Line #66 YMMV/HaruhiSuzumiya


1	* AccidentalAesop: If someone is really dangerous when angry, you should do your best to appease them, even if it means ignoring their already bad behavior, such as Haruhi's blackmail of the computer club.
2	* AccidentalInnuendo:
3	** This quote from novel 8:
4	---> ''Putting all her weight on my body, Haruhi then pushed me down to the floor. [[ItMakesSenseInContext Haruhi rode me like a horse, getting in the mount position.]]''
5	** A UsefulNotes/BritishEnglish exclusive example from the ''Disappearance'': "His [[SeparatedByACommonLanguage spunk]] was nice and all"
6	** And from ''Disappearance'':
7	--->'''Kyon:''' I haven't even tasted Haruhi's hot pot yet.
8	* AdaptationDisplacement: Thanks to the explosive popularity of the anime, most people don't know that it's based on a series of light novels (which wouldn't be available in English [[LateExportForYou until 2009, six years after the first volume was published in Japan]]). There are also some fans who, upon discovering the novels, immediately think that the books are adapted from the anime and manga material, as opposed to the other way around.
9	* {{Adorkable}}:
10	** Kyon, for all his cynicism, can show a rather dorky sense of humor at times. "It was all....a ''dream''." (Beat). "That was it." A few of his AuthorFilibuster tangents can also be this, especially when he lets his guard down and gets genuinely excited about speculative physics or astronomy.
11	** Yuki. Few people make dopey ignorance towards Earth-Technology so darned cute, as show with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHZmor8eadU&feature=related THIS little old scene]].
12	* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Good Lord. It would be faster to list characters who ''don't'' have followings with widely varied opinions. Not even ThoseTwoGuys are immune. Has its [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation/HaruhiSuzumiya own subpage]]. Deliberately fueled by the author himself. Itsuki hints that both he and Mikuru are merely putting up acts in order to fit the personalities that Haruhi expects them to have. However, neither the show nor the novels have actually ''shown'' this to be true.
13	* AlternateSelfShipping:
14	** Various doujins of ''The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya'' ship Mikuru and her future self.
15	** Pairing the characters with their ''Fanfic/SuzumiyaHaruhiNoSeitenkan'' [[GenderFlip counterparts]] is surprisingly common, with Kyon and Kyonko being by far the most favorite.
16	* ArcFatigue: The infamous "Endless Eight" arc in the anime. Eight episodes (almost three hours) of the exact same events with minor variations, adapted out of a single short story. The visual style of each iteration came to reflect, and subsequently reinforce in viewers, the fatigue experienced by Nagato. While it makes sense from a narrative point of view, that doesn't stop some people from thinking it's still a huge pain to sit through.
17	* BaseBreakingCharacter:
18	** Kyon doesn't reach Haruhi's level, but he's either the most original and generally awesome LemonyNarrator or a pedant who really needs to shut the hell up.
19	** Haruhi is either a deep and enjoyable character, or an unlikeable {{jerkass}} who [[KarmaHoudini rarely faces consequences for her bad behavior]].
20	* BetterOnDVD: The "Endless Eight" arc works better, or at least is less frustrating, on DVD. Knowing beforehand that the arc would end in eight episodes is a morale boost in comparison to the horror of waiting one week for a new episode, only to find an old one remade and having no idea how long this nightmare would last. You can also skip some episodes since nothing is really missed if you only watch the first, second, and last parts. Alternatively, if you ''do'' want to watch all eight episodes through, it's almost necessary to do so at once to appreciate their arguable charm point of how almost nothing is exactly the same twice.
21	* BrokenBase: ''[[GroundhogDayLoop Endless Eight]]''. To summarize each side's arguments: those for "Endless Eight" argue that the episodes are distinct because each is animated from scratch, and call it an incredibly effective illustration -- if going through the loop eight times is grating on ''your'' nerves, imagine how ''[[spoiler:Yuki Nagato]]'' feels). Those against "Endless Eight" call it meaningless {{filler}} with virtually-identical scripts that wasted almost an entire season on what was a single, brief story in the novels, and that artistic expression should never come at the expense of a story being engaging. Another criticism leveled at it was that, although [[spoiler:Yuki Nagato]] outlined the minor variations of the countless loops, we never got to ''see'' most of them, making it even more boring than the plot itself needed it to be. And then, there are those who think that it ''was'' a waste of animation, but the fan meltdown was more hilarious than anything Creator/KyoAni could have animated, so it was worth it after all.
22	* CommonKnowledge:
23	** Many fans were convinced (and some still are to this day) that the Endless Eight arc [[ArcFatigue lasted for so long]] in the anime solely because Kyoto Animation wanted to [[TrollingCreator troll the fanbase]]. The real reason is much less exciting: the second season was originally going to adapt ''The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya'', but during production ''Disappearance'' was shifted to a feature-length movie instead. The Endless Eight arc was stretched out as long as it was to fill in for time the anime would have spent on ''Disappearance''.
24	** Likewise, you'll see a lot of people blaming the anime's adaptation of the Endless Eight arc for the decline in popularity the franchise suffered in the 2010s, to the point that some believe it [[FranchiseKiller killed the whole franchise]]. The truth is that people stopped talking about ''Haruhi'' because there simply wasn't anything new coming out; Kyoto Animation stopped producing the anime after the ''Disappearance'' movie as part of a pivot away from adapting outside works in favour of creating original ones in-house, while the light novels went through a nine-year SequelGap between ''Surprise'' in 2011 and ''Intuition'' in 2020. Endless Eight certainly didn't help matters, but it was far from the biggest culprit.
25	* DiagnosedByTheAudience: Haruhi has displayed a number of traits that could be associated with a number of mental disorders, though nothing has ever been confirmed. Some of these include, [[ManipulativeBitch skills at manipulating others]], LackOfEmpathy, [[DidntThinkThisThrough impulsivity]], [[ControlFreak a constant need to control others]], [[{{Narcissist}} extreme narcissism]] and a [[HairTriggerTemper short temper.]] Whether she’s just anti-social, suffering from bipolar disorder, or borderline genuine sociopathy is anyone's guess.
26	* DieForOurShip:
27	** Some Yuki/Kyon and Mikuru/Kyon shippers ''really'' hate Haruhi and will cheerfully {{Demoniz\|ation}}e her. Played with more literally in the series itself -- if Kyon is too nice to Mikuru, Haruhi gets jealous and (unbeknownst to herself) uses her powers to rewrite reality.
28	** Yuki and Mikuru get a bit of this as well. Apparently, it's due to backlash for Haruhi being OutOfFocus in the last novels.
29	* EndingFatigue: The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya for some people, it goes on even after the resolution and it's almost ''three hours long''. Though the fact that the epilogue contains one of Kyon's biggest [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome Moments of Awesome]] in the series helps offset this.
30	* EnsembleDarkHorse: Taniguchi, Tsuruya (and her superdeformed version, Churuya), Ryoko Asakura, and to a lesser degree Emiri.
31	** Sasaki also qualifies, as despite never appearing in the anime, she still took fifth place in the popularity contest.
32	* EpilepticTrees: Lots of this in the fandom. But considering how often the animators screw around with the audience [[TheWalrusWasPaul just for the sake of screwing around with the audience]], it's understandable. This is made ten times worse by the fact that many ''very important'' plot points have been hinted at or foreshadowed in seemingly-innocuous small talk and apparently tangential commentary. This has, of course, led to people combing over every single bit of text and conversation to try and figure what is going on.
33	* EvenBetterSequel: ''Disappearance'' is often regarded as one of the best anime films in history, let alone being a successful follow-up to the original anime.
34	* FanNickname:
35	** The fandom as a whole likes to refer to themselves as the philosophy of "[[JustForFun/IntellectualPropertyReligion Haruhiism]]", or "SOS Brigade".
36	** Haruhi: [[MarySue Mary Suzumiya]], "[[GodEmperor God Empress]]" Haruhi.[[invoked]]
37	** Tsuruya: "[[DissonantLaughter LOL]] [[CuteLittleFangs Fang-tan]]"
38	* FandomRivalry: Around the time that both ''Manga/KOn'' and the second season of ''Haruhi'' first aired in 2009, it was a bad idea to mention both of them in one sentence on websites where fans of those shows were. Both series were adapted into anime by the same company, Kyoto Animation. The rivalry stemmed mainly from the fact that both ''K-On!'' and the second season of ''Haruhi'' were produced around the same time, and both (supposedly) suffered for it in terms of quality storytelling. Plus, there were moments in ''Haruhi'' where the characters resembled ''K-On!'''s characters. This rivalry has cooled down over time however, as fans of Kyoto Animation as a whole usually enjoy both for different reasons nowadays.
39	* {{Fanon}}: Haruhi is God. Most fans of the anime took Koizumi's speech in the 3rd chronological episode at face value, but other scenes in the novels and the anime (especially the 2009 version) [[JigsawPuzzlePlot cast doubt on it]]:
40	** In the third chronological episode, when Koizumi tells Kyon that Haruhi is God, he presents it as the belief of the "higher-ups" in his Agency, and acknowledges that various people in the Agency have different ideas about how to deal with Haruhi. He also describes the theory as the "worst case scenario" that his Agency is acting to counter, which suggests that they're playing a form of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascals_wager Pascal's Wager]]: even if they're not certain whether Haruhi is God, they think it's just likely and dangerous enough that it's better not to risk the consequences of neglecting to placate her.
41	** In the ''Sigh'' novel and anime, [[spoiler:Asahina tells Kyon to be skeptical of Koizumi and his Agency's theories, and that the time travellers disagree with them. Nagato speculates on the time travelers' theories and their incompatibility with the espers', and hints that the Data Overmind believes something yet different about Haruhi. And to top it off, Koizumi himself also contradicts his earlier explanation that Haruhi is God, theorizing instead that Haruhi must be somebody chosen by God to fix the world.]]
42	** In novel 9 [[spoiler:we run into a whole three new factions, at least one of which (Kyoko Tachibana's espers) clearly disagrees with the assertion that Haruhi is God. Or at least she says they do]].
43	** There is a camp that believes [[spoiler: Kyon is really the god-like being playing his (conscious and unconscious) fantasies out through Haruhi. Can anyone say "Freud must be laughing at me right now?"]]
44	* GeniusBonus:
45	** Did you know that the mathematical, physical and chemical formulas seen in the opening animation (Bouken Desho Desho) are positronium, Lambda baryons, benzene ring, cyclohexanes, infinite number, Titius-Bode law, Planck's constant, Drake equation, time-dependent Schrödinger equation, Hubble's law, infinite product, definition of information entropy, large numbers, stationary Schrödinger equation, the theory of relativity, probability axioms, definition of Laplace operator, the wave equation in one space dimension, and small numbers? (source: http://seinenramen.wordpress.com/2006/12/05/physicsmaths-in-suzumiya-haruhi/ ) Also, this wasn't just pulled out of a physics books, the writer Nagaru Tanigawa loves this stuff.
46	** The novels have even more, with countless throwaway references to astrophysics and at least one in-depth discussion (and illustrations) of Euler's planar graph formula. And let's not even start about the time travel incidents that reach a complexity where you just want to overlook it. Koizumi even talks about time-lines and alternate realities at the same time, with some explanatory visuals.
47	** Also, ''Dissociation'' mentions Yuki reading a book about "Mathematicians, Artists, Musicians, and their Interrelations". This is probably ''Literature/GodelEscherBachAnEternalGoldenBraid'', by Douglas Hofstadter. The book deals heavily with recursion, parallel worlds, and uncertainty. Suspiciously Apropos Literature or what?
48	** Some careful observation reveals a bit of philosophy thrown in.
49	** The rapid-fire speech capabilities of Yuki Nagato and Ryoko Asakura are actually human speech sped up 400%-500% and reversed. A few interesting things arose after decoding:
50	*** Yuki appears to be speaking in SQL.
51	*** Asakura asks Yuki, during their fight: "You love Kyon-kun, don't you? I know you have realized it."
52	* HoYay:
53	** Itsuki sometimes stands a little too close to Kyon for Kyon's peace of mind. Also, he is the only male path option in the visual novel ''The Perplexity of Haruhi Suzumiya''.
54	** Of course, there's Haruhi being ''all over'' Mikuru. And Yuki and Asakura, especially in [[spoiler:''Disappearance'']] and [[spoiler: in the way Asakura speaks of Yuki in the first part of ''Surprise''.]]
55	** A less one-sided example would be Yuki and Mikuru, which is particularly noticeable in "Remote Island Syndrome" and even more so in ''Scheme''.
56	** We then have Kyoko and Sasaki, what with Kyoko's worshipful attitude toward her, and [[spoiler: Sasaki and ''Haruhi'', what with Sasaki's worshipful attitude toward ''her''.]]
57	* LiteraryAgentHypothesis: A popular fan theory is that the events portrayed are nothing more than an [[LifeEmbellished embellished]] retelling of author Nagaru Tanigawa's actual high-school experience, with all the supernatural happenings just added so that the series is distinguishable from all the other SliceOfLife light novels and anime series out there. Of course, there is no evidence in the novels or anime whatsoever that this speculation is correct; it was probably inspired by the facts that Tanigawa refuses to reveal the real name of his FirstPersonPeripheralNarrator, that the unnamed city in which the events take place is described in just enough detail as to unmistakably be his hometown, and that he was, in fact, in a literature club back in high school.
58	* LauncherOfAThousandShips: Kyon, but this is probably [[UnreliableNarrator intended]].
59	* LoveToHate: Haruhi herself. Despite being a borderline psychopath who treats her friends (''especially'' [[ExtremeDoormat Mikuru]]) like crap, she is nonetheless very amusing to watch.
60	* MemeticBadass:
61	** According to fans, Mikuru's EyeBeam attack is one of the most destructive forces in existence. Considering how many different variants on the "Mikuru Beam" ended up coming out of her eye (and eventually sealed away by Yuki), this is entirely possible.
62	** Kyon's getting there himself, as exemplified at the end of [[spoiler:''Disappearance'' when he leads Yuki and Mikuru back in time to save his own life and ensure the return of their recognizable world. They may have weird powers, Haruhi may [[WeirdnessMagnet attract]] weirdness, but Kyon can ''mobilize'' it.]]
63	* MemeticMutation:
64	** Tsuruya, aka Churuya, nyoro~n! [[labelnote:Explanation]]Tsuruya was taken by a Japanese {{Webcomic}} artist and made into a SuperDeformed Ditz named Churuya, with a line she said once in the anime made into her [[CharacterCatchphrase catchphrase]], and an affinity for smoked cheese. Spawned countless imitations involving characters from ''Haruhi'' or other anime - and is now more emblematic of ''Haruhi'' than anything that actually appeared in the show.[[/labelnote]]
65	** "Hare Hare Yukai". [[note]]The anime's first ending theme, which became hugely popular when the first season aired. The catchy song and [[DancingTheme dance number]] has inspired numerous videos floating around Website/YouTube, either of characters from other series doing the dance or real people trying to recreate it.[[/note]]
66	*** Is this a dancing anime?[[note]]For those who aren't familiar with the series, the "Hare Hare Yukai" dance and its popularity is the most they know about it, leading people to jokingly ask if the anime is only about dancing.[[/note]]
67	** WA-WA-WA-Wasuremono... [[labelnote:Explanation]]Taniguchi sings this line (roughly translated as "I for-for-forgot my...") as he walks in on a NotWhatItLooksLike moment with Kyon and Nagato. Quickly became an AscendedMeme as Taniguchi's voice actor, Creator/MinoruShiraishi, references it where ever he can, from his role in ''Manga/LuckyStar'', to even [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCTBLIJwllc reenacting the scene when announcing the ''Haruhi'' live concert!]][[/labelnote]]
68	** The GenderFlip version, ''Fanfic/SuzumiyaHaruhiNoSeitenkan'', became so popular that it has even spawned ''doujinshi'' aside of fanarts and cosplay.
69	** Kyon-kun, denwa~ [[labelnote:Explanation]]"Kyon, the phone." In ''Endless Eight'', at the start of each loop, Kyon's sister nags him to pick up the phone. This became very grating after eight episodes.[[/labelnote]]
70	** [[GroundhogDayLoop We've entered]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiSg02Ll20s an endless recursion of time.]] [[labelnote:Explanation]]Another repeated line from ''Endless Eight.''[[/labelnote]]
71	*** [[spoiler:"Do your homework.", alternatively phrased as "JUST FINISH YOUR SUMMER HOMEWORK!"]] [[labelnote:Explanation]]What breaks the loop in the Endless Eight, usually used to [[RunningGagged end a chain of people saying the line]].[[/labelnote]]
72	** Still suffering from Shoushitsu Syndrome?[[note]][[AwesomenessWithdrawal The feeling of emptiness]] after watching ''The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya'' and realizing there is no more (canon) Haruhi anime, the third season is nowhere on the horizon, and the novel series itself has suffered numerous {{Schedule Slip}}s.[[/note]]
73	** Everybody's [[HoYay Itsuki]] for Kyon! [[labelnote:Explanation]]Based off of Kyon's LauncherOfAThousandShips status and the many times that Itsuki decides to get up close and personal with our hero. Itsuki says that the way he acts towards Kyon is only because that's what Haruhi expects them to act like, but some fans [[ShippingGoggles say otherwise.]][[/labelnote]]
74	** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWB01IuMvzA "God Knows" music video]] is something of a sacred place for Japanese fans. Every day, they comment "Oharuhi" (a portmanteau of Haruhi and ohayo, good morning) and "Oyasumikuru" (a portmanteau of Mikuru and oyasumi, good night) on the video.
75	* {{Moe}}:
76	** Yuki's endearing lack of understanding towards Earth society, coupled with her quiet, innocent personality and her hidden kindness makes most people want to smother her with a big-giant-hug. Her small and cuddly appearance only serves to make her even more adorable. In fact, Yuki even made the Top 8 during [[https://www.internationalsaimoe.com/statistics/saimoe/saimoe2006.php Saimoe 2006]], directly defeating both Mikuru and Haruhi.
77	** Yuki in ''Disappearance'' is this trope cranked up to 11; while she's no longer an alien in this timeline, being an ordinary schoolgirl instead, her shyness still makes her pretty endearing in a different way. [[LampshadeHanging This is acknowledged]] by [[ShipTease Kyon]] in the novel, thinking to himself that Yuki is ridiculously cute when she starts blushing and fidgeting.
78	** Ryoko ''does'' have a pretty cute smile and a nice figure. Because of this, she has quite a few fans, both in-universe (Taniguchi rates her as an "AA+ " on his good looking girls scale) and out (despite the knife tendencies).
79	** Mikuru. She's called moe in-series for crying out loud!
80	* MoralEventHorizon:
81	** In ''Surprise'', either Kuyo's [[spoiler:attempt on Kyon's life]] in ''Vol. 1'', or [[spoiler:crucifying Haruhi in mid-air on Fujiwara's orders]] in ''Vol. 2'' pushed her over, but it's quite obvious she crossed it somewhere in it if she hadn't already by [[spoiler:debilitating Yuki]] in ''Dissociation''.
82	** [[spoiler:Attempted [[KillTheGod deicide]]]] pushed Fujiwara over the line at the climax of ''Surprise Vol. 2''.
83	* NeverLiveItDown: Haruhi will ''never'' be able to get away from the reputation she established in the beginning; even if she gets CharacterDevelopment from it, some fans will inevitably continue to see her as an irredeemable sociopath that ''never'' defrosts. Although, to be fair, most of the material in which she does defrost had not (and still has not) been animated yet, and the novels are still pretty niche in the Americas. Plus, Haruhi has not changed THAT much; it is just now she is more of a JerkWithAHeartOfGold (or just a jerk depending on interpretation) than the sociopathic asshat she was initially made out to be.
84	* OnceOriginalNowCommon:
85	** The series as a whole has fallen into this, despite its explosive popularity during the late 2000s. While it initially drew in a lot of fans due to its GenreBusting of various anime genres and character archetypes, its plot and jokes have been [[FollowTheLeader copied by many other series to cash in on its success]], along with the WolverinePublicity of Haruhi herself. Nowadays, most newcomers look back on the series and are unable to understand what made it so special, especially after the sharp decline in its popularity following [[ArcFatigue how the anime handled the infamous Endless Eight Arc]].
86	** Main viewpoint character Kyon is also an example on his own; he essentially [[TropeCodifier codified]] the StockLightNovelEveryman and his [[DeadpanSnarker sarcastic, self-aware personality]] and [[LemonyNarrator narration]] were considered witty and refreshing when the series first became popular, but after years of very similar protagonists in other light novel series his character doesn't seem particularly groundbreaking.
87	* PresumedFlop: Many assume that the backlash towards the infamous Endless Eight arc caused the anime's second season to be a commercial flop, to the point that Endless Eight is sometimes held responsible for [[FranchiseKiller killing the franchise]]. However, the second season's DVD sales say otherwise, as while it didn't sell quite as well as the first season did, even [=DVDs=] containing the Endless Eight episodes didn't sell significantly worse than the rest of the series. The franchise's decline in popularity has more to do with other factors, such as the original light novels going through a lengthy ScheduleSlip (and thus a lack of new material to adapt) and Kyoto Animation's decision to move away from adapting works from other companies and make adaptations of their own in-house works.
88	* ShipMates: In fanworks that ship Kyon with either Haruhi or Yuki, Itsuki and Mikuru will usually hook up together and serve as a BetaCouple.
89	* ShipsThatPassInTheNight: One can guarantee that there's a small faction for pairing up Mikuru and Itsuki together when all the main Kyon pairings are said and done. That said, they don't have many interactions that would count as shipping material, so it could fall squarely under this. Overlaps with ShipMates though, as those who pair up Mikuru with Itsuki often pair up Kyon with either Haruhi or Yuki as well.
90	* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: Many fans reacted this way to the new opening and ending sequences created for the anime's second season. Admittedly, the first season's theme songs had three full years to become ingrained into the collective fan-consciousness, and the [[DancingTheme ending theme especially]] achieved ''godlike'' levels of popularity, spawning thousands of fan-made videos and animations. Fortunately, Kyoto Animation was seemingly aware that they could never top themselves, and avoided the temptation to try simply by coming up with something different (neither of the new themes feature any dancing whatsoever, and their visual styles are quite distinct from both each other and the old themes). In a lampshaded (in the ViralMarketing) instance, before fan complaints, the English dub was going to use the word "psychic" instead of "esper".
91	* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: The infamous Endless Eight arc in the anime. Except for the last part of the arc, the SOS Brigade does almost the same thing during the two week loop. Other than the clothing they wear, some minor dialogue changes and hints of deja vu, the same things are shown, such as the Bon festival and the part time job. Nagato mentions that there were minor variances in a couple of the loops, where they didn't go to a festival, or they went but didn't do goldfish scooping, or performed different duties at the part time job such as stocking shelves or handling customer service calls. Since [=KyoAni=] spent considerable time and money animating all of those episodes, it would've broken up the monotony of showing the same thing eight times and made it more bearable for viewers.
92	* ToughActToFollow: Nagaru Tanigawa's later works are nowhere as popular as the Haruhi novels were.
93	* UnintentionallySympathetic: The Computer Club President reaches [[WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants Sheldon J Plankton]]-levels of this. While it was wrong of them to cheat in their challenge of the SOS Brigade, it was to get back a computer Haruhi stole from them using cruel blackmail.
94	* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Both Haruhi and Kyon during the infamous scene in ''Sigh'', Haruhi for drugging Mikuru and declaring her ''her toy'', and Kyon for attempting to knock her out for doing so and refusing to feel the least bit sorry about it afterwards, [[spoiler:even when the normal state of the world depends on him sucking it up and acknowledging he went too far]].
95	* WinBackTheCrowd: Though planned before the [[BrokenBase base-breaking]] "Endless Eight" and character re-visualization in the anime, both producers and fans hoped the ''Disappearance'' movie would be this. Whether it succeeded or not is up to debate; while it did very well both financially and critically, it still didn't save the franchise from declining in popularity afterwards.
96	* TheWoobie:
97	** Mikuru. She gets uprooted from her friends, family and timeline, is thrown into a culture alien to her without any of the technology she's used to in the future, where she is constantly manipulated, kept out of the loop and emotionally abused by none other than [[spoiler:her future self]]. Add to this the fact that before being sent back in time, she underwent mental conditioning preventing her from ever revealing anything details of her old life to any of her new friends, no matter how much she might want to. And all of this abuse came from the people she's supposed to be saving. As of the end of the 11th book, there is hope for Mikuru now, as Kyon [[spoiler: secretly hopes to find a way to safely alter time so that Mikuru doesn't grow up to be like her manipulative future self.]]
98	** Also [[spoiler: Yuki Nagato, and to a lesser extent, Itsuki Koizumi]] in ''The Disappearance Of Haruhi Suzumiya''. Hell, everywhere after Yuki's HostileShowTakeover and during the "Endless Eight" arc.
99	** JerkassWoobie: Before the start of the series Haruhi painfully realises that her experiences are mundane and not anything special (which is what she desires the most in her life), and in her quest to make her life special, goes on the hunt for aliens, time travellers and ESPers after some inspiration from Kyon. This leads to her general bluntness, and her obsession with cosplaying Mikuru. And all the exciting things she's hoped for ARE in her life, but she's LockedOutOfTheLoop!
100	** StoicWoobie: Yuki's normal brand of Woobie.
101	* {{Woolseyism}}: The quote at the top of the main page more literally translated would have Haruhi asking for people from space, people from the future, people with special powers, and people from other worlds (although "alien" and "esper" are fairly standard translations of their respective Japanese terms).
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