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''"-shall crush your evil heart!"'' }}

 

 

Nagisa Misumi and Honoka Yukishiro are two eighth-grade girls who normally would have never become anything more than passing acquaintances. Nagisa is an [[Tomboy|energetic jock]] and ace of the lacrosse team, [[Even the Girls Want Her|loved by all the girls]] but secretly wishing for a male admirer straight from a romance novel. Honoka is the star pupil and class president, incredibly popular with all the guys but not too fussed about acting upon it.

 

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* [[Alternate Continuity]] (At least five so far)

* [[Alternate Reality Game]] (Garden of Dreams, which even [[Somewhat Cure|spawned a comic]])

* [[Alternative Foreign Theme Song]] (The English opening is different from the Japanese version, although the dub does use some of the original songs.)

* [[Balance Between Good and Evil]] (As always, this trope is used to, basically, ensure that no matter what the heroines do, the evil (namely, the Evil King) is guaranteed to return to wreak more havoc.)

* [[Barehanded Blade Block]] (Honoka at one point appears to do this to a Zakenna's gigantic sword... but there was also a tree holding it in place.)

* [[Berserk Button]] (Nagisa's friends and her brother serve as her buttons: harm them, and your life is forfeit, as Gekidrago learned the hard way in episode 11)

** Later, in episode 42, when Honoka/Cure White is in serious danger, Nagisa/Cure Black (after initially panicking and crying) [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|fights the bad guys on her own and shows of a LOT of power]], especially considering she and Cure White are supposed to get their powers from teamwork. [[Les Yay]]? [[Sarcasm Mode|Noooooooooo, of COURSE not...]]

* [[Big Fancy House]] (Honoka's)

* [[Big Guy, Little Guy]] (the Butler Zakenna)

* [[Catch Phrase]] (Arienai!)

* [[Conspicuous CG]] (The Queen of Light, the beginning of the [[Transformation Sequence|Transformation Sequences]], and Mepple's first appearance.)

* [[Converging Stream Weapon]] (The "Pretty Cure Marble Screw" attack.)

* [[Crosscast Role]] (Done twice by Nagisa and once by Honoka, each for a school play.)

* [[Crossdresser]] (Nagisa in at least two episodes)

* [[Cultural Translation]]: Notably with [[wikipedia:Takoyaki|takoyaki]] becoming doughnuts...covered in "cheese" and herbs.

* [[Dancing Theme]] (The ending theme)

* [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?]] (The Evil King {{spoiler|loses ''three'' times to the girls}}.)

* [[Downer Ending]] (The first season)

* [[The End of the World as We Know It]]

* [[Every Car Is a Pinto]] (When she was pissed in episode 42, Cure Black's [[Battle Aura]] was the bolt in the differential necessary to destroy an entire subway car, making this one Every ''Subway'' Car Is A Pinto)

* [[Evil Counterpart]] (In one episode, two of the heroines' classmates- who loved [[Pretty Cure]] so much that they were cosplaying as them and putting on amateur stage shows for little kids- were [[Brainwashed]] to become evil counterparts. However, far from being equals their [[Brainwashed]] state made them sluggish and gave them no other superpowers save for [[Super Strength]]. The main obstacle came from [[Made of Plasticine|Black and White trying not to accidentally cripple them]].)

* [[Evolving Credits]] (The ending changes partway through to showcase the new [[Quirky Miniboss Squad]] and Pollun.)

* [[Evolving Music]] (The opening theme of ''MaX Heart'' is a remix of the original theme.)

* [[Expy]] (their [[Alternate Continuity]] successors)

* [[Fighting Your Friend]] (The second movie ''finally'' answered the [[Fanon]] question of who would win in a straight Cure Black vs. Cure White fight. (It only took some [[Brainwashed and Crazy]] magic to make it happen.) The answer: {{spoiler|Cure White by TKO}}.)

* [[Fleeting Demographic]] (young girls)

* [[Good Old Fisticuffs]] (Well, before they start raining hell on their opponents)

* [[Gotta Catch Them All]] ([[Defied Trope| Defied]] the Pretty Cure make no real effort to collect the Heartiels {{spoiler|near the end of the series it's revealed they never intended to revive The Queen and are in fact offended by the idea that they would be willing to [[Powered by a Forsaken Child|sacrifice anyone]]}}.)

* [[Heel Face Turn]] (Done twice, first by {{spoiler|Kiriya}} and later, in part, by {{spoiler|King Haaku, whose ''life'' makes the turn and splits from him}}.)

* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]] (Nagisa and Honoka)

* [[Intertwined Fingers]] (The girls hold hands like this whenever they perform the Marble Screw.)

* [[Invisible to Normals]] (Subverted most of the time)

* [[Keep Circulating the Tapes]] (the fate of the english dub apparently.)

* [[Lampshade Hanging]] (So much of it going around due to Nagisa that it deserved having it as its own trope.)

* [[Love Letter Lunacy]] (Nagisa and her female admirers)

* [[Lovely Angels]] (Look at this picture, now look at [[Dirty Pair|this one]].. Note, jock and brain, note hair colors hmm..)

** [[Magical Girl Warrior]]: A lot more action based than the typical [[Magical Girl]] show.

* [[Magic Realism]] (Hints of it; for instance, the art gallery episode)

* [[Malaproper]] (Nagisa)

* [[Mid-Season Upgrade]] (The Pretty Cure Rainbow Bracelets.)

* [[Modesty Shorts]] (Nagisa wears them both in her lacrosse uniform and as Cure Black.)

** [[Fridge Logic|But why would a lacrosse uniform include a skirt in the first place?]]

*** The lacrosse uniforms in [[Muv-Luv]] include them as well; must be a Japanese thing.

* [[Motor Mouth]] (Shiho, who punctuates her verbal barrages with a stutter-like triple repeat of the occasional word.)

* [[Never Say "Die"]] ("Returning to the darkness"; Mipple and Mepple assure Honoka that they haven't ''really'' killed their enemies, but later on, the villains treat it as punishment and Kiriya once mentions it in a context that sounds like committing honourable suicide.)

** This becomes a plot point later on when {{spoiler|Kiriya manages to communicate with the girls through a rift in the darkness.}}

* [[Odd Couple]] (Honoka is a tidy, feminine intellectual from a rich family; Nagisa is a rough-and-tumble middle-class tomboy)

* [[Off-Model]] Episode 11 of Max Heart is infamous for its fight scene.

* [[The Power of Friendship]] (Very important in the series, as the Cures' attacks are powered by their friendship.Even when they're arguing/yelling at each other, they can still manage to dodge all the enemy's attacks -- in perfect sync -- and pull together long enough to defeat it.)

* [[Powered by a Forsaken Child]] In addition to requiring the twelve Heartiels, Hikari's life must be sacrificed in order to revive the Queen. {{spoiler|or rather [[Subverted Trope|that's what they think]]}}

* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]] (Nagisa and Honoka respectively)

* [[Reset Button]] (Not explicit, but there are a few cases, when all damage from immensely destructive battles disappears, and normals don't remember anything afterwards.)

* [[Schoolgirl Lesbians]] (Implied: Nagisa's admirers)

* [[Screwed by the Network]] (YTV, despite paying for the dub, has put it in really bad time slots. They also used little advertising. At least it managed to complete the first season, though still no word on whether they will acquire ''Max Heart''.)

** They only aired the first 12 episodes for the first few months.

* [[Ship Tease]] (Possibly with the aforementioned [[School Play]] episode)

* [[Shorttank]] (Nagisa)

* [[Shout-Out]] (''[[Sailor Moon]]'' and other ''mahou shoujo'' references, both straight and satirical)

* [[Spotlight-Stealing Squad]]: '''Nagisa'''. She's tolerable in the first season, but in ''MaX Heart'', she gets more episodes than Hikari and Honoka ''combined'' and then some. The first [[Non-Serial Movie]] is nothing but Nagisa doing cool things while Honoka and Hikari are barely more than [[Living Prop|Living Props]]. Averted in the second movie, however. Worse, [[Futari wa Pretty Cure Splash Star|Saki]] and [[Suite Precure|Hibiki]] are both [[Expy|expies]] of her and both do this too.

* [[Stock Footage]] (There's the usual stock footage, and some surprise ones, like Nagisa's lacrosse goal.)

* [[Teen Genius]] (Honoka)

* [[This Is Unforgivable!]] (Honoka, ''every single week'')

* [[Title Drop]] (Borderline example, and the dub is an automatic aversion since the title is shortened to simply "Pretty Cure". The girls' [[In the Name of the Moon]] speech finishes with the exclamation of "We are Pretty Cure!", making this a [[Once an Episode]] occurrence.)

* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: After about the tenth time weird things start happening around them and they don't ''immediately'' transform, but instead decide to investigate in their normal unpowered state, you start to wonder what is wrong with them. You have superpowers, girls. If everyone around suddenly gets turned to stone, you should probably ''use them!''

* [[Verbal Tic]] (the mascots)

* [[Wave Motion Gun]] (Their signature attack, "Pretty Cure Marble Screw" (or [[Dub Name Change|"Pretty Cure Marble Twister"]]), greatly resembles one.)

* [[Weasel Mascot]]: Mepple.

 

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