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* SaintlyChurch: [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]] in Misora's [[ADayInTheLimelight focus chapter]] after Mahorafest. She pretends to be a kindly old priest in the confessional, but she is actually very mischievious and sometimes downright sneaky.
* SandInMyEyes: Used by both Konoka and Yue.
* SapientCetaceans: [[FishPeople Dolphin-men]] are one of the many denizens found in the MagicWorld. One of them works as a trucker who pilots an airship.
* SaveTheWorldClimax: The end of the Magic World arc results in Negi's party saving it, [[spoiler: by coming up with a better idea to do so than Fate and his party]].
* SayItWithHearts
** While freaking out in the middle of the jungle, Chisame narrates the events with her cheerful Chiu attitude including taking a picture of herself holding up a massive insect, complete with a super happy face with a heart in her mouth.
** Konoka's speech bubbles have hearts in them when she's in a particularly good mood.
** Tsukuyomi's dialogue tends to have these... And it only serves to make her even creepier.
* SceneryPorn: Done with CG models of the environments, many of which are ridiculously detailed and have huge polygon counts.
* SchematizedProp
** Logistifying Chiu's artifact.
** Chachamaru's character design page.
* SchoolFestival: Quite possibly the largest one in fiction. It runs for about a week and takes in several million dollars.
* ScienceDestroysMagic: Side material adds in the interesting fact that the ability to use magic is based on a certain way of thinking the world works, such as the four classical elements. As science advances and disproves these theories, the number of magic users dwindles.
* SealedEvilInACan: Waking up a legendary demon was the motivation for the villains during the Kansai arc. Also, Eva technically qualifies; although she was sealed less for her evil (which was, if you believe her, considerable) and more because Nagi couldn't get her to [[StalkerWithACrush leave him alone]]. Ironically, the protagonists defeat the first abovementioned Sealed Evil by temporarily breaking the seal on the other one.
* SecretTestOfCharacter: Subverted during Setsuna's tournament fight against Evangeline. The latter tries playing on her fears, [[BodyguardCrush feelings]], duty and [[FailureKnight difficulty protecting Konoka]]. Setsuna figures out Evangeline's technique and [[TakeAThirdOption rejects her choices]]. However, Setsuna doesn't realize that Evangeline had been fully intending to make her choose between duty and friendship and assumes it was this trope. Evangeline is baffled at this overly positive interpretation.
* SeizaSquirm: During the [[SeriousBusiness Claim Negi's Lips Tournament]] Asakura organizes in Kyoto, almost everyone gets caught and made to seiza by Nitta-sensei.
* SelfSacrificeScheme: [[spoiler:After Quintum took back the Great Grandmaster Key from the group,]] Kaede enters a fight with him. While her offenses and speed would be enough to match him fairly well, she can't deal with [[spoiler:his intangibility and simply steals the key from him and sends it back with a clone]].
* SenseiChan: Negi is a rare male version.
* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Negi is the Sensitive Guy to Kotaro's Manly Man.
* SerialEscalation: Negi vs. [[spoiler:Rakan]]. Negi reveals that [[IAmNotLeftHanded he isn't left-handed]] at least ''five times'' before the match is over, culminating in a spell that definitely deserves the name "Titan Slayer". And [[spoiler:Rakan]] still stands up like nothing happened.
* SeriousBusiness: A tense meeting between Fate and Negi derails for one page into a heated argument over coffee and tea -- Negi ''is'' [[SpotOfTea British]], after all. [[SubvertedTrope Or so it seems from the outside,]] but Negi is actually pissed for entirely different and much more sensible reasons. Negi prefers milk tea [[DoubleSubverted and refers to coffee as "muddy water"]]. Fate drinks seven cups of black coffee every day, and occasionally lemon tea.
** Later [[JustifiedTrope justified]] for Fate [[spoiler: in his (extremely sad) backstory]].
* SexMagic: Never outright stated but it is highly implied that to form a Permanent Pactio, sex has to occur.
* SexSlave: Averted in the Magical World. Slaves may not have many rights but they are protected from being used as sex slaves.
* SexySecretary: In Chapter 337, [[spoiler: Evangeline tells Chachamaru]] to become this to Negi as he's working himself to death (apparently enough to literally kill a normal human), even mentioning that she is the only one of the girls who can really help him this way. After confronting him directly about it and telling him that she truly wants to be there to help him, [[spoiler: it looks like Chachamaru is in fact going to be Negi's new secretary]].
** Naturally there is also a hilarious daydream before that where [[spoiler: Chachamaru]] envisioned herself working in this role starting with simple help, moving into what might be several years in the future where they've gotten quite familiar, and ending with [[spoiler: Negi insisting on winding up Chachamaru to show his thanks for her help...right before Asakura and Negi himself walk up to her]]. Cue DidIJustSayThatOutLoud.
* ShadowPin: Kaede's Kage Nui, which she uses by piercing the shadow with her FuumaShuriken, though it doesn't work long on rampaging Demon Negi.
* ShadowWalker: Teleportation magic works by sending the user through their element in some way. Dark magic uses shadows (as Evangeline demonstrates at the end of the Kyoto Arc).
* SharkFinOfDoom: Played with when the class takes a trip to an island. Negi is put 'in danger' so Asuna will make up with him after a falling out. The 'sharks' turn out to be Ku Fei and Natsumi in diguise.
* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: Konoka is just Setsuna's principal as a bodyguard. Nothing else, honest.
* ShipperOnDeck:
** ''Every''one ships Konoka and Setsuna.
** Jack Rakan ships Chisame/Negi.
** The '''ENTIRE''' Ala Rubra ships [[spoiler: Nagi/Arika]].
** Evangeline sometimes ships Negi/Chachamaru and derives endless amusement from poor Chachamaru's plight, though deep down she really is quite supportive.
** When Yue finally confesses her feelings to Negi, about half of the class is cheering her on.
* ShipSinking: In chapter 353, Negi tells [[spoiler:Asuna]] that he likes someone. The reaction makes it clear that it's not her. Two chapters later, it's stated [[spoiler:Nodoka and Yue]] were both rejected so that means it wasn't any of them either. There's nothing in the epilogue that indicates any sort of romantic resolution for Negi, so all the other ships are up in the air.
* ShipTease: [[ShipTease/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi So much]] that it is impossible to make any truly definitive declarations as to which girl will "win". [[spoiler:At the end, [[NoRomanticResolution none of them does]], at least not on-screen.]]
* ShirtlessScene: In-universe, on the poster advertising [[spoiler:Negi's and Rakan's fight, and in the fight itself]].
* ShockCollar: Applied to the girls under slavery in the magical world.
* ShockinglyExpensiveBill: When Class 3-A subjects Negi to a maid cafe, his bill grows to about $230 for doing nothing but looking. Being the good guy he is, he still offers to pay it.
* ShootTheMedicFirst:
** During the [[WhamEpisode Gateport Incident]], Fate uses the confusion caused by [[spoiler: nailing Negi through the back with a stone spear]] to try to petrify [[TheMedic Konoka]].
** A variation happens when Fate's subordinate [[CatGirl Koyomi]] targets Ako over other low-tier fighters, although Ako is not a healer but a [[StatusBuff support-type]].
* ShoutOut: Has [[ShoutOut/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi its own page]]
* ShowerOfAngst: Setsuna takes a shower after her humiliating defeat by [[spoiler:Tsukiyomi]].
* ShowerOfAwkward
** Setsuna and Negi have a brief scuffle in the bath in Kyoto. It ends with Setsuna holding Negi's junk and threatening to crush it, not yet knowing who it is.
** As a favor to Asuna, Negi tried enchanting her brushes in the shower. Didn't end well.
** Chisame walks in on Jack bathing. He's unconcerned, she freaks.
* ShowgirlSkirt: During the Festival of Ostia, many of these can be seen.
* ShownTheirWork: Shown mainly in the compiled volume extras and magazines, which give descriptions on both in-universe physics and real world data, such as the use of surprisingly good [[CanisLatinicus Latin]]... [[GratuitousForeignLanguage And Greek. And Sanskrit.]] Other examples are the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bajiquan Hakkyokuken]], Negi and Ku-Fei's martial arts style and the physics behind Negi's [[FlashStep Raisoku Shundo]]. And [[spoiler:the geography of Mundus Magicus, which appears to be Mars with oceans -- which is finally pointed out by one of the characters in a July 2009 installment]]. And [[spoiler:Chisame's battle against a TCP tuna swarm; she repels it setting up a '''bucket filter''', even using the correct sentence to implement it in [[http://iptables-tutorial.frozentux.net/other/iptables.html iptables]]!]]
* ShowWithinAShow: ''Mahou Shojou Biblion'', a MagicalGirlWarrior series.
* ShrinesAndTemples: Mana is [[OlderThanTheyLook ostensibly]] the {{Miko}} of Tatsumiya Shrine, near Mahora.
* ShutUpHannibal: When [[spoiler:Dynamis starts [[LargeHam going off again]] after being cut in half]] Ku Fei [[PlayedForLaughs pokes his face with her stick.]]
* ShutUpKiss: [[spoiler:Konoka does this to Setsuna for their Pactio]] when the latter was stammering like she usually does around the former.
* ShyFingerTwiddling: Negi when he asks Asuna if she'd like to see his past before anyone else does on account of being "partners".
* SingleStrokeBattle: A number of these occur in the [[TournamentArc Tournament Arcs]].
* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: Most of the girls who have a crush on Negi fall under this. Negi himself is a very kind, caring, protective boy, and most of the time the girls initially fall for him because they see that kindness as they become friends with him or he helps them out.
* SkilledButNaive:
** Negi is an incredibly skilled mage, but he's still a ten-year-old.
** In another light, Negi is an incredibly skilled (natural) ChickMagnet nicknamed the Thousand Pimpster by some of the fans, but he's still a ten-year-old.
* SkinshipGrope: [[PsychoLesbian Chichigami-sama]] is a ''serial groper''. See PsychoLesbian above.
* SlaveCollar: Slaver collars go "zap".
* SleepCute:
** Happened to Ako & Makie, Konoka & Setsuna, and Negi & Asuna. Kazumi & Ayaka, and Haruna & Yue were close...
** The credits of ''Negima!'' (Awww...)
* SlidingScaleOfRobotIntelligence: Chachamaru is an “Average Joe Android." Her grades are fairly low, but she's an excellent hacker.
* SmokeShield: Happens to Negi as he faces off against Chao.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: [[spoiler: Sextum, the Averruncus of water and the only female averrnucus.]]
* {{Sneezing}}: Negi used to be affected by frequent bouts of [[ClothingDamage clothing shredding]] sneezes in the early volumes of the manga. The sneezing decreased when the story grew more serious, the {{Fanservice}} didn't: Notably, sneezing mostly occurs in the downtime between major, action-filled arcs.
* SneezeOfDoom: Anytime he sneezes, it will blow up several skirts, shred clothes, underwear or both. Later, sneezes accidentally cast the disarmament spell, meaning they can even strip you outright.
* SnotBubble: Asuna tends to have these when she oversleeps in the two anime.
* SnowMeansDeath:
** The destruction of Negi's village.
** Nearly literal when Eva strands Asuna on a blizzard-wracked mountain as part of her training. Asuna freezes solid while sleeping, then wakes up dead. Ask any doctor. Being Asuna, however, this is not sufficient to keep her down. Evangeline later hits her with an insta-kill freeze spell; once again this is insufficient, although in this case her ability to cancel magic may have helped. She was still stuck in an ice crystal long enough to suffocate.
* SortingAlgorithmOfEvil: Subverted, as Negi fights Fate, one of the most powerful ennemies of the series, very early-on in the Kyoto arc; but he doesn't reappear until the Magic World arc, 14 volumes later. The series follows the algorithm otherwise.
* SpaceWhale: The standard aircraft of the Mundus Magicus, probably because [[ZeppelinsFromAnotherWorld blimps]] were too mundane. They also come in various other fish-like shapes.
* SparklingStreamOfTears: During some of the more serious crying moments.
* SpellConstruction: As a series centered around magic, this is all over the place. Negi even designs a special spell designed to take down [[spoiler: Rakan]].
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Some scanlations use the name "Kamo", though "Chamo" is the more widely used version. [[TakeAThirdOption The French version writes it "Camo" though.]]
* SpiderTank: Literally. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded to hell and back]] during Mahorafest, when Misora finds the Martian Army stashed in the sewers.
* SpitTake: Asuna tends to get these whenever someone questions her relationship with Negi.
* SpookyPhotographs: Sayo shows up in both a photograph and Nodoka's mind reading book, unintentionally looking really scary, even though she just wants to talk to someone.
* SpotOfTea: Negi takes tea with [[spoiler: Fate]], and each criticizes the other's tastes in a truly epic bout of passive-aggressiveness.
* SpottingTheThread: Yue figuring out that [[spoiler: Takahata]] was an illusion in Chapter 143.
* SqueakyEyes: An anime staple.
* StableTimeLoop: The three days of Mahorafest. Done inconsistently, though: Their week-long jump back does end up changing the past, but it ends up being stable due to it being consistent with Chao's timeline. Basically it's a sort of destiny thing, otherwise there would be like a huge paradox, and if they hadn't succeeded, Chao would never come back in time to do it.
* StealthPun: Sayo's 'title' of Ala Alba Ghost Member is a pun on her being a ghost and the ghost member of a club being someone who doesn't attend club activities and is only a member on paper.
* StoryBreakerPower: Negi's [[spoiler:artifact with Theodora]] granted him access to [[spoiler:all of his ministras artifacts, even Asuna's antimagic sword and Konoka's full recover spell.]] Naturally, this had to go even though the reasons given are pretty flimsy given the circumstances.
* StripPoker: A variation: one of the girls in Negi's class asks if the students can play Baseball Janken, a quiz game to help review for the big test. Negi approves. Unfortunately, he's too innocent/uninformed to know that the game's primary rule appears to be "answer a question wrong, lose an article of clothing." The Baka Rangers get stripped to their underwear within four minutes.
* SummoningRitual: Typically, these invoke Valkyries, Undines or Salamanders, or other types of spirits, for offensive spells.
* SummonMagic: Demons, charms, and even other people can be summoned.
* SuperDeformed: Infrequently, and usually only when characters are under stress. Except Misora. She does it more often.
* SuperSentaiStance: As an AffectionateParody, the [[{{Sentai}} Baka Rangers]] do this. A group called the Mahora Rangers also do this during the SchoolFestival.
* SuperSpeed: Raiten Taisou. Koyomi's artifact ability. Also one of the effects of [[spoiler:Ako's]] [[SuperSerum artifact]].
* SupernaturalMartialArts: Get good enough at martial arts and you too can jump tall buildings, kill demons barehanded or make clones of yourself.
* SuperpoweredEvilSide: [[spoiler: What happens when Negi's BlackMagic gets out of his control.]]
* SuperPoweredRobotMeterMaids: Chachamaru serves tea. She also has a BFG, Kung Fu skills, and ''transforming blade arms''.
* SuperpowerLottery: Asuna's [[AntiMagic Magic Cancel]] [[NoSell negates]] any magic/ki attacks, expands an energy sphere that only negates ''hostile'' magic, breaks seals and goes through any magic barriers like they weren't there, destroying them in the process. Ensis Exorcizans also has anti-magic capabilities and allows her to send back and/or destroy things/beings summoned by magic by mere proximity. She's also a [[YinYangBomb Kanka]] user which, call the "the ultimate art" of magic combat with a dozen enhancements, allowing her to fight without draining Negi. Given that a Ministra is to serve as support, it's practically impossible to find someone better suited for the job.
* SurroundedByIdiots: Both Chisame and Yue express this frequently at the beginning of the series. As the series progresses, these thoughts wane in the latter's mind, but not the former's.
* SurveillanceDrone: The ''Oculus Corvinus'' is a set of spy satellites. Magic spy satellites? Where do they ''get'' these things?
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: After Nodoka finally gets her courage and confesses to Negi.
-->'''Negi:''' Nothing's wrong! No one confessed to me or anything!
* TheSweatDrop: Frequently used by characters whenever they're confused or irritated.
* SwirlingDust: Present in some of the anime.
* {{Synchronization}}: [[spoiler:Haruna's golems have a slight version of this since when one is used to defend from an actual attack, it gives her a PsychicNosebleed and knocks her out but doesn't pass on the full damage from the attack.]]
* TakeAThirdOption:
** Setsuna is forced by Evangeline in a SecretTestOfCharacter to either be a cold, limitless swordswoman to better serve her princess Konoka or take her happiness beside the girl and live her life in peace without protecting anything. She chooses to have both.
** After the group realizes that [[spoiler:the Asuna with the group might be a fake, Mana]] attempts to unmask the impostor using [[spoiler:an anti-demon bullet]] reasoning that if [[spoiler:Asuna is who she says she is]] she won't be hurt and if not they can just heal her. Negi, however, doesn't want to see her hurt, [[spoiler:impostor or not]]. Faced with the option of [[spoiler:either allowing a spy to run free or shooting her to break her disguise]], he instead [[spoiler:forms a Pactio with the impostor, with the added side-effect of stripping away the disguise.]]
** [[spoiler:Both Cosmo Entelecheia (the secret society/terrorist group) and Zazie's sister believe that the inhabitants of Mundus Magicus must ''either '' be sealed in Cosmo Entelecheia (the LotusEaterMachine) ''or '' die/end up in a desperate war with Earth when their home dimension inevitably collapses. Chao Lingshen tried (or claimed [[WMG/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi to be trying]]) to reveal magic to the inhabitants of Earth at large so as to make the latter option less disastrous, given that the former apparently [[TimeTravelTenseTrouble didn't]] happen. Negi, on the other hand, has an idea to ''prevent the collapse.'']]
* TakenForGranite: Adds to the horror feel of the series, without too much {{Squick}}.
* TakingTheBullet
** Several times, including a 'defendee-tossing-would-be-defender-out-of-the-way-to-take-the-hit' subversion.
** Nodoka gets hit by a time displacement bullet that was targeted at Negi since she would be no use for the rest of the fight.
** When Fate is tossing around petrification darts [[spoiler:Sayo blocks one of the ones headed for Nodoka and Asakura, turning her doll body to stone. It apparently can't be exited in this state.]]
* TalkingInYourSleep: "No way, lady, I can't smoke that..."
* TasteTheRainbow: [[http://www.seaslugteam.com/caps/negima/roster.jpg Here's the class roster]]. And that's [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters only the starting point.]]
* TeacherStudentRomance: Negi constantly worries about maintaining a normal student-teacher relationship with all the girls of his class while several of them keep developing crushes on him.
* TheTeam: The Kyoto Arc starts it off by combining the original BattleCouple-and-mentor trio of [[SquishyWizard Negi]] (TheLeader), [[ActionGirl Asuna]] (TheLancer) and [[EccentricMentor Chamo]] (TheMentor) with [[{{Samurai}} Setsuna]] (TheBigGal) and [[MindProbe Nodoka]] (SmartGal). The group evolves over the Mahora Festival to include several others. By the time the Magic World Arc begins, the Team has reached over 10 people in membership.
* TearsFromAStone: When Chachamaru gets upset early on, her eyes begin leaking lens cleaning fluid since she doesn’t have tear ducts. Only that’s what tears ARE, so maybe she does have them?
* TearsOfJoy: When The Paru-Sama [[spoiler:briefly crashes in the Real World]] Haruna gets out and has a nice PetTheDog [[spoiler:where she cries happily and hugs Madoka, glad to see the rest of the Mahora girls again.]]
* TeleFrag: When Negi's party travels back in time over a week, they end in the sky. They discuss later that it was fortunate they didn't return inside a rock.
* {{Telepathy}}: With direct physical contact Negi can read someone's mind and pactio cards allow for two way communication. Rakan also displays the same trick against Fate's ministras.
* {{Teleportation}}: Teleportation magic is used quite frequently, and [[spoiler: Akira's]] artifact makes her one of these as long as water is present.
* TelescopingStaff: The Shintetsu Jizaikon. Like the [[Literature/JourneyToTheWest Monkey King]]'s staff, it can grow and shrink at will. Her first use of it is as ''artillery''.
* TellMeAboutMyFather: What he demands of Rakan if he wins the tournament.
* TemptingFate: Ayaka says that she has a bad feeling about going to the Magic World and Asuna claims that Ayaka's premonitions are usually wrong. Guess what happens to Ala Alba.
* {{Terraform}}: [[spoiler:Negi's ultimate plan to save the Magic World as revealed in Chapter 338. His theory: Magic/Mana is fueled by life, and because Mars as it is is a dead world, it's the main reason for the ultimate collapse of the Magic World. By Terraforming Mars and making it Earth-like, the Magic world can eventually thrive there without problems. The immense size and cost of this project is also why Ayaka and Chizuru are now sponsoring it. Also, given how long it would take (Negi estimates between 30 and 100 years), it explains how busy Negi's become and how it could be a "lifetime" project.]]
* ThanksForTheMammary: ''All the frickin' time''. [[AccidentalPervert Poor kid]].
* ThatDidntHappen: Twice. Both times involve {{Forceful Kiss}}es from [[NotRightInTheBed Negi]].
* ThereAreNoTherapists:
** And Negi, from what [[MindReading Nodoka's diary]] showed us, needs one [[NightmareFuel ''badly'']].
** Subverted early on, however, when Negi gets cheered up by Satsuki during Mahorafest.
* ThereIsOnlyOneBed: Weirdly inverted -- the girls understand and accept that no matter how many beds are present, Negi is likely to crawl into one a girl is already occupying. (Especially Asuna.) They even turn it into a game of KeepAway on one occasion, fighting over who gets him. [[spoiler:The one girl who ''doesn't'' want him there, of course.]] Of course, it's debatable whether [[spoiler:she ''still'' doesn't]]...
* ThirtySecondBlackout: Mahora Academy has these scheduled. Evangeline takes advantage of this to regain her full power briefly.
* ThisIsSomethingHesGotToDoHimself: As of Chapter 285, this seems to be [[spoiler:[[FanNickname Fake Eva-chin's]] preferred method of dealing with Negi's SuperpoweredEvilSide]].
* ThrowTheBookAtThem: Nodoka smacks Haruna with a book when the latter keeps making perverse clones.
* ThunderingHerd: A daily occurrence at Mahora as students stampede to their classes. It's a wonder students don't get hurt.
* TickleTorture: Happens several times (especially to Asuna) to the point of veering into RunningGag territory.
* TimeAndRelativeDimensionsInSpace: Depends on the time jump. A short one will put you in that exact spot. A longer one might put you off course, and hopefully not into a rock.
* TimelineAlteringMacGuffin: Chao's "ultimate weapon."
* TimeMachine: The Cassiopeia is one, though it can only send its user back a week in time at most. Chao's on the other hand returns her to the future at the conclusion of the Mahorafest arc.
* TimeSkip:
** [[spoiler:In chapter 350, five months have passed from the "Get Negi to confess" to "Asuna's 'graduation'" seeing as she's going to be sealed again at Mars.]]
** [[spoiler:And then again in chapter 352, ''130'' years have passed, as Asuna wakes up late in a future world to find all of the plans succeeded... and to find that Negi has apparently somehow died, in addition to all of her old classmates with the exceptions of Chao and Eva, who bring Asuna back to the original timeline next chapter.]]
** [[spoiler:And once again in chapter 354, this time 7 years after the original timeline, by which all the girls of Class 3A have long graduated, as shown by Yue who now works as a private investigator involving magical cases. This also introduces a few new characters, such as Maki's younger brother Kagehisa, who by this time is in high school.]]
* TimeStandsStill: The Casseopeia is capable of doing this if used in a certain way. Koyomi's artifact also has this function.
* TimeToUnlockMoreTruePotential: After the Kyoto arc, Negi realizes he isn't improving quickly enough and asks both Ku Fei and Evangeline to begin teaching him. Ku Fei teaches him martial arts and Evangeline gives him a hellish training regimen inside a time distorting alternate dimension, both of which lead to rapid growth. Later, he goes to Jack Rakan for more training and picks up the basics of Magia Erebea, though he's left to work out the details for himself.
* TimeTravel: StableTimeLoop as Negi starts running into earlier versions of himself...
* TimeTravelRomance: Defied. While ''Negima'' has TimeTravel and tries to hit every romance trope possible, Chao becomes rather annoyed when Negi asks her to stay, because it sounds like a romantic proposal, and being his descendant, she would prefer not to engage in such.
* TimeyWimeyBall:
** ...until the part where he has to change the future after being sent ahead.
** [[spoiler: And the book Chao left which states Negi's wife is now blank.]]
** [[spoiler: It was fake.]]
* TitleDrop: The White Wing initially call themselves the Negima Club until the better name is suggested.
* ToBeAMaster: Negi wants to be a world-class mage like his father.
* ToBeLawfulOrGood: Negi gets this from time to time, having to choose when to break laws and when to let things slide, often while under threat. He's fairly flexible, coming down on both sides depending on the severity of the issue.
* TokenYuriGirls: Setsuna serves as Konoka's [[BodyguardCrush protector]], and admits it precludes hooking up with anyone else. Naturally, other characters assume this is a complicated way of saying that they are a romantic couple, or will be. Konoka certainly has no problem being her partner in their ([[AMagicContractComesWithAKiss kissing-activated]]) magical contract. It's pretty much just Setsuna who isn't aware of this. Naturally, when Setsuna proved to be a [[EnsembleDarkhorse popular character]], the overtones became a lot more obvious in the ''Negima?!'' remake, with a more knowingly teasing Konoka and a more flusterable Setsuna, to the point of Setsuna stuck between embarrassment and ogling at Konoka in a swimsuit. Considering that in the early manga [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything the way Setsuna acts around Konoka is exactly the same as someone with a really strong crush]] (complete with blushing and a loss of the ability to speak whenever she's around) makes the [[HoYay subtext]] already quite strong.
* TookALevelInBadass: Pretty much automatic if someone gets an artifact. This includes [[spoiler:Negi, though overshadowed by the fact that he had just gained about ''eight others''. Maybe, his artifact could be a GameBreaker because he has so many attendants, he can use all their powers, granted, one at a time, but still it gives him a lot more options than almost anyone. Has been PutOnABus for a while now.]]
** Yue is arguably the queen of this trope, having done this no less than three times. See her character entry for details.
* TookALevelInJerkass: The class actually attacks Negi near the end of the manga in order to find out who he likes including using their pactios against him, removing his allies from the area and attempted to mind control him via [[AssShove Chizuru.]] Why? Because he was busy [[spoiler:saving billions of lives]] instead of responding to their romantic interest. Notably, a few of the girls like Chisame ''do'' have better intentions, but most do not while only Chachamaru, Asuna, Akira and Satsuki are actually decent enough to stand by him.
* TooMuchInformation: Asuna gets an earful from Makie during the shower scene: "Negi-kun's ''you-know-what'' is touching my ''you-know-where''! ... His ''you-know-what'''s getting ''you-know-what''-er!"
* TooSlow: When Negi isn't focusing on his fight with Setsuna during the tournament, she gets annoyed and smacks some sense into him after delivering one of these.
* TotalPartyKill: Discussed a few times after they entered the magical world arc as with so many other game tropes, especially when they were separated.
* ToThePain: Not only does Haruna ''tell'' Nodoka, Yue, and Konoka how she's going to torture them for not sharing about Negi, she has ''sketches''!
* TouchTelepathy: Negi Springfield is shown to have this ability via placing his hand on the forehead in the first chapter, though he can only catch a few thoughts at the most.
** Jack Rakan later gets to see a FlashBack from a defeated enemy he's holding.
** This is one of the abilities of Shiori's race, which is why she ended up the LastOfHerKind.
* ToUnmasqueTheWorld: This is Chao's goal during the Mahorafest arc, and she succeeds in one timeline. [[spoiler:Negi does the same thing at the end of the manga, but under slower and more controlled circumstances.]]
* TournamentArc: One during the Mahorafest arc and another during the Magic World arc. The former is more extensive than the latter.
* TrainingFromHell:
** Lampshaded with Ku Fei's martial arts training, as her trying to create a "quick-powerup" training regimen for Negi based on old manga and kung fu movies fails miserably. She then tries training him conventionally, which works, and teaches him so quickly that she gets depressed about it.
** Played straight, however, with Evangeline's training methods, which actually seem to work.
* TransformationTrinket: The pactio cards.
* TranslationConvention: Scenes that take place in Britain are spoken in Japanese. The girls, even the ordinary ones, also have no trouble in the magical world -- averted though, in that it was colonized from Earth (Mundus Vetus, "the Old World"), and two of its major languages are "Anglicum" and "Japonense." Interestingly, though, the writing dotted around the Mundus Magicus suggest that the ''lingua franca'' is actually Latin.
* TranslationStyleChoices: Most fan translations fall into Category 2 or Category 3, while the former official translation was a solid Category 2.
* TrappedInAnotherWorld: The entire plot of the Magic World arc.
* TriangRelations: Both Nodoka and Yue want to be Negi's girlfriend, although the two remain friends. Nodoka's subconscious hints that she's okay with sharing...
* {{Troperiffic}}: Akamatsu seems to be on a quest to use every trope ''ever''. He is disturbingly close to succeeding.
* TropeTrigger: Just be a girl in front of Negi and tickle his nose by accident...[[AccidentalPervert accidental nakedness]] will soon follow.
* TruceZone: Megalomesembria's public baths.
* TrueCompanions: Ala Rubra and Ala Alba naturally. By the time the story ends, all of Class 3-A are this with each other. Yes, even Evangeline.
* TruerToTheText: An interesting case. The recent OVA releases have been faithful to the manga, but they're so deep into a story that none of its multiple previous adaptations properly covered, that they won't make much sense to anyone who hasn't read the manga.
* TwoRoadsBeforeYou: Father's or the Master's?
* TwoScenesOneDialogue: Variation: just as Fate finishes explaining the secret of the Magical World [[spoiler:to the captive Asuna and Anya]], the next chapter begins with [[spoiler:Shiori/Luna]] confirming the same explanation for Negi and company.
** [[spoiler:Negi has just bounced back from being comatose, and [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu punched out Quartum's Entei Shoukan.]] Fate, still heavily beat up from his earlier fight against the Negi team, [[DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu beans Quintum in the face with a rock.]] Both shout out the exact same line on one page after doing so.]]
-->[[spoiler:'''Fate''']]:[[spoiler:Those are '''his''' comrades. My prey... You have all just woken up...]]
-->[[spoiler:'''Negi''']]:[[spoiler:These are my comrades...]]
-->[[spoiler:'''Negi&Fate''']]:[[spoiler:I won't allow you to lay a finger on them!]]
* TwoTeacherSchool: In the entire ElaborateUniversityHigh, few teachers are shown other than Negi, Takamichi, Gandolfini, Nitta, Seruhiko, and Shizuna. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in that the manga focuses explicitly on the teachers who are also mages.
* UnderestimatingBadassery:
** The girls are frequently subject to this, but Nodoka gets it more than anyone else. Behind that shy guise beats the fearless heart of a determined girl. There's a reason why Fate considers her such a big threat.
** This is actually subverted by the first contestant Evangeline faces during the first TournamentArc. He knows that she looks harmless but he also knows that she made it that far and shouldn't be underestimated. Unfortunately for him [[CurbStompBattle it didn't matter]].
* UnfinishedBusiness: Parodied during her introduction. After learning that all Sayo wanted was to make friends, Negi and Asakura approach her and tell her that she can be friends with them, and she immediately fades from their sight. While Negi tearfully looks up in the sky assuming that she's finally left in peace, Mana, who has a stronger ghost sense than Negi, points out that she's still right there, on the same spot.
* UnlimitedWardrobe: When the girls are not attending class, and wearing the Mahora uniform, they each have fair amount of unique casual clothes. It's obvious reading the manga, that Akamatsu and company spent a lot of time coming up with fun looks for all of the girls.
* TheUnmasquedWorld: Negi and friends pay a brief visit to a "bad" future in which the current antagonist has recently succeeded in revealing the existence of magic, but aside from the excited attentions of some local girls and talk of all mages being recalled to the Magic World, we don't see much of the effects. [[spoiler:Magic is revealed for good off-screen during the final timeskip, and more integration between the worlds (including black market trade) is discussed.]]
* UnresolvedSexualTension: Setsuna and Konoka have a lot of buildup which doesn't really go anywhere [[spoiler:even after a pactio kiss]] until [[spoiler:the last few chapters, where it's resolved offscreen. In a fairly ambiguous manner.]]
* TheUnreveal: 355 chapters and we never learn [[spoiler: who Negi actually likes or ends up with. He does tell Asuna at one point, but the audience doesn't get to hear it, and her reaction doesn't make it clear who it is- except it doesn't seem to be her.]] The sequel however does address this plot point.
* UnsoundEffect: "Pettan" for Yue and Nodoka.
* UnspokenPlanGuarantee: Both ends of the spectrum are shown in this series. Negi's [[spoiler: Magic World saving]] plan is never discussed in great detail but ultimately succeeds, whereas an entire chapter is dedicated to explaining a plan of attack before it all shortly goes to hell.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Chachamaru uses her booster jets to fetch a little girl's balloon at one point, and nobody comments on it except [[LampshadeHanging Asuna and Negi]].
** In the post-action chapter, "Take a Break," nobody points out that Setsuna is carrying a bundle of [[BrickJoke dragon-murdering spears]]. Her equipment diminishes with distance to the threat.
* TheUnwantedHarem: DoubleSubversion: the professor surrounded by 31 female students sure looks like a set up for one of these, but, while the students may find Negi cute, they don't want to go out with him. Except, of course, that several of them do develop romantic feelings for Negi, though nowhere near as much as the premise would lead you to believe.
** Justified in that they develop romantic feelings for him after he shows how mature, badass or awesome he is, and most of them look at him and realize that the ten year old kid will turn into the epitome of sexy and badass in five years tops.
* UpgradeArtifact: Turns out Nodoka is a munchkin. While with a party of adventurers, she picks up a couple pieces of magical gear that allow her to know anyone's name and hear the thoughts written on her mind reading book rather than having to read it.
* UrbanFantasy: Though it's shifted to a more ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' feel as of the Entry to the Magic World arc.
* SandInMyEyes: Used by both Konoka and Yue.
* SapientCetaceans: [[FishPeople Dolphin-men]] are one of the many denizens found in the MagicWorld. One of them works as a trucker who pilots an airship.
* SaveTheWorldClimax: The end of the Magic World arc results in Negi's party saving it, [[spoiler: by coming up with a better idea to do so than Fate and his party]].
* SayItWithHearts
** While freaking out in the middle of the jungle, Chisame narrates the events with her cheerful Chiu attitude including taking a picture of herself holding up a massive insect, complete with a super happy face with a heart in her mouth.
** Konoka's speech bubbles have hearts in them when she's in a particularly good mood.
** Tsukuyomi's dialogue tends to have these... And it only serves to make her even creepier.
* SceneryPorn: Done with CG models of the environments, many of which are ridiculously detailed and have huge polygon counts.
* SchematizedProp
** Logistifying Chiu's artifact.
** Chachamaru's character design page.
* SchoolFestival: Quite possibly the largest one in fiction. It runs for about a week and takes in several million dollars.
* ScienceDestroysMagic: Side material adds in the interesting fact that the ability to use magic is based on a certain way of thinking the world works, such as the four classical elements. As science advances and disproves these theories, the number of magic users dwindles.
* SealedEvilInACan: Waking up a legendary demon was the motivation for the villains during the Kansai arc. Also, Eva technically qualifies; although she was sealed less for her evil (which was, if you believe her, considerable) and more because Nagi couldn't get her to [[StalkerWithACrush leave him alone]]. Ironically, the protagonists defeat the first abovementioned Sealed Evil by temporarily breaking the seal on the other one.
* SecretTestOfCharacter: Subverted during Setsuna's tournament fight against Evangeline. The latter tries playing on her fears, [[BodyguardCrush feelings]], duty and [[FailureKnight difficulty protecting Konoka]]. Setsuna figures out Evangeline's technique and [[TakeAThirdOption rejects her choices]]. However, Setsuna doesn't realize that Evangeline had been fully intending to make her choose between duty and friendship and assumes it was this trope. Evangeline is baffled at this overly positive interpretation.
* SeizaSquirm: During the [[SeriousBusiness Claim Negi's Lips Tournament]] Asakura organizes in Kyoto, almost everyone gets caught and made to seiza by Nitta-sensei.
* SelfSacrificeScheme: [[spoiler:After Quintum took back the Great Grandmaster Key from the group,]] Kaede enters a fight with him. While her offenses and speed would be enough to match him fairly well, she can't deal with [[spoiler:his intangibility and simply steals the key from him and sends it back with a clone]].
* SenseiChan: Negi is a rare male version.
* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Negi is the Sensitive Guy to Kotaro's Manly Man.
* SerialEscalation: Negi vs. [[spoiler:Rakan]]. Negi reveals that [[IAmNotLeftHanded he isn't left-handed]] at least ''five times'' before the match is over, culminating in a spell that definitely deserves the name "Titan Slayer". And [[spoiler:Rakan]] still stands up like nothing happened.
* SeriousBusiness: A tense meeting between Fate and Negi derails for one page into a heated argument over coffee and tea -- Negi ''is'' [[SpotOfTea British]], after all. [[SubvertedTrope Or so it seems from the outside,]] but Negi is actually pissed for entirely different and much more sensible reasons. Negi prefers milk tea [[DoubleSubverted and refers to coffee as "muddy water"]]. Fate drinks seven cups of black coffee every day, and occasionally lemon tea.
** Later [[JustifiedTrope justified]] for Fate [[spoiler: in his (extremely sad) backstory]].
* SexMagic: Never outright stated but it is highly implied that to form a Permanent Pactio, sex has to occur.
* SexSlave: Averted in the Magical World. Slaves may not have many rights but they are protected from being used as sex slaves.
* SexySecretary: In Chapter 337, [[spoiler: Evangeline tells Chachamaru]] to become this to Negi as he's working himself to death (apparently enough to literally kill a normal human), even mentioning that she is the only one of the girls who can really help him this way. After confronting him directly about it and telling him that she truly wants to be there to help him, [[spoiler: it looks like Chachamaru is in fact going to be Negi's new secretary]].
** Naturally there is also a hilarious daydream before that where [[spoiler: Chachamaru]] envisioned herself working in this role starting with simple help, moving into what might be several years in the future where they've gotten quite familiar, and ending with [[spoiler: Negi insisting on winding up Chachamaru to show his thanks for her help...right before Asakura and Negi himself walk up to her]]. Cue DidIJustSayThatOutLoud.
* ShadowPin: Kaede's Kage Nui, which she uses by piercing the shadow with her FuumaShuriken, though it doesn't work long on rampaging Demon Negi.
* ShadowWalker: Teleportation magic works by sending the user through their element in some way. Dark magic uses shadows (as Evangeline demonstrates at the end of the Kyoto Arc).
* SharkFinOfDoom: Played with when the class takes a trip to an island. Negi is put 'in danger' so Asuna will make up with him after a falling out. The 'sharks' turn out to be Ku Fei and Natsumi in diguise.
* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: Konoka is just Setsuna's principal as a bodyguard. Nothing else, honest.
* ShipperOnDeck:
** ''Every''one ships Konoka and Setsuna.
** Jack Rakan ships Chisame/Negi.
** The '''ENTIRE''' Ala Rubra ships [[spoiler: Nagi/Arika]].
** Evangeline sometimes ships Negi/Chachamaru and derives endless amusement from poor Chachamaru's plight, though deep down she really is quite supportive.
** When Yue finally confesses her feelings to Negi, about half of the class is cheering her on.
* ShipSinking: In chapter 353, Negi tells [[spoiler:Asuna]] that he likes someone. The reaction makes it clear that it's not her. Two chapters later, it's stated [[spoiler:Nodoka and Yue]] were both rejected so that means it wasn't any of them either. There's nothing in the epilogue that indicates any sort of romantic resolution for Negi, so all the other ships are up in the air.
* ShipTease: [[ShipTease/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi So much]] that it is impossible to make any truly definitive declarations as to which girl will "win". [[spoiler:At the end, [[NoRomanticResolution none of them does]], at least not on-screen.]]
* ShirtlessScene: In-universe, on the poster advertising [[spoiler:Negi's and Rakan's fight, and in the fight itself]].
* ShockCollar: Applied to the girls under slavery in the magical world.
* ShockinglyExpensiveBill: When Class 3-A subjects Negi to a maid cafe, his bill grows to about $230 for doing nothing but looking. Being the good guy he is, he still offers to pay it.
* ShootTheMedicFirst:
** During the [[WhamEpisode Gateport Incident]], Fate uses the confusion caused by [[spoiler: nailing Negi through the back with a stone spear]] to try to petrify [[TheMedic Konoka]].
** A variation happens when Fate's subordinate [[CatGirl Koyomi]] targets Ako over other low-tier fighters, although Ako is not a healer but a [[StatusBuff support-type]].
* ShoutOut: Has [[ShoutOut/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi its own page]]
* ShowerOfAngst: Setsuna takes a shower after her humiliating defeat by [[spoiler:Tsukiyomi]].
* ShowerOfAwkward
** Setsuna and Negi have a brief scuffle in the bath in Kyoto. It ends with Setsuna holding Negi's junk and threatening to crush it, not yet knowing who it is.
** As a favor to Asuna, Negi tried enchanting her brushes in the shower. Didn't end well.
** Chisame walks in on Jack bathing. He's unconcerned, she freaks.
* ShowgirlSkirt: During the Festival of Ostia, many of these can be seen.
* ShownTheirWork: Shown mainly in the compiled volume extras and magazines, which give descriptions on both in-universe physics and real world data, such as the use of surprisingly good [[CanisLatinicus Latin]]... [[GratuitousForeignLanguage And Greek. And Sanskrit.]] Other examples are the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bajiquan Hakkyokuken]], Negi and Ku-Fei's martial arts style and the physics behind Negi's [[FlashStep Raisoku Shundo]]. And [[spoiler:the geography of Mundus Magicus, which appears to be Mars with oceans -- which is finally pointed out by one of the characters in a July 2009 installment]]. And [[spoiler:Chisame's battle against a TCP tuna swarm; she repels it setting up a '''bucket filter''', even using the correct sentence to implement it in [[http://iptables-tutorial.frozentux.net/other/iptables.html iptables]]!]]
* ShowWithinAShow: ''Mahou Shojou Biblion'', a MagicalGirlWarrior series.
* ShrinesAndTemples: Mana is [[OlderThanTheyLook ostensibly]] the {{Miko}} of Tatsumiya Shrine, near Mahora.
* ShutUpHannibal: When [[spoiler:Dynamis starts [[LargeHam going off again]] after being cut in half]] Ku Fei [[PlayedForLaughs pokes his face with her stick.]]
* ShutUpKiss: [[spoiler:Konoka does this to Setsuna for their Pactio]] when the latter was stammering like she usually does around the former.
* ShyFingerTwiddling: Negi when he asks Asuna if she'd like to see his past before anyone else does on account of being "partners".
* SingleStrokeBattle: A number of these occur in the [[TournamentArc Tournament Arcs]].
* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: Most of the girls who have a crush on Negi fall under this. Negi himself is a very kind, caring, protective boy, and most of the time the girls initially fall for him because they see that kindness as they become friends with him or he helps them out.
* SkilledButNaive:
** Negi is an incredibly skilled mage, but he's still a ten-year-old.
** In another light, Negi is an incredibly skilled (natural) ChickMagnet nicknamed the Thousand Pimpster by some of the fans, but he's still a ten-year-old.
* SkinshipGrope: [[PsychoLesbian Chichigami-sama]] is a ''serial groper''. See PsychoLesbian above.
* SlaveCollar: Slaver collars go "zap".
* SleepCute:
** Happened to Ako & Makie, Konoka & Setsuna, and Negi & Asuna. Kazumi & Ayaka, and Haruna & Yue were close...
** The credits of ''Negima!'' (Awww...)
* SlidingScaleOfRobotIntelligence: Chachamaru is an “Average Joe Android." Her grades are fairly low, but she's an excellent hacker.
* SmokeShield: Happens to Negi as he faces off against Chao.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: [[spoiler: Sextum, the Averruncus of water and the only female averrnucus.]]
* {{Sneezing}}: Negi used to be affected by frequent bouts of [[ClothingDamage clothing shredding]] sneezes in the early volumes of the manga. The sneezing decreased when the story grew more serious, the {{Fanservice}} didn't: Notably, sneezing mostly occurs in the downtime between major, action-filled arcs.
* SneezeOfDoom: Anytime he sneezes, it will blow up several skirts, shred clothes, underwear or both. Later, sneezes accidentally cast the disarmament spell, meaning they can even strip you outright.
* SnotBubble: Asuna tends to have these when she oversleeps in the two anime.
* SnowMeansDeath:
** The destruction of Negi's village.
** Nearly literal when Eva strands Asuna on a blizzard-wracked mountain as part of her training. Asuna freezes solid while sleeping, then wakes up dead. Ask any doctor. Being Asuna, however, this is not sufficient to keep her down. Evangeline later hits her with an insta-kill freeze spell; once again this is insufficient, although in this case her ability to cancel magic may have helped. She was still stuck in an ice crystal long enough to suffocate.
* SortingAlgorithmOfEvil: Subverted, as Negi fights Fate, one of the most powerful ennemies of the series, very early-on in the Kyoto arc; but he doesn't reappear until the Magic World arc, 14 volumes later. The series follows the algorithm otherwise.
* SpaceWhale: The standard aircraft of the Mundus Magicus, probably because [[ZeppelinsFromAnotherWorld blimps]] were too mundane. They also come in various other fish-like shapes.
* SparklingStreamOfTears: During some of the more serious crying moments.
* SpellConstruction: As a series centered around magic, this is all over the place. Negi even designs a special spell designed to take down [[spoiler: Rakan]].
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Some scanlations use the name "Kamo", though "Chamo" is the more widely used version. [[TakeAThirdOption The French version writes it "Camo" though.]]
* SpiderTank: Literally. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded to hell and back]] during Mahorafest, when Misora finds the Martian Army stashed in the sewers.
* SpitTake: Asuna tends to get these whenever someone questions her relationship with Negi.
* SpookyPhotographs: Sayo shows up in both a photograph and Nodoka's mind reading book, unintentionally looking really scary, even though she just wants to talk to someone.
* SpotOfTea: Negi takes tea with [[spoiler: Fate]], and each criticizes the other's tastes in a truly epic bout of passive-aggressiveness.
* SpottingTheThread: Yue figuring out that [[spoiler: Takahata]] was an illusion in Chapter 143.
* SqueakyEyes: An anime staple.
* StableTimeLoop: The three days of Mahorafest. Done inconsistently, though: Their week-long jump back does end up changing the past, but it ends up being stable due to it being consistent with Chao's timeline. Basically it's a sort of destiny thing, otherwise there would be like a huge paradox, and if they hadn't succeeded, Chao would never come back in time to do it.
* StealthPun: Sayo's 'title' of Ala Alba Ghost Member is a pun on her being a ghost and the ghost member of a club being someone who doesn't attend club activities and is only a member on paper.
* StoryBreakerPower: Negi's [[spoiler:artifact with Theodora]] granted him access to [[spoiler:all of his ministras artifacts, even Asuna's antimagic sword and Konoka's full recover spell.]] Naturally, this had to go even though the reasons given are pretty flimsy given the circumstances.
* StripPoker: A variation: one of the girls in Negi's class asks if the students can play Baseball Janken, a quiz game to help review for the big test. Negi approves. Unfortunately, he's too innocent/uninformed to know that the game's primary rule appears to be "answer a question wrong, lose an article of clothing." The Baka Rangers get stripped to their underwear within four minutes.
* SummoningRitual: Typically, these invoke Valkyries, Undines or Salamanders, or other types of spirits, for offensive spells.
* SummonMagic: Demons, charms, and even other people can be summoned.
* SuperDeformed: Infrequently, and usually only when characters are under stress. Except Misora. She does it more often.
* SuperSentaiStance: As an AffectionateParody, the [[{{Sentai}} Baka Rangers]] do this. A group called the Mahora Rangers also do this during the SchoolFestival.
* SuperSpeed: Raiten Taisou. Koyomi's artifact ability. Also one of the effects of [[spoiler:Ako's]] [[SuperSerum artifact]].
* SupernaturalMartialArts: Get good enough at martial arts and you too can jump tall buildings, kill demons barehanded or make clones of yourself.
* SuperpoweredEvilSide: [[spoiler: What happens when Negi's BlackMagic gets out of his control.]]
* SuperPoweredRobotMeterMaids: Chachamaru serves tea. She also has a BFG, Kung Fu skills, and ''transforming blade arms''.
* SuperpowerLottery: Asuna's [[AntiMagic Magic Cancel]] [[NoSell negates]] any magic/ki attacks, expands an energy sphere that only negates ''hostile'' magic, breaks seals and goes through any magic barriers like they weren't there, destroying them in the process. Ensis Exorcizans also has anti-magic capabilities and allows her to send back and/or destroy things/beings summoned by magic by mere proximity. She's also a [[YinYangBomb Kanka]] user which, call the "the ultimate art" of magic combat with a dozen enhancements, allowing her to fight without draining Negi. Given that a Ministra is to serve as support, it's practically impossible to find someone better suited for the job.
* SurroundedByIdiots: Both Chisame and Yue express this frequently at the beginning of the series. As the series progresses, these thoughts wane in the latter's mind, but not the former's.
* SurveillanceDrone: The ''Oculus Corvinus'' is a set of spy satellites. Magic spy satellites? Where do they ''get'' these things?
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: After Nodoka finally gets her courage and confesses to Negi.
-->'''Negi:''' Nothing's wrong! No one confessed to me or anything!
* TheSweatDrop: Frequently used by characters whenever they're confused or irritated.
* SwirlingDust: Present in some of the anime.
* {{Synchronization}}: [[spoiler:Haruna's golems have a slight version of this since when one is used to defend from an actual attack, it gives her a PsychicNosebleed and knocks her out but doesn't pass on the full damage from the attack.]]
* TakeAThirdOption:
** Setsuna is forced by Evangeline in a SecretTestOfCharacter to either be a cold, limitless swordswoman to better serve her princess Konoka or take her happiness beside the girl and live her life in peace without protecting anything. She chooses to have both.
** After the group realizes that [[spoiler:the Asuna with the group might be a fake, Mana]] attempts to unmask the impostor using [[spoiler:an anti-demon bullet]] reasoning that if [[spoiler:Asuna is who she says she is]] she won't be hurt and if not they can just heal her. Negi, however, doesn't want to see her hurt, [[spoiler:impostor or not]]. Faced with the option of [[spoiler:either allowing a spy to run free or shooting her to break her disguise]], he instead [[spoiler:forms a Pactio with the impostor, with the added side-effect of stripping away the disguise.]]
** [[spoiler:Both Cosmo Entelecheia (the secret society/terrorist group) and Zazie's sister believe that the inhabitants of Mundus Magicus must ''either '' be sealed in Cosmo Entelecheia (the LotusEaterMachine) ''or '' die/end up in a desperate war with Earth when their home dimension inevitably collapses. Chao Lingshen tried (or claimed [[WMG/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi to be trying]]) to reveal magic to the inhabitants of Earth at large so as to make the latter option less disastrous, given that the former apparently [[TimeTravelTenseTrouble didn't]] happen. Negi, on the other hand, has an idea to ''prevent the collapse.'']]
* TakenForGranite: Adds to the horror feel of the series, without too much {{Squick}}.
* TakingTheBullet
** Several times, including a 'defendee-tossing-would-be-defender-out-of-the-way-to-take-the-hit' subversion.
** Nodoka gets hit by a time displacement bullet that was targeted at Negi since she would be no use for the rest of the fight.
** When Fate is tossing around petrification darts [[spoiler:Sayo blocks one of the ones headed for Nodoka and Asakura, turning her doll body to stone. It apparently can't be exited in this state.]]
* TalkingInYourSleep: "No way, lady, I can't smoke that..."
* TasteTheRainbow: [[http://www.seaslugteam.com/caps/negima/roster.jpg Here's the class roster]]. And that's [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters only the starting point.]]
* TeacherStudentRomance: Negi constantly worries about maintaining a normal student-teacher relationship with all the girls of his class while several of them keep developing crushes on him.
* TheTeam: The Kyoto Arc starts it off by combining the original BattleCouple-and-mentor trio of [[SquishyWizard Negi]] (TheLeader), [[ActionGirl Asuna]] (TheLancer) and [[EccentricMentor Chamo]] (TheMentor) with [[{{Samurai}} Setsuna]] (TheBigGal) and [[MindProbe Nodoka]] (SmartGal). The group evolves over the Mahora Festival to include several others. By the time the Magic World Arc begins, the Team has reached over 10 people in membership.
* TearsFromAStone: When Chachamaru gets upset early on, her eyes begin leaking lens cleaning fluid since she doesn’t have tear ducts. Only that’s what tears ARE, so maybe she does have them?
* TearsOfJoy: When The Paru-Sama [[spoiler:briefly crashes in the Real World]] Haruna gets out and has a nice PetTheDog [[spoiler:where she cries happily and hugs Madoka, glad to see the rest of the Mahora girls again.]]
* TeleFrag: When Negi's party travels back in time over a week, they end in the sky. They discuss later that it was fortunate they didn't return inside a rock.
* {{Telepathy}}: With direct physical contact Negi can read someone's mind and pactio cards allow for two way communication. Rakan also displays the same trick against Fate's ministras.
* {{Teleportation}}: Teleportation magic is used quite frequently, and [[spoiler: Akira's]] artifact makes her one of these as long as water is present.
* TelescopingStaff: The Shintetsu Jizaikon. Like the [[Literature/JourneyToTheWest Monkey King]]'s staff, it can grow and shrink at will. Her first use of it is as ''artillery''.
* TellMeAboutMyFather: What he demands of Rakan if he wins the tournament.
* TemptingFate: Ayaka says that she has a bad feeling about going to the Magic World and Asuna claims that Ayaka's premonitions are usually wrong. Guess what happens to Ala Alba.
* {{Terraform}}: [[spoiler:Negi's ultimate plan to save the Magic World as revealed in Chapter 338. His theory: Magic/Mana is fueled by life, and because Mars as it is is a dead world, it's the main reason for the ultimate collapse of the Magic World. By Terraforming Mars and making it Earth-like, the Magic world can eventually thrive there without problems. The immense size and cost of this project is also why Ayaka and Chizuru are now sponsoring it. Also, given how long it would take (Negi estimates between 30 and 100 years), it explains how busy Negi's become and how it could be a "lifetime" project.]]
* ThanksForTheMammary: ''All the frickin' time''. [[AccidentalPervert Poor kid]].
* ThatDidntHappen: Twice. Both times involve {{Forceful Kiss}}es from [[NotRightInTheBed Negi]].
* ThereAreNoTherapists:
** And Negi, from what [[MindReading Nodoka's diary]] showed us, needs one [[NightmareFuel ''badly'']].
** Subverted early on, however, when Negi gets cheered up by Satsuki during Mahorafest.
* ThereIsOnlyOneBed: Weirdly inverted -- the girls understand and accept that no matter how many beds are present, Negi is likely to crawl into one a girl is already occupying. (Especially Asuna.) They even turn it into a game of KeepAway on one occasion, fighting over who gets him. [[spoiler:The one girl who ''doesn't'' want him there, of course.]] Of course, it's debatable whether [[spoiler:she ''still'' doesn't]]...
* ThirtySecondBlackout: Mahora Academy has these scheduled. Evangeline takes advantage of this to regain her full power briefly.
* ThisIsSomethingHesGotToDoHimself: As of Chapter 285, this seems to be [[spoiler:[[FanNickname Fake Eva-chin's]] preferred method of dealing with Negi's SuperpoweredEvilSide]].
* ThrowTheBookAtThem: Nodoka smacks Haruna with a book when the latter keeps making perverse clones.
* ThunderingHerd: A daily occurrence at Mahora as students stampede to their classes. It's a wonder students don't get hurt.
* TickleTorture: Happens several times (especially to Asuna) to the point of veering into RunningGag territory.
* TimeAndRelativeDimensionsInSpace: Depends on the time jump. A short one will put you in that exact spot. A longer one might put you off course, and hopefully not into a rock.
* TimelineAlteringMacGuffin: Chao's "ultimate weapon."
* TimeMachine: The Cassiopeia is one, though it can only send its user back a week in time at most. Chao's on the other hand returns her to the future at the conclusion of the Mahorafest arc.
* TimeSkip:
** [[spoiler:In chapter 350, five months have passed from the "Get Negi to confess" to "Asuna's 'graduation'" seeing as she's going to be sealed again at Mars.]]
** [[spoiler:And then again in chapter 352, ''130'' years have passed, as Asuna wakes up late in a future world to find all of the plans succeeded... and to find that Negi has apparently somehow died, in addition to all of her old classmates with the exceptions of Chao and Eva, who bring Asuna back to the original timeline next chapter.]]
** [[spoiler:And once again in chapter 354, this time 7 years after the original timeline, by which all the girls of Class 3A have long graduated, as shown by Yue who now works as a private investigator involving magical cases. This also introduces a few new characters, such as Maki's younger brother Kagehisa, who by this time is in high school.]]
* TimeStandsStill: The Casseopeia is capable of doing this if used in a certain way. Koyomi's artifact also has this function.
* TimeToUnlockMoreTruePotential: After the Kyoto arc, Negi realizes he isn't improving quickly enough and asks both Ku Fei and Evangeline to begin teaching him. Ku Fei teaches him martial arts and Evangeline gives him a hellish training regimen inside a time distorting alternate dimension, both of which lead to rapid growth. Later, he goes to Jack Rakan for more training and picks up the basics of Magia Erebea, though he's left to work out the details for himself.
* TimeTravel: StableTimeLoop as Negi starts running into earlier versions of himself...
* TimeTravelRomance: Defied. While ''Negima'' has TimeTravel and tries to hit every romance trope possible, Chao becomes rather annoyed when Negi asks her to stay, because it sounds like a romantic proposal, and being his descendant, she would prefer not to engage in such.
* TimeyWimeyBall:
** ...until the part where he has to change the future after being sent ahead.
** [[spoiler: And the book Chao left which states Negi's wife is now blank.]]
** [[spoiler: It was fake.]]
* TitleDrop: The White Wing initially call themselves the Negima Club until the better name is suggested.
* ToBeAMaster: Negi wants to be a world-class mage like his father.
* ToBeLawfulOrGood: Negi gets this from time to time, having to choose when to break laws and when to let things slide, often while under threat. He's fairly flexible, coming down on both sides depending on the severity of the issue.
* TokenYuriGirls: Setsuna serves as Konoka's [[BodyguardCrush protector]], and admits it precludes hooking up with anyone else. Naturally, other characters assume this is a complicated way of saying that they are a romantic couple, or will be. Konoka certainly has no problem being her partner in their ([[AMagicContractComesWithAKiss kissing-activated]]) magical contract. It's pretty much just Setsuna who isn't aware of this. Naturally, when Setsuna proved to be a [[EnsembleDarkhorse popular character]], the overtones became a lot more obvious in the ''Negima?!'' remake, with a more knowingly teasing Konoka and a more flusterable Setsuna, to the point of Setsuna stuck between embarrassment and ogling at Konoka in a swimsuit. Considering that in the early manga [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything the way Setsuna acts around Konoka is exactly the same as someone with a really strong crush]] (complete with blushing and a loss of the ability to speak whenever she's around) makes the [[HoYay subtext]] already quite strong.
* TookALevelInBadass: Pretty much automatic if someone gets an artifact. This includes [[spoiler:Negi, though overshadowed by the fact that he had just gained about ''eight others''. Maybe, his artifact could be a GameBreaker because he has so many attendants, he can use all their powers, granted, one at a time, but still it gives him a lot more options than almost anyone. Has been PutOnABus for a while now.]]
** Yue is arguably the queen of this trope, having done this no less than three times. See her character entry for details.
* TookALevelInJerkass: The class actually attacks Negi near the end of the manga in order to find out who he likes including using their pactios against him, removing his allies from the area and attempted to mind control him via [[AssShove Chizuru.]] Why? Because he was busy [[spoiler:saving billions of lives]] instead of responding to their romantic interest. Notably, a few of the girls like Chisame ''do'' have better intentions, but most do not while only Chachamaru, Asuna, Akira and Satsuki are actually decent enough to stand by him.
* TooMuchInformation: Asuna gets an earful from Makie during the shower scene: "Negi-kun's ''you-know-what'' is touching my ''you-know-where''! ... His ''you-know-what'''s getting ''you-know-what''-er!"
* TooSlow: When Negi isn't focusing on his fight with Setsuna during the tournament, she gets annoyed and smacks some sense into him after delivering one of these.
* TotalPartyKill: Discussed a few times after they entered the magical world arc as with so many other game tropes, especially when they were separated.
* ToThePain: Not only does Haruna ''tell'' Nodoka, Yue, and Konoka how she's going to torture them for not sharing about Negi, she has ''sketches''!
* TouchTelepathy: Negi Springfield is shown to have this ability via placing his hand on the forehead in the first chapter, though he can only catch a few thoughts at the most.
** Jack Rakan later gets to see a FlashBack from a defeated enemy he's holding.
** This is one of the abilities of Shiori's race, which is why she ended up the LastOfHerKind.
* ToUnmasqueTheWorld: This is Chao's goal during the Mahorafest arc, and she succeeds in one timeline. [[spoiler:Negi does the same thing at the end of the manga, but under slower and more controlled circumstances.]]
* TournamentArc: One during the Mahorafest arc and another during the Magic World arc. The former is more extensive than the latter.
* TrainingFromHell:
** Lampshaded with Ku Fei's martial arts training, as her trying to create a "quick-powerup" training regimen for Negi based on old manga and kung fu movies fails miserably. She then tries training him conventionally, which works, and teaches him so quickly that she gets depressed about it.
** Played straight, however, with Evangeline's training methods, which actually seem to work.
* TransformationTrinket: The pactio cards.
* TranslationConvention: Scenes that take place in Britain are spoken in Japanese. The girls, even the ordinary ones, also have no trouble in the magical world -- averted though, in that it was colonized from Earth (Mundus Vetus, "the Old World"), and two of its major languages are "Anglicum" and "Japonense." Interestingly, though, the writing dotted around the Mundus Magicus suggest that the ''lingua franca'' is actually Latin.
* TranslationStyleChoices: Most fan translations fall into Category 2 or Category 3, while the former official translation was a solid Category 2.
* TrappedInAnotherWorld: The entire plot of the Magic World arc.
* TriangRelations: Both Nodoka and Yue want to be Negi's girlfriend, although the two remain friends. Nodoka's subconscious hints that she's okay with sharing...
* {{Troperiffic}}: Akamatsu seems to be on a quest to use every trope ''ever''. He is disturbingly close to succeeding.
* TropeTrigger: Just be a girl in front of Negi and tickle his nose by accident...[[AccidentalPervert accidental nakedness]] will soon follow.
* TruceZone: Megalomesembria's public baths.
* TrueCompanions: Ala Rubra and Ala Alba naturally. By the time the story ends, all of Class 3-A are this with each other. Yes, even Evangeline.
* TruerToTheText: An interesting case. The recent OVA releases have been faithful to the manga, but they're so deep into a story that none of its multiple previous adaptations properly covered, that they won't make much sense to anyone who hasn't read the manga.
* TwoRoadsBeforeYou: Father's or the Master's?
* TwoScenesOneDialogue: Variation: just as Fate finishes explaining the secret of the Magical World [[spoiler:to the captive Asuna and Anya]], the next chapter begins with [[spoiler:Shiori/Luna]] confirming the same explanation for Negi and company.
** [[spoiler:Negi has just bounced back from being comatose, and [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu punched out Quartum's Entei Shoukan.]] Fate, still heavily beat up from his earlier fight against the Negi team, [[DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu beans Quintum in the face with a rock.]] Both shout out the exact same line on one page after doing so.]]
-->[[spoiler:'''Fate''']]:[[spoiler:Those are '''his''' comrades. My prey... You have all just woken up...]]
-->[[spoiler:'''Negi''']]:[[spoiler:These are my comrades...]]
-->[[spoiler:'''Negi&Fate''']]:[[spoiler:I won't allow you to lay a finger on them!]]
* TwoTeacherSchool: In the entire ElaborateUniversityHigh, few teachers are shown other than Negi, Takamichi, Gandolfini, Nitta, Seruhiko, and Shizuna. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in that the manga focuses explicitly on the teachers who are also mages.
* UnderestimatingBadassery:
** The girls are frequently subject to this, but Nodoka gets it more than anyone else. Behind that shy guise beats the fearless heart of a determined girl. There's a reason why Fate considers her such a big threat.
** This is actually subverted by the first contestant Evangeline faces during the first TournamentArc. He knows that she looks harmless but he also knows that she made it that far and shouldn't be underestimated. Unfortunately for him [[CurbStompBattle it didn't matter]].
* UnfinishedBusiness: Parodied during her introduction. After learning that all Sayo wanted was to make friends, Negi and Asakura approach her and tell her that she can be friends with them, and she immediately fades from their sight. While Negi tearfully looks up in the sky assuming that she's finally left in peace, Mana, who has a stronger ghost sense than Negi, points out that she's still right there, on the same spot.
* UnlimitedWardrobe: When the girls are not attending class, and wearing the Mahora uniform, they each have fair amount of unique casual clothes. It's obvious reading the manga, that Akamatsu and company spent a lot of time coming up with fun looks for all of the girls.
* TheUnmasquedWorld: Negi and friends pay a brief visit to a "bad" future in which the current antagonist has recently succeeded in revealing the existence of magic, but aside from the excited attentions of some local girls and talk of all mages being recalled to the Magic World, we don't see much of the effects. [[spoiler:Magic is revealed for good off-screen during the final timeskip, and more integration between the worlds (including black market trade) is discussed.]]
* UnresolvedSexualTension: Setsuna and Konoka have a lot of buildup which doesn't really go anywhere [[spoiler:even after a pactio kiss]] until [[spoiler:the last few chapters, where it's resolved offscreen. In a fairly ambiguous manner.]]
* TheUnreveal: 355 chapters and we never learn [[spoiler: who Negi actually likes or ends up with. He does tell Asuna at one point, but the audience doesn't get to hear it, and her reaction doesn't make it clear who it is- except it doesn't seem to be her.]] The sequel however does address this plot point.
* UnsoundEffect: "Pettan" for Yue and Nodoka.
* UnspokenPlanGuarantee: Both ends of the spectrum are shown in this series. Negi's [[spoiler: Magic World saving]] plan is never discussed in great detail but ultimately succeeds, whereas an entire chapter is dedicated to explaining a plan of attack before it all shortly goes to hell.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Chachamaru uses her booster jets to fetch a little girl's balloon at one point, and nobody comments on it except [[LampshadeHanging Asuna and Negi]].
** In the post-action chapter, "Take a Break," nobody points out that Setsuna is carrying a bundle of [[BrickJoke dragon-murdering spears]]. Her equipment diminishes with distance to the threat.
* TheUnwantedHarem: DoubleSubversion: the professor surrounded by 31 female students sure looks like a set up for one of these, but, while the students may find Negi cute, they don't want to go out with him. Except, of course, that several of them do develop romantic feelings for Negi, though nowhere near as much as the premise would lead you to believe.
** Justified in that they develop romantic feelings for him after he shows how mature, badass or awesome he is, and most of them look at him and realize that the ten year old kid will turn into the epitome of sexy and badass in five years tops.
* UpgradeArtifact: Turns out Nodoka is a munchkin. While with a party of adventurers, she picks up a couple pieces of magical gear that allow her to know anyone's name and hear the thoughts written on her mind reading book rather than having to read it.
* UrbanFantasy: Though it's shifted to a more ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' feel as of the Entry to the Magic World arc.
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* SandInMyEyes: Used by both Konoka and Yue.
* SapientCetaceans: [[FishPeople Dolphin-men]] are one of the many denizens found in the MagicWorld. One of them works as a trucker who pilots an airship.
* SaveTheWorldClimax: The end of the Magic World arc results in Negi's party saving it, [[spoiler: by coming up with a better idea to do so than Fate and his party]].
* SayItWithHearts
** While freaking out in the middle of the jungle, Chisame narrates the events with her cheerful Chiu attitude including taking a picture of herself holding up a massive insect, complete with a super happy face with a heart in her mouth.
** Konoka's speech bubbles have hearts in them when she's in a particularly good mood.
** Tsukuyomi's dialogue tends to have these... And it only serves to make her even creepier.
* SceneryPorn: Done with CG models of the environments, many of which are ridiculously detailed and have huge polygon counts.
* SchematizedProp
** Logistifying Chiu's artifact.
** Chachamaru's character design page.
* SchoolFestival: Quite possibly the largest one in fiction. It runs for about a week and takes in several million dollars.
* ScienceDestroysMagic: Side material adds in the interesting fact that the ability to use magic is based on a certain way of thinking the world works, such as the four classical elements. As science advances and disproves these theories, the number of magic users dwindles.
* SealedEvilInACan: Waking up a legendary demon was the motivation for the villains during the Kansai arc. Also, Eva technically qualifies; although she was sealed less for her evil (which was, if you believe her, considerable) and more because Nagi couldn't get her to [[StalkerWithACrush leave him alone]]. Ironically, the protagonists defeat the first abovementioned Sealed Evil by temporarily breaking the seal on the other one.
* SecretTestOfCharacter: Subverted during Setsuna's tournament fight against Evangeline. The latter tries playing on her fears, [[BodyguardCrush feelings]], duty and [[FailureKnight difficulty protecting Konoka]]. Setsuna figures out Evangeline's technique and [[TakeAThirdOption rejects her choices]]. However, Setsuna doesn't realize that Evangeline had been fully intending to make her choose between duty and friendship and assumes it was this trope. Evangeline is baffled at this overly positive interpretation.
* SeizaSquirm: During the [[SeriousBusiness Claim Negi's Lips Tournament]] Asakura organizes in Kyoto, almost everyone gets caught and made to seiza by Nitta-sensei.
* SelfSacrificeScheme: [[spoiler:After Quintum took back the Great Grandmaster Key from the group,]] Kaede enters a fight with him. While her offenses and speed would be enough to match him fairly well, she can't deal with [[spoiler:his intangibility and simply steals the key from him and sends it back with a clone]].
* SenseiChan: Negi is a rare male version.
* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Negi is the Sensitive Guy to Kotaro's Manly Man.
* SerialEscalation: Negi vs. [[spoiler:Rakan]]. Negi reveals that [[IAmNotLeftHanded he isn't left-handed]] at least ''five times'' before the match is over, culminating in a spell that definitely deserves the name "Titan Slayer". And [[spoiler:Rakan]] still stands up like nothing happened.
* SeriousBusiness: A tense meeting between Fate and Negi derails for one page into a heated argument over coffee and tea -- Negi ''is'' [[SpotOfTea British]], after all. [[SubvertedTrope Or so it seems from the outside,]] but Negi is actually pissed for entirely different and much more sensible reasons. Negi prefers milk tea [[DoubleSubverted and refers to coffee as "muddy water"]]. Fate drinks seven cups of black coffee every day, and occasionally lemon tea.
** Later [[JustifiedTrope justified]] for Fate [[spoiler: in his (extremely sad) backstory]].
* SexMagic: Never outright stated but it is highly implied that to form a Permanent Pactio, sex has to occur.
* SexSlave: Averted in the Magical World. Slaves may not have many rights but they are protected from being used as sex slaves.
* SexySecretary: In Chapter 337, [[spoiler: Evangeline tells Chachamaru]] to become this to Negi as he's working himself to death (apparently enough to literally kill a normal human), even mentioning that she is the only one of the girls who can really help him this way. After confronting him directly about it and telling him that she truly wants to be there to help him, [[spoiler: it looks like Chachamaru is in fact going to be Negi's new secretary]].
** Naturally there is also a hilarious daydream before that where [[spoiler: Chachamaru]] envisioned herself working in this role starting with simple help, moving into what might be several years in the future where they've gotten quite familiar, and ending with [[spoiler: Negi insisting on winding up Chachamaru to show his thanks for her help...right before Asakura and Negi himself walk up to her]]. Cue DidIJustSayThatOutLoud.
* ShadowPin: Kaede's Kage Nui, which she uses by piercing the shadow with her FuumaShuriken, though it doesn't work long on rampaging Demon Negi.
* ShadowWalker: Teleportation magic works by sending the user through their element in some way. Dark magic uses shadows (as Evangeline demonstrates at the end of the Kyoto Arc).
* SharkFinOfDoom: Played with when the class takes a trip to an island. Negi is put 'in danger' so Asuna will make up with him after a falling out. The 'sharks' turn out to be Ku Fei and Natsumi in diguise.
* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: Konoka is just Setsuna's principal as a bodyguard. Nothing else, honest.
* ShipperOnDeck:
** ''Every''one ships Konoka and Setsuna.
** Jack Rakan ships Chisame/Negi.
** The '''ENTIRE''' Ala Rubra ships [[spoiler: Nagi/Arika]].
** Evangeline sometimes ships Negi/Chachamaru and derives endless amusement from poor Chachamaru's plight, though deep down she really is quite supportive.
** When Yue finally confesses her feelings to Negi, about half of the class is cheering her on.
* ShipSinking: In chapter 353, Negi tells [[spoiler:Asuna]] that he likes someone. The reaction makes it clear that it's not her. Two chapters later, it's stated [[spoiler:Nodoka and Yue]] were both rejected so that means it wasn't any of them either. There's nothing in the epilogue that indicates any sort of romantic resolution for Negi, so all the other ships are up in the air.
* ShipTease: [[ShipTease/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi So much]] that it is impossible to make any truly definitive declarations as to which girl will "win". [[spoiler:At the end, [[NoRomanticResolution none of them does]], at least not on-screen.]]
* ShirtlessScene: In-universe, on the poster advertising [[spoiler:Negi's and Rakan's fight, and in the fight itself]].
* ShockCollar: Applied to the girls under slavery in the magical world.
* ShockinglyExpensiveBill: When Class 3-A subjects Negi to a maid cafe, his bill grows to about $230 for doing nothing but looking. Being the good guy he is, he still offers to pay it.
* ShootTheMedicFirst:
** During the [[WhamEpisode Gateport Incident]], Fate uses the confusion caused by [[spoiler: nailing Negi through the back with a stone spear]] to try to petrify [[TheMedic Konoka]].
** A variation happens when Fate's subordinate [[CatGirl Koyomi]] targets Ako over other low-tier fighters, although Ako is not a healer but a [[StatusBuff support-type]].
* ShoutOut: Has [[ShoutOut/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi its own page]]
* ShowerOfAngst: Setsuna takes a shower after her humiliating defeat by [[spoiler:Tsukiyomi]].
* ShowerOfAwkward
** Setsuna and Negi have a brief scuffle in the bath in Kyoto. It ends with Setsuna holding Negi's junk and threatening to crush it, not yet knowing who it is.
** As a favor to Asuna, Negi tried enchanting her brushes in the shower. Didn't end well.
** Chisame walks in on Jack bathing. He's unconcerned, she freaks.
* ShowgirlSkirt: During the Festival of Ostia, many of these can be seen.
* ShownTheirWork: Shown mainly in the compiled volume extras and magazines, which give descriptions on both in-universe physics and real world data, such as the use of surprisingly good [[CanisLatinicus Latin]]... [[GratuitousForeignLanguage And Greek. And Sanskrit.]] Other examples are the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bajiquan Hakkyokuken]], Negi and Ku-Fei's martial arts style and the physics behind Negi's [[FlashStep Raisoku Shundo]]. And [[spoiler:the geography of Mundus Magicus, which appears to be Mars with oceans -- which is finally pointed out by one of the characters in a July 2009 installment]]. And [[spoiler:Chisame's battle against a TCP tuna swarm; she repels it setting up a '''bucket filter''', even using the correct sentence to implement it in [[http://iptables-tutorial.frozentux.net/other/iptables.html iptables]]!]]
* ShowWithinAShow: ''Mahou Shojou Biblion'', a MagicalGirlWarrior series.
* ShrinesAndTemples: Mana is [[OlderThanTheyLook ostensibly]] the {{Miko}} of Tatsumiya Shrine, near Mahora.
* ShutUpHannibal: When [[spoiler:Dynamis starts [[LargeHam going off again]] after being cut in half]] Ku Fei [[PlayedForLaughs pokes his face with her stick.]]
* ShutUpKiss: [[spoiler:Konoka does this to Setsuna for their Pactio]] when the latter was stammering like she usually does around the former.
* ShyFingerTwiddling: Negi when he asks Asuna if she'd like to see his past before anyone else does on account of being "partners".
* SingleStrokeBattle: A number of these occur in the [[TournamentArc Tournament Arcs]].
* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: Most of the girls who have a crush on Negi fall under this. Negi himself is a very kind, caring, protective boy, and most of the time the girls initially fall for him because they see that kindness as they become friends with him or he helps them out.
* SkilledButNaive:
** Negi is an incredibly skilled mage, but he's still a ten-year-old.
** In another light, Negi is an incredibly skilled (natural) ChickMagnet nicknamed the Thousand Pimpster by some of the fans, but he's still a ten-year-old.
* SkinshipGrope: [[PsychoLesbian Chichigami-sama]] is a ''serial groper''. See PsychoLesbian above.
* SlaveCollar: Slaver collars go "zap".
* SleepCute:
** Happened to Ako & Makie, Konoka & Setsuna, and Negi & Asuna. Kazumi & Ayaka, and Haruna & Yue were close...
** The credits of ''Negima!'' (Awww...)
* SlidingScaleOfRobotIntelligence: Chachamaru is an “Average Joe Android." Her grades are fairly low, but she's an excellent hacker.
* SmokeShield: Happens to Negi as he faces off against Chao.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: [[spoiler: Sextum, the Averruncus of water and the only female averrnucus.]]
* {{Sneezing}}: Negi used to be affected by frequent bouts of [[ClothingDamage clothing shredding]] sneezes in the early volumes of the manga. The sneezing decreased when the story grew more serious, the {{Fanservice}} didn't: Notably, sneezing mostly occurs in the downtime between major, action-filled arcs.
* SneezeOfDoom: Anytime he sneezes, it will blow up several skirts, shred clothes, underwear or both. Later, sneezes accidentally cast the disarmament spell, meaning they can even strip you outright.
* SnotBubble: Asuna tends to have these when she oversleeps in the two anime.
* SnowMeansDeath:
** The destruction of Negi's village.
** Nearly literal when Eva strands Asuna on a blizzard-wracked mountain as part of her training. Asuna freezes solid while sleeping, then wakes up dead. Ask any doctor. Being Asuna, however, this is not sufficient to keep her down. Evangeline later hits her with an insta-kill freeze spell; once again this is insufficient, although in this case her ability to cancel magic may have helped. She was still stuck in an ice crystal long enough to suffocate.
* SortingAlgorithmOfEvil: Subverted, as Negi fights Fate, one of the most powerful ennemies of the series, very early-on in the Kyoto arc; but he doesn't reappear until the Magic World arc, 14 volumes later. The series follows the algorithm otherwise.
* SpaceWhale: The standard aircraft of the Mundus Magicus, probably because [[ZeppelinsFromAnotherWorld blimps]] were too mundane. They also come in various other fish-like shapes.
* SparklingStreamOfTears: During some of the more serious crying moments.
* SpellConstruction: As a series centered around magic, this is all over the place. Negi even designs a special spell designed to take down [[spoiler: Rakan]].
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Some scanlations use the name "Kamo", though "Chamo" is the more widely used version. [[TakeAThirdOption The French version writes it "Camo" though.]]
* SpiderTank: Literally. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded to hell and back]] during Mahorafest, when Misora finds the Martian Army stashed in the sewers.
* SpitTake: Asuna tends to get these whenever someone questions her relationship with Negi.
* SpookyPhotographs: Sayo shows up in both a photograph and Nodoka's mind reading book, unintentionally looking really scary, even though she just wants to talk to someone.
* SpotOfTea: Negi takes tea with [[spoiler: Fate]], and each criticizes the other's tastes in a truly epic bout of passive-aggressiveness.
* SpottingTheThread: Yue figuring out that [[spoiler: Takahata]] was an illusion in Chapter 143.
* SqueakyEyes: An anime staple.
* StableTimeLoop: The three days of Mahorafest. Done inconsistently, though: Their week-long jump back does end up changing the past, but it ends up being stable due to it being consistent with Chao's timeline. Basically it's a sort of destiny thing, otherwise there would be like a huge paradox, and if they hadn't succeeded, Chao would never come back in time to do it.
* StealthPun: Sayo's 'title' of Ala Alba Ghost Member is a pun on her being a ghost and the ghost member of a club being someone who doesn't attend club activities and is only a member on paper.
* StoryBreakerPower: Negi's [[spoiler:artifact with Theodora]] granted him access to [[spoiler:all of his ministras artifacts, even Asuna's antimagic sword and Konoka's full recover spell.]] Naturally, this had to go even though the reasons given are pretty flimsy given the circumstances.
* StripPoker: A variation: one of the girls in Negi's class asks if the students can play Baseball Janken, a quiz game to help review for the big test. Negi approves. Unfortunately, he's too innocent/uninformed to know that the game's primary rule appears to be "answer a question wrong, lose an article of clothing." The Baka Rangers get stripped to their underwear within four minutes.
* SummoningRitual: Typically, these invoke Valkyries, Undines or Salamanders, or other types of spirits, for offensive spells.
* SummonMagic: Demons, charms, and even other people can be summoned.
* SuperDeformed: Infrequently, and usually only when characters are under stress. Except Misora. She does it more often.
* SuperSentaiStance: As an AffectionateParody, the [[{{Sentai}} Baka Rangers]] do this. A group called the Mahora Rangers also do this during the SchoolFestival.
* SuperSpeed: Raiten Taisou. Koyomi's artifact ability. Also one of the effects of [[spoiler:Ako's]] [[SuperSerum artifact]].
* SupernaturalMartialArts: Get good enough at martial arts and you too can jump tall buildings, kill demons barehanded or make clones of yourself.
* SuperpoweredEvilSide: [[spoiler: What happens when Negi's BlackMagic gets out of his control.]]
* SuperPoweredRobotMeterMaids: Chachamaru serves tea. She also has a BFG, Kung Fu skills, and ''transforming blade arms''.
* SuperpowerLottery: Asuna's [[AntiMagic Magic Cancel]] [[NoSell negates]] any magic/ki attacks, expands an energy sphere that only negates ''hostile'' magic, breaks seals and goes through any magic barriers like they weren't there, destroying them in the process. Ensis Exorcizans also has anti-magic capabilities and allows her to send back and/or destroy things/beings summoned by magic by mere proximity. She's also a [[YinYangBomb Kanka]] user which, call the "the ultimate art" of magic combat with a dozen enhancements, allowing her to fight without draining Negi. Given that a Ministra is to serve as support, it's practically impossible to find someone better suited for the job.
* SurroundedByIdiots: Both Chisame and Yue express this frequently at the beginning of the series. As the series progresses, these thoughts wane in the latter's mind, but not the former's.
* SurveillanceDrone: The ''Oculus Corvinus'' is a set of spy satellites. Magic spy satellites? Where do they ''get'' these things?
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: After Nodoka finally gets her courage and confesses to Negi.
-->'''Negi:''' Nothing's wrong! No one confessed to me or anything!
* TheSweatDrop: Frequently used by characters whenever they're confused or irritated.
* SwirlingDust: Present in some of the anime.
* {{Synchronization}}: [[spoiler:Haruna's golems have a slight version of this since when one is used to defend from an actual attack, it gives her a PsychicNosebleed and knocks her out but doesn't pass on the full damage from the attack.]]
* TakeAThirdOption:
** Setsuna is forced by Evangeline in a SecretTestOfCharacter to either be a cold, limitless swordswoman to better serve her princess Konoka or take her happiness beside the girl and live her life in peace without protecting anything. She chooses to have both.
** After the group realizes that [[spoiler:the Asuna with the group might be a fake, Mana]] attempts to unmask the impostor using [[spoiler:an anti-demon bullet]] reasoning that if [[spoiler:Asuna is who she says she is]] she won't be hurt and if not they can just heal her. Negi, however, doesn't want to see her hurt, [[spoiler:impostor or not]]. Faced with the option of [[spoiler:either allowing a spy to run free or shooting her to break her disguise]], he instead [[spoiler:forms a Pactio with the impostor, with the added side-effect of stripping away the disguise.]]
** [[spoiler:Both Cosmo Entelecheia (the secret society/terrorist group) and Zazie's sister believe that the inhabitants of Mundus Magicus must ''either '' be sealed in Cosmo Entelecheia (the LotusEaterMachine) ''or '' die/end up in a desperate war with Earth when their home dimension inevitably collapses. Chao Lingshen tried (or claimed [[WMG/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi to be trying]]) to reveal magic to the inhabitants of Earth at large so as to make the latter option less disastrous, given that the former apparently [[TimeTravelTenseTrouble didn't]] happen. Negi, on the other hand, has an idea to ''prevent the collapse.'']]
* TakenForGranite: Adds to the horror feel of the series, without too much {{Squick}}.
* TakingTheBullet
** Several times, including a 'defendee-tossing-would-be-defender-out-of-the-way-to-take-the-hit' subversion.
** Nodoka gets hit by a time displacement bullet that was targeted at Negi since she would be no use for the rest of the fight.
** When Fate is tossing around petrification darts [[spoiler:Sayo blocks one of the ones headed for Nodoka and Asakura, turning her doll body to stone. It apparently can't be exited in this state.]]
* TalkingInYourSleep: "No way, lady, I can't smoke that..."
* TasteTheRainbow: [[http://www.seaslugteam.com/caps/negima/roster.jpg Here's the class roster]]. And that's [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters only the starting point.]]
* TeacherStudentRomance: Negi constantly worries about maintaining a normal student-teacher relationship with all the girls of his class while several of them keep developing crushes on him.
* TheTeam: The Kyoto Arc starts it off by combining the original BattleCouple-and-mentor trio of [[SquishyWizard Negi]] (TheLeader), [[ActionGirl Asuna]] (TheLancer) and [[EccentricMentor Chamo]] (TheMentor) with [[{{Samurai}} Setsuna]] (TheBigGal) and [[MindProbe Nodoka]] (SmartGal). The group evolves over the Mahora Festival to include several others. By the time the Magic World Arc begins, the Team has reached over 10 people in membership.
* TearsFromAStone: When Chachamaru gets upset early on, her eyes begin leaking lens cleaning fluid since she doesn’t have tear ducts. Only that’s what tears ARE, so maybe she does have them?
* TearsOfJoy: When The Paru-Sama [[spoiler:briefly crashes in the Real World]] Haruna gets out and has a nice PetTheDog [[spoiler:where she cries happily and hugs Madoka, glad to see the rest of the Mahora girls again.]]
* TeleFrag: When Negi's party travels back in time over a week, they end in the sky. They discuss later that it was fortunate they didn't return inside a rock.
* {{Telepathy}}: With direct physical contact Negi can read someone's mind and pactio cards allow for two way communication. Rakan also displays the same trick against Fate's ministras.
* {{Teleportation}}: Teleportation magic is used quite frequently, and [[spoiler: Akira's]] artifact makes her one of these as long as water is present.
* TelescopingStaff: The Shintetsu Jizaikon. Like the [[Literature/JourneyToTheWest Monkey King]]'s staff, it can grow and shrink at will. Her first use of it is as ''artillery''.
* TellMeAboutMyFather: What he demands of Rakan if he wins the tournament.
* TemptingFate: Ayaka says that she has a bad feeling about going to the Magic World and Asuna claims that Ayaka's premonitions are usually wrong. Guess what happens to Ala Alba.
* {{Terraform}}: [[spoiler:Negi's ultimate plan to save the Magic World as revealed in Chapter 338. His theory: Magic/Mana is fueled by life, and because Mars as it is is a dead world, it's the main reason for the ultimate collapse of the Magic World. By Terraforming Mars and making it Earth-like, the Magic world can eventually thrive there without problems. The immense size and cost of this project is also why Ayaka and Chizuru are now sponsoring it. Also, given how long it would take (Negi estimates between 30 and 100 years), it explains how busy Negi's become and how it could be a "lifetime" project.]]
* ThanksForTheMammary: ''All the frickin' time''. [[AccidentalPervert Poor kid]].
* ThatDidntHappen: Twice. Both times involve {{Forceful Kiss}}es from [[NotRightInTheBed Negi]].
* ThereAreNoTherapists:
** And Negi, from what [[MindReading Nodoka's diary]] showed us, needs one [[NightmareFuel ''badly'']].
** Subverted early on, however, when Negi gets cheered up by Satsuki during Mahorafest.
* ThereIsOnlyOneBed: Weirdly inverted -- the girls understand and accept that no matter how many beds are present, Negi is likely to crawl into one a girl is already occupying. (Especially Asuna.) They even turn it into a game of KeepAway on one occasion, fighting over who gets him. [[spoiler:The one girl who ''doesn't'' want him there, of course.]] Of course, it's debatable whether [[spoiler:she ''still'' doesn't]]...
* ThirtySecondBlackout: Mahora Academy has these scheduled. Evangeline takes advantage of this to regain her full power briefly.
* ThisIsSomethingHesGotToDoHimself: As of Chapter 285, this seems to be [[spoiler:[[FanNickname Fake Eva-chin's]] preferred method of dealing with Negi's SuperpoweredEvilSide]].
* ThrowTheBookAtThem: Nodoka smacks Haruna with a book when the latter keeps making perverse clones.
* ThunderingHerd: A daily occurrence at Mahora as students stampede to their classes. It's a wonder students don't get hurt.
* TickleTorture: Happens several times (especially to Asuna) to the point of veering into RunningGag territory.
* TimeAndRelativeDimensionsInSpace: Depends on the time jump. A short one will put you in that exact spot. A longer one might put you off course, and hopefully not into a rock.
* TimelineAlteringMacGuffin: Chao's "ultimate weapon."
* TimeMachine: The Cassiopeia is one, though it can only send its user back a week in time at most. Chao's on the other hand returns her to the future at the conclusion of the Mahorafest arc.
* TimeSkip:
** [[spoiler:In chapter 350, five months have passed from the "Get Negi to confess" to "Asuna's 'graduation'" seeing as she's going to be sealed again at Mars.]]
** [[spoiler:And then again in chapter 352, ''130'' years have passed, as Asuna wakes up late in a future world to find all of the plans succeeded... and to find that Negi has apparently somehow died, in addition to all of her old classmates with the exceptions of Chao and Eva, who bring Asuna back to the original timeline next chapter.]]
** [[spoiler:And once again in chapter 354, this time 7 years after the original timeline, by which all the girls of Class 3A have long graduated, as shown by Yue who now works as a private investigator involving magical cases. This also introduces a few new characters, such as Maki's younger brother Kagehisa, who by this time is in high school.]]
* TimeStandsStill: The Casseopeia is capable of doing this if used in a certain way. Koyomi's artifact also has this function.
* TimeToUnlockMoreTruePotential: After the Kyoto arc, Negi realizes he isn't improving quickly enough and asks both Ku Fei and Evangeline to begin teaching him. Ku Fei teaches him martial arts and Evangeline gives him a hellish training regimen inside a time distorting alternate dimension, both of which lead to rapid growth. Later, he goes to Jack Rakan for more training and picks up the basics of Magia Erebea, though he's left to work out the details for himself.
* TimeTravel: StableTimeLoop as Negi starts running into earlier versions of himself...
* TimeTravelRomance: Defied. While ''Negima'' has TimeTravel and tries to hit every romance trope possible, Chao becomes rather annoyed when Negi asks her to stay, because it sounds like a romantic proposal, and being his descendant, she would prefer not to engage in such.
* TimeyWimeyBall:
** ...until the part where he has to change the future after being sent ahead.
** [[spoiler: And the book Chao left which states Negi's wife is now blank.]]
** [[spoiler: It was fake.]]
* TitleDrop: The White Wing initially call themselves the Negima Club until the better name is suggested.
* ToBeAMaster: Negi wants to be a world-class mage like his father.
* ToBeLawfulOrGood: Negi gets this from time to time, having to choose when to break laws and when to let things slide, often while under threat. He's fairly flexible, coming down on both sides depending on the severity of the issue.
* TokenYuriGirls: Setsuna serves as Konoka's [[BodyguardCrush protector]], and admits it precludes hooking up with anyone else. Naturally, other characters assume this is a complicated way of saying that they are a romantic couple, or will be. Konoka certainly has no problem being her partner in their ([[AMagicContractComesWithAKiss kissing-activated]]) magical contract. It's pretty much just Setsuna who isn't aware of this. Naturally, when Setsuna proved to be a [[EnsembleDarkhorse popular character]], the overtones became a lot more obvious in the ''Negima?!'' remake, with a more knowingly teasing Konoka and a more flusterable Setsuna, to the point of Setsuna stuck between embarrassment and ogling at Konoka in a swimsuit. Considering that in the early manga [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything the way Setsuna acts around Konoka is exactly the same as someone with a really strong crush]] (complete with blushing and a loss of the ability to speak whenever she's around) makes the [[HoYay subtext]] already quite strong.
* TookALevelInBadass: Pretty much automatic if someone gets an artifact. This includes [[spoiler:Negi, though overshadowed by the fact that he had just gained about ''eight others''. Maybe, his artifact could be a GameBreaker because he has so many attendants, he can use all their powers, granted, one at a time, but still it gives him a lot more options than almost anyone. Has been PutOnABus for a while now.]]
** Yue is arguably the queen of this trope, having done this no less than three times. See her character entry for details.
* TookALevelInJerkass: The class actually attacks Negi near the end of the manga in order to find out who he likes including using their pactios against him, removing his allies from the area and attempted to mind control him via [[AssShove Chizuru.]] Why? Because he was busy [[spoiler:saving billions of lives]] instead of responding to their romantic interest. Notably, a few of the girls like Chisame ''do'' have better intentions, but most do not while only Chachamaru, Asuna, Akira and Satsuki are actually decent enough to stand by him.
* TooMuchInformation: Asuna gets an earful from Makie during the shower scene: "Negi-kun's ''you-know-what'' is touching my ''you-know-where''! ... His ''you-know-what'''s getting ''you-know-what''-er!"
* TooSlow: When Negi isn't focusing on his fight with Setsuna during the tournament, she gets annoyed and smacks some sense into him after delivering one of these.
* TotalPartyKill: Discussed a few times after they entered the magical world arc as with so many other game tropes, especially when they were separated.
* ToThePain: Not only does Haruna ''tell'' Nodoka, Yue, and Konoka how she's going to torture them for not sharing about Negi, she has ''sketches''!
* TouchTelepathy: Negi Springfield is shown to have this ability via placing his hand on the forehead in the first chapter, though he can only catch a few thoughts at the most.
** Jack Rakan later gets to see a FlashBack from a defeated enemy he's holding.
** This is one of the abilities of Shiori's race, which is why she ended up the LastOfHerKind.
* ToUnmasqueTheWorld: This is Chao's goal during the Mahorafest arc, and she succeeds in one timeline. [[spoiler:Negi does the same thing at the end of the manga, but under slower and more controlled circumstances.]]
* TournamentArc: One during the Mahorafest arc and another during the Magic World arc. The former is more extensive than the latter.
* TrainingFromHell:
** Lampshaded with Ku Fei's martial arts training, as her trying to create a "quick-powerup" training regimen for Negi based on old manga and kung fu movies fails miserably. She then tries training him conventionally, which works, and teaches him so quickly that she gets depressed about it.
** Played straight, however, with Evangeline's training methods, which actually seem to work.
* TransformationTrinket: The pactio cards.
* TranslationConvention: Scenes that take place in Britain are spoken in Japanese. The girls, even the ordinary ones, also have no trouble in the magical world -- averted though, in that it was colonized from Earth (Mundus Vetus, "the Old World"), and two of its major languages are "Anglicum" and "Japonense." Interestingly, though, the writing dotted around the Mundus Magicus suggest that the ''lingua franca'' is actually Latin.
* TranslationStyleChoices: Most fan translations fall into Category 2 or Category 3, while the former official translation was a solid Category 2.
* TrappedInAnotherWorld: The entire plot of the Magic World arc.
* TriangRelations: Both Nodoka and Yue want to be Negi's girlfriend, although the two remain friends. Nodoka's subconscious hints that she's okay with sharing...
* {{Troperiffic}}: Akamatsu seems to be on a quest to use every trope ''ever''. He is disturbingly close to succeeding.
* TropeTrigger: Just be a girl in front of Negi and tickle his nose by accident...[[AccidentalPervert accidental nakedness]] will soon follow.
* TruceZone: Megalomesembria's public baths.
* TrueCompanions: Ala Rubra and Ala Alba naturally. By the time the story ends, all of Class 3-A are this with each other. Yes, even Evangeline.
* TruerToTheText: An interesting case. The recent OVA releases have been faithful to the manga, but they're so deep into a story that none of its multiple previous adaptations properly covered, that they won't make much sense to anyone who hasn't read the manga.
* TwoRoadsBeforeYou: Father's or the Master's?
* TwoScenesOneDialogue: Variation: just as Fate finishes explaining the secret of the Magical World [[spoiler:to the captive Asuna and Anya]], the next chapter begins with [[spoiler:Shiori/Luna]] confirming the same explanation for Negi and company.
** [[spoiler:Negi has just bounced back from being comatose, and [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu punched out Quartum's Entei Shoukan.]] Fate, still heavily beat up from his earlier fight against the Negi team, [[DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu beans Quintum in the face with a rock.]] Both shout out the exact same line on one page after doing so.]]
-->[[spoiler:'''Fate''']]:[[spoiler:Those are '''his''' comrades. My prey... You have all just woken up...]]
-->[[spoiler:'''Negi''']]:[[spoiler:These are my comrades...]]
-->[[spoiler:'''Negi&Fate''']]:[[spoiler:I won't allow you to lay a finger on them!]]
* TwoTeacherSchool: In the entire ElaborateUniversityHigh, few teachers are shown other than Negi, Takamichi, Gandolfini, Nitta, Seruhiko, and Shizuna. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in that the manga focuses explicitly on the teachers who are also mages.
* UnderestimatingBadassery:
** The girls are frequently subject to this, but Nodoka gets it more than anyone else. Behind that shy guise beats the fearless heart of a determined girl. There's a reason why Fate considers her such a big threat.
** This is actually subverted by the first contestant Evangeline faces during the first TournamentArc. He knows that she looks harmless but he also knows that she made it that far and shouldn't be underestimated. Unfortunately for him [[CurbStompBattle it didn't matter]].
* UnfinishedBusiness: Parodied during her introduction. After learning that all Sayo wanted was to make friends, Negi and Asakura approach her and tell her that she can be friends with them, and she immediately fades from their sight. While Negi tearfully looks up in the sky assuming that she's finally left in peace, Mana, who has a stronger ghost sense than Negi, points out that she's still right there, on the same spot.
* UnlimitedWardrobe: When the girls are not attending class, and wearing the Mahora uniform, they each have fair amount of unique casual clothes. It's obvious reading the manga, that Akamatsu and company spent a lot of time coming up with fun looks for all of the girls.
* TheUnmasquedWorld: Negi and friends pay a brief visit to a "bad" future in which the current antagonist has recently succeeded in revealing the existence of magic, but aside from the excited attentions of some local girls and talk of all mages being recalled to the Magic World, we don't see much of the effects. [[spoiler:Magic is revealed for good off-screen during the final timeskip, and more integration between the worlds (including black market trade) is discussed.]]
* UnresolvedSexualTension: Setsuna and Konoka have a lot of buildup which doesn't really go anywhere [[spoiler:even after a pactio kiss]] until [[spoiler:the last few chapters, where it's resolved offscreen. In a fairly ambiguous manner.]]
* TheUnreveal: 355 chapters and we never learn [[spoiler: who Negi actually likes or ends up with. He does tell Asuna at one point, but the audience doesn't get to hear it, and her reaction doesn't make it clear who it is- except it doesn't seem to be her.]] The sequel however does address this plot point.
* UnsoundEffect: "Pettan" for Yue and Nodoka.
* UnspokenPlanGuarantee: Both ends of the spectrum are shown in this series. Negi's [[spoiler: Magic World saving]] plan is never discussed in great detail but ultimately succeeds, whereas an entire chapter is dedicated to explaining a plan of attack before it all shortly goes to hell.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Chachamaru uses her booster jets to fetch a little girl's balloon at one point, and nobody comments on it except [[LampshadeHanging Asuna and Negi]].
** In the post-action chapter, "Take a Break," nobody points out that Setsuna is carrying a bundle of [[BrickJoke dragon-murdering spears]]. Her equipment diminishes with distance to the threat.
* TheUnwantedHarem: DoubleSubversion: the professor surrounded by 31 female students sure looks like a set up for one of these, but, while the students may find Negi cute, they don't want to go out with him. Except, of course, that several of them do develop romantic feelings for Negi, though nowhere near as much as the premise would lead you to believe.
** Justified in that they develop romantic feelings for him after he shows how mature, badass or awesome he is, and most of them look at him and realize that the ten year old kid will turn into the epitome of sexy and badass in five years tops.
* UpgradeArtifact: Turns out Nodoka is a munchkin. While with a party of adventurers, she picks up a couple pieces of magical gear that allow her to know anyone's name and hear the thoughts written on her mind reading book rather than having to read it.
* UrbanFantasy: Though it's shifted to a more ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' feel as of the Entry to the Magic World arc.
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* ShipTease: [[ShipTease/MahouSenseiNegima So much]] that it is impossible to make any truly definitive declarations as to which girl will "win". [[spoiler:At the end, [[NoRomanticResolution none of them does]], at least not on-screen.]]
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* ShipTease: [[ShipTease/MahouSenseiNegima [[ShipTease/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi So much]] that it is impossible to make any truly definitive declarations as to which girl will "win". [[spoiler:At the end, [[NoRomanticResolution none of them does]], at least not on-screen.]]
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** [[spoiler:Both Cosmo Entelecheia (the secret society/terrorist group) and Zazie's sister believe that the inhabitants of Mundus Magicus must ''either '' be sealed in Cosmo Entelecheia (the LotusEaterMachine) ''or '' die/end up in a desperate war with Earth when their home dimension inevitably collapses. Chao Lingshen tried (or claimed [[WMG/MahouSenseiNegima [[WMG/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi to be trying]]) to reveal magic to the inhabitants of Earth at large so as to make the latter option less disastrous, given that the former apparently [[TimeTravelTenseTrouble didn't]] happen. Negi, on the other hand, has an idea to ''prevent the collapse.'']]
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* TeleportersAndTransporters: Teleportation magic is used quite frequently, and [[spoiler: Akira's]] artifact makes her one of these as long as water is present.
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* TimeTravelRomance: Defied. While ''Negima'' has TimeTravel and tries to hit every romance trope possible, Chao becomes rather annoyed when Negi asks her to stay, because it sounds like a romantic proposal, and being his descendant, she would prefer not to engage in such.
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* SeriousBusiness: A tense meeting between Fate and Negi derails for one page into a heated argument over coffee and tea -- Negi ''is'' [[SpotOfTea British]], after all. [[SubvertedTrope Or so it seems from the outside,]] but Negi is actually pissed for entirely different and much more sensible reasons. Negi prefers milk tea [[KickTheDog and refers to coffee as "muddy water"]]. Fate drinks seven cups of black coffee every day, and occasionally lemon tea.
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* SeriousBusiness: A tense meeting between Fate and Negi derails for one page into a heated argument over coffee and tea -- Negi ''is'' [[SpotOfTea British]], after all. [[SubvertedTrope Or so it seems from the outside,]] but Negi is actually pissed for entirely different and much more sensible reasons. Negi prefers milk tea [[KickTheDog [[DoubleSubverted and refers to coffee as "muddy water"]]. Fate drinks seven cups of black coffee every day, and occasionally lemon tea.
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** Yue's best friend Nodoka is the [[Pantheon/{{Combat}} goddess]] of this trope.
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* SuperSentaiStance: As an AffectionateParody, the [[{{Sentai}} Baka Rangers]] do this. A group called the Mahora Rangers also do this during the SchoolFestival.
* SuperSpeed: Raiten Taisou. Koyomi's artifact ability. Also one of the effects of [[spoiler:Ako's]] [[SuperSerum artifact]].
* SuperSpeed: Raiten Taisou. Koyomi's artifact ability. Also one of the effects of [[spoiler:Ako's]] [[SuperSerum artifact]].
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