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* [[Awesomeness By Analysis]]: "'''Doubt''' them."
** And she did.
* [[Bag of Holding]]: Yokoya carries around one hell of a lot of cash in that little black bag of his, doesn't he? You might think he simply carries round lots of bags instead, but he's a little bit on the puny side...
* [[Batman Gambit]]: Before it dissolves into a [[Gambit Pileup]] between Akiyama and Yokoya, the third round begins with a series of these simpler gambits.
* [[Bare Your Midriff]]: Fukunaga.
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* [[Big No]]: A lot. Some of them are quite impressive.
* [[Blinding Bangs]]: It seems like Akiyama has this in his panels sometimes.
* [[Book Ends]]: The J-Drama ends with Nao asking Akiyama again whether being foolishly honest is a bad thing, showing that [[Static Character|she hasn't changed at all]] over the series.
** Note this only applies if you're looking at the first Liar Game drama; it's popularity has now spawned a Liar Game 2 and a finale movie, where Nao is acknowledged to have grown.
* [[Briefcase Full of Money]]: Played straight in the first round. [[Invoked Trope|Invoked]] in the third round, whose scenario involved smugglers sneaking money past customs in briefcases.
** Also averted in several rounds, where the money is given in the form of rare gems (on a nameplate), M-tickets (check-like objects), or poker chips.
* [[Butt Monkey]]: Forli-san (dealer of Pandemic Game) for the LGT Office, on occassion.
* [[Character Development]]: Nao, who [[Took a Level
* [[Chessmaster]]: Akiyama, Yokoya
** Musical Chairs has Harimoto (waiting to see how that round finishes), and {{spoiler|Young Jump, albeit acting as Akiyama's proxy}}.
* [[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder]]: Yokoya. {{spoiler|This trope also includes Harimoto during the fourth round}}.
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* [[Disappeared Dad]] - Akiyama's father had died in an accident when he was a child.
* [[Divided We Fall]]: Happens frequently in the third round due to Akiyama and Nao's teammates being self-serving, [[Idiot Ball|not-terribly-bright]] cowards. {{spoiler|Nao sees a larger version of this as the entire point of the Liar Game - everyone can avoid falling into debt, but only if they all stop [[We ARE Struggling Together!|struggling together]]. This happens most directly in the second Revival Round, in which the players can actually make a net profit if they call a truce and thus stop the dealer from having an opportunity to reclaim chips.}}
* [[Dropped a Bridget On Him]]: {{spoiler|Fukunaga}} actually pulls this off as a plot twist.
* [[Driven to Suicide]]: {{spoiler|Akiyama's mother in his backstory.}}
** {{spoiler|A couple members in the Harimoto cult were going to kill themselves but then they met Harimoto...}}
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* [[I Will Definitely Protect You]]: Akiyama to Nao in the second revival round.
* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]: Akiyama.
* [[Kansas City Shuffle]]: Without a doubt the most important trope of the series. That's how Akiyama manipulates others. He uses their knowledge, or lack of it, at his advantage. That's also why everyone feels trapped in the games of the LGT. No one really knows what happens to the people who lose the games, and no one really want to find out.
* [[Kick the Dog]]: Yokoya opts to squeeze hamsters instead.
* [[Knight in Sour Armor]]: Akiyama to a certain extent.
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** {{spoiler|"Artlier-San," is the name of the man behind the corporation (Ch 140). He's in a cloak and mask.}}
* [[Missing Mom]] - Nao's mother died when she was one.
* [[Moral Dissonance]]: Nao is tricked, in more than a few occasions, by someone who turns on their heel and highlights just how much of a jerk they are. '''Immediately'''. Nao, when she tricks someone, is an angel descending from heaven with the keys to economic freedom in one hand and [[Metaphorgotten|the great chain in the other]]. This is perhaps best noted as part of the game's [[Gray and Gray Morality]].
** The difference is; The ones who tricks Nao usually will [[Evil Gloating|happily gloat about it]] [[Hannibal Lecture|to the point of making us sick]], while Nao, even after tricks people, [[Defeat Means Friendship|will always be honest with her]] [[Well-Intentioned Extremist|''real'' intention]]: [[The Messiah|to save]] ''[[The Messiah|everyone]]''. Oh, and Nao is indeed ''[[Moe Moe|cute]]'' - so it seems that the core of it isn't 'lying is bad' as much as 'don't be a douche.'
** Further, the people that Nao tricks never suffer any ill effects - Nao and Akiyama always pay off all their debts afterward. Unless the subject was greedy and looking to turn a profit, being tricked by Nao gives them exactly what they wanted in the first place.
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* [[Retcon]]: In the first ten episodes of the Drama's first season, the LGT Office is vague and mysterious, just like in the Manga, with no leader in sight. The eleventh episode {{spoiler|plugs a man named Hasegawa into the role at every turn, rewriting the reason why Nao and Akiyama were even thrown into the Liar Game. And THEN, the second season reveals that Hasegawa wasn't even the creator of it; he just invested a lot of money, despite the first season stating specifically that he was, Leronira coming to him for instructions.}}
* [[Russian Roulette]]: The second Revival Round has a ([[Captain Obvious|harmless]]) variant of this.
* [[Schedule Slip]]: The manga went on a hiatus for about a year and a half.
** Then it came back, took frequent breaks, and went on hiatus ''again.''
* [[Schoolyard Bully All Grown Up]]: Yokoya for {{spoiler|Kikuzawa (and, indeed, Kikuzawa's ''entire'' school)}}.
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* [[Ship Tease]]: "Basically, I'm just another one of Kanzaki Nao's belongings."
** Not to mention this little scene where Akiyama takes Nao's hand to demonstrate something. "Will you do the honours?" She does mention that she felt shy when he took her hand.
** Right when it seemed all hope was lost to Nao in the first revival round, Akiyama came to her rescue and let her cry into his shirt.
** There is the panel where Nao looks concerned and wonders whether Akiyama went to sleep from exhaustion during the fourth round's night break.
** The fact that especially in the beginning, he would always come to her rescue and help her out with little to no profit to himself.
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** Lampshaded when Nao's nickname in the Fourth Round Qualifier is "The Only Woman."
** {{spoiler|The main Fourth Round (including Fukunaga's qualifiers) has some women. Shady-looking women. Women that are, for all intents and purposes, mindless puppets of the new antagonist introduced in that round.}}
* [[Took a Level
** "...Is this really the same Kanzaki Nao who easily got duped by me just a while ago?"
** And then {{spoiler|Yokoya}}, of all people. He went from scarily competent to {{spoiler|accurately predicting the game of the third revival round, right down to the exact name and workings.}}
* [[Too Good for This Sinful Earth]] - Akiyama's mother was a very kind and honest person, just like Nao. Despite not having lots of money, she worked day and night to pay for her son's education. Until she fell ill and an old friend of hers deceptively pulled her into an MLM and despite honestly working hard, she finally realized that she was never paid and her debt remained the same. When she tried to get out of it, the company required a huge sum of money to do so. Which she would never have been able to pay off. So she took her life in order to save Akiyama's education.
* [[Unspoken Plan Guarantee]]
* [[Unwitting Pawn]]: Pretty much anyone who isn't Akiyama, Yokoya, and Harimoto is this at all times. {{spoiler|Nao and Fukunaga begin to grow out of this after the third round, but they promptly gain some new allies to take their place.}} As of the fourth round, {{spoiler|this trope now includes Yokoya}}and probably {{spoiler|Harimoto}}.
* [[Viewers Are Geniuses]]: A plausible alternate title for the series would be ''[[wikipedia:Game theory|Game Theory: The Manga]]''... Although many concepts are well explained, it seriously helps to have a good understanding of [[wikipedia:Prisonerchr(27)s dilemma|the Prisoner's Dilemma]], [[wikipedia:Social psychology|social psychology]], [[wikipedia:Cold reading|cold reading]], and [[wikipedia:Imperfect competition|imperfect competition]] in [[wikipedia:Microeconomics|microeconomics]]. ([[wikipedia:Nash equilibrium|Nash equilibria]] haven't come up... ''yet''.)
* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: {{spoiler|Yokoya}} seems to be on the verge of snapping in the more recent chapters.
** {{spoiler|And he ''definitely'' broke down at the Season 1 finale of the J-Drama.}}
* [[Walls of Text]]: It's a dialogue-driven story which touches on areas of game theory, individual psychology, ''sales practices'', economic theory and sociology...
* [[White-Haired Pretty Boy]]: In the J-drama, Yokoya
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