Shakugan no Shana/Characters: Difference between revisions

* {{spoiler|[[A God Am I]]: As Snake of the Festival, with him believing he has the right to destroy and reform the world as he pleases.}}

** {{spoiler|Actually, he does not want to destroy the world, nor does he destroy the world. The Flame Haze ''feared'' that the Crimson Denizens would lack restraint and devour humans even in their paradise Xanadu (which would have limitless Power of Existence) and would destroy the world, but they the Crimson Denizens were willing to compromise despite having won.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Anti-Villain]]: Type IV as Snake of the Festival. Also a Type III [[Anti-Hero]].}}

* [[Awesomeness By Analysis]]

* [[Oblivious to Love]]: [[Lampshaded]] by himself.

** In the novels, it's clear that he's not ''that'' oblivious to Shana's love, but he's rather waiting for her to take the first step, just to be sure... which is weird, since it's traditionally the man who's expected to take this step.

* [[Ordinary High School Student]]: Or so he thinks.

* {{spoiler|[[Physical God]]: Snake of the Festival}}

* {{spoiler|[[Sharing a Body]]: With Snake of the Festival, and yet it didn't change Yuji that much -- by his own words, "there's no one in his body but him". Shana and friends however insist that the one before them is Snake of The Festival, not Yuji.}}

** {{spoiler|The Flame Haze are wrong.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Take Over the World]]: Destroy it, reform it and finally take it; those are his goals as the Snake of the Festival}}.

** {{spoiler|Not destroy the world or rule the world actually. He created a duplicate earth for the Denizens to live on, and the Snake of the Festival leaves Yuji to [[Suspended Animation|sleep]] now that his task is done.}}

** {{spoiler|[[Dark Is Not Evil]]}}

* {{spoiler|[[The Extremist Was Right]]}}

* {{spoiler|[[They Do]]: Yuji and Shana end up in a romantic relationship at the end of the series.}}

* [[Token Good Teammate]]: Originally, Shana and the other Flame Haze cared more for preserving the balance over protecting innocent lives, making them more [[Lawful Neutral]] than [[Lawful Good]]. Yuji was the only one who cared about protecting people, but his influence turns Shana, and, to a lesser extent, Margery and Wilhelmina to his way of thinking. And then, {{spoiler|when he [[Split Personality Merge|merges]] with the Snake of the Festival and leads Bal Masqué, he (and the Snake) are the only ones to care about protecting human lives. The rest of Bal Masqué's leadership, the Trinity, could care less about humanity, and one of them, Hecate, is renowned for casually murdering humans.}}

* [[Took a Level In Badass]]: A few of them, actually.

** Many of them in the novels, later his {{spoiler|apparent [[Face Heel Turn]]}} marked his continuous and ever-improving use of this trope. {{spoiler|Keyword "apparent" [[The Extreamist Was Right|because of his surprisingly noble goals]].}}

* [[Nice Girl]]

* [[Oblivious to Love]]: Never realizes of Ike's feelings for her {{spoiler|until he confesses}}.

* [[Shallow Love Interest]]: At the very least, she certainly comes off as one when compared to the more emotionally-defined Shana.

* [[Shrinking Violet]]: However, she gets bolder as the story goes on.

* [[Girlish Pigtails]]

* [[Hair Decorations]]

 

 

* [[Brown Eyes]]: In her "human" form.

* [[Cannot Spit It Out]]: Played to ridiculous lengths: she either stops talking of her own will, or is cut off by a [[Moment Killer]].

* [[Chinese Girl]]: Shana was found originally in Hong Kong, likely making her this in ethnicity. She even wore a [[Qipao]] during her training prior to being a Flame Haze.

* [[Clingy Jealous Girl]]: Shana doesn't take it well when Yuji hangs out with Yoshida or Konoe but [[Cannot Spit It Out|can't bring herself to openly show affection for him]]. {{spoiler|[[Murder the Hypotenuse|She once thinks of cutting Yoshida down while the latter is frozen in a Fuzetsu]].}}

* [[Cry Cute]]

* [[Curtains Match the Window]]: When she's in Flame Haze mode.

* [[Defrosting Ice Queen]]

* [[Empathic Weapon]]: Nietono no Shana, due to containing Tenmoku Ikko's spirit.

* [[Fiery Redhead]]: [[Playing With Fire|Literally]], but only when she activates her Flame Haze powers. Normally, her hair is dark black-brown.

* [[Gratuitous English]]: This happens when she corrects the teacher during English class. The sentence [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5GFlSZQqCA "That which we call a rose, by any other name, would smell as sweet"] can just barely be understood.

* [[Hammerspace]]: Her [[Badass Longcoat]] can appear out of nowhere, and she keeps her sword in it. Of course, it is [[Justified Trope|explicitly magical]].

* [[Hot Chick With a Sword]]: More precisely, [[Playing With Fire|Flaming]] [[Tsundere]] with a [[Every Japanese Sword Is a Katana|Nodachi]].

* [[Hot Wings]]

* [[Power Gives You Wings]]

* [[Rapunzel Hair]]

* [[Red Headed Heroine]]: When she activates her Flame Haze powers.

* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: Red to Yuji's Blue.

* [[Parental Substitute]]: Is the closest to a mother figure that Shana has ever had, and practically raised her from childhood. For example, Shana's love of melon bread? It's her fault.

* [[Power Makes Your Hair Grow]]: Tiamat's ribbon-adorned [[Mask of Power|mask form]] achieves a very similar visual effect.

* [[Rose-Haired Girl]]

* [[The Spock]]

* [[Dishing Out Dirt]]

* [[Good Scars, Evil Scars]]: He has scars across his mouth and under his eye.

* [[Humongous Mecha]] [[Golem]]: He can summon one made of rocks.

** [[Epic Flail]]

* [[Playing With Fire]]

* [[Posthumous Character]]

* [[Red Headed Heroine]]

 

* [[Brown Eyes]]

* [[Having a Blast]]

* [[Running Gag]]: Early on -- being showered by fire sprinklers, startled by her explosion.

* [[Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right]]: Upon hearing about Shana and Wilhelmine's troubles, she takes off to help them, despite the Outlaws in general refusing to intervene.

* {{spoiler|[[Sharing a Body]]: With Yuji Sakai.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Split Personality Merge]]: While Yuji and the Snake are not technically split personalities, they fulfill this trope pretty well.}}

* {{spoiler|[[The Extremist Was Right]]}}

* [[The Maker]]: He ''is'' the God of Creation, and he's capable of creating powerful [[MacGuffin|Treasure Tools]] and entire worlds (though Earth and the Crimson Realm were not created by him).

* [[Cool Old Guy]]

* [[Dishing Out Dirt]]

* [[Good Scars, Evil Scars]]: He has a large scar on the left side of his face.

* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]/[[Last Stand]]/[[You Shall Not Pass]]: He stalls the Crimson Denizens to allow the Flame Haze army to retreat.

* [[Worthy Opponent]]: Enemy general Haborym viewed him as this.

 

...Turn into a burning galaxy.'' }}

* [[Badass Long Hair]]

* [[Death From Above]]: His Unrestricted Spell, which rains falling stars upon his enemies.

* [[The Slow Walk]]: When he enters the battlefield in Misaki.

* [[Knife Nut]]: Valac communicates to him through his family heirloom, a dagger, which he also uses in combat.

* [[Lawful Good]]: Unlike the majority of Flame Haze, Yuri actually cares about humans, and his goal as a Flame Haze is neither revenge or protecting the balance, but protecting humanity. This makes him unique, as most Flame Haze are [[Lawful Neutral]] at best and [[Sociopathic Hero|Sociopathic Heroes]] at worse. Other Flame Haze view his compassion as a [[Love Is a Weakness|liability]], noting that Valac tends to choose hosts similar to Yuri, and that they have short life spans.

* [[The Beast Master]]: Yuri's Power of Unrestraint is the ability to control insects and other small animals.

* [[Too Good for This Sinful Earth]]

* [[Badass]]

** [[Badass in A Nice Suit]]

* [[Blade On a Stick]]

* [[The Brute]]: Far from stupid or malicious, but he's the most action-oriented of the Trinity.

* [[Lolicon]]: [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|If his actions and words around Hecate are indicative of anything.]]

** Parodied in ''Shakugan no Shana-tan'' specials.

* [[The Faceless]]

* [[Glowing Eyes of Doom]]: He has permanent glowing eyes (but other than that, no visible face).

* [[It Only Works Once]]: Sabrac alters his Stigma so that Johann's countermeasures no longer affect it.

* [[Implacable Man]]

* [[Curtains Match the Window]]

* [[Death Dealer]]: His "Regular Sharp" artifact.

* [[Marionette Master]]

* [[One-Hit Kill]]: His artifact [[Revolvers Are Just Better|"Trigger Happy"]] forces the targeted Flame Haze to unleash their Crimson Lord, killing them in process.

* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: He uses the last of his Power of Existence saving the-girl-who-would-be-Shana from Orgon.

* [[Hopeless Suitor]]

* [[Love Redeems]]: His [[Heel Face Turn]] stemmed from his love for Mathilde. He promised to no longer devour humans to sustain his existence, which ultimately causes his collected Power of Existence to dwindle until he uses up the last of it in one final battle.

* [[The Mourning After]]

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