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{{tropelist|Haruhi Suzumiya}}

* [[Freudian Trio]]: Ryoko as Id, Yuki as Ego, and Emiri as Superego.

* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]: What Haruhi eventually matures into.

* [[Jerkass]]: Haruhi in the beginning of the series. Until...

* [[Joshikousei]]: In the book, Kyon wonders if the principal has a fetish for this, since male students wear blazers and ties, but girls wear the more traditional sailor uniform. Ironically, the [http://www.hyogo-c.ed.jp/~nishikita-hs/ real school] North High is based on features the ''opposite'' uniform configuration, with militaresque ''gakuran'' for boys and parochial-style uniforms for girls.

* [[Just Eat Gilligan]]: In ''Sigh'', Kyon repeatedly suggests doing this to Haruhi to solve the problem.

* [[Kansai Regional Accent]]: Notable for its ''[[Averted Trope|absence]]'' — the series is set in [[wikipedia:Nishinomiya|Nishinomiya]], on Osaka bay, in between Osaka and Kobe, home of the [[wikipedia:Hanshin Tigers|Hanshin Tigers]], etc. As the creator of the series was born and raised in Nishinomiya, it's not surprising he'd want to avoid the usual grossly exaggerated, stereotypical Kansai accent heard in most anime.

** This can also be excused by the fact that Kyon is an [[Unreliable Narrator]]; he could easily be rendering everyone's dialect (including his own) as Standard Japanese, just because.

** The author could also be doing this to sidestep the [[The Idiot From Osaka|stereotypical characterization]] associated with the dialect. It might partially agree with Haruhi and Tsuruya's personalities, but it would be very much at odds with Kyon's [[Ordinary High School Student]]/[[Unfazed Everyman]] role in the narrative.

* [[Kick the Dog]]: Haruhi, obviously. Most famously, the blackmailing of the computer club president. Some people don't find the molestation of Mikuru [[Dude, Not Funny|very funny]], either. In the novels, {{spoiler|Haruhi actually ''punched'' Mikuru on the head several times '''because her contact lens [[Wrong Genre Savvy|didn't fly out like in stories]]'''. }} She nearly gets hit by one ''really'' (and understandably) upset Kyon, but Koizumi restrained him.

* [[Knife Nut]]: {{spoiler|Ryoko Asakura}}.

* [[Lampshade Hanging]]: Where to begin?

** Among the popular Japanese media tropes, if it isn't lampshaded, then it was probably invoked by Haruhi.

<Haruhi looks up at Kyon in the window and grins unpleasantly.>

...That cinched it. Today was not my day.}}

* [[Macross Missile Massacre]]: Kyon on a bike with fireworks, in "Endless Eight".

* [[Magic From Technology]]: Yuki's incantations in SQL.

* [[Myself, My Avatar]]: {{spoiler|The Data Overmind/Sky Canopy Domain "Agents".}}

* [[Mysterious Backer]]: The Data Entity.

* [[Necktie Leash]] - Mostly just in the anime. In the novels she leads him arm in arm.

* [[Neutral Female]]: Mikuru. She even [[Genre Savvy|knows]] that she won't be a combatant or competent.

* [[Not So Stoic]]: There's definite traces of actual emotion under Yuki Nagato's [[Extreme Doormat]] [[Emotionless Girl]] facade. She's still pretty hard to read though.

* [[Not What It Looks Like]]

* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]: Kyon constantly denies knowing or understanding things that the events or narration show that he does, as a way of avoiding conversation with others; most notably Koizumi, but also quite a bit with Taniguchi.

* [[Occult Detective]]: Ostensibly the goal of the SOS Brigade, though they very rarely get around to it. Though, to be fair, the SOS-Dan's objective has already been fulfilled: "To find aliens, time travelers, sliders and espers and have fun with them", right...?

** The [[Arc Number]] is visually cued in episode 6: Kyon <s>endlessly</s> repeatedly scrawls an '8' into Haruhi's checklist, and from the camera angle it appears to be the sign of 'infinity'. Yes, ''eight whole episodes'' were committed to this symbolism.

*** Let's put this in perspective. While it only takes three hours and twelve minutes to watch every episode, this is not what was was Overly Long about it. Many fans watched these episodes ''as they came out'' over the course of a few months. Yuki Nagato was an effective [[The Woobie|woobie]] because after about 4 episodes the viewers began to get more and more frustrated and felt like they themselves were stuck in the endless recursion of time with the characters. It didn't help that each episode teased at breaking the cycle at the very end of each episode, only to have Kyon not know what to do/chicken out.

* [[Pac-Man Fever]]: Possibly justified, as it was a game built by a bunch of talented amateurs.

* [[Pals with Jesus]]: Kyon. To the point that anyone who wants to affect Haruhi in any way goes through him first (sometimes with a knife), to his irritation.

* [[Practical Voice Over]]: Kyon, narrating the first episode film.

* [[Pragmatic Adaptation]]

* [[Precision F-Strike]]: In the anime: "Then I'll tell everyone at school that all you geeks ganged up on her and ''[[This Trope Is Bleep|[bleep]]]ed'' her!" Of course, the line in the novel is the relatively innocuous "gang-raped". In the ''Disappearance'' novel, Kyon swears once at the very end (apparently for the first time in the series). By the ''Astonishment'' novel, he's less restrained.

* [[Prepare to Die]]: A crazed {{spoiler|Ryouko Asakura}} says this to Kyon in a [[Creepy Monotone]] before Yuki's [[Big Damn Heroes]] moment.

* [[Public Domain Soundtrack]]: Classical music is used very effectively throughout the series (see the trope's page for details).

* [[Purely Aesthetic Glasses]]: Yuki, though she stops wearing them later.

* [[Rapid-Fire Typing]]: And Rapid Fire Speaking, too. In fact, {{spoiler|being an alien,}} Yuki takes this to such a ludicrous degree that Mikuru gets scared {{spoiler|and Kyon gets nervous she'll blow her cover}}.

** Yuki's typing during the Day of Sagittarius is so fast that an ordinary computer should be unable to keep up.

* [[Running Gag]]: Kyon always being the last one to arrive at any outing of the SOS Brigade, and consequently always being the one who ends up paying for the group's lunch.

** Itsuki will lose any game he tries to play.

* [[Sailor Fuku]]: Kyon comments on the school's girl's uniforms in the first novel, and [[Conversational Troping|wonders if the principal has a Sailor Fuku fetish]].

* [[Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl]]: This is set out for Kyon and Haruhi in the prologue of the first novel and extends to at least the tenth novel.

* [[Suspiciously Specific Denial]]: In "Live Alive," after wolfing down his lunch at top speed, Kyon takes a walk just to settle his stomach. Seriously. There was no other reason. Don't read too much into it.

* [[Synthetic Plague]]: One of the characters knocks out half the class with a sudden flu so she can have some quality time with the male lead. Unfortunately there is one survivor who unravels her evil plot.

* [[Taking the Bullet]]: Partially subverted. {{spoiler|Yuki doesn't sustain lasting damage shielding Kyon with her own flesh.}}

* [[Talking Is a Free Action]]: Somehow, Kyon in the anime, when thinking or narrating (you can hardly tell the difference between the two). Especially obvious during "Someday in the Rain".

* [[Team Mom]]: {{spoiler|Haruhi}} is actually turning into this, starting around ''Disappearance'', but especially obvious in {{spoiler|the preview chapter of novel 10}}.

* [[Teasing Creator]]: [[Kyoto Animation]]'s "trolling" regarding this show has become ''legendary''. The worst so far just had its punchline delivered. Let me outline it for you:

* [[Techno Babble]]: Every time Yuki, Mikuru and Itsuki explain something to Kyon, who normally lampshades it.

* [[Technology Porn]]: The futuristic videogame "world," with tons of ships and views of torpedoes being loaded everywhere.

** In "The Melancholy of Mikuru Asahina," Kyon says that his option of telling Asahina {{spoiler|his knowledge of her future self}} is a trump card comparable to telling Haruhi that {{spoiler|he is John Smith}}.

** Kyon might also be the key to {{spoiler|unsealing Yuki's full power.}} Yuki says she has {{spoiler|willingly sealed off her ability to synchronize, and that she cannot unseal it herself. She says the password to unsealing is in someone else's hands, but doesn't actually say who.}}

* [[One Mario Limit|Two Haruhi Limit]]: With [[Ouran High School Host Club|one exception]], this Haruhi is the only memorable one.

* [[Uncanny Valley Girl]]: {{spoiler|Ryoko Asakura.}}

* [[Un Confession]]

* [[Unwanted Harem]]: It seems like the rest of the SOS Brigade is this to Kyon.

** [[Ho Yay|Including Itsuki.]]

* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: In the 11th novel, when {{spoiler|Fujiwara meets Future!Mikuru ([[Long Lost Sibling|whom he believes to be his older sister]])}} he ''completely loses it''.

* [[Viral Marketing]]

** Itsuki and Kyon as well, particularly because they're the only males in the SOS brigade and Itsuki is the most open and talkative compared to Mikuru and Yuki.

* [[Viewer-Friendly Interface]]: Averted to extreme detail. The Literature Clubroom computer in ''Disappearance'' is a genuine PC-9821 running NEC [[Microsoft Windows|Windows 95]], complete with original start-up chime.

* [[WAFF]]: ''Disappearance'', [[It Got Worse|but only at first glance...]]

** [[Moe|Played]] [[Tastes Like Diabetes|completely]] [[Sweet Dreams Fuel|straight]] [[Lighter and Softer|with]] the ''Yuki-chan'' [[Spin-Off]], however.

* [[Woman in White]]: <s>Haruhi</s> during the prologue of "Remote Island Syndrome".

* [[Written Sound Effect]]: The opening of the new episodes.

* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]: Everyone has realistic hair colors, except for the Humanoid Interfaces [[My Friends and Zoidberg|and Tsuruya]].

* [[Younger Than They Look]]: Yuki is technically only 3 years old, {{spoiler|[[Really 700 Years Old|until]] "[[Groundhog Day Loop|Endless Eight]]" [[Really 700 Years Old|anyway]]}}.

 

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