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'''A note on timelines:''' The manga's events begin two weeks before the ''Index'' novel and anime. The anime, however, violates this by adapting events from Volume 8 of the novels into the anime's first episode. As it stands, Chapters 18 to 39 occur around the time of Volume 3 in the novels, Chapter 40 is around volume 5, Chapters 41-42 and around volume 8 and Chapters 43-current take place around volume 9.

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== A-E ==

* [[Adaptation Expansion]]: The anime gives more character development to the cast from the ''Railgun'' manga and even explains more details about Academy City and the people who live there. Furthermore, {{spoiler|It continues where Level Upper arc left off and gives it a proper end.}}

** The entire series is essentially this, especially ''Railgun''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s version of {{spoiler|the Sisters arc}}, which explains Mikoto's struggles against {{spoiler|the Level 6 experiment}} in more detail compared to the ''Index'' version. It also shows a more introspective side of Accelerator, {{spoiler|which makes his [[Face Heel Turn]] more understandable}}.

** Not to be outdone, previous [[Butt Monkey]] {{spoiler|Kongo Mitsuko}} pulls this off twice. The first time was, [[Offscreen Moment of Awesome|unfortunately]] off screen. The second time she {{spoiler|knocks two helicopters out of the sky by blasting a truck at them.}} Not bad.

* [[Big Eater]]: Index's and Himegami's respective appetites haven't vanished even while cameoing over to this series.

* [[Big Ol' Eyebrows]]: {{spoiler|The reason for Miho for attacking Tokiwadai students in the first place.}}

* [[Black Bra and Panties]]: Saten rummages through Kuroko's underwear drawer, pulling a progression of worse and worse items. It starts with a pair of these, and ends with {{spoiler|full-body fishnet stockings}}.

* [[Call Back]]: In the beginning of episode 1, Mikoto is humming a particular tune. Later in the end of episode 7, Touma is humming the same tune.

* [[Call Forward]]: In the Sister's arc, Mikoto has to fight {{spoiler|Frenda of ITEM. At one one point she almost loses her legs and comments that they're her pride as a woman. Guess what happens later on in the Index novels... If you guessed having her legs blown off, give yourself a pat on the back.}}

* [[Canon Immigrant]]: Anything from characters to plotlines in the Railgun manga/anime is canon in the main Index series as it was made by the [[Word of God|author of the novels.]] This include Saten who makes a cameo appearance in the novels and {{spoiler|Capacity Down is used on Accelerator in Vol 19 of the novels.}} This also counts in the Railgun manga where anything that happen in the Railgun anime actually did happen in the manga hence why Erii is canon including {{spoiler|Harumi's students being cured.}}

** There's also Shinobu Nunotaba, a scientist formerly working on the Radio Noise project, and Nayuta Kihara, who has already ascended to canon through [[Word of God]].

* [[Clap Your Hands If You Believe]]: Esper powers affect reality based on their users' internal reality. According to the pseudoscience of the series, if a [[wikipedia:Schrödinger's cat|Schrödinger's cat]] experiment was set up, espers would find the cat in the state that they believed it to be, because they believed strongly enough that the cat was that way. Hypnosis, brainwashing and drugs are used to throw the subjects' internal reality out of whack. So, it might be argued that the strongest espers like Mikoto and Accelerator are the most stubbornly out of touch with the reality normal people live in.

* [[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.

* [[Cool Car]]: Kiyama's Lamborghini. Saten is also seen cross-stitching a different Lamborghini during the school festival.

* [[Cutting the Knot]]: Averted with Touma. A lot of ''Railgun''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s plots could have been solved in about three seconds if he were there.

** Justified: Touma is the [[Hero of Another Story]], usually; ''Railgun'' is Mikoto's place to shine.

* [[Fetus Terrible]]: {{spoiler|A flying psychic malformed embryo... ''thing''... formed from the negative emotions of thousands of espers. Not really conscious but damn good at blowing stuff up. [[Nigh Invulnerable|Regenerates in a fraction of a second]]. Also, ''[[Oh Crap|tentacles]]''. Only [[The Power of Rock]] can save you now.}}

** {{spoiler|Nope, [[A Worldwide Punomenon|Only My Railgun]] can save you now.}}

** The novels state they are artificial flowers.

* [[Foreshadowing]]: In the manga {{spoiler|Kiyama}} gives a hint to Mikoto over where she got the idea to create {{spoiler|Level Upper}}. The origin of that idea? {{spoiler|The Sisters project.}} Skipped in Railgun anime which is switched to {{spoiler|Telestina telling Mikoto everyone in Academy City is a guinea pig to reach Level 6.}}

** Remember some of those Urban Legends the girls were talking at episode 4? {{spoiler|Other than the ones directly addressed in the Level Upper story arc, all of them hint about things that happen in the ''Index'' anime.}}

* [[For Science!]]!: We get a flashback of a previous incident in which orphaned children (complete with one girl talking about how grateful she was to the city for taking care of them) are used as research experiments (you see where this is going, right?) {{spoiler|and ultimately sent into comas when put through a treatment to test pushing psychic powers to their limits. As the experiment goes terribly wrong, the head researcher stops another from calling for ambulances, saying the results are much more interesting and no one will miss the children}}.

** It doesn't help that the {{spoiler|Academy City's Board of Directors}} allows this kind of activity.

* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: Miho Jufuku shares the same voice as [[Lyrical Nanoha|Nanoha]]

** Kurozuma Wataru is voiced by [[Katsuyuki Konishi]], who has also voiced Kamina of ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]''.

* [[Hive Mind]]: The true purpose of the {{spoiler|"Level Upper" is simply to harness the combined mental power of 10,000 espers as a super-computer substitute; this has the side effects of temporarily increasing the participants' powers (through leaked experiences) and granting the mastermind [[All Your Powers Combined]] but later [[Power At a Price|sends the users into a coma]]}}.

** And of course, {{spoiler|the SISTERS' hivemind}} also makes an appearance here.

* [[Mama Bear]]: ''' {{spoiler|Professor Kiyama Harumi}} : ''' "I will do ''anything'' to save those children! '' '''[[Tear Jerker|Even if it involves making this entire city my enemy, I WON'T STOP!!]]''' ''"

* [[Meaningful Name]]: Shirai Kuroko's name literally translates as "White-Well Black-Girl", a nice contrast that reflects her outwardly cute but inwardly perverted persona. Mikoto even [[Lampshade Hanging|points this out]] in Episode 2 before beating her senseless, shouting ''"I'm gonna fry you as black as your name!!"''

* [[Mission Control]]: Uiharu puts her computer skills to good use in episode 3, watching the action through an extensive web of surveillance cameras and giving directions to the other three girls through their earpieces.

* [[Modesty Shorts]]: Misaka is currently the poster girl for the trope.

* [[Not So Different]]: {{spoiler|Kiyama and Mikoto. Both of them are good people who became cynical due to the fact those they care and loved were screwed by the corrupt Academy City administration (for Kiyama is was her students, for Mikoto her clone sisters) and both of them could not fight them as they were powerless against the administration. Though as shown in the "sequel" ''Index'', Mikoto eventually grows out of said-bitterness. And thankfully both of them [[Earn Your Happy Ending|got their Happy Endings]]}}.

* [[Only Sane Man|Only Sane Woman]]: Yoshikawa berates her fellow scientists over wasting their time figuring out what type of panties Mikoto wear so they could make {{spoiler|the Sister clones}} wear the same panties when they only need the cheap discount panties she bought for them. Even the Supercomputer Tree Diagram thought their idea was stupid too.

* [[Ojou]]: Most, if not all, of the Tokiwadai students are Ojous.

== P-T ==

* [[Panty Shot]]: Subverted with Saten and Uiharu. Despite Saten always flipping Uiharu's skirt, we never see the contents.

 

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