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* AlwaysSomeBetter: Zigzagged. At first it appears that [[TheAce Haruhi]] was the better to literally everyone else at literally everything, whether it be sports, academics, music, etc. However, it’s never made completely clear how much of this is natural talent and how much of it is a byproduct of her RealityWarper abilities. At the very least, Kyon is certainly the better to her whenever it comes to empathy. [[spoiler: Yuki is also shown to be better at her whenever it comes to actively using and controlling Haruhi’s own powers after she obtains them, though she had the benefit of knowledge.]]
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* AlwaysSomeBetter: AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Zigzagged. At first it appears that [[TheAce Haruhi]] was the better to literally everyone else at literally everything, whether it be sports, academics, music, etc. However, it’s never made completely clear how much of this is natural talent and how much of it is a byproduct of her RealityWarper abilities. At the very least, Kyon is certainly the better to her whenever it comes to empathy. [[spoiler: Yuki is also shown to be better at her whenever it comes to actively using and controlling Haruhi’s own powers after she obtains them, though she had the benefit of knowledge.]]
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* AmbigiouslyHuman: It’s been a subject of much debate both in and out of universe just what Haruhi actually is. Some believe her to actually be the [[God]] of her world, others believe that she’s just an extremely powerful human girl. Regardless, the fact that Yuki’s alien overlord could only interpret her as someone who “creates data” and nothing more clearly indicates that she is not normal.
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* AmbigiouslyHuman: AmbiguouslyHuman: It’s been a subject of much debate both in and out of universe just what Haruhi actually is. Some believe her to actually be the [[God]] of her world, others believe that she’s just an extremely powerful human girl. Regardless, the fact that Yuki’s alien overlord could only interpret her as someone who “creates data” and nothing more clearly indicates that she is not normal.
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* AntiHero: Initially, at her worst, Haruhi could really only be considered a hero by her association with the main character. Even ignoring the existential threat to the entire universe she unknowingly possesses, Suzumiya has done some truly rotten things of her own volition. She routinely sexually molests a female classmate. She blackmailed the computer club into giving up a brand new computer, threatening to mark them as rapists using falsified evidence. She delivered a flying kick to the president of the same club with almost no provocation. She tricked an underage classmate into drinking alcohol without her consent. Not to mention her complete lack of awareness of the personal views and emotions of the people around her, or the hell she puts them through. On the other hand, as CharcterDevelopment kicks in Haruhi dose some admirable things. She volunteered to fill in for the missing bandmates of the school music club so the seniors could play in their last school festival. For all the pain she causes, she happily accepts requests to find missing people, solve the mystery of sick dogs, or to believe a person with an unlikely story about a parallel universe. The later novels went into this more than the anime, but her subconscious traits have a positive side. Her friends and the power she gives them are beneficial; they fight to protect the world and the lives of people, often from threats that did not originate from Haruhi. This is in sharp contrast to the counterparts they eventually encounter, who engage in kidnapping and attempted murder to carry out their missions. [[spoiler:A particularly dire threat to the world is thwarted by Haruhi herself, who subconsciously creates an alter ego aware of her own powers. Wrap your mind around that one.]]
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* AntiHero: Initially, at her worst, Haruhi could really only be considered a hero by her association with the main character. Even ignoring the existential threat to the entire universe she unknowingly possesses, Suzumiya has done some truly rotten things of her own volition. She routinely sexually molests a female classmate. She blackmailed the computer club into giving up a brand new computer, threatening to mark them as rapists using falsified evidence. She delivered a flying kick to the president of the same club with almost no provocation. She tricked an underage classmate into drinking alcohol without her consent. Not to mention her complete lack of awareness of the personal views and emotions of the people around her, or the hell she puts them through. On the other hand, as CharcterDevelopment CharacterDevelopment kicks in Haruhi dose some admirable things. She volunteered to fill in for the missing bandmates of the school music club so the seniors could play in their last school festival. For all the pain she causes, she happily accepts requests to find missing people, solve the mystery of sick dogs, or to believe a person with an unlikely story about a parallel universe. The later novels went into this more than the anime, but her subconscious traits have a positive side. Her friends and the power she gives them are beneficial; they fight to protect the world and the lives of people, often from threats that did not originate from Haruhi. This is in sharp contrast to the counterparts they eventually encounter, who engage in kidnapping and attempted murder to carry out their missions. [[spoiler:A particularly dire threat to the world is thwarted by Haruhi herself, who subconsciously creates an alter ego aware of her own powers. Wrap your mind around that one.]]
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* BroughDownToNormal: [[spoiler:After Yuki rewrites reality, not only is Haruhi turned into a normal human, but she also gets PutOnABus for a time.]]
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* BroughDownToNormal: BroughtDownToNormal: [[spoiler:After Yuki rewrites reality, not only is Haruhi turned into a normal human, but she also gets PutOnABus for a time.]]
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* TheEyeore: Haruhi's inner workings appear to be quite this at or before the beginning and episode 6 particularly. Being fed up with the boring world, just wishing for something interesting to happen when it just doesn't seem to happen, despite her efforts. In the end (or rather in the middle), she's so frustrated she subconsciously begins to destroy the universe and create a new one. Of course, most of the time she's a genuine Genki Girl.
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* TheEyeore: TheEeyore: Haruhi's inner workings appear to be quite this at or before the beginning and episode 6 particularly. Being fed up with the boring world, just wishing for something interesting to happen when it just doesn't seem to happen, despite her efforts. In the end (or rather in the middle), she's so frustrated she subconsciously begins to destroy the universe and create a new one. Of course, most of the time she's a genuine Genki Girl.
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* {{Foil:}} Arguably the whole point of the Haruhi/Kyon relationship is how their opposing personalities come to a balance:
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* {{Foil:}} {{Foil}}: Arguably the whole point of the Haruhi/Kyon relationship is how their opposing personalities come to a balance:
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* [[Jerkass:]] Haruhi Suzumiya starts out as completely self-absorbed along with having a dash of Genki Girl, more or less hitting every point on the list of diagnostic criteria for antisocial personality disorder. And the fact that she is capable of destroying the world if she's seriously naysayed — or bored — just puts icing on the cake. In her defense, she does not know she's got said powers... but due to the disregard she shows even towards her closest friends, it's much better to keep her Locked Out of the Loop lest she decide to intentionally screw over humanity on a whim. She does eventually become a Jerk with a Heart of Gold, but it takes a good while.
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* [[Jerkass:]] {{Jerkass}}: Haruhi Suzumiya starts out as completely self-absorbed along with having a dash of Genki Girl, more or less hitting every point on the list of diagnostic criteria for antisocial personality disorder. And the fact that she is capable of destroying the world if she's seriously naysayed — or bored — just puts icing on the cake. In her defense, she does not know she's got said powers... but due to the disregard she shows even towards her closest friends, it's much better to keep her Locked Out of the Loop lest she decide to intentionally screw over humanity on a whim. She does eventually become a Jerk with a Heart of Gold, but it takes a good while.
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* {{Narcissist:}} This girl’s ego is through the roof. She believes her time is too important to be wasted with normal “boring” humans, creates an entire Brigade purely for her own amusement, shows very little sense of personal space or empathy in general, constantly harassing and bossing around her fellow members and never apologizing for it. At the very least, she does have the background to somewhat back it up, [[TheAce excelling at practically everything she does]] and being an all powerful RealityWarper, albeit unknowingly.
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* {{Narcissist:}} {{Narcissist}}: This girl’s ego is through the roof. She believes her time is too important to be wasted with normal “boring” humans, creates an entire Brigade purely for her own amusement, shows very little sense of personal space or empathy in general, constantly harassing and bossing around her fellow members and never apologizing for it. At the very least, she does have the background to somewhat back it up, [[TheAce excelling at practically everything she does]] and being an all powerful RealityWarper, albeit unknowingly.
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* {{Tsundere:}} Haruhi starts as a Jerkass. Although she has had some character development, the degree to which she's moved from Jerkass to Jerk with a Heart of Gold, are up for debate. Not yet seen in the anime, but by the fourth book, she's spouting some classic tsundere lines. Although maybe this is just a case of her Genre Savvy nature causing her to deliberately act this way.
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* {{Tsundere:}} {{Tsundere}}: Haruhi starts as a Jerkass. Although she has had some character development, the degree to which she's moved from Jerkass to Jerk with a Heart of Gold, are up for debate. Not yet seen in the anime, but by the fourth book, she's spouting some classic tsundere lines. Although maybe this is just a case of her Genre Savvy nature causing her to deliberately act this way.
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* TwentyPercentMoreAwesome: In The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya, Kyon declares that Haruhi's ponytail makes her "36% more charming."
* AcademicAlphaBitch: She gets good grades in all her classes like it’s nothing and believes that she should be in charge of everything.
* AcademicAlphaBitch: She gets good grades in all her classes like it’s nothing and believes that she should be in charge of everything.
* AgentScully: While she wishes she could be an AgentMulder, she is ultimately revealed to be this. She remains oblivious to the weirdness she's causing partly through the efforts of Koizumi and company, but also through her buried skeptical streak that prevents her from readily believing the supernatural things she longs for and professes belief in actually exist. Her skepticism is so resilient that in fact even when Kyon outright tells her what's going on, in Sigh, she refuses to believe him, though she claims it's just that his version is "too obvious".
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: It’s notable that Haruhi attempts to inflict this trope onto herself. She would distance herself from everyone and constantly belittle them as not worth her attention. Eventually she starts to grow closer to others and loses this status.
* TheAloner: Before meeting Kyon and starting the S.O.S. Brigade, she didn’t have a friend to speak of and showed little interest in any of her fellow classmates or people in general. Later on, she starts to grow more social with others and learns how to empathize with people better.
* AlphaBitch: At the beginning, she viewed everyone else as beneath her, and treated her brigade members as if they were property rather than actual people. She stops being this to some degree after CharacterDevelopment sets in.
* AlwaysSomeBetter: Zigzagged. At first it appears that [[TheAce Haruhi]] was the better to literally everyone else at literally everything, whether it be sports, academics, music, etc. However, it’s never made completely clear how much of this is natural talent and how much of it is a byproduct of her RealityWarper abilities. At the very least, Kyon is certainly the better to her whenever it comes to empathy. [[spoiler: Yuki is also shown to be better at her whenever it comes to actively using and controlling Haruhi’s own powers after she obtains them, though she had the benefit of knowledge.]]
* AmbiguousDisorder: Haruhi has displayed a number of traits that could be associated with a number of mental disorders, though nothing has ever been confirmed. Some of these include, [[ManipulativeBitch skills at manipulating others]], LackOfEmpathy, {[DidntThinkThisThrough impulsivity]], [[ControlFreak a constant need to control others]], [[{{Narcissist}} extreme narcissism]] and a [[HairTriggerTemper short temper.]] Whether she’s just anti-social, suffering from bipolar disorder, or borderline genuine sociopathy is anyone’s guess.
* AmbiguouslyEvil: Back whenever she was arguably a VillainProtagonist, it was somewhat unclear just how much of her behavior was active maliciousness and how much of it was due to her [[BlueAndOrangeMorality warped mental state]], bordering on possible sociopathic disorder. As she’s softened up, in the present day, it’s also not entirely clear just how she would react to discovering the true nature of her powers, but the general consensus is that it [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt wouldn’t be good for anybody.]]
* AmbigiouslyHuman: It’s been a subject of much debate both in and out of universe just what Haruhi actually is. Some believe her to actually be the [[God]] of her world, others believe that she’s just an extremely powerful human girl. Regardless, the fact that Yuki’s alien overlord could only interpret her as someone who “creates data” and nothing more clearly indicates that she is not normal.
* AlphaBitch: At the beginning, she viewed everyone else as beneath her, and treated her brigade members as if they were property rather than actual people. She stops being this to some degree after CharacterDevelopment sets in.
* AlwaysSomeBetter: Zigzagged. At first it appears that [[TheAce Haruhi]] was the better to literally everyone else at literally everything, whether it be sports, academics, music, etc. However, it’s never made completely clear how much of this is natural talent and how much of it is a byproduct of her RealityWarper abilities. At the very least, Kyon is certainly the better to her whenever it comes to empathy. [[spoiler: Yuki is also shown to be better at her whenever it comes to actively using and controlling Haruhi’s own powers after she obtains them, though she had the benefit of knowledge.]]
* AmbiguousDisorder: Haruhi has displayed a number of traits that could be associated with a number of mental disorders, though nothing has ever been confirmed. Some of these include, [[ManipulativeBitch skills at manipulating others]], LackOfEmpathy, {[DidntThinkThisThrough impulsivity]], [[ControlFreak a constant need to control others]], [[{{Narcissist}} extreme narcissism]] and a [[HairTriggerTemper short temper.]] Whether she’s just anti-social, suffering from bipolar disorder, or borderline genuine sociopathy is anyone’s guess.
* AmbiguouslyEvil: Back whenever she was arguably a VillainProtagonist, it was somewhat unclear just how much of her behavior was active maliciousness and how much of it was due to her [[BlueAndOrangeMorality warped mental state]], bordering on possible sociopathic disorder. As she’s softened up, in the present day, it’s also not entirely clear just how she would react to discovering the true nature of her powers, but the general consensus is that it [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt wouldn’t be good for anybody.]]
* AmbigiouslyHuman: It’s been a subject of much debate both in and out of universe just what Haruhi actually is. Some believe her to actually be the [[God]] of her world, others believe that she’s just an extremely powerful human girl. Regardless, the fact that Yuki’s alien overlord could only interpret her as someone who “creates data” and nothing more clearly indicates that she is not normal.
* AmbitionIsEvil: “Evil” is a bit of a strong word for her [[AmbiguouslyEvil maybe]]. But her competitive nature and drive to outdo everyone and be the best at everything she does is definitely what brings out her most negative traits.
* AntiHero: Initially, at her worst, Haruhi could really only be considered a hero by her association with the main character. Even ignoring the existential threat to the entire universe she unknowingly possesses, Suzumiya has done some truly rotten things of her own volition. She routinely sexually molests a female classmate. She blackmailed the computer club into giving up a brand new computer, threatening to mark them as rapists using falsified evidence. She delivered a flying kick to the president of the same club with almost no provocation. She tricked an underage classmate into drinking alcohol without her consent. Not to mention her complete lack of awareness of the personal views and emotions of the people around her, or the hell she puts them through. On the other hand, as CharcterDevelopment kicks in Haruhi dose some admirable things. She volunteered to fill in for the missing bandmates of the school music club so the seniors could play in their last school festival. For all the pain she causes, she happily accepts requests to find missing people, solve the mystery of sick dogs, or to believe a person with an unlikely story about a parallel universe. The later novels went into this more than the anime, but her subconscious traits have a positive side. Her friends and the power she gives them are beneficial; they fight to protect the world and the lives of people, often from threats that did not originate from Haruhi. This is in sharp contrast to the counterparts they eventually encounter, who engage in kidnapping and attempted murder to carry out their missions. [[spoiler:A particularly dire threat to the world is thwarted by Haruhi herself, who subconsciously creates an alter ego aware of her own powers. Wrap your mind around that one.]]
* AntiVillain: Haruhi as a person is quite awful in terms of personal respect and to a peaceful society. She can’t personally be blamed for it, but her powers are an extreme threat to everything, and frequently manifest in destructive and corruptive forms. From this perspective, she is a villain on both a petty and macrocosmic scale. Yet, Haruhi does what she does not out of a sense of malice, but a deep personal desire to find something extraordinary hidden in a boring world. Over the course of the years she grows from an unhappy, selfish, socially isolated individual to having friends, being content with the excitement found in a normal universe, and interacting with people in a more positive way. The series is vague about the nature and extent of her powers, but it is implied that there are other, worse forces around, which she fights against.
* AntiHero: Initially, at her worst, Haruhi could really only be considered a hero by her association with the main character. Even ignoring the existential threat to the entire universe she unknowingly possesses, Suzumiya has done some truly rotten things of her own volition. She routinely sexually molests a female classmate. She blackmailed the computer club into giving up a brand new computer, threatening to mark them as rapists using falsified evidence. She delivered a flying kick to the president of the same club with almost no provocation. She tricked an underage classmate into drinking alcohol without her consent. Not to mention her complete lack of awareness of the personal views and emotions of the people around her, or the hell she puts them through. On the other hand, as CharcterDevelopment kicks in Haruhi dose some admirable things. She volunteered to fill in for the missing bandmates of the school music club so the seniors could play in their last school festival. For all the pain she causes, she happily accepts requests to find missing people, solve the mystery of sick dogs, or to believe a person with an unlikely story about a parallel universe. The later novels went into this more than the anime, but her subconscious traits have a positive side. Her friends and the power she gives them are beneficial; they fight to protect the world and the lives of people, often from threats that did not originate from Haruhi. This is in sharp contrast to the counterparts they eventually encounter, who engage in kidnapping and attempted murder to carry out their missions. [[spoiler:A particularly dire threat to the world is thwarted by Haruhi herself, who subconsciously creates an alter ego aware of her own powers. Wrap your mind around that one.]]
* AntiVillain: Haruhi as a person is quite awful in terms of personal respect and to a peaceful society. She can’t personally be blamed for it, but her powers are an extreme threat to everything, and frequently manifest in destructive and corruptive forms. From this perspective, she is a villain on both a petty and macrocosmic scale. Yet, Haruhi does what she does not out of a sense of malice, but a deep personal desire to find something extraordinary hidden in a boring world. Over the course of the years she grows from an unhappy, selfish, socially isolated individual to having friends, being content with the excitement found in a normal universe, and interacting with people in a more positive way. The series is vague about the nature and extent of her powers, but it is implied that there are other, worse forces around, which she fights against.
* BigSisterInstinct: As time has gone on, she has developed this for all her fellow members of the S.O.S. Brigade, but especially towards Yuki. When she thought Yuki had gotten sick, she insisted on carrying her (over Nagato's own protests). She also defended Yuki's Literature Club from the Student Council President, and when she got sick, Haruhi ordered the Brigade to report to her apartment daily to take care of her.
* BlackAndWhiteInsanity: Initially, Haruhi is incapable of believing that she could ever be wrong about something. If anybody ever disagreed with her, it was simply because they weren’t as knowledgeable about something as she was. This quickly proved to be very harmful in a series that has more White and Gray Morality.
* BlackAndWhiteInsanity: Initially, Haruhi is incapable of believing that she could ever be wrong about something. If anybody ever disagreed with her, it was simply because they weren’t as knowledgeable about something as she was. This quickly proved to be very harmful in a series that has more White and Gray Morality.
* BlessedWithSuck: As the novel series has continued it has been hinted that Haruhi herself is entirely an innocent victim of Cursed with Awesome that Kyon has imposed on at least two instant goddesses.
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Haruhi appears to be incapable of realizing that other people have feelings besides her own, and in general bases most of her decisions off of whether something will be either exciting or boring to her.
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Haruhi appears to be incapable of realizing that other people have feelings besides her own, and in general bases most of her decisions off of whether something will be either exciting or boring to her.
* BoyishShortHair: At the beginning of the series, her hair is long and reaches to about her waist. However, after a talk with Kyon about her hair, she cuts it to just about her shoulders. This is an indicator that she cares about kyon’s opinion as well as a way to further reflect her tomboyish personality.
* BreakTheCutie: While Haruhi is closer to a BrokenBird she still has elements of this as well. She learns, rather painfully, that she isn't all that special, and in her quest to make her life special, goes on the hunt for aliens, time travelers and ESPers after some inspiration from Kyon. This leads to her general sociopathy, and her obsession with cosplaying Mikuru. A good part of the plot is her [[HealTheCutie learning how to be a good person again,]] as noted by Kyon.
* BreakTheHaughty: A major part of Haruhi’s development is learning that she can’t keep being so arrogant and controlling and expect people to want to listen to her.
* BreakTheHaughty: A major part of Haruhi’s development is learning that she can’t keep being so arrogant and controlling and expect people to want to listen to her.
* BroughDownToNormal: [[spoiler:After Yuki rewrites reality, not only is Haruhi turned into a normal human, but she also gets PutOnABus for a time.]]
* BrutalHonesty: Unless it's related to her Tsundere traits, never expect Haruhi to hide how she really feels about something.
* BrutalHonesty: Unless it's related to her Tsundere traits, never expect Haruhi to hide how she really feels about something.
* BullyTurnedBuddy: She becomes this for pretty much every member of the S.O.S. Brigade, but especially towards Kyon and Mikura who arguably got her initial treatment the worst.
* ByronicHero: She’s very intelligent, charismatic, and passionate about what she does, but is also very difficult to get along with and has very few people she shows her softer side towards.
* CantGetAwayWithNuthin: Haruhi constantly seeks to avert this, whose main specialty (considering the non-awareness of her own powers) seems to be beating this trope to death and beyond.
* CantTakeCriticism: She is so enamored with her own perceived perfection that anyone who dares to say that she is wrong can rarely get through to her.
* CareBearStare: Double-Subverted. After Kyon laments that he'd like to have even a bit of Haruhi's super-confidence, she gives him a '''DeathGlare''' and then supposes she has sent "warm energy" into Kyon's body. Kyon, in his usual [[DeadpanSnarker snarky]] attitude replies "I felt like my life was in danger.." Nothing else more completely illustrates how out-of-touch Haruhi is with [[spoiler:her own [[RealityWarper nigh-omnipotence]].]] Interestingly, once the battle started, he got into the game to the point that he was shouting his attack orders at the computer. Wouldn't Haruhi think it a bit strange if Kyon had immediately burst into full hot-blooded confidence as soon as she stared him down? [[FridgeBrilliance A delayed reaction?]]
--> '''Itsuki''': It sounds like someone's getting serious about this game.
* Catchphrase:
** "I'm so bored!"
** Another one gets Lampshaded but ultimately subverted — in the first episode, Kyon notes that Haruhi has a habit of saying "totally", but the audience doesn't hear it enough for it to qualify as a Catchphrase.
* CharacterAsHimself:
** Haruhi Suzumiya is credited as the ''director'' of the ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'' anime. And not just director, but '''[[LargeHamTitle Ultra]]''' Director, as in her ShowWithinAShow.
** The series composition of the anime is also credited to "Haruhi and her friends". In "The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya VI", that credit shows ''right before'' [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall Kyon wonders if Haruhi "wrote this scenario"]].
* CantTakeCriticism: She is so enamored with her own perceived perfection that anyone who dares to say that she is wrong can rarely get through to her.
* CareBearStare: Double-Subverted. After Kyon laments that he'd like to have even a bit of Haruhi's super-confidence, she gives him a '''DeathGlare''' and then supposes she has sent "warm energy" into Kyon's body. Kyon, in his usual [[DeadpanSnarker snarky]] attitude replies "I felt like my life was in danger.." Nothing else more completely illustrates how out-of-touch Haruhi is with [[spoiler:her own [[RealityWarper nigh-omnipotence]].]] Interestingly, once the battle started, he got into the game to the point that he was shouting his attack orders at the computer. Wouldn't Haruhi think it a bit strange if Kyon had immediately burst into full hot-blooded confidence as soon as she stared him down? [[FridgeBrilliance A delayed reaction?]]
--> '''Itsuki''': It sounds like someone's getting serious about this game.
* Catchphrase:
** "I'm so bored!"
** Another one gets Lampshaded but ultimately subverted — in the first episode, Kyon notes that Haruhi has a habit of saying "totally", but the audience doesn't hear it enough for it to qualify as a Catchphrase.
* CharacterAsHimself:
** Haruhi Suzumiya is credited as the ''director'' of the ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'' anime. And not just director, but '''[[LargeHamTitle Ultra]]''' Director, as in her ShowWithinAShow.
** The series composition of the anime is also credited to "Haruhi and her friends". In "The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya VI", that credit shows ''right before'' [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall Kyon wonders if Haruhi "wrote this scenario"]].
** Haruhi starts off as a self-absorbed, misanthropic loner, and later goes to a cheerful and hot-blooded, yet still quite sociopathic jerk who doesn't really get what she's doing wrong... which can still technically be considered an improvement.
** In the later novels, she has become far more sociable, even to strangers.
** In general she has also come more to terms with "this boring world" (and has come Out of Focus).
** In the later novels, she has become far more sociable, even to strangers.
** In general she has also come more to terms with "this boring world" (and has come Out of Focus).
* CharacterTics: Haruhi has her famous "hairflick". Though this is only portrayed in the anime.
* TheCharmer: Despite her abrasiveness, Haruhi has shown herself to have a knack for convincing others to do what she wants through a variety of different social techniques. In spite of her weird personality she still has people who are willing to follow her and stay by her side out of loyalty due to her overwhelming personality and sheer charisma.
* ChildishPillowFight: Haruhi is shown to be extremely good at this during a club trip. Just before the murder mystery starts, Haruhi throws one into Arakawa's face unerringly. The Mood Whiplash is quite hard, especially if you haven't read the light novels.
* ChildProdigy: Haruhi is less than the age of eighteen, and is already smart enough to finish all her home work in two days at the start of a vacation.
* ClassicalAntiHero: As Haruhi slowly overcomes her more glaring character flaws, she slowly transitions out of less of being an outright AntiHero, and more into this territory, wracked with feeling unimportant and “boring” in the grand scheme of things and learning how to better connect with others.
* TheCharmer: Despite her abrasiveness, Haruhi has shown herself to have a knack for convincing others to do what she wants through a variety of different social techniques. In spite of her weird personality she still has people who are willing to follow her and stay by her side out of loyalty due to her overwhelming personality and sheer charisma.
* ChildishPillowFight: Haruhi is shown to be extremely good at this during a club trip. Just before the murder mystery starts, Haruhi throws one into Arakawa's face unerringly. The Mood Whiplash is quite hard, especially if you haven't read the light novels.
* ChildProdigy: Haruhi is less than the age of eighteen, and is already smart enough to finish all her home work in two days at the start of a vacation.
* ClassicalAntiHero: As Haruhi slowly overcomes her more glaring character flaws, she slowly transitions out of less of being an outright AntiHero, and more into this territory, wracked with feeling unimportant and “boring” in the grand scheme of things and learning how to better connect with others.
* ColorMotifs: Red, which serves to demonstrate her genkiness, passion, and her status as leader of the S.O.S. Brigade.
* ComedicSociopath: Sexual harassment? Check. Regularly abuses her best friends? Check. Blackmails people with photos of scandalous events she orchestrated? Check. Abducts people just because she thinks they're interesting? Check. Treats people as objects and is generally incapable of comprehending the fact that other people possess feelings that differ from her own? Check.
** While the series itself treats these actions as comedic, characters within the series (especially Kyon) see it as incredibly selfish and annoying... so part of the comedy comes from their reactions to Haruhi's antics.
* CompetitionFreak: Haruhi sees virtually everything as a competition, partially as a way to prove her own superiority over another. Merely saying the word is enough to get her to come running.
* ControlFreak: She is incredibly bossy, expecting everyone else to follow the whims of what she believes and wants.
* ComedicSociopath: Sexual harassment? Check. Regularly abuses her best friends? Check. Blackmails people with photos of scandalous events she orchestrated? Check. Abducts people just because she thinks they're interesting? Check. Treats people as objects and is generally incapable of comprehending the fact that other people possess feelings that differ from her own? Check.
** While the series itself treats these actions as comedic, characters within the series (especially Kyon) see it as incredibly selfish and annoying... so part of the comedy comes from their reactions to Haruhi's antics.
* CompetitionFreak: Haruhi sees virtually everything as a competition, partially as a way to prove her own superiority over another. Merely saying the word is enough to get her to come running.
* ControlFreak: She is incredibly bossy, expecting everyone else to follow the whims of what she believes and wants.
* CoolBigSis: Whenever she isn’t mistreating them or bossing them around, Haruhi is capable of fulfilling this role towards her fellow S.O.S. Brigade members. It becomes more apparent as she becomes more of a TeamMom towards them as well.
* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Haruhi serves as this for the GodModeSue. The universe literally bends around her to ensure that she always gets what she wants, and she is on a fundamental level much more powerful than anyone else in her story could ever hope to be. Not only does this make her an arrogant {{Jerkass}} who is fully convinced that she can do no wrong, but also leaves all the other weaker people around her secretly terrified of her and scheming to make sure that she never discovers the true nature of her powers.
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* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: Sheh wants to find something that would make her unique.
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* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: Sheh wants to find Haruhi's titular melancholy comes from the fact that she's desperate for something so fun and exciting that would it'll shake up her life. She's joined every club, dated every boy who asked her out (however briefly), and never lasted more than a week with anything but the SOS-dan, which she started herself. The irony here is that the things she's searching for are right there, and trying to keep her from finding out.
* TheDeterminator: If this girl wants something, she’ll do everything she can to get it and there’s nothing that anyone can do to deter her. In fact, trying to stop her will likely [[CompetitionFreak just make herunique.want to get it more.]]
* DidntThinkThisThrough: One of her defining traits for better or worse. Due to her eccentric personality and desire for a constant thrill, Haruhi often jumps straight into things with little thought given as to what their natural consequence could be. Sometimes this actually results in something good, like performing on stage during a cultural festival, or bringing the S.O.S. Brigade together at all, but other times it can create serious problems.
* TheDeterminator: If this girl wants something, she’ll do everything she can to get it and there’s nothing that anyone can do to deter her. In fact, trying to stop her will likely [[CompetitionFreak just make her
* DidntThinkThisThrough: One of her defining traits for better or worse. Due to her eccentric personality and desire for a constant thrill, Haruhi often jumps straight into things with little thought given as to what their natural consequence could be. Sometimes this actually results in something good, like performing on stage during a cultural festival, or bringing the S.O.S. Brigade together at all, but other times it can create serious problems.
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* DitzyGenius: For a girl as smart and generally talented as she is, Haruhi is capable of being ''incredibly'' dense at times.
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* DitzyGenius: For a girl as smart and generally talented as she is, Haruhi is capable of being ''incredibly'' incredibly dense at times.times:
** The Day of Saggitarius showed that Haruhi is no Patton — she puts so much emphasis on being Hot-Blooded that she seems genuinely perplexed and irritated that "All ships charge!" is not an adequate strategy to win a tactics-based computer game.
** So-called "Ultra-Director" Haruhi Suzumiya couldn't direct her way out of a wet paper bag (see above for her inability to even grasp a concept as simple as The Climax) and "The Adventures of Asahina Mikuru" shows it. She thought it was brilliant; everyone else was... less enthused. At one point she fails to comprehend why characters always die at the climax of a story, and another time she complains that crabs didn't evolve softer shells so she could eat them easier. She also fails to realize that wearing a Playboy Bunny outfit at school would upset the teachers. Its only redeeming grace is Kyon's glorious narration. Yet Haruhi, without a trace of irony, proudly declares that it's worthy of an Oscar! Whether she's simply so arrogant that she thinks that ANYTHING she does is guaranteed to be genius, or whether her taste is simply so bad that she honestly believes this is impossible to tell.
** And then there's her general Insane Troll Logic, such as pointing out that Tanabata wishes will take years to reach their destination due to the speed of light delay, but expecting that Orihime and Hikoboshi will be able to ignore the lightspeed barrier because they're gods.
* DivineDate: Haruhi Suzumiya is forcefully romancing Kyon, who isn't quite sure who he wants. The twist is that she doesn't know that she's a Little Miss Almighty Reality Warper, and everyone else wants to keep it that way.
** The Day of Saggitarius showed that Haruhi is no Patton — she puts so much emphasis on being Hot-Blooded that she seems genuinely perplexed and irritated that "All ships charge!" is not an adequate strategy to win a tactics-based computer game.
** So-called "Ultra-Director" Haruhi Suzumiya couldn't direct her way out of a wet paper bag (see above for her inability to even grasp a concept as simple as The Climax) and "The Adventures of Asahina Mikuru" shows it. She thought it was brilliant; everyone else was... less enthused. At one point she fails to comprehend why characters always die at the climax of a story, and another time she complains that crabs didn't evolve softer shells so she could eat them easier. She also fails to realize that wearing a Playboy Bunny outfit at school would upset the teachers. Its only redeeming grace is Kyon's glorious narration. Yet Haruhi, without a trace of irony, proudly declares that it's worthy of an Oscar! Whether she's simply so arrogant that she thinks that ANYTHING she does is guaranteed to be genius, or whether her taste is simply so bad that she honestly believes this is impossible to tell.
** And then there's her general Insane Troll Logic, such as pointing out that Tanabata wishes will take years to reach their destination due to the speed of light delay, but expecting that Orihime and Hikoboshi will be able to ignore the lightspeed barrier because they're gods.
* DivineDate: Haruhi Suzumiya is forcefully romancing Kyon, who isn't quite sure who he wants. The twist is that she doesn't know that she's a Little Miss Almighty Reality Warper, and everyone else wants to keep it that way.
* DoesNotLikeMen: Haruhi was like this at the beginning, though she mainly doesn't like humans in general. Half of the time she barely acknowledged that men exist, or that there's some difference in social behavior between boys and girls.
* DoNotTauntCthulhu: Is often on the receiving end of this trope without her even realizing it. Everyone who knows how her powers work knows to tread lightly around her as significantly angering her could lead to the death of them or maybe even the entire world.
* DoubleStandard: Haruhi is way nicer towards Itsuki than to Kyon, and never gives Kyon credit for what he does, but congratulates Itsuki for everything.
* TheDreaded: While they try their best to keep it hidden, the other members of the S.O.S. Brigade are very wary of Haruhi knowing who she is, and what she is capable of. They genuinely believe that their efforts to deceive her are the only thing that is preventing TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.
* DoNotTauntCthulhu: Is often on the receiving end of this trope without her even realizing it. Everyone who knows how her powers work knows to tread lightly around her as significantly angering her could lead to the death of them or maybe even the entire world.
* DoubleStandard: Haruhi is way nicer towards Itsuki than to Kyon, and never gives Kyon credit for what he does, but congratulates Itsuki for everything.
* TheDreaded: While they try their best to keep it hidden, the other members of the S.O.S. Brigade are very wary of Haruhi knowing who she is, and what she is capable of. They genuinely believe that their efforts to deceive her are the only thing that is preventing TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.
* DynamicEntry: Haruhi has a habit of making these, one notable example is just before accepting the Computer Research Society President's challenge, she delivers a leaping kick to the head.
* EasilyForgiven: Kyon still forgives Haruhi easily after she drugs Mikuru and he almost punches her for it. This was her beginning path towards Character Development and he partially did it to avoid the universe being destroyed, although Haruhi didn't apologize for what she did.
* EldritchAbomination: It is theorized by some characters and very likely that if Haruhi ever discovers her powers, she will ascend beyond merely being a HumanoidAbomination and become this. She may already be heading that way now, given that Yuki’s alien overlord was unable to grasp her true form.
* EgocentricTeamNaming: At first, it doesn’t look like Haruhi did this with her SOS Brigade... until you expand the acronym and find that the second S stands for Suzumiya.
* EasilyForgiven: Kyon still forgives Haruhi easily after she drugs Mikuru and he almost punches her for it. This was her beginning path towards Character Development and he partially did it to avoid the universe being destroyed, although Haruhi didn't apologize for what she did.
* EldritchAbomination: It is theorized by some characters and very likely that if Haruhi ever discovers her powers, she will ascend beyond merely being a HumanoidAbomination and become this. She may already be heading that way now, given that Yuki’s alien overlord was unable to grasp her true form.
* EgocentricTeamNaming: At first, it doesn’t look like Haruhi did this with her SOS Brigade... until you expand the acronym and find that the second S stands for Suzumiya.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Haruhi's very first line cements her character: "I have no interest in ordinary humans. If there are any aliens, time travelers, espers, or sliders, come join me. That is all."
* EveryoneCanSeeIt:
** Haruhi likes Kyon, no matter how deep in denial he is about it. This is so obvious that alternate!Itsuki in Disappearance can tell just from Kyon's cursory explanation of how things were back before the world-switch.
** Sasaki figures it out immediately when meeting Haruhi. She then teases them about it.
** Haruhi likes Kyon, no matter how deep in denial he is about it. This is so obvious that alternate!Itsuki in Disappearance can tell just from Kyon's cursory explanation of how things were back before the world-switch.
** Sasaki figures it out immediately when meeting Haruhi. She then teases them about it.
* EyeBeams: In Sigh, Haruhi keeps coming up with colored contact lenses that each have a different type of eye beam. First is a laser, second is some sort of Razor Floss; Kyon states there are a few more, but the one we're shown shoots large metal spikes. The official English translation mentions four contacts: the blue, for Mikuru Beam; the silver, for Razor Floss; the gold, for the spikes up above; and the green, for miniature black holes.
* TheEyeore: Haruhi's inner workings appear to be quite this at or before the beginning and episode 6 particularly. Being fed up with the boring world, just wishing for something interesting to happen when it just doesn't seem to happen, despite her efforts. In the end (or rather in the middle), she's so frustrated she subconsciously begins to destroy the universe and create a new one. Of course, most of the time she's a genuine Genki Girl.
* TheEyeore: Haruhi's inner workings appear to be quite this at or before the beginning and episode 6 particularly. Being fed up with the boring world, just wishing for something interesting to happen when it just doesn't seem to happen, despite her efforts. In the end (or rather in the middle), she's so frustrated she subconsciously begins to destroy the universe and create a new one. Of course, most of the time she's a genuine Genki Girl.
* FatalFlaw: While Haruhi excels at nearly everything she does, this simply makes her personal flaws more apparent.
** The fact that her powers lead to her continued success has made her into a spoiled brat, who thinks that she always knows best and that everyone should have to do what she says.
** She’s also a terrible bully and loses it when she doesn’t get her way.
** She always jumps into what she wants to do whether it’s good or bad in the long term. If it’s good, no problem. But if what Haruhi wants is bad, the others have to stop her. And because she’s a bully, she will always resist being stopped.
** Another source of conflict is something that Haruhi isn’t willing to admit: she wants to be loved. Specifically, she has a crush for Kyon, however her own aggressive nature always pushes him away until he feels that he has no choice but to reciprocate the feelings.
** She is also likely the most powerful person in her entire universe, but constantly remains blissfully unaware as to just how powerful she really is.
** The fact that her powers lead to her continued success has made her into a spoiled brat, who thinks that she always knows best and that everyone should have to do what she says.
** She’s also a terrible bully and loses it when she doesn’t get her way.
** She always jumps into what she wants to do whether it’s good or bad in the long term. If it’s good, no problem. But if what Haruhi wants is bad, the others have to stop her. And because she’s a bully, she will always resist being stopped.
** Another source of conflict is something that Haruhi isn’t willing to admit: she wants to be loved. Specifically, she has a crush for Kyon, however her own aggressive nature always pushes him away until he feels that he has no choice but to reciprocate the feelings.
** She is also likely the most powerful person in her entire universe, but constantly remains blissfully unaware as to just how powerful she really is.
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* {{Foil}}: Arguably the whole point of the Haruhi/Kyon relationship is how their opposing personalities come to a balance.
** She's also a foil to Mikuru in at least two ways.
** She's also a foil to Mikuru in at least two ways.
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* {{Foil}}: {{Foil:}} Arguably the whole point of the Haruhi/Kyon relationship is how their opposing personalities come to a balance.
balance:
** Kyon and Haruhi have such opposing character traits, philosophies, attitudes, etc., that there are significant amounts of Wild Mass Guessing supposing that they are some sort of "foil-power". Or Haruhi chose Kyon exactly because he balances her out. Or opposites just attract. Or they are gods of chaos and order. Pick one, if you like.
** Kyon and Haruhi are foils to each other, but their characters are more complex than these arguments suggest, and the foil is correspondingly more elaborate. Kyon is always going on and on about how he'd like an ordinary world, yet he's secretly delighted at the fact that there are aliens, time travelers and espers. Haruhi acts like she's completely convinced that aliens, time travelers and espers exist, but this is a form of denial of her skepticism that they do, and a way of avoiding her disappointment at the ordinariness of her life.
** However, when you add Sasaki, it looks more like Haruhi and Sasaki are foils whereas Kyon is the middle ground. Haruhi believes in the supernatural and represents chaos but also creativity, freedom, spontaneity and change. Sasaki believes in logic and opposes emotions while representing order but also conformity, oppression and stability/consistency. Also, although both of them see love as merely a mental illness, while Haruhi is attracted to both guys and girls, Sasaki claims to have never felt anything of that sort.
** She's also a foil to Mikuru in at least two ways.
** Kyon and Haruhi have such opposing character traits, philosophies, attitudes, etc., that there are significant amounts of Wild Mass Guessing supposing that they are some sort of "foil-power". Or Haruhi chose Kyon exactly because he balances her out. Or opposites just attract. Or they are gods of chaos and order. Pick one, if you like.
** Kyon and Haruhi are foils to each other, but their characters are more complex than these arguments suggest, and the foil is correspondingly more elaborate. Kyon is always going on and on about how he'd like an ordinary world, yet he's secretly delighted at the fact that there are aliens, time travelers and espers. Haruhi acts like she's completely convinced that aliens, time travelers and espers exist, but this is a form of denial of her skepticism that they do, and a way of avoiding her disappointment at the ordinariness of her life.
** However, when you add Sasaki, it looks more like Haruhi and Sasaki are foils whereas Kyon is the middle ground. Haruhi believes in the supernatural and represents chaos but also creativity, freedom, spontaneity and change. Sasaki believes in logic and opposes emotions while representing order but also conformity, oppression and stability/consistency. Also, although both of them see love as merely a mental illness, while Haruhi is attracted to both guys and girls, Sasaki claims to have never felt anything of that sort.
** She's also a foil to Mikuru in at least two ways.
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** To Ryoko, who seemed bright and bubbly, unlike Haruhi, the AloofDarkHairedGirl. And Ryoko is the true evil psychopath while Haruhi is a heroic normal girl deep down.
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** To Ryoko, who seemed bright and bubbly, unlike Haruhi, the AloofDarkHairedGirl. Aloof Dark-Haired Girl. And Ryoko is the true evil psychopath while Haruhi is a heroic normal girl deep down.down.
* ForgotTheCall: There are scenes that indicate that Haruhi is up against a mental block as opposed to just being totally clueless. Note how something stops her in midstream here: "I'm the brigade chief and director and ... Anyway, I won't allow you to go against me!"
* ForgotTheCall: There are scenes that indicate that Haruhi is up against a mental block as opposed to just being totally clueless. Note how something stops her in midstream here: "I'm the brigade chief and director and ... Anyway, I won't allow you to go against me!"
* GenreSavvy: Haruhi sees everything in terms of TV and anime tropes, even where they might not otherwise have been. She borders between being a wrong and being an accurate Genre Savvy. Since she is an all-powerful Reality Warper with unstoppable willpower, she actually makes herself become accurate.
* GirlishPigtails:
** Haruhi invokes this with Mikuru's waitress Cosplay outfit, in order to enhance the Moe in Mikuru's look.
** Haruhi herself, before cutting her hair, also used to wear pigtails on occasion when she entered North High, as part of her routine of changing hairstyles according to the day of the week.
* GirlishPigtails:
** Haruhi invokes this with Mikuru's waitress Cosplay outfit, in order to enhance the Moe in Mikuru's look.
** Haruhi herself, before cutting her hair, also used to wear pigtails on occasion when she entered North High, as part of her routine of changing hairstyles according to the day of the week.
* {{God}}: Zigzagged and ambiguous, but still implied. Itsuki Koizumi theorizes that Haruhi is God. She possesses godlike abilities, true, but he's not completely sure that she's actually the creator of the universe, just noting it as a possibility. However, he's a bit biased, being an esper who received his powers from Haruhi; the time travelers and aliens are quite firm that despite Haruhi's powers, she is not God.
* AGodAmI: Subverted and/or reversed: the character with godlike powers, Haruhi, has no idea she has them. Her delusions of grandeur are just that.
* AGodAmI: Subverted and/or reversed: the character with godlike powers, Haruhi, has no idea she has them. Her delusions of grandeur are just that.
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: It has been strongly suggested that if Haruhi ever discovers the true nature of her powers, that this will be the end result for her and TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt for everyone else.
* GoodIsNotDumb: Zigzagged. She aces all of her classes as though they are nothing, and appears to be able to convince anyone to do just about anything she wants through a variety of different social techniques, but also appears to be lacking in common sense when it comes to some areas.
* GoodWithNumbers: She has been shown to do well at all of her subjects in school to the point that she was able to complete all of her homework in just two days over a vacation and was able to calculate that the people at her first baseball game was just a small percentage of Japan's population.
* GreenEyedMonster: As Haruhi realizes her feelings for Kyon, she becomes more jealous over him. To what extent? When Haruhi sees Kyon wrestling with Mikuru over a computer mouse, she becomes jealous and literally creates an alternate reality (a closed space) in which she and Kyon are the only inhabitants, so that she can have him all to herself.
* HairTriggerTemper: Underneath her aloof exterior it quickly becomes apparent that it doesn’t take much to get her riled up.
* HaveWeMet: Haruhi Suzumiya asks Kyon this during their first conversation. She has in fact met him before, but Kyon hasn't; he will meet her three years ago a couple of months later.
* GoodIsNotDumb: Zigzagged. She aces all of her classes as though they are nothing, and appears to be able to convince anyone to do just about anything she wants through a variety of different social techniques, but also appears to be lacking in common sense when it comes to some areas.
* GoodWithNumbers: She has been shown to do well at all of her subjects in school to the point that she was able to complete all of her homework in just two days over a vacation and was able to calculate that the people at her first baseball game was just a small percentage of Japan's population.
* GreenEyedMonster: As Haruhi realizes her feelings for Kyon, she becomes more jealous over him. To what extent? When Haruhi sees Kyon wrestling with Mikuru over a computer mouse, she becomes jealous and literally creates an alternate reality (a closed space) in which she and Kyon are the only inhabitants, so that she can have him all to herself.
* HairTriggerTemper: Underneath her aloof exterior it quickly becomes apparent that it doesn’t take much to get her riled up.
* HaveWeMet: Haruhi Suzumiya asks Kyon this during their first conversation. She has in fact met him before, but Kyon hasn't; he will meet her three years ago a couple of months later.
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* HighSchoolHustler: One of the rare female hustlers.
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* HeroicBSOD: Comedic use in Episode 7 of ''Manga/HaruhiChan'' when Haruhi had Kyon go Scavenger Hunting for "A barrier of the heart", and Kyon grabbed Koizumi.
--> '''Haruhi:''' "A barrier to the heart", why him? \\
'''Kyon:''' So, Koizumi. [[HoYay I love you]]. \\
'''Haruhi:''' Gack! ''[insert metaphor for her world shattering]''\\
''[scene change]''\\
'''Kyon's Sister:''' Attention! Haruhi-chan has fainted so we're taking a break!
* HesBack: In Disappearance, after Haruhi is told about the club, she proves that she still has what it takes to be a leader and gathers them back in the club room to start the club again.
* HiddenDepths:
** Underneath her initial cold and aloof exterior is revealed to be a very eccentric girl who is as passionate about everything she does as she is skilled. [[spoiler: And that’s before you even get into her powers…]]
** Despite her wild and unpredictable nature, there do appear to be a few principles that she is willing to honor; she addresses adults in a respectful manner, uses conventional etiquette, and emphasizes the observance of traditional holidays.
* HighSchoolHustler:One of the A rare female hustlers.example. One of Haruhi Suzumiya's many strengths is the ability to get away with practically anything, up to and including extortion, indecent exposure, commandeering an entire room, and press-ganging members, and make the SOS Brigade end up in a better situation by the end of the episode. Her peculiar brand of conscientious amorality tends to help with this. The fact that she is possibly God probably helps a lot more. However, this trope is probably played straight. Her "recruiting" of Asahina in Disappearance (where she can't cheat) is a good example: She flings the door open, claims to be from the Student Council Intelligence Agency... and drags an upperclassman out. No problem.
--> '''Haruhi:''' "A barrier to the heart", why him? \\
'''Kyon:''' So, Koizumi. [[HoYay I love you]]. \\
'''Haruhi:''' Gack! ''[insert metaphor for her world shattering]''\\
''[scene change]''\\
'''Kyon's Sister:''' Attention! Haruhi-chan has fainted so we're taking a break!
* HesBack: In Disappearance, after Haruhi is told about the club, she proves that she still has what it takes to be a leader and gathers them back in the club room to start the club again.
* HiddenDepths:
** Underneath her initial cold and aloof exterior is revealed to be a very eccentric girl who is as passionate about everything she does as she is skilled. [[spoiler: And that’s before you even get into her powers…]]
** Despite her wild and unpredictable nature, there do appear to be a few principles that she is willing to honor; she addresses adults in a respectful manner, uses conventional etiquette, and emphasizes the observance of traditional holidays.
* HighSchoolHustler:
* HumanoidAbomination: It has been hinted that Haruhi might be one of these, due to her reality warping powers and her [[BlueAndOrangeMorality bizarre mental state]]. Whether she is this or just a really powerful human, she at the very least is capable of subconsciously creating them as demonstrated by the presence of the Data Interfaces.
* IAmWho: Haruhi has Reality Warper powers of which she is entirely unaware, and considering the type of person she is, her friends want to keep it that way. Fans often say she's God in Human Form, but within both the novels and anime, this is directly stated to be just one unconfirmed theory among many for her powers, and one considered to be extremely unlikely by the one who brings it up.
* IAmWho: Haruhi has Reality Warper powers of which she is entirely unaware, and considering the type of person she is, her friends want to keep it that way. Fans often say she's God in Human Form, but within both the novels and anime, this is directly stated to be just one unconfirmed theory among many for her powers, and one considered to be extremely unlikely by the one who brings it up.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: It turns out that what she most enjoys is hanging out with her fellow brigade members and doing ordinary high school activities together, like playing baseball, doing summer activities or helping them do their summer homework. So Haruhi is really IJustWantToBeNormal posing as IJustWantToBeSpecial.
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* ImportantHaircut: Her hair is initially very long when she's first introduced, but after her first real conversation with Kyon she cuts it to its current length. ''Disappearance'' shows a version of her who didn't go to North High or become friends with Kyon, so she keeps her hair long.
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* ImportantHaircut: Her hair is initially very long when she's first introduced, but after her first real conversation with Kyon she ImportantHaircut:
** Haruhi cutsit to its current length. ''Disappearance'' shows a version of her who didn't go to North High or become friends with Kyon, so she keeps her hair long.after meeting Kyon, about the same time she changes from being antisocial to being outgoing and happy. Before that, she changed her hair based on the day of the week, with a full-blown explanation as to why. It's implied she did this to get Kyon to comment on it.
** Haruhi can sometimes be seen holding her hair in a ponytail after Kyon claims to have a thing for girls with ponytails in a "dream," with the most obvious example being that she has her hair in a ponytail the very next day after said "dream." In fact, at one point, when deciding on whether or not to put Mikuru's hair in a ponytail, Haruhi looks at Kyon and immediately drops the idea out of jealousy. She does it again the day after Kyon blows up at her over her mistreatment of Mikuru during the shooting of their movie.
** In the Disappearance arc, the alternate-timeline Haruhi still has long hair and is still snarky and antisocial. This shows how much of an impact Kyon had on Haruhi in the old timeline.
** Haruhi cuts
** Haruhi can sometimes be seen holding her hair in a ponytail after Kyon claims to have a thing for girls with ponytails in a "dream," with the most obvious example being that she has her hair in a ponytail the very next day after said "dream." In fact, at one point, when deciding on whether or not to put Mikuru's hair in a ponytail, Haruhi looks at Kyon and immediately drops the idea out of jealousy. She does it again the day after Kyon blows up at her over her mistreatment of Mikuru during the shooting of their movie.
** In the Disappearance arc, the alternate-timeline Haruhi still has long hair and is still snarky and antisocial. This shows how much of an impact Kyon had on Haruhi in the old timeline.
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* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: As a child, her parents took her to a sports stadium. When she realized just how many people there were alive in just that stadium, she started to feel worthless and unremarkable. This is partly what led to her developing her {{Jerkass}} LargeHam persona that she uses to boss around the other SOS Brigade members, as well as her [[IJustWantToBeSpecial desire for an extraordinary life]].
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* IndirectKiss: While shooting their film in "The Sigh of Haruhi Suzumiya", Mikuru offers Kyon water from the bottle she's been drinking from. Haruhi immediately grabs it from him. Later at the end of the arc, Haruhi drinks from the same cup as Kyon in a café, though it's mostly just to spite him. We never see if Haruhi had this trope in mind or not.
* InferioritySuperiorityComplex:As When she was a child, little girl, she thought of herself as special until her parents took her to a sports stadium. When sporting event and she saw a stadium full of people. She realized then just how many people there were alive in just that stadium, the world, and how utterly unremarkable she started to feel worthless really was. It's downplayed (in fact, no one may even know it but Kyon), but her forceful and unremarkable. loud personality and attempts to have adventures are a conscious effort to make herself unique. This is partly what led to her developing her {{Jerkass}} LargeHam persona that she uses to boss around the other SOS Brigade members, as well as her [[IJustWantToBeSpecial desire for an extraordinary life]].life. The real irony, is that she's the only one who doesn't know that she is truly is unique (and might possibly be {{God}})
* InferioritySuperiorityComplex:
* IntelligenceEqualsIsolation: At the start of the series, she had good grades in all her academic classes and absolutely zero trace of a social life.
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* {{Jerkass}}: In the beginning of the series, until she eventually matures into a JerkWithAHeartOfGold.
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* {{Jerkass}}: In ItAmusedMe: The reason Haruhi does anything is defined by this trope. And considering her god-like powers, one shudders to consider what she would do if she were aware of them.
* [[Jerkass:]] Haruhi Suzumiya starts out as completely self-absorbed along with having a dash of Genki Girl, more or less hitting every point on thebeginning list of diagnostic criteria for antisocial personality disorder. And the fact that she is capable of destroying the world if she's seriously naysayed — or bored — just puts icing on the cake. In her defense, she does not know she's got said powers... but due to the disregard she shows even towards her closest friends, it's much better to keep her Locked Out of the series, until Loop lest she decide to intentionally screw over humanity on a whim. She does eventually matures into become a JerkWithAHeartOfGold.Jerk with a Heart of Gold, but it takes a good while.
* JerkassRealization: Has this for the first time after Kyon chews her out and nearly hits her after her treatment of Mikuru, kick starting her CharacterDevelopment.
* JerkJock: Haruhi is passionate about sports, at one point even leading a team, and even after her CharacterDevelopment never completely loses her {{Jerkass}} nature.
* [[Jerkass:]] Haruhi Suzumiya starts out as completely self-absorbed along with having a dash of Genki Girl, more or less hitting every point on the
* JerkassRealization: Has this for the first time after Kyon chews her out and nearly hits her after her treatment of Mikuru, kick starting her CharacterDevelopment.
* JerkJock: Haruhi is passionate about sports, at one point even leading a team, and even after her CharacterDevelopment never completely loses her {{Jerkass}} nature.
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* KarmaHoudini: The most she ever pays for any of her jerky actions is Kyon's irritation, and even that doesn't bother her until ''Sighs''.
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* KarmaHoudini: The most Character Development or not, there have been times where Karma seems to love giving Haruhi Suzumiya the longer end of the stick. From groping Mikuru, to blackmailing the Computer Club, to spiking Mikuru's drink and calling her Haruhi's toy, many come to wonder why she ever pays hasn't been suspended/expelled/arrested. She did almost earn a punch from Kyon for any of those last two offenses (the last straw being the "Mikuru is my toy" thing), which prompted her jerky actions is Kyon's irritation, and even immediate Heel–Face Turn (even more immediate in the anime version), so this could be a subversion. Doesn't stop her from molesting Mikuru in "Someday in the Rain" just for old time's sake, but then again, that doesn't bother her until ''Sighs''.may just be the author confused about the timeline he had set up in Anachronic Order.
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* TheLeader: Of the SOS Brigade. Or in her words, "Super Commander". A Type III/IV.
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* TheLeader: Of the SOS Brigade. Or in her words, "Super Commander". A Type III/IV.Her personality makes her a headstrong/charismatic type.
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* LockedOutOfTheLoop: You better keep her out of the "you might be God" loop or she might destroy the world.
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* LockedOutOfTheLoop: You better keep There are multiple secrets being kept from Haruhi.
** There's an alien, a time-traveler, an esper, and Kyon trying to prevent herout from realizing that she's omnipotent, in fear of what she'd do with the power. True, she does, after Character Development at least, soften up into being a Jerk with a Heart of Gold, but, well, that still leaves her A: as at least a part-time Jerkass and B: she doesn't tend to think before acting. Yeah, even being Locked Out of the "you Loop doesn't prevent her from using her Reality Warper powers, but at least it's unconscious and relatively minute in scope while she's oblivious — if she knew she could recreate reality at will, she could exhibit much more drastic manifestations of her power.
** They also must keep it a secret that they are an alien, a time-traveler and an esper because they fear if she had proof they existed, she would subconsciously create more of them, or even stranger beings, or who knows what else mightbe God" loop or seem "fun" to her.
** In fact, the idea that Haruhi is God incarnate is just what they think Haruhi's secret is. Or rather, it's what Kyon and most of the readers think, thanks to Itsuki "Completely Trustworthy" Koizumi. Yuki and Mikuru's factions have their own theories. They're all keeping watch on her because none of them are entirely sure what shemight destroy is or what she's capable of, but they're all pretty confident that letting her find out about and/or overuse her powers would be very dangerous.
** As early as theworld.second book, Kyon goes against the advice of the others and directly tells Haruhi everything that has happened up to that point. She yells at him to stop messing with her. He never attempts this again, but does later threaten that he would in order to keep Yuki's employers in check.
** There's an alien, a time-traveler, an esper, and Kyon trying to prevent her
** They also must keep it a secret that they are an alien, a time-traveler and an esper because they fear if she had proof they existed, she would subconsciously create more of them, or even stranger beings, or who knows what else might
** In fact, the idea that Haruhi is God incarnate is just what they think Haruhi's secret is. Or rather, it's what Kyon and most of the readers think, thanks to Itsuki "Completely Trustworthy" Koizumi. Yuki and Mikuru's factions have their own theories. They're all keeping watch on her because none of them are entirely sure what she
** As early as the
* LoveRedeems: Whenever all of the dimensions are being threatened, Kyon saves them by giving Haruhi TheBigDamnKiss which is what convinces Haruhi to bring the old world back.
* LovingBully: Haruhi makes the bullying aspect towards Kyon more than apparent, but is rarely willing to show the loving side despite the numerous signs. However, as the former does become more visible, the latter softens up.
* LostHimInACardGame: Haruhi bets Mikuru whenever the SOS Brigade are challenged to play a game against the computer club. The computer club wants to win back a computer Haruhi stole and offers three more computers should she win. Haruhi offers Yuki to balance out the bet, equating her with the three computers. When the Computer Club President is taken aback by this, she offers Yuki instead. And when Kyon protests her willingness to wager other people, she relents and offers herself — an offer which the Computer Club president very much rejects…
* LovingBully: Haruhi makes the bullying aspect towards Kyon more than apparent, but is rarely willing to show the loving side despite the numerous signs. However, as the former does become more visible, the latter softens up.
* LostHimInACardGame: Haruhi bets Mikuru whenever the SOS Brigade are challenged to play a game against the computer club. The computer club wants to win back a computer Haruhi stole and offers three more computers should she win. Haruhi offers Yuki to balance out the bet, equating her with the three computers. When the Computer Club President is taken aback by this, she offers Yuki instead. And when Kyon protests her willingness to wager other people, she relents and offers herself — an offer which the Computer Club president very much rejects…
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* ManicPixieDreamGirl: She takes the job seriously enough to graph out how he's failed to progress, even after a year of her hard work. Ironically, Kyon would count as hers (see GenkiGirl, above) except that he's male and very pessimistic.
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* ManicPixieDreamGirl: Subverted, then played straight:
** Haruhi is a seemingly textbook example of the manic pixie dream girl, coming into Kyon's life, unknowingly introducing him to a group of supernatural beings and just making his life wackier and crazier than before. Only problem is that Haruhi is terrified of living a regular, unremarkable life, and is violently determined to make sure that doesn't happen. Along with the whole thing about her being God. Shetakes goes between relentlessly perky and hyper, vaguely sociopathic and having an existential crisis throughout the job seriously enough first arc (thus the Artifact Title 'The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya'.) Kyon finds her behavior to graph be irritating and obnoxious and wishes she had left him alone to be an Ordinary High-School Student. Subverted with Kyon being the one to inspire Haruhi to begin the SOS club and draw the melancholy out how he's failed to progress, even after a year of her hard work. Ironically, by making her subconsciously realize living a regular life might not be so bad. Via a kiss. In a way, the dull, snarky Kyon would count as hers (see GenkiGirl, above) except was Haruhi’s MPDG.
** Then played straight in the Big Damn Movie, where when presented with the choice between a world without Haruhi and one with, he does everything he can for the latter, realizing thathe's male and very pessimistic.he really quite likes being a part of Haruhi's crazy life. This revelation is topped with tons of Ship Tease to boot. Despite this, Haruhi is clearly far more complex than your typical dream girl, so she still dodges the trope slightly.
* ManipulativeBitch: Whenever Haruhai wants her way, there’s practically nothing she’s not willing to resort to in order to get it, whether that be smooth-talking, blackmailing, intimidation or anything else that it may take.
** Haruhi is a seemingly textbook example of the manic pixie dream girl, coming into Kyon's life, unknowingly introducing him to a group of supernatural beings and just making his life wackier and crazier than before. Only problem is that Haruhi is terrified of living a regular, unremarkable life, and is violently determined to make sure that doesn't happen. Along with the whole thing about her being God. She
** Then played straight in the Big Damn Movie, where when presented with the choice between a world without Haruhi and one with, he does everything he can for the latter, realizing that
* ManipulativeBitch: Whenever Haruhai wants her way, there’s practically nothing she’s not willing to resort to in order to get it, whether that be smooth-talking, blackmailing, intimidation or anything else that it may take.
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* MsFanservice: [[MagicSkirt Basically, the only thing missing is a]] PantyShot.
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* MsFanservice: [[MagicSkirt Basically, While not as extreme as Mikuru, Haruhi herself qualifies. She is described as being quite the only thing missing beauty, and she's much more of a Shameless Fanservice Girl on top of that.
* MsViceGirl: Haruhi starts out as a jerkass Genki Girl and eventually becomes, well, a selfish jerk who means well and values her friends more than making the world exciting.
* {{Narcissist:}} This girl’s ego isa]] PantyShot.through the roof. She believes her time is too important to be wasted with normal “boring” humans, creates an entire Brigade purely for her own amusement, shows very little sense of personal space or empathy in general, constantly harassing and bossing around her fellow members and never apologizing for it. At the very least, she does have the background to somewhat back it up, [[TheAce excelling at practically everything she does]] and being an all powerful RealityWarper, albeit unknowingly.
* MsViceGirl: Haruhi starts out as a jerkass Genki Girl and eventually becomes, well, a selfish jerk who means well and values her friends more than making the world exciting.
* {{Narcissist:}} This girl’s ego is
* NecktieLeash: Currently provides the trope image, though she mostly does this just in the anime. In the novels she leads him arm in arm. It shows character development for Haruhi when she stops dragging Kyon along by the tie and takes him by the hand instead.
* NoIndoorVoice: Whenever she’s not being anti-social and actually does engage in a conversation with someone, she has a tendency to shout.
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* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: She is inappropriately in-your-face with just about everyone, and likes to grope Mikuru for Fanservice and/or her own enjoyment.
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* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: She Haruhi is inappropriately in-your-face with just about everyone, everyone and likes to grope Mikuru for Fanservice and/or her own enjoyment.enjoyment.
** While she will order (or drag/kidnap) just about anyone, this trope is mostly restricted to Kyon and Mikuru, with the other SOS members being mostly immune; make of that what you will.
** While she will order (or drag/kidnap) just about anyone, this trope is mostly restricted to Kyon and Mikuru, with the other SOS members being mostly immune; make of that what you will.
* ObliviousToLove: Haruhi herself also seems to have this, despite more frequently being on the receiving end of it. She is oblivious to Kozumi's feelings for her. And Kyon's later on when he starts to return her feelings. To be fair, they are both trying to hide how they feel from her, but for different reasons.
* OddFriendship: Haruhi has this with Kyon. Haruhi is an over-the-top, borderline sociopath who starts her own club (ironically at Kyon's suggestion) devoted to the strange and supernatural and Kyon is laid-back and doesn't believe in anything strange or supernatural. Despite this, they've become best friends who can trust each other with almost anything.
* TheOmnipotent: Haruhi Suzumiya is absolutely omnipotent, unbeknownst to herself. And considering her behavior, it's probably better for the SOS Brigade to keep all paranormal stuff away from her in secret, lest..
** How omnipotent? Most of the characters are not what they seem, and were sent by their respective factions to make sure she doesn't realize what she can do. If she does, or even if she becomes displeased with the current universe enough to deeply desire a different one without knowing she can make it so, the entire universe could be heavily altered or even erased and utterly rewritten... just like when she rewrote the universe into this one only a few years ago, even though it seems to have a vast history. The whole premise of the show is that she seeks the paranormal because she finds the 'normal' world boring - so they'd better show her the more interesting side of the world, or else. Ironically, she's surrounded by just the kind of beings she was hoping to find, herself at the top of the list... but her knowing any of that might lead to the bored Jerkass realizing she's God.
** [[spoiler: It turns out that her omnipotence can actually be given to other people, when she gives it to Yuki.]]*
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Whenever she seriously crosses the line and Kyon nearly strikes her, the cheerful and selfish Haruhi actually cries for the first time.
* OutOfFocus: Haruhi Suzumiya has had this happen to her in a lot of ways. Justified, in that keeping her unaware and uninvolved is practically the SOS Brigade's true modus operandi. For everyone's sake.
* OddFriendship: Haruhi has this with Kyon. Haruhi is an over-the-top, borderline sociopath who starts her own club (ironically at Kyon's suggestion) devoted to the strange and supernatural and Kyon is laid-back and doesn't believe in anything strange or supernatural. Despite this, they've become best friends who can trust each other with almost anything.
* TheOmnipotent: Haruhi Suzumiya is absolutely omnipotent, unbeknownst to herself. And considering her behavior, it's probably better for the SOS Brigade to keep all paranormal stuff away from her in secret, lest..
** How omnipotent? Most of the characters are not what they seem, and were sent by their respective factions to make sure she doesn't realize what she can do. If she does, or even if she becomes displeased with the current universe enough to deeply desire a different one without knowing she can make it so, the entire universe could be heavily altered or even erased and utterly rewritten... just like when she rewrote the universe into this one only a few years ago, even though it seems to have a vast history. The whole premise of the show is that she seeks the paranormal because she finds the 'normal' world boring - so they'd better show her the more interesting side of the world, or else. Ironically, she's surrounded by just the kind of beings she was hoping to find, herself at the top of the list... but her knowing any of that might lead to the bored Jerkass realizing she's God.
** [[spoiler: It turns out that her omnipotence can actually be given to other people, when she gives it to Yuki.]]*
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Whenever she seriously crosses the line and Kyon nearly strikes her, the cheerful and selfish Haruhi actually cries for the first time.
* OutOfFocus: Haruhi Suzumiya has had this happen to her in a lot of ways. Justified, in that keeping her unaware and uninvolved is practically the SOS Brigade's true modus operandi. For everyone's sake.
* PassionateSportsGirl: A girl who excels at athletics and has the enthusiasm and competitive spirit to match her skill.
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* PetTheDog: As the series progresses, she reveals that [[CharacterDevelopment she genuinely cares for her friends]].
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* PersonalityPowers: Haruhi can change all of reality to fit exactly how she needs it to. This reflects her constant desire to control everything and her brief of being superior to others, as well as her needs to be the center of attention and to have an exciting life.
* PetTheDog: As the series progresses, she reveals that[[CharacterDevelopment she genuinely cares for her friends]].friends:
** Most famously, the ENOZ concert and in the later novels... Valentine's Chocolate!
** The way she deals with little kids, such as Kyon's sister, qualifies as well.
** She gets an explicit version in book 8 also with Rousseau.
* ThePhilosopher: Haruhi will talk about her philosophy at various points only when alone with Kyon though. Like when she explains how she became the way she is in Melancholy or when tutoring Kyon in Suprise. She also knew the origin of Rousseau's name.
* PetTheDog: As the series progresses, she reveals that
** Most famously, the ENOZ concert and in the later novels... Valentine's Chocolate!
** The way she deals with little kids, such as Kyon's sister, qualifies as well.
** She gets an explicit version in book 8 also with Rousseau.
* ThePhilosopher: Haruhi will talk about her philosophy at various points only when alone with Kyon though. Like when she explains how she became the way she is in Melancholy or when tutoring Kyon in Suprise. She also knew the origin of Rousseau's name.
* PluckyGirl: While she has motives and goals that aren't common for this trope, her personality fits it to a tee. She is cheerful, confident, charismatic, and if it wasn’t for her own personal flaws would be a very effective heroine.
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* PrecisionFStrike: In episode 2 of the anime, but it got [[SoundEffectBleep bleeped]]. Unabridged quote below:
-->'''Haruhi''': Then I'll tell everyone at school that all you geeks ganged up on her and fucked her!
-->'''Haruhi''': Then I'll tell everyone at school that all you geeks ganged up on her and fucked her!
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* PrecisionFStrike: In episode 2 of Haruhi forces the anime, but it Computer Research Society President to abuse Mikuru against his will as Kyon takes pictures. When Haruhi tries to blackmail the club based on the "evidence" she has, the other members defend him. Haruhi is quick to respond (a crying shame the actual word got [[SoundEffectBleep bleeped]]. Unabridged quote below:
-->'''Haruhi''': Thenbleeped) by saying, "Then I'll tell everyone at school that all you geeks ganged up on her and fucked her!her!" The club is aghast at Haruhi's language (she swears in the Japanese version too; why else would there be a bleep midway through her line?) and her threat. Averted in the light novel when she simply says, "I'll say that the whole club gang-raped her!"
-->'''Haruhi''': Then
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* RealityWarper: Although she doesn't realize it, which may be for the best.
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* PubertySuperpower: Haruhi along with Koizumi both gained their powers at the age of 12 and Koizumi’s was only because of Haruhi.
* PutOnABus: [[spoiler:This happens to her along with Itsuki after Yuki rewrites reality so that she is the main character of the story with a crush on Kyon instead of Haruhi.]]
* RealLifeSuperPowers: Even disregarding her RealityWarping, Haruhi can still accomplish things through her sheer determination, and charisma.
* RealityWarper:Although A unique take on this trope. Haruhi is an omnipotent being capable of bending reality, though she doesn't realize it, which may be for is not at all aware of this. The short list of people who are aware of this fact are her completely average and reluctant best friend Kyon, and a trio of supernatural creations of hers (and their respective employers). The four of them are forced to engage in random activities to keep her from getting too bored and causing The End of the best.World as We Know It by subconsciously wishing it were different. And telling her about her powers is not an option because who knows what she would do if she had conscious control.
* PutOnABus: [[spoiler:This happens to her along with Itsuki after Yuki rewrites reality so that she is the main character of the story with a crush on Kyon instead of Haruhi.]]
* RealLifeSuperPowers: Even disregarding her RealityWarping, Haruhi can still accomplish things through her sheer determination, and charisma.
* RealityWarper:
* RedIsHeroic: She wears a red armband, her ColorMotif is red, and while it takes her a while, she does eventually manage to reach the status of hero.
* RedOniBlueOni: Haruhi is the red oni to Kyon’s blue oni. Haruhi is a passionate Genki Girl, while Kyon is the calm voice of reason and a Deadpan Snarker.
* RedOniBlueOni: Haruhi is the red oni to Kyon’s blue oni. Haruhi is a passionate Genki Girl, while Kyon is the calm voice of reason and a Deadpan Snarker.
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* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: Energetic Girl to Kyon's Savvy Guy.
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* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: Energetic Girl to Kyon's Savvy Guy. Haruhi is a fanciful Genki Girl who constantly drags her friends into Zany Schemes while Kyon is a lazy, stoic, and snarky guy. It's hinted that Haruhi likes him but is too much of a Tsundere to admit it outright. Kyon doesn't really reciprocate but can't make this clear, as upsetting her too much could upend the world as they know it due to her Reality Warper powers.
* ShadowArchetype: Haruhi and Kyon to each other. Haruhi is the irrational Daydream Believer that Kyon learnt to suppress for the sake of order (and lack of disappointment) in his life. Kyon is the rational Agent Scully that Haruhi learnt to suppress for the sake of fun.
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* ShipTease: [[spoiler: With Kyon in ''Surprise'', big time. The ''Disassociation'' tutoring scheme was to get Kyon's grades up enough so he could go to the same college with her, and as it seems College!Haruhi is ''very'' nice to Current!Kyon and College!Kyon calls her to go with him somewhere - a complete opposite from their current interactions. This means they're pretty much guaranteed to end up as an OfficialCouple sometime in the future.]]
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* ShipTease: ShipTease:
** Haruhi's feelings for Kyon are rather obvious, to everyone but Kyon (who can't stop ranting and snarking about her), and Kyon's crush on Mikuru is hilariously explicit. The crush actually is returned by Mikuru, with occasional flirting between the two, but you know how the time travel-rules are...The teasing comes in with Yuki (to the point of blatancy in the fourth novel/theatrical film where she temporarily becomes a "real" girl...for Kyon) and Itsuki, who may just be doing it to mess with Kyon, aka Mr. Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?. If the 5th novel is anything to go by, Mikuru's feelings for Haruhi and Koizumi's statements on how charming Haruhi is and that he "envies" Kyon. And let's include the return of Ryoko Asakura in Disappearance. One has to ask himself why she, despite being a normal human, stabbed Kyon to protect Yuki.
** [[spoiler:With Kyon UpToEleven in ''Surprise'', big time. Surprise. The ''Disassociation'' Disassociation tutoring scheme was to get Kyon's grades up enough so he could go to the same college with her, and as it seems College!Haruhi is ''very'' very nice to Current!Kyon and College!Kyon calls her to go with him somewhere - a complete opposite from their current interactions. This means they're pretty much guaranteed to end up as an OfficialCouple Official Couple sometime in the future.]]
** Haruhi's feelings for Kyon are rather obvious, to everyone but Kyon (who can't stop ranting and snarking about her), and Kyon's crush on Mikuru is hilariously explicit. The crush actually is returned by Mikuru, with occasional flirting between the two, but you know how the time travel-rules are...The teasing comes in with Yuki (to the point of blatancy in the fourth novel/theatrical film where she temporarily becomes a "real" girl...for Kyon) and Itsuki, who may just be doing it to mess with Kyon, aka Mr. Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?. If the 5th novel is anything to go by, Mikuru's feelings for Haruhi and Koizumi's statements on how charming Haruhi is and that he "envies" Kyon. And let's include the return of Ryoko Asakura in Disappearance. One has to ask himself why she, despite being a normal human, stabbed Kyon to protect Yuki.
** [[spoiler:
* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: While this is averted in the main series, it’s less to do with Haruhi’s gender, and more what the [[EndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt result]] of such a thing would be. It gets played straight though in the spin off “Haruhi-chan” where she suffers along with Achakura more than any other character.
* SmallGirlBigGun: Haruhi invokes this trope during the filming of the movie by outfitting Mikuru with twin (airsoft) Desert Eagles. The results are about as awesomely, ridiculously hilarious as you'd imagine.
* SociopathicHero: While she has a LackOfEmpathy and is motivated by overcoming her own boredom, she does still fight alongside the good guys and does at least to some point genuinely believe in what she is doing.
* SpotlightStealingSquad: In the Spin-Off “The Disappearance of Nagato Yuki-chan”., Haruhi seems to be stealing the spotlight back after Nagato herself stole it her own series, starting with a Chekhov's Gunman cameo in the first episode, moving to a flashback that makes her important to Nagato's recent past in the second, until finally stealing the show starting with her third episode debut. As of the fourth episode, the spotlight hogging has yet to show any signs of abating.
* SmallGirlBigGun: Haruhi invokes this trope during the filming of the movie by outfitting Mikuru with twin (airsoft) Desert Eagles. The results are about as awesomely, ridiculously hilarious as you'd imagine.
* SociopathicHero: While she has a LackOfEmpathy and is motivated by overcoming her own boredom, she does still fight alongside the good guys and does at least to some point genuinely believe in what she is doing.
* SpotlightStealingSquad: In the Spin-Off “The Disappearance of Nagato Yuki-chan”., Haruhi seems to be stealing the spotlight back after Nagato herself stole it her own series, starting with a Chekhov's Gunman cameo in the first episode, moving to a flashback that makes her important to Nagato's recent past in the second, until finally stealing the show starting with her third episode debut. As of the fourth episode, the spotlight hogging has yet to show any signs of abating.
* StillTheLeader: Downplayed most of the time. There's no chance of Haruhi ever losing her role as the Brigade's official leader, but whenever Kyon starts making plans or instructing the other Brigade members without her input, she still feels obligated to remind him that she's the leader and it's her job to give the orders (even though she usually just ends up going along with his ideas anyway). Kyon attributes this to her competitiveness.
* StoryBreakerPower: An extreme example. Haruhi is a RealityWarper who might possibly even be TheOmnipotent. There’s very little if anything that could ever be a legitimate threat to her as she subconsciously warps reality to suit her needs. The main conflicts of the series either come from trying to make sure Haruhi never discovers her power or come at times whenever [spoiler: Haruhi doesn’t have her powers.]] If she ever did discover them and used them to their full extent, [[EndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt there likely wouldn’t even be a story anymore.]]
* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: Haruhi and Kyon provide a number of subtle examples of this. Arguably the reason why Haruhi "chooses" Kyon:
** In the very beginning of the chronological first episode, Kyon specifically mentioned that in the past he hoped that there are "aliens, time travelers, and espers". Guess what Haruhi ends up subconsciously creating?
** In "Bamboo Leaf Rhapsody" there's a couple of superficially apparent false examples of this: Kyon tells Haruhi to go get the line marker before she explains what they're going to do (which visibly surprises her in the anime), and he also manages to guess the symbols are a message to Orihime and Hikoboshi without her explaining it. He has the advantage of, well, knowing high-school Haruhi, but her middle-school version seems surprised at John Smith's ability to understand what she's thinking. On the other hand, Kyon imagines the message scene when first told about it back in Melancholy. He actually got some of the details right, like her stealing the materials ahead of time.
** In "Someday in the Rain" and Disappearance, both Kyon and Haruhi, upon being woken up by the other, think that the other one must have been drawing on their face.
** In the 8th book, both Koizumi and a random passerby come to the conclusion that cats and dogs must be avoiding a certain area because there is a hibernating bear somewhere. In the middle of the town. In the same book, both Haruhi and Sakanaka's father use the nickname "J.J." for a dog called Rousseau. Maybe they had the same philosopher in mind.
** In Sigh, Kyon accurately guesses why Haruhi wanted to make a movie.
** When asked to think of a test for new Brigade members, Kyon comes up with catching 101 hamsters. When it turns out that's exactly the test Haruhi wanted to use, down to the number of hamsters, Kyon worries that his brainwashing must be almost complete.
* SubordinateExcuse : Haruhi uses this a lot to help out Kyon. It's her reason for staying in the hospital in Disappearance and she tutors him later in the novels. Interestingly, she can take care of Yuki because she's worried about her.
* StoryBreakerPower: An extreme example. Haruhi is a RealityWarper who might possibly even be TheOmnipotent. There’s very little if anything that could ever be a legitimate threat to her as she subconsciously warps reality to suit her needs. The main conflicts of the series either come from trying to make sure Haruhi never discovers her power or come at times whenever [spoiler: Haruhi doesn’t have her powers.]] If she ever did discover them and used them to their full extent, [[EndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt there likely wouldn’t even be a story anymore.]]
* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: Haruhi and Kyon provide a number of subtle examples of this. Arguably the reason why Haruhi "chooses" Kyon:
** In the very beginning of the chronological first episode, Kyon specifically mentioned that in the past he hoped that there are "aliens, time travelers, and espers". Guess what Haruhi ends up subconsciously creating?
** In "Bamboo Leaf Rhapsody" there's a couple of superficially apparent false examples of this: Kyon tells Haruhi to go get the line marker before she explains what they're going to do (which visibly surprises her in the anime), and he also manages to guess the symbols are a message to Orihime and Hikoboshi without her explaining it. He has the advantage of, well, knowing high-school Haruhi, but her middle-school version seems surprised at John Smith's ability to understand what she's thinking. On the other hand, Kyon imagines the message scene when first told about it back in Melancholy. He actually got some of the details right, like her stealing the materials ahead of time.
** In "Someday in the Rain" and Disappearance, both Kyon and Haruhi, upon being woken up by the other, think that the other one must have been drawing on their face.
** In the 8th book, both Koizumi and a random passerby come to the conclusion that cats and dogs must be avoiding a certain area because there is a hibernating bear somewhere. In the middle of the town. In the same book, both Haruhi and Sakanaka's father use the nickname "J.J." for a dog called Rousseau. Maybe they had the same philosopher in mind.
** In Sigh, Kyon accurately guesses why Haruhi wanted to make a movie.
** When asked to think of a test for new Brigade members, Kyon comes up with catching 101 hamsters. When it turns out that's exactly the test Haruhi wanted to use, down to the number of hamsters, Kyon worries that his brainwashing must be almost complete.
* SubordinateExcuse : Haruhi uses this a lot to help out Kyon. It's her reason for staying in the hospital in Disappearance and she tutors him later in the novels. Interestingly, she can take care of Yuki because she's worried about her.
* SuperPowerLottery: Downplayed. Haruhi is a powerful RealityWarper, possibly even TheOmnipotent... but she's LockedOutOfTheLoop and — limited by her common sense — only using her power subconsciously. Haruhi has definitely got a winning ticket, but time will tell if she ever cashes it in.
* SupportingProtagonist: Kyon is always the main character, but Haruhi is the main focus of the story and leader of the brigade.
* SupportingProtagonist: Kyon is always the main character, but Haruhi is the main focus of the story and leader of the brigade.
* TearsOfRemorse: In the anime, she sheds these after Kyon calls her out for her treatment of Mikuru. Albeit barely and she attempts to hide them.
* ThrillSeeker: Haruhi defines her whole life around this trope. She is always looking for something new that can excite her and challenge her. If something doesn't meet that criteria, it is nigh impossible to get her to care about it.
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* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Tomboy to Mikuru's Girly Girl, if their contrasting reactions to playing in a baseball tournament (as seen in "Boredom") are any indicator. Also the Tomboy to Sasaki's Girly Girl.
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* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Tomboy Overall, Haruhi is the most tomboyish member of the cast, to Mikuru's give some specific examples:
** The most explicit such pairing is of boisterous, sporty and boyish Genki Girl Haruhi Suzumiya (who actually leads a sports team at one point) and sweet shy GirlyGirl, if their contrasting reactions to playing in a baseball tournament (as seen in "Boredom") are any indicator. Also Girl Mikuru Asahina.
** Later on, Haruhi becomes part of two other pairings, once again on theTomboy tomboyish side of the spectrum with each; the girly girl in one of them is Sasaki, who has no desire to Sasaki's Girly Girl.take charge of the Anti-SOS Brigade and is in fact a supporting character in its downfall, and in the other pairing, Haruhi is considerably more boisterous and less moe than her intended successor in the role of SOS Brigade leader, Yasumi Watahashi (who turns out to be a product of the branching that takes place during the Dissociation/Surprise arc).
** Haruhi is also the tomboyish JerkJock to Yuki, who is more of a Bookworm.
** Haruhi is also an AloofDarkHairedGirl compared to Ryoko, who is a GirlyBruiser.
** The most explicit such pairing is of boisterous, sporty and boyish Genki Girl Haruhi Suzumiya (who actually leads a sports team at one point) and sweet shy Girly
** Later on, Haruhi becomes part of two other pairings, once again on the
** Haruhi is also the tomboyish JerkJock to Yuki, who is more of a Bookworm.
** Haruhi is also an AloofDarkHairedGirl compared to Ryoko, who is a GirlyBruiser.
* TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: She is loud, aggressive, loves sports, and is incredibly competitive, but also has a slight romantic side that she shows from time to time.
* TookALevelInKindness: Early in the series she was insensitive and bullying, and she had little interest in her classmates beyond how she could use them for her own ends. After forming the SOS Brigade, she becomes more mentally stable and gradually connects with her other schoolmates, becoming more sympathetic to others and displaying a strong sense of responsibility towards the well-being of the SOS Brigade members, acting as the role of a CoolBigSis as well as the TeamMom.
* TookALevelInKindness: Early in the series she was insensitive and bullying, and she had little interest in her classmates beyond how she could use them for her own ends. After forming the SOS Brigade, she becomes more mentally stable and gradually connects with her other schoolmates, becoming more sympathetic to others and displaying a strong sense of responsibility towards the well-being of the SOS Brigade members, acting as the role of a CoolBigSis as well as the TeamMom.
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* {{Tsundere}}: Haruhi is an ''inverted'' Tsundere, abusing people when she's happy with them and affectionately braiding their hair when she's about to rewrite the Universe out of jealousy. She plays it straight occasionally such as the conclusion of ''Disappearance''. Nagaru Tanigawa, the series' creator, has said that he considers her [[GenkiGirl "too energetic"]] to be a true tsundere.
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* {{Tsundere}}: TroubledButCute: She was an anti-social troublemaking jerk who nonetheless still managed to be cute even before her redeeming qualities became more apparent.
* {{Tsundere:}} Haruhiis an ''inverted'' Tsundere, abusing people when starts as a Jerkass. Although she has had some character development, the degree to which she's happy moved from Jerkass to Jerk with them and affectionately braiding their hair when a Heart of Gold, are up for debate. Not yet seen in the anime, but by the fourth book, she's about spouting some classic tsundere lines. Although maybe this is just a case of her Genre Savvy nature causing her to rewrite deliberately act this way.
** Haruhi is probably theUniverse out of jealousy. She plays it straight occasionally such as poster child for tactic 4 (bossy), although 2 and 3 come up sometimes. She's fairly non-violent by the conclusion standards of ''Disappearance''. Nagaru Tanigawa, this trope however (mostly because the series' creator, has said series doesn't use comic violence). Most, she just drags people around.
** Haruhi is also a Deconstruction: What would happen if a Tsundere acted thathe considers her [[GenkiGirl "too energetic"]] to be a true tsundere.way toward everyone they knew, rather than just love interests? It's slightly more pronounced toward Kyon (she doesn't make excuses as much with the others), but not by much.
* {{Tsundere:}} Haruhi
** Haruhi is probably the
** Haruhi is also a Deconstruction: What would happen if a Tsundere acted that
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* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: If Haruhi ever learns the true extent of her powers and how they work, she could become this for the entire universe if it causes her to GoMadFromThe Revelation. Of course, given the [[SociopathicHero kind of person]] [[{{Jerkass}}she is]] it’s just as likely that the “Unwitting” part wouldn’t apply in that scenario.
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* WalkingSpoiler: The fact that she even has powers at all is a major revelation when it’s first revealed. Nevermind when it’s shown just what the potential full extent of those powers [[TheOmnipotent are.]]
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: Haruhi Suzumiya, is kept LockedOutOfTheLoop regarding the fact that her friends are all examples of the very weirdness she seeks to find for this very reason. Already a Jerkass Tsundere, they're afraid that if she discovers that aliens, espers, dimension/time travelers and other such entities are real, she will manage to make the intuitive leap and realize that she is a Reality Warper of such power that she is, in all practical terms, a goddess. Given how much strain she can put on the fabric of reality even while she's unaware of her power, they naturally fear that allowing someone of her attitudes and ethics full control of her abilities would effectively bump her to EldritchAbomination status.
* WhatTheHellHero: Haruhi often gets called out by Kyon on her more sociopathic antics. Normally she just ignores him and even when she does back down she never concedes that she was over the line. But when she got Mikuru drunk and attempted to make Koizumi take her first kiss while she was out of it just for the sake of her student movie and followed it up by insisting she could do that because Mikuru is her toy, Kyon was so furious that he actually tried to hit her. Fortunately both Koizumi and Mikuru stopped him or the world would probably have exploded.
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: Haruhi Suzumiya, is kept LockedOutOfTheLoop regarding the fact that her friends are all examples of the very weirdness she seeks to find for this very reason. Already a Jerkass Tsundere, they're afraid that if she discovers that aliens, espers, dimension/time travelers and other such entities are real, she will manage to make the intuitive leap and realize that she is a Reality Warper of such power that she is, in all practical terms, a goddess. Given how much strain she can put on the fabric of reality even while she's unaware of her power, they naturally fear that allowing someone of her attitudes and ethics full control of her abilities would effectively bump her to EldritchAbomination status.
* WhatTheHellHero: Haruhi often gets called out by Kyon on her more sociopathic antics. Normally she just ignores him and even when she does back down she never concedes that she was over the line. But when she got Mikuru drunk and attempted to make Koizumi take her first kiss while she was out of it just for the sake of her student movie and followed it up by insisting she could do that because Mikuru is her toy, Kyon was so furious that he actually tried to hit her. Fortunately both Koizumi and Mikuru stopped him or the world would probably have exploded.
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* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: A lot of what Haruhi does is out of a fear that she is just another regular “boring” human. The truth is, that she actually is one of the most powerful and unique people alive and that simply must be kept from her for the benefit of everyone.
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* YourMindmakesItReal: Haruhi alters reality through her imagination unknowingly.
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* {{Qipao}}: In one of the later light novels, she wears one of these.
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Yuki Nagato is a [[TheQuietOne severely quiet]], bibliophile {{Meganekko}} and the only member of the Literature Club, from whom Haruhi takes over the SOS Brigade's new headquarters. She's quickly and unresistingly assimilated into the SOS Brigade, where she's described by Haruhi as their "invaluable silent character", and helps a great deal when the club is in need of TheSmartGuy. She also enjoys reading ScienceFiction and playing the strategy game ''The Day of Sagittarius III'' possibly a bit much (although she is ''very'' good at the latter).
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Yuki Nagato is a [[TheQuietOne severely quiet]], quiet]] bibliophile {{Meganekko}} and the only member of the Literature Club, from whom Haruhi takes over the SOS Brigade's new headquarters. She's quickly and unresistingly assimilated into the SOS Brigade, where she's described by Haruhi as their "invaluable silent character", and helps a great deal when the club is in need of TheSmartGuy. She also enjoys reading ScienceFiction and playing the strategy game ''The Day of Sagittarius III'' possibly a bit much (although she is ''very'' good at the latter).
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* IJustWantToBeSpecial: If only she knew she was truly a reality warper (or maybe it's better that she doesn't).
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* IJustWantToBeSpecial: Much of her more extreme actions are driven by a desire for a more extraordinary life; this stems from her parents taking her to a baseball game as a child, and she realized just how many other people were in the stadium and that this was just a fraction of Japan's population. While she was initially disappointed to learn that this made her just as ordinary as everyone else, she still clings to the idea that there must be at least one person out there who's truly interesting and unique, and she desires to be that person. If only she knew she was truly a reality warper (or maybe it's better that she doesn't).
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: It can kind of be argued either way; on the one hand, when dealing with the vast majority of people, she seems to be legitimately, actually nice and to even enjoy it, doubly so in ''Disapperance's'' AlternateUniverse and its related spinoff (which, given the nature of TheVerse, [[MindScrew may or may not count, depending]]). Her interactions with Kyon, however, run the gamut; she starts out nice, then there's the big stabbing incident, then a lot of her lines with him in ''Disapperance'' straddle the line between "good-natured ribbing about Yuki" and "passive-aggressive bitchiness", [[spoiler:then she stabs him ''for real'']], and '''then''' [[spoiler:in Book 10, she saves his life ''[[BigDamnVillains while holding a knife to his throat at the same time]]'']]. Perhaps it's most accurate to say that if she has an Inner Bitch, Kyon brings it out, and since [[UnreliableNarrator he's our narrator]], we may get a disproportionate view of it. Granted, [[spoiler:she also seems to bitch out Kimidori a bit, but by Book 10 she has nearly as much of a legitimate axe to grind with the Data Overmind as Yuki does at this point, so it comes across as less "self-righteous bitchiness" and more "you really don't have any room to tell me what I should and shouldn't be, Nagato understands that".]]
* BoxedCrook: [[spoiler:In the 10th novel, ''Surprise'', she does a BigDamnVillains, but she can only appear in certain circumstances.]]
-->'''Ryoko''': [[spoiler:I'm afraid it's about time for my temporary deployment to come to an end. Call me again any time. I'll be ready and waiting. As long as Little Miss Scary over there doesn't step in to intervene, of course.]]
* BoxedCrook: [[spoiler:In the 10th novel, ''Surprise'', she does a BigDamnVillains, but she can only appear in certain circumstances.]]
-->'''Ryoko''': [[spoiler:I'm afraid it's about time for my temporary deployment to come to an end. Call me again any time. I'll be ready and waiting. As long as Little Miss Scary over there doesn't step in to intervene, of course.]]
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: It can kind of be argued either way; on the one hand, when dealing with the vast majority of people, she seems to be legitimately, actually nice and to even enjoy it, doubly so in ''Disapperance's'' AlternateUniverse and its related spinoff (which, given the nature of TheVerse, [[MindScrew may or may not count, depending]]). Her interactions with Kyon, however, run the gamut; she starts out nice, then there's the big stabbing incident, then a lot of her lines with him in ''Disapperance'' straddle the line between "good-natured ribbing about Yuki" and "passive-aggressive bitchiness", [[spoiler:then she stabs him ''for real'']], and '''then''' [[spoiler:in Book 10, she saves his life ''[[BigDamnVillains while ''while holding a knife to his throat at the same time]]'']].time'']]. Perhaps it's most accurate to say that if she has an Inner Bitch, Kyon brings it out, and since [[UnreliableNarrator he's our narrator]], we may get a disproportionate view of it. Granted, [[spoiler:she also seems to bitch out Kimidori a bit, but by Book 10 she has nearly as much of a legitimate axe to grind with the Data Overmind as Yuki does at this point, so it comes across as less "self-righteous bitchiness" and more "you really don't have any room to tell me what I should and shouldn't be, Nagato understands that".]]
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%% -->'''Ryoko''': [[spoiler:I'm afraid it's about time for my temporary deployment to come to an end. Call me again any time. I'll be ready and waiting. As long as Little Miss Scary over there doesn't step in to intervene, of course.]]
%% -->'''Ryoko''': [[spoiler:I'm afraid it's about time for my temporary deployment to come to an end. Call me again any time. I'll be ready and waiting. As long as Little Miss Scary over there doesn't step in to intervene, of course.]]
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* RapunzelHair: When Kyon first met her. And waist length hair as a child.
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* RapunzelHair: Waist length.
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No one really knows what's up with Tsuruya-san, Mikuru's classmate, ersatz SOS Brigade member and something of a SixthRanger. She's got the ([[RapunzelHair ankle length]]) (ankle length) green hair one would expect from a Humanoid Interface, but seems to be totally normal, if just as much of a GenkiGirl as Haruhi. She's also notable for her {{Cute Little Fang|s}}, BigFancyHouse, [[TheHyena tendency to point and laugh (very loudly)]], and for inspiring the {{Fan Webcomic|s}} and MemeticMutation Sensation, [[Manga/HaruhiChan Churuya]]. She also seems unusually aware of the SOS Brigade's oddities for a {{Muggle}}, but seems content to enjoy the show rather than disrupt the Brigade's attempts to keep Haruhi under control.
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* TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: Athletic and bold like Haruhi, but way more hyper. A tomboy proud of her long RapunzelHair and doesn't mind a maid outfit.
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* TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: Athletic and bold like Haruhi, but way more hyper. A tomboy proud of her long RapunzelHair hair and doesn't mind a maid outfit.
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* RapunzelHair: Reaches below her legs.
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* TheSpock
* SpockSpeak
* {{Squee}}: The 4th novel ''Disappearance''.
* StaticCharacter: Her Vanishing counterpart throughout the whole anime. The finale even ends with StatusQuoIsGod despite the universe not being reset.
* TheStoic
*** A subtle moment occurs in ''Melancholy'' when Kyon takes her to the library. She's so joyously overwhelmed at the sight of so many books she practically ''floats away.''
*** Kyon seems to make a habit of Yuki-watching and will ascribe emotions to her for actions of hers that he just barely discerns.
* SufficientlyAdvancedAlien
* SpockSpeak
* {{Squee}}: The 4th novel ''Disappearance''.
* StaticCharacter: Her Vanishing counterpart throughout the whole anime. The finale even ends with StatusQuoIsGod despite the universe not being reset.
* TheStoic
*** A subtle moment occurs in ''Melancholy'' when Kyon takes her to the library. She's so joyously overwhelmed at the sight of so many books she practically ''floats away.''
*** Kyon seems to make a habit of Yuki-watching and will ascribe emotions to her for actions of hers that he just barely discerns.
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* TechnoWizard
* TechnoWizard
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* AgeInsecurity: She insists that her real age is "classified information".
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* ScaryShinyGlasses and/or StoicSpectacles: Until she loses them, and Kyon comments that he's not into the [[{{Meganekko}} glasses fetish]] anyway.
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* ScaryShinyGlasses and/or StoicSpectacles: Until she loses them, and Kyon comments that he's not into the [[{{Meganekko}} glasses fetish]] fetish anyway.
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* WhoWearsShortShorts: Sometimes, most notably in "Bamboo Leaf Rhapsody", "Remote Island Syndrome", and "Endless Eight". The rest of the time she wears a MagicSkirt. One imagines she'll wear a long dress exactly one time.
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* CasanovaWannabe: Oh boy. Rates all the girls in school on an A-F scale meticulously, and flirts with them a lot too. Accumulates years worth of experience with the successful rate of zero.
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* CasanovaWannabe: Oh boy. [[SexinessScore Rates all the girls in school on an A-F scale meticulously, meticulously]], and flirts with them a lot too. Accumulates years worth of experience with the successful rate of zero.
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* DidWeJustHaveTeaWithCthulhu:
** Taniguchi briefly tasted Haruhi's shortest relationship, listed one alien as a top pick, then dated another one for four months. Fortunately for his sanity, he's LockedOutOfTheLoop and just a RomanticFalseLead.
** Taniguchi briefly tasted Haruhi's shortest relationship, listed one alien as a top pick, then dated another one for four months. Fortunately for his sanity, he's LockedOutOfTheLoop and just a RomanticFalseLead.
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* DidWeJustHaveTeaWithCthulhu:
**DidWeJustHaveTeaWithCthulhu: Taniguchi briefly tasted Haruhi's shortest relationship, listed one alien as a top pick, then dated another one for four months. Fortunately for his sanity, he's LockedOutOfTheLoop and just a RomanticFalseLead.
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* ShipperOnDeck: For Kyon and Haruhi.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Though, he does get alot more scenes later on, and two character songs.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Though, he does get alot more scenes later on, and two character songs.
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Another character with NoNameGiven, he is the school's StudentCouncilPresident introduced in ''The Indignation of Haruhi Suzumiya'' by Koizumi to give Haruhi an antagonist and to keep her from getting bored. He acts like a BespectacledBastardBoyfriend in his role as the president, but he is secretly laughing at how ridiculous his job is. Later on, it seems that Haruhi's influence is making him take his job more seriously.
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Another character with NoNameGiven, he is the school's StudentCouncilPresident introduced in ''The Indignation of Haruhi Suzumiya'' by Koizumi to give Haruhi an antagonist and to keep her from getting bored. He acts like a BespectacledBastardBoyfriend FourEyesZeroSoul in his role as the president, but he is secretly laughing at how ridiculous his job is. Later on, it seems that Haruhi's influence is making him take his job more seriously.
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* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Like all humanoid interfaces, she has a strange hair color--purple, in her case.
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* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Like the other humanoid interfaces. And hers is actually blue.
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No one really knows what's up with Tsuruya-san, Mikuru's classmate, ersatz SOS Brigade member and something of a SixthRanger. She's got the ([[RapunzelHair ankle length]]) [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair green hair]] hair one would expect from a Humanoid Interface, but seems to be totally normal, if just as much of a GenkiGirl as Haruhi. She's also notable for her {{Cute Little Fang|s}}, BigFancyHouse, [[TheHyena tendency to point and laugh (very loudly)]], and for inspiring the {{Fan Webcomic|s}} and MemeticMutation Sensation, [[Manga/HaruhiChan Churuya]]. She also seems unusually aware of the SOS Brigade's oddities for a {{Muggle}}, but seems content to enjoy the show rather than disrupt the Brigade's attempts to keep Haruhi under control.
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* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Green. Interesting to note, she's the only character with an odd hair color who is not confirmed to be a humanoid interface.
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* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Like the other interfaces. Green, in her case.
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* SkirtOverSlacks: Briefly in ''Disappearance'', when she's changing into Kyon's tracksuit. When trying to fit the skirt of her uniform underneath, she fails miserably, basically says "Ah, forget it!" and drops the skirt entirely.
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* GoKartingWithBowser: Part of the reason for her EnsembleDarkhorse status is that when she isn't stabbing people, she's legitimately kind, empathic and helpful (even if she rags on Kyon sometimes). Kyon even sits down to an extended dinner with her in ''Disappearance'' (partially at Yuki's insistence), and rather manages to enjoy himself despite his paranoia about being knifed out of the blue. The fact that she appears in ''Disappearance'' at all is telling. [[spoiler:Yuki temporarily stole Haruhi's [[RealityWarper Reality Warping]] powers, which means that she very easily could have fabricated a universe where Ryoko didn't exist at all; in fact, she would ''have'' to know how negatively Kyon views her, and this was all done for his sake. That Yuki brought Ryoko back ''regardless'' really suggests that Yuki must see ''something'' redeeming in her and that she isn't just a KnifeNut.]]
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* GoKartingWithBowser: Part of the reason for her EnsembleDarkhorse status is that when When she isn't stabbing people, she's legitimately kind, empathic and helpful (even if she rags on Kyon sometimes). Kyon even sits down to an extended dinner with her in ''Disappearance'' (partially at Yuki's insistence), and rather manages to enjoy himself despite his paranoia about being knifed out of the blue. The fact that she appears in ''Disappearance'' at all is telling. [[spoiler:Yuki temporarily stole Haruhi's [[RealityWarper Reality Warping]] powers, which means that she very easily could have fabricated a universe where Ryoko didn't exist at all; in fact, she would ''have'' to know how negatively Kyon views her, and this was all done for his sake. That Yuki brought Ryoko back ''regardless'' really suggests that Yuki must see ''something'' redeeming in her and that she isn't just a KnifeNut.]]
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* EvilCounterpart: To Yuki. Unlike the other members of her team, she's a straight parallel with only one counterpart. She's pretty much Yuki but without none of her positive qualities and with all of her negative traits taken UpToEleven.
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* EvilCounterpart: To Yuki. Unlike the other members of her team, she's a straight parallel with only one counterpart. She's pretty much Yuki but without none any of her positive qualities and with all of her negative traits taken UpToEleven.
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* LemonyNarrator: You know you love him because of it.
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* LemonyNarrator: You know you love him because of it.He's already a DeadpanSnarker in general, and this naturally bleeds into his narration in both the light novels and the anime. He also serves as this when he plays the narrator in the SOS Brigade's movie, where he can't help but make sarcastic asides.
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* {{Deicide}}: Serves as an accomplice to an attempted one.
* KillTheGod: Serves as an accomplice to an attempted one.
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* KnightTemplar: He pretty much drops all claims to well-intentioned extremism after he tries to[[spoiler:[[{{Deicide}} [[spoiler:[[KillTheGod kill Haruhi]].]]
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* KillTheGod: [[spoiler:A near-victim of this during]] the climax of ''Surprise Vol. 2''.
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* StockLightNovelEveryman: He can be considered the TropeCodifier; he's an OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent who initially [[IJustWantToBeNormal has resigned himself to living an ordinary life]], but it isn't long before he finds himself roped into a club where the other members are definitely ''not'' ordinary. He's a major DeadpanSnarker (which extends to [[LemonyNarrator his narration]]) and often acts as the StraightMan to Haruhi's antics. He's also a NonActionGuy due to lacking any powers or fighting ability like Yuki or Koizumi, so he typically has to use his wits to get out of sticky situations.
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Outdated By Canon is for fanworks. If it's adaptations or tie-in material, then it's Canon Marches On.
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* IJustWantToBeNormal: According to her ImageSong. [[spoiler:However, in the novels this turns out to be OutdatedByCanon since she appears to actually be largely indifferent.]]
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* IJustWantToBeNormal: According to her ImageSong. [[spoiler:However, in the novels this turns out to be OutdatedByCanon a case of CanonMarchesOn, since she appears to actually be largely indifferent.indifferent to humans and is strictly loyal to the Entity.]]
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* {{Moe}}: {{Invoked}}. Played up to the point of absurdity by Haruhi. The "Moe Mascot" who symbolizes "Moe" to many fans.
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* {{Moe}}: {{Invoked}}. Played up {{Invoked}} to the point of absurdity by Haruhi. The "Moe Mascot" Haruhi, who symbolizes "Moe" to many fans.recruited her specifically because her cute looks and timid personality have a lot of moe appeal.
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Asexuality is now a disambiguation page.
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* {{Asexuality}}: Possibly; she sees emotions of love as a mental illness, but unlike Haruhi, claims never to feel them. [[spoiler: It's a lie.]]
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Dewicked trope
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Unfortunately for him, his curiosity gets the better of him when he is introduced to irritable {{Cloudcuckoolander}} Haruhi Suzumiya, and they strike up a sort of friendship, which eventually leads to him being the first member inducted into her bizarre [[FiveManBand "SOS Brigade"]], a club dedicated to finding all those things Kyon refuses to believe exist.
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Unfortunately for him, his curiosity gets the better of him when he is introduced to irritable {{Cloudcuckoolander}} Haruhi Suzumiya, and they strike up a sort of friendship, which eventually leads to him being the first member inducted into her bizarre [[FiveManBand "SOS Brigade"]], Brigade", a club dedicated to finding all those things Kyon refuses to believe exist.
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I don't see how it's invoked enough to not be Flame Bait.
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* MarySue: [[invoked]] She's friendly, likeable, is able to ''keep up with Haruhi in a marathon'', can brew tea as well as Mikuru, ramble about philosophy as well as Koizumi, manages to vastly improve the SOS Brigade website in minutes, and earns everyone's trust instantly--even Yuki likes her. [[spoiler:This is in-universe. She's a younger copy of Haruhi made to wield Haruhi's god-powers in the upcoming crisis, so she's pretty much literally a MarySue by the traditional use of the term: A self-insert character who solves all of canon's problems.]]
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* InformedAttractiveness: She really is attractive, but given the way [[UnreliableNarrator Kyon]] puts her on a pedestal sometimes...
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* InformedAttractiveness: She really is attractive, She's the MsFanservice of the series, but given the way she isn't any more attractive than other female characters in terms of design aside from [[BuxomIsBetter her larger bust size]]. While Kyon frequently notes her good looks and tends to put her on a pedestal, [[UnreliableNarrator Kyon]] puts her on a pedestal sometimes...his narration is often colored by his own opinions]].
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--> '''Royoko: '''Pretty please.
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--> '''Royoko: '''Ryoko: '''Pretty please.
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Removed links to illegal manga scan sites.
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** The author himself lampshades this [[http://www.baka-tsuki.org/project/index.php?title=Interview_with_Tanigawa_Nagaru during an interview,]]
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** The author himself lampshades this [[http://www.baka-tsuki.org/project/index.php?title=Interview_with_Tanigawa_Nagaru during an interview,]]interview:
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Interestingly, she has a [[EvilTwin good twin]] in ''Manga/TheDisappearanceOfNagatoYukiChan''; a dimension where she ''is'' Yuki's [[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/nagato_yuki_chan_no_shoushitsu/v01/c002/16.html best friend]] and genuinely tries to help her be with Kyon. Although she is just a little bit jealous ([[LesYay of Kyon]]), she tries to hide that.
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Interestingly, she has a [[EvilTwin good twin]] in ''Manga/TheDisappearanceOfNagatoYukiChan''; a dimension where she ''is'' Yuki's [[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/nagato_yuki_chan_no_shoushitsu/v01/c002/16.html best friend]] friend and genuinely tries to help her be with Kyon. Although she is just a little bit jealous ([[LesYay of Kyon]]), she tries to hide that.
