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* [[Abandon Shipping]]: Many bailed on the Louise/Saito ship after {{spoiler|Louise beats him with a whip until he falls unconscious, and Saito tries to undress her ''while she's sleeping''.}}
* [[Angst? What Angst?]]: [[Deconstructed]] but not at first glance. {{spoiler|It is only when the brainwashing effect of the summoning contract starting to wear off
* [[Audience-Alienating Premise]]: ''[[The Familiar of Zero]]'' actually ''evolved'' into this trope, due to the [[Flanderization]] of its main characters from "[[Ordinary High School Student]] [[Trapped in Another World]]" and "[[Tsundere]]-ish [[Cute Witch]]" into "[[I'm a Man, I Can't Help It|Perverted Jerkass]]" and "[[Bastard Girlfriend|Psychopathic Sadistic Tsundere]]" respectively.
* [[Canon Sue]]: Tabitha's long lost twin sister, who seems to have been created from a checklist of [[Mary Sue]] cliches.
* [[Colbert Bump]]: The series recently{{when}} saw a ''huge'' upswing in popularity on the Spacebattles Creative Writing board after ''[[The Hill of Swords]]'' showed up on the Fanfiction Recommendations thread; prior to that, it had been an almost complete unknown in the community, now ZnT fanfic threads have practically taken over the board.
* [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] - {{spoiler|Saitou goes alone against up against an army of 70,000 bloodthirsty, berserk soldiers, and dies heroically}}. Big damn hero, even if he was fighting them for his girlfriend and not Tristain.
** It's not so much that {{spoiler|he went up against an army alone, it's that he ''disrupted and held them off for four goddamn hours by himself.''}}
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{{quote|"Tabitha has taken over Siesta as my favorite character, and not just because she is channeling Yuki. She is made of pure win, I don't usually like the stoic silent types, but something about Tabitha just makes my inner moe meter go berserk."}}
** Louise may also count.
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** This is of course when shippers stop [[Die for Our Ship|painting the other as a manipulating monster, who just wants to interrupt true love]]
** Also Louise generally gets [[Unstoppable Rage|very violent]] when [[Green-Eyed Monster|another woman so much as looks at Saito funny]].
* [[Rescued from the Scrappy Heap]]: Louise usually gets this treatment in
** For many this already happened after she gave up her nobility to save Tabitha and went uphill from there.
* [[The Scrappy]]: Louise and Saito ''both'' qualify, depending on who you ask.
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* [[Tear Jerker]]: Seeing Tabitha's mother for the first time; emaciated, insane and paranoid. She hurls insults and silverware at her own daughter, making it that much worse when the cause is revealed {{spoiler|to have been a glass of cursed wine intended for Tabitha (then Charlotte). Upon realizing what was going on, she drank it herself to protect her daughter.}}
* [[They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot]]
** The anime works at a conversion ratio of three to four volumes per twelve episodes. Due to this, at least two thirds of the source material has been outright omitted, and the rest truncated or chopped up. Had the anime remained faithful to the source materials all along... well, too late now, unfortunately.
** The manga and novels aren't immune to this criticism either. In fact, the series as a whole often comes under fire for having a terrific premise, and absolutely terrible execution. The fact that [[Eight Deadly Words|almost every character is wholly unlikeable]] for one reason or another ([[Love Makes You Crazy]] and [[Idiot Ball]] being the most common reasons) certainly doesn't help matters.
* [[Unintentionally Unsympathetic]]: '''Louise'''. She ''does'' have a lot of issues, but that doesn't excuse in the slightest her atrocious abuse of Saito. She's the prime example of a [[Tsundere]] [[Shana Clone]] done ''completely'' '''wrong'''.
* [[What an Idiot!]]: Saito still hasn't figured out that commenting about large breasts (or her [[Pettanko|lack thereof]]) around [[Tsundere|Louise]] is a bad idea.
* [[The Woobie]]: You really can't help but feel sorry for Saito because of the abuse heaped upon him by Louise. Hell, even the other familiars feel sorry for Saito, and see his treatment as both a familiar and a human as horrible. Tabitha qualifies too, once you learn of {{spoiler|what happened to her parents}}.
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