History Manga / PandoraHearts

** And then there's the whole "''Maid-ora Hearts''" omake thing, in which [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin everyone wears a maid outfit]]. Young Gil also does in at least one anime omake, just for the {{Moe}}.

** [[TokenLoli Lily]] [[CheerfulChild is]] [[{{Moe}} adorable]]. [[LittleMissBadass She's also one of the Baskervilles.]]

* CataclysmBackstory: The Tragedy of Sablrie. Or Sablier. [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Depending on the translator.]]

* Meido: The Maidora Hearts omake. Young Gilbert also wore a maid outfit in the first anime omake for the {{Moe}}.

* MarshmallowHell: Done to Oz by Lottie, notably

* BreakTheCutie: Happens ([[DarkAndTroubledPast or has happened]]) to most of the cast.

* TheFaceless: Jack (at first), [[spoiler:the Headhunter, until recently]], the Chain "Raven", of which we only get to see feathers [[spoiler:until Retrace 55]], and Lacie [[spoiler:until Retrace 65]].

* WithFriendsLikeThese: Applies to a lot of cast in different ways, but the most for Reim, who is stuck with dubious pleasure of being Break's closest friend (or, at least, they seem to know the most about each other, what with Reim working out Break [[spoiler: had gone blind]] pretty quickly.) Apparently that means he gets to do Break's paperwork, chase him around to attempt to make him DO said paperwork in the first place, be the butt of a number of Break's schemes and jokes, and, on a more sombre note, [[spoiler:gets to watch him waste away and die.]] [[SarcasmMode Lucky him.]]

* TheFaceless: Jack (at first), [[spoiler:the Headhunter, until recently]], the Chain "Raven", of which we only get to see feathers [[spoiler:until Retrace LV]], and Lacie [[spoiler:until Retrace LXV]].

*** The author of the series, Jun Mochizuki, frequently has her name shortened to "Mochijun" by the fans.

* AFateWorseThanDeath: Getting thrown into the Abyss is not a pleasant experience. Oz just handled it really, really well.

* GenerationXerox: Oz will probably look ''exactly'' like Jack in a few years, and Sharon looks like a shrunken version of her mother. [[spoiler:Alice seems to resemble [[TheFaceless Lacie]], though if they do indeed have a connection and whether it counts or not remains to be seen.]]

* GrandTheftMe: Retrace XXXIX shows that [[spoiler:Glen has no permanent body of his own and must possess others to continue ruling the Baskerville household. Gilbet was lucky enough to evade this fate 100 years ago. The same might not be said for Leo, though.]]

* MoodWhiplash: There are a lot...

* InSpiteOfANail: [[spoiler:Break, when he was still Kevin Regnard, asked the Intention of the Abyss to prevent the massacre that killed the family. This doesn't stop them from dying off when he escaped the Abyss, however.

** [[BewareTheQuietOnes Leo]] towards [[{{Tsundere}} Elliot]], though [[VitriolicBestFriends it's not very obvious at first.]]

** The CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming with Oz reaching out to [[spoiler:Leo]] ends with [[spoiler:the latter being impaled by the Jack through the former with B-Rabbit's chain.]]

** Leo actually has a terrible temper, it's just that Elliot usually loses his before him. [[spoiler: He's also ''very close'' to turning {{Yandere}} on behalf of Elliot.]]

** Gil towards Oz.

*** and also Jack towards Glen. ''"...My one and only best friend."''

* [=~Can't Hold His Liquor~=]: Almost everyone gets sloshed (apparently on one bottle of wine) in Episode 20, but Gilbert runs the gamut from misaimed belligerence to sloppy begging to a cute but slightly disturbing reversion to childhood. Then he passes out.

* [=~It's All My Fault~=]: Usually when Gil is [[{{Wangst}} angsting]] about not being able to protect Oz, even though he was only a kid at the time and there was really no way he could have stopped the BigBad without getting himself killed.

* [=~Screw The Rules, I Have Connections!~=]:

* MoodWhiplash: Retrace XLVI: Vincent having sinister thoughts about tainting Ada, whom he hates for her alleged purity. Cue [[CrowningMomentOfFunny Ada showing off]] [[NightmareFetishist her collection]] to him. Actually, writing a full list will definitely take a while...

* DysfunctionJunction:
** Oz [[ParentalAbandonment went for years at a time without seeing his father]], [[spoiler:was told he was disgusting by said father, and ''then'' got thrown into Abyss by him.]] Gil is a FailureKnight trying to make up for the fact that he was mind-controlled into attacking his best friend and [[spoiler:who lived through the Tragedy of Sablier.]] Alice [[spoiler:used to be human but was murdered, is amnesiac, and she has a LiteralSplitPersonality / EvilTwin... ''thing''.]] Break [[spoiler:signed an illegal contract to try to change the fact that the family he was bound to protect was betrayed and massacred, then was dragged into the Abyss and [[EyeScream had his eye torn out]], only to have the family die off anyway]]. This is only touching the main cast.

* EvilTwin: Will of the Abyss... [[OrIsIt or maybe not?]]

But during his coming of age ceremony, Oz is attacked by the mysterious [[TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness Baskervilles]] and is sent to [[TheUnderworld the Abyss]] for the crime of 'existing.' There he meets an amnesiac being named [[LittleMissBadass Alice]]/[[KillerRabbit B-Rabbit]] - a monster called a [[OurMonstersAreDifferent 'chain']] who cannot leave the Abyss without making a contract with a human. Together, Oz and Alice make it out of the Abyss only to be met in the real world by three agents of [[OddlySmallOrganization Pandora]] who inform Oz that [[spoiler: he has been missing for ten years instead of just a single day]].

* MoodWhiplash: Retrace XLVI: Vincent having sinister thoughts about tainting Ada, whom he hates for her alleged purity. Cue [[CrowningMomentOfFunny Ada showing off]] [[NightmareFetishist her collection]] to him.