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* [[Dismissed Gender]] / [[Double Standard]] / [[Values Dissonance]] - Invoked plenty of times to say the least. Although then again Louise is not acting very different from what nobles actually did during Ancient Rome and Middle Ages. At one point killing a commoner (not to mention beating them up if they displeased you) ceased to be a crime '''at all''' (that usually didn't apply to townsfolk though, who were under protection of law to the extent that you had to have a valid reason to kill them).

* [[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.

* [[Ensemble Darkhorse]]: Tabitha, Miss Lougeville

* [[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).

* [[OT 3]] - Louise/Saito/Siesta is a popular pairing. Likely because [[Bastard Girlfriend|Louise]] and [[Meido|Siesta]] balance each other out. This was teased a little in the 12th volume where Louise says she would be disappointed if Siesta gave up on winning Saito so easily.

** 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]]

* [[Rescued From the Scrappy Heap]]: Louise usually gets this treatment in fanfiction. Done first by ''[[The Hill of Swords (Fanfic)|The Hill of Swords]]'' and then by [[Follow the Leader|about 99.9% of all ZnT fanfics that came after it]].

** For many this already happened after she gave up her nobility to save Tabitha and went uphill from there.

** 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 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.

* [[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}}.

** Louise in the light novels if you can look past her treatment of Saito. She has a HUGE insecurity complex.