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* [[Aint No Rule]]: Part of a [[Batman Gambit]] by the current King. {{spoiler|He deliberately set up the rules so they did not specifically ban Celestial or Infernal children being chosen to fight, knowing that this would cause some of the King Candidates to think they were getting away with something by inserting "ringer" champions. It didn't turn out quite as well as the King hoped.}}
* [[Ancient Conspiracy]]
* [[Art Evolution]]: While the art style of the manga may appear a bit strange throughout, there is a very noticeable improvement from the style in the first chapter to that of the later chapters.
* [[Auto Doc]]: Heavenly Beasts release a healing machine which fully restores anyone inside it for exactly 10 minutes. However, if the healing process is interrupted in any way and the machine is damaged, the person inside it will die.
* [[Awesome but Impractical]] - some powers and a lot of the Zai Ueki seems to get. Cheering Zai, anyone?
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** Inumaru also lampshades it at one point, surprised that someone so conniving but loves justice so much went into teaching junior high school.
* [[Bag of Spilling]] - Between Law of Ueki and the short five volume manga sequel Law of Ueki Plus. Justified, as if Ueki uses any of his old special abilities it would result in the loss of his Zai and he would die, because the tournament is over and therefore nobody is a combatant now.
* [[Badass Normal]]: Mori, since her power is pretty much useless and has only been used twice in the whole story. It's justified that her limitations is ridiculous (goody-two-shoe pose, anyone?). But when she fought in Dogura Mansion, it has been shown that she had fought to a tie with Kabara, who's an assassin to boot.
** Moreso: Li Ho, who never ever uses his ability.
* [[Batman Gambit]]: See [[Aint No Rule]], above.
* [[Berserk Button]]: It's not a very good idea to [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/law_of_ueki/v14/c000/66.html insult Rinko].
* [[Berserker Tears]]: {{spoiler|Marilyn, after Ueki exposes her [[Dark and Troubled Past]]}}.
* [[Blessed with Suck]] - a lot of the powers have rather detrimental parameters for them to work(one has to hold one's breath, keep hands in pockets, hold hands, ''give up a year of life per usage''...)
* [[Blind Without'Em]]: Averted by Mori, who only needs her glasses to read.
* [[Blue with Shock]] - {{spoiler|The ''entirety'' of Team Ueki experience this when Rinko snaps during her match.}}
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* [[Funny Afro]] - Ueki temporarily gains one along with a Disco Zai ("talent to dress stylishly" in English). Apparently, Ueki was following the good ol' Saturday Night Fever style. He was immediately beaten up by Mori.
** And one celestial beast wears one near the end, and immediately gets a lampshade hanged on it.
* [[Gender Blender Name]] - Margaret is a girl's name, and Margaret [[Dude Looks Like a Lady|looks female]], but Margaret is definitely ''not'' a woman.
** An early volume of the Viz translation actually said he was a woman in the character profiles at the beginning.
* [[The Generic Guy]] - Or girl. Mori (at least initially, before she gets [[Blessed with Suck]])
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* [[Hannibal Lecture]] - Some of the less friendly God Candidates and team leaders are prone to these- and not just at the heroes.
* [[Happiness in Slavery]] - Rinko, who [[Love Martyr|loved]] Robert. Although, she does get out of it soon after meeting Ueki, [[Heel Face Turn|joining his group]].
* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]] - The afforementioned [[Fullmetal Alchemist|Romi Paku]] as Ueki, [[Chrono Crusade|Kawakami Tomoko]] as Mori, [[Gundam Seed|Soichiro Hoshi]] as Sano, [[Clannad (visual novel)||Mamiko Noto]] as Rinko and [[Gundam Seed|Akira Ishida]] as Wanko, among several others.
* [[Hyperspace Arsenal]]: [[Physical God|Celestials]] have these:
** [[Arm Cannon]]: Kurogane.
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** [[Combat Tentacles]]: Namihana
** [[Power Gives You Wings]]: Seiku.
** [[Pure Awesomeness]]: Maoh. [[Heroic Willpower|It takes up the form and power of its user's will]].
*** {{spoiler|[[Rule of Symbolism]]}}: {{spoiler|Ueki's takes the form of Kobasen/Mr. K, symbolizing his desire to protect his [[Nakama]], while Anon!Robert's is an [[Eldritch Abomination]] symbolizing [[Kill All Humans|his hatred for humanity]].}} [[Too Awesome to Use|It can only be used six times in a lifetime, though]].
* [[Idiosyncratic Episode Naming]] - All episode titles begin with "The Law of..."
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* [[Last-Minute Hookup]] - Ueki and Mori officially become a couple at the end of ''The Law of Ueki Plus''.
* [[Lethal Chef]] - subverted in Mori's case. Her cooking looks [[Alien Lunch|disgusting (and alive)]] but [[Tastes Like Chicken|tastes very good]].
* [[Meganekko]] - Rinko, Mori has glasses too ( {{spoiler|and her powers are based around them}}) but she doesn't ever wear them over her eyes.
** well almost never since the Q&A in the final volume sates that she is long sighted and so they are reading glasses
** It's implied Mori's glasses are purely to invoke this trope, as she carries over a hundred pairs with her, even before {{spoiler|she found out about her power}}.
* [[Magic A Is Magic A]]: The setting is not consistent with those rules, though. It's explicitly said that every power has its limiting conditions. And yet not only some of the power users don't have any conditions - Sano, whose condition (holding his breath) is explicitly stated, [[Talking Is a Free Action|freely talks while using his power]].
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* [[Talk to the Fist|Talk To The Tree]]
{{quote|'''Enemy:''' Do you want to know what my ability is? I'll show you. When I squeeze a stone, I can...” *tree hitting a face, knockdown*}}
* [[Sink or Swim Mentor]] - while Koba-sen, Ueki's God Candidate, has a strong sense of justice, he is laid back to the point that he pretty much leaves Ueki to figure out his powers by himself. To be fair, though, those are the rules. When he does step in to save Ueki from certain death—against the tournament's rules—he promptly suffers from the [[Mentor Occupational Hazard]]. Though he doesn't die, he is {{spoiler|sent to Hell}}.
** However, Kobayashi never told Ueki about the tournament, its rules, or the prize until after he'd already gotten into a fight. Everybody else knew all the specifics well before then.
* [[Snarky Non-Human Sidekick]] - Tenko, although he quickly loses his initial snarkiness and becomes more of a standard [[Non-Human Sidekick]] later on.
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* [[Spoiler Opening]] - the second OP spoils quite a few things, most significantly the fight against Team Marilyn.
* [[Superpower Lottery]]
* [[Talking Is a Free Action]] - it may be more of a premise of the whole show than [[Heart Is an Awesome Power]].
** Seriously, early in the series a candidate was dragged into Hell instantly. Later, {{spoiler|Kobasen}} suffers from the same problem, but he retells a five-minute-long flashback in the process.
*** Not to mention that {{spoiler|Inumaru}} does the exact same thing in Dogura Mansion.
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* [[Teens Are Monsters]] - All of the contestants in the tournament are supposedly junior high school students, yet a lot of them want to be the champion in order to take over the world, and have no qualms about '''''killing their opponents''''', for God's sake.
* [[Too Dumb to Fool]] - BJ starts off trying to win fights by claiming to be Robert Haydn, which causes people to run in fear. While Mori falls for this, Ueki just remembers that BJ introduced himself as BJ earlier that day, and just can't seem to understand BJ's claims that his name is really Robert Haydn... And keeps insisting that he's really BJ.
** The fact that he doesn't even know who Robert Haydn is probably helps.
* [[Tournament Arc]]: well, nothing more than that.
* [[True Companions]]
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