Haruhi Suzumiya/Characters: Difference between revisions

* [[Club President]]

* [[Compliment Backfire]]: Every attempt to compliment her fails and she can't stand criticism so she winds up in the arms of the [[Silent Snarker]].

* [[Cross Dresser]]: Arguably does this when she sneaks into North High wearing Kyon's PE tracksuit (which is supposed to be unisex, by the way) in ''Disappearance''. Since the incident with the tequila chronologically happened before ''Disappearance'' (and the novel it was featured in was the second, whereas ''Disappearance'' is the fourth, [[Anachronic Order|but you probably wouldn't care anyway]]), [[Wholesome Crossdresser|this makes her...]]

* [[Cruella to Animals]]: Unfortunately her bumbling henchman Kyon can't figure out how to get 101 hamsters.

** Mostly just the [[Hero With an F In Good]], as she finds [[Good Is Boring|obeying the laws of physics is boring]].

* [[High School Hustler]]: One of the rare female hustlers.

* [[Hot God]]

* [[Inexplicably Awesome]]: Just.. ''Totally'' her.

* [[Reality Warper]]: Although she doesn't realize it, but maybe its for the best.

* [[Really Gets Around]]: A mild example, since in middle school Haruhi had the tendency to date every guy who confessed to her. Even if the relationship would only last ''five minutes''.

* [[Serious Business]]: To Haruhi, ''everything'' is [[Serious Business]].

* [[A Simple Plan]]: Form a club, pass out flyers, win a baseball game, make a movie. There must be a conspiracy sabotaging each of her simple plans.

* [[Tsundere]]: Haruhi is an ''inverted'' Tsundere, abusing people when she's happy with them and affectionately braiding their hair when she's about to rewrite the Universe out of jealousy. She plays it straight occasionally, however, noticeably at the conclusion of ''Disappearance''.

* [[Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist]]/[[Villain Protagonist]]: She [[Character Development|gets better]].

* [[Zettai Ryouiki]]: [[Justified Trope|Only in the winter, though.]]

 

* [[Male Gaze]]: Makes his filming of the student film...interesting.

{{quote| '''Kyon:''' [[Neon Genesis Evangelion|Position target in the center, pull the switch.]]}}

** Kyon's real name remains undisclosed. This alone implies that it is relevant, and {{spoiler|Sasaki}} tells us the full name Kyon prefers is noble, and the sort which one would question the reasoning behind....

* [[Meta Guy]]

** 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.

* [[Precision F-Strike]]: From ''Disappearance'': "Tell them to go fuck themselves!" Watered down in the anime adaptation to "''Then you can tell them to go to HELL!''"

** {{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.

* [[Secret Keeper]]

* [[She Is Not My Girlfriend|She Is Not My]] [[Magical Girlfriend]]: With Haruhi. He does like Mikuru, {{spoiler|but is forbidden to date her due to her restrictions as a time traveler. Not to mention the one time he accidentally got a little too friendly with her, Haruhi [[The End of the World As We Know It|nearly destroyed the world.]]}}

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

* [[Unwanted Harem]]: It's perfectly easy to make the case that everyone in the SOS Brigade, ''even Itsuki'' (what with the [[Ship Tease|sheer amount of]] [[Ho Yay]]), is out for him. Though somewhat subverted in that he actually WANTS Mikuru, who is '''not''' the archetypal "first girl" of the Harem. He has also expressed interest in Yuki. Most of all, he did make out with Haruhi, which is followed by him cursing away at his subconscious, and noting that it doesn't take Freud to comprehend the dream.

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

* [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?]]: Answer: [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|exactly the same]].

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

* [[Barehanded Blade Block]]: Does it one handed, and saves Kyon this way when he was about to get knifed by Ryoko. It works, naturally, but it results in a ''really'' nasty cut in her hand.

* [[Battle Butler]]: Not to be confused with the SOS's battle waitress.

* [[Big Eater]]: Or better said, ''fast'' eater. She doesn't consume very large meals, but those she gets to eat, she gulps them down ''fast''.

* [[Big Fancy House]]: The huge sparse apartment in the anime is a downgrade from the three bedroom spread she has in the novels.

* [[The Rainman]]: Lacking in emotion but brilliant with computers and a gifted musician as well.

* [[Rei Ayanami Expy]]: Her name even puns on Rei's name. Yuki is a homonym for "snow" in Japanese, while "Rei" can also mean "cold". "Ayanami" and "Nagato" are the names of two WWII Japanese warships.

* [[Reality Warper]]: One that's more in control of her powers. {{spoiler|She can snatch Haruhi's powers, making ''Haruhi'' powerless, but herself pretty much a [[Physical God]]. Since this is Haruhi we're talking about, it could be argued that the only reason Yuki could do something like that is because Haruhi, on some level, allowed it to happen (because she wanted it that way, because she was bored, because doing so would be interesting, etc etc etc).}}

* [[Robe and Wizard Hat]]: And we all know it looks damn awesome on her.

* {{spoiler|[[Anti-Hero]]: Her older counterpart can be quite morally ambiguous and manipulative at times. Her younger self [[Alternate Character Interpretation|may or may not]] [[Obfuscating Stupidity|have her moments.]] Koizumi definitely originally thought she was faking her "moe" tendencies to manipulate Kyon.}}

* [[Aw, Look -- They Really Do Love Each Other]]: There are some moments where we see that, despite all the grief she causes her, Mikuru does care for Haruhi as a friend, and vice-versa.

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

* [[Catch Phrase]]: ''"That's classified (information)."''

{{quote| '''Kyon''': Was it a guy, or a [[Bifauxnen|girl]]?<br />

'''Haruhi''': Could've been [[Sweet Polly Oliver|disguised]], but for now he looked male. }}

* [[Character Filibuster]]: Koizumi frequently (ab)uses his role as [[Mr. Exposition]] as an excuse to fire off [[Contemplate Our Navels|seemingly interminable dissertations]] about physics, philosophy, psychology and whatever other topic he can come up with that facilitates longwinded rants about abstract matters. He invariably ends these with some variation of [[I Was Just Joking]] to make absolutely certain that ''no concrete point whatsoever'' is ever made of these rants. Kyon, and most of the audience, are left with the impression that he just likes doing this [[For the Lulz]].

* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: In the end of the Snow Mountain Syndrome, he said that he would {{spoiler|betray the Organization exactly once}} to aid Kyon. We'll have to see when that comes to play.

* [[The Gadfly]]: Seems to enjoy [[Contemplate Our Navels|confusing Kyon]] and then [[I Was Just Joking|annoying him]] by retracting the statement way too much. Also one explanation for his constant [[Ho Yay]]. Considering his strongly implied attraction to Haruhi, it could be his way of getting back at Kyon for his distant attitude towards her.

* [[Gay Option]]: Well, everyone else had an [[Eroge]] trope on their list...

* [[Gratuitous English]]

* [[Guile Hero]]: Even though he does let Kyon handle most things, he is, by all rights, {{spoiler|the leader of [[Organization Index|The Organization]]}}.

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

* [[The Gadfly]]: A bad case of this, but fits it nonetheless.

** The fact that she appears in ''Disappearance'' at all is telling. {{spoiler|Yuki temporarily stole Haruhi's [[Reality Warper|Reality Warping]] powers, which means that she very easily could have fabricated a universe where Ryoko didn't exist at all; in fact, she would ''have'' to know how negatively Kyon views her, and this was all done for his sake. That Yuki brought Ryoko back ''regardless'' really suggests that Yuki must see ''something'' redeeming in her and that she isn't just a [[Knife Nut]].}}

* [[Girl With Psycho Weapon]]

* [[Motor Mouth]]

* [[Nice Girl]]: Will be friends with anyone, unless they hurt Mikuru.

* [[The Ojou]]

* [[Rapunzel Hair]]

'''Emiri Kimidori''' is a mysterious student in North High -- somewhat of a [[Yamato Nadeshiko]] and a [[Mysterious Watcher]] to the Brigade. She is revealed to be a humanoid interface just like Yuki, but has done very little, save for a couple of minor plots and being an ally to the [[Student Council President]]. That is, until Volume 10, where {{spoiler|she reveals herself to be somewhat of an [[Obstructive Bureaucrat]] working under the Data Overmind. She becomes an observer to the Sky Canopy Domain, but refuses to act unless ordered by the Data Overmind.}}

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* [[All Powerful Bystander]]: {{spoiler|Of the first and last variety at the same time: she hasn't been ordered to help out Nagato when she gets sick in the tenth novel, and she doesn't care enough about her to do so either. Thus, she just continues to watch.}}

* [[Curtains Match the Window]]

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

* [[Catch Phrase]]: "Yare yare", at least in the past. Yes, ''she's'' the one Kyon picked that up from.

* [[Curtains Match the Window]]

* [[Deconstruction]]: It's a hobby of hers.

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

* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]

 

'''Kuyo Suo''', an agent of the rival to the Data Overmind: the Canopy Domain. Has far, far less social skills than Yuki; she seems autistically unaware of anyone's existence. Has a lot of dark hair which is commented on, possible a reference to the [[Stringy Haired Ghost Girl]] trope. She's a bit of an [[Ensemble Darkhorse]], and her managing to stuff her ridiculously large amount of hair into a tiny plastic umbrella has become a [[Memetic Mutation]], it seems. {{spoiler|She violently tries to attack Kyon in the tenth novel (or at least it seems), until she is stopped by Ryoko and has a knife fight with her. Kuyo almost kills Ryoko before Emiri intervenes.}}

* [[Deicide]]: Goes out of his way to {{spoiler|make a ''very'' serious attempt on Haruhi's life}} at the climax of ''Astonishment Vol. 2''.

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

** {{spoiler|[[Long-Lost Relative]]: In Novel 11, it's revealed that Mikuru is Fujiwara's elder sister (well, he claims it to be, but it seems that he isn't her brother anymore due to alterations to the timestream).}}

* {{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.}}

* [[Time Travel]]

* {{spoiler|[[Villainous Breakdown]]: In the 11th novel, complete with [[Motive Rant]].}}

* {{spoiler|[[Yandere]]: A brotherly one toward Mikuru.}}