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** {{spoiler|If not the whole Girls Dead Monster band, then at least Iwasawa made it into the music industry. In episode 13 Kanade is listening to and humming "My Song".}}

* [[Broken Base]]: Is Yuri cruel or kind? {{spoiler|Is Otonashi [[The Messiah]] or a fool rushing into things? Is disappearing the best thing that can happen to people in the afterlife?}}

* [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]]: All team members that {{spoiler|sacrificed themselves}} in episode 8 got this but TK and Matsushida are the most notable ones. Hinata even [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]] this, by comparing it to a scene from shonen manga.

** Angel gets lots. Overlaps [[Mundane Made Awesome]]

*** Episode 7, Angel goes fishing.

*** As of Episode 11, {{spoiler|Angel now has freaking WINGS. As decoration (see below).}}

{{quote|{{spoiler|'''Yuri''': Just give it up. My next knife here's going to take care of your throat.}}}}

*** When {{spoiler|Otonashi}} died in the real world, he gave a particularly awesome showing of keeping a half dozen people alive despite serous injuries and few resources to work with. He tops it by {{spoiler|becoming an organ donor, just to able to help a few more people}}.

** And in episode 12, {{spoiler|Yuri destroying the computers that are creating the shadows}}.

*** {{spoiler|Special Mention goes to the fight with the shadows near the beginning of the episode which included TK spin fighting down a rail shooting shadows, Oyama sniping shadows, and a skinny Matsushita and Otanashi talking while offhandedly shooting and punching the approaching shadows.}}

** For being named after a guy who's name means 'No Sound', ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGqRyeQTuR0 Otonashi]'' is quite the earful.

* [[Deus Ex Machina]]: {{spoiler|In episode 12 there's Yuri's vision (which she receives out of nowhere) of her brothers and sisters telling her she's done enough and it's okay to end her war with God. She listens and ends her war.}}

** It certainly felt more so if you see the epilogue {{spoiler|not as an afterlife or reincarnation, but rather Otonashi's own imagining or [[Fond Memories That Could Have Been|false memory]] of meeting Kanade again to help him move on.}} But,again, an alternative ending has been confirmed.

*** And even if you interpret the ending straightly, there's still the fact that it feels like an [[Ass Pull]] just because the creators thought the real ending was too sad; or worse, the result of more [[Executive Meddling]].

* [[Dude, Not Funny]]: Yes, pulling all of those stunts to make Angel fail her tests was hilarious. However, it suddenly [[Funny Aneurysm Moment|stops being so amusing]] when you realize that: a) {{spoiler|Angel is a real human girl named Kanade Tachibana and had to suffer the consequences for getting zeroes on all her tests}} and b) {{spoiler|Naoi, her [[Ax Crazy]] vice-president, replaced her}}. {{spoiler|Oh, and just to rub the salt into the wound a bit more they then go and steal her comfort food.}} Seriously, she's so sad, [[The Woobie|it makes you want to give her a hug]].

* [[Epileptic Trees]]: There've been a few here and there, but it wasn't until the appearance of {{spoiler|the red-eyed Angel}} that they started spreading like wildfire.

{{quote|'''Anonymous''': I see what's going on. You are really TK, who is God, but Yurippe beats you and takes you memories, and then she becomes God, but she knew Otonashi in her past life, who was her childhood friend, but she fell in love with him, and when as God she realized he was going to die, so she made his sister who is really Angel who is waiting for Otonashi into the enemy and with her God powers made this world so that when Otonashi got there he would think Angel was the enemy and now she made a new Angel after Otonashi befriended the old one who is really his sister and she wants to tear them apart.}}

* [[Fan Nickname]]: The SSS Battlefront's initials are referred to as the "[[Bleach|Soul Society]] of [[Suzumiya Haruhi]]".

** There's also {{spoiler|Red Angel and Gold Angel}}, [[Color Coded for Your Convenience|based on their]] eye colors, to differentiate between the two.

* [[Funny Aneurysm Moment]]: Yui prevents Hinata from winning his team's baseball game in episode 4. Six episodes later, {{spoiler|Hinata helps her move on by promising to marry her in her next life even if she's paralyzed in that life too, meaning if it weren't for him ''she'd be stuck in Purgatory for a long time!''}}

* [[Genre Savvy]]: EVERYONE. To the extent that can be called [[Dangerously Genre Savvy|dangerous]]. Some battles are won or lost depending on who is more genre savvy. This even affects the plot: the movie is an action anime, until everyone realizes that they star in a drama.

* [[Harsher in Hindsight]]: Overlaps with [[Dude, Not Funny]] in regards to Hinata and Yui. Originally their abuse of each other is [[Slapstick Knows No Gender|fairly equal]] albeit Hinata is prone to attacking Yui more than the other way around and for no apparent reason either. Yui only attacks him out of revenge and even then it doesn't last since he's quick to deal out [[Disproportionate Retribution]] on her. It's gets to the [[Harsher in Hindsight]] point when we find out that the reason why Yui acts [[Genki Girl|hyper and sort of annoying all the time]] is because {{spoiler|[[Tear Jerker|she was paralyzed in an accident at a young age from a car slamming into her back and was bedridden and cared for by her single mother until she died]]}} while Hinata's regret {{spoiler|was just being unable to catch a baseball during an important match. That was it.}} {{spoiler|Yes it sounds about as funny as as pushing a kid in a wheelchair down a flight of stairs. This revelation made Yui just an [[Unacceptable Target]].}}

* [[Hype Backlash]]: There are a good deal of [[Image Boards|/a/]] browsers extremely displeased that the abundance of Angel Beats threads that make discussing any other anime rather difficult.

* [[Hilarious in Hindsight]]: Otonashi saying that God cannot just give people fake happy endings as their lives were real is more funny when you realize that this was made by [[Key Visual Arts|the same guys]] [[Deus Ex Machina|who pull happy endings]] [[Ass Pull|out of their asses]] whenever a main character's world comes crashing down.

** Or if you really want to go literal, fake happy endings as in the [[AIR|kind]] where [[Downer Ending|it looks bad]], [[All There in the Manual|but if you look hard enough,]] [[Wild Mass Guessing|(or believe in a theory)]] [[Bittersweet Ending|it's more sweet than it sounds]].

* [[Memetic Badass]]: '''TK'''. To enumerate: stops a frigging ceiling falling down, makes the most awesome [[Heroic Sacrifice]] speech, goes [[Guns Akimbo|guns ablazing]] against shadows with a friggin [[Dodge This]] line: {{spoiler|I kiss you. * bang* }}

* [[Memetic Mutation]]: Anything that comes out of TK's mouth.

** [[Explosion Propulsion|Itsumo hitori--]] is well on its way to be one.

** That face Yuri makes when {{spoiler|the NPC controlling the Shadows offers her godhood.}}

** CUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUTTTTTTTTTTTTEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!

* [[Mood Whiplash]]: Often during a single scene. This show is notable for being one of the shows for which one can easily find themselves both [[Crowning Moment of Funny|laughing so hard they cry]], [[Tear Jerker|and then genuinely crying]], in short succession.

* [[Moral Event Horizon]]: Averted in the manga. {{spoiler|In order to force God out of hiding, Yuri seriously considers killing every single student in the entire school... Starting with the first graders. Thankfully, Hinata talks her out of it.}}

* [[Never Trust a Trailer]]: The next episode previews just consist of a white screen with random lines from the next episode flying by. The lines are quite out of context so deducting any clues about the plot of the next episode from this is next to impossible.

** On top of that, every Monday the online preview adds short, half-second clips from the next episode. This can answer some questions, but often raises many more.