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{{quote|''"Where monsters rampage, I'm there to take them down! Where treasure glitters, I'm there to claim it! Where an enemy rises to face me, victory will be mine!"''|Lina's opening-credits [[Badass Boast]] from the first anime season}}
A series of sword-and-sorcery light novels with equal parts comedy and drama that was adapted into an anime series. Has five TV seasons, six [[OVA|OVAs]], five movies, six video games and a whole lot of manga made. Became extremely popular in the West, in part because of its quirk of having a female as the lead in a [[Shounen]] series.
'''''Slayers''''' ([[Market-Based Title|marketed as]] ''The Slayers'' in the U.S.) started as a serialized novel in the Japanese "Dragon" Magazine (no relation to the American one of the same name). Originally it was supposed to follow the adventures of the Cephied Knight, a champion for good named Luna Inverse. However, when filling out her background the writer found her little sister Lina far more interesting.
Lina is a young and very powerful sorceress. She wanders the world looking for treasure to steal and magic to learn. Unfortunately (from her point of view), she tends to end up in situations where she's got to save the world instead of just make a fast buck. She will attempt to wring money out of most situations, such as once extorting gold from a town that was actively being ravaged by a dragon. She's also got an amazing temper, having destroyed both the dragon and the town she was protecting with one spell because the dragon embarrassed her by ''not'' stepping on her. She still expected to get paid, too. She has earned the titles "Bandit Slayer" (it's not stealing if they've already stolen it!), "[[Cultural Translation|Dragon Spooker]]", and "Enemy Of All That Live" in a few short years.
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The series alternates between serious fights and quests to save the world and silly slapstick humor. There is one [[Crossdresser|Cross Dressing]] episode per season, and they will sometimes take breaks in the middle of serious story arcs or fights for [[Breather Episode|semi-plot-related silliness]]. It manages to find a nice balance, and is one of the must-see series for [[Medieval European Fantasy]].
This show has the first two seasons up legally on [
Not to be confused with the band [[Slayer]] or [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]].
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* [[The Abridged Series]]: projectshadow99's [[The Slayers Abridged]].
* [[Absolute Cleavage]]: Naga, Martina, Eris, Mazenda - in each case leading to [[A-Cup Angst]] for Lina.
* [[Abuse Is Okay When Its Female On Male]]: This is exactly how Lina and Gourry's relationship works a lot of the time.▼
* [[Achievements in Ignorance]]: In the finale of Next, {{spoiler|when The Lord of Nightmares is floating away in Lina's body, Gourry goes after her in an attempt to get Lina back. Exactly what Gourry intended to do when he caught up with her is a mystery, as he can't exactly stab the creator of all things out of Lina. Fortunately, the Lord of Nightmares decides to give Lina back after witnessing this.}}
* [[Absurdly Sharp Blade]]: The Blast Sword, from the second arc of the novels, is so sharp that it can actually cut through astral beings like Mazoku, who can't ordinarily be harmed by physical attacks.
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* [[Avenging the Villain]]: Eris, Valgaav, {{spoiler|Jillas}}.
* [[Ax Crazy]]: Many characters have occasions of this, but Lina tops them all by a long shot.
== B ==
* [[Badass Adorable]]: Amelia and Pokota.
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* [[Broke Your Arm Punching Out Cthulhu]]: Literally, with {{spoiler|Amelia}} in ''Evolution-R'' breaking her arm trying to ''hold back one of the [[Big Bad]]'s attacks [[Badass|with her bare fists.]]''
* [[But Your Wings Are Beautiful]]: Not even stone-studded green-blue skin can deter Amelia's (nor the fangirls') interest in Zelgadis.
== C ==
* [[Calling Your Attacks]]: Every magic spell. Justified in [[All There in the Manual|non-anime material]] -- mastery of magic in the ''Slayers'' setting is accomplished by skill with "Chaos Words", the incantations. The more powerful a sorcerer is, the less words they need; simply invoking the name is all the good wizards actually need to cast a spell. And if they use more Chaos Words than they actually need, the power of the spell is amplified further. This also means that only the very best wizards in the world can actually cast a spell without even speaking its name.
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* [[Catch Phrase]]: Xellos's "Sore wa himitsu desu" or "That... is a secret".
* [[Cerebus Syndrome]]: By roughly the eighteenth episode of ''all'' of the anime seasons, the battles suddenly get more violent, with the plot reaching its height and bloodier battles creating a rather scary twist. The most jarring example may be by the 20th episode and beyond of ''NEXT,'' when, after nearly three episodes of hilarious slapstick, {{spoiler|a mazoku nearly kills Amelia, Zelgadis is severely wounded (for the first time) protecting Amelia from the Mazoku Lord Gaav, and Gourry is kidnapped and [[Brainwashed and Crazy|brainwashed]] to kill Lina and the others}}.
* [[Chaos Entity]]: The Lord of Nightmares, creator of the four worlds. She is also the Sea of Chaos that makes up the universe, meaning she's omnipotent. There are even spells that use her power but are so powerful that a misfire can destroy the world.
* [[Chef of Iron]]: There's such thing as ''Dragon Cuisine''.
* [[The Chessmaster]]: {{spoiler|Hureika}} from ''Knight of the Aqua Lord'' fancies herself one of these, even treating the entire thing as her "game."
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** Lina has red eyes and red hair.
* [[Cute Little Fang]]: Lina sometimes has one. It was pretty much permanent by ''Revolution''.
== D ==
* [[Daddy's Girl]]: Amelia practically defines this trope.
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* [[Disc One Final Boss]]: Rezo and Shabranigdo, Gaav.
** {{spoiler|Also, if you count ''Revolution'' and ''Evolution-R'' as the same season due to each only having 13 episodes, Zanaffar.}}
* [[Disposable Bandits]]: A running gag in ''Slayers'' is Lina easily disposing of such, but being a [[Destructive Savior]] to the point many actually fear her ''more'' than the bandits.
* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: Lina is a ''queen'' of this trope. Her most famous example may be in the first episode, where she blows up a town she was trying to save while attempting to kill a dragon... because it had deliberately stepped over her rather then crushing her.
** Over sausages, of all things.
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** Amelia in earlier seasons of the anime.
* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: Rather obscure, but in episode 4 of the first season, Zelgadis attacks and knocks out Lina with a Mono Bolt spell by forcefully grabbing her shoulder and shocking her while she's on the ground. If you have a perverse mind and observe the frames during the sequence, note that Zel is smiling rather sinisterly as Lina is shouting in pain...[[Rape as Drama|hmmm...]]
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* [[Dope Slap]]: It's pretty common in this series.
** Lina gives Gourry these on a normal basis.
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** Only NEXT shows Zelgadis and Xellos doing it, but poor Gourry is always involved when it happens. Xelloss has the time of his life.
* [[Dumbass No More]]: In ''Evolution-R'', Gourry is still an idiot, but he's much more alert, intuitive, and all around competent than he is in previous seasons when it comes to non-combat situations. He even manages to correctly assert most situations, much to Lina's surprise and praise.
== E ==
* [[Eldritch Abomination]]: Darkstar has the look and feel of one, as does Shabranigdo in the flashback story in the first season where Lina explains his origins, but the best example is the Lord of Nightmares, who is extremely alien, even by mazoku standards.
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** {{spoiler|Christopher}} to {{spoiler|Alfred}} in the original novels; {{spoiler|Christopher}} is forced to stab him for treason, whereas in the anime, {{spoiler|Alfred}} is killed off by {{spoiler|Mazenda}}.
** On a technical level (and accidentally), Amelia to her uncle Randionel in the anime. This is averted in the novels, since Randy appears [[Death by Adaptation|(and dies)]] in the first ''Slayers Special'' novel (i.e the prequel series).
** Averted in the original light novel version of this storyline, where {{spoiler|Abel actually ''succeeds'' in [[Dying as Yourself|reaching his father's humanity long enough for Lina to finish him off]], and [[
* [[Off-Model]]: In episode 1, we see the right side of the Dragon Fangs. Instead of his eye patch covering his eye, it is between his ear and his eye.
* [[Older Is Better]]: Played with, when an ancient golem activates, takes a few steps forward, fires a superweapon into the distance that seems to dwarf the Dragon Slave, aims said weapon at Lina ... and falls apart.
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** Zangulus feigns one of these at the end of NEXT to try and land a hit on Hellmaster. {{spoiler|It doesn't work.}}
* [[Royals Who Actually Do Something]]: Prince Phil, Amelia, Pokota, and {{spoiler|Naga}}.
* [[
* [[Sealed Evil in a Can]]: Shabranigdu, who is defeated by a power his sealer didn't have access to, and Zanaffar, who was just resealed.
** To be fair, Lina and company never actually fight Shabranigdu at his full strength, just the fragments sealed in humans.
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* [[Theme Naming]]/[[Punny Name]]: Rowdy Gabriev, Gourry Gabriev.
* [[They Fight Crime]]: Parodied. If you have a bandit problem, [[It Got Worse|Lina will solve it]]. Eventually bandits become endangered, so Lina switches to pirates.
* [[Twelve-Episode Anime|Thirteen Episode Anime]]: ''Slayers'''s fourth season ended up getting split into two seasons with thirteen episode, instead of one whole 26-episode season. Well, Revolution has a tendancy to leaving a ton of plot threads just for Evolution-R. But Season Five got a new OP and ED.
* [[Those Two Bad Guys]]: Gravos and Jillas.
* [[Through His Stomach]]: Sylphiel is quite happy to hear "Gourry dear" really likes her cooking. Though, being [[Idiot Hero|Gourry]], he fails to notice her demure but [[Everyone Can See It|obvious]] advances.
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