History Characters / AssassinationClassroomClass3EMain

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* DropTheHammer: His usual weapon in the [[MundaneMadeAwesome exams]] is a sledgehammer with a golden head and a red handle.

** To Karma, as well. Unlike Karma, whom Nagisa knows for a long time and is a genuine friend despite his psychotic tendencies, she is only known by him for a year and, despite her nice girl image, only hangs out with him to cover up her hatred towards Koro-sensei]]. While Karma is open with his bloodlust, she hides her bloodlust in plain sight. Lastly, Karma wants to kill Korosensei for fun, while Kayano wants to kill Korosensei for revenge.

* {{Bishonen}}: To an effeminate extreme.

* {{Bishonen}}: Many of the girls state that he's pretty good-looking and would've been a ladykiller if it weren't for his psychopathic tendencies.

* SurprisinglyGoodEnglish: English is his strongest subject, and across the class, he is second only to Nakamura. We get to see one of Nagisa's graded English assignments in Chapter 2. It's not perfect, but it's legible. For added attention to detail, there are even a couple of spelling errors that are pointed out.
-->'''Note:''' "There aren't many grammatical errors and it wraps up nicely. What an excellent journal entry!!"

* SurprisinglyGoodEnglish: He didn't have to use Koro-sensei's tentacle earphone when he and Nagisa went with Koro-sensei to the movies in Hawaii. And during the pole-toppling game, he is familiar enough to taunt the American exchange students they're up against in English (while he has an accent in the anime, it's all grammatically correct). It's made a bigger deal of in the light novels, where native English speakers occasionally praise his ability in the language. In ''Korotan D'', he talks to an American director who is impressed with his language skills, and later with an actor who was harassing Okuda.

* BrokenPedestal: A teacher he looked up to protected him from the consequences of his {{Bully Hunt|er}}ing habits because of his good grades... until he targeted the "wrong" person, who so happened to have been caught bullying a Class 3-E student. The pedestal breaking is (very) graphically depicted by the teacher crumbling to dust until only a skeleton remains. Which is then followed by showing the aftermath of Karma ''utterly'' trashing said teacher's office in retaliation, with the teacher himself being completely terrified even though Karma did not lay a hand on him.

* NeutralFemale: She increasingly appears to become this, standing on the sidelines rather than contributing much in the way of action, which also puts her OutOfFocus. This is turned on its head with TheReveal of her true identity, showing it to be a deliberate ploy on her part. In the final battle of the series, she ends up as far from this trope as possible by being the ''only'' student to actually partake in it, providing the key to Korosensei's victory in the process.

** Additionally, in Chapter 88, Shiro mentions in [[https://64.media.tumblr.com/5b3a41a3639f0c2ab5cbfad2c3bacb20/tumblr_inline_p7i814A9YB1r90q1k_500.png these]] [[https://64.media.tumblr.com/f2b712bc1a8506a0db4bb88430d970c9/tumblr_inline_p7i815XvSh1r90q1k_500.png panels]] that there is someone with greater bloodlust than even Itona. While many translators would often use male pronouns to refer to the person (presumably since Nagisa is in the focus as usual), the original Japanese text actually uses {{Gender Neutral Pronoun}}s, masking the fact that Shiro wasn't referring to Nagisa, but to Kayano.

* SweetTooth: Chapter 80 reveals her love for pudding when he gets the opportunity to use it for an assassination. This makes her similar to Koro-sensei and Itona.

* BareYourMidriff: The outfit he wore while [[ItMakesSenseInContext pretending to be a fish]].

* BareYourMidriff: The outfit she wore while [[ItMakesSenseInContext pretending to be a fish]].

The most often seen student, and the main perspective character. He fell into Class 3-E at the end of the previous year due to poor grades. Mild-mannered, cautious and relatively weak (not to mention rather effeminate), he prefers to observe and collect data on Koro-sensei's weaknesses rather than participate in assassination attempts. Despite that, or perhaps because of it, he is considered to be one of the best assassins-in-training in the class.\\\

* AbusiveParents: [[spoiler:His mother Hiromi, is one of the MyBelovedSmother variants. She forces him to conform to her version of his life and future (i.e., what she couldn’t achieve when she was younger) without considering what ''he'' actually wants, frequently tells him she wishes he were born a girl, ( going as far to invoke DudeLooksLikeALady by refusing to let him cut his hair) and gets incredibly violent when he shows even the slightest hint of disobedience. The saddest part is that he could’ve chosen to live with his father, where he’d clearly be happier, but instead chose to live with his mother out of concern for her mental health, which likely ties back to his lack of self preservation.]]

* AnimeHair: He seems to have odd pigtails in the back of his head, but since he was never seen with his hair down -- even when swimming -- for a long time it was believed that that was its natural shape. [[spoiler:Chapter 112 reveals that they actually are pigtails.]]

* AudienceSurrogate: For younger audiences in Japan, a character who struggles in school and suffers from lack of confidence would be extremely familiar to a lot of people. By this interpretation, that would make his ability to summon up will when needed and his various talents WishFulfillment.
* AwesomenessByAnalysis: His abilities are hardly superhuman, but he still possesses the best sensibility and instinct in the class when it comes to planning an assassination (even Karasuma's analysis in Roll Book Time rate his reconnaissance stat a full 6/6, whereas the rest score 3/6). Then he reveals that he has the ability to analyze someone's motives by looking at his/her body language alone. It becomes amplified after [[spoiler:he's temporarily paralyzed by the Reaper, and he describes it as being able to see a mental image of each person's individual "wavelength of consciousness".]]

* CutlassBetweenTheTeeth: Nagisa holds a combat knife with his mouth so he can limber up before he fights [[spoiler:Takaoka]]. It's become one of his trademark poses in both official and fan art, such as in his character image above.

* DeadpanSnarker: He has his moments, though it’s more in the English Dub. One example is as Okajima is showing them a picture of the new transfer student:

* DecoyProtagonist: {{Subverted|Trope}} with regards to [[spoiler:Kayano. The latter spent a whole year nursing an ultimately misguided grudge against Koro-sensei for her sister Aguri's death, and used Nagisa to hide her true intentions. Ultimately, however, it was Nagisa who played a key role in the last quarter of the series by saving Kayano from her tentacle-induced madness, helping the class change their objective to saving Koro-sensei from his impending explosion (reclassifying their original objective of assassination as a last resort), having to deal the fatal blow on Koro-sensei before a government anti-sensei laser fires on him, and finally following his footsteps as a teacher.]]

* TheDreaded: Nagisa becomes this to Takaoka after Nagisa one-ups and humilates him into leaving E-class. Nagisa's DissonantSerenity killing intent ends up haunting Takaoka thereafter.
** Also eventually revealed to be this to Karma, who admits that Nagisa's natural talent for killing was so unnerving to him that he's constantly had to hold back the instinct to self-defensively beat Nagisa to a pulp. This is actually part of what caused Karma to distance himself from Nagisa before they were both thrown into E-class.

* ExtremeDoormat: He allowed himself to be abused by his ControlFreak of a mother without saying a word, because everytime he tries to defy her, she flies into a rage. Fortunately, this has come to an end when he saves her from an assassin.
* FirstNameBasis: Everyone calls him by his given name. Really everyone. This is a bit odd in a LastNameBasis setting. Chapter 178 reveals [[spoiler:that this setup would make it easier for him to re-adopt his old surname if his parents ever get try to patch things up, which they do as requested by Koro-sensei.]]

* IcyBlueEyes: Whenever his bloodlust takes over, his usually kind innocent baby blues turn in to piercing gems that can bring even a pro to a stand still

** When he's normal, he's so normal Karma thought he was so un-scary that it was scary, because Karma had just seen how dangerous he could be but couldn't detect anything about him that gave that away. And when he's not normal, even when facing a vastly stronger opponent his classmates seem to be more afraid ''of'' him than ''for'' him.

* SurprisinglyGoodEnglish: English is his strongest subject, and across the class he is second only to Nakamura. We get to see one of Nagisa's graded English assignments in Chapter 2. It's not perfect, but it's legible. For added attention to detail, there are even a couple of spelling errors that are pointed out.

* TranquilFury: When [[spoiler:Takaoka blows up the antidote needed to save his friends]], he develops DullEyesOfUnhappiness and not-so-calmly announces [[spoiler:his intention to kill him]]. After Koro-sensei and Terasaka talk him out of diving into a full blown UnstoppableRage, his anger cools into a peaceful, terrifying smile as he prepares to [[spoiler:use the "secret killing technique" on Takaoka.]]

* WeakButSkilled: Takaoka notes that Nagisa is the weakest of the boys, with physical stats closer to that of a girl's. A few pages later, Karasuma is staring at Nagisa in awe as [[spoiler:he managed to take down Takaoka in a matter of seconds]] and noting that Nagisa's talent never would have been discovered in the course of a normal school life. Ends up on the less-favorable end of this trope when fighting [[spoiler:Karma during the civil war game. While he got Karma into a powerful choke hold almost instantly, Karma was able to negate it and stand up, with Nagisa still locked around his neck, from sheer strength. While Isogai and Maehara struggle to rein in Karma, Nagisa was easily restrained by Sugino.]]

* WeUsedToBeFriends: Chapter 144 reveals that Nagisa and Karma used to be closer during seventh-grade, but slowly grew apart until they were just classmates. Nagisa thought Karma grew bored of his mediocrity. In truth, Karma feared his covert bloodlust. Once they were both in Class 3-E, they started interacting with each other again, but their relationship is now clouded with some lingering doubts and fears.

* ArcVillain: While not exactly a straight-up villain, he was definitely an antagonist to Koro-sensei in Chapters 4-6 (Season 1 Episode 3).
* AwesomeMcCoolname: In contrast to Kimura, who's embarrassed by his first name "Justice", Karma genuinely likes his name, which is a result of his parents loving Indian culture.
* AxCrazy: At the beginning of the series, he has a crazy obsession with killing Koro-sensei and is always keeping some sort of a weapon with him for that. It gets toned down after he learns to respect his teacher and work with his friends.

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: By the end of the anime, [[spoiler:he achieves his goal of assassinating Koro-sensei, which caused a civil war between him and Nagisa, but [[ManlyTears his reaction]] clearly states he ultimately didn't want to go through with it.]]

* TheBGrade: In the anime version, he leaves the class immediately after everyone's test results got revealed then [[spoiler:he is seen crumpling his own test papers all alone by a tree in anger]]. The manga plays it up with him going far as [[spoiler:biting the corner of his test papers]].
* BrilliantButLazy: Aside from assassination attempts, he never seems to put much effort into ''anything'', even training. Not that it affects his overall performance much. [[DeconstructedTrope Comes to bite him in the ass]] [[spoiler:during the first term finals where he performs badly enough to go from 4th to 13th place in school rankings. Certainly, he still did great for someone who didn't study at all, but he ''could have done better''. And all parties involved ''know this''. He learns his lesson after this and a blistering critique from Koro-sensei.]]
* BrutalHonesty: Goes well with his direct and courageous nature, as he has no qualms about pointing out people's flaws to their face regardless of whether it hurts them or not. For example, when the whole class was cautious about mentioning the weird dialect a dangerous assassin had, Karma casually comments on it like he's talking about the weather.
-->'''Grip (the above-mentioned assassin after breaking glass with a single bare hand):''' What a drag-nu. [...] Come on out-[[VerbalTic nu]].\\

** Chapter 54 really puts him in his place when [[spoiler:his overall ranking slips after failing to adequately study for the first-term finals]]. This ends up [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructed]] later on. [[spoiler:Afterwards he starts [[HeroicSelfDeprecation calling himself an idiot]], remarking that Koro-sensei would get on his case if his scores in the next finals were anything but perfect, and when he does get a perfect score he obviously feels more relieved than excited and accomplished.]]
** Near the end of the series, Korosensei interrupts one of Karma's fights and gives him a talk about how violence is not always the answer. He swallows his own pride when dealing with [[spoiler:Craig Hojo's Wolfpack]] later on, bows and apologizes to them in English so they can understand and even obeys when they tell him to recite the apology in Japanese to mock him. Consequently, they let Yada go after having a good laugh over Karma's behaviour.
* BrokenAce: One one hand, he is one of the most physically capable students, having ranked third in marksmanship, as well as the best in academic performance and the second-best track record among the normal human students when it comes to threatening Koro-sensei. On the other hand, he is still not all there, however good he is at things he tries. It's partly down to having been let down before.

* CharacterDevelopment: Sheds his BrilliantButLazy traits after his TheReasonYouSuckSpeech and BreakTheHaughty moments, as shown in Chapter 76, when a panel depicting his room shows that he has actually been studying. It pays off during [[spoiler:the second semester midterms, where he ranks second, and is the only student in Class 3-E with improved scores despite having insufficiently prepared for the exams.]] His character development is so evident that even Koro-sensei and his peers comment on it.
** In the final exams, Karma is faced with a math question even Asano struggles with. After calmly reading it through, he realizes the answer while acknowledging the talents of everyone around him. Before, he simply disregarded other people's strength, but after getting the highest mark in the exam, he admits he wouldn't have been able to come that far without E Class and Korosensei.
* ChekhovsGun: He has very sharp canines unique only to him. They actually come in handy near the end during [[spoiler:his fight with Nagisa when, in order to prepare for the Stun Clap]], he bites his tongue hard enough to make it bleed, and it turns out to be effective.

* EmptyEyes: Karma's eyes lack the shine his classmates have, making him appear just a bit... ''[[https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1294376625824571397/Rwxs8GTV_400x400.jpg off]]'' compared to the others. The only other characters like this are Asano and his father. All three of them pretty much qualify as manipulative psychopaths...
** Though, he ''sometimes'' has a certain shine in his eyes when he's excited and provoked enough.
* EveryoneHasStandards: While Karma has no problems committing wanton violence, even goes out of his way to seek it at times, he only does so to people he feels deserves it. And despite this tendency, even he is unnerved by the revelation of Koro-sensei's past as the "God of Death". Karma may be a delinquent with a violent streak, but he has his limits too.

* FatalFlaw: His biggest flaws are his excessive {{Pride}} and BrilliantButLazy traits, though they ''occasionally'' can be his strength,[[labelnote:Example]]like that time Koro-sensei asked him to use his IShallTauntYou skills to provoke the members of the baseball club and their supporters[[/labelnote]] most of the times they lead him to failures in which he learns, through the help of Koro-sensei, to accept losing sometimes.
* FearlessFool: He is definitely reckless and fearless. He admitted to Okuda that his lack of fear scares him, as he feels he's incapable of being alert, which he realizes could cost him dearly in certain situations.

* TheGadFly: Oh boy. Karma has made riling up people and annoying them for no reason his hobby. When Terasaka warns him against challenging Koro-sensei, he retaliates by mentioning that it's not like a certain someone who was scared and peed themselves, referring to that time Terasaka also tried to challenge Koro-sensei but got intimidated by him instead. And this is Karma in only his first appearance.

* IShallTauntYou: A common tactic of Karma's that he's very skilled in. If he isn't doing it himself he's coaching others in how to do it. This side of his gets exploited by Koro-sensei during the ball game tournament arc.

* KnowWhenToFoldEm: [[spoiler:At the end of the civil war game, he taps out after Nagisa puts him in a triangle armlock. Even though he has enough strength left to attempt to tag him out with his knife at hand, he chooses not to after realizing that Nagisa's desire to save Koro-sensei was so strong he's willing to go against his own reservations over fighting.]]

* ManiacTongue: Karma's CharacterTic. He '''loves''' to stick his tongue out every time he's being playful, it's like his own version of the SillyMeGesture.

* MeaningfulName: "Karma" refers to the concept of a person's experiences being a result of their past actions, and fitting for a BullyHunter, Karma enjoys giving bullies a dose of their medicine, if a little too much. He also reveals that his parents loved India, and he actually likes it. This could also apply to him in general, for when he gets [[TooCleverByHalf too arrogant]] for his own good that [[HumblePie he faces]] [[ATasteOfDefeat unpleasant consequences]].
* MrViceGuy: Karma displays a ''wide'' variety of vices or flaws, such as slyness, arrogance, recklessness, and bloodlust. He learns how to subdue most of them, but some, like cunning, remained with him.
* MusclesAreMeaningless: He has a perfectly average build, and yet is the most physically powerful student in the class, even more so than [[TheBigGuy the muscular Terasaka]]. He can even pose a threat to trained assassins. [[spoiler:And when Nagisa gets him in a tricky chokehold, Karma is able to quickly stand up despite Nagisa hanging off his neck and shoulders.]]

* ThePrankster: He ''loves'' to play all types of pranks and even on literally everyone, like for example [[TortureTechnician him torturing an adult assassin]], even after he already defeated and tied him up, by [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment sticking, ghost pepper, the spiciest pepper in the world, up his nose]] of all places. This is often combined with his mischievous ManiacTongue face.

** The Red to Nagisa's Blue, as shown by their hair colors. Karma is violent, vicious and arrogant, while Nagisa is calm, withdrawn and not very confident of himself.

* {{Sadist}}: Coming in hand-in-hand with his BloodKnight tendencies, Karma clearly gets a kick out of bringing cruel and unusual harm to people, and often looks for excuses to get involved in fights or pull nasty tricks. He does, however, [[EveryoneHasStandards draw the line at hurting people who he feels haven't done anything to deserve it]], and mostly limits himself to being BullyHunter. His propensity for violence is undeniable, though, as during the [[spoiler:class civil war game]] Karma's inner monologue displays a disturbing amount of genuine, ''gleeful'' desire to beat [[spoiler: Nagisa]], one of his closest friends, to a bloody pulp.

** He and Nakamura even spend a whole chapter analyzing various relationships in the class. This includes Chiba and Hayami, Kanzaki and Sugino, Isogai and Kataoka and even a little Nakamura and Nagisa, but not much.

* SociopathicHero: Unlike Nagisa, he isn't just capable of violence, but enjoys it. A lot. It's frighteningly obvious he gets a thrill out of torturing people physically or psychologically, and his victims can end up injured or in serious pain (and some are just of the AmusingInjuries type). Thankfully, he has enough of a moral compass that he strictly limits his violence to anyone who dares to threaten others, especially his classmates.

* YellowEyesOfSneakiness: Karma has yellow-gold eyes, and is most dangerous for his high intelligence and prankster tendencies. They also resemble the eye color of most snakes which are his AnimalMotif.

[[folder:Kaede Kayano]]

%%* ExcellentJudgeOfCharacter:

* GenreBlind: Her plan to exploit tropes was mostly effective, but she didn't take into account the part where it placed her ''beside the protagonist'', someone with the ability and motivation to stop her.
** She also presumed that the students would be a useless peanut gallery unimportant to her showdown with Koro-sensei, when a major point of the series is that none of them are useless.

* HeroicSacrifice: In the final battle, she draws the enemies' attention so that Koro-sensei can recuperate, knowing full well it's unlikely she'll survive but still doing so as part of her [[TheAtoner atonement.]] She is ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice as a result.
* HiddenDepths: She is the best-hidden of everyone in Class 3-E, beyond even Nagisa. Most of her personality is a facade made to hide the hatred she harbors for Koro-sensei, who she assumes killed her sister. The facade, however, gradually [[BecomingTheMask becomes real]].

* ItRunsInTheFamily: One can only wonder if being sisters caused both she and Aguri to fall in love with natural assassins: Nagisa and Koro-sensei, respectively.
** Even Yanagisawa laughed about how she died in front of him like her sister did.

* MasterActor: She's actually a talented child actress, renowned for her skill to play any kind of role flawlessly. Due to this, she was able to fool Kunugigaoka into believing the fake identity she created. In a positive manner, her career has helped her learn some combat skills, shown in her duel with Okano during the civil war game. During the Valentine's arc, it's shown that she loses this ability when it comes to her feelings for Nagisa. The epilogue reveals that she has returned to showbiz.

* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Her real name is Akari Yukimura. "Kaede Kayano" is actually the name of an one-shot character she once played and that she decided to use as an alias to infiltrate the class. Since she has come to like it, she wants everyone to keep calling her by her alias.

** Okano's reaction to Kayano being not disgusted by Yada's big boobs.
** In Chapter 80, she appoints herself leader of the "Pudding Killsplosion Plan". The other students [[LampshadeHanging lampshade]] that she's always devoted to logistical support.

* ReplacementGoldfish: Shiro states that he intended to make her a villainous replacement of her deceased older sister.

* FatalFlaw: His biggest flaws are his excessive {{Pride}} and BrilliantButLazy traits, though they ''occasionally'' can be his strength,[[labelnote:Example]]like that time Koro-sensei asked him to use his IShallTauntYou skills to provoke the members of the baseball club and their supporters[[/labelnote]] most of the times they lead him to failures in which he learns, through the help of Koro-sensei, to accept losing sometimes. See BreakTheHaughty and CharacterDevelopment above.

* HumblePie: See BreakTheHaughty above. And Koro-sensei takes the opportunity to rub it in even further, knowing that those humbling experiences will keep him from ever half-assing things again in the future.

* NightmareFetishist: When asked which girl in 3-E he liked, he immediately said Okuda because of her skill with chemistry, and thus her ability to brew deadly poison. In the anime, he has an imagine spot of her as a cackling witch stirring up something in a cauldron and himself as a demon, and called it a "match made in heaven". His friends are not so sure about the "heaven" part though.

** [[spoiler:On the receiving end from Koro-sensei after he gets lower scores than previously on the first-term finals.]] Of course, it was to help him learn and grow, but it was still harsh-sounding enough to qualify.
** Gives a ruthless one to Nagisa, as well. See JerkassBall above.

* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Strawberry milk.

* YourWorstMemory: When he throws himself from a cliff as part of his SuicideAttack on Koro-sensei, [[DissonantLaughter he laughs manically for a bit]], exclaiming "[[MyLifeFlashedBeforeMyEyes Wow! Everything is flashing before my eyes!]]" as he recalls the moment where a teacher had let him down by breaking his promise to Karma. Exaggerated when the teacher's face starts withering away slowly, till he's nothing but a talking skull in Karma's mind and then he concludes that the teacher is dead to him. That one unforgettable memory was the defining moment that made Karma lose his trust in teachers.

* ADayInTheLimelight: Despite the fact that she's a major viewpoint student, she usually stands in the background or supports them. She shines in Chapter 80 for the first time, with very little foreshadowing (see FreezeFrameBonus below). Chapter 128 onwards is all about her.

* BrilliantButLazy: Aside from assassination attempts, he never seems to put much effort into ''anything'', even training. Not that it affects his overall performance much. [[DeconstructedTrope Comes to bite him in the ass]] [[spoiler:during the first term finals where he performs badly enough to go from 4th to 13th place in school rankings. Certainly, he still did great for someone who didn't study at all, but he ''could have done better''. And, all involved ''know this''.]]

* WeaponOfChoice: Although he can use other weapons like knives and guns, [[HeroesFightBarehanded hand-to-hand combat]] is his preferred fighting technique and the one he's most skilled at. Plus, [[ArrogantKungFuGuy Karma says he doesn't need one]], when Grip, the assassin that Karma has to get past, tells him to bring a better weapon.

* AmbiguousDisorder: There is ''something'' off about him and Karma lampshades this.
** He isn't intimidated by having to wield a real knife, let alone threaten someone's life, even though it's specifically pointed out that he should be. Yet he isn't generally callous or manipulative like a sociopath -- he is just cold and calculating, as though he were a veteran hitman. Not only does he show little hesitation, but he is clear-minded enough to attack using the dull side of the blade.
** His early interactions with Karma are also not quite ordinary. Most would be rather disturbed by the latter's claims of wanting to kill his teachers, but Nagisa, who's already used to his exaggerations, remained calm the whole time, barely showing any reaction.

* AwesomenessByAnalysis: His abilities are hardly superhuman, but he still possesses the best sensibility and instinct in the class when it comes to planning an assassination (even Karasuma's analysis in Roll Book Time rate his reconnaissance stat a full 6/6, whereas the rest score 3/6). Then he reveals that he has the ability to analyze someone's motives by looking at his/her body language alone. It becomes amplified after [[spoiler:he's temporarily paralyzed by the "Reaper", and he describes it as being able to see a mental image of each person's individual "wavelength of consciousness".]]

* BackFromTheDead: Koro-sensei managed to maintain every last drop of blood and cell the second "Reaper" blew out of her chest, and carefully put it all back.

* DeskSweepOfRage: During her enrollment meeting, she did this so the headmaster would place her in class 3-E.

* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Happens to her during the final battle, courtesy of the second "Reaper". Koro-sensei resurrects her using his newly-learned medical knowledge.

* KnightOfCerebus: An odd example because she was present from the very beginning, but the reveal of her true nature is a major WhamEpisode that makes the whole class rethink everything about her and leads directly into even more major reveals about Koro-sensei's past. Kayano herself laments that her actions spoiled Class E's happy days while trying to protect him from the second "Reaper".

* NiceHat: Sports one as an adult, [[http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/assassinationclassroom/images/c/c1/Adult_Nagisa.png/revision/latest?cb=20161108071142 shown here]].

* YourWorstMemory: When he throws himself from a cliff as part of his SuicideAttack on Koro-sensei, [[DissonantLaughter he laughs manically for a bit]], exclaiming "[[MyLifeFlashedBeforeMyEyes Wow! Everything is flashing before my eyes!]]" as he recalls the moment where a teacher had let him down by breaking his promise to Karma. Taken UpToEleven when the teacher's face starts withering away slowly, till he's nothing but a talking skull in Karma's mind and then he concludes that the teacher is dead to him. That one unforgettable memory was the defining moment that made Karma lose his trust in teachers.

** [[https://64.media.tumblr.com/718d2d28a99c794e406e2000ffb81c80/tumblr_inline_p7i811QgA81r90q1k_500.png In Shiro's first appearance]] in Chapter 29, he appears surprised seeing one of the students in Class 3-E. While the following panel has Nagisa in the forefront, it also has Kayano in the background, glancing to the side — which is most likely what really caught Shiro off-guard.

* FreezeFrameBonus: In the end of Chapter 80, there is a very little minor detail of Kayano's appearance. A minor detail that foreshadows a big plot twist.