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** At least once they explicitly refer to him as "codename Hei."

*** Hilariously enough, Word of God has stated that his real name is Li. Yeah. The cover ID name.

* [[No-Tell Motel]]: November 11 and co. find Havoc living in one of these.

* [[Not of This Earth]]: The setting has strong ''[[Roadside Picnic]]'' style setup, so it has ''lots'' of strange things ranging from small plants to Dolls' and Contractors' abilities to the [[Alien Sky]]. Some of weird stuff found [[Black Box]] [[Imported Alien Phlebotinum|applications]].

* [[Not So Different]]: There's a lot of moments that show the audience how the protagonists and some of their antagonists aren't really different. For instance, the episode explaining Bertha's past parallels it with flashbacks of Yin's past and shows a similarity between the two; November 11 is told by the Evening Primrose members that he should do what's logical and join them, and he recalls telling Hei the same thing- although, November 11 concludes they are very different, as Hei acts illogically, while November 11 thinks it's logical {{spoiler|not to join Evening Primrose}}; Hei's advice to Kirihara in one of the last episodes to "trust no one and rely on her intuition" is pretty much word-for-word the same warning November 11 gave her, causing her to do a bit of a double-take.

* [[Not What It Looks Like]]: The time when Kirihara ran into Hei in a department store- buying a wig and a bra. {{spoiler|They were to help disguise a doll, you pervs.}}

* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]: Hei in his "Li Shengshun" persona. Not ''stupid'', just so naive, clumsy, and [[Adorkable]] that no one thinks to look for the Black Reaper behind that smile.

** Pizza Hut supports the <s>[[Code Geass/Memes|Rebellion]]</s> Syndicate!

** For some reason or another, the vast majority of the Pizza Hut logos were cut from the dub and awkwardly replaced with "[[Brand X|Pizza Slice]]".

* [[Psychic-Assisted Suicide]]: A possessor-type Contractor early in the series had been killing people by taking control of their bodies, positioning them on the edge of a building, then snapping back to his own body, leaving them to fall to their deaths, which would appear to be suicides.

* [[Psycho Electro]]: Averted, as Hei is one of the more mentally stable and humane Contractors {{spoiler|as is Nick who has the same power}}. At least, when [[Berserk Button|his urge to find]] [[Dead Little Sister|his sister]] does not turn him into violent [[Jerkass]].

* [[Why Do You Keep Changing Jobs?]]: A rare main character example in Hei's undercover missions, all of which involve him taking some kind of menial job. Lampshaded when the [[Private Defective]] wonders why he keeps showing up.

** Played with further in the manga omake, with stuff like [http://www.onemanga.com/Darker_Than_Black/9.5/06/ his growing bad reputation and Kiko's interpretation of this habit.]

** A further aspect of the "great insanity" involves the reaction of several people once they become Contractors. They seem to have a great desire to erase ties to their human past, which they will sometimes try to achieve by killing their closest friends. This is fairly explicit in the interquel and sequel, but can also be seen with Wei in the first season as an explanation for why he decided to kill pretty much everyone in the Tong he belonged to.

* [[A World Half Full]]: For all the dark tone and [[Bittersweet Ending]], it's still generally more idealistic than not.

** Before {{spoiler|going off to perform his [[Heroic Sacrifice]]}}, Huang asks Hei to light his cigarette with his powers. Hei [[Stuff Blowing Up|blows it up]] instead, and tells Huang he should stop smoking.

** Bertha's {{spoiler|baby ''choked to death'' on her cigarette butts}}, and to punish herself she chews them whole as her price.

* [[Wrong Genre Savvy]]: As noted above, Kurosawa; also, the female protagonist of the OVA is a [[Cosplay Otaku Girl]] who thinks she's in a [[Shoujo]] story and that Hei is a romantic hero.

* [[X Meets Y]]: This show is essentially what you would get if ''[[X-Men]]'' was written after watching the entire run of ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' and a few episodes of ''[[Batman: The Animated Series]]'' back-to-back.

* [[Yakuza]]

** Before that we have [[Mafia Princess]] Alice, a childhood friend of Misaki's that became a wee bit ''too'' dependent on her. She did ''not'' like the idea of Misaki becoming a cop (and therefore leaving her), so she decided that she needed to die.

* [[Yaoi Fangirl]]: Kiko only tolerates her work environment because she gets to watch [[Boys Love]] series on the job. Mayu is just as obsessive, if not worse.