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[[File:cit_hayate_the_combat_butler_-_hayate_nagi_maria.jpg|frame|<small>Screwball Action-Comedy at your service.</small> ]]
 
{{quote| '''Hayate''': "When reading this ''[[Hayate the Combat Butler (Manga)|Hayate the Combat Butler]]'' trope entry, [[Content Warnings|make sure to read this from a decent distance away from the computer screen in a well-lit room.]]"<br />
 
{{quote| '''Hayate''': "When reading this [[Hayate the Combat Butler (Manga)|Hayate the Combat Butler]] trope entry, [[Content Warnings|make sure to read this from a decent distance away from the computer screen in a well-lit room.]]"<br />
'''Nagi''': "Got it?" }}
 
{{quote| ''This is the super combat battle story of a boy who fights...''}}
 
 
Sixteen-year-old Hayate is really down on his luck. Because his unemployed parents are good-for-nothings who waste what money they have on gambling, Hayate had to start working at a young age to help out his family.
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When he helps save the (as it turns out) ultra-wealthy 13-year-old Nagi from real kidnappers, she takes him in and gives him a job as her new personal butler (and love interest) until he can pay off his debt, which will take about 40 years. But Hayate is more attracted to Nagi's beautiful teenage maid Maria, and head butler Klaus is initially disapproving of the boy with such a poor look. And then there's Nagi's pet ''tiger'', Tama, and Nagi's various social peers.
 
While it sounds like the setup for a gooey romantic comedy (and sometimes the series is just that) ''Hayate'' refuses to take anything in its universe the slightest bit seriously. [[Painting the Fourth Wall|Characters routinely reference the fictional nature of their existence]], [[Shout -Out|thinly-veiled parodies of characters]] from other series wander on and offscreen for no reason, and [[Refuge in Audacity|people do otherwise illogical things for the express purpose of "advancing the plot."]]
 
But then, there is a [[Story Arc]] in the [[Manga]] as well; events that were originally just jokes have had their backstories explained; and there is a continual thread involving Hayate's past and the origins of his abilities, Nagi's mother, a [[Mineral MacGuffin]], the Sanzenin and Tachibana family, a girl and a magical castle.
 
The first season of the anime aired in 2007, and follows the [[Manga]] up to a certain point, after which it adds a bunch of [[Filler]] and creates [[Adaptation -Induced Plothole|plot holes]] for those who watched the season that followed.
 
A second season, animated by J.C. Staff, aired in 2009. It follows the [[Manga]] more closely and [[Animation Bump|has a much higher animation budget.]]
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Part of Season 1 and all of Season 2 is available on crunchyroll.com.
 
There is also a 2010 [[Live Action TV]] [[Taiwanese Series]] of the same name, based on the original storyline but with differently named characters. Hayate and friends appear in the [[Massive Multiplayer Crossover]] game, [[Sunday VS Magazine Shuuketsu Choujou Daikessen (Video Game)|Sunday VS Magazine Shuuketsu Choujou Daikessen]].
 
[[Hayate the Combat Butler (Manga)/Characters|Here we have the character sheets of the sweet, wacky and lovable cast.]] (Well, except [[Abusive Parents|Hayate's parents]]. [[Complete Monster|They're NOT lovable]]). Also check out the [[Hayate the Combat Butler (Manga)/Shout Out|Shout Out page!]]- there are already a lot.
 
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=== This series provides examples of: ===
* [[Hayate the Combat Butler (Manga)/Tropes PA To ZD|Tropes PA To ZD]]
 
* [[Hayate the Combat Butler (Manga)/Tropes AE To DI|Tropes AE To DI]]
* [[Hayate the Combat Butler (Manga)/Tropes EJ To IO|Tropes EJ To IO]]
* [[Hayate the Combat Butler (Manga)/Tropes JP To OZ|Tropes JP To OZ]]
* [[Hayate the Combat Butler (Manga)/Tropes P To Z|Tropes P To Z]]
 
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