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* [[Ear Worm]] - ''Zettai nante shinji nai! Fukanou nante nai! Mirai wa hiraku te no naka ni aru!''

* [[Eating the Eye Candy]] - Despite being a [[Chaste Hero]], Hayate pulls this on Hinagiku. After his gaze lingers too long she chastises him for it, but she definitely enjoys the feeling.

*** Oddly enough, she let Hinagiku {{spoiler|go on a dinner date with Hayate to show his appreciation for all her help}} in Greece but refuses when Ayumu tries to do the same. Most likely, she guessed that nothing would happen. {{spoiler|She was waaaayy off}}.

* [[Everyone Is Related]] - In the most convoluted of ways.

** Which Isumi then turns into her pet!

* [[Evil Mentor]] - Nagi's grandfather Mikado. Hardens Hayate's resolve by telling him that to only do things due to debt means he's worthless. Gives him an ominous pendant that's probably cursed, but "will give him the will to do anything if he goes (and survives) where it leads."

* [[Exact Words]]: In chapter 331 Isumi {{spoiler|refuses to believe that Wataru's been in love with her for so long and that he was finally going to confess}}. She makes a bet with Nagi and Sakuya that he wasn't going to say "{{spoiler|I love you}}" to her. She claims victory when he says "{{spoiler|I love'''d''' you}}" instead.

* [[Expressive Hair]]: {{spoiler|Athena}} of all people has this.

* [[Failure Knight]] - Much of Hayate's determination stems from {{spoiler|having failed Athena.}}

* [[Fake Crossover]] - Nabeshin, [[Author Avatar]] of [[Shinichi Watanabe]], made an appearance.

* [[Fan Service]] - Delivered straight and subverted on various occasions, and almost always [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded.]] See the [[Fan Service|main entry]], or [[Panty Shot]] or [[Accidental Pervert]].

* [[Feuding Families]] - The Tennos and Sanzenin families are said to have this kind of dynamic, implied to be a rivalry of fortunes.

* [[Flaw Exploitation]] - In the Golden Week arc, Gilbert Kent, Sakuya's illegitimate brother, tries to use this with a dash of [[Boobs of Steel]] and fails, picking Hinagiku (at least, [[A-Cup Angst|she sees it]] as a [[Even the Girls Want Her|flaw]]) as Hayate's partner for a beach volleyball match. He thinks that she's the weakest of the girls. Hayate wins against an army of volleyball robots, presumably without even touching the ball.

* [[Furo Scene]] - Several over the course of the series but Chapter 304 sees Hayate and Maria going to a ''sentou''/public bath when the boiler is broken as Nagi, {{spoiler|Chiharu, Hinagiku, and Athena/"Alice" are}} feeling a bit uncomfortable with the whole bathing with strangers idea. Features a bit of Maria fanservice and more Hayate fanservice than it should, {{spoiler|especially with Kotetsu popping up unexpectedly, with Hayate oddly covering his chest while he drowns the idiot}}, and even a little [[Ship Tease]] as Maria shows her tsun side at the end (and even ''says'' "tsun" in a huff for some reason).

** Another moment is way back when Hinagiku invited Hayate over to warm up after finding him out in the snow. Hayate appears to be quite flustered at bathing at her place and has what might really be the closest he comes to a "dirty" thought in the whole series. Hint: it's about Hinagiku.

* [[Gag Dub]] - The Animax English dub is very faithful to the original dialogue, but once you add in accents, pop cultural references and some wacky lines, it’s even more funnier.

* [[Gag Series]] - The first season.

** Athena in Chapter 300, [http://www.mangareader.net/hayate-the-combat-butler/300/5 bottom panel]; "I don't have time!!" indeed. You know [[This and That|what she's talking about]]...

** There's an episode where Hayate and Maria place a bet on the outcome of a billiards game. The winner gets to have the loser do one thing for them. Hayate's first thought involves something that they apparently can't show. Maria calls him out on it.

* [[Getting Hot in Here]] - Done fairly late in the manga with Maria and Hayate yielding mindblowingly large [[Ship Tease]] results.

* [[Ghost Lights]] - The Ghost Priest has these.

* [[Girls Love Stuffed Animals]] - Izumi has lots of stuffed animals kept around her room. {{spoiler|Though it's not put in a prominent position, the stuffed animal that Hayate saved from Lucky ten years ago is still kept around in its ragged condition. It's hinted that this is what reminds her about her childhood promise.}}

** Though not shown to be anywhere near Izumi's collection, Chiharu had a collection of stuffed animals {{spoiler|then her house burned down. Many survived though}}.

** Hayate and Luca, while the former is crossdressed looks to be an example of playing with this trope

* [[Giver of Lame Names]] - Oddly enough, the resident [[Student Council President]] Hinagiku Katsura. Despite being amazing at almost everything, if she names anything it will be immediately called out by whoever is present. They aren't weird or long, just incredibly simplistic. Best seen when she first meets Hayate and tells him that she had named the baby sparrow they saved pretty much literally 'brown bird'. Even Hayate is exasperated, which is [[Hilarious in Hindsight|funny]] when you consider {{spoiler|that his naming sense is literally just as bad...both named Athena "A-tan", notably a character ''longer'' than her actual name}}.

** Taken even further when he actually begins to grovel for something that actually does anger her, along with the fact that he'd even tried to hide it, but then she makes a statement that confuses him, and then helps him correct the mistake.

* [[Guide Dang It]] - Actively referred to when it turns out the only way to activate the "Ultimate Butler Armor" is for someone who has lost the powers of a Butler to regain them.

* [[Happily Adopted]] - Hinagiku Katsura loves her parents, even though they abandoned her and her sister over ten years ago, but also loves her adopted parents.

* [[Hartman Hips]] - All the girls seem to have them.

* [[Hellish Pupils]] - Manga only, Hinagiku and Wataru. It might symbolize their aggressive personalities, as they're certainly not evil. Anime has the Superintendent and Wataru, and Hinagiku can summon it when she gets really annoyed.

* [[Hello, Nurse!]] / [[Naughty Nurse Outfit]] - Maria put on [[Meganekko|glasses]] and a nurse outfit in Chapter 140 as a disguise at the suggestion of Nagi's bodyguards. [[Paper-Thin Disguise|It didn't conceal her identity in the slightest]], but viewers certainly [[Fetish Fuel|didn't]] [[Perverse Sexual Lust|mind]].

** Not in the least helped by Maria's worry about letting them ride the subway....

'''Hayate:''' Several hundred thousand people get on that unknown vehicle every day in Shinjuku alone... }}

** Izumi is accused by the others of her trio of this when she's absent from everything after the Mt. Tako class trip; {{spoiler|she's just embarrassed about the maid outfit her father convinced her to wear as 'punishment' for not having her phone.}}

** Hayate actually does this earlier in chapter 46 when he mentally chides Isumi on throwing a fight way too quickly (before her opponent even swung), which she learned from watching Hayate's horrible attempt to throw his "duel" with Wataru some time before.

* [[Hyperspace Mallet]] - Sakuya stores her [[Paper Fan of Doom]] here. Hinagiku stores her sword here. Nagi stores various things here, commonly objects used by her [[Tsundere|tsuntsun]] side to punish people.

*** [[Kana Ueda|Sakuya]] is seen to be laughing loudly at this. Whether or not it's an [[Actor Allusion]] to the fact that [[Kana Ueda]] voiced Hayate Yagami remains to be seen.

** Hayate himself has a Hyperspace ''Broom''.

* [[I Can't Believe a Guy Like You Would Notice Me]] - Hayate and Hinagiku simultaneously with a side helping of [[Cannot Spit It Out]].

** Hayate continuously argues with others that Hinagiku can't possibly like him. Hinagiku doesn't believe he's interested in her traits.

** In actuality, he just doesn't want to [[Dropped a Bridget On Him|reveal to Luca]] that he's actually a guy.

* [[I Uh You Too]] - During the Golden Week vacations, Karou gets a chance to be alone with his crush, Yukiji, and tries to confess to her. He can't finish the statement, and so turns it into a question about her little sister's relationship status. It seems that Yukiji seems to understand what the statement was originally (and 'responds' later in the arc), but her immediate responce is to turn to her [[Bottle Fairy]] ways and offer him a drink. She then (probably teasingly) asks him what he likes about Hinagiku (the little sister), as if he had just confessed affection for her instead.

** In Chapter 283, Hayate and Tama are {{spoiler|covertly taking Tama to the new apartment}} and hiding out in Cafe Donguri (where he works). He assures Tama that nobody will be there since it's so late, so naturally Hinagiku immediately walks in. He covers by saying he was practicing making different kinds of coffee and makes some samples for her when she decides to hang around. While asking how they taste, Hinagiku forgets which one she had just sipped and Hayate casually takes a sip himself to identify it...and Hinagiku is the only one to realize that he indirectly kissed her. The next chapter has her slightly frustrated that Hayate didn't even notice this (to the surprise of absolutely nobody reading) and decides to "get back" at him by indirectly kissing him with some coffee he had sipped out of...but loses her nerve and can't go through with it.

** Although it's not actually mentioned, Isumi gives Wataru one in Chapter 331 when [http://www.mangareader.net/hayate-the-combat-butler/331/15 she takes a whistle out of her mouth and tucks it into his]. A sound effects bubble actually specifies that the whistle is "wet" from having been in Isumi's mouth.

* [[I Was Quite a Looker]] - Klaus was apparently a [[Bishonen]] when he was younger as shown in a photo in chapter 270.

** Hinagiku's sister was pretty cute (and ''sober'') back in high school...

 

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