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* [[Above Good and Evil]]: The Golden Lord/Lord of Nightmares was the original creator of both the Mazoku and the Gods, but seems to side with neither. When a powerful Mazoku gets the bright idea to use ''her'' power for his particular purpose (destroying the world), she just blasts him into nothingness. After making world-destroyers and world-protectors, she's mostly absent, but sometimes meddles anyway. If she has an agenda besides just sitting back and watching what happens, we never find out what it is.

* [[The Abridged Series]]: projectshadow99's [[The Slayers Abridged]].

* [[Avenging the Villain]]: Eris, Valgaav, {{spoiler|Jillas}}.

* [[Ax Crazy]]: Many characters have occasions of this, but Lina tops them all by a long shot.

* [[Badass Adorable]]: Amelia and Pokota.

* [[Badass Cape]]: All the main characters have these, along with most other fighters and magicians.

* [[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.

* [[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.

** Also subverted: Lina once called Fireball, causing her opponents to flee in terror, but cast only a simple Light spell.

** Lina has red eyes and red hair.

* [[Cute Little Fang]]: Lina sometimes has one. It was pretty much permanent by ''Revolution''.

* [[Daddy's Girl]]: Amelia practically defines this trope.

* [[Dangerous Forbidden Technique]]: The Giga Slave, if miscast, destroys the entire universe. Several episodes are devoted solely to Lina attempting to find ways to NOT cast the Giga Slave, because it's basically the worst solution to any problem. Unlike many series, however, the Giga Slave is successfully avoided on a number of occasions. In the third season, for example, it's use is repeatedly mentioned as a last resort, but it is never actually used.

** Rezo, the blind priest, who ''can't'' open his eyes {{spoiler|due to the shard of the greatest evil in the world sealed in them}}.

* [[Eyecatch]]: The second and third seasons feature these with the characters in pairs, and there are also a few special ones for the final episodes. The fourth and fifth seasons had a different eye catch for each episode, and it often correlated with whatever was happening in the episode. Strangely, the first season had no eyecatches at all.

* [[Face Fault]]

* [[Fairytale Wedding Dress]]: {{spoiler|Martina's}} dress at the end of ''Next''.

** Also averted with Zelgadis, as outside of one mention by Filia in episode one of ''TRY'', Zel's last name (Graywords) is NEVER said at any point in the anime.

* [[Functional Magic]]

* [[Gag Boobs]]: Naga, queen of Gainaxing! Literally in one of the movies; as she and Lina are edging along a narrow ledge halfway up a cliff, faces (and other things) to the rock, they go 'bwoing' and toss her off.

** And Amelia is catching up rather quickly in Hourglass of Falces

** Although he was a bad guy in the first season, Zangulus would technically count in NEXT.

* [[The Gunslinger]]: Parodied with Jillas.

* [[Hair-Trigger Temper]]: As stated above, Lina has so many [[Berserk Button|Berserk Buttons]], it's hard to keep track of them all. Pokota practically presses all of them by the time EVOLUTION-R is over with.

* [[Half-Human Hybrid]]: Various humanoid animals, officially lumped together under the name "Beastmen" (or "Manbeasts", if one wants to insult them), are common enemies. The main villain of TRY is a hybrid of Ancient Dragon and Mazoku. Zelgadis is a human being who has been mystically merged with a brow demon and a rock golem.

** In the second volume of ''Super Explosive Demon Story Slayers'', the scene goes exactly as in the anime. The subject is mentioned briefly in the third volume, where Zelgadis, after capturing Lina, wonders why her spells were so weak... "Oh, I know! You're in THESE days!"

* [[Not So Harmless]]: Jillas from above. Despite being comic relief for the first quarter of Try, he manages to separated the gang from Filia and Xellos, get the others into a situation where they could't use magic, all through tactical and psychological manipulation. And he later outdoes himself by creating an explosive rocket, that is as powerful as a dragon slave.

* [[OAV]]: Six of these were produced, each of them set before the events of the TV series and covering the adventures of Lina Inverse and a solitary companion, a [[Gag Boobs|ridiculously buxom]] and extremely flaky sorceress called "Naga the Serpent", who served more or less as a one-woman [[Goldfish Poop Gang]] and [[Unknown Rival]] to Lina.

* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]: Inspector Wizer Freyon. He shows up and immediately tries to arrest Lina for the hideous crime of ''being herself''. Also has a bad habit of interpreting/ignoring everything to suit his theories and conveniently passing out just as a critical piece of evidence presents itself. {{spoiler|It's all just an act so he can conduct a real investigation under the guise of trying to bring in Lina, have her storm the bad guy's fortress and take him out by herself. Since the villain was being backed up by royalty, not to mention having hordes of monsters at his command, he couldn't act openly.}}

** 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 [[Schrodingers Cat|survives]] to eulogize him afterward}}.

* [[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.

* [[Once Killed a Man with A Noodle Implement]]: Lina's sister Luna Inverse is often said to have slain a dragon with a butter knife.