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'''THERE WILL BE SPOILERS FOR THOSE WHO HAVEN'T READ THE LIGHT NOVELS! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.'''

* [[Abhorrent Admirer]]: In one of the short stories of Volume 8, it's revealed that {{spoiler|he has a ''female gorilla spirit'' who has a crush on him.}} Needless to say, he's not amused.

* [[Achilles Heel]]: Notable in that he's got ''twice'' the number of weaknesses because he's both a dragon and a devil.

* [[Ascended Fanboy]]: He's a fan of [[Super Sentai]] shows alongside Irina, and he finally gets a [[Show Within a Show|show in hell called Breast Dragon.]] He's conflicted however whether he's happy about it or not seeing as it's embarrassing for him to have his show called "Breast Dragon", however kids do love it.

* {{spoiler|[[Ascended to A Higher Plane of Existence]]: He's got both Great Red ''and'' Ophis' existence within him.}}

** [[Took a Level In Badass]]: ''Took millions!''

** [[Underestimating Badassery]]: Seems like a lot of people think that he's not as badass as he's supposed to be. He proves them wrong all the time.

* [[Berserk Button]]: Invoked by Vali to make him fight harder. ''It works too well.'' {{spoiler|Said button is ''halving his harem's breasts''.}}

** A more powerful one is {{spoiler|either harm ''anyone'' from his harem, or declaring that they're dead will and he'll rip you apart and ''[[I'm a Humanitarian|eat you]].'' Shalba Beelzebub found this out the hard way. It's not just physical harm either, when Phoenix shows up he humiliates Rias (his fiancee) by making out with one of his Evil Pieces right in front of them prompting Issei to release his Boosted Gear and try to attack him.}}

** He also has a love for having a harem and have sexual relationships with his fellow club members {{spoiler|but the girls reveal that that they see fear in his eyes whenever they interact with him which shocks him. He still has a lot of trauma in regards to relationships because of [[Manipulative Bitch|Reynalle]], his ex-girlfriend.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Horned Humanoid]]: After activating Juggernaut Drive the first time.}}

* [[Informed Flaw]]: Everyone calls him talentless and he's often remarked as the weakest holder of Boasted Gear. At the start that makes sense but once he starts training he completely blows through the more "talented" members of the Occult Club in terms of both strength and the rate he grows stronger. While it's true that he trains hard Sairaorg trains longer and just as hard as him and he still surpassed him in the end. At this point it gets a little ridiculous when someone remarks him as weak or talentless considering how fast he improved.

** Although to be fair, the ones calling him talentless nowadays are [[Authority Equals Asskicking|Azazel]], [[Born Winner|Vali]] and [[Badass Normal|Cao Cao]]. And even then, it's a compliment for them because they know Issei is a hard worker and is getting even stronger in a different direction.

* [[Ironic Echo]]: Him promising to Koneko that he'll never use Dress Break to his allies. For those who haven't read the light novels, {{spoiler|he uses it (by accident) towards Asia and Koneko in volume 3 because he was targeting Irina at that time, he uses it at Asia in volume 6 for his [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]], and he uses it again towards Rossweiss in volume 9 because he needed to get past her. The one with Xenovia on volume 8 doesn't count because it was his clone running loose.}}

* [[Jack of All Stats]]: Pawns have the secondary ability of "Promotion" if they are deep in enemy territory [[Chess Motifs|(in chess a pawn is promoted when it hits the last row on the opposing side of the board.)]] Which allows him to promote himself to any piece except a King, gaining that piece's abilities.

* {{spoiler|[[Kaiju]]: When he shows up in his [[Big Damn Heroes]] moment alongside Ophis and Great Red, he combines with Great Red and becomes ''gigantic sized'' to take out the Annihilation Maker monsters. [[Word of God]] states that it's a one time form only.}}

* [[Large Ham]]: Every single time he uses Dress Break and Bilingual to his female opponents, he will be bringing ham.

* [[Magnetic Hero]]: He attracts special people like crazy. Practically everybody important in this series had some form of interaction with him.

* [[Male Frontal Nudity]]: In episode 2 and it's uncensored even though it's only in a single frame and even then, it's easy to miss it.

* [[Mistaken for Gay]]: After Kiryuu spreads the photo of Issei and Kiba singing a duet together, rumors of them [[Ho Yay|having a relationship]] spread like wildfire. Doesn't help that Kiba [[Ho Yay|sometimes even outright tells Issei that he'll protect him]]. Issei just thinks he's nuts.

* [[Mistress and Servant Boy]]: He's the servant and Rias is the mistress.

** [[Mighty Glacier]]: Welsh Draconic Rook has heavy attack and defense but due to the extra armor in this mode speed is lowered.

* [[Mundane Utility]]: How he acquired Dress Break in the first place was to peel vegetables at a distance.

* [[Nice Guy]]: Despite being a pervert he is one of the nicest people in this story.

* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: {{spoiler|Destroying one of Cao Cao's eye didn't exactly end well when Cao Cao gets a rematch with replacing his now missing eye with a Medusa eye.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Our Hero Is Dead]]: Near the end of volume 11. It probably won't stick though.}}

** {{spoiler|[[He's Back|It didn't.]] [[We Can Rebuild Him|Technically at least.]]}}

** {{spoiler|And now he managed to become Great Red's friend.}}

* [[Papa Wolf]]: To all the girls, but ESPECIALLY Asia and Koneko. Just ask Kuroka and [[Complete Monster|Diodora]].

* {{spoiler|[[Sickeningly Sweethearts]]: With Rias. Even referred by Azazel as that stupid couple.}}

* [[Shoulder Cannon]]: His Illegal Triana Bishop form.

** With Reynalle: {{spoiler|Punching her in the face so powerful she got blown out of the window (anime)/punched across the room (light novel and manga).}}

** With Raiser: {{spoiler|Beats him up at ''his own'' engagement party.}}

* [[Thou Shalt Not Kill]]: Hasn't really killed anybody outside of Rating Games and even then, no one dies in Rating Games anyway. He might beat them to a bloody pulp though. {{spoiler|His first kill however is from Shalba the second time they fought.}}

* [[Time to Unlock More True Potential]]: Well, it is a shounen series after all.

* [[Transformation Sequence]]: When he puts on his Balance Breaker for the first time in the anime.

** [[Transformation Is a Free Action]]: Yet somehow, no one attacks him while he's transforming in this form. Even Maou Ranger Red (Sirzechs) lampshades that it's a rule to never attack while the opponent is transforming.

* [[Clingy Jealous Girl]]: As soon as Akeno starts making her moves on Issei, she gets jealous.

* [[Cool Big Sis]]: Lovingly-kind or sternly-mature as the situation calls for it.

* [[Crutch Character]]: At the start, she's the strongest member in the club. By the middle part of the series, she's now just at the middle rank. [[Justified Trope|Justified]] because, [[Fridge Brilliance|Kings in chess are pretty weak.]]

* [[Dark and Troubled Past]]

* [[Dual-Wielding]]: And sometimes, triple wielding.

* [[Elemental Powers]]: His swords can do this.

** [[An Ice Person]]

** [[Casting a Shadow]]

{{spoiler|She's in the care of the Gremory household after her sister killed her former master. Not wanting to become like her, she's sealed most of her powers until Issei convinces her otherwise.}}

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** Also prevalent in the manga when she takes a villain's comment about her size to be about her...ahem...size. She then throws a ton of stuff at him.

* [[Badass Adorable]]

* [[Soul Power]]: Senjustsu in a nutshell.

* [[Vitriolic Best Buds]]: {{spoiler|With Ravel. Their relationship is even compared to a cat and a bird.}}

* [[White-Haired Pretty Girl]]

* [[Even the Girls Want Her]]: Accumulated a lot of fangirls during the Rating Games.

* [[Heel Face Turn]]: {{spoiler|After finding out that God in the Bible is already dead, she decides to join Rias's group.}}

* [[Mama Bear]] : {{spoiler|When Asia is taken, she VAPORIZES two of the devils who got in her way.}}

* [[Murder Is the Best Solution]]: Done with any talks before the fight? She'll fire off the first blow before anyone else, much to Issei's consternation.

* [[Hair Decorations]]

* [[Hair Antennae]]

* [[Hot Teacher]]: One of the teachers of Kuou Academy despite being near Issei's age.

* [[Instant Runes]]

Troops relating to them:

* [[Can't Catch Up]]: With the exception of Saji their overall strength haven't improved compared to Occult Club's consistantly improving members.

* [[Weak but Skilled]]: Compared to [[Unskilled but Strong|Rias group]] in rating games. They did research on Rias group and used [[The Plan]] to almost win.

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* [[Attack Reflector]]: This is how her Sacred Gear, Mirror Alice, works. Oh and whatever damage is dealt with the mirror, it will be returned with twice the damage.

=== Genshirou Saji ===

* {{spoiler|[[Heroic BSOD]]: He sulks in his room when Issei defeats him in his engagement party.}}

* [[Jerkass]]: When first introduced in the story. [[Flanderization|Flanderized]] in the anime version to the point when comparing him to his light novel version/manga version, he's way different.

* [[Superpower Lottery]]: His main strong point is that he can't be killed. As you can imagine that is enough to get through most enemies.

* [[Worthy Opponent]]: Towards Issei {{spoiler|when Raiser is finally healed from his dragon trauma.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Powered Armor]]}}

* [[Power Limiter]]: Limits himself to just be able to have a good fight with his opponents. [[Megaton Punch|Doesn't matter anyway]].

* {{spoiler|[[So Proud of You]]: When his mom finally wakes up from a coma, she says she's proud of him, causing him to shed a [[Single Tear]].}}

* [[Training From Hell]]: Subjected himself to this so he can become stronger.

* [[Evil Costume Switch]]: Anime only.

* [[Hotter and Sexier]]: The light novel and the manga version of her reveal was just showing off her wings. The anime however, got her to wear [[Stripperific]] clothes.

* [[Meaningful Name]]: Although this is working without the component kanji (and, therefore, a way to look them up), "Yuuma" sounds like "Ghost Fiend"--and "fiendish" barely ''begins'' to describe her killing of Issei. Never mind her actually being a Fallen Angel...

** Actually, she reveals she chose that name because "Yuu" means "night" or some equivalent, which was [[Complete Monster|WHEN SHE PLANNED ON KILLING ISSEI!!]]

* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: What does he do as his entrance? [[Panty Shot|Flip Akeno's skirt.]]

* [[Cool Old Guy]]

* [[Dirty Old Man]]

=== Loki ===

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* [[Badass and Child Duo]]: She's the child to Issei's badass.

* [[Tagalong Kid]]: To Issei

=== Son Goku ===

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* [[Badass]]: Yep.

* [[Curb Stomp Battle]]: Delivers this to Kokabiel.

** And another even shorter battle with {{spoiler|Pluto.}}

* [[Foil]]: To Issei. He's talented and remarked to be the strongest holder of Divine Dividing thus far while Issei lacks any kind of talent and is remarked to be the weakest holder of Boasted Gear thus far. Also in terms of personality he is a [[Blood Knight]] who is not interested in sex while Issei is [[Lovable Sex Maniac|obsessed with sex]] and hates fighting.

* [[I Was Just Passing Through]]: His excuse for {{spoiler|rescuing Asia from the void. Turns out, he was also trying to get Gogmagog and he just happened to see Asia in there.}}

* [[The Juggernaut]]: He also has access to Juggernaut Drive but it won't kill him because he can temporarily control it by consuming his vast magic reserves inherited from being a direct descendant of the original Lucifer.

* [[Lightning Bruiser]]: Is very fast and hits hard.

* [[The Plan]]: Him helping out the Kuou group was because he wanted to take Fenrir. The group however just only needed his teeth, and yet he [[Took a Third Option]].

* [[Rivals Team Up]]: He and Issei teamed up against Loki {{spoiler|and later on when Issei comes [[Back From the Dead]], with Pluto.}}

=== Bikou ===

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* [[Oh Crap]]: Whenever the original Son Goku is mentioned. {{spoiler|[[Charles Atlas Superpower|Given what we know about the original Son Goku when he made an appearance]]}}, he may have a point.

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* [[Ars Goetia]]

* [[Oh Crap]]: Scared shitless when {{spoiler|Issei in [[Deadly Upgrade|Juggernaut Drive]] was ''too powerful'' for him to take on.}}

* {{spoiler|[[We Can Rebuild Him]]: And that's what Chaos Brigade did.}}

== Chaos Brigade Hero Faction ==

Tropes relating to them:

* [[Badass Normal]]: They're humans who could die right off the bat from just about anybody from any mythology. They still kick ass.

** [[It Only Works Once]]

* [[Knight Templar]]: Them seem to genuinely believe that killing gods and monsters are for a good cause.

*** [[Glass Cannon]]: All it takes to defeat him is just one hit from anybody in this series. Yet ''no one can land a hit on him.''

** [[One-Man Army]]: Oh is he ''ever''.

* [[Combat Pragmatist]]: Encourages gathering information and fights extremely unfairly. {{spoiler|Best examplified during his fight with Vali and Issei's group. He used Samael's poison to take out Vali and attacks the weakest links of the group knowing that Issei would protect them which he did. He in a instant he got rid of the two fighters that actually was a threat to him and weakened the other side immensely}}.

* [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]]: He'll study his enemies and perfect his style before even thinking of even attacking his enemies.

** {{spoiler|[[Evil Eye]]}}

* [[Foil]]: To Issei; both have companions who are willing to join the both of them, but while Issei, a devil, will not sacrifice anybody for his cause and does care for the well-being of other people, Cao Cao, a human, is willing to make sacrifices for his cause.

* [[Magnetic Hero]]: Despite the fact that he'll employ brainwashing for the humans with Sacred Gears who aren't willing to join his cause, there are also people who are willing to join him because he's accepted them and will die for them.

* [[Oh Crap]]: {{spoiler|After seeing Rias get summoned instead of Great Red.}}

=== George ===

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* [[Alternate Dimension]]: Capable of sending people to other dimensions.

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* [[Dual-Wielding]]: Triple wielding, ''all the way to sextuplet wielding''.

* [[Master Swordsman]]: Took on both Kiba and Xenovia ''and won'' when they fought the first time.

* [[Oh Crap]]: {{spoiler|When realizing that Rias' breasts ''are the breasts of miracles'' if combined with Issei's powers.}}

=== Leonardo ===

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* {{spoiler|[[Distressed Dude]]: Gets captured by a newly rebuilt Shalba Beelzebub.}}

* [[Cherry Tapping]]: {{spoiler|When Issei wakes up in his spirit form, he sees Ophis tapping the ground. When asked, all she said was ''"I'm defeating Great Red here."''}} Yes, it's a mix of funny and adorable.

* [[Comically Serious]]: ''"Did you want to become the Breast Dragon instead of the Heavenly-Dragon Ddraig?"'' which [[Hilarity Ensues|sends Ddraig into]] ''his [[Heroic BSOD]]''.

* {{spoiler|[[Dark Is Not Evil]]: At least Issei thinks so.}}

* [[Gothic Lolita]]: Its current form since according to Azazel, last time Ophis appeared was in the form of an old man.

=== Issei's Parents ===

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* [[Doting Parent|Doting Parents]]: Surprisingly, to Asia which Issei notes but doesn't seem to care.