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Also note that there are '''unmarked spoilers for the novel series''' as of this writing<ref>for your information, the anime and [[The Movie]] completely covers first four volumes and few side stories from later volumes</ref>, so if you've only watched the anime, you might still be getting spoilers for future seasons.

* {{spoiler|[[Deicide]]: A near-victim of this during the climax of ''Astonishment Vol. 2''.}}

* [[Depraved Bisexual]]: In Kyon's own words: "IS STRIPPING ASAHINA NOT ENOUGH FOR YOU, YOU PERVERTED GIRL?!"

* [[Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?]]: Gets a detention early on following the [[Playboy Bunny]] incident (not for dressing as a [[Playboy Bunny]] in the first place, as she later dons the exact same outfit without interference, but for deliberately traumatizing Mikuru in the process; it didn't help that Mikuru was a second-year at the time, while Haruhi was a first-year).

* [[Dress Hits Floor]]: Done with her Kouyouen uniform in ''Disappearance''.

** Sasaki has some [[Les Yay]] towards her as well.

* [[Evil Laugh]]: Emits a creepy-sounding chuckle in "Snowy Mountain Syndrome" after learning how her rebellious spirit blindly shuns the mainstream in favor of the obscure. She also delivers a menacing laugh in "The Melancholy of Mikuru Asahina" as she reveals she may have a lead on what Kyon and Mikuru were up to in that story. Keep in mind that both times are ''after'' she makes her [[Heel Face Turn]].

* [[Eyes of Gold]]

* [[The Face]]: Of the SOS Brigade and always out to promote it. Kyon notes that she 'knows how to get answers' peacefully from the apartment keeper during the investigation of Asakura's disaperance. Though in practice the trope is inverted as she either steams rolls people with blackmail and/or her personality, if she's not outright ignoring them--meaning the earlier incident at the apartment, among her nicer moments chronologically, before the end of ''Sigh'', would likely fall under [[Pet the Dog]].

* [[First Girl Wins]]: Again, poor Mikuru-chan.

** A previous [[First Love]] is introduced later, but Haruhi already has her claws in by that point. (Not a [[Retcon]], as the clues were there from the start.)

** Actually with every member of her brigade, save Koizumi. If we can trust the narrator.

* [[Foil]]: Arguably the whole point of the Haruhi/Kyon relationship is how their opposing personalities come to a balance.

* [[Friend to All Children]]: She appears to love kids and enjoys playing with them, as evidenced by her antics during Endless Eight. She is clearly fond of Kyon's little sister, who likes her back in return.

** In the novels, it's revealed that she tutors an {{spoiler|elementary school boy who just happens to be the future inventor of time travel}}

* [[Gainaxing]]: Very evident in the opening credits of Season 1.

* [[Genki Girl]]: Interestingly this only happens when she first meets/talks with Kyon. When we're first introduced to her, she just seems like a weird girl, but after Kyon feeds her the idea of starting her own club, she suddenly perks up and gains a lot of enthusiastic energy, invoking this trope (and probably one subtle reason why she likes him).

* [[Heel Face Turn]]: Chronologically, in ''Sigh'' after nearly getting the shit punched out of her by Kyon for spiking Mikuru's drink ''and'' [[The Last Straw|calling her her toy]].

* [[The Hero]]: Her perception; really, she's ''probably'' [[The Lancer]] to Kyon. Then again, she ''could'' be more the antagonist (not villain!) of the group, considering that ''she'' creates the problems...on every day that Itsuki isn't creating any, or the days that Asahina or Yuki cause them.

* [[High School Hustler]]: One of the rare female hustlers.

* [[Hot-Blooded]]: Particularly during her fight with Kyon during the SOS film about her abusing Mikuru.

* [[Insane Troll Logic]]: She is Haruhi, after all.

* [[It's All About Me]]

* [[Jerk Sue]]: An in-universe [[Parody Sue|parody]].

* [[Jumped At the Call]]: To the point where she ''didn't even get one'' in the first place. From a certain point of view you could say that she ''made'' the call.

* [[Mood Swinger]]

* [[Murder the Hypotenuse|Molest the Hypotenuse]]: Reacts coldly to girls that Kyon seems to favor. It gets worse when he then jumps to their defense.

* [[Naughty Is Good]]: Well, to her it is.

* [[Never My Fault]]: Even [[Peanuts|Lucy van Pelt]] apologizes more often than Haruhi. Of course Haruhi is never even told of most of the things she does.

"Your belief is most likely correct."'' }}

* [[No Sense of Personal Space]]

* [[Parody Sue]]: Of [[God Mode Sue]] and [[Jerk Sue]]

* [[Pet the Dog]]: As the series progresses, she reveals that [[Character Development|she genuinely cares for her friends.]]

* [[Summon Magic]]: Every time Kyon copies one of her drawings, alien monsters appear.

* [[Supreme Chef]]

* [[Team Mom]]: Yes, really! {{spoiler|Especially in the first chapter of Vol. 10, where she takes care of a sick Nagato.}} Also, when she plays with a bunch of kids in Endless Eight.

** In Snowy Mountain Syndrome she almost overbearingly insists on caring for {{spoiler|Nagato, even overriding Yuki's claims of being okay now.}}

[[Skepticism Failure|Naturally, all of them turn out to be real.]] And they all join the club, to boot.

 

 

Kyon [[Unreliable Narrator|presents himself in the narration]] as a [[Blatant Lies|levelheaded, objective, philosophical guy]].

** [[Badass Normal]]: It´s really impressive, how far a humble human being can get just by saying the [[Trust Password|right words]] at the right time.

* [[Beleaguered Assistant]]

* [[Bishonen]]: Just [http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g131/monkey1221/haruhi%20suzumiya/suzumiya7.jpg look]

* [[Bishie Sparkle]]: Once, during the second ''Endless Eight'' episode.

* [[Heroic BSOD]]: In [[The Movie]]; when he's confronted with a normal world. Everything he's always said he wanted; and isn't happy; a mental version of himself pushes him down and tramples on him; mocking all the things he had said in the past; until Kyon rips out from deep inside himself that yes, he wants a world of time travellers, espers, and aliens.

* [[I Just Want to Be Normal]]: At first.

* [[Inner Monologue]]: All the time.

* [[The Ishmael]]: Either played straight or subverted; the former if you believe Haruhi is the main character, and the latter if you believe Kyon is the main character.

* [[It's All My Fault]]: He feels personally responsible for the events of ''Disappearance'' as even though the Integrated Data Thought Entity failed to give Yuki a more complete personality (which put a strain on her) he decides that his over-reliance on her was the straw that broke the camel's back.

* [[The Lancer]]: Given everything he does for the sake of maintaining the Universe and helping his friends, he's really [[The Hero]], albeit one who complains a lot.

* [[Last-Name Basis]]: Refers to everyone by their last names apart from Haruhi. Even when asked by Mikuru to use her first name, he continues to use her last name.

* [[Nay Theist]]: He gets over it.

* [[Non-Action Guy]]: When compared to Yuki or Itsuki, at least.

* [[Not a Morning Person]]: He'd always be [[Late for School]] if not for his sister's daily glomps.

* [[Not So Above It All]]: Kyon admits to himself that he does, in fact, enjoy the crazy antics the SOS-Dan finds themselves in.

* [[Not What It Looks Like]]: One example of this happens when he's holding Nagato as Taniguichi walks into the classroom. He even tries [[Blatant Lies|a lie]] later to cover it, but Taniguichi doesn't believe him.

* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]: Especially obvious in the novels, where we see even more of his thought process.

* [[Oblivious to Love]]/[[Selective Obliviousness]]: Kyon's (un)awareness of Haruhi's attraction to him is complicated to judge.

** On the one hand, there are a few points where his internal dialogue makes it clear that he's aware of it, which means that there is definitely some [[Selective Obliviousness]] going on (required for stretching the [[Will They or Won't They?]] for ''ten freakin' novels''). For example, in "Live Alive," Kyon rejects Taniguchi's suggestion that they go try to pick up girls, precisely because there'd be huge trouble if "somebody" saw him doing that.

* [[Secret Keeper]]

* [[Sharp-Dressed Man]]: His outfits in Endless Eight are of the casual variety but still incredibly sharp and stylish. He even manages to out-dress some of the girls.

** Neither is Yuki, even if they were on the floor in a [[Not What It Looks Like|compromising position]].

** And neither was Sasaki.

* [[Tall, Dark and Handsome]] [[Tall, Dark and Snarky|AND Snarky]]

* [[That Makes Me Feel Angry]]: For all of his emphatic narration, we rarely see Kyon show any emotion about anything at all. We can, however, expect entire paragraphs dedicated to his insistence that he's emotionally overwhelmed about something. This isn't to say he doesn't show emotions; merely usually not quite the ones he's talking about at the time.

* [[True Companions]]: Starting around the third through fifth published books.

* [[True Love's Kiss]]: Sort of.

* [[Big Fancy House]]: The huge sparse apartment in the anime is a downgrade from the three bedroom spread she has in the novels.

* [[Bob Haircut]]

* [[Character Development]]: Her development goes in the direction of emotions and individuality. In one of the later novels, she {{spoiler|refuses to synchronize with her self from a different time, in order to retain her individuality.}} She flat out ''says'' {{spoiler|"Because I don't want to."}} She also begins to treat the SOS-dan more akin to [[True Companions]], going from caring about Kyon in particular, to ''also'' caring about the rest of the members.

** Some of this may be due to Kyon becoming an expert Yuki watcher or projecting his feelings on what he sees from her. For example when he's feeling guilty about a date with Mikuru he sees Yuki as being colder than usual towards him.

{{quote| Voiced by: [[Yuko Goto]] (JP), [[Stephanie Sheh]] (EN)}}

 

 

Painfully shy, walked-upon, and adorable, Mikuru Asahina doesn't seem to serve much purpose on the show other than [[Fan Service]], a rival [[Love Interest]] for Kyon (and the one he actually ''expresses'' interest in), and being the much-abused subject of Haruhi's [[Skinship Grope|"admiration"]]. However, like the other characters, Mikuru has her own secret: she is a [[Time Travel|Time Traveler]] from an unspecified date in [[The Future]], sent to study Haruhi like Itsuki and Yuki, since Haruhi is the source of a temporal disturbance [[Arc Words|Three Years Ago]] that prevents time travel to any previous period.

* [[Older Than They Look]]/[[Younger Than They Look]]: Mikuru's denials of telling Kyon her age implies that she is not ''really'' high school age (by our standards). She also qualifies as both by having the face of a little girl and the breasts of a much older woman.

* [[Playing Against Type]]: Played straight with Present!Mikuru, and subverted with Future!Mikuru. Present!Mikuru is nice. Future!Mikuru? Not so much, {{spoiler|though Kyon is active in trying to change that as of the end of ''Astonishment Vol. 2''}}.

* [[Sitcom Character Archetypes|The Precocious]]

* [[Reluctant Fanservice Girl]]

{{quote|''"Relax! I don't believe in the existence of an Almighty God, or the Ultimate Creator that created humans. Many of my companions think the same way as well. Yet, there's one thing that bothers us."''<br />

Bothered by what?<br />

 

Itsuki Koizumi. [[New Transfer Student]]. [[The Philosopher|Prodigious talker]]. Perpetual annoyance to Kyon, and toady to Haruhi. Also the wielder of (rather specialized) [[Psychic Powers]] and representative of a shadowy conspiracy of similarly-empowered people, who credit Haruhi as the source of their abilities. Like Yuki and Mikuru, he's here to observe Haruhi and, more so, keep her under control; he knows from regular experience the highly destructive nature of Haruhi's teen angst, and his "Agency" is tasked with keeping it under control.

* [[Homoerotic Subtext]]: It makes Kyon pretty uncomfortable.

{{quote| '''Koizumi to Kyon in "Snowy Mountain Syndrome":''' "'You appeared in my room as well. The appearance might have been you, but the behaviour was just terrifying... anyway, you did things that you wouldn't do.'"}}

* [[I Was Just Joking]]: At least once, after another philosophical monologue.

** Many of his statements to Kyon end with his (nearly signature) 'Ah, sorry, that was a joke'. He stops tacking this onto his persistent hints that he has a thing for Haruhi by ''Disappearance''.

* [[Stepford Smiler]]

* [[Teen Genius]]: He's involved with an organization that is more or less omnipotent in human terms. {{spoiler|And according to Kyoko Tachibana, he's the head of it!}}

* [[Trickster Mentor]]

* [[True Companions]]: He declares that he would choose the SOS Brigade over the Agency, effectively betraying them [[Heel Face Turn]] style, should they turn out opposing to the Brigade.

* [[Foreshadowing]]: Remember the knife scene from ''Melancholy''? Guess {{spoiler|who fights Kuyo and what weapon she uses?}}

* [[The Gadfly]]: A bad case of this, but fits it nonetheless.

** The fact that she appears in ''Disappearance'' at all is telling. {{spoiler|Yuki temporarily stole Haruhi's [[Reality Warper|Reality Warping]] powers, which means that she very easily could have fabricated a universe where Ryoko didn't exist at all; in fact, she would ''have'' to know how negatively Kyon views her, and this was all done for his sake. That Yuki brought Ryoko back ''regardless'' really suggests that Yuki must see ''something'' redeeming in her and that she isn't just a [[Knife Nut]].}}

* [[Hime Cut]]

* [[Homoerotic Subtext]]: Starting in Disappearance she starts showing a weird fixation on Yuki, though some of it may be a result of {{spoiler|Yuki restructuring the world.}} It's really hard to interpret her behavior properly considering how, well, ''alien'' she is.

* [[Knife Nut]]

* [[Let's Get Dangerous]]: {{spoiler|"Shifting to Termination Mode."}}

* [[Motor Mouth]]

* [[Nice Girl]]: Will be friends with anyone, unless they hurt Mikuru.

* [[The Ojou]]

* [[Rapunzel Hair]]

'''Taniguchi''' and '''Kunikida''' are [[Those Two Guys]] and Kyon's main non-SOS Brigade friends. Both totally normal to all appearances, Taniguchi is a [[Big Eater]] and something of a teenage [[Casanova Wannabe]] who is implied to have dated Haruhi for exactly five minutes back in junior high. Kunikida is Kyon's junior high friend, and receives no [[Character Development]] or [[Backstory]] detail whatsoever - except that he gets better grades than Taniguchi or Kyon {{spoiler|and, as is revealed in the eleventh novel, may have a crush on Tsuruya}}. They both act as an anchor of normalcy for Kyon, and occasional extra bodies in the SOS Brigade for things like baseball games or magazine publishing.

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* [[Ship Tease]]: {{spoiler|Kunikida goes to North High so he can be with Tsuruya more often.}}

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Formally introduced in ''Astonishment''<ref>having made her first (nameless) appearance in ''Dissociation''</ref>, '''Yasumi Watahashi''' is one of the new first years at North High participating in Haruhi's rigorous SOS Brigade entrance tests. Kyon notices her among the other first years as the only one interested in Haruhi's lecture on the history of the SOS Brigade. By ''Astonishment (Part Two)'', {{spoiler|she is the only student to pass the tests.}}

 

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* [[Chekhov's Gunman]]

{{quote| Voiced by: Steve Kramer (EN, season 1) [[Michael McConnohie]] (season 2)}}

 

{{quote| '''Shamisen:''' ''(interrupting)'' Why don't you just take control of his mind? From my observations, you have the ability to do just that...<br />

'''Yuki:''' ''bops him on the head'' <br />

'''Sasaki''', Kyon's old girlfriend. Or at least the female person he used to hang around with, and the reason for his pre-Haruhi reputation for "liking weird girls." Sasaki is intelligent and analytical...but chooses not to do anything to change her environment. She knows about aliens, time-travellers and espers, which are interesting, but she's not going to change her daily routine over it. She's somewhat of [[The Spock]] and wishes to keep out of the God-business all the organizations have.

 

* [[Evil Counterpart|Antagonistic Counterpart]]: To Haruhi.{{spoiler|..[[Good All Along|at first.]]}}

* [[Anti-Villain]]: Seemingly a Type I {{spoiler|but really a Type IV.}}

** {{spoiler|Well, that's because she hadn't technically reformed just yet. She does make a real [[Heel Face Turn]] in the end and Kyon is more trusting toward her as a result.}}

* [[Ship Tease]]: With {{spoiler|Itsuki}} at the end of Novel 11.

* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]

* [[Wham! Line]]: Delivers the main one in ''Dissociation'': {{spoiler|"We believe the existence of the real god is not Miss Suzumiya, but Miss Sasaki."}}