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Being a [[Mad Scientist]] is ''awesome''. Converting your ''microwave'' so that you can [[Time Travel|send e-mails to the past]]? ''Awesome''.
Being stalked by a secret organization doing their ''own'' [[Time Travel]] experiments and dead
The [[Spiritual Successor]] to ''[[Chaos;Head]]'', ''
Shortly thereafter, Rintaro and Hashida run into Kurisu, very much alive, and Hashida mentions receiving a text babbling about the discovery ''one week ago''. Investigating further, they realize that by constantly upgrading and customizing their microwave, they've stumbled across the secret of [[Time Travel]]
Unfortunately, they're not the only ones interested in time travel. The shadowy organization SERN has been running their own experiments, and thanks to Rintaro's frantic text to Hashida, they've clued
Instead of the "delusion trigger" system introduced in ''Chaos;Head'', ''Steins;Gate'' uses the similar "phone trigger": whenever somebody calls Rintaro, he can choose whether or not to answer. Text messages include blue hyperlinks that can be selected to reply to the text. The player's choices determine what sort of path the plot takes.
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A [[The Anime of the Game|24-episode anime adaptation]] aired starting in the [[Spring 2011 Anime]] season. Following the end of the anime's broadcast, a twenty-fifth episode was released straight to video and [[The Movie|a theatrical film]] was announced.
A full fan translation of the game exists
An official English translation was released on [[Steam]] in August of 2016.
In 2011, the game received a romantic comedy spin-off called ''Steins;Gate: My Darling's Embrace'', which focuses more on Okabe's relationships with six of the other lab mems. Another spin-off called ''Steins;Gate: Linear Bounded Phenogram'' was released two years later in 2013, which a collection of short stories, each told through the eyes of other characters besides Okabe. Both games received worldwide English releases in 2019.
A [[Spiritual Successor]] to ''[[Steins;Gate]]'', ''Robotics;Notes'', was released as a game in June 2012, with an anime following later that same year. In 2018, a "true sequel" to ''Steins;Gate,'' known simply as ''Steins;Gate 0'' was released on all major platforms at the time, and it also received a 23-episode anime adaptation the same year.
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* [[Accidental Innuendo]]: Itaru generally requests an immediate repeat whenever they come up.
* [[Accidental Pervert]]:
**
** After receiving another threatening message, Rintaro rushes to his apartment, and finds Mayuri and Kurisu in the shower.
* [[Alternate Character Reading]]: Invoked with Rintaro's name for the time machine e-mails, "Nostalgia Drive". It's written "time-travelling journey for nostalgia" (時を越えた郷愁への旅).
* [[Anime of the Game]]
* [[Another Dimension]]:
* [[Arc Words]]: Subverted. Rintaro loves throwing around the words "[[Title Drop|Steins Gate]]" and "El Psy Congroo", but he himself admits that those words don't have any meaning whatsoever.
*
* [[Bad Future]]: Alpha timeline where {{spoiler|SERN successfully creates the time machine, using it to create a Dystopia under their rule}} and Beta timeline {{spoiler|where Kurisu dies and [[World War III]] happens
** Gamma timeline takes it a step further, since in this timeline, {{spoiler|Okabe becomes a part of the rounders along with Moeka
* [[Based on a Great Big Lie]]: Based on John Titor's time
* [[Because Destiny Says So]]: {{spoiler|Unless Rintaro manages to change the attractor field, a person's death can never be changed. This also applies to his own death, as in both the Alpha and Beta timelines, he will not live past 2025}}.
* [[Belligerent Sexual Tension]]: Rintaro and Kurisu.
* [[Berserk Button]]: Moeka hates having her phone taken from her, at which point she becomes the equivalent of that psychotic girlfriend you just dumped.
*
{{quote|'''Faris:''' Ah...! But... [my] clothes might not fit on fit on you, nyan.
'''Kurisu:''' By that... do you mean my breasts? MY BREASTS, RIGHT?!
'''Faris:''' Your height, nya.
'''Kurisu:''' You... forget I said that.
* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: {{spoiler|Just when SERN is about to capture the group, Suzuha saves them and asks Rintaro to time leap
* [[Big Fancy House]]: {{spoiler|Played with considering Faris's living quarters. It's not necessarily big, but it's a lavish living space on the top floor of an expensive building that reveals just how rich Faris is
* [[
* [[
* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: {{spoiler|In the true ending, Rintaro prevents both bad futures and Kurisu's death, but with the exception of Rintaro, none of the Lab Members retain any memories of their experiences, and Suzuha completely disappears as a result of the [[Time Paradox]] (as there's a chance she might never be born in the future of the new timeline). However, it is hinted that the members might not have completely forgotten their memories, as shown when Rintaro meets Kurisu again in Akihabara, and she still has memories of the nicknames Rintaro gave to her}}.
** However, despite that, {{spoiler|many of the characters that would have suffered [[Downer Ending]] fates have their lives turned around.
* [[Bland-Name Product]]: [[Magical Particle Accelerator|SERN]] and [[IBM Personal Computer|IBN]] play an important part in the plot. However, there's also [[Google|Goodle]], [[YouTube|MewTube]], [[Clannad (visual novel)||CLADANDAN]], [[AKB48|KBA84]]
** [[Averted Trope|Averted]] with Dr. Pepper.
*** DK. Pepper. Also, UNIQLO, but the bottom half of the logo's blocked out.
* [[A Bloody Mess]]: {{spoiler|Averted. Rintaro originally intends to use the red liquid inside a glow-in-the-dark lightsaber toy as part of his plan to fool his past self into thinking Kurisu's dead, but upon discovering that it's dried up and useless, he provokes Dr. Nakabachi into stabbing himself so that he can use his own, genuine blood instead}}.
* [[Boobs of Steel]]: {{spoiler|Suzuha, shown later in the series to be capable of taking out a handful of gunman with punches and kicks: despite her having a petite frame, her breasts are larger than any other character besides Moeka, who also kicks serious butt, albeit not physically}}.
* [[Braids of Action]]: {{spoiler|Also Suzuha. Goodness, it's almost as if the [[Genre Savvy|writers were hinting]] that she was a fighter}}!
* [[Broken Bird]]: Kurisu, Suzuha and Moeka.
* [[Broken Pedestal]]: {{spoiler|Dr. Nakabachi is Kurisu Makise's father, and she does everything in her power to impress him and rebuild their damaged father-daughter relationship; she even gives offers him a co-writer credit on a paper on how to construct a time machine, and he repays the favor by beating her and stealing the paper for himself
* [[Butterfly of Doom]]: Multiple examples. At times, the things that randomly stay the same are even more bewildering than the things that randomly change; for example, {{spoiler|changing Ruka's gender}} alters nothing about {{spoiler|her}} personality or appearance, and it also doesn't change anything about the group's dynamic. However, it also {{spoiler|starts a chain of events that causes her to accidentally break the IBN 5100, rather than hand it over if he were still a boy}}.
* [[But Thou Must!]]: Most calls or texts can be ignored at will, but there are certain points where Rintaro ''has'' to take some sort of action.
* [[Butt Monkey]]: Rintaro. Almost none of the cast takes him seriously during the first half of the story because of his behavior.
* [[Call Back]]: Episode 25, that dude who was selling brooches in Japan is in fact also a taxi driver in LA. And another one which is much relevant to the plot,
* [[Calling Your Attacks]]: Rintaro and Faris are anime, manga
* [[The Cameo]]: [[Chaos;Head|Takumi]] is briefly mentioned by his pseudonym Knighthart looking for IBN 5100. He has no involvement in the story, however.
** A huge TV airing FES's performance in Alpha timeline. Giving the right reply to Faris's mail earns the player Ayase's portrait and FES's music, sang by Kanako Itō, including ''Chaos;Head'' OP: "Find the Blue".
*** Even Seira-tan appears. Some of the characters from ''Steins;Gate'' have also found themselves in other media. Kurisu appears as a character spell in ''[[Hyperdimension Neptunia mk2]]''; Mayuri also makes an appearance as a summon. Kurisu's also a character in ''Phantom Breaker'', as well as in ''Nendoroid Generation''.
** Posters of other 5pb. and [[Nitro+]] works occasionally appear in various locations. Additionally one of the computer shops bears the name 'Nitro+' in an alpha worldline, there is also a 'Nitro+' magazine.
* [[Catch Phrase]]: Mayuri's "Tuturu~" whenever she greets someone as a phone wallpaper sent by Mayuri.
* [[Cat Smile]]: Faris (of course), Mayuri and
* [[Cerebus Syndrome]]: The series starts off as reasonably light-hearted (not that it didn't have its occasional dark moments), but when episode {{spoiler|12 comes around, and Mayuri dies, the emotional intensity is cranked [[Up to Eleven]]}}.
* [[Character-Magnetic Team]]: Most of the cast are lab members. Though it's somewhat subverted because several years pass between the formation of the lab and the addition of new members apart from the original three (Daru, Mayuri, Okabe).
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: {{spoiler|Remember the Metal Upa that Mayuri lost in episode 1? 22 episodes later, it was revealed that the Metal Upa set off the metal detector, forcing Dr. Nakabachi to carry the time travel theory by hand, while the plane he boarded caught fire in the cargo hold. As a result, the documents and research data of Kurisu was not destroyed in the fire, setting off the events for the dystopia.}}.
* [[Chekhov's Gunman]]: {{spoiler|Mister Braun, literally, as he shoots Moeka and himself upon the gang discovering that he is FB}}.
* [[Chick Magnet]]: Rintaro, depending on if you view Mayuri's, Ruka's and Faris' feelings towards him as romantic.
* [[Conspiracy Thriller]]
* [[Cosplay Otaku Girl]]: Mayuri, Faris.
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* [[Cut His Heart Out with a Spoon]]:
{{quote|'''Kurisu:''' One more word and I'll make your neocortex into a flowerpot!
'''Rintaro:''' What kind of threat is that?!
* [[Cyberpunk]]: It deals with cyberpunk themes.
* [[Death Is Cheap]]: {{spoiler|Whenever Mayuri dies, Rintaro time leaps back to several hours or days ago before her death
** [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] and [[Deconstruction|deconstructed]] when
* [[Deconstruction]]: {{spoiler|To sum it up, time traveling causes [[Butterfly of Doom]]
** It also shows that
* [[Design Student's Orgasm]]: The anime's opening credits sequence.
* [[Despair Event Horizon]]: {{spoiler|Suzuha upon failing her mission to retrieve IBN 5100 after losing her memory by using her fixed time-machine
* [[Determinator]]: {{spoiler|Witnessing Mayuri's death multiple times is not enough to shatter Rintaro's hope to save her
* [[Deus Angst Machina]]:
* [[Disappeared Dad]]: {{spoiler|Faris's father, who died in a plane crash. This makes her use D-
* [[The Ditz]]: Mayuri, who can suddenly stop at a place doing Stardust Handshake, much to the dismay of Rintaro.
** That is to say nothing about how easily Double Entendres and Sexual Innuendos seem to fly over her head.
* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: In episode 19, taken out of context, the brawl Okabe has with {{spoiler|Moeka}} looks very much like a rape in progress.
* [[The Dog Was the Mastermind]]: {{spoiler|The identity of FB turns out to be none other than Rintaro's beleaguered landlord Mr. Braun
* [[Driven to Suicide]]: {{spoiler|Suzuha, after she travels to 1975 using the time machine fixed by Itaru, having lost her memories, then recover it again 25 years later
** Several characters go through this actually.
* [[Dropped a Bridge on Him]]: {{spoiler|Mayuri. Each time she dies, Rintaro time leaps to make sure it never happens
* [[Dropped a Bridget On Him]]: Kurisu, when Ruka's gender is revealed to her, {{spoiler|and Rintaro, when [[Crotch Grab Sex Check|Ruka's gender is female due to D-mail]]
* [[Dude Looks Like a Lady]]: Ruka, [[Viewer Gender Confusion|very]] [[Wholesome Crossdresser|much so]].
* [[Earn Your Happy Ending]]: And How!
* [[The Empire]]: {{spoiler|Alpha timeline SERN in the future
* [[Everything Trying to Kill You]]: {{spoiler|You are fated to die when the world says so, no time traveling can change that. If the world doesn't want you dead on that moment, you will never die, no matter what. Oh, and the kicker? If there is nothing there to kill you, you will simply (and quite literally) drop dead right then and there}}.
* [[Fake-Out Make-Out]]: {{spoiler|Rintaro does this to Moeka when a neighbor comes to see what the source is of all the racket caused by their struggle, and gets bitten for his efforts. Luckily for him, the neighbor [[Failed a Spot Check|failed the spot check]] for the resulting spectacle ends up looking less like a make-out and more like a rape in progress}}.
* [[Fake Band]]: FES.
* [[Faking the Dead]]
* [[First-Name Basis]]:
** Rintaro to Kurisu. {{spoiler|This specific instance occurs several times, actually
** Faris asks Rintaro to call her by her real name after he saves her from some kidnappers.
* [[Five-Man Band]]:
** [[The Hero]]
** [[The Lancer]]
** [[The Smart Guy]]
** [[The Big Guy]]
** [[The Chick]]
** [[Sixth Ranger]]
* [[Foreshadowing]]: Since this is a series about time travel, there are too many instances of this to list.
* [[Four Is Death]]:
** {{spoiler|Stage 4 of SERN's Z-Program involves human experiments}}.
** {{spoiler|Mayuri's last name is Shiina. You can figure out the rest}}.
* [[Full-Name Basis]]: Suzuha, with a few exceptions, calls people by their full name.
* [[Funny Schizophrenia]]: If you are familiar with schizophrenia, then it becomes immediately obvious that Rintaro shows symptoms of it (such as his constant paranoia). However, his schizophrenia is typically used for the sake of humor, and it can be enjoyable to understand how his condition affects his mindset over course of the story.
** It soon becomes apparent he does it on purpose, so it wouldn't really qualify as schizophrenia.
* [[Gamer Chick]]: Mayuri and Faris.
* [[Gameplay and Story Segregation]]: In Chapter 7, Okabe's phone goes off while hiding from his pursuers, alerting them to his presence. This will always happen even if the player sets it to vibration only.
* [[Geek Physiques]]: Rintaro is skinny. Itaru, on the other hand, is extremely fat.
* [[Gender Bender]]: {{spoiler|Using D-Mail, Rintaro changes Ruka's gender to female
* [[Gender Flip]]: {{spoiler|John Titor is Suzuha Amane
* [[Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!]]: Done by Kurisu in
* [[Gratuitous English]]: All over the place.
* [[Gratuitous German]]: Every now and then. The series' title, for starters.
* [[Groundhog Day Loop]]: Rintaro invokes this trope on himself to [[Set Right What Once Went Wrong]] using
* [[He Knows Too Much]]: {{spoiler|SERN is trying to silence Rintaro and lab members for inventing the time-machine
* [[
* [[Heroic
* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: {{spoiler|Kurisu decides to sacrifice herself so Mayuri can survive}}. {{spoiler|It doesn't help}}.
* [[Hollywood Hacking]]: {{spoiler|Hashida hacks SERN in 2 days. And this is the organization that ''invented'' [[The Internet]]}}.
** Somewhat [[Justified Trope|Justified]]: {{spoiler|when Daru was hacking into the SERN in episode 14, he mentions that SERN ports were already open as SERN had been watching the group since the first D-Mail was sent. It's somewhat justified that he would be able to hack into a system quickly that already has its doors open into Daru's computer in the first place}}.
* [[Hope Spot]]: {{spoiler|Rintaro initially believes that additional divergence caused by Suzuha's trip to 1975 would subvert Mayuri's murder}}. Nope.
* [[Improbable Age]]: {{spoiler|Believe it or not, Faris owns Akihabara, and is responsible for making Akihabara into moe town}}.
* [[In-Series Nickname]]: Fairly much the ''entire cast'':
** Rintaro: Hououin Kyouma, Okarin.
** Mayuri: Mayushii, Tuturu, [[{{spoiler|1=ChuuChuuru}}]].
** Itaru: Daru, Super Haker, Super Hacker.
** Kurisu: Christina, Assistant, The Zombie, @channeller, Celeb 7, Chestnut Rice and [[Dragon Ball|Kamehameha]], Class Rep Character.
** Moeka: [[G Gundam|Shining Finger]].
** Suzuha: Weekend Warrior/Baito Senshi, {{spoiler|John Titor}}.
** Ruka: Rukako.
** Yuugo: Mr. Braun, {{spoiler|FB}}.
** Nae: Small Woodland Animal/Sister Braun.
* [[Innocent Innuendo]]: [[Lampshaded]] by Itaru every single time, much to Kurisu's annoyance.
* [[Insane Equals Violent]]:
* [[I Resemble That Remark]]:
{{quote|'''Kurisu:''' I'm not a tsundere!}}
* [[It Got Worse]]: {{spoiler|Things keeping get worse and worse for Rintaro, starting from visual novel's sixth chapter (episode 12 in the anime)}}.
* [[It's All My Fault]]: Upon realizing that his invention D-Mail machine {{spoiler|causes all the troubles his lab members are facing}}.
* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]: Rintaro despite his childish and [[Jerkass]] antics openly cares for his lab members.
* [[Karma Houdini]]: {{spoiler|Kurisu's father who does lose the paper that would have made him famous, but still seems to avoid any legal punishment for stabbing Okabe. Even worse, in the other timeline where he was responsible for his daughter's death and then stole her paper, gaining fame and power}}.
** {{spoiler|The anime did not mention about Nakabachi's fate, but in the visual novel, he was arrested in Russia for his outburst and being a suspect for attempted murder in Radio Kaikan building}}.
* [[Kid From the Future]]: {{spoiler|Suzuha, to Daru (her mother is never named). She doesn't know who her father is when she gets there either, only that he was there at that time}}.
* [[Kill the Cutie]]: {{spoiler|Mayuri is the first to go once things hit the fan... over and over again, thanks to the peculiarities of time travel}}.
* [[The Lady's Favour]]: The only conceivable purpose for a handkerchief that Rintaro knows about.
* [[Large Ham]]: Rintaro, oh SO MUCH! It makes him funny and awesome!
** Not like anyone takes his ham seriously other than Ruka or possibly Faris.
** Speaking of, Faris is the only other character who can match Okabe in terms of sheer wackiness.
* [[Laser Blade]]: One of Rintaro's many inventions is the Cyalume Saber, which is pretty obviously Darth Vader's lightsaber.
* [[Leaning on the Fourth Wall]]:
** When Rintaro tells Daru about his exploits in previous world lines, Daru jokes that it sounds fantastic enough to be the plot of a light novel.
** A strange variety of this comes up when Mayuri gets Ruka to crossdress and Kurisu stares at him for a little bit (when she thought Ruka was a girl). Itaru even notes how [[Lampshade Hanging|yuri]] it is with Okabe quickly pointing out that it's not since Ruka's a guy.
** Daru in particular has a habit of referencing the fact that he and his friends are in a video game, what with the mentions of "flags" for certain character routes. He does this in spin-off games more often.
* [[Lighter and Softer]]: ''Steins;Gate Hiyoku Renri no Darling'', the sequel that focuses less on time travel conspiracies and more on fun and relationships.
* [[Locked Out of the Loop]]: {{spoiler|Mayuri regarding her fated deaths. However, she frequently has feelings of deja vu about them
* [[Loophole Abuse]]: The finale.
* [[Love Confession]]:
** {{spoiler|And a very very manly one from Okabe to Kurisu in episode 25. Note that this occurs in the ''Steins;Gate'' world line
* [[Love Makes You Crazy]]:
* [[Luke, You Are My Father]]: {{spoiler|Suzuha travels to year 2010 to look for her father. After Mayuri reveals that Itaru is Suzuha's father, Suzuha hugs Itaru. However, Itaru has no idea why Suzuha hugged him and is left feeling both glad and confused
* [[MacGuffin]]: Nearly half the series is focused around Okabe and SERN's attempts to get their hands on an IBN 5100.
* [[Madness Mantra]]: {{spoiler|
** Also {{spoiler|Moeka. After she loses contact with FB, the only thing she can text on her phone is: FBFBFBFBFBFBFBFBFBFBFBFBFBFBFB}}...
* [[Mad Scientist]]: Rintaro, or, as he prefers to call himself, the Crazy [[Mad Scientist
* [[Magical Particle Accelerator]]: The plot is based on the idea that the Large Hadron Collider has some kind of massive world-ending powers.
* [[Maybe Ever After]]: {{spoiler|Implied with Rintaro and Kurisu in the true ending
* [[Meido]]: Faris Nyannyan.
* [[Mental Time Travel]]: D-
* [[Mind Screw]]: Time traveling will do that to everyone.
* [[The Mole]]: {{spoiler|Kiryuu Moeka, who is working with SERN to collect IBN 5100, and to capture Rintaro, Kurisu and Itaru for creating D-Mail
* [[My Name Is Not Durwood|My Name Is Not CHRISTINA!]]
* [[Nakama]]: Being a Lab member of Future Gadget Circle is like being Rintaro's nakama.
*[[Nerds Are Sexy]]: Nothing wrong with this, of course, but Okabe does have a few girls fawning over him, including:
**Kurisu, who is the deutoragonist, and his closest companion in the latter half of the series.
**Faris, who is a gamer, otaku, and moe fanatic who plays along with Okabe's chuunibyou antics.
**Moeka, whose closest relationship is with her phone, has a figure that would make a supermodel jealous, and can potentially form a genuine relationship with Okabe in certain VNs.
**The rom-com spin-off title, ''My Darling's Embrace'', focuses on potential relationships Okabe can have with the girls in his circle (yes, that includes Ruka).
* [[Never the Selves Shall Meet]]: This is obviously not a problem considering that Rintaro uses [[Mental Time Travel]], but it comes into play at the end of the series when {{spoiler|Suzuha helps him alter the past with a "conventional" time machine}}.
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: {{spoiler|By choosing to use D-Mail to mess up the past, Mayuri will die, and SERN is dead set on capturing you}}.
* [[The Nicknamer]]: Rintaro, who enjoys giving other people nicknames based on their deeds, the only one who avoided this is his childhood friend Mayuri, who coined her own nickname. Mayuri also likes giving herself and Rintaro nicknames, much to dear Okarin's displeasure.
**Faris almost never uses her real name in public anyway, so Okarin doesn't bother giving her one.
**He gives Kurisu more nicknames that anybody else, much to her irritation. Such names include "Christina", "The Zombie", Miss Next-Gen", "Banana Queen", "Assistant", and so one, so forth.
* [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown]]: {{spoiler|Rintaro fights Moeka in her apartment in order to get her D-Mail message}}.
*[[Noodle People]]: most of the girls have slender builds and long legs. Okabe is this from a distance in certain shots, too. More so in the anime than the games.
* [[Oh Crap]]: Rintaro, every time Mayuri's watch stops, since it means {{spoiler|that she's about to die again}}.
* [[Ojou]]: {{spoiler|Faris, her real name being Rumiho Akiha}}.
* [[Otaku]]: Itaru, who likes both 2D and 3D girls.
* [[Our Time Travel Is Different]]
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* [[Parental Neglect]]: Kurisu's father keeps a distance from her, downright refusing to see her.
* [[Pettanko]]: Kurisu.
** {{spoiler|And female Ruka, though only noted briefly
* [[Phrase Catcher]]: [[Hypocrite|Okabe]] tends to call people out on the things that he himself does, cue the "You are the last person I want to hear that from" reaction.
* [[Police Are Useless]]: Police officers only serve to interfere with Rintaro's actions. They do absolutely nothing when {{spoiler|Rintaro and Faris are being hunted by a group of angry mobs all over Akihabara
* [[Poor Communication Kills]]: It takes Rintaro ''ages'' to think of telling anyone else about what's going on once things start to go bad. And he never even tries to tell some people, at all, even when they'd logically have a huge amount to contribute and plenty of incentive to do so.
* [[Post Cyber Punk]]: It deals with post-cyberpunk themes.
* [[Pretty Little Headshots]]: {{spoiler|Mayuri's (initial)}} and {{spoiler|Mr. Braun's}} deaths. The former only shows the requisite trickle of blood down the face, while in the case of the latter, there's no indication at all that that person has even been shot.
* [[Product Placement]]: In the anime, Rintaro only drinks Dr Pepper.
* [[Psychopathic Manchild]]: {{spoiler|Nae}} upon receiving her 15 years later memories via time leaping.
* [[Real Place Background]]: Makise Kurisu's institution in America, Victor Chondria University, is modeled on real world Columbia University. This is seen in depictions of the campus and the university ID card in the manga adaptation of ''Epigraph of the Closed Curve''.
** Many of the locations in the series are based on actual places in Akihabara. Highlights includes ''MeyQueen NyanNyan'' which is based on the ''Mai-lish'' maid cafe and The Future Gadget lab itself, which is based on an actual shop, if you go by the address that Okabe mentioned in the beginning of the game. Amusingly, there is an HDTV store in the same location where Braun TV should be.
** During the special episode, a lot the locales in Los Angeles have been recreated with surprising accuracy such as the LAX to name one example.
* [[Redemption Equals Death]]: {{spoiler|Moeka apologizes for her other world line self killing Mayuri after getting stabbed by Nae}}.
* [[Rescue Romance]]: This is how Ruka and Rintaro met. {{spoiler|In the timeline where Ruka is a female, she fell in love with him. And hinted that Ruka fell in love in the timeline where he's a guy}}.
** This is actually a strange example since {{spoiler|in the timeline where Ruka is a girl, this didn't actually happen. She was just getting memories from the other timeline. It is interesting to note that she stated that this was the moment she started loving Okabe, implying that may actually be what the male Ruka felt}}.
** In one of the [[Audio Adaptation|drama CDs]], {{spoiler|Ruka's feelings seem to be confirmed when pretty much blurts out his attraction to Okabe to Suzuha (who is currently the victim of a romantic misunderstanding)}}. However, it takes place in a separate world line, so take it as you will.
* [[Revenge Before Reason]]: {{spoiler|Nae}}.
* [[Rewatch Bonus]]: Gratuitously so. Only natural for a series about time travel of course. Seemingly innocuous details from earlier on becomes important later on, and the last episode/chapter hinges heavily on what happened in the first episode/prologue.
**In particular, Suzuha's behaviour and mannerisms in earlier episodes such as her [[Totally Radical]] salutations, fascination with corn, knowledge on old PCs, love of CRTs, and familiarity with the work of John Titor all make a lot more sense in hindsight once her backstory is revealed in Episode 15.
* [[Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory]]: Rintaro's 'Reading Steiner', the ability to retain memory of prior timelines. {{spoiler|However, if their memories are prodded properly, other characters can remember other world lines: this occurs separately with Faris and Ruka. Later on, we find out that Mayuri and Kurisu have both been dreaming of previous world lines}}.
* [[Ripple Effect Indicator]]: The Divergence Meter, which shows the current world line's percent divergence and how close Rintaro is to succeeding in returning to the beta world line.
* [[Rock Beats Laser]]: The IBN 5100 is central to the series despite being an antique computer because {{spoiler|it can translate the source code SERN uses in its computers, allowing its owner to hack SERN's computer networks with ease}}.
* [[Running Gag]]: Daru's [[Accidental Innuendo|"could you repeat that"]].
**Just a quick reminder that Ruka......... is a dude!
* [[Sadistic Choice]]: {{spoiler|Either undo the senders' D-Mail, which cancels their wish and erase their memories, or choose not to and let Mayuri die and go to the respective sender's route}}. Taking a third option won't work.
* [[
* [[Screw Destiny]]: {{spoiler|Rintaro's main goal is to save Mayuri from her fated death by undoing all the time traveling he did}}.
**
* [[Serious Business]]: Rai-Net. {{spoiler|In one timeline, a group of Rai-Netters attempt to kidnap Faris and beat Rintaro half to death just because she beat them in a tournament
** Daru, just about anything such as Super Hacker and Maid secret techniques.
* [[Set Right What Once Went Wrong]]: The latter half of the story {{spoiler|deals with undoing all the D-Mails his lab members did to save Mayuri}}.
* [[Shout-Out]]: Daru's dialogue is occasionally peppered with references to various anime and video games, and before the group manages to settle on D-Mail as the name of their time machine, some of the names they come up with reference ''[[The Girl Who Leapt Through Time]]'' and ''[[Back to The Future]]''.
** In the visual novel, Kurisu mentions as one of the impossibilities of time travel the sheer amount of energy it would take to move at light speeds would almost certainly be at least [[Back to The Future|1.21 gigawatts]].
** Faris makes a mention in episode 2 of [[Mobile Fighter G Gundam|months of harsh training in the Guyana Highlands and the death of her master
** Kurisu's "One more word and I'll make your neocortex into a flowerpot!" line may come from the MO of the first barcode killer of ''[[MPD Psycho]]''.
* [[Shown Their Work]]: In one timeline of their first meeting, Kurisu lectures Okabe on the impossibilities of time travel; the lecture is cut quickly to a picture of Okabe straggling out of the lecture hall absolutely mauled by Kurisu's arguments. In the
* [[Show Within a Show]]: ''Thunder Battle Net'', as well as ''[[Chaos;Head]]'''s Blood Tune.
* [[Shrinking Violet]]: Moeka is such an extreme case that she prefers texting over talking.
** Ruka too, who is overly easy to spook.
* [[The Slow Path]]: {{spoiler|Alpha Suzuha's time machine is backwards only
** {{spoiler|On a more constrained scale, so is the Time Leap machine
* [[Someone Has to Die]]: Occurs when {{spoiler|the attempts to avert Mayuri's fate put them on track for the timeline where Kurisu died, forcing them to choose between saving Mayuri or Kurisu
* [[Something Only They Would Say]]: {{spoiler|FB gave each member of the Rounders specific codenames that no other member knows. It also becomes the key to finding out FB's true identity
* [[Stable Time Loop]]: {{spoiler|Suzuha's bicycle is put on the time machine and sent to the past, given to Braun once Suzuha dies, and given back to Suzuha when she arrives at Braun's workplace
* [[Stealth Pun]]: Presumably the joke behind the term "D-
* [[Stepford Smiler]]: Suzuha.
* [[The Stinger]]: Episode 22. {{spoiler|Despite returning to the beta world line and letting Kurisu die as she originally did, it turns out that the [[Bad Future]] has not been averted, but simply shifted from dystopia to World War III}}. The episode also uses a different, instrumental ending credit track, presumably to entice the viewer into sticking around, since the series had no [["On the Next..."|next episode previews]] and no real incentive to stay for the credits until this episode.
* [[Stupid Sexy Flanders|Stupid Sexy Ruka]]: Rintaro's reactions toward Ruka.
{{quote|'''Rintaro:''' My soul... My soul is being devoured!}}
* [[Suspiciously Specific Denial]]: Kurisu just ''[[Tsundere|loves]]'' to do this.
{{quote|'''Kurisu:''' I'm not crying! I definitely wasn't terrified by a guy screaming in my face, so I definitely didn't start crying from relief afterwards! That's not what happened!
'''Rintaro:''' So Daru, why is my assistant crying?
'''Daru:''' Dude, she just told you.}}
** {{spoiler|This is also an interesting moment because of the whole thing with her father later on}}.
* [[Take a Third Option]]: Subverted in that it only causes more trouble later. {{spoiler|Example: trying to save Faris's father while asking him to hold IBN 5100 until Rintaro claims it causes Rintaro to get stuck in a world where no one remembers him other than Faris, who is now his lover and Rai-Net Access Battlers partner. Both D-Mail and the time leap machine are never created, and he's forced to start a new life with her}}.
* [[Taking the Bullet]]: {{spoiler|Kurisu blocked a stab from Rintaro meant for Dr. Nakabachi, giving him a huge [[Heroic BSOD]]. Later, Rintaro provokes Dr. Nakabachi into stabbing him}}.
** {{spoiler|In one of the timelines, when Okabe attempts suicide by getting hit by a car, Mayuri pushes him aside and gets killed that way}}.
* [[The Teaser]]: Used more often than not in the anime.
* [[Techno Babble]]: To wit:
* [[Teen Genius]]: Kurisu skirts the border of this
*[[That Came Out Wrong]]: In Episode 18 in which Faris mentions Rintaro's "Special Technique" right in front of Kurisu, the latter then asks for elaboration. She responds with this word for word when she realises what she just said, and predictably goes bright red from it.
* [[Theme Naming]]: Rintaro tends to name endeavors "Operation (figure from [[Norse Mythology]])". Lampshaded by Kurisu, and later by Rintaro when she makes up her own Norse-flavored Operation.
* [[Third Person Person]]: Mayuri, referring to herself as Mayushii☆. Faris also speaks in this fashion.
* [[Thirteen Is Unlucky]]: {{spoiler|The SERN raid on the lab and Mayuri's murder in the initial timeline}} occur on a Friday the 13th.
* [[This Is Unforgivable!]]: {{spoiler|Rintaro hates Moeka with passion for cold-heartedly killing Mayuri. Subverted later when [[Redemption Equals Death|Moeka dies]]
* [[Time and Relative Dimensions In Space]]: Discussed in the
* [[Time Paradox]]: Mostly averted since time travelling in this series involves sending a person's memories into the past.
* [[Time Travel]]: Central to the plot, and hitting upon plenty of related tropes, with a healthy dose of [[Mind Screw]] and [[Deconstruction]].
* [[Time Travel Escape]]: Okabe's meddling with the past gets so bad, he must time travel to undo the changes he's made.
* [[Title Drop]]: "[[Catch Phrase|This is the choice of Steins Gate!]]" shows up from the beginning. However,
* [[Tomato Surprise]]: {{spoiler|The reveal that Rintaro kills Kurisu in beta timeline in an accident}}.
** You can change the cause, but never can you change the effect. I think this is more of the case here.
* [[Took a Level in Badass]]: In the future, Okabe Rintaro becomes a founder and leader of [[La Résistance]] and is known as a famous terrorist working against SERN.
* [[Trauma Conga Line]]:
* [[Tricked-Out Time]]
* [[Tsundere]]: Kurisu, [[Lampshaded]] by Itaru of course.
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* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: Dear ''god'', when {{spoiler|Moeka}} loses contact with {{spoiler|FB}}, she becomes an emotional wreck. Her situation is only worsened when Okabe {{spoiler|steals her phone}}. In the world line where Okabe doesn't arrive at her apartment, {{spoiler|Moeka}} eventually commits suicide in despair.
* [[Visual Novel]]: [[Word of God|Described by the development team]] as "a [[Science Fiction|Hypothetical Science]] [[Adventure Game|ADV]]".
* [["Well Done, Son" Guy]]: {{spoiler|Kurisu desperately wants her father's acknowledgement, which he will never give, and downright hates her
* [[Wham! Episode]]: {{spoiler|Anime episode 12, when the lab members are surrounded by SERN
* [[Wham! Line]]:
** Episode 12:
{{quote|{{spoiler|'''Moeka''': "Shiina Mayuri is not needed." *fires gun at Mayuri*}}}}
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** Episode 22:
{{quote|{{spoiler|'''Suzuha''': "You must stop World War III."-*EPISODE ENDS*}}}}
* [[What Happened to the Mouse?]]: Amane claimed that Kurisu
** {{spoiler|While not concrete proof that this was the case, Suzuha mentions in the same chapter that SERN wouldn't hesistate to hold family members hostage in order to force researchers like Kurisu to go along with them. Kurisu's frightened reaction over her father at the mention of this makes it seem like a very likely possibility that her involvement with SERN was under duress
** Suzuha's story arc in ''Linear Bounded Phenogram'' - "Ghostly Rendezvous" - actually has her talk directly to Kurisu about why she is hostile towards her at first. She realises that Kurisu isn't as bad as she had initially perceived.
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: Rintaro, sometimes. {{spoiler|The most significant one is when Rintaro chooses let to Mayuri remain dead so Ruka can remain being a girl}}.
* [[Yandere]]: {{spoiler|Nae, 15 years in the future, time leaps to the present to kill Moeka for being unable to prevent her father's suicide, then warns Rintaro that she will torture him to death 15 years later before running away. All because she is not satisfied with killing them once
** On the
* [[You Can't Fight Fate]]: Rintaro can change the cause, but can never change the effect.
* [[You Fail Biology Forever]]: Ruko thinks that if a baby's mother eats lots of vegetables, the baby will be born female. {{spoiler|''He's right
* [[You Have Failed Me...]]: After Moeka {{spoiler|helps Rintaro track down FB}}, {{spoiler|Braun executes her for betraying him
* [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness]]: {{spoiler|The Fate of all Rounder members. After their mission, they are supposed to commit suicide to hide the mission's secret
* [[Younger Than They Look]]: Both Okabe and Hashida are supposed to be 18, but look like they're closer to their late 20's. Their tall stature and Okabe's lab coat may have something to do with it. And even though she's like an [[Adult Child]], Mayuri still does not look like a 16-year old.
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