Non-character trope listings for the ''Anime/DarkerThanBlack OVA''.

Tropes that are inherent spoilers should go in the DarkerThanBlack/OVASpoilers article.

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!!Examples:

* AvengingTheVillain: One of the SiblingsInCrime in the second episode tries to kill the person he knows killed his sister and believes killed his brother as well. [[spoiler:Amagiri [[BigDamnHeroes shows up]] and takes him out before he can do it.]]
* BigDamnHeroes: The end of the second episode. Two of the villains are down and Hei is passed out from PostVictoryCollapse (and probably blood loss) when the last one comes in [[AvengingTheVillain with murder on his mind]]. [[spoiler:Amagiri and some other EPR survivors swoop in to the rescue at the last second.]]
* BlackAndGrayMorality: [[ManipulativeBastard Claude]] vs. [[AntiHero Hei]].
* BubbleGun: One of the contractors working with Claude uses a pipe to blow bubbles that explode like bombs. Not the most reliable power in combat, but it certainly gets points for flashiness. [[spoiler:Hei responds with a somewhat more direct attack: a knife to the forehead.]]
* CatapultNightmare: Hei, near the beginning of the first episode.
** And again in the third.
* CatScare: Proving just how much this show loves the trope, [[spoiler:"Amber"]] brushes off the touch of Yin's observation ghost as a reaction to the sound of a nearby cat.
* CeilingCling: Hei, of course. Justified in that said ceiling was really just a network of tangled-up pipes, so staying up there wouldn't be that hard.
* DeathGlare: If looks could kill, the guy who made a crack about taking advantage of Yin would be a faint smear of ash on the wall. Angry Hei is ''scary''.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The DragonLady GravityMaster in the second OVA has the remuneration of removing clothing. So when she's using her ability to keep Hei pinned to the floor for a while, it makes it look like she's preparing to molest him.
* DragonLady: Xiao Jie, the underworld dealer, is this with her sensual appearance and murderous attitude towards Hei and Yin.
* ElectricityKnocksYouOut: Hei uses his [[ShockAndAwe electricity power]] to render people unconscious at times. In one case he actually pretended to have a [[StaticStunGun taser]], because he wasn't disguised at the time.
* ForegoneConclusion: Given that it's an interquel between the first and second season, it's pretty clear how it will end. [[spoiler:Yin's SuperpoweredEvilSide will take over, and Hei will become a drunken wreck.]]
* [[GravityMaster Gravity Mistress]]: Xiao Jie, the DragonLady who very handily took Hei down. [[spoiler:Not Yin, though.]]
* HopeSpot: Yin declared a place they were hiding to be safe and it was starting to look like they could stay there for a while. Then [[spoiler:"Amber"]] showed up.
** And again in the third one, this time on a broader scale. [[spoiler:Amagiri had gathered a bunch of survivors of Evening Primrose and Contractors on the run from the Syndicate in a hidden safehouse community.]] Hei actually ''smiled''. Naturally, [[spoiler:Claude killed pretty much all of them to get to Yin.]]
* HumanoidAbomination: Izanami. Made worse by the fact that [[spoiler:she's basically Yin]].
* IdiotBall: Seriously, Hei. You know you're up against a guy who can create illusions. ''Why'' do you keep falling for this?
* {{Interquel}}
* {{Invisibility}}: One of the Syndicate contractors from the opening sequence boasts this ability, which would seem to make up for his rather portly bearing, as he only needs to get one strategically placed attack on an opponent. [[spoiler:Hei, however, thwarts him with an even more strategically placed {{Facepalm of doom}}.]]
* JustAFleshWound: Apparently a foot-long spar of wood through the shoulder doesn't slow you down once you've managed to pull it out.
** Hei also ''stabs himself in the arm'' to break through a MasterOfIllusion's hold on his mind. He doesn't even have a bandage in the episode after.
* LivingMacGuffin
* MasterOfIllusion: Claude, [[spoiler:or "Amber"]]. His powers also give him control of his victim's body.
* MindScrew: What the hell is Izanami, anyway? On the plus side, Hei seems to be just as confused about it as we are, and it ''still'' manages to [[MindScrewdriver clear up a few things in the second season]].
* NightmareSequence: The first three episodes start with one composed of about half flashback and about half Izanami-related weirdness.
* NonStandardCharacterDesign: Qin has a very stylized, cartoonish face, which suits his rather sleazy characterization at the start of episode two, though he gets some respectable CharacterDevelopment over the course of the miniseries.
* [[NotHimself Not Herself]]: Yin starts actually ''talking'', saying more in a couple of minutes than she had the entire rest of the show combined and being a bit of a jerk about it. [[spoiler:And then it turns out she doesn't remember saying anything...]]
* OnePersonOnePower
* PaperCutting
* PostVictoryCollapse
* PowerOfTheVoid: The black contractor who attacks Hei at the hotel has the ability to erase all the matter in a large sphere around his body, leaving only empty air. By contractor standards, he's come out pretty well in the SuperpowerLottery, too, as he has one of the most trivial remunerations in the series: he just has to crack his neck once after each use. [[spoiler:However, he's presumably KilledOffScreen by Hei in the Gaiden's first episode.]]
* PsychoticSmirk: Izanami. Very creepy.
* SayMyName
* ShipTease: Bucketloads of Hei/Yin, though it still isn't explicit how much past "MoralityPet" their relationship goes.
%%* ShoutOut:
%%** Potentially; [[spoiler:Izanami/Yin]] bears a striking resemblance to [[spoiler:Anti-spiral!Nia]] from ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann''.
%%** Yin also looks like Anya from ''Anime/CodeGeass''.
* SiblingsInCrime: The two burly Chinese twin Contractors and their DragonLady sister.
* SmugSnake: Claude, Claude, Claude.
* TheStinger
* SocialDarwinist: [[spoiler:Claude]] seems to have come up with Amber's philosophy independently, but [[SmugSnake without most of the intelligence]] and sense for the NecessarilyEvil.
* {{Stripperiffic}}: Quite literally--Xiao Jie's remuneration is to remove articles of clothing, so she deliberately wears lots of jewelry along with loose dresses that are easy to remove.
* SuperPoweredEvilSide: [[spoiler:Yin's]] starts to assert itself here.
* TraumaCongaLine: The ending seems to be intended to try to convince fans still bitter about Hei's second-season characterization that yes, our hero ''has'' been through enough crap to change his personality radically. Whether this works is hard to say, but he certainly got enough emotional damage for a lifetime.
* UnderestimatingBadassery: "The Black Reaper's death is going to have to wait until later." I think we can all guess how ''that'' [[CurbStompBattle turned out]].
* UnsettlingGenderReveal: On Hei [[spoiler:by the fake Amber that is actually a male shapeshifter]]. ''Twice''. You'd think after that first time, Hei would have been a bit more suspicious to see [[spoiler:a captive Yin sitting alone and unattended]], [[IdiotBall but no]].
* TheWorfEffect: Hei had to be saved twice by Yin when he was almost killed by [[spoiler:a MasterOfIllusion and a [[GravityMaster gravity mistress]]]].
** Not that he didn't show problems with the latter type before....