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* [[In a Single Bound]]: Both chair!Sōta and Daijin make blatantly superhumanly massive jumps.
* [[Innocent Innuendo]]: Suzume uses chair!Sōta to get to a box on top of a shelf, then belatedly asks if she can step on him.
* [[Invisible to Normals]]: Suzume quickly learns to her horror that, apart from herself and Closers like Sōta and his grandfather, nobody can see the worm. Used to particularly chilling effect in Tokyo, where the worm's ongoing descent is
* [[Long-Haired Pretty Boy]]: Sōta, who Suzume outright calls beautiful when she first sees him.
* [[The Needs of the Many]]: {{spoiler|Sōta's grandfather tries to persuade Suzume to leave Sōta's sacrifice be because it spared the lives of the Tokyoites.}}
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* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: Suzume removing the keystone is what speeds up the worm's escape, in the first door she closes.
* [[Ominous Latin Chanting]]: Chanting occurs whenever Sōta and Suzume try to close a door against the worm. The soundtrack has a field day with the chanting.
* [[Opposite Gender Protagonists]]: Suzume, a high school girl, and Sōta, a collegegoing young man who's part of a lineage of Closers, travel across Japan closing doors before the worm can escape fully and cause disasters. The two are separated for the majority of the film due to Sōta's being polymorphed, only reuniting in the end. Suzume ''more'' than earns her role in Opposite Gender Protagonists by {{spoiler|relentlessly pursuing Sōta after he turns into a Keystone}}.
* [[Ordinary High School Student]]: Suzume starts as this, having no idea of the supernatural struggles hidden to Japanese muggle society. Her removing the keystone, unleashing Daijin, and subsequent drive to make amends lead to her helping Sōta to close doors throughout Japan. The film quickly shifts from being a [[Teen Drama]] to an action-adventure film.
* [[Parental Abandonment]]:
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* [[Parental Substitute]]: Deconstructed - Tamaki took it on herself to raise Suzume in Tsubame's stead, but developed resentment over what it's cost her.
* [[Portal Door]]: The solitary doors in the ruins, which apparently lead to a starry area. It's impossible for her to step through, though. Any attempts to do so only lands her on the other side of the door. {{spoiler|They're portals to the Ever-After, where the souls of the dead go and all time is present simultaneously, and the living normally can't go there. A young Suzume somehow fell through one, and the only way to go back is to find the same one again.}}
* [[Road Movie]]: Suzume goes on the road and travels to many different places in Japan trying to catch Daijin and turn chair-Sōta back to normal. {{spoiler|Then she goes on the road ''again'' trying to turn Keystone-Sōta back to normal}}. Each place usually has a door which needs to be closed. Among the way, Suzume meets many different people who help her.
* [[Sailor Fuku]]: The uniform of Chika's high school, contrasting Suzume's which has a normal collar. Chika notes the difference as one of the signs that Suzume's Not From Around Here.
* [[Scenery Gorn]]: The film opens on the aftermath of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. Many scenes take place in abandoned, overgrown, ruined areas. The climax occurs among a landscape of flaming wreckage.
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* [[She Cleans Up Nicely]]: Initially appearing as a frumpy single mom, Rumi dolls up noticeably for her work as a bar hostess.
* [[Shout-Out]]:
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** When Chika asks Suzume how she caught the runaway oranges, the latter says that [[My Hero Academia|"My body reacted before I could even think."]]
** Several to Shinkai's own ''[[Your Name]]'' despite the lack of common continuity -
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*** A phenomenon that allows {{spoiler|people separated by time to interact}} plays an important role.
*** A shot of a sliding train door is identical to how that's depicted in the earlier film.
** "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJwtKY_iWkM Rouge no Dengon]" ("Lipstick Message") is played as Suzume travels to her hometown far, far away. A delivery truck with a black cat is seen. What other film plays "Rogue no Dengon" during a long trip which ''also'' involves delivery services? ''[[Kiki's Delivery Service]]''.
* [[Slice of Life]]: The main part of the film opens this way, starring the journey of an [[Ordinary High School Student]] biking to school. Fantastic sequences of closing the doors are also contrasted with mundane life with the people that Suzume encounters.
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* [[Stable Time Loop]]: {{spoiler|In the climax, after sealing the worm, Suzume sees her younger self in the Ever-After and realises that the dream she had of her mother finding her younger self while carrying the chair? That was she herself all along. Which creates the issue that the chair Suzume has is three-legged because it was already three-legged when present Suzume gave it to past Suzume... so how did it lose a leg in the first place?}}
* [[String Theory]]: Sōta has such a board in his apartment, but apart from a map of Japan, what's on it isn't shown in detail.
* [[Teen Drama]]: Majority of the drama is concentrated within the first ten minutes of the film. After the first ten minutes, drama occasionally occurs throughout the film, most involving people asking Suzume about her "boyfriend" or the troubled relationship with Tamaki.
* [[Tragic Keepsake]]: The chair was made by Tsubame for Suzume as a birthday gift.
* [[Urban Fantasy]]: The supernatural is contrasted against modern life, with social media playing a key role in Sōta and Suzume's tracking of Daijin's movements.
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