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* [[Berserk Board Barricade]]
* [[Berserk Button]]: In the "Kotaru the haunted kotatsu" storyline, information from Mendou is required. He arrives, in full samurai garb, katana at the ready, 0.1 second after Ataru yells out, [[Nobody Calls Me Chicken|"MENDOU YOU SISSY!!!"]]
** Call Ryuunosuke a "boy" at your own risk.
** Do ''NOT'' spill the principal's tea.
* [[Betty and Veronica]]: Shinobu and Lum.
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* [[Can't Act Perverted Toward a Love Interest]]: Ataru, partly because Lum would likely consider as his submission to their "marriage".
* [[Casanova Wannabe]]: Ataru.
* [[Catch Phrase]]: Several, most often a variation of the following:
{{quote|'''Ataru''': "Ojooooou-chan! Let's go on a date! / What's your address and phone number?"
'''Lum''': "DAAAAAAAAAHHHHHLING!" "DIVINE RETRIBUTION!" ''(while zapping Ataru)''
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'''Guy:''' Uh...you know that's a ''girl'', right?
'''Girl:''' Oh, we know. She's dreamy, isn't she? }}
* [[Childhood Marriage Promise]]: Lum's great-grandfather promised his daughter to Rupa's great-grandfather in exchange for an antidote. Once the latter found out that there is no daughter, he vowed to wait until a girl was born in the oni royal family. As it turns out, his great-grandson is apparently the correct age to marry Lum, and had been brought up with the idea that he would marry her.
** Also, Ryuunosuke and Nagisa, courtesy of their fathers.
** And the plot of the first movie, ''Only You'', where a six year old Ataru plays shadow tag with Elle, who he later learns comes from a planet where stepping on someone's shadow is considered a marriage proposal.
* [[Chuck Cunningham Syndrome]]: Mr Hanawa.
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* [[Clingy Jealous Girl]]: Both Lum and Shinobu, to Ataru and Mendou, respectively, though Shinobu starts out as one to Ataru.
* [[Closet Sublet]]: Lum, at first.
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: The Principal.
* [[Comedic Sociopathy]]: Everybody that shows up on screen. ''Everybody''.
** Except maybe Kitsune. ''Maybe''.
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* [[Cool Bike]]: Benten's rocket cycle.
* [[Crazy Prepared]]: Lum nearly always carries around some kid of weird alien device is useful to the situation at hand (and usually it makes the trouble one hundred times worse). It is also lampshaded: during one Christmas party in Mendo's manor, Ryoko -Shutaro's little sister- has planted several dozen of bombs around the place (in revenge for not getting invited to the party by her brother). Lum says she has an explosive detector, and Ataru asks if she always carries one around.
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* [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]]: Ataru. Seriously, this guy has groped pretty much ''every'' female character in the series, mostly against their will. [[Super Strength|Given]] [[Bare-Fisted Monk|what]] [[Shock and Awe|they]] [[An Ice Person|can]] [[Badass|do]], that's an impressive feat.
* [[Cursed with Awesome]]: Yes, Ataru, I'm sure it ''totally sucks'' to have a [[Green-Skinned Space Babe|Green Haired Space Babe]] girlfriend.
** [[Blessed with Suck]]: ...Who can fly, is a [[Clingy Jealous Girl]], and has a built-in taser that she uses repeatedly on him if he so much as ''looks'' at another girl. Shit, they can't even sleep in the same bed together without him getting electrocuted every few seconds (accidentally, for once).
* [[Custom Uniform]]: Mendou and Ryuunosuke.
* [[Cute and Psycho]]: Ran and Ryoko are definitely this.
* [[Cute Bruiser]]: Subverted with Shinobu, who can juggle desks easily, but believes herself to be a [[Yamato Nadeshiko|fragile sweet little schoolgirl]].
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** Also one of the Spice Girls tried highlight Ataru as a potential "Weak point" of Lum by throwing a dart at a board with pictures of Lum, Oyuki, Benten, plus Ataru on it. The dart of course missed forcing her to walk over to the dartboard and move it over.
* [[Deal with the Devil]]: Ataru forms one entirely by ''accident'' with a repeated running pattern matching a demon's personal crest for 13 days and a [["V" Sign]], if you'll believe that.
* [[Defeat by Modesty]]: Lum, in the first storyline. Ataru uses a suctioncup gun to pull her bra off. She was so desperate to get it back she flew close enough for Ataru to grab her horns.
* [[Deliberately Cute Child]] : Ten.
* [[Depraved Dentist]]: {{spoiler|Lum (not really a spoiler, just funny)}}
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* [[Dork Horse Candidate]]: Ataru
* [[Double Standard]]: Really messed with in some of the Ryuunosuke/Nagisa bits: Culminating in the fight between Ryu (Girl raised as a boy, and looking really masculine) and Nagisa (Boy raised as a girl wearing a dress and looking feminine in it).
* [[Drunk on Milk]]: Lum and Ten wreak havoc when they get extremely drunk on umeboshi (pickled plums, usually regarded as a hangover cure). It turns out that alcohol actually cures them of being drunk, though all this is somewhat justified by Bizarre Alien Biology.
* [[Dude Magnet]]: The male population of Tomobiki High School would all give an arm and a leg to have a chance with Lum, not counting her various alien suitors.
* [[Dude, She's Like, in a Coma]]: Kurama
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* [[Early-Bird Cameo]]: "[[Breaking the Fourth Wall|My name is Shutaro Mendou and I will soon become a regular character on this show.]]"
* [[Easily-Thwarted Alien Invasion]]
* [[Edible Theme Naming]]: The Spice Girls, Sugar, Pepper and Ginger.
* [[The Eighties]]: Even if the manga was started in [[The Seventies]], the anime smacks of this. Just watch the second opening; it's Lum and the gang ''disco-dancing''.
* [[Elemental Rock-Paper-Scissors]]
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* [[Everything's Better with Dinosaurs]]: One episode transports Lum, Ataru and Ten into the past, where a dinosaur mistakes Ten for its hatched egg and the egg believes Lum to be its mom.
* [[Everything's Better with Penguins]]: The second episode involves the neighborhood being overrun with them.
** Although the "penguin" was actually a swallow that had [[Incredibly Lame Pun|swallowed]] some of Ten's candy.
* [[Everything's Better with Princesses]]: Aside from Lum, Oyuki and Benten qualify as queen and goddess.
* [[Everything's Cuter with Lucky Charms]]
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* [[Generic Cuteness]]: Shinobu.
* [[The Generic Guy]]: Kosuke in the manga.
* [[Genki Girl]]: Lum
* [[The Glomp]]
* [[Gonk]]: Cherry, especially emphasized by his sudden entrances and close-ups. Sakura's mom, who looks like Cherry with hair. And, of course, Shinobu's highly persistent suitor, Soban from Busumetsu High, who raises this trope [[Up to Eleven]].
* [[Gratuitous English]]: "Darling!"
** And in just about every theme song: "Dancing, dancing star"; "You are watching me, I am watching you"; etc. Some of the theme songs are sung partially or entirely in English (i.e. "Rock the Planet").
* [[Gravity Is a Harsh Mistress]]: In one manga chapter, Ataru rushed out of his home through the nearest exit. Instants later he noticed: that exit was not a door but a window; and he could not fly. After he has hit the ground, Lum floats down to him and states: "For one second I believed you had learnt to fly."
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* [[Hot-Blooded]]: Tobimaro, complete with [[Hotblooded Sideburns]] even. He's an utter [[Butt Monkey]], however.
* [[Human Aliens]]: Averted with every alien aside from the important characters. Most aliens look nothing humanoid: see the omiai chapter/episode and take a good look at Lum's would-be suitors aside from Uni and the Prince of the Underground.
* [[Human Outside, Alien Inside]]: One episode features Lum and Ten eating pickles and realizing too late that the brine has an effect on them that alcohol does not. (Arguably a [[Not Himself]] episode, as we never see them completely drunk at any other time in the series)
* [[Hyperspace Mallet]]
* [[I Can't Believe It's Not Heroin!]]: [[Bizarre Alien Biology|Oni get drunk on umeboshi (English translation = "pickled plums")]]
* [[An Ice Person]]: [[Meaningful Name|Oyuki]], the Queen of Neptune.
* [[Idiots Cannot Catch Colds]]: Ataru.
* [[Innocent Bystander]]: Subverted, Ryoko often poses as one.
* [[Instant Fanclub]]: Lum, naturally.
* [[Interspecies Romance]]: Kitsune develops a very innocent crush on Shinobu after she saves him from a pack of dogs. Also Lum and Ataru, obviously.
* [[Involuntary Shapeshifting]]: Uber-bishonen [[Chick Magnet|Rei]] turns into an ''ushitora'' (a very large, goofy and stupid-looking cross between a tiger and a bull) whenever excited. And that means whenever lots of food is in front of him. Or, early on, whenever his ex-fiancee, Lum, spurns him. The only girl it doesn't bother at all is Ran... and even the girls who see both of his forms still aren't entirely against the prospect of romancing him.
* [[Jerkass]]: Pretty much everyone in the series at some point.
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** Well most of the alien girls like outfits that are very swimsuit like: Ran occasionally dons a pink bikini outfit, Oyuki has a crystal surfaced one with [[Absolute Cleavage]] (though she usually wears a kimono), and Kurama a black one piece front laced corset type outfit.
* [[Murder the Hypotenuse]]: Ran's default reaction to anyone who gets within ten feet of Rei.
* [[Musical Pastiche]]: Apparently UY reused a BGM track from [[Kinnikuman]] (which was made a year before UY), although considering Shinsuke Kazato was the composer for both series, it really isn't of a surprise, don't believe me, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRtZK_nbUgI&feature=related click here for the Kinnikuman version], and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOX5N3E88VY go to 0:27 for the UY remix of this track], take a listen and tell me those two BGM's don't sound almost exactly the same.
** One musical cue for the series resembles the chorus of [[The Beatles]]' "Your Mother Should Know" quite closely.
** Another musical cue used in mood-establishing shots beginning around halfway through the series is pretty much a slow piano rendition of [[The Beatles]]' "Fool On The Hill".
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* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: Ataru and Mendou; Benten and Oyuki.
* [[Red String of Fate]]: Ataru has one on each of his fingers.
* [[Reunion Revenge]]: Lum and Ran are reunited after a long time at Tomobiki High. This trope starts when Ran finally remembers that she didn't come for a friendly chitchat.
* [[The Rival]]: Mendou to both Ataru and Tobimaro.
* [[Robe and Wizard Hat]]: Though he has no hat, Tsubame always wears his wizard cape.
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* [[Say My Name]]: All together now! "DAAAAAAAAARLIIIIING!!!" "AAAAAAATARUUUUUU!!!" "MOROBOSHIIIIIIIIII!!!" "LUM-SAAAAAAAAAAAN!!!" "MASAKOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!" <s>"I DON'T KNOW WHAT WE'RE YELLING ABOUT! LOUD NOISES!!!"</s>
* [[School Festival]]: The events of ''Beautiful Dreamer'' are framed by one.
* [[Screwy Squirrel]]: Ryoko
* [[Screw the Rules, I Have Money]]: Mendou, plus his sister Ryoko on occasion.
* [[Secret Test of Character]]: The crow-tengus set a few for Ryuunosuke, since they're looking for a groom for Kurama who has good character in addition to looks. She passes. [[Hilarity Ensues]].
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** In the first film, when Lum arrives at the church to stop Ataru and Elle getting married, her pounding on the glass and yelling out "Darling!" numerous times is very much like the climatic scene from ''[[The Graduate]]''.
* [["Shut Up" Kiss]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6tTnQbecpE What Ataru does to Lum at the end of the seventh ending theme.]
* [[Slapstick Knows No Gender]]
* [[Small Girl, Big Gun]]: Benten
* [[Smashing Watermelons]]
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* [[Terrible Trio]]: Sugar, Ginger and Pepper.
* [[Theme Naming]]
* [[Through His Stomach]]: Ran is extremely happy when Rei snarfs down her lunch with a little more dignity than those of the other girls, even saying her name reverently and responding with an enthusiastic yes when she asks if the food is good. Then Cherry shows up with a bigger bento... and Rei's reaction is exactly the same.
* [[Throw the Dog a Bone]]: Ataru is unlucky but he wins the presidency of his class against Mendo and once he is kissed by Rin (the kiss is supposed to be bad for him, but it doesn't work).
* [[Thundering Herd]]
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* [[A Worldwide Punomenon]]: Ataru's name, the series name (which is a multi-layered pun), etc. The series as a whole is full of them. Most characters have a [[Meaningful Name]], too.
* [[Yamato Nadeshiko]]: Oyuki is a highly cunning and calculative variant.
* [[Yaoi Fangirl]]: Mendou's fangirls were cheering a bit too much at the [[Ho Yay]] entry situation.
* [[You All Look Familiar]]: The series as a whole loves to introduce several characters that are only the focus of one episode, but those characters often make token cameos in large crowd scenes in later episodes. This even includes characters from the first three movies appearing in TV episodes.
** Several characters from popular series at the time are also snuck in from time-to-time: [[Fist of the North Star|Kenshiro]], [[Dirty Pair|Kei and Yuri]], [[Ultraman]]'s lobster rival, and [[Maison Ikkoku|Kyoko]] - and that's just in one episode!
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