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* [[Badass Crew]]: [[A Worldwide Punomenon|Hell]] yeah!

* [[Battle Harem]]: Even if you include [[Ho Yay|Kiba and Gasper]]. It gets lampshaded by the [[Word of God|author himself at one point.]]

** If not in a Rating Game:

*** [[The Hero]]: Issei

** [[Badass Pacifist]]: Would prefer talking rather than beating up his enemies. {{spoiler|And that's including the past users of Boosted Gear.}}

** [[Badass Unintentional]]: He just wants a harem and not wanting to fight at all. Doesn't stop him from being one.

** [[Dare to Be Badass]]: Delivers this to Gasper when he held the [[Distress Ball]] in volume 4.

{{quote| ''However, Gasper! It’s no use if you don’t get up on your own, you know? After receiving encouragement by a girl, next is standing up! [[It Makes Sense in Context|Don't you have a wonderful pair of balls on you!?]]''}}

** [[Heartbroken Badass]]: His thoughts reveal that he's still traumatized after getting himself killed by his ex-girlfriend and also rejecting her beg for mercy when she gets killed by Rias.

** [[Intimidation Demonstration]]: {{spoiler|Does this to Diodora when he punches the ground so hard it causes a crater. This pretty much ends their fight as Diodora was scared of Issei.}}

** [[Submissive Badass]]: He's even more powerful than ''any'' member of his group, however he's still going to follow Rias' orders no questions asked.

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

* [[Despair Event Horizon]]: He crossed it when he thought {{spoiler|Asia "[[I Let Gwen Stacy Die|died]]" the second time (or at least he thought she died) was this for Issei. [[Deadly Upgrade|Then he unlocks Juggernaut Drive]] and ''[[I'm a Humanitarian|eats Shalba]]''}}

* [[Determinator]]: Best exemplified with his fight against Reynalle and went on from there.

* [[Drop the Hammer]]: {{spoiler|Briefly wields Thor's hammer, Mjolnir against Loki.}}

* [[Estrogen Brigade Bait]]: After his [[Training From Hell]] with Tanninim, he has developed quite a good looking body that half of his female classmates have a crush on him, knowing that he's a pervert.

* [[Fan Boy]]: Of Sairaorg after witnessing him settle a mess.

* [[First Episode Resurrection]]

* [[Foil]]: To Vali for having the greatest Red Dragon-White Dragon library and the fact that their origins are different (Issei's a devil who doesn't have any considerable past, while Vali's the descendant of the original Lucifer). Also, Issei is more of a pacifist and will talk with the past hosts of Boosted Gear, while Vali's more interested in dominating the past users of Divine Dividing.

** Another one would be with him and Cao Cao. Both have companions who are willing to die for them but while Issei isn't willing to sacrifice anybody for his cause, Cao Cao will do anything i.e., [[Brainwashed and Crazy|brainwashing people]] for his cause.

* [[Friend to All Children]]: Apparently, children are attracted to him for some reason.

* [[Groin Attack]]: He gets hit after blocking a speeding ball aimed for Kiba.

* [[Harem Hero]]: 2A latter evolves into 2B.

* [[Harem Seeker]]: His ultimate goal after getting convinced by Rias.

** Just ''how'' hammy was the introduction of Dress Break in the anime? He breaks out his devil wings, pulls off a pose not far off from any Tokusatsu genre, and lets loose with a finger snap. ''While [[Ominous Latin Chanting]] music is playing on the background.''

* [[Let's Fight Like Gentlemen]]: He insisted to Koneko that he fight Saji in a one-on-one match when Koneko tells him that it's a team battle. He then outright tells Koneko that if Saji wanted to, he could have used his Sacred Gear on her.

* [[Love Hurts]]: It takes him 9 volumes to get out of this and what does he get {{spoiler|after confessing to Rias? One volume later, [[Our Hero Is Dead|he dies after trying to save Ophis.]]}}

* [[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.

* [[Multiform Balance]]: How [[Super Mode|Trianna]] works.

** [[Fragile Speedster]]: Welsh Sonic Boast Knight gives up armor in exchange for speed.

* [[Naked On Revival]]

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

* [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot]]: A perverted high school student that is both a dragon and a devil.

* [[No One Gets Left Behind]]: {{spoiler|Stays behind the group in volume 11 to rescue Ophis from Shalba Beelzebub.}}

** [[Defenestrate and Berate]]: In the anime {{spoiler|Yuuma}} goes out a window instead, only to be hauled back in by Koneko.

* [[Red Baron]]: Called by everyone else as Red Dragon Emperor. Then they changed it to Chichiryutei (Breast Dragon Emperor) after completing his Balance Break {{spoiler|by pressing Rias' nipples.}}

* [[Required Secondary Powers]]: He needs ''a lot'' of stamina just to be able to make Boosted Gear work properly.

* [[Rivals Team Up]]: With Vali against Loki {{spoiler|and later on, with Pluto.}}

* [[The Messiah]]: [[Irony|Even though he's a dragon-devil.]]

* [[The Only One Allowed to Defeat You]]: Inverted. {{spoiler|Cao Cao, Vali, Sairaorg, and Kiba all express their wishes to defeat Issei one day. Them being all guys, Issei wasn't amused by it.}}

* [[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.

* [[We Do the Impossible]]: {{spoiler|Summoning a god from another dimension that ''other gods don't even know about'' definitely counts.}}

* [[Weirdness Magnet]]: He even [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]] that he's been attracting a lot of weird people lately.

* [[When All You Have Is a Hammer|When All You Have Are Rias' Breasts]]: Anytime Issei needs a serious power up, it's always going to be with Rias' breasts. Examples include:

** Need to attain Balance Breaker when Issei's getting curb stomped? Push Rias' nipples.

* [[Heroes Want Redheads]]

* [[Idiot Hair]]

* [[Intimate Healing]]

* [[Made of Temptation]]: Successfully tempts Rossweisse to join the group as a teacher despite her age.

* [[Ms. Fanservice]]

* [[No Nudity Taboo]]: While Issei was freaking out and his mother seemed stunned her response when Issei's mother walked in on them naked in bed was a polite "good morning" without even trying to cover herself up.

* [[Out Gambitted]]: {{spoiler|By Souna.}}

* [[Person of Mass Destruction]]: Her power.

* {{spoiler|[[Sickeningly Sweethearts]]: With Issei in Volume 11. To the point that they forget people are watching them.}}

* [[Squishy Wizard]]

 

=== Akeno Himejima [[Chess Motifs|"The Queen"]] ===

* [[Elemental Powers]]

** [[Shock and Awe]]

* [[Hair Antennae]]

* [[Miko]]

* [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot]]: A [[Miko]] who is also a fallen angel and a devil.

* [[Red Baron]]: The Lightning [[Miko|Priestess]]

** [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]

* [[Skinship Grope]]: Gropes Rias at the swimming pool of the Gremory household.

* [[Stepford Smiler]]: Is usually smiling, however bring up her [[Dark and Troubled Past]] or just harm Issei and she'll go nuts on you.

* [[The Mistress]]: What she wants to be for Issei.

* [[The Tease]]: Oh so ''much''.

* [[Alliterative Name]]: Gamebreaking points for having the same initials as her seiyuu.

* [[Amusing Injuries]]: Apparently her Nun training is still pretty well ingrained. If she's relieved she usually says something like "Thank god" followed by a whimper of pain since devils cannot pray, however there's really no excuse for her trying to read [[The Bible]] repeatedly even though it has the same effect.

* [[Burn the Witch]]: She was seen as a saint when people discovered that she could heal angels and humans, but as soon as it was discovered that she can also heal devils, she got branded as a heretic.

* [[Clingy Jealous Girl]]

* [[I Just Want to Have Friends]]

* [[Nice Girl]]

* [[The Medic]]

** [[Shoot the Medic First]]: [[Genre Savvy|Something the group always prevents.]]

** {{spoiler|Mentioning in front of him that Issei's sacrifice to save Ophis was in vain is a one-way ticket to a beat down.}}

* [[Bishounen]]

* [[Cool Sword]]: ''Lots of them''. {{spoiler|Even more now after ''all'' of Siegfreed's swords answer to him.}}

* [[Covert Pervert]]

* [[Chick Magnet]]

* [[Dark and Troubled Past]]

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

** [[Playing With Fire]]

** [[An Ice Person]]

** [[Casting a Shadow]]

*** Took this trope literally in Volume 12 when {{spoiler|he briefly wields Issei's Ascalon which is a holy sword, and Siegfried's Gram which is a demonic sword.}}

* [[Field of Blades]]

* [[Fragile Speedster]]: By his own admission. And Issei points out later that Kiba's not blocking his attacks anymore whenever they spar.

* {{spoiler|[[I Owe You My Life]]: After Issei saves him. To the point that he'll die for Issei, although Issei just thinks it's creepy.}}

* [[Nice Guy]]: Despite Issei's initial rudeness towards him he still is as polite and even encourges Issei more so then the rest of the Occult Club with the exception of Rias.

* [[Oh Crap]]: When Issei fired his Dragon shot on him when they were training.

* [[Mighty Glacier]]

* [[Pigeonholed Voice Actor]]: Once again, [[Ayana Taketatsu]] is [[K-On!|associated]] [[Mayoi Neko Overrun|with]] [[Ore Imo|cats.]]

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

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

* [[When She Smiles]]: So cute [[I'm Taking Her Home With Me|that every home should have one.]]

 

=== Xenovia [[Chess Motifs|"The Knight"]] ===

* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Lacks a lot of common sense.

* [[Cool Sword]]: Current wielder of Durandal.

* [[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.}}

* [[Stupid Sexy Flanders]]: Issei can't seem to think of him as a guy seeing as he covers himself in a towel from the chest.

* [[Time Stands Still]]: His Sacred Gear, Forbidden Balor View.

 

=== Rossweiss [[Chess Motifs|"The Rook"]] ===

* [[Combat Commentator]]: For the Gremory VS Bael Rating Game.

* [[Cool Teacher]]

* [[The Gadfly]]: Loves trolling Issei for the hell of it.

* [[Genius Bruiser]]: He can kick ass and he can also study how to kick ass.

* [[Incoming Ham]]: ''It'ssssssssssss! Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeere!'' {{spoiler|Says that line after remembering the conversation Issei had with Tanninim when Issei accidentally summoned the breast fairy.}}

* [[Large Ham]]: When he has Rias "[[It Makes Sense in Context|in hostage]]".

** [[Evil Is Hammy]]

* [[Major Injury Underreaction]]: He hacks off his arm using his light attack that supposedly is dangerous for him. He ''just brushes it off'' like it's nothing.

* [[Mad Scientist]]: He's devoted to studying Sacred Gears. {{spoiler|He got excited after seeing Nemean Regulus and ''demands'' to Sairaorg to bring that Sacred Gear to his lab for studying.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Mistaken for Terrorist]]: He's accused of being a [[Hypocrite]] that he's working together with terrorists when he's the one who's wanting peace the most. Needless to say, he's not amused.}}

* [[Oh Crap]]: When he realizes [[Hilarity Ensues|he's getting ganged up by the group for starting the entire mess]] of the Issei clones.

* [[Powered Armor]]: He uses it infused with Fafnir's spirit. Unlike other Sacred Gears, his is only artificial.

{{quote| ''I'll give you an arm at least.''}}

* [[Redemption Quest]]: If you think about it from the way he wants peace and also to join the Occult Research Club in the first place. {{spoiler|He gets it when Issei finally resolves the Akeno-Barakiel issue.}}

* [[Elemental Powers]]

** [[Making a Splash]]

* [[Meganekko]]

* [[Sue Donym]]: She uses Souna Shitori as an alias when she's at the Kuou Academy.

* [[Groin Attack]]: Koneko hits him there while playing dodgeball in episode 7.

* [[Sixth Ranger]]: Whenever he joins the fights with the Gremory group.

* [[Weak but Skilled]]: Vritra, the dragon inside Saji, is described as the weakest of the five dragon kings. However, Vlitra has a wide array of techniques that Saji can use to defeat his opponents.

 

* [[Badass in Charge]]: Everyone of them, but the most notable one is Sirzechs.

* '''[[Bunny Ears Lawyer]]''': Issei even wonders how all four of them can even run Hell's affairs.

* [[Large Ham]]: When acting as the Maou-Rangers but especially Sirzechs and Serafall.

* [[Super Sentai]]: It's as hilarious as one can think of.

* [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill]]: All four plus Grayfia in a [[Sentai]] suit shot down an evil spirit. ''It tore the the entire sky and ripped open a new dimension.''

* [[Inexplicably Identical Individuals]]: Really looks like a male version of Rias. [[Bunny Ears Lawyer|Of course, that's where the similarity ends.]]

* [[Long Haired Pretty Boy]]

* [[Sentai]]

* [[Switching POV]]: The light novel only shows us the conversation between Lord Phenex and Lord Gremory after {{spoiler|Issei defeats Raiser}} while Sirzechs went away. In the anime, it shows his and Grayfia's perspective on the reason why he handed out the griffon to Issei and his thoughts on the Welsh Dragon joining the devil group.

* [[Japanese Honorifics]]: Calls almost everyone "(name of person)-chan".

* [[Person of Mass Destruction]]: According to Sona, a simple wave of her staff can ''destroy Japan four times over.''

* [[The Glomp]]: Towards Sona.

* [[The Smurfette Principle]]

* [[The Stoic]]: In head-maid mode. ''Nothing'' phases her even if Sirzechs does something stupid.

** [[Not So Stoic]]: {{spoiler|As soon as she becomes Rias' sister, she'll sternly lecture Rias ''for a very long time.'' Not to mention, she'll release an aura so powerful, ''everyone in the room'' feels like they're going to die.}}

 

=== Raiser Phenex ===

* [[Early Bird Cameo]]: [http://i1229.photobucket.com/albums/ee471/No-Man/vlcsnap-2012-03-23-18h00m47s119.png He makes an appearance at the end of the anime] for a few seconds. He doesn't get to appear until three volumes later.

* {{spoiler|[[Died Standing Up|Fainted Standing Up]]: He loses the Rating Game but doesn't even lie down at all.}}

* [[Let's Fight Like Gentlemen]]: Requests from Sirzechs to lift up the rules that restrict the Gremory team so that they can fight at full power.

* [[Lightning Bruiser]]: Noted by both Issei and Kiba to be fast, strong and durable. Considering how strong Issei is and how fast Kiba is we can take their word for it.

* [[Token Motivational Nemesis]]: To Issei. Subverted in that even after her death, he still looks back on the memories of his first date with her with warmth and fondness.

* {{spoiler|[[Villainous Breakdown]]: After finding out Issei's stronger than her because of his Sacred Gear.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Wounded Gazelle Warcry]]: Tries this on Issei when Rias prepares to kill her. He doesn't fall for it.}}

 

* {{spoiler|[[All Women Are Doms All Men Are Subs]]: Apparently engaged in a S&M session with his wife back in the day.}}

* [[Badass Beard]]

* [[Elemental Powers]]

** [[Shock and Awe]]

* [[My Greatest Failure]]: When he was too late {{spoiler|in saving Juri, his wife and Akeno's mother.}}

* [[Papa Wolf]]

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

* [[Cool Old Guy]]

* [[Dirty Old Man]]

* [[Named Weapons]]: [[Blade On a Stick|Gungnir.]] This is Odin we're talking about here.

* [[Badass Boast]]: ''Even if I don't use Fenrir, two fallen angels are no match for me!''

** He backs it up.

 

 

* [[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.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Cool Big Sis]]: Not that she'll ever admit it.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Freudian Excuse]]: The reason why she murdered her master was because he was making a lot of crazy experiments to make his team ''and'' his blood relatives stronger. She didn't want Koneko to be in danger for being part of a crazy experiment so she killed him to protect her.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Taking the Bullet]]: Took Vali's blast which got reflected by Cao Cao going towards Koneko.}}

 

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* [[Badass Boast]]: ''"By this holy royal sword Colbrand, be it Fenrir's brood or dimensional space, all will be cut!"''

* [[Cool Sword]]

* [[Master Swordsman]]: He's tied with Siegfried as the strongest swordsmen within Chaos Brigade.

* {{spoiler|[[Undying Loyalty]]: When they're not [[Brainwashed and Crazy]], Cao Cao's willing to let other Sacred Gear human users join him for his cause. They do follow him all the way through to the end as shown by the [[Mook]] Issei encountered.}}

* [[Weak but Skilled]]: They're all this, but Cao Cao deserves a special mention because according to Vali, he could be the strongest human being thanks to his True Longinus.

 

=== Cao Cao ===

** [[Badass Normal]]: He's just a normal human being who has a Sacred Gear and ''almost always dominates in fights.''

*** [[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.''

* [[Blade On a Stick]]

* [[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}}.

One of the top 2 swordsmen of the Chaos Brigade faction (the other is Arthur). His Sacred Gear is "Twice Critical", the same Sacred Gear Reynalle thought that Issei had.

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* {{spoiler|[[Hoist By His Own Petard]]: He gets killed by Kiba after Gram answered to Kiba instead of him.}}

* [[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.}}

* [[Red Baron]]: Chaos-edge Sieg.

* [[We Can Rule Together]]: Offers Ajuka to fight against Sirzechs since he's the only one who could put up a fight with the latter. His answer? {{spoiler|Wipe out ''all the devils'' that were present ''without even standing up.''}}

 

Shared tropes:

* [[Achilles Heel]]: The only ones that can kill dragons are {{spoiler|dragon-slaying equipment like Issei's Ascalon or Samael the dragon dragon-eater. [[Our Hero Is Dead|Issei found that out the hard way.]]}}

* [[Our Dragons Are Different]]: The most powerful race in the story are dragons themselves.

 

* [[Always a Bigger Fish]]: Inverted. ''This [[Ambiguous Gender|dragon's]]'' the biggest fish in this series, even ''bigger'' than Great Red. Of course, the latter's a lot more powerful.

* [[Heavy Sleeper]]: Sleeps at the bottom of the ocean near Scandanavia.

 

=== Mischievous Jade Dragon Yu-Long ===

* [[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.