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* [[Parody Sue]] - Hayate, Hinagiku, {{spoiler|and Maria.}}
* [[Perpetual Poverty]] – Hayate. 150,000,000+ yen debt aside, if he is ever given any money he will certainly lose it. [[The Jinx|Even people around him]] seem to spontaneously lose money just by being in his proximity. Later chapters of the manga even give him the title [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|“God of Poverty”]]. He [[Genre Savvy|notices this trend]], and is quite dismayed.
** Hayate becomes explicitly flat broke at least five times in the manga.
*** The first is when he has to spend a few days out of the mansion and manages to lose 1,000,000 yen in a few hours mostly helping people in trouble; he ends up broke, without a coat, and depressed in the snow when {{spoiler|Hinagiku finds him and invites him over}}.
*** The second is when he buys Hinagiku a birthday present, partially to repay all the help she has given him, and also buys Nagi a hair-clip in a rare bout of forethought knowing that she would be jealous as well as a stuffed animal for Maira as thanks for her help as well.
*** The third time is when he tries to get Ayumu a White Day gift and {{spoiler|accidentally gives it to Maria when he tries to practice what he's going to say}}; Hinagiku and later Maria helped bail him out.
*** The fourth time is when he winds up taking Hinagiku out on what both would - eventually - find out is a date and when the movie tickets he was given fall through he {{spoiler|steps up and gets tickets to what is very obviously Disney Land Tokyo}}.
*** The fifth time is in Greece when Hinagiku saves him by curb-stomping Gilbert in (what is [[Gretzky Has the Ball|more-or-less]]) beach volleyball and he takes her to a very fancy restaurant as a way to pay her back...thankfully Maria knew the place and made sure they would only charge him the money that he actually had.
* [[Perverse Sexual Lust]] - Parodied. Hayate yells, "I only like 2-D girls!" to get Nishizawa to leave him alone.
* [[Pervert Dad]] - Izumi's dad likes making his daughter do cosplay as a form of punishment and jumps at any other reason to see her in a costume. A flashback also revealed that he was just a little too pleased when his kindergarten-age daughter innocently stated that she [[Father, I Want to Marry My Brother|wanted to marry him]].
* [[Please Don't Leave Me]] - Although the romanticism is questionable, Nagi uses this in typical [[Tsundere]] method by implying that Maria and Hayate will eventually leave her (presumably for romantic relationships), and after convincing attempts are made by Hayate, she 'allows' him to continue working as her butler.
* [[Poor Communication Kills|Poor Communication Gets You A Job]] - Whenever Hayate says anything, at least one person is sure to misunderstand it.
* [[The Power of Love]] - [[Church Militant]] Sonia requests a kiss from Wataru if she rescues Saki, who had just been kidnapped. Wataru pays in advance. Next page, Hayate (on bike) catches up to the flaming wreck of the kidnappers' car: a giant cross driven through the hood, the men tied up nearby, and Saki unhurt but confused.
* [[Promise]] - Hayate has promised to always protect Nagi, and to always love Athena.
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* [[Puppy Dog Eyes]] - Nagi (or really, any girl) going all sniffly and teary-eyed will cause Hayate to not just steel his resolve and do whatever's necessary to make them happy, but will ''adamantium'' his resolve. {{spoiler|We learn why during "The End of the World" - he took Athena's advice to heart.}}
** And even though he probably doesn't realize it, Hayate himself is quite good at this. [[Attractive Bent Gender|Especially when cross dressing]] as a [[Moe Moe|super moe]] [[Catgirl]]. Or maybe that would be [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Kitty Cat Eyes]]?
* [[Punch Clock Villain]]: The [[Yakuza|very nice people]]. The spend the first few chapters chasing after Hayate to settle his debt. However once Nagi pays it off, they later approach Hayate and chat amiably with him, apologize for the whole ordeal, and even offer to buy him lunch.
* [[The Quiet One]] - The infinitely huggable Isumi.
* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]] - Athena, oh so much.
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*** An even more meta, fandom example would be jokes regarding the nigh-impossibility of the chances of Hinagiku ever confessing her feelings to Hayate properly.
** Hayate's bad luck in general has got to be this, especially as everyone is aware of it.
** This one is part [[Bowdlerization]] and part [[Ascended Meme]], but in the anime, the phrase "Very Nice Men" or somesuch adaptation thereof invariably refers to the [[Yakuza]] that Hayate's parents sold him to. This extends to pretty much all fan discussion of both the manga and the anime.
* [[It Runs in The Family]] - Though we've only seen the female half of the Saginomiya family, they're all pretty well [[Cloudcuckoolander]]. Isumi is the closest one to sane, and she barely qualifies as such.
** Isumi's grandmother mistakes Isumi's
** Sakuya's family is just as comedy-obsessed as she is.
* [[Sacred First Kiss]]
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** Hinagiku had a short one even earlier in chapter 45 where she clings to Hayate after he comes out of nowhere to save her from a monster in the haunted school building. Hayate's face [[Luminescent Blush|completely lights up]] and he stutters trying to think of what to say. The next chapter has Hina making Hayate swear to never tell anyone (as an after-thought as she was more concerned about people knowing she was scared of the monster due to her pride as Hakuou's [[Student Council President]]).
** Nagi also does one to Ayumu in Chapter 215 after they wind up alone in a dark cave in Greece. She was actually fine up until Ayumu turned the flashlight off...right after she recalled that Nagi mentioned not being good with dark places.
* [[Serious Business]] - Butlers must be ready to defend their masters with their lives, and Hayate's [[Charles Atlas Superpower|superhuman feats]] are apparently the bare minimum for a
* [[Shallow Love Interest]] - Koutarou Azumamiya used to be this for Hinagiku originally, and the anime even added a few episodes of this to him, but since the second year started, he's actually gotten some character of his own.
** Although he now seems more concerned with ''Hayate'' instead after that development. Nagi certainly took notice of the way he was holding Hayate's sleeve on the Mt. Takao trip and Nishizawa immediately edged closer to Hayate while giving him a look as soon as she met the guy and he said barely two words to Hayate. Perhaps they notice something Hayate doesn't...
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* [[Social Services Does Not Exist]] - Worst. Parents. Ever.
** Well, let's not be too quick to say [[Ranma ½|worst]]... ...well, then again, fine, worst.
*** [[
* [[Something About a Rose]] - Himuro Saeki
* [[Stable Time Loop]] - In the final episode of the first season; in [[Foreshadowing|Athens, Greece.]] Adapted from a bonus chapter in the manga (volume 4).
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{{quote|''It's not that I'm jaundiced from staying up all night, even skipping school, to make chocolates and failed''}}
* [[Sweat Drop]] - Pretty much mandatory in the manga.
* [[Sweet on Polly Oliver]] - [http://anymanga.com/hayate-the-combat-butler/031/004/007/ Luca has started to act this way towards Hayate and doesn't know why!]
* [[Teen Genius]] - We're not talking [[Azumanga Daioh|Chiyo's]] level, but Nagi skipped three grades after all. Hayate actually did start to compare her to Chiyo in the manga, but Nagi told him not to go there.
** Nagi and all of her friends, Isumi, Sakuya and Wataru are all at Hayate's grade, while being three years younger than he is. Although Wataru seems to be the most street-smart and least book-smart of all of them.
*** Isumi is literate in four languages. Nagi in eight. Maria in ''thirteen''. They're surprised to discover neither Wataru nor Hayate can read German.
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* [[True Art Is Incomprehensible]] - Only Nagi's friend Isumi is able to understand what the hell's going on in one of her manga stories.
* [[Tsundere]] - Nagi as a Type A (in keeping with her voice actress and twin pigtails - it's even lampshaded)
** Hinagiku is also a Tsundere of the Type B variety, generally playing a kind and supportive role to the students and her friends but brings out the tsun side whenever the Baka Trio become troublesome or when Hayate gets involved in wacky shenanigans and/or sticks his foot in his mouth.
*** She actually shows a lot of self-restraint and instead of lashing out tends to favor a very intimidating calmness, leading to her being [[Sugar and Ice Personality|cheerful and kind most of the time, but snarky and annoyed when cleaning up her friends' messes]]. She often tries to be deliberately more dere only for things to go completely wrong and evoke her tsun side, which frustrates her quite a bit and is a focus in her [[Character Development]].
*** She actually realizes this at one point and tries to show everyone (i.e. Hayate) her femininity by trying to suppress her tsun side, managing to terrify Yukiji and the Student Council girls enough that Miki set her up on a date with Hayate as "landmine removal". Didn't really help that her smile was [[Technically a Smile|more than a little unnerving]].
** One short story in the manga had Maria planning to give Hayate a gift, and worrying that she might give the wrong impression ... and [
** When Maria and Hayate end up going to the public baths because the boiler is broken, she again delves into Tsundere territory. Especially [https://web.archive.org/web/20210315060528/http://www.tenmanga.com/
** During a particularly vicious blizzard, Hayate wonders whether it's caused by the ''Earth'' being a tsundere.
** Hayate himself actually shows Tsundere signs for two people, Hinagiku and Kotetsu. With Kotetsu it's mostly a massive dose of his darker, violent side but he actually has had a couple moments of dere when Kotetsu shows his decent attributes. Hina sees this side of him occasionally as well, usually when he is worried about her. A textbook example happens in chapter 45 in the haunted school building when Hina comments that it's hot and flaps the top of her shirt a couple times to cool off...causing Hayate's [[Luminescent Blush|face to turn completely red]] which she then teases him over. Cue Hayate acting like an incredibly stereotypical Tsundere and trying to downplay his interest in her. Unfortunately Hina took his words at face value and didn't read the incredibly obvious subtext (or notice just how incredibly flustered he was apparently).
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** Speaking of Hinagiku, she also seems to have one. [[Schoolgirl Lesbians|They're mostly girls.]]
** Wataru seems to have one of his own. He's just a lot more clued into it.
* [[Uptown Girl]] - A little one-sided, at least at the start, as Nagi (the rich girl) has become infatuated with the extremely-poor Hayate after he saves her from kidnappers. She saves him from his (parents') debt, and he ends up serving her as a Battle Butler to pay her back. For her, it seems to be mostly just an excuse to keep him around.
* [[Urban Legend Love Life]] - Hayate's got a [[Failure Knight]] complex preventing him from seeing it, and instead, all of the girls officially in his [[Unwanted Harem]] can see that he's got them all wrapped around his finger.
** Hinagiku gets to point [http://www.mangareader.net/hayate-the-combat-butler/320/5 this out to him]. Although technically only a few have gone that far.
* [[Verbal Tic]] - Demon, the Great Stygian of Abe (Temp), says '~tima' a lot.
** Izumi from the [[Greek Chorus|Student Council Trio]] has her unique laugh, which she uses a lot.
* [[Wham! Episode]] - Chapter 300. Not only did it see the return of {{spoiler|Athena, who either appeared in a dream or broke into Hayate's bedroom}}. It also had Aika returning from Greece at last to set up a few possible plot points. Then things get weird when {{spoiler|Hayate and Hinagiku are talking and a little girl who looks like Athena from the End of the World Arc appears out of nowhere and bumps into Hina}}. Then just to ''really'' make us all wonder what the hell was going on, {{spoiler|loli!Athena calls Hinagiku "mama"}}.
* [[What Could Have Been]] - Originally the author had written a one-shot manga about a high school student and her sister dealing with a debt. These characters became Yukiji and Hinagiku.
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* [[Worf Had the Flu]] - There actually is usually a reason for Hayate losing fights or having a much harder time than he should. The primary reason is that he's actually {{spoiler|a trained swordsman, though he lied about early on}} and is limited to fighting unarmed which could put him at a disadvantage. Also he apparently has access to an [[Big Freaking Gun|HK-MG3]] and plenty of skill with it even before the start of the series - if he brought ''that'' thing to every fight he could win just by waving it around (one-handed no less). Aside from that the biggest contributing factor is probably that he doesn't want to fight in the first place leading to him putting up with way more than he'd have to simply because he doesn't fight back.
* [[Workplace-Acquired Abilities]] - This is the explination given for many of Hayate's non-butler skills. Between the jobs he did for his father and the jobs he did to support himself since he was 8. His skills as a butler have a completely different origin.
* [[Worthless Yellow Rocks]] - While it's not gold, when Hayate is told to spend three days away from the mansion because Nagi's embarrassed, he's given one million yen. Which he promply loses. It gets returned to the mansion and Maria counts it, stating that it's almost exactly what he was given for living expenses. Nagi passes by the table and asks what all the [https://web.archive.org/web/20090215232113/http://www.onemanga.com/Hayate_the_Combat_Butler/77/12/ chump change] is.
** The characters, especially Maria and Nagi, have continually shown distain for the value of money. Such that it's a huge leap in Nagi's showing maturity when she's willing to give it up.
* [[Wrong Genre Savvy]] - The usual cause of a [[Genre Savvy]] guess being wrong. While the characters often seem to know they're in an anime/manga, they just as often think they're in an actual fighting series, not a parody.
** Sakuya is aware she's in a comedy series, she just has the comedy style wrong.
* [[Why Did You Make Me Hit You?]] - Played with in the 'End of the World Arc'. {{spoiler|Hayate wants Athena to join his family outside the RG and she can't bring herself to ask him to risk himself to allow her to, they fight (lethally), and then Hayate unknowingly triggers her [[Berserk Button]] of her not having parents, to which she then 'slaps' him by ordering him to leave (so she doesn't kill him?), before she's able to break down, he does so, thinking he's failed her. Afterward she breaks down crying for having to resort to ordering him away to protect him.}} He does try to return to apologize, but finds he's unable to.
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** Also, Nagi, apparently. Although Nagi's fondness for yaoi does ''not'' extend to guys hitting on Hayate.
** Nishizawa as well.
* [[Yaoi Guys]] - Parodied with Hayate and Kotetsu. Kotetsu ''tries'' to be the [[Seme]] to Hayate, who under other circumstances would fit the [[Uke]] stereotype. However, Hayate has made it ''very'' clear that he does not swing that way and, thus, does not want any of that. [[Handsome Lech|Kotetsu]] [[Stalker with a Crush|cannot take a hint]].
* [[Year Inside, Hour Outside]] - {{spoiler|The Royal Garden, apparently.}}
* [[You Didn't Ask]] - After 88 chapters, Hayate reveals to the other girls that he's had a girlfriend in the past, and she's the reason that he's completely clueless about all the other girls [[Unwanted Harem|all but throwing themselves at him]], even the one who's actually confessed to him. Even later he reveals who this girl is, and everyone realizes that they know of her and one of them was actually seen as her best friend. The phrase is never actually spoken, but there are reaction shots with this being their expression.
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** Subverted in chapter 262: {{spoiler|Athena tells Hayate she's cold, and he offers her his jacket, completely oblivious to her subtext - she wants him to give her a cuddle. He catches on eventually.}}
** Although not quite implied that it's because she's cold, Hinagiku is seen wearing a male's (possibly Hayate's) jacket as she runs from the beach where she's just played beach volleyball, so she's in a bikini.
* [[You Must Be This Tall to Ride]] - Hayate's absurdly rich mistress has an entire amusement park that was given to her as an elaborate [[Kick the Dog]]
* [[Younger Than They Look]] - Believe it or not, the butlers Nonohara, Himuro & Kotetsu are all under 19 years old! This is pretty shocking since Kotetsu looks like he's in his 30s yet is actally a teenager and is also {{spoiler|Izumi's older twin brother!}}
** Maria is 17 years old, but many are often mistaken that she looks older due to her maturity. By the way, '''DO NOT IN ANY CIRCUMSTANCES SAY SHE DOESN'T LOOK SEVENTEEN!'''. Just Don't! Say it again or '''[[Berserk Button|you will suffer the consequences!]]''' You have been warned!
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