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* [[The Jinx]] - Hayate again. Particularly with money, but it doesn't really matter. Bonus points for also being [[Born Unlucky]].

** Woe to any character that somehow becomes lucky, as Hayate might appear to inadvertently ruin their good day. If money is ever involved, Yukiji may [[Offscreen Teleportation|also show up]], but Hayate on his own can be quite worrisome to a [[Genre Savvy]] character.

'''Wataru:''' ''([[Oh Crap|Crap!]] The [[Genre Savvy|expert in losing money]] has showed up already!!)'' }}

* [[Just a Stupid Accent]] - In the dub mainly, the maids have British accent while Klaus and a few others has German accent.

* [[Longing Look]] - Save for Ayumu, none of them have had the nerve to actually confess though, so their lack of romantic knowledge ends up with it just being played for [[UST]].

** Actually, Ayumu is only the first (and she did so twice) of three to have confessed, Athena (though she then 'rejected' him, and then denied it as Alice) and Luca have as well (although Luca confessed to Hayate under the impression that he was female and added the condition that 'if he were a guy'). Hayate is just to clueless to have picked up on any of them.

* [[Loser Son of Loser Dad]] - Hayate is a heroic inversion of this plot. Ayasaki-Dad is always stealing money (he even cops to it), run con businesses and has been stated to have two large debts, one to the 'very nice men' and one to Wataru's video store. But Hayate is the hero of the manga, {{spoiler|and his brother is stated to be a hero, even going to rescue Athena from [[Expy|the devil]]}}.

* [[The Lost Lenore]] - Although not confirmed to have died, the original Katsura sister's parents are this to Hinagiku after they abandoned her and her sister before the story started. It's part of the reason that she's so hesitant to acknowledge her true affections for anyone, including her love interest, is because of how much their loss hurt and she's afraid of having to suffer loss again because of it.

** And often with wording fumbles atop the blush. Hinagiku and Ayumu pull this off (all at their separate times) along with Hayate himself during his stay at the Katsura household.

** Hayate in particular gets an absolutely epic one in the manga at least when {{spoiler|Maria (in 'disguise') and Hayate are riding the clock tower elevator and Maria teases him by asking if he is in love with the [[Student Council President]] (i.e. Hinagiku). Hayate's reaction consists of a literally [[Luminescent Blush]], much stammering, apparently trying to deny it by listing all of Hinagiku's good qualities and finally being unable to speak coherently.}} It makes This Troper laugh every time.

* [[Manipulative Bastard]] - Mikado. See [[The Chessmaster]] above.

** While the option played straight is very unlikely to happen, there is an interesting variation that has a chance of happening, that being {{spoiler|Nagi's new apartment (maybe after a possibly foreshadowed expansion) eventually having all the Haremettes move in with Hayate continuing to act as the "butler included" and thus sharing him}}.

** Part of what makes it an interesting case is the change over time. Hinagiku has changed the most, becoming much more feminine as part of her [[Character Development]], acting more [[Tsundere|dere]] when flustered instead of covering it with aggression, acquiring a sense of feminine modesty that Hayate tried to impress she was lacking, and generally sliding more to the 'feminine' side of the scale while still remaining 'masculine'. Perhaps her biggest 'feminine' factor is worrying that she isn't that feminine, though luckily for her Hayate seems to like her 'masculine' characteristics. Hayate is more inconsistent with this, sliding from more 'masculine' such as taking on responsibilities himself and trying to be a strong figure to protect and help others as well as going awfully far down the 'feminine' side of the scale (the crossdressing really hasn't helped him much). Oddly enough, Nagi's and Hinagiku's [[Imagine Spot|fantasized]] version of him is typically more on the 'masculine' end of the scale being confident and cool, though one of Hina's most recent moments had Hayate almost like a stay-at-home wife, though he remained sparky and 'cool'-looking. As much as she claims that he can be a dork, it seems that Hinagiku actually does like Hayate a little on the 'feminine' side of the scale as well.

* [[Master of the Mixed Message]] - '''Hayate.'''

* [[Murder Is the Best Solution]] - This was actually used by {{spoiler|Hayate during the Segawa Arc where after all the jerking around left him in a death match in a lava (magma?) battle arena, he determines - with his usual bright, cheery expression - that everything can be solved if he kills Kotetsu...most obviously for his constant attempts to grope and hit on Hayate}}. Nobody dies and the former even saves the latter (before knocking the latter out for 'getting ahead of himself') and alls well that ends well.

* [[My Name Is Not Durwood]] - [[Those Two Guys|Those three girls]] always call the titular butler Hayata to tease him.

* [[Narrator]] - Actual narrator in the anime (bonus points for being [[Norio Wakamoto]]), narration boxes in the manga.

* [[Narrating the Obvious]] - At times.

"He was punched extremely hard." }}

* [[Necktie Leash]] - Hinagiku does this to Hayate after {{spoiler|their first date, telling him that the next time he asks her out ii should be by his own will and not her friends telling him to}}.

* [[Necromantic]] - Mikado was hinted at wanting the Power of the Gods to bring back the daughter he loved. {{spoiler|except that, when he'd first made the attempt, she was alive.}}

* [[New Old Flame]] - {{spoiler|Hayate's}} first girlfriend {{spoiler|Athena}} makes an appearance later in the manga.

** Except that, while Hayate still holds a flame for her, it's not clear if she has the same for him. And their former relationship was left at the point of her {{spoiler|and/or the spirit possessing her,}} wanting to kill him.

* [[Never Got to Say Goodbye]] - The last time five-year-old Sanzenin Nagi ever spent with her ill mother was in a tempered-tantrum argument... and this would go on to shape the abrasive person that she grew up to be.

* [[Nigh Invulnerable]] - Hayate. Would be [[Made of Iron]] except it's taken to extremes with <s>no explanation given besides his childhood being inhuman.</s> There's an explanation now. {{spoiler|He was "given the body of God" via a ritual using the Sephirot by Athena.}}

** Great, now they've added Caballah references.

** There's the fact that his name's on the series, too, which is indirectly lampshaded often enough.

* [[No Fourth Wall]] - All characters are aware they are in an anime (or manga), referring to censors, commercials, pages, the [[Narrator]], the audience... in fact, the show seems to take the very existence of the fourth wall as a personal affront, and pounds it into rubble at every opportunity.

** Not so much in the second season.

* [[No Sense of Direction]] - Isumi, though it turns out that at least part of it is because {{spoiler|local spirits routinely interrupt her trips to ask her to fight demons troubling them}}.

** That happens 2-3 times ''per year''. She's as bad as [[One Piece|Zoro]].

** He's not clueless about sex appeal, just not affected by it like normal guys. Pointed out when Miki shoves a magazine in his face, and states that he's the perfect one to take Hinagiku out because of his reaction. And when Izumi gets possesed and Hayate comes in on her with Hinagiku in a suggestive pose, his reaction is significantly less than you'd expect from a normal male seeing it.

* [[Oblivious to Love]] - Powers huge chunks of the plot and character interaction.

* [[Oedipus Complex]] - Apparently, Hayate greatly resembles Nagi's mother... despite being male. So this is gender-flipped ''and'' played [[Double Entendre|straight]].

** Chapter 318 does nothing for the actual pairing though, and the implication is that the relationship between Wataru and Saki seems to be more of a mother/son one. Whereas Wataru/Sakuya seems to be gaining speed, with his apparent abandoning of Isumi-persuing. The fact that Sakuya gave him the money for the entire arc to start, and then helped him find the stolen money indicating that it's not one-sided.

** The arranged marraige between Wataru and Nagi has still yet to be clarified, it was implied that it was for the Sanzenin inheritance, {{spoiler|which Nagi is not going to get anymore}}.

** He once appeared in the manga ''on a spaceship in outer space'' that Nagi got stuck on when she called his name. Since he can't reveal that it was Isumi's magic, she must really think he's Just That Good.

** In a recent anime episode, Hayate explains this ability away by saying butlers have license to appear unexpectedly.

* [[Onsen Episode]] - Sort of an Onsen Arc with their trip to the Shimoda Hot Springs, with quite a bit of fanservice, wackiness, and everything else you'd expect from this series. There's hot springs, ping pong, hot springs, UFO's, hot springs, and a touching scene about Nagi's mother followed by everyone having a nice picnic.

* [[Only Sane Man]] - Maria is certainly this throughout just about everything. Even [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] (like everything else) in episode 10 of the first anime.

* [[Only Six Faces]]

* [[Opening Narration]]

* [[Ordinary High School Student]] - Episode 46 has Nishizawa showing Wataru and Saki around her "completely normal High School" which is filled with "Completely Ordinary High School Students". That is to say...it's filled with heroic [[Delinquents]] and [[Time Travel|time travelers]]. This was the same school that originally produced Hayate...

** Lampshaded in the very first issue of the manga when Hayate runs into some other students (which also hangs a shade on Hayate's playing [[Mister Exposition]]):

'''Student:''' Sorry for being ordinary.|^{(Are you explaining something?)}}}

** Hayate falls off being normal once his past is revealed, and Ayumu has been given a younger brother, but she's still really the only one who fits.

 

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