The World God Only Knows/Characters: Difference between revisions

* [[Bishonen]]: While he's usually a nerd, when pursuing a target and downplaying his interest in games, the fact that he's actually quite handsome comes to light. In the first novel, {{spoiler|Yoshino Ikumi}} is surprised to see that he really is as handsome as {{spoiler|her sister}} described.

* [[Brilliant but Lazy]]: Subverted. Keima puts exactly as little effort as needed in anything that does not interest him… only said effort is just as much as needed to ''excel'' at such tasks. Particularly during capture operations, Keima sometimes withstands days and weeks of tedious menial labour just for the sake of setting up the needed scenario.

* [[Bunny Ears Lawyer]]: Most of the teachers just ignore his playing while in class as he gets the best grades anyway.

* [[Butt Monkey]]: Everyone loves to beat on him, especially the girls, often for no other reason than because he's there.

* [[The Chessmaster]]: He's basically what [[Code Geass|Lelouch]] or [[Death Note|Light]] would have been if they were into scoring chicks, real or virtual.

* [[Chick Magnet]]: In the [[Dating Sim]] world, there is no-one mightier than our Capturing God... and it seems this has translated over to real life. Even when he's not trying to capture the girl like with Chihiro and Nanaka, he ''still'' gets them!

* [[Crazy Prepared]]: Keima's P.E. teacher tries confiscating his PFP before swimming. Keima then brings out another one. The teacher takes that one too. What does Keima do? He takes out 6 more all at once. Even as a kid, he had 8 portable game consoles and 100 spare batteries. They even came in useful.

* [[The Cuckoolander Was Right]]: Mock his dating sim based strategies all you like, ''they work.''

* [[Dangerous Forbidden Technique]]: "Capturing God Mode"/"The God of Conquest Mode". Played for laughs, though, as you might expect.

* [[Deal with the Devil]]: Starts off the series, though really [[In Name Only]]: Keima didn't know he was dealing with devils and they didn't really get what they wanted either, but the contract is still as binding and lethal towards violators as the very worst examples of the trope.

* [[Heroic RROD]]: Caused by exhaustion from trying to get 6 captures in 1 1/2 weeks. {{spoiler|Fortunately, Apollo cured his exhaustion and cold.}}

* [[Hero with Bad Publicity]]: Minami's friends noted that Keima is famous in high school as "the weirdest weirdo"

* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: [[Hiro Shimono|Since when did Yoshii]] [[Baka Test|become so smart?]]

* [[I Did What I Had to Do]]: {{spoiler|Pushes Chihiro away after her confession to him because she isn't a goddess host and thus being close to him would put her in danger and get in the way of him finding Mercury. Regardless of the fact that she would want to be close to him.}}

* [[Insane Troll Logic]]: Unfortunately, insane trolls appear to run his universe, so he's usually at least pretty close to being right.

* [[Instant Expert]]: He defeats Haqua at a game she brought from Hell that he has never seen before. Haqua also claims to have not lost [http://www.mangareader.net/120-6006-7/the-world-god-only-knows/chapter-47.html in the last 100 years.] She doesn't stand a chance against God.

* [[Jerkass]] [[Character Development|->]] [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]

* [[Large Ham]]: When talking to anyone who's not a capture target, usually Elsie. Especially if it's about games. Which is about 99.9% of the time.

* [[Supreme Chef]]: Not exactly a chef, but according to the later chapters, he can make coffee that's to die for. Justified because he lives in a coffee shop.

* [[Terrible Artist]]

* [[Tsundere]]

* [[Unwanted Harem]]: Has [[Tsundere|Haqua, Diana]], [[Shrinking Violet|Tenri]], [[The Ditz|Elsea]] and {{spoiler|the recently discovered Goddess hosts}} after him. It's ''really'' unwanted because all he wants to do is play his games.

* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: [[Kanae Ito]], who's also [[Ookami-san|Little Red Riding Hood]] and [[Asobi ni Iku yo!|the first Catian on Earth]].

* [[Lethal Chef]]: While she's usually just using [[Cordon Bleugh Chef|weird ingredients]], there was that time she blew up a kitchen while trying to make a cake. [[It Makes Sense in Context|Though that was mostly the mandrake's fault: The cake looked good until then.]]

* [[Little Sister Heroine]]: Invoked and subverted. Keima gives an epic speech about why she doesn't qualify and thus he won't accept her as his sister at all, but in the end he does. The subversion comes in when there is little romantic tension between the two and she simply acts like a normal, real little sister would. Naturally, the relationship is not without its [[Ship Tease]], of course. Right after the Hinoki arc, Keima and Elsie are forced to go on a date by their friends. Keima refuses to treat it like a capture op (or date), and thus kills the most romantic moment, further depressing and angering Elsie who obviously wanted him to treat her like his date. She only recovers because he takes her to the firehouse to see the trucks after warning her "it's not my fault if you'll misunderstand".

* [[Magnetic Girlfriend]]: In a subtle sense. The development of Keima's "harem" did start because he met her but he actually had to work and take the initiative to get the attention of most of the girls.

An athletic girl in Keima's homeroom and a member of the school's track-and-field club. Even after her Runaway Spirit was captured and she lost her memories of Keima, she still kept lingering feelings for him, which confused her immensely. She still shows up from time to time as a friend to Keima and Elsea, and plays guitar in Chihiro's band. {{spoiler|She turns out to be the host of the sixth goddess, Mercury.}}

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* [[Book Dumb]]: She claims to have once been a good student, but now she spends so much time on athletics that she's neglected her studies.

* {{spoiler|[[Call Back]]: On Ayumi re-conquest arc, Ayumi kissed Keima the same way that Keima kissed Ayumi on his first conquest.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Idiot Ball]]: Yes, Haqua, letting the devil who was caught trying to steal a goddess detector out of her jar is [[Sarcasm Mode|a wonderful idea.]]}}

** {{spoiler|And like Nora pointed out, "[[Properly Paranoid|assuming everyone else as the culprit is a right thing to do]]". So why go and ask your boss while it is clear that there are moles in your team? Didn't you consider the possibility that your boss ''might'' be one? Also that you might have caught the moles' attention and found yourself in their trap?}}

* {{spoiler|[[Lie to the Beholder]]: While Elsie fills in for Kanon, Haqua fills in for Elsie, using an optical illusion that makes everyone but Keima see her as Elsie.}}

* [[Ninja Log]]: {{spoiler|Switches herself with a dummy while preparing to attack Vintage agents from above.}}

* [[Horned Humanoid]]: Has one horn on the right side of her head.

* [[I Was Just Passing Through]]: "{{spoiler|It's not like I'm your ally now. I just can't stand Vintage doing as they please in my district!!}}"

* [[Knight Templar]]

* [[Lovable Alpha Bitch]]: As bitchy and superior as she can be, she's also shown herself to be more thoughtful than she lets on, and has occasionally gone out of her way to help others despite her self-serving facade. {{spoiler|And she indirectly saves Keima's life by sending Ryou to activate the goddess sensor's roll-call feature when she figures that Vintage will be looking into the disappearance of one of their agents.}}

* [[Hime Cut]]

* [[Horned Humanoid]]: She has two short horns on the sides of her head.

* [[Laughing Mad]]

* [[Looks Like She Is Enjoying It]]: Stabbing herself and getting injured in general.

* [[Mood Swinger]]: Switches between a stoic to [[Laughing Mad]] and back again pretty much instantaneously.

* [[Sailor Fuku]]: Wears one under her longcoat.

* [[Spell My Name with an "S"]]: Is it "Lune" or is it "Rune?"

* [[State the Simple Solution]]: {{spoiler|While watching over the captured girls, she muses the easiest way to end the Goddess threat would be to kill all of Keima's captures.}}

* [[Gender Blender Name]]: 4 of the 6 goddesses are named after male gods from the Roman pantheon.

* [[Level Up At Intimacy 5]]: The more affection the hosts have, the more power the goddesses can unleash.

* [[The Mirror Shows Your True Self]]: Once they've regained enough strength, the goddesses can appear in their hosts' reflections and shadows.

* [[Our Gods Are Greater]]: What the sisters were - or could be - capable of at full power is unclear, but they weren't omnipotent. As they regain their strength, they become able to switch places with their hosts, manifesting superstrength and superspeed, and have a measure of resistance to spells.

* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: {{spoiler|Officially her capture was put under Nora's accomplishments. This kept her safe when Vintage went goddess hunting and targeted all of Keima's captures.}}

* [[Childhood Friend Romance]]: Keima denies that they were friends in the first place, though. Still unclear as to which way this is going.

* [[Color Failure]]: Actually worse, since it looks like she got [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/the_world_god_only_knows/v07/c064/8.html petrified.]

* [[Cool Big Sis]]: Diana acts like this for Tenri.

She is the eldest Jupiter Sister.

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* [[Call Back]]: Vulcan insists that Keima carry her around, similar to the time he had to carry {{spoiler|Tsukiyo}} around during her capture arc.

* [[Curb Stomp Battle]]: {{spoiler|Vulcan delivers one to Fiore by destroying her dolls and converting the material for her own use.}}