History Fanfic / SleepingWithTheGirls

** When talking with Tokimi in the second ''Anime/TenchiMuyo'' arc, he compares Z's actions to the [[Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan Kobiyashi Maru, the No-Win scenario: Z may not win, but Tokimi loses either way.]]

** The Magical Sword gathered from Nanoha's universe in the first Nanoha arc, when given to Makoto, acts similar to the Beam Sword from VideoGame/SuperSmashBros.

** He manages to invoke this in Shampoo ([[Manga/RamnaOneHalf second arc]]}, when she realizes that for as weak as the SI is, he has ''still'' survived a scenario where she would have lost it ''long'' ago.

** Amusingly, in the ''Manga/AhMyGoddess'' world he's actually an AntiVillain since he's working with [[DealWithTheDevil Hild]] and Maller, and not specifically 'against' the heroes. He even plays himself as a PunchClockVillain when interacting with them.

%%** Also, [[Anime/SailorMoon Usagi]].

** The SI and Luna, to their dismay, find out that this doesn't necessarily apply in the Ranma world, as they are going up against Happosai at the time, and knowing that this is possibly one of ''the'' most perverted individuals in ''any'' universe, he might have come up with a way to prevent the "Magic Skirt."

** The SI when he learns that [[Manga/LoveHina Haruka]] knows how to speak english... and he just had a conversation with Washu in front of her (Love Hina, First Arc) in said language.

* MutilationConga: The SI accumulates injuries and illnesses in virtually every world and is beaten like a piece of meat by the time the loop starts to repeat. Played for drama and laughs almost at the same time. Things go ''much'' worse for the SI in the second loop; by about halfway through he's suffered what would be fatal injuries if not for his healing nanites. And to make matters worse, the action he's gone through has left him unable to eat healthily, leaving him malnourished enough that those same nanites that saved his life are begining to cause his kidneys to fail. This time, it is '''not''' played for laughs.

** Getting a [[Manga/RanmaOneHalf magical chinese artifact]] to pay off Kitsune from the second Love Hina Arc.

* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Mercury's [[TheAestheticsOfTechnology Computer]] from the point of view of the SI. While at the time, it was amazingly advanced, with current (Early 2010, in-story) technology such as Smart Phones, iPads, and other such examples of technology, the Mercury Computer seems rather plain and boring to him. Somewhat averted when he finds out some of its capabilities.

* HumanoidAbomination: The SI from the perspectives of a variety of characters he runs into including [[Manga/RanmaOneHalf Happosai]] and [[Anime/SailorMoon Zoicite]]

** Washu gives the SI an instruction manual to go with the super-strength-granting clothes. Of course, in a rare moment of GenreBlindness, he doesn't read it until ''after'' he ends up doing something that the instructions would have warned him against. He does give the justification that he normally would, but his circumstances are far from normal, and he hasn't had much time to look it over. And, to make matters worse, every time he did try to sit down and read it, [[FinaglesLaw something always interrupted him]].

* ShipperOnDeck: Washu is a subdued example for the SI and several characters, but mostly for Ayeka. She points out that just because Ayeka loves Tenchi with all her heart doesn't mean her feelings couldn't grow to include others. The SI reluctantly admits within their universe such a thing wouldn't even be out of character.

* SmartBall: '''Junpei'''. See Volume 2, Chapter 12.

%%* TokenEvilTeammate: Senbei.

%%* UnspokenPlanGuarantee: {{Invoked}}.

* YouExclamation: Grampa Hino's reaction to the SI's reappearance.

* BirdsOfAFeather: [[{{Main/Shipping}} Shipping implications aside]], the SI and [[Anime/SailorMoon Luna]] are pretty much this, especially in contrast to the [[{{Main/Tsundere}} girls the SI has been waking up with]]. Both fit the 'Straight Man' role, are thrown into a situation beyond their capability, are massively outclassed by those around them and have to rely on their wits to survive. In recent chapters, Luna has even begun to make use of her growing [[GenreSavvy Genre Savvyness]] much like the SI.

-->'''SI''': Now imagine how much more [[DangerouslyGenreSavvy dangerous you are for knowing that one fact]].

** The [[ActionSurvivor SI definitely fits]] the ClassicalAntiHero archetype. Though at the same time, from the perspective of some of the world's he's visited (especially Anime/SailorMoon ), he could count as a [[PragmaticAntiHero Pragmatic]] or even [[UnscrupulousHero Unscrupulous]] [[Analysis/AntiHero Anti-Hero]], considering he's a [[ManipulativeBastard Manipulative]] DangerouslyGenreSavvy GoodIsNotSoft CombatPragmatist who's willing to ShootTheDog if necessary.

* GenreSavvy: The Self Insert. Though he later becomes determined to be DangerouslyGenreSavvy when going up against the villains of each world.

* SuperWeight: The SI represents an interesting case. Physically, he's a [[ActionSurvivor Class 0]], with his weapons and armor pushing him into Class 1 at best. Mentally though, he could count as a [[AuthorPowers Class 7]], given his extensive knowledge of the universes he's in, his [[GenreSavvy knowledge of the conventions that govern them]] (something not even [[CosmicEntity Washu and her siblings]] [[ContractualGenreBlindness are able to perceive]]), and his [[OutsideContextVillain ability to ignore or defy those conventions]].

### ''TenchiMuyo''

** Furthermore, during the ''Ranma 1/2'' step in the first loop, he followed [[TenchiMuyo Mitoto Kuramitsu]] around and ended up in his own home in the "real" world (out of sequence).

** In the second volume, he's starting to spot "Rule Of Funny," events, and is working them to his advantage. He walks [[TenchiMuyo Washu]] through a perverted gag ''in real time.''

** When talking with [[TenchiMuyo Tokimi]] in the second ''TenchiMuyo'' arc, he compares Z's actions to the [[Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan Kobiyashi Maru, the No-Win scenario: Z may not win, but Tokimi loses either way.]]

* UnfazedEveryman: The main character has absolutely no special abilities, no magic powers, and had to get a medical nanobot injection just to ''survive'' the first [[TenchiMuyo two]] [[Manga/LoveHina worlds]] he ended up in. Of course, he's also been through boot camp and knows his way around firearms, so that's one small advantage.

* VoiceWithAnInternetConnection: [[TenchiMuyo Washu]] (whom the protagonists meets and befriends on the first "jump", and stays in contact with via a transdimensional communicator) has a bit of this.

** Later, characters start realizing the implications of that. For example, the characters he teleports to have shown at least slight embarrassment upon realizing that they're his favorite fictional characters. [[TenchiMuyo Ayeka]] makes another connotation shortly afterwards: that the SI has seen all the fanservice-y moments that she's gone through, and not only has ''he'' seen it, but so have ''millions'' of others. She immediately orders that no one ever speak of this again.

** At one point in the second Hinata Arc, he says "If things get any more impossible, [[TengenToppaGurrenLagann I'm going to have to break out the pointy shades."]] He also quotes the memeticly catchy song "Row Row Fight Da Power" in the Home Arc of volume one.

No longer dead as the Author has recently finished college, and has resumed work on the fic.

* AccidentalPervert: The guy is randomly teleported into girls' beds whenever he falls asleep.

* AntiMagic: The SI took a full power blast from Zoicite, causing Zoicite to think him dead, and only got winded. Later, one of the Number Cyborgs shot him with a pure magic blast, and not only did it not do any good whatsoever, but he ''didn't even notice when it happened.''

** In addition, the more food, air, and water he intakes from magic-affected universes, the more magically-affected matter replaces his body mass. Eventually, he would become completely vulnerable to magic. (Though it takes about 7 years to completely replace a person's body mass with new material, so it would be very gradual.)
*** This point is made evident when Sailor Moon tries to heal the SI in the second SM arc. When she does, she's only healing the water in his body, which would be one of the first things to be replaced.

* AttackItsWeakPoint: one of the few ways that the SI has been able to survive so far is by going for the weak points of characters, be they emotional or physical.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: The S.I. is a really nice guy in most situations. But when sleep deprivation takes over and he snaps, watch out.
** Also, [[Anime/SailorMoon Usagi]].

* BreatherEpisode: The ''Anime/TenchiMuyo'' arcs tend to be this. They have Washu, supplies, friendly people who aren't trying to kill the SI, and more. In every other world (save for the unknown world skipped in the first volume) the SI has had to fight for his life.

* BrickJoke: In the first ''Manga/AhMyGoddess'' arc, the SI and Luna have a discussion about how foolproof things tend to underestimate the tenacity of fools. The next (''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'') arc has one of the Numbers say that her strategy was foolproof, leading the SI to quote the earlier conversation.

* ChunkySalsaRule: Practically one of the main points of the story. The main character is from ''our world,'' and this trope would ''definitely'' occur if he gets hit with one of the "Comical," attacks, like a Megaton Punch.

* {{Deconstruction}}: Did you not read the main description?
** Virtually every part of a self-insert is deconstructed. Method of transit, how the body would react, how environmental factors would affect the person...

* {{Defictionalization}}: The author, after making the "Mo' Dakka Fo' Life," idea, went and made the real shirt. He's selling them online.
** He has also made other shirts, such as one explaining the Medium Transfer Principle.

** Non-depleted-phlebotinum?
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: The SI [[spoiler: kills Zoicite.]] Let me restate that. ''A bog-standard human, armed with nothing more than a shotgun, a grenade, and his wits, [[spoiler: kills a Dark General, a being of pure evil who is impressively skilled with magic.]]'' (Sailor Moon, First Arc)

* ExactWords: The title. In order to travel to another universe, he has to fall asleep, and since he reappears in the bed of the next girl in the list at around four in the morning... he is sleeping (non-sexually) with the various girls.

* GambitRoulette: The SI's plan to bypass the laws of comedy and talk to Motoko. He actually needed to resort to diagrams to explain things.

*** He actually walks Washu through how a perverted joke works ''in real time'' in the second ''Tenchi Muyo'' arc.
* GlassCannon: The SI is capable of defeating and even killing his opponents, but [[ChunkySalsaRule one]] [[MadeOfPlasticine good]] [[OneHitPointWonder hit...]]
** Made especially evident in the second Sailor Moon arc, where it lists all his injuries sustained in the two fights he's had in that arc so far. Concussion, Four broken ribs, Two fractured ribs, Whiplash, Potential Spinal Compression, Minor Pulmonary Edema, and a Torn Rotator Cuff. This was all with the HEV suit and a helmet.

* ICallItVera: Partway through the battle with Zoicite, the SI starts referring to the shotgun he's using as "Mossy".

* ImprovisedWeapon: Part of the SI's charm is that, due to his [[GenreSavvy Genre Savvyness]], he can think outside the box and come up with nifty ideas that, while the other characters would probably never think of them, still fit perfectly within the various [[MagicAIsMagicA rules of magic.]] For a good example, see the "Facepalm," entry above.

** OOCIsSeriousBusiness: When [[TheDitz Usagi]] starts taking things seriously enough to declare ThisMeansWar, you just ''know'' [[BewareTheNiceOnes the results are not going to be pretty.]]
*** [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Or, you know, they might be, considering who she is and what her powers are like...]]

** The entry under SlidingScaleOfRealisticVersusFantastic provides more details on precisely why this is.

* MagicAIsMagicA: When a person or object goes dimension hopping, it retains the properties it had in its home universe. For example, slapstick violence leaves the SI seriously hurt. On the other hand, a magical blast can't harm him because magic doesn't exist in his world, although the shrapnel and other secondary effects of a magical blast ''would'' harm him. To put this in ''Nanoha'' terms, Signum could severely injure him regardless, while he'd be immune to the Starlight Breaker.
** A simpler example, for those who are not familiar with Nanoha terms: At one point, the SI gets attacked with a blade made of pure magic. It doesn't do anything at all, and simply passes through him harmlessly. Shortly afterward, he gets punched in the head hard enough to give him skull fractures, knocking him out.
* MagicSkirt: The SI and Luna, to their dismay, find out that this doesn't necessarily apply in the Ranma world...
** They are going up against Happosai at the time, and knowing that this is possibly one of ''the'' most perverted individuals in ''any'' universe, he might have come up with a way to prevent the "Magic Skirt."

* MegatonPunch: The SI is very worried about being hit by one of these because his body is still subject to real-world physics even when he's in a world that runs on the RuleOfFunny.
** The point is driven home repeatedly, though none quite as pointed as when he points out that one of Mokoto's attacks vaporized a tree, and would have reduced him to a fine red mist in the second Hina arc. He openly compares it to a hand grenade to Kitsune during the first arc, albeit with very broken Japanese.

* MutilationConga: Not as severe as some on that page, but accumulates injuries and illnesses in virtually every world and is beaten like a piece of meat by the time the loop starts to repeat. Played for drama and laughs almost at the same time.
** Things go ''much'' worse for the SI in the second loop; by about half way through he's suffered what would be fatal injuries if not for his healing nanites. And to make maters worse, the action he's gone through has left him unable to eat healthily, leaving him malnourished enough that those same nanites that saved his life are begining to cause his kidneys to fail. This time, it is '''not''' played for laughs.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: The SI lands in the middle of a ''Sailor Moon'' episode, and prevents the event that causes Sailor Moon's BigDamnHeroes moment. Thus, he and Sailor Mars are left to fight the MonsterOfTheWeek without Sailor Moon's help. (For those unfamiliar with the franchise, Sailor Moon is more or less the only cast member that can purify possessed people. While others can kill, she is the healer, a skill noted in the second Sailor Moon arc... And the monster being fought was a possessed person, specifically, Rei's Grandfather.)
** SpannerInTheWorks: On the other hand, the SI kills Zoicite, something that wouldn't happen for a while without his appearance.

** However, given that the fans need some way to refer to him, the SI has developed a FanNickname: Walker, based on "sleepwalker" since he "walks" from universe to universe when he sleeps.
* NonHumanSidekick: He accidentally pulls [[Anime/SailorMoon Luna]] with him into the ''Ranma'' universe. She's now pretty desperate to return home.

*** Senbei, in the second Sailor Moon Arc, is described by Ami as being "Stronger than all the youma we've faced to this point COMBINED." For those not in the know, in the ''Manga/AhMyGoddess'' universe, he's considered about as much of a threat as [[{{Pokemon}} Team Rocket.]]

* NotSoHarmlessVillain: After the SI interferes with the normal plot progression in the ''Anime/SailorMoon'' world, the forces of the Dark Kingdom demonstrate that they're capable of causing a lot more damage than they actually did during the show itself (in which they were more concerned with MacGuffin hunting).
** It didn't help that the SI ''really'' built up the foes that they believed they were going to be fighting, so they stopped underestimating their foes[[note]]The Dark Kingdom thinks that instead of just the Sailor Senshi, they are now also fighting [[StarWars Jedi]], resulting in a significant shift in tactics.[[/note]]

* OhCrap: The SI when he learns that [[Manga/LoveHina Haruka]] knows how to speak english... and he just had a conversation with Washu in front of her (Love Hina, First Arc) in said language.

* OneOfUs: the author. He lists tropes by name in many cases.

* PervertRevengeMode: The protagonist is rather upset to discover that the laws of physics in the worlds he visits actually make this a physical law. Especially problematic when he keeps materialising in the beds of {{Tsundere}}s and he ''doesn't'' have the ability to shrug off {{Megaton Punch}}es.[[note]]Due to normal-Earth humans being MadeOfPlasticine in this fic.[[/note]]

* ReadTheFreakingManual: Washu gives the SI an instruction manual to go with the super-strength-granting clothes. Of course, in a rare moment of GenreBlindness, he doesn't read it until ''after'' he ends up doing something that the instructions would have warned him against...
** He does give the justification that he normally would, but his circumstances are far from normal, and he hasn't had much time to look it over. And, to make matters worse, every time he did try to sit down and read it, [[FinaglesLaw something always interrupted him]]...

* RuleOfFunny: One of the SI's greatest enemies. What in one world is subject to rule of funny, such as [[Manga/LoveHina Motoko]] launching an attack on a perverted male, sending him flying, becomes ''very'' dangerous to one ''without'' the rule's protection. He openly states that some of the attacks launched for "Comedy Reasons" would turn him into a bloody red mist.

* ShipTease: The SI and Sailor Mars, though the author's note implies that they're just FireForgedFriends.
** This also applies to the SI's relationship with Luna. As the story progresses, [[spoiler:Luna starts obviously crushing on the SI, while he thinks of her as merely a close friend [[WordOfgod (and will continue to do so)]].]]

** The Magical Sword gathered from Nanoha's universe in the first Nanoha arc, when given to Makoto, acts similar to the Beam Saber from VideoGame/SuperSmashBros.

** Usagi, in the second Sailor Moon arc, announces her intention to "Love and Tolerate the Shit out of them," in reference to the Dark Kingdom. This is the [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Brony Fandom's unofficial motto.]]
*** This is a particularly interesting case of a shout out, because the story takes place during March of 2010 (SI's point of view), months before the show she's referencing came out. Also one of the very few times that the shout out was accidental, as most of them are deliberately invoked by the GenreSavvy SI.

* TheBigGuy: [[spoiler: Ryouga during his brief trip to the SI's home dimension. The SI was actually worried that Ryouga might bust down a wall in the SI's house out of sheer inattentiveness.]]

* ASimplePlan: The SI keeps running into the problem that, because of [[RuleOfFunny the laws of comedy]], all of his plans are doomed to backfire in "humorous" ways.

* TheSleepless: The SI is barely able to scrape together five minutes of sleep each time he jumps. By the end of the first loop he is a very paranoid, barely-holding-it-together wreck.
** While the Second Loop still has this, he was able to catch twenty eight hours of uninterrupted sleep in the Tenchi-verse, and is able to get more sleep when he lands due to less misunderstandings.
*** Luna definitely helps in this regard, as she is able to catch naps without being sucked away, and has been shown explaining things to the people the SI warps to the side of, allowing him to get more sleep, and avoiding this trope (or at least staving it off).
* SlidingScaleOfRealisticVersusFantastic: Invoked by the SI when he explains to Luna the concept of different realities having differing averages of lethality. He calls it the "Grit Factor". Something like "Anime/ExcelSaga" is a 1. ''Manga/LoveHina'' is probably a 3. ''Manga/AhMyGoddess'' is somewhere between 4 and 5. ''Anime/SailorMoon'' is around a 6 or 7 RealLife is a 9. ''{{Manga/Berserk}}'' and ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'' would be 10s. Luna has a FreakOut when the possibility they will end up in Berserk hits her.
** To be more specific, those closer to "One" on the scale are ones along the lines of "Loony Tunes," where you can survive being blown up by dynamite, or falling off a cliff, and then walking away five minutes later. It steadily decreases in survivability while increasing in seriousness the closer you get to "Ten," which is any universe that is actively trying to kill you, including ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'', ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'', ''Manga/{{Hellsing}},'' Horror Movies, and the recently confirmed [[spoiler:''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'']].
** Love Hina is a 3 because of all the slapstick comedy. ''Manga/AhMyGoddess'' is at around a 4 or 5, so people can get blown up but walk out with nothing more than scratches and a few soot burns. ''Anime/SailorMoon'' is a place where people can get hurt, but many injuries and wounds are taken for granted and aren't very serious, marking it between 6 or 7. RealLife is... [[ShapedLikeItself Real Life.]] 10's are death worlds where your survival is directly tied into how important you are to the plot.

* TemptingFate: The characters around the SI do this often, much to his dismay.

* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: Washu's [[spoiler: antimatter bullets.]] Also, the SI's plan on how he would ideally deal with some of the threats he's been coming across involves glassing them with an orbital bombardment.

* TokenEvilTeammate: Senbei

* TookALevelInBadass: The SI is ''trying'' to do this...

* TranslatorMicrobes: Washu gives the SI nanobots to teach him Japanese. He ends up learning spoken Japanese but not written Japanese. Washu is confused about this, as they were supposed to teach him reading, too, but the lack of sleep the SI had been suffering up until that point was at least partially to blame for this. Time will tell if the lengthened sleep times in the second volume will help him in this regard...

* TVTropesWillRuinYourVocabulary: The S.I. refers to many tropes by name.

* UnspokenPlanGuarantee: {{Invoked}}.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: subverted, in that the SI is so used to the appearances of everyone from the ''shows and manga,'' that in the second Sailor Moon arc, he is unable to recognize Ami without her unusually hued hair. Also lampshaded by Luna.

** The Magical Sword gathered from Nanoha's universe in the first Nanoha arc, when given to Makoto, acts similar to the Beam Saber from SuperSmashBrothers.

* BlessedWithSuck: You'd ''think'' his situation would be awesome, but the girls he meets usually try to kill him in a bloody manner.

* BoringButPractical: Cologne's "ancient Chinese remedies" for the SI's sleep problems turn out to be whiskey and Ritalin.

* BreakTheHaughty: The SI's defeat of Motoko and his subsequent refusal to fight her in the first loop has had...''interesting'' effects on her psyche.

*** Shampoo, in the chapter after that, loses much of her attitude towards the SI when he explains ''exactly'' what he has been going through, and she realizes that this weak, flabby, slow, non-martial artist, outsider ''male'' has kept it together in a situation where she would have given up a long time ago.

** The [[ActionSurvivor SI definitely fits]] the ClassicalAntiHero archetype. Though at the same time, from the perspective of some of the world's he's visited (especially Anime/SailorMoon ), he could count as a [[PragmaticAntiHero Type 3]] or even [[UnscrupulousHero Type 4]] [[SlidingScaleOfAntiHeroes Anti-Hero]], considering he's a [[ManipulativeBastard Manipulative]] DangerouslyGenreSavvy GoodIsNotSoft CombatPragmatist who's willing to ShootTheDog if necessary.

* PervertRevengeMode: A ''physical law'' in the worlds that the SI ends up in. And since the SI frequently ends up in the beds of {{Tsundere}}s and doesn't have the kind of protection that normal anime males do from {{Megaton Punch}}es...well, it gets crazy.
** The SI explains it to Kitsune and Mokoto in the second ''Love Hina'' arc as an element of the RuleOfFunny: Which is funnier from an outsider's point of view: Keitaro wandering into the bathhouse to clean it and nothing going wrong, or there being girls there who chase him around and kick his ass?

* AlwaysABiggerFish: In the second RanmaOneHalf arc, Luna is nearly ''in tears'' due to this. She has recently discovered that she's faster and stronger than most humans... but she just went up against [[Anime/SailorMoon a Dark General]] and [[RanmaOneHalf Happosai]], both of whom are considered top-tier opponents.

** The SI is dying of kidney failure (slowly) due to the nanites, and needs to keep drinking, as of the second ''RanmaOneHalf'' arc. What does he use? Ancient chinese remedy? Martial arts kidney-boosting move? Nope, just drinking Gatorade.

* HumanoidAbomination: The SI from the perspectives of a variety of characters he runs into including [[RanmaOneHalf Happosai]] and [[Anime/SailorMoon Zoicite]]

*** In the second ''RanmaOneHalf'' arc, Happosai tries to use a massive intimidation technique that results in him appearing to grow fifty feet tall. Everyone in the SI's group starts to freak out... except for the SI, who simply sees the little old man standing in a funny position and not moving, as he is incapable of being affected by the technique.

* RequiredSecondaryPowers: The SI's power suit can give him increased strength, but not the extra resilience required to use that strength. And the nanomachines Washu gave him may speed up his body's healing process, but it kicks his metabolism into overdrive, burning through loads of energy, nutrients, and water. Plus, at the rate the SI is being injured, those nanomachines can't keep up with filtering out the extra toxins in his bloodstream, leading to a near kidney failure in the second ''RanmaOneHalf'' arc. His reaction to learning this is [[OhCrap not a pleasant one.]]

** Shortly before the above example, the SI is exposed to Usagi's healing powers. For a moment, he thinks that it works, before attempting to move his neck and letting out a cry of agony, then saying "Nope, still broken." This is very similar to a scene from ''PrincessMononoke,'' where Koroku the Ox-Driver enters the home of the Forest Spirit, in which he feels no pain in his broken arm, leading to a nearly identical reaction.

--> "God, I have dangerous taste in women."

* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Mercury's Computer from the point of view of the SI. While at the time, it was amazingly advanced, with current (Early 2010, in-story) technology such as Smart Phones, iPads, and other such examples of technology, the Mercury Computer seems rather plain and boring to him. Somewhat averted when he finds out some of its capabilities.

## [[spoiler:[[TenchiMuyo Aeka Masaki Jurai]]]]

## [[spoiler:[[ThoseWhoHuntElves Ritsuko Inoue]]]]

## [[spoiler:[[MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha Quattro]]]]

** Remember those awesome nanites? The ones that heal you up, good as new? The first incarnation did heal you... slowly... and it drains your own body's reserves to do so. It nearly cooks the SI in his own sweat and causes severe dehydration. The second incarnation appear to be working much better... until in the second ''RanmaOneHalf'' arc, where it's revealed that the toxins that they are producing as a by-product of their healing are starting to cause his kidneys to fail.

** The ''RanmaOneHalf'' arcs seem full of these... which is especially funny given how ridiculous the setting is.

** To a much lesser degree, Luna in the second ''RanmaOneHalf'' arc. She recently gained incredible physical gifts, and the ability to transform into a human, something she clearly relishes... and got curbstomped twice by a Dark General and the Grandmaster of Ranma's martial arts school, who has been described as "Casual Mountain-crushing kung fu Godzilla."

* BreatherEpisode: The ''TenchiMuyo'' arcs tend to be this. They have Washu, supplies, friendly people who aren't trying to kill the SI, and more. In every other world (save for the unknown world skipped in the first volume) the SI has had to fight for his life.
** To a lesser degree, the ''ThoseWhoHuntElves'' arcs can also count as this. While the main cast did initially attack, things were quickly sorted out and they became friendly. He has had virtually none of the major plot problems the other worlds have had, and due to their similar story of being shoved into another world, they not only sympathize with him, but offer the SI and Luna training and weapons.

** In the second ''TenchiMuyo'' arc, the SI gets Luna that can of tuna he promised her.

** HEV Suit, extradimensional pocket, healing nanites, various tech upgrades (''TenchiMuyo'')

** Example Two: In the second ''ThoseWhoHuntElves'' arc, a stun spell that would have simply passed through him harmlessly under normal conditions now causes him immense pain.

* CoolGun: The Mossberg 500 Tactical the SI borrows from [[Anime/ThoseWhoHuntElves Ritsuko.]]

* {{Facepalm}}: [[ThoseWhoHuntElves Airi's]] reaction when the SI mentions an easy way to make money that [[FridgeLogic the entire group overlooked before he pointed it out.]]

* {{Foreshadowing}}: On waking up next to [[MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha Quattro]], the SI lists the women he's woken next to and asks:

* GeniusDitz: [[ThoseWhoHuntElves Junpei]] is implied to be this when it comes to martial arts and medical matters because "if he was a straight-up moron, he'd never learn how to fight as effectively as he does."

* MagicSkirt: The SI and Luna, to their dismay, find out that this doesn't necessarily apply in the RanmaOneHalf world...

* MarryThemAll: The SI shoots this down ''hard'' in the second ''ThoseWhoHuntElves'' arc, claiming that he's smart enough to know that managing a harem like that would lead to massive amounts of stress ''at best'', and if the infighting didn't kill him, the heart attack he'd get as a result of it would.

* {{Munchkin}}: The SI ''has'' to be this (acquiring useful items, making friends with physical powerhouses) as a matter of survival. He realized it as early as his first time in the ''ThoseWhoHuntElves'' world. His asking Spacebattles merely solidified this tendency.

* PunctuatedForEmphasis: When convincing an elf of her chances of revenge on Those Who Hunt Elves[[note]]''ThoseWhoHuntElves,'' second arc[[/note]].

* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Based on a "Not What It looks like," moment in a the second ''ThoseWhoHuntElves'' arc, Judge thinks that the SI is attempting... "untoward actions" on an elf. The SI ''very'' strongly objects, and Judge thankfully agrees that this is probably not what it looks like. He still attacks anyway, because the SI ''was'' strong-arming said elf. The SI even states outright,

** The SI refers to the [[KnownSpace Kzinti Lesson]] after being reminded that being outside while [[TenchiMuyo Mihoshi]] is [[WeaponizedExhaust lifting off is a Bad Idea]]. Well, he doesn't really ''refer'' to it so much as ''shout the phrase loudly and repeatedly at himself while running for cover'', but hey, still a shout-out. Literally.

** In the ''ThoseWhoHuntElves'' arc of volume one, he claims that he has [[VisualNovel/FateStayNight UNLIMITED BUCKSHOT WORKS.]]

** Junpei, in the ''ThoseWhoHuntElves'' arcs, fills this role nicely. The SI actually speculates that he isn't stupid as he first appears, but rather, has some form of autism that makes him superfocused on combat, as he's able to recite extremely complex medical data relating to combat on command. For example, when the SI explains how he broke his hand in the second arc, Junpei sums up which bones he likely broke, how, and what best to do in the situation.

** Averted in some worlds, where simple plans ''do'' tend to work out simply because they are so unexpected, like selling toilet paper in ''Anime/ThoseWhoHuntElves,'' or him getting rehydrated using Gatorade. See BoringButPractical for more examples.

* SolidGoldPoop: Almost literally. The SI points out to the main cast of ''ThoseWhoHuntElves'' that they can sell the toilet paper [[TeamPet Pichi]] craps out in order to make ''piles'' of gold.

** Though this doesn't seem to apply to the various series's in relation to each other, as [[TenchiMuyo Ayeka]] finds the premise of {{ThoseWhoHuntElves}} pretty funny when the SI describes it to her. In fact, some of the Universes exist as fiction within some of the ''other'' Universes ([[TenchiMuyo Sasami]] is a ''Anime/SailorMoon'' fan, [[Manga/LoveHina Kitsune]] reads ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'')

* WorthlessYellowRocks: Played with in the world of ''Anime/ThoseWhoHuntElves.'' Gold is the standard of currency, but the toilet paper that the protagonists' pet produces as waste is worth a virtual fortune in this medieval society. When an elf loses a massive amount of money in the second arc, they offer to pay her off with a few rolls of the stuff. The elf then reveals that the SI's Swiss Army Knife would be worth a fortune in this world, while remaining much cheaper in any of the other worlds.

** In ''LoveHina,'' he played on Motoko's fear of turtles.

** When [[RanmaOneHalf Shampoo]] was trying to cave his skull in, he splashed her with cold water, turning her into a cat.
** He used Happosai's bag of underwear in order to distract the old man in the second ''RanmaOneHalf'' arc.

** [[DistractedByMyOwnSexy Distracted By My Own UnSexy]]?

## [[spoiler:[[LoveHina Motoko Aoyama]]]]

** He may know all about the fantasy worlds he's transported to? They don't help much if you can't speak the primary language that everyone in those worlds speaks. It takes up until ''very'' late in the first ''LoveHina'' arc for Washuu's nanites to get him to start speaking it in an understandable manner, and due to the lack of sleep, he still can't ''read'' anything in Japanese yet.

** The SI's anti-magic abilities seem awesome... except that because he doesn't have a chi signiture, or any way to sense it, he's drawn the attentions of multiple powers that would see him dead many times over, including [[Anime/SailorMoon the Dark Generals,]] [[Manga/AhMyGoddess The Queen of Hell,]] and [[RanmaOneHalf Happosai]].

* BrickJoke: In the first ''Manga/AhMyGoddess'' arc, the SI and Luna have a discussion about how foolproof things tend to underestimate the tenacity of fools. The next (''MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'') arc has one of the Numbers say that her strategy was foolproof, leading the SI to quote the earlier conversation.

** Demon-slaying knife (''LoveHina'')

** Shotgun, ammo, training, and gold (''ThoseWhoHuntElves'')
** Weapons and a magic glove (''MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'')

* CoolGun: The Mossberg 500 Tactical the SI borrows from [[ThoseWhoHuntElves Ritsuko.]]

* DefeatMeansFriendship: [[Manga/LoveHina Motoko]] becomes a friend of the SI right at the end of his time at the Hinata House [[note]]At the end of the second ''LoveHina'' arc.[[/note]]. This qualifies because when he first showed up, Motoko violently attacked him, and he defeated her.

** In the battle against "Grumps," he has [[Anime/SailorMoon Sailor Mars]] use [[LoveHina Motoko's]] knife as a focus point for her priest powers, amplifying them and curing Rei's grandfather instantly.

** ''LoveHina'': At the end of the first arc, he unintentionally gave Makoto a serious case of HeroicBSOD thanks to his FlawExploitation and ReasonYouSuckSpeech in addition to her believing that she had ''killed him'', essentially invoking the 'What if?' scenario that many have asked of the series (What if one of the girls actually seriously injured or killed Keitaro?)

* LaserBlade: The magical beam sword that the SI picks up in the first ''[[MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha Nanoha]]'' arc, then subsequently gives to Mokoto in the second ''LoveHina'' arc counts as one.

### ''LoveHina''
### ''ThoseWhoHuntElves''

### ''MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha''

* OhCrap: The SI when he learns that [[LoveHina Haruka]] knows how to speak english... and he just had a conversation with Washu in front of her (Love Hina, First Arc) in said language.

** The SI has a tendency to evoke this reaction from characters that 'sense' spirit/magic/chi power,([[Anime/SailorMoon Zoicite]], [[RanmaOneHalf Happosai]], etc) as he doesn't have a life force that they can detect, making him seem like some kind of Undead Zombie/[[EldritchAbomination Incarnation of Death]].

* RuleOfFunny: One of the SI's greatest enemies. What in one world is subject to rule of funny, such as [[LoveHina Motoko]] launching an attack on a perverted male, sending him flying, becomes ''very'' dangerous to one ''without'' the rule's protection. He openly states that some of the attacks launched for "Comedy Reasons" would turn him into a bloody red mist.

** In the second ''LoveHina'' arc, he manages to ''weaponize'' the rule of funny to his advantage, by utilizing no less than ''four'' plans, all working at the same time!

* SheatheYourSword: Only by refusing to fight back later does the SI prevent himself from getting into a suicidal fight with [[LoveHina Motoko]] after he beat her after waking up in the Hinata House for the first time.

** Later becomes [[JustifiedTrope justified]] when Washu provides him with upgraded futuristic ammo, including flechette, bolter and antimatter shells. A shotgun is simply far more versatile in the type and caliber of ammo it can be loaded with, without changing the gun itself at all.

*** In the second ''LoveHina'' arc, he claims the existence of a cockroach "Heresy," and performs "Exterminatus," on it. Though in this case, "Exterminatus" refers to smashing it with cookware, and not a EarthShatteringKaboom.

** At one point [[LoveHina Haruka]] is compared to [[WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}} Slappy Squirrel.]]

* ShownTheirWork: When the SI was running from Sailor Mars, the author got an actual map of the RealLife area surrounding the shrine to plot out the SI's route. He's also theorised where on the map [[LoveHina Hinata House]] and Tenchi's house could be, researched the effects of sleep deprivation and, thus, the likely mental state of the S.I.

** Averted in some worlds, where simple plans ''do'' tend to work out simply because they are so unexpected, like selling toilet paper in ''ThoseWhoHuntElves,'' or him getting rehydrated using Gatorade. See BoringButPractical for more examples.

* SlidingScaleOfRealisticVersusFantastic: Invoked by the SI when he explains to Luna the concept of different realities having differing averages of lethality. He calls it the "Grit Factor". Something like "Anime/ExcelSaga" is a 1. LoveHina is probably a 3. Manga/AhMyGoddess is somewhere between 4 and 5. ''Anime/SailorMoon'' is around a 6 or 7 RealLife is a 9. ''{{Manga/Berserk}}'' and ''{{Hellsing}}'' would be 10s. Luna has a FreakOut when the possibility they will end up in Berserk hits her.

* UnfazedEveryman: The main character has absolutely no special abilities, no magic powers, and had to get a medical nanobot injection just to ''survive'' the first [[TenchiMuyo two]] [[LoveHina worlds]] he ended up in. Of course, he's also been through boot camp and knows his way around firearms, so that's one small advantage.

** Though this doesn't seem to apply to the various series's in relation to each other, as [[TenchiMuyo Ayeka]] finds the premise of {{ThoseWhoHuntElves}} pretty funny when the SI describes it to her. In fact, some of the Universes exist as fiction within some of the ''other'' Universes ([[TenchiMuyo Sasami]] is a ''Anime/SailorMoon'' fan, [[LoveHina Kitsune]] reads RanmaOneHalf)

* WorthlessYellowRocks: Played with in the world of ''ThoseWhoHuntElves.'' Gold is the standard of currency, but the toilet paper that the protagonists' pet produces as waste is worth a virtual fortune in this medieval society. When an elf loses a massive amount of money in the second arc, they offer to pay her off with a few rolls of the stuff. The elf then reveals that the SI's Swiss Army Knife would be worth a fortune in this world, while remaining much cheaper in any of the other worlds.

** WordOfGod says that Senbei will be dropped off during the second ''Manga/AhMyGoddess'' arc, while Luna will be sticking around for another loop. Meanwhile, the S.I. will be dragging along [[MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikerS Cinque and Vivio]] as well as [[spoiler: [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Dr. Ritsuko Akagi]]]].