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* [[Fridge Brilliance]] Why does calm and rational Gagamaru [[Berserk Button|explode with anger]] {{spoiler|being told he only knows how to fight in childrens card games}}, even completely changing his normal demeanor and hairstyle? Because {{spoiler|he reflexively shields himself from being hurt; physically, mentally, and emotionally with his Minus. The fact that Gagamaru got murderously angry is because he's unused to actually feeling hurt.}}
** When Ajimu revives Zenkichi in chapter 71, she tells him that she's glad Zenkichi failed to kill Kumagawa as that means he isn't burdened with the karmic weight of Kumagawa's murder. Thirty chapters later, the reason ''why'' Ajimu wants Zenkichi to remain relatively innocent becomes obvious. {{spoiler|This means that Ajimu may have been planning the upcoming confrontation between Zenkichi and Medaka the whole time. }}
* [[Fridge Horror]]: Kumagawa states that his All-Fiction won't let him truly die. The only way he could know this, and state it so confidently, is to have discovered it through experience.
** Gagamaru goes right out and says that {{spoiler|he's used his "Encounter" to push any mental trauma he might have had onto other people at random. Shibushi hints darkly that nobody knows what's happened to the people who had this trauma thrust upon them.}}
*** Gagamaru's relationship with Shibuki Shibushi becomes nightmarishly [[Squick|Squicktastic]] upon learning what his ability is, how it affects his personality, and for what reason she hangs around him.
* [[God Mode Sue]]: The titular Medaka. Interestingly enough, the story starts deconstructing the concept of a [[Mary Sue]] as it goes on. It turns out she's very good at mimicking other people's abnormalities, minus the downsides.
** The series was largely using the entire concept for laughs even before the shift, as Medaka was often shown to be utterly clueless and ridiculously naive for all her intelligence and physical prowess, with her boundless sincerity actually more effective than her other abilities. [[Hate Dumb|Some readers just didn't get the memo that it was meant to be a comedy]].
** Subverted in that the entirety of the -13 class has similar, extremely bad "-Abnormalities", such as the ability to rot anything and everything they touch -- including buildings. A character even specifically states [[Contrived Coincidence|the -13 class is basically Medaka's perfect enemy]], since she can't even approach some of them without absorbing mental illness or [[Blessed with Suck]], which she would then take [[Up to Eleven]].
** Taken [[Up to Eleven]] with Ajimu Najimi, who has several quadrillion superpowers. It's as absurd as it sounds, intentionally so.
* [[I Knew It!]]: That Misogi would {{spoiler|would join the student council as Vice-President.}}
* [[Jerkass Woobie]]: The true nature of the Minus class. To quote one Minus: "Do you know the taste of gas that your parent makes you swallow? How about the taste of licking a perverted teacher's 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 could obtain? Of course you don't know, because you guys are the happy ones. But those kinds of tastes are just how it is for us, Class Minus 13's members. We have experienced the worst, that's why we can do the worst."
* [[Jumping the Shark]]/[[Growing the Beard]]: An amazing example due to [[Genre Shift]]. Pick one of any of these major arc-ending [[Shocking Swerve|Shocking Swerves]] / arc-climaxes:
** The unveiling of a DBZ style [[Super-Powered Evil Side]] for Medaka -- Perses Mode, which happened when the manga first started dipping into fighting manga, and the semi-realistic tone was dropped.
** The unveiling of the Flask Plan to artificially create [[Mary Sue|Mary Sues]], the discovery of a ''15-story government weapons research lab under their school'' and the start of essentially [[Sorting Algorithm of Evil|a year long fight scene against progressively more eccentric and over the top characters.]]
** The arrival of the "-Abnormals" and "Class -13" -- Abnormals that aren't [[Mary Sue]] parodies - but rather, ''[[Anti-Sue]]'' parodies. At this point, all attempts at a realistic tone were completely dropped, in lieu of people who can instantly heal any wound, disintegrate entire buildings, are so awesome the brain literally [[Invisibility|cannot]] [[Unperson|bear]] [[Ret-Gone|to remember them]].
* [[Launcher of a Thousand Ships]]: Hitoyoshi, arguably. He has Medaka, Shiranui, Kikaijima, Mukae, Ajimu, Naze, Akune, Kumagawa, Maguro, Munakata, and now Tsugiha.
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** Medaka is one character off from Hadaka (nude), and early in the manga it's pointed out that she has [[No Nudity Taboo]].
** Koga's first name means "Pain", which fits with her ability to feel twice as much pain as a normal person.
** Kujira's name seems strange next to Medaka and Maguro, since the whale is a mammal rather than a fish. {{spoiler|This makes sense seeing as how she's the odd sibling out.}}
* [[Moe]]: Subverted and parodied with Shiranui, a very manipulative example. Several other female characters also fit, but with different archetypes. Medaka herself routinely counts, freely switching from fierce and intimidating to super-cute. At one point it even prompted a translator to make a note, "Directly from fierce to super-moe? What's she trying to do, kill him?"
** Medaka's brother contends it'd be better (for her [[Role Playing Games|"charisma"]]?) if she was a bit cuter.
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* [[Satellite Character]]: Zenkichi is arguably a deconstruction; much of his character revolves around protecting Medaka, or his interactions with powerful characters. This comes to a head {{spoiler|after coming in last place in the Treasure Hunt.}}
* [[The Scrappy]]: The majority of the fanbase hates Akune for being a direct rival to Zenkichi for being an all around [[Smug Snake|perfect]] Bishounen.
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* [[Ron the Death Eater]]: Medaka seems to be intensely hated by certain segments of the fan-base, people going so far to say that she is far more evil that Kumagawa or Anshin'in and deserves to die/be raped/be mindraped/treated like garbage/etc. for her crimes of wanting to help people and not showing Zenkichi favoritism.
* [[Squick]]: Taiyaki becomes this when Kumagawa eats it.
* [[True Art Is Angsty]]: Naze Youka, who {{spoiler|gave up a life of luxury as one of the Kurokami children}} due to the theory that true genius can only come from living through hell.
{{quote|'''IF I'M ONLY GOING TO BE HAPPY, I'M BETTER OFF DEAD'''}}
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