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* [[Actor Allusion]]: At one point, [[Yukari Tamura|Su-qi-wu-la]] says [[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha|Maximum]] [[Catch Phrase|Power]], and later her summon uses the <s> Starlight Breaker</s> Moonlight Fixer. Later in that same chapter, she is referred to as having [[B Gata H Kei|100 fuck buddies.]]
** [[Sanae Kobayashi|Ymia]] talking about "[[Elfen Lied|[beheading] you with invisible psychic arms]]" and Eywon saying that she "is definitely not [[Madlax|insane or relaxed]]".
* [[Added Alliterative AppealAlliteration]]: "little lilac... loli"
* [[Aerith and Bob]]: So much.
* [[An Offer You Can't Refuse]]: {{spoiler|Hei-gu-la-shi being made to give up her powers.}} "Negotiating from such a position of weakness... is not."
* [[Black Best Friend]]: Spadotto and Veerasamy, though the latter is technically <s> Indian</s> Curriyan.
* [[Broad Strokes]]: Name changes aside, when the first chapter ends with {{spoiler|Sommerhoffnung NOT waking up in the middle of a school field with Dai-Ming}}, you know this is not going to be a faithful adaptation.
* [[But Not Too Foreign]]: Sommerhoffnung is half-<s> German</s>[[Istanbul (Not Constantinople)|Gothofurtoan]], quarter-Ch[[Istanbul (Not Constantinople)|(o)]]inese and quarter-<s> Japanese</s>[[Istanbul (Not Constantinople)|Electopian]], and there are others also similarly mixed.
* [[Celebrity Paradox]]: Acknowledged in-universe. Ken-ba-ne says "Any similarity to a ''<s>[[GetBackers]]</s> ReTrievers'' character are coincidental", to which Spadotto shoots back "No more than my similarities to a ''<s>[[Bleach]]</s> Whitener'' character?"
* [[Christianity Is Catholic]]: Averted. "You must remember that, while Catholicism is indeed the denomination of the <s> French</s> Rancaskan Church, the Church of <s> Scotland</s> Thaneland that the campus' chapel is subsumed under belongs to the Presbyterian subset of the Protestant denomination."
* [[Crack Pairing]]: {{spoiler|Ymia and Eywon are [[Captain Ersatz]] of Reinforce Eins and Yuuno from ''Nanoha'', so...}}
* [[Creator Provincialism]]: Possibly the only reason why the setting was moved to <s> Singapore</s> [[Istanbul (Not Constantinople)|Merliona]].
* [[Curse Cut Short]]: '"I know you've heard this before, Som, but how do you live with," she pointed at Winterhandlung, "such a du..."' Fill in your own blanks as to whether it's meant to be dummkopf, dumbass/arse or something else!
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Ken-ba-ne is clearly trying to be this.
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* [[Gratuitous Foreign Language]]: In addition to Ywiu dropping Mandarin and Hokkien all over the place like the ''beng'' she is, we also have:
** [[Gratuitous French]]: Prebr, but not as often as the other two.
** [[Gratuitous German]]: Sommerhoffnung ''is'' half-<s> German</s>[[Istanbul (Not Constantinople)|Gothofurtoan]], but she lapses into it pretty often. Musterteklang too.
** [[Gratuitous Italian]]: From Spadotto.
** [[Gratuitous Spanish]]: Ywiu as above, only replace German with Spanish.
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* [[Inertia Is a Harsh Mistress]]: Mentioned as a problem Ken-ba-ne experiences.
* [[Insane Troll Logic]]/[[Moon Logic Puzzle]]: Frequent and the reason why [[Viewers Are Geniuses]] is what it is here. For example, Ywiu's name.<ref>The kanji for Mai's name, if read as if Chinese characters, are pronounced "Wu-yi", with Ywiu being an anagram of that. Mai is... well, Mai, while Tou-qi-ha is a transliteration of "Tokiha" into Chinese.</ref>
* [[Istanbul (Not Constantinople)]]: The ''[[Mega Man Battle Network]]'' influence is largely visible from the altered country names, like Japan being called Electopia. Not all are from MMBN, though.
* [[Leaning on the Fourth Wall]]: "[[As You Know]] – and I wasn’t being facetious in emphasising those three words...."
* [[Lemony Narrator]]: Sometimes.
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** [[Modern Warfare|"Five years ago, Shou-qin Enterprises faced insolvency… and you all just fucking watched. Tomorrow… There will be no shortage of volunteers, no shortage of loyal shareholders. We know you understand."]]
** The emcee said something about the next performance, something about the band [[Aladdin (Disney film)|Abismal]] [[Abysmal Dawn|Dusk]]?
** [[BioshockBioShock (series)|"Would you kindly move?"]]
** [[Leeroy Jenkins|"Alright, chums, let's do this... GOHROY… WESKINS!"]] {{spoiler|For added irony, they're ''running away'' from danger.}}
** "[[Pulp Fiction|I thought 'What?']] when they told me the fate of the world and they were kind enough to not [[Pulp Fiction|ask me if I spoke Kinglish.]]"
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** [[The Man Your Man Could Smell Like|Having the feeling that something was off, Hei-gu-la-shi looked at her, then at Rondeng, then back at her, before looking back to Rondeng again. She had the feeling that something was off and it was certainly not just the fact that Wedey was not her.]]
** [[Street Fighter/Memes|"Return to your abode and be a family person..."]]
** [[Doctor Who/NS/Recap/NS/S3 E2/E02 The Shakespeare Code|"Why waitest we upon stale custom for consummation?"]]
* [[Sincerity Mode]]: When Sommerhoffnung [[spoiler: shoots a District Ten [[The Men in Black|Man In Black]], Ywiu claps and assures her that she was being genuinely appreciative. Also done when {{spoiler|Ywiu agrees with Romea's [[Hannibal Lecture]] against Sommerhoffnung.}}
* [[Single-Stroke Battle]]: Ken-ba-ne kills his first Childless this way.
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* [[Sophisticated As Hell]]: The gang leader in the seventh chapter. Broken English, more broken English, {{spoiler|''[[Order of the Stick]]'' reference}}, [[Poirot Speak]]- ''What?''
* [[Sorry I Left the BGM On]]: Played with. [[Magic Realism|Something]] plays [[Memetic Mutation|Fitting Music]] in-universe at appropriate times, with characters aware of this.
* [[Stealth Pun]]: Shortly after He-mu-la mentioned "bad girl", Sommerhoffnung hums a bit of "Pleather for Breakfast", {{spoiler|the theme of Bad Girl from ''[[No More Heroes]]''.}}
* [[Stylistic Suck]]: The usage of Singaporean pidgin English, aka Singlish, by Ywiu is intentional and apparently part of the [[Hatedom]]'s beef.
* [[Surprisingly Good English]]: If Ywiu's really serious about something, she drops into proper Queen's English.