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* [[All Women Are Lustful]]: [[Ironic Echo|Almost every female in Gohan's classroom outside the main characters.]]
* [[Apocalypse How]]: Gohan and Goten end up on the same beach where Kouta and Yuka first encounter Lucy as adults. Early on, nothing is directly stated about what happened to the AU Dragonball-verse they came from, except that it cannot be returned to. But when one considers the galactic scope of the people Gohan's friends and family knew, the fact that they fled the universe entirely places what might have happened somewhere in the Class X: Planetary Annihilation to Class X-4: Universal Destruction ranges.
* {{spoiler|1=[[Attempted Rape]]/[[Near Rape Experience]]: After [[Blood Knight|Oniari]], [[Split Personality Takeover|who has taken over Gohan's body]], [[Curb Stomp Battle|beats the living crap out of]] [[Anti -Villain|Lucy]], [[Complete Monster|Makai]] [[Split Personality Takeover|surfaces]] [[I Have You Now, My Pretty|and makes it abundantly clear that rape is one of the]] ''many'' [[Cold -Blooded Torture|things he plans on doing to her as he tortures her to death]]}}. {{spoiler|He's only stopped from doing so by Gohan regaining control of his body.}}
* [[Black Comedy Rape]]: Nyu does this in a few different chapters. While her sexual harassment of other characters is always treated fairly seriously, the situations involved are so over the top that it's hard for the viewer not to laugh.
* [[Blood Knight]]: {{spoiler|Gohan's [[Split Personality|Split Personalities]], [[Proud Warrior Race Guy|Oni]][[Arrogant Kung Fu Guy|ari]] and [[Complete Monster|Ma]][[Enemy Within|kai]]}}. {{spoiler|The slipelit [[Meaningful Name|Juuichi]] actually breaks out of her holding cell, just so that she can test her ever increasing combat abilities against the research facilities security. It's even outright stated that it wasn't the first time she'd done so either}}. And of course, Bando.
* [[Boring Invincible Hero]]: It's Gohan of all people folks, what did you expect?
* [[Break the Cutie]]: [[Tear Jerker|Several cuties, actually.]]
** {{spoiler|Played straight and deconstructed with Gohan. In comparision with the original series, he actually does get broken over his traumatic childhood experiences. This eventually leads to Gohan making several mistakes that result in the deaths of his friends, most of his family and the destruction of his homeworld. It effects Gohan immensely at the start of the story and causes him to be [[Self -Deprecation|highly critical and over jugdemental of his actions.]] After moving into Maple House, he slowly starts to get better.}}
** Mayu is already broken at her introductory chapter. {{spoiler|[[Rape As Drama|Being raped by your stepfather,]] [[Et Tu, Brute?|betrayed by your own mother when you finally tell her what happened,]] [[The Runaway|being forced to run away from your home to escape it all,]] [[Yank the DogsDog's Chain|then having your only friend taken away will do that to you...]] [[Serial Escalation|oh, and said pedophile stepfather finding you after running away.]] Like Gohan, after moving into Maple House she slowly starts to get better.}}
** [[Tragic Villain|Lucy.]] [[Broken Bird|Enough]] [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds|said.]]
** Inverted with Nana. Despite her harsh life in the facility, she is probably the most optimistic girl you'll ever meet.
** {{spoiler|Inverted with Juuichi. Instead of breaking under the facilities experiments, she grows stronger, both physically and mentally, to the point of developing a cocky and haughty personality that takes great pride in not only having survived, but even thrived in the harsh evironment.}}
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* [[I Just Want to Be Normal]]: What Gohan thinks.
* [[Innocent Fanservice Girl]]: In this version, Nana is one. Nyu is still one as well.
* [[Lighter and Softer]]: While much of the story is just as dark as the canon material, a lot of scenes are also much more heartwarming. [[Tempting Fate|If fact, it seems with every chapter, the story gets a little less scary and a lot more comedic.]] [[Yank the DogsDog's Chain|Although, considering the two series this story is made after, I wouldn't count on this lasting forever.]]
* [[Luminescent Blush]]: When [[Clingy Jealous Girl|Yuka]] is forced to give Nana-san ''the talk''.
* [[Mythology Gag]]: In one scene, Nyu and Goten are shown trying to fix a grandfather clock. Another is when Kouta gives Nozomi a music box to help her with teaching Nyu how to sing [[Ear Worm|Lilium.]]
* [[Nice Guy]]: Gohan and Kouta.
* [[No Holds Barred Beatdown]]: Gohan gives {{spoiler|Mayu's stepfather}} a rather vicious one after he catches him in the act of {{spoiler|raping Mayu.}}
** Then we have the one Gohan ({{spoiler|[[It Got Worse|And]] [[Curb Stomp Battle|later]] [[Split Personality Takeover|Oniari]] [[Oh Crap|and]] [[I Have You Now, My Pretty|then]] [[Attempted Rape|Makai]]}}) gave {{spoiler|Lucy}} when he saw how she {{spoiler|[[Kick the Dog|brutally dismembered Nana]].}}
* [[No One Could Survive That]]: Lucy assumes Gohan couldn't survive being buried under a pile of tombstones. Gohan is quick to prove her wrong in classic [[Dragonball Z]] fashion.
* [[Original Character]]: {{spoiler|Oniari is a split personality who is an [[Arrogant Kung Fu Guy|arrogant]] [[Jerkass|jackass]] who looks out for Gohan [[Jerk With a Heart of Jerk|because of his own selfish reasons]]. Makai is another split personality who is a [[Complete Monster|complete monster]] that constantly tries to [[Break the Cutie|break Gohan]] [[Split Personality Takeover|to gain permanent control of him]]. Kazegawa is a [[Muggle Best Friend|human scientist]] who works at the Diclonious Research Institute and doesn't agree with the [[Cold -Blooded Torture|harsh treatment]] of the diclonious. [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|He does what little he can to try and make their lives more bearable.]] [[Proud Warrior Race Guy|Slipelit Number 11,]] a.k.a. [[Blood Knight|Juuichi,]] is a diclonious who, unlike many others, developed a cocky and haughty personality. She has great pride in her strength as a diclonious and takes to the humans experiment with glee, considering them tests worthy of her species abilites.}}
* [[Proud Warrior Race Guy]]: {{spoiler|[[Brick Joke|Gohan's split personality,]] [[Jerkass|Oniari]]. Juuichi is a slipelit who takes extreme pride in her diclonious heritage and the combat abilities that come with it.}}
* [[Rape As Drama]]: {{spoiler|Mayu}} gets hit with this even harder than the original canon material. It's one of the few well written examples in fanfics and also serves as a plot point of {{spoiler|Mayu}} building trust with {{spoiler|Gohan.}}
* [[Shipper On Deck]]: A rather twisted example. {{spoiler|[[Arrogant Kung Fu Guy|Oniari]] insistst that Gohan should hook up with any of the girls they live with. He's not doing it out of a genuine desire to make him happy, though. [[Mars Needs Women|He just wants a womb to harbor more Saiyan hybrids]] and eventually have them interbreed to rebuild the [[Proud Warrior Race|Saiyan]] lineage.}}
* [[Super -Powered Evil Side]]: Asides from Lucy being this to Nyuu, as well the {{spoiler|DNA voice apparently inherent in all Diclonii}} we have the shocking example of {{spoiler|''Gohan'' having not one, but two of these: [[Jerkass|O]][[Blood Knight|ni]][[Proud Warrior Race Guy|a]][[Arrogant Kung Fu Guy|ri]] (Essentially embodying what Gohan becomes when he goes [[Super Mode|Super Saiyan 2]]) and [[Complete Monster|Ma]][[Ax Crazy|kai]], who crosses straight into [[Enemy Within]].}}
* [[Split Personality]]: Many.
** We have {{spoiler|Lucy + Nyuu + DNA Voice}}.
** And then there's {{spoiler|Gohan + Oniari + Makai}}.
* [[Twice -Told Tale]] : Despite Gohan and Goten's presence, the story is recognizably that of [[Elfen Lied]]; they don't so much divert the flow as become part of it, and even the divergences keep it within what any EL fan would know; for example, when Kouta allows Professor Kakuzawa to take Nyu, Mayu still questions the Professor's story, while Gohan is outright furious with Kouta - as he might be with a certain also-gullible deceased father.
 
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