous, Kuroko has the best interest for Mikoto at heart.
** {{spoiler|Played straight once when she realizes Mikoto might like Touma. and whenWhen Mikoto wentgoes on a date with him after he lost a bet in the sports festival, Kuroko tries to ruin their date. Ironically Misaka 10032 and Last Order are the ones who ruin the date.}}
* [[Cloning Blues]]: The Misaka Network are essentially this trope personified. Hard to get much worse than being created to be slaughtered in order to improve someone else's power. Even after they're released from that, they still end up being exploited in various schemes.
* [[Clothing Damage]]: Touma's ability destroys any clothes with magic in them, as he demonstrates with Index.
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** Kuroko's reaction to Mikoto's rejection.
** Kanzaki when she couldn't figure out how to cancel a washing machine's wash cycle.
* [[Curb Stomp Battle]]: There are a few of these, including Touma vs KanzakiKaori (winner), Mikoto vs Touma (winner, though neither was serious). One notable example is Accelerator vs {{spoiler|KakineTeitoku, the second most powerful Level 5. Accelerator takes him with ease, even after he powers up. This is a guy who once boasted he could defeat any other Esper with ease. At the same time. Accelerator does it it with ease, all while protecting all the ordinary people around them.}}
** Accelerator has another one before that when {{spoiler|Awaki runs into him after fleeing Kuroko, Misaka and Touma with the remains of the Tree Diagram and losing her subordinates to Anti-Skill. [[Oh Crap|The look on her face]] [[It Got Worse|says it all.]]}}
** Academy City against Russia, actually more of a [[Curb Stomp Battle|curbstomp slaughter]]. [[Word of God]] implies that until Archangel Gabriel shows up, Academy City suffered not a single casualty throughout the entire war, if it can even be called that, as war implies that both sides suffer horrific losses in matched combat. Regardless of the fact, the author seems to have no idea how military technology works, and real life seems to have outpaced him already; the Chinese have developed an aluminum based ceramic armor that took seven hits from a 125mm cannon at 1800 meters before it even ''dented''.
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** Even the United States, which according to [[Word of God]] could match Academy City in tactical and military prowess, is reluctant to take action; when Misaka Mikoto infiltrates Liberal Arts City and proceeds to flatten any and all resistance in her attempt to expose the US' attempt to create its own esper program, Olive Holiday, the resident CIA agent is prevented from taking any action due to the fact that {{spoiler|Aleister Crowley threatens to declare war on the United States if they attempt any further research}}, effectively turning any gains made into a pyrrhic victory
* [[Cursed with Awesome]]:
** Kaori Kanzakiis a Saint, which has caused her a lot of angst in her life. While it grants her incredible power and supernatural good fortune, the latter comes at the expense of others.
** {{spoiler|Kamijou Touma himself, who isn't aware that {{spoiler|Imagine Breaker is actuallypossibly of divine origin.}}
** Kakeru Kamisato, {{spoiler|who received World Rejector from the Magic Gods, but feels that the power has only warped the minds of people around him}}.
* [[Cute Kitten]]: Pretty much the sole reason Sphinx exists.
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* [[Delinquents]]: Academy City seems to be crawling with them sometimes. So far groups of them have: hit on Misaka twice, been interrogated by/hit on Misaka and attacked Accelerator. Unfortunately, since they are usually drop-outs from the Esper program they are usually Level 0-1, and so not the ones you have to watch out for.
** An argument could be made for Touma and his [[Those Two Guys|friends]] being delinquents as well. Low marks and very little effort to improve them? Check. Constantly getting into fights? Check. Bleached hair, piercings and general disregard for the dress code? Check check and check. There are even hints the three used to go out drinking together and frequently ended up in back alley brawls. Of course it a subversion since Touma would rather avoid fights and just run away.
** And there's the Skills-Out'sOuts, gangs of Level 0's who protect themselves against higher level epsers who bully them. Noble at first until some of those gangs started attacking espers who never bother them.
* [[Demonic Possession]]: NT Volume 18 reveals that {{spoiler|Lola Stuart}} has been possessed by the demon {{spoiler|Coronzon}} for the entire series.
* [[Demoted to Extra]]: Poor Aisa. Her importance in the series got reduced after the Deep Blood arc. She and even her [[Mamiko Noto|Voice Actress]] [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshades about it]].
* [[Despair Gambit]]: This is {{spoiler|Othinus' entire plan for Touma in NT Volume 9}}. Among many other things, she shows him a world where he's considered an infamous villain solely by changing everyone's perspective, and another world in which a different person has completely taken over his life without anyone noticing. {{spoiler|And she succeeds, through a world in which everyone has been saved without his intervention, convincing him that he has to die to preserve this perfect world. Only the intervention of the Will of the Misaka Network makes him want to keep living}}.
* [[Determinator]]:
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** NT Volume 3. {{spoiler|While Hawaii is saved and Olay Blueshake's scheme is foiled, GREMLIN has nevertheless gotten what they wanted. On top of that, Birdway exploited the entire situation to weaken Academy City by scaring away its allied organisations}}.
** NT Volume 4. At the end of the day, many people still died in Baggage City. {{spoiler|And Touma wasn't able to stop Othinus' plans, again}}.
** NT Volume 8. It's hard to get much worse than {{spoiler|Othinus successfully becoming a full Magic God and destroying the entire world.}}
* [[Drama-Preserving Handicap]]: Index's "Walking Church" robe provides her with amazing defensive capabilities. Touma inadvertently destroys it in the first episode to prove the existence of his Imagine Breaker. Index patches it back together, but it's lost its defensive powers.▼
* [[Drama-Preserving Handicap]]:
▲* [[Drama-Preserving Handicap]]:* Index's "Walking Church" robe provides her with amazing defensive capabilities. Touma inadvertently destroys it in the first episode to prove the existence of his Imagine Breaker. Index patches it back together, but it's lost its defensive powers.
** Accelerator is crippled in Volume 5, requiring a special choker that {{spoiler|uses the brainpower of the Misaka Network}} to walk, talk or use his ability. The choker's battery lasts for 24 hours normally, and only 15 minutes when he's using his ability (due to the increased amount of information it has to handle). His effective calculation ability is only about half of what it was before. Even with these limitations, he's still incredibly powerful.
** {{spoiler|Othinus}} loses her incredible power {{spoiler|as a Magic God}} and is turned into a tiny, almost-helpless fairy.
** Touma has an incredible number of allies, including many powerful ones... and almost never asks any of them for help.
* [[Dramatic Irony]]:
** Whenever a science-side character encounters magic, and doesn't understand what it is.
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** Touma is introduced running away from delinquents, in a manner specifically intended to make them tire themselves out. It turns out that they're chasing him because he told them off for harassing a middle school girl. But then it turns out that he was actually trying to protect the delinquents from [[Person of Mass Destruction|her]]. Finally, the girl catches up, challenges him to a fight and shoots lightning at him, which he easily blocks with his right hand.
** Othinus makes her first appearance by {{spoiler|crushing Touma's right hand, then crushing the even more powerful entity inside it. She then matches Ollerus in a duel of magic when he shows up}}.
* [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"]]: Pierce Aogami. It's not his real name since it actually means [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|"Blue-haired guy with piercings"]]. We have no idea what's his real name since that's what Touma calls him. Also Accelerator, who refuses to reveal his original name, and a minor character named "Management" as well as the leader of the English knights, Knight Leader. The same applies to the members of God's Right Seat - only Acqua's real name is ever revealed.
* [[Evil Albino]]: Accelerator. He later becomes an [[Heroic Albino|Anti Heroic Albino]].
* [[Extremely Short Timespan]]: The series runs at an absolutely breakneck pace, with World War III literally only lasting a few weeks.
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== F-J ==
* [[Faking Amnesia]]: Inverted. {{spoiler|Touma}} loses his memory but passes it off as a joke so Index doesn't feel bad.
* [[Faking the Dead]]: Touma's Dad, one of his friends, and an unnamed Gemstone do this in the second SS Volume by blowing up an unmanned Cessna that the bad guys thought they were on. We don't get to see it happen, though; we're just told that that's how they ended up resolving the situation.
* [[Failure Is the Only Option]]: For Mikoto in the Railgun Sisters Arc. No matter what she does, she never manages to catch a break, especially when fighting Touma.
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** Touma has a thing for [[Cool Big Sis|Onee-sans]], something he doesn't like talked about in public.
** Hamazura gets constantly picked on for his love of [[Playboy Bunny|Bunnygirls]].
** TsuchimikadoMotoharu is an unrepentant [[Brother-Sister Incest|sis-con]].
** Awaki apparently likes [[Shotacon|little boys]].
** The less said about [[Anything That Moves|Aogami]] or [[Psycho Lesbian|Kuroko]] the better.
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* [[Funbag Airbag]]: Komoe-Sensei in the second intro.
* [[Functional Magic]]: Two types. The magicians use Rule Magic, with a bit of device magic (created through the rule magic) thrown in for good measure. The espers used to be Inherent Gift magic. That is, until someone figured out how to artificially "gift" people.
* [[Genre Savvy]]: After {{spoiler|getting hit with magic-induced amnesia}}, Touma knows that any bizarre-looking characters he encounters are likely {{spoiler|important acquaintances of his}}. He's quite proud of this prediction, actually. Unfortunately, the first time he tries this, [[Wrong Genre Savvy|he's wrong]]. {{spoiler|But the person is quite important to what's going on, regardless.}}
* [[Girl of the Week]]: Generally, Touma's plotline revolves around a particular girl in each volume (e.g. Index in the first, Aisa in the second, Mikoto and her clones in the third). Though said girls can show up again later, with Index and Mikoto being major characters.
* [[Glowing Eyes of Doom]]: Accelerator's red eyes and some of the Level 5s when they start to fight, also {{spoiler|Index's eyes when under Johann's Pen Mode.}}
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* [[Gratuitous Italian]]: When Touma and Index are in Italy, natch. Complete with horrible grammar and [[AcCENT Upon the Wrong SylLABle]].
* [[Handicapped Badass]]: In connection with [[Good Is Dumb]] and [[No Good Deed Goes Unpunished]], {{spoiler|Accelerator suffers major brain damage at the end of his first arc, requiring a cane and the Sisters' [[Hive Mind]] to remain functional and use his powers}}. He's a [[Badass]] since he can still use his incredible redirection powers, {{spoiler|if only for 15 minutes at a time. But seriously, with that kind of power, few enemies would last 15 ''seconds''.}}
* [[Harem Show]]: Touma's harem includes but is not limited to: Index, Misaka Mikoto, Tsukuyomi Komoe, Himegami Aisa, Kanzaki Kaori, Orsola Aquinas, Agnese Sanctis, Fukiyose Seiri, at least some of the [[Over Nine Thousand|9,968]] Misaka Imoutos, and Itsuwa. And since {{spoiler|volumeVolume 20, Lessar is on it too. Volume 2 of New Testament has some '''very''' heavy hinting from Kumokawa Seria, considering she went from [[Teen Genius|genius]] to "blankly sitting around like an idiot" during his disappearance. In the same Volume, Touma finally make his [[Drunken Boxing|glorious]] return, maknig the papers and all, greeted by all of his female acquaintances in Academy including: Hyouka, Seria, Fukiyose, Komoe, Aisa, and '''AWAKI'''. Mikoto ends up complaining about the guy to girl ratio and yells at them to stop taking her scene.}} [[Unwanted Harem|Touma is genuinely bothered by his harem.]]
* [[Heads I Win, Tails You Lose]]: This describes {{spoiler|Othinus' path to becoming a full Magic God. If she succeeded in constructing Gungnir, it would give her access to her full power. If Ollerus interfered and used a spell to weaken her, she could twist that spell into also giving her access to her full power}}.
* [[Healing Factor]]:
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* [[Inverse Law of Complexity to Power]]: The level 5's of the world seem to have very broad powers. Misaka boasts power over [[Shock and Awe|electricity]], while Accelerator has [[Attack Reflector|control over all physical vectors]]. Lesser espers have abilities like Jufuku Miho's Dummy Check, which simply makes her [[Invisible|less noticeable]] to those around her.
** This may simply be because of the 'choosing' of who gets to level-up their abilities, or that the ranking depends partially ON the versatility. If Dummy Check was leveled up, it could be [[Confusion Fu|the controlling of the perceptions of others]] [[Up to Eleven|in general]].
* [[Irony]]:
* [[Irony]]:* Of the [[Dramatic Irony|rather cruel kind]]. Touma manages to prevent {{spoiler|the yearly erasure of Index's memories}}, just to {{spoiler|lose his own when he was hit on the head by those white feathers which were a side effect of the [[Frickin' Laser Beams]] cast by Index in [[Super-Powered Evil Side|Johann's Pen Mode]].}}
** Accelerator, after slaughtering over ten thousand Sisters, {{spoiler|takes a bullet to the head to finish saving a particular Sister. He's then dependent on the remaining Sisters to let him walk, talk and use his ability again.}}
** The entire Magic God Othinus arc. The entire world mobilizes to stop Othinus from gaining her full power as a Magic God, {{spoiler|and fails. Touma, the sole survivor, fights Othinus and manages to talk her into a [[Heel Face Turn]]. She restores the world and is prepared to die for her crimes. This then leads to Touma fighting ''against'' the rest of the world to keep her from dying.}}
== K-O ==
* [[Karma Houdini Warranty]]: Accelerator. After killing over ten thousand clones in order to improve his own power, he starts to make a [[Heel Face Turn]]... {{spoiler|only to get shot in the head (the bullet being slightly weakened by his power) and suffer brain damage. He's now dependent on others (the surviving clones, in fact) to walk, talk or use his ability.}}
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* [[Kindhearted Cat Lover]]: If someone is shown being kind to cats in this franchise, there is no doubt that he or she is a bona-fide good guy.
* [[Knight Templar]]: Literal knights, in fact. The 13 Knights of the Roman Catholic Church will hunt down the traitor Izzard no matter if innocent people are in crossfire.
** The same goes for the Knights of England, {{spoiler|who were reponsibleresponsible for the death of Ellis who was a subject of an magic/esper experiment despite Ellis already suffering from it. Their actions would come back to haunt England 20 years later when Sherry Cromwell, Ellis' magician friend, tries to start a war between AcdemyAcademy City and Necessarius.}}
** God's Right Seat is not above slaughtering innocent "pagans" in order to further their goals. Even if they happen to be [[Well-Intentioned Extremist|well-intentioned.]]
* [[Lampshade Hanging]]: Touma acknowledges his tendency to break into long monologues: "Quit getting depressed in this kinda long prologue!"
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** Prior to the start of the series, this was done to Index regularly, as her perfect memory would overload her brain otherwise ({{spoiler|See [[Artistic Licence Biology]] for how this wasn't the case}}). It's also inflicted on Touma at the end of Volume 1.
** NT Volume 11 reveals that Touma has another case of this. {{spoiler|Due to brain damage accidentally inflicted by Misaki, he has both retrograde and anterograde amnesia specific to her. He can still remember that Academy City's #5 Level 5 is an expert with the human brain, but can't remember anything about the person herself}}.
* [[Last-Name Basis]]: The narration usually refers to characters by their surnames, and many characters do so as well.
* [[Late Arrival Spoiler]]:
** Touma loses his memories, permanently! Some fans find this as a [[They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot|waste]]. However, [[Fan Dumb|most seems to forget]] that Touma's memory loss is permanent so there's no way for him get them back and even Touma keeps it a secret. In Volumes 14 and 16, it gets partially addressed when {{spoiler|Mikoto learns about Touma's memory loss and later confronts him about it and he asked her to keep it a secret.}}
** Another one is Accelerator's {{spoiler|[[Heel Face Turn]]}} after Volume 5. The character sheet doesn't even bother to hide this anymore.
** Othinus {{spoiler|gains her full power and destroys the world, is talked into a [[Heel Face Turn]], then loses her power and becomes a 15 cm tall fairy, finally moving in with Touma as a second freeloader}}. It's very difficult to discuss volumes from NT Volume 9 onwards for this reason.
* [[Layered World]]:
** Heaven and Hell (and other comparable places) are believed to be in the same physical location as Earth, but on different "wavelength". An analogy is that Heaven is ultraviolet rays, Earth is visible light, and Hell is infrared light. Normally, the different worlds are unable to interact. More is revealed in NT Volume 9, with the concept of phases. {{spoiler|These are filters that have been imposed over the world by the various religions throughout history. Underneath them all lies the Pure World, a world untouched by magic, which is the ultimate goal of Aleister}}.
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* [[Letter Motif]]: Academy City has the Hard Science line of technology, all of which have names beginning with "Hs".
* [[Level Grinding]]: According to the Tree Diagram supercomputer, Accelerator needs to kill about 20,000 Sister clones in order to become a Level 6. And so the project begins.
** In the Railgun manga, when MuginoShizuri finds out about the project, she literally describes Accelerator's actions as "Killing 20,000 slimes to level up."
* [[Life or Limb Decision]]: Acqua specifically invokes this. He considers Imagine Breaker a threat, but is willing to let Touma live if he cuts it off. It's a good thing that he doesn't go through with it, consider [[Sealed Evil in A Can|what happens when his right hand is cut off]].
* [[Light Is Not Good]]: God's Right Seat. Each member is blessed with God's power. Except for Acqua who is the only noble member among the four, the rest are corrupt, selfish or manipulative.
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* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]: Just check out the '''MASSIVE''' [[To Aru Majutsu no Index/Characters|character sheets]].
* [[Locard's Theory]]: Idol Theory is a form of The Law of Contagion, which states that an "idol" or a duplicate which employs the symbolism of a greater object or deity will always receive a part of the power of that greater object. It also means that whatever affects the greater object will also affect the lesser object. Magicians also hypothesize that the reverse may also be true. Touma compares this to how solar panels receive energy from the sun; there are several solar panels around the world which receive a part of the limitless energy provided by the sun—although it's not even a fraction of the original, the panels still gain energy from it.
* [[Lovable Sex Maniac]]: Aogami and Kuroko are the prime offenders, though they are by no means the only ones. Lessar, Worst, Shiage and TsuchimikadoMotoharu all also have their moments.
* [[Love At First Punch]]: Inverted. Mikoto first met and took an interest in Touma after he blocked her electric attack.
* [[Love Confession]]: From Index towards Touma in the end of the first arc. Of course, he avoided any answer by changing the theme of the speech because {{spoiler|he lost his memories, permanently.}}
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* [[Meganekko]]: A couple of girls.
* [[Meido]]: Maika. She goes to a maid school and sits on a cleaning robot that spins round and round.
* [[Melee a Trois]]: A huge one in Volume 15 involving {{spoiler|GROUP, ITEM, SCHOOL, BLOCK and MEMBER}}. The arc is even unofficially called the "Battle Royale arc".
* [[Mind Rape]]: Index' Sheol Fear technique.
* [[Minor Injury Overreaction]]: Accelerator goes from toying with Touma to raging fury after Touma [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|slaps Accelerator's hand away with impunity]]. He really isn't used to [[Mage Killer|people being able to ignore his power like that]].
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* [[Mundane Fantastic]]: Esper powers such as teleportation and invisibility are just facts of life.
* [[Mundane Solution]]:
** Touma defeats Stiyl's indefinitely regenerating fire summon by {{spoiler|tripping his apartment's sprinkler system, thus washing away the runes sustaining it.}}
** An injured Awaki was scared and exhausted after her fight with {{spoiler|Kuroko, who was about to knock her out with a lamp, when... [[Just Shoot Him|BANG!!]] Problem solved.}}
* [[Mundane Utility]]: In addition to deflecting bullets and lightning bolts, Accelerator also uses his ability to protect himself from sunburn and irritating background chatter.
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{{quote|'''Touma''': [[Third Person Person|This Kamijou Touma]] won't repeat the same mistake he made back in the Nurses room.}}
** Of course, [[Tempting Fate|fate conspires against him]].
** After his {{spoiler|memory loss}} the first '''mature woman''' that {{spoiler|Touma}} saw totally naked was {{spoiler|'''Kaori Kanzaki'''.}}
* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: Here's some of them:
** In the science side: [[Attack Reflector|Vector Redirection]] (Accelerator), [[Green Lantern Ring|Dark Matter]] (Teitoku Kakine), [[Wave Motion Gun|Railgun]] (Mikoto Misaka), [[Energy Weapon|Meltdowner]] (Shizuri Mugino), [[Mind Rape|Mental Out]] (Misaki Shokuhou, "The Queen of Tokiwadai"), and [[Megaton Punch|Attack Crash]] (Gunha Sogiita)}}, a.k.a. the 7 Level 5's of Academy City. Introduced later on is {{spoiler|"the Artificial Angel" [[Our Angels Are Different|Fuze=Kazakiri]].}}
** In the magic side: {{spoiler|Index Librorum Prohibitorum (in her Johann's Pen mode)}}, Vento of the Front, Terra of the Left, Acqua of the Back, Fiamma of the Right, Knight Leader, Ollerus, The Power of God ([[Archangel Gabriel]]), The Likeness of God ([[Archangel Michael]]), [[Abstract Apotheosis|The One Above God]], and Magic God One-Eyed Othinus.
** Finally, there's "The Invisible Thing", the second most powerful being in the series, {{spoiler|currently being sealed by Imagine Breaker...}}
* [[Naughty Nuns]]: For a series with a load of nuns, close to none of them actually follow their vow of celibacy.
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* [[Necessarily Evil]]:
** Necessarius was originally formed by English Puritans to destroy magic & magic organizations in England [[Knight Templar|for God and the country's well being.]] But in order to do that, [[The End Justifies the Means|they too use magic to destroy magic,]] hence why they were called the Church Of Necessary Evil. Ironically, when the organization became a part of the Church of England, they became the very thing they try to destroy. Now, Necessarius new job is to protect Britain from any magical threats that threaten the country, no matter what.
** In the fourth volume of New Testament, it's claimed that this is the reason why Academy City doesn't share most of its technology and scientific knowledge with the outside world. {{spoiler|The Kihara family arise from unchecked scientific research, and spreading Academy City's knowledge would only cause them to appear everywhere and bring chaos. However, this is all according to a Kihara.}}.
* [[New Technology Is Evil]]: [[Holier Than Thou|Vento of the Front]] sees people who use technology and Espers as Heretics and thinks they deserved to be killed. All because {{spoiler|[[Freudian Excuse|her older brother died from a Ferris Wheel accident that she survived.]]}}
* [[New Transfer Student]]:
* [[New Transfer Student]]:* Subverted when Komoe-sensei announces Touma's class will be getting a new student. Index walks into the classroom, only it turns out she was lost and looking for Touma. Himegami is the actual new transfer student.
** Played straight when Kakeru transfers to the same school that Touma's school is temporarily merged with.
* [[90% of Your Brain]]: 85% of Index's mind is taken up by the grimoire collection. This leaves her only able to maintain one year of memories. {{spoiler|Subverted when Komoe-sensei not only reveals that the 15% = one year explanation was completely wrong, and goes on to explain in layman's terms how the brain works with memory}}. Also averted in the fact that the 85% thing is about her memory, not "brain function" as the claim usually is with this trope.
* [[Ninja]]: The ninja in the series stand out for how relatively normal they are. They're all [[Badass Normal|normal people without supernatural powers]], and use whatever tools or strategies they need to win. Though one group of ninjas, the one to whom Oumi belongs, are trying to gain supernatural powers in order to keep up in a changing world.
* [[No Good Deed Goes Unpunished]]: The first time Accelerator actually tries to ''help'' someone with his powers and what does he get? {{spoiler|A bullet to the head for his troubles; though he survives, he gets brain damage that makes him reliant on the Sisters' [[Hive Mind]] to make up for the impaired brain functions. His powers are also reduced; he can only use them for 15 minutes at a time.}}
* [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown]]: The second round of Accelerator's battle with KakineTeitoku. [[Curb Stomp Battle|Not that it really could be even called a battle...]] {{spoiler|After attacking Yomikawa and awakening}}, [[Too Dumb to Live|KakineTeitoku starts gloating about how Acclerator isn't even an opponent to him anymore, merely an object to test his new power on.]] The next line of text is [[Ludicrous Gibs|Splat...]]
* [[Nominal Importance]]:
* [[Nominal Importance]]:* Averted with a character who, despite being important in Volume 15 and showing up again in Volume 19, is still only known amongst the fandom as [http://toarumajutsunoindex.wikia.com/wiki/Girl_in_dress "Girl In Dress."]
** Deliberately averted with the members of Useful Spider, none of whom receive any names. In the afterword of NT Volume 17, the author comments that this was to give them a different impression to the usual named characters.
* [[No Name Given]]: There are a lot of people or things that don't get named. Touma's school, which usually gets described as A Certain High School; the 6th Level 5 has yet to be named; the girl in the red dress, a member of SCHOOL never gets named; Heaven Canceller goes just by that (or is nicknamed the "frog-faced doctor"); Accelerator's real name is never given; the same for Aogami. Index has taken that as her name, if she ever had a real one to begin with.
* [[Non Sequitur Scene]]: Regarding the [[Shout-Out|Heavy]] [[Show Within a Show|Object]] C-movie:
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** Played straight and subverted. Soon after Touma just met her, Misaka Imouto gave him one. It's how he told her apart from Misaka, who always wears [[Modesty Shorts]].
** [[Justified Trope|Justified]] as Kuroko needs to feel comfortable in order to do the calculations for her powers.
** Averted by Mikoto and MuginoShizuri, both whom [[Modesty Shorts|wear a pair of shorts under their skirt]] to avoid becoming [[Ms. Fanservice]].
* [[Papa Wolf]]: In episode 20 and the 5th novel, {{spoiler|Accelerator}} refused to kill Last Order and stood up against Amai Ao to protect the remaining sisters although {{spoiler|he got a bullet in the brain by Amai.}}
** Bonus points on this because the author, Kazuma Kamachi, clearly states on the Volume 22's Afterwords section that Accelerator is like a parent for Last Order.
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* [[Physical God]]: The concept of a Magic God, one who reaches the pinnacle of magic. {{spoiler|Multiple examples appear as major villains in New Testament}}.
* [[Playing with Syringes]]: Academy City is built around this trope. Its stated purpose is development of esper powers through experimenting on children on a massive scale. And then there's the countless experiments done in the dark side, which don't even have to pretend to be ethical...
* [[Pretty Freeloaders|Pretty Freeloader]]: Index, and thanks to {{spoiler|his memory-loss}}, {{spoiler|Touma doesn't even know why!}} Later on, {{spoiler|Othinus becomes a second freeloader. Thankfully, her smaller size means she doesn't increase living expenses too much.}}▼
* [[Post-Modern Magik]]: Especially used by the Amakusa Catholics.
* [[Power Born of Madness]]: The basis of esper abilities is being so out of touch with reality, that you can force it to behave the way you want. This is especially apparent with the seven Level 5s, the most powerful and the most delusional of them all.
* [[Powered Armor]]: Widely used by Academy city's military and other departments.
* [[Power Gives You Wings]]: More prevalent in the Science side than the Magic side, but once you reach a certain tier, you're most likely going to grow wings. Just ask {{spoiler|Accelerator, KakineTeitoku, Hyouka and Index.}}
* [[Power Limiter]]: {{spoiler|Shizuri Mugino}} has one to prevent her powers from harming her. Apparently if she released it {{spoiler|she could kill Mikoto instantly but at the price of her life. She came back to life, [[Came Back Wrong|but not in a good way]].}}
* [[Power Perversion Potential]]: A mundane version. Touma loses a bet with Mikoto, [[Wager Slave|where the loser has to do everything the winner says for an entire day]]. The night before the day in question, Mikoto is writhing around on her bed, moaning and muttering "What should I have you do next?" Kuroko notes she's been like that for a few days.
* [[Power Trio]]:
** The Delta Force, consisting of Touma, TsuchimikadoMotoharu and Aogami, is a group of idiots who basically do nothing but screw around... {{spoiler|except Touma is [[The Hero]], TsuchimikadoMotoharu is a Super Spy and no one knows what's going on with Aogami, but considering that isn't his actual name, there a theories he's not what he first appears to be.}}
** Touma, Accelerator and HamazuraShiage may also count, despite the fact that any time they interact with each other they are trying to commit at least bodily harm to the other. {{spoiler|Until New Testament at least.}}
** Just for New Testament volumeVolume 3, Shiage, Worst and Umidori.
* [[Pragmatic Adaptation]]: Surprisingly for a [[J.C.Staff]] light novel adaptation, the anime is very faithful to the novels. However some parts of the novels have to be cut for time and constraint like {{spoiler|the serial killer in the Angel Fall arc.}}
▲* [[Pretty Freeloaders|Pretty Freeloader]]: Index, and thanks to {{spoiler|his memory-loss}}, {{spoiler|Touma doesn't even know why!}} Later on, {{spoiler|Othinus becomes a second freeloader. Thankfully, her smaller size means she doesn't increase living expenses too much.}}
* [[Private Military Contractors]]: Trident, {{spoiler|introduced in New Testament Volume 3, hired by a media mogul to assist GREMLIN and defeat the American military stationed there.}}
* [[The Protagonist]]: The novels as a whole take great pains in delving into the differing natures of 'protagonists' and heroes (or heroines). Of the three mains, one is the type who will always do what he feels is right, another is the type who wants to right what he percieves as wrongs, and another just wants to protect the girl who is closest to him. They also go into detail about what a protagonist is and how they affect the people around them.
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* [[Science Fantasy]]
* [[Send in the Clones]]: {{spoiler|Double}} subversion, it's not {{spoiler|the Sister clones that Academy City is sending to Russia, its their 2nd generation counterparts, The [[Evil Twin|Misaka Worst clones]]!}}
* [[Serious Business]]: Touma's class, especially the Delta Force, eat and breathe a mix of [[Serious Business]], [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?]] and a dash of [[What Do You Mean It's Not Heinous?]]. When someone made Komoe-sensei cry, their response was more like an all out war than anything. The cafeteria sold out because the class was let out late? Organize a small scale break out so some members can go get some food from a local store. Someone mention Nabe? Let's all go out too eat~! Of course, the Delta Force (Touma, Aogami and TsuchimikadoMotoharu) are the worst, getting into fist fights over being called Onii-chan by TsuchimikadoMotoharu's [[Brother-Sister Incest|beloved]] [[Not Blood Siblings|little step]] [[Meido|sister]] and which is better: Red, black or white bunny girls.
** In the second SS Novel, Jeans.
* [[Shadow Archetype]]: Kakeru is this to Touma. Both are self-proclaimed normal highschool students, with an [[Unwanted Harem]] and a special ability in their right hand. Both are compelled to save people in need. While Touma's Imagine Breaker destroys illusions, Kakeru's World Rejector drags people into their desired world. {{spoiler|However, Kakeru absolutely hates his power, thinking that it has warped the minds of the girls around him and that they are only interested in him because of it. Unlike Touma, he actually grew up as a normal person, only gaining World Rejector recently.}}
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** Index/Touma: Surprisingly, Mikoto's mother Misuzu is very well aware of this and...
** Mikoto/Touma: ... ''this'' too.
** Kaori/Touma: TsuchimikadoMotoharu seems to love teasing her about this... and so do [[Everyone Can See It|her former comrades from the Amakusa Catholics.]] {{spoiler|Later ''half of England'' finds out about this.}}
** Itsuwa/Touma: Nee-chin, you're going to be in a very heated [[Lover Tug of War]] with your kouhai: and to make things worse your former comrades are all cheering for her [[Verbal Tic|nya~]]
* [[Ship Tease]]: Anytime Touma spends time with any of the girls (who have a crush on him), they are just darn right adorable.
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** The #6 Level 5, Aihana Etsu. Nothing is known about them besides their name, not even their power.
** Touma gains this reputation over the course of the series. This becomes especially apparent when he introduces himself to Shinka, who's immediately frightened and talks about how he's capable of knocking out anyone with a single punch and seduces every girl he comes across.
* [[Skirt Over Slacks]]: Mikoto and MuginoShizuri.
* [[Slasher Smile]]: Accelerator's smile when he get serious or when he is enjoying a fight... or a murder.
** Touma' smile at the end of the second arc where his arm got severed by Aureoulus Izzard, also this plus his evil laugh which scared the alchemist.
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** Othinus stands far above God's Right Seat, In her first appearance, {{spoiler|she easily crushes the Invisible Thing, which terrified Fiamma in his most powerful state}}!
** But even Othinus can't hold a candle to {{spoiler|the Magic Gods of the true GREMLIN, whom she had no idea even existed}}.
* [[Spanner in the Works]]: Shiage was a nobody that somehow defeated {{spoiler|MuginoShizuri}}. Something [[The Chessmaster|Aleister]] did not expect.
* [[Spell My Name With An "S"]]: "Laura" Stuart's first name should actually be "Lola", but until NT Volume 18, translations have consistently had it as the former. This actually hid an important plot point: {{spoiler|that Lola is actually Aleister's daughter Lola Zaza Crowley (based on the daughter of the same name by the real-life Aleister Crowley.}}
* [[Squishy Wizard]]: After his fire summon is negated, Stiyl goes down with a single uppercut from Touma, who to be fair has a pretty impressive punch. {{spoiler|Accelerator, the strongest psychic in Academy City,}} has no experience in streetfighting and subsequently [[Glass Cannon|thus goes down to a flurry of Touma's punches]] as well.
* [[Stalker with a Crush]]:
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** And then there's Accelerator. He can change the velocity vectors of anything he comes into contact with, be it bullets or [[Elemental Powers]]—even automatically if he is in danger. When a character can theoretically [[Flight|fly]], replicate the effects of a variety of other offensive powers, [[Won't Work On Me|shrug off]] a nuclear bomb without even trying, and still have time for an [[Evil Laugh]], you have to wonder if something went wrong somewhere...
** On the other hand of the spectrum you have people like Uiharu who, while her friends can shoot lightning or teleport, has the amazing superpower to {{spoiler|keep things she touches at a constant temperature. But only things which aren't too hot or cold for her to hold}}. People being frustrated with their weak powers is also the plot hook for the "Level Upper" arc in Railgun.
** In the magic side we have, {{spoiler|William Orville}}, better known as Acqua of the Back. He is special because he is blessed by God's power yet at the same time can use magic when the price of God's blessing is that they can't use magic. He can cast more powerful spells than most magicians and furthermore, he's a Saint, which gives him super strength and the ability to call upon God's powers! Heck, this man is a Walking Hax, hence his nickname "Superman".}}
** And then you have Fiamma of the Right. Why? He's a bloody [[SNK Boss]]! The guy can move at godlike speed, destroy everything including a city in one move without any destructive force, and cast a gigantic 40 km [[Flaming Sword]]!}}
** {{spoiler|Touma. Yes, that Touma. Revealed{{spoiler| It's revealed on Volume 22 that on the off-chance ofif someone choppingchopps ofoff his right arm (again), he will manifest something onfrom his shoulder that will make anything the above mentionedaforementioned Fiamma can pull off pale in comparison, and he still has something ''even stronger'' that can literally swallow the first power and regrow lost limbs. He discarded both though.}}
** Surprisingly, {{spoiler|Takitsubo, the esper with [[Mega Manning|the power manipulate to AIM fields]], which are themselves the source of esper powers. While her powers aren't fully developed yet, if she became level 5 she'd single-handedly make the entire Academy City esper program obsolete.}}
** Magic Gods make all of the above look weak. {{spoiler|They can casually destroy the universe on a whim, and recreate it with the same amount of effort}}.
** Kakeru is a third person with a unique ability in his right hand, known as World Rejector. He can banish anyone with conflicting desires in their heart, {{spoiler|even Magic Gods}}!
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* [[Talking Is a Free Action]]: A lot of people in this show have the strange habit of starting [[Mr. Exposition|long monologues to explain what they're about to do]] while attacking an enemy.
* [[Tantrum Throwing]]: Index throws things at Touma a number of times, often because of things that weren't really his fault to begin with.
* [[Teen Genius]]: Accelerator. What really makes him awesome (aside from being an unorthodox psychopath and grand prize winner in the [[Superpower Lottery]]) are his [[Good with Numbers|outstanding calculation abilities]]. Most notably, {{spoiler|saving Last Order by [[Hollywood Hacking|reprogramming her brain with electricity]]. Which required translating inbetween computer code on screen (memorized by being looked at once), electric signals, biological memories and what they actually mean in human context in a very short amount of time, totally improvised; calculating the flow of the winds to use vector shift to make the air form plasma, which requires either a high amount of density or temperature; figuring out and integrating the formula of dark matter, a "substance" he's never come across and is supposed to be completely alien to the common laws of physics, in his calculations to disarm KakineTeitoku. The world's greatest [[Good with Numbers|mathematical genius]] and [[Cut Lex Luthor a Check|you send him to kill of a bunch of middle schoolers]].}}
** Proven even more by the fact that it takes {{spoiler|10,000 clones}} to make up for his calculation skills.
* [[Teleporters and Transporters]]:
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** And there's Awaki, who's even more powerful than Kuroko as not only can she teleport objects without touching them, she can teleport objects as heavy as 4,500kg! She gets [[Teleportation Sickness|ill]] from teleporting herself, though.
** In Volume 17, the spiritual item known as Skíðblaðnir is introduced, a group of suitcases which allow the transportation of objects to the other identical suitcases over a range of 100 km.
* [[Tempting Fate]]: At the end of NT Volume 17, Touma and Index return home. After two volumes of non-stop action, they're relieved at a chance to relax. Literally 5 seconds later, NT Volume 18 begins.
* [[That Came Out Wrong]]: When Misaka and Kuroko are discussing lingerie, and Kuroko suspects Misaka might want to buy breast pads to please Touma.
{{quote|'''Misaka''': No way, I have no interest in that! Anyway, I'd get found out when I take off my clothes! *[[A Beat|beat]]*, during which Kuroko goes [[Colour Failure|white with shock]]* That's not it! For gym! I meant when we're changing for gym!}}
* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]: Reversed with Touma's verbal barrage at Aureolus.
** Actually, Touma weaponizes [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]] relatively often. It's how he managed to live through his first battle through Kaori (and eventually get her friendship), and how he managed to distract Izzard {{spoiler|long enough to make his powers stop working so he could hit Izzard with Imagine Breaker.}}
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* [[Third Person Person]]: The Sisters narrate everything they say in third person, complete with descriptions of how they are speaking and what they are doing at the time. {{spoiler|It probably goes with the [[Hive Mind]].}} Last Order takes this a step further by stating said descriptions of intonation and current activity ''twice''.
* [[This Looks Like a Job For Aquaman]]: Even though [[What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?|Touma's abilities aren't really that spectacular when compared with the abilities of everyone else]], they end up being the only thing that can save the day most of the time. Which is [[Justified Trope|justified]] because most of Touma's opponents rely on their supernatural powers. Against opponents who are able to fight without powers, he has trouble.
* [[Through His Stomach]]: Because of Index, this has turned into the main way Touma deals with women. Misaka Imouto angry? Offer to feed her. Last Order annoyed? Popcorn is the perfect solution. He even [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades it.]]▼
* [[Thunder Shock]]: Index and Aisa (plus a [[Color Failure]]), when Komoe starts [[Squee|happily]] talking about how Touma was a naughty boy, and how "various things" happened. Though in this case it's more like a Thunder ''Rage'':
{{quote|'''Index:'''"[[Harem Genre|Another one]]?"
'''Aisa:''' "That bastard." }}
▲* [[Through His Stomach]]: Because of Index, this has turned into the main way Touma deals with women. Misaka Imouto angry? Offer to feed her. Last Order annoyed? Popcorn is the perfect solution. He even [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades it.]]
* [[Training from Hell]]: The Necessarius training ground. It was actually toned down by the time of Volume 17, which involves being trapped in an isolated room and forced to conjure survival gear through magic. It was used against one of the New Light members.▼
* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: The escaping Hound Dog from the factory battle who thought it would be a good idea to stop just before making it to safety, turn around, and {{spoiler|[[Do Not Taunt Cthulhu|taunt Accelerator]] about how his comrades were going to kill Last Order.}}▼
* [[Token Minority|Token Minorities]]- Within Necessarius, a British Anglican organization these three are the token minorities within the organization.
** Kaori Kanzaki: Japanese, Catholic, Swordswomen and a Saint.
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* [[Tome of Eldritch Lore]]: When Index mentions a few of the books she houses, they [[Shout-Out|include]] both the [[H.P. Lovecraft|Book of the Dead (a.k.a. the Necronomicon) AND the Book of Eibon]]. [[Eldritch Abomination|Is it any wonder she's wanted so badly?]]
** All grimoires appear to be this. They only want to have their knowledge spread. Knowledge that is extremely dangerous to anyone who reads it, and in order to have it read they will do anything.
▲* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: The escaping Hound Dog from the factory battle who thought it would be a good idea to stop just before making it to safety, turn around, and {{spoiler|[[Do Not Taunt Cthulhu|taunt Accelerator]] about how his comrades were going to kill Last Order.}}
* [[Took a Level in Badass]]:
** Remember Kazakiri Hyouka? The useless, [[Shrinking Violet|scaredy]], [[Meganekko]] girl with big boobs? Well, by episode 24/the end of Volume 6, she {{spoiler|fights an enormous Golem with [[Super Strength]].}} In the later novels, she takes this trope [[Up to Eleven]] when {{spoiler|she becomes an artificial angel. In this form, she can fight Archangel Gabriel, a being capable of casually destroying the planet, singlehandedly}}!
** Subverted by Touma, who doesn't ever actually improve over the course of the novels. He just repeatedly uses the same thing over and over again to more and more awesome results, though he does get [[Spider Sense|precognition]] later on, simply by having the shit beaten out of him so many times by [[Game Breaker|crazy powerful opponents]] that his mind starts to sense these powerful attacks coming.
▲* [[Training from Hell]]: The Necessarius training ground. It was actually toned down by the time of Volume 17, which involves being trapped in an isolated room and forced to conjure survival gear through magic. It was used against one of the New Light members.
* [[Traintop Battle]]: Touma fights Freyja on board a subway train.
* [[Trying to Catch Me Fighting Dirty]]: Touma to a small degree. Using psychological warfare on one enemy and throwing a shovel full of dust at another, he's shown not to really care much about fighting fair.
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== U-Z ==
* [[The Un-Reveal]]: Some examples along the series:
** The sixth Level 5 esper is mentioned several times, but almost nothing is revealed about them, not even their age, gender or ability. New Testament Volume 12 confirms that their name is Etsu Aihana, but that's pretty much it.
** We still haven't seen {{spoiler|the fifth (but at least we know about her powers) and the sixth Level 5 esper.}}
** From Vol.7, we don't know the contents of Kaori's letter because she refused to hear the contents from Touma in front of her while blushing, even worse when Tsuchimikado bumpedMotoharubumped in to the room:
{{quote|'''Kaori''': “Do I have to say it in front of this guy? Why is this guy so inopportune in coming here?”}}
** In Vol. 22, {{spoiler|besides his memory loss, Touma tells something else to Index before disappearing after crashing the [[Star of Bethlehem]] on Gabriel}}. Only Index and Touma himself know what it was.
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** Kakeru is this [[Played for Drama]]. He believes that he isn't deserving of his harem as (unlike the previous examples) he really was just an ordinary student before receiving the power of World Rejector.
* [[Unwitting Pawn]]:
** {{spoiler|The Pope. {{spoiler|Under the belief that Touma is some herecticheretic that wiilwill destroy the world by his former mentor Fiamma, he follows Fiamma's advice on what the Catholic Church should do during the series without even asking about it. By the time the Pope [[Heel Realization|realizes that everything Fiamma told him to do was not for the church but for his selfish ambitions]], Fiamma casts a spell to [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness|destroy the the Vatican]]. The Pope diverts the spell [[Heroic Sacrifice|onto himself]] to save the Vatican. Though he survives, he is hospitalized.}}
** Touma is used by ''everyone'' for whatever reason, and never realizes it until it's too late.
** {{spoiler|In New Testament Volume 3, the GREMLIN members that the heroes face are themselves unwitting pawns {{spoiler|for the true members of the organization. They only sought to make the volcano erupt as part of an experiment.}}
** The ending of NT Volume 10 reveals that even {{spoiler|Othinus}} was no more than a pawn for {{spoiler|the true GREMLIN, an organization of Magic Gods that she knew nothing about}}.
* [[Urban Fantasy]]
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* [[Would Hit a Girl]]: Despite his [[The Dulcinea Effect|chivalrous nature]] Touma has no problem attacking females he knows that are harming/murdering innocent people or his friends.
* [[Xanatos Speed Chess]]: Aleister and Lola play this with each other, incorporating new elements ({{spoiler|Shiage managing to defeat Shizuri, Kakeru's appearance}}) into their plans as they appear.
* [[You Leave Him Alone|You Leave Her Alone!]] Invoked by Touma as challenges the invicibleinvincible heartless psychopath AcceleratrorAccelerator to stop him from murdering yet another Misaka sister, armed with nothing but bravery, kindness and a mean right jab.
* [[X Meets Y]]: ''[[X-Men]]'' meets ''[[Angels & Demons]].''
* [[Yaoi Fangirl]]: Tsuchimikado Maika, the Maid, who asks Mikoto to pickup some [[Boys Love]] manga for her. {{spoiler|Except it isn't for her, it's for her friend, she's more interested in [[Brother-Sister Incest]] manga, which is kinda funny since her brother...}}
* [[Younger Than They Look]]: See [[Artistic Age]].
* [[Your Mind Makes It Real]]: {{spoiler|Izzard's Ars Magna-type alchemy. Basically, an Ars Magna user is a [[Reality Warper]] via the combined effect of [[Master of Illusion]] and this trope. His effects are very real, but they rely on his will to keep it going beyond effects already wrought on reality by his "illusions". Touma only beats Izzard by scaring him half to death and causing him to buff up Touma with a ''dragon for an arm''.}}
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