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* [[Badass Adorable]]: Ika-Musume when she actually tries, Chizuru ''as natural as breathing air.''
** Which is suspicious enough to Cindy and her team that they try to get a lock of Chizuru's hair for analysis.
* [[Badass Arm -Fold]]: Ika sports one of these in episode 1, complete with manic grin and red-and-black cool-looking background.
* [[Balloon Belly]]: Ika-Musume gets this when she gorges on food (usually [[Trademark Favorite Food|shrimp]]).
** Eiko gets this in the manga after gulping down the contents of a cart of drinks.
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* [[Friend to All Children]]: Ika gets along really well with Takeru and the other kids at the beach.
* [[Fun Size]]: [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/shinryaku_ika_musume/v02/c038.5/1.html Mini Ika Musume]. [[Tastes Like Diabetes]] indeed.
* [[Fun With Foreign Languages]]: Season 2, Episode 4.1, particularly the hilarious [[In My Language, That Sounds Like...]] thing between Cindy and Eiko.
* [[The Gadfly]]: Chizuru.
* [[The Generic Guy]]: Takeru. According to Ika, anyway.
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** In Season 2 Episode 3.3, when Goro suggests Ika Musume become a lifeguard, the picture demonstrating her tentacles being used includes the word "speedy" as an [[Unsound Effect]].
** Season 2, Episode 4.1 is basically one ''big'' [[Gratuitous English]] moment.
** From the [["On the Next..."]] section at the end of Episode 6 of Season 2:
{{quote| '''Cindy:''' ''Thank you for watching!''}}
* [[Greater Need Than Mine]]: Goro. He urged Ika Musume to save a kid that drifted too far off, even though he himself was drowning.
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* [[Idiosyncratic Episode Naming]]: All the episode/chapter titles are in the form of questions, ending with, in Japanese, "-na'''i ka'''", which signifies a question in the informal mode, with the "i ka" in katakana for emphasis. This makes for a pun with "ika", which by itself means squid.
** [[Pun-Based Title]]: [[Woolseyism|Since that doesn't work in English]], the translation makes most of the chapter titles' puns on "Squid," "Ink," or "Fish," such as "Feeling Inkquisitive?" and "How about a squiddle walk?!"
* [[Idiot Ball]]: Cindy carries it for a little while in S2 4.1 when she fails to realize Eiko is still speaking Japanese instead of English and the [[In My Language, That Sounds Like...]] phrases get more and more ridiculous. It's still hilarious though.
* [[I'm Taking Her Home With Me]]: The beginning of "Won't You Keep It?". Sanae tries to do this on a regular basis to Squid Girl, but always gets punched away.
* {{spoiler|1=[[Important Haircut]]/[[Bob Haircut]]}}: {{spoiler|Ika in episode 12. [[Fridge Brilliance|Interestingly, she cuts her tentacles at the same angle as Eiko's hair]].}}
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* [[Insult Backfire]]: Calling Ika "fearsome" and "dangerous" is exactly what she wants. This makes her attached to Nagisa, which only scares Nagisa more.
* [[Kimodameshi]]: Happens in episode 3.1 of Season 1, complete with [[Ghost Lights]].
* [[Last -Episode New Character]]
* [[Laughing Mad]]: Eiko, when she finds out Squid Girl is far, far better at math than her.
* [[Lawyer-Friendly Cameo]]: [[Kamen Rider|Nohmen Rider]]. Ika, of course, roots for the Dr. Shinigami-like squid monster.
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* [[OOC Is Serious Business]]: When [[Eyes Always Shut|Chizuru]] opens her eyes, expect to get your ass handed to you.
* [[Our Ghosts Are Different]]: They're not trying to spirit you away to the afterlife, they're just showing you a way back home.
* [[Pac-Man Fever]]: An odd mix. Eiko's game system is a cartridge-based one, with plenty of [[Shout -Out|Shout Outs]] to actual 16-bit era games (especially [[Sega]] games,) but it also plays a [[Bland-Name Product]] version of [[Street Fighter|Street Fighter IV.]]
* [[Paper-Thin Disguise]]: Literally. Takeru pretends to be Squid Boy with a disguise consisting of a paper hat and coloured strips of paper. Ika falls for it. [[Crowning Moment of Funny|Even when it's removed.]]
** Chizuru in episode 12 after Eiko crashes into her. She then switches places with her and dons a wig and the Noh Mask Rider Hannya mask -- with her real hair hanging out quite obviously.
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* [[Pungeon Master]]: Ika/Squid Girl herself; this is exaggerated in most translations and the English dub. She doesn't do it on purpose so much as she actually thinks that's how things are pronounced. Eiko and the others quickly notice it's part of her mannerisms.
* [[Real Place Background]]: The restaurant is located on Yuigahama beach in Kamakura.
** In both the manga (Chapter 147) and the anime (Season 2, Episode 6.1), they visit Kamakura's [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/:K%C5%8Dtoku-in |Daibutsu]].
* [[Recycled in Space]]: Inverted. This show is basically [[Keroro Gunsou]] without that pesky "space" thing... Also, Squid Girl's presence is public knowledge.
** This anime can be considered as Japan's own [[Spongebob SquarePants]], with the setting taking place on land and most of the creatures being replaced with humans. Except for the whole "becoming a network's cash cow and extending it for a bazillion seasons" thing.
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** Ika as well, as shown in episode 3.
* [[Shipper On Deck]]: Nagisa wants to pay Goro back for saving her life by trying to hook him up with Chizuru. {{spoiler|It seems to succeed ... at first}}.
* [[Shout -Out]]: When the scientists accidentally {{spoiler|turn the store invisible}}, they bring about the wrath of Chizuru. They try to protect against her attack by shielding themselves. Harris erects an [[Neon Genesis Evangelion|AT Barrier]], Clark brings out [[The Legend of Zelda (Franchise)|Link's Master Shield]], and Martin throws up a tortoise shell. Naturally, none of them work.
** Perhaps her martial prowess is a shoutout in itself? Cutting flies and tentacles BAREHANDED? Sounds supiciously like [[Hokuto no Ken|she is a Genyu Ken]] practitioner.
** In episode 11.1, Eiko brings a doll out of storage because it's picking up in value as a collectors item. It was part of a pair of doll toys known as [[Johnny Depp|Johnny & Depp]].
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* [[Sick Episode]]: Ika falls ill to a Squid Girl disease. Symptoms include nausea, headaches, flushes in the face, fever, delirium, and '''''death...'''''{{spoiler|ly cravings for shrimp.}}
** A later episode has her and Sanae suffering heat stroke, with Squid Girl worrying that Sanae will recover before she does and take advantage of her in her weakened state. {{spoiler|[[Even Evil Has Standards|She doesn't.]]}}
* [[Single -Target Sexuality]]: Sanae with regard to Ika.
* [[Slice of Life]]: Slice of Squiddly Life.
** Just don't mention the [[Heroic BSOD|NAME of the trope]] around Ika, de geso!
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* [[Tickle Torture]]: All of chapter 81 (Season 2, episode 4.2 in the anime). Ika is eager to take it to [[Fetish Fuel|extreme levels]], but forgets that conquering humanity with tickling doesn't work if you're more ticklish than everyone else.
** She doesn't realize this until she attacks ''Chizuru'', of all people -- only to be told "You ''missed'' my weak spot."
** She already used it on Eiko in episode 7, as well as Cindy and the MIT trio in episode 11 of the first season of the anime, so this has become an [[Adaptation -Induced Plothole]].
* [[Time Skip]]: In the final episode of season one, a year passes {{spoiler|after Ika "returns" to the sea. Of course, she comes back.}}
* [[Tomboy]]: Nagisa
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