Ordinary High School Student: Difference between revisions

[[File:OrdinaryStudent 8672.jpg|link=Suzumiya Haruhi|frame|[[Tempting Fate|"Just an ordinary day in my ordinary life."]]]]

 

 

The most common protagonist of a show targeted at teenagers. It's usually discovered they are anything but ordinary—they're reincarnated princesses, or alien princes, or the only ones who can pilot the [[Humongous Mecha]]. Or they've been training in an [[Charles Atlas Superpower|obscure martial art]] since they could walk. Or [[I Am Who?|they're God]]. Or they've got ''something'' that makes the [[Dude Magnet|opposite sex flock to them]], and possibly the [[Even the Girls Want Her|odd member of their own]], whether they [[Unwanted Harem|want the attention or not.]] ([[Parental Abandonment]] optional)

 

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* Takashi Komura, the main character of the anime/manga ''[[Highschool of the Dead]]'', is a pretty ordinary average high school student, prone to skipping classes and accused by his childhood sweetheart of being lazy...that is, until {{spoiler|the school's professors, then students, start being turned into zombies, and the aforementioned childhood sweetheart's current boyfriend starts turning into one. Takashi bashes his head in with a baseball bat}}.

* Shibuya Yuuri, in the manga ''[[Kyou Kara Maou]]'' is a totally average high schooler, while he's suddenly {{spoiler|summoned through a toilet seat to another world}} where he {{spoiler|is the ruler of the whole thing.}} I say again, totally average.

* Mahiro Yasaka from ''[[Nyarko San]]'' is one of these who just happens to be in a [[Love Dodecahedron]], and lives with, a group of [[Lovecraft Lite|literal]] [[Eldritch Abomination|lovecraftian]] [[Moe Anthropomorphism|horrors]], [[Unfazed Everyman|without somehow going permanently insane]]. It is theorized [[In-Universe]] that he's actually the descendant of a diety hunter, but {{spoiler|even though this turns out to be true, said hunter is his [[Badass Normal]] [[Action Mom]] so it doesn't make him anything special.}}

 

* [[Spider-Man (Comic Book)|Peter Parker]], which was revolutionary at the time. A ''sidekick-aged'' protagonist?!

** Inverted in ''[[Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane]]'', however, in which Mary Jane—the protagonist—actually ''is'' an ordinary high school student.

 

 

* Justin is one in ''[[Kira Is Justice]]'' besides for the fact he is a [[Shrinking Violet]] and a little smarter than normal...until he receives the Death Note.

* [[Ultimate SpiderWoman|Mary Jane Watson]] was an Ordinary College Student when she began to develop her bizarre superhuman abilities, and continues to be one even as she tries to juggle a superhero career along with it.