Haruhi Suzumiya/Characters: Difference between revisions

* [[Allergic to Routine]]

* [[Ambiguous Situation]]: Numerous points, but these are the two biggest: One, is she really God as Koizumi suggested early in the story? She seems mortal enough and it's implied she didn't always have her powers. However, is that really a meaningful question considering her implied omnipotence? Two, did she {{spoiler|rewrite the universe}} at the end of the first novel/season of the anime? Even the characters instory don't know.

* [[Belligerent Sexual Tension]]: That's the whole point of the Kyon/Haruhi ship. Haruhi's a [[Jerkass Woobie]], Kyon's a [[Tsundere]] who doesn't dare beat up the universe's equivalent of a deity.

* [[Berserk Button]]: An upskirt directed at Mikuru, be it ever so accidental, has set her off at least once.

* [[Depraved Bisexual]]: In Kyon's own words: "IS STRIPPING ASAHINA NOT ENOUGH FOR YOU, YOU PERVERTED GIRL?!"

* [[Desperately Looking for A Purpose In Life]]: Fits the trope exactly.

* [[Dress Hits Floor]]: Done with her Kouyouen uniform in ''Disappearance''.

* [[Even the Girls Want Her]]: May have occurred in "Snowy Mountain Syndrome", when the Brigade members are confronted with hallucinatory versions of the people that they fantasize about the most, Haruhi is revealed to be {{spoiler|Mikuru's}} fantasy. Then again, which hallucination appears to which Brigade member is actually {{spoiler|a formula worked out by Nagato to provide a clue to help them escape.}} Koizumi {{spoiler|[[Ho Yay|sees Kyon]], and admits to being [[Alternate Character Interpretation|rather disturbed]] by the double's behavior.}}

* [[Eyes of Gold]]

* [[The Face]]: Of the SOS Brigade and always out to promote it. Kyon notes that she 'knows how to get answers' peacefully from the apartment keeper during the investigation of Asakura's disaperance. Though in practice the trope is inverted as she either steams rolls people with blackmail and/or her personality, if she's not outright ignoring them--meaning the earlier incident at the apartment, among her nicer moments chronologically, before the end of ''Sigh'', would likely fall under [[Pet the Dog]].

* [[Faux Action Girl]]: Invoked in-universe. She can deliver a flying kick to the head to the [[Chew Toy]], but she can't be called on to help with the fights that are being kept from her because...''they're being kept from her.''

* [[First Girl Wins]]: Again, poor Mikuru-chan.

** A previous [[First Love]] is introduced later, but Haruhi already has her claws in by that point. (Not a [[Retcon]], as the clues were there from the start.)

** Actually with every member of her brigade, save Koizumi. If we can trust the narrator.

* [[Foil]]: Arguably the whole point of the Haruhi/Kyon relationship is how their opposing personalities come to a balance.

* [[Informed Attractiveness]]: Is said to be beautiful on cosmic levels... except that the other girls are also good-looking.

* [[Insane Troll Logic]]: She is Haruhi, after all.

* [[Jerkass]]/[[Jerk With a Heart of Gold]]

* [[Jerk Sue]]: An in-universe [[Parody Sue|parody]].

* [[Kick the Dog]]: A ''lot'' in the first few episodes, as well as the ''Sigh'' arc. More so in the novels, though in her defense it still ''only'' happens early.

* [[Large Ham]]

* [[Little Miss Almighty]]

* [[Little Miss Snarker]]: But unlike Kyon, her snark is ''never'' deadpan.

* [[Male Gaze]]: There's a lot of focus on her butt in the Endless Eight arc. [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Repeatedly]].

* [[Manic Pixie Dream Girl]]: She takes the job seriously enough to graph out how he's failed to progress, even after a year of her hard work.

** It's strongly implied that she destroyed the universe [[Arc Number|3 years ago]], and replaced it with one more to her liking.

* [[Moment Killer]]: Will happily bend the laws of space and time just to keep Kyon from talking to other girls. Has berserk superhuman strength when he seems to be writing love letters to other girls.

* [[Pet the Dog]]: As the series progresses, she reveals that [[Character Development|she genuinely cares for her friends.]]

* [[Power of Creation]]

{{quote| '''Haruhi''': Then I'll tell everyone at school that all you geeks ganged up on her and fucked her!}}

* [[Qipao]]: In one of the later light novels.

* [[Skepticism Failure]]: Haruhi ''causes'' skepticism to fail.

* [[Skirt Over Slacks]]: Briefly in ''Disappearance'', when she's changing into Kyon's tracksuit. When trying to fit the skirt of her uniform underneath, she fails miserably, basically says "Ah, forget it!" and drops the skirt entirely.

* [[Start My Own]]: Her motivation for this after Kyon talks to her a little about how people adapted or created things to suit their needs.

* [[Stepford Smiler]]: Demonstrates this after finding Nakagawa's written love confession to Yuki. She does it again in "The Melancholy of Mikuru Asahina".

* [[Summon Magic]]: Every time Kyon copies one of her drawings, alien monsters appear.

* [[Supreme Chef]]

* [[Team Mom]]: Yes, really! {{spoiler|Especially in the first chapter of Vol. 10, where she takes care of a sick Nagato.}} Also, when she plays with a bunch of kids in Endless Eight.

** In Snowy Mountain Syndrome she almost overbearingly insists on caring for {{spoiler|Nagato, even overriding Yuki's claims of being okay now.}}

The viewpoint character and [[Narrator]] of the series (and ''arguably'' the Main Character). Kyon is nothing more than a [[Brilliant but Lazy|bright but somewhat lazy]] [[Ordinary High School Student]] who has given up his childhood fantasies of [[Alien|aliens]], [[Time Travel|time travelers]], [[Psychic Powers|espers]], interdimensional travelers, [[Government Conspiracy|Government Conspiracies]], etc., as he explains in his opening narration on his first day of high school. He [[I Just Want to Be Normal|just wants his high school life to pass by uneventfully]].

 

 

[[Skepticism Failure|Naturally, all of them turn out to be real.]] And they all join the club, to boot.

* [[Action Survivor]]: Several times. One of the most dramatic ones being when he's attacked by Asakura, which causes some severe [[Mood Whiplash]]

* [[Agent Scully]]: He wants to go back to being a Scully. But he gets so much incontrovertible proof thrown at him early on he becomes a rather grumpy [[Agent Mulder]].

* [[Badass]]: All things considered.

** [[Badass Boast]]: The message he gave to the Data Entity. {{spoiler|"If anything happens to Yuki Nagato; I will let all hell break loose." He tells Yuki to tell the Data Entity that if it ever remotely thought of punishing her; he'll tell Haruhi everything. And make her believe it with "I am John Smith." Then he and the SOS would go as far as destroying existence and rebuilding it to get Yuki back. Oh, and the rebuilt reality would not have the Data Entity in it.}}

* [[Character Development]]: As mentioned under [[Pinball Protagonist]] Kyon goes from being incredibly [[Brilliant but Lazy]] to much more assertive and active in the story's action. This is because his lack of action and over-reliance on the other SOS Brigade members (especially Yuki) lead to the events in ''Disappearance.''

* [[Chick Magnet]]: He seems to be one due to the fact all the girls like him.

* [[Closet Geek]]: He tries to downplay his hobbies, but it's shown that he's a avid manga reader, plays lots of video games, may be familiar with American cinema (in the anime he wears the wristwatch from [[Men in Black]], and mimics [[Back to The Future|Marty McFly's]] sleeping position) and mentioned model-making as a hobby (with a focus on giant robots).

* [[Conveniently Seated]]: In the traditional second-from-the-back window seat when the seats change, and ''always'' right in front of Haruhi.

** Taken to hilarious extremes in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7bQG6LcMDY his version of Hare Hare Yukai] in his [[Image Song]] album, where he keeps interjecting in between ''his own singing'' to snark at the lyrics.

** Just read the [http://animetranscripts.wikispaces.com/Haruhi%3E25.+The+Adventures+of+Mikuru+Asahina+Episode+00 script for episode 0]. Any text in blue is Kyon and is pretty much 100% free range organic snark.

* [[Dismotivation]]: One might ask himself if he's gonna be an [[Almighty Janitor]] someday.

* [[Even the Guys Want Him]]: [[Memetic Mutation|Everyone is Itsuki for Kyon!]]

* [[Fauxlosophic Narration]]

* [[Filming for Easy Dub]]: Used in the anime to recreate the novels' lack of distinction between Kyon's thoughts, narration and speech.

* [[Flashback Nightmare]]: Though a daydream and not a nightmare, one of his [[Asleep in Class|dreams in class]] is a word-for-word flashback of a conversation he had with [[Forgotten Childhood Friend|Sasaki]] about quantum physics.

** He also has dreams about the time he and Haruhi were trapped in Closed Space together.

* [[Inner Monologue]]: All the time.

* [[The Ishmael]]: Either played straight or subverted; the former if you believe Haruhi is the main character, and the latter if you believe Kyon is the main character.

* [[The Lancer]]: Given everything he does for the sake of maintaining the Universe and helping his friends, he's really [[The Hero]], albeit one who complains a lot.

* [[Lemony Narrator]]: You know you love him because of it.

* [[Little Professor Dialog]]: Even disregarding all the esoteric knowledge and vocabulary that very few 16-year-olds would be expected to know, Kyon's speech patterns make him sound ''much'' older, as though he grew up in the 1950s or '60s. He was born in ''1994''.

* [[Meta Guy]]

* [[Morality Chain]]: To Haruhi.

* [[Nay Theist]]: He gets over it.

* [[No Name Given]]: For anyone in his family, [[Only Known By Their Nickname|including himself]].

* [[Not a Morning Person]]: He'd always be [[Late for School]] if not for his sister's daily glomps.

* [[Only Known By Their Nickname]]

* [[Oblivious to Love]]/[[Selective Obliviousness]]: Kyon's (un)awareness of Haruhi's attraction to him is complicated to judge.

** On the other hand, there are places where Kyon acts in a way that seems genuinely oblivious to Haruhi's attraction. For example, in "Melancholy IV," Kyon suggests to Haruhi to "find [herself] a nice guy and go walking around the city looking for strange things; [she] could even call it a date and kill two birds with one stone," which is a very stupid (and maybe even cruel) thing to say if you realize that that was '''exactly''' what Haruhi had wanted to do with Kyon in the mystery search the previous weekend.

** This scene from "Remote Island Syndrome I" could go either way:

* [[Ordinary High School Student]]: Or so he would like to think. But the other SOS members, particularly Koizumi, constantly have to remind us that there's more to him than this trope alone.

** In the seventh novel Koizumi offers to train Kyon to be an esper. Apparently there are not a whole bunch of other persons who can be trained.

* [[Ripple Effect Proof Memory]]: In ''Disappearance'', for [[Epileptic Trees|unclear reasons]]. {{spoiler|May have been intentional on the part of Nagato in order to give him a choice in the matter, but the fact that he needs protection from the reality warp when [[Set Right What Once Went Wrong|he goes back in time to stop it]] leaves this in doubt.}}

** {{spoiler|There's doubt about this? Yuki says outright at the end of the movie that while she couldn't prevent herself from rewriting reality, she COULD ensure that Kyon would be unaffected. The reason he needs protection when he goes back is because her failsafe was used up when Kyon chose to activate it at the famous READY? prompt. The program said that once it was run it would be deleted, so it time-travelled him outside the sphere of effect at his choice. Presumably had he chosen to stay, he would have subsequently be subjected to the re-write (as seen in the spin-off manga).}}

* [[Role Playing Game Terms]]: In the novels, Kyon often makes tongue-in-cheek references to his HP and MP and Haruhi's negative effects on both.

* [[Savvy Guy Energetic Girl]]: Savvy Guy to Haruhi's Energetic Girl.

* [[Secret Keeper]]

* [[Sharp Dressed Man]]: His outfits in Endless Eight are of the casual variety but still incredibly sharp and stylish. He even manages to out-dress some of the girls.

** Neither is Yuki, even if they were on the floor in a [[Not What It Looks Like|compromising position]].

** And neither was Sasaki.

* [[The Snark Knight]]

* [[Spider Sense]]

* [[Supporting Protagonist]]

* [[Talks Like a Simile]]: His narration is littered with disturbingly descriptive comparisons.

* [[That Makes Me Feel Angry]]: For all of his emphatic narration, we rarely see Kyon show any emotion about anything at all. We can, however, expect entire paragraphs dedicated to his insistence that he's emotionally overwhelmed about something. This isn't to say he doesn't show emotions; merely usually not quite the ones he's talking about at the time.

* [[Tomato in The Mirror]] Theory for now, but there are hints that Kyon may actually be the superpowerful being everyone thinks Haruhi is and that she is just his avatar.

* [[True Companions]]: Starting around the third through fifth published books.

* [[Trust Password]]

* [[Tsundere]]

* [[Vitriolic Best Buds]]: With both Haruhi and Koizumi.

* [[What Beautiful Eyes]]: At least according to {{spoiler|Kuyo, in her first coherent sentence ever.}}

** He also treats the resident esper the same as he'd treat anyone with his... [[No Sense of Personal Space|quirks]].

* [[When She Smiles|When He Smiles]]: Kyon is so ridiculously charming and good-looking when he smiles it's ''just not fair.''

* [[Sitcom Character Archetypes|The Wisecracker]]

* [[Emotionless Girl]]: Rather subverted, since she ''is'' actually a kind and caring girl, but was ill-equipped by her creator to actually express it. She's even aware of it herself, leading to some frustration and bitterness on her part that she ''still'' can't express. It can be quite pitiful.

* [[Extreme Doormat]]: Starts out as this, changes significantly over the course of story.

* [[Fortune Teller]]

* [[Heroic RROD]]: {{spoiler|Appears to be dangerously close to one in the beginning of Book 10. She got better.}}

* [[The Singularity]]: See [[Magic From Technology]] above. This actually makes her love for Scifi books an interesting quirk.

* [[The Smart Guy]]: Haruhi's perception. Actually [[The Big Guy]], when you get down to it.

* [[The Spock]]

* [[Spock Speak]]

Tropes associated with Mikuru:

* [[Adorkable]]

* [[Big Breasts Big Deal]]: Easily the Embarrassed type.

* [[Butt Monkey]]: Often due to Haruhi's antics

* [[Moe]]: [[Invoked]]. Played up to the point of absurdity by Haruhi. Heck, she's even the page image!

* [[Neutral Female]]: SOS Brigade Mikuru that is. Adult Mikuru is much more proactive... [[Manipulative Bastard|frighteningly so.]]

* [[Nice Girl]]: Present-day Mikuru is, at least.

* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]: Maybe.

** Many of his statements to Kyon end with his (nearly signature) 'Ah, sorry, that was a joke'. He stops tacking this onto his persistent hints that he has a thing for Haruhi by ''Disappearance''.

* [[Keigo]]: To death.

** Worth noting that his dialogue in the class play is actually ''an abridgement'' of [[Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead|the source material]]; the simple fact that he was cast in that role [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshades]] the hell out of this trope.

* [[New Transfer Student]]

* [[No Sense of Personal Space]]: The source of most of his [[Ho Yay]].

* [[The Philosopher]]

* [[Ship Tease]]: A bit of it with {{spoiler|Kyoko Tachibana}} at the end of the eleventh novel.

* [[Stepford Smiler]]

 

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* [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing]]: It can kind of be argued either way; on the one hand, when dealing with the vast majority of people, she seems to be legitimately, actually nice and to even enjoy it, doubly so in ''Disapperance's'' [[Alternate Reality]] and its related spinoff (which, given the nature of [[The Verse]], [[Mind Screw|may or may not count, depending]]). Her interactions with Kyon, however, run the gamut; she starts out nice, then there's the big stabbing incident, then a lot of her lines with him in ''Disapperance'' straddle the line between "good-natured ribbing about Yuki" and "passive-aggressive bitchiness", {{spoiler|then she stabs him ''for real''}}, and '''then''' {{spoiler|in Book 10, she saves his life ''[[Big Damn Villains|while holding a knife to his throat at the same time]]''}}. Perhaps it's most accurate to say that if she has an Inner Bitch, Kyon brings it out, and since [[Unreliable Narrator|he's our narrator]], we may get a disproportionate view of it.

** Granted, {{spoiler|she also seems to bitch out Kimidori a bit, but by Book 10 she has nearly as much of a legitimate axe to grind with the Data Overmind as Yuki does at this point, so it comes across as less "self-righteous bitchiness" and more "you really don't have any room to tell me what I should and shouldn't be, Nagato understands that".}}

* [[Eviler Than Thou]]: {{spoiler|Kuyo Suo of "the Anti-SOS Brigade" is even ''more'' deranged than Ryoko.}}

** {{spoiler|Also, her human counterpart from "Dissapearance" is much worse than normal Ryoko. Normal Ryoko's attempt to kill Kyon was motivated out of psychotic pragmatisism and there was no real malice behind it. The alternate Ryoko, on the other hand, was motivated by emotional spite, and she nearly succeeded in killing him alot more than normal Ryoko did.}}

** Granted, {{spoiler|given certain events in ''Disappearance'' especially, there are... [[Les Yay|other ways]] of interpreting that statement}}.

* [[Foreshadowing]]: Remember the knife scene from ''Melancholy''? Guess {{spoiler|who fights Kuyo and what weapon she uses?}}

* [[Unresolved Sexual Tension]]: With ''Kyon'', of all people. Especially given the... ''imagery'' involved. {{spoiler|He really, ''really'' tries to avoid acknowledging this in the 10th novel, straight down to refusing to ''look'' at her... because he doesn't want to admit to himself that she's attractive and that looking at her might allow him to begin to forgive her, a trap he fell into already in "Dissapearance."}}

* {{spoiler|[[Villainous Rescue]]}}: {{spoiler|Saves Kyon from Kuyo in the 10th novel.}}

* [[The Worf Effect]]: Has only nailed Yuki (who was using her own body as a distraction) and Kyon when she took him completely by surprise.

* [[Yandere]]: Ryoko's human incarnation in ''Disappearance'' is very much one of these.

'''Taniguchi''' and '''Kunikida''' are [[Those Two Guys]] and Kyon's main non-SOS Brigade friends. Both totally normal to all appearances, Taniguchi is a [[Big Eater]] and something of a teenage [[Casanova Wannabe]] who is implied to have dated Haruhi for exactly five minutes back in junior high. Kunikida is Kyon's junior high friend, and receives no [[Character Development]] or [[Backstory]] detail whatsoever - except that he gets better grades than Taniguchi or Kyon {{spoiler|and, as is revealed in the eleventh novel, may have a crush on Tsuruya}}. They both act as an anchor of normalcy for Kyon, and occasional extra bodies in the SOS Brigade for things like baseball games or magazine publishing.

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* [[Shipper On Deck]]: Taniguchi for Kyon x Haruhi and Kunikida for Kyon x Sasaki. (In the novels at least.)

* [[Ship Tease]]: {{spoiler|Kunikida goes to North High so he can be with Tsuruya more often.}}

* [[The Chew Toy]]

* [[Dynamic Entry]]: The receiver of it once he declares the Computer Society to be the SOS Brigade's rivals.

* [[No Name Given]]: The anime at least, plays with this by making Kimidori say his name, only to get cut off by the meowing of a cat.

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* [[Becoming the Mask]]: He comments that he slips back into his mask every now and then, even when Haruhi isn't around.

* [[Jerkass]] / [[Jerkass Facade]]

* [[Scary Shiny Glasses]]

* {{spoiler|[[Moe Anthropomorphism]]}}: {{spoiler|Of Haruhi's subconscious self}}.

* {{spoiler|[[Moment Killer]]: Deliberate Destruction of Sasaki's meetings with Kyon, even though Sasaki couldn't bring herself to confess to Kyon the first time around.}}

* [[Significant Anagram]]: When her name is read in the proper reading (Yasumizu Watahashi), it can be rearranged to say {{spoiler|''watashi wa(ha) Suzumiya'' -- I am Suzumiya}}.

* {{spoiler|[[Sixth Ranger]]: [[Averted Trope|Albeit briefly.]] }}

* [[A Cup Angst]]: A one-off comment from her in ''Rainy Day'', where she expresses a hint of jealousy upon the idea of Kyon ogling the popular girl in their class and her larger "assets".

* [[Evil Counterpart|Antagonistic Counterpart]]: To Haruhi.{{spoiler|..[[Good All Along|at first.]]}}

* [[Asexuality]]: Possibly; she sees emotions of love as a mental illness, but unlike Haruhi, claims never to feel them. {{spoiler|It's a lie.}}

* [[Bokukko]]: Strangely, she refers to herself using male pronouns when speaking to boys, but switches to female pronouns when talking to girls.

* [[Girlish Pigtails]]

* {{spoiler|[[Heel Face Turn]]}}

* [[Moe Stare]]: Usually depicted with one.

* [[Psychic Powers]]

* [[Ship Tease]]: With {{spoiler|Itsuki}} at the end of Novel 11.

* [[Touched By Vorlons]]: As with the other espers. {{spoiler|Her powers, however, came from Sasaki.}}

* [[Wham Line]]: Delivers the main one in ''Dissociation'': {{spoiler|"We believe the existence of the real god is not Miss Suzumiya, but Miss Sasaki."}}

 

* [[Curtains Match the Window]]

* [[Deicide]]: Serves as an accomplice to an attempted one.

* [[Evil Counterpart]]: To Yuki.

* [[Eviler Than Thou]]: She's worse than Ryoko Asakura AND Emiri Kimidori.

* [[Rapunzel Hair]]

* [[School Uniforms Are the New Black]]: Like Yuki, she doesn't seem to own any other clothing.

* [[Starfish Aliens]]: {{spoiler|She does not understand the concept or death, nor that of life and has only recently grasped the idea of language but doesn't seem to know what it's for. Apparently, all she wants to do is talk to people (especially the Integrated Data Thought Entity) but since she goes about it in such incomprehensible ways, it leaves her extremely dangerous.}}

* [[Starfish Language]]: Implied at first, and then mostly subverted. The Canopy Domain did not, in fact, really know what communication even was, meaning they ''had'' no language.

* [[Evil Counterpart]]: To Mikuru, even though he more resembles Itsuki.

* [[Have We Met Yet]]: To Mikuru in Novel 7.

* {{spoiler|[[Killed Off for Real]]: Apparently by Itsuki in the 11th book. They fight, an explosion is seen, and then the way people speak of Fujiwara afterward seem to indicate that he's long gone.}}

** {{spoiler|Of course, given his nature as a time-traveller, there's always the possibility a Fujiwara from a different point in time could decide to drop in...}}

* [[Knight Templar]]: He pretty much drops all claims to well-intentioned extremism after he tries to {{spoiler|[[Deicide|kill Haruhi]].}}

* [[No Name Given]]: For a while, he eschews names, and only adopts an obvious pseudonym at the insistence of the rest of the Anti-SOS Brigade.

* [[Smug Smiler]]: His perpetual expression is described as "an evil version of Koizumi's smile."

* [[Smug Snake]]

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