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* [[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]].
* [[Baseball Episode]]
* [[Beautiful Dreamer]]: A hint of this, in the ''~After Story~'' [[Omake]] episode 23, set a year before the first episode of season one. Kyou finds Tomoya sleeping in the school courtyard and is about summon her newfound [[Class Representative]] powers to scold him for being late to class. Instead she gets lost in noticing [[Bishounen|how beautiful he looks]]. (Unless you choose to view this episode as a prelude to the [[Alternate Universe]] OVA ''Another World: Kyou Arc'', this scene fuses [[Beautiful Dreamer]] with [[Ship Tease]].) Note that Youhei spoils things by not only waking Tomoya up but claiming that Kyou was about to pull a [[Dude, She's Like, in A Coma|Dudette, He's Like In A Coma]] on him.
** Not surprising since Kyou is the first girl besides [[Forgotten Childhood Friend|Kotomi]] to fall for Tomoya.
* [[Belligerent Sexual Tension]]: Between Kyou and Tomoya, both in Kyou's route in the [[Visual Novel]] and in the [[Alternate Universe]] OVA ''Another World: Kyou Arc''.
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* [[Brooding Boy Gentle Girl]]: Tomoya and Nagisa
* [[Brother Chuck]]: Kappei, from the [[Visual Novel]], doesn't make an appearance in any of the [[Anime]] adaptations.
* [[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.
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* [[Diabolus Ex Machina]]: Both {{spoiler|Ushio's and Tomoya's deaths, but it turned out all right due to some form of time travel}}.
** Also, {{spoiler|Nagisa goes into an early labor on the night where it just so happens to be snowing too hard to get her proper medical care.}}
* [[Did I Just Say That Out Loud?]]: In season one, Episode 20:
{{quote| '''Tomoya''': ''* after hitting a home run* '' Did you see that, Nagisa?<br />
'''Nagisa''': Yes, I watched you carefully!<br />
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{{quote| '''Akio''': Jeez, why can't you two just go make out in the bedroom like normal teens? ''*[[Beat]]*'' What the hell am I encouraging!?}}
* [[Disney Acid Sequence]] : Tomoya's seriously stuffed-up dream-sequence in Episode 11 of season one.
* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: In the [[Alternate Universe]] ''Tomoyo Arc'' [[Omake]] episode. Tomoya and Tomoyo are sitting next to each other on a park bench when a distraught Tomoya spills ice cream on his knee. Tomoyo's hand reaches out of frame as she reaches down to wipe the ice cream off his knee. {{spoiler|It's just then that Tomoya announces he's breaking up with her. The visual suggestiveness of the scene only increases the scene's emotional punch.}}
** 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.
* [[Do Not Call Me Paul]] - Honorific example: in the [[Baseball Episode]], Akio calls Misae "Misae-chan" and Tomoyo "Tomo-pyon." They are not amused.
* [[Doorstopper]] - With so many arcs, the Clannad visual novel takes a very long time to complete.
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* [[Dream Sequence]]
* [[Dropped a Bridget On Him]] - In the [[Visual Novel]]: Hiiragi Kappei. So effeminate-looking that Tomoya is unsure of whether he is a guy or a girl even after he states his gender. Even after having the truth dropped on him, Sunohara, in a state of denial, chooses to pursue what Tomoya calls "unrequited love." The [[Ho Yay|implications]] are not lost on us.
* [[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.
* [[Earn Your Happy Ending]] - Quite literally. In the game, you have to go through every character route in order to get the "true" ending of After Story. To put it in perspective this involves around 100 hours of reading, not to mention crying your eyes out on at least half a dozen occasions.
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** The one where Tomoya facefaults because Akio mentioned that Sanae's boobs were huge, in front of a ''drunk Nagisa'', no less, is hilarious as well. Though it's more of a [[Head Desk]] maneuver.
** Kyou also manages one so hard that she knocked down a door along the way.
* [[Faked Rip Van Winkle]]: Tomoya pulls this off against a half-asleep Sunohara -- twice, in one minute. Sunohara really is [[What an Idiot!|that stupid]].
* [[Famous Last Words]]:
** "[[Understatement|But I'm a little tired now. May I rest for a while?]]" {{spoiler|Nagisa, dying minutes after giving birth to Ushio.}} While a blizzard clogs the whole city up with [[Snow Means Death|snow]].
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*** 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.
** In the first case played as straight as humanly possible, with Nagisa standing at the bottom of a hill, facing the sun, with [[Cherry Blossoms]] blowing through the [[Dramatic Wind]]. [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic|What Do You Mean It's Not Symbolic?]] [[Viewers Areare Morons|In case all that wasn't clear enough,]] romantic music soars as the two leads first look at each other. A few seconds later, she's following him like a puppy as the scene keeps flashing to brilliant white light. At the 0:37 mark any [[Genre Savvy]] viewer not in deep denial ''knows'' she and Tomoya will become the [[Official Couple]].
** 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.
* [[First -Name Basis]] - Tomoya calls all of the other main girls by their given name without honorific, adding "-chan" for [[media:kotomi-chan.jpg|Kotomi]] because she won't notice him otherwise, but he and Nagisa call each other by family name. At one point, Fūko, who approves of them as an [[Official Couple]], tries to convince them to be more "adult-like" by switching to a first name basis (complete with -chan and -kun honorifics), but after a stuttering attempt both protest that it's too embarrassing (though Tomoya does manage it by leaving off the "-chan").
** 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.
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* [[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.}}
* [[Leaning On the Fourth Wall]]: Frequent, usually combined with with [[Self -Deprecation]] both toward the character in question and the show itself. Near the beginning of the first season, Tomoya chides Nagisa for being unable to decide if her play is intended to make viewers laugh or cry. Her flustered answers to his questions might almost be a CLANNAD fan flailing in an attempt to explain to a skeptic the appeal of the franchise. In another conversation between Tomoya and Nagisa, this time near the end of the first season, he tells her that her beloved odango song was a bathetic (if not outright pathetic) ending for the emotionally wrenching play she performed. Yes, that's the same song used as the Ending Theme throughout the first season.
* [[Leitmotif]]:
** One for each member of Tomoya's harem -- except poor [[Demoted to Extra|Ryou]]. Yes, even Yukine. Also, the first season ED, ''Dango Daikazoku'', functions as both the ED and Nagisa's [[Leitmotif]].
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** There is also the interesting camera angles used when Ryou and Kotomi are stretching together in one scene, that constantly features one of the pairs' [[Incredibly Lame Pun|pair.]]
* [[Matchmaker Crush]]: Kyou tries to push Tomoya to be with her sister Ryou at every opportunity ... though she has a crush on him, too. Sometimes she'll make a flirtatious play for Tomoya in the middle of working out a plan to get Ryou and Tomoya together, as if she's forgetting that if Ryou is dating Tomoya, she isn't, and if she's dating Tomoya, Ryou isn't. (This sort of emotional confusion / conflation can be [[Truth in Television]], even for adults, much less hormonal high school students.)
* [[Meaningful Echo]]: A lot of them. On the joyous end of the emotional spectrum, near the end of season one of the [[Anime]], an otherwise minor echo accidentally gets Nagisa [[Did I Just Say That Out Loud?|to confess her love for Tomoya out loud]] for the first time. At the very opposite end of the emotional spectrum, in episode sixteen of ''~Clannad After Story~'', {{spoiler|at the end of Nagisa's [[Really Dead Montage]]}}, there's the [[Flash Back]] to when Tomoya and Nagisa first met. Again Nagisa says, "Everything changes, eventually. ... Fun things, happy things, they'll all ... They'll all eventually change. But can you still love this place?" -- but this time, at least for the viewer, it means something else entirely.
** One particularly powerful one from ''~After Story~'':
{{quote| '''Ushio:''' "Sanae-san told me...where it was okay to cry...was in the bathroom...{{spoiler|[[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|and in daddy's arms.]]}}"}}
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* [[Mood Dissonance]]: The second season Episode 16 ends with {{spoiler|Nagisa dying after giving birth, a [[Flash Back]] over Tomoya's happy moments with her, and Tomoya wishing he had never gotten involved with her so that she might still be alive. With the words "I should have never met her"}}, the screen fades to white, aaaaaaaand ... cue the cheerful, bouncing ending theme ({{spoiler|which showcases the whole cast, ending with Tomoya and Nagisa}})!
* [[Moon Rabbit]] - Mentioned in the first ending song.
* [[NamesName's the Same|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|cloudcuckoolanderish]].
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*** It is explained [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Alu7qWXAmFE here]
* [[Our Hero Is Dead]] - {{spoiler|Tomoya and Ushio in the second to the last episode of ''After Story''. Also, Nagisa.}}
* [[Paper -Thin Disguise]] - Akio disguises himself as a rapper at one point. His daughter won't recognize him.
* [[Parental Abandonment]] - Tomoya's father neglects him to forget the pain of losing his wife {{spoiler|unfortunately, like father like son.}}
** [[Subverted Trope|Subverted]] by ''~After Story~'' 18, where Tomoya's grandmother explains to him that his father {{spoiler|threw away all his chances to have a good life just so he could raise Tomoya as best as he could.}} To be fair, Naoyuki did have breakdowns in the later years, but when Tomoya realizes that he's been doing a [[Generation Xerox]] ever since {{spoiler|Nagisa died}}, he wholeheartedly forgives his father, and reconciles with Ushio.
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** In the extra episode "The Event from One Year Before", Sunohara comes up with the idea to play a prank on the incoming freshmen using a banner ball with a pull cord tag reading "Pull me. It'll be fun!" The freshmen are all too aware of the obvious trap that's in store, but {{spoiler|''Nagisa'', bless her naïve little heart, pulls the string...and gets a konk on the head from a big metal pan for her trouble.}}
** [[Discussed Trope|Discussed]] in episode 20 of ''After Story'' when Tomoya gets a visit. It's about pressing red button if it says "don't press".
* [[Self -Deprecation]]: The show frequently pokes fun at itself while [[Leaning On the Fourth Wall]] (see above).
** As for the characters, both Nagisa and Tomoya often think of themselves as undeserving to be happy due to their flaws.
* [[She Is All Grown Up]]: Mei, briefly, in the [[Grand Finale]]. Blink and you might miss it. (Trust us, [[Perverse Sexual Lust|you won't want to miss it.]])
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** Even in the visual novel, all of the other heroines still fall far behind Nagisa; at least its something though.
** In the main [[Anime]], few of the Tomoya X not-Nagisa shippers really had their hopes up. It was blatantly obvious from the beginning who the [[Official Couple|official main couple]] was. (See [[First Girl Wins]] and [[Deliberately Monochrome]].)
* [[Ship Tease]]: Perhaps in apology for the impending [[Ship Sinking]], an earlier episode features Kyou getting locked in a gym storage room with Tomoya, instantly turning ''[[Tsundere|deredere]]'' to the max and misinterpreting her conversation with Tomoya into thinking she's about to have her first time. Hello, [[Fan Service]]. (The scene also has elements of [[Aren't You Going to Ravish Me?|Aren't You Going To Ravish Me]]?)
** 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!}}
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** Sanae is wearing [[AIR (Visual Novel)|Misuzu's]] apron.
** When Nagisa finds a videotape of her dad's high school acting days, he's playing the lead in ''[[Oedipus the King (Theatre)|Oedipus the King]]'', another family-themed tragedy.
* [[Sibling Yin -Yang]]: Kyou and Ryou.
* [[Sibling Triangle]]: Kyou and Ryou, with Tomoya.
* [[Sleep Cute]]: The end of Fūko's arc has Tomoya and Nagisa sitting on the floor of a classroom during the evening, with Fūko in-between, only to have the two end up leaning against each other sound asleep by the next morning.
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* [[Snow Means Love]]: In Tomoyo's route in the VN, Tomoya {{spoiler|breaks up with her [[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy|so that she can focus on her responsibilities]] and become successful}}. After eight months, he walks out of the school one day and sees her standing in the snow in front of him. She tells him that {{spoiler|her responsibilities are concluded}}, that she loves him, and that {{spoiler|she has been waiting for him for those whole eight months}}. [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|They hug.]]
* [[Snow Means Death]]: '''''...AND HOW!!!'''''
* [[Something Else Also Rises]]: See [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]], above.
* [[Spam Attack]]: Tomoyo's signature rapid kicks
* [[Spit Take]]: Tomoya does that when he heard that Nagisa hasn't seen a theatre play before.
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** 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.
* [[Token Mini -Moe]] - Mei. Played with to no end (and by Mei herself, no less!) early on in the After Story.
** [http://svg.kyon.pl/static/img/remiq.net_9435.jpg Onii-chan!]
* [[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.
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* [[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 Do You Mean ItsIt's Not Awesome?]] - Drawing out a baseball bat is usually done in a dramatic way.
** The Dango song gets incredibly epic at the end; very unusual for something that is supposed to be a jingle for rice-balls.
* [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic]] - Tons of it. For example, the hill Tomoya and Nagisa climb up together represents life. The fact that they climb it together means that they journey through life together.
* [[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.
* [[Where Are They Now? Epilogue]] - The montage at the end of the [[Grand Finale]] (while "Chiisana Tenohira" plays).
* [[White Void Room]]: In the end of episode 16 of ''After Story''.
* [[Wholesome Crossdresser]]: In a [[Flash Back]] episode of ''~After Story~'', Misae's friends get Shima to don a girl's uniform in after he expresses a desire to see what Misae does as the [[Student Council President]]. Everyone (including Misae) remarks on how cute "she" is, and [[Hilarity Ensues]].
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