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8	''Tsubasa -[=RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE=]-'' is Creator/{{CLAMP}}'s MassiveMultiPlayerCrossover. AlternateUniverse versions of ''Manga/CardcaptorSakura'' characters Sakura and Syaoran travel from AlternateUniverse to AlternateUniverse filled with CLAMP characters to find the [[GottaCatchThemAll scattered feathers]] that represent Princess Sakura's heart and memories.
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10	The story begins in the Kingdom of Clow, a somewhat-medieval desert world. Syaoran is the adopted son of the deceased AdventurerArchaeologist, Fujitaka, and a dear childhood friend of Sakura, princess of Clow Country.
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12	Just after Sakura decides to finally tell Syaoran her feelings for him, she's drawn to some [[LostTechnology ancient ruins]] on the outskirts of the city. After stepping on a symbol drawn on the floor, she seems to sprout ghostly wings, which then dissolve into feathers and vanish as Syaoran tries to save her. This causes Sakura to fall into an unwakeable sleep. The High Priest of Clow, Yukito, realizes that these feathers are the pieces of her soul. They have been scattered across the worlds, leaving Sakura an empty shell. In order to save her, he sends Sakura and Syaoran to the only person that can help her--Yuuko, the Witch of Dimensions. She agrees to help them, for a hefty price.
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14	Two others have been sent to Yuuko. The wizard Fai D. Flourite has fled his home world after sealing away the [[PhysicalGod god]] Ashura, and fears that Ashura will wake up [[MysteriousPast for an unknown reason]]. His goal is to stay as far away from his home world as possible and never return. The {{ninja}} Kurogane, on the other hand, is the opposite; he was banished from his own world for being too bloodthirsty, and his princess, Tomoyo, wants him to learn more about true strength before he can return. Frankly, he couldn't care less; he just wants to go home.
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16	Yuuko tells them that the thing which all three have in common is a wish to travel between the worlds: Syaoran to search for the feathers, Fai to stay away from his own world, and Kurogane to search for his home. In exchange for their most prized possessions, she will grant them the ability to travel between worlds. Fai gives up his tattoo, the focus of his magical ability, and Kurogane his sword, while Syaoran must give up the memories that Sakura has of her relationship with him.
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18	The retrieval of the feathers is made more difficult because the feathers, being fragments of Sakura's soul, hold huge magical powers. Whoever holds one is given strength that rivals that of the PowersThatBe. And there is another force opposite Yuuko that attempts to intervene in their journey to fulfill its own desires...
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20	''Tsubasa'' has a sister series, ''Manga/XxxHolic'', which focuses on the Witch of Dimension and her indentured servant, Watanuki. The plots of the two stories are deeply intertwined and characters regularly cross between the two.
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22	The manga was originally serialized from 2003 to 2009 in ''Magazine/ShonenMagazine'', ending with 233 chapters compiled into 28 volumes. There was an anime adaptation by Creator/BeeTrain that ran for 52 episodes on Creator/{{NHK}}, as well as a movie, ''Princess of the Birdcage Kingdom'', and two sets of [=OADs=], ''Tsubasa: Tokyo Revelations'' (which follows the DarkerAndEdgier and BloodierAndGorier storyline of the manga) and ''Tsubasa: Shunraiki'' (again, another supporter of said storyline). The movie and [=OADs=] were done by Creator/ProductionIG. A sequel began serialization in August 2014, named ''Tsubasa World Chronicle'', and WordOfGod has stated it'll be connected to ''Manga/XxxHolic Rei''. It ended in 2016 and only released three volumes.
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24	A word of warning, this series can be rather confusing. To understand ''how'' confusing, just see ''how many references'' there are to a [[MindScrew certain trope]] all over this page.
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26	Has a [[Characters/TsubasaReservoirChronicle Character page]].
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28	Not related to ''Manga/CaptainTsubasa''.
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31	!!This series provides examples of:
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36	%%* ActionGirl: Sakura during the second half of the Tokyo Arc. She gets to use guns!
37	* ActionHoggingOpening: The anime's opening makes the series look much more action-oriented than it actually is, as it shows one battle sequence after another. It includes Kurogane fighting several missile-launching spiders, Fai kicking around some Fei Wang Reed assassins, Syaoran squaring up with a bizarre rock monster, and even ''Mokona'' of all people punching a mook. Nothing of it ever happens in the series, and the fighting scenes in the anime are few and subdued.
38	%%* ActionMom: [[spoiler:Li Sakura]]. ShesAllGrownUp, and ready to kick some ass. See MamaBear below.
39	%%* AdventurerArchaeologist: This is the profession Syaoran starts with, which provides preliminary skills.
40	%%* AerialCanyonChase: In Piffle, complete with canyon-wall wipeouts.
41	* AffectionateNickname: Fai decides within hours of meeting him that Kurogane's proper name just isn't ''cute'' enough. He nicknames no-one else.
42	* AfterTheEnd: [[spoiler:Tokyo and, by extension, Clow Kingdom]].
43	* AgonyOfTheFeet: The children mesmerized by Rondart are abducted from his homes in their sleep wear, so they are forced to walk barefoot through the snow. Later Rondart exploites it when he kidnaps Sakura.
44	* AllThereInTheManual: One really needs to be reading ''Manga/XxxHolic'' at the same time to get the full story, particularly in the second half. This is reciprocal, ''Manga/XxxHolic'' also makes more sense this way.
45	%%* AlwaysIdenticalTwins: [[spoiler:Fai and Yuui]]. Averted with Kamui and Subaru (probably because they're not usually related)[[note]]Oddly enough, Subaru's ''actual'' HalfIdenticalTwin sister Hokuto is nowhere to be seen[[/note]].
46	%%* AmnesiacLover: Sakura, [[spoiler:before Acid Tokyo puts the plot in a blender with LSD. It's rather unclear how much this trope is still in play afterwards]].
47	* AndTheAdventureContinues: In the original manga ending, [[spoiler:the BigBad may be gone, and the Princess may be staying home this time, but Syaoran, Mokona, Kurogane, and Fai are still [[WalkingTheEarth walking the multiverse]] looking for the rest of the feathers. This time, however, is to restore ''two'' people rather than one. Also, they're looking for bodies for those two people along the way, but that's secondary to the feathers]].
48	%%* AngstySurvivingTwin: [[spoiler:Fai D. Flourite]], looking at you.
49	%%* ArcWelding: Huge. For our sake, go read about it on the CCS or Tsubasa Wikis.
50	* AristocratsAreEvil:
51	** Played with. One town is ruled by father and son pair of insufferable bastard aristocrats but they weren't aristocrats by birth, they became aristocrats by BEING evil bastards. In another town the cold, seemingly evil aristocrat ruler puts rent in abeyance and personally searches for lost children every night. Also, there's [[spoiler:Ashura]], who [[spoiler:kills a presumably large amount of people to strengthen his magic, but he only did it so that Fai's first curse would activate on him instead of someone else]].
52	** Played straight with Valeria's king. [[spoiler:He killed everyone in the country and blamed it on the twins]].
53	* ArtifactAlias:
54	** Fai continues using this name, even after it it revealed that he is actually [[spoiler: Fai's twin brother Yuui]].
55	** Both Tsubasas still go by [[spoiler:Sakura]] and [[spoiler:Syaoran]] respectively, even after they've revealed their names to each other.
56	* ArtificialHuman: [[spoiler:Both Syaoran and Sakura have been magically cloned, and Fei Wong Reed's various minions are implied to be failed experiments of this sort.]]
57	* ArtificialLimbs: [[spoiler:Kurogane ends up getting one after sacrificing his left arm to save Fai in Celes. In a subversion of the usual pattern, it is NOT a perfect replacement and causes him pain]].
58	* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Both [[spoiler:Syaorans]] have the exact same DNA, 50% of which appeared out of nowhere, despite the fact they are actually father and son.
59	* ArtisticLicenseMartialArts: Late in the story it's revealed that Syaoran fights mainly with kicks due to having a poor vision on one of his eyes, which he resolves by measuring out the distance to his opponent with his legs. Actually, at least in a realistic setting, this should be the opposite: a fighter would risk his balance and defense if he threw commited, limb-long attacks without a good accuracy, so the most adequate style for a person with poor vision would be a short-ranged, preferably control-based one (which is the reason why in real life UsefulNotes/{{Judo}} is a popular sport for blind athletes and UsefulNotes/{{Taekwondo}} isn't). Even if Syaoran is practically superhuman and routinely pulls off feats well beyond a normal athlete, it doesn't change that he is applying the least efficiente solution to his problem from a martial standpoint.
60	* ArtShift: Besides the change of production studios between the series and [[OriginalVideoAnimation OVAs]], there is an episode which shifts the art to a crazy comical art style of a storybook.
61	* AsYouKnow: The first chapter had some very artificial-sounding dialogue to fill readers in about the backstory of Sakura and Syaoran. Infinity had some as well, to explain the chess game.
62	* BackFromTheDead:
63	** Subversion; an {{Aesop}} for this series is that this cannot ever happen. Bee Train (the anime production company) created a {{filler}} episode where it did, and the plot forced them to {{retcon}} it.
64	** Late in the manga it turns out that [[spoiler:The BigBad's GambitRoulette was designed to get around this, mainly by keeping Yuuko alive and on the edge of death]].
65	** Partial in chapter 220: [[spoiler: Yuuko has said that she will bring Clone Sakura and Clone Syaoran back to life--but that this is only possible because they were created beings, and thus could not enter the reincarnation cycle, hence requiring Yuuko and Clow to fork over payment for them to be reincarnated]].
66	** [[spoiler:Nadeshiko and the rest of Clow Country's citizens dying and being reset back to life is actually not this trope, since [[MindScrew they didn't die in "real" time, so they weren't really dead]].]]
67	* BadassFamily: [[spoiler: The Li's show that if you threaten their son, they will unload their spells on you. Considering that even Sakura had a Badass glare before the barrage, it's only expected that Ass-chin had an OhCrap moment.]]
68	* BalanceBetweenGoodAndEvil: The various PowersThatBe behind the scenes can't directly interfere, and constantly refer to mystical rules that they have to follow. In Yuuko's case, she can't directly interfere because [[spoiler:she was DeadAllAlong.]]
69	%%* BattleCouple: Li Syaoran and Sakura, Kurogane and Fai.
70	* BeamMeUpScotty: Mokona's line whenever opening a portal to other dimension, "Mokona Modoki Modoki Doki," is one of the most iconic quotes in the series, to the extent many dubs and merchandising articles turn it into a full-fledged CatchPhrase for her. However, the line actually belongs only to the anime adaptation; in the manga, it is never uttered at all.
71	%%* BeamOWar: Sometimes used as a battle style (particularly by Syaoran when up against magical opponents).
72	%%* BigBad: Fei Wong Reed.
73	* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Fei Wang Reed is killed and all the distortions in the space-time continuum are beginning to stabilize itself. However, due to being created by them, the clones ended up vanishing from existence and with Syaoran & Watanuki being a ParadoxPerson as a result of being born by them, would have suffered the same fate if they didn't pay the price to continue living by travelling through dimensions and staying within the confines of Yuuko's shop respectively. And due to Sakura's dream that she will put the team in danger if she comes along with them, she stays behind in Clow while [[AndTheAdventureContinues the boys go world-travelling again]], in order to find a way to bring the Clone back. Mokona assures everyone that they will be able to visit her world again by focusing on the high Syaoran-associated memory content inside of her.]]
74	%%* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Most of the villagers in Koryo at one point.
75	* BreakTheCutie:
76	** Used several times, and subverted with [[spoiler:Fai D. Flourite]], because [[spoiler:it turns out he was ''already'' broken and it was an act]].
77	** Played straight with [[spoiler:both versions of Sakura.]]
78	** This also turns out to have happened to [[spoiler:Kurogane]], as seen in [[spoiler:his]] backstory.
79	* BrickJoke:
80	** At the beginning, Fai mentions he can't whistle and substitutes a "hyuu~" sound for it. [[spoiler:14 volumes of "hyuu~"-ing later, he DOES whistle for a spell to save the gang's lives]].
81	** Seishiro makes a comment on [[spoiler:Real]]Syaoran's remarkable resemblance to his father, whom he has met before. [[spoiler:Fast forward to [[WhamEpisode Chapter 223]] and suddenly that remark takes on a [[MyOwnGrampa whole new meaning]]]].
82	* CallingYourAttacks: Done seriously for most of the series, but lampshaded in one instance where Fai points out that Kurogane didn't call out his attack's name.
83	* CanNotSpitItOut:
84	** In a way a little different from most uses of the trope, Yuuko's price for helping Sakura and Syaoran was their past relationship. Any time Sakura realizes her past feelings for Syaoran and tries to tell him, her memory of that is instantly removed, resulting in {{UnConfession}}s.
85	** And even before that, [[spoiler:both Real and Clone]] Sakura's attempts at a LoveConfession.
86	* CanonDisContinuity:
87	** In the anime. ''Tokyo Revelations'' picks up immediately after the escape from the Lecourt library, ignoring the filler arcs from the broadcast series.
88	** The second OVA skips the Infinity and Celes arcs, leaving those who hadn't read the manga in the dark.
89	* CanonWelding: Possibly the ultimate welding project in manga history. CCS-TRC-Holic and further with every single thing CLAMP has ever made.
90	* CantLiveWithoutYou: [[spoiler:Fai can't live without Kurogane after being turned into a vampire]].
91	* CaptureAndReplicate: The plot gets considerably darker when it turns out that [[spoiler: the Syaoran and Sakura who had been traveling with Fai and Kurogane]] ended up being clones of the originals, whom Fei Wong Reed had captured sometime previous.
92	* CastingGag: Syaoran's voice actor, Creator/MiyuIrino, started travelling across dimensions in ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' as a young brown-haired kid.
93	* CerebusSyndrome: The first half of the series appears to be a light-hearted TrueCompanions adventure story, and the second half is a dark twist of the first.
94	* ChainsOfLove: Used both in an artistic sense in splash pages and literally in the Infinity country, when all the clothing the group is given has prominent chain attachments.
95	* ChastityCouple: Other than plenty of hugs and ''one'' peck on the cheek, Syaoran and Sakura never kiss. There's not even an AlmostKiss.
96	* ChekhovsGun:
97	** [[spoiler:The reservoir of the title appears for the first time in Acid Tokyo, halfway through the story. At the very end, a mindbending [[TheReveal reveal]] unmasks it as possibly one of the most important locations in the entire CLAMP-verse]].
98	** Do you remember that tube way back in the beginning of the series? [[spoiler:Turns out that the Sakura and Syaoran way back then were actually Li Syaoran and Sakura, who were paying a price. It also plays a role in the final battle]].
99	** Whatever happened to [[spoiler:Sakura's memories of Syaoran]] anyway? By the second half of the series, the issue seems moot. However, in the epilogue, [[spoiler:Mokona gives the gang Larg's (the black Mokona's) earring. Because it contains Clone Sakura's memories of Clone Syaoran, along with Watanuki's memories of his parents, they will be taken back to both Clow Country and to the shop much more often than any other worlds. It's implied that they will also revisit most or all of the worlds they have been through before]].
100	** Mokona's red earring. At first it seemed like a cute accessory. [[spoiler:Then Yuuko mentions (in ''Manga/XxxHolic'') that it can increase magical power. This wasn't used until Fai needed a power boost in order for him and Kurogane to escape the collapsing world. When they finally did, it was mentioned by Fei Wong Reed that Yuuko probably created it just so that Fai and Kurogane could escape]].
101	%%* TheChessmaster: Fei Wong Reed, Yuuko, and Clow Reed are all this.
102	%%* ChildhoodFriendRomance: Syaoran and Sakura, though she is unable to remember him.
103	* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: [[spoiler:The body of Real Sakura-2 (for want of a better label) was taken away and merged with the cloned soul, while the original soul of Real Sakura-2 ended up in the BigBad's own tube, but is never mentioned again. Or what happened to that tube. Yes, there were '''three''' Sakuras]]. This makes it hard to explain [[spoiler:the Sakuras' [[FusionDance body merging]]-cum-[[FreakyFridayFlip swapping]]]]. Not to mention complicating the [[spoiler:Cloney/Clone Sakura]] relationship and forcing the use of extensive spoilers in a desperate attempt to reduce reader confusion.
104	* ClosedDoorRapport: Sakura goes into her room in Infinity to get away from Syaoran.
105	* ColourCodedCharacters: Some characters have clear color associations, such as white and sky blue with Fai, black and red with Kurogane, Syaoran with earthly colors like browns and greens, and pink with Sakura. The complementary colors for Kurogane and Fai mark them as a yin-yang pair.
106	* TheComicallySerious: A couple characters, such as Syaoran, have some degree this. Kurogane is the most prominent, though, and a great deal of the humor in the series comes from his serious reactions to Fai's and Mokona's provocations.
107	* CostumePorn: It wouldn't be a CLAMP work without this trope. Every world the characters travel too get some cool outfit to match the setting. Their [[LimitedWardrobe general travel outfits]] even are pretty cool looking too.
108	* ContinuityCameo: Scores, but of particular note are [[Manga/MagicKnightRayearth Hikaru, Umi and Fuu]] as [[spoiler:Clone Sakura's]] classmates in an alternate world.
109	* ContinuityCavalcade: Plenty of crossover characters who had appeared in previous worlds show up as racers in Piffle's Dragonfly Race.
110	* CreepyTwins:
111	** Subverted with [[spoiler:Fai and Yuu]], only because people only ''thought'' they meant "bad luck" for them.
112	** The [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampire]] [[{{Bishonen}} twins]] [[spoiler:Kamui and Subaru]]. Being vampires fills in for the creepy-ness.
113	%%* CurbStompBattle: A thing that happens around Kurogane.
114	%%* CuteApproachesCamera: The Mokonas do this to wake up Shaoran.
115	%%* {{Cyberspace}}: [[spoiler: The Country of Outo]], although none of the main characters come from technologically advanced worlds, so they never suspect it. Not that it would matter if they did, since they don't know what world they go into until it's too late.
116	* DarkerAndEdgier: [[spoiler:''Tokyo Revelations'' went into a full darker turn after following the conclusion of the second season series and abandoning the idea of a third season, as it jumped straight from playing its tropes straight to the dark version that the manga had slowly eased into. Of course, that arc was a significant darker jump even for the manga, but it was the low dive compared to the OVA's high dive. See also WhamEpisode]].
117	* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler:Yuuko was only alive because Clow told reality to ignore her death. As a result her death resets just about everything reboot-able across the history of the multiverse]].
118	* DealWithTheDevil: The Dimension Witch Yuuko (of ''Manga/XxxHolic'') grants wishes and demands a heavy price in return, however she doesn't cheat her customers if they act in good faith. She is the "sponsor" of the heroes' travels and stays in communication with them. She also makes deals with the individuals the band comes across, who usually get a fair cop.
119	* DeathOfAChild: [[spoiler:Fay Fluorite's]] backstory involves [[spoiler: the death of his twin brother - the original Fay - as a child. We later learn that his brother was talked into ''killing himself''.]]
120	%%* DecoyProtagonist: [[spoiler: Technically Clone Syaoran is this after he dies, Real Syaoran takes the main character title.]]
121	* DenouementEpisode: From ''Manga/XxxHolic'', Chapter 204.5. [[spoiler:520 days after leaving Clow Country, the Tsubasa gang return to Watanuki's shop, in the process accidentally giving him the idea for his signature--a bird. So Watanuki then enables Syaoran and company to travel to Clow Country so that he can finally meet Sakura again.[[MaybeEverAfter As typical of CLAMP, the readers never see the reunion itself]]]].
122	%%* DeusAngstMachina: How to summarize the whole story in 3 words. Backstory will never NOT be angsty, especially if your name is [[spoiler:Fai D. Flourite]], whose case is covered on the trope page.
123	* {{Doppelganger}}:
124	** Needs a separate line as it's rather unique here. There are 3 versions of [[spoiler:Syaoran (Watanuki included)]] and 3 (yes, ''three'') versions of [[spoiler:Sakura]]. And don't bother counting how many AlternateUniverse versions of all Creator/{{CLAMP}} characters there are.
125	** [[spoiler:An alternate Clow Country with an alternate Real Sakura was created when Real Syaoran turned back the clock while the original Clow Country went into a loop with the first Real Sakura frozen in the ruins. Check [[http://tsubasa.wikia.com/wiki/Timeline_of_Events these]] [[http://tsubasa.wikia.com/wiki/%22Sakura%22 out]]]].
126	** [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in Chapter 187. [[spoiler:The Sakura whom Real Syaoran was always with and the Sakura whom he saw through the clone's eye. The second one was actually cloned]]. See WhatHappenedToTheMouse below.
127	* DwindlingParty: Of the original five-man party that started the journey, [[spoiler:only Mokona, Fai and Kurogane actually made it through to the end.]]
128	* EarthAllAlong: [[spoiler:Clow Country is the Tokyo from the Acid Tokyo arc. The reservoir under the temple is the one under the Government Building]].
129	* ElementalPowers: Syaoran = Fire, Kurogane = Ice, Fai = Air, Sakura = Earth. While the actual powers are confined to the Hanshin arc's ''kudan'', the association remains throughout the story. Syaoran and Kurogane later obtain swords named, respectively, Hien and Souhi, "Red Flame" and "Blue Ice". Fai is frequently connected with bird imagery, such as his phoenix tattoo. Sakura's power is associated with being able to understand plants and animals.
130	* EmergencyTransformation: [[spoiler:Fai is transformed into a vampire (with attendant regeneration abilities) to prevent his death from [[EyeScream massive trauma and shock]]]].
131	* EpicRace: The Piffle Princess's annual Dragonfly Race, where racers ride in customizable , lightweight flying machines. This year's race is especially notable as the prize up for grabs is one of Sakura's feathers.
132	* EquivalentExchange: in order for them to travel through dimensions each of the protagonists had to give up their most precious thing - the price must never be too much or too little. ...Except for Sakura unless the bond between her and Syaoran was her price as well, in which case: double-dipping.
133	* EveryoneIsRelated:
134	** All the [[spoiler:Sakuras, Syaorans, Watanuki ''and'' the BigBad are descendants of Clow]].
135	** Including extra relationships due to adoption-inducing parental swaps caused by space-screwing. (See HappilyAdopted below).
136	** And CanonWelding with [[Manga/CardcaptorSakura CCS]] makes 9 people in all directly related to Clow Reed.
137	* EvilTwin: Subverted twice. [[spoiler:The Syaoran we see in the beginning of the series appears to have an evil Twin In a Tube, but turns out to be the evil one ''himself''. Then there's Fai, who is haunted by his twin's voluntary sacrifice (and for a while, it ''seemed'' like Fai was the evil twin who demanded that sacrifice)]]. Also subverted [[spoiler:by Cloney, who goes from being heartless to performing a HeroicSacrifice for the gang (twice)]].
138	* ExactWords: The legend surrounding Princess Emeraude says that the children she kidnapped were never held in their parents' laps again. [[spoiler:The reason why is because the children were all too old to do so by the time it was safe for them to return home after the plague had passed]].
139	%%* ExpendableClone: All the clones, in Fei Wong's eyes.
140	* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: [[spoiler:Fai lets his hair grow out after Acid Tokyo, which indicates the dark turn in his personality]]. It also indicates a time-skip of at least a couple months.
141	* EyepatchOfPower: Subverted. Both [[spoiler:Syaoran and Fai]] wear eye-patches at different points during the series ([[spoiler:Syaoran passes his eyepatch to Fai]]), but both actually lost eyeballs and with them substantial magical power.
142	%%* EyesAlwaysShut: Mokona. Except when in magical teleport mode or when sensing a feather.
143	* EyeScream: At least twice, with one more implied. First chronologically: [[spoiler:Real Syaoran rips his eye out, seals half his soul into it, and implants it in his clone to foil Fei Wong's plans]]. Second: [[spoiler:When Syaoran's seal breaks, the newly soulless clone rips out Fai's eye to gain half his magic power]]. Implied: [[spoiler:Seishirou]] is known to have given up sight in one eye to gain the ability to cross dimensions.
144	* FantasyCounterpartCulture:
145	** Hanshin is Osaka. Koryo is Korea. Outo is Japan in the '20s. [=LeCourt=] is a magical London. Piffle and Edonis are generically futuristic.
146	** In the anime, Storm is a Maya empire, and Daroga is modern America.
147	* FearfulSymmetry: Both [[spoiler:Syaorans]] share the same fighting techniques. Whenever they fight, they spend most of the time simply cancelling each others' attacks. In their second fight, [[spoiler:the clone wins because half of Fai's magic is already stronger than Real Syaoran's.]]
148	* FeatherMotif: Sakura's memories take the form of feathers. [[spoiler:When Sakura and Syaoran Li disappear because Fei Wong is defeated, ''both'' leave behind feather memories]].
149	* FountainOfYouth: [[spoiler:When Clone Syaoran and Clone Sakura seal themselves in the tube, they reverse in age from adults back to 14 years old and become identical to the originals, right down to the clothes]].
150	* FreakOut:
151	** [[spoiler:Clone Syaoran, after killing Clone Sakura. Especially since it's heavily implied that this is how he regained his heart]].
152	** [[spoiler:Fai after his curse activates and he kills Sakura.]]
153	* FreakyFridayFlip: This one's a ''very weird'' example. [[spoiler:Clone Sakura and Real Sakura]] "swap" bodies between themselves at one point. What makes it freaky is that ''the bodies are, of course, [[spoiler:completely identical]]''. Basically [[spoiler:Real Sakura merged with Clone Sakura's body while Clone Sakura's soul entered the body of the Real Sakura that Fei Wong lost during the cloning process]].
154	* FriendToAllLivingThings: Princess Sakura; it's stated her power is to hear the voices of the voiceless. This includes non-living things, most importantly water. She also speaks to a tornado once.
155	* FunnyBackgroundEvent:
156	** A lot, usually Mokona antagonizing Kurogane (such as stealing his food in the Hanshin arc.)
157	** A Miyuki-chan makes a cameo running in the background once in every single world.
158	* FusionDance: [[spoiler:Real Sakura merging with Clone Sakura's old body]] and becoming her 14-year old self as timelines reconnected.
159	%%* GambitPileup: Incredibly large.
160	* GambitRoulette:
161	** At least four different characters are running semi-independent {{plan}}s: [[spoiler: Clow, Fei Wong Reed, Yuuko, and (very much contrary to what we believed at the beginning of the series) Real Syaoran]].
162	** [[spoiler:Clow Reed apparently put together ''all of ''Manga/CardcaptorSakura'''' in preparation for Tsubasa.]]
163	* GenderIncompetence: {{Anime}} only, customary variety. Sakura never really manages to become an ActionGirl, instead having the party do all the fighting while she is reserved for situations needing a MacGuffin solution. The other women in the anime are also basically told to StayInTheKitchen.
164	%%* GenerationXerox: [[spoiler:The Sakuras and Syaorans, mostly because [[ItMakesSenseInContext they're clones of each other.]]]]
165	* GeckoEnding: The anime ending. The second season could have explained who the antagonists were, and delve into the manga story, but instead frittered it away with two flashbacks of Kurogane and several dark twists of the characters and settings from the first season. In the final episode, [[spoiler: Syaoran gets ''one feather'' for Sakura when the bird has millions and she ''doesn't even get to see Syaoran in her memory'', [[AndTheAdventureContinues simply so they can keep traveling]]]]). NHK could have planned a third season on the way, but CLAMP opted to greenlit a series of OVA based on the Acid Tokyo arc, instead.
166	* GenreShift: [[spoiler: In one arc, it transforms from a happy and light-hearted GottaCatchThemAll adventure story to a MindScrew of a fantasy drama.]]
167	* GirlInTheTower: [[GenderFlip Gender Flipped.]] [[spoiler: Yuui and Fai were imprisoned at the bottom and top of a tower, respectively, surrounded by walls impossible to climb, where the dead bodies of prisoners were discarded.]]
168	* GottaCatchThemAll:
169	** Collecting the feathers, [[spoiler:which has since been revealed as a colossal McGuffin to keep them on track in the BigBad's plans. Fai was aware of this from the start.]]
170	** [[spoiler:In the end, Junior has to go and find the rest of them to restore his parents/clone and girlfriend's clone]].
171	* GratuitousForeignLanguage: In the English dub when the group was separated from Mokona, [[Creator/VicMignogna Fai]] spoke French and [[Creator/ChristopherSabat Kurogane]] spoke [[GratuitousJapanese Japanese]].
172	* GroundhogDayLoop: [[spoiler:The Kingdom of Clow, apparently. The loop is only a few hours, not a full day, and ''within'' the stable time loop is a pocket of time that has stopped dead.]]
173	* GuiltComplex:
174	** [[spoiler:Syaoran. He blames himself for everything that happened, because of his decision to rewind time when he was seven. This includes Sakura being taken away by Fei Wong Reed, Fai's being born a twin and therefore being a cause of misfortune, Kurogane's mother's death, and Watanuki, most of which happened before he was born. [[TimeyWimeyBall Probably]]. He blames himself because the BigBad implies that his rewinding time gave him a free reign, but in reality it was his only option, he was pretty much manipulated by Fei Wong Reed and had no control over what Fei Wong did making use of the altered timeline, and there is no way the poor kid could've known all the ramifications that were possible from his one wish, anyway. [[MindScrew Heck, even the readers don't quite understand all the ramifications]]]].
175	** [[spoiler:Fai, too. It's not as large as Syaoran's, but it's there. It's probably because it was pounded into his head when he was a child that everything bad that happened was him and his twin's fault, including the king of Valeria going insane and killing everyone. Then Ashura did the exact same thing after living with Fai for a while. It caused Fai to become distant to everyone he met because he was afraid that if they got close to him, bad things would happen ''because'' they'd gotten close to him.]]
176	* HappilyAdopted:
177	** [[spoiler:Clone]]Syaoran is the adopted son of Fujitaka, an archaeologist, in Clow Country[[spoiler:'s altered timeline]].
178	** This is implied to have been the case with [[spoiler:Fai and King Ashura]], although it doesn't last.
179	%%* HeadPet: Mokona to Kurogane.
180	* HeartOfHappiness: Once, Kurogane, the gruff {{Ninja}}, says "Kurogane is very happy ♡!" It doesn't fit the description of his personality because it's actually the TeamPet Mokona imitating Kurogane's voice.
181	* HeroicSacrifice:
182	** [[spoiler:Clone Sakura and Syaoran. The latter attempts to pull a TakingYouWithMe on Fei Wong Reed. He gets better, since as a clone he could not truly die. And then the clones die again as Sakura and Syaoran Li, this time opening a hole in the space he, Real Syaoran, and Watanuki were, allowing them to escape. Clone Sakura dies at the same time.]]
183	** [[spoiler: Clone Syaoran in fact returns about ''5 minutes'' after his first heroic sacrifice as Syaoran Li, along with Clone Sakura, only to let everyone know he's waited a whole lifetime to pull out a ''second'' one. And to drive home their identity they now look '''exactly identical''' to the originals, so much so that at one place even the authors mixed up a piece of dialogue. Real Syaoran's expression when he realizes who're who's parents is priceless.]]
184	%%* HighlyVisibleNinja: Kurogane, though he really doesn't need to worry about it much being the badass he is.
185	* IdenticalGrandson:
186	** Or son, really, being [[spoiler:Syaoran Li and his son Tsubasa, a.k.a. Real Syaoran]]. Kurogane and his father also look remarkably alike, the main difference being stubble and a ponytail on the latter.
187	** Mokona lampshades this in Chapter 218 when it voices it's confusion on [[spoiler: "Syaoran" referring to the newcomers as his parents]].
188	** [[spoiler:This is because Syaoran Li is the reincarnation of Real Syaoran's clone. Yes.]]
189	* IHateYouVampireDad: Kurogane's insistence on [[spoiler:turning Fai into a vampire to save his life]] puts a serious strain on their relationship for almost 50 chapters.
190	* IKnowYourTrueName:
191	** The power of names is explicitly so great that ''none'' of the protagonists are using their real names except [[spoiler: the clones]], whose real names are [[spoiler: the false aliases the originals use]].
192	** [[spoiler: Real Syaoran and Real Sakura both have the real name of Tsubasa, Kurogane's real name is Youou, and Fai's real name is Yuui. Even Mokona's real name is Soel.]]
193	* IncestSubtext:
194	** [[spoiler:Real Syaoran has been impersonating his father and romancing a princess who is the original from whom his mother was cloned since he was seven. And that is precisely what his parents want since they see the two as their original selves.]]
195	** [[spoiler:Cloney is also an example, since he has memories of being a clone of Syaoran, and his wife has memories of being a clone of Sakura. Since they got together based on those memories, and a clone can be thought of as being like a child, it's debatable which generation is imitating which.]]
196	* InconsistentSpelling: Fai and Syaoran are the ones with the most confusion.
197	** Fai: The official English spelling is "Fay D. Flourite", but the name actually references the mineral ''fluorite'' (like the crystal in his wizard's staff). It's a common spelling mistake even for native English speakers, and the translators have thrown in the towel on trying to correct it. Other spellings include permutations of "Fay" "Fai", and "Fye" with "Flourite", "Fluorite", and "Flowright". Additionally, the English pronunciation isn't used, instead it's a Russian pronunciation, so it sounds like 'Fye' rhyming with 'Eye' rather than Fay rhyming with 'Day'.
198	** Syaoran: "Li Syaoran" is the official spelling, but "Shaoran" is another possible romanization for the name pronounced Japanese-style, and "Xiao Lang" reflects the original Chinese pronunciation. Some also pronounce it "Show-ren". His last name may also be romanized as "Lee".
199	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: At first Grosum seems like a jerk who is wrongly and overly suspicious of our heroes when they come in. [[spoiler: But not only did he decide to not charge the villagers any rent until the bad harvest was over, but he also spent sleepless nights looking for the children, even allowing the heroes to stay in the inn that Kyle welcomed them into.]]
200	* KilledOffForReal: This is stated to be a fundamental rule of the multiverse. Death is permanent and comes to everyone in time. Even Yuuko cannot bring someone back from the dead without suffering serious consequences. [[spoiler:Except clones, because they weren't truly alive until Clow and Yuuko gave payment to have them be reincarnated. But when they die after that, it's for real.]]
201	* KnightOfCerebus: [[spoiler: Arguably the original "Syaoran" as his appearance marks the point where the story swerves into DarkerAndEdgier territory.]]
202	* LeftHanging: '''Major one here'''. Sakura and the whole of Clow Country are themselves a paradox as [[spoiler: they too existed only thanks to the [[StableTimeLoop Stable Time Loops]] RetGone Clone Sakura established, having left her feather in the Tokyo reservoir. Real Sakura even admits this while they're trapped by BigBad in his tube. Now that the loops have ceased to exist with the clones RetGone, apparently only Real Syaoran & Watanuki have to pay a price for having to exist as a paradox.]]
203	* LifeOrLimbDecision: Specifically, [[spoiler:Kurogane amputating his arm for Fai's life]]. Completely without hesitation, too. His expression (in the OVA) seems to say ''The things I do for you, dumbass''.
204	* LimitedWardrobe: Averted like MySuitIsAlsoSuper, since the series has strong {{shoujo}} influences. The dimension-hopping characters all start out with just the clothes on their backs, but will readily switch to the local fashions provided they have enough time and money. Once they do adopt a world's clothing, they will change outfits as appropriate. In the first arc of the main plot, you can see Syaoran, Kurogane, and Fai changing each successive day.
205	* LoveMakesYouEvil:
206	** [[spoiler:Fei Wong Reed made his GambitRoulette with the intention of bringing someone BackFromTheDead. Or apparently, to save someone else's life. And that person is Yuuko. She is ''not'' happy with this, [[SelfFulfillingProphecy and ends her unlife to help stop him]].]]
207	** [[spoiler:King Ashura of Celes]] sacrifices the lives of his subjects in an attempt to break a death curse on his ward, [[spoiler:Fai D. Fluorite]].
208	* MagicKnight: Fai may look like a SquishyWizard, but he's quite proficient at physical combat as well.
209	* MagicMirror: The giant mirror used by Fei Wong Reed to spy on the main characters is the most frequent and obvious use of the trope. Other not-so-literal examples include the High Priest of Clow using a reflecting pool for scrying and Mokona using a reflective surface to help "phone" Yuuko.
210	** Chu'nyan uses a mirror in Koryo to lift a spell from the villagers.
211	* MagicalEye: [[spoiler:Fai's eyes are the source of his magic power. When Clone Syaoran takes one, only one of his eyes turns blue.]]
212	* MartyrWithoutACause: Even after specifying that he would help as long as it didn't endanger his life, Fai has repeatedly put himself in danger to save or protect Syaoran, and has been interrogated by Kurogane for his unwillingness to defend himself.
213	* MaybeEverAfter: [[spoiler:CLAMP's favourite ending. The Epilogue. Hopefully [[FlyingDutchman Syaoran]] will be free to be reunited with Sakura someday. Their names (see MeaningfulName below) are a hint. ]]
214	* MeaningfulName: [[spoiler: Real Syaoran and Sakura both have the real name of Tsubasa, which means "wings." There are two of them. It also means the title of the series is actually a character's name, although the character doesn't appear until halfway through the series.]]
215	* MechaMooks: The enemy robot ninjas, which are [[spoiler: actually souless attempts at clones deemed expendable by Fei Wong]].
216	* MindRape: [[spoiler: Yuui and Fai on several orders of magnitude when they are children.]] It drives one to repeat over and over that he wants to die and the other to question their very purpose for existing. [[spoiler: Taken to the extreme for Yuui when Fai kills himself in front of Yuui to free him from the inescapable prison they had been living in.]]
217	* MindScrew: '''Several orders of it''', with ''no chance'' of screw driving. Really, Creator/{{CLAMP}} deserve a ''special award'' and maybe even a new trope like Mind Screw Pileup. For the sake of your sanity, do not, we repeat, DO NOT try to understand the story. Not to mention incredible amounts of ArcWelding and CanonWelding. It's mentioned repeatedly that [[spoiler:time and space and ''reason'' have been destroyed (possibly) by [[BigBad Fei-Wang Reed's]] EvilPlan / RealityBreakingParadox / TimeStandsStill...thing, resulting in multiple paradoxes.]]
218	** This [[https://66.media.tumblr.com/fb50f9b72ed9fc72d3f7dec61044faa7/tumblr_inline_phwu2tXChH1ssybra_500.png flowchart]] might help. (Spoilers behind link.)
219	* MistakenForQuake: Near the beginning, when Sakura activates Clow's ruins.
220	* MoreThanMindControl: [[spoiler:Fai]] is revealed about two-thirds of the way through the story to have been willingly manipulated for most of his life by both [[spoiler:Fei Wong Reed]] and [[spoiler:Ashura-ou]]. This involved cunningly preying on his insecurities and regrets in moments of extreme emotional distress, aided by some magical suppression of memories that might have caused him to question his situation.
221	* TheMovie: A short 30 minute film released between seasons one and two of the TV series.
222	* MrFanservice: Kurogane and Fai. YES.
223	** The Infinity arc makes...well, ''everyone'' into this.
224	* TheMultiverse: The party is traveling through multiple worlds and dimensions. Not everyone they meet is aware of the existence of the multiverse.
225	* MySiblingWillLiveThroughMe: [[AngstySurvivingTwin Hello]], [[spoiler: Fai D. Fluorite]]... or should we say [[spoiler: Yuui]].
226	** The [[spoiler:clones]] apparently live through their [[spoiler:originals]] as well.
227	* MySuitIsAlsoSuper: Averted, as clothing gets torn, stained, and otherwise damaged on a regular basis and stays that way until it is repaired or replaced.
228	* MyOwnGrampa: [[spoiler: Syaoran's clone is also his father.]]
229	[[/folder]]
230	[[folder:N-Z]]
231	* NearDeathExperience: A conveniently-timed one allows [[spoiler:Tomoyo-hime to tell Kurogane how to get Fai out of Celes]].
232	* NeverTheSelvesShallMeet: Played straight and averted too. Where it's played straight is that the [[spoiler:clones]], in spite of visiting Yuuko's shop many times, never meet [[spoiler:their reincarnated selves in the tube.]]
233	* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Multiple times in the story, and the root of the ''whole'' problem is [[spoiler:Clow's momentary subconscious wish that Yuuko wouldn't die, which set the entire plot in motion when Fei Wong Reed decided to grant it]].
234	** [[spoiler:Fei Wong himself is speculated by Fai to have actually been ''created'' by Clow's wish.]]
235	** Not to mention that [[spoiler: Real Syaoran's wish to save Sakura's life was the thing that started breaking causality. He even states himself that it's possible that his tampering is what lead to everyone else's life being a mess. Luckily, they forgive him.]]
236	* {{Ninja}}: Kurogane and Souma, as well as numerous other unnamed ninjas serving under Amaterasu and Tomoyo-hime.
237	* NoBodyLeftBehind: Usually averted, with corpses lingering unpleasantly (backstory flashbacks, anyone?). Two notable occasions when it is played straight: [[spoiler:the body of the real Fai dissolves into dust when the feather is removed and Fei Wong tells us that the real Sakura's body dissolved after being magically cloned]].
238	** And that's what happens when all created beings die.
239	* NoOntologicalInertia: [[spoiler:All the distortions in the Multiverse disappear with BigBad's death.]]
240	** Also happened with [[spoiler:Clone Syaoran dying in chapter 210]] and even more recently with [[spoiler: Fei Wong Reed and Sakura and Syaoran Li.]]
241	* OccultBlueEyes: Fai's magic is explicitly tied with the blue ''color'' in his eyes, which is weird.
242	* OneCastMemberPerCover: The deluxe edition featured every important character for each cover such as Syaoran and Sakura in the first two volumes. The two were shown again in volumes 23 and 24 respectively [[spoiler:after their true identities as clones were revealed]]. Then, the last two volumes featured them again [[spoiler:as their real selves]].
243	* OneTwinMustDie: [[spoiler:Where Fai was from, twins were considered to be cursed. He and his twin brother were given the option of either killing their twin or being exiled. Neither was willing to kill their brother, so they were banished; one to a tower, the other to a pit. Years later, Fei Wang showed up to give the twin in the tower a choice: he would free one of the brothers, but the other would have to die. Fai did not hesitate to choose himself to die to free his brother, Yuui. Yuui then took on his dead brother's name, and became Fai D. Fluorite.]]
244	* OneWomanWail: Heard often in the series, usually from the signature battle song, ''A Song of Storm And Fire.''
245	* OurMagesAreDifferent: Every magic based character in CLAMP-verse tend to use magic circles as the basis of their spell-casting...except for Fai and others from his world, who use a script-like casting method. Oddly, Fei Wong Reed has been seen to use both methods.
246	* OurVampiresAreDifferent: [[spoiler:Kamui and Subaru, and later Fai gets turned into one to save his life]]. Description on the trope page of how they stack up against classic vampires.
247	** [[spoiler:Seishirou]] is also possibly a vampire as Fuuma comments to Subaru when he is asked why [[spoiler:Seishirou]] isn't growing any older.
248	* OutGambitted: [[spoiler:Fei Wong is beaten by the combined efforts of Clow, Yuuko and the reincarnated clones. The clones use their power to restore reality back to normal in all dimensions. For all his [[GambitRoulette colossal scheming]], BigBad [[DidntSeeThatComing did not account for the possibilty]] of [[ReincarnationRomance reincarnation]] and Clow giving his magical power to Cloney]].
249	* PhenotypeStereotype: Fai is blond and blue-eyed, and in one extra chapter has [[ButNotTooForeign some serious objections to sushi and chopsticks]]. He also comes from a very cold and snowy world, possibly resembling northern Scandinavia. In the dub, he speaks French once seperated from Mokona.
250	* PimpedOutDress: Most particularly in the [[SideStoryBonusArt color artwork]] but also in the chapters themselves. This is CLAMP, after all. Sakura is by far the most common subject, but practically everyone gets a [[ImpossiblyCoolClothes truly amazing outfit or two]].
251	* PowerLimiter: Fai's full-back phoenix tattoo is supposed to restrict his huge innate powers to keep him safe. Thus, when he gives it up to Yuuko as his traveling price, he also swears off the use of magic. [[spoiler:Later subverted when we find out he's more dangerous with it than without it, because he is cursed to kill the first person he meets who is MORE powerful. With his magic restricted, it's more likely that he'll find someone who outstrips him]].
252	** The "{{curse}}" Tomoyo places on Kurogane which will decrease his strength if he kills anyone could also been seen as a kind of limiter. [[spoiler:This is also subverted because we find out after Celes that it's really a [[ProtectiveCharm protection charm]] and the stuff about his strength diminishing was a prophecy about the consequences of killing Ashura]].
253	* PowerIncontinence: [[spoiler:Clow's power made his unconscious wish to save Yuuko's life come true, freezing her in time and creating the TimeyWimeyBall. This eventually culminated in Manga/CardcaptorSakura when Sakura split Clow's remaining power between Fujitaka and Eriol]].
254	** To show just how much power shedding he had to do, [[spoiler: He put a huge part of his powers and abilities in all the Clow Cards. Then he paid for Clone Syaoran's reincarnation with his magic, enough magic for Cloney to even stop TheBigBad's moves! Then he needed to split his soul in two. And even then mind you...he STILL had so much '''leftover''' power and abilities remaining when he reincarnated as Eriol (even without the cards if he could affect an entire city) and ultimately split his power between himself and CCS Sakura's father Fujitaka, only after which he was no longer the strongest in the world.]]
255	** Fai D. Flourite is one of the most magically powerful characters in the CLAMP-verse, beaten out only by Clow Reed, Yuuko, possibly Fei Wong Reed, possibly Sakura with all her feathers, and possibly CCS Sakura when she has full control of her magic. [[spoiler: When Clone Syaoran steals one of his eyes and thus half his strength, his magic was still stronger than a majority of the main cast.]] The catch is he's cursed to kill the first person he meets [[spoiler: in person]] who is more powerful than he is.
256	* PrettyInMink: Fai's giant floofy white fur overcoat. It doesn't seem to be necessary for warmth (his plainer blue coat should be sufficient even in Celes), it's totally about marking his status. [[spoiler:He later loses it for good when Kurogane saves him in Celes.]]
257	* RandomTransportation: The protagonists travel the multiverse in search of Princess Sakura's scattered memories--however, they rarely know what kind of world they will end up in next, just that there is a "memory feather" in it somewhere.
258	* RealityBreakingParadox: Wishing to bring back the dead. [[spoiler:[[PowerIncontinence Clow's subconscious wish]] to keep Yuuko alive]] distorted reality to a point where the effects on the multiverse could never be fully repaired, or even be understood by '''anyone''', even CLAMP themselves.
259	** NiceJobBreakingItHero: The BigBad (and consequently his incomprehensibly complex {{plan}}) [[spoiler: was also likely created as a response to that wish.]]
260	** And if that wasn't bad enough, it also led to other characters making their own attempts at this trope, further distorting an already distorted and illogical reality.
261	* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: [[spoiler:Fai. As Yuuko told Kurogane, '[Fai] has already lived many times your lifespan'. Given that Kurogane looks to be in his early 20's at the youngest, this probably makes Fai at least 80 years old, despite ''also'' appearing to be in his early 20's.]] Although it's not entirely clear how much of this is slow aging due to magic, and how much of that time was spent [[spoiler:in the timeless pocket dimension where he and his twin were banished.]]
262	* RedEyesTakeWarning: Subverted with Kurogane. While he has red eyes, he's one of the main protagonists, and in fact [[spoiler: the ''only'' one of the original group (besides Mokona) who isn't being manipulated by BigBad Fei Wang, though Fei Wang tried to get him with the death of his mother before Tomoyo and Yuuko interfered.]] He is, however, the most physically capable of the entire group, and you do ''not'' wanna piss him off.
263	* ResetButtonEnding: Now that [[spoiler:[[BigBad Fei Wong]] and Yuuko are both dead, existence should have been restored to the way it should have been. Right? But no, paradoxes (Syaoran, Watanuki and by extension even Sakura and possibly the whole of Clow Country, not to mention an unknown number of lingering changes in the multiverse) still exist. Reality could never fully recover after ''that many'' RealityBreakingParadox attempts.]]
264	* RetGone: [[spoiler:Yuuko's death deletes her undead history out of reality]].
265	** [[spoiler:The original Syaoran]], who was replaced by [[spoiler:Watanuki]].
266	** And also [[spoiler:the clones, who have vanished from all time, leaving Syaoran a bootstrap paradox,]] and...
267	** RippleEffectIndicator: [[spoiler:His family portrait no longer has his parents/the clones]] on it anymore.
268	* ReusedCharacterDesign: Manga/CardcaptorSakura characters in an AlternateUniverse setting (and it's ''not'' a sequel)
269	* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: Mokona, oh so much.
270	* RoaringRampageOfRomance: Shaoran [[spoiler:causes the time to rewind and a lot of characters suffer because of this, in order to save Sakura.]]
271	* [[SandWorm Sand Worms]]: They inhabit Acid Tokyo.
272	* SceneryPorn: All the anime adaptations.
273	* ScrewDestiny: The characters have managed to barely defy various prophetic visions. Sometimes they will "go along" with a prophetic vision up to the critical moment, in order to avoid other changes multiplying the number of possible futures and making the outcome harder to control.
274	** [[spoiler:(Clone) Sakura making a deal with Yuuko so Fai will kill her, rather than Syaoran jr.]]
275	* ShipperOnDeck: One of the reasons for the [[spoiler:clones/parents sealing themselves in the tube]] is to get their [[spoiler:originals]] together, defying foretelling dreams predicting StarCrossedLovers. They succeed, partially, but it's quite an achievement considering the aura of inevitability so far.
276	** Yuuko hints at being one for Fai and Kurogane in Horitsuba Gakuen.
277	* ShoutOut:
278	** Oh so many to other CLAMP series, and a few to other series like ''Cat's Eye'' and other mediums like old ''WackyRacers'' cartoons. Edges dangerously close to {{Crossover}} in some cases.
279	** HighSchoolAU ''Horitsuba Gakuen'' has Yuuko using ''Anime/SailorMoon's'' CatchPhrase ''"_____ I'll punish you!"'' when she sends Fai and Kurogane on a treasure hunt across campus. She even imitates Usagi's way of saying it.
280	** Acid Tokyo is a world turned into a desert where there's little water, characters live in protected places and wear robes, and giant "mutants" of the SandWorm class roam the terrain. The references to Creator/FrankHerbert's ''Literature/{{Dune}}'' are not very subtle here.
281	* SignificantTimeShift: Sakura and Syaoran are childhood friends and are on FirstNameBasis with each other. After Sakura loses her memories, she calls him Syaoran-[[UsefulNotes/JapaneseHonorifics kun]]. This becomes a plot point when a villain tries to trick Syaoran by conjuring an illusion of Sakura, and he notices the trick when she calls him without the honorific.
282	* SittingOnTheRoof: Near the end of the Nihon Arc with Syaoran and Fai.
283	* SlidingScaleOfFreeWillVsFate: Hitsuzen anyone? [[spoiler:Till the time loop, it seems to be a Type 1 as all choices simply seem to be a part of the loop, but eventually after some painful decision making (See FlyingDutchman), it ends with a type 2.]]
284	* SpannerInTheWorks: [[spoiler:Kurogane is sometimes this to Fei Wong Reed, although mostly just through having his priorities in the right place]].
285	* StableTimeLoop: [[spoiler:Twice. ''Two overlapping ones even''.]]
286	** [[spoiler: One is responsible for Sakura and Clow country's existence. Clone Sakura's feathers are scattered across the dimensions, she travels back in time and leaves one of her feathers in Tokyo. This prevents the destruction of the Tokyo government building, and humanity can survive. Hundreds of years later, Tokyo has slowly transformed into Clow Country, Sakura is born and cloned, Clone Sakura's feathers are scattered...]]
287	** The [[spoiler:My Own Grampa (see above) scenario]] is the other one.
288	** [[spoiler:The entire story is one of these as the trapped Sakura and Syaoran from the bottle are the Sakura and Syaoran we've been following this whole time.]]
289	* StarCrossedLovers: Played straight and averted with [[spoiler:the Sakuras and Syaorans. In the end, Real Syaoran becomes a FlyingDutchman although he will return more often to Clow Country than any other world. Sakura stays home as going with him would only make things worse.]]
290	** [[spoiler:The clones]] were rather luckier here; [[spoiler:they got a new life of their own for several years]].
291	* StepfordSmiler: [[spoiler:Fai, though it does begin to crack and ultimately appears to fall away completely.]]
292	* SuperpowerMeltdown: [[spoiler: In Celes country, when the second curse on Fai activates, he literally shuts down a dimension with his magic. This also highlights his PowerDegeneration.]]
293	* SwordPointing: Syaoran and [[spoiler:his clone]] point their swords at each other at close range just before getting into a sword fight. Watch it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bj-mal_6xOs#t=1h18m27s here]].
294	* TallDarkAndHandsome: Oh ''my'', Kurogane. Seishirou may also count.
295	* TangledFamilyTree: The [[spoiler:Reed/Li/Watanuki]] family tree looks like this. [[spoiler:Reincarnation and cloning]] make for very, very loopy genealogies. [[note]]To make it short: [[spoiler:The real "Syaoran" is the son of the reincarnation of his own clone! In a verse where reincarnations are visually and possibly genetically identical to their previous life, no less. His mother, by the way, is his girlfriend's clone's reincarnation. Now taking bets on whether or not he himself is going to father yet another of himself. Also factor in possible parents and grandparents given the multiple {{RetCon}}s of the Clow royal family and what we know from Manga/CardcaptorSakura.]][[/note]]
296	** Perhaps should be called Thirty Relationships pileup after what happened. For starters, draw it right and it turns out poor [[spoiler:Real Syaoran has become related to himself in ''FOUR different ways'']]. It doesn't help that CLAMP kept adding more and more cross-relationships as the story progressed.
297	** To elaborate, the equations are rather complicated. The final result is some [[MindScrew blow your brain]] combo of '''all of these put together simultaneously''' - [[spoiler:AlwaysIdenticalTwins + [[AlternateSelf Alternate Selves]] + IdenticalGrandson, GenerationXerox + HappilyAdopted + MyOwnGrampa + EveryoneIsRelated]] = Really ''Really'' '''Really''' '''REALLY''' TangledFamilyTree.
298	* TeamDad: Kurogane has this title applied by Fai unwillingly, but it fits surprisingly well, [[spoiler:especially by the end of the Infinity Arc.]]
299	* TeamMom: Fai is proclaimed the mother of the group by Mokona.
300	* TemporalParadox: Too complicated to explain. And explaining it would make it ''even more complicated!''
301	* ThanatosGambit: Clow Reed seems to have planned out an awful lot of the plot before his ([[Manga/CardcaptorSakura very deliberate]]) death... Also, [[spoiler:it was revealed that Clow didn't actually die prior to CCS, he duped Kero and Yue into believeing he was dead and then buggered off to Clow to play King, then died there, split his soul into two and was then reincarnated into Eriol and Fujitaka]].
302	* [[ShesAllGrownUp They're All Grown Up]]: Most new readers/viewers' impression of [[Manga/CardcaptorSakura Syaoran and Sakura]] in this work.
303	* TheyreCalledPersonalIssuesForAReason: We're looking at you, Fai.
304	* TimeStandsStill: [[spoiler: Clow Country, or more specifically the Reservoir, which is frozen in the moment just before [[NiceJobBreakingItHero little Sakura is cursed]].]] Subverted in that what happens in the frozen world affects its inhabitants. Don't worry, [[MindScrew they]] [[ForWantOfANail get]] [[UnexplainedRecovery better]].
305	* TimeTravel: Creator/{{CLAMP}}'s brought in variations of every category on the trope page...
306	* TimeyWimeyBall: [[spoiler:TimeTravel never works the same way twice and with all its varieties being used at different times, the result is indescribable and represents the end of all logic as we know it. But...]]
307	** [[spoiler:People just can't give up and someone ''actually tried to'' '''draw the ball''', which probably [[http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y65/zacloud/worlds-timefortrc.png looks like this.]]]]
308	* TomatoInTheMirror: [[spoiler:Both Syaoran, and more recently (and much more jarringly) ''Sakura herself'' are revealed to be copies as part of the BigBad's unimaginably complex GambitRoulette.]]
309	* TookALevelInBadass: Sakura after the latter parts of the Tokyo arc, but the result is that while she is more capable, it has rather heartbreaking BrokenBird connotations.
310	* TranslatorMicrobes: This is one of Mokona's special powers. Since the 4 main cast members are from 3 different worlds, if they get separated from Mokona, they can't even understand each other much less the inhabitants of their current dimension.
311	** This is demonstrated in the first world the group visits after making their deal with Yuuko. Once Mokona is out of range, Syaoran perceives Kurogane's speech as a mishmash of very basic kanji and geometric symbols, and Fai's as a stream of Cyrillic-esque runes.
312	** Played for laughs again later when Fai and Kurogane get marooned together for six months without Mokona to translate. Kurogane's native language has very basic mutual intelligibility with that of the country they're stranded in, but Fai spends that time "doing things that didn't need words". [[ShipTease Hint hint.]]
313	** The translation effect does not extend to writing systems. One omake is devoted to Kurogane deciphering the plot of a ninja manga from the illustrations and a few ideographic characters he recognizes.
314	* TrueCompanions: The group has twice elected to continue the journey despite knowing it was quite likely futile.
315	* {{Tsundere}}: Arguably, Kurogane is a male Tsundere. [[spoiler:However, Kurogane only fits the Tsundere mold through at most the first third of the story. After that point, [[CharacterDevelopment he loosens up considerably around Fai]]. Even]] early on, however, he's quite straightforward about his feelings, although also quite undemonstrative. The running-hot-and-cold tendency in their relationship is really more about Fai sending ''tremendously'' mixed signals.
316	* TwinsAreSpecial: [[spoiler: Fai and his twin brother were imprisoned and emotionally tortured as children because in their country of birth Valeria, twins are considered a bad omen.]]
317	* TwinSwitch: [[spoiler:Fai is actually Yuui (although the switch occurred after the real Fai, who's name Yuui uses, was already dead)]], and this has led to much arguing in the fandom as to which twin is which in the AlternateUniverse {{Omake}}.
318	* UptownGirl: Sakura is princess and Syaoran is middle class.
319	* WalkingTheEarth / FlyingDutchman: [[spoiler:In the end, Syaoran chooses to do this in order to find a place where he, Sakura, and their clones can all exist together; this is actually his price for continued existence and he'll be wandering forever. Fai, Kurogane and Mokona go with him, and thanks to Mokona's memory-storing earring they can return to Clow Country and [[Manga/XxxHolic Watanuki's]] 'verse more often.]]
320	* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler: Fei Wong Reed went through an ''epic'' breakdown when he realized even all he'd done couldn't fulfill Clow Reed's wish to save Yuko, especially jarring given his earlier smugness.]]
321	* WackyRacing: The Dragonfly race. Tomoyo and her officers' dialogues suggest that the wackiness part is unintentional, and that at least one of the competitors must be rigging the race. [[spoiler:Actually, it was Tomoyo's party herself that was rigging the race, because they were trying to find out which competitor was after the feather.]]
322	* WhamEpisode: Chapter 212 of the manga, where it is revealed that [[spoiler:Clow Country is actually the acid Tokyo in the future, caused by the group's meddling in other places]].
323	** The Entire [[spoiler:Tokyo]] arc, where the [[spoiler:fun and games end and someone loses an eye. See also DarkerAndEdgier.]]
324	** Chapters 150 and 151, [[spoiler:where Fai's curse activates and he nearly kills Sakura]] and all of the [[spoiler:Celes]] arc.
325	** Anything that's occurred during the [[spoiler:Clow]] arc [[spoiler: a.k.a. the showdown with Fei Wong]] qualifies: [[spoiler:Yuuko was mysteriously summoned by Fei Wong's attempt to revive someone or do something similar, Sakura and Syaoran are multiplying all over the place, and there was a picture of Touya and Yukito apparently in their CSS clothing in one of the panels]].
326	** Presenting: Chapter 223
327	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: An alternate [[spoiler:Real Sakura]] from an altered [[spoiler:Clow Country which came into being after Real Syaoran's wish split the timeline creating an alternate Clow Country]], came into being out of nowhere and was actually the one [[spoiler:cloned (the original Real Sakura was frozen in time).]] Her fate is not resolved.
328	** As it turns out, she fades away like the [[spoiler:clone Syaoran]] does due to [[NoOntologicalInertia her creator dying]].
329	* WhichMe: [[spoiler:There are a lot of Syaorans and Sakuras. It might not be so bad if they actually had some sort of distinguishing features from one another.]]
330	* WindowLove: Sakura and Syaoran at the beginning of the manga.
331	* YourMagicsNoGoodHere: Each universe has differently functioning magic, and some have none at all.
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