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* [[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.

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

* [[Name's the Same]] - Isumi and Izumi are different people.

** Likewise, Nagi is completely different from [[Mahou Sensei Negima|Nagi]] and [[Mai-HiME|Nagi]].

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