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[[File:1635.jpg|frame|Pegasus Seiya in his anime-only Cloth.]]
Staple manga and later anime during the '80s by [[Masami Kurumada]]. It tells the story of [[Five-Man Band|five friends]] who serve the reincarnation of the goddess Athena, Saori Kido, in her quest to reclaim her place as ruler of the Saints, a group of warriors themed after the [[Western Zodiac]] and pretty much every charted constellation.
Each saint gets a suit of armor that can transform from a sculpture of their signature constellation into functional battle armor. There are three grades of armor, Bronze, Silver, and Gold, with each grade being [[Elemental Crafting|far more powerful and resilient]] than the last. Each armor is also an [[Empathic Weapon]] and has some amount of choice in who wears it and whether they deserve to use it, as well as at least one special property.
▲Staple manga and later anime during the '80s by [[Masami Kurumada]]. It tells the story of [[Five-Man Band|five friends]] who serve the reincarnation of the goddess Athena, Saori Kido, in her quest to reclaim her place as ruler of the Saints, a group of warriors themed after the [[Western Zodiac]] and pretty much every charted constellation.
▲Each saint gets a suit of armor that can transform from a sculpture of their signature constellation into functional battle armor. There are three grades of armor, Bronze, Silver, and Gold, with each grade being [[Elemental Crafting|far more powerful and resilient]] than the last. Each armor is also an [[Empathic Weapon]] and has some amount of choice in who wears it and whether they deserve to use it, as well as at least one special property.
The [[Five-Man Band|five core cast]] members are:
* '''Seiya''': The Pegasus Saint [[Blow You Away|(Air)]] - [[The Hero]] who often succeeds thanks to [[The Power of Friendship]]. Brash and loyal to a fault, though all his friends never give up, he's so [[Hot-Blooded]] that he often is the most capable of pulling off [[Heroic Resolve]]. Often veers into [[Too Dumb to Live]] territory, and is almost as hard as Ikki to kill.
* '''Shiryu''': The Dragon Saint [[Making a Splash|(Water)]] - [[The Lancer]], and [[The Rival]] to Seiya at first. Despite his tendency to become blind in battles,<ref>(Only to later [[Throwing Off the Disability|get better]])</ref>
* '''Hyoga''': The Cygnus Saint [[An Ice Person|(Ice)]] - [[The Quiet One]] and sort of [[The Smart Guy]], despite being a more-or-less devout Christian wholeheartedly helped Athena... yeah, good thing the setting was into [[Crossover Cosmology]]. Also notorious for his Oedipus complex.
* '''Shun''': The Andromeda Saint [[Variable-Length Chain|(Chains]], Wind and [[Pure Energy|Energy)]] - [[The Chick]] ([[Dude Looks Like a Lady|and yes, he's a guy]]), also had perhaps the most destructive power of the core five, [[Reluctant Warrior|and the most restraint on using it]]. He doesn't snap very often, but when it ''does'' happen, ''[[Beware the Nice Ones|SNAP]]'' he does.
* '''Ikki''': The [[The Phoenix|Phoenix]] Saint [[Playing
The first arc is the Sanctuary Arc. [[The Ojou|Saori Kido]], heiress to a vast empire, holds special games to see which among the bronze saints deserves the Sagittarius Gold Cloth: an armor so powerful it is considered to confer the power of a [[Weapon of Mass Destruction]] to [[Person of Mass Destruction|its wearer]]. Seiya, Shiryu, Hyoga and Shun (among others) meet there [[Let's You and Him Fight|to fight]] for it, but before the winner can be decided the Gold Cloth is stolen away by the Black Saints, renegade saints led by Ikki.
The story in the anime and manga differs considerably following Ikki's defeat, but it centers in the Bronze Saints facing several other saints sent by the Sanctuary with orders to kill them (and in the anime only, recover the [[MacGuffin|Sagittarius Cloth helmet]], the only part of the Cloth the good guys were able to keep). Midway through the battles against the [[Rank Inflation|Silver Saints]], it is revealed that Saori is the reincarnation of Athena and leadership of Sanctuary is hers by right, which at the time is under control of the nefarious Pope (no, not [[The Pope|that one]]), who wants her dead so he can claim her position as protector of the Earth. Eventually Saori and all the Bronze Saints decide to challenge the Pope directly, and [[Storming the Castle|travel to the Sanctuary]]. Due to some treachery, Athena/Saori is hit by an arrow powerful enough to fell a god in twelve hours... time which the Saints must use to [[Boss Rush|defeat]] the other ''eleven'' Gold Saints and use the shield on the statue of Athena to save their goddess from death.
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Later arcs tend to follow this form, with a series of fights to reach the offending god or mortal intent on bringing about a worldwide calamity while working under a time limit, failure leading to Athena's death or the destruction of the world. These arcs were Asgard, Poseidon, Hades, and Heaven. Both the last are ongoing.
The series was dubbed in English as ''Knights Of The Zodiac'' (which is actually the name the series has in most of the world outside Japan) and shown on [[Cartoon Network]], but the plot and characters [[Macekre|didn't receive very good treatment]], and it wasn't very popular. [[ADV Films]] would later re-release the series on DVD with a new, much more faithful dub (note the page image). However, outside the States it was
And it turns out that an OVA telling of ''[[Saint Seiya:
In Spring 2012, there will be a sequel to the original series<ref>and maybe Next Dimension</ref> titled ''[[
Right now, ''[[Saint Seiya Episode G]]'', ''[[Saint Seiya: Next Dimension]]'' and ''[[Saint Seiya:
''Saint Seiya'' also received myriads of video games, but none of them usually reached high qualities. However, recently, a ''[[Dynasty Warriors]]'' spinoff called ''Saint Seiya Senki/Chronicles'' for [[
▲Saint Seiya also received myriads of video games, but none of them usually reached high qualities. However, recently, a ''[[Dynasty Warriors]]'' spinoff called ''Saint Seiya Senki/Chronicles'' for [[PS 3]] is in the works, by both Bandai Namco and Dimps. Thus far, this seems to be the most highly anticipated [[Saint Seiya]] game ever.
{{tropelist}}
* [[The Abridged Series]]: Currently done by French fans which turns out to be the [http://cdz-serie-abregee.over-blog.com/ first French abridged series.]
** On the site, there are transcripts for each episode so if you don't speak French, you can copy that and translate it.
*** [[Saint Seiya Abridged|Now has its own page.]]
* [[Absurdly Sharp Blade]]: Shura's Excalibur can cut through flesh, armor... dimensions.
* [[Achilles' Heel]]: When Shiryu unleashes the Rozan Shoryu Ha, his defense wide open for a small second - and if you hit him ''there'', he's as good as dead. When Seiya points that out in the tournament, Shiryu freaks out.
** Anime-only god warrior Alpha Siegfried shares his Achilles' heel with his namesake from the ''[[
* [[Adaptation Dye Job]]: The hair colors in the manga tend to be realistic, whereas the ones in the anime range between green, pink, purple and other funky colors.
* [[All Myths Are True]]: We have [[Classical Mythology|Greek Mythology]], Shaka is reincarnation of Buddha, one of the movies features the Saints fending off Satan, Norse Mythology, etc. While it is odd, Kurumada simply puts this stuff in because he thinks its cool.
{{quote|
'''[[Masami Kurumada]] 1990'''
''Knights of the Zodiac: Vol 23'' }}
* [[Almost Kiss]]: Seiya and Saori, Seiya and Miho, and some fans will even say Hyoga and Shun from the [[Ho Yay|infamous House of Libra scene]].
* [[Alpha Bitch]]: Saori, when she was a kid. [[Character Development|She grew out of it, though]].
* [[Alternative Foreign Theme Song]]: The English dub received a new theme song called [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpxrsEAIMT4 "I Ran"] by [[Bowling for Soup]].
** and who can forget the european intro, originall made for [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqAkCLy_GOA "france"] and its spanish translation, used in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fiPVeuaxXk "spain and latin america"]
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** This becomes certainly amusing when Shiryuu cuts through the Capricorn armor... with his bare hand, because he'd been stripped off his armor by Shura. Rule of thumb: If the bronze saints' armors are still intact and in their normal shape, the fight's nowhere near over yet.
** By the end of the series, helmets become useless. Everyone's helmet is either broken, lost in a fight or simply not used ([[Rule of Cool|because they look cool that way]]).{{spoiler|Athena has hers for a single page and then loses it when Hades strikes her shield.}}
* [[Art Evolution]]: Justified. See [[Promoted Fanboy]] entry.
* [[Artifact Title]]: Not on the original series itself, mind you, where Seiya always played an important role; but the subsequent spin-offs / prequels don't even feature Seiya at all! (OK, ''The Lost Canvas'' is about his previous incarnation, but still!)
** Funnily enough, the international title, ''Knights of the Zodiac'', always stays relevant because it applies to all the Athena's Saints / Knights.
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** At one point Kurumada himself might have forgotten how old he set his characters are, {{spoiler|it get bizzare when Julian Solo who is Poseidon's vessel proposed Saori aka Athena. Julian was celebrating his 16th birthday that time and Saori was 13 years old. Noted loooong time ago in Japan's feudal era it was possible but surely it was not when Kurumada write this story.}}
* [[Asleep for Days]]: Athena spends most of the series fliping in and out of this state.
* [[Badass Grandpa]]: Libra Dohko in his old form.
* [[Band of Brothers]]: The Bronze Saints in the Anime.
* [[Barrier Maiden]]: Saori often has to take the place or tasks of another God or make a life-risking [[Batman Gambit]] to ensure buying time for her Saints to beat up the Bad Guys. Shun is also placed in that situation sometimes. Lampshaded in Shun's backstory since his armor is protected by the constellation of Andromeda, the one named after THE [[Barrier Maiden]] of Greek mythology.
* [[Batman Gambit]]: Saori. See "Barrier Maiden" for more details. Other users of this technique are Saga, Ikki, Kanon, Mu, Dohko, and both Hilda and Alberich in the Asgard saga.
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* [[Berserk Button]]: Guilty eventually found Ikki's by murdering his love interest, Esmeralda (which the anime even turned into Guilty's daughter). Deathmask also found out at his expense that messing with Shunrei won't make Shiryu happy to say the least.
* [[Between My Legs]]: Shaina gets this shot in episode 30.
* [[Big Heroic Run]]: In the iconic first opening. Our heroes charge forward to the beat of a [[The Power of Rock|Badass Guitar Solo]].
* [[Big Screwed-Up Family]]: The Kido Family. Saori Kido turns out to be the Goddess Athena, Mitsumasa Kido in the manga {{spoiler|has 100 kids and then sends them to go become Saints.}} Let's not forget Hyoga and his Oedipus Complex with his dead mother.
* [[Bird Run]]: ''Everyone'', after the Sanctuary arc.
* [[Bizarre Baby Boom]]: The 100 orphans are all close to the same age and {{spoiler|are all related in the manga.}}
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* [[Brainwashed and Crazy]]: Leo Aioria and Anime-only Crystal Saint are ''extremely'' brutal examples of this trope. {{spoiler|So much it takes ''death'' (of another person, in Aioria's case; of himself, in the Crystal Saint's) to de-brainwash them}}.
* [[Breakout Character]]: The Gold Saints serve primarily as the ultimate obstacles for the heroes in the Twelve Houses Arc but, due to their popularity, their roles started to become more important as time passed by and more prequels where created to the point that they have perhaps surpassed the heroes in terms of screen-time (anime and manga combined) and became the protagonists of their own manga in Episode G (and Lost Canvas to some extent).
* [[Brother Chuck]]: The Steel Saints. A common joke/explanation among fans is that they must have missed the plane for the Sanctuary or took the wrong one. Phaeton and Spartan from the anime. Giggars is usually believed to be one as well, but he's seen struck down by Ikki in the Flame Saint chapter, and gives off the impression he's as good as dead.
** Asterion in the manga. Later subverted in the Kanzenban, in which his grave can be seen in one pannel.
** Chameleon June is specially odd, as she appars once, is left on the care of Tatsumi and is never seen or heard off again in neither adaptation.
* [[But Not Too Foreign]]: Hyoga is half Japanese, half Russian.
* [[Cain and Abel]]: It looked like Ikki and Shun would become this, and they ''were'' in the beginning, but ultimately Ikki pulled a [[Heel Face Turn]] and subverted this. Kanon and Saga (and in the anime, {{spoiler|Sid and Bud}}), on the other hand...
** In the "childhood friends" sense, we have two pairs: Shiryu and Ohko (anime only) and Hyoga and Kraken Isaac. {{spoiler|Both cases end up in death}}.
* [[Calling Your Attacks]]: "PEGASUS SUI SEI KEEEEEEEENNNNN!"
* [[Canon
* [[Cast Full of Pretty Boys]]: ... Come ON.
* [[Charles Atlas Superpower]]: EVERYONE
* [[Canon Foreigner]]: Several, including from anime (Docrates, Giste, Spartan, Arachne, etc) and movies.
* [[Canon Immigrant]]: The Pope's brainwashing technique, the Genrou Maouken, appears in the anime before its debut in the manga. Lyra Orpheus too, as he appears in the 1st movie first (though he was [[Made Of Clay|also designed by Kurumada back then]]).
* [[Combined Energy Attack]]: A good deal of battles, particularly [[Final Battle|arc-ending battles]] end with Athena's Saints (usually just the Bronze Saints, but sometimes the Golds if they're available) willingly relinquishing their Cosmo to either Seiya or Athena herself to deal the final blow. Even more notable in that the Saints' patron constellations (like Cygnus, Draco, Phoenix, Andromeda, or Pegasus) manifest visually as helpers to the character delivering the attack.
* [[Contrived Coincidence]]: Wow, who would've thought that Saga would {{spoiler|lock Kanon up in the one place that would lead to the jar imprisoning Poseidon with all the General's Cloths perfectly ready to be used?}}
* [[Convection Shmonvection]]: One filler episode had Ikki fight a pair of Silver Saints at the top of a volcano. A little girl who was going to thrown inside it but was saved by Ikki didn't suffer from the heat either.
* [[Crossover Cosmology]]: Saori/Athena and her fellow Greek Gods have various other mythological pantheons' heroes or figures as servants or rivals, and their followers are completely free to worship competing religions. For example...
** Shaka Virgo is a reincarnation of a Buddha and quite capable of mopping the floor with just about any opponent. In the english dub, [[Dub
** Capricorn Shura has the legendary sword Excalibur in his arm (not literally, more like it's spirit) allowing him to cut ''anything.''
** [[Grim Up North|Far up North]], a whole culture lives in worship of Odin, led by [[Brainwashed and Crazy|Hilda]] (name comes from Brunnhilde, the strongest of the Valkyries) and [[Yamato Nadeshiko|her sister Freya]] (name was taken from the Goddess of beauty and love). Odin's Asgardian God Warriors (named after Norse mythological figures) had a patron star in the Ursa Major constellation.
** Hyoga was nominally Christian (he sometimes explains the basics of Christianity to his fellow Saints), and one OVA movie had the saints fight [[Satan|Lucifer]]. (This one is not actually canon though.)
** Poseidon's Generals are each patterned after an ocean, so you have typical Greek water demons as well as Kraken Isaac from the Arctic Ocean and Chrysaor Krishna from the Indian Ocean.
* [[Curb Stomp Battle]]: Hyoga tends to dish this big in the early chapters of the manga. Ichi, Black Cygnus, Babel and (much later in the story) Troll Ivan can attest to that.
* [[Cute Shotaro Boy]]: Shun. Who else?
** Even to the point that Pisces Aphrodite called him a girlface. And the pot called the kettle black.
* [[Damsel in Distress]]: Saori's role every single arc, basically.
* [[Dangerous Forbidden Technique]]: Shiryu's Ultimate Dragon.
* [[Dangerous Sixteenth Birthday]]: {{spoiler|Poseidon wholly took over the body of young [[Lonely Rich Kid|Julian Solo]] right after he turned 16. Technically, he had possessed the guy ''much'' earlier, but wouldn't be able to take over until then and just [[Soul Jar|lay dormant inside]], influencing his subconscious. Lampshaded when Kanon woke Poseidon up and the God himself said he'd only truly control Julian in that day.}}
* [[Dark Action Girl]]: Ophiuchus Shaina in the beginning.
* [[Darker and Edgier]]: Both, manga and anime, can be this to each other depending on the situation yet the first still has the upper hand.
* [[The Dark Side]]: {{spoiler|Several saints have fallen for this. Most notably the Gemini Saints.}}
* [[Dark-Skinned Blond]]: The brothers Leo Aioria and Sagittarius Aiolos. If we go to a [[White-Haired Pretty Boy]] version, [[Noble Demon]] Crysaor Krishna counts as well. Cassios is a VERY [[Ax Crazy]] version.
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* [[Defeat Means Friendship]]: Quite a few times, they could convince their opponents they're actually on the same side.
* [[Descending Ceiling]]: Used in the Sagittarius Temple (anime-only).
* [[The Determinator]]: All five of the main Bronze Saints, to varying degrees.
* [[Disability Superpower]]: Averted; whenever Shiryu becomes blind, he learns to compensate for it but gets no extra powers out of the deal. In the manga, however, Dohko mentions that Shiryu's cosmos is stronger due to his blindness when he strikes Deathmask in their first bout.
** [[Disability Immunity]]: On the other hand, it granted him protection from certain techniques. [[Invoked Trope|When he blinded himself]] during his duel with Algol, it was to avoid [[Taken for Granite|getting petrified by his Medusa's Shield]]. And later on, he avoided being fooled by Gemini Temple's illusion, allowing him and Seiya to find the exit of it.
** Whenever someone starts losing a few of his senses, expect them to become stronger unless he is the current villain.
* [[Dismantled MacGuffin]]: The Cloth of Sagittarius.
* [[Divine Chessboard]]: Athena with her saints against Poseidon with his generals and later Hades with his specters.
* [[Driven to Suicide]]: {{spoiler|In the manga, Saga kills himself to atone for all the horrible sins that his evil side committed for years, once Seiya cleansed him with Athena's shield, in the process of saving Athena at the last remaining second. In the anime, his good side also kills himself, but at this point his evil side is about to be destroyed from massive pummeling from Seiya and the main cast, he has lost his Cloth, and desperately leaps to punch and kill Athena; at which point his good side becomes this, as he uses his other hand to grab Athena's scepter and stab himself with it rather than harming the Goddess that should be his ward.}}
* [[Drowning Pit]]: {{spoiler|Saori}} is put inside one of these by {{spoiler|Poseidon}}. Also, {{spoiler|Kanon was locked in another one by Saga several years ago, before meeting Poseidon}}
* [[Dual-Wielding]]: Shun's Andromeda Chain and Cerberus Dante's chained spikeballs. The weapons in the Libra Cloth all come in pairs too.
* [[Dub Name Change]]: Most of the main characters' names are changed in the Italian dub, usually by giving them the name of their constellation (eg: Seiya becomes Pegasus, Shun becomes Andromeda and so on) or by giving them a totally different, non-japanese name (Shiryuu becomes Sirio, Hyoga Crystal, Shaina is Tisifone and Saori is Isabel).
* [[Eighties Hair]]: Athena's Army. Half of the Golds have mullets. The Amazons and the [[Dude Looks Like a Lady|beautiful Saints]] have big hair.
** As the series got older, the [[Eighties Hair]] became less prominent with Mariners and Specters sporting shorter hair cuts. The sequel ''[[Saint Seiya: Next Dimension]]'' finally phased it out with straighter, shorter hair (for the new characters at least).
* [[Elemental Powers]]: Each Cloth and Saint have elemental focuses and affinities. Explicitly stated with the anime-only Steel Saints.
* [[Elemental Eye Colours]]: Hyoga, [[An Ice Person]] has blue eyes. Strangely averted in the Manga with Aquarius Camus who despite being [[An Ice Person]] as well, had red eyes.
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* [[Everybody Hates Hades]]: Played painfully straight.
** Though to be fair, it seems more to be a case of Everybody Hates All the Gods except their own (Athena from the heroes' perspective but Specters love their God as much which is Hades).
* [[Everyone Loves Blondes]]: Most of the love interests: Eurydice, Esmerelda, June, and Freya. You could also count Misty in this due to the fact that most of the Silvers are [[Even the Guys Want Him|determined to avenge him]].
* [[Everything's Better
* [[Everything's Worse
* [[Expy]]: Kurumada reused character designs from his original manga series, ''Ring ni Kakero'' in this (Ikki is a far more bitter and less narcissistic expy of Superstar Kenzaki Jun (while retaining the same insane level of awesomeness), and Seiya is an expy of Takane Ryuuji). Likewise, series that came after ''Saint Seiya'', such as [[
** By the way, the design porting is so blatant in Kurumada's drawing style, this borders around [[Only Six Faces]] in his ''whole'' manga work. Luckily the anime's character designs avert this.
* [[Eyes Always Shut]]: Subverted: Shaka, the Virgo Saint isn't blind, but he keeps his eyes closed as if he really were, so he can focus his energy; him opening his eyes is followed by a tremendous release of accumulated psychic powers that can and WILL litterally render you senseless. According to the [[Genre Savvy]] Aioria, you must do ''everything'' in your power to NOT make Shaka open his eyes. On the other hand, Asmita Virgo, Shaka's Expy from the Lost Canvas story -is- blind.
* [[Eye Scream]]: {{spoiler|Shiryu, Hyoga (during the Poseidon Arc) and his friend Isaac.}}
* [[Eyepatch of Power]]: {{spoiler|Hyoga}}; Averted by {{spoiler|Kraken Isaac, who has no qualms in showcasing his damaged eye.}}
* [[Face Death
* [[The Faceless]]: Ikki's master on Death Queen Island, Guilty, wears a demon mask. Athena's female Saints also wear shiny and expressionless silver masks.
* [[Faux Action Girl]]: In the anime, poor Marin is a Silver Saint and an ''excellent'' big sister mentor for Seiya, but she ends up just ''too'' often hit with [[The Worf Effect]]. This is thankfully averted in the manga, since all her defeats are anime-exclusive.
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* [[Fighting From the Inside]]: Say what you will about Shun's pacifism making him wimpy, but it gave him the resolve to {{spoiler|''throttle'' Hades while ''he was possessing his body!'' It gave Ikki an opening to kill Hades at the cost of his life.}}
* [[The Fighting Narcissist]]: Pisces Aphrodite, Lizard Misty and Papillon Myu.
** Pope {{spoiler|Saga, or atleast his evil side}} is shown being overly boastful about his "beatitful body" during his [[Shower Scene]] in the manga.
* [[Final Speech]]: Several characters do this before dying, with the Asgard Warriors as the main offenders.
* [[Five-Bad Band]]: This series has quite a few of them.
** The Black Saints played it straight
** The Asgard characters:
*** [[Big Bad]]: Hilda
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*** [[Sixth Ranger]] (sorta): {{spoiler|Bud}}
** The Gold Saints, while not evil per se, fit this during the 12 House Arc.
*** [[Big Bad]]: The Evil Pope {{spoiler|Gemini Saga}}
*** [[The Dragon]]: Capricorn Shura, Scorpio Milo and Cancer Deathmask. Pisces Aphrodite can also be one, due to his house being the last before the [[Big Bad]], and that he was sent to assassinate Shun's Master. Virgo Shaka as he's the most powerful among the Gold Saints, said to be the one closest to God.
*** [[The Brute]]: Taurus Aldebaran
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*** Phoenix Ikki, [[The Big Guy]] ''and'' the [[Sixth Ranger]] (with a touch of [[Genius Bruiser]])
*** Andromeda Shun, [[The Heart]]
*** [[Mentor
** The other five Bronze Saints form their own band. They aren't seen often enough for the distinctions to be very clear, but a preliminary formation could be this:
*** [[The Hero]]: Unicorn Jabu
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** Then we have the Gold Saints that survived the Sanctuary arc, which just happened to be five. {{spoiler|Six when Kanon joins much, much later.}}
*** [[The Hero]]: Aries Mu
*** [[The Lancer]]: Leo Aioria
*** [[The Big Guy]]: Taurus Aldebaran
*** [[The Smart Guy]]: Virgo Shaka
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* [[Full-Frontal Assault]]: Seiya and Saori/Athena in Tenkai Hen(5th movie) against {{spoiler|Apollo}}.
* [[Gambit Roulette]]: Kanon's plan to take over the world * and* have his payback against Gemini Saga includes {{spoiler|deliberately telling his very powerful yet mentally unstable twin brother about his personality problems to mess up with his mind, worm his way into a powerful God's favor, help stage the war against the Sanctuary and, in the anime, manipulate his godly boss into using a powerful yet peaceful priestess to re-start everything when he loses against Sanctuary...}}
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: In an early episode, Docrates ''actually'' said "bullshit".
** The homosexual undertones in the anime version of Shun weakening under the strain of burning his cosmos to its max to save Hyoga.
* [[Gold Makes Everything Shiny]]: Obviously the Gold Saints, but later on the Bronze Saints as well.
* [[Good All Along]]: Camus, so much it hurts. He did not care about the struggle for Athena and did ''nothing'' to stop Seiya and Shun from running past him. All he wanted was to awaken Hyoga's Seventh Sense... And of course, that would come in handy later on.
* [[Grasp the Sun]]: In a short but sad scene, Ikki's on the ground and sees the snow. He reaches to it and mutters how he promised he was going to show snow to Esmerelda one day.
* [[Heel Face Turn]]: {{spoiler|After being Poseidon's [[Man Behind the Man]], in the Hades saga Kanon takes over the Gemini cloth that his deceased twin brother Saga left behind and joins the good guys.}}
* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: So you've got [[Mobile Suit Gundam|Amuro Ray and Bright Noah]] together again, kicking ass, along with [[Fist of the North Star|Rei]] repairing armor instead of tearing it apart with his fingers, and [[Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory|Kou Uraki]] using chains all the time. Oh, and his brother is [[G Gundam|Schwarz Bruder]]. And he ''never'' dies. Also, [[G Gundam|Prime Minister Wong Yunfat]] is actually a good guy, [[Mobile Suit Gundam|Lalah Sune]] is Amuro and Bright's lady in liege, and Kycillia Zabi wants to either love or kill Amuro.
** The next generation too. We've got [[Bleach|Ichigo Kurosaki]] and [[Code Geass|Suzaku Kururugi]] kicking ass together. And there's also the immortal [[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann|KAMINA]]. And their Goddess? [[Bleach|Rukia Kuchiki]]!
** And some Gold Saints' [[The Other Darrin|Darrins]] are worth this one too. There's... [[Bleach|Byakuya Kuchiki]] for Gemini Saga/Kanon, [[Guilty Gear|Ky Kiske]] for Capricorn Shura, [[Super Robot Wars Advance|Axel Almer]] for Aquarius Camus, [[Saiyuki|Genjo Sanzo]] for Scorpio Milo... to name a few...
** For ''Lost Canvas'' we have [[Tetsuya Kakihara|Simon]] as Tenma, [[Jun Fukuyama|Lelouch]] and [[Takahiro Sakurai|Suzaku]] as Kagaho and Minos, [[Shinichiro Miki|Lockon]] as Shion and [[Hiroshi Kamiya|Tieria]] as Albafica; quite the giant robot reunion I see.
** There's one notable one in (uncut) English Dub: [[Fullmetal Alchemist|Edward Elric]] is very obvious as bit character Unicorn Jabu. He also plays the very feminine Lizard Misty, skewing his voice into a hilariously high pitch.
*** [[Hilarious in Hindsight]]: In the Brazilian Dub (actually older than the English one), the also fan-favorite VA Marcelo Campos voices Jabu, Misty AND Ed from [[Fullmetal Alchemist]]. In Saint Seiya, he provides Mu's voice as well.
* [[High-Pressure Blood]]: The series is INFAMOUS for that. Poor Shiryu.
* [[Hijacked
* [[Holy Halo]]: Part of the Indian Ocean armor worn by Chrysaor Krishna.
* [[Honor Before Reason]]: Sometimes the Saints' rivals acknowledged they were wrong, but preferred to go down fighting anyway and/or refused to pull a [[Heel Face Turn]] out of loyalty or love to their masters.
* [[Hot-Blooded]]: Seiya
* [[Hotblooded Sideburns]]: All five of the Bronze Saints, but especially Seiya.
* [[Human Popsicle]]: {{spoiler|Hyoga, with Milo explicity saying that preserving him was Camus' intention all along. Hyoga's deceased mother Natasha is forever preserved under the waters of Siberia.}}
* [[Iaijutsu Practitioner]]: [[The Big Guy|Taurus Aldebaran]] is an interesting case. While he does not use a sword, his [[Signature Move]], the "Great Horn", works with a very similar mechanic. [[The Hero|Seiya]] even takes advantage of this fact in order to deal with said technique during their fight.
* [[I Am Not Left-Handed]]: It was pretty common for the Silver and Gold Saints to condescend to fight the Bronze saints on a handicap, only to go all out once they proved strong. Hyoga was also ''very'' guilty of this while fighting lower-level Bronzes (just ask poor Hydra) and random [[Mook
** Worth to mention that this backfired spectacularly in Shaka's case. Shaka [[I Am Not Left-Handed|Opened his eyes]], which means he is taking the fight seriously, while fighting Ikki and used one of his special moves to strip the latter of his five senses. Turns out that when you're completely alone with your thoughts nothing can distract you from the Seventh Sense.
* [[Impaled
* [[Instrument of Murder]]: The [[Razor Floss]] producing harps/lyras of Benetnasch Eta Mime and the two Lyra Orpheus (1st movie and Hades chapter, respetively).
* [[In the End You Are
* [[Intimate Healing]]: After Hyoga is released from an ice coffin but is nearly dead from the cold, so Shun burns his [[Life Energy|cosmo]] while lying with Hyouga in his arms in order to revive him. Cue to LOTS of [[Ho Yay]]-tinted squealing coming from the [[Estrogen Brigade]] (can't fully blame them, though).
* [[It Only Works Once]]: Hypothetically, each saint can adapt to any other saint's attack and defend against it. ''However;'' quite a few [[
** Subverted in that Seiya seems to only [[When All You Have Is a Hammer|use one frickin attack]].
*** He does use Pegasus' Comet... sometimes...
* [[It's All Upstairs From Here]]: LITERALLY. Though once, they go ''downstairs'' as well...
* [[Jerk
* [[Jossed]]: The identity of Seiya's older sister and Marin's little brother. See [[Luke, I Am Your Father]] below.
* [[Kick the Dog]]: {{spoiler|Kaza uses his shapeshifting abilities to lure Seiya (transforming into Marin) and Hyoga (transforming into Camus) in and then hurt them. Camus sinks the boat where Natasha's body is placed to force her son Hyoga to fight him. In the final arc, Thanatos does his damndest to kill Seiya's helpless older sister Seika just to punish him. Similarly, in a small anime filler two Silver Saints kill an old man and throw his granddaughter inside a volcano to lure Ikki out of his refuge inside said volcano.}}
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** It also rubs off on Hyoga.
* [[La Résistance]]: The Bronze Saints against the Sanctuary.
* [[Lady of War]]: Aquila Marin. {{spoiler|Saori, after she finally activates her own Cloth in the manga}} Arguably, {{spoiler|Eris, Pandora and Artemis}}. Ophiucus Shaina is too [[Ax Crazy]] at the beginning to count, but she becomes one [[Character Development|later on]].
* [[Large Ham]]: Phoenix Ikki. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvodmaZr-k4&feature=related This] is him being discrete.
** Almost anyone in the main cast in the Italian dub. They often quotes [[Real Life]] poems and famous works.
** Ophiuchus Shaina, at least in the brazilian dub.
* [[Last Breath Bullet]]: Aldebaran pulls this one to Deep Nyobe in the Hades Saga.
* [[Law of Chromatic Superiority]]: The Gold Saints are the strongest warriors of all, because they wear the shiniest Cloths of all (Gold).
* [[Let's Split Up, Gang!]]: The Bronze Saints seem to do this quite a bit.
* [[Levitating Lotus Position]]: Virgo Shaka awaits for the intruders to the House of Virgo in a [[Levitating Lotus Position]]. No surprise here for someone thinking he's the reincarnation of Buddha. Bonus points for keeping the pose while wearing the Gold Cloth armor of the Gold Saints.
* [[Life Energy]]: The key to the Saints' power is their cosmos. Whoever can burn his cosmo to the higher level wins, no matter how injured or weakened they are.
* [[Lighter and Softer]]: Both, manga and anime, can be this to each other depending on the situation yet the anime gets progressively less bloodier towards the later arcs.
* [[Light Is Not Good]]: The Angels in the Tenkai Hen Overture Movie.
** Pre-[[Heel Face Turn]] Gold Saints.
* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]: ''Overloads'' at the Hades saga.
* [[Lonely Rich Kid]]: When she grew up, Saori became one of these before she turned out to be [[The Messiah]]. Also, Julian Solo {{spoiler|until Poseidon took over him.}}
** Julian's surname is literally ''alone'' in spanish. That's quite the [[Meaningful Name]] you've got there.
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** Subverted (and, for the fandom, played for laughs) in Shiryu's case: he always claims that the Dragon Shield is indestructible; yet, it tends to break constantly (not in every fight, but still...). Though it was able to resist Excalibur. Once. Nothing else can even hope to do something like that.
* [[Luke, I Am Your Father]]: Subverted: {{spoiler|No, Seiya, Marin is NOT your long-lost older sister. Her brother Touma is one of your enemies and your true sister grew up into a [[Waif Prophet]].}}
** Also played straight (in the manga at least): {{spoiler|Mitsumasa Kido was actually the birth father of all the orphans he sent around the world to be trained as Saints}}. Busy guy, specially in how all of the children he sent... all of them have a VERY close age range.
* [[Magic Countdown]]: Averted somewhat in the Sanctuary Chapter. Even though the flames from the Zodiac clock cheated in their length before disappearing, the whole thing did last around 12 hours, slightly more but justified with Seiya actually taking a bit more than 12 hours to grab the Shield of Justice.
* [[Manly Tears]]: This series could very well be described as "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFiOqOFNBqk Manly Tears and Greek Gods]".
* [[Man Behind the Man]]: {{spoiler|Kanon to Poseidon}}
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* [[Martyr Without a Cause]]: The five Bronzes.
* [[Meaningful Name]]: Almost all characters have meaningful names.
* [[The Medic]]: Saori, at the end of the Twelve Houses chapter (anime-only).
** Aioria is given Healing Hands in the anime, which he uses twice to heal {{spoiler|Sheena and Seiya}}.
* [[Meditation Powerup]]: Shaka.
* [[Medium Blending]]: For some odd reason, in the Hades Sanctuary OVA, Seiya's transformation sequence was done completely in a very generic 3D. It is later partially averted when Shun's transformation sequence used traditional animation for his character and 3D in the back and it looks [[So Cool Its Awesome|awesome]].
** Tôei was poking around and trying new stuff for the Hades [[
* [[Melodrama]]: The heroes have been through so much [[Wangst]], it looks like they're ''fueled'' by it.
* [[Men Are the Expendable Gender]]: Despite the high death count, all the female Saints, Marin, Shaina and June, manage to survive while all but the five main bronze boys die.
* [[Merchandise-Driven]]: The Steel Saints were inserted in the anime at the request of Bandai to sell action figures about them. The redesign of the first version of the Bronze Saints Cloths (compared to those found in the manga) are also due to Bandai's request, one could argue it was for the better.
* [[The Messiah]]: Saori aka Athena, after she's revealed as such. Hilda, until she's forcibly turned into a [[Dark Messiah]]. {{spoiler|She gets better.}}
* [[Middle Child Syndrome]]: The Silvers. Even in ''[[Saint Seiya:
** The Mariners qualify as well. Their arc is greatly overshadowed and again, in ''The Lost Canvas'', Poseidon's threat is pretty much glanced at.
* [[Mind Rape]]: Ikki's Phoenix Genma Ken. Virgo Shaka's main techniques, Rikudō Rinne and Tenbu Hōrin. Any Gemini saint and their Genrōmaōken to some degree as well. {{spoiler|In the anime, this includes what happened to Hilda's good side when she was brainwashed by the Ring of the Nibelung and her [[Super-Powered Evil Side]] took over; she was forced to see how her Asgard God Warriors died one by one.}}
* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: Subverted: the most fanservicy character was a ''male''. Who possessed a very muscled body ''and'' had at least two very fanservicy bath and shower scenes. Obvious bait for the [[Estrogen Brigade]] watching the show.
** The one and only instance of ''female'' fanservice was a blink-and-you'll-miss-it scene of Shunrei, Shiryu's adoptive sister, bathing in a river.
** Chameleon June's Cloth: Eye boob cups.
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* [[Multinational Team]]: There are many nationalities among the Saints, the Mariners and the Specters.
* [[The Musical]]: A musical was performed back in the early nineties featuring popular JPOP group SMAP playing the lead roles and another JPOP group Tokio playing some of the other characters.
* [[Musical Assassin]]: Mime (harp), the two Orpheus (lyre), Sorrento (flute) and Sphynx Pharao (harp).
* [[My Name Is Inigo Montoya]]: You sometimes ''want'' the Saints to just stay down so they don't take more damage and then they get up and ARGH... ''Hello'', Seiya and Shiryu.
* [[My God, What Have I Done?]]: {{spoiler|In the Asgard saga, Seiya has a ''huge'' [[Freak-Out]] when he thinks he's killed Hilda instead of de-brainwash her.}} And before that, {{spoiler|Saga's suicide is triggered by this.}}
** About the first example: {{spoiler|Of course, his chosen method of de-brainwashing was apparently bonking her on the head with a legendary sword... It would have made more sense to try to strike the Ring of the Nibelung, or cut off the finger/hand Hilda wore it on, but no, Seiya had to go for swordblade to the head. Good thing it worked, though.}}
*** Then again, {{spoiler|Seiya ''did'' hesitate heavily before he struck Hilda down, unable to bring himself to harm her since he knew she was [[Brainwashed and Crazy]]. He only did so when ''Odin'' himself told him "STFU and use my sword, kiddo!" He can't be fully blamed for what happened.}}
** One of the most symbolic example of this happened in the anime, when {{spoiler|Capricorn Shura realized the baby he tried to kill several years ago was in fact Athena. This epiphany was all the more powerful considering he took most of his pride in believing to be her most faithful knight.}}
** Also spoken verbatim by Shiryu after winning an OVA duel {{spoiler|against a Brainwashed and Crazy Hyoga. Arguably one of the best, most fast-paced and intense fights of the series, too.}}
* [[Nakama]]: The Bronze Saints, one of anime's closest-knit nakama.
* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: Cancer Deathmask, definitely.
* [[No Endor Holocaust]]: Averted, see the main entry
* [[No Eye in Magic]]: Perseus Algol exhibits a similar petrification power to the mythical
* [[Not Even Bothering
* [[Now Let Me Carry You]]: In one episode, Saori protects an unconscious and badly injured Seiya from Shaina and Jamian.
* [[Obfuscating Disability]]: ''Saint Seiya'' portrays at least two examples of this trope:
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* [[Overdrawn At the Blood Bank]]: Shiryu. Full stop.
** It's actually ridiculous in the {{spoiler|Scorpio Milo vs. Cygnus Hyoga}} battle, during which the latter gushes out more blood than his entire body could possibly contain. And not only does he live through it {{spoiler|once Milo has realized the truth and stopped the blood loss via pressure points}} but he's back on his feet and fighting at full strength not even five minutes later.
* [[People Puppets]]: Griffon Minos uses this on others.
* [[Petal Power]]: The Pisces Saint.
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* [[Physics Goof|PhysicsGoofs]]:
** [[Faster-Than-Light Travel|Traveling at the Speed of Light]]: The amount of energy needed for any of the Gold Saints or anyone to perform light speed attacks is extremely high. Even approaching light speed would require more energy per second than all of Earth's industries use per year.
** [[Ice Breaker]]: Anytime Hyoga or any of the other [[An Ice Person|people who use ice]] use one of their signature attacks. Hyoga's skin would be destroyed anytime he touched anything and in the battle with Camus, {{spoiler|Camus would've shattered instead of simply turning blue and dying. He wouldn't have been able to talk.}}
** [[No Conservation of Energy]]: Whenever work is done, energy has to come from somewhere. In
** [[Space Is Noisy]]: Another Dimension. Sorry Shun. No matter how much you call for Hyoga, he technically can't here you due to the fact that sound cannot travel in a vacuum.
* [[Playing Against Type]]: Mitsuko Horie as Hilda. Prior to that, she had played only cute girls and had a career as anime OP singer, and then she's hired to play the [[Brainwashed and Crazy]] Princess of the Nibelung... Mrs. Horie herself lampshades the trope when she's asked about this in interviews, recalling each time how shocked she was when the role was offered to her.
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* [[Plucky Girl]]: Saori. If you can withstand 12 hours with a golden arrow stuck in your chest without complaining a single time and even ''sending your'' ''[[Life Energy|own cosmo]]'' ''to your warriors when they're in trouble'', you've got to be one ''really'' resilient girl. Lampshaded few after she gets the arrow, when Saori weakly but calmly tells a panicking Seiya to just go and fight out there in the Sanctuary whereas she'll endure the pain and be patient.
** Honorary mention goes to a [[Naive Everygirl]] named Helen, who {{spoiler|saw her grandpa being murdered by two Silver Saints looking for Ikki and was tossed in a volcano by them, but managed to grab and hold onto its inner walls and climb her way back up in time to give Ikki the [[Heroic Resolve]] he needed to punish her attackers}}
* [[Power Gives You Wings]]: The Sagittarius Cloth, prone to arriving on its own [[Big Damn Heroes|in the nick of time]] to assist Seiya, has vast golden wings on its back. Furthermore, the Surplices of quite a few of Hades' Specters (on par with the strongest Gold Saints) have [[Good Wings, Evil Wings|demonic or sinister-looking wings]]. The best examples, however, are Divine
* [[Power Levels]]: The intensity and strength of each characters' Cosmo functions as a rough gauge for power, health, and even mood.
* [[Power Makes Your Hair Grow]]: While it has more to do with bad art, both Shun and Ikki have this problem when they go from their normal street clothes to their V1 Cloths, which sport full-head helms. Shun's normally shoulder length green hair reaches down to his waist while Ikki's is a little more obvious. It goes from very short, to past his shoulders. V2 Cloths (and onwards,) which traded the full-head helms for tiaras, eliminated this issue.
* [[Power Tattoo]]: Dragon Shiryu has a Chinese ''long'' dragon tattooed on his back. The intensity with which it's visible indicates the strength of his Cosmo. If it's completely gone, he's as good as dead.
* [[Power Gives You Wings]]: All the Bronze God Cloths have these.
* [[Promoted Fanboy|Promoted Fangirl]]: Shiori Teshirogi, the author who writes ''[[Saint Seiya:
* [[The Problem
* [[Psycho for Hire]]: Cancer Deathmask. With [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|a name like that]], what else can you be?
* [[Psycho Rangers]]: The Black Saints
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* [[Rant-Inducing Slight]]: Used in almost any [[My Name Is Inigo Montoya]] moment.
* [[Rapunzel Hair]]: Several ''males'' have this, but Dragon Shiryu's long black hair reaches his ''knees''. Aside of that, Saori's light purple hair goes down her hips, and Pandora's black-purple hair is just as long.
** As there are far more males than females in Saint Seiya, the males tend to get more impressive hair. Out of admittedly few women, only Athena and Pandora have this hair, with the other girls having shorter (and more practical) styles - however, Shion, Mu, Saga, Kanon, Shiryu, Aldebaran, Aphrodite, Shaka, Camus and Hades himself all possess rather extreme hairstyling on the part of Kurumada. Considering this is a shonen anime, one wonders what he was thinking.
*** [[Fan Service]], man, [[Fan Service]]. He knew
* [[Razor Floss]]: The two Orpheus and Benetnasch Eta Mime from the Asgard saga.
* [[Real Men Wear Pink]]: Shun and Misty.
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* [[Redemption Equals Death]]: Just * too* often. {{spoiler|Cassius is one of the most tragic cases; even ''Seiya'' bawls when he dies through [[Heroic Sacrifice]] to de-brainwash Aioria. Other cases involve Saga, Siegfried, Ikki's first death...}}
* [[Refuge in Audacity]]: [[High-Pressure Blood|as noted above,]] what made the series (kinda) infamous shows up ''in the first episode''. Yup.
* [[Relationship Voice Actor]]: In the original series, Seiya was dubbed by [[Tohru Furuya]] (Amuro in [[Mobile Suit Gundam]]), Shiryu was dubbed by [[Hirotaka Suzuoki]] (Lt. Bright in [[Mobile Suit Gundam]]) ; this pair of "best buddies" is also noticeable in [[
* [[Reluctant Warrior]]: Andromeda Shun.
* [[Right Makes Might]]: Several times, often went hand in hand with [[Defeat Means Friendship]]. It's also subverted: when Cancer Deathmask tries to pull that one on {{spoiler|Libra Dohko}} to make , the other just shrugs Deathmask's words away and [[Shut UP, Hannibal|calls him a fool]].
* [[Say My Name]]: "ATHEEEEENAAAAAAA!" "SAORI-SAAAAAAAAN!" "MARIIIIIIIN!" "MAAAAASTEEEEEEER!" "SEEEEEEIYAAAAAAA!" "SHIIIIIRYUUUUUU!" "BROOOOTHEEEEER!"
* [[Scary Impractical Armor]]: In the beginning of the series, this is mostly averted, but by Hades Saga, we see a lot of stuff like [http://saintseiyaperfil.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/esquema_hypnos.jpg this.]{{Dead link}} Although certain Cloths are far too bulky to walk in, let alone ''fight'' in, they're justified as being more status symbols than anything, and the more intricate the design, the less likely the enemy is to lower himself to ''throwing punches'', what with being a powerful demigod who only needs to raise a finger to send everyone flying.
* [[Sealed Evil in
* [[Self-Sacrifice Scheme]]: Shun came up with this twice. The first was when he knocked out Shiryu in order to offer himself to Ikki to stop his rampage and the second was in the Hades Saga when {{spoiler|Shun was allowed Hades to possess him so that his brother could kill him again}}. Both plans were foiled.
* [[Sentai]]: A fantasy anime example.
* [[Sexy Mentor]]: Seiya's trainer Aquila Marin is one ''really'' hot young woman. So is Cassius's trainer Shaina.
* [[Shapeshifter Guilt Trip]]: done by [[Master of Disguise|Lymnades]] [[Kick the Dog|Kaza]]
* [[Shirtless Scene]]: Dragon Shiryu seems to ''enjoy'' doffing the upper half of his Cloth, helm and armguards included, at the drop of a hat.
** he inherited that habit from Dohko, the young libra saint hinted liked doing this even when he was young.
** The opening in Saint Seiya Hades: Sanctuary first shows [[Squee|all five bronze boys like this]].
* [[Shoulders of Doom]]: Most villainous characters wear Cloths, Scales, or Surplices with these. In a unique variant, Shun's shoulderguards are just as huge, but are set diagonally instead of
* [[Shut UP, Hannibal]]!: [[Nietzsche Wannabe|Deathmask]] attempts to justify endorsing the Sanctuary's corruption by claiming that [[What Is Evil?|good and evil are concepts decided by the victors and that all morality is relative]]. [[Old Master|Dohko Libra]]'s response can be summed up as [[You Keep Telling Yourself That|"Oh, shut up"]].
* [[Shower Scene]]: We got our first one with ''freaking'' Shun. You may [[Squee|scream]] now, girls.
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** To specify, {{spoiler|while a regular human's heart beats 100,000 times a day, Athena has blessed Dohko with the Misopetha-Menos technique, which makes his heart beat 100,000 times A YEAR. So while 243 years have passed since he was given the technique, he's only aged 243 ''days''.}}
* [[Smug Super]]: Most of the Silver Saints and the Spectres.
* [[Speed Blitz]]: All Gold Saints and the five Main Bronze Saints are capable of moving at the Speed of Light.
* [[Spell My Name
** In the Manga: Daidaros, Daidalos, Didaros
** In the Anime: Albiore, Alviore, Albione, Albion
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* [[Spin to Deflect Stuff]]: The stated power of the Andromeda Chain: while the arrow-headed one is used for offense, the ring-headed chain becomes an impregnable wall when Shun spins it around himself. Note that, for all [[Informed Ability|its supposed defensive power]], its very susceptible to [[The Worf Barrage]] against anything stronger than a Silver Saint.
** He did have one rather awesome use of it in the Poseidon Arc though. When facing Scylla Io, the marina general used an attack that was actually six in one on a "low" setting to taunt him. However, since [[It Only Works Once]] and Shun's chains are stated as early as the first tournament arc as being ''hyper adaptive'' to enemy attacks, Shun proceeds to counter each of his attacks, destroy his armor, and bind him in chains.
* [[Sorting Algorithm of Evil]]: Averted in the Poseidon arc, since the Bronze Saints are not only stronger than they were when they fought the Gold Saints, but the Mariners are actually inferior to the Gold Saints in terms of power.
* [[Soul Jar]]: {{spoiler|Julian, for Poseidon. Who later is trapped into a ''real'' jar. Also Shun, for Hades.}}
* [[Spoiler Opening]]: Hades Inferno where they show Shun {{spoiler|as Hades.}}
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* [[Star Power]]: It's built on this early on, with both heroes and villains taking their powers from a constellation (From Pegasus Seiya to Gemini Saga). Later enemies have other sources for their powers, though.
* [[Start of Darkness]]: It seems Gemini Saints have these curse. Gemini Saga fell pray to the taunts of {{spoiler|his own brother Kanon. Who would, ironically, become his successor after his [[Heel Face Turn]].}}.
* [[Stripperiffic]]: While the Silver and Bronze Cloths don't cover as much as practical armor should, the few female Cloths have [[Breast Plate
** To be fair... it's stated that to create a Cloth almost all of its materials are pretty rare, so no wonders if lower ranked Cloths are created with less amount of materials. It's just more logical if you see the Bronze Cloths after Mu repairs them (anime-only): their helmets become tiaras and the belt-part is noticeable reduced. Mu probably fixed them with limited materials and some parts were beyond repair.
* [[Suicide
* [[Sympathy for
** A few of the Marinas, most notably {{spoiler|Scylla Io and Kraken Isaac}}.
* [[Super-Powered Evil Side]] - Saga's split personalities. {{spoiler|And Shun, being Hades' vessel}}
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* [[Taken for Granite]]: Algol Perseus's main ability.
* [[Taking the Bullet]]: Seiya and Shiryu often do this.
* [[Taking You
* [[Team Mom]]: Saori aka Athena, sometimes Marin as well.
* [[Theme Twin Naming]]: [[Plot|Saga]] and [[Canon|Kanon]].
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* [[The Power of Friendship]]: One of the major themes of the series.
* [[Time-Delayed Death]]: The [[Mind Rape]]-inducing Phoenix Genma Ken, which strikes the opponent's brain usually has this effect, once the madness has subsided. Also, {{spoiler|Specter Deep Niobe}} suffered this from {{spoiler|Aldebaran's Grand Horn}}.
* [[To the Pain]]: Scorpio Milo calmly explains the effect of his Scarlet Needles to Hyoga ''as the other bleeds to death''. Shaka describes the Seven Stages of Hell as he ''mind-rapes'' Ikki. And that's just him ''warming up''.
* [[Tournament Arc]]: The Galaxian Wars in the beginning of the series.
* [[Tranquil Fury]]: Virgo Shaka. Do NOT piss this polite and cold psychic off enough to open his perpetually closed eyes.
** Even Ikki was compelled to run away from him, which doesn't work too well as he can't get too far, since any long distance to Shaka is like his enemy is running in the palm of Buddha, much like what happened to [[Journey to
** To the point it took {{spoiler|Gemini Saga, Aquarius Camus AND Capricorn Shura to take him down!}}
* [[Transforming Mecha]]: Sort of. Each manga volume has several extra pages detailing exactly how the pieces of a sculpture representing a constellation turn into the elements of a suit of armour. The anime takes this further as the Steel Saints' mechanical Cloths actually do become fully-functional, albeit small, animal-shaped vehicles.
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* [[The Worf Effect]]: Taurus Aldebaran was often the recipient of such attacks after the Sanctuary arc. From the Asgardians, Poseidons generals, ''and'' Hades' Spectres. Killing him off screen might've been a [[Mercy Kill]] for him.
* [[Twang! "Hello."]]: Ikki loves to introduce himself by using the Phoenix cloth's metal feathers right before jumping into action.
* [[Variable-Length Chain]]: Shun, Spica, Leda, and Albiore's chains. Silver Saint Cerberus Dante makes use of variable length chains attached to spiked balls.
* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: {{spoiler|Happens to Gemini Saga. And it's EPIC.}}
* [[Villains Out Shopping]]: During any given saga, the [[Big Bad]] [[Final Boss]] (and some other enemies) will usually be shown waiting for the heroes doing things like taking a bath, feeding birds, sunbathing, or just walking about. {{spoiler|Saga's}} bathing and shower scenes were infamous for this.
* [[Wacky Wayside Tribe]]: The Asgardians during the Asgard Arc.
* [[Waif Prophet]]: {{spoiler|The missing Seika grew up to be one of those.}}
* [[What Beautiful Eyes!]]: Even though almost all character in Saint Seiya have beautiful eyes, which the main reason of [[Viewer Gender Confusion]] that happened through the series. The only one who got lampshaded is {{spoiler|Hades himself! It didn't help the one who lampshade it was Seiya who said ''What are those beautiful eyes! I can't believe these eyes belong to feared Hades, the King of Underworld. They have the depth of a very deep well.'' Oh boy...And as you all know Kurumada seems so fond of putting hint of [[Ho Yay]] in this series. And in Hades and Seiya's case... [[Foe Yay]].}} and also to add more seasoning to the [[Foe Yay]]. {{spoiler|Stoic Hades snapped when he just realized he knew Seiya since LOOOOOOOONG time ago, and enraged because Seiya dared to reincarnate himself again and again. The irony is... Hades seems to believe Seiya did this not to protect Athena and human race but to come and ''wound'' him. He made it sounds like Seiya or Pegasus saints was obsessed of him after Seiya wound Hades once in the age of myth.}}
* [[What Happened to
** Once the (Sagittarius) Gold Cloth, grand prize of the Galaxian Wars, is recovered, no attempt is made to continue the tournament. Especially noticeable when several other fights with Silver Saints and the Sanctuary's henchmen take place at the tournament coliseum! The ticket-buying public likely forgot all about it during the aforementioned, offscreen global wars.
* [[Whip It Good]]: Chameleon June, with a dominatrix-styled Cloth to go with it, though her [[Broken Bird]] personality isn't the usual type for this type.
** Balrog Lune and his signature "Fire Whip".
* [[Will They or Won't They?]]: Seiya and Saori especially during the fight with Jamian.
* [["With Our Swords" Scene]]: The fight between Seiya and Ikki. After his friends are knocked out, Seiya is forced to fight alone and is systematically helped by Shiryu's Dragon Shield and Shun's Andromeda Chain. An interesting variation happens at the climax of the battle when Seiya finds out he has received Hyoga's "Diamond Dust" and uses it together with his "Ryu Sei Ken" for increased power.
* [[A Wizard Did It]]: The only logical explanation for the Sagittarius Cloth suddenly changing under water, thought Cloths are [[Animated Armor|alive]] and have a certain degree of free will.
** But in the manga is actually {{spoiler|[[Doing
** The anime drops a mention about Mu, the cloth smith, having been gone for a while in some unspecified mission around that time, suggesting he was responsible. Still, did he work on it underwater in between scene cuts?
* [[Wolverine Claws]]: Ophiucus Shaina's primary weapon and she just LOVES to use them!
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* [[Yamato Nadeshiko]]: Princess Freya from the Asgard arc is a more stubborn, outspoken version of the trope. Also, Shunrei is ethnically a [[Chinese Girl]], but otherwise she's a perfect example of the trope.
** A possible male example would be Andromeda Shun, who is very gentle and borderline passive but is ''not'' to be trifled with when his friends are in danger.
** Let's not forget Miho, Seiya's [[Unlucky Childhood Friend]] who helps run the orphanage she was raised in (alongside both Seiya and Seika, in the anime).
* [[You Are Already Dead]]: ''Very'' common, to the point where someone can give an entire speech in the time between receiving an attack and it actually taking effect.
* [[Younger Than They Look]]: Ok, [[You Should Know This Already|so we know already about the main characters]] but when you think that the Silver Saint are in their teens while looking like 30-somethings it start to get weird.
** Aioros died when he was 14-years old and he was already ''taller'' than a 20-year-old Aioria. [[Up to Eleven|And don't make me start with that flashback of Shura in the anime.]]
* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]: The manga had normal hair colors, mostly, but that was changed in the anime, mostly for pragmatic animation reason. Notably, the many Gold Saints with blond hair were a contrast nightmare.
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