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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?}}
* [[Complete Monster]]: The
* [[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).}}
** {{spoiler|Yuri ''winning'' a one-on-one fight against one of
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** [[Dying Moment of Awesome]]: Not necessarily dying, but
*** When
** Episode 11 has EVERYONE (except Oyama, Fujimaki and Takamatsu) being a badass in {{spoiler|the first open battle against the Shadows.}}
** 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.}}
* [[Crowning Moment of Funny]]: [[Angel Beats
* [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]]: Somewhat more depressing than usual, {{spoiler|but when Otonashi uses the last of his energy to sign a organ donor card, which makes all the other surving passengers of the train follow his lead}}.
** {{spoiler|Hinata explaining how he'd marry Yui at the end of episode 10.}}
*** {{spoiler|And subsequently the imagined scenes resulting from Hinatas explanation after which Yui disappears.}}
** In episode 12, {{spoiler|the source of love that that triggered the doomsday in the afterlife was Yuri all along}}.
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** Also in episode 12, the end credits {{spoiler|show everybody, even the ones who ascended.}} It's a nice touch.
** Otonashi hugging {{spoiler|Naoi}} at the end of episode 6.
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** It was heartwarming when Otonashi recalls his death and wonders what became of his donated organs and Kanade reassures him that the person receiving them would thank him for the rest of their lives. But it becomes a true crowning moment in hindsight when you realise Kanade wasn't just guessing.
** {{spoiler|Yuri hugging Kanade in Episode 13.}}
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** 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.}}
* [[Downer Ending]]: It seemed like a
** 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)
** For this troper, it was the moment that
* [[Earn Your Happy Ending]]: Seems to be the entire point of the Afterlife.
* [[Ensemble Darkhorse]]: TK is remarkably popular among viewers.
** On this very wiki, Naoi's section is huge compared to other character's
* [[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.
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* [[Fan Nickname]]: The SSS Battlefront's initials are referred to as the "[[Bleach
** There's also {{spoiler|Red Angel and Gold Angel}}, [[Color Coded for Your Convenience|based on their]] eye colors, to differentiate between the two.
** The SSS Brigade!
* [[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]].}}
▲* Glurge: The Aesop seemed to be: "Any desires you may have or actions you may take are completely useless and you shouldn't have them. Strive instead for nonexistence. All you should want is to be erased, you and your meaningless journey though life."
▲* [[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
* [[Magnificent Bastard]]: Yuri "Yurippe" Nakamura, the tough and ruthless yet efficient and insanely charismatic leader of the Afterlife Battlefront, ''seriously'' goes for this at times, particularly in the special episode ''Stairway to Heaven'', where her diabolical scheme to unnerve Angel to the point of her revealing a big secret is actually successful...just not in the way Yurippe had wanted. And even after this miscalculation, Yuri comes out looking like a winner by ordering all of her subordinates in the SSS Class to starve themselves to a temporary death, with even the end credits having every character vanishing quickly ''except'' for Yuri, who remains the last one standing there for the remainder of the credits.
* [[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.
** Angel is the cutest [[
*** And with the revelation of her ''Harmonics'' skill, there's a possibility that she can become [[The Matrix|Agent Smith]]. [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|Zealot Smith]], even.
** [[Memetic Badass|Clothespins]] are quickly becoming objects that are praised to be fragments of God.
** [[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.}}
** Yuri's [[Evil Laugh]] in "Stairway To Heaven."
** 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.}}
** Also averted in ''Stairway to Heaven'' due to a [[Foregone Conclusion]] from watching the entire anime. Yuri makes everyone starve over a simple miscalculation she had made; however, the anime had already established her as redeemable by the time ''Stairway to Heaven'' rolled along, and she even lampshades that it's not like everyone who starves "to death" are ''actually'' going to ''really'' die (since everyone's already dead anyway), though the credits has everyone fade away as a joke.
* [[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.
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* [[What an Idiot!]]: Even after all the time they've been fighting Angel, nobody in SSS has ever bothered trying to figure out Angel's ''real name''.
** Well, Yuri had apparently heard it before. She just didn't bother trying to remember it.
** Also, in episode 8, Yuri attempts to reprogram Angel's Harmonics technique, but has trouble because she doesn't quite understand the programming language. Remember that SSS has <s>Christ</s> Takeyama, who is a ''master hacker and computer expert'', and he doesn't even show up in the episode at all! Although Takeyama became [[A Twinkle in
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: See [[Dude, Not Funny]]. At the time, only Otonashi seems to even consider that they may have crossed the line from [[La Résistance]] to [[Jerkass]] here.
* [[The Woobie]]: {{spoiler|Angel}}
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