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* StepfordSmiler: Kanae initially appears to be TheOjou but she confesses during her elevator session that she cannot stand Anthy because something about her future sister-in-law unnerves her. At her lowest, Kanae confesses no matter how hard she tries she simply can't pretend to keep liking Anthy and the idea that this is a failing for her causes Kanae to despair.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Mitsuru's debut episode blatantly spells out an otherwise subtle CentralTheme for the entire show: [[spoiler: that the stations of [[KnightInShiningArmor heroes and Princes]] ''depend'' on helpless (female) victims to rescue, and that the easiest way to find such a victim is [[WouldHitAGirl to make one]].]] However, since his antics are PlayedForLaughs, it's almost a SarcasticConfession ''from the writers''.
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* IJustWantToBeYou: He wants to be just like Touga... so that Nanami will lavish him with the adoration she normally holds for him.
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* OlderThanTheyLook: [[spoiler:In the present day of the story, Tokiko is a grown woman who moved on, got married, and has a normal life. But Mikage, or Nemuro, hasn't aged a day since he first met her.]]
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* PolarOppositeTwins: With Miki. She's rather blunt, tends to sleep around and isn't very good at playing the piano while Miki is polite, a model student and a skilled pianist.
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* PolarOppositeTwins: With Miki. She's rather blunt, tends to sleep around She and isn't very good at playing Miki are this trope and also one of the piano while several RedOniBlueOni pairs in the series. Miki is polite, a model student thoughtful, and a skilled pianist.very accomplished but also very inhibited. Kozue is direct, self-centered, and does not seek anyone's acknowledgement or permission for anything - unless it's Miki.
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* GenkiGirl: To the point that she almost knocks Utena out of windows.
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* GenkiGirl: To the point that she She has a MotorMouth, an overactive imagination, and almost knocks Utena out of windows.a window more than once as part of a recurring gag sequence. And she is ''fast'' - [[spoiler:fast enough to make people who anger her regret it. BewareTheNiceOnes.]]
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* CreepyTwins: Miki is not creepy at all (unless you're the type to [[FridgeHorror overthink some things...]]) but Kozue ''more than makes up'' for that!
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* CreepyTwins: Miki is not creepy at all (unless you're the type to [[FridgeHorror overthink some things...]]) a sweet boy in nearly every respect, but Kozue ''more than makes up'' for that!
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* FauxActionGirl: [[spoiler: As a Black Rose Duelist and the wielder of Miki's soul sword, her poor repertoire is very apparent in her battle with Utena. This refers to the fact that she's nowhere near as competent as her brother, and also a nod to her subpar piano skills in comparison to his.]]
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* FauxActionGirl: [[spoiler: As a Black Rose Duelist and the wielder of Miki's soul sword, her poor repertoire is very apparent in her battle with Utena. This refers to the fact that she's nowhere near as competent as her brother, and also a nod to her subpar piano skills in comparison to his.]]
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* HalfIdenticalTwins: With Miki; she looks almost identical to him aside from her hair being slightly longer and a different shade of blue. When Utena sees both of them together for the first time, she even comments on how similar they look to one another.
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* HalfIdenticalTwins: With Miki; While she and Miki are necessarily fraternal, she looks almost identical to him aside from her hair being slightly longer and a different shade of blue. When Utena sees both of them together for the first time, she even comments on how similar they look to one another.
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* ForgettableCharacter: Taken to new heights when the audience realizes that Utena doesn't even know her ''name'' until after she duels her and Anthy mentions it to her. The other two members of her GirlPosse have similar names as she does also.
* GirlPosse: A member of Nanami's posse, along with Aiko and Yuuko.
* GirlPosse: A member of Nanami's posse, along with Aiko and Yuuko.
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* ForgettableCharacter: Taken to new heights when the audience realizes that Utena doesn't even know her ''name'' until after she duels her and Anthy mentions it to her. The other two members of her GirlPosse have similar names as she does also.
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* GirlPosse: A member of Nanami'sposse, three-girl clique, along with Aiko and Yuuko.Yuuko. Keiko is usually the front-and-center one who does the most talking. And the most {{bitch slap}}ping.
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* TheAce: After sheltering Saionji in her room and gaining his attention (so she believes), Wakaba becomes one of these, with a montage showing her excelling in all her academic and athletic classes. It's implied that she was always this talented, but having Saionji act as a MagicFeather caused her confidence to rise.
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* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Shiori feels this way about Juri, believing that Juri is more beautiful and talented than her and ''loathing'' her for it.
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* TheNondescript: Considers herself to be plain in comparison to the beautiful Juri.
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* TheNondescript: Considers herself to be plain and ordinary in comparison to the beautiful and talented Juri.
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* PsychologicalProjection: Shiori believes that Juri's kindness towards her was only ever CondescendingCompassion, but this perception is implied to be distorted by her own self-loathing.
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* TakeThatAudience: You know how [[ThisLoserIsYou some adult anime fans]] watch series with teenage protagonists, thereby living vicariously through an idealized and romanticized version of their younger years that they never quite had? And you know how by staying at Ohtori, Mikage continues to exist by living in a fantasy world built around an idealized and romanticized version of his younger years? ''Yeah.''
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* AdorablyPrecociousChild: Deconstructed, as his innocence ends up being quite creepy at times.
* AmbiguousInnocence: He is an AdorablyPrecociousChild who has a crush on Nanami. He also has been stalking her and, at one point, he placed her in a series of deadly situations [[RescueRomance so he can rescue her]], apparently not realizing that this is ''very bad''.
* AmbiguousInnocence: He is an AdorablyPrecociousChild who has a crush on Nanami. He also has been stalking her and, at one point, he placed her in a series of deadly situations [[RescueRomance so he can rescue her]], apparently not realizing that this is ''very bad''.
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* AdorablyPrecociousChild: Deconstructed, as Deconstructed. His confused relationship with the concept of adulthood leads him to [[spoiler:become a Black Rose duelist]], and his innocence ends up being quite creepy at times.
* AmbiguousInnocence: He is anAdorablyPrecociousChild uncannily competent grade-school boy who has a crush on Nanami. He also has been stalking her and, at one point, he placed her in a series of deadly situations [[RescueRomance so he can rescue her]], apparently not realizing that this is ''very bad''.
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* NeverMyFault: He claims all of the Black Rose Duelists willingly accepted the rose and came to him of their own free will, ignoring the fact that in some instances he deliberately egged them on towards their respective breakdowns or had a hand in doing so. [[spoiler:Shiori only went to Nemuro Hall when she found Juri's locket, which was planted in her room after Juri threw it away. Likewise, Wakaba finally broke when she saw Anthy wearing the hair clip Saionji was planning to give to her, after Mikage asked Saionji for it.]]
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* [[KnightOfCerberus Knights of Cerberus]]: Their arrival increases the stakes of the anime: now Anthy’s life is on the line, instead of just her marriage.
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* [[KnightOfCerberus [[KnightofCerebus Knights of Cerberus]]: Their arrival increases the stakes of the anime: now Anthy’s life is on the line, instead of just her marriage.
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* AntiVillain: ImpliedTrope. His goal is ultimately to [[spoiler: stop Akio opening the Rose Gate]], which is undeniably good, but brainwashing the student body into killing Anthy is probably not the best way to go about it.
** When Kazami comes looking for the [[MindRape Mikage Seminar]], he gets turned away. Kazami’s fears come from genuine concern as opposed to the spite of the chosen Duelists, and Mikage can’t twist that to use against Utena.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: In order to stop the man forcing people to duel over the Rose Bride for his own benefit, he…sends people to duel over the Rose Bride for his own benefit.
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!!Wakaba Shinohara
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YukaImai (Japanese), Roxanne Beck (English) [[labelnote: Foreign [=VAs=]]] Irma Carmona (Latin American Spanish) [[/labelnote]]
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!!Wakaba Shinohara
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!!Wakaba Shinohara
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YukaImai (Japanese), Roxanne Beck (English) [[labelnote: Foreign [=VAs=]]] Irma Carmona (Latin American Spanish) [[/labelnote]]
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* MovesetClone: All of them take swords from a member of the Student Council, and Utena notes they fight particularly similar to the person they got their sword from.
* WalkingSpoiler: All of them are previously introduced characters. The fact they fight Utena at all is a twist.
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!!Wakaba Shinohara
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YukaImai (Japanese), Roxanne Beck (English) [[labelnote: Foreign [=VAs=]]] Irma Carmona (Latin American Spanish) [[/labelnote]]
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* MovesetClone: All of them take swords from a member of the Student Council, and Utena notes they fight particularly similar to the person they got their sword from.
* WalkingSpoiler: All of them are previously introduced characters. The fact they fight Utena at all is a twist.
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!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YukaImai (Japanese), Roxanne Beck (English) [[labelnote: Foreign [=VAs=]]] Irma Carmona (Latin American Spanish) [[/labelnote]]
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* BackstabbingTheAlphaBitch: Eventually turns on Nanami [[spoiler:after Touga feeds her a horrible pack of lies, most prominently the "fact" that he and Nanami aren't related. This is immediately averted when Nanami gives her and her other two friends an offscrean beatdown and then they're all back with complying with her orders]].
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* BackstabbingTheAlphaBitch: Eventually turns on Nanami [[spoiler:after Touga feeds her a horrible pack of lies, most prominently the "fact" that he and Nanami aren't related. This is immediately averted when Nanami gives her and her other two friends an offscrean offscreen beatdown and then they're all back with complying with her orders]].
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* {{Irony}}: [[spoiler:Wakaba believes the only way she counts as a special person is by keeping Saionji in her room, since he now relies on her. She doesn't realize how important she is overall to the narrative of the story, and isn't [[SocialCircleFiller phased out of the story once the main character becomes associated with the other main characters]], nor does she recognize how many people besides Utena already liked her. When Wakaba becomes a duelist, she is the ''only one'' Utena won't draw the Sword of Dios on and slashes Wakaba's rose using her own strength without ever letting Wakaba fall, something she never does with any of the others. She's the only Black Rose duelist to remain as a supporting character throughout the show without being regarded as a complete SatelliteCharacter, her storyline receives a proper conclusion by the last episode, and in the movie she proves pivotal in helping Utena and Anthy escape from Ohtori. She also happens to be one of the last of the main characters seen at the very end of the movie after Utena and Anthy.]]
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* {{Irony}}: [[spoiler:Wakaba Underneath her cheery exterior, Wakaba desperately wants to be special, to be something other than a tertiary side character. Little does she know it, but out of all the side characters, Wakaba actually does very well for herself. [[spoiler: Wakaba believes the only way she counts as a special person is by keeping Saionji in her room, since he now relies on her. She doesn't realize how important she is overall to the narrative of the story, and isn't [[SocialCircleFiller phased out of the story once the main character becomes associated with the other main characters]], nor does she recognize how many people besides Utena already liked her. When Wakaba becomes a duelist, she is the ''only one'' Utena won't draw the Sword of Dios on and slashes Wakaba's rose using her own strength without ever letting Wakaba fall, something she never does with any of the others. She's the only Black Rose duelist to remain as a supporting character throughout the show without being regarded as a complete SatelliteCharacter, her storyline receives a proper conclusion by the last episode, and in the movie she proves pivotal in helping Utena and Anthy escape from Ohtori. She also happens to be one of the last of the main characters seen at the very end of the movie after Utena and Anthy.]]
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* SatelliteCharacter: For Nanami, serving as her personal lackey and attendant ever since his first appearance.
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* SatelliteCharacter: For Nanami, serving as her personal lackey and attendant ever since his first appearance. Deconstructed in his Black Rose episode, as it's demonstrated that he barely has any friends outside of his servitude towards Nanami, and the one friend of his we do see, he ignores in favor of working himself to the bone for Nanami, which even ''she'' notes is a bit concerning. In addition, when it's made clear that Nanami doesn't take him seriously, it just makes his mental state worse, setting him up to be manipulated by Nemuro.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: It's implied even he was [[spoiler:creeped out by Tatsuya's declaration that Wakaba will always come back to him no matter how she gets treated and only told him he was a "Good person" just to get him out of Nemuro Hall.]]
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* DubNameChange: Miles in the Latin American dub.
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* SpearCounterpart: To Anthy, since he looks like a male version of her. Subverted, since Mamiya really ''is'' Anthy.
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* TheDogBitesBack: Keiko finally pays Nanami back for her abusive treatment of her, particularly back in the Black Rose arc, when she makes out with her brother Touga ''and'' gets to slug Nanami in the face.
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* WhosLaughingNow: After much verbal abuse and mistreatment from Nanami while having to suck up to her as her BetaBitch, Keiko delights in mocking Nanami when she's lost status [[spoiler: due to the belief that she and Touga are not blood-related siblings, and in making out with Touga behind Nanami's back as well.]]
