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* {{spoiler|[[Badass Abnormal]]}}: {{spoiler|After visiting the other world she was giving a Plus power by Najimi called "parasite seeing", which allow him to see the world as others see it.}}
* [[Beleaguered Assistant]]
* [[Berserk Button]]: Mess with his friends or make Medaka cry and he would end you... no [[Taking You Withwith Me|matter]] [[Heroic Sacrifice|what.]]
* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: Though he initially comes off as the abused sane man of the series, Zenkichi is ''much'' more athletic than he lets on, being a grandmaster martial artist (due to years of being Medaka's ''punching bag''). Anyone stupid enough to give him a reason to fight back (namely, get Medaka upset enough that she asks him to) quickly learns that he's not just a slacker.
* {{spoiler|[[Big Bad Friend]] / [[Hostile Show Takeover]]:}} As of chapter 116. {{spoiler|Following Medaka's unfortunately timed taunting of his normality, Ajimu convinces him to become the [[Hostile Show Takeover|main character.]] He does so in order to teach Medaka the meaning (and, more importantly, the ''value'') of failure.}}
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* [[Determinator]]: Zenkichi in general, but especially if Medaka is watching.
* [[Dissonant Serenity]]: Almost the [[Trope Codifier]], since he only seems to truly smile correspondingly of [[It Got Worse|how bad the situation is]].
* [[Dogged Nice Guy]]: Zenkichi has a breakdown in chapter 126 when he realizes he is this in regards to Medaka. He wangsts to himself that he's no better than a [[Stalker Withwith a Crush]] and wants to die from sheer embarassment.
* [[Dude, Where's My Respect?]]: Played with. He starts the series known primarily as Medaka's lapdog, and doesn't get much attention other than that. Gradually, other characters see his good traits, and respect him more.
* [[Extremity Extremist]]: His savate fighting style is very reliant on kicks
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* [[Poisonous Friend]]: Arguably at the beginning. He even claimed that his job was to go around bringing down people Medaka didn't.
* [[Power of Friendship]]: Weaponized and perfected by Zenkichi's.
* [[Put Onon a Bus]]: Yes, and he's a main character. Zenkichi only appears in the opening bit of the Treasure Hunt, after which he's promptly left behind.
* [[Running Gag]]: Zenkichi walking into the Student Council room while someone's undressing.
* [[Say My Name]]: '''ZENKICHIIIIIIIII'''
* [[Spanner in Thethe Works]]: Zenkichi {{spoiler|defeating and befriending Munekata after taking over for Medaka.}} The leader of the Flask Plan had intended for Medaka to befriend him, not the other way around. He does it again to {{spoiler|Ajimu's plan. Deep down she ''wanted'' him to fail since that would mean that she had failed by proxy (thus restoring her faith in reality). His victory over Medaka pushed her to commit suicide in despair (barely averted by Medaka).}}
* [[Stalker Withwith a Crush]]: Zenkichi's [[Heroic BSOD|big realization]] in Chapter 126 is that {{spoiler|Medaka doesn't return his feelings, which means he's basically been stalking her for years without any concern for her feelings.}} {{spoiler|He's wrong, as shown by Medaka's [[Berserker Rage]] when she thought he had [[Taking You Withwith Me|taken Kumagawa with him.]]}}
* {{spoiler|[[Student Council President]]}}
* [[Subordinate Excuse]]: The main reason he goes along with Medaka's antics. {{spoiler|Over as of chapter 116 when he realizes he hasn't been doing her any favors by acting like this.}}
* [[Supporting Protagonist]]: The primary viewpoint character of the series, but focused primarily on the antics of Medaka.
* {{spoiler|[[Taking You Withwith Me]]}}: The conclusion of chapter 70, where Zenkichi {{spoiler|tries to kill Kumagawa by stomping the net so hard they both fall into the viper pit.}}
* [[Theory of Narrative Causality]]: Zenkichi's {{spoiler|"Devil Style" allows him to defy this.}} In other words, he becomes {{spoiler|the sort of the character that ''wouldn't'' be the main character of a story}}.
** You could say that {{spoiler|his ability lets him avoid the tropes that usually affect main characters}} e.g. [[Crash Into Hello]], [[Plot Armor]], etc.
* [[Touched Byby Vorlons]]: {{spoiler|When Ajimu gives him "Parasite-Seeing" to replace his lost eyesight.}}
* [[Weak but Skilled]]: While fairly strong physically, Zenkichi has had to rely more on crazy-preparedness to handle some of the superpowered foes in the series.
* [[When She Smiles|When He Smiles]]: Zenkichi, who is normally [[The Comically Serious]] or the [[Butt Monkey]], gives the most beautiful, angelic smile in the entire series right before {{spoiler|he sends both him and Kumagawa to their certain deaths.}}
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'''Tropes'''
* [[Death Byby Materialism]]: Partially subverted: the whole Swim Club values money more than their lives, but they later reveal they value each other more than money.
* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair|You Gotta Have Purple Hair]]
 
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* [[Cheshire Cat Grin]]: The row of shark teeth in his mouth do not help.
* [[Dark-Skinned Blond]]
* [[Death Byby Materialism]]: See above explanation.
 
=== Unzen Myouga ===
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* [[Cute Bruiser]]: She can crack walls and bend metallic bars with her bare hands.
* [[Kinky Cuffs]]: She uses them like brass knuckles.
* [[Proper Tights Withwith a Skirt]]
* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]
 
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'''Tropes as a group'''
* [[Cursed Withwith Awesome]]
* [[The Rainman]]
* [[Transhuman]]
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* {{spoiler|[[Animal Theme Naming]]: Her birth-name means "whale." It's an [[Odd Name Out]] when compared to her other sibling, as her name is a mammal while her sibling are named for fish. Though [[Meaningful Name|this makes sense]] seeing as she's the odd-''sibling''-out.}}
* [[Bandage Babe]]
* [[Cursed Withwith Awesome]]: {{spoiler|Being born into the wealthy Kurokami family doesn't jibe with Kujira/Naze's "true genius only occurs in great adversity" way of thinking.}}
* [[Laser-Guided Amnesia]]: One of her specialties
* [[Little Miss Badass]]
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== Class 13 / Plus Six Members ==
Members of the 13 Party who were able to pass the impassable door into the research lab some time after Maguro left. They have been practically [[Demoted to Extra]]. Their abilities are briefly alluded to when they end up fighting "The Loser Team" so Medaka and the Student Council can continue their descent into the research lab. However, outside of a couple chapters, one can only infer how the battle went, since {{spoiler|Kumagawa slaughtered both sides}} upon his introduction into the story and [[What Happened to Thethe Mouse?|they were never mentioned again.]]
 
=== Itoshima Gunki ===
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'''Tropes as a group'''
* [[Blessed Withwith Suck]]
* [[Disability Superpower]]
* [[Power Born of Madness]] / [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity]]
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He later returned with an almost permanent smile affixed to his face, but incredibly ravaged, depressed, damaged, and chaotic inside. His abnormal ability initially seems to be healing, but then turns out to be "All-Fiction," or the ability to {{spoiler|undo causality}}. {{spoiler|It later is revealed his power is actually "Book Maker", and he somehow exchanged it with Ajimu Najimi. Book Maker brings people down to his level -- with powers, abilities, and ''personality.''}}
 
'''「HIS SPEECH IS SURROUNDED BY BRACKETS LIKE THIS (JAPANESE QUOTATION MARKS) AND IN BOLD」'''.<ref>As an in-joke about people who overuse [[Scare Quotes|scare quotes]].</ref>
 
'''Tropes'''
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* [[Brown Note]]: '''「A-HEM」 「GOOD MORNING TO ALL THE MINOR CHARACTERS」''' 600 hundred human hearts just got shattered!
* [[Bully Hunter]]
* [[Can't Get Away Withwith Nuthin'|Can't Ever Win]]: He really, really can't. He is like the antropomorphic representation of Murphy's Law.
** It is not he can't kick unbelievable amounts of ass. He can. Until he {{spoiler|discarded his All-Fiction}} even Medaka would have certainly been killed by a single fully serious attack from him. He even managed to {{spoiler|seal a nearly omnipotent [[Physical God]]}}. As of now he's the second or third most powerful {{spoiler|individual on the good guys' side,}} solely because of his sheer physical ability. He just can't succeed whenever success will make him feel fulfillment or triumph, and even if he apparently can he'll back away and admit failure thanks to his [[Achilles Heel]].
*** Based on the discussion in the Medaka's Successor Arc over what victory actually means, it seems like it simply boils down to Kumagawa being incapable of claiming victory. He can pull of incredible stunts, run rings around everyone else, and even achieve his objective but he will never, ever actually say or feel like he's won. So he never does.
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* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]
* [[Combat Sadomasochist]]: Even without the "All Fiction" which could nulify the attacks before they occur, he is good enough fighter to avoid at least 90% of all the beatings so far. However, he initially allowed them to pound him, to then undo their efforts.
* [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]]: [[Zig -Zagging Trope|Zig-zagged]], depending on your [[Your Mileage May Vary|view]] and the spoilers of Chapter 88.
* {{spoiler|[[Defeat Means Friendship]]}}
* [[Determinator]]: The [[The Unfettered|darker flip side]] of Zenkichi.
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* [[Improbable Weapon User]]: He fights with giant screws [[Hyperspace Arsenal|that he pulls out of thin air.]]
* [[Improbable Aiming Skills]]: Its easy to overlook, but Kumagawa mananged to crucify an entire room of plusses, including the guy who possesed ''Instictive Super reflexes'', with ease. {{spoiler|He takes it [[Up to Eleven]] in chapter 96. After being brutally beated, burned, shot and spit with acid, it took him literally a second to crucify with ''perfect accuracy'' a group of "Non Equal" in different directions, size and height... without harming any of them, and with a [[Panty Shot]]}}
* [[Impaled Withwith Extreme Prejudice]]: Giant Screw flavor.
* [[I Am Not Left-Handed]]: After {{spoiler|losing All Fiction}} he seemingly becomes several times weaker, a fact that {{spoiler|the five middle-school students take advantage of to ambush and beat him to an inch of his life}}. [[Made of Iron|They]] [[One-Man Army|were]] [[Curb Stomp Battle|wrong]]. If anything that was the ''first time'' in the entire manga that Kumagawa really took a fight seriously against someone who wasn't Medaka, showing that if he wanted, any of his fights would have lasted ''seconds''.
** In chapter 121, he reveals that {{spoiler|he still has All-fiction. However, it's apparently not as powerful as it was before.}}
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* [[Knight of Cerebus]] - Subverted because his arrival did not make the manga that much darker in comparison when it stopped being a [[Slice of Life]] series, it just marked the beginning of a ''second'' genre shift to a bizarre [[Deconstruction]].
* [[The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort]]: A lot. This seems subverted in his fight against Zenkichi but it turned out he was only messing with him.
* [[Leaning Onon the Fourth Wall]] / [[This Is Reality]]: Kumagawa does this a lot, as [[Freudian Slip|Freudian Slips]] of his damaged mind, as he loves Shonen manga for brightening up his horrible life somewhat. Or more practically speaking, as massive [[Take That]]'s against the most traumatised part of the audience. For example referring to the fact that "If we were published in ''Shounen Jump'' bullying wouldn't be allowed...", with the author, through Zenkichi, twisting the context of his extremely damaged state into [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|that he is so disgusting that it would be a holy act to hurt him even more, exterminate him, and cleanse the world from his foul presence]]; and additionally mocking the online fans by twisting ''Shonen Jump's'' mottoes into something hollow and meaningless.
* [[Lolicon]]: Hitoyoshi Hitomi was his first love (except that she only [[Older Than They Look|looks like]] a little girl).
{{quote| '''Takarabe''': Er... Kumagawa senpai, could you take a look at my panties, please? <br />
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** All-fiction also can't restore anything it erased. This means that {{spoiler|Zenkichi's normal eyesight}} is gone forever {{spoiler|though he can still see thanks to a side-effect of the "Parasite Eyes" given to him by Ajimu.}}
* [[Sarcasm Failure]]
* [[Sympathy for Thethe Devil]]: Chapter 88. Even Zenkichi states from the onset that (unlike Najimi) he isn't remotely evil as such though, which makes it all the more complicated to deal with him.
* [[Stepford Smiler]]: He smiles. All the time. Even when spouting off the most horrific things, or embedding giant screws into your flesh. ''All the time.''
* [[Tears of Blood]]
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** That's... uh... more of a terrifying ''inversion'' rather than a true example. She doesn't have "standards" that make her less evil, but ones that are calculated to make her actions ''even more evil''.
* [[Hair-Trigger Temper]]: Curiously, she became more estable ''after'' meeting both Chou and Kumagawa. Before she will have hit a total stranger wit a bat with enough force to break the floor because his game was too loud. And this was after Chou apologized and lowered the volume of the game immediately.
* [[Hoist Byby His Own Petard]]:
* [[I Lied]]: A more benign one. It was never her intention to kill or maim permanently the rest of the student council.
* [[Implacable Man|Implacable Woman]]: She destroyed the rest of the student council with ease and the only reason she was defeated was becasue she tried to play with the school [[Mad Scientist]], she avoided to ''irreparable'' harm her/kill her and she tried to go with a bang.
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{{quote| '''Shibuki''': Do you know the taste of gas that your parents make you swallow? How about the taste of licking a perverted teacher shoe? The taste of sand that your classmates make you swallow? At least you know the taste of a newspaper that was the only food you coudl obtain?}}
* {{spoiler|[[Undying Loyalty]]: To Kumagawa, to his great shock.}}
* [[Taking You Withwith Me]]: She tried this after she realized she couldn't win against Naze. It didn't go as planned.
* [[Vapor Wear]]: She's clearly not wearing a bra.
* [[Why Don't Ya Just Shoot Him]]: She could have won easily if she had avoided playing and taking her opponent seriously and/or tried to kill her/maim her permanently. [[Curb Stomp Battle|She regreted]] [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown|that]] [[Kill It Withwith Fire|very much]].
* [[When She Smiles]]: Gives the only true one in her entire life {{spoiler|to Kumagawa after he was defeated, stating that they both would protect him from know on.}}
 
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* [[Slasher Smile]]: Flashes one at Zenkichi, hinting that you may need to...
* [[Beware the Silly Ones]]
* [[Suspiciously Specific Denial]]: He [[Luminescent Blush|most definitely]] doesn't read ''[[To Love Ru (Manga)|To Love-Ru Darkness]]'', oh no.
* {{spoiler|[[You Killed My Father]]}}: It remains to be seen whether he'll actually confront Medaka about this.
 
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* {{spoiler|[[Dead All Along]]}}: {{spoiler|Another popular interpretation of her.}}
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: She is sharp enough to cut right through virtually anybody.
* [[Death Byby Disfigurement]]: Kumagawa [[Rashomon Style|may or may not]] have ripped off her face. {{spoiler|However, she is not dead, and was simply referred to as having been sealed. One of her abilities is also immortality.}}
* [[Dissonant Serenity]]
* {{spoiler|[[Driven to Suicide]]}}: Attempts this in chapter 139 {{spoiler|when Zenkichi defeats Medaka. Deep down she wanted him to lose to prove that some things really are impossible thus proving that life is more than a bad manga plot.}}
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* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]: {{spoiler|She regularly gives them to Kumagawa.}}
* [[Sacred First Kiss]]: To Kumagawa {{spoiler|To return his Book marker, but it was all a pretend game to her}}.
* {{spoiler|[[Sealed Evil in Aa Can]]}}: {{spoiler|Due to a [[Bodyguard Betrayal]], which misleadingly was first thought to be [[Death Byby Disfigurement]].}}
* [[Shrouded in Myth]]: The facts known about the character are extremely varied, sparse, and possibly contradictory.
* [[Super Strength]]: [http://www.mangareader.net/medaka-box/113/11 The strongest so far].
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* [[Insufferable Genius]]: She can come as this thanks to her Tsundere attitude.
* [[Innocent Fanservice Girl]]: {{spoiler|Not so innocent, seeing as she was setting up Kumagawa for an ambush.}}
* [[Leaning Onon the Fourth Wall]]: Apparently she can see Kumagawa's bracket quotes.
* [[Kid Withwith the Leash]]: Is the only person so far who had managed to {{spoiler|Un-Jerkass Kumagawa's behavior}}.
* [[Morality Pet]]: {{spoiler|She is becoming this to Kumagawa}}.
* [[The Nicknamer]]: She refers to Suishou as "Non-chan", likely due to her [[Gratuitous French]].
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* [[Creative Sterility]] / [[Lethal Chef]]: Averted, her food is as tasty as it looks.
** [[Deaf Composer|Tastebud-less Chef]]
* [[Cutting the Knot]]: When Medaka challenges them with a video game where [[Unwinnable Byby Design|every choice is bad and everyone dies]], she (Medaka) encourages Suishou to "cheat" -- it turns out that she'd been holding back her abilities because she didn't want to intimidate her friends even when it could have been used to their advantage. Suishou uses her computing powers to make the game [[Everyone Lives|winnable and uplifting.]]
* [[Everythings Sexier in French]]: Apparently has a French accent and answers using "oui" and "non" instead of "hai" and "iie".
* [[Innocent Fanservice Girl]]: The only girl that doesn't scream in embarrassment when [[Running Gag|Zenkichi walks in on them undressing]]. Possibly justified in that modesty wasn't part of her programming.
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'''Tropes'''
* [[Meganekko]]
* [[Running Onon All Fours]] {{spoiler|which she actually needs to do for her Kanji style to work.}}
* [[Sinister Scythe]]
* [[Words Can Break My Bones]]: As a "Kanji User", she can warp reality by manipulating objects based on their Kanji representations.
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