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** Many of Nagisa's quotes are good examples, especially "Would you like me to take you... to a place in this city where wishes come true?" as well as her very first lines, quoted at the top.

** Nagisa is pretty much the queen of this trope as far as Clannad is concerned. Ironically, she is probably the one who would be most surprised to find out how much meaning her own quotes have.

* [[Aside Glance]]: Kyou and Tomoyo each tend to give the audience an [[Aside Glance]] whenever they tease resident [[Butt Monkey]] Sunohara into another of his stupid outbursts.

** A more poignant example, from near the end of season one: in front of the whole drama club, Tomoyo tells Nagisa, [[Graceful Loser|"I'm so glad he chose you."]] The slighted parties—Kyou, Ryou, and Kotomi—each give their own version of the [[Aside Glance]]. [[Tsundere|Kyou]]'s is almost defiant, with a hint of Tomoyo-directed dagger eyes. Her [[Different As Night and Day|twin sister]] [[Shrinking Violet|Ryou]]'s subtler [[Aside Glance]] registers shame rather than anger. Subtlest of all is [[Emotionless Girl|Kotomi]]'s: her head doesn't even move as she peers at the audience; evidently she's too lost in thought to fully register that Tomoyo has (inadvertently?) insulted her.

* [[Awesome McCoolname]]: When he first meets Tomoya, Nagisa's dad decides that his name is too wimpy and proceeds to try to think of a better one. Something big and imposing, like "Galaxy Cosmos"...

* [[Awesomeness By Analysis]]: A [[Subverted Trope]], when [[Teen Genius|Kotomi]] plays baseball: at the plate, she starts a thought stream about angles, velocities, and so forth, while fancy schematics and statistics flash by in the background. But when the pitcher actually pitches, Kotomi chickens out, and the ball winds up bouncing off the bat's handle simply by accident.

* [[Badass Adorable]]: Tomoyo and Kyou. The adorable part is fairly obvious, and the [[Badass]] part is typically demonstrated on [[Butt Monkey]] Sunohara. (Sometimes they get a [[Jerkass|worthier target]].)

* [[Bait and Switch Credits]]: The first season opening credits prominently feature an important character who doesn't appear until ''[[After Story]]''. [[Cutting Off the Branches|Might count]] as a [[Spoiler Opening]] for players of the [[Visual Novel]]. Might count as a bit of a [[Spoiler Opening]] even for those who haven't, in that the scene depicted doesn't take place until more than halfway through the [[Grand Finale]].

* [[Bromantic Foil]]: Sunohara.

* [[Brooding Boy, Gentle Girl]]: Tomoya and Nagisa

* [[Brother-Sister Incest]]: Tomoya [[Imagine Spot|imagines]] this when Mei talks to him about setting up a relationship.

* [[Butt Monkey]]: Sunohara, who is routinely brutally beaten, thrown out windows, and skipped across concrete—usually at the <s>hands</s> feet of Tomoyo. And it's nearly always his own fault. In addition, his gullibility makes him a frequent victim of [[Trickster Archetype|Tomoya]]'s pranks.

** Sunohara "enjoys" an unusual niche among [[Butt Monkey|buttmonkies]]: just about everything bad that happens to him is his own fault.

*** Except when it involves Tomoya's pranks. Even though you can tell that Tomoya is true friend when push comes to shove, he's also a jerkass of a friend too. Though, I guess abuse is okay when its anyone on Sunohara.

* [[Call Back]]: The "Okazaki SAIKOU!" scene in After Story references Fuuko's dream in Ep. 6 where Okazaki says the same line and is wearing (nothing but) those same black tights.

* [[Can't Hold His Liquor]] - Nagisa becomes fully-flushed drunk the ''second'' she downs her cup and turns into a [[Clingy Jealous Girl]].

* [[Chick Magnet]] - Tomoya.

* [[Childhood Memory Demolition Team]] - Used repeatedly.

* [[Class Representative]] - Both Ryou and Kyou (in separate classes). [[Shrinking Violet]] Ryou, however, was assigned the job via lottery. Her more outgoing sister [[Tsundere|Kyou]] is in at least her second year as [[Class Representative]].

* [[Closeup on Head]] - With Sunohara and Tomoya. First, a shot of Sunohara (including his shoulders) commenting on something happening in the baseball field. Then, a closeup of Tomoya asking what's going on. A third shot reveals that after Sunohara's closeup, Tomoya somehow ended up sitting on Sunohara's shoulders. Sunohara doesn't realize/react to this until after he answers Tomoya.

** A quote from Tomoya "These stupid girls... ARE... EVERYWHERE!"

*** He was referring to Nagisa and Fuko in this particular case but the quote can be applied to many of the characters. He even says the entire town is filled with these stupid people shortly after this quote.

* [[Color Coded for Your Convenience]] - The color of the shield of the Hikarizaka school uniform tells you what year the student is... blue for senior, red for junior and green for freshman.

* [[Combos]] - Tomoyo has a rapid fire sequence of kicks that juggles her opponent in the air, and a combo meter actually appears on screen every time she uses it (on Sunohara). At one point, she and Tomoya do a chain combo. In the Visual Novel, she chain combos with almost everyone on the cast.

* [[Curtains Match the Window]] - Almost everyone.

* [[Cute Little Fangs]]: Pop up now and then, when a [[Tsundere]]-type gets really angry. Also, Misae-san.

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Tomoya.

* [[Death by Despair]]: {{spoiler|Tomoya collapses in the snow shortly after Ushio's death, pleading for Nagisa -- for anyone -- to save her.}}

* [[Deliberately Monochrome]] : In what surely must be a [[Shout-Out]] to ''[[Haruhi Suzumiya]]'', the [[Anime]] for ''CLANNAD'' begins with <s> Kyon</s> Tomoya [[Narrator|narrating]], telling us how much he hates the town he lives in and his life in general. He's clearly depressed, and the world is presented almost exclusively in white, blue, drab green, and grey. Abruptly [[Love Interest|Nagisa]] appears, almost as if by magic. As Tomoya watches her talk to herself, the monochrome of his world begins to break down. The screen flashes with brilliant colors. A few seconds later, with some [[Dramatic Wind]] and some even more dramatic camera movement, Nagisa turns to look at Tomoya. The screen is awash with vibrant colors, and Tomoya's world has officially changed forever.

** In the same episode, the moment when the railroad crossing gate first rises has a faint hint of [[Something Else Also Rises]].

** [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]] combined with [[Dude, She's Like, in a Coma|Dude, She's Like In A Coma]]: Sometimes when Fūko falls into one of her [[Cloudcuckoolander]] traces, [[Trickster Archetype|Tomoya attempts to "help" her back to reality]] by sticking a drinking straw up her nose.

* [[Doorstopper]] - With so many arcs, the Clannad visual novel takes a very long time to complete.

** Especially since you HAVE to complete ALL of the routes to play and complete the ''After Story'' arc, widely considered to be by far the best part of the entire story/game.

** She may just be woefully out of practice; her violin playing is a lot less ... oppressive in the [[Flash Back|flashbacks]] to her childhood.

* [[Dream Sequence]]

* [[Dude, She's Like, in a Coma|Dude, He's Like in a Coma]] - Kyou considers this while catching Tomoya taking a nap in the One Year Before episode. Sunohara catches her at it, and calls her out on it. [[Hilarity Ensues]]

* [[Early-Bird Cameo]] - Ushio. In the first season's [[Spoiler Opening|opening credits]], no less.

** In the game: the light orbs that the player has collected will appear under the same tree in the game's menu, glow brightly when all 13 are collected, and when you've finally [[100% Completion|reached the True End]], the Girl in from the Illusionary World will be there.

*** Similarly, in the anime, the scene where they state the episode number and title changed over time, adding orbs of light after major events that roughly correspond to when they are obtained in the game. In the first season, orbs are added at the beginning of episodes {{spoiler|7, 10, 13, 15, 19 and 22.}} In After Story, orbs are added in episodes {{spoiler|1, 5, 7, 10, 13, 16 and 21.}} After episode 22 in ''After Story'', the Girl from the Illusionary World is now seen lying in the grass under the tree.

* [[Eyes Always Shut]]: Naoyuki Okazaki Aka. Tomoyas father is pretty always seen like this. He rarely opens his eyes for more than a second or two.

* [[Face Fault]] - Repeatedly. The most amusing one is when Tomoya imagines Fūko announcing over the school intercom that the wooden stars she's been handing out are in fact starfish, with the entire class simultaneously facefaulting in response.

*** Interestingly, there is ''nothing'' of this sort in the [[Visual Novel]]. Not one piece of perverse imagery. The closest thing to Fanservice in the V.N. are a couple of misleading conversations that clarify themselves immediately after for comic effect - most notably, the situation Tomoya and Sunohara engineer wherein {{spoiler|Ryou thinks Nagisa is trying to confess to her. She's actually trying to ask for advice on forming the drama club.}}

*** Another is when Tomoya seems to be about to have {{spoiler|sex with Tomoyo, when he is putting his hand on her breast while she's lying down on a desk. A teacher walks in and Tomoya threatens her to avoid punishment and embarrassment for Tomoyo. Many fans were not pleased with the interruption.}} It is hinted to have actually happened in a bad end of the route, though, a few days later.

* [[First Girl Wins]] - Depends on whether you count by order of introduction to the audience or to Tomoya.

** By contrast, Kotomi is the "First Girl", chronologically speaking, and in the [[Visual Novel]] she can surpass Nagisa to become the [[Victorious Childhood Friend]].

*** "Surpass" is an iffy term since Nagisa was never a romantic prospect in Kotomi's route, she was just Kotomi's first female friend.

** Later in the [[Anime]], in an ''[[Bonus Material|omake]]'' episode set during the summer of Tomoya's senior year, Mei ''finally'' succeeds in getting Nagisa to call Tomoya by his first name. Note that the two have already been going steady for several weeks by this time.

** In the [[Visual Novel]], Ryou and Tomoya switch to first name basis, as well, in her and Kyou's route in the game. It's the final scene in the Ryou end.

** The same goes for Yukine in her route.

** Kyou calls everyone by their first names.

* [[Flash Back]] - We sure have a lot of them.

* [[Flashback Nightmare]] - Tomoya starts to have these as he gets closer to Kotomi, complete with [[Freeze-Frame Bonus|a seemingly random]] [[Arc Words|rabbit and deer.]]

* [[Foreshadowing]] - When Sunohara asks Yukine to be his fake girlfriend, a mishap happens which foreshadows Yukine's story arc.

** Additionally, when the topic of the possibilities of multiple worlds and timelines was mentioned in episode 16 of After Story, Tomoya suddenly remembers Nagisa's play, which is a rough description of ''The World that Ended''

* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: Rie Nishina and Sugisaka (two members from the Choir Club) are implied to be this in the epilogue.

* [[Hidden Eyes]] - Many characters have moments when they have eyes hidden, particularly Tomoya when he's not feeling well.

* [[Homoerotic Subtext]] - The "misunderstanding" between Ryou and Nagisa on the rooftop. In one scene Kyou also appears to like Kotomi a lot, leading to the famous [[The Glomp|Glomp]].

** Tomoya also becomes rather uncomfortable with Kappei because of this, though it eventually dies down when he stops thinking of Kappei as being so girly.

* [[Intertwined Fingers]] - Ryou and Nagisa.

* [[Ironic Hell]]: Discussed in parody during Kotomi's tsukkomi training, when Kyou describes the different worlds awaiting a tsukkomi, including the hell of all tsukkomis, the hell of lame jokes that cause people to [[Face Fault]], and the one that really frightens Kyou and Tomoya, the hell with no punchlines...

** A [[Subverted Trope]] after Kotomi's arc, when the girls switch to the summer uniforms from ''[[Continuity Nod|Tomoyo After]]''.

* [[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy]]: A variant whereby Kyou supports her sister Ryou's attempts to get with Tomoya, despite liking him herself. More thoroughly explored in the Kyou Another World OVA.

* [[Jerkass]] / [[Jerk Jock]]: The soccer club is seriously filled with [[Jerkass]]es / [[Jerk Jock]]s. (To a much lesser extent, so is the rugby team.)

* [[Large Ham]] - Yoshino Yuusuke, who after hitting a ball in a baseball match, proceeds to give out a hammy speech about "Intangible Memories"... and gets balled out. (He remembers to call for a time-out the second time he tries it.)

** And Akio. Not surprising since {{spoiler|he was the unofficial king of the drama club when he was in high school, and he even embarked on a career as an actor -- before a near-tragedy with young Nagisa closed off that path.}}

** The "arc-happy-ending" leitmotif in the first season is rearranged into the second season's opening theme.

* [[Let Her Grow Up, Dear]] - Upon finding out that his daughter Nagisa is pregnant, Akio is torn between denial ("A stork brought it, right?"), happiness at becoming a grandfather, and wanting to strangle Tomoya for sleeping with her. ("Congratulations ... you bastard!!") Nagisa's reaction is classic.

* [[Loser Protagonist]] - Sunohara. Tomoya would seem much less impressive without him as a reference point.

* [[Love Dodecahedron]] - Tomoya has [[Chick Magnet|quite a few admirers]], but is really only interested in Nagisa.

* [[Mr. Fanservice]]: Tomoya. Akio. To a far lesser extent, Youhei Sunohara.

** Yoshino Yuusuke.

* [[Name's the Same]] - May not ''completely'' fit the trope, it's a bit startling that in [[Fall In Love Like A Comic]]!, male-lead Tomoya has a close friend named Sunohara.

** Not exact, but Yukine Miyazawa is way too close to [[Kare Kano|Yukino Miyazawa]] for comfort, even more so when you realize both are voiced by the same actress.

* [[My Name Is Not Durwood]] - When Tomoya first meets Nagisa's parents Akio and Sanae, they keep inventing bizarre names for him (e.g., "Cosmic-san"). They're not being mean, they're just rather [[cloudcuckoolander]]ish.

* [[Never Got to Say Goodbye]] - Kotomi. {{spoiler|Her last words to her parents were how she hated them, because they were going to miss her birthday to go to a conference. Their plane crashed}}.

* [[Nonstandard Game Over]] - The so called "Ryou's ending" and the ending to Fuko's route should you had already chosen to be with Nagisa earlier in the game. They are in most ways ''Good Ends'' but are technically ''Bad Ends,'' especially the one in Fuko's route since the events of the normal end still takes place in-universe, you just don't get to see it.

* [[Not So Weak]] - Nagisa. She even defends ''Sunohara'' but refuses to believe she could be even slightly cute or that she isn't a burden.

* [[Obstructive Bureaucrat|Obstructive Bureaucracy]]: The student council is ridiculously obstructive to Nagisa's attempts to reestablish the theater club. Until Tomoyo gets elected president, that is.

* [[Official Couple]] - Nagisa and Tomoya. After all, Nagisa is the "[[First Girl Wins|First Girl]]," Tomoya spends the majority of the show with her, and her theme song (also the season one ending theme) refers to a "mischievous" blue dango and a "kind" pink dango as a couple. The opening scene, where Tomoya describes their long path up to school, could be considered a description of their developing relationship.

* [[Older Than They Look]]: Sanae and Akio, who look to be in their early to mid twenties yet have a daughter (Nagisa) who is presumably eighteen or nineteen in season one. In addition, Fūko, who looks (and [[Bratty Half-Pint|acts]]) about ten, is the same age as Tomoya, Kotomi, Ryou, and Kyou.

* [[One Head Taller]]: Tomoya is almost exactly one head taller than Nagisa. (For that matter, most of Tomoya's potential [[Love Interest]]s are within a few inches of Nagisa in height. But with Nagisa, it's most striking—and also most relevant, since they're the central arc's [[Official Couple]].)

* [[One Steve Limit]]: [[Averted Trope|Averted]] both with Ryou and Kyou (who are twins) and with Tomoya and Tomoyo.

* [[Poor Communication Kills]] and its subtropes - Vital on some of Tomoya's pranks to succeed.

* [[Pose of Supplication]] - Fūko's fan club, after she rejects them.

* [[Practice Kiss]]: In the OVA "Another World: Kyou chapter", Kyou offers a practice kiss to Tomoya, who she is secretly in love with, but who at that time is dating her twin sister Ryou. She pulls back at the last second before they actually kiss, but not before they are seen by some of their classmates.

* [[Punched Across the Room]]: This tends to happen to Youhei. (A lot.) Sometimes down the hall, out the window, and into the top of a nearby tree. [[Crowning Moment of Funny|And down a garbage chute]]

** Another from Kotomi: "''[[Shrinking Violet|Ijimekko]]''?" ([[Shrinking Violet|"Is she a bully?"]])

** Periodically after the close of her arc in the anime, Fuko will come back (with a [[Magical Girl]]-esque entrance) to help the protagonists with some dilemma. However, something always comes up to keep her from being able to actually help.

* [[Say My Name]]: Numerous names get dramatically shouted over the series. Especially Nagisa's name.

* [[Scare Chord]]: Invoked [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpKmNUdXsys&feature=related hilariously here.]

** What makes this ironic is that in the visual novel there are several variation of this scene and, if anything, Nagisa's and Tomoyo's are far more suggestive. The real kicker is that they are all part of ''Yukine's'' route!

*** Even better in that it's entirely possible to get locked in the storage room with {{spoiler|Akio!}}

* [[Sibling Yin-Yang]]: Kyou and Ryou.

* [[Sibling Triangle]]: Kyou and Ryou, with Tomoya.

* [[Something Else Also Rises]]: See [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]], above.

* [[Spam Attack]]: Tomoyo's signature rapid kicks

* [[Spoiler Opening]]: See [[Bait and Switch Credits]] above.

* [[Standing Between the Enemies]]: Yukine stopped two gangs from fighting {{spoiler|by revealing that her brother was [[Dead All Along]] }}

* [[Staying with Friends]]

* [[Stock Footage]] - Fūko's reappearances.

** Misae is a more official [[Team Mom]] to the residents of the boys' dorm over which she presides—especially the rugby team, but also Youhei and thus by extension Tomoya (although he doesn't actually live there and is not technically under her supervision). She also has a motherly relationship both with Nagisa and with Tomoyo.

* [[Tempting Fate]]: In the first episode of the first season, Tomoya hopes that Nagisa's father is sane. {{spoiler|It took years after Nagisa's [[Death by Childbirth]] to find out the complete reason on his actions.}}

* [[Theme Tune Cameo]]: The closing theme from the first season, "Dango Daikazoku," pops up frequently in the series, especially in ''[[After Story]]''. It appears both as a [[Leitmotif]] (it's Nagisa's main theme) and as a song in itself, usually sung by Nagisa herself, but sometimes by other characters (usually Tomoya) when they're remembering her.

* [[Theme Twin Naming]]: Kyou and Ryou.

** On of the odd things about the Sentai dub/sub is that this character trait is not only missing from the dub, but the sub of the first season as well, but it's there in Fuko's appearances in the second season sub. Necessary, since Kouko calls it out in the Grand Finale.

* [[Those Two Guys]] - Misae's two friends Saki and Yuki. Saki even [[Lampshade Hanging|comments on their background status]]

** Still in the ultimate canon route [[''After Story'']], the later years writers have not been kind enough to him, he has no clear background, he is not even visible in here, the most you know about him is that he got a job as soon he graduated and that's it.

* [[Thunder Shock]] - Experienced by both Nagisa and her theatrical mother, Sanae. In Nagisa's case, her antennae-hair is temporarily withered as a result.

** [http://svg.kyon.pl/static/img/remiq.net_9435.jpg Onii-chan!]{{Dead link}}

* [[Tomboy and Girly Girl]]: Nagisa and Tomoyo, although they don't interact much. Nagisa is timid and physically weak, while Tomoyo is confident and physically strong. In addition, Nagisa speaks politely to everyone, even Tomoya, while Tomoyo almost always speaks informally. Interestingly, both Nagisa and Tomoyo seek to invert this relationship; Nagisa wants to become stronger and more confident, while Tomoyo wants to become calmer and more feminine.

{{quote|'''Kyou''': ''FORGET IIIIITTTT!!! * [[Megaton Punch|kicks the above editor to the sky]]* ''}}

* [[Twisted Knee Collapse]] - Kotomi reads books in this highly uncomfortable position while she sits on a pillow on the floor.

* [[Unwanted Harem]]: Nagisa is one half of the [[Official Couple]], but if you combine all the routes (like the anime does), Tomoya's other ardent admirers include Kyou, Ryou, Tomoyo, Yukine, Kotomi, Fuko, Misae and (depending on how you look at it) Sanae.

** In Nagisa's route, just Kyou, Ryou, and Tomoyo and Kotomi.

* [[Watching the Sunset]]: After Nagisa and Tomoya get married, there's a scene of them meeting on a hilltop path, the sun setting behind them. Because of the angle at which we see them, and the way Nagisa's holding her bag, it looks for a moment as if Nagisa's pregnant. Borders on [[Against the Setting Sun]], except no words are actually spoken.

* [[Wham! Episode]]: Perhaps most notably {{spoiler|Nagisa's death; Ushio's death}}; the [[Grand Finale]]; the [[Recap Episode]] (for some). But in a way, each episode starting around when {{spoiler|Nagisa gets sick again and has to drop out of her senior year for the second time}} is a [[Wham! Episode]] unto itself, with the whams growing more and more intense and [[Tear Jerker|more and more heart-wrenching]].

* [[What Happened to the Mouse?]] - It seems that KEY doesn't like best friends hanging around when the protagonist is facing huge problems in his life, Sunohara was not seen in the later years of After Story, while the other girls obviously shouldn't have much importance as Tomoya already consumated with his choice, some of them actually get expanded appearances in the anime, whereas Sunohara does not in any way, the only information about him is given when the story is next to it's closure, said information is only about what's his current job and that's it, even his sister got to appear more than him.

** Cue to many fanfics about what he was doing during these times, Sunohara's lack of appearance only made many of his fans with willingness to write crazy to interesting stories for the fellow; only in fanon Sunohara gets to love and be loved by someone.

 

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