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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.

 

 

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.

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

* [[Absolute Cleavage]]: Naga, Martina, Eris, Mazenda - in each case leading to [[A-Cup Angst]] for Lina.

* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[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.

** 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.

** 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...]]

* [[Dope Slap]]: It's pretty common in this series.

** Lina gives Gourry these on a normal basis.