History HaruhiSuzumiya / TropesOToS

* UsefulNotes/RoleplayingGameTerms:
** Often in the novels and once in the anime, Kyon references Haruhi having a negative effect on his HP and MP.
** Kyon also mentions stat points during "Endless Eight".
** In addition, during the baseball game, Yuki specifically says that she has enhanced the attributes on the team's bat.
** Kyon seems to be a fan of [=RPGs=] in general -- he describes one instance (involving Mikuru and time travel) as "like a quest in an RPG" and wonders if he'll get an item as a reward.

* ObfuscatingStupidity: Kyon constantly denies knowing or understanding things that the events or narration show that he does, as a way of avoiding conversation with others; most notably Koizumi, but also quite a bit with Taniguchi.

* OddFriendship: Kyon (laid-back and skeptical) and Haruhi (borderline sociopath with a huge belief in the supernatural). Really, everyone in the S.O.S. Brigade to some extent. Mikuru and Koizumi are in rival organizations, Yuki was not supposed to develop human emotions, and Kyon was not supposed to be there at all. Yet they all become friends.

** And earlier in ''Sigh'', when one of Mikuru Beams slashes the light reflector right above Itsuki's head. You know shit's gone completely out of control when Koizumi stops smiling.

* PubertySuperpower: Haruhi and Koizumi both gain their powers at age 12 (Koizumi because of Haruhi).

* SexyDiscretionShot: More like a nudity discretion shot. In "Someday In The Rain," whenever Haruhi changes Mikuru's outfit, the viewer is treated to what could only be described as sounds of [[BlackComedyRape rape]], a shot of Nagato's face as she's picking out a book, and Itsuki standing outside the room saying something completely unrelated. Nagato is apparently GenreSavvy and aware of the viewer and the camera placement during these scenes. At one point after switching out her books during one such occasion, she makes a deliberate glance at the bookshelf, and presumably, the viewer, as if she knows what we're all thinking.

* ShipperOnDeck: Koizumi is pretty unsubtle about thinking Kyon and Haruhi should hook up.

** All of the Kyon/Nagato shippers got a massive dose of ShipTease from the movie. Sadly, it looks like Kyon will [[FirstGirlWins always go back to Haruhi.]]

** [[spoiler: As part of the same time slip, Kyon actually ends up going a few ''years'' into the future, appearing in a college campus, where an older Haruhi is waiting to meet him. She's initially confused at him wearing his old uniform, but smiles when Future!Kyon does show up. This moment is particularly noteworthy in that at the end of the earlier chapter "Wandering Shadow", Kyon speaks of having innocuously received a book from Nagato about the romance of a boy and girl transitioning from high school to college together, his thoughts simultaneously referencing Nagato's "fortune telling" abilities.]]

** Endless Eight VI has both Kyon and Koizumi in swim trunks, and Endless Eight V has Koizumi in what is basically a thong.

* SilentBob: One single word with a bit of emotion from Nagato says it all.

* SingleTargetSexuality: Yuki Nagato ''may'' be Kyonsexual. Given that she's a [[TheStoic stoic]] EmotionlessGirl who hardly [[TheQuietOne says a word to anybody]], it's interesting that she talks with and defers to Kyon on a regular basis. Then there's also that time Nagato [[spoiler:recreated reality, including shunting the other three members of the Brigade out of the way. The alternate version of Nagato had a pretty obvious crush on Kyon.]]

** In the 8th book, both Koizumi and a random passerby come to the conclusion that cats and dogs must be avoiding a certain area because there is a hibernating bear somewhere. In the middle of the town. In the same book, both Haruhi and Sakanaka's father use the nickname "J.J." for a dog called Rousseau. Maybe they had the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Jacques_Rousseau same philosopher]] in mind.

* StudentCouncilPresident: The... um... Student Council President from the short stories. [[spoiler:Though he's really a PunchClockVillain working for the same Agency as Koizumi, and was brought into the school to prevent Haruhi from inventing her own BigBad]].

* SuperReflexes: Nagato can react fast enough to block ''lasers''. That would require her to move at faster than light speeds. It's never made clear if the lasers gave some sort of sign that they were about to go off, giving her time to react, or if she can just ''move at faster than light speeds''. [[spoiler: Asakura's fight in ''Surprise'' implies that she [[TimeStandsStill stopped time]]. The Literature/HyperionCantos reference would also support this (it's one character's SignatureMove).]]
** There is a little flash caught on camera before Nagato catches the laser, which logically can't be the laser's flesh-burning beam. That is the sign. No FTL-movement here.

* ReversePsychologyMarketing: Over and over again. [[StockholmSyndrome Why do we keep coming back]]?

* StockholmSyndrome: Adult Mikuru looks back on the days in the SOS Brigade fondly. Whether it's really stockholm syndrome, or NostalgiaFilter, or she started to simply enjoy it for it's own sake is uncertain though.

* PandaingToTheAudience: In Bamboo Leaf Rhapsody, there is a picture of a panda on little Haruhi's shirt... teehee.

* PlotHole: [[LampshadeHanging Directly referenced]] and combined with IncrediblyLamePun in "Intrigues"; when Kyon [[spoiler: and future!Asahina-san (small)]] has to move a boulder, he comments on the crater it leaves behind and asks if anyone will notice it.

* SenpaiKohai:
** Subverted: Although Mikuru is Haruhi and the others' senior, she still gets used like a dishrag by Haruhi.
** [[spoiler:Yasumi calls Kyon "sempai".]]

* RealityWarper: Haruhi.

* RedArmbandOfLeadership: Haruhi, naturally.

** Kyon seems to be a fan of [=RPGs=] in general - he describes one instance (involving Mikuru and time travel) as "like a quest in an RPG" and wonders if he'll get an item as a reward.
* RubberFace: [[strike:Poor Mikuru]]. Hilarious punishment!

* SchoolFestival: Drives all the episodes based off ''Sigh''.

* SleepCute: Mikuru and Haruhi in "Endless Eight".

* SlowMotionFall: Kyon in the Disappearance movie

%%* SyntheticPlague: One of the characters knocks out half the class with a sudden flu so she can have some quality time with the male lead. Unfortunately there is one survivor who unravels her evil plot.

* OffModel:
** Haruhi in the second season occasionally looks like one of the characters from ''Manga/KOn'' (also produced by Creator/KyotoAnimation) cosplaying as her.
** Ditto for Mikuru. Maybe even more so.

* SempaiKohai:

!!!''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'' provides examples of the following tropes:

* OtherworldlyVisitYoungestFirst: Zig-zagged due to TimeyWimeyBall. Haruhi met "John Smith" (actually Kyon), when she was only twelve. But this was after Kyon had met time-travelers, ESPers, and aliens, as well as being told that Haruhi was a PhysicalGod, albeit an unaware one...three years in the future.

* RestrainingBolt: Yuki places one of these upon [[spoiler:''herself'' after the events of ''Disappearance'' as a precaution, disabling her ability to time travel via synchonization.]] This also has a unique [[SubvertedTrope subversion]] -- [[spoiler:losing her [[PrescienceIsPredictable knowledge of what the future holds]] gives Yuki "freedom beyond what I had imagined", allowing her to exercise free will for the first time... And as a result, she spontaneously offers to make dinner for Kyon and Mikuru. D'aww.]]

* RescueRomance : Well, friendship at least. The start of the Yuki x Kyon ShipTease is [[spoiler: her [[BigDamnHeroes saving him]] from [[KnifeNut Asakura]] ]]. Interestingly, she's portrayed as slighly creepy prior to this incident. After this, Kyon warms up to her a bit, and she is portrayed as much less creepy.

* RapunzelHair: Tsuruya has this, as well as Haruhi in the beginning [[spoiler: and in ''Disappearance'']].

* PantyShot: There's one in "The Adventures of Mikuru Asahina". Guess who it's from?

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: "The Adventures Of Mikuru Asahina"; "Someday In The Rain" Arguably, [[GenreBusting most of the episodes anyway]].