History Manga / X1999

* KillEmAll: ''Definitely'' in the movie, where [[spoiler: everybody but Kamui [[EveryBodysDeadDave is dead]] by the end]]. And it seems [[spoiler: the manga might be heading towards that, too]].
** The manga, not so much, considering several beaten Dragons are still alive and kicking. But yes, in every version there are several casualties. The anime is particularly light on the casualties , so the manga seems to be walking the line between the two.
** The anime is only light on the casualties in comparison though as only seven of the 20 named human characters (of varying importance) that were alive at the start of the series live to see the end of it.

* MoralDissonance: Kamui promises to save [[spoiler: Fuuma]], even if it means doing him physical harm, to which [[spoiler: Fuuma]] implies in response that Kamui will have to be willing [[ShootYourMate to do much more than harm him]]. [[spoiler: He finds a sort-of solution in the TV series.]]

* MailerDaemon: ''Beast'', Satsuki's computer, which is obsessed with its builder and owner. And territorial to boot.

* YaoiGuys: C'mon, it's a Creator/{{CLAMP}} series... Seishirou and Subaru are the clearly preexisting relationship in this case.

* DateCrepe: Seishirou invites Fuuma to go get crepes with him (having just finished blowing up a major train line and a large skyscraper). His reasoning is that if they are going to destroy all of Tokyo, then they might as well get to sample delicious foods first. It's very romantic, in a creepy way.

* SpontaneousHumanCombustion: Kamui's mom Tohru spontaneously combusted in the BackStory. The reason for this, however, was made pretty clear: [[spoiler: She made herself a shadow sacrifice of the entire planet Earth and, by burning to death, delayed its destruction by ClimateChange.]]

* SingleStrokeBattle: Definitely in the ''X'' movie, much less in the TV series which has time and SFX monies for big fight scenes. The TV series was closer to the manga in terms of fight length.

* StealthSequel: It more or less serves as a sequel to ''Manga/TokyoBabylon'' where it resolves Seishirou and Subaru's rivalry.

* SpontaneousHumanCombustion: Kamui's mom Tohru spontaneously combusted in the BackStory. The reason for this, however, was made pretty clear: [[spoiler: She made herself a shadow sacrifice of the entire planet Earth and, by burning to death, delayed its destruction by GlobalWarming.]]

Not to be confused with the FourX [[SimulationGame Space Simulator]] series ''VideoGame/{{X}}'', the Nintendo tank game ''X'', [[VideoGame/MegaManX a reploid]], the UsefulNotes/LosAngeles punk band [[Music/XUSBand X]], or the Japanese band Music/XJapan.

Not to be confused with the FourX [[SimulationGame Space Simulator]] series ''VideoGame/{{X}}'', the Nintendo tank game ''X'', [[VideoGame/MegaManX a reploid]], or with the '80s L.A. punk band ''Music/{{X}}''.

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*** [[spoiler: The hiatus-ridden 19th Chapter has Evil Hinoto claiming that she's going to make Arashi BrainwashedAndCrazy to join the Dragons of Earth. Which makes... as much sense as her willing changing sides, I guess?]]

* UsefulNotes/JapaneseChristian: Karen Kasumi
* {{Joshikousei}}: Arashi's early appearances.

* ShoutOut: Characters appear from ''Manga/CLAMPSchoolDetectives'', an earlier series by the same authors. In addition, Aoki is based on one of CLAMP's editors.
** Subaru, his twin sister Hokuto, and Seishirou are from ''Manga/TokyoBabylon''.

* EvilAlbino:
** Subverted; Kamui is at first downright hostile toward the white-haired Princess Hinoto, but she turns out to be a pretty gentle person. [[spoiler: Until, of course, it's revealed that Hinoto has a latent EvilTwin persona residing within the depths of her soul who gathered the Dragons of Heaven together solely so that she could dispatch them each to their own ironic deaths. Oh, CLAMP.]]
** Also eventually subverted with [[spoiler: Nataku, who was less "evil" and more "didn't know better, stopping killing, and then performed a HeroicSacrifice for Karen."]]

* HeroicAlbino: Princess Hinoto. [[spoiler: Subverted, as she's genuinely heroic... but her ''SuperpoweredEvilSide'' is more or less planning to allow mankind to be wiped out so that she can continue to be the Dreamseer. Hinoto herself is pretty horrified at that idea.]]

There are actually two separate animated versions of ''X'': the 1996 movie, which is a great deal of action and way too much information compressed into an hour and a half, and the 2001 television series, which at 24 episodes had more time to actually develop the plot and featured a very different ending. Both are missing elements from the most recent manga chapters, suggesting yet a third very different ending.

** Kakyou didn't appear the movie considering he didn't made his appearance yet in the manga when the movie was released. His spot in the Dragons of Earth is filled by CanonForeigner, Shogo Asagi.

** Kusanagi in the movie is much more ruthless and violent than his manga and anime counterpart. His relationship with Yuzuriha is also non-existent [[spoiler:and he even kills her]].

** Fuuma is more brutal in the movie[[spoiler: where asides from killing Kotori by pulling out the Shinken from her body which killed her, he ended up killing his own teammates out of a whim and fatally stabbed Arashi who just watched Sorata die in front of her]].

* BringOutYourGayDead: [[spoiler:Kamui and Fuuma's mothers, who were lesbian lovers]] and [[spoiler:Seishirou]]. Justified that this story is where AnyoneCanDie.

* CliffHanger: The manga stops [[spoiler:at Fuuma is standing over Kamui, holding the Shinken above his head]]. It drove readers crazy since 2003.

Note about the title: The true title of this series is simply ''X''. The manga was retitled as ''X/1999'' for release in America by Viz to prevent confusion with an American comic book series also named ''X''.[[note]]Viz's onmibus rerelease of the manga, though, goes back to simply being called ''X''.[[/note]] The 1999 portion comes from the year the story takes place.

Not to be confused with the FourX [[SimulationGame Space Simulator]] series ''VideoGame/{{X}}'', the Nintendo tank game ''X'', [[VideoGame/MegaManX a reploid]], or with the '80s L.A. punk band ''Music/{{X}}''

* ArtEvolution: Faces especially get considerably more angular in later volumes, not surprising since it took over a decade to get the existing 18 volumes published.

%%* ApocalypseOfTheWeek

* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler: Seishirou; quite literally. Not only was the means of his death [[RetCon retconned in by way of Hokuto]], but he was, in effect, [[RedemptionEqualsDeath committing suicide for having fallen in love with Subaru, something he had said he was incapable of]] and [[BreakTheCutie further mentally-deranging said love interest by making him the unwilling means of his suicide]]. Oh, CLAMP. Events described happened on a [[VisualPun literal crumbling bridge]]

* AbsoluteCleavage: Kanoe.
* AdaptedOut: Keiichi didn't show up in the anime. The three main characters of ''Manga/CLAMPSchoolDetectives'' didn't appear in the anime as well (probably due to copyright reasons since ''CLAMP School Detectives'' is animated by a [[Creator/StudioPierrot different studio]]) but the chairman of CLAMP School looked similar to Nokoru Inomoyama except he wears a PornStache.

* AffablyEvil: Seishirou and Yuuto both qualify.
** One could argue that Seishirou is more FauxAffablyEvil. Sure he's Unfunny at times, but you wouldn't be surprised if he whipped out a knife and started carving people up at any time.
* AlasPoorYorick: ''Multiple'' times.
** Kamui, Cradler of Decapitated Heads. Screamer of Anguished Screams. Especially in the movie.
* AlmostDeadGuy: Saiki Daisuke, nephew of Dragon of Heaven Aoki Seiichirou, several other characters.

* AnyoneCanDie: Played straight several times, subverted once.
* ApocalypseOfTheWeek
* AppendageAssimilation: [[spoiler: Nataku's death in the anime]]
* ArcWords: Before Fuuma [[spoiler:awakens as Kamui's twin star,]] "Kamui, I am your..."

* AsiaRuneChant - often used by mages.

** BishieSparkle: Fuuma, whenever he's playing basketball.

* BringOutYourGayDead: [[spoiler:Kamui and Fuuma's mothers, who were lesbian lovers]] and arguably [[spoiler:Seishirou]].

* DiedInYourArmsTonight: [[spoiler: Seishirou's death while Subaru holds him.]] Ironic since [[spoiler: Hokuto died in ''his'' arms]]

* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler: Seishirou; quite literally. Not only was the means of his death [[RetCon retconned in by way of Hokuto]], but he was, in effect, [[RedemptionEqualsDeath committing suicide for having fallen in love with Subaru, something he had said he was incapable of]] and [[BreakTheCutie further mentally-deranging said love interest by making him the unwilling means of his suicide]]. [[ThanatosGambit Oh, CLAMP]].]]
** Events described happened on a [[VisualPun literal crumbling bridge]]

* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: Kinda the whole point.
** Emphasis on the "As We Know It" part. Basically, the Dragons of Heaven are fighting to protect mankind, and the Dragons of Earth want to wipe out mankind to save the Earth from the evils of man. The great thing about this story is that no one is in it ForTheEvulz... Except Yuuto. ''Maybe'', because it '''is''' Yuuto.
* EvilAlbino: Subverted; Kamui is at first downright hostile toward the white-haired Princess Hinoto, but she turns out to be a pretty gentle person. [[spoiler: Until, of course, it's revealed that Hinoto has a latent EvilTwin persona residing within the depths of her soul who gathered the Dragons of Heaven together solely so that she could dispatch them each to their own ironic deaths. Oh, CLAMP.]]

* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler: Arashi becomes a Dragon of earth, though it is subverted in that she did it to protect Sorata from his pre-ordained death, and in the anime eventually rejoins the Dragons of Heaven.]]
** Also, [[spoiler:Subaru]] replaces [[spoiler:Seishirou]] as a Dragon of Earth in the manga. OTOH, it's unclear as to whether he really accepts the offer to change sides. [[spoiler: He takes the offer to become the Sakurazukamori, but as to whether that means he's going to act as a Dragon of Earth isn't shown. Though he is shown in the half volume 19 to be with Fuuma during the Final Battle, apparently to help Kamui realize his "true wish".]]

* FirstKiss
* FlashForward, in particular Kamui's recurring dream of the Final Battle.

* FriendToAllLivingThings: Kotori, Yuzuriha and Kusanagi, notably subverted in that the latter is a middle aged ''man'' in the Self-Defense Force.

* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: In the TV series, Dragon of Earth Kusanagi threatens to kill Fuuma for trying to finish off Yuzuriha. Later he defects from the Dragons of Earth to protect an injured Yuzuriha. Arashi's U-turn applies here as well.]]

* HeroicBSOD: Several characters, most notably [[spoiler: Kamui after Kotori is brutally killed]].
** Also, Subaru. For the second time in his history, though the first was before X began in a series called Tokyo Babylon.

* HighPressureBlood: Mostly in the movie.
* HimeCut: Arashi.

* IHaveTheHighGround: virtually every single character at one point or another.
* InstantAIJustAddWater
* InvisibleToNormals: The battles are contained in alternate reality pockets called ''kekkai'', or barrier fields. However, the damage to the real world becomes quite real if the person who created the barrier is killed. See: PhantomZone.

** The anime is only light on the casualties in comparison though as only seven of the 20 named human characters (of varying importance) that were alive at the start of the series live to se the end of it.

* ModestyBedsheet: Kanoe.
* MoralDissonance: Kamui promises to save [[spoiler: Fuuma]], even if it means doing him physical harm, to which [[spoiler: Fuuma]] implies in response that Kamui will have to be willing [[ShootYourMate to do much more than harm him]]. [[spoiler: He finds a sort-of solution in the TV series. [[ThanatosGambit Emphasis on]] [[HeroicSacrifice sorta]].]]

* OddFriendship: Yuzuriha (a schoolgirl) and Shiyuu Kusanagi (a middle-aged man in the Self-Defense Force).
** Friendship. Riiiight. Yuzuriha definitely has a crush on him. For the most part he acts like a responsible adult though.

* OffModel: The anime. Apparently QUALITY faces are a side effect of the Shoujo Armageddon.
** And this is ''despite'' being a work by Creator/YoshiakiKawajiri, who is known for mostly averting this.

* OnlyOneName: Hinoto and Kanoe.

** Keiichi is a more straight example.

* ThePollyAnna: Keiichi.

** Subaru, his twin sister Hokuto, and Seishirou are from a series called Tokyo Babylon.

* TheSpock: Satsuki.

* SparedByTheAdaptation: Kanoe is alive in the anime unlike in the manga and the movie [[spoiler:where she's killed by Hinto's evil side and Fuuma, respectively]].
* SpontaneousHumanCombustion: Kamui's mom Tohru spontaneously combusted in the BackStory. The reason for this, however, was made pretty clear: [[spoiler: She made herself a shadow sacrifice of the entire planet Earth and, by burning to death, delayed its destruction by GlobalWarming.]] ItMakesSenseInContext.
* SproutingEars: Mostly on Yuzuriha, possibly a reference to her connection to dogs.
** Or cats, given her last name ([=NEKOi=]) and occasional sprouting cat tail.

* UrbanFantasy

* VirginPower: [[spoiler:Arashi's, apparently]]. An alternate interpretation is that the character just ''thinks'' this is the case and it's psychosomatic. [[spoiler: [[GenerationXerox Her mom went through the same trial]], after all.]]
** She still has her sword afterward. Just saying.

* WatchTheWorldDie: It has a lot of this among the dragons of earth.

* AdaptationalVillainy: Kusanagi in the movie is much more ruthless and violent than his manga and anime counterpart. His relationship with Yuzuriha is also non-existent [[spoiler:and he even kills her]].

* NoEnding: The last manga chapter was released in 2003. CLAMP last seriously talked about the series in 2005, saying they were still looking for a publisher to handle the series. The [[BloodierAndGorier increasingly violent content in the series]] created problems as some of the events ended up very reminiscent of real-world disasters at the time. Now that we're a ''decade'' in, it's seeming increasingly likely that CLAMP has simply moved on and will leave the series unresolved.

* JapaneseChristian: Karen Kasumi