Urusei Yatsura: Difference between revisions

* [[Book and Switch]]: Ataru

* [[Born Unlucky]]: Ataru; his birthday is even [[Four Is Death|April]] [[Thirteen Is Unlucky|13th]], and the litany of bad luck omens associated with him appeared before he was even born. Not to mention his [[Meaningful Name]] (roughly translated, "hit on the head with a falling star").

* [[Break the Cutie]]: Parodied with Asuka, who would likely be the one to break anyone in half. Now, if only her nemesis wasn't Ataru...

* [[Brother-Sister Incest]]: Subversion: the extremely sheltered Asuka fears all men except her "big brother" ("a special kind of man who is just like you!"). She considers Mendou (her fiance due to a family agreement) her brother because she heard Ryoko refer to him as such once and Ryuunosuke, since she was wearing her sarashi that matched her actual brother Tobimaro's. Guess which "brother" has to endure rib-crushing hugs in his bed or bath? Hint: he's rather terrified of this and their mother blames it on ''him''.

* [[Dartboard of Hate]]: Parodied, Kurama has one of Ataru. She throws a dart at it, however the image catches the dart in its teeth and eats it.

** 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.

* [[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.

* [[Dysfunction Junction]]: Where to even ''start''? Of course, it's all [[Played for Laughs]].

* [[Ear Cleaning]]: Lum can occasionally be seen cleaning Ataru's ears, at home or even at school (episode 17, for example). This is intended to be one of the signs that Ataru does care for her, but is unwilling to commit to her.

* [[Easily-Thwarted Alien Invasion]]

* [[Edible Theme Naming]]: The Spice Girls, Sugar, Pepper and Ginger.

* [[Fantasy Kitchen Sink]]

* [[Fire-Breathing Diner]]

* [[Franchise Zombie]]: A rarity for a Takahashi series, which are usually ''far'' more likely to be [[Cut Short]] after [[Overtook the Manga|catching up to the source material]] and devolving into [[Filler]]. This show has the biggest episode count of any Takahashi series to date (196 episodes) and ended about the same time as the manga did. OVA's continued to be produced for years after the series ended, as were two more movies.

* [[Freaky Friday Flip]]: Happens to Ataru and Jariten, and also Ataru and Mendou.

* [[Harem Anime]]: Well, sort of. Ataru wants one, but none of the girls want to be in one. Could be considered the [[Unbuilt Trope]] version where ''[[Tenchi Muyo]]!'' was the [[Trope Codifier|Codifier]].

* [[Harem Seeker]]: Ataru, to the horror of all women.

* [[He-Man Woman Hater]]: Tobimaro firmly believes that baseball is no place for women... though most of his issues with the gentler sex can be directly attributed to a childhood spent running from Ryoko Mendou.

** [[Fumi Hirano]] - Lum

** [[Toshio Furukawa]] - Ataru Moroboshi

* [[Hilariously Abusive Childhood]]: Ryuunosuke is frequently victim of this trope. Tobimaro had this too, all thanks to Ryoko.

* [[Horned Humanoid]]: The Oni

* [[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)

* [[No Guy Wants to Be Chased]]: Of course, Lum considers them married, so...

* [[Non-Identical Twins]]: The one time everyone believes the kitsune shapeshifting.

** Elle in Only You, the first movie, is a more succesful female Ataru.

* [[Not So Harmless]]: The [[Big Bad]] of the second film, [[Meaningful Name|Mujaki]]. Once revealed about three-quarters of the way through the movie, he comes across as an [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain]] who is only trying to do good (his character design reflects this, as he's drawn as a shrunken old man). However, he tricks [[Hypercompetent Sidekick|Sakura]] and [[The Rival|Mendou]] through this act (trapping them in an ''[[And I Must Scream|aquarium]]''), though he ends up cornered by ''[[Chivalrous Pervert|Ataru]]'' of all people. He proceeds to put Ataru through a series of increasingly cruel [[Mind Rape]] scenarios, culminating in a threat that he will ''never'' allow him to leave the dream world. He's only defeated when he decides that keeping up with [[The Power of Love|Lum and Ataru]] is too much trouble, and leaves of his own accord.

** For Tobimaro, playing baseball is serious business, seeing as he lives in the mountains and practices... to no avail... well, he gains the ability to eat plenty of balls, but that's it.

* [[Shock and Awe]]: Lum

** Megane's room has a poster of Spock from [[Star Trek II the Wrath of Khan (Film)|Wrath of Khan]] (plus about a dozen posters of Lum, naturally).

** In one episode, while Princess Kurama's minions are searching for a suitable mate using a database of every male in the universe, a [[Known Space|Pierson's Puppeteer]] briefly appears.

** 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]]''.

* [[Slapstick Knows No Gender]]

* [[Small Girl, Big Gun]]: Benten

* [[Well, Excuse Me, Princess!]]: Lum

* [[What Does She See in Him?]]: No one seems to understand why Lum is in love with Ataru, particularly her many admirers. For the record, Ataru has no idea either.

* [[The White Prince]]: Mendou

* [[Wholesome Crossdresser]]: {{spoiler|Nagisa}}