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* [[Accidental Innuendo]]: Itaru generally requests an immediate repeat whenever they come up.
* [[Accidental Pervert]]:
* [[Accidental Pervert]]: After receiving another threatening message, Rintaro rushes to his apartment, and finds Mayuri and Kurisu in the shower.▼
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* [[Alternate Character Reading]]: Invoked with Rintaro's name for the time machine e-mails, "Nostalgia Drive". It's written "time-travelling journey for nostalgia" (時を越えた郷愁への旅).
* [[Anime of the Game]]
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** Gamma timeline takes it a step further, since in this timeline, {{spoiler|Okabe becomes a part of the rounders along with Moeka}}.
* [[Based on a Great Big Lie]]: Based on John Titor's time traveling story, it could be either true or false {{spoiler|and he's a girl}}.
* [[Because Destiny Says So]]: {{spoiler|Unless Rintaro manages to change the attractor field, a person's death can never be changed. This also applies to his own death, as in both the Alpha and Beta timelines, he will not live past 2025}}.
* [[Belligerent Sexual Tension]]: Rintaro and Kurisu.
* [[Berserk Button]]: When Faris mentions in the Alpha drama CD that her maid outfits might not fit Kurisu, Kurisu gets [[Pettanko|awfully touchy]].
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* [[The Cameo]]: [[Chaos;Head|Takumi]] is briefly mentioned by his pseudonym Knighthart looking for IBN 5100. He has no involvement in the story, however.
** A huge TV airing FES's performance in Alpha timeline. Giving the right reply to Faris's mail earns the player Ayase's portrait and FES's music, sang by Kanako Itō, including ''Chaos;Head'' OP: "Find the Blue".
*** Even Seira-tan appears. Some of the characters from ''Steins;Gate'' have also found themselves in other media. Kurisu appears as a character spell in ''[[Hyperdimension Neptunia mk2]]''; Mayuri also makes an appearance as a summon. Kurisu's also a character in ''Phantom Breaker'', as well as in ''Nendoroid Generation''.▼
** Posters of other 5pb. and [[Nitro+]] works occasionally appear in various locations. Additionally one of the computer shops bears the name 'Nitro+' in an alpha worldline, there is also a 'Nitro+' magazine.
▲** Some of the characters from ''Steins;Gate'' have also found themselves in other media. Kurisu appears as a character spell in ''[[Hyperdimension Neptunia mk2]]''; Mayuri also makes an appearance as a summon. Kurisu's also a character in ''Phantom Breaker'', as well as in ''Nendoroid Generation''.
* [[Catch Phrase]]: Mayuri's "Tuturu~" whenever she greets someone as a phone wallpaper sent by Mayuri.
* [[Cat Smile]]: Faris (of course), Mayuri and Suzuka.
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** [[Sixth Ranger]]: [[Action Girl|Suzuha]], [[Mysterious Waif|Moeka]].
* [[Foreshadowing]]: Since this is a series about time travel, there are too many instances of this to list.
* [[Four Is Death]]:
** {{spoiler|Stage 4 of SERN's Z-Program involves human experiments}}.
{{quote|{{spoiler|''Experiment Result: Human is dead, mismatch''}}.}}
** {{spoiler|Mayuri's last name is Shiina. You can figure out the rest}}.
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** Not like anyone takes his ham seriously other than Ruka or possibly Faris.
* [[Laser Blade]]: One of Rintaro's many inventions is the Cyalume Saber, which is pretty obviously Darth Vader's lightsaber.
* [[Leaning on the Fourth Wall]]:
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** A strange variety of this comes up when Mayuri gets Ruka to crossdress and Kurisu stares at him for a little bit (when she thought Ruka was a girl). Itaru even notes how [[Lampshade Hanging|yuri]] it is with Okabe quickly pointing out that it's not since Ruka's a guy.
* [[Lighter and Softer]]: ''Steins;Gate Hiyoku Renri no Darling'', the sequel that focuses less on time travel conspiracies and more on fun and relationships.
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** Ruka too, who is overly easy to spook.
* [[The Slow Path]]: {{spoiler|Alpha Suzuha's time machine is backwards only}}.
** {{spoiler|On a more constrained scale, so is the
* [[Someone Has to Die]]: Occurs when {{spoiler|the attempts to avert Mayuri's fate put them on track for the timeline where Kurisu died, forcing them to choose between saving Mayuri or Kurisu}}. {{spoiler|However, when they choose to save Mayuri, their decision gets turned on its head when that just makes things worse}}.
* [[Something Only They Would Say]]: {{spoiler|FB gave each member of the Rounders specific codenames that no other member knows. It also becomes the key to finding out FB's true identity (see episode 20 [[Wham! Line]] below)}}.
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* [[Time Travel]]: Central to the plot, and hitting upon plenty of related tropes, with a healthy dose of [[Mind Screw]] and [[Deconstruction]].
* [[Time Travel Escape]]: Okabe's meddling with the past gets so bad, he must time travel to undo the changes he's made.
* [[Title Drop]]: "[[Catch Phrase|This is the choice of Steins Gate!]]" shows up from the beginning. However,
* [[Tomato Surprise]]: {{spoiler|The reveal that Rintaro kills Kurisu in beta timeline in an accident}}.
** You can change the cause, but never can you change the effect. I think this is more of the case here.
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** {{spoiler|While not concrete proof that this was the case, Suzuha mentions in the same chapter that SERN wouldn't hesistate to hold family members hostage in order to force researchers like Kurisu to go along with them. Kurisu's frightened reaction over her father at the mention of this makes it seem like a very likely possibility that her involvement with SERN was under duress}}.
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: Rintaro, sometimes. {{spoiler|The most significant one is when Rintaro chooses let to Mayuri remain dead so Ruka can remain being a girl}}.
* [[Wrong Genre Savvy]]: Rintaro is clearly trying hard to be a [[Magnificent Bastard]] like [[Code Geass|Lelouch]], but his initially ordinary life frustrates these ambitions, twisting his lines into comedy, with his friend Itaru claiming he is simply "deluded", even admitting that he (Rintaro) is the only one who really cares about "[[Large Ham|destroying the ruling structure of the world]]." {{spoiler|By the end, however, this is reversed, and those same lines sound downright awesome, and very convincing, notably at the [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|end of episode 23]]}}.
* [[Yandere]]: {{spoiler|Nae, 15 years in the future, time leaps to the present to kill Moeka for being unable to prevent her father's suicide, then warns Rintaro that she will torture him to death 15 years later before running away. All because she is not satisfied with killing them once}}.
** On the drama CD "[[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Yandere Kurisu]]", Kurisu evolve to this, as you can hear [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOFkctKYQWQ here].
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* [[You Fail Biology Forever]]: Ruko thinks that if a baby's mother eats lots of vegetables, the baby will be born female. {{spoiler|''He's right''}}.
* [[You Have Failed Me...]]: After Moeka {{spoiler|helps Rintaro track down FB}}, {{spoiler|Braun executes her for betraying him}}.
* [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness]]: {{spoiler|The Fate of all Rounder members. After their mission, they are supposed to commit suicide to hide the mission's secret In one timeline, Braun also kills Moeka for similar reasons, and, shortly after, himself}}.
* [[Younger Than They Look]]: Both Okabe and Hashida are supposed to be 18, but look like they're closer to their late 20's. Their tall stature and Okabe's lab coat may have something to do with it. And even though she's like an [[Adult Child]], Mayuri still does not look like a 16-year old.
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