Rune Soldier Louie: Difference between revisions

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When an all-female adventuring team needs a mage, the only one they can get on short notice is the burly adopted son of the head of the local mage guild. Not only does Louie look more like a fighter than a mage, he acts like it, too, getting into all manner of trouble and trying to solve it with his fists. And when the team's cleric learns that her god has assigned to her a special relationship with Louie, well, let's just say she's less than happy.

 

* [[Abuse Is Okay When It Is Female On Male]]: Very much played straight... at first but was rather subverted later on in the series when {{spoiler|Louie actually fought back when Genie was about to use him as a punching bag again, Melissa and Meryl were worried about this but the scene was generally depicted as a good thing as this is when Genie got softer around Louie a little later on afterwards.}}

* [[Adjective Noun Fred]]

* [[Amazonian Beauty]]: Genie.

* [[Big No]]: When Melissa discovers that Louie's the hero she's destined to serve.

** Her special personal variant "Even if it is AGAINST MY WILL!!!" comes up several times in each episode, always in response to Louie's actions.

* [[Boobs of Steel]]: Genie.

* [[Butt Monkey]]: Louie. Conrad too, whenever he shows up.

** Also Merrill. Episodes that focus on her generally show a series of terrible things happening to her.

* [[Cleavage Window]]: The cleric dresses Melissa and Isabel wear.

* [[Combination Attack]]: Complete with [[Super Move Portrait Attack|portraits]].

* [[Destructive Savior]]: Louie a couple times.

** ''Especially'' in {{spoiler|the final episode.}}

* [[Facial Markings]]

* [[Fan Service]]

* [[Fiction 500]]: The nobleman who mistakes Merrill for his true love.

** [[The Hero]]: Louie, of course.

** [[The Lancer]]: Merrill, though Genie has shades of this.

* [[The Fool]]/[[The Messiah]]: Louie

* [[Form Fitting Clothing]]: Impossibly so and usually only the lead female characters but it's all for fanservice, sweet sweet fanservice. Yeah.

* [[Gender Bender]]: In one episode, and made all the more [[Nausea Fuel|disturbing]] by the fact that Louie is most decidedly ''not'' an [[Attractive Bent Gender]], looking pretty much like normal except for a pair of large breasts. It would appear Genie is the only one in the show capable of pulling off the strong lady look well.

* [[Gratuitous Spanish]]: In episode nineteen of the English dub when Merrill buys a house she says "Mi casa es su casa" (My house is your house) to Louie, Genie, and Melissa.

* [[Harem Anime]]: Subverted, it's got the trappings of a harem comedy but the emphasis is on parodying fantasy tropes. All three main female characters at the beginning of the show actually dislike him and by the end {{spoiler|have a good amount of respect for him with no romantic elements involved.}} On top of that, Louie always thinks of them as his buddies and seems to be in a perfectly stable relationship with his girlfriend Ila.

* [[Hermetic Magic]]

* [[Identical Stranger]]: Odessa for Merrill.

* [[Improvised Weapon]]: Louie is capable of swinging a ''wild boar'' around, seemingly effortlessly.

* [[Knight in Shining Armor]]: Parodied by Conrad, played straight by Leonard.

* [[Limited Wardrobe]]

* [[Little Miss Badass]]: Lilly, mild version.

** Merrill has shades of this dependant on how old you think she is.

* [[Magic Knight]]: Louie is more this than a straight up wizard.

* [[Medieval European Fantasy]]

* [[Meganekko]]: Ila

* [[The Not Love Interest]]: Melissa for Louie.

* [[Panty Shot]]: A rare case of some pretty damn realistic skirt physics.

* [[Pillar of Light]]

* [[Potty Emergency]]: Merrill has to get to a restroom very quickly when she eats some laxative-laced cookies.

* [[The Power of Friendship]]: Louie's punching isn't enough to {{spoiler|break the [[Big Bad]]'s barrier at the finale, but when the girls join him, their punches are strong enough.}}

* [[Pretty Freeloaders]]: Inverted -- Louie becomes an unwanted companion to Melissa, Merrill, and Jeannie.

* [[Rebellious Princess]]: Melissa was a noblewoman who ran away from an arranged marriage.

* [[Role Playing Game Terms]]

* [[Role Playing Game Verse]]

* [[Show Some Leg]]: On a stupid clay golem. And it worked.

* [[Snot Bubble]]

* [[Sparkling Stream of Tears]]

* [[Stripperiffic]]: Genie doesn't even bother with a [[Breast Plate]], apparently being so [[Badass]] that she doesn't need armor, or even much clothing.

** And one of Merrill's day jobs is an exotic dancer, which Melissa found out to her horror when she tried doing Merrill's jobs when she was sick, and had to put the dancer outfit on.

* [[The Sneaky Guy]]: Merrill is the lithe thief of the group.

* [[Turn Undead]]: Melissa and even the three student Priestesses can do this to the undead. They use it to take out some zombie [[Mook|mooks]] in one episode.

* [[Underboobs]]: Genie, even her bikini allows for it.

* [[Vitriolic Best Buds]]: Louie has this sort of relationship with Merrill and Genie. Even after they start acting nicer towards him they still tend to throw insults at him.

* [[Warding Gestures]]

* [[The White Prince]]

* [[Would Hit a Girl]]: At least when it comes to Genie, Louie doesn't treat her any different than a male warrior.

* [[Wrecked Weapon]]: Early on, Louie breaks his magic wand by ''beating goblins to death with it.''

 

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