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* [[Absurdly High Stakes Game]]
* [[Anti
* [[Attractive Bent Gender]]: When Fukunaga gets dolled up, he's pretty much the hottest woman in the series.
* [[Awesomeness By Analysis]]: "'''Doubt''' them."
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* [[Gratuitous English]]: "Liar Game." "Money." "Doubt."
* [[Hannibal Lecture]]: Guaranteed at least once by any [[Magnificent Bastard]] in the series, and Akiyama's quite fond of them as well. Without it, half the plot would go unexplained.
** [[Shut UP, Hannibal]]: Nao lays one out on Yokoya like a king hit, then follows it up with a [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]. {{spoiler|Yokoya, by his own standards, had just ''won''. Yet, Nao's speech was able to take a self-interested, greedy manipulator and through force of personality and the dissonance of her seeming honesty, shake Yokoya's assumptions about what he knew, and what she knew. She also chose a great time to strike - right after Yokoya delivered a successful [[Hannibal Lecture]] to resident Chessmaster Akiyama. Nao then breaks down all the reasons that Yokoya was the true loser, and Yokoya claims that since he won quite a large sum of money, and that since the Liar Game tournament is essentially a zero sum game (or "one person winning means another person loses), Nao's goal of saving everybody is impossible. Nao then tells Yokoya that there was a very simple way of toppling his assumption before leaving, successfully provoking him into entering the next round when he had been planning on just quitting. Then, when Akiyama asks Nao how she was going to break the zero sum game, Nao then [[Batman Gambit|admits that she had been lying, and said those words solely to provoke him into another round where they'll have another chance at taking back all the money that Yokoya took and use it to pay off everybody's debts]]}}.
* [[Idiot Ball]]: Used occasionally, whether to simply provide someone clueless to whom the [[Combat Commentator]] can explain the situation or for actual plot purposes.
* [[I Know You Know I Know]]: The third game...see the pileup below.
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* [[Missing Mom]] - Nao's mother died when she was one.
* [[Moral Dissonance]]: Nao is tricked, in more than a few occasions, by someone who turns on their heel and highlights just how much of a jerk they are. '''Immediately'''. Nao, when she tricks someone, is an angel descending from heaven with the keys to economic freedom in one hand and [[Metaphorgotten|the great chain in the other]]. This is perhaps best noted as part of the game's [[Gray and Gray Morality]].
** The difference is; The ones who tricks Nao usually will [[Evil Gloating|happily gloat about it]] [[Hannibal Lecture|to the point of making us sick]], while Nao, even after tricks people, [[Defeat Means Friendship|will always be honest with her]] [[Well
** Further, the people that Nao tricks never suffer any ill effects - Nao and Akiyama always pay off all their debts afterward. Unless the subject was greedy and looking to turn a profit, being tricked by Nao gives them exactly what they wanted in the first place.
* [[Nebulous Evil Organisation]]: The Liar Game Corporation, who regularly lends the participants sums upwards of 100 million yen (about US $1.5 million). Mind you, everyone has to pay it back eventually, but still...
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** Then it came back, took frequent breaks, and went on hiatus ''again.''
* [[Schoolyard Bully All Grown Up]]: Yokoya for {{spoiler|Kikuzawa (and, indeed, Kikuzawa's ''entire'' school)}}.
* [[Screw the Money, I Have Rules]]: Nao and Akiyama run on this, constantly giving back their large winnings {{spoiler|and incurring massive debts of their own}} to save the opponents they just defeated.
* [[Screw the Rules, I Have Money]]: {{spoiler|Yokoya's}} last trick up his sleeve in the Pandemic game. {{spoiler|It backfires spectacularly.}}
* [[Ship Tease]]: "Basically, I'm just another one of Kanzaki Nao's belongings."
** Not to mention this little scene where Akiyama takes Nao's hand to demonstrate something. "Will you do the honours?" She does mention that she felt shy when he took her hand.
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** {{spoiler|And he ''definitely'' broke down at the Season 1 finale of the J-Drama.}}
* [[Walls of Text]]: It's a dialogue-driven story which touches on areas of game theory, individual psychology, ''sales practices'', economic theory and sociology...
* [[White
* [[Wide Eyed Idealist]]: Nao.
** Subverted by the fact that Nao's idealism usually wins over the cynicism of the other players. Which is not actually unlikely; as con artists say "you can never con an honest person". Almost all forms of con require the mark to be willing to be greedy or dishonest.
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