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| 2 | [[caption-width-right:350:Careful now, they'll take your soul. [[labelnote:Characters]]\ |
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| 4 | Back row: Tsubaki, Liz. Middle row: Black☆Star, Maka, Death the Kid. Front row: Soul, Patty, Blair.[[/labelnote]]]] |
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| 6 | ->''"A sound soul dwells within a sound mind and a sound body."'' |
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| 8 | ''Soul Eater'' is a {{shonen}} manga by Atsushi Ohkubo which was serialized in ''Monthly Shōnen Gangan'' from 2004 to 2013, with a total of 113 chapters. It received a 51-episode anime by Creator/StudioBones in 2008. As of January 2011, Monthly Shonen Gangan has run a {{prequel}}[=/=]SpinOff titled ''Manga/SoulEaterNot'' by the same mangaka, running alongside the original series while covering and expanding on events prior to the original story. |
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| 10 | In the world of ''Soul Eater'', a human soul that falls to corruption has a chance of transforming into a "[[TheHeartless Demon Egg]]", which in turn has a chance of hatching into the [[EldritchAbomination ultimate avatar of madness]]. |
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| 12 | To stop this from happening, [[TheGrimReaper Death himself]] has set up the [[ExtranormalInstitute Death Weapon Meister Academy]] in Death City, Nevada. The DWMA trains warriors ("Meisters") and Weapons (humans who can [[EquippableAlly shapeshift into weapons]]) to fight and retrieve the evil souls before they become Demon Eggs. A Meister and Weapon who manage to collect 99 corrupt souls and one [[WickedWitch Witch]] soul receive the highest honor: the Weapon becomes one of the Death Scythes, servitors of Death himself. |
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| 14 | The main characters include: |
| 15 | * '''Maka Albarn''' and her scythe, '''Soul Eater''' (just call him Soul). She's a raging workaholic, he's a slacker, but they make a great team. They ''almost'' made Soul into a Death Scythe at the beginning of the series, but failed on a technicality and have to start over. |
| 16 | * '''Black☆Star''' and his MorphWeapon '''Tsubaki''': Black☆Star is a would-be master assassin [[HighlyVisibleNinja who has trouble reconciling the concepts of "stealth" and "shouting about how awesome you are".]] His partner Tsubaki is an incredibly patient and capable Weapon who can transform into multiple ninja weapons, from a chain-scythe to a smoke bomb. |
| 17 | * '''Death the Kid''' and his twin-pistols '''the Thompson Sisters''': Son of Death himself, whose incredible natural power is offset by his extreme ObsessivelyOrganized behavior, being absolutely obsessed with symmetry. The Thompson Sisters serve as his weapons: Liz is the older and more cynical sister, while Patty is younger and goofier. |
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| 19 | The series is basically what happens when the plots of ''Manga/ShamanKing'' and ''Literature/HarryPotter'' are [[JustForFun/XMeetsY pulsed together in a blender]], ''Creator/StudioBONES'' is put in charge of the animation, and what appears to be the world's craziest graffiti artist and world's biggest Creator/TimBurton fan is hired as animation director. It should be noted that, since the manga was still being published monthly when the anime aired, the anime starts to deviate from the source manga after about the first third of the series and pretty much creates its own climax and ending. |
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| 21 | The anime was acquired by Creator/FUNimation, with tantalizing previews on their website. All of the episodes are viewable on their [[https://www.funimation.com/shows/soul-eater/ video portal]] (which is only viewable... [[MemeticMutation In America]]...[[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and Canada]]) and [[https://www.youtube.com/show/souleater?s=1 their YouTube channel.]] The series used to air on US television on Creator/{{Toonami}} on Saturday nights at 1:30 AM Eastern. |
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| 23 | See also ''Manga/ElementalGelade'', a similar concept with a more futuristic sci-fi bent. ''Shaman King'' shares lots of similarities with this series -- a partner as a weapon, characters design, etc. See also ''Anime/TweenyWitches'' and ''Franchise/LittleWitchAcademia'', two anime series about witches with a similar art style, premise, and themes. |
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| 25 | See also ''Manga/FireForce'', another series made by Ohkubo, which [[spoiler:was revealed to be a prequel to ''this'' series in its final chapter]]. |
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| 27 | Notably, the character of Eibon and the Book of Eibon are both borrowed from the works of Creator/ClarkAshtonSmith. Smith was a friend and contemporary of Creator/HPLovecraft; his works are filled with {{Shout Out}}s to the Cthulhu Mythos and debatably comprise part of them. The influence of the mythos on ''Soul Eater'' can be seen in the series' focus on madness, power, and godhood, especially portraying madness as something akin to an infectious disease. |
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| 29 | Not to be confused with [[Franchise/KingdomHearts another]] [[VideoGame/{{Suikoden}} Soul]] [[Literature/TheChroniclesOfAncientDarkness Eater]], nor [[SoulEating the literal kind]]. |
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| 31 | !!'''Warning:''' The following tropes are from the {{anime}} and {{manga}}. Be VERY careful with spoiler text. |
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| 35 | [[folder: A-L]] |
| 36 | * AbsurdlySharpBlade |
| 37 | ** Soul has been shown to be able to cut through stone pillars and a really large [[spoiler:Mosquito]] when in his Demon Hunter form. |
| 38 | ** Mifune's swords sink several inches into the ground, or the walls whenever he throws them. And they don't even seem to be particularly magical. |
| 39 | * ActionGirl: Most of the female cast, since they're all well-trained in how to hunt and kill monsters, as well as hand-to-hand combat. |
| 40 | * AdaptationalWimp: Several of the characters in the anime get this. They're not really any less competent, but many of them don't reach the heights of power their manga counterparts did, due to the series having a GeckoEnding. |
| 41 | ** [[spoiler:Crona/Ragnarok never becomes a kishin. On the other hand, they manage to keep up their sanity, so they come out ahead there.]] |
| 42 | ** [[spoiler:Soul never becomes death scythe. In the manga he killed Arachne and devoured her soul to become one, but in the anime Asura betrays and eats her instead.]] |
| 43 | ** [[spoiler:Death the Kid never succeeds his father, due to the latter being SparedByTheAdaptation.]] |
| 44 | * AerithAndBob: Just among the main cast, we have Death the Kid, Black☆Star, and Soul Eater alongside Maka, Patty, Liz, and Tsubaki. And it just goes on from there. ''Soul Eater Not!'' later explains that they can register at DWMA with whatever name they want. |
| 45 | * AllMenArePerverts: Though she does care for her male friends, Maka believes in this as a result of her father cheating on her mother. Soul's tendency to get nosebleeds around attractive women doesn't help. [[spoiler: Humorously, Liz and Tsubaki end up being the most perverted of Spartoi (as revealed during the GenderBender) and even the now-male Maka gets a nosebleed looking at Black☆Star.]] |
| 46 | * AllWitchesHaveCats: Inverted. Blair, who Maka and Soul thought was a witch, turned out to actually ''be'' a cat that had a human form and magic and merely dressed like a witch. |
| 47 | * AlmightyJanitor: The Desk Lady, the Desk Lady so much. While Kid's attacks left a clown unfazed in the battle of the moon, the Desk Lady smashed it with the force of a raging Gorilla. It helps that she refers to herself as a gorila. |
| 48 | * AlwaysChaoticEvil: Witches, with few exceptions, are considered this due to the "[[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity Sway]] of [[DrunkOnTheDarkSide Magic]]", which leads them towards destruction. |
| 49 | * AmbiguousGender |
| 50 | ** Crona. Recognized as ambiguous numerous times by characters within canon itself. The official English translations of the manga and anime use "he" simply because it's the closest English has to a widely used gender ambiguous pronoun [[note]][[FridgeLogic Although using "they" would have been a much better alternative]]. There is no solid canon support for Crona being any gender, partially thanks to third-person pronouns ("he" & "she") being almost completely unused in Japanese. WordOfGod is that [[https://twitter.com/Atsushi_Ohkubo/status/552044562760220672 Crona's gender is unknown]].[[/note]] Later translations eventually went with they/them, as this usage became more widely accepted with the greater visibility of nonbinary gender identities. |
| 51 | ** Fire and Thunder, until chapter 67 shows them in older bodies. Fire is a boy and Thunder is a girl. |
| 52 | * AmusingInjuries: |
| 53 | ** In the first fight between Black☆Star and Kid, Black☆Star still has the head wound Soul accidentally gave him, even after the battle. The injuries last for the usual amount of time, but it's shown as comedic. |
| 54 | ** People nailed by Maka's 'Maka Chop' (Hit in the head with the spine of a book) in the anime, at least, have a book-shaped dent in their heads for a bit, and occasionally tiny decorative fountains of blood, but next scene are back to normal. Death's Reaper Chop does the same thing, except he uses his large, square-edged hands instead of a book. Usually on Death Scythe. |
| 55 | * AndTheAdventureContinues: [[spoiler: They don't fully beat the Kishin, just subdue him enough that he becomes a seal around the Moon. The witches save the heroes, Kid is informed of his dad's passing and eventually takes up his position. Black☆Star goes on to train as usual while Maka just reflects on what happened. At Kid's initiation ceremony, he abolishes the persecution of witches, citing Soul as the Last Death Scythe. Marie is revealed to be pregnant with Stein's child and a celebration is thrown with Soul providing the music. As he does, Maka vows to show Kishin what true courage is and to see Crona again.]] |
| 56 | * AnimalEyeSpy: Medusa and Arachne, via snakes and spiders respectively. Medusa is also able to ''implant'' her snakes in people to see through them, as well. |
| 57 | * AnimalMotifs |
| 58 | ** Medusa and Arachne both have the motifs of predatory animals (snake and spider), whereas their henchmen have the motif of their prey. Frogs (Eruka) and mice (the Mizune sisters), whose names are the Japanese words for "frog" and "mouse" with their syllables reversed (''kaeru'' and ''nezumi'') for Medusa. Mosquito for Arachne. |
| 59 | ** [[spoiler: Kim]] has a raccon motif and Angela is associated with chameleons. In fact, every Witch seen so far has a clear AnimalMotif (with the exception of Mabaa). |
| 60 | ** Noah is associated with bugs. To be more precise, [[spoiler: greed]]!Noah with caterpillars/grubs and [[spoiler: wrath]]!Noah with ants and stag beetles. |
| 61 | * AnimeHair: While both Soul and Black☆Star have spiky hair (though the former lampshades it in ''Soul Eater Not!'' when he's shown to have lost his hair gel), their hairstyles pale in comparison to Ox Ford's sheer pillars. During the invasion of Arachne's castle, Ox pretty much outright says that his pillars are the source of all of his powers. [[spoiler: When he breaks them off (not rip; ''break'', like they're made of ceramic), his soul actually starts weakening.]] |
| 62 | * AnthropomorphicPersonification |
| 63 | ** The Clown, who is madness made flesh. |
| 64 | ** [[spoiler:As of now, it been explicitly stated that Lord Death is an EldritchAbomination / AnthropomorphicPersonification of death, and his actual name is Death. Kid is actually a fragment of him, given a unique personality and independence, and Lord Death ceases to exist once Kid comes into his full powers. Kid himself just looks like a normal teenage boy. According to Kid, this was intentional on the part of Lord Death during Kid's creation, and his appearance is likely to help him get closer to humanity than Lord Death ever could.]] |
| 65 | * AntiAdvice: In the anime's ending, while Marie and [[spoiler: Crona]] are searching for Medusa, there's a montage of them searching a swamp. After a while [[spoiler: Crona]] decides to simply go in the opposite direction to the one Marie picked. |
| 66 | * AntiVillain: |
| 67 | ** Mifune, the noble Samurai who fights only to defend the child witch Angela. Note the irony in his {{rival}} being Black☆Star, an [[{{Ninja}} assassin]] working for the good guys. Most assassins are ''not'' good people in this series. |
| 68 | ** Eruka may or may not be an AntiVillain. Yes, she's a witch. Yes, she wants to revive Asura. But that's only because if she doesn't follow Medusa's orders, her snakes will eat Eruka from the inside out. Also has a giant tadpole named Otama Jackson for a pet, who she treats with a lot of love. |
| 69 | ** Free may or may not also be an anti-villain, for the same reasons as Eruka. He began following Medusa as gratitude for her rescuing him from Witch's Prison, and by the time they're reviving Asura he seems to be afraid of some sort of punishment for failure and/or disobedience (being immortal, he doesn't have to worry about being killed, but she could presumably still make his life pretty awful in other ways). Much like Eruka, we never really see him on his own. We know that he hates DWMA, but mostly out of a fear of Lord Death trying to take his soul. Aside from simply helping Medusa the only really evil thing we ever see him do is slaughtering the Witch's Prison's guards when they try to prevent his escape, and in his defense they tried to kill him first. |
| 70 | *** Also worth mentioning is the color of his soul in the anime. Innocent humans and good people have blue souls, while evil people all have red souls (or purple, if they're witches). Free's soul, however, is green, implying that he's not really good or evil. |
| 71 | ** Crona doesn't really ''want'' to be an antagonist, but their messed-up childhood, as well as Medusa's god-awful parenting skills, make them out to be one. [[spoiler: Later in the manga, they're using madness without Medusa, sure, but it's all because they think getting rid of order will make everyone free.]] |
| 72 | * ArachnidAppearanceAndAttire: Arachne, since her AnimalMotif is spiders. She has black hair, black lips, and wears a black dress with a collar that looks like a spiderweb. |
| 73 | * ArcNumber: 42, which when spoken aloud in Japanese is "shini", the Japanese word for "death." |
| 74 | * ArchaeologicalArmsRace: Eibon's Demon Tools and the process of "keep away from Kishin" involving them. Specifically B.R.E.W and the Book of Eibon, and with good reason, as B.R.E.W is whatever you desire it to be, and the Book of Eibon is a collection of magical and dangerous creatures that can be summoned at any time by the user and [[spoiler: actually IS Eibon himself at one point]]. |
| 75 | * ArmCannon: Death the Kid's soul resonance attack, Death Cannon. |
| 76 | * ArsonMurderAndJaywalking |
| 77 | ** "You're stubborn and reckless. All you like to do for fun is read, so you're boring. And you have fat ankles." As said by Soul, to Maka, when working out their issues. |
| 78 | ** Also, Hero completes Excalibur's insane requests and tolerates his annoying habits, but can't stand him sneezing. |
| 79 | * ArtEvolution: ''Very'' noticeable in the manga. The art gets a little more complex and detailed as the series goes on, and character's faces grow a little longer, their eyes not as large. There are some things that ''do'' get simpler, though, such as Maka's pigtails. |
| 80 | * ArtisticLicenseGunSafety: There's a pretty big reason people don't fire guns upside down in real life. See also JugglingLoadedGuns entry. Though, to be fair, Kid is neither a normal person nor using normal guns. |
| 81 | * ArtisticLicenseSpace: At first it was just a WeirdMoon and WeirdSun, [[spoiler: but another arc has taken this to a whole new level with a [[ConvenientlyClosePlanet conveniently close moon,]] and a lot of other insane astronomy. Really, the entire arc is based of this, as well as ArtisticLicensePhysics.]] |
| 82 | * ArtShift: Whenever someone is going insane or experiencing some intense emotion, their expressions tend to go off-model and their eyes go wild. Happening more often as the series goes on. |
| 83 | * AscendedMeme: In chapter 74, Excalibur sings his little song which up until that point was only heard in the anime. All together now! "Excalibuuur~! Excalibuuur~!" |
| 84 | * AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: The library contains a number of books with foreign titles, for example, "Dzień dobry, Nie ma za co," which is Polish for "Hello, you're welcome." |
| 85 | * AsLongAsThereIsEvil |
| 86 | ** In manga finale, [[spoiler: Crona tells Maka that Asura, the embodiment of fear, cannot be killed as long as there is fear in the world. This is why they proceed to seal him on the Moon instead, and it is likely that Lord Death sealed Asura under Death City in the first place for the same reason.]] |
| 87 | ** The anime pretty much has the same stance. [[spoiler: Sure they beat Asura and destroy him. But he claims as long as there's madness and fear he'll never truly be gone. Maka counters however that as long as people have courage, there will always be a way to drive him back.]] |
| 88 | * AssKickingPose: Kid's Stance of Sin is a very odd-looking variant. Most of his reaper martial arts stances qualify as this. |
| 89 | * AstralCheckerboardDecor: The floor of Soul's MentalWorld has a checkerboard design. |
| 90 | * AsYouKnow: Egregious example in the first episode, as it's used by name. Possibly Justified, since Death is also warning them as a teacher to students. "Don't screw up." [[spoiler: They do.]] |
| 91 | * AttentionWhore: '''BLACK☆STAR!''' It's practically his FatalFlaw, as his need to be seen and heard destroys any stealth he has in the field. He gets better as the series goes on. |
| 92 | * AttractiveBentGender: When everybody's gender gets switched by the Book of Eibon, Tsubaki is found commenting on how incredibly ''cute'' Soul looks, as well as getting flustered over Black☆Star, while Blair manages to [[spoiler:seduce a [[SuccubiAndIncubi succubus]] and in the process make Kilik swoon.]] |
| 93 | * AudibleSharpness: Maybe it's just Soul ''saying'' "Ting"? |
| 94 | * AwesomeButImpractical: |
| 95 | ** Excalibur, who is something of an InfinityPlusOneSword, is so awesome, that when a failure student claims him, he becomes THE BEST MEISTER in the school. The problem is he has an insane amount of unreasonable demands that he makes to the point that people generally decide that his power is totally not worth it. The weapon form itself is exceedingly practical and easy to use, and extremely awesome. It's just the PERSONALITY that makes it unmanageable. It's heavily implied that Excalibur is actually an EldritchAbomination that is the personification of rage. He's just that annoying. |
| 96 | ** Soul. Anyone whose ever done any kind of weapons training knows that having your only cutting edge on the side of your weapon that faces YOU is not good. Scythes are extremely impractical weapons in real life and hard as hell to use in a fight against any other weapon. Traditionally, even spearmen would carry a short sword on them in case the enemy got past the pointy end of the spear (the only part that they were concerned about). The fact Maka can wield Soul and beat up magic and sword users is a testament to her awesomeness. |
| 97 | * AwesomenessByAnalysis: Parodied; at one point, Kilik gets into a fight with a mook with a magitek headset that lets him accurately predict exactly what moves Kilik will use to fight him. Unfortunately for the mook, he has absolutely none of the skills required to actually ''make use'' of this data, and promptly surrenders. |
| 98 | * AxCrazy |
| 99 | ** Maka under the effects of the [[spoiler: [[PsychoSerum black blood]]]] when she fought Crona. She was ''happy'' to get injured. |
| 100 | ** [[spoiler:And later Soul when he cuts Crona's black blood sphere that held Tzar and his meister imprisoned.]] |
| 101 | * BackToBackBadasses: Maka and Black☆Star do this when fighting Sid, and again during the battle on the moon against [[spoiler: Crona]]. A three-way one between Stein, Zubadiah, and Alexander in the same arc. |
| 102 | * BadassBoast: Black☆Star makes too many to count, but particularly good one comes up during the final battle against Asura. |
| 103 | --> ''"If a God can do it, I don't see why I shouldn't be able to! There is nothing I cannot do!!"'' |
| 104 | * BadassBookworm: It's easy to forget under the [[SlasherSmile maniacally grinning]], scythe waving badassery, but Maka is a nerd that spends most of her free time reading and has really ''no idea'' how to play basketball or to dance without crushing her partner's feet. Don't forget about Ox, he pretty much describes himself as such. Stein probably counts as well. He's the only character other than Maka who's shown actually reading a book on-screen, and also the most powerful meister to ever attend the Academy. |
| 105 | * BadassCrew: Spartoi, which is the elite squad of the DWMA that all the main kid characters end up being part of. |
| 106 | %%* BadassLabcoat: Stein. |
| 107 | * BadassLongcoat: Maka. [[spoiler:With a sweet new white one to parade around in school, as of joining Spartoi.]] Special mention to Death the Kid in the manga; during the beginning of the Baba Yaga's Castle arc he temporarily sported a trenchcoat with the same closures and shoulder-decals as his blazer and a collar like the cloak he sometimes wears on outings. It was invisibly ditched before he could fight in it, but he still looked even more badass than usual in it. No sign of it in the anime, though. |
| 108 | * BadassNormal: Mifune in the anime. No magical weapons or overt supernatural powers -- all he's got is a backpack full of swords, and he still fights both DWMA teachers, AlmightyJanitor students [[spoiler:and a Kishin]] on equal footing. The Manga, however, explicitly reveals he has a supernatural connection with his swords. |
| 109 | * BadassTeacher: The DWMA staff in general, though Stein is the one with most examples. |
| 110 | * BaitAndSwitch: In Episode 47, there are three cases of multiple people's reactions to the Death City Robot, such as Mosquito and Death the Kid. In the first two, Excalibur (who is included) simply says "fools", as usual. Then when the Death City Robot [[spoiler:eats the Kishin]], he says "hmm" instead. |
| 111 | * BaitAndSwitchCharacterIntro: [[EnsembleCast All three of the main meister-weapon groups]] are introduced like this in their DebutQueue episodes/chapters. |
| 112 | ** The title character, Soul, is the biggest example of it. He's initially introduced as a somewhat shallow young man who insults his partner and talks a lot about being a "cool" guy. It reaches a head a little later when, frustrated at his inability to defeat the [[spoiler:not actually a]] witch Blair, he [[spoiler:very despicably and cruelly gives up and switches sides to be with Blair instead of Maka, even dropping Maka in a trash bin and insulting her, saying "anyone would choose someone with a body like Blair's over you and [[ACupAngst your flat chest]]." After Maka calls him out for being a bastard, he reveals it was actually just a deception to get Blair to drop her guard and set her up for the kill. After all, cool guys don't cheat on their partners.]] |
| 113 | ** Black☆Star very quietly and skillfully infiltrates the hideout of the Al Capone gang during the middle of a dinner celebration, and gets the drop on them with effortless ease... but instead of quietly assassinating the villains, he gives a boisterous speech about how awesome he is and then declares that his job is done, right before being chased off by gunfire. He then shows no remorse for it when his weapon partner, Tsubaki, calls him out on it, saying that he was the biggest star in the room. This establishes him as the BrilliantButLazy, SmallNameBigEgo, HighlyVisibleNinja. It's further established at the end of the episode, when he challenges the samurai Mifune and [[spoiler:despite having trouble at first (specifically because of his flaws) [[LetsGetDangerous manages to get serious]] and effortlessly win with a single move, showing that he really is as powerful and skilled as he claims he is... when he can manage to get his act together]]. |
| 114 | ** Death the Kid's introduction has him chase down a fleeing villain and corner him, only to get side-tracked because Liz and Patty messed up their AssKickingPose, allowing the villain to escape and establishing his ObsessivelyOrganized tendencies. He gets another one later in the same episode [[spoiler:when he finds himself unable to attack the evil super-mummy hiding inside a perfectly symmetrical sarcophagus, and is nearly killed before the mummy itself appears in all its asymmetrical BodyHorror glory, at which point Kid declares that it makes him feel "violently ill" and utterly destroys it... [[DestructiveSavior and the pyramid they're in too]]]]. |
| 115 | * BaitTheDog: Inverted with Soul and Maka's introduction. After several unsuccessful attempts at killing Blair, Soul finally gives into her DuelOfSeduction, drops Maka into a dumpster, and insults her when she asks why, causing her to break down in tears. Then, just when the audience is set to hate him forever... |
| 116 | -->'''Maka:''' Hey, Soul. You said that all women make wild assumptions without reasoning first, right? That's what you said? Well, what reason do men have for cheating? It's not fair! |
| 117 | -->'''Soul:''' Heh... how am I supposed to know? I can't answer that. ''[Arm transforms into a scythe, trapping Blair inside the curve of the blade.]'' After all, cool men don't cheat on their partners, do they? |
| 118 | * BallroomBlitz: One of the episodes, where the [[spoiler:Kishin is eventually released]]. [[spoiler:Soul and Maka's scene in the Black Room might count as well, seeing as they are dressed up during that scene and in imminent danger of succumbing to insanity]]. |
| 119 | * BarbieDollAnatomy: Asura is totally naked when he first appears, but with no visible genitalia. Justified as he hadn't quite finished putting on his skin at the time. Every other time we see him is with clothes. |
| 120 | * BareHandedBladeBlock: Stein can do this because he can attune to any spiritual attack. Those corrupted with Black Blood can harden their blood beneath their skin, often using this to catch blades. |
| 121 | * BigDamnHeroes: |
| 122 | ** Subverted. Death the Kid, watching the other main characters battle Stein through Death's mirror, fears they're going to die and forces Death to enroll him in the DWMA so that he can join them in their battle, but he gets distracted by his OCD and fails to actually reach them in time. They end up not needing him anyway. |
| 123 | ** Also played straight by the adults from time to time, notably when Stein and Spirit show up to save Maka from Crona in their first encounter. |
| 124 | * BittersweetEnding: The manga ends on this note. [[spoiler: The heroes win the day but can't fully kill Asura just reseal him, this time on the moon with Crona electing to stay behind to make sure he doesn't get out. What's more Lord Death dies after handing his power over to Kid, making him the new lord of death with Liz and Patty naturally still supporting him. But, in an agreement he had with the witches for their help, Kid abolishes any more hunting of them with Soul being declared the final Death Scythe, and peace seems to be set between the two groups, even Medusa's former cronies get a pardon. Likewise Black Star is now a accomplished ninja with Tsubaki's support, Stein and Marie get together with the latter pregnant with his child, Soul has made peace with himself and embraces his potential even playing the piano again and Maka seems to have... somewhat reconciled with her father and ends the story promising someday she'll find a way to save Crona.]] |
| 125 | * BlushSticker: Blair, when she's catty. Patty, always. |
| 126 | * BlackBlood: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The Black Blood.]] - Averted: There's lots of red blood throughout the show, so this doesn't apply. This is actually the {{Phlebotinum}}. |
| 127 | * BlackComedyRape: Death the kid walks in on Patty and Liz being molested by a mummy. This is PlayedForLaughs. |
| 128 | * BodyHorror: |
| 129 | ** Medusa is capable of inserting snakes into someone's body that all burst out at once on command. Soul has nightmares of bursting out of Maka's body. |
| 130 | ** Crona and Ragnarok. Episodes 7 and 15 come to mind (7 being their first appearance, 15 Ragnarok's 'Black Dragon' transformation upon the "Nidhogg"). |
| 131 | *** [[spoiler:The hallucinations caused by Asura's revival involving biting people's faces and ripping the skin off like laffy taffy. Along with the grotesque body forming from a bag of flesh.]] |
| 132 | ** [[spoiler: Tezca's numerous copies of himself fusing back together in some very unsettling ways, with legs and arms in all the wrong places.]] |
| 133 | * {{Bowdlerize}}: Lord Death did this to himself before the series began, since when he started the academy, his [[WhiteMaskOfDoom badass mask]] and [[EvilSoundsDeep deep voice]] scared all the children. [[LetsGetDangerous Every once in a while he reminds us that these are purely cosmetic changes]]. |
| 134 | ** Out of universe, this happened with a few of the scenes adapted from manga to anime: Free's introduction cuts out the part where he kills the guards coming after him by crushing with a huge ball of ice and the flashback to Crona's childhood changes Medusa forcing Crona to kill their pet rabbit to "defeating" a small dragon. |
| 135 | * BookSnap: Maka's [[HyperspaceMallet "Maka Chop"]] is whacking the object of her ire over the head with a book. If she's reading a book at the time, she typically snaps it shut before beginning to say "[[CallingYourAttacks Maaaaaakaaaa...]]". |
| 136 | * BreatherEpisode: Episode 25 has the main cast playing basketball after a grueling 7-episode story arc. |
| 137 | ** Basically any episode where they're NOT fighting is considered a breather episode (ex., the evening ball episode before the end, and the Ultra-Test). |
| 138 | * BreathWeapon: Asura's signature attack involves him somehow pulling his weapon up from his stomach to stick out of his mouth and fire a laser. Insert [[Manga/DragonBall relevant]] [[MemeticMutation meme]] here. |
| 139 | * BrickJoke: A few. |
| 140 | ** Remember all those grave markers in the Death Room? [[spoiler: The anime ending strongly implies those are all the graves of kishin.]] |
| 141 | ** Remember when Soul mentioned, right back in the very beginning, Lord Death's Seven Lights? [[spoiler: Neither did Noah.]] |
| 142 | ** Anime only: Maka, Soul, Black☆Star, and Tsubaki see who can make a basket for rights to [[spoiler:defeat Asura. Maka makes it.]] |
| 143 | ** In episode 9 of the anime, in Excalibur's first appearance, he asks Black☆Star and Death the Kid if they know what his hat is. 23 episodes later, he finally answers the question: It's an english seaweed roll. |
| 144 | ** A brick joke from within the same episode of the anime: episode 28 is named "The Sword God Rises - Does It Have A Sweet Or Salty Taste?", which seems like a meaningless, gibberish question. At the end of the episode it turns out it was talking about a candy that Mifune gave to Maka. The answer? [[spoiler: Salty.]] |
| 145 | * BrosBeforeHoes: Soul and Black☆Star. Though not just hoes; anything, really. |
| 146 | * BrownNote: Crona's poetry has the ability to instill extreme levels of depression in anyone who reads it. |
| 147 | ** [[Manga/HayateTheCombatButler That sounds familiar...]] Well, both Hayate and Crona had evil parents, so this was bound to happen. |
| 148 | * BunnyEarsLawyer: A very large amount of the cast, particularly the teachers at the Academy. For instance, Spirit is the most powerful Death Scythe in the world, but is a LovableSexManiac and BumblingDad. Stein is the most talented Meister to have ever graduated from the Academy and is a brilliant, amoral scientist, but has a certain tendency to travel around on a swivel chair whenever possible and is a bonafide maniac. Marie has [[ShockAndAwe lightning powers]] and is another powerful Death Scythe, but is so obsessed with getting married that she once tried to start a relationship with a toilet. And Tesca Tlipoca...another Death Scythe who wears a giant bear head mask and can apparently understand a monkey's language. The list goes on and ''on''. |
| 149 | * ButNotTooForeign: If Black☆Star's words when he visits Tsubaki's home are to be believed, Maka has at least a little Japanese in her. Since "Spirit Albarn" isn't a particularly Japanese name, it's possible that it comes from her never-seen mother. |
| 150 | ** Which would mean her mother is a rare blonde Asian, or Spirit's hair is dyed, like [[Series/{{Victorious}} Cat Valentine]]. Though one has to remember this ''is'' [[AnimeHair anime]] we're talking about... |
| 151 | * CallBack: |
| 152 | ** During [[spoiler: Maka, Soul, and Crona's rematch in the church, Crona once again repeats "the doors only open inward" from the first fight... then proceeds to demolish the doors to get out.]] |
| 153 | ** The final chapter of the manga contains several {{Call Back}}s to the prologue chapters, namely Blair smothering Soul with her breasts, Black☆Star spying on Tsubaki bathing and Kid grabbing Liz and Patty's breasts. |
| 154 | * CallingYourAttacks |
| 155 | ** Tamashii no kyoumei![[note]]Soul Resonance[[/note]] |
| 156 | ** [[GratuitousEnglish Vector Arrow!]] |
| 157 | * CampfireCharacterExploration: Crona and Marie share a scene around a campfire as they're on their way to find Medusa and Stein. Marie reveals that she still hasn't entirely forgiven Crona for [[spoiler:tricking her into drinking Medusa's snakes so that Stein's madness is accelerated]], and she's waiting until she makes sure that Stein is safe. |
| 158 | * CaptainErsatz: Black☆Star should ''immediately'' remind you of [[Manga/{{Naruto}} another loudmouthed, egotistical kid ninja]]. Also both have similar reasons for their behavior (being called "demon chid" all their life). |
| 159 | ** Black☆Star is basically a combination of Naruto and Sasuke. Think about it: a hyperactive, knucklehead, kid ninja who's the last of his clan, uses a sword, has crazy markings appear on his face when he in his dangerous, yet powered up form, and even has a special kind of star symbol in his eyes. |
| 160 | ** Black☆Star is supposed to be an [[ExaggeratedTrope exaggeration]] of the whole HighlyVisibleNinja HotBlooded IdiotHero thing. |
| 161 | *** He does however get better, and can be very threatening [[LetsGetDangerous when he gets serious]]. |
| 162 | * CastOfSnowflakes: Body types in particular vary a lot, especially among the women in the cast, from the tall but curvy Tsubaki to the flat-chest Maka to the Thompson sisters, who have different heights and proportions (and to Kid's annoyance, breast size). |
| 163 | ** In the manga though it unfortunately falls under [[OnlySixFaces sameface syndrome hardcore]]. |
| 164 | * CatsAreMagic: Blair is a cat with magical powers, she often gets mistaken for a witch. |
| 165 | * CatsAreMean: Or at least, big enough [[JerkAss Jerk Asses]] to force you to start a quest to defeat ''one hundred opponents all over again,'' '''just for the heck of it!''' |
| 166 | ** Her entire role in the Clown arc was tormenting the Flying Dutchmen. |
| 167 | * CatSmile: A rather disturbing version of this that showed teeth was used [[spoiler: when Maka was in the Envy chapter of the Book of Eibon]]. |
| 168 | * CatchPhrase: Half the cast, at least. |
| 169 | ** Maka says "I'll take your soul!" or something similar (she even says it at the end of each episode preview after the closing credits). |
| 170 | *** Soul does it in her place too, sometimes. |
| 171 | *** "MAKA ''CHOP''!!!!" |
| 172 | ** Black☆Star has his "YAH-HOO!" when he's showing off. |
| 173 | *** "Not a single being in heaven or on earth is as holy as I." (This is a line from the Buddhist canon, believe it or not, alleged to have been spoken by Buddha himself. In Japanese, the first few words are... get this .. "Manga/TenjhoTenge.") |
| 174 | ** Sid likes the phrase, "That was the kind of man I used to be." |
| 175 | *** Of course, before he became a zombie, it was "That's the kind of man I am". |
| 176 | ** Crona has two; "My blood is black", and "I don't know how to deal with [X]." |
| 177 | ** Excalibur's "my legend began in the 12th century", and "[[http://youtu.be/cG-v_G6z_94 FOOLS]]!." |
| 178 | ** Death the Kid's "Kichiri Kachiri", which could be translated as "Precise and Perfect". |
| 179 | ** Stein's "I want to dissect [X]." |
| 180 | ** "REAPER CHOP''!!!!" |
| 181 | ** Free is a bit rusty at the whole magic thing, so his mishaps are usually accompanied with an emphatic [[GratuitousEnglish "GODDAMMITSHIT!"]] |
| 182 | *** As he's using his magic, he often repeats "Wolf! Wolves! Wolf! Wolves!" |
| 183 | * CatGirl: Blair, in a rather original way. |
| 184 | ** She even invokes CatsHaveNineLives in the first episode, but changes this halfway into "Cats Have Nine Souls." |
| 185 | * CensorShadow: Applied under [[spoiler:Giant!Asura]]'s robes. |
| 186 | ** Also used with weapon characters, since their souls appear nude when their bodies are in weapon form. |
| 187 | * CentipedesDilemma: When Maka and Soul are unable to resonate during the battle against Free, Maka starts thinking about how she usually fights and resonates with Soul. |
| 188 | * ChainedByFashion: Free could probably take off that shackle whenever he felt like it. |
| 189 | * ChainsawGood: Giriko |
| 190 | * ChaosIsEvil: While order isn't portrayed as inherently good, it's a whole lot better than the mess that a world without sanity or laws would create. |
| 191 | * CharacterDevelopment: Crona, particularly in the anime. They start out as a near blood thirsty monster who loves to kill and eat souls. But as the story goes on, [[spoiler: it becomes clear that they are being used by their mother. This is not a HeelFaceTurn because they remain afraid of everyone inside DWMA, only listening and following Maka. They slowly learn to appreciate Marie, then the whole cast, delivering one of the most adorable moments in the series history.]] It takes a grand total of '''30''' episodes for [[spoiler: Crona to truly become good.]] |
| 192 | * CharacterizationMarchesOn: Over the course of the anime, Soul becomes less hotheaded and more of the laid back 'cool' guy he always strives to be. It's not CharacterDevelopment because this was never something addressed or called out on, it just happens and nobody notices. He makes Maka the hotheaded on in comparison. |
| 193 | * CharacterTitle: [[spoiler:Subverted. [[http://translate.google.ca/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://www.manga-news.com/index.php/actus/2009/03/20/Interview-Atsushi-Ohkubo This interview]] with [[WordOfGod Atsushi Ohkubo]] says the "Soul Eater" in the title refers not to the partner of the ''true'' main protagonist Maka, but to an enemy faced towards the end of the story that can devour souls. Surely enough, Crona refers to Asura as the "Soul Eater" in the penultimate chapter, making this an AntagonistTitle.]] |
| 194 | * CharlesAtlasSuperpower: Humans in Soul Eater are often capable of superhuman levels of might with proper training, and some like Black Star push it up to eleven by committing feats that defy the laws of physics. It's implied the ability to do such crazy feats is directly tied to the strength of one's soul, as Mifune demonstrates thanks to his exceptionally strong soul. |
| 195 | * ChasteHero: Kid. |
| 196 | * CheatersNeverProsper: In episode 14, Soul is caught with answers written on his clothing, so he's stripped down to his underwear. After that, he attempts to cheat by copying off of his neighbors' tests, but runs into the problems of Kid still filling out his name and Patty making a giraffe out of her test. Since the test is only an hour long, he doesn't have enough time to do anything effective and the test is over. |
| 197 | * ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler:Enrique and Tezca Tlipoca were quickly introduced (as mysterious bear and monkey) during chapter 47, when the DWMA students were going to Arachnophobia's base. They weren't mentioned or seen again until chapter 60, when Arachne died and Medusa was about to kill Maka.]] |
| 198 | * ChewingTheScenery: When Black☆Star wants to be visible, he is ''visible''. |
| 199 | * ChildhoodFriends: Maka and Black☆Star. |
| 200 | * ChurchMilitant: Justin Law is a very devout Christian, but also the Death Scythe in charge of Europe. Interestingly he views Lord Death as God. Nobody corrects him. |
| 201 | ** To make it stranger yet, [[spoiler:Justin Law turns out to really worship the Kishin instead in the manga...]] |
| 202 | * CigaretteOfAnxiety: Doctor Stein tends to do this when he needs to calm down. It's subverted once [[spoiler: after his second fight with Medusa, where rather than calming down he's has a bout of {{Laughing Mad}}ness because of the Kishin being released.]] This is later exploited [[spoiler: to frame him for the murder of BJ, by leaving a packet of his favorite cigarettes (which the local shopkeeper orders in for him specially) at the scene.]] |
| 203 | * ClearMyName: [[spoiler: Stein gets to do this, right while/after going completely insane]]. Thank Death for TrueCompanions. |
| 204 | * ClownSpecies: Clowns are living embodiments of fear and madness. The first Clown Maka and Soul encounter in the manga does resemble a monstrous circus clown, with a bulbous nose and permanent grin, but later clowns have different forms and act as an unbeatable line of defense for Asura when Shibusen lay a full-on assault of the Moon. |
| 205 | * CloudCuckoolander: Excalibur. Explains why ''no one'' tries to wield him, ''ever'', despite being the most powerful of all the weapons. |
| 206 | ** And Patty. So very, very much. Giraffe! |
| 207 | *** Not to mention Marie, willing to marry a ''[[CargoShip toilet]]'' just so she won't be an OldMaid. |
| 208 | *** Free got himself sent to witch prison for the sole purpose of digging out with a spoon. He then found out that witch prison serves meals with chopsticks. |
| 209 | *** Though at least Free has the excuse of being immortal. A few years of digging out of prison with a spoon wouldn't have really amounted to much in the long run. He probably hatched the idea out of sheer boredom. |
| 210 | *** Lord Death, although a lot of it is apparently ObfuscatingStupidity. |
| 211 | ** [[CloudCuckooLand Practically everyone in the series is this to a greater or lesser extent.]] |
| 212 | * ClusterFBomb: The English translation of the manga by Yen Press becomes this around Volume 7 with the switch to a new translator. Rather jarringly, characters (''especially'' Black*Star) start dropping F-bombs left and right, with almost every other swear word you can think of in between. Then there's [[AxCrazy Giriko]], whose mouth is by ''far'' the [[SirSwearsALot foulest.]] |
| 213 | * TheCollector: Noah, deciding to add [[spoiler:Kid]] to his TomeOfEldritchLore along with anything else he finds interesting. |
| 214 | ** CollectorOfTheStrange: Again, Noah. |
| 215 | * ColorFailure: Several examples. Most recently in episode 46 when Excalibur turns up in the Death Room. Lord Death, Yumi and Spirit go white for several seconds before promptly resuming their conversation and ignoring the newcomer. |
| 216 | * CombatParkour: Death The Kid is an expert at an ImprobableAge, though being the GrimReaper's son probably didn't hurt. He uses backflips to dodge attacks and create distance between him and his opponent. |
| 217 | * CombatStilettos: Marie, which is kind of ridiculous considering she's a LightningBruiser. |
| 218 | * CombatTentacles: Medusa's vectors, [[spoiler: Asura's wrappings after he escapes Death City]], Pharaon's Wrath's bandages, and to a lesser extent, Black☆Star and Tsubaki's shadow attacks. Most recently, [[spoiler:Crona's thorn... vine... whip-like... shadow... things??]] |
| 219 | * ComedicUnderwearExposure: All of the {{Panty Shot}}s were removed from the Anime, but Lord Death picking up [[spoiler:Rachel!Medusa]] by the back of her dress and exposing her pumpkin panties (multiple times) was left in. |
| 220 | * ComplimentBackfire (or possibly Compliment [[TheChessMaster Just-As-Planned]]): [[spoiler: After Crona devastates a whole city using the black blood, Medusa makes dinner(!) and tells Crona how proud she is(!!). Crona freaks out, first attacking Medusa for her hellish experiments and forcing them to abandon Maka, the only person who made Crona happy, then for acting so strangely ("Who are you?! What have you done with my mother?!"). The Clown is pleased: Crona is now completely independent and able to receive the Kishin and Medusa's vectors indicate she's not quite dead.]] |
| 221 | * CoolAndUnusualPunishment: [[spoiler: After Death the Kid is captured by Noah, Gopher attempts to tourture Kid for fun and profit by beating the shit out of him, to no avail. Once Gopher finds out about Kid's OCD, he tortures Kid by drawing on only one side of his face, and by using a back scratcher to scratch one of the boy's nipples, but not the other.]] |
| 222 | * CooldownHug: Maka and Crona. Also, Marie and Stein. |
| 223 | ** And yet another example in episode [[spoiler:50]], which can be counted as something of a subversion. |
| 224 | ** Played with in chapter 84 when both Maka and [[spoiler:Kim]] hug Stein in order to stop him from being affected from [[spoiler:Soul]] madness. |
| 225 | *** Though this wasn't a standard CooldownHug, as both of them had some sort of power they were using to keep him sane. |
| 226 | * CornerOfWoe: Crona is very familiar with it. (S)he even gave it a nickname! |
| 227 | * TheCorruption: Effectively what Madness and its variants is, negative energy that makes a person lose any kind of standards and pursue their desire for no reason or benefit. Most villains can gather it in various forms weaponize it for MindRape. The Black Blood, for example, can cause it as a DangerousForbiddenTechnique. |
| 228 | * CountryMatters: Maka in the Hungarian dub (see PrecisionFStrike for more details). |
| 229 | * CovertPervert: The Guide in the book of Eibon said how long you are in [[GenderBender gender-swapped form is proportional to how lustful you are]]. Notice that [[spoiler: Tsubaki]] is the only one ''specifically'' worried about not turning back. [[spoiler: Liz is third-to-last to her annoyance, Tsubaki is second-to-last which upsets her very much, and Blair is last...no surprise there.]] |
| 230 | * CreatureHunterOrganization: The DWMA was founded to train Meisters and [[EquippableAlly Weapons]] (who power up by eating souls) to hunt "Demon Eggs" (humans who have become corrupted by consuming the souls of the innocent), Kishin ({{Eldritch Abomination}}s that form from said humans when they get too powerful) and their strongest, [[BigBad Kishin Asura]], as well as [[OurWitchesAreDifferent Witches]] (from whom the weapons originally got their abilities). |
| 231 | * CreditsRunningSequence |
| 232 | * CreepyCrosses: |
| 233 | ** The Death Room is full of (mostly wonky, as it happens) crosses. |
| 234 | ** One epilogue scene (during the final episode credits) shows Lord Death burying a red/evil soul in the field of crosses, using one cross as a piledriver/seal of some sort. |
| 235 | * CreepyGood: Dr. Stein who, despite being one of the main characters' most powerful allies, is unbelievably sadistic. Everyone short of Lord Death himself is terrified of the guy. |
| 236 | * CrossOver: Happens when the in-universe manga works ''Soul Eater'' and ''Soul Eater Not!'' decide to use similar characters. In the ''Soul Eater'' manga, [[spoiler: Akane Star and Clay Sizemore]] show up as members of the Central Information Office, complete with aged appearances and new hairstyles. |
| 237 | * CrossPoppingVeins |
| 238 | * CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Black☆Star can be very effective when he puts his egomania aside and starts focusing. |
| 239 | ** Lord Death. He ''did'' adopt a new look and persona to go with his Dumbledore-ish role. But, like that Headmaster, he can drop them pretty damn quickly. |
| 240 | * CouldntFindAPen: Played for laughs, surprisingly for this trope, when Black☆Star is caught sneaking into Stein's office to steal exam answers. He's beaten bloody and hung up for the class to see. When Soul gets his cheat-sheets taken away (though, fortunately, not also beaten bloody), he notices Black☆Star trying to get his attention by starting to write on the wall next to him in his own blood. Soul is hopeful that maybe Black☆Star will write some exam answers...nope, it's only his signature, complete with star in the middle. |
| 241 | * CurbStompBattle: Black☆Star gets completely humiliated in his second fight with Mifune. The worst part is that Mifune was holding back the whole time and didn't even seriously injure him. |
| 242 | ** Much earlier in the series, Stein wipes the floor with Maka and Black☆Star ''at the same time''. |
| 243 | * CursedWithAwesome: Black Blood makes you [[MadeOfIron damn near invulnerable]] and allows you to [[HealingFactor regenerate from almost anything.]] It also makes you [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity batshit crazy.]] |
| 244 | * CurseOfThePharaoh: In Chapter 3/Episode 3, the necromancer witch Samantha tries to create an army of mummies for her own bid at world conquest. However, when she tries this with the mummy of the Pharaoh Anubis, he is resurrected as an UndeadAbomination that devours her, proclaiming that anyone who dares violate the sanctity of his tomb will share her fate. |
| 245 | * After possessing a child, Medusa goes to make a deal with Lord Death. However, Lord Death repeatedly picks her up by the hood, much to her annoyance. |
| 246 | * DarkMagicalGirl: Crona, the Demon Swordsman. Woman? [[AmbiguousGender We're...not sure.]] |
| 247 | * DarkIsNotEvil: All of Black☆Star and Tsubaki's most powerful techniques revolve around Tsubaki shaping her meister's shadow into a weapon. Sometimes several weapons. |
| 248 | ** Arguably Lord Death, Kid and the GOO (if not all their fellow anthropomorphic... things). At best, they're eccentric (the GOO's manner being very reminiscent of the Grim Reaper), at worst downright scary. Even Kid when he gets suitably provoked, and ''[[GoodIsNotNice definitely]]'' Lord Death. |
| 249 | * DeadlyHug: How [[spoiler: Tsubaki slays her brother.]] |
| 250 | * DealWithTheDevil: Literally... er... figuratively. We're not sure. But the Black Blood gives a dream image of an actual devil offering power. |
| 251 | * TheDeathOfDeath: [[spoiler: In the manga, Lord Death passes away the moment his son, Death The Kid, awakens his reaper powers. The reason for this is because there can't be more than one Grim Reaper.]] |
| 252 | * DebutQueue: The prologue introducing each main character one by one. Also, episodes 1 thru 3 introduces each team one by one. |
| 253 | * DefeatMeansRespect: [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] when Maka begins her second battle against Crona, she taunts Crona's weapon [[EquippableAlly Ragnarok]] by pointing out the way he's talking about her suggests this trope. |
| 254 | * DespairEventHorizon:[[spoiler: Maka]] in chapter 74 and 75. Considering how [[spoiler:she]] usually [[PluckyGirl is,]] it's rather disheartening. |
| 255 | * DeterminedExpression: In the anime, there's a shot of each of the main characters displaying one in turn just before the first battle for the [[LostTechnology B.R.]][[ArtifactOfDoom E.W]]. |
| 256 | * DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: [[spoiler: Yup. Literally.]] |
| 257 | * DirtyCoward |
| 258 | * DistractedByTheSexy: Blair the Cat uses this for comic relief AND in battle. |
| 259 | ** Then inverts it in the chapter of lust when she's turned into a man, and is STILL smoking hot to the opposite sex. |
| 260 | * TheDitz: Patty |
| 261 | * DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Death trying to pick out a weapon for Kid looks a lot like arranging a marriage, and Kid wants none of it because there's no symmetry in any of them. |
| 262 | * TheDogBitesBack: Subverted, when Crona [[spoiler:loses the power from thier black blood and, by extention,]] Ragnarok is weakened, Crona hits him. He gets angry and more than ever he teases Crona, who still can't defend themself. |
| 263 | ** And then later on when [[spoiler: Crona apparently kills Medusa. You really can't say that the bloodbath that followed wasn't very much deserved.]] |
| 264 | * DoomedAppointment |
| 265 | * DrFakenstein: Dr. Franken Stein, natch. |
| 266 | * TheDragAlong: Liz has her moments as this. She hates ghosts, monsters, and anything else abnormal and scary, but being Death the Kid's weapon she has to go with him anyway. |
| 267 | ** Quite literally Death the Kid himself in his debut episode. Let's just say that he takes home decor veeery seriously... |
| 268 | * DramaticHighPerching: Black☆Star loves this one, though it doesn't really help. In one case, he was so high up nobody could hear him shouting. |
| 269 | * DroolHello: Eruka has a hallucination of the Kisin doing this. |
| 270 | * EccentricMentor: Lord Death. In the anime dub, he even sounds like Dumbledore from WebVideo/PotterPuppetPals. |
| 271 | * EldritchAbomination: The Kishin. The strongest of them, even Lord Death isn't sure was ever human to begin with. In addition, Eibon is a direct reference to Creator/HPLovecraft. |
| 272 | ** Not to mention [[spoiler: whatever the hell Noah's got stashed away in the Book of Eibon looks like Cthulhu made of ink.]] |
| 273 | *** It's now referred to itself as a [[spoiler: Great Old One.]] |
| 274 | *** [[spoiler: GOO says there were originally eight "Warlords", three of them eaten by Kishin. These beings all have powers over terror, rage, power, knowledge, and order which drives mortals mad. Oh, and it also calls [[HumanoidAbomination Death the Kid as "fragment of Law"]] which sort of explains his obsession with symmetry.]] |
| 275 | ** Also, Maba-Sama. As tall as, if not slightly taller than, Angelica, has bat-like wings, which are generally useless, since she prefers to hover; and one of the very few close-ups of her face makes her look like she was built by someone from a Creator/TimBurton visual effects studio. |
| 276 | * EmbarrassingMiddleName: Subverted. Soul Evans doesn't like people using his ''last'' name. |
| 277 | ** Soul Eater is just the name he registered in DWMA, the Eater part is not real. |
| 278 | * EmpathicWeapon: Weapons are a ''race'' in Death City, having both human and weapon forms. Their power increases when they match the "Soul Wavelength" of their Meister partners. |
| 279 | * EndOfAnAge: Excalibur discusses this in Chapter 113 [[spoiler: in the wake of Shinigami's death, believing that the next age will belong to the humans and that Kid must oversee it. [[MomentKiller After that, he starts talking about]] [[InappropriateHunger going out with Kid to eat]].]] |
| 280 | * EnemyCivilWar: Medusa and Arachne have a rivalry that spans centuries; Medusa and her followers will apparently "help" DWMA if it means Arachne will suffer. |
| 281 | * EnemyMine: [[spoiler:Medusa leads DWMA's operation against Arachne's base]] in the manga. |
| 282 | * EpicFail: Several, of varying hilarity. For instance, group training against Stein. Ox electrocutes Maka and Black☆Star, Black☆Star {{One Hit Kill}}s him, and an untouched Dr. Stein [[LampshadeHanging Lampshades]] it all. |
| 283 | * EpiphanyTherapy: [[spoiler:Marie's 'redeeming wavelength' in the anime. Also, Death the Kid literally ''beats'' the crazy out of Black☆Star at one point, bypassing a moment of TimeToUnlockMoreTruePotential that ensued in the manga.]] |
| 284 | ** [[spoiler: Black☆Star returns the favor to Death The Kid when the Great Old One drives him insane.]] |
| 285 | * EvenTheGirlsWantHer: [[spoiler:The succubus. It's also proof positive that Maka and Spirit are from the same family tree.]] |
| 286 | ** [[spoiler: Also, Soul and Kilik as girls are prettier than they should be.]] |
| 287 | * EquippableAlly: Provides the page quote |
| 288 | * EvilCannotComprehendGood: [[spoiler:Asura]] is defeated in the anime because he cannot comprehend the concept of courage. |
| 289 | ** Medusa seems to genuinely not get why Spirit and Stein are so disgusted by the way she speaks about Crona. |
| 290 | ** While not ''evil'', Crona was raised in a very evil environment and as a result is completely baffled by the lack of abuse received from the gang at the DWMA. |
| 291 | ** Stein has a relevant line when witch Medusa confesses her love for him: |
| 292 | --->'''Medusa:''' I love you, you know. A man after my own heart.\ |
| 293 | '''Stein:''' Don't be stupid. [[NotSoDifferentRemark At your core, Medusa, you're just like me]]. You can't possibly understand a concept like love. |
| 294 | * EvilIsNotAToy: In chapter 106, [[spoiler:Crona learns that the Kishin is not a toy.]] |
| 295 | ** As does the Necromancer Witch when she resurrects an ancient pharaoh and [[EatenAlive incurs his wrath]]. |
| 296 | ** When Arachne attempts to form an alliance with [[spoiler: the Kishin]], he agrees... [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown After beating the crap out of her]] [[CombatTentacles without moving an inch from his seat]]. Why? He wanted to show her that he wasn't her servant and [[CurbStompBattle could kill her and her entire army at any time]]. |
| 297 | * EvilMakesYouMonstrous |
| 298 | * EvilVersusEvil: [[spoiler:Lady Medusa vs. Lady Arachne. Occurs late in the manga only (not in the anime)]] |
| 299 | * EvolvingWeapon: [[{{Handwave}} Handwaved]] since most weapons are part human too, and by eating souls, they become stronger. |
| 300 | * ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin |
| 301 | %% ExcitedEpisodeTitle (please cite an example) |
| 302 | * ExpositionDiagram: Occurs occasionally, for example when Kid explains why he prefers the number 8 to 7. |
| 303 | * ExpressiveHair: Maka's pigtails in the anime stand up and/or wiggle when she's agitated. |
| 304 | * {{Expy}}: So many: |
| 305 | ** A fair amount of the characters bear a strong physical resemblance to several characters from ''Manga/BIchi'', Ohkubo's first manga. For example, [[http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v671/VampDicons/bichi4.jpg Emine]] resembles [[http://images.wikia.com/souleater/images/9/9e/Crona_x.jpg Crona]]. |
| 306 | ** All Black☆Star needs is an [[Manga/{{Naruto}} orange jumpsuit and blonde hair]]. |
| 307 | ** Speaking of Black☆Star, his father White Star sure looks an awful lot like [[Manga/{{Naruto}} Kakashi]]. |
| 308 | ** [[HotWitch Arachne]] bears a strong resemblance to [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyX Lulu.]] She also looks very much like [[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist Lust]] except with a different hairstyle. |
| 309 | ** Dr. Franken Stein seems to be an expy of a number of different characters, as follows: |
| 310 | *** First, he seems to be a CompositeCharacter between [[Franchise/{{Frankenstein}} Dr. Victor Frankenstein]] as well as [[FrankensteinsMonster his monster]]. |
| 311 | *** He greatly resembles Manga/ShamanKing's Faust VIII. |
| 312 | *** Mostly, he is very similar to [[Manga/{{Naruto}} Kakashi]]. Let's see... they're both badass genius prodigies with silver hair, both have a stupid thing happen to them on their first appearance (the eraser trick gag with Kakashi, Stein falling over in his swivel chair), both give their students a dangerous, high stakes test early in the series (Kakashi's bell test, Stein's remedial lesson), both have lightning powers (Kakashi's signature move, Stein's Soul Force attack), and both were loners as children (Stein because he was AxeCrazy, Kakashi because he was an arrogant IWorkAlone type). |
| 313 | *** Nobody sees Stein's resemblance to [[VideoGame/{{Gungrave}} Juji Kabane]]? I mean [[http://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/scale_small/7/74829/1269405-juji_kabane.jpg just]] [[http://i.stack.imgur.com/cHujm.jpg look]]! |
| 314 | ** Marie Mjolnir bears a great resemblance to 1930's bomb fetishist [[Literature/{{Baccano}} Nice Holystone]], to the extent that they're both voiced by Colleen Clinkenbeard in the English dub. |
| 315 | * ExtraEyes: Asura, who is covered in them. |
| 316 | ** EyesDoNotBelongThere: No, they do not. |
| 317 | * EyepatchOfPower: Marie Mjolnir. |
| 318 | * EyesAlwaysShut: Buttadaki Joe |
| 319 | ** Stein too, at times. |
| 320 | * FaceDoodling: Black☆Star, to Maka. |
| 321 | ** [[spoiler: Gopher to Kid, after discovering his OCD (Kid seemed impervious to torture, but then he noticed the corners of Gopher's mouth were uneven and completely lost his cool)]]. |
| 322 | * FaceHeelTurn: |
| 323 | ** [[spoiler: After a HeelFaceTurn Crona pulled this, going back to Medusa.]] |
| 324 | ** [[spoiler: Death the Kid seemed to be headed this way when an encounter with a Great Old One caused him to go crazy, but snapped out of it [[WhatTheHellHero after getting an earful]] [[IKnowYouAreInThereSomewhereFight (and a few punches) from]] Black☆Star.]] |
| 325 | * FacelessGoons: Arachnophobia has plenty of these. |
| 326 | * FacelessMasses: All the other students at DWMA. While some get simplified faces and some clothing detail they're not colored in and are all purple. |
| 327 | * FaceYourFears: The entire theme (particularly the anime version). Indeed the BigBad's main failing is cowardice. |
| 328 | * FaintInShock: [[Characters/SoulEaterSpartoi Death the Kid]] is ObsessivelyOrganized and is absolutely obsessed with symmetry. This causes him to overreact when his symmetry is disrupted: |
| 329 | ** He faints after Soul cuts a couple of centimetres off one side of his hair, as this meant it was not perfectly symmetrical anymore. |
| 330 | ** He also has a complete breakdown and passes out after he erases too hard and tears his test paper. |
| 331 | ** This seems to happen any time he is not perfectly symmetrical. Liz mentions that if he tried to not use GunsAkimbo, "he'd get a {{Nosebleed}} and pass out". However, this only seems to apply to Kid himself. if he encounters an asymmetrical enemy, he's more likely to fight back with UnstoppableRage. |
| 332 | * FakeDefector: [[spoiler: Soul]] in the first chapter/episode [[spoiler:when he seemingly left Maka to be Blair's weapon]]. |
| 333 | * FalseCrucible: This is how Maka and Black☆Star are introduced to [[spoiler: [[StealthMentor Stein]]]] |
| 334 | * FanService: Dude, it's a shonen anime! |
| 335 | ** Female weapons generally appear naked when shown within their virtual world while transformed. The male Soul started clothed, but became naked when he had a giant scar to show off. Mercifully, the way-too-young-looking Fire and Thunder appear clothed. |
| 336 | *** And when the twins temporarily age-up, FanService comes hand-in-hand with a [[HalfIdenticalTwins shocking revelation]]. |
| 337 | ** Blair the {{Stripperiffic}} CatGirl is practically FanService incarnate, particularly in the anime. Debut scene? Bathtub. |
| 338 | ** In the manga and the anime, Blair also has a CatFight with the equally {{Stripperiffic}} Mouse Girl Mizune. |
| 339 | ** The Art-Director of the show began putting a ''huge'' emphasis on Maka's legs beginning in Episode 27. |
| 340 | ** Not to mention [[NerdsAreSexy Stein's]] ShirtlessScene. |
| 341 | ** The fanservice tends to be much more tasteful in the anime, generally speaking. Liz and Patty's... moment with the Pharoah is toned down compared to the manga. |
| 342 | * FashionableAsymmetry: Mostly subverted by Kid, but played straight by his hair, much to his chagrin [[spoiler:(though he'll completely subvert this when the lines of sanzu on his hair DO all connect)]]. Also, Tsubaki has only one visible stocking. |
| 343 | * FantasticFirearms: Liz and Patty Thompson are twin sisters who can turn into pistols which are wielded by Death the Kid. It is established that they fire their soul energy. |
| 344 | * FateWorseThanDeath: Asura was sealed away in a bag made of ''his own skin''. |
| 345 | %%* FearlessFool: Black☆Star. Full stop. |
| 346 | * FieldOfBlades: Mifune's Infinite Sword Style. |
| 347 | %%* FlatWhat: [[spoiler:Justin]] provides the most appropriate response to whatever that nonsense is. |
| 348 | * FlippingTheTable: Referred to in the anime when Death [[spoiler: flips Baba Yaga Castle upside-down]]. |
| 349 | * ForeignLanguageTitle |
| 350 | * {{Foreshadowing}}: While fighting [[spoiler: Sid]] in the graveyard, Black☆Star listens for their opponent's soul wavelength using Tsubaki. Kishin souls are adapted as red, [[spoiler: but Sid's soul was blue, hinting at the true nature of their 'Mission.']] |
| 351 | ** In the Pride chapter of the Book of Eibon, [[spoiler: Excalibur's humility in letting the heroes use him without his provisions, utterly defying the Book's power over sins, is the first hint that he is actually a Great Old One.]] |
| 352 | ** Asura's soul is said to spread Madness throughout the world. [[spoiler: This is an ability of ''all'' his kind, and something Shinigami and Kid were/are capable of in their own way but refuse to do.]] |
| 353 | ** Medusa survives being killed by Stein by using the Madness of Asura's escape. [[spoiler: She pulls off the same trick when Arachne turns herself into a disembodied Kishin-like being of madness (''and'' had previously told her sister how she survived her first 'death'). Her death by Crona's hand is also under suspiciously similar circumstances...]] |
| 354 | ** Numerous times late in the manga, [[spoiler: the moon is seen in the background whenever Justin Law praises the Kishin. Guess where the Kishin just so happens to be hiding?]] |
| 355 | ** One of Kim and Jackie's abilities changes Jackie into a 'broom' that Kim can ride on. [[spoiler: Kim is revealed to be a witch.]] |
| 356 | ** Before she fights Stein and Spirit, Medusa notes the exceptional soul wavelength control of a Death Scythe. This is both a trait of the Death Scythes in general, and Spirit's specialty. [[spoiler: This turns up when Soul becomes a Death Scythe himself, and later when Spirit joins the battle on the moon.]] |
| 357 | ** An early villain tells Kid that he needs to be wary of the Kishin 'closest' to him. Shinigami brushes this off as a metaphor about fear and courage being two sides of the same coin. The hint towards Asura's ''actual'' closeness to the school quickly appears to clear this up, and we see Shinigami's figure of speech in how the cast deals with fear. But in hindsight [[spoiler: the reference was more literal than Kid realised or his father would admit to. Asura is Kid's brother and they are both in opposition yet very similar to one another.]] |
| 358 | ** The ''entire storyline'' with Kid, Crona and the Flying Dutchman. It is here that Kid hears that Death and Asura may be somehow connected (see above, he not unreasonably assumes it's purely metaphorical), and here where Kid and Crona have their disagreement over fear and power, specifically Kid's declaration that to conquer fear Crona should "strengthen [their] soul". Come the end of the series [[spoiler: Death and Asura are revealed to be {{Humanoid Abomination}}s with a personal connection, and Crona has indeed dealt with fear by strengthening their soul, and choosing to imprison Asura for as long as possible.]] |
| 359 | * FourIsDeath: The phone number used to call Lord Death is a play on words using this trope. |
| 360 | ** When Crona has a dialogue with their alter ego inside their head, they refuse to answers 42 questions before the alter ego leaves. Of course, 42 in Japanese is a homonym of "to die". |
| 361 | * FourTemperamentEnsemble: The main and supporting characters. |
| 362 | ** Sanguine: Black☆Star, Patty, Kirikou: Extroverted, cheerful, energetic, and talkative--in Black☆Star's case, he's also pretty egotistical. |
| 363 | ** Choleric: Maka, Ox Ford: Both are very task-oriented and studious, are hard-workers, tend to take the lead, and are very passionate for what they do. |
| 364 | ** Melancholic: Death the Kid, Kim, Harvar: Analytical, organized, practical; all three tend to be the most critical of the cast. |
| 365 | ** Phlegmatic: Soul, Jackie, Hiro: In the two former cases, both are generally laid-back, reserved, witty, and at times indifferent. Hero is quite patient (at least, enough to put up with Excalibur), open-minded, but at times a bit too docile. |
| 366 | ** Leukine: Tsubaki and Liz: Both girls are the most "neutral" of the team, more often than not having to put up with their partners' shenanigans as opposed to getting directly involved in them. That said, they are loyal to said partners, albeit willing to knock them down a peg if needed. |
| 367 | * FreudianExcuse: An unusual example, since they're not evil, but Crona unquestionably obeys Medusa's orders, even understanding they're evil, due to the way they were raised. |
| 368 | * FriendToAllChildren: Mifune |
| 369 | * FuroScene: |
| 370 | ** Blair is ''introduced'' in a furo scene. Also, Tsubaki takes a bath after studying for the big exam. |
| 371 | ** After many chapters with little to no fan service, we get a scene with nearly all the female leads in the shower -- which was immediately followed by nearly all the ''male'' leads in the shower. Apparently Okhubo had been taking a few lessons in gender equality when it comes to fanservice. |
| 372 | * FullFrontalAssault: Kaguya is basically naked except for her cloak. The only thing offering any kind of "modesty" besides are the markings on her limbs and torso, although they actually bring more attention to her exposed breasts than away from them. This doesn't stop her from being extremely violent and dangerous. |
| 373 | * FusionDance: The Mizune sisters can combine in various ways. |
| 374 | ** [[spoiler: [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity Madness Fusion]], the act of fusing with a Clown. It affects both body and mind, making one into a batshit crazy abomination. The only character to have done it so far is [[KnightTemplar Justin Law]], although Medusa powered up her snake tattoos at one point by fusing them with the Purple-Dyed Clown.]] |
| 375 | ** Kaguya and White Rabbit, [[spoiler: who are both Clowns, fused together shortly before they died. The result had both of their attacks, White Rabbit's CombatTentacles , and Kaguya's personality.]] |
| 376 | * FunWithSubtitles[=/=]LemonyNarrator: Where else but in the ''Soul Eater'' manga can you find captions like "The Next Day" with a musical note right underneath it? |
| 377 | * GangstaStyle: The Kid takes this to its ridiculous extreme by inverting his guns and firing with his pinkies. |
| 378 | * GeckoEnding: The anime splits off from the manga after the [[spoiler:BREW recovery battle]], setting up the remaining time for a premature ending. |
| 379 | * GenderBender: [[spoiler:As of chapter 72 in the manga...it's somehow ''canon''. And surprisingly enough, Kid (who gets the most genderbending fanart) is the only one who doesn't go through this. To make up for that, there's Kilik.]] |
| 380 | ** [[spoiler:Giriko has a slightly more permanent gender bending experience because his soul is now in an OppositeSexClone. He's annoyed that he's a woman, but it's better than nothing.]] |
| 381 | * GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: '''Awesomely''' handled by Patty on Kid as he broke [[RunningGag down]] at the sight of the Otama Bombs asymmetrically strewn all over the place by Eruka, while on his way to stop her and Free from awakening Ashura. |
| 382 | * GirlWithPsychoWeapon: It's just a rather dangerous-looking scythe... |
| 383 | ** Also Tsubaki [[InvertedTrope is]] a psycho weapon; at the very least after she absorbs her brother's soul/power. |
| 384 | ** Kim with Jackie when they're brainwashed by Arachne; Jackie (the flamethrowing lantern, naturally) on her own when trying to protect her meister during the same arc. |
| 385 | %%* TheGhost: Maka's mother. |
| 386 | %%* GirlishPigtails: Maka. |
| 387 | * AGodIAmNot: Said by Black☆Star once he reaches PhysicalGod levels of [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower power.]] Very interesting, considering that [[CharacterDevelopment for a long time all he did was shout about how he would one day surpass God.]] |
| 388 | -> I'M HUMAN! IT DOESN'T MEAN I'M WEAK! THINGS AREN'T ALWAYS AS YOU THINK THEM TO BE!! |
| 389 | * GodEmperor: Lord Death, although he's very low-key about it. |
| 390 | * GodhoodSeeker: Many characters, minor or otherwise, covet the power of a [[EvilGod Kishin]] to reach godhood. Some try by eating every soul they can, giving in or empowering themselves with Madness, or making their ''own'' Kishin or form of Madness. |
| 391 | * GoneHorriblyRight: In the anime, Lady Arachne's plan to make Kishin Asura fall in love with her. [[spoiler: As soon as he realizes his feelings, the Kishin rushes to kill her.]] |
| 392 | * GoodIsDumb: [[spoiler:Crona becomes less powerful following their HeelFaceTurn, but this is [[JustifiedTrope justified]] due to having been purged of all the souls Ragnarok consumed.]] |
| 393 | * GoodIsNotNice: Lord Death ''skinned Asura alive''. |
| 394 | %%* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking |
| 395 | * GoodThingYouCanHeal: Free. This is self-induced two ways: One, he just doesn't defend because he's immortal. Two, he hits himself with the occasional spell mishap. |
| 396 | ** [[spoiler:Kim,]] after being mortally wounded by [[spoiler:Havar. Turns out she's a tanuki witch.]] |
| 397 | * GorgeousGorgon: Medusa and Arachne. |
| 398 | * {{Gorn}}: In the manga, Black☆Star's fight with [[spoiler:Mifune.]] Chapter 79 may have just set a record. |
| 399 | * {{Goth}}: An odd yet refreshing example of combining this with modern/urban American themes. Take a look at the characters depicted on this page and tell us they don't just ''scream'' {{Goth}}. |
| 400 | * GothSpirals: In a city like [[HalloweenTown Death City]], these are bound to pop up. |
| 401 | %%* GottaCatchThemAll |
| 402 | * GrandTheftMe: [[spoiler:[[KickTheDog Medusa possessing a little girl named Rachel]]]]. In the manga, [[spoiler:Medusa pulls this on Arachne.]] |
| 403 | * GratuitousEnglish: Excalibur's song in his second appearance. |
| 404 | ** Also, when he speaks of the part of his past when he was a street hoodlum (in the same episode), many GratuitousEnglish words pop up onscreen, including even an aversion of PrecisionFStrike (at a point, the word "'''P'''UCKIN'" appears). |
| 405 | * GreekLetterRanks: Crona's various attacks are named with the pattern "Screech [Greek Letter]", from least powerful to most powerful. In this case it emphasizes the cold and clinical conditions they were raised under and the fact that their abilities are experimental; other characters use more traditional attack names. |
| 406 | * GreyAndGrayMorality: On one hand we have the DWMA, the good guys, that hunt down those that eat the souls of innocent humans and bring chaos to the world. But at the same time, they have no problem hunting down witches, even if they did nothing wrong to deserve it, just to enhance their abilities and are not above using threats (like putting explosive collars on captive witches so that they would be forced to cooperate). On the other hand we have the witches, that while tending more towards evil, are more gray than actual black ([[spoiler: they even later help the DWMA defeating the Kishin]]). However, when concerning [[BigBadEnsemble Medusa, Arachne and Asura]], it is a case of BlackAndWhiteMorality. |
| 407 | * TheGrimReaper: Lord Death. We see a flashback to his more traditional persona and he comments that his current "goofy" appearance is as not to frighten the children at his school. |
| 408 | * GrimUpNorth: The Brew Tempest arc. |
| 409 | * GunsAkimbo: Death the Kid not only uses twin pistols, but for some reason fires them upside down and using his pinkies to pull the triggers. |
| 410 | ** Kid holds the guns inverted [[RuleOfCool so that they double as tonfa in close-quarters combat.]] |
| 411 | ** Also, due to his ObsessivelyOrganized tendencies, he can't bring himself to use just one at a time! |
| 412 | * GunFu: Death The Kid, naturally. |
| 413 | * HalfDressedCartoonAnimal: Excalibur. |
| 414 | * HalfHumanHybrid: Maka's father is a weapon while her mother was not, but slightly averted in that she doesn't seem to be any different to other humans. |
| 415 | ** In the ''Soul Eater'' universe, being a weapon or meister is a part of your genes like your hair color and whatnot. And Maka got the meister gene from her mother. |
| 416 | ** A flashback in the manga has Soul's brother commenting on how their family had just enough of the "Weapon Bloodline" for it to manifest in Soul. |
| 417 | ** In the anime, Maka [[spoiler:activated her "Weapon Bloodline" to fight Asura.]] |
| 418 | *** In the manga, the 'weapon bloodline' mentioned above was the result of Arachne using Eibon's work to create the original Demon Weapons (the Nakatsukasas are direct descendants). So, being a Weapon ''is'' genetic but the result of tampering, not 'natural' evolution, as it were. Maka has unusual traits - demonslayer wavelength, Grigori soul - but these are put down to being very rare in humans rather than a result of her dad being a Weapon. |
| 419 | * HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: [[spoiler: Free]] is sliced in half by Mosquito. [[HealingFactor He gets better]]. |
| 420 | * HalfwayPlotSwitch: The manga and anime starts with the principle characters capturing 99 souls and 1 witch's soul so any of them can become the new weapon of Lord Death, who is basically the Grim Reaper... too bad! Witches eventually become actual antagonists, and that goal is set aside completely to defeat them. [[spoiler:The manga eventually circles back to its original goal, while the anime has an original ending that forgets it.]] |
| 421 | * {{Halloweentown}}: Death City |
| 422 | * HandsomeLech: Spirit. |
| 423 | * HandwrapsOfAwesome: Black☆Star seems to have swapped his old gloves for a pair of these after his last rematch with Mifune. |
| 424 | * {{Hammerspace}}: Maka's book, which is somehow always suddenly there whenever she does a Maka Chop. |
| 425 | ** [[spoiler: This actually becomes a ''plot point'', her Maka Chop while she was inside the Kishin summoned the only book that was around; the Book of Eibon.]] |
| 426 | * HardDrinkingPartyGirl: The pixies that live in Excalibur's cave become this trope when said sword is gone. |
| 427 | * HasAType: Explored in the manga when [[spoiler:Spartoi enter the Book of Ebon. The first chapter, Lust, turns everyone into a reflection of the kind of person they lust after.]] |
| 428 | * HeadDesk: Free slams his head against a tree repeatedly during the infamous GODDAMNITSHIT! scene. |
| 429 | * TheHeartless: Humans who corrupt themselves by consuming innocent souls become "Kishin Eggs." |
| 430 | * HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: [[spoiler:Crona]] |
| 431 | * HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Crona. Double subverted in the anime and manga, albeit in very different ways.]] |
| 432 | * HellishPupils: Medusa, oh does she ever. She's even the page image! |
| 433 | * HelpingWouldBeKillStealing: Discussed in the first episode. Lord Death and Spirit watch Maka and Soul struggle with and Spirit suggests helping them. Death responds that while they ''could'' defeat that enemy "with a single REAPER CHOP" that would not help the kids create a death sycthe. |
| 434 | * HeroicComedicSociopath: Stein may count as this; his habit cutting people/things up is played for laughs. |
| 435 | * TheHeroine Maka Albarn. |
| 436 | * HighlyVisibleNinja: Black☆Star. Even when he isn't trying to appear dramatically and give a speech, he still tends to fight with as little stealth as any of the rest of the cast. |
| 437 | * HitMeDammit: Maka pulls this on Black☆Star [[MyFistForgivesYou as a way of making up]]. He doesn't hold back. |
| 438 | * HotWitch: Medusa, Arachne, and [[spoiler: the Mizune sisters when they fuse together.]] Blair should count, but doesn't because she's not actually a witch. Eruka is more CuteWitch than hot, and Angela is most definitely a CuteWitch. |
| 439 | * HomoeroticSubtext: Parodied when Black☆Star and Soul team up to fight Death the Kid. |
| 440 | ** In the manga, one of the later villains (Noah) has a BattleButler who seems to run on HoYay. |
| 441 | ** Spirit and Stein are rather worth mentioning. What with Spirit supposedly being a ladies' man, he sure spends a lot of time being subtexty with Stein. |
| 442 | *** Or Spirit is a firm believer in bros before hos. |
| 443 | *** There was that one scene with the cigarettes in the ending credits of the final episode.... |
| 444 | ** Also, possibly [[AmbiguousGender Crona]] and Maka... Umm [[ViewerGenderConfusion maybe?]] |
| 445 | * HotBlooded: |
| 446 | ** Ox Ford. |
| 447 | ** Why not throw Black☆Star in the mix? |
| 448 | ** Kilik. |
| 449 | * HoverBoard: Death the Kid has one. |
| 450 | * HumongousMecha: [[spoiler:The anime earns this one in episode 47.]] |
| 451 | * HungryWeapon: all the Demon Weapons gain power by eating souls. One of the protagonists (and series itself) is even ''named'' Soul Eater. |
| 452 | * TheHyena: Patty. This girl finds a disturbing number of things funny. |
| 453 | * HyperspaceMallet: See Hammerspace, above |
| 454 | * AnIcePerson: Free has ice powers, but he's a bit rusty and ends up freezing himself as often as he does his foes. Good thing he has his [[NighInvulnerability other ability]]. |
| 455 | * IAmNotLeftHanded: Black☆Star |
| 456 | * IAmYourOpponent: Maka versus Crona. Black☆Star doesn't like it much, but he gives in. |
| 457 | * IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: The anime has the main title, followed by a subtitle in the form of a question. |
| 458 | * IdiotHero: Black☆Star is a parody of it. |
| 459 | * ILied: [[spoiler: Pretty much how Medusa cons Maka into defeating Arachne and gaining her new body]]. |
| 460 | * {{Immortality}}: |
| 461 | ** CompleteImmortality: Free has absolute regenerative immortality and does not age. |
| 462 | ** BodySurf: Giriko implants his personality and memories into his children one generation after the next. |
| 463 | ** Lord Death and the Gorgon sisters seem to possess some form of immortality as well. |
| 464 | * TheImp: Ragnarok in his SleepModeSize. Also, the imp inside Soul's MentalWorld. |
| 465 | * ImprobableUseOfAWeapon: Pretty much anything that doesn't fit below will fall into this thanks to RuleOfCool. The best example being that Kid fires Liz and Patty [[GangstaStyle upside down]] and uses them like tonfa in close combat. |
| 466 | * ImprobableWeaponUser: |
| 467 | ** Kim's weapon partner, Jackie, is a ''lantern''. A fire-breathing lantern that has an alternate form that allows Kim to climb on and fly, but still, a lantern is an oddity in a world of guns, scythes, hammers, and so forth. |
| 468 | ** And special mention to Justin. He's a friggin' ''guillotine''. Who wields HIMSELF in combat. |
| 469 | ** Then there's [[spoiler: the fifth Death Scythe, Tezcatlipoca, who is a ''mirror'']]. And the meister who uses him is a monkey. |
| 470 | ** East Asia's Death Scythe is a ''magic lamp.'' Yes. We're not even kidding. |
| 471 | * IncessantChorus: Excalibur. |
| 472 | * InconsistentTranslation: A bit of a minor one, but the English dub alternates between referring to some of Tsubaki's various forms by their English names (chain-scythe, ninja star) and their Japanese ones (kasari-gama, shuriken). |
| 473 | %%ZCE* INeedNoLadders: Maka does this when storming through [[SealedEvilInACan the Kishin's]] "tomb". |
| 474 | %%ZCE* InsaneEqualsViolent |
| 475 | * InsaneTrollLogic: |
| 476 | -->'''Lord Death:''' We... Well, it's not like we have serious meetings anyways... Something like this is good sometimes.\ |
| 477 | '''Marie:''' IDIOT!! We're never serious, so we're allowed to be crazy sometimes? That's ridiculous!! |
| 478 | %%ZCE* InstantAwesomeJustAddMecha: The [[spoiler: Death City Robot.]] |
| 479 | %%ZCE* InstantRunes: Used by Asura. |
| 480 | * [[spoiler: IWillWaitForYou: Non-romantic (unless you ship them) version. Crona makes this sort of vow to Maka when, right before they make their Heroic Sacrifice and imprison themselves alongside Asura, she tells them that she'll come back for them someday and tells them to wait for her. The series ended right after, but on the hopeful note that they may yet be reunited, someday.]] |
| 481 | %%ZCE* JerkAss: MEDUSA, MEDUSA, MEDUSA. Probably moreso than any other character in the series. |
| 482 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Black☆Star. Despite being an arrogant jerk that often sets back his and Tsubaki's goal and rubs people (Read: Maka) the wrong way, he is very loyal to his friends: when Tsubaki is fighting her brother, he sits very patiently watching and yells at anyone who disturbs her "show"; he tells Crona that if they are having problems with anyone to let him know, and Black☆Star will take care of them; and when Maka is paralyzed, he and Tsubaki go to track down who did it to her. |
| 483 | * JugglingLoadedGuns: Death the Kid, when he shot Soul and Black☆Star during their bromance hug by accident. |
| 484 | ** [[BlatantLies Yes... accident.]] |
| 485 | * KangarooCourt: Kid and company face this when [[spoiler: they enter Witch realm to ask for witch's help in Moon battle.]] They're tied up and brought to the court when they expected a talk, and are given no chance to defend themselves. By the way, the court doesn't give anything other than death sentences. [[spoiler: The session culminates in sentencing Kid million times to death for being a shinigami.]] |
| 486 | * KatanasAreJustBetter: Tsubaki's ([[MyKungFuIsStrongerThanYours so far]]) ultimate form is a black katana. Mifune also uses katanas. |
| 487 | ** And as of the recent chapter, [[spoiler:Ragnarok apparently. Triple-wielding!]]. |
| 488 | * KidHero: Four of the main characters. |
| 489 | * KillItWithFire: ...And did we mention Jackie also doubles as a flamethrower? |
| 490 | * LandingInSomeonesBathtub: In the first episode, Soul ends up landing in Blair's bubble bath when he jumped through the window of her house. Luckily, his face [[MarshmallowHell landed between her breasts]]. |
| 491 | * LargeHam: Excalibur. Hamminess is also Black☆Star's default state (see ChewingTheScenery), although he is rather less hammy during his LetsGetDangerous moments. |
| 492 | * LaserBlade: [[spoiler:Tsubaki's EleventhHourSuperpower in the anime.]] |
| 493 | * LawyerFriendlyCameo: One of the creatures Maka fights in the original end credits animation is a giant version of Wolf Man's daughter from ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDoo and the Ghoul School'' |
| 494 | ** In addition, the corrupt souls that Maka harvests tend to be variations of Horror Movie villains; UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper, [[Franchise/FridayThe13th Jason]], [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Krueger]], [[Literature/TheRing Sadako]], etc. |
| 495 | * LeaningOnTheFourthWall: |
| 496 | ** In the English dub, during a mission that takes place [[spoiler: in a magnetic field that turns you into a memory after 20 minutes: "Come on, we've got to prioritize, this show's only got 10 minutes left!" There happened to be 10 minutes left in the episode, too.]] |
| 497 | ** In episode 37, Soul says something along the lines of "Special training isn't cool. Leave that to characters in shonen manga." |
| 498 | * LeftHanging: Without spoiling too much, the anime ended with quite a lot of plot threads left dangling. |
| 499 | ** Although not quite as bad about it, the manga also left quite a few things unaddressed. |
| 500 | * LegendaryWeapon: Excalibur is considered the strongest of weapons (which, in this setting, is a race) and his power is considered the stuff of legend. Any Meister who wields him is pretty much unstoppable, and many have tried, as his location and exploits are well documented. [[spoiler: What isn't, is the fact that he is completely insufferable and no one can stand him long enough to use him for long.]] |
| 501 | * LetsGetDangerous: |
| 502 | ** When the eyes on Lord Death's mask go from round-and-dopey to triangular-and-angry, everyone in the next '''3 mile''' radius should kindly ''RUN AWAY'' if they don't have a will written. |
| 503 | ** Also, Kid with one of the Sanzu lines completed = [[SuperMode bad]]. Kid with one of the Sanzu lines completed, and NOT having an OCD breakdown = [[OhCrap Kiss Your Ass Goodbye]]. |
| 504 | ** Black☆Star when he's not being a LargeHam. |
| 505 | * LightningFireJuxtaposition: One minor group consists of [[MrViceGuy Kim Diehl]] & [[FireBreathingWeapon Jacqueline Dupre]] as the id (fire), [[BadassBookworm Ox Ford]] & Harvar D. as the superego (lightening) and [[TokenMinority Kilik]] & [[PowerFist Pot of Fire and Pot of Thunder]] as the ego (one of the pots is fire based, the other is lightening based). Kilik is also an example on his own, since using two elements symbolises that he's really good at synchronizing with weapons ([[spoiler: at one point he's able to wield four partners at once, when most meisters can only manage one]]). |
| 506 | * LikeParentLikeSpouse: for both Maka and Soul, AND Maka and Crona as a ShipTease |
| 507 | ** Maka's primary objective is to make Soul have the same power level as Spirit so he can replace her father. Spirit may not like Soul because of how similar he is to himself at that age. |
| 508 | ** With Crona and Maka, while Maka has absolutely NOTHING in common with Crona's biological mother [[AbusiveParents Medusa]], she actually has a few things in common with Marie, who basically treats [[LikeASonToMe Crona]] [[ParentalSubstitute like her own child]]. Both Maka and Marie are willing to forget the rules to do what is right and stand by the people they care about the most. In the manga, Marie defied Lord Death's orders to help Stein investigate the murder of Joe Buttataki, while Maka defies Lord Death's orders to kill Crona when they were put on his list of evil people for the Academy to hunt down. Also in the anime, they both were willing to do the same thing again for the same people, albeit for different reasons, Marie quit her job to take advantage of a loophole in Lord Deaths deal with Medusa to not send anyone from the DWMA to kill to save Stein from Medusa's madness and Maka disobeyed orders to go help Crona since they volunteered to go to make amends for their betrayal. They even both save their partners from madness with their special soul wavelengths, Marie used healing wavelength on Stein and Maka used her anti-demon wavelength on Soul. Their relationships with Crona are also similar in how kind and gentle they are with them, with the only difference in the anime is that Maka was more willingly to forgive them than Marie wasn't willing do so right away due to Steins condition caused by their betrayal, and said she couldn't trust or forgive Crona until Stein was brought back(though Marie later regretted being so harsh to them and saying that). This is a rare case having more in common with your love interests mother figure than biological mother, but it may be big reason why some prefer Maka and Crona being shipped together over Maka and Soul. |
| 509 | * LivingShadow: An effect of the Dark Blade. |
| 510 | * LoadsAndLoadsOfRaces: There are many races in the Soul Eater universe which are: |
| 511 | ** Humans |
| 512 | ** Demon Weapons: Humans with the ability to transform into weapons. |
| 513 | ** Witches |
| 514 | ** Sorcerers or Warlocks |
| 515 | ** Evil Humans: Humans who consumed too much souls to the point they become inhuman monstrosities. |
| 516 | ** Monsters (such as Werewolves, Bloodsuckers or vampires, Clowns, etc) |
| 517 | ** Shinigami |
| 518 | ** Demons |
| 519 | * LonelyPianoPiece: Appears in the final battle after [[spoiler:Maka and Soul wake up to find that the rest of their TrueCompanions have all been defeated]]. Of course, they were asking for it, given how Soul both plays the piano [[spoiler:and uses this for a literal ThemeMusicPowerUp]]. |
| 520 | * LongerThanLifeSentence: Taken to its logical conclusion when the witches' KangarooCourt sentences Free (who's functionally immortal, NighInvulnerable and was already serving an indefinite sentence when he was introduced and broken out of their jail) to multiple death sentences. Of course, he gets off lightly compared to [[spoiler:Death the Kid (the son of the GrimReaper himself) who they sentence to ''a million death penalties'']]. |
| 521 | * LongLostRelative:[[spoiler: Asura is this to Kid.]] |
| 522 | * LostInTranslation: In the original recording, Joe Buttakaki argues with Lord Death about his coffee requirements, requesting Mandheling coffee beans. Mandheling sounds like "mandolin", so Death, [[CloudCuckooLander confused, holds a mandolin]]. In the English dub, they change it so both characters just say "coffee beans", meaning it's no longer a miscommunication, and Lord Death holds a mandolin for absolutely no reason! |
| 523 | ** In a similar instance, Lord Death and the Death Scythe Spirit are having a philosophical argument about [[ItMakesSenseInContext telling jokes and women's underwear.]] In the original recording, they compare the importance of repetition in jokes to the repetition in layers of lasagna, which props a helpful popup on the screen to explain the comparison. In the dub, the comparison is taken out of the dialogue, but the popup remains, referring to a lasagna which none of the characters are talking about. |
| 524 | * LovableSexManiac: For all his flaws, Maka's Dad is a well meaning, caring and lovable fella. |
| 525 | * LoveBubbles: Spoofed with the "break-up" between Soul and Black☆Star. |
| 526 | * LovesTheSoundOfScreaming: [[spoiler: Justin Law has a moment.]] |
| 527 | * LovecraftianSuperpower: A few examples, the series being what it is, but the most obvious is Crona who can use their blood as a weapon. Not only does it become a sword, but if it is cut out of their body, it can be controlled to make blades and needles out of the spilled drops and it makes their body very durable against cutting attacks. |
| 528 | * LuckyCharmsTitle: An odd example. Rather than the title of the show, Black☆Star's name is always spelled with a ☆. |
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| 530 | |
| 531 | [[folder: M-Z]] |
| 532 | * MadDoctor: Stein. |
| 533 | * MadeOfIron: Black☆Star mostly. |
| 534 | ** When first introduced, Kid got impaled numerous times and was covered in blood, but just got straight up again and shrugged it off. |
| 535 | ** Though to be honest, most of the main cast have taken great amounts of damage and treated it like it was nothing. |
| 536 | *** Crona. Pretty much impossible to damage through physical means. |
| 537 | * MadnessMakeover: [[spoiler:Justin Law]] |
| 538 | * MadnessMantra: [[spoiler:''Hurry up, hurry up. Rid yourself of your fake skin. Give into your weight and walk on. The glorious light illuminating the way out is almost in your sight.'']] |
| 539 | ** My blood is black... Those doors open inward... My blood is black... |
| 540 | * MadnessMontage: Stein's visions |
| 541 | * MadScientist: Dr. Franken Stein; with special emphasis on "Mad". |
| 542 | * MagicalBarefooter: Medusa is always barefoot except when she is masquerading as the doctor at the DWMA. It's such an identifying part of her character that when she [[spoiler: takes over the body of the little girl Rachel, the final sign of her complete domination of her new body as she leaves Rachel's house is leaving her sandals on the sidewalk.]] |
| 543 | * MagicSkirt: With the frequency that she is thrown rolling backwards and all the tumbling she is doing, it's quite surprising that Maka hasn't become the queen of PantyShot with that short little skirt of hers. |
| 544 | ** The manga averted this for a bit, but later chapters have played it straight. |
| 545 | * TheMagnificentSevenSamurai: The main protagonist and their partners form a group of 7. Maka the leader and her partner Soul is the lancer, Black☆Star the big guy with Tsubaki the chick, Kid is the smart guy with two chick partners Liz and Patty. |
| 546 | * ManChild: Spirit, Maka's sweet and immature LovableSexManiac of a dad, and Marie the innocent and romantic schoolgirl. |
| 547 | * TheManInTheMoon - [[TheFaceOfTheSun And the Sun!]] |
| 548 | * MarkedChange: Black line patterns while using the Dark Blade. |
| 549 | ** Kid gains three vertical lines across his mouth while using [[spoiler: Madness by Order]]. They make him look like someone has sewn his mouth shut. |
| 550 | * MarshmallowHell: [[CatGirl Blair]] does this to Soul on occassion. |
| 551 | * MasculineFeminineAndrogyneTrio: Maka (a sweet and responsible girl) and Soul (an impulsive "cool guy") formed a trio with Chrona after the latter's Heel–Face Turn. Chrona is androgynous and never had their gender confirmed. |
| 552 | * {{Matricide}}: Played with. Crona kills their mother Medusa because she had been nice to her, something [[AbusiveParents Crona was so unused to]] that it [[MistakenForAnImposter made them think Medusa was actually an imposter]]. |
| 553 | * MayContainEvil: Averted. The pills Medusa prescribed for Maka are just normal herbal medicine for improved blood flow. Of course, this does help to catalyze the Black Blood. |
| 554 | * MeaningfulName: Most of the cast. |
| 555 | * MentalWorld: The room inside Soul's mind. |
| 556 | ** Also Crona's "Oceanless Beach", the city Stein wanders through in his MadnessMontage, and the purple lake where Tsubaki fights Masamune could possibly count |
| 557 | ** The black void inside Asura is either this or some sort of pocket dimension. |
| 558 | * MindScrew: Stein. [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Literally.]] |
| 559 | * MinorFlawMajorBreakup: Hero finally dumping Excalibur because of his [[spoiler:sneezing]]. |
| 560 | * MobileCity: In the anime, [[spoiler: Death City]] is revealed to have legs and to be able to get up and walk around. This is set up early, with Dr Stein pointing out that the only way for Death to chase the BigBad would be if [[spoiler: Death City grew legs and started walking]], lampshading the ludicrousness of such a thought and making it so that no-one would assume that it could, in fact, happen. |
| 561 | * MomentKiller: |
| 562 | ** During the scene in [[spoiler:the infirmary shortly after their first battle with Crona, Maka is shown standing beside Soul's bed and starts to tear up while looking at an unconcious Soul. She just about gets to finish making a heroic promise before '''Black☆Star''' literally crashes into the room and starts strangling Soul on his bed.]] |
| 563 | ** [[spoiler:Also, when Maka meets Crona in the desert in episode 39, she decides to forgive Crona and they share a hug when Soul is suddenly annoyed and just wants to get the heck out of there.]] |
| 564 | ** [[spoiler::At the very end of the manga, Excalibur tells Kid that coming into his full power as a Shinigami has led to his father's death. He then inspires Kid with a big heroic speech, which segues directly into deciding what he wants to eat (interrupting Kid's own speech in the process.)]] |
| 565 | * MonsterClown: ''All'' of them. Clowns are the AnthropomorphicPersonification of madness, {{Humanoid Abomination}}s that spread and feed on madness. [[spoiler:Following the release of the kishin]], they can be produced naturally or artificially. While there are a few clown characters, one clown in particular is notable for plaguing Maka [[spoiler:and Justin Law]]. |
| 566 | * MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: Stein |
| 567 | * MoreThanJustATeacher: Most of the teachers at DWMA are also {{Living Weapon}}s or wielders of those weapons. |
| 568 | * MorphWeapon: Tsubaki |
| 569 | * MortonsFork: The attraction type, as Maka's father warns off Soul from trying to make a move on his daughter - then reacts poorly when Soul says he wouldn't "settle" for her. |
| 570 | * MotherRussiaMakesYouStrong: Tsar Pushka is the Death Scythe in charge of Russia, and both he and his meister Feodor are ''fucking hardcore''. Feodor alone beat the shit out of [[HumanoidAbomination Crona]], and the two of then together came pretty close to killing [[AmbiguousGender them]] for good. |
| 571 | * MotherlyScientist: Doctor Medusa (subverted: [[spoiler: She plays the nice doctor, but she's secretly poisoning her patients.]]) |
| 572 | * {{Motifs}}: |
| 573 | ** Escaping fear through obtaining power is a recurring theme that shows up as early as Sid-sensei's debut. |
| 574 | *** The first Kishin, Asura, was so afflicted with fear that he started murdering innocent human beings to consume their souls for the power it would give him. His fear remained un-sated... and still does, to this day. |
| 575 | *** Black*Star's physical condition is second only to the gods... and when confronted with the limits of his human body he grows frustrated and angry. When school nurse Naigus warns him that ongoing use of [[DangerousForbiddenTechnique the uncanny sword]] will potentially kill him and that he's forbidden from using it, Black*Star picks a fight with Death the Kid to prove his physical condition to himself. His refusal to accept his limitations reminds the staff of someone else who went mad for the same reason, [[spoiler:his father, White*Star]]. |
| 576 | *** In an inversion of the motif, when they confront the clown in the Nidhogg factory, Soul and Maka have a heart to heart about madness and come to the conclusion that courage is a kind of madness itself. |
| 577 | ** There are strong religious motifs in ''Soul Eater''. |
| 578 | *** Soul admires the gothic cathedral that he and Maka investigate right before they meet Crona for the first time. |
| 579 | *** The witches have public gatherings known as witches masses. |
| 580 | *** Justin Law wears the zucchetto, mozzetta, and cassock of a church bishop and makes the hammiest displays of religious piety to the god of death. |
| 581 | *** Arachne is described as TheHeretic among witches. |
| 582 | ** Resonance, in both the literal sense of sound and the metaphorical sense of emotion and mind. |
| 583 | *** Soul-resonance is the {{Synchronization}} of a weapon and its meister--the relationship of a meister and weapon is compared to an electric-guitarist and the guitar's amplifier. |
| 584 | *** Crona doesn't use soul-resonance like a normal meister--indeed, Crona is constantly at odds with its own weapon Ragnarok and is generally only able to tolerate and use him in fits of madness. Instead, the demon weapon Ragnarok creates its own literal resonance by shrieking at the top of its voice. This [[EvilCounterpart perverse alternative]] to soul-resonance is called [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin screech resonance]]. |
| 585 | *** After being infected with Ragnarok's black blood, Soul gains access to a special piano that appears to let him [[YinYangBomb use Ragnarok-like sound-resonance in combination with weapon-meister soul-resonance]]. The powerful resonance of Soul's piano is essential to Maka, Death the Kid, and Black*Star resonating as a team in battle, and Soul later inviting Maka to play it herself gives her anti-demon wavelength a NextTierPowerUp, upgrading the Witch-Hunt Slash to the Demon-Hunt Slash at the same time. |
| 586 | *** Justin Law's headphones invert the pattern, using sound [[HeadphonesEqualIsolation to cut Justin off from everyone around him]] and ''preventing'' him from resonating with anyone. Justin's loud voice and the big speakers of his car appear to be him compensating for this. |
| 587 | * MrFanservice: Kid and Stein |
| 588 | * MsFanservice: Any female character that's not Maka, Eruka or the twins in the anime. In the manga there are nooo exceptions. |
| 589 | ** The twins get their moment, but we lose the "Ms" for one of them. |
| 590 | * MuggingTheMonster: How Liz and Patty meet Kid. |
| 591 | ** While visiting Italy, Soul is confronted by a street gang and beats them effortlessly. Unfortunately for them, they pull this again later against Crona and Ragnarok, and get eaten for their trouble. |
| 592 | * MultiTakeCut: Any time Death the Kid fires the Death Cannon, there are four takes of the show from different angles (counting the first one); the one exception in the anime is the final fight against the Kishin, where he fires it multiple times without the cuts. |
| 593 | * MultipleReferencePun: The Thompson Sisters |
| 594 | * MustHaveCaffeine: Hello, everyone. My name is Joe Buttataki and I'm a java junkie. |
| 595 | * MyGreatestFailure: Maka sees Soul's [[TakingTheBullet defending her from Crona]] as this on her part for being unable to protect him, while Soul argues that it's his job to protect her, not the other way around. |
| 596 | * MyNameIsInigoMontoya: It's a shonen anime; of course this one gets a workout. All the protagonists use it repeatedly. |
| 597 | * NakedApron: the Succubus |
| 598 | * NakedFirstImpression: This is how Soul finds Blair. |
| 599 | * NakedOnArrival: See the above. |
| 600 | * NakedOnRevival: [[spoiler:Asura]]. He then makes: |
| 601 | ** ImprovisedClothes: [[spoiler: Out of [[{{Squick}} his own skin]].]] |
| 602 | * TheNapoleon: Black☆Star. |
| 603 | * NephariousPharaoh: Witch {{necromancer}} Samantha tries to summon Wrath of the Pharaoh, a malevolent spirit residing in the Pyramid of Anubis. The sarcophagus of the Pharaoh is perfectly symmetrical, making it impossible for the ObsessivelyOrganized Kid to destroy it. Then the Pharaoh steps out of the sarcophagus to give the final strike, and he is revealed to be horribly asymmetrical. Cue Kid's BerserkButton [[CurbStompBattle hitting the floor]]. |
| 604 | * NeverSayDie: Oddly enough, this trope is present in the English dub when Crona's training as a child with the [[strike:baby dragon]] "little one" comes up. Flashbacks show [[spoiler:Medusa]] ordering them to "defeat" rather than kill it. This is strange, given that other parts of the dub seem to have no problem mentioning death. |
| 605 | ** Medusa probably figured that telling Crona to kill the "little one" would have freaked them out even more. |
| 606 | * NewOldFlame: Marie and Buttataki Joe in the manga. [[spoiler:Temporary; Justin Law kills him shortly after.]] |
| 607 | ** Because Buttataki has a different role in the anime, the role is given to Stein there instead. |
| 608 | *** Though, that can also be seen in the manga. He's referred to as her "first love" and she's obviously pretty close to him, so it can be construed as at least a subtexty New Old Flame. |
| 609 | * NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: The GeckoEnding gives them to Maka and Kid out of nowhere. |
| 610 | ** Kid's later turn out to be {{Canon}}. |
| 611 | * NiceJobBreakingItHero: When "The man with the Magic Eye" escapes from prison, one of the guards trying to recapture him freaks out when he survives 5 spears being thrust through his head, turning [[KillItWithFire a flamethrower on him]]... this winds up charring the stocks around his wrist to char, allowing him ''more'' freedom. |
| 612 | * NightmareFuelStationAttendant: Patty can occasionally delve into this. |
| 613 | * NinjaPirateZombieRobot: Sid is a ninja meister zombie teacher! |
| 614 | ** And Free is an immortal magical werewolf! |
| 615 | ** And Giriko is a chainsaw wizard! |
| 616 | * NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: [[spoiler:Noah and Justin versus Stein, Sid, Marie, Nygus and Tezca. [[spoiler:Well, [[FakingTheDead maybe not Tezca.]]]] |
| 617 | * NoNameGiven: Free is known only by his nicknames. |
| 618 | ** Justified since Free was in jail so long that even he forgot his own name. He decided to name himself "Free" because he was finally out of prison. |
| 619 | * NonIndicativeName: Only one Death Scythe ([[spoiler: and much later in the story, two]]) is actually a scythe. Some translations of the manga change the name to Death's Weapon. |
| 620 | * NoOneCouldSurviveThat: At least [[spoiler:twice]] in the manga, and [[spoiler:definitely even more times]] in the anime. |
| 621 | * {{Nosebleed}}: Blair's effect on Soul. |
| 622 | ** [[spoiler:Maka has a tiny one when she's genderbent and has a look at an entering Succubus. Hilariously enough, [[HypocriticalHumor Soul is not pleased]].]] |
| 623 | * NoSenseOfDirection: Marie constantly gets lost at DWMA, even though she's supposed to be an Alumna. [[spoiler: Crona and Ragnarok kind of use this to their advantage once to get out of trouble, saying they were also lost when they go into a restricted area. It took them two hours to find Crona's dorm room while being led by Marie.]] |
| 624 | ** Shown again by Marie when [[spoiler:her and Crona are on their way to Medusa's hideout. Marie points the two in the direction of a series of confusing signs, the first of which lead to snakes, the second which led to quicksand and the third which led to this creepy (possibly NightmareFuel) crayon monster. At the fourth sign, which is pointing in three different directions, is when Crona breaks the chain (before it went [[OverlyLongGag downhill]]) and leads the duo that time.]] |
| 625 | ** Free also. [[spoiler: After infiltrating Baba Yaga's castle the team split up to destroy the Magic Tool Locks that protected Arachne's room. Free was assigned to destroy Lock number 1 of 8. Because of his lack of direction, however, he went instead towards tower 2. However he ended up in tower 8 on the other side of the entire castle. Luckily this let him [[BigDamnHeroes meet up with Kid]] and [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass pull off a personality change]] and [[IncrediblyLamePun stick it]] to Mosquito [[CurbStompBattle rather easily.]] [[BishonenLine ...Mostly]]]] |
| 626 | * NotQuiteDead: Repeatedly. [[spoiler:Especially for the witches, mostly Medusa.]] |
| 627 | * NotWhatItLooksLike: Soul. Oh, Soul... |
| 628 | * NounVerber: Soul Eater. Crona the Demon Blader (although that depends on your translation; most have it as Demon Swordsman). |
| 629 | * LightningBruiser: Many, but Black☆Star particularly stands out. Marie's Lightning Rope ability makes whoever's weilding her an unusually literal example. |
| 630 | * ObfuscatingStupidity: Lord Death developed his child-like persona for the sake of his students, as he would often scare them in his old form. However, some of his original hardcore personality shows up in his [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome fight with Asura]]. |
| 631 | * OddCouple: Nearly all Meisters and Weapons are opposites of each other, and as they find a medium their power increases. |
| 632 | ** Makes one wonder about Lord Death, looking at his current collection of Death Scythes. Even accounting for Spirit being 'the' Death Scythe, that's an awful lot of contrasting personalities going on amongst the introduced area heads. Azusa's uptight, Marie's a ditz... |
| 633 | *** On that note, who imagines a GrimReaper carrying a sniper rifle/crossbow, a hammer or a mirror? Puts a slightly different spin on the term "odd couple". |
| 634 | *** One of the reasons that Spirit doesn't go searching for Kishin was along the lines of him being "the only one who can truly be called a Death Scythe". |
| 635 | * OfficialCouple: [[spoiler: Marie and Stein at the end.]] |
| 636 | ** Ox and Kim are, notably, the only official couple among the teenage characters. |
| 637 | * OffscreenTeleportation: How in the Hell did Spirit and Stein get all the way from Death Valley, Nevada to Italy so quickly?! |
| 638 | ** He works for a PhysicalGod that sometimes lives in a mirror. One would imagine Lord Death has some sort of teleportation magic. |
| 639 | * OhCrap: |
| 640 | ** When Soul [[spoiler: appears in front of Maka to take a slash from Crona.]] Maka's expression is this. |
| 641 | ** In the manga, during the Baba Yaga invasion arc, [[spoiler: Kid and Free fight Mosquito, and at first it looks like they have the upper hand. But then Mosquito turns into his vampire form from 400 years ago, and nearly kills them both in less than a second.]] |
| 642 | *** And then Mosquito gets one of his own when he realises that Kid has the real Brew. Kid then forces him to retreat. |
| 643 | ** The first time we see an [[OhCrap Oh Crap]] moment in the anime is when Maka uses her Soul Perception ability against Stein to see the strength of his soul. The shock sent her into a short [[HeroicBSOD Heroic BSOD]]. |
| 644 | ** Kid has an OhCrap moment when [[spoiler: Noah]], who had just thoroughly mopped the floor with [[spoiler: Mosquito]], suddenly appears right next to him. |
| 645 | * OhNoNotAgain: Black☆Star takes the cake when after seeing [[spoiler:[[JerkAss Excalibur]]]] in the Wrath chapter of Eibon, which naturally pissed him off, the group leaves the chapter with Black☆Star (and pretty much everyone else) glad to be ridden of the annoyance, only to find [[spoiler:Excalibur]] ''again'' in the ''next chapter''. Black☆Star's reaction? ''[[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments Well...]]'' |
| 646 | -->'''Black☆Star:''' [''upon seeing [[spoiler:Excalibur]]''] '''''OH HELL NO!''''' |
| 647 | * OminousLatinChanting: Shows up during [[spoiler:the fights between Lord Death and the Kishin, and during most of the Kishin battles.]] |
| 648 | * OneHeadTaller: In the main cast, the female weapons are significantly taller than their male meisters. Soul and Maka are at pretty much the same height. |
| 649 | ** Not anymore, they aren't. Soul had a growth spurt, it seems. As did Black☆Star. Kid is still a lot shorter than Liz, but he's grown too. |
| 650 | * OneManArmy: All the main characters in the Battle on the Moon arc. |
| 651 | * OneWingedAngel: Done by [[spoiler: the Demon God]] in the anime |
| 652 | * OnlyOneName: Black☆Star |
| 653 | ** Although technically he is from the Star Clan and his father was named White☆Star, so you could argue that Star is the family name. |
| 654 | * OnlyTheChosenMayWield: Due to their personality overlap and personal relationships, each weapon can generally only be wielded by whatever meister it is assigned to at the moment. Particularly advanced meisters (including all of the adults on the show) and deathscythes appear to be exceptions to this. |
| 655 | ** Justified in that it is explained at a meister and weapon must tune their souls in order to fight together. The adult meisters and weapons have simply learned how to tune their souls to different partners. |
| 656 | ** Ironically, the trope is averted with Excalibur. He is the most powerful of all weapons yet can easily be wielded by anyone who wants to; the main obstacle to partnering with him is putting up with his obnoxious personality and the strict rules he makes his wielders follow. |
| 657 | * OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Lord Death is a [[CloudCuckooLander silly]] [[ObfuscatingStupidity goofball]] most of the time, except when he's dealing with [[BigBad Asura]]. In fact, during his last fight with Asura, the longer the fight goes on, the more serious and less goofy he gets. At the end he barely even sounds like the same entity, as [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by Spirit. |
| 658 | -->'''Spirit:''' I know he's the god of death, but I've never heard him sound so murderous before! |
| 659 | * OpaqueLenses: Stein, most of the time, also Asuza. |
| 660 | * OpenTheIris: Inverted with Maka. Her normally invisible pupils widen when she is emotionally shocked, or using her 'soul vision' to see other people's souls. Crona too, in addition to their eyes completely changing color when s/he's freaking out. |
| 661 | * OrderVersusChaos: |
| 662 | ** One of the major themes of this story. Basically, Order isn't inherently good, but Chaos is inherently evil. |
| 663 | * OrificeInvasion: Medusa does this to a little girl in the suburbs to possess her, [[spoiler: and later again to get Arachne's body.]] |
| 664 | * OurFairiesAreDifferent: There's a fairy or two in Excalibur's cave. This is the only time they show up in the whole series, though. |
| 665 | * OurSoulsAreDifferent: They're little blue orbs that appear when someone is killed. Eating them makes you more powerful but also slowly turns you into a twisted monster; however, Demon Weapons can consume tainted souls and Witch souls with no negative side effects. While a person is still alive, their soul manifests as an orb surrounding their body, visible only to people with Soul Perception. The size of this orb is a rough indication of someone's power. |
| 666 | * OurVampiresAreDifferent: [[BattleButler Mosquito]], a vampiric creature called a Bloodsucker. He appears as a [[MiniatureSeniorCitizen shrunken old man]] with a long pointed nose, but he can shapeshift into the forms his body has taken over the centuries. [[spoiler: His 100 years ago form is enormous and [[MadeOfIron very, very tough]]. His 200 years ago form is grotesque and quadripedal, with an even bigger nose than his other forms. His 400 years ago form is where he crosses the BishonenLine : A LightningBruiser who looks much like a classic "noble vampire" and can turn into a swarm of bats. His 800 years ago form is a twisted OneWingedAngel that gets promptly offed by [[TheCollector Noah]].]] He can also heal himself by [[MeaningfulName drinking the blood of others]] through his nose. |
| 667 | * OurWitchesAreDifferent: The witches in the series come in CuteWitch, WickedWitch, VainSorceress, and [[OldMaster Old Mistress]] varieties. At first, most except Angela seem evil, but this is being elaborated on in later chapters of the manga. Which (ha!), in the manga, leads to a WitchHunt, where [[spoiler:Medusa, the ''evil'' Witch, sells out the ''good'' witch who had joined DWMA to get away from the others.]] |
| 668 | * OurZombiesAreDifferent: Once Sid becomes a zombie, he retains his personality and abilities but his skin turns a dull blue and his face gets frozen in a permanent grimace. He also gains the ability to quickly tunnel through the ground and he picks up the habit of saying "that's the kind of man I was!" instead of "that's the kind of man I am!" |
| 669 | * OutOfClothesExperience: When the weapons speak in their weapons forms, other than the title character. In other words, only the girls are naked. However, a few chapters in Soul gets a big scar across his chest and starts showing up shirtless in weapon form to show it off. After that, everyone is always naked in weapon form regardless of gender. |
| 670 | * OverEnthusiasticParents: Spirit/Deathscythe/Maka's Papa. What he lacks in ability he makes up for in effort and love. |
| 671 | * PalantirPloy: Arachne uses her spiders as spies to track enemy movement. |
| 672 | * PartialTransformation: Pretty much the only way a Weapon can effectively fight without a Meister to wield him or her. Giriko is particularly skilled at this. He's a chainsaw, so of course he can turn his arms and legs into chainsaws, but he can also obtain InstantArmor or SuperSpeed by strapping chains to his chest or the soles of his feet. |
| 673 | * PetTheDog: Upon hearing that Maka was injured in a battle and is now bedridden, Mifune gives Black☆Star a 'get well' candy to give to her. Medusa too can have some kindhearted moments, prompting Soul to ask, "Why would someone who could say something so kind decide to mess up the world? Are you really that cold-hearted?" Medusa doesn't respond. |
| 674 | ** Unlikely to be a true example, as it's just Medusa being a very cruel [[ManipulativeBastard Manipulative Bitch]] using a supposed parent-child bond with Crona against the kids, Maka in particular, to gain their favour. |
| 675 | * PhraseCatcher: Excalibur, usually invectives. |
| 676 | ** Not a phrase, exactly, but everyone who's met Excalibur makes that same horrible face. |
| 677 | * PhoneWord: The number to call {{Shinigami}} is 42-42-564 (''shini-shini-goroshi'', "death-death-murder"). |
| 678 | * PhysicalGod: |
| 679 | ** The Grim Reaper Lord Death and Kishin Asura. |
| 680 | ** Black☆Star becomes a PhysicalGod simply by becoming so powerful that he can no longer be considered human. |
| 681 | ** [[spoiler:Kid also ascends to godhood during the Battle on the Moon.]] |
| 682 | * PlotPants: This is prevalent with all of the recurring characters, with the exception of the members of [[spoiler:Spartoi]], who have two sets of Plot Pants. |
| 683 | * PowerBornOfMadness: In Chapter 42, Maka and Soul evidently agree that "insanity is the source of strength." The strongest example of this appears to be the [[PsychoSerum black blood]], although other characters seem to receive some form of power boost from insanity as well. |
| 684 | * PowerDegeneration: Black☆Star |
| 685 | * PowerEchoes: A rather humurous example with Black☆Star in episode 13. When he breaks out his demon blade form for the first time against Free, everything slows down and an echo of "shadow star... star... star... star" can be heard. Turns out it was Black☆Star repeating the last word over and over again as he passed out mid-attack. |
| 686 | * ThePowerOfFamily: "Bonds" is a soul-resonating phenomenon exclusive to family members such as parents or siblings. No matter the circumstances, it seems that a family member can always wield another should one be a Meister and another a Weapon (the most famous example being Liz and Patty). Even Soul Resonance attacks are possible [[spoiler: like when Maka used Witch Hunter wielding her father, Spirit, against Crona]]. However, despite that, resonance between family members is not as strong due to a similarity in wavelength. |
| 687 | %%* ThePowerOfFriendship - ZCE; needs to be expanded. |
| 688 | * PowerGivesYouWings: Manga only Maka possesess the rare angel-winged Grigori type soul, which she uses to [[spoiler: create wings for Death Scythe Soul to fly]]. |
| 689 | * PowerPerversionPotential: Masamune can provide both bondage and single-handed gangrape. Soul can and has been used for things he oughtn't be used for in doujin and H-rated pictures. Let us not speak of Medusa's extras in literally ''every'' Medusa-centric doujin ever. Time will only tell if Noah has it. |
| 690 | ** [[spoiler: His book can [[GenderBender Gender Bend]] people.]] |
| 691 | %%* FreudianTrio: |
| 692 | %%** Maka - Ego |
| 693 | %%** Black☆Star - Id |
| 694 | %%** Soul - Superego |
| 695 | %%*** or: |
| 696 | %%*** Liz - Ego |
| 697 | %%*** Patty - Id |
| 698 | %%*** Death the Kid - Superego |
| 699 | * PragmaticAdaptation: While the first three quarters of the anime is more or less taken exactly from the manga, after that the GeckoEnding kicks in and things (obviously) start getting different. |
| 700 | * PrecisionFStrike: There's a couple in the Hungarian dub amongst a great deal of {{Cluster F Bomb}}ing: "I'm gonna kick... HER ASS!" and "[[CountryMatters Go crawl into a cunt!]]" |
| 701 | * PrepareToDie - In the anime, Medusa to [[spoiler:her own child, Crona]]. Uses the [[PrepareToDie And Now You Die]] variation. |
| 702 | ** Lord Death to Asura after the latter escapes from DWMA. |
| 703 | * ProductPlacement: The book Maka is always reading is Gangan, the magazine the manga is serialized in. |
| 704 | * PronounTrouble: [[AmbiguousGender With Crona's gender left ambiguous]], fan scanlators, subbers, and dubbing companies were sometimes forced to make a best guess. This has led some fans to claim to know Crona's true gender, even though there's no canonical support. |
| 705 | * PsychicLink: Soul Resonance can do this. |
| 706 | * PsychoactivePowers: The soul wavelength. |
| 707 | * PsychoForHire: Giriko. |
| 708 | * PsychoSerum: The Black Blood. |
| 709 | * {{Pun}}: |
| 710 | ** Mandheling brand coffee sounds like mandolin, which is why Lord Death keeps strumming a chord every time he talks to Joe Buttataki about coffee. |
| 711 | ** When Kid first meets Soul and Black☆Star: |
| 712 | ---> '''Soul:''' Whoa!! It's Shinigami-sama! In real death! |
| 713 | ** "I already made a reservation. Just in case. At the Death-staurant...that French place on Third Street." -Investigator B.J. |
| 714 | * PunnyName: Dr. Franken Stein and Eruka (spelled with the same syllables as "kaeru", Japanese for frog), just to name a few... |
| 715 | ** Also, Maka is an anagram of "kama", which is Japanese for scythe. |
| 716 | * PuppeteerParasite: Another lovely trick of Medusa's; [[spoiler: After her main body is cut in half, she goes to a modern day suburbia in snake form, and slithers into a random child's mouth; taking over her body and running off. ItOnlyWorksOnce, so she can't do it again.]] |
| 717 | ** [[spoiler: Later, it turns out she can do it again.]] |
| 718 | *** [[spoiler: Medusa explains to Arachne that it was splitting up her soul (to avoid it being eaten by Death Scythe), not the possession, that she could only to the once, due to the Kishin's soul wavelength at that point.]] |
| 719 | * PuttingThePalInPrincipal: Shinigami-Sama/Lord Death is respected and beloved by everyone in the organization, his image and name plastered all over Death City and is even looked upon as a symbol of worship to some. |
| 720 | * PyrrhicVictory: Lampshaded and defied with Stein and Spirit's victory over Medusa. They win, sure, but they were fighting to prevent the Kishin's revival and their victory came from Medusa being distracted by sensing the Kishin's wavelength. Stein comments on the bitter irony of them winning because they failed, then admits that the thrill of bisecting Medusa makes up for it, to Spirit's disgust. |
| 721 | * RankUp: All of the Meisters and Demon Weapons that make up Spartoi go from One-Star to Two-Star. |
| 722 | * RecruitedFromTheGutter: It's revealed that the Thompson sisters were originally criminals before Death the Kid recruited them as his weapons. [[spoiler: Liz originally planned to take Kid for a ride, but relented when she realised how happy Patty was now they finally had a home.]] |
| 723 | * RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: Most of the shots of the BigBad in the 4th credit sequence is Red, Black, Grey, and inspired by insanity. |
| 724 | * RedEyesTakeWarning: Asura plays it straight, while Soul averts it. |
| 725 | * RedemptionDemotion: [[spoiler: Ragnarok, who's basically bound to Crona notably shrinks upon Crona's]] [[spoiler: HeelFaceTurn]] |
| 726 | * RepeatCut: Maka's Demon Hunter finishing blow on Mosquito in episode 36. Kid's "Death Cannon" technique frequently evokes this as well. Also Maka punching out the Kishin. |
| 727 | * RingRingCRUNCH |
| 728 | * RubberFace: Soul does this to Maka to make sure she's not an imposter. She passes when she hits him with a Maka Chop. |
| 729 | * RuleOfCool: Death the Kid shoots his pistols upside down. With his pinkies. |
| 730 | ** It is suffice to say that this pretty much describes the entire series. |
| 731 | * RuleOfSymbolism: The final battle against Asura in the anime version is entirely this, which irritated many fans due to the rest of the series not being like this at all. [[spoiler:To make a long story short... the entire team pull out all of their most powerful attacks against the kishin without doing hardly any damage at all, until Maka and Soul are all alone. Maka pulls progressively more desperate techniques, including willing herself to fall asleep and fight him while sleeping so that she won't feel afraid. In the end, however, Maka gives him a speech about bravery and then destroys him with one punch. The symbolism comes into play when you remember that Asura is the AnthropomorphicPersonification of fear and paranoia - more power won't make you feel less afraid, neither will surrounding yourself with strong allies, and you can't sleep to escape either because you'll eventually wake up; the only way to defeat fear is to be brave.]] |
| 732 | * RuleOfThree: [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] by Shinigami and Spirit [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqHQPUE42_w during negotiations with]] [[spoiler: Medusa]]. |
| 733 | -->'''Spirit''': ''*to [[spoiler: Medusa]]*'' What's your problem, can't you take a joke?\ |
| 734 | '''Shinigami''': And it was expertly executed too! Repetition is the foundation of humor.\ |
| 735 | '''Spirit''': Three times is best.\ |
| 736 | '''Shinigami''': Absolutely, I agree! |
| 737 | * RunningGag: The "I-have-met-Excalibur" face. |
| 738 | ** Stein's chair falling over and dumping its rider as soon as it runs over the bump in each threshold. |
| 739 | * SadistTeacher: Stein. He just wants to cut you up so ''bad''... |
| 740 | ** Subverted. While he can be a [[MadDoctor certifiable loony]], and God help you if he's legitimately going after you, at worst (while sane) he's a SternTeacher. He genuinely cares for his students, and they (especially [[PrecociousCrush some of the girls]]) like him right back. |
| 741 | * SafetyInMuggles |
| 742 | * {{Samurai}}: Mifune. |
| 743 | * SanitySlippage: |
| 744 | ** Dr. Franken Stein. |
| 745 | ** [[spoiler: Death the Kid while he's in the Book of Eibon. Black☆Star snaps him out of it though.]] |
| 746 | * SarcasticDevotee: Soul, to Maka. |
| 747 | * ScaledUp: Medusa can do this. |
| 748 | * ScarfOfAsskicking: In the manga, [[spoiler: Tsubaki's Shadow Star Form Zero]]. |
| 749 | ** [[spoiler: Both Black☆Star and Tsubaki get one after joining Spartoi]] |
| 750 | * ScarsAreForever: Soul gets a large scar during the first fight with Crona; it remains visible on his body for the rest of the series. |
| 751 | ** Also, in the manga [[spoiler:Black☆Star ends up with a clean scar that bissects the star tattoo on his shoulder after his last fight with Mifune]]. Even the healer can't remove it, and [[spoiler: Black☆Star]] essentially claims that's because it represents his CharacterDevelopment. |
| 752 | * ScaryShinyGlasses: Dr. Franken Stein is pretty much obligated to do this. Azusa regularly uses this to intimidate people. Ox Ford also fulfils this trope in a less scary fashion. |
| 753 | * ScreamingWarrior: Black☆Star. |
| 754 | ** Maka may have him beat here. |
| 755 | * SchizoTech: Outside of Death City is a mishmash of technological eras. Ancient Japanese villages and modern-day {{Suburbia}} and everything inbetween. |
| 756 | * SchoolOfHardKnocks |
| 757 | * ScienceRelatedMemeticDisorder: Stein seems to suffer from some form of this. |
| 758 | * SealedEvilInASixPack: The Kisin Asura probably counts; he was sealed in a bag made of his own skin and his blood was drained and taken elsewhere to weaken him. [[spoiler: Injecting the bag with black blood unseals him.]] |
| 759 | * SelfRestraint: Medusa [[spoiler: when she surrenders herself to Shibusen.]] |
| 760 | * SeriesGoal: The meisters and weapons are supposed to be gathering 99 human souls and 1 witch soul, but this goal becomes mostly irrelevant once the KnightOfCerebus is introduced. |
| 761 | ** Not exactly irrelevant, just not the be-all and end-all for the series. Once [[spoiler: Maka and Soul actually get the Death Scythe rank (well, Soul technically)]] the reality of the position is quickly impressed upon them; Death Scythes exist for a reason, and their abilities are ''necessary''. Which is rather different from the original impression, where it appeared that the position was sought for the sake of it; none of the kids seemed to know what being a Death Scythe involved. |
| 762 | ** At the end of the series the original goal of making Deathscythes is visited again, though with a twist. [[spoiler: In the final chapter of manga, they conclude their entire practice of making Deathscythes.]] |
| 763 | * SeriouslyScruffy: In the anime, [[spoiler: after the Kisin is released]], Soul drags Maka away from her studies to play basketball in order to avert this trope. Stein inverts it; when his appearance is going downhill, it's usually a sign he's [[SanitySlippage in no fit state to work]]. |
| 764 | * SevenDeadlySins: [[TomeofEldritchLore The Book of Eibon]] is organized into seven chapters based on the seven sins. It starts with Lust, then progresses through Gluttony, Envy, Wrath, Pride, Sloth, and finally Greed, supposedly organized by the corrupting influences of each vice.[[spoiler: As well as creating artificial constructs named Noah]] |
| 765 | * ShapeshifterWeapon: About half the cast. |
| 766 | * {{Shinigami}}: Interestingly, only Lord Death and his son are directly referred to as this. Meisters and Weapons have varying origins; some are born in Death City, and some Weapons were "found" as humans. It's a blurry line, as Maka is the ''daughter'' of a Meister and her Weapon Partner. |
| 767 | ** The Funimation dub refers to Lord Death and Kid as Reapers, instead. |
| 768 | ** Thanks to the manga explaning some things, it seems now to be more clear. |
| 769 | *** Grim Reapers have distinctive souls, and there are only two in the cast - Lord Death and Kid - and it seems to be a race rather than a designation. |
| 770 | *** The Weapons are descended from experiments by Arachne to fuse the souls of humans with the transformative souls of witches - their ability to switch between human and Weapon forms is genetic. |
| 771 | *** The anime uses Maka's parentage to give her special abilities, whereas the manga has not; she is apparently a normal human, albeit one with a few rare traits and a very handy [[TheCorruption infection]]. |
| 772 | *** That being said, the manga hadn't yet specifically ruled out the possibility of Maka having latent weapon powers yet and it is a shonen series so really it's still up in the air. |
| 773 | * ShipTease: There are numerous potential couples in this series. |
| 774 | ** Maka is very devoted to both Soul and Crona, who reciprocate her sentiments. Further, Maka is blatantly jealous whenever other women have intimacy of some kind with Soul, such as Blair throwing herself at Soul to "play" or Dr. Medusa claiming Soul has confessed inner worries to her that Maka knows nothing about. |
| 775 | ** Tsubaki and Black*Star both have quiet and obvious moments, such as Tsubaki chastising Black*Star not for peeping on her in the bath but for being too ''obvious'' about it. |
| 776 | ** Medusa tries to seduce Stein into madness, but she has a {{Foil}} in Stein's OldFlame, Marie. |
| 777 | ** The first Repeat Show ending features scenes of the main meisters spending time with their weapons--except for Maka, who is positively ''anguished'' over Soul's absence--set to a wistful ballad. |
| 778 | * ShirtlessScene: Soul in the exam episode, and when Maka walks in on him after [[spoiler: a check up on his scar]]. |
| 779 | ** Stein of all people gets one in the anime. [[{{Squee}} Fangirl reaction was as expected]]. |
| 780 | ** Don't forget Free. Even Asura was envious of his sculpted physique. |
| 781 | ** In the manga only, Ox, Harvar, Kilik, and the Pots, after [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext taming a giant by dancing naked with him]]. |
| 782 | * {{Shonen}}: Between the fights, the powerups, and the training to be stronger, this is a textbook Shonen series. |
| 783 | * ShooOutTheClowns: Averted; comic relief Excalibur is included until the very end of the anime. And that's not even mentioning his latest role in the manga... |
| 784 | * ShoutOut: [[ShoutOut/SoulEater Has its own page]]. |
| 785 | * SiblingTeam: The Thompsons |
| 786 | ** SiblingsInCrime: How they worked before they met Death the Kid. |
| 787 | * SiblingYinYang: Liz is level headed, while her sister Patty is a complete space case. |
| 788 | * SigilSpam: The Shiningami mask in Death City. |
| 789 | * SignificantAnagram: Maka is an anagram of "kama", the Japanese word for scythe. Eruka is an anagram of "kaeru", the Japanese word for frog, and Mizune is an anagram of "nezumi", the Japanese word for mouse. |
| 790 | * SingleStrokeBattle: In the anime, the [[spoiler: third and final showdown between Black☆Star and Mifune]] |
| 791 | * SinisterScythe: Interestingly, only Soul himself and the most recent Death Scythe (Maka's father) are true examples of this; despite their name, the Death Scythes consist of various types of weapons. |
| 792 | * SinisterSouthwest: Death City, Nevada, is a WeirdnessMagnet by its very nature. A lot of the series takes place all over the world, but Death City itself is home to all maner of supernatural phenomenon, including both a deranged sun and moon in the sky. |
| 793 | * SlasherSmile: So, so many examples. Medusa's is particularly demonic; ''Maka's'' is surprising when you realize just how much control she has over it. |
| 794 | ** The Sun and the Moon BOTH have one! |
| 795 | ** Soul also shows his off a lot, too. |
| 796 | ** In chapter 69, Medusa and [[spoiler:Justin Law]] seem to engage in some kind of Slasher Smile arms race. |
| 797 | ** Don't forget madness incarnate Asura. |
| 798 | ** And Stein whenever he gets a screw loose... |
| 799 | ** Patty sports one when she [[GroinAttack kicks Black☆Star in the nuts]] after he unwisely decides to ask for a time-out at the very beginning of their sparring match to get his hands tied up to supposedly make it even. |
| 800 | * SlipknotPonytail: When Tsubaki morphs into Enchanted Sword mode, her hair is let down. |
| 801 | * SlidingScaleOfComedyAndHorror: Jack the Ripper is shown travelling the street and finds a girl. It immediately comes up, slashes the girl in half and eats her soul (This is all shown through a ShadowDiscretionShot). Right after Maka and Soul take her down, this is immediately followed with some comedy. How is this not an example of this trope? There are also a few more examples such as: |
| 802 | ** Crona's weapon coming out of their body |
| 803 | ** [[spoiler: Tsubaki's brother. Enough said]] |
| 804 | ** When the witch gets eaten by King Tut in one of the early episodes starring Death the Kid. To describe it accurately, it pulls the witch inside, all you hear are some crunching sounds and as if that wasn't enough there is BLOOD coming out of its tomb. |
| 805 | ** Soul emerging out of Maka's body in his dream |
| 806 | ** Do I even need to mention Dr. Stein? |
| 807 | * SmallNameBigEgo: '''Black☆Star'''. |
| 808 | * SmokeOut: One of Tsubaki's forms is a smoke bomb. |
| 809 | * SmugSuper: Black☆Star, AND DON'T YOU FORGET IT!!! |
| 810 | * SlowMotionFall: Happens to [[spoiler: Soul when he's done [[TakingTheBullet Taking The Sword]] for Maka]]. |
| 811 | * SoulCuttingBlade: Masamune. |
| 812 | * SoulEating: Humans with the weapon bloodline (essentially a gene which allows them to become an EquippableAlly) can eat the souls of other humans to grow stronger (the good guys only consume the souls of corrupted humans, villains tend to be less picky), so long as they also consume at least one witch's soul. Those that indiscriminately eat other humans slowly become [[HumanoidAbomination Kishin]]. |
| 813 | * SparedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler:Except Arachne, every character that died in the manga survive the anime.]] |
| 814 | * SpellMyNameWithAnS: Many fan translators spelled the Demon Sword meister's name as "Chrona" or "Krona" until the third ED revealed the spelling to be "Crona." |
| 815 | ** Some people prefer spelling 'Kid' with an extra 'd'. |
| 816 | * {{Spinoff}}: ''Soul Eater Not'' |
| 817 | * SpoilerOpening: Subverted. In the second opening, we see [[spoiler: Soul holding an unconscious Maka. In the series, it's actually Soul who falls unconscious at a pivotal moment, and Maka is the one who must save him.]] |
| 818 | ** The [[spoiler:fourth]] ending is actually a Spoiler Ending. |
| 819 | ** For those watching the anime for the first time through the recently released ''Repeat Show'', which so far is just the original episodes with brand new opening and closing sequences, the new opening features characters who don't even appear until the second half of the anime. It also gives away [[spoiler:Crona's HeelFaceTurn by showing [[AmbiguousGender them]] alongside the heroes at all times and even helping them take down a giant golem.]] |
| 820 | * SpecialEditionTitle: In the episode where the aforementioned HeelFaceTurn occurs, the end credits change from the usual "Maka walking in place alone" to "Maka and [[spoiler:Crona]] walking together" to demonstrate it. |
| 821 | * StandardFemaleGrabArea: Sort of played straight during the introduction of and subsequent first fight with Stein. Stein grabs Maka by one of her ponytails at one point, almost completely immobilizing her. While this is certainly more effective (and more painful) than the arm, one would usually expect that a strong ActionGirl like Maka would be perfectly capable of throwing a few elbows into Stein's stomach or something. Had the size of Stein's soul not made her sink to her knees in fear and had she not exhausted her strength in using (what was at the time) a technique that was her most powerful and which she was still inexperienced in, then Maka might have attempted an escape. |
| 822 | * StealthMentor: [[spoiler: Sid]] and [[spoiler: Stein]] were first introduced as enemies. |
| 823 | * StealthPun: Dr. Franken Stein is a MadScientist with an enormous screw through his head, which he turns to keep his mind on the problem at hand. He is also TheCorruptible, and the closest person at DMWA to full insanity. In other words... [[FridgeBrilliance he's got a SCREW LOOSE.]] |
| 824 | ** In Episode 3, when Death the Kid is seeking souls for Patty and Liz, Lord Death tells him about [[spoiler: a witch who's ressurecting mummies in the Tomb of Anubis. She uses her mummies to collect human souls, which she uses to make more mummies. There's even a bit of a graphic showing how five mummies create two mummies each, who create two each, who create two each... she's running something of a Pyramid Scheme.]] |
| 825 | ** The witches' ultimate weapon is called B.R.E.W. |
| 826 | ** Given all the other music references in this show it should be a surprise to no one that the Werewolf is fought in London |
| 827 | * StockNinjaWeaponry: Tsubaki isn't just proficent with "ninja" weapons; [[EquippableAlly she transforms into them]] (more specifically she has smoke bomb, kusarigama, tanto, giant shuriken and [[spoiler: [[SecondHourSuperPower katana]]]] forms). [[HighlyVisibleNinja Black☆Star]] wields her. Interestingly, Black☆Star's mentor Sid (despite being ninja themed) averts this trope by specialising in knives (his partner takes the form of a modern, Western survival knife). |
| 828 | * StressVomit: A comedic example in the anime. Maka's team loses a game of basketball, so as a forfeit she has to offer to spend the weekend with her BumblingDad. He's so happy at the prospect of unexpectedly spending time with his sort-of-estranged daughter he vomits. |
| 829 | * StrongAsTheyNeedToBe: See the NewPowersAsThePlotDemands entry, above |
| 830 | * {{Supermode}}: There's the basic Resonance of Souls, the more advanced Chain Resonance, [[spoiler: using the power of the Black Blood]], Maka's Witch Hunter [[spoiler: and Demon Hunter attacks]], Black☆Star's Fey Blade mode [[spoiler: and his blade modes after unlocking Masamune's true power]], Kid's [[spoiler: Lines of Sanzu]], Free's werewolf form, Mosquito's younger forms, and many others. |
| 831 | ** From Mosquito's comments about the Grim Reaper, Kid's [[spoiler: Sanzu Lines]] seem not to be a supermode so much as an example of a future 'normal' mode. |
| 832 | * SupernaturalGoldEyes: Medusa, complete with HellishPupils. |
| 833 | ** Kid has gold eyes, but it is his striped hair that indicates his supernatural nature. The eyes just make him look that bit more odd. |
| 834 | * SuperpoweredEvilSide: Maka and Soul using [[spoiler: the Black Blood]] |
| 835 | ** Kid's [[spoiler: Madness of Order]] form. After its first appearance he gets better at controlling himself, but it's still pretty risky. |
| 836 | * SuperpowerfulGenetics: Being a weapon. |
| 837 | * TailorMadePrison: The Demon God being imprisoned with his own skin. |
| 838 | * TakeAThirdOption: During the last Mifune vs. Black☆Star fight in the anime. Mifune asks Black☆Star if he will choose the "Path of the Demon" or the "Path of the Warrior". Black☆Star (somewhat predictably) decides that neither path is good enough for him, and choose to forge his own path forward. He never really elaborates on what the path is, but it clearly comes with powerups (the Enchanted Sword grows about a foot longer and glows red.) |
| 839 | * TakeOurWordForIt: We don't actually get to read Crona's poem, but it must've been pretty depressing, since it sends anyone who reads it into a CornerOfWoe. |
| 840 | ** It even sent Black☆Star into a CornerOfWoe! That must have been some poem. |
| 841 | * TakingTheBullet: [[spoiler: Soul]] takes the bulle- er, ''sword'' for [[spoiler: Maka]]. |
| 842 | ** [[spoiler: Crona also does this for Maka when Medusa is about to attack her. They then die, [[NotQuiteDead sort of.]]]] |
| 843 | ** Also, in episode 48, [[spoiler: when Asura attacks Kid (or the bystanders in general?) Lord Death takes the shot instead and gets blown to bits. Ouch.]] |
| 844 | ** [[spoiler:Soul]] does this again for [[spoiler:Maka]] in episode 51, when [[spoiler:Asura is just about to deal a finishing blow.]] |
| 845 | ** Chapter 79 has Sid push Marie out of the way of an attack, costing him an arm in the process. |
| 846 | * TalkingAnimal: Blair, who is technically just a cat with magic strong enough to be able to assume a human form. |
| 847 | * TalkingIsAFreeAction: Villains will literally stand by patiently, sometimes for over a minute, as the heroes formulate a new plan out loud. |
| 848 | ** Lampshaded by Soul during the fight with Stein: |
| 849 | ---> '''Soul''': He's been waiting patiently for you to finish this temper tantrum. Isn't that so polite of the good Dr. Stein? |
| 850 | ** Medusa lampshades it too in episode 19: |
| 851 | ---> '''Medusa''': Holding a strategy meeting right in front of your enemy? Is that really the best idea? |
| 852 | * TalkingWeapon: Ragnarok, which can also use its mouth for Crona's Screech Alpha attack. Excalibur is also a talking sword, however much the cast might wish he wasn't. |
| 853 | ** Technically, ''all'' Demon Weapons are this, to the point that in the first chapter/episode, Maka is honestly worried when Soul stops talking to her while in scythe mode. |
| 854 | * TamerAndChaster: While the anime isn't devoid of {{fanservice}}, it still tones down a lot of the manga's earlier sexual humor. |
| 855 | * TheTeam: A complicated example. Maka's Resonance Link team consists of herself (TheHero and TheLeader), Black☆Star (TheBigGuy), and Death the Kid (TheSmartGuy, maybe with a bit of SixthRanger as well). However, there are also their weapons, that all have their own roles. Soul is Maka's scythe, and is TheLancer. Tsubaki is Black☆Star's sword, and is TheHeart. Liz and Patty are Kid's guns, and are the OnlySaneWoman and the CuteAndPsycho one, respectively. |
| 856 | ** Meanwhile, the sensei have Stein (TeamDad for the above) double as TheLeader and TheSmartGuy, Spirit as TheLancer, Sid as TheBigGuy Nygus as the CombatMedic, and Marie as TheHeart. Membership can also vary depending on the mission, such as when Spirit has to stay at the school or Azusa comes in as MissionControl. |
| 857 | * TearsOfAwe: Death The Kid has been seen crying hotly in the face of especially harmonious instances of symmetry. |
| 858 | * TearOffYourFace: One of the hallucinations Free and Eruka Frog suffer as they get close to [[spoiler: the [[EldritchAbomination Kisin]]'s prison]] is that he's chewing their faces off. |
| 859 | * TemptingApple: Medusa, the snake witch, is associated with apples several times. One such moment is when Rachel, the child whose body she snatches by disguising herself as a cute dog, is watching an educational television program: A little girl reaching for a certain red fruit, which is then repeated several times: "An apple! An apple! An apple!" |
| 860 | * ThanatosGambit: [[spoiler: Medusa]] seems to have pulled one of these as of Chapter 87. [[spoiler: Crona, in a shocking plot twist, kills her after she showed them motherly affection for the first time; and it turns out that this was her plan from the start so that Crona's Black Blood could be completed. [[SarcasmMode Truly the greatest mother in the world.]] ]] |
| 861 | * ThemeNaming: And how! |
| 862 | ** The witches seem to be named after animals; especially women in Greek Mythology associated with animals. |
| 863 | ** Kishin Eggs are a mishmash of historical/fictional/mythological antagonists. |
| 864 | ** The weapon people, who are usually named after mythological and/or video game weapons: Marie Mjolnir, Masamune, Ragnarok, Excalibur, Soul Eater, etc. |
| 865 | *** Though Excalibur is stated (at least in the anime) to be ''the'' Excalibur in Arthurian legends. |
| 866 | ** Two of the students are named after Western Universities (Ox Ford and Harvar D. Eclair, Oxford and Harvard respectively). |
| 867 | ** Mosquito's [[Music/ThePolice Police]] Stinger (both the band The Police and their singer Sting) |
| 868 | *** He is also, appropriately, a vampire. Though one of his transformations has him taking on a more 'traditional' look rather than the insect thing. [[BishounenLine Unwisely]], Liz and Patty point out this look is 'boring' and he "looked stronger before". |
| 869 | ** Blair's [[Music/TheSmashingPumpkins Smashing Pumpkin]] |
| 870 | ** Sid Barrett's [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Living_End The Living End]]. |
| 871 | ** Patty and Liz's surname might be a dual pun on the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thompson_submachine_gun Thompson Sub-Machine Gun]] and the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thompson_Twins Thompson Twins]]. |
| 872 | ** Blair's name can be seen as a reference to ''Film/TheBlairWitchProject''. |
| 873 | *** In the first chapter, Maka is actually seen carrying around a folder entitled "Maka's Blair Witch Project". |
| 874 | ** On top of that, Maka Albarn is named for Music/{{Blur}} frontman Damon Albarn, who voices 2D (a Soul Eater look-alike) for Music/{{Gorillaz}}. |
| 875 | ** Sid Barett (Syd Barrett of Music/PinkFloyd) and Kim Diehl (Kim Deal of Music/ThePixies). |
| 876 | ** Kilik's Soul Resonance: Music/AphexTwin. |
| 877 | ** Justin Law (Cantonese pop singer [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Lo Justin Lo]]) The reference is more obvious when you see the names in katakana). |
| 878 | ** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Star_(group) Black Star]] is the name of a Hip Hop group formed by Talib Kweli and Mos Def. Coincidence? It's possible, but given the massive number of music references made with every other character in the series, it seems likely that the band is Black☆Star's namesake. Even more telling, this would round out the three main teams by giving each a musical reference (Damon Albarn for Maka and the Thompson Twins for Kid). |
| 879 | *** Black Star is also a song by Music/{{Radiohead}}. |
| 880 | *** In a theme that isn't part of a ShoutOut, all three named members of the Star Clan are named a color and then "Star." Black☆Star, his father White☆Star, and his cousin Red☆Star (though he generally goes by the less obvious [[spoiler:Akane Hoshi]]). |
| 881 | ** Dr. Franken Stein. Need we say more? |
| 882 | ** One MonsterOfTheWeek had an attack called [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine_Inch_Nails Nine Inch Nails]]. |
| 883 | *** That MonsterOfTheWeek 's name is [[Literature/TheRing Frey D. Sadako]] |
| 884 | ** Eibon is named after a character who happens to be a sorcerer in Clark Ashton Smith's story ''The Door to Saturn''. Eibon also wrote "The Book of Eibon" which chronicled his life and was filled with magical spells and rites. |
| 885 | ** The little girl Rachel may have been a reference to Jacob's wife Rachel in the Bible. (Especially considering the obvious reference to Eve, the serpant, and the apple shortly after Rachel's body was taken over by Medusa.) |
| 886 | ** Noah, the collector. Another well-known Noah also spent time collecting things--animals for his Ark. |
| 887 | ** Kishin Asura may be a reference to a group of power-seeking dieties in Hinduism called Asura or Ahura. |
| 888 | * ThoseTwoGuys: Ox Ford and Kilik Lunge. Subverted in the manga when they get expanded roles, not so much in the anime. |
| 889 | * ThouShaltNotKill: Death the Kid. |
| 890 | -->'''Nidhogg:''' Are you saying you would take away freedom?!\ |
| 891 | '''Kid:''' I am a ''Reaper''. I grant ''no'' freedom to kill. |
| 892 | * ThreesomeSubtext: |
| 893 | ** Implied with Maka, Soul, and Blair in the last chapter. |
| 894 | * ThrillerOnTheExpress: Episode 30 of the anime, "The Red Hot Runaway Express". Kid, Patty and Liz have to board the speeding train and fight an enemy on board for possession of a magical artifact, while a third party outside is fighting both sides. |
| 895 | * ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: Just being in the proximity of a Kishin results in hallucinations and loss of reason. |
| 896 | * ThrowTheBookAtThem: Maka Chop! |
| 897 | * ToBeAMaster: Collecting enough souls to obtain the rank of Death Scythe |
| 898 | * TokenMotivationalNemesis: Nakatsukasa Masamune, is spite of being such an important figure in the life of his sister Tsubaki, is killed within '''one''' episode of his introduction. |
| 899 | * TomeOfEldritchLore: The Book of Eibon. Heavy on the Eldritch now that we know there's [[spoiler: a '''[[EldritchAbomination GREAT]] [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos OLD ONE]]''' living in it's last chapter.]] |
| 900 | * TookALevelInBadass: After getting {{curbstomp|Battle}}ed by Mifune, Black☆Star goes to stay with Tsubaki and her family for a few weeks. By the time he gets back, he's unlocked the Dark Blade's true potential [[spoiler:and is strong enough to take on Mifune in a fair fight.]] |
| 901 | * TotemPoleTrench: In chapter 46 Kilik have once his two (very tiny) partners be the head for their disguise as a cloaked Arachnophobia soldier. |
| 902 | ** in Episode 21 of the Manga/SoulEater anime: Blair is fighting the (remaining) 5 Mizune sisters. She [[CurbStompBattle smashes four of the sisters]] with one spell...but the fifth sister behind her starts [[GigglingVillain giggling madly.]] Activating the hivemind within the sisters (accompanied by speaking in sync and rhythmic finger-snapping), Create a they then proceed to stack themselves in a tower formation. When the last member completes the desired tower, all the Mizune undergo a merger, the five combine to form... a HotWitch. ItMakesSenseInContext... I guess. |
| 903 | * TrademarkFavoriteFood: B.J. and coffee. |
| 904 | %% Administrivia/ZeroContextExample * TragicMonster: [[spoiler:[[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds Crona]].]] |
| 905 | * TransformationSequence: Kid activating his Resonance of Souls. It was even [[spoiler: interrupted]] at one point. |
| 906 | * TranslationConvention: Considering the academy is in America and most of the on-screen text is in English, it's implied that everyone is actually speaking English. |
| 907 | * TrashLanding: During their fight against Blair, Soul drops Maka into a dumpster. |
| 908 | ** Maka again gets the trash treatment after asking Black☆Star to punch her in apology. He doesn't hold anything back, & she goes flying into the trash. |
| 909 | * TripleTake |
| 910 | * TheTropeKid: Death the Kid. |
| 911 | * {{Troperiffic}} |
| 912 | * TrueCompanions: The kids develop into this, with both their partners and TheTeam. Their sensei are ''already'' this, most clearly when [[spoiler: Stein is both insane and framed for murder, and his colleagues don't just believe in him but get him out of dodge with Marie to clear his name]]. |
| 913 | * {{Tykebomb}}: Crona |
| 914 | * VerbalTic: For the brief period of time he was on-screen, UsefulNotes/AlCapone had one of these, you know? |
| 915 | * {{Vibroweapon}}: Ragnarok when it screams. |
| 916 | * UnconsciousObjector: In the anime, [[spoiler: Maka is knocked unconcious and begins using her previously unknown [[EquippableAlly weapon bloodline]] abilities to attack]] in the final battle against the BigBad. He realises she's even more dangerous in this state and and wakes her up [[spoiler: forcing her to invoke ThePowerOfFriendship instead]]. |
| 917 | * UndeadAbomination: The Wrath of the Pharaoh (his official name "Anubis") is the malevolent spirit of a NephariousPharaoh summoned by the necromancer witch Samantha in a plot to command a mummy army, only for the Pharaoh to devour her instead. |
| 918 | * {{Underboobs}}: One of the Fanservicey traits of Mizune's combined form. |
| 919 | * TheUnfettered: Asura reveals this as his motivation, [[spoiler: particularly when he ''kills'' Arachne so that [[InsaneTrollLogic he no longer has to fear her demise]]]]. |
| 920 | * UnnamedParent: Maka's mother has only been referred to in both the anime and manga as "Maka's Mother" or "Spirit's (ex)wife". A scanlater accidentally turned the word for wife into a name (Hence the fact that everyone's been calling her "Kami"), but officially, she's nameless. |
| 921 | * UnsettlingGenderReveal: The readers get this in Chapter 67 if they thought both of Kilik's weapons were girls. |
| 922 | * UnusualEuphemism: Ragnarok refers to souls as candy. |
| 923 | * UnwinnableTrainingSimulation: Maka, Soul, Black☆Star, and Tsubaki, once they have apprehended Sid, are sent to kill the person who made him a zombie in the first place. That would be Stein, who is one of the most powerful Meisters in the world. They aren't told this is a test ahead of time. |
| 924 | * UrbanFantasy |
| 925 | * UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: [[spoiler: Kid seems to have been hit with this recently. A black mass tells him that he's the God of Order (or something) and that he needs to create the ultimate symmetry by making everything unexist.]] |
| 926 | * TheVamp: Arachne, so very much. |
| 927 | * VillainsNeverLie: In chapter 60 of the manga, [[spoiler: Maka gets furious at Medusa when she realizes she lied about Crona]]. |
| 928 | * VillainsOutShopping: Sort of. In the credits of the anime's final episode, we see [[spoiler: Free, Eruka, and the Mizune sisters relaxing in the forest.]] |
| 929 | * VitriolicBestBuds: Soul and Maka. |
| 930 | ** Maka and Black☆Star; although somewhat more jagged than their mutual relationship with Soul, mostly due to a clash of personality (they were at each other's throats during chapter 33 in particular), it's no less real. |
| 931 | ** Crona and Ragnarok too, at least in the anime. |
| 932 | * VoluntaryShapeshifting: All of the weapons, many of the witches, Free, etc. |
| 933 | * WackyParentSeriousChild: Lord Death and Kid. They used to provide the page image. |
| 934 | * WagerSlave: The breather episode with the basketball game. If Kid's team loses then they'll move all the pictures in his house slightly off. If Maka's team loses, she has to spend the weekend with her father. |
| 935 | * WarArc: The Arachnophobia and The Moon arc. |
| 936 | * WeaponTwirling: Every single Meister in this series seems to love doing this. It may or may not aid with Soul Resonance or not, but it sure looks cool and eats up a few seconds of screen time. |
| 937 | * WeaponWieldsYou: Crona in ''Manga/SoulEater'' has a sword named Ragnarok that is physically part of [[AmbiguousGender their (it's hard to tell)]] body (via his essence being blended with their blood). They always follows its directions, and during fight scenes is seen to be being dragged around by it. |
| 938 | ** It's pretty much shown that the "Black Blood" in general does this (and can cause a weapon to overwhelm their meister). For example, when [[spoiler: Maka]]'s using it and acts AxCrazy, her consciousness is basically observing her and finds it embarrassing and [[spoiler: Soul]] has nightmares about absorbing her. |
| 939 | * WeWillMeetAgain: Sid, to Mifune. |
| 940 | * WeirdMoon: In addition to a WeirdSun. Both have faces, the sun ''laughs ominously'' and the moon occasionally ''drools blood''. |
| 941 | ** [[spoiler: Additionally, the Moon is situated only a little bit above the clouds, close enough to fly to.]] Its face isn't just for show, either. A cave system can be entered via the nostrils. Its mouth can open. [[spoiler: Thanks to Crona]], it ''[[SerialEscalation loses a tooth]]''. Naturally, people are only surprised by the last part. |
| 942 | ** Later it becomes [[spoiler: the [[SealedEvilInACan Can]] for Asura made of a black blood sphere, the moon appears perpetually eclipsed--except for the eye staring out from the gloom, which can cause further ParanoiaFuel, or inappropriate hilarity over its new semblance to a giant, floating boob.]] |
| 943 | ** More weird moon shit: Early in the manga, the moon is briefly impaled on two of Death City's towards. And yes, it bleeds. |
| 944 | * WesternSamurai: Mifune is a blonde-haired, blue-eyed samurai of non-Japanese descent. |
| 945 | * WhamEpisode: Arguably, chapters 87 and 88. [[spoiler:[[SelfMadeOrphan Crona kills Medusa]] in a truly frightening fashion and Maka finds out [[ShootTheDog she]] [[FightYourFriend must]] [[KillTheOnesYouLove kill]] [[TragicMonster Crona]].]] |
| 946 | * WhamLine: "Stupid little brother." Said by [[spoiler:Asura]] to [[spoiler:Death the Kid]]. |
| 947 | * WhiteGloves: Maka |
| 948 | ** She has white gloves, true, but not exactly inexplicable ones considering the weapon she uses. |
| 949 | * WhyWeCantHaveNiceThings: In his debut episode, Kid ends up destroying a pyramid. |
| 950 | * WideEyesAndShrunkenIrises: Played straight. |
| 951 | * WitchClassic: Blair the Cat fits into this, although she's technically a cat with strong magic (and thus the ability to shapeshift into a CatGirl form). Angela (a child witch) is the only other non-antagonistic witch in the series who wears black. The rest of the witches are either a WickedWitch (and wear the standard outfit, but modified with an AnimalMotif and different colours) or avert the trope entirely (particularly Kim, although her non-witch [[LivingWeapon partner]] just happens to have a flying broom form). |
| 952 | * WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: An ever-present threat for everyone, especially those infected with the black blood. |
| 953 | * WorldOfBadass: The class focused on in the series is composed of dozens of teenagers (and some even younger!) training and studying to hunt and destroy monsters, and almost every single one of them is a skillful fighter. The teachers of the academy are even more skilled in combat and more. Unfortunately, the villains tend to be just as (if not moreso) capable of putting up a fight. |
| 954 | * WorldOfHam: Quite. The main contribution to this is Black☆Star. |
| 955 | * WorldOfWeirdness: The world of Soul Eater is this full stop. Between the Sentient Sun and Moon that are inside the Earth's Atmosphere, the various collection of weird monsters and soul-eating creatures, dangerous magical witches, and people that can weaponize their souls or turn into talking weapons, nothing in it is particularly sane or normal by any definition. Not to mention the world worships the Grim Reaper as its God. |
| 956 | ** [[spoiler:This ends up justified by the prequel ''Manga/FireForce'' where Shinra, his brother, and his mother essentially remade the Earth during the Great Cataclysm where his thoughts became reality in the image of Shinra's wild inaccurate imagination and musings from a GadgeteerGenius and MadScientist. The World of Soul Eater is effectively a product of wild teenager's imagination made manifest.]] |
| 957 | * WordSalad: We either hear the lyrics to, or hear Justin Law thinking the words to his music. |
| 958 | --> " Hey God... Today I killed another pig that was full of antibiotics... '''HEY GOD!!'''" |
| 959 | * TheWorfEffect: Black☆Star suffers from this ([[spoiler:he beats Mifune in his first appearance and takes down Sid, but is utterly overpowered by Stein, bested by Death the Kid, needs help to take down Free, fails to stop Medusa and is one-shotted by Asura during his awakening, following being utterly humiliated by Mifune during their rematch and failing to complete his objective during the battle with Mosquito.]]) and indeed suffers a minor HeroicBSOD from it. Later in the anime after recovering from his HeroicBSOD, he fights [[spoiler:Asura]] and the Worf Effect started when [[spoiler:Asura recovered from Death the Kid's Death Cannon with all three Sanzu Lines]]. |
| 960 | ** Seems to be reversing in the manga as well, unless Black☆Star loses to Crona... |
| 961 | ** Chapter 79, [[spoiler: Tezca Tlipoca is bitten nearly in half by one of Noah's worms. Since we know virtually nothing about him, it's unknown if it'll stick. Stein, Sid, Marie, and Nygus are all also defeated very easily by Noah and Justin Law in the same chapter.]] |
| 962 | *** [[spoiler:Turns out the Tezca we saw get bitten in half was an illusion; Justin knows that Tezca is the only person capable of tracking him, so Tezca faked his death put Justin off his guard.]] |
| 963 | ** Also, this applies to Tsar Pushka and Feodor. They were killed (or maybe had a Fate Worse Than Death) by Crona in their return to the plotline. It was probably just to show that the new-and-improved Crona can, and will, kill a death scythe and its meister for Medusa. |
| 964 | ** Black☆Star worfs [[spoiler: Crona]] after he masters Tsubaki's Shadow Star forms. |
| 965 | * WorthyOpponent: Despite his love of children, Mifune fights Black☆Star as an equal because of this trope. |
| 966 | ** Eventually. They're not fighting on truly equal terms until their last encounter, as Mifune held back due to his opinion of Black☆Star's youth and attitude. The trope applies once Black☆Star figures out the latter. |
| 967 | * WorldOfSymbolism: The big showdown between Death and Asura could be strongly reminiscent of a debate between Christians and Atheists. Death could easily be substituted for God, while the Kishin could be substituted for the devil, or a nonbeliever. It's actually really interesting when looking at it under those pretenses. |
| 968 | * WouldHitAGirl: When Maka asks Black☆Star to HitMeDammit, he does. ''In the face''. |
| 969 | * WouldntHurtAChild: Mifune; he only fights Black☆Star when his MoralityPet is threatened, [[spoiler:and even then holds back both times.]] |
| 970 | * XanatosGambit: [[spoiler: Medusa manages to dupe the Sibusen into raiding Arachne's castle and going up against her forces with the whole intention of taking Arachne's body for herself.]] When two of your enemies are fighting each other, it doesn't matter who wins. Though, as per the trope, she did have a prefered outcome. Which leads to [[spoiler: Maka being used as the UnwittingPawn.]] |
| 971 | ** An earlier example is during the battle for BREW when [[spoiler: Medusa has the Mizune sisters and Eruka retrieve the real BREW before the DWMA and Arachnophobia can get to it and switch it with a fake BREW while the two opposing sides cut each other down fighting for the fake artifact. She later informs the DWMA of the real BREW's location so as to gain their trust as a part of the previously mentioned gambit to get DWMA to trust her.]] |
| 972 | * YouKilledMyFather: In the anime, [[spoiler:Mifune]] killed White☆Star, Black☆Star's father, and Black☆Star eventually defeats him. Though in something of a departure from trope, Black☆Star isn't interested in revenge -- rather, [[spoiler:Mifune]] tries to kill Black☆Star because Black☆Star is following in his father's footsteps -- [[spoiler:his father nearly became a Kishin]]. |
| 973 | ** It's averted in the manga, however, in which [[spoiler:Sid was the one who killed Black☆Star's entire family after they turned to evil, and is now the closest thing Black☆Star's got to a surrogate father. In the anime Sid did still kill the rest of Black☆Star's family, but after Mifune killed White☆Star.]] |
| 974 | * YourAnswerToEverything: Maka says this to Soul about him using brute force early in the series. |
| 975 | ** Interesting how that one worked out, especially in the anime. ''He'' asks why she's running off without a plan. |
| 976 | * YourOtherLeft: Black☆Star apparently has this problem in the anime. |
| 977 | * YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: Black☆Star saved the world and stopped Asura's rebirth from happening with a last attack! ...what? It was a hallucination? ...never mind. |
| 978 | * YourSoulIsMine |
| 979 | [[/folder]] |
| 980 | ---- |
| 981 | ->''"Would you like to fall into the madness?"'' |
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