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** Sunohara "enjoys" an unusual niche among [[Butt Monkey|buttmonkies]]: just about everything bad that happens to him is his own fault.

*** Except when it involves Tomoya's pranks. Even though you can tell that Tomoya is true friend when push comes to shove, he's also a jerkass of a friend too. Though, I guess abuse is okay when its anyone on Sunohara.

* [[Call Back]]: The "Okazaki SAIKOU!" scene in After Story references Fuuko's dream in Ep. 6 where Okazaki says the same line and is wearing (nothing but) those same black tights.

* [[Can't Hold His Liquor]] - Nagisa becomes fully-flushed drunk the ''second'' she downs her cup and turns into a [[Clingy Jealous Girl]].

** A quote from Tomoya "These stupid girls... ARE... EVERYWHERE!"

*** He was referring to Nagisa and Fuko in this particular case but the quote can be applied to many of the characters. He even says the entire town is filled with these stupid people shortly after this quote.

* [[Color Coded for Your Convenience]] - The color of the shield of the Hikarizaka school uniform tells you what year the student is... blue for senior, red for junior and green for freshman.

* [[Combos]] - Tomoyo has a rapid fire sequence of kicks that juggles her opponent in the air, and a combo meter actually appears on screen every time she uses it (on Sunohara). At one point, she and Tomoya do a chain combo. In the Visual Novel, she chain combos with almost everyone on the cast.

*** Interestingly, there is ''nothing'' of this sort in the [[Visual Novel]]. Not one piece of perverse imagery. The closest thing to Fanservice in the V.N. are a couple of misleading conversations that clarify themselves immediately after for comic effect - most notably, the situation Tomoya and Sunohara engineer wherein {{spoiler|Ryou thinks Nagisa is trying to confess to her. She's actually trying to ask for advice on forming the drama club.}}

*** Another is when Tomoya seems to be about to have {{spoiler|sex with Tomoyo, when he is putting his hand on her breast while she's lying down on a desk. A teacher walks in and Tomoya threatens her to avoid punishment and embarrassment for Tomoyo. Many fans were not pleased with the interruption.}} It is hinted to have actually happened in a bad end of the route, though, a few days later.

* [[First Girl Wins]] - Depends on whether you count by order of introduction to the audience or to Tomoya.

** By contrast, Kotomi is the "First Girl", chronologically speaking, and in the [[Visual Novel]] she can surpass Nagisa to become the [[Victorious Childhood Friend]].

*** "Surpass" is an iffy term since Nagisa was never a romantic prospect in Kotomi's route, she was just Kotomi's first female friend.

** Later in the [[Anime]], in an ''[[Bonus Material|omake]]'' episode set during the summer of Tomoya's senior year, Mei ''finally'' succeeds in getting Nagisa to call Tomoya by his first name. Note that the two have already been going steady for several weeks by this time.

** In the [[Visual Novel]], Ryou and Tomoya switch to first name basis, as well, in her and Kyou's route in the game. It's the final scene in the Ryou end.

** The same goes for Yukine in her route.

** Kyou calls everyone by their first names.

* [[Flash Back]] - We sure have a lot of them.

* [[Flashback Nightmare]] - Tomoya starts to have these as he gets closer to Kotomi, complete with [[Freeze-Frame Bonus|a seemingly random]] [[Arc Words|rabbit and deer.]]

* [[Foreshadowing]] - When Sunohara asks Yukine to be his fake girlfriend, a mishap happens which foreshadows Yukine's story arc.

** Additionally, when the topic of the possibilities of multiple worlds and timelines was mentioned in episode 16 of After Story, Tomoya suddenly remembers Nagisa's play, which is a rough description of ''The World that Ended''

* [[Intertwined Fingers]] - Ryou and Nagisa.

* [[Ironic Hell]]: Discussed in parody during Kotomi's tsukkomi training, when Kyou describes the different worlds awaiting a tsukkomi, including the hell of all tsukkomis, the hell of lame jokes that cause people to [[Face Fault]], and the one that really frightens Kyou and Tomoya, the hell with no punchlines...

** A [[Subverted Trope]] after Kotomi's arc, when the girls switch to the summer uniforms from ''[[Continuity Nod|Tomoyo After]]''.

* [[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy]]: A variant whereby Kyou supports her sister Ryou's attempts to get with Tomoya, despite liking him herself. More thoroughly explored in the Kyou Another World OVA.

* [[Mr. Fanservice]]: Tomoya. Akio. To a far lesser extent, Youhei Sunohara.

** Yoshino Yuusuke.

* [[Name's the Same]] - May not ''completely'' fit the trope, it's a bit startling that in [[Fall In Love Like A Comic]]!, male-lead Tomoya has a close friend named Sunohara.

** Not exact, but Yukine Miyazawa is way too close to [[Kare Kano|Yukino Miyazawa]] for comfort, even more so when you realize both are voiced by the same actress.

* [[Not So Weak]] - Nagisa. She even defends ''Sunohara'' but refuses to believe she could be even slightly cute or that she isn't a burden.

* [[Obstructive Bureaucrat|Obstructive Bureaucracy]]: The student council is ridiculously obstructive to Nagisa's attempts to reestablish the theater club. Until Tomoyo gets elected president, that is.

* [[Official Couple]] - Nagisa and Tomoya. After all, Nagisa is the "[[First Girl Wins|First Girl]]," Tomoya spends the majority of the show with her, and her theme song (also the season one ending theme) refers to a "mischievous" blue dango and a "kind" pink dango as a couple. The opening scene, where Tomoya describes their long path up to school, could be considered a description of their developing relationship.

* [[Older Than They Look]]: Sanae and Akio, who look to be in their early to mid twenties yet have a daughter (Nagisa) who is presumably eighteen or nineteen in season one. In addition, Fūko, who looks (and [[Bratty Half-Pint|acts]]) about ten, is the same age as Tomoya, Kotomi, Ryou, and Kyou.

* [[One Head Taller]]: Tomoya is almost exactly one head taller than Nagisa. (For that matter, most of Tomoya's potential [[Love Interest]]s are within a few inches of Nagisa in height. But with Nagisa, it's most striking—and also most relevant, since they're the central arc's [[Official Couple]].)

* [[One Steve Limit]]: [[Averted Trope|Averted]] both with Ryou and Kyou (who are twins) and with Tomoya and Tomoyo.

* [[Poor Communication Kills]] and its subtropes - Vital on some of Tomoya's pranks to succeed.

* [[Pose of Supplication]] - Fūko's fan club, after she rejects them.

* [[Practice Kiss]]: In the OVA "Another World: Kyou chapter", Kyou offers a practice kiss to Tomoya, who she is secretly in love with, but who at that time is dating her twin sister Ryou. She pulls back at the last second before they actually kiss, but not before they are seen by some of their classmates.

* [[Punched Across the Room]]: This tends to happen to Youhei. (A lot.) Sometimes down the hall, out the window, and into the top of a nearby tree. [[Crowning Moment of Funny|And down a garbage chute]]

** Another from Kotomi: "''[[Shrinking Violet|Ijimekko]]''?" ([[Shrinking Violet|"Is she a bully?"]])

** Periodically after the close of her arc in the anime, Fuko will come back (with a [[Magical Girl]]-esque entrance) to help the protagonists with some dilemma. However, something always comes up to keep her from being able to actually help.

* [[Say My Name]]: Numerous names get dramatically shouted over the series. Especially Nagisa's name.

* [[Scare Chord]]: Invoked [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpKmNUdXsys&feature=related hilariously here.]

** What makes this ironic is that in the visual novel there are several variation of this scene and, if anything, Nagisa's and Tomoyo's are far more suggestive. The real kicker is that they are all part of ''Yukine's'' route!

*** Even better in that it's entirely possible to get locked in the storage room with {{spoiler|Akio!}}

* [[Sibling Yin-Yang]]: Kyou and Ryou.

* [[Sibling Triangle]]: Kyou and Ryou, with Tomoya.

* [[Something Else Also Rises]]: See [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]], above.

* [[Spam Attack]]: Tomoyo's signature rapid kicks

* [[Spoiler Opening]]: See [[Bait and Switch Credits]] above.

* [[Standing Between the Enemies]]: Yukine stopped two gangs from fighting {{spoiler|by revealing that her brother was [[Dead All Along]] }}

* [[Theme Tune Cameo]]: The closing theme from the first season, "Dango Daikazoku," pops up frequently in the series, especially in ''[[After Story]]''. It appears both as a [[Leitmotif]] (it's Nagisa's main theme) and as a song in itself, usually sung by Nagisa herself, but sometimes by other characters (usually Tomoya) when they're remembering her.

* [[Theme Twin Naming]]: Kyou and Ryou.

** On of the odd things about the Sentai dub/sub is that this character trait is not only missing from the dub, but the sub of the first season as well, but it's there in Fuko's appearances in the second season sub. Necessary, since Kouko calls it out in the Grand Finale.

* [[Those Two Guys]] - Misae's two friends Saki and Yuki. Saki even [[Lampshade Hanging|comments on their background status]]

* [[Watching the Sunset]]: After Nagisa and Tomoya get married, there's a scene of them meeting on a hilltop path, the sun setting behind them. Because of the angle at which we see them, and the way Nagisa's holding her bag, it looks for a moment as if Nagisa's pregnant. Borders on [[Against the Setting Sun]], except no words are actually spoken.

* [[Wham! Episode]]: Perhaps most notably {{spoiler|Nagisa's death; Ushio's death}}; the [[Grand Finale]]; the [[Recap Episode]] (for some). But in a way, each episode starting around when {{spoiler|Nagisa gets sick again and has to drop out of her senior year for the second time}} is a [[Wham! Episode]] unto itself, with the whams growing more and more intense and [[Tear Jerker|more and more heart-wrenching]].

* [[What Happened to the Mouse?]] - It seems that KEY doesn't like best friends hanging around when the protagonist is facing huge problems in his life, Sunohara was not seen in the later years of After Story, while the other girls obviously shouldn't have much importance as Tomoya already consumated with his choice, some of them actually get expanded appearances in the anime, whereas Sunohara does not in any way, the only information about him is given when the story is next to it's closure, said information is only about what's his current job and that's it, even his sister got to appear more than him.

** Cue to many fanfics about what he was doing during these times, Sunohara's lack of appearance only made many of his fans with willingness to write crazy to interesting stories for the fellow; only in fanon Sunohara gets to love and be loved by someone.