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[[File:paranoia_agent_9231.jpg|frame|Batter Up!]]

 

 

A grinning boy travels around Tokyo on [[Rollerblade Good|golden rollerblades]]. He has a bent, golden baseball bat -- and he uses it to bash people's heads in.

* [[Gayngst]]: Zebra. What exactly brought it about, we never find out for sure.

** It's impossible to be sure it even was that: it could have simply been generic angst over a lost love, judging by how happy he seems in the locket picture with his boyfriend.

* [[Generic Cuteness]]: Averted. Kon's fond of this.

* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: The first episode's airing on [[Adult Swim]] had the word "bullshit" uncensored. This was fixed for all future airings.

* [[Otaku]]: One of the creepiest characters in the show, and that's saying something.

* [[Paranoia Fuel]]: As you might guess, this show contains a good deal of in-universe Fuel. {{spoiler|Li’l Slugger is basically powered by it.}} This may inspire you, however, to {{spoiler|fear fear itself}}.

* [[Parody]]: Maromi takes after the real world Tarepanda.

* [[Pensieve Flashback]]

* [[RPG Episode]]: Episode 5 is this, told from the warped perspective of Makoto Kozuka who played on too many RPGs and saw the world and his victims as game characters. {{spoiler|Only not really, as is revealed in episode 7. He was just doing it to screw with people before he died.}}

* [[Sanity Slippage]]: Most of the cast suffers it over an episode. Three suffer it over the series. One does not ever lose it. Two recover from it. Everyone is smiling by the end. {{spoiler|Unless they died already. Except in "Happy Family Planning," where all three died and were singing happily in the end.}}

* [[Shadow Archetype]]

* [[Shout-Out]]: Tsukiko Sagi looks like a grown-up version of Osaka from ''[[Azumanga Daioh]]'', though given the context it could be more of a [[Take That]].

** Radar Man hitches a ride on "Speedy Bat" delivery truck in a nod to [[Batman]] also a play on words since you know...Shonen Bat.

** Of all things, ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]''. In episode 5, Kozuka seems to have defeated the monster. Then he looks up:

** Also in episode 6 Taeko's last line in the episode is oddly reminiscent of [[Perfect Blue|another work]] by Satoshi Kon

* [[Shower Scene]]

* [[The Tokyo Fireball]]

* [[Through the Eyes of Madness]]: In many episodes, you aren't sure ''what's'' supposed to be real. Tsukikho is the most notable example though, {{spoiler|considering that it is her initial paranoid psychosis based on a lie that devolves into the current situation}}. Your first clue that there's something more substantially wrong with her than just being a [[Cloudcuckoolander]] is when you see ''Maromi talk.''

* [[This Loser Is You]]: The unnamed otaku. {{spoiler|Even his figurines don't give him any respect.}}

* [[Together Umbrella]]: One is seen drawn on a door in a school, in Ikari's dream world.

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