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The heartwarming story of young [[{{Shipping}} Allen Walker and his fiancée, Lenalee Lee]]... aah, who are we kidding here?

''D.Gray-man'' is a manga series written by Katsura Hoshino, about a 15-year-old Akuma hunter named Allen Walker with an odd-looking left arm which can transform into a really big claw. Allen fights against The Millennium Earl and his Akuma: living weapons created by trapping a human soul inside a mechanical body, and having it wear the skin of the human that created it in the first place. The Millennium Earl wants to destroy humanity using the Akuma. The Black Order, which Allen joins early in the series, seeks to stop him. As the story continues, we meet the Clan of Noah, the direct descendants of Noah (he of the ark), who are allied with the Earl.

Tends to go on hiatus a lot due to [[IllGirl Mrs. Hoshino]]'s bad health, so [[ScheduleSlip updates are a bit unpredictable]]. The recent hiatus ended on August 17th, wherein the author released a 50 page chapter. The series has now switched to a monthly schedule.

See the character sheet [[Characters/{{DGray-man}} here]]. And, if you're feeling brave, also check out the HighOctaneNightmareFuel page [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel/DGrayMan here]].
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!!This manga provides examples of:

* ActionGirl: Lenalee
* AdaptationExpansion: The anime {{filler}}s add plenty of characterizations to characters that had less of the spotlight in the manga, notably Miranda, Krory, Kanda after he was temporarily PutOnABus, and General Yeegar and Suman Dark, who we barely got to know in the manga.
* AffablyEvil: The Millennium Earl and some of the Noah.
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Krory and Miranda went through this before they joined the Black Order.
* AnachronismStew: With the Black Order's wacky technology, it's easy to forget this series is set in the 19th century.
* AngstWhatAngst: Allen isn't anywhere near as traumatized by his sucky life as one might expect.
* ApologisesALot: Miranda, mainly due to her [[TheKlutz klutzy tendencies]].
* ArmCannon: Allen's left arm can become one of these.
* ArmorPiercingSlap: Lenalee to Allen, and later [[spoiler: Allen to Tyki.]]
* ArtEvolution
* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: Since the main requirement to be a General is to have full synchronization with Innocence, this is naturally what happens.
* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: Level [[spoiler:3.5]] akuma are huge! [[spoiler:And they are made by combining a shit-ton of human-sized level 3 akuma together.]]
* AwesomeMcCoolname: General Klaud Nine.
* BadAss: Was, rather amusingly, missing from this list until at least 4 of its subtropes were listed. But there are a ''lot'', especially Allen (It takes unusual levels of awesome to be able to shout [[spoiler:Crown Clown]] in the middle of a fight without looking like an idiot) and Kanda. And General Cross wears this trope like it was made for him.
* BadassBack: Cross [[http://www.onemanga.com/D.Gray-Man/142/12/ one-shots]] ''three'' Level 3 Akuma that try to come up behind him. ''At once''.
* LittleMissBadass: Road Kamelot.
* BadassLongcoat: The Exorcist uniform.
* BadassGrandpa: Bookman and Generals Tiedoll and Yeegar.
** Froi Tiedoll is only 40 years old; badass middle age, maybe.
* BadassNormal: Inspector Howard Link, despite having no superpowers and appearing at first like a meddling bureaucrat, is able to keep up with the rest of the cast and has a particularly [[CrowningMomentofAwesome awesome]], albeit ineffective, moment attempting to defend an Innocence user.
** Also Mahoja (So strong that she can ''kick'' a level 2 Akuma off her ship!) and Officer Moore. Reever also counts for this.
* BeautifulAllAlong: Miranda letting her hair down when [[spoiler:she first activates her Innocence]].
* BecomingTheMask: [[spoiler: Lavi wasn't supposed to get emotionally invested with the Black Order, only record their activities. Then, he grew fond of them. [[MindRape And Road used that against him horrifyingly well]]]].
* BerserkButton: Allen when being called "Moyashi" (Bean Sprout) by just about anyone or being reminded of his piles and piles of debts.
** Also, Lavi calling Bookman a panda frequently causes Bookman to violence all over him.
** Not to mention calling ''Yu'' Kanda by [[EmbarrassingFirstName his first name]]...
** And Komui? Don't tell him his sister's getting married...
** [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Krory]] has been known to get a little irritated when somebody calls him a vampire.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Allen, Lenalee and Froi Tiedoll fall into this.
* {{BFG}}: All level 1 and some level 2 akuma have these. Allen's arm also [[ArmCannon turns into one]] at lower levels.
* {{BFS}}: The Earl [[spoiler: and Allen eventually]]. And Lavi has a [[DropTheHammer rather large hammer]].
* BigBrotherComplex: Komui, Komui, Komui.
* BigBad: The Millennium Earl.
* BigEater: Allen and Krory, explained by their Parasite-type Innocence, which require a great deal of energy.
** How much of a BigEater is Allen, you ask? [[http://www.onemanga.com/D.Gray-Man/110/07/ This]] is his daydream about what he'll do when he gets off the Ark.
* BishieSparkle: Allen appears to be able to invoke them at will.
* {{Bishonen}}: 90% of the male cast
* BishonenLine: The final (for now) results of Akuma evolution. Level One: Giant orb covered in cannons with a human face down the centerline. Level Two: Massive animalistic form, with abilities and design unique to each Akuma. Level Three: Always an armoured figure, with individual variations only manifesting as differing numbers of eyes and unique abilities. [[spoiler:Level Three Point Five: A giant, lanky hermaphorditic humanoid roughly the size of Godzilla, made by combining thousands of Level Two and Three Akuma. ''[[FourIsDeath Level Four]]'': The deadliest Akuma form yet, resembles a naked pot-bellied four-foot tall hermaphroditic ball-socket-doll-like tattooed haloed cherubim, which is capable of batting aside five Critical-level exorcists (that is to say, the Generals and Allen, ''the most powerful exorcists alive''), without breaking a sweat.]]
* {{Bishoujo}}: All female characters are pretty
* BloodyMurder: [[spoiler: Krory, eventually]]
* BoatLights: Allen usually has normal gray eyes, but around Akuma his left eye [[RedEyesTakeWarning turns red]].
* BodyHorror: The Akuma blood bullets make you break out in a pentacle-shaped rash. Then you explode into toxic dust.
** Also, Suman Dark. Poor, poor Suman.
** Don't forget when Road ''stabbed'' Allen in the eye, then we get to see his partially regrown-but-still-not-there eye-socket!
** And remember when Allen's arm was all flaked and looked like it was about to fall off? Then Tyki [[spoiler: ripped it off and then had his Teez eat a hole in Allen's ''heart''?]]
** And Level 0 Akuma forcing themselves down their victim's throat... And Tyki destroying people's hearts... Let's just say there's a lot and leave it at that.
**Almost payback for Tyki's BodyHorror infliction on Allen: He transforms [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel rather gruesomely]] into a demonic knight thing that turned the BlackKnight scary again. He now uses weird energy circle things to basically trounce his enemies left and right. It also seems to [[FingerLickinEvil have a taste for blood]].
***HighOctaneNightmareFuel!? I thought Tyki's transformation was AWESOME! Its my favorite transformation ever and I don't find it the least bit scary. The artwork was really well done...
** Why does everyone seem to forget Daisya? We never did find out what all was missing from his corpse, did we?
* BodySurf: Phantom Thief G[[spoiler: AKA Timothy]]'s MO.
* {{Bokukko}}: Road
* BrotherSisterIncest: Depending on how you view Komui's obsession with his sister...
** On the other side of things, HoYay among them, Cyril seems to enjoy molesting his little brother, much to said brother's disagreement
* CallingYourAttacks: All Exorcists with Equipment Innocence. Sometimes they can invoke their Innocence just by thinking the name, but in the manga it all reads the same.
* {{Casanova}}: General Cross.
* ChainsawGood: Winters Socalo (by rapidly spinning his serrated blades.)
* ChronicHeroSyndrome: Allen has a rather serious case of "[[TheMessiah Must save everyone!]]" and doesn't seem to have quite gotten it through his head that there are only about twenty Exorcists and ''millions'' of Akuma.
** This was [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by Kanda, who called him out on it early in the series. [[JadeColoredGlasses Then again, Kanda is not half the idealist Allen is...]]
* ChurchMilitant: The Black Order
* ChasteHero: Allen, despite all the girls ([[HoYay and guys]]) with raging crushes on him.
* ChickMagnet: Allen, oh boy, Allen.
* ChildSoldiers: The Order and the Innocence aren't picky about the ages of the Exorcists who fight for them.
* CloseCallHaircut: Lenalee, during the Eshi battle.
* ComedicSociopathy: Cross's emotional and physical abuse of Allen is usually [[DudeNotFunny played for laughs]]. The least disturbing form this takes is his habit of racking up massive debts and leaving them for his 15-year-old apprentice to pay, or, in a case that actually ''was'' funny, for ''the guys who were trying to kill him''.
* CompleteMonster: The Millennium Earl, creator of the Akuma, eradicator of Japan...
* ConvenientComa: [[spoiler: Alma Karma.]]
* CreepyCoolCrosses: All over the place - the stigmata on the Noah clan, one of the lower-level attacks from Allen's innocence, the symbol of the Black order (complete with embedded Hebrew and Greek lettering)...
* CreepyTwins: Jasdevi
* CriticalResearchFailure: A priest marrying a nun. *facepalm* The anime fixed this, thankfully.
* CrowningMomentOfFunny: When Allen cheerfully and apparently selflessly comes in to rescue Krory when he lost everything but his underwear in a {{poker}} game- then proceeds to fleece everyone else out of everything they own, not through [[TheMagicPokerEquation luck]], but by being very, very good at cheating.
* CursedWithAwesome: Allen's left arm caused him to be abandoned by his birth parents. And it gives him the ability to cleave through Akuma almost effortlessly. He also has a [[FacialMarkings scar]] over his left eye that lets him [[DetectEvil see the souls that are sealed in Akuma.]]
** Although when someone else is able to see Akuma the way he does, they practically have a [[NightmareFuel nervous breakdown]], so that part maybe isn't so cool. Useful, though.
*[[CuteShotaroBoy Cute]] [[KidHero Shonen Hero]]: Allen
* DanceBattler: Lenalee, since her WeaponOfChoice is her pair of boots.
* DarkIsNotEvil: The Black [Religious] Order.
* DeathsHourglass: Fans assume that that's the deal with Kanda's lotus.
** If that's the case, then it is a ShoutOut to BeautyAndTheBeast, only there is no beauty for ''this'' beast.
*** He is [[{{Bishonen}} VERY pretty]]. Maybe he's beauty AND the beast.
**** Then there's [[spoiler: Alma Karma]].
* DiseaseBleach: Allen's hair turned from brown to white from his childhood trauma.
* DropTheHammer: Lavi
* DudeNotFunny: Cross is a complete dick to Allen, with TrainingFromHell, emotional abuse, physical abuse, abandonment, and a nasty habit of forcing a 15-year-old to pay off debts that reach upwards of tens of thousands of dollars. This is usually played for laughs.
* DynamicEntry: It's pretty hard to top [[spoiler:[[http://www.onemanga.com/D.Gray-Man/139/16/ Allen's entry]] into the science division during Lulu Bell's assault.]]
* EmbarrassingFirstName: Referring to Kanda as "Yuu" is a very good way to acquire stab wounds.
* EmpathicWeapon: Parasite-Type Innocence, like Allen's; also his eye.
* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: The Earl's goal is to kill God and destroy the world.
* {{Engrish}}: The author's English is less than stellar.
* EnsembleDarkhorse: In one character popularity poll, Kanda managed to steal the #1 position away from Allen despite having been absent for nearly three entire story arcs.
* EstrogenBrigadeBait: Almost all the male cast, but particularly [[CuteShotaroBoy Allen]], [[TallDarkAndSnarky Kanda]], [[EvilIsSexy Tyki]], and Lavi.
* EvenTheGuysWantHim: Allen, Allen, Allen
* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: Klaud Nine's Simian Innocence.
* EvilIsSexy: Tyki Mikk. The author admitted that Tyki exists because [[AuthorAppeal she wanted to draw a handsome guy]].
** However, on average, the good guys are ''way'' hotter than the bad guys.
* EvolutionaryLevels: Akuma.
* ExtraEyes: Wisely.
* ExtremityExtremist: Lenalee and her Dark Boots.
* EyepatchOfPower: Lavi
* EyeScream: Allen's eye gets abused a lot.
* FaceDoodling: Lavi even doodles on Allen's eye bandage.
* FacialMarkings: Allen and the Noah.
** Also [[MauveShirt Daisya Barry.]]
* FanService: The camera always seems to shoot the scenes to accentuate and draw attention to Lenalee's perfect legs as much as possible, in particular the opening and ending credits. Also lots of gorgeous, [[ShirtlessScene shirtless]] guys.
* FetchQuest: In the earlier chapters, and much of the filler. This dies down quickly when the Earl declares war on the Black Order. The Earl himself remains on a FetchQuest to destroy all the Innocence.
**[[spoiler: Judging from chapter 172, the story seems to have returned to this trope for the time being.]]
* {{Filler}}: So very much in the anime.
* FingerLickinEvil: Not quite, but the intent was there. Road is psycho.
* FirstKiss: [[spoiler:After Road takes his first kiss, Allen goes into thundershock.]]
* FoeYay: Allen's relationship with Tyki and Road. Also, many people see Allen's bickering with Kanda as this.
* FourIsDeath: [[spoiler: Level Four Akuma]] are ''horrifyingly'' powerful. For example, [[spoiler:almost destroying the Order over the course of one manga chapter, including most of the Generals.]]
* FourStarBadass: Thanks to AsskickingEqualsAuthority among the Black Order.
* FourthWallMailSlot: The manga volumes include reader questions answered by the characters.
* FusionDance: Twin brothers Jasdero and Devit sing a little song and shoot each other in the head to merge into Jasdevi, a much more powerful single entity.
* GatlingGood: [[spoiler:Level Four Akuma]] get ''two'' of these; one in each hand. Level 1 Akuma have a considerably less powerful version.
** Allen gets one of his own early on as well, though he still uses the claw form for much of the series (primarily as a shield.)
* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: Lenalee does this to Allen, and Allen later does this to Lenalee.
* GirlishPigtails: Lenalee, until her CloseCallHaircut.
* GodIsEvil: what the Millennium Earl believes- or at least says.
* GottaCatchThemAll: Innocence.
* GrayEyes: Allen provides the page picture at the time of writing.
* GroundhogDayLoop: Early on, there's a town that constantly replays October 9th, and only one person inside notices. [[spoiler:It's actually Miranda's Innocence [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor responding to her thoughts in a way she didn't want or expect.]]]]
* TheGunslinger: [[spoiler:General Cross Marian, who seems to have been based on John Wayne.]]
* HeadPet: Timcanpy with Allen and Cross Marian.
* HealingFactor: Road and Kanda have this, as does Krory when he drinks Akuma blood. Allen does as well, regenerating both his arm after Tyki rips it off AND his eye after Road stabs it out.
** Skinn Bolic has one as well.
* HealingHands: Partially subverted. Miranda's time-reversing power can heal almost any recently inflicted wound, even fatal ones, but once she deactivates it they all come right back.
* HeartSymbol: The Earl.
* TheHeartless: Akuma.
* HeavySleeper: Komui is impossible to wake up unless you tell him that [[BerserkButton Lenalee's getting married]].
* HeelFaceTurn: Involuntary- General Cross can turn Akuma good. Also, [[spoiler:the 14th Noah, who betrayed the Earl]].
** The second example has also been hinted to be less of a HeelFaceTurn than a Heel Other-Side-Entirely Turn.
* HellishPupils: Krory, when in vampire mode; arguably Allen, when his eye detects Akuma.
** In some panels, the Earl is depicted with slitted pupils...and ''[[NightmareFuel scaly, wrinkled skin]]''.
* HeroicBSOD: Apparently [[spoiler: Kanda]] in the latest chapter.
* HeroicRROD: Lenalee after the fight with Eshi. Also happened to Allen when he [[WreckedWeapon pushed his arm too far]].
* HeyItsThatVoice: Allen is voiced by SanaeKobayashi. In other words, [[ElfenLied Lucy]]. [[NightmareFuel You may now run away and hide under the bed]].
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: Has [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel/DGrayMan its own page]], dontcha know?
* HighPressureBlood: Akuma and [[spoiler:Suman Dark]]. A little girl Akuma in a filler episode seemed to expel more blood than she could possibly contain. And Level 1 Akuma shoot ''blood bullets''.
* HornyScientist: Bak Chang and Lou Fa from the Asian Branch, who are infatuated with Lenalee and Allen respectively.
* HoYay: Tyki seems to be really obsessed with Allen. Cyril is obsessed with Tyki. Then there's Lavi and Allen...
** We must also remember waaay back in the beginning, [[HeIsNotMyBoyfriend Kanda's nice, "brotherly" camaraderie with Daisya...]]
** Also, [[BadassNormal Anita and Mahoja.]]
* HyperactiveMetabolism: Allen has been shown to eat ''gigantic'' piles of food, yet remain rail thin. Justified as all ''parasite'' innocence users have an extraordinarily high metabolism to make up for all the energy their powers use.
* IKnewIt: [[spoiler: the Earl has horns]]! (Although ThisTroper preferred the joke idea of bunny ears...)
* IKnowYouAreInThereSomewhereFight: Allen does this when [[spoiler:Lavi turns against him after going crazy from the MindRape Road inflicts on him.]]
* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: Pit 1 exorcist in noticeable attire against 50 level 1 Akuma, bristling with [[MoreDakka omnidirectional armaments.]] Guess who doesn't get hit? The few times a shot does connect, it invariably does so to the one person with a HealingFactor.
** Averted when firing at the [[RedshirtArmy Finders]], or indeed anyone [[NominalImportance without a name]] and/or Innocence.
* ImpossiblyCoolWeapon:The innocence and the akuma. BOTH of them.
** [[JustifiedTrope Of course]], they ''are'' explicitly supernatural.
* ImprobableWeaponUser: Some of the Exorcists have Innocence that takes the form of everything from acupuncture needles to soccer balls... and everything in between and then some.
* JerkAss: General Cross. He's either this or a JerkWithAHeartOfGold.
** The recent manga chapter where Cross [[spoiler: ''hugs'' Allen when he tells him he's the Fourteenth Noah, then gives him a RousingSpeech]] hits at the second option.
** Also, Kanda is probably the only person on Earth other than the Millennium Earl who Allen doesn't like. He even objects to ''Lenalee's'' company.
* KillAllHumans: The Millennium Earl's ultimate aim.
* TheKlutz: Miranda
* LightIsNotGood: The Stigmata-marked Noah are the descendants of the Biblical Noah, and a Level 4 Akuma is briefly mistaken for an angel.
* LittleBlackDress: Allen, Allen, Allen.
* LukeIAmYourFather: The manga has revealed Allen's late foster-father Mana to be [[spoiler:the brother of the renegade 14th Noah]].
* MadnessMantra: Skinn Bolic. [[BrokenRecord "Never forgive...Never forgive...Never forgive..."]]
* MagicMusic: The whole Ark Arc describes this trope. [[spoiler: Jasdero and Devit sing and shoot themselves to merge into one, the Earl plays the piano to replace the old Ark, and Allen and Timcanpy have the mysterious power of the Musician to control the Ark.]] Plus Noise Marie's Verse of the Saint that is poison to Akuma and Cross' [[spoiler:Grave of Maria that sings to hide people and uses mind control.]]
* MagicPants: Allen's left arm can grow to an incredible size [[spoiler:or turn into a sword]], but when he stops invoking it, his sleeve is still there.
** This is addressed by the author during a FourthWallMailSlot segment, where Allen admits that he has no idea what happens to the sleeve when his arm transforms, but is just glad that it doesn't rip.
* MaskPower: Cross Marian
** Also Winters Socalo. They have [[HeroicSociopath something else in common also.]]
** And later, [[spoiler: Allen]]
* MasterOfIllusion: Road Kamelot.
* TheMagicPokerEquation: Subverted; Allen isn't drawing what he needs. He just cheats, a skill he had to pick up to deal with Cross Marian's absurd amount of debt.
* MechaMooks: Akuma, sort of.
* MegatonPunch: [[http://www.onemanga.com/D.Gray-Man/102/03/ Do not annoy Lenalee.]]
* TheMessiah: Allen loves ''everyone'', even the Akuma and villains.
** With one exception: He nurtures a great hatred for the Earl, and tries to kill him in the Ark.
** To the point where, when he started to subconsciously love humans more, his Innocence refused to reform, and only did so when he remembered that he loves both human and Akuma equally.
* MindRape: What Road Kamelot does to Lavi during the Ark arc.
** And also what she does to Marshall Yeegar earlier in the series.
* MonsterClown: The Earl gets frighteningly close at times
** Also inverted [[spoiler: with the evolved form of Allen's innocence, the Crowned Clown, though Akuma naturally find it frightening.]]
** [[spoiler:And quite possibly Mana...]]
* MoreDakka: The Level 1 Akuma have quite a lot of dakka available. Higher levels, though, rely on quality rather than quantity.
* MultinationalTeam: British, Chinese, Romanian, Japanese, German, Australian, Turkish... and that's only the good guys.
* {{Nakama}}
* NiceGuy: They don't come nicer than Allen.
* NiceHat: The Earl has a whole collection. [[spoiler:It's to cover up his horns.]]
** General Cross has an awesome fedora.
** Tyki Mikk and Mana also routinely sport some classy headwear.
* TheNicknamer: Lavi does this a lot. He calls Bookman "panda" (due to dark circles around his eyes) and Aleister Krory "Kro-chan" (Krorykins!)
** Tyki Mikk does this quite a bit himself, such as calling Lavi "Eyepatch-kun" and Kanda "Kitchen Knife."
*** And Skinn "Sweet Tooth".
* NietzscheWannabe: The Earl, once again.
* NorioWakamoto: Voices General Winters Socalo in extremely awesome fashion.
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: The higher-ups' response to [[DudeWheresMyRespect Allen and Cross saving everyone's asses]] by [[spoiler:preventing the download of the Ark and capturing it for the Black Order? Put Cross under house arrest, put Allen under surveillance, charge Allen with heresy, and prevent them from talking to one another.]] While Cross didn't especially care, since now he could charge the debts for his ridiculously decadent behavior to the Order, this still rid them of one of their most powerful exorcists and seriously alienated another.
* OffhandBackhand: See also BadassBack.
* OlderThanTheyLook / ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: The Noahs and For.
* OminousMusicBoxTune: Road's song.
* OmnicidalManiac: The Earl, again
* OneHitKill: Kanda, especially in the anime, although eventually all Exorcists are one-shotting Level 1 and 2 Akuma.
** Allen's [[spoiler:first activation of his second Innocence form]] was followed by him killing a Level 3 ''with a tiny tap on the forehead''.
* OneHundredAndEight: There were originally 109 Innocences, one of which is the Great Heart.
* OneWingedAngel: The Akuma. Also, exorcists who use a parasitic-type Innocence could be described as the good side's version of this trope.
** [[spoiler:As Tyki (and Skin) showed, Noah can do this too.]]
* OracularUrchin: Meilin, [[spoiler: for a while.]]
* OurDemonsAreDifferent: Again, the Akuma.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Krory, although he's not ''really'' a vampire
* ParanoiaFuel: Level One and Two Akuma wear human skin and are indistinguishable from humans, except by Allen.
* ParentalAbandonment: Allen's parents abandoned him because they were so freaked out by his arm.
* PetTheDog: The Earl buys a flower from a flower girl on the street [[spoiler: while in a normal human form]], and another villain lampshades this.
* PhlebotinumOverload: Allen and Leenalee push their Innocences too far, with negative repercussions.
* PleaseKeepYourHatOn: The Earl.
* PostKissCatatonia: Very understandable; [[spoiler:poor Allen got unexpectedly glomped and kissed by the ChaoticEvil Road, and she had stabbed him in the eye last time they met.]]
* PowerFist: Allen's left arm, at low levels.
* PowerTattoo: Kanda has one.
* ProperlyParanoid: Exorcists other than Allen have no way of telling whether a person is really human or not, so they have to be ruthless.
* QuirkyMinibossSquad: The Noah Family
* RaisedByWolves: Krory. Made more obvious in the fillers.
* RapeOfTheLock: Lenalee's CloseCallHaircut during her fight with the Level 3 Akuma.
* RapunzelHair: Jasdevi.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Allen's cursed eye turns red and [[HellishPupils starts looking really weird]] when he detects an Akuma.
* RedHeadedHero: Lavi, who really looks colorful next to the monochrome [[WhiteHairedPrettyBoy Allen]], Kanda and Lenalee. Also General Cross, sort of.
* RedRightHand: Inverted in more than one way with Allen Walker: Not only does he have a literal one [almost his entire ''left'' arm], but he is also the main character of the story and very much so a good guy.
* RedshirtArmy: The Finders, or as the Akuma call them, "free exp."
* ReplicantSnatching: How the Akuma masquerade as human.
* RevolversAreJustBetter: General Cross, one of the most {{Badass}} characters, uses a revolver, Judgment, as one of his anti-Akuma weapons.
* RunningGag: Komui's defective, dangerous Komurin robots. Made more prominent in the anime.
* {{Sarashi}}: Kanda is seen [[http://www.onemanga.com/D.Gray-Man/8/03/ wearing]] one, at the start of volume 2 of the manga.
* {{Satan}}: At the beginning of the series, The Earl had ''shades'' of this. Now, it's one big [[http://www.onemanga.com/D.Gray-Man/187/08-09/ YES]]
* SayItWithHearts (the Millennium Earl. Subverted [[spoiler:when he's in human disguise. He still likes sweet stuff, though.]])
** Even when in full NightmareFuelUnleaded OmnicidalManiac mode, he'll continue to speak with hearts and a generally creepy/friendly tone. This just makes it worse.
* ScarsAreForever: Allen's cursed eye. Also, [[spoiler:he and Tyki now ''both'' have giant scars all over their chests from Crown Clown's {{BFS}} form.]]
* ScaryShinyGlasses: The Earl, frequently.
** Occasionally, [[BewareTheNiceOnes Froi Tiedoll.]]
* SeriesHiatus: Katsura Hoshino seems to have frail health and has needed to take months long breaks a few times. The series came off an extended break in November, but is now being released monthly, instead of weekly as it has been up until now.
* ShapeshifterWeapon: Parasite-type Innocence users, as well as For.
* ShipTease: Notably Allen/Lenalee, Allen/Road, and Lavi/Lenalee. And there's all the HoYay...
* ShirtlessScene: Several, including Allen [[BandageBabe wrapped up in bandages]] and Kanda... pretty much [[FanService just for the hell of it]]. Tyki, too.
* ShockAndAwe: Skinn Bolic
** Also Lavi
* ShootTheShaggyDog: The Fallen One arc. After going through a set of horrible ordeals to rescue the fallen Exorcist Suman Dark, Allen manages to amputate Suman's Innocence and rescue him, which almost destroys Allen's Innocence and exhausts him. After saving Suman, [[spoiler:Allen finds that Suman's soul is gone. When he decides to bring Suman back to his family, Tyki Mikk appears, [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath explodes him]], destroys Allen's Innocence, and tears a hole in his heart so he can slowly bleed to death.]]
* SkunkStripe: Krory.
* SlasherSmile: Tyki and the Earl. The other Noah are prone to this as well.
* SlipknotPonytail: Kanda.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Too many, ''please'' don't list them all. Let's just say that there are lots of characters in this Japanese series who are not Japanese, and have "B"s, "V"s, "L"s, and "R"s in their names.
* SplitPersonality: Krory and the Noah
* {{Squick}}: Cyril is ''way'' too touchy-feely with Tyki (his younger brother) and Road (his adopted daughter). For their part, Tyki thouroughly dislikes his brother's attentions while Road is either oblivious or doesn't care.
* StalkerWithACrush: Bak, although one of the good guys, spies on Lenalee and takes pictures of her.
* SuperpoweredEvilSide: Tyki, mostly, although all the Noah have Superpowered Eviller Sides.
* SuperSenses: Allen's eye, Marie's ears, and Krory's nose.
* SweetTooth: Skinn and, to a lesser degree, Road.
* TallDarkAndHandsome: Tyki-pon. Hot Damn.
* TallDarkAndSnarky: Kanda, with not much chance of becoming a JerkWithAHeartOfGold even if he ''is'' a good guy.
* TarotMotifs: Briefly in the anime; the Finder Allen and Kanda were traveling with was doing a tarot reading adapted to a normal deck of cards- and at one of the key points ends up with a ''Joker''. One that [[{{Foreshadowing}} looks rather similar to our hero, in fact]].
* TeamPet: Timcanpy is adorable, bites people and gets away with it, eats although he never needs food, and is deeply attached to those he's closest to.
* TearsOfBlood: [[spoiler:The Third Exorcists vaporize a ton of Akuma without using Innocence.]] Allen, who has to watch Akuma's souls screaming in torment all the time anyway, does not react well.
* TechnicallyASmile: The Earl is always grinning cheerfully, but the look on his face when he's pissed goes ''way, way'' beyond SlasherSmile and dives head-first into NightmareFuelUnleaded.
* ThisIsUnforgivable: [[spoiler:Said by Allen after Lulu Bell's minions turn Tup into a Skull.]]
* ThroughHisStomach: Definitely the way to make Allen happy.
*{{Tokyo is the Center of the Universe}}: Seriously averted. [[spoiler: Japan's isolation allowed the Earl to conquer it easily; at the start of the story almost all of the Japanese are dead and the country is run by Akuma]].
* TomatoInTheMirror: The manga revealed that [[spoiler: Allen Walker is the new 14th Noah - or will be, once the memories of the previous 14th awaken fully within him.]]
* TooCoolToLive: [[spoiler:Cross Marian, who receives a head wound that would kill any human. Although they NeverFoundTheBody...]]
* TooDumbToLive: Jasdevi have the power to [[spoiler:materialize anything they both think about at the same time. So why didn't they just materialize a mass of concrete filling up the whole room or something else that would instantly end the fight?]]
* TransformationTrauma: Level 1 Akuma bursting through their human skin. Probably painless, but very unsettling. Also Level 0 Akuma ''forcing themselves down their host's throat''.
* TrainingFromHell: Why Allen doesn't seem too fond of General Cross.
* TricksterMentor: CROSS. So much so, that he qualifies Allen for an honorary mention on the AbusiveParents trope page.
* {{Tsundere}}: For is this in a big way. She is cranky and aggressive towards Allen, putting him through [[TrainingFromHell brutal training sessions]], during one of which she calls him weak and cowardly because he can't activate his Innocence. After that session, [[spoiler:she disguises herself as Rohfa and consoles him, encouraging him to do better. She even gets a little flirtatious. When the real Rohfa sees her, For immediately reverts to her tsuntsun side, saying, "Don't get me wrong Allen, I didn't come here to cheer you up!" Turned away and blushing, no less.]]
* UncannyValley: [[spoiler:Level 4 Akuma]], a.k.a. "[[HighOctaneNightmareFuel DEAR GOD, WHAT THE HELL IS THAT THING?!]]"
* UngratefulBastard: [[ObstructiveBureaucrat The Black Order officials]] to Allen after the Ark arc. You'd think they'd be excited that the new kid managed to [[spoiler:capture the Ark, temporarily disrupt the Earl's supply of Akuma, find the missing General, and hit General-level synchronization rates himself, but instead they immediately suspect him of being a traitor. Despite the fact that going by Suman Dark, that's not even ''possible''.]]
* VerbalTic: The first Level 3 Akuma we meet has an artist's soul and likes to start his sentences with "Title".
** A lot of level 2+ Akuma do this, such as the cat akuma that comes after Miranda ("Nya!") and the frog akuma Krory and co. meet in the small farming town ("Kero!") The biggest offender is Cross' modified Akuma, whose constant tendency to end her sentences with "Cho!" causes Lavi to dub her "Chomesuke."
** The Earl's umbrella, Lero, frequently puncutates its sentences with its name.
* ViewerGenderConfusion: [[http://media.onemanga.com/mangas/00000005/000124092/07.jpg This]] is a guy? Seriously?
* VomitIndiscretionShot: Allen throws up when he first sees [[spoiler:a Level 4 Akuma's soul]].
* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: In the beginning, the ''main character'' is supposed to find the Black Order Headquarters without knowing where the hell it is. The location is still unknown, but a filler episode seems to be hinting it's in France.
** Well... At least in the Anime, Cross Marian asks Allen if "he knew the way to the Black Order" before knocking him out, because the good General won't be joining him on the account that he "hates that place". And even if Allen didn't knew, or forgot because of the blow to the head, Timcanpy surely knows the way, So... yeah.
*** According to the first D.Gray-man Reverse novel, which is part of canon, all that Cross had ever told Allen was that the Black Order was somewhere in Europe. And so Allen had to travel to Britain, hoping that a particular supporter of the Order he knew there might be able to give directions - which she did. Timcanpy didn't help.
* WhipItGood: Klaud Nine and [[spoiler: Lulu Bell.]]
* WhiteHairedPrettyBoy: Possibly averted since Allen is so gosh darn nice.
** Wisely is a straight example.
* TheWoobie: Allen. [[ThePollyanna Not that he seems to notice.]]
* WordSaladTitle: Hoshino said in her interview at the Animagic convention in Germany that the idea for the name D.Gray-man came from the fact that "The colors black and white play an important role in the whole series. And the color gray symbolizes that."
* WreckedWeapon: [[spoiler:Allen's arm. It gets better eventually, though. Also Lavi and Kanda, later.]] Heck, this is the Earl's ultimate goal.
* {{Yandere}}: [[spoiler:Eliade.]] So very much.
** Justified, as she is genuinely in love with [[spoiler:Krory, but is being driven crazy by the conflict this presents with her Akuma programming.]]
** Also, Road Kamelot.
* ZettaiRyouiki: Lenalee Lee: ''Hello Legs!!''
* ZombieApocalypse: One of the filler arcs. HilarityEnsues.
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