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* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni|Blue Oni]]: Neku is the Blue to Kitaniji's Red. Take a look at the headphones.

* [[Chick Magnet]]: A disproportionate number of shopkeepers seem to develop crushes on Neku as their FSG rises.

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]

* [[Defrosting Ice Queen|Defrosting Ice King]]

* [[Headphones Equal Isolation]]: Neku keeps his 'phones on to block people out. {{spoiler|The ending shows a shot of him leaving them behind.}}

* [[The Hero]]: Starts out as a [[Designated Hero]] who's only out to survive, but gradually evolves into a true hero over the course of the game.

* [[Ineffectual Loner]]: Enforced example. If Neku doesn't team up with a partner and learn to cooperate with them, he'll get erased.

* [[In-Series Nickname]]: He has several, but "Phones" is used most often.

* [[Laser-Guided Amnesia]]: His memories were his entry fee for the first week.

* [[Magic Knight]]

* [[Sleeves Are for Wimps]]

* [[Straight Man]]: To several characters, but mostly for Beat.

* [[Troubled but Cute]]

* {{spoiler|[[Unwitting Pawn]]: To Joshua.}}

* [[Power Gesture|Psychic Gesture]]

* {{spoiler|[[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]: Happens to her in endgame, just like 90% of the cast who get brainwashed by the Red Player Pin.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Shrinking Violet]]}}: Her true personality.

* {{spoiler|[[Skirt Over Slacks]]}}

* [[Colony Drop]]: His Level 3 special drops the Moon onto Earth.

* [[Crucified Hero Shot]]

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]

* {{spoiler|[[God Was My Co-Pilot]]}}

* {{spoiler|[[Giggling Villain]]}}

* [[Real Men Wear Pink]]: The ''Frilly Parasol'' is one of his better items.

* {{spoiler|[[Restored My Faith in Humanity]]: Neku does this for him.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Slasher Smile]]: When he shoots Neku.}}

* [[Smug Smiler]]

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* {{spoiler|[[Willfully Weak]]}}: [[Averted]] and justified via Secret Reports. {{spoiler|Since he's from a different plane, it causes him to look much younger, lose several of his abilities, and lowers his power output.}} However, this lets him look like he's a participant in the game, so the Reapers completely ignore him while he makes his own plots.

=== Daisukenojo "Beat" Bito ===

* [[Book Dumb]]: Beat's not particularly intelligent, but his impliedly-horrible performance at school doesn't seem to have much to do with how smart he actually is.

* {{spoiler|[[Brother-Sister Team]]: With Rhyme.}}

* [[Cannot Tell a Joke]]: In Another Day.

* [[Cool Board]]: [[Improbable Weapon User|Hell yeah.]]

* [[Mangst]]/[[Manly Tears]]: After {{spoiler|what happened to Rhyme}}, he gets prone to doing this.

* [[Memento MacGuffin]]: Rhyme's pendant becomes one for him. {{spoiler|[[Chekhov's Gun|It becomes quite important]] later on, when Neku finds it on the ground and returns it to Beat, who later returns the favor by saving his life.}}

* [[Nice Hat]]: A black hat with a large skull design. It matches Rhyme's hat nicely.

* [[Off-Model]]: A very minor example. He is shown wearing a silver band on his right ring finger on the game's cover art, but it is absent from his sprites and the rest of the game's promotional art. In-game, the times he's shown wearing it can be counted on one hand.

* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: Arguably, an alternate red to the cool-headed (blue) Neku, who describes him at one point as a "freakin' rhino".

* {{spoiler|[[Senseless Sacrifice]]}}: {{spoiler|See below}}.

* [[Sibling Yin-Yang]]: {{spoiler|Again with Rhyme.}}

* [[Sleeves Are for Wimps]]

* [[Taking the Bullet]]: {{spoiler|Tragically tried doing this to save Rhyme from getting hit by a car, but managed to get them both killed instead. A more successful version of this happens later on when he saves Neku from an unexpected attack during the final moments of the game.}}

* [[Tough Love]]: {{spoiler|His parents were constantly pressuring him to get better grades, be more like his sister, and berating him when he didn't give results. Eventually he just gave up trying all together.}}

* [[Flunky Boss]]: Sends out several Taboo Noise before attacking directly, and typically has a few out most of the time, usually attacking the partner on the other screen.

* [[Formulaic Magic]]

* [[Insufferable Genius]]: He puts the "pomp" in "psychopomp". And the "psycho", too, for that matter.

* {{spoiler|[[Karmic Death]]}}: {{spoiler|On the last day of the game, he gets "crunched" and chucked under a junk sculpture rather like the ones he was so fond of making.}}

* [[Blue Eyes]]

* [[The Dragon]]: To Kitaniji.

* [[The Glasses Come Off]]: She takes them off right before getting into fighting mode. It's her ''eyes'' that glint menacingly instead.

* [[Elegant Gothic Lolita]]

* [[Cool Shades]]/[[Sinister Shades]]

* [[Dual Boss]]: {{spoiler|A brainwashed Shiki fights alongside him.}}

* [[Gender Blender Name]]: Megumi is a female name.

* [[Headphones Equal Isolation]]: As a foil to Neku's straight use, his are always around his neck. A subtle hint {{spoiler|that his plan involves false unity}}.

* [[Reptiles Are Abhorrent]]: His Noise form Anguis Cantus {{spoiler|and [[Our Dragons Are Different|Draco Cantus]]}}.

* [[Scaled Up]]: Anguis Cantus and {{spoiler|[[Sequential Boss|Draco Cantus]]}}.

* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: {{spoiler|He was actually playing his own game with Joshua, the Composer, to determine the fate of Shibuya. And if Joshua wins, Shibuya is destroyed. And guess what? Neku was playing on Joshua's side. [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|Oops!]]}}

* {{spoiler|[[Nice Hat]]: The hat she and Shiki wear was desinged by her and sewn by Shiki, just like everything else in her wardrobe. Shiki uses her "incarnation" of it to wear her Pins.}}

* [[OC Stand In]]: Very little is known about her, since she only actually appears in one day, mentioning that she misses Shiki and that she regrets her taking her advice the wrong way.

* [[Satellite Character]]: Her character is largely based around her relationship with Shiki. She is only ever seen talking with a minor character about Shiki.

* {{spoiler|[[Stripperiffic]]: Set this [[Bare Your Midriff|skirt just an inch lower]] and you have a game rated 16 and above.}}

* [[The Rival]]: To Neku and only in [[Mini Game|Tin Pin Slammer]].

* [[Shout-Out]]: To just about every shonen series there ever was.

=== Ken Doi ===