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** Your loved one apparently runs away from home and refuses to explain in any detail.
** You lose someone right before your eyes, helpless to do anything.
* [[The Alleged Car]]: Serizawa's fancy-looking convertible doesn't have a roof that can close properly, which becomes troublesome when it starts raining.
* [[Animalistic Abomination]]: Daijin looks like a white cat, but there's something clearly off about its left eye, and that's even before it goes [[Glowing Eyes of Doom]] or sounding way too gleeful about the havoc the worm will wreak.
* [[Book Ends]]: An early scene has Suzume cycling to school and meeting Sōta going the other way. The last scene does the same.
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* [[Character Title]]: Guess who the main character is. No seriously. Guess. We will give you three hints: the character's name starts with "S", ends in "E", and shares a name with the title of the 2022 Makoto Shinkai film "Suzume".
* [[Christmas Cake]]: Tamaki is in her 40s and still single. One of her coworkers, Minoru, is obviously interested in her, but she doesn't seem to notice.
* [[Clarke's Third Law]]: When chair!Sōta starts moving and talking in front of Rumi's children, Suzume tries to pass it off as a chair robot with AI.
* [[Contrived Coincidence]]: {{spoiler|Serizawa just happened to be outside Ochanomizu Station when Suzume is passing by. Then Tamaki just happens to find her there as well, as opposed to any of the many, many other stations in Tokyo she could have tried looking at.}}▼
* [[Contrived Coincidence]]:
** Daijin jumps from the ferry to a passing boat, which fortunately happens to also be headed for Ehime.
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* [[Creative Closing Credits]]: The film proper does a [[Close on Title]] after Sōta and Suzume close the door near Suzume's old house. The first part of the credits then play over an epilogue showing {{spoiler|Sōta and Suzume parting ways at a train station and a montage of Suzume and Tamaki returning to Miyazaki while visiting the people that had been met along the way.}}
* [[Disappeared Dad]]:
** Tsubame was a single mother; whether Suzume's father abandoned them or died or why else he's absent from their lives is never revealed.
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* [[Glowing Eyes of Doom]]: Daijin demonstrates this when it appears in darkness.
* [[The Gump]]: In an antagonist variant, the worm's escapes are responsible for various historical disasters. The [[wikipedia:1923 Great Kantō earthquake|1923 Great Kantō earthquake]] is explicitly said to be one of those.
* [[Homage]]:
* [[Homage]]: {{spoiler|Sōta and Suzume parting ways at the train station at the end is very similar to Takaki and Akari doing the same in ''[[5 Centimeters per Second]]''.}}▼
** {{spoiler|Suzume falling from the Tokyo sky}} resembles the similar occurrence in ''[[Weathering with You]]''.
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* [[Implausible Deniability]]: Suzume's attempts to explain to Tamaki where she's going get increasingly thin.
* [[In a Single Bound]]: Both chair!Sōta and Daijin make blatantly superhumanly massive jumps.
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* [[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 shown alongside the apparently normal day that muggles see.
* [[The Needs of the Many]]: {{spoiler|Sōta's grandfather tries to persuade her to leave Sōta's sacrifice be because it spared the lives of the Tokyoites.}}
* [[Never Got to Say Goodbye]]:
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*** A phenomenon that allows {{spoiler|people separated by time to interact}} plays an important role.
* [[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.
* [[Soft Water]]: Justified in the case of {{spoiler|Suzume falling from the Tokyo sky as Daijin takes on a giant form that covers and cushions the impact.}}
* [[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.
* [[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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