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There's a guy who dresses like a bartender with [[Super Strength|inhuman strength]], a shady [[Knowledge Broker]], a genius [[Back-Alley Doctor]], and a conspiracy about a pharmaceutical company involved in human trafficking. Then there's the "Dollars," a mysterious "colorless" gang whose members and activities are shrouded in secrecy.

 

 

 

 

<big>'''''Warning!!'' The examples below may include [[Spoiler|spoilers]] for the light novels, as well as the anime.'''

** Cards= Those he calls 'main players.' King= Shizuo {{spoiler|(he burns that one first)}}, Queen= Celty, and by the time he gets to thinking about who the Joker is, {{spoiler|he just goes "Aw, who cares?" and tosses all the cards into the fire.}}

** This instance of Calvinball is apparently especially random, since Izaya contradicts ''all'' of the above in episode 21 by having Anri be the black queen and Yellow Scarves be black Reversi pieces.

* [[Cast of Snowflakes]]: Especially important to keep the [[Loads and Loads of Characters|many characters]] as visually distinct as possible. Extras are grayed out with vaguer outlines to prevent distracting focus from the significant characters, and prevent exhausting the distinct features possible.

* [[Celtic Mythology]] or, if Izaya is right, {{spoiler|[[Norse Mythology]]}}.

* [[Evil Weapon]]/[[Empathic Weapon]]: Saika

** With regards to {{spoiler|Anri}}, it's an odd case; most [[Evil Weapon|Evil]] [[Empathic Weapon|Empathic Weapons]] feed off of their host's emotions, but this particular host claims that she feeds off of the emotions of the blade, unable to experience love otherwise. They have a weird kind of codependent relationship.

* [[Eyes Always Shut]]: Walker, and you can only hope that he'll never open them because of you.

* [[Eye Scream]]: This almost happens to a thug {{spoiler|when Togusa hands him over to Walker and Erika for interrogation. They planned to solder a "contract mark" into his eye a la Ciel of ''[[Black Butler]]''. }}

'''Kadota:''' SHUT. UP. YOU. TWO. '''''AHHHHHHH!''''' }}

* [[Incoming Ham]]: '''''IIIIIII-ZAAAAAA-YAAAAA-KUUUUUUUN'''''

** [[Fridge Brilliance]] calls for that since Nebula has been around since the thirties, and considering it has ties with people such as [[Western Terrorist|Huey]] [[Mad Scientist|Laforet]], they may have changed their name.

* "Nebra" could also be a Japanese mispronunciation of the English "Nebula"

** To a lesser extent, Namie is a female version.

* [[Jerkass Dissonance]]: Izaya's the most popular character of the series despite pretty much being [[Image Boards|/b/]] in human form.

* [[Karma Houdini]]:

** {{spoiler|If one only watches the anime, it could be forgiven to wonder if Izaya's coat is made of [[Naruto|Uchiha-grade]] [[Plot Armor|Reinforced Comeuppance-proof Plotanium]]; his character in its entirety is basically screwing with anyone and everyone [[For the Evulz]] from start to finish, and his total karmic backlash in the entire series is a black eye and stern talking-to from Simon at the end--nothing to indicate he won't continue ruining the main characters' and everyone else's lives for his own amusement.}} However, if you read the novels, you'll see that {{spoiler|things have been catching up to him lately. He has been stabbed (book 6), put in a public hospital where any of his many, MANY enemies could easily find him(book 7), and kidnapped by a psycopathic [[Torture Technician]] (book 9). In volume ten, he gets attacked by a possessed Slon and saika. And currently, we have no idea if he's even dead or alive.}}

** Izaya has a few of these.

* [[Let's You and Him Fight]]: {{spoiler|Aoba}} frames the Dollars for attacks against the Toramaru biker gang, thus provoking their leader Chikage into hunting down some of the more prominent Dollars members and having it out with Kadota. {{spoiler|They eventually team up to take down about twenty Izaya-controlled Dollars members together and rescue a couple of Chikage's girlfriends.}}

* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]: From the 1st opening sequence alone, there are at least fourteen named characters to keep track of. the second opening sequence adds another 5.

* [[Love Makes You Crazy]]: Pretty much every character and the reason most of the things happen. This is like ''"[[Love Makes You Crazy]] - [[Animated Adaptation|The Animation]]"''.

* [[Running Gag]]: '''''IIIIIII-ZAAAAAA-YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA'''''

** Also, Simon's apparent inability to bring any customers to his shop.

** He then decided to screw with the fans by writing a Shizaya story as an April Fools joke. [http://hi.baidu.com/datacat/blog/item/52c6cbfb1c700b68024f5610.html Found Here].

* [[Say My Name]]: See above.

* [[Sound Effect Bleep]]: "Shit" is censored often in the Adult Swim runs. It's quite hilarious during moments like "Oh, shit! Oh, shit! Oh shit!" which are made into a long bleep.

** Captions listed that as "Crap! Crap! Crap!".

* [[Something Only They Would Say]]: {{spoiler|Izaya outs himself as Kanra when he calls Mikado "Taro Tanaka" in person. Also, after Kida leaves, Mikado wonders if he may be the new member of the chatroom. His guess is confirmed when Bacula responds by grading Kanra the square root of three points, referencing something Mikado said in a previous episode}}

** Although as an alternative interpretation, {{spoiler|Taro Tanaka is a generic Japanese name, akin to John Smith. Since Izaya was saying who the founder of Dollars was, he could've been offering Mikado a courtesy by not saying his real name to anyone who might've been interested.}}

* [[Threesome Subtext]]: Aoba/Mairu/Kururi. Also a ''little'' Mikado/Kida/Anri, but not much.

* [[Title Drop]]: The episode title is dropped in episode 19. This is obscured due to the fact that Crunchyroll translated the phrase differently on the title card ("Anarchy") and during the episode ("The sky has fallen").

* [[Tomato Surprise]]: It turns out that the leader of the Dollars {{spoiler|is actually the [[Ordinary High School Student]] Mikado}}.

* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: Every gang in Ikebukuro has the same Rule #1: Don't screw with Izaya Orihara. However, the ''entire city'' also has Rule #0: DON'T SCREW WITH SHIZUO HEIWAJIMA. The gangs don't bother to tell their members the latter rule, since if you refuse to follow it, you're doing the gang a favor by getting yourself killed. More specific examples are below.

** Also, {{spoiler|Mikado}} has his own moments too in the light novels.

** Walker's face is always that [[Slasher Smile]]. If he's angry, he'll probably snap his chopsticks in two, slam them right in front of your face, or set a car on fire with gasoline and a match. All that, he still smiles all the way.

* [[Tsundere]]: Invoked by Walker and Erika in both Kadota and Celty's case. Walker then [[Serious Business|gets into a big argument with Erika over whether Celty is a "true" Tsundere]]. Celty is not amused. Walker feels that Celty is too even-tempered, and that Shinra mostly deserves the ass-kickings he gets. He concludes that they're both in a mild "[[The Masochism Tango|Type M]]" relationship; though it's not abusive. Both of them [[Too Kinky to Torture|enjoy messing with each other.]]

* [[Tuck and Cover]]: Shizuo to Akane (shielding her from a rain of knives). Shinra also instinctively does this to Celty when he hears a flashbang go off. The fact that Celty is a nigh-unkillable faerie only dawns on him ''after'' the fact, and he refuses to talk about it out of embarrassment when Celty later brings it up.

** Shuji directly asks Celty the "who would win in a fight?" question, which causes her to burst out laughing. It's Shizuo against an unkillable fae with the ability to give [[Dark Is Edgy|darkness physical form]] -- Of ''course'' [[Memetic Badass|Shizuo would win]].

* [[Urban Fantasy]]

** Isaac and Miria? {{spoiler|''They're Dollars''}}

** And the company that bought {{spoiler|Yagiri pharmacies, Nebula? Yes, the same company that built the Flying Pussyfoot.}}