Revolutionary Girl Utena: Difference between revisions

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* [[Bastard Boyfriend]]: Sayonji, Touga and Akio are cold, and diffident to the Rose Bride, and to other women. This is, of course, played for epic [[Deconstruction]].

* [[The Beautiful Elite]]: Almost every major character (except, notably, Anthy) has a scene where they are being admired by a crowd of lovestruck onlookers (of [[Even the Guys Want Him|both]] [[Even the Girls Want Her|genders]]). This usually happens when they're first introduced.

* [[Betty, Veronica and Archie Switcheroo]]: Utena experiences variations of this trope:

** Utena starts falling for Akio, Anthy's brother. He seems much nicer than Touga, the Student Council president that tried manipulating Utena into losing a Rose Duel and becoming his girlfriend. Then Touga realizes that {{spoiler|Akio has something sinister planned for Utena and tries warning her about the plot for the End of the World. Despite saying that he can't help Utena if she won't see the truth, Touga selflessly follows her into the castle to rescue Dios from Akio, and unlike the other council members his flaws don't trap him; Touga is horrified when Utena sacrifices her existence to free Anthy from her curse. The manga ends with him relieved that Anthy is going to find Utena while [[Walking the Earth]].}}

** Anthy at first appears to be the Archie in the relationship, as the Council members fight over ownership of her in mandated duels, with Utena serving as the Betty. It comes out that Anthy is more important than she looks; far from being a mere prize as the Rose Bride for the students to win, she's {{spoiler|Dios's ''sister''. In fact, what happened was that Anthy shielded Dios when he worked himself to death, accepting swords of hate that infuse her with pain after a mob wanted to confront him. Dios later becomes Akio, and used Anthy in his campaign to acquire power so as to become Dios again, by making people fight over her.}} When the truth comes out, {{spoiler|Utena declares that she will earn her way to become a real prince for Anthy, by freeing her from her curse and bondage to Akio. This involves sacrificing her existence, and giving her courageous spirit to Anthy. Anthy gains her freedom and is no longer the Archie.}}

* [[Bifauxnen]]: Utena, particularly in the movie.

* [[Big Bad]]: End of the World/{{spoiler|Akio}}.