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* [[Calling Your Attacks]]: For magic spells.

* [[Chekhov's Skill]]: All three of the main girls, when they pick out their initial weapons. Hikaru's parents run a kendo dojo (broadsword), Umi was on the fencing team at her school (saber), and Fuu was on the archery team at hers (longbow).

* [[Chromatic Arrangement]]: Additive primary colors: Hikaru, Umi and Fuu have respectively red, blue and green uniforms and eyes. Hair colors almost fit, but Fuu is blonde.

* [[Cool and Unusual Punishment]]: Presea likes to thrreaten these against anyone who annoys her, particularly Mokona.

* [[Elemental Powers]]: Check the [[Magic Knight Rayearth/Characters|character sheet]] for details.

* [[The End of the World as We Know It]]: What will happen if Cephiro doesn't have a Pillar.

* [[Evolving Weapon]]: As the girls grow in skill and awake the Mashin, their weapons and armor also evolve.

* [[Extraordinarily Empowered Girl]]: The three girls.

* [[The Heartless]]: Most monsters in Cephiro are created from negative emotions. {{spoiler|So is the [[Big Bad]] of the second season}}.

* [[Hellish Horse]]: Lantis' horse.

* [[History Repeats]]: {{spoiler|High Priest Zagato fell in love with Emeraude, Pillar of Cephiro. [[Tragedy]] ensued. In the second season, Zagato's younger (but identical) brother Lantis falls in love with the girl who would become Pillar, Hikaru}}. The irony was not lost on either.

* [[Huge Guy, Tiny Girl]]: {{spoiler|Lafarga and Caldina}}, Hikaru and either Lantis or Eagle, Ascot and Umi (though Umi is quite tall, Ascot towers over her.) Genderflipped (and the romance/platonic nature a bit more debatable) with Clef and either Umi and Presea {{spoiler|or Sierra}}.

* [[Impossibly Cool Weapon]]: The swords, and the way they ensure only their users can wield them.

* [[Instant Awesome, Just Add Mecha]]: The Rune Gods could have just bestowed powers to the girls, but making them mecha was just cooler.

* [[Kansai Regional Accent]]: People from Chizeta speak with this.

* [[Laser Guided Tykebomb]]: When you get down to it, the Magic Knights are middle schoolers who've been summoned to kill someone, even if he does look like the final boss of a video game. {{spoiler|But it really comes into play when they realize that they have to kill Princess Emeraude.}}

* [[Luke, I Am Your Father]]: {{spoiler|Ferio, Princess Emeraude is your older sister}}.

* [[Magic Knight]]: The [[Trope Namer]] - it's even in the title!

* [[Meaningful Name]]: Hikaru = Light, although she has flame magic; Umi = Sea, Fuu = Wind.

* [[Medieval European Fantasy]]: Played straight in the first half with Cephiro. The invading countries in the second have real-world counterparts (see above).

* [[The Ojou]]: Umi and Fuu, each in their ways.

* [[Older Than They Look]]: Anyone in Cephiro can invoke this trope. But poor Hikaru is mistaken for a ''grade schooler'', both by her schoolmates as well as Umi and Fuu when they first meet her, because she's so short and innocent.

* [[Personality Blood Types]]: [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] when Fuu introduces herself to Hikaru and Umi--she says it's in case they need first aid.

* [[Planet of Hats]]: Cephiro has a relatively varied environment and culture for a fantasy-RPG world, but the ''Invading Countries''...

* [[Schrödinger's Cast]]: Some characters who the anime killed off but were alive and well in the manga had to be "brought back" in the second season because they were needed for the plot. There's just one problem... [[Universe Bible|it goes against CLAMP rules, you know]].

** And some were killed in the manga and not in the anime.

* [[Shoot the Dog]]: Played completely straight with {{spoiler|the Magic Knights themselves. They aren't here to save the Princess, they were summoned to destroy her because since she had found love, she could no longer function as the Pillar.}}

* [[Shoulders of Doom]]: Zagato, Lafarga, Lantis, {{spoiler|evil}} Emeraude, Debonair, Nova, the three Rune Gods....

** Umi attempts to punish Mokona with a [[Hyperspace Mallet]]

** Fuu switches from [[Meganekko]] to [[Nerd Glasses]] mode, or has a flash of [[Scary Shiny Glasses]] when making an uncharacteristically snarky comment.

* [[Tenchi Solution]]: Hikaru decides she's going to marry Lantis ''and'' Eagle in the manga.

* [[Theme Naming]]: Hikaru, Umi, and Fuu are named after their respective elements. Virtually everyone else in the series is [[Vehicular Theme Naming|named after a car]].

* [[Tomboy and Girly Girl]] : Tomboy Hikaru, Girly Girl Umi, and Fuu has traits of both. Tomboy Presea and Girly Girl Emeraude, with Caldina having traits of both. Tomboy Tarta and Girly Girl Tatra.

* [[Took a Level in Badass]]: After Hikaru's sword --and [[Heroic BSOD|confidence]]-- is [[Wrecked Weapon|shattered]] by Nova, she undergoes a [[Journey to the Center of the Mind]] to recover. Her willpower shoots through the stratosphere... with all that it implies in a world shaped by one's will.

* [[Triang Relations]]: Type 8 with maybe a hint of 9, between {{spoiler|Hikaru, Lantis, and Eagle}}. There might be some [[Love You and Everybody]] on {{spoiler|Hikaru's}} end, too, though she says the ones she wants to marry are the other two.

* [[Twist Ending]]: You will ''not'' be ready for it.

* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: {{spoiler|Zagato}}, and the invading countries from the second half.

* [[Wham! Episode]]: The end of the first half, when the Magic Knights find out what their duty fully entails.

* [[Worf Effect]]: Whenever one of the knights is conversing with a Mashin, the other two are always one-shotted by the villain sent to stop them that time.

* [[Year Inside, Hour Outside]]: The girls are whisked away by Emeraude's prayer in a flash of light. They have adventures spanning several weeks, probably months, then they return to Earth ''at the exact same moment they left''. Even their schoolmates are still blinded by the light.

{{tropelist|The ''Rayearth'' OVA provides examples of:}}

* [[Be Careful What You Wish For]]: The girls attend the same school and don't want to be separated after graduation. They wish to stay friends forever, and this story really tests that wish.

* [[Bond Creatures]]: Even ''worse'' than in the mainline series. Physical injuries while in Rune God form translate directly on the summoner's body.

* [[Enfant Terrible]]: Ascot isn't in to save his friends in this version. He just wants to kill everyone.

* [[Family-Unfriendly Violence]]: The Rune God battles are bloody and nasty.

* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: {{spoiler|Lantis sacrifices himself to empower his sword}}, to be used by the Knights. Doesn't make much sense.

* [[Hope Spot]]: Oh, so many times.

* [[Humongous Mecha]]: Again, the Rune Gods.

* [[It Got Worse]]: The [[Darkest Hour]] keeps getting darker far past pitch-black.

* [[Older Than They Look]]: Averted. There is no mention of appearance-changing in this story, so Clef looks like a grown man, and Ascot is actually a young boy.

* [[Out-of-Clothes Experience]]: While "piloting" the Rune Gods, the girls appear entirely naked (their foes are never shown, however.) Also, their invocation of the final attack starts with them floating naked in the void.

* [[The Other Darrin]]: Dub-only for the entire cast. This is due to being dubbed by a separate studio from the TV series.

** Also due to the OVA being released by [[Manga Entertainment]] back when their North American division used to license anime

* [[Pimped-Out Dress]]: Emeraude's dress is far fancier than in the main story.

* [[The Tokyo Fireball]]: Large sections of Tokyo receive a pretty thorough trashing in the duration of the OVA.

* [[Trapped in Another World]]: Inverted. Instead of being sent elsewhere, the girls are the ''only'' living things on Earth after Clef whisks everyone else to another dimension, for safekeeping.

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