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* [[Handicapped Badass]]: In connection with [[Good Is Dumb]] and [[No Good Deed Goes Unpunished]], {{spoiler|Accelerator suffers major brain damage at the end of his first arc, requiring a cane and the Sisters' [[Hive Mind]] to remain functional and use his powers}}. He's a [[Badass]] since he can still use his incredible redirection powers, {{spoiler|if only for 15 minutes at a time. But seriously, with that kind of power, few enemies would last 15 ''seconds''.}}
* [[Harem Show]]: Touma's harem includes but is not limited to: Index, Misaka Mikoto, Tsukuyomi Komoe, Himegami Aisa, Kanzaki Kaori, Orsola Aquinas, Agnese Sanctis, Fukiyose Seiri, at least some of the [[Over Nine Thousand|9,968]] Misaka Imoutos, and Itsuwa. And since {{spoiler|volume 20, Lessar is on it too. Volume 2 of New Testament has some '''very''' heavy hinting from Kumokawa Seria, considering she went from [[Teen Genius|genius]] to "blankly sitting around like an idiot" during his disappearance. In the same Volume, Touma finally make his [[Drunken Boxing|glorious]] return, maknig the papers and all, greeted by all of his female acquaintances in Academy including: Hyouka, Seria, Fukiyose, Komoe, Aisa, and '''AWAKI'''. Mikoto ends up complaining about the guy to girl ratio and yells at them to stop taking her scene.}} [[Unwanted Harem|Touma is genuinely bothered by his harem.]]
* [[Heads I Win, Tails You Lose]]: This describes {{spoiler|Othinus' path to becoming a full Magic God. If she succeeded in constructing Gungnir, it would give her access to her full power. If Ollerus interfered and used a spell to weaken her, she could twist that spell into also giving her access to her full power}}.
* [[Heel Face Turn]]: Several characters, the most notable of which is {{spoiler|Accelerator}}, almost bordering on [[It Was His Sled]] territory, since he's one of the main protagonists.
* [[Heel Realization]]: {{spoiler|Accelerator, the most powerful esper in Academy City}}, is constantly challenged and attacked by espers wishing to prove themselves. [[Technical Pacifist|He just wants to be left alone and live in peace]]. He figures if {{spoiler|he got even stronger then he would outclass everyone to such a degree that nobody would ever dare to attack him. So he accepts a proposal by Academy City researchers to slaughter more than 10,000 clones of Misaka Mikoto for a program that is intended to level him up exponentially. The clones appear soulless to him and they never made an effort to plead for their lives. Because of this, he never faltered}}. But after being defeated by Touma he comes to realize that he was the bad guy. After meeting {{spoiler|Last Order, a ten year old clone of
* [[Heroic BSOD]]: Several characters get one.
** Touma suffers one when he thinks he can't do anything to stop
** A sad one goes to
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* [[Heroic Rematch]]:
* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: {{spoiler|Realizing [[Failure Is the Only Option|all of her attempts have failed]] to stop the Level 6 Shift experiment and save the Sisters, Mikoto decides to do the one thing the Scientists in charge of the experiment didn't want her to do: [[Heroic Sacrifice|fight and die against]] [[Complete Monster|Accelerator]]. The reason they don't want this happen is because, Tree Diagram, the Super Computer that help calculate the experiment was destroyed, forcing the Scientists to stick to their plans of Accelerator fighting against the Sisters without interruption. Mikoto [[Spanner in the Works|intervening in the experiment]] would mess up their current calculations since they don't have Tree Diagram to help calculate the new data thus ruining the experiment.(And also getting them heat from the Higher Ups since Mikoto is one of the 7 Level 5's.) However, Touma tries to stop her from doing it because he claims even if she did it, [[Senseless Sacrifice|it would have been all in vain]] since the Scientists might still continue the experiment, [[For Science!|all to make Accelerator a Level 6.]]}}▼
** After {{spoiler|Fiamma}} reveals himself as the [[Big Bad]] of the first series, Touma fights him multiple times throughout World War III.
* [[Heroic Safe Mode]]: Index has a literal safe-mode installed onto her, that activates any time the main consiousness goes down. The computer analogy is quite literal. The safe-mode even shouts out status messages.▼
** Taken up to eleven with Touma versus {{spoiler|Othinus. He fights her literally millions of times, never once landing a single hit - and in the end, he never actually beats her in a fight (though he does succeed in destroying Gungnir). He only "wins" by convincing her to bring back the original world and surrender}}.
** A lesser example is shown with Touma {{spoiler|in his fight with Vento, in wich he was being trashed around up to the point where they were next to one of the people he wanted to keep safe. When one stray shot that would have killed a few dozen civilians was blocked by the person he wanted to protect, we discover that he was worried sick about collateral demage and wasn't fighting at full capacity.}}▼
▲* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]:
* [[Heroic Safe Mode]]:
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▲** A lesser example is shown with Touma {{spoiler|in his fight with Vento, in
* [[Highly-Visible Ninja]]: Played straight by Kuruwa (who's obsessed with the traditional, or rather pop-cultural, image of ninjas) and justified with Oumi (who dresses conspicuously to distract people from her allies). Averted with Hanzou and Sugitani, who look like a normal delinquent and a man in a suit.
* [[Hime Cut]]: Aisa.
* [[His Name Really Is "Barkeep"]]: Index Librorum Prohibitorum, which is Latin for "Index of Forbidden Books".
* [[Hive Mind]]: In yet another unexpected use of a power,
* [[Hoist By Their Own Petard]]: To defeat Othinus, Ollerus {{spoiler|creates and attempts to use a spell that will turn her into a much-weaker fairy. However, she uses an illusion to make him miss, and uses the exact same spell to weaken Ollerus}}.
* [[Holier Than Thou]]: The Catholic Church, the Saints, {{spoiler|and God's Right Seat.}}▼
* [[Holding Back the Phlebotinum]]: Index has mastered, functional knowledge of ''all'' magic, but {{spoiler|her ridiculous power, cumulating in destroying a satellite by accident with a giant her [[Frickin' Laser Beams|magical laser beam]], is only seen once when Touma trips her auto-defense program (and subsequently destroys it)}}. If someone would just {{spoiler|''tell'' her that she really ''can'' use magic}}, Index would become a [[Physical God|nigh-unstoppable force of nature]]. As it is, [[Awesomeness By Analysis|she just makes sporadic analyses]] and is of little direct plot relevance.
** Justified since Index becoming an unstoppable [[Person of Mass Destruction]] is something Necessarius wants to ''prevent''. Her {{spoiler|[[Laser-Guided Amnesia]] and their lies about her true abilities}} act as a [[Restraining Bolt]] on someone who could very well destroy the world, though with the former no longer in place...
▲* [[Holier Than Thou]]: The Catholic Church, the Saints, {{spoiler|and God's Right Seat.}}
* [[Hostile Show Takeover]]: In the DVD bonus shorts. While fighting crazy-defense-program Index, Touma tries to get Kaori and Stiyl to take action by telling them to quit being "just side characters. Don't you want to be main characters too?!" (The pair think about it for a second and decide to murder Touma.)
** Or more like they quickly defeat Index and became the new heroes of the show.
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* [[Ice Queen]]: Kanzaki Kaori. {{spoiler|Naturally, she gets [[Defrosting Ice Queen|defrosted]] later. By Touma, of course.}}
** As much as she is an Ice Queen, in the novels there are some funny moments involving her. Of course, given that she's {{spoiler|an 18-year old}}, she's pretty much a young maiden at heart.
* [[Ideal Hero]]: Touma is a definite example of this trope. No matter what, he will never kill anyone and always tries to save everyone.
* [[Idiosyncratic Episode Naming]]: The name of a chapter usually consists of Japanese text followed by English text. Some volumes deviate from this:
** NT Volume 4 has an [[Anyone Can Die]] format, and uses a very atypical layout to ensure that the reader can't predict what will happen next. Chapters are categorised as either "Main" (these usually end in someone dying, accompanied by an image of the survivors), "Sub" (relatively normal chapters with a variety of viewpoint characters) and "Period" (the ones where Touma makes an appearance).
** NT Volume 10 has each chapter named "VS _", with the blank being a title for the enemy/enemies encountered in that chapter. This fits the [[Boss Rush]] nature of the Volume, though it also [[Spoiled by the Format|makes it easy to guess who the enemies are just by looking at the table of contents]].
* [[Ignorant of Their Own Ignorance]]: Several characters, mostly the ones living in Academy City, believe their conflicts and world of science is all there is, completely unaware of the conflicts and world of magic.
* [[I Just Want to Be Special]]:
** Magic was originally developed for this reason, in an attempt to gain the same abilities as naturally-occurring espers.
** Many of the Skill-Outs and former Skill-Outs, being Level zeroes who didn't have the same abilities as higher-level espers. Shiage expresses this sentiment occasionally, even after becoming a [[Badass Normal]] in his own right.
* [[I Let You Win]]: NT Volume 10 contains many examples of this. {{spoiler|Accelerator fights in an extremely conspicuous manner, even bringing out his white wings, but holds back enough for Touma to knock him out (as an additional bonus, this discourages others from pursuing Touma and Othinus). Agnese has her forces try to avoid outright killing him, and after he convinces her of his cause, lies to her superiors to let him escape. Kaori is forced into helping him when he deliberately jumps off a floating fortress to exploit her refusal to let anyone die. Roberto Katze is convinced by Touma to let him and Othinus go, on the condition that the latter give up her power and surrender. Mikoto technically does beat up Touma, but she then allows him to pass while and holds back the Five Overs that Academy City had also sent after him. Index and Birdway do make a serious effort at killing Othinus, but still allow Touma to pass after he stops them. Arguably, this also applies to Thor, who defeated all of the other members of GREMLIN and fought Touma in a one-on-one fistfight that he was actually able to win}}.
* [[Image Song]]: Index, Misaka, Kamijou, Himegami, Stiyl, Kanzaki, Misaka's sisters and Kazakiri all have insert songs, sung by their voice actors. Many of the show's OPs and EDs seem to specifically describe Kamijou Touma, his situation or his feelings and ideals.
* [[Indirect Kiss]]: Mikoto and Touma are eating together and at some point both put their hot dogs down next to each while distracted by something else. When they turn back to their meals, there is much confusion over which is whose. Mikoto [[Asian and Nerdy|panics over indirect kisses]], while Touma doesn't seem to notice or care--[[Chaste Hero|after all, didn't they order the same thing?]]. The audience will note that they did in fact eat the wrong hot dog in the end.
** They share another one later during the sports festival. They end up drinking from the same bottle of water. Touma doesn't seems to care, but Misaka and Kuroko do.
** Also both Index and Touma usually exchanges their food and drinks, but neither seem to care.
* [[In-Series Nickname]]: Touma calls Mikoto "Biri Biri" (a Japanese sound effect for crackling electricity) which she does not like. The fandom on the
* [[In the Blood]]: Seems Touma got his lady skills from his dad Touya, who even in his old age attracts the ladies.
* [[Inverse Law of Complexity to Power]]: The level 5's of the world seem to have very broad powers. Misaka boasts power over [[Shock and Awe|electricity]], while Accelerator has [[Attack Reflector|control over all physical vectors]]. Lesser espers have abilities like Jufuku Miho's Dummy Check, which simply makes her [[Invisible|less noticeable]] to those around her.
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* [[Irony]]: Of the [[Dramatic Irony|rather cruel kind]]. Touma manages to prevent {{spoiler|the yearly erasure of Index's memories}}, just to {{spoiler|lose his own when he was hit on the head by those white feathers which were a side effect of the [[Frickin' Laser Beams]] cast by Index in [[Super-Powered Evil Side|Johann's Pen Mode]].}}
== K-O ==
* [[Karma Houdini Warranty]]: Accelerator. After killing over ten thousand clones in order to improve his own power, he starts to make a [[Heel Face Turn]]... {{spoiler|only to get shot in the head (the bullet being slightly weakened by his power) and suffer brain damage. He's now dependent on others (the surviving clones, in fact) to walk, talk or use his ability.}}
* [[Kansas City Shuffle]]:
**
** An even bigger example in NT Volume 8. {{spoiler|Othinus allowed everyone, the other members of GREMLIN included, to think that the operations in Hawaii, Baggage City and Sargasso were needed to create Gungnir. In fact, she was able to create the lance on her own the entire time}}.
* [[Kindhearted Cat Lover]]: If someone is shown being kind to cats in this franchise, there is no doubt that he or she is a bona-fide good guy.
* [[Knight Templar]]: Literal knights, in fact. The 13 Knights of the Roman Catholic Church will hunt down the traitor Izzard no matter if innocent people are in crossfire.
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** Also the various discussions about how Touma keeps meeting new girls and expanding his harem. Various characters imply that he's the protagonist of a galgame.
** Aisa feels like [[Demoted to Extra|everyone is forgetting about her.]] (Poor Aisa, she needs a hug.)
* [[Laser Guided Amnesia]]: There are several examples of this in the series. Notably, these are ''not'' resolved at any point, and the repercussions of this are often important.
** Prior to the start of the series, this was done to Index regularly, as her perfect memory would overload her brain otherwise ({{spoiler|See [[Artistic Licence Biology]] for how this wasn't the case}}). It's also inflicted on Touma at the end of Volume 1.
** NT Volume 11 reveals that Touma has another case of this. {{spoiler|Due to brain damage accidentally inflicted by Misaki, he has both retrograde and anterograde amnesia specific to her. He can still remember that Academy City's #5 Level 5 is an expert with the human brain, but can't remember anything about the person herself}}.
* [[Late Arrival Spoiler]]:
** Touma {{spoiler|loses his memories, permanently}}! Some fans find this as a [[They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot|waste]]. However, [[Fan Dumb|most seems to forget]] that {{spoiler|Touma's memory loss is permanent}} so there's no way for him get them back and even Touma keeps it a secret. In Volumes 14 and 16, it gets partially addressed when {{spoiler|Mikoto learns about Touma
** Another one is Accelerator's {{spoiler|[[Heel Face Turn]]}} after Volume 5. The character sheet doesn't even bother to hide this anymore.▼
* [[Layered World]]:
** Heaven and Hell (and other comparable places) are believed to be in the same physical location as Earth, but on different "wavelength". An analogy is that Heaven is ultraviolet rays, Earth is visible light, and Hell is infrared light. Normally, the different worlds are unable to interact. More is revealed in NT Volume 8, with the concept of phases. {{spoiler|These are filters that have been imposed over the world by the various religions throughout history. Underneath them all lies the Pure World, a world untouched by magic, which is the ultimate goal of Aleister}}.
** The Imaginary Number District is another, artificial example. It is formed from the AIM given off by Academy City's esper population, and is an important part of Aleister's plans. {{spoiler|If it is brought into the real Academy City, it causes all magicians inside it to suffer injuries comparable to those experienced by magic-using espers}}.
* [[Leaning on the Fourth Wall]]: Happens occasionally.
* [[Legal Jailbait]]: Komoe-sensei, chain-smoking beer-guzzling [[Christmas Cake]] teacher who looks like an elementary student.
* [[Lethal Harmless Powers]]: Plenty of powers in the series can be used in extremely dangerous ways. For just one example, any teleporter can teleport an object into something - or someone.
* [[Letter Motif]]: Academy City has the Hard Science line of technology, all of which have names beginning with "Hs".
▲** Some fans find this as a [[They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot|waste]]. However, [[Fan Dumb|most seems to forget]] that {{spoiler|Touma's memory loss is permanent}} so there's no way for him get them back and even {{spoiler|Touma}} keeps it a secret.
▲** Another one is Accelerator's {{spoiler|[[Heel Face Turn]]}} after Volume 5. The character sheet doesn't even bother to hide this anymore.
* [[Level Grinding]]: According to the Tree Diagram supercomputer, {{spoiler|Accelerator needs to kill}} about {{spoiler|20,000 Sister clones}} in order to become a Level 6. And so the project begins.
** In the Railgun manga, when {{spoiler|Mugino}} finds out about the project, she literally describes {{spoiler|Accelerator's}} actions as {{spoiler|"Killing 20,000 slimes to level up."}}
* [[Life or Limb Decision]]: Acqua specifically invokes this. He considers Imagine Breaker a threat, but is willing to let Touma live if he cuts it off. It's a good thing that he doesn't go through with it, consider [[Sealed Evil in A Can|what happens when it his right hand is cut off]].
* [[Light Is Not Good]]:
* [[Limited Special Collectors' Ultimate Edition]]: The Index DVDs contain an 8-part Railgun side story mini novel written by the author of the novels, Kazuma Kamachi and art drawn by Motoi Fuyukawa of the Railgun manga. Wanna have good reasons why you want to read this mini novel? Lets see:
*** The Railgun cast vacationing in the USA with a [[Beach Episode]] too.
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* [[Lovable Sex Maniac]]: Aogami and Kuroko are the prime offenders, though they are by no means the only ones. Lessar, Worst, Shiage and Tsuchimikado all also have their moments.
* [[Love At First Punch]]: Inverted. Mikoto first met and took an interest in Touma after he blocked her electric attack.
* [[Love Confession]]: From
* [[Love Letter Lunacy]]: Invoked by Seria in the Love Letter SS.
* [[Love Makes You Crazy]]: Aureolus Izzard, in addition to being a [[Woobie]] of sort. He betrayed the Roman Catholic Church and went into hiding for 3 years all so he could find a way to prevent Index from losing her memories. In the end though, his dream was stolen by Touma, leaving Index eternally attached to Touma. Needless to say, he did not take this well.
* [[Luminescent Blush]]: Most often seen in [[Tsundere|Misaka]], typically because of some situation involving Touma.
* [[Mad Scientist]]: The scientists behind the Level 6 Project. Or its better to say {{spoiler|Half of Academy City's scientists.}}
* [[Magical Database]]: In a literal sense, with Index herself being an index ''about'' magic.
* [[Magical Girlfriend]]: If Touma ever chose a girl as his love this would be it, but then again....{{spoiler|The others would also have the power to kill him too so he's kinda [[Failure Is the Only Option|screwed]], Imagine Breaker might bring you the ladies but it also turns you into [[Cosmic Plaything|the universe's toy.]]}}
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