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* [[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 that Saito's [[Angst]] begins.}}
* [[Canon Sue]] - Tabitha's long lost twin sister, who seems to have been created from a checklist of [[Mary Sue]] cliches.▼
* [[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.
* [[Colbert Bump]] - The series recently 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.▼
▲* [[Canon Sue]]
▲* [[Colbert Bump]]
* [[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.''}}
*** And on top of that, he didn't kill a single enemy, only knocked them unconscious. Now thats what I'd like to call awesome!
* [[Die for Our Ship]]: Siesta treats Saito much better than Louise, but is ''loathed'' by fandom for that.
* [[Dismissed Gender]]
* [[Double Standard]]: Louise gets bashed for her abuse of Saito, yet very few people seem to care about his creepy perversion or rape attempts on her which, unlike Louise's questionable actions, are never provoked.
* [[Dude, Not Funny]]
** In another point, Louise woke up to find Saito [[What the Hell, Hero?|trying to undress her in her sleep so he could rape her]]. Not nearly as many fans are bothered by this compared Louise's abuse of Saito.
* [[Eight Deadly Words]]: With such unlikable main characters like Louise and Saito (''especially'' Louise), as well as terrible execution and [[Unfortunate Implications]], many people ditched the series halfway through the first season.
* [[Ensemble Darkhorse]]: Tabitha, Miss Lougeville, Kirche.
* [[Macekre]]: Original light novels are, even though they still aren't free from occasional [[Fridge Logic]] concerning their plot, a few levels over the anime adaptation, which had quickly devolved from grey-coloured story with [[Fan Service|occasional breathers]] to [[Tsundere]] comedy with a lot of [[Fan Service]] and something happening in the background. Because of that, some things were [[Adaptation-Induced Plothole|slightly changed]], and some cut off completely, often resulting in removing [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|heart-warming]] or [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|awesome]] moments just to put more female body parts in (a very prominent example being {{spoiler|Saito's death, which was the reason why Louise's company had come into contact with Tiffania, and an important part of Louise's character development}}, being changed into {{spoiler|Saito coming back a short while later on his own, and then [[Adaptation-Induced Plothole|dragging Louise to Westwood]] [[They Just Didn't Care|for no apparent reason]]}}; another fine example is {{spoiler|Agnes' behaviour towards Colbert after his faux death, once again an important part of someone's character development (in this case, of two characters, even)}}, being cut completely).
* [[Moe]]: Tabitha, [http://www.mangago.com/mangago/zero_no_tsukaima/v03/c016/24.aspx so very much]. To quote someone from animeblogger:
{{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.
* [[
** 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
** For many this already happened after she gave up her nobility to save Tabitha and went uphill from there.
* [[The Scrappy]]
** Hell, Louise ''period''. Her abusive treatment of Saito ([[Hypocrite|despite being abused herself]]), [[Spoiled Brat|irritating personality]], [[Never My Fault|refusal to own up what she does]], and the fact [[Designated Hero|she's the main heroine when she does barely do anything heroic]] has made her one of the worst Scrappies in anime history. Her character, alongside [[Love Hina|anime!Naru]] and [[Ore no Imouto ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai!|Kirino]], has made many people bail on the [[Tsundere]] archetype. ''Anime America'' voted her as the most annoying anime character, and rightfully so.
* [[Tear Jerker]]
* [[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!]]
* [[The Woobie]]
** Louise in the light novels if you can look past her treatment of Saito. She has a
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