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[[File:gloriousep8_9027.jpg|frame|Welcome to Rokkenjima.]]
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** It's definitely worth noting that the manga takes things [[Up to Eleven]] in almost aspect, from how pretty the costumes are to how sadistic Beatrice is, to [[Creepy Child|Maria's]] [http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b366/firegirl957/umineko%20and%20higurashi/18_20.jpg creepiness]. Even how [[Ambiguously Gay|Itsuki]] Ronove is for Battler.
* [[Adaptation Dye Job]] - Beatrice's dress (in the anime) and of course the eye colors of just about every character (Battler, Jessica, George, Shannon, Lambdadelta, Virgilia, etc...)
* [[Aerith and Bob]] - Most notably the witches: We've got Lady Bernkastel, Lady Lambdadelta and, of course, Lady Beatrice.
* [[An Aesop]] - An original story by Aesop is discussed a lot in EP 1 and EP 3, [[wikipedia:North Wind and the Sun|The North Wind and the Sun]].
* [[All Just a Dream]] - {{spoiler|Maria murdering Rosa}}, [[Mind Screw|apparently.]]
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* [[Batman Gambit]] - Episode 3: {{spoiler|Beatrice coming out on top from her duel with Virgilia hinged on Virgilia healing Beatrice before realizing she was fatally wounded herself. [[Heel Face Mole|Of course, they were actually working together the whole time,]] so not really.}}
* [[Beat Still My Heart]] - EP 3 features {{spoiler|Eva-Beatrice trying to destroy Beatrice's, but failing miserably, with Beatrice's heart refusing to stop beating, because it would leave Kanon and Jessica at Eva-Beatrice's mercy}}.
** The end of EP4 features what is probably one of the {{spoiler|most touching moments ever created by this trope}}.
* [[Be Careful What You Wish For]] - "The Witches' Tanabata" plays with this: {{spoiler|Beatrice [[Pull the Thread|pulls the thread]] on Maria's simple wish, gradually getting her to imagine her ideal world in greater and greater detail. Bernkastel, meanwhile, plays this terribly, horribly straight.}}
* [[Beat Them At Their Own Game]] - What Battler is trying to do. All the weapons he has to defend the [[Muggle]] possibility are supplied to him by the beings he is trying to deny.
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* [[Big Fancy House]] - The Ushiromiya mansion, complete with servants and a secondary guest house, in case the main mansion wasn't big enough.
* [[Big Screwed-Up Family]] - The Ushiromiya family, of course.
** The Sumadera family also qualifies.
* [[Bittersweet Ending]] - The author intentionally gave you two ways to see this - either bittersweet or as a [[Downer Ending]]. Which one really depends on whether you take the mystery or fantasy explanations for what happened. Even with the fantasy stuff, though, it's pretty difficult to say it ends any better than bittersweetly. By the end, {{spoiler|almost everyone is still dead. Those who survived (Eva and Ange) still lived pretty miserable lives, although the ending gives Ange a chance to move on. You find out that Battler also survived, albeit amnesiac, traumatized, and crippled}}. It turns out that the series is about him {{spoiler|coming to terms with his past}}, so in that way, the story ends happily, but in that way only.
* [[Blood From the Mouth]] - In episode 14 of the anime, Beatrice doesn't so much cough up blood as she ''[[Nausea Fuel|foams red from the mouth]]''.
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* [[Creepy Twins]] - Furfur and Zepar.
* [[Crossover]] - The ''Umineko No Naku Koro Ni X'' manga is a rather comical and energetic crossover with ''Higurashi'', plopping the Ushiromiya manor within spitting distance of Hinamizawa. So, if you ever want to see Rena mowing their lawn, Rudolf hanging out with the Stakes in Angel Mort, or Battler perplexed by the whole deal, this is it.
* [[Cruel and Unusual Death]] - The first twilight of Episode 2. The bodies of {{spoiler|Krauss, Natsuhi, Eva, Hideyoshi, Rudolph, and Kyrie}} are found locked inside the chapel {{spoiler|with bloody candies spewing out of their bellies. Their internal organs are found lying on the ground next to the bodies, apparently having been forced out by the surge of candy.}}
* [[Curb Stomp Battle]] - Something like this: In Episode 5, {{spoiler|Bernkastel introduces [[Canon Sue]] and new furniture to kill Beatrice, further her own plans, and royally screw with the status quo. Eventually, Battler and Beato's furniture decide that they are having none of this. [[Rivals Team Up|Epic smackdown ensues]].}}
** An even bigger one in Episode 8: {{spoiler|Lambdadelta challenges Featherine to a battle. Featherine doesn't even bother explaining HOW she wins, she just decrees it so, then promises to go back and write an impressive fight-scene later.}}
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* [[Double Entendre]] - The entire {{spoiler|wedding scene}} in EP6, particularly when {{spoiler|Erika tries to forcibly put a too small wedding ring on Battler's finger after ''lubing the ring and his finger up with saliva'' and insists that she will shove it into "the deepest part."}}
** Or Asmodeus and Satan's...er, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlEXR90m5sA choice words when confronting Kanon.]
*** [[Rape Is OK When It Is Female On Male|"Are you scared? How cute!" "Where do you want it? Where do you want me to pierce you?" "...piercing it feels so good," "Come on, let me have another taste. Pleasure me all you can with that warm chest of yours!"]]
* [[Drink Order]] - [[Spot of Tea|Tea]]. Tea tea tea tea tea tea tea. Everyone drinks tea. Especially Beato, Lambda, and Bern (They are called "tea parties," after all, right?) But Bern usually specifies that she wants umeboshi (sour, pickled plum) tea.
* [[Drunk with Power]] - Leading to a rampage of perversion in [http://umineko.wikia.com/wiki/TIPS/Game_master_Battler%27s_tip this] spoilery sidestory (which takes place after Episode 5).
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** [http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_FFr_CL_FHPk/SnHEzCNZS4I/AAAAAAAANEU/nvlVYXIc1eo/s400/umineko05-00090.jpg Bernkastel] and [http://static2.animepaper.net/upload/thumbs/wallpapers/Higurashi-No-Naku-Koro-Ni/%5Blarge%5D%5BAnimePaper%5Dwallpapers_Higurashi-No-Naku-Koro-Ni_jigoku-shonen(1.33)__THISRES__67684.jpg Rika], though this is intentional, given {{spoiler|Bernkastel is all the incarnations of Rika Furude who never made it past June of 1983}}.
* [[Extreme Doormat]] - Kanon verges on this with his whole "furniture" ideology, but it's subverted-ish in the end of "Turn of the Golden Witch," {{spoiler|when he admits he's in love with Jessica}}.
** Played straight with Genji, who barely shows any emotions.
* [[Faceless Goons]] - The goat-headed butlers.
** Played in multiple episodes where it is shown that the goat heads are actually wearing "masks." {{spoiler|1=EP2 shows Bern taking off a goat head; EP4 had Goat-kun which, as mentioned above, reflects on his life; and EP6 has the entire Ushiromiya family taking off goat heads during Beato and Battler's wedding}}.
* [[Failed a Spot Check]] - One or two of the riddles, most notably the Kanon-in-the-closet one from EP6 seriously relies on this ({{spoiler|It's not that there's ''no body'' in the closet - it's that the body is now inhabited by Shannon or Beatrice rather than Kanon}}).
* [[The Fair Folk]] - While they're called "witches" and have all the traditional trappings, their existence, playing with reality and fiction and following seemingly nonsensical rules, has many similarities.
* [[Fair Play Whodunnit]] - This work is somewhat [[Tsundere|bipolar]] towards this trope. The very first trailer started with the words "No [http://www.diogenes-club.com/knoxrules.htm Knox]. No [http://gaslight.mtroyal.ab.ca/vandine.htm Dine]. No [[Clueless Mystery|Fair]]". Then it begins with a fairly normal mystery plot which flies out of the window as witches and other magical beings keep appearing. But upon rereading earlier episodes it becomes obvious that all revelations were hinted at.
** In Episode 5 a new character is introduced {{spoiler|whose name is Ronald A. Knox backwards, who gives the possibility that the Knox rules are true in the game, scolds the reader for getting distracted from the mystery by the fantasy elements and outright states that the author wants the reader to solve it on their own}}. Beatrice herself actually states that {{spoiler|the novels follow the Knox decalogue}} as early as EP2 when she and Battler are arguing over hidden doors; most people don't notice this the first time around.
** Episode 7 {{spoiler|follows Episode 5's trend and introduces an [[Anthropomorphic Personification|incarnation]] of Willard H. Wright (the real name of S.S. Van Dine), who shows up to 'bury' Beatrice and reveal her heart. In layman's terms, he solves most mysteries and undeniably proves that the story is indeed a [[Fair Play Whodunnit]].}}
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** It also appears in the game ''Ougon Musoukyoku''. Shannon's boobs jiggle ''every time'' she performs a special attack.
* [[Gambit Pileup]] - Most non-magical explanations for the murders in any given arc require multiple murderers, often working at cross-purposes, and different ones for each arc.
* [[Game Between Heirs]]: The successor to the Ushiromiya family's headship and fortune (which includes ten tons of solid gold) seemed to be locked and set in stone and then a letter from the [[Magnificent Bastard|resident witch]] arrived, announcing that the spoils have been made fair game to anyone who can solve the Witch's Epitaph, a long riddle which incidentally, details a ritual requiring human sacrifice. Mind games (and [[Anyone Can Die|lots and]] [[Kill'Em All|lots of murder]]) ensue.
* [[Genre Busting]] - Fantasy? Mystery? One with elements of the other? {{spoiler|Nope! Try "romance with fantastical mystery Jungian-psychological elements".}}
* [[Genre Shift]] - Or so Beatrice would ''like'' you to think as she piles more and more fantastic elements into the murder mystery.
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* [[Good Witch Versus Bad Witch]]
* [[Gorgeous Period Dress]] - Just about all of the witches in the series wear these.
* [[Gothic Punk]] - The plot and style share many, many similarities in common with the Gothic novels of the 18th and 19th centuries.
* [[Gratuitous English]] - There are a bunch of cases. Please don't list them here, or this will get too long.
* [[Gratuitous French]] - The upcoming fighting game's opening is full of it, it is a translation of the witch's epitaph in French. Also, every sentence under the health bar is also displayed in bad french: for example, you can see under the message counter hit "sens inverse coup" whereas a more fitting translation would be "contre".
* [[Gratuitous Greek]] - Lambdadelta (ΛΔ) as well as the firing sequence of the Chiesters.
* [[Gratuitous Italian]] - The opening song. Averted in the case of [[Meaningful Name|Virgilia]] and [[Memetic Mutation|BEATORRICHEE'S]] [[Divine Comedy|names,]] which are often [[Did Not Do the Research|mistaken]] for horrible [[Gratuitous English]].
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* [[Groundhog Day Loop]] - Only magical/meta-characters ({{spoiler|and "furniture"}}) are aware of this, though, and each arc is actually a different world.
* [[Happily Married]] - Oddly enough, the most stable couple (the wife's problems come from elsewhere) is Eva and Hideyoshi. {{spoiler|And when [[Morality Chain|Hideyoshi kicks it]], Eva completely SNAPS and goes madder than she already is.}} In EP6, {{spoiler|Battler and Beatrice as well}}.
* [[Harsh Word Impact]] - Colored text can be utilized in such a way that declarations of truth, theories and things of the like behave as this trope, [[Played for Drama|done for drama]] and gone [[Up to Eleven|far beyond any scale of Meta-awareness]]. Justified because the characters who are affected by this trope reside in a place [[Fan Nickname|commonly referred to as the Meta-World]].
** In Episode 4, {{spoiler|Beatrice is impaled by giant blue spikes when she can´t (or won´t) deny Battler's theories.}}
** In Episode 5, we have Dlanor manifesting the power of Knox's Decalogue in red swords, culminating in {{spoiler|Dlanor denying Battler's theories and impaling him a gigantic sword. [[Our Hero Is Dead|What happens]] [[He's Back|afterward must be]] [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|seen to be believed]].}}
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* [[Heel Face Revolving Door]] - Some of the witches enjoy going through this, notably Beatrice and arguably {{spoiler|[[Wild Card|Lambdadelta.]]}}
* [[Heir Club for Men]] - Eva was almost pushed out of the line of succession because when she married Hideyoshi, she should have lost her name. However, she convinced Kinzo to adopt Hideyoshi as an Ushiromiya, allowing herself to retain her position (Rosa retains hers because [[Disappeared Dad|no one even knows who she married]]). This is also a reason, along with George's older age, that Eva thinks he should be ahead on the succession.
* [[Heroic BSOD]]: Hilariously subverted. Ronove ''says'' that Battler was so shocked by {{spoiler|Beatrice's plan to trick him into believing in her}} that he refused to talk or eat, but then he shows up fighting with one of the Seven Sisters of Purgatory for a basket of bread rolls. Ronove was just teasing her.
** Later played straight and brought [[Up to Eleven]] when {{spoiler|Battler finds out that the woman he thought was his birth mother, really wasn't his mother at all.}} He subsequently {{spoiler|'''stops existing for half an arc.'''}}
* [[Heroic Sacrifice]] - Several. For example, {{spoiler|Jessica throwing herself in front of Kanon to block one of the stakes}} in EP2, {{spoiler|Ange revealing her name to snap some sense into Battler}} in EP4, and {{spoiler|Kanon trading places with Battler in the closed room}} in EP6.
** {{spoiler|[[Crowning Moment of Awesome|Lam]][[Tear Jerker|bda]][[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|delta]] towards the end of Episode 8.}}
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* [[Killed Off for Real]] - The following is said in {{color|gold| gold text}}: {{spoiler|"I guarantee that this corpse is Kinzo Ushiromiya's corpse!"}}
** {{spoiler|Everyone except Eva, Ange, and Battler. Eva and Battler die later anyway, so it's technically everyone except Ange.}}
* [[Kill'Em All]] - "When the seagulls cried, no one had been left alive."
* [[Lamarck Was Right]] - Being a descendent of Kinzo evidently allows you to be able to use magic. Made even more odd by Beatrice's admission that Kinzo himself was never very talented.
** Descendants of Kinzo almost universally inherit the key elements of his 'magic', pure blind determination and an idiot's understanding of chance and probability. This clan of human lemmings would be marked for mass extinction in the real world, and indeed are, in the world of Umineko.
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* [[Locked Room Mystery]] - [[Invoked Trope|Invoked]] many times and taken by some characters as evidence that murders were committed by the Golden Witch rather than by a human.
* [[Limited Wardrobe]] - With Kanon and Shannon exempted, most of the characters in the VN are only ever seen in one outfit, even in flashbacks, when it is also noted that these are their formal clothes that they're wearing for the family conference. The anime largely averts this trope in the flashbacks, but it still keeps them in the same outfits through multiple days, even though, logically, everyone should have known that they would be staying more than one day and packed a change of clothes.
* [[Logical Fallacies]] - When Battler accuses Eva of lying in red her response is to say {{color|red| "The red only tells the truth."}} and to accuse Battler of insulting Beato's honor. This is intentional given that "Anti-Mystery vs. Anti-Fantasy" points out that the red truth relies on you trusting Beato. Furthermore, actual evidence supporting the validity of the red truth is presented later on.
* [[Lonely Piano Piece]] - "Fortitude" is the most common one, although "Wingless" and "Umarete Kite Kurete Arigatou" ("Thank you for being born") also deserve a mention.
** A good part of the music could be considered for this. Dai is really fond of using pianos.
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** Also, Maria's name is one that is a common translation of Mary - a reference to the woman from the New Testament who gave birth to Jesus Christ. In the fourth arc, one of the TIPS speculates that {{spoiler|Maria is one of the Creator witches, who can create something where there was previously nothing}}.
** The significance of Maria's name is further explored in EP7, and Maria even says that if she had been born a boy, she would have been named Emmanuel, one of the names for Jesus, meaning "God is with us" in Hebrew.
* [[Mental Story]]: Combined with {{spoiler|a [[Show Within a Show Reveal]]}} in Episode 8 -- most of the plot is {{spoiler|Toya Hachijo attempting to recreate the events of Rokkenjima 1986 as mystery novels in order to speculate on what happened on the island}}.
* [[Mercy Kill]] - {{spoiler|Ange did one to Eva}} near the end of the fourth arc. Also, {{spoiler|Beato gave one to Maria and Rosa}} in the third arc.
* [[Message in a Bottle]] - The ending of "Legend of the Golden Witch."
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* [[Noblewoman's Laugh]] - Beatrice is prone to these, and Maria's giggling sometimes morphs into it as well. Lambda has her "O-ho-ho-ho-ho!" in the [[Visual Novel]] as well.
* [[No Body Left Behind]] - The Stakes are some of the few characters NOT to leave gruesome corpses. Unless they're the ones doing the killing, but that's another matter...
* [[Not with the Safety On, You Won't]]: Amakusa tries to pull this on {{spoiler|Ange in the Trick ending, upon which she calmly replies that her revolver does not have a safety and shoots him to death}}.
* [[Occult Detective]] - The Witch Hunters in Episode 4.
* [[Of Corpse He's Alive]] - {{spoiler|Kinzo. for a YEAR; you've gotta give Natsuhi credit}}.
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** In EP6 this concept is weaponized to {{spoiler|force Battler to make a Logic Error}}
* [[Rivals Team Up]] - In VN Episode 5, {{spoiler|Battler, Ronove, Virgilia, Gaap, and the Seven Sisters of Purgatory all band together to give Erika and the Eiserne Jungefrau (particularly Dlanor) [[Curb Stomp Battle|a serious beatdown]].}}
** In EP 6, {{spoiler|Gaap and George and Ronove and Jessica in the first twilight. Kyrie and Leviathan also}}
** In EP 8, {{spoiler|Will and Dlanor team up to fight the goats.}}
* [[Romantic Two-Girl Friendship]] - {{spoiler|Erika and Dlanor}} in EP6 most likely qualify for this.
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* [[Slasher Smile]] - Everyone who is involved with the murders of family ({{spoiler|Eva, Eva-Beatrice, Kinzo/"Goldsmith"}} come to mind) has one.
** In the manga, Dlanor "GREAT EQUALIZER IS THE DEATH" Knox gains a [[Slasher Smile]] [http://www.mangareader.net/umineko-no-naku-koro-ni-chiru-episode-5-end-of-the-golden-witch/15/42 here.]
* [[Social Services Does Not Exist]] - Averted. It ''does'' exist... {{spoiler|Rosa just doesn't care. Well, she also threw them out.}}
** Just about everyone could have used some therapy as well, but apparently, [[There Are No Therapists]].
* [[So Happy Together]] - In the first arc, George proposes to Shannon in a gazebo with all sorts of pretty music playing in the background. {{spoiler|Guess who's one of the people found dead the next morning, with the engagement ring on her finger}}?
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* [[Soundtrack Dissonance]] - Episode 3. People getting killed with [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1r6OniHVww this music in the background.]
** That's nothing compared to {{spoiler|Eva-Beatrice's}} theme song: It's even called [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0J5LF2Udf20 Happiness of Marionette]. So when does this play? Whenever the villain of this arc is contemplating how she'll torture people, of course!
** Note: if, when playing Umineko, a piece of music is played containing either a pipe organ or a harpsichord (unless it is in the beginning, setting up the Rokenjima family gathering), NOTHING positive is going to happen in that scene. No matter how happy, fun, pleasant, or uplifting it my sound, some serious shit is going down. Someone is either going to: A) Die horribly, B) Have their perception of reality shattered, C) {{spoiler|Get trapped in a horrific logic error}}, D) Have their argument torn to shreds, E) THINK that they are going to win, then get completely and utterly beaten, or F) All of the above!
* [[Split Personality]] - {{spoiler|Eva and Eva-Beatrice}}.
** Also something of a [[Literal Split Personality]] and possibly an [[Enemy Without]].
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* [[Wrestler in All of Us]] - In the fighting game, Ange with her DABURU JAAMAN
* [[Wrong Genre Savvy]] - Battler doesn't believe in the supernatural and tries to find mundane explanations for everything bizarre happening on the island. Oddly enough, Beatrice seems amused by his denial and traps him in a time loop, challenging him to find a mundane explanation each time. [[Mind Screw|Or something]]. {{spoiler|1=He eventually realizes by EP5 that he must change his priorities, and becomes one of ''the'' most appropriately [[Genre Savvy]] characters in the series}}.
** Also, it may be {{spoiler|Erika and Dlanor case}} in EP5. {{spoiler|They use the "fact" that they are in a mystery to use Knox's Decalogue as basis of most of their deductions. However, it was never stated that the Decalogue is really ''valid'' (Dlanor even acknowledges this).}}
* [[Xanatos Gambit]]
* [[Xanatos Roulette]] - Episode 3, where Beatrice's strategy hinges upon {{spoiler|Eva-Beatrice}}, Battler, and Eva all taking a very specific set of actions.
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* [[You Are Worth Hell]] - {{spoiler|The fantasy ending of the series has Battler declare this for Beatrice}}.
* [[You Bastard]] - In the Tanabata side story, {{spoiler|Bern addresses the reader several times during her section, repeatedly asking, implying, and outright stating that they prefer seeing the sort of twisted 'wish-granting' she indulges in.}}
* [[You Can't Fight Fate]] - Ange helps even knowing that going back in time to help Battler won't fix her own timeline: just the one that Battler will now go to which makes her a [[Future Badass]].
* [[Your Mind Makes It Real]] - Pretty strongly implied in every arc after the first as a sort of extension of the [[Literary Agent Hypothesis]] with a touch of [[The Treachery of Images]] tossed in for good measure. Did you notice that this is labelled "[[Mind Screw]]"?
* [[Zettai Ryouiki]] - Beatrice in her suit and Ange in particular.
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