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The series is basically what happens when the plots of ''[[Shaman King]]'' and ''[[Harry Potter]]'' are pulsed together in a blender, ''[[Studio BONES]]'' is put in charge of the animation, and what appears to be the world's biggest [[Tim Burton]] fan is hired as animation director. It should be noted that the anime deviates from the source manga midway through the series.
The anime was acquired by [[FUNimation]], with tantalizing previews on their website. All of the episodes are viewable on Netflix, their [https://web.archive.org/web/20110114202236/http://www4.funimation.com/video/?page=show&b=236 Video Portal] (which is only viewable... [[Memetic Mutation|In America]]...[[My Friends and Zoidberg|and Canada]]) and [http://www.youtube.com/show/souleater?s=1 their YouTube channel.]
See also ''[[Elemental Gelade]]'', a similar concept with a more futuristic sci-fi bent.
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* [[Aerith and Bob]]: To ridiculous lengths. Just among the main cast, we have Death the Kid, Black☆Star, and Soul Eater alongside Maka, Patty, Liz, and Tsubaki. And it just goes on from there.
* [[All Men Are Perverts]]: Somewhat deconstructed with Maka.
**
**
* [[All Witches Have Cats]]: Blair, who Maka and Soul thought was a witch, turned out to actually be a cat that had a human form and magic and merely dressed like a witch.
* [[Almighty Janitor]]: All the main characters are considerably more powerful than their status in DWMA would imply: Maka was one soul away from making a Death Scythe when she was forced to start over, Black☆Star never bothers to advance in ranks when he could be training instead, and Death the Kid is a [[Shinigami]].
** As ''Soul Eater Not!'' has addressed Maka, Soul, and Jacqueline as EAT (Especially Advantaged Talent) students, the 10% of students who considered as combat specialists, it could be assumed that this trope may not apply. Even if they have the same number of stars as an average student despite being very capable, they are ranked in an entirely different class and given different missions.
** As of the formation of Spartoi, this trope is out the window, as the 6 weapon-meister pairs included in the group have been promoted to two-star status.
* [[Ambiguous Gender]]: Crona. Recognized as ambiguous numerous times by characters within canon itself. Any person that seems to know hir gender is probably basing their hypothesis off of fan translations and unsubstantiated claims by other fans. The official English translations of the manga and anime use "he" simply because it's the closest English has to a widely used gender ambiguous pronoun, not because they think Crona is male. There is no solid canon support for Crona being either gender, partially thanks to third-person pronouns ("he" & "she") being almost completely unused in Japanese.
** Fire and Thunder, until chapter 67 [http://www.mangareader.net/soul-eater/67/17 shows them in older bodies]. Fire is a boy and Thunder is a girl.
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** Medusa and Arachne both have the motifs of predatory animals (snake and spider), whereas their henchmen have the motif of their prey. Frogs (Eruka) and mice (the Mizune sisters), whose names are the Japanese words for "frog" and "mouse" with their syllables reversed (''kaeru'' and ''nezumi'') for Medusa. Mosquito for Arachne.
* [[Anime Hair]]: While both Soul and Black☆Star have spiky hair, their hairstyles pale in comparison to Ox Ford's sheer pillars.
** During the invasion of Arachne's castle, Ox pretty much outright says that his pillars are the source of all of his powers.
*** The fact that he was stabbed in the gut and bleeding heavily in a steaming room might have had something to do with it, though.
* [[Anthropomorphic Personification]]: The Clown, who is madness made flesh.
** Shinigami-sama and Kid are shinigami, but they are not actually personifications of
** {{spoiler|1=As of now, it been explicitly stated that Shinigami-sama is an [[Eldritch Abomination]] / [[Anthropomorphic Personification]] of death, and his actual name is Death. Kid is actually a fragment of him, given a unique personality and independence, and Shinigami-sama will most likely cease to exist once Kid comes into his full powers.}}
* [[Anti-Advice]]: In the anime's ending, while Marie and
* [[Anti-Villain]]: Mifune, the noble [[Samurai]] who fights only to defend the child witch Angela. Note the irony in his [[Rival]] being Black☆Star, an [[Ninja|assassin]] working for the good guys. Most assassins are ''not'' good people in this series.
** Then again, he's not a very good assassin. Really, Black☆Star wants to be a straight-up warrior too, but he's not adverse to putting assassin arts and stealth to good use.
** Eruka may or may not be an [[Anti-Villain]]. Yes, she's a witch. Yes, she wants to revive Asura. But that's only because if she doesn't follow Medusa's orders, her snakes will eat Eruka from the inside out. Also has a giant tadpole named Otama Jackson for a pet.
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** It's gotten more complex. Also, the boys seem to have gotten taller.
* [[Art Shift]]: Whenever someone is going insane or experiencing some intense emotion. Happening more often as the series goes on.
* [[Artistic License Astronomy]]: At first it was just a [[Weird Moon]] and [[Weird Sun]],
* [[Artistic License Gun Safety]]: See [[Juggling Loaded Guns]] entry.
* [[Artistic License Physics]]: The battle with Free ends with him frozen and sinking to the bottom of a river. Ice floats, in case everyone forgot.
** Actually, if the immortal werewolf (complete with ball and chain) was more dense than water, and if he was only surrounded by a thin layer of ice, which is only slightly less dense than water, it is conceivable that the average density of the ice and werewolf system could be slightly greater than water, causing him to slowly sink.
**
* [[Ascended Meme]]: In chapter 74, Excalibur sings his little song which up until that point was only heard in the anime. All together now! "Excalibuuur
* [[Asskicking Pose]]
* [[Astral Checkerboard Decor]]: The floor of Soul's [[Mental World]].
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** At first.
* {{spoiler|[[Attractive Bent Gender]]: Tsubaki's found commenting on how cute Soul looks as well as getting flustered over Black☆Star, while Blair manages to seduce a [[Horny Devils|succubus]] and in the process making Kilik swoon.}}
** Did we mention
* [[Audible Sharpness]]: Maybe it's just Soul ''saying'' "Ting"?
* [[Awesome but Impractical]]: Excalibur, who is something of an [[Infinity+1 Sword]], has an insane amount of unreasonable demands that he makes to the point that people decide that his power is totally not worth it.
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*** It's heavily implied that Excalibur is actually an [[Eldritch Abomination]] that is the personification of rage. He's just that annoying.
** Soul. Anyone whose ever done any kind of weapons training knows that having your only cutting edge on the side of your weapon that faces YOU is not good. Scythes are extremely impractical weapons in real life and hard as hell to use in a fight against any other weapon. Traditionally, even spearmen would carry a short sword on them in case the enemy got past the pointy end of the spear (the only part that they were concerned about).The fact Maka can wield Soul and beat up magic and sword users is a testament to her awesomeness.
*** This is mitigated at higher-level transformations as "Witch Hunter" is shown to be effective with both inner and outer edges, while the highest form up to now, the "Demon Hunter"
*** Note also that, at least in the anime, Death's weapon of choice is a Scythe. He's even mentioned as being "at his finest".
* [[Awesomeness By Analysis]]:
* [[Ax Crazy]]: Maka under the effects of the
** {{spoiler|And later Soul when he cuts Crona black blood sphere that held Tzar and his meister imprisoned.}}
* [[Back-to-Back Badasses]]: Maka and Black☆Star do this when fighting Sid.
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** Don't forget about Ox, he pretty much describes himself as such.
*** Stein probably counts as well.
* [[Badass Crew]]: Spartoi.
* [[Badass Labcoat]]: Stein.
* [[Badass Longcoat]]: Maka. {{spoiler|With a sweet new white one to parade around in school, as of joining Spartoi.}}
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** Wait, wait. Did you not ''see'' that [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJugUYSohqY Infinite Sword] attack involving landing 24 individual hits, then launching the swords OFF his opponent back into the ground?
*** But, then again compared to people like Stein, he is VERY much normal...
* [[Badass Teacher]]
* [[Badass Wolf]]: Free▼
** When he's fighting, at least. Otherwise, he is rather daft, such as when he was actually disappointed he didn't get to dig his way out of prison with a spoon.▼
* [[Ballroom Blitz]]: One of the episodes, where the {{spoiler|Kishin is eventually released}}. {{spoiler|Soul and Maka's scene in the Black Room might count as well, seeing as they are dressed up during that scene and in imminent danger of succumbing to insanity}}.
* [[Bandage Babe]]: Sid's partner Nygus is always covered in bandages. What adds to the irony is that she is also a school nurse.
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* [[Bare Your Midriff]]: Liz, Patty, and Blair in certain outfits.
* [[Barehanded Blade Block]]: Stein can do this because he can attune to any spiritual attack; those corrupted with Black Blood can harden their blood beneath their skin, often using this to catch blades.
** Also,
** Black☆Star failed spectacularly at this when he tried to catch Soul while they fought the Kid.
** Crona was also able to block Soul's scythe blade in her first battle with Maka, and another time during the fight against Medusa, on account of being able to harden the black blood.
**
* [[Barrier Maiden]]:
** {{spoiler|He eventually gets around this problem in the anime...}}
* [[Baseball Episode]]: Not an ''episode'' per se, but the gang do take time out of their schedule to play Basketball whenever they get downtime.
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* [[Berserk Button]]: Soul has absolute faith in Maka's abilities, knows she can take care of herself, and he'll call her on it if she acts up or they're out of sync. But he does ''NOT'' act well when someone ''seriously'' threatens Maka. Apart from willing to literally act as a [[Human Shield]] for her (on more [[Body Horror|than one occasion]]), he does not take well to [http://www.mangareader.net/157-54969-8/soul-eater/chapter-75.html this]. Which results in [http://www.mangareader.net/157-54969-10/soul-eater/chapter-75.html this] followed by [http://www.mangareader.net/157-54969-24/soul-eater/chapter-75.html this].
** Step 1: Show Kid something that's too assymmetrical and/or threaten/insult his father. Step 2: Run.
** Whatever you do,
* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: Lord help you if you somehow manage to annoy the Shinigami.
* [[BFG]]: Kid's Death Cannon.
* [[Big Bad]]: Medusa is the first one
* [[Big Bad Duumvirate]]: Noah {{spoiler|(Greed)}} and {{spoiler|the Table of Contents}}.
* [[Big Bad Wannabe]]: Noah.
▲* [[Big Badass Wolf]]: Free.
▲** When he's fighting, at least. Otherwise, he is rather daft, such as when he was actually disappointed he didn't get to dig his way out of prison with a spoon.
* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: Maka when {{spoiler|just after Medusa diabillitates Crona's black blood and is about to deliver the final blow}}
** Of course we have the moment early in the series when Stein and Spirit show up to save Maka in her first fight with Crona.
* [[BFS|Big Fucking Scythe]]:
** I call your scythes and raise it a
** Witch Hunter isn't technically a scythe. Scythes have one blade on the inside curve. It's a giant Monk's Spade in a large crescent shape because it can cut on the outside edge.
** By the time you hit Demon and Kishin Hunter, you're not swinging a scythe blade anymore, those are giant glowing AXES. Demon and Kishin Hunter cut on the outside edges. Many, MANY edges for Kishin Hunter.
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** [[Say My Name]]
* [[Bigger Bad]]: Asura. He has no direct impact on the story other than spreading madness wavelengths {{spoiler|and being the final villain for three episodes of the anime.}} But he has a made a few recurring appearances, like Medusa is still the most active villain and possibly features in the Battle of the Moon as a fully Major Villain.
* [[Bishonen Line]]:
** In the anime,
* [[Black Blood]]: [[Averted]]. While there is [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|
* [[The Blade Always Lands Pointy End In]] / [[Stepping Stone Sword]]: Mifune uses a [[Storm of Blades]] to create a [[Field of Blades]], using this principle. Every single sword he threw [read: launched 20 of them simultaneously into the air without seeming to even aim] landed [[Pointy End In]], and stuck with enough firmness that he could run across their hilts at one point.
* [[Blade Brake]]: Maka sometimes uses Soul to stop or slow herself down during fights.
* [[Blade on a Stick]]: Harvar. He can also [[Shock and Awe|release electricity.]]
* [[Blade Reflection]]
* [[Bland-Name Product]]: Deathbucks Coffee and Death Robbins (with 42 flavors!)
** Not to mention Liz and Patty temporarily transforming into .42 Death Eagles.
*** Although the fact that the currency is apparently called [[Death Note]]s is a rather hilarious use of this trope.
** The number 42 is a pun, as in Japanese "four" and "two" are "shi" and "ni". "Shini" means "death".
* [[Blessed with Suck]]: Crona.
* [[Blondes Are Evil]]: Played ''very'' straight with Medusa.
**
* [[Blood From the Mouth]]: The Moon.
** And many other examples, since this is a shounen series after all.
* [[Bloody Hilarious]]: In one episode where the students of Shibusen must take an important exam, neither Soul nor Black☆Star study, intending to cheat instead. However, Soul gets his "crib notes" [[Shirtless Scene|taken away]], and Black☆Star gets [[Comedic Sociopathy|beaten senseless]] for looking at the answer sheet and is left lying in front of the class to serve as an example. However, just when all seems lost, Black☆Star signals Soul, and begins to write on the wall beside him using his own blood. Soul, thinking that Black☆Star is trying to show him the answers before time runs out, eagerly awaits his friend to finish writing... {{spoiler|only to realize that Black☆Star is writing an autograph for him}}. May also count as [[Can't Get Away with Nuthin']].
* [[Bloody Murder]]: As Crona often reminds us, [[Catch Phrase|
* [[Blush Sticker]]: Blair, when she's catty. Patty, always.
* [[Body Horror]]: Medusa is capable of inserting snakes into someone's body and all burst out at once on command. Soul's nightmares of bursting out of Maka's body.
** Crona and Ragnarok also. Episodes 7 and 15 come to mind (8 being their first appearance, 15 Ragnarok's 'Black Dragon' transformation upon the "Nidhogg").
*** {{spoiler|The hallucinations caused by Asura's revival involving biting people's faces and ripping the skin off like laffy taffy. Along with the grotesque body forming from a bag of flesh.}}
**
***
* [[Bottle Fairy]]: The pixies that live in Excalibur's cave literally become the literal embodiment of this trope when said sword is gone.
* [[Bowdlerize]]: Shinigami-sama did this to himself before the series began, since when he started the academy, his [[White Mask of Doom|badass mask]] and [[Evil Sounds Deep|deep voice]] scared all the children. [[Not So Harmless|Every once in a while he reminds us that these are purely cosmetic changes]].
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* [[Breather Episode]]: Episode 25 has the main cast playing basketball after a grueling 7-episode story arc.
** Basically any episode where they're NOT fighting is considered a breather episode (ex., the evening ball episode before the end, and the Ultra-Test).
* [[Brick Joke]]: A minor one. Remember all those grave markers in the Death Room?
** Remember when Soul mentioned, right back in the very beginning, Shinigami's Seven Lights?
** Anime only: Maka, Soul, Black☆Star, and Tsubaki see who can make a basket for rights to {{spoiler|defeat Asura. Maka makes it.}}
* [[Bros Before Hoes]]: Soul and Black☆Star. Though not just hoes; anything really.
* [[Brown Note]]: Crona's poetry has the ability to instill extreme levels of depression in anyone who reads it.
** [[Hayate the Combat Butler|That sounds familiar...]] Well, both Hayate and Crona had [[Complete Monster]]s for parents, so I guess this was bound to happen.
* [[Bunny Ears Lawyer]]: A very large amount of the cast, particularly the teachers at the Academy. For instance, Spirit is the most powerful Death Scythe in the world, but is a [[Loveable Sex Maniac]] and [[Bumbling Dad]]. Stein is the most talented Meister to have ever graduated from the Academy and is a brilliant, amoral scientist, but has a certain tendency to travel around on a swivel chair whenever possible and is a bonafide maniac. Marie has [[Shock and Awe|lightning powers]] and is another powerful Death Scythe, but is so obsessed with getting married that she once tried to start a relationship with a toilet. And Tesca Tlipoca... another Death Scythe who wears a giant bear head mask and can apparently understand a monkey's language. The list goes on and ''on''.
* [[But Not Too Foreign]]: If Black☆Star's words when he visits Tsubaki's home are to be believed, Maka has at least a little Japanese in her. Since "Spirit Albarn" isn't a particularly Japanese name, it's possible that it comes from her never-seen mother.
** Which would mean her mother is a rare blonde Asian, or Spirit's hair is dyed, like [[Victorious|Cat Valentine]].
* [[Calling Your Attacks]]
** Tamashii no kyoumei!<ref>Soul Resonance</ref>
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** Black☆Star is supposed to be an [[Exaggerated Trope|exaggeration]] of the whole [[Highly-Visible Ninja]] [[Hot-Blooded]] [[Idiot Hero]] thing.
*** He does however get better.
* [[Cat Smile]]: A rather disturbing version of this that showed teeth was used
* [[Catch Phrase]]: Half the cast, at least.
** Maka says "I'll take your soul!" or something similar (she even says it at the end of each episode preview after the closing credits).
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* [[Centipede's Dilemma]]: When Maka and Soul are unable to resonate during the battle against Free, Maka starts thinking about how she usually fights and resonates with Soul.
* [[Chained by Fashion]]: Free.
* [[Chainsaw Good]]: Giriko.
* [[Character Development]]: Crona, particularly in the anime. '''BIG''' time Crona. S/He starts out as a
* [[Character Title]]
* [[Characterization Marches On]]: Over the course of the anime, Soul becomes less hotheaded and more of the laid back 'cool' guy he always strives to be. It's not [[Character Development]] because this was never something addressed or called out on, it just happens and nobody notices. He makes Maka the hotheaded on in comparison.
* [[Chekhov's Gunman]]
* [[Chewing the Scenery]]: When Black☆Star wants to be visible, he is ''visible''.
* [[Childhood Friends]]: Maka and Black☆Star.
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*** ...It ''would'' explain his taste in young women though.
** To make it stranger yet, {{spoiler|Justin Law turns out to really worship the Kishin instead in the manga...}}
* [[Cigarette of Anxiety]]: Doctor Stein tends to do this when he needs to calm down. It's subverted once
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Excalibur. Explains why ''no one'' tries to wield him, ''ever'', despite being the most powerful of all the weapons.
** And Patty. So very, very much. Giraffe!
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** [[Collector of the Strange]]: Again, Noah.
* [[Color Failure]]: Several examples. Most recently in episode 46 when Excalibur turns up in the Death Room. Shinigami, Yumi and Spirit go white for several seconds before promptly resuming their conversation and ignoring the newcomer.
* [[Combat Stilettos]]: Marie.
* [[Combat Tentacles]]: Medusa's vectors,
** Most recently, Crona's thorn... vine... whip-like... shadow... things??
* [[Compliment Backfire]] (or possibly Compliment [[The Chessmaster|Just-As-Planned]]):
* [[Conspicuous CG]]: Shibusen and the sun.
* [[Cool and Unusual Punishment]]:
* [[Cooldown Hug]]: Maka and Crona. Also, Marie and Stein.
** And yet another example in episode {{spoiler|50}}, which can be counted as something of a subversion.
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* [[The Corruption]]: The Black Blood.
* [[Country Matters]]: Maka in the Hungarian dub (see [[Precision F-Strike]] for more details).
* [[Covert Pervert]]: It's only alluded to, but the Guide in the book of Eibon said you will regain your true [[Gender Bender|form]] from the chapter of Lust when you feel less lustful. Notice that
** Confirmed.
*** In their defense, they're the two oldest people there and Lust wBs specifically noted as being affected by age.
*** Update:
*** {{spoiler|Actually it's Blair (who's still a tom) not that there's any surprise and Tsubaki changes back a couple of panels later.}}
* [[Credits Running Sequence]]
* [[Creepy Cool Crosses]]: Spirit's tie and attire during the flashbacks. The Death Room ''is'' full of (mostly wonky, as it happens) crosses, though with Okhubo's use of numerous religious references, this could actually be plot-relevant.
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* [[Cross-Dressing Voices]]: Black☆Star is voiced by Yumiko Kobayashi, a woman. This becomes more evident in his character song, "My Star".
** Also he is voiced by a female in the english dub.
** You may recognize Crona's voice as [[Ouran High School Host Club|Fujioka Haruhi]]'s. But well... we're not sure WHAT Crona is yet, so this trope may not fit. But it might. Maybe not, though. It possibly
*** This is the Japanese voice actor - Maaya Sakamoto, not Caitlin Glass.
* [[Crossover]]: Happens when the in-universe manga works Soul Eater and Soul Eater Not! decide to use similar characters. In the Soul Eater manga,
* [[Cross-Popping Veins]]
* [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]]: Black☆Star can be very effective when he puts his egomania aside and starts focusing.
** And we have Shinigami. A more striking example than Black☆Star in the sense that until the Asura arc there was far less indication that he was hiding such ruthless badassery behind daft antics and a funny mask.
** And even Stein.
* [[Cute Bruiser]]: Who else but Maka?
* [[Cute Kitten]]: Blair.
* [[Dangerous Forbidden Technique]]: Fey Blade mode.
* [[Dark Is Not Evil]]: The Shadow☆Star and {{spoiler|Kid and Black☆Star Insanity Powerup}}.
** Arguably Shinigami, Kid and the GOO (if not all their fellow anthropomorphic... things). At best, they're eccentric (the GOO's manner being very reminiscent of Shinigami), at worst downright scary. Even Kid when he gets suitably provoked, ''[[Good Is Not Nice|definitely]]'' Shinigami.
* [[Dark Magical Girl]]: Crona, the Witch Swordsman. Woman? [[Ambiguous Gender|We're...not sure.]]
* [[Deadly Hug]]: How
* [[Deal with the Devil]]: Literally... er... figuratively. We're not sure. But the Black Blood gives a dream image of an actual devil offering power.
* [[Debut Queue]]: The prologue introducing each main character one by one. Also, episodes 1 thru 3 introduces each team one by one.
* [[Despair Event Horizon]]: {{spoiler|Maka}} in chapter 74 and 75. Considering how {{spoiler|she}} usually [[Plucky Girl|is,]] it's rather disheartening.
* [[Determined Expression]]: In the anime, there's a shot of each of the main characters displaying one in turn just before the first battle for the [[Lost Technology|B.R.]][[Artifact of Doom|E.W]].
* [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?]]:
* [[Dirty Coward]]
* [[The Ditz]]: Patty.
* [[The Dog Bites Back]]: Subverted, when Crona {{spoiler|loses the power from
** And then later on when
* [[Doomed Appointment]]
* [[Drool Hello]]: Eruka has a hallucination of the Kisin doing this.
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** Gotta be honest, I thought they were both boys. Or a couple of stuffed dolls? I don't know.
* [[Eccentric Mentor]]: Shinigami-sama. In the anime dub, he even sounds like Dumbledore from [[Potter Puppet Pals]].
* [[Eldritch Abomination]]
** Not to mention
*** It's now referred to itself as a
***
** Also, Maba-Sama. As tall as, if not slightly taller than, Angelica, has bat-like wings, which are generally useless, since she prefers to hover; and one of the very few close-ups of her face makes her look like she was built by someone from a [[Tim Burton]] visual effects studio.
* [[Embarrassing Middle Name]]: Subverted. Soul Eater Evans doesn't like people using his ''last'' name.
* [[Empathic Weapon]]: Weapons are a ''race'' in Death City, having both human and weapon forms. Their power increases when they match the "Soul Wavelength" of their Meister partners.
* [[Enemy Civil War]]: Medusa and Arachne have a rivalry that spans centuries; Medusa and her followers will apparently "help" Shibusen if it means Arachne will suffer.
* [[Epiphany Therapy]]: {{spoiler|Marie's
**
*
**
* [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"]]: Spirit is sometimes called by just his title, Death Scythe.
** In the manga, he is never referred to as Spirit until after Kishin is released. Until then he's just referred to as Papa, Senpai, or Death Scythe.
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* [[Everything's Better with Spinning]]: Maka and her frequent scythe-twirling.
** Most of the weapon meisters adore spinning, really. It's just that Maka gets more screen time.
***
* [[Evil Cannot Comprehend Good]]: {{spoiler|Asura}} is defeated in the anime because he cannot comprehend the concept of courage.
** Medusa seems to genuinely not get why Spirit and Stein are so disgusted by the way she speaks about Crona.
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* [[Evil Eye]]: Free's witch eye.
* [[Evil Makes You Monstrous]]
* [[Evil Versus Evil]]: Lady Medusa vs. Lady Arachne.
* [[Evolving Weapon]]: [[Hand Wave|Handwaved]] since most weapons are part human too, and by eating souls, they become stronger.
* [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]
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** [[Eyes Do Not Belong There]]: No, they do not.
* [[Eyepatch of Power]]: Marie Mjolnir.
* [[Eyes Always Shut]]: Buttadaki Joe.
** Stein too, at times.
* [[Eyes of Gold]]: Medusa, complete with [[Hellish Pupils]].
** Can't forget Kid.
* [[Face Doodling]]: Black☆Star, to Maka.
**
* [[Face Heel Turn]]:
{{quote|{{spoiler|'''Death the Kid''': Eliminate everything... that is the order a shinigami must protect.}}}}
**
** Cemented in the latest chapter, as
**
*** Possibly an example of
* [[Face Your Fears]]: The entire theme (particularly the anime version). Indeed the [[Big Bad]]'s main failing is cowardice.
* [[Faceless Goons]]: Arachnophobia has plenty of these.
* [[Faceless Masses]]: All the other students at Shibusen.
** Actually some of them do have faces and some even have some clothing detail. They're just not colored in (they're all purple).
* [[Fake Defector]]:
* [[False Crucible]]: This is how Maka and Black☆Star are introduced to
* [[Fan Service]]: Dude, it's a shonen anime!
** Female weapons generally appear naked when shown within their virtual world while transformed. The male Soul started clothed, but became naked when he had a giant scar to show off. Mercifully, the way-too-young-looking Fire and Thunder appear clothed.
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* [[Four-Temperament Ensemble|Five Temperament Ensemble]]: Maka is Choleric, Soul is Phlegmatic, Death the Kid is Melancholic, Tsubaki and Liz are Supine,<ref>Liz is also a bit Choleric</ref> Black☆Star and Patty are Sanguine.
* [[Five-Bad Band]]: In the anime, there's one for each season:
** '''Season 1:'''
*** [[The Big Bad]] - Medusa.
*** [[The Dragon]] - Crona
*** [[The Brute]] - Ragnarok. Mizune(s),
*** [[The Evil Genius]] - Free.
*** [[Dark Chick]] - Eruka.
*** [[Team Pet]] - Mizune(s).
** '''Season 2:'''
*** [[The Big Bad]] - Arachne.
*** [[The Dragon]] - Mosquito.
*** [[The Brute]] - Mifune.
*** [[The Evil Genius]] - Giriko.
*** [[Dark Chick]] - Angela.
*** [[Sixth Ranger Traitor]] - Noah {{spoiler|(
** Then, in the manga, there's Noah's group after
*** [[The Big Bad]] - Noah {{spoiler|(Greed)}} / {{spoiler|The Tables of Contents.}}
*** [[The Dragon]] - Gopher.
*** [[The Brute]] -
*** [[The Evil Genius]] -
*** [[The Dark Chick]] - The Clown.
** Then Asura's group with The Clown armies.
*** [[The Big Bad]] - Asura.
*** [[The Dragon]] - Justin Law.
*** [[The Brute]] - The Clown & White Rabbit.
*** [[The Evil Genius]] - Moonlight.
*** [[The Dark Chick]] - Kaguya.
* [[Five-Man Band]]:
** [[The Hero]] - Maka; she's the protagonist of the series.
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** [[The Smart Guy]] - Death the Kid; smart and can calculate a plan whenever he doesn't fixate on symmetry.
** [[The Chick]](s) - Tsubaki, Patty and Liz; they're weapons for the supporting roles.
** [[Team Pet]] - Blair.
** [[Sixth Ranger]]: Crona.
* [[Flipping the Table]]: Referred to in the anime when Death
* [[Foot Focus]]: Medusa.
* [[Foreign Language Title]]
* [[Four Is Death]]: The phone number used to call Shinigami is a play on words using this trope.
** When Crona's has a dialogue with his/her alter ego inside his/her head, he/she refuses to answers 42 questions before the alter ego leaves. Of course, 42 in japanese is a homonym of "to die".
* [[Freudian Excuse]]: An unusual example, since s/he's not evil, but Crona unquestionably obeys Medusa's orders, even understanding they're evil, due to the way
* [[Freudian Trio]]: The meisters Maka (Ego), Black☆Star (Id) and Death the Kid (Superego). Or, Death the Kid (Superego) and his twin weapons Liz (Ego) and Patty (Id).
* [[Friend to All Children]]: Mifune.▼
* [[Fun with Subtitles]] / [[Lemony Narrator]]: Where else but in the Soul Eater manga can you find captions like "The Next Day" with a musical note right underneath it?▼
▲* [[Friend to All Children]]: Mifune
▲* [[Fun with Subtitles]]/ [[Lemony Narrator]]: Where else but in the Soul Eater manga can you find captions like "The Next Day" with a musical note right underneath it?
* [[Furo Scene]]: Blair is ''introduced'' in a furo scene. Also, Tsubaki takes a bath after studying for the big exam.
** After many chapters with little to no fan service, we get a scene with nearly all the female leads in the shower - which was immediately followed by nearly all the ''male'' leads in the shower. Apparently Okhubo has been taking a few lessons in gender equality when it comes to fanservice. Seen [http://www.mangareader.net/157-10190-16/soul-eater/chapter-45.html here]
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* [[Gecko Ending]]: The anime splits off from the manga around the {{spoiler|BREW recovery action}}, setting up the remaining time for a premature ending.
** This was unavoidable though as the manga is produced monthly and the anime weekly. Making it impossible to to follow the canon storyline without the manga catching up.
*
** {{spoiler|Giriko has a slightly more permanent gender bending experience because his soul is now in an [[Opposite Gender Clone]]. He's annoyed that he's a woman, but it's better than nothing.}}
* [[Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!]]: '''Awesomely''' handled by Patty on Kid as he [[Super OCD|broke]] [[Running Gag|down]] at the sight of the Otama Bombs asymmetrically strewn all over the place by Eruka, while on his way to stop her and Free from awakening Ashura.
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: One of Gopher's attacks involves him opening his stomach-ish area and shooting out a huge sphere of energy while screaming "NOAH-SAMA!" Not to mention he has an insane infatuation with Noah...
** In the anime (episode 10) they encounter an old man. They call him that and he objects, saying that he's active all day and all night. While doing hip thrusts.
* [[The Ghost]]: Maka's mother.
* [[Girl with Psycho Weapon]]: It's just a rather dangerous-looking scythe...
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** Kim with Jackie when they're brainwashed by Arachne; Jackie (the flamethrowing lantern, naturally) on her own when trying to protect her meister during the same arc.
* [[Girlish Pigtails]]: Maka.
* [[Go Out with a Smile]]: Happens in the anime when
* [[God-Emperor]]: Lord Death, although he's very low-key about it.
* [[Good Is Dumb]]: {{spoiler|Crona becomes less powerful following
* [[Good Smoking, Evil Smoking]]
* [[Good Thing You Can Heal]]: Free. This is self-induced two ways: One, he just doesn't defend because he's immortal. Two, he hits himself with the occasional spell mishap.
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* [[The Grim Reaper]]: Shinigami-sama. We see a flashback to his more traditional persona and he comments that his current "goofy" appearance is as not to frighten the children at his school. His name is also "Death", which we see written in English.
* [[Grim Up North]]: The Brew Tempest arc.
* [[Gun Fu]]: Death
* [[Guns Akimbo]]: Death
** Kid holds the guns inverted [[Rule of Cool|so that they double as tonfa in close-quarters combat.]]
** Also, due to his [[Super OCD]], he can't bring himself to use just one at a time!
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** In the anime, Maka {{spoiler|activated her "Weapon Bloodline" to fight Asura.}}
*** In the manga, the 'weapon bloodline' mentioned above was the result of Arachne using Eibon's work to create the original Demon Weapons (the Nakatsukasas are direct descendants). So, being a Weapon ''is'' genetic but the result of tampering, not 'natural' evolution, as it were. Maka has unusual traits - demonslayer wavelength, Grigori soul - but these are put down to being very rare in humans rather than a result of her dad being a Weapon.
* [[Halloweentown]]: Death City.
* [[Hammerspace]]: Maka's book, which is somehow always suddenly there whenever she does a Maka Chop.
* [[Handsome Lech]]: Spirit.
* [[Handwraps of Awesome]]
* [[Head Desk]]: Free slams his head against a tree repeatedly during the infamous GODDAMNITSHIT! scene.
* [[The Heartless]]: Humans who corrupt themselves by consuming innocent souls become "Kishin Eggs."
* [[Heel Face Revolving Door]]: {{spoiler|Dr Stein}}.
* [[Heel Face Turn]]: {{spoiler|Crona. Subverted in the manga when Medusa turns
* [[Hellish Pupils]]: Medusa, oh does she ever.
* [[Heroic Albino]]: Soul Eater. Somewhat averted in that, compared to the other characters, his skin tone is decidedly tan. He's probably more an example of [[White-Haired Pretty Boy]] or just [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair|Anime Hair Color.]]
* [[Heroic Comedic Sociopath]]: Stein may count as this.
* [[The Heroine]]: Maka Albarn.
* [[Highly-Visible Ninja]]: Black☆Star. Even when he isn't trying to appear dramatically and give a speech, he still tends to fight with as little stealth as any of the rest of the cast.
* [[Hit Me Dammit]]: Maka pulls this on Black☆Star [[My Fist Forgives You|as a way of making up]]. He doesn't hold back.
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* [[Hot Dad]]: Spirit. He was apparently only 18 when Maka was born.
* [[Hot Mom]]: Medusa.
* [[Hot Witch]]: Medusa, Arachne, and
* [[Hot-Blooded]]: Ox Ford.
** Why not throw Black☆Star in the mix while you're at it?
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* [[Humongous Mecha]]: {{spoiler|The anime earns this one in episode 47.}}
* [[The Hyena]]: Patty. This girl finds a disturbing number of things funny.
* [[Hyperspace Mallet]]: See Hammerspace, above.
* [[I Am Not Left-Handed]]: Black☆Star.
* [[I Am Your Opponent]]: Maka versus Crona. Black☆Star doesn't like it much, but he gives in.
* [[I Have the High Ground]]: Black☆Star loves this one, though it doesn't really help. In one case, he was so high up nobody could hear him shouting.
* [[I Lied]]:
* [[I See London]]: All of the [[Panty Shot]]s were removed from the Anime, but Lord Death picking up {{spoiler|Rachel!Medusa}} by the back of her dress and exposing her pumpkin panties (multiple times) was left in.
* [[I Sense a Disturbance In The Force]]
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* [[Idiosyncratic Episode Naming]]: The anime has the main title, followed by a subtitle in the form of a question.
* [[Idiot Ball]]: At the end of the anime after the main characters get trapped inside Asura's barrier, everyone else stands around moaning about how they wish they could do something. Hello, how about attacking the barrier? There may only be a tiny chance you'll make a breach to send reinforcments, but even if you don't you might distract the Kishin or force him to use more of his power to keep the shield in place. [[Catch Phrase|Baka]], indeed.
** It's even dumber when you consider that Excalibur is right there with them. Yeah, he makes people go though 1000 tasks (or something like that
* [[Idiot Hero]]: Black☆Star is a parody of it.
* [[Immortality]]:
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** Kim's weapon partner Jackie is a ''lantern''.
** And special mention to Justin. He's a friggin' ''guillotine''.
** Then there's
*** And the meister who uses him is a monkey.
** East Asia's Death Scythe is a ''magic lamp.'' Yes. We're not even kidding.
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* [[Inconsistent Translation]]: A bit of a minor one, but the English dub alternates between referring to some of Tsubaki's various forms by their English names (chain-scythe, ninja star) and their Japanese ones (kasari-gama, shuriken).
* [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]: Mandheling brand coffee sounds like mandolin, which is why Shinigami keeps strumming a chord every time he talks to Joe Buttataki about coffee. It's a knee-slapper, that one.
** This one, from when Kid first meets Soul and
{{quote|'''Soul:''' "Whoa!! It's Shinigami-sama! In real death!"}}
* [[Insane Equals Violent]]
* [[Insane Troll Logic]]:
{{quote|'''Shinigami:''' "We... Well, it's not like we have serious meetings anyways... Something like this is good sometimes."
'''Marie:''' "IDIOT!! We're never serious, so we're allowed to be crazy sometimes? That's ridiculous!!
* [[Instant Awesome, Just Add Mecha]]:
* [[Instant Runes]]: Used by Asura.
* [[Interacting with Shadow]]: Chrona does this inside
* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]: Black☆Star. Despite being an arrogant jerk that often sets back his and Tsubaki's goal and rubs people (Read: Maka) the wrong way, he is very loyal to his friends
* [[Jerkass]]: MEDUSA, MEDUSA, MEDUSA. Probably moreso than any other character in the series.
* [[Juggling Loaded Guns]]: Death the Kid, when he shot Soul and Black☆Star during their bromance hug by accident.
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* [[Large Ham]]: Excalibur. Hamminess is also Black☆Star's default state (see [[Chewing the Scenery]]), although he is rather less hammy during his [[Let's Get Dangerous]] moments.
* [[Laser Blade]]: {{spoiler|Tsubaki's [[Eleventh-Hour Superpower]] in the anime.}}
* [[Lawyer-Friendly Cameo]]: One of the creatures Maka fights in the original end credits animation is a giant version of Wolf Man's daughter from ''[[Scooby Doo]] and the Ghoul School''.
** In addition, the corrupt souls that Maka harvests tend to be variations of
* [[Leaning on the Fourth Wall]]: In the English dub, during a mission that takes place in a magnetic field that turns you into a memory after 20 minutes (science!): "Come on, we've got to prioritize, this show's only got 10 minutes left!" There happened to be 10 minutes left in the episode, too.
** In episode 37, Soul says something along the lines of "Special training isn't cool. Leave that to characters in shonen manga."
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* [[Let's Get Dangerous]]: When the eyes on Shinigami-sama's mask go from round-and-dopey to triangular-and-angry, everyone in the next '''3 mile''' radius should kindly ''RUN AWAY'' if they don't have a will written.
** Also, Kid with one of the Sanzu lines completed = [[Super Mode|bad]]. Kid with one of the Sanzu lines completed, and NOT having an OCD breakdown = [[Oh Crap|Kiss Your Ass Goodbye]].
** Don't forget,
* [[Living Shadow]]: An effect of the Dark Blade.
* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]: Seven main characters, seven more secondary protagonists, the staff at Shinbunsen, the Death Scythes, Arachnophobia, Noah's group, Medusa and her allies, [[And Zoidberg|Blair]]...
* [[Lolicon]]: Maka's dad is a non-exclusive one. The way he acts toward his own fairly young and [[Pettanko|relatively flat]] daughter is... [[Squick|well, pretty creepy]].
{{quote|'''Spirit''': "Pumpkin panties..."
'''Medusa''': "Say another word and I will ''kill'' you!
* [[The Lonely Piano]]: Appears in the final battle after {{spoiler|Maka and Soul wake up to find that the rest of their [[Nakama]] have all been defeated}}. Of course, they were asking for it, given how Soul both plays the piano {{spoiler|and uses this for a literal [[Theme Music Power-Up]]}}.
* [[Lost in Translation]]: In the original recording, Joe Buttakaki argues with Lord Death about his coffee requirements but ends his sentence with a word in Japanese that sounds like "mandolin", so Death, [[Cloudcuckoolander|confused, holds a mandolin]]. In the English dub, they change it so both characters just say "coffee beans", meaning it's no longer a miscommunication, and Lord Death holds a mandolin for absolutely no reason!
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* [[Lovable Sex Maniac]]: For all his flaws, Maka's Dad is a well meaning, caring and lovable fella.
* [[Love Bubbles]]: Spoofed with the "break-up" between Soul and Black☆Star.
* [[Loves the Sound of Screaming]]:
* [[Lucky Charms Title]]: Black☆Star.
* [[Mad Doctor]]: Stein.
* [[Mad Scientist]]: Dr. Franken Stein; with special emphasis on "Mad".
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** Though to be honest, most of the main cast have taken great amounts of damage and treated it like it was nothing.
*** Crona. Pretty much impossible to damage through physical means.
* [[Madness Makeover]]: {{spoiler|Justin Law}}.
* [[Madness Mantra]]: {{spoiler|''Hurry up, hurry up. Rid yourself of your fake skin. Give into your weight and walk on. The glorious light illuminating the way out is almost in your sight.''}}
** ''My blood is black... Those doors open inward... My blood is black...''
* [[Madness Montage]]: Stein's visions.
* [[Magic Skirt]]: With the frequency that she is thrown rolling backwards and all the tumbling she is doing, it's quite surprising that Maka hasn't become the queen of [[Panty Shot]] with that short little skirt of hers.
** The manga averted this for a bit, but later chapters have played it straight.
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* [[Monster Clown]]
** {{spoiler|Now in TWO flavors!}}
***
***
* [[Moral Dissonance]]: "Hey! Black☆Star! Wanna kill that witch? Never mind that she's, like, ten years old and has never harmed a fly. She's a witch so it's perfectly legal to murder her!" :D
** To be fair, he doesn't go through with it.
*** ''May'' have been the point if it was [[Fridge Brilliance|Shinigami's intention]] to see if Black☆Star would go through with it once he found out who his targets actually were (possibly re-enforced by the fact that he later {{spoiler|allows Angela to stay}}). The manga also reminds us on occasion that the teams are limited in who they can kill, and with Shinigami being as mysterious as he is it's not at all clear what the rules are and how far he has his human followers go (he has no problem using witches when he gets the chance, for e.g).
* [[Morally-Ambiguous Doctorate]]: Stein.
* [[Morph Weapon]]: Tsubaki.
* [[Motherly Scientist]]:
* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: Any female character that's not Maka, Eruka or the twins.
** The twins get their moment, but we lose the "Ms" for one of them.
* [[Mugging the Monster]]: How Liz and Patty meet Kid.
** While visiting Italy, Soul is confronted by a street gang and beats them effortlessly. Unfortunately for them, they pull this again later against Crona and Ragnarok, and get eaten for their trouble.
* [[Multiple Reference Pun]]: The Thompson Sisters.
* [[Must Have Caffeine]]: Hello, everyone. My name is Joe Buttataki and I'm a java junkie.
* [[My Greatest Failure]]: Maka sees Soul's [[Taking the Bullet|defending her from Crona]] as this on her part for being unable to protect him, while Soul argues that it's his job to protect her, not the other way around.
* [[My Name Is Inigo Montoya]]: It's a shonen anime
* [[Naked Apron]]:
* [[Naked First Impression]]: This is how Soul finds Blair.
* [[Naked on Arrival]]: See the above.
* [[Naked on Revival]]: {{spoiler|Asura}}. He then makes:
** [[Improvised Clothes]]:
* [[The Napoleon]]: Black☆Star.
* [[Never Say "Die"]]: Oddly enough, this trope is present in the English dub when Crona's training as a child with the <s>baby dragon</s> "little one" comes up. Flashbacks show {{spoiler|Medusa}} ordering
** Medusa probably figured that telling Crona to kill the "little one" would have freaked
* [[New Old Flame]]: Marie and Buttataki Joe in the manga. {{spoiler|Temporary; Justin Law kills him shortly after.}}
** Because Buttataki has a different role in the anime, the role is given to Stein there instead.
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* [[No Sense of Direction]]: Marie constantly gets lost in Shibusen, even though she's supposed to be an Alumna. {{spoiler|Crona and Ragnarok kind of use this to their advantage once to get out of trouble, saying they were also lost when they go into a restricted area. It took them two hours to find Crona's dorm room while being led by Marie.}}
** Shown again by Marie when {{spoiler|her and Crona are on their way to Medusa's hideout. Marie points the two in the direction of a series of confusing signs, the first of which lead to snakes, the second which led to quicksand and the third which led to this creepy (possibly [[Nightmare Fuel]]) crayon monster. At the fourth sign, which is pointing in three different dirrections, is when Crona breaks the chain (before it went [[Overly Long Gag|downhill]]) and leads the duo that time.}}
** Free also.
* [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown]]:
* [[Nosebleed]]: Blair's effect on Soul.
** {{spoiler|Maka has a tiny one when she's genderbent and has a look at an entering Succubus. Hilariously enough, [[Hypocritical Humor|Soul is not pleased]].}}
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* [[Not What It Looks Like]]: Soul. Oh, Soul...
* [[Noun Verber]]: Soul Eater. Crona the Demon Blader.
** Or [[Spell My Name with an "S"|Demon Swordsman Crona
* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]: Shinigami developed his child-like persona for the sake of his students, as he would often scare them in his old form. However, some of his original hardcore personality shows up in his [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|fight with Asura]].
* [[Odd Couple]]: Nearly all Meisters and Weapons are opposites of each other, and as they find a medium their power increases.
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*** On that note, who imagines a [[Grim Reaper]] carrying a sniper rifle/crossbow, a hammer or a mirror? Puts a slightly different spin on the term "odd couple".
*** One of the reasons that Spirit doesn't go searching for Kishin was along the lines of him being "the only one who can truly be called a Death Scythe".
* [[Oh Crap]]: When Soul
** In the manga, during the Baba Yaga invasion arc,
*** And then Mosquito gets one of his own when he realises that Kid has the real Brew. Kid then forces him to [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|retreat]].
* [[Oh, No, Not Again]]: Black☆Star takes the cake when, after seeing {{spoiler|[[Jerkass|Excalibur]]}} in the Wrath chapter of Eibion, which naturally pissed him off, the group leaves the chapter with Black☆Star (and pretty much everyone else) glad to be ridden of the annoyance, only to find {{spoiler|Excalibur}} ''again'' in the ''next chapter''. Black☆Star's reaction? ''[[Crowning Moment of Funny|Well...]]''
{{quote|'''Black☆Star:''' [''upon seeing {{spoiler|Excalibur}}''] '''''OH HELL NO!'''''}}
* [[Ominous Latin Chanting]]: Shows up during {{spoiler|the fights between Shinigami and the Kishin, and during most of the Kishin battles.}}
* [[One Head Taller]]: In the main cast, the female weapons are significantly taller than their male meisters. Soul and Maka are at pretty much the same height.
** Not anymore, they aren't. Soul had a growth spurt, it seems. As did Black☆Star.
* [[One-Winged Angel]]: Done by
* [[Only One Name]]: Black☆Star.
** Although technically he is from the Star Clan and his father was named White☆Star, so you could argue that Star is the family name.
* [[Only the Chosen May Wield]]: Due to their personality overlap and personal relationships, each weapon can generally only be wielded by whatever meister it is assigned to at the moment. Adult meisters and deathscythes appear to be exceptions to this, ironically, as is Excalibur.
* [[OOC Is Serious Business]]: Shinigami is a [[Cloudcuckoolander|silly]] [[Obfuscating Stupidity|goofball]] most of the time, except when he's dealing with [[Big Bad|Asura]]. In fact, during his last fight with Asura, the longer the fight goes on, the more serious and less goofy he gets. At the end he barely even sounds like the same entity.
* [[Opaque Lenses]]: Stein, most of the time, also Asuza.
* [[Open the Iris]]: Inverted with Maka. Her normally invisible pupils widen when she is emotionally shocked. Crona too, in addition to
* [[Order Versus Chaos]]: One of the major themes of this story.
** With Order being Good.
*** And a possibility that [[Well-Intentioned Extremist|absolutism in either direction]] what's Bad. Chaos never has been especially good at moderation, though...
**** See
* [[Orifice Invasion]]: Medusa does this to a little girl in the suburbs to possess her,
* [[Our Fairies Are Different]]
* [[Our Souls Are Different]]
* [[Out-of-Clothes Experience]]
* [[Over
* [[Overprotective Dad]]: Spirit once tried to fend off Soul... and then quickly does the exact opposite once Soul says he's not interested.
* [[Overtook the Manga]]: An unavoidable case this time as the manga is produced monthly.
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** Not a phrase, exactly, but everyone who's met Excalibur makes that same horrible face.
* [[Physical God]]: Shinigami-sama and Kishin Asura.
* [[Power Born of Madness]]: In Chapter 42, Maka and Soul evidently agree that "insanity is the source of strength." The strongest example of this appears to be the [[Psycho Serum|
* [[Power Degeneration]]: Black☆Star.
* [[Power Echoes]]: A rather humurous example with
* [[Power Gives You Wings]]: Manga only Maka possesess the rare angel-winged Grigori type soul, which she uses to {{spoiler|create wings for Death Scythe Soul to fly}}.
* [[The Power of Friendship]]
* [[Power Perversion Potential]]: Masamune can provide both bondage and single-handed gangrape. Soul can and has been used for things he oughtn't be used for in doujin and H-rated pictures. Let us not speak of Medusa's extras in literally ''every'' Medusa-centric doujin ever. Time will only tell if Noah has it.
**
* [[Pragmatic Adaptation]]: While the first three quarters of the anime is more or less taken exactly from the manga, after that the [[Gecko Ending]] kicks in and things (obviously) start getting different.
* [[Precision F-Strike]]: There's a couple in the Hungarian dub amongst a great deal of [[Cluster F-Bomb|Cluster F Bombing]]: "I'm gonna kick... HER ASS!" and "[[Country Matters|Go crawl into a cunt!]]"
* [[Prepare to Die]]
** Shinigami to Asura after the latter escapes from Shibusen.
* [[Product Placement]]: The book Maka is always reading is Gangan, the magazine the manga is serialized in.
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* [[Punny Name]]: Dr. Franken Stein and Eruka (spelled with the same syllables as "kaeru", Japanese for frog), just to name a few...
** Also, Maka is an anagram of "kama", which is Japanese for scythe.
* [[Puppeteer Parasite]]: Another lovely trick of Medusa's
**
***
* [[Red and Black and Evil All Over]]: Most of the shots of the [[Big Bad]] in the 4th credit sequence is Red, Black, Grey, and inspired by insanity.
* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]: Asura plays it straight, while Soul averts it.
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* [[Sadist Teacher]]: Stein. He just wants to cut you up so ''bad''...
* [[Samurai]]: Mifune.
* [[Sanity Slippage]]: Dr. Franken Stein.
**
* [[Sarcastic Devotee]]: Soul, to Maka.
* [[Scaled Up]]: Medusa can do this.
* [[Scarf of Asskicking]]: In the manga,
**
* [[Scars Are Forever]]: Soul gets a large scar during the first fight with Crona
** Also, in the manga {{spoiler|Black☆Star ends up with a clean scar that bissects the star tattoo on his shoulder after his last fight with Mifune}}. Even the healer can't remove it, and
* [[Scary Shiny Glasses]]: Dr. Franken Stein is pretty much obligated to do this. Azusa regularly uses this to intimidate people. Ox Ford also fulfils this trope in a less scary fashion.
* [[Schizo-Tech]]: Outside of Death City is a mishmash of technological eras. Ancient Japanese villages and modern-day [[Suburbia]] and everything inbetween.
* [[School of Hard Knocks]]
* [[Science-Related Memetic Disorder]]: Stein seems to suffer from some form of this.
* [[Screaming Warrior]]: Black☆Star.
* [[Sealed Evil in a Can]]
* [[Self-Restraint]]: Medusa.
* [[Series Goal]]: The meisters and weapons are supposed to be gathering 99 human souls and 1 witch soul, but this goal becomes mostly irrelevant once the [[Knight of Cerebus]] is introduced.
** Not exactly irrelevent, just not the be-all and end-all for the series. Once
* [[Seven Deadly Sins]]: [[Tome of Eldritch Lore|The Book of Eibon]] is organized into seven chapters based on the seven sins. It starts with Lust, then progresses through Gluttony, Envy, Wrath, Pride, Sloth, and finally Greed, supposedly organized by the corrupting influences of each vice.
* [[Shapeshifter Weapon]]: About half the cast.
* [[Shinigami]]: Interestingly, only Shinigami-sama and his son are directly refered to as this. Meisters and Weapons have varying origins
** Thanks to the manga explaning some things, it seems now to be more clear.
*** Shinigami have distinctive souls, and there are only two in the cast - Shinigami and Kid - and it seems to be a race rather than a designation.
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* [[Ship Tease]]: ''Soul Eater'' has so much potential for canon and crack pairings that this is practically inevitable. It doesn't help either when your average weapon/meister relationship includes huge helpings of fierce protectiveness on both sides. Added to this the fact that the core teams of weapon/meister (as well as a few others) have members of opposite genders... Well, you get the idea.
** [[Word of God|It's unfortunate that Ohkubo said in an interview that he plans to keep most of these relationships platonic...]]
* [[Shirtless Scene]]: Soul in the exam episode, and when Maka walks in on him after
** Stein of all people gets one in the anime. [[Squee|Fangirl reaction was as expected]].
** Don't forget Free. Even Asura was envious of his sculpted physique.
* [[Shonen]]: Between the fights, the powerups, and the training to be stronger, this is a textbook Shonen series.
* [[Shoo Out the Clowns]]: Averted; comic relief Excalibur is included until the very end of the anime. And that's not even mentioning his latest role in the manga...
* [[Sibling Team]]: The Thompsons.
** [[Siblings in Crime]]: How they worked before they met Death the Kid.
* [[Sibling Yin-Yang]]: Liz is level headed, while her sister Patty is a complete space case.
* [[Sigil Spam]]: The Shiningami mask in Death City.
* [[Significant Anagram]]: Maka is an anagram of "kama", the Japanese word for scythe. Eruka is an anagram of "kaeru", the Japanese word for frog, and Mizune is an anagram of "nezumi", the Japanese word for mouse.
* [[Single-Stroke Battle]]: In the anime, the
* [[Sinister Scythe]]: Interestingly, only Soul Eater himself and the most recent Death Scythe (Maka's father) are true examples of this
* [[Skunk Stripe]]: Death the Kid has ''several''.
** Three, to be precise. Since they're all on one side they are the bane of his symmetry-obsessed existance.
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** Don't forget madness incarnate Asura.
** And Stein whenever he gets a screw loose...
** Patty sports one when she [[Groin Attack|kicks
* [[Slipknot Ponytail]]: When Tsubaki morphs into Fey Blade mode, her hair is let down.
* [[Slow Motion Fall]]: Happens to
* [[Small Name, Big Ego]]: '''Black☆Star'''.
* [[Smoke Out]]: One of Tsubaki's forms is a smoke bomb.
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** Some people prefer spelling 'Kid' with an extra 'd'.
* [[Spin-Off]]: Ohkubo has recently announced that Soul Eater will be getting a spinoff titled [[Soul Eater Not!]].
* [[Spoiler Opening]]: Subverted. In the second opening, we see
** The {{spoiler|fourth}} ending is actually a Spoiler Ending.
** For those watching the anime for the first time through the recently released ''Repeat Show'', which so far is just the original episodes with brand new opening and closing sequences, the new opening features characters who don't even appear until the second half of the anime. It also gives away {{spoiler|Crona's [[Heel Face Turn]] by showing [[Ambiguous Gender|him/her]] alongside the heroes at all times and even helping them take down a giant golem.}}
* [[Standard Female Grab Area]]: Sort of played straight during the introduction of and subsequent first fight with Stein. Stein grabs Maka by one of her ponytails at one point, almost completely immobilizing her. While this is certainly more effective (and more painful) than the arm, one would think that a strong [[Action Girl]] like Maka would be perfectly capable of throwing a few elbows into Stein's stomach or something.
* [[Stealth Mentor]]:
** Actually,
* [[Stealth Pun]]: Dr. Franken Stein is a [[Mad Scientist]] with an enormous screw through his head, which he turns to keep his mind on the problem at hand. He is also [[The Corruptible]], and the closest person in Shibusen to full insanity. In other words... [[Fridge Brilliance|he's got a SCREW LOOSE.]]
** In Episode 3, when Death the Kid is seeking souls for Patty and Liz, Shinigami-sama tells him about
** The witches' ultimate weapon is called B.R.E.W.
* [[Stock Ninja Weaponry]]: Tsubaki isn't just proficent with "ninja" weapons
* [[Strange Bedfellows]]: {{spoiler|Medusa leads Shibusen's operation against Arachne's base}} in the manga.
* [[Strong as They Need to Be]]: See the [[New Powers as the Plot Demands]] entry, above.
* [[Super Mode]]: There's the basic Resonance of Souls, the more advanced Chain Resonance,
** From Mosquito's comments about the shinigami, Kid's
* [[Super OCD]]: With Death
** And achieves a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] when he says that any other time he would be obsessing over it, implying that right now he's NOT obsessing over it.
** This is justified in that he, and his father, are more or less the personification of order. He just cannot help himself about his obsession yet, like his father can.
* [[Super-Powered Evil Side]]: Maka and Soul using
* [[Surprisingly Good English]]: Some of the songs on the OST (most notably [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mto_4TRoxXw "PSYCHEDELIC SOUL JAM"] and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsPg3rK498I&feature=channel "Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Have a Nice Dream"]) have really good English pronunciation. The lyrics, however, not so much...
** "Excalibuuur
* [[Tailor-Made Prison]]: The Demon God being imprisoned with his own skin.
* [[Take a Third Option]]: During the last Mifune vs. Black☆Star fight in the anime. Mifune asks Black☆Star if he will choose the "Path of the Demon" or the "Path of the Warrior". Black☆Star (somewhat predictably) decides that neither path is good enough for him, and choose to forge his own path forward. He never really elaborates on what the path is, but it clearly comes with powerups (the Enchanted Sword grows about a foot longer and glows red.)
* [[Take Our Word for It]]: We don't actually get to read Crona's poem, but it must've been pretty depressing, since it sends anyone who reads it into a [[Corner of Woe]].
** It even sent Black☆Star into a [[Corner of Woe]]! That must have been some poem.
* [[Taking the Bullet]]:
**
** Also, in ep48,
** {{spoiler|Soul}} does this again for {{spoiler|Maka}} in episode 51, when {{spoiler|Asura is just about to deal a finishing blow.}}
** Chapter 79 has Sid push Marie out of the way of an attack, costing him an arm in the process.
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* [[Talking Weapon]]: Ragnarok, which can also use its mouth for Crona's [[Make Me Wanna Shout|Screech Alpha]] attack. Excalibur is also a talking sword, however much the cast might wish he wasn't.
** Technically, ''all'' Demon Weapons are this, to the point that in the first chapter/episode, Maka is honestly worried when Soul stops talking to her while in scythe mode.
* [[Tear Off Your Face]]: One of the hallucinations Free and Eruka Frog suffer as they get close to
* [[Thanatos Gambit]]:
* [[The Thing That Goes Doink]]: As seen in Ox's and Hero's episodes with Excalibur.▼
* [[Through the Eyes of Madness]]: Just being in the proximity of a Kishin results in hallucinations and loss of reason.▼
*
** The witches seem to be named after animals
▲** Maka's parents are named Spirit and Kami. (Which can mean "Spirit" in Japanese.)
▲*** Actually, her name isn't Kami. The English-speaking fandom thinks it's her name because of a scanlation error that translated a word for wife, 'kamisan' as a name with an honorific by mistake. She's never actually been given a name. Funny what a single mistranslation can do.
▲** The witches seem to be named after animals; especially women in Greek Mythology associated with animals.
** Kishin Eggs are a mishmash of historical/fictional/mythological antagonists.
** The weapon people, who are usually named after mythological and/or video game weapons: Marie Mjolnir, Masamune, Ragnarok, Excalibur, Soul Eater, etc.
*** Though Excalibur is stated (at least in the anime) to be ''the'' Excalibur in Arthurian legends.
** Two of the students are named after Western Universities (Ox Ford and Harvar D. Eclair, Oxford and Harvard respectively).
** Maka's Witch Hunter (a possible reference to Rush's song "Witch Hunt").
*** Or more likely the concept and act of an actual Witch Hunt, originally [[Captain Obvious|the search for someone suspected of being a witch]]. These days it can mean looking for any negative element in society in a panicky effort to root it out after one prominent incident involving said element, such as pedophilia.
** Mosquito's [[wikipedia:The Police|Police]] Stinger (both the band The Police and their singer Sting).
*** He is also, appropriately, a vampire. Though one of his transformations has him taking on a more 'traditional' look rather than the insect thing. [[Bishounen Line|Unwisely]], Liz and Patty point out this look is 'boring' and he "looked stronger before".
** Blair's [[wikipedia:The Smashing Pumpkins|Smashing Pumpkin]].
** Sid Barrett's [[wikipedia:The Living End|The Living End]].
** Patty and Liz's surname might be a dual pun on the [[wikipedia:Thompson submachine gun|Thompson Sub-Machine Gun]] and the [[wikipedia:Thompson Twins|Thompson Twins]].
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** Sid Barett (Syd Barrett of Pink Floyd) and Kim Diehl (Kim Deal of the Pixies).
** Kilik's Soul Resonance: Aphex Twin.
** Justin Law (Cantonese pop singer [[wikipedia:Justin Lo|Justin Lo]]). The reference is more obvious when you see the names in Katakana).
** [[wikipedia:Black Star (group)|Black Star]] is the name of a Hip Hop group formed by Talib Kweli and Mos Def. Coincidence? It's possible, but given the massive number of music references made with every other character in the series, it seems likely that the band is Black☆Star's namesake. Even more telling, this would round out the three main teams by giving each a musical reference (Damon Albarn for Maka and the Thompson Twins for Kid).
***
*** In a theme that isn't part of a [[Shout-Out]], all three named members of the Star Clan are named a color and then "Star."
** Dr. Franken Stein. Need we say more?
** One [[Monster of the Week]] had an attack called [[wikipedia:Nine Inch Nails|Nine Inch Nails]].
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** Noah, the collector. Another well-known Noah also spent time collecting things—animals for his Ark.
** Kishin Asura may be a reference to a group of power-seeking dieties in Hinduism called Asura or Ahura.
▲* [[The Thing That Goes Doink]]: As seen in Ox's and Hero's episodes with Excalibur.
* [[Those Two Guys]]: Ox Ford and Kilik Lunge. Subverted in the manga when they get expanded roles, not so much in the anime.
* [[Thou Shalt Not Kill]]: Death the Kid.
{{quote|'''Nidhogg:''' "Are you saying you would take away freedom?!"
'''Kid:''' "I am a ''Shinigami''. I grant ''no'' freedom to kill." }}
* [[Thriller on the Express]]:
▲* [[Through the Eyes of Madness]]: Just being in the proximity of a Kishin results in hallucinations and loss of reason.
* [[Throw the Book At Them]]: Maka Chop!
* [[To Be a Master]]: Collecting enough souls to obtain the rank of Death Scythe.
* [[Token Motivational Nemesis]]: Nakatsukasa Masamune,
* [[Tome of Eldritch Lore]]: The Book of Eibon. Heavy on the Eldritch now that we know there's a {{spoiler|
* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: {{spoiler|In the anime, Lord Death has trapped Asura in his inescapable death chamber, and the shinigami seems to be pretty much guaranteed to win. Asura fires a powerful beam attack at Death the Kid and some other people who are watching the battle, which they aren't really able to join. Lord Death shields the onlookers with his body, which would be all well and good, except that he has been shown to be able to deflect all of Asura's beam attacks with Death Scythe, whom the Lord Death is currently HOLDING IN HIS HAND! Following this tremendous act of stupidity, about half of Lord Death's body is obliterated, and he's both unconscious and in very critical condition. (
* [[Took a Level in Badass]]: The main characters, of course.
* [[Totem Pole Trench]]: In chapter 46, Kilik
**
* [[Trademark Favorite Food]]: B.J. and coffee.
* {{spoiler|[[Tragic Monster]]: [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds|Crona]].}}
* [[Transformation Sequence]]: Kid activating his Resonance of Souls. It was even
* [[Translation Convention]]: Considering the
* [[Trash Landing]]: During their fight against Blair, Soul drops Maka into a dumpster.
** Maka again gets the trash treatment after asking Black☆Star to punch her in apology. He doesn't hold anything back,
* [[Triple Take]]
* [[The Trope Kid]]: Death the Kid.
* [[Troperiffic]]
* [[Tyke Bomb]]: Crona.
* [[Vibroweapon]]: Ragnarok when it screams.
* [[Unconscious Objector]]: In the anime,
* [[Underboobs]]: One of the Fanservicey traits of Mizune's combined form.
* [[Unnamed Parent]]: Maka's mother has only been referred to in both the anime and manga as "Maka's Mother" or "Spirit's (ex)wife". A scanlater accidentally turned the word for wife into a name.
* [[Unusual Euphemism]]: Ragnarok refers to souls as candy.
* [[Unwinnable Training Simulation]]: Maka, Soul, Black☆Star, and Tsubaki, once they have apprehended Sid, are sent to kill the person who made him a zombie in the first place. That would be Stein, who is one of the most powerful Meisters in the world. They aren't told this is a test ahead of time.
* [[Utopia Justifies the Means]]:
* [[The Vamp]]: Arachne, so very much.
* [[Villains Never Lie]]: In chapter 60 of the manga,
* [[Villains Out Shopping]]: Sort of. In the credits of the anime's final episode, we see
* [[Vitriolic Best Buds]]: Soul and Maka.
** Maka and Black☆Star to a certain extent.
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* [[Voluntary Shapeshifting]]: All of the weapons, many of the witches, Free, etc.
* [[Wacky Parent, Serious Child]]: Shinigami-sama and Kid. They provide the page image.
* [[Wager Slave]]: The breather episode with the basketball game. If Kid's team loses then they'll move all the pictures in his house slightly off, and if Maka's team loses, she has to spend the weekend with her father.
* [[War Arc]]: The Arachnophobia arc.
* [[Weapon Twirling]]: Every single Meister in this series seems to love doing this. It may or may not aid with Soul Resonance or not, but it sure looks cool and eats up a few seconds of screen time.
* [[We Will Meet Again]]: Sid, to Mifune.
* [[Weird Moon]]: In addition to a weird sun. Both have faces, the sun ''laughs ominously'' and the moon occasionally ''drools blood''.
* [[Wham! Episode]]: Arguably, chapters 87 and 88. {{spoiler|[[Self-Made Orphan|Crona kills Medusa]] in a truly frightening fashion, and Maka finds out [[Shoot the Dog|she]] [[Fight Your Friend|must]] [[Kill the Ones You Love|kill]] [[Tragic Monster|Crona]].}}
* [[What Could Have Been]]: Apparently, ''Soul Eater'' started out as three separate one-shots, which eventually evolved into the first three chapters of the manga.
* [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic]]: Among other things, Crona's name is a play on "Kuro na", translating as "dark one". And just for a moment, Shinigami-sama and Asura's competing auras form a yin-yang symbol.
* [[What Measure Is a Humanoid?]]: So apparently, weapons can reproduce with humans...
** Keep in mind that weapons are basically shapeshifting humans.
* [[White Gloves]]: Maka.
** She has white gloves, true, but not exactly inexplicable ones considering the weapon she uses.
* [[Why We Can't Have Nice Things]]: In his debut episode, Kid ends up destroying a pyramid.
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* [[Witch Species]]: [[Cute Witch]], [[Wicked Witch]], [[Vain Sorceress]], and [[Old Master|Old Mistress]] varieties. At first, most except Angela seem evil, but this is being elaborated on in later chapters of the manga. Which (ha!), in the manga, leads to a...
** [[Witch Hunt]]: {{spoiler|Medusa, the ''evil'' Witch, sells out the ''good'' witch who had joined Shibusen to get away from the others.}}
* [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity]]: An ever-present threat for everyone, especially those infected with the
* [[Word Salad]]: We either hear the lyrics to, or hear Justin Law thinking the words to his music.
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* [[The Worf Effect]]: Black☆Star suffers from this. ({{spoiler|
** Seems to be reversing in the manga as well, unless Black☆Star loses to Crona...
** Chapter 79,
*** {{spoiler|Turns out the Tezca we saw get bitten in half was an illusion; Justin knows that Tezca is the only person capable of tracking him, so Tezca faked his death to put Justin off his guard.}}
** Also, this applies to Tsar Pushka and Feodor. They were killed (or maybe had a [[Fate Worse Than Death]]) by Crona in his/her return to the plotline. It was probably just to show that the new-and-improved Crona can, and will, kill a death scythe and its meister for Medusa.
* [[Worthy Opponent]]: Despite his love of children, Mifune fights Black☆Star as an equal because of this trope.
** Eventually. They're not fighting on truly equal terms until their last encounter, as Mifune held back due to his opinion of Black☆Star's youth and attitude. The trope applies once Black☆Star figures out the latter.
* [[World of Symbolism]]: The big showdown between Death and Asura could be strongly reminiscent of a debate between Christians and Atheists. Death could easily be substituted for God, while the Kishin could be substituted for the devil, or a nonbeliever. It's actually really interesting when looking at it under those pretenses. However, [[Your Mileage May Vary]].
* [[Would Hit a Girl]]: When Maka asks Black☆Star to [[Hit Me Dammit]], he does. ''In the face''.
* [[Wouldn't Hurt a Child]]: Mifune
* [[Xanatos Gambit]]:
** An earlier example is during the battle for BREW when
* [[X Meets Y]]: The series can be described rather accurately as [[Bleach]] meets [[The Nightmare Before Christmas]].
** With just a dash of [[Shaman King]] thrown in. And a little [[Harry Potter]].
* [[Yamato Nadeshiko]]: Tsubaki won't be able to stand Black☆Star's exasperating arrogance without that lovely personality of hers.
* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]
* [[You Killed My Father]]: In the anime, {{spoiler|Mifune}} killed White☆Star, Black☆Star's father, and Black☆Star eventually defeats him. Though in something of a departure from trope, Black☆Star isn't interested in
** It's averted in the manga, however, in which {{spoiler|Sid was the one who killed Black☆Star's entire family after they turned to evil, and is now the closest thing Black☆Star's got to a surrogate father}}.
* [[Your Answer to Everything]]: Maka says this to Soul Eater about him using brute force early in the series.
** Interesting how that one worked out, especially in the anime. ''He'' asks why she's running off without a plan.
* [[Your Other Left]]: Black☆Star apparently has this problem in the anime.
* [[Your Princess Is in Another Castle]]: Black☆Star saved the world and stopped Asura's rebirth from happening with a last attack! .......
* [[Your Soul Is Mine]]
* [[Zettai Ryouiki]]: Blair the Witch excels here. Tsubaki as well, though she has differing amounts of "Absolute Territory" on each side.
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