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Suzumiya Haruhi
alt title(s): The Melancholy Of Haruhi Suzumiya; Suzumiya Haruhi No Yuutsu; Haruhi Suzumiya; Suzumiya Haruhi No Yuuutsu
The SOS Brigade. From left to right: Kyon; Haruhi Suzumiya; Mikuru Asahina; Itsuki Koizumi; Yuki Nagato.
"I have no interest in ordinary humans. If there are any aliens, time travelers, or espers here, come join me. That is all."

Suzumiya Haruhi is a series of Light Novels by Tanigawa Nagaru, the first of which was published in 2003 and released in English in 2009. The novels concern a teenage Genki Girl who is an unstoppable force of nature and the friends whose lives she turns upside down.

An anime series based on parts of the novels was released in 2006, entitled The Melancholy Of Haruhi Suzumiya (涼宮ハルヒの憂鬱, Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu) after the first novel. Cries for a second season seemingly went unanswered until mid-2009, when several brand-new episodes unexpectedly popped up in the middle of a supposed re-run of the first season (this time done in chronological order). These new episodes constitute the "second season", and are interspersed among the old episodes according to where they chronologically belong in the plot.

There is also a self-parody gag anime released on You Tube called The Melancholy Of Haruhi-chan Suzumiya (涼宮ハルヒちゃんの憂鬱, Suzumiya Haruhi-chan no Yuuutsu) based off an official self-parody manga; this aired in tandem with a spinoff, Nyoron Churuya-san (にょろーん☆ちゅるやさん), based off a certain Yonkoma that's been subject to Memetic Mutation.

The first novel is available in English from your local online bookseller; the translation project for the novels can be found here, to get you up to speed on the rest. There is also a manga adaptation by Gaku Tsugano (there was an earlier adaptation by Makoto Mizuno that was discontinued/disowned after one volume).

Haruhi Suzumiya is a first year high school student (equivalent to 10th grade or sophomore year in the USA) who's considered beautiful, athletic, intelligent, and extremely eccentric. Haruhi has come to the conclusion that ordinary humans are, as a whole, utterly boring, and that she would rather hang out with aliens, time travellers, espers, and the like. In her quest to find them, she promptly joins all the clubs in school for exactly one day... and quits them all just as rapidly. One day, her classmate Kyon (the Narrator) unwittingly gives Haruhi an idea: if there aren't any decent clubs, why not make one of your own?

Haruhi instantly switches from an irritated, sociopathic, pompous brat to an irritating, sociopathic Genki Girl who vows to allow nothing to stand in her way. She conscripts Kyon to help her set up the club: the S.O.S. Brigade, whose mission is to find aliens, time travellers, and espers, and have fun with them. Kyon quickly learns an explosive secret that must be kept from Haruhi at all costs, the details of which must be seen to be believed.

The story is notable for having no definite genre — It convicingly uses comedy, science fiction, fantasy, mystery, romance and Slice Of Life in one of the most typical anime settings: An ordinary high school, all the while with well-developed Genre Savvy characters.

The novels vary between several short stories and one story of several chapters, and have their differences from the anime. Usually because of the time limit the anime has, it compresses Kyon's narration process as well as the romantic focus and the character insight one would usually get from the novels, at the cost of saving comedy and the plot. While the plot alone is interesting, it leaves many actions and motives to the interpretation of the reader (often triggered by Kyon being an Unreliable Narrator), which makes you think about it long after you finish the book. However, the realistic Character Development of the Brigade members is also impressive.

If you check out the impressively big character sheet, please beware of spoilers, even if you've finished the anime.

The S.O.S. Brigade is made up of five members that represent a spectrum of anime character types, both in their identities as high school students and their secret identities...

Then there's the gender-flipped version, called The Genderbending of Haruhi Suzumiya. It's a fan creation that serves to tell what the universe would be like if all the male characters were female and vice-versa.

This show also provides examples of:

  • Absurdly Powerful Student Council — In the novels, Itsuki creates one to give Haruhi a foil and thus something to do. It quickly gets filled with members of at least two of the factions.
  • Accidental Pervert — Kyon
  • Action Survivor — Kyon
  • Adam And Eve Plot — Episode 6, chronologically.
  • Adaptation Expansion — Endless Eight. Just. Endless Eight.
  • A Glass Of Chianti — The Computer Club President during the Deep Immersion Gaming
    • Also Haruhi in the manga, when describing the importance of moe. A glass of grape juice, that is.
  • A God Am I — subverted and/or reversed: the character with godlike powers, Haruhi, has no idea she has them. Her delusions of grandeur are just that.
  • All Just A Dream — Inverted in the (chronologically) sixth episode.
  • All There In The Manual
  • Alone With The Psycho
  • Alternate Character Interpretation — Let's not even start about Haruhi and Kyon.
  • Alternate Universe — The subject of Vanishment.
  • Ambiguously Gay — Itsuki seems to like invading Kyon's personal space, and there are several lines in the novels that seem like outright flirting. When directly asked, he states that if he didn't act that way, Haruhi would rewrite him to be that way. This explanation fails when you realize he only acts this way around Kyon when Haruhi is not around.
  • Anachronic Order — The main plot of the first season consists of the six episodes that draw from the first novel. First episode aside, these six are spaced out (but kept in order) so that the anime begins and ends climactically with this arc. Filling in the gaps are episodes that each draw from a short story from a later novel (which take place after the events of the first). The "next episode" previews have Haruhi stating the episode number in chronological order, while Kyon corrects her with the broadcast order. When the twelfth episode airs twelfth (right between the thirteenth and the fifth), Kyon still corrects her, then realizes she's right. In any case, the episodes are in chronological order for the DVD release (except for Episode 00, which is still first), though the special edition of the American release also contains DVDs in the original, anachronic broadcast order. Note that when the story was originally being published in magazine form, it followed yet another anachronic order. (Timeline)
    • The anime is especially good about this, as it shows references to shows that haven't happened yet — for example, having random items laying around the club room that are obtained in later (earlier?) episodes, and characters referring to events of episodes that hadn't been broadcast yet. This goes to the extreme that several first season episodes show references to the second season. Not as hard as it sounds, since the novels were written before the anime, but still shows very remarkable attention to detail on the animators' part.
    • The Rebroadcasting of Suzumiya Haruhi mixes old and new episodes (including Episode 00) in the order that Kyon experiences them—sort of chronological, but not quite. Which makes the so-called "second season" neither a sequel nor prequel to the first (more like an "interquel").
  • And Then There Were None — "Remote Island Syndrome"
  • Apocalypse How — The possibility of Haruhi having a bad day and unconsciously recreating the universe, or a certain someone hijacking Haruhi's power. The former seemed to be creating a new separate universe rather than rewriting the old one.
  • Apocalypse Of The Week
  • Arc Words — After a point, it starts to seem like every past-tense sentence in the Myth Arc contains the words "three years ago."
    • Eventually subverted when Itsuki starts a sentence this way, and Kyon interrupts him with "Screw three years ago!"
  • Art Shift — "Remote Island Syndrome"
  • Arthur Dent — Kyon
  • Artificial Human — Yuki, Ryouko and the others of their kind.
  • Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance — Tsuruya's fang.
  • Author Avatar — One fan theory is that Kyon is Tanigawa Nagaru himself.
  • A Wizard Haruhi Did It
  • Badass Adorable — Yuki
  • Badass Bookworm — See above.
  • Bad Bad Acting — The SOS Brigade's film.
  • Bishoujo — The series has posters and articles serialized in Megami, as well as far more bunnygirl Haruhi figures than any in her other outfits. Mikuru is a sendup of the whole concept.
  • Beach Episode — "Remote Island Syndrome".
  • Beleaguered Assistant — Kyon
  • Better Than A Bare Bulb — Kyon's unsuccessful attempt to explain the student film's plot; the irony here is that he did it this way on purpose to prevent Skepticism Failure.
  • Big Ol Eyebrows — Asakura Ryoko, not in a manner which is particularly egregious, but definitely more so then the rest of the cast.
  • Black Hole Sue — Haruhi according to Alternative Character Interpretation.
    • Or alternately, she could be called a literal example. Seeing how she's something like a god, the world has to revolve around her.
  • Bland Name Product — Espon laptops, and the characters eat at WcDonalds. Also done with brand logos: one episode shows a box with a logo shaped like an unbitten apple.
  • Bling Of War — In "Day Of Sagittarius"
  • Blunt Metaphors Trauma — Yuki.
  • Book Dumb — Kyon comes across as very smart and well-read (even though he isn't quite sure who Shakespeare is), but is barely above average in school, to the point that Haruhi's had to help him out with schoolwork.
  • Bowdlerize — "Remote Island Syndrome" is changed from the book through the addition of Kyon's little sister, who in the novel attempted to come along, but was discovered and left at home. Once on the island, the SOS Brigade members avail themselves of as much alcohol as their host can muster, which can't be shown on Japanese TV, since the characters are still in high school. The TV show has them doing things appropriate for the presence of a grade-schooler instead. Minus the murder-mystery part, anyway....
  • Boy Meets Girl — Essentially.
  • Brainy Specs — Yuki, though she stops wearing them later.
  • Bread Eggs Milk Squick — Asakura complains about how Haruhi is not doing anything interesting and talks to Kyon about whether or not it is alright to enact a change to get a result even if it is dangerous right before trying to stab Kyon with a knife to get a rise out of Haruhi, all without changing the pitch in her voice.
  • Butt Monkey — Poor, poor Computer Club President...
  • Can't Stand Them, Can't Live Without Them — Kyon and Haruhi's relationship gets this way, which comes to a head in Vanishment.
  • Canon Sue — Haruhi herself is considered by some to be one. And, for further values of "some", also Kyon and Yuki. Your Mileage May Vary.
  • Care Bear Stare — Haruhi's intention was to send her "warm energy" into Kyon. However, it was nothing but a scary Death Glare.
  • Cassandra Truth — In the novels, Kyon tells Haruhi about Itsuki, Mikuru, and Yuki's supernatural powers, and she flat-out doesn't believe him, saying that would be too easy. She does correctly guess who's supposed to be which and makes it the basis for the student film, though. The anime hints at this one, but doesn't include it directly.
  • Cash Cow Franchise — Image Songs out the whazoo (see below) and loads of other merchandise show that they could probably go more for years without even making more episodes. Which is good, because book 10 seems to be being pushed back a few months/years.
    • In the meantime, we can buy a Haruhi game for the PSP, the PS2 or the DS. And we still have two more games to choose from on the Wii. Milking the cash cow at its finest.
  • Catch Phrase:
    • Mikuru- "Classified Information." Taken to absurd lengths in "Endless Eight": "I used classified information to contact the future or for classified information... But when I hadn't heard from classified information for a week i thought something was wrong. And then classified information... I was shocked so then I classified information, but there was no classified information... What should I do?" All while crying her heart out.
      • It's s a mechanism deliberately put into place by her superiors to prevent her from divulging sensitive information, even if she wanted to. Normally, she just avoids using the taboo words altogether, but here the programming trips because she's too emotionally vulnerable to watch what she's saying.
    • Haruhi- "I'm so bored!"
  • Character Alignment — Haruhi is chaotic neutral. She is willing to do anything so long as she thinks it will have an interesting result.
  • Character As Himself — Ultra Director Haruhi Suzumiya!
    • Similarly, some of the real life creators are listed as members of the SOS Brigade. The credits have several other similar jokes.
  • Character Development
    • The Suzumiya Haruhi novels are, to a relatively big portion, focused on the character development. It is very well made, and in a constant flow. It is often left to the readers interpretation just how far the characters have changed within the progress of the story (Hello Alternate Character Interpretation!).
      • The best example would be Yuki Nagato. There lies a clear Character Focus on the development she makes (to the point of stealing the spotlight of Haruhi). She grows from a stoic "machine-like" Extreme Doormat into a person who is not only kind and caring, but also independent from her boss. Hell, her rampage in the 4th novel because she developed feelings must not be forgotten. Furthermore, the relationship between her and Kyon gradually expands over the time, to the point where Kyon stated that no one would "shake the bell in him" quite like Yuki. Nagaru Tanigawa himself stated that he likes focusing on Yuki's development.
      • Haruhi herself started out (before the SOS Brigade) as a self-absorbed, misanthropic loner, but quickly changed into (as she is pulled out of her grey melancholy) a cheerful and hot-blooded, yet still quite sociopathic jerk who doesn't really get what she's doing wrong... Eh, well, see Kick The Dog. Then, in the later novels, she has become far more sociable, even to strangers, and generally has come more to terms with "this boring world" (and has come Out Of Focus).
      • Kyon himself also changes visibly from an apathetic, cynic and distrustful Deadpan Snarker who has little care for anyone besides "his" Mikuru and tells himself that he hates the brigade into a Nakama-caring, less cynic Deadpan Snarker with occasional badass-moments who freely admits that he's a member and would follow their commander Haruhi.
      • Compare Present Mikuru, whose seemingly only plot purpose is to act as the group mascot, and Future Mikuru, who is an assertive and empowered woman who is almost always in control of the situation (even if the characters don't know it at the time) and is responsible for setting the entire plot in motion by masterminding the "John Smith Incident." The exact details of how this transformation takes place is somewhat sketchy (time travel is involved), but its seeds are present in some of the later novels. Presumably future instalments will continue this trend...if they ever get released, that is.
  • Chekhovs Gun — Offhandedly mentioned objects usually play an important role later in the light novel it is mentioned in or in the whole novel series itself.
  • Chekhovs Gunman — Seemingly minor characters, if named, will usually have some major significant role in the plot later in the series.
    • A rather major example would be a character so minor she isn't even directly mentioned. Sasaki, the reason why Kyon's classmates from middle school think he has a thing for weird girls, is never mentioned at all until her appearance in the ninth novel, where it is revealed that she is the cause of that particular misconception.
    • Kimidori. Tsuruya. The esper girl (though really, who thought she WOULDN'T come back up again?) Tachibana Kyouko. If they get a name and they're not Taniguchi or Kunikida, expect them to be important. Those two are probably only still unimportant so that they can be Those Two Guys... and the light novels aren't finished, so it's hard to know if it'll stay like that.
    • In a way, Kyon himself is a Chekhovs Gunman. I quote Haruhi's extremely inconspicuous line: "Have I met you somewhere before?" She has in fact met him before, and the encounter is what led her to North High. This is also invoked when Kyon wonders what criteria Haruhi used to pick her high school.
  • Cheshire Cat Grin — Haruhi.
  • Cicadian Rhythm — One of the various summery activities Haruhi forces the Brigade to participate in during their endless summer vacation is cicada-catching.
  • Closed Circle
  • Cloudcuckoolander — Haruhi...or at least that's what it looks like at first.
  • Club President
  • Color Coded For Your Convenience — Lately each SOS member has been affiliated with a color.
    • Haruhi is Red, which shows her genkiness and her status as Brigade Leader.
    • Kyon is Blue, which is the opposite of red, which suits him as Haruhi's opposite.
    • Itsuki is Green, which stands for intelligence.
    • Mikuru is Orange, because of her hair.
    • Yuki is Purple, same as above.
      • Yuki and Mikuru's colors don't have anything to deal with their personalities though.
  • Comedic Sociopathy — If you can't handle Haruhi, stay back!
  • Comforting Comforter — Last episode "Someday In The Rain". It's left unclear whether it was Yuki or Mikuru.
  • The Computer Is A Cheating Bastard — The Computer Society are cheating bastards. Yuki plays by the rules when she's asked to, but has no qualms with fixing a game, computer or otherwise, to keep Haruhi happy.
    • Of course, Yuki playing by the rules is like asking Stephen Hawking's to do elementary school algebra. She's still a highly advanced lifeform capable of ripping out a complex guitar solo mere minutes after being asked to play one or simultaneously control 20 independent units in the above mentioned game while at the same time hacking into said game, rewriting/reprogramming while said game is being played (at super speeds flipping through multiple windows), and carrying on a conversation.
  • Contemplate Our Navels — Itsuki's favourite activity, much to Kyon's irritation.
  • Cultural Cross Reference
  • Cute Little Fangs — Tsuruya, also known by her Fan Nickname LOL Fang-tan. Played straight in that it actually gives her a speech impediment, which can be heard clearest in the school festival's restaurant speech.
  • Cut His Heart Out With A Spoon — Haruhi in "The Day Of Sagittarius".
  • Dancing Theme — The ED song "Hare Hare Yukai".
  • Dark World — Closed Space.
  • Day In The Life — The last (chronological) episode.
  • Deadpan Snarker — Kyon, the narrator.
  • Death Glare — Haruhi in "The Day Of Sagittarius".
  • Deconstructor Fleet
  • Deep Immersion Gaming — "The Day of Sagittarius".
  • Defrosting Ice Queen — Haruhi, pretty much.
  • Deliberately Monochrome — The beginning of the anime.
  • Depraved Bisexual — Haruhi, though one should not take it as serious as the trope depicts it.
  • Did I Just Say That Out Loud — The novels frequently play with this. Since we almost never hear read Kyon talking, only thinking, it is even more surprising when people reply to thoughts they really shouldn't have heard.
    • The anime does this too on occasion. Sometimes it's a direct reply to a thought, other times people ask Kyon if he just said something.
  • Didn't See That Coming: — A note to Kyon to meet after class was not what it seemed.
  • Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu — In Vanishment — Kyon vs the Data-God that created Yuki. Kyon wins, by simply pointing out that he knows how to end the world with 4 little words: "I am John Smith."
  • Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu — Kyon saves the universe by kissing Haruhi, making this something more like "Did You Just Make Out With Cthulhu?"
    • Never mind that Azazoth would be a more apt comparison, what with them spending the whole show trying to entertain her so she won't destroy their universe unwittingly.
  • Die For Our Ship — Some Yuki/Kyon and Mikuru/Kyon shippers really hate Haruhi and love to remark and insist on her flaws to paint her as a demon. Also played with in the series itself: if Kyon is too nice to Mikuru, Haruhi gets jealous and (unbeknownst to her) uses her powers to rewrite reality.
  • Dissonant Serenity — Koizumi.
  • Disturbed Doves — Episode 00.
  • Does Not Like Men — Haruhi at the beginning, though she mainly doesn't like humans in general.
  • The Drag Along — Kyon
  • Dramatic Wind — Episode 00.
  • Drives Like Crazy — Arakawa. Played for laughs in Haruhi-chan
  • Dude Shes Like In A Coma — Subverted: Kyon is shocked and starts threatening violent retaliation when Itsuki seems about to act out this trope with Mikuru in their film.
  • Dynamic Entry — Haruhi gives the Computer Club president one with both legs at once.
  • Ear Worm — In-universe example in the Drama CD "Sound Around", which later manifests as an actual worm-like monster.
  • Eldritch Abomination — Possibly Haruhi, depending on the reader's interpretation of her origins.
  • Emotionless Girl — Yuki Nagato.
  • The End Of The World As We Know It — which, once, hinges on, of all things, the outcome of a baseball game.
  • End Of The World Special — The entire plot revolves around Kyon, Yuki, Mikuru and Itsuki preventing Haruhi from causing such a thing with her powers.
    • They're not successful. Season 1 of the anime ends with this... (Extra Spoiler) and they persuade Haruhi to remake the old one.
  • Enemy Mine — The SOS Brigade and the Computer Club team up to stop the Student Council President from evicting the Brigade from the Literature Clubroom.
  • Ensemble Darkhorse — Tsuruya's Super Deformed version, Churuya.
  • Evolutionary Levels
  • Eye Beams — Two words: MIKURU BEEEEEEAM!
  • Eyes Always Shut — Itsuki, and in some cases, Kyon, as seen in The Day Of Sagittarius.
  • Facepalm — After Picard, Kyon is the best known Facepalmer on the Internets.
  • Fake Band — ENOZ, whose name is a homage to the real band ZONE.
  • Falling In Love Montage — Parodied without mercy in Episode 00.
  • False Camera Effects — The first episode consists of a simulated student film.
  • Fan Community Nicknames — The philosophy of "Haruhiism", or "S.O.S. Brigade".
  • Fanservice
  • Fanon — Haruhi is God. Most viewers of the anime believe it, because while the novels go at some length to cast doubt on it, those parts haven't made it into the anime: Asahina tells Kyon to be skeptical of Koizumi and his Organization's theories, and even Koizumi himself later denies that he believes that Haruhi is God. There's also the fact that even in the anime, when Koizumi tells Kyon that Haruhi is God, he presents it as the belief of the "higher-ups" in his Organization, and as the "worst case scenario" that his Organization is acting to counter (which suggests that they're playing a form of Pascal's Wager), and acknowledges that various people in his Organization have different ideas about how to deal with Haruhi.
  • Festival Episode (Part of "Endless Eight")
  • Fetish — Kyon admits to Haruhi that he has a thing for ponytails, and encourages Yuki to lose the glasses because he isn't a fan of meganekko.
  • Fetish Fuel — Actually invoked, with all the cosplay and the groping.
  • First Kiss — The climax of the show.
  • First Name Basis — Kyon refers to Haruhi by her first name, no honorific extremely soon after the SOS-dan's founding, and she's the only one to call him by just his nickname, no honorific. Also notable is that Yuki never, ever refers to Kyon by name, only "you".
  • First Person Smartass — Kyon, in an combination of his Deadpan Snarker and Narrator roles.
  • Five Man Band — Lampshade hanging, Haruhi purposely creates the club to her expected stereotypes.
  • Foe Yay — Yuki and Asakura. Turns into Les Yay in Disappearance.
  • Fortune Teller — Yuki in "Live Alive".
  • Four Temperament Ensemble — All in Haruhi combined! It's... totally awesome.
  • Funny Background Event
  • Fun Size — Tsuruya-san.
  • Fun With Acronyms — SOS Brigade stands for Sekai wo Ooini Moriagerutame no Suzumiya Haruhi no Dan, or Haruhi Suzumiya's gang whose purpose is to greatly enliven the world. To maintain the joke, the fansubbers and the official manga gave this as Save the World By Overloading It With Fun — Haruhi Suzumiya's Brigade, while the official dub translated it as Spreading Excitement All Over the World with Haruhi Suzumiya's Brigade.
  • Future Imperfect — Asahina sometimes does this. For example, she comments on Koizumi's telescope being "just like Kepler's."
  • Gag Boobs — Mikuru's lovlies are even used as a plot device.
  • Gainaxing: Poor Mikuru...
  • Genius Bonus — Did you know that the mathematical, physical and chemical formulas seen in opening animation are positronium, Lambda baryons, benzene ring, cyclohexanes, infinite number, Titius-Bode law, Planck's constant, Drake equation, time-dependent Schrödinger equation, Hubble's law, infinite product, definition of information entropy, large numbers1, stationary Schrödinger equation, the theory of relativity, probability axioms, definition of Laplace operator, the wave equation in one space dimension, and small numbers? Also, this wasn't just pulled out of a physics books, the writer Nagaru Tanigawa loves this stuff.
    • The novels have even more, with countless throwaway references to astrophysics and at least one in-depth discussion (and illustrations) of Euler's planar graph formula. And let's not even start about the time travel incidents that reach a complexity where you just want to overlook it. Koizumi even talks about time-lines and alternate realities at the same time.
      • Also, the ninth mentions Yuki reading a book about "Mathematicians, Artists, Musicians, and their Interrelations". This is probably "Godel, Escher, Bach, an Eternal Golden Braid.", by Douglas Hofstadter. The book deals heavily with recursion, parallel worlds, and uncertainty. Suspiciously Apropos Literature or what?
  • Genki Girl — Haruhi, as well as minor character Tsuruya.
  • Genre Busting — It's depicted as Sci-Fi, come on...
  • Genre Savvy — Haruhi insists on seeing Genre Tropes everywhere, even where they might not have existed; in a completely different way, Itsuki attempts to "appease" Haruhi by providing textbook, predictable examples of tropes. Haruhi does not do "predictable", so these tend to mutate.
  • Giant Space Flea From Nowhere — More like a desert grasshoper made of rogue data from nowhere.
  • Girlish Pigtails — One of Haruhi's haircuts. Also, Mikuru in her waitress outfit.
  • Girl With Psycho Weapon — Asakura Ryoko.
  • Giving Someone The Pointer Finger — Sometimes played straight but also used to reference Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney.
    • Or just outright parody Phoenix Wright, down to the dramatic speed lines.
  • The Glasses Gotta Go — Yuki Nagato, of course.
  • God — Or something similar...
  • Groundhog Day Loop — Volume 5 — The Rampage chapter "Endless Eight", and some of the first episodes of the second season. Yuki is the only one who actually remembers experiencing the 2 weeks all 15,499 times.
    • Taken to extreme measures in the anime adaptation, with 3 episodes and counting of "Endless Eight".
  • Have We Met — Haruhi casually asks Kyon this in their first conversation. She has in fact met him before, but Kyon hasn't; he will meet her three years ago a couple of months later.
  • How We Got Here — The movie.
  • Ho Yay — Itsuki sometimes stands a little too close to Kyon for Kyon's own good. Also, he is the only male path option in the Visual Suzumiya Haruhi no Tomadoi. [1]
    • Les Yay — Of course, there's Haruhi being all over Mikuru. And Yuki and Asakura, especially in the 4th novel
  • Human Aliens — The Interfaces...whatever they actually are.
  • Humans Are Special — Humans apparently are the only organic lifeform that can actively seek knowledge and continuously advance themselves.
  • — The show in its entirety.
  • I Am Who — Haruhi Suzumiya.
  • Idiosyncratic Episode Naming — Every book and season is entitled "Suzumiya Haruhi no ___", or "The ___ of Haruhi Suzumiya".
  • Idiot Hair: Taniguchi.
  • I Just Want To Be Normal — Kyon, though he decides against it in Disappearance. and Yuki.
  • I Just Want To Be Special — Haruhi, though it's more like "I Just Want To Meet Someone Special".
  • I Know Kung Fu — Yuki's unexplained guitar skills surpass even those of Buckethead!
  • Image Song — The amount of additional music done for the show is staggering, rivaling Mahou Sensei Negima. 9 character albums, 4 soundtracks, 3 drama CDs, plus 8 combination soundtrack and drama CDs that shipped with one of the DVD versions, and a live concert. All this for just 14 episodes!
    • Not to mention that four of the character albums are for characters who are either spectacularly insignificant or appear in very few episodes.
  • Important Haircut — Haruhi used to change her hairstyle every day, until Kyon asked her about it. She then cut her waist-length hair and started using only a yellow silk band as hair gear, keeping this style onwards.
  • Infodump — Lampshaded. Yuki, Mikuru and Itsuki lay these down on Kyon, who usually responds by pointing out that he doesn't understand, or just facepalming.
  • Inner Monologue — Loves to edge on Did I Just Say That Out Loud.
  • Inside Shoes — See Mistaken Message.
  • Internet Backdraft — Whatever you do, do not mention Suzumiya Haruhi in the same sentence as K-On at Four Chan and Sankaku Complex.
  • Invoked Trope — Woobie, absurdly powerful student council and a few others.
  • It Was His Sled — Even without having ever watched/read/anything Suzumiya Haruhi, thanks to this series' raving fandom, it's pretty well known in anime communities that Haruhi is an omnipotent god. Though it is in fact Fanon.
  • Jerkass — Suzumiya Haruhi in the beginning of the anime/light novel series. Until...
  • Jerk With A Heart Of Gold — What Suzumiya Haruhi eventually matures into. Not so much in the manga.
  • Joshikousei — In the book, Kyon wonders if the principal has a fetish for this, since male students wear blazers and ties, but girls wear the more traditional sailor uniform. Ironically, the real school North High is based on features the opposite uniform configuration, with militaresque gakuran for boys and parochial-style uniforms for girls.
  • Kansai Regional Accent — Notable for its absence: the series is set in Nishinomiya, on Osaka bay, in between Osaka and Kobe, home of the Hanshin Tigers, etc. It doesn't appear to be Not Even Bothering With The Accent, since the creator of the series was born and raised in Nishinomiya and wouldn't have to fake it. More likely, he sacrificed his native dialect in the text for the sake of broader appeal.
    • Of course, Mikuru, Yuki, and Itsuki are excused from this by the fact that they're not actually from there, but at the very least, Kyon and Haruhi should be speaking full-on Kansai-ben.
    • This can also be excused by the fact that Kyon is an Unreliable Narrator; he could easily be rendering everyone's dialect (including his own) as Standard Japanese, just because.
    • The author could also be doing this to sidestep the specific character trope associated with the dialect. It might partially agree with Haruhi and Tsuruya-san's personalities, but Kyon portrays himself as an Ordinary High School Student / Arthur Dent, which readers/viewers in Tokyo would be less likely to accept if he spoke naturally.
  • Kawaisa
  • Keep It Foreign — "Why?" -> "naze?"
  • Kick The Dog — Haruhi, obviously. Most famously, the blackmailing of the computer club president. Some people don't find the molestation of Mikuru very funny, either. In the novels, Haruhi actually punched Mikuru on the head several times because her contact lens didn't fly out like in stories. She nearly gets hit by one really (and understandably) upset Kyon, but Koizumi restrained him.
  • Knife Nut — Asakura Ryouko.
  • Lampshade Hanging
  • Language Of Magic — Sped up and backwards played SQL queries
  • Laymans Terms — Particularly in the Drama CD
  • Leeroy Jenkins — Haruhi behaves this way when they play a LAN game against the Computer Club.
  • Lemony Narrator — Kyon, especially in the novels.
  • Light Novels — Yes, the anime is based on them and covers the first novel of nine + some side stories.
  • Limited Wardrobe — Yuki
  • Locked Out Of The Loop — There's a lot of things Haruhi doesn't know about herself and the other members of the S.O.S. Brigade.
    • The Time Travel arcs often leave Mikuru in a similar position. Kyon, Yuki, and Future Mikuru all know what she needs to do and why, but they can't tell Mikuru 'cos of paradoxes.
  • Locked Room Mystery — Episode 6.
  • Lost Him In A Card Game — Haruhi bets Yuki during the video game episode. When the Computer Club President is taken aback by this, she offers Mikuru instead.
  • Macross Missile Massacre - Kyon on a bike with fireworks, in Endless Eight.
  • Magical Girlfriend — Or at least Magical She Is Not My Girlfriend.
  • Magic From Technology — Yuki's incantations in SQL.
  • Male Gaze
  • Manic Pixie Dream Girl — But who's dreaming who?
  • Masquerade — On just about everybody's part
  • Mayfly December Romance
  • Meaningful Name — according to Wikipedia, Kyon's nickname might come from ???? / kýon, Ancient Greek for "dog", from where the word "cynic" may come from. Another possibility: Haruhi in the novels loves the story of Tanabata, involving a romance between a man and a woman separated and only allowed to meet once a year; the Korean name for the man can be romanized as 'Kyonu'.
    • Probably unintentional, but 'Kyon' is also Hindi for 'why?' — something Kyon must be repeatedly thinking throughout the series...
    • Yuki's name as written means "has hope", which arguably fits with her later Character Development. Written in another way, it can also mean "snow", leading to several snow motifs.
    • Another probably intentional one - 'Mikuru' written a certain way in kanji can mean 'future'.
  • Memetic Mutation — Tsuruya aka Churuya, nyoro~n!
    • Not to mention all the Hare Hare Yukai videos floating around You Tube.
    • And the Gender Flip version, which has become so popular that it has even spawned doujinshii aside of fanarts and cosplay.
  • Meta Guy — Kyon, Genre Savvy Deadpan Snarker that he is.
  • Mind Screw — If you haven't been spoiled, watching the series from the start in its original out-of-chronological-order order, will mess you up.
  • Miracle Rally
  • Mistaken For Badass
  • Mistaken Message — Ryoko's anonymous note on Kyon's Inside Shoes locker.
  • Mood Whiplash — Ryoko's conversation alone with Kyon sounds like a heartfelt confession of love... that is, until she pulls out the knife and attempts to kill him.
  • Moe — Mikuru, who Haruhi tries to make as moe as possible.
  • Morality Chain — The only reason Haruhi got any nicer is Kyon. And we don't wanna know what would happen if he'd die.
  • Mr Exposition — The show hangs a lampshade on this with Kyon constantly telling Itsuki, aka Mr Exposition, that he talks too much.
  • Mr Vice Guy
  • Ms Fanservice — Mikuru again.
  • Mugged For Disguise — Invoked by Kyon during the fourth novel (when Koizumi and Haruhi, who attend a different school in the altered reality, try to sneak into North High), but averted with them using Kyon's P.E. uniforms instead. Though Haruhi naturally thinks this trope is an equally good idea.
  • Multiple Demographic Appeal — And how.
  • Mundane Fantastic
  • Mundane Utility
  • Musical Pastiche — Soundtrack during the baseball match pastiches the theme to Touch).
  • Nakama — The novels depict this heavily.
  • Necktie Leash
  • Neutral Female — Mikuru. She even knows that she won't be a combatant or competent.
  • Newspaper Dating — Kyon in the novel of The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya.
  • New Transfer Student — Itsuki.
  • Nightmare Fetishist — Haruhi.
  • Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot — Episode 00 "The Adventures Of Mikuru Asahina", Mikuru's and Yuki's characters.
  • No Name Given — Kyon, the Computer Club President, and Kyon's sister — Kyon bemoans his stupid nickname but never says his real name (his school introduction is cut off). Even his sister's image song had to be titled as "Kyon no Imouto-san" or "Kyon's Little Sister". When someone is about to say the president's name, it is covered up by a sudden cut-off to a random cat meowing.
    • The novels tease us by saying that Kyon's actual name is "hard to spell" and "regal sounding."
    • At the beginning of "Melancholy", the introductions were alternately boy/girl, with boys and girls each being alphabetically ordered. After Kyon, Haruhi Suzumiya introduces herself, then Taniguchi. So Kyon's name likely starts with "S" or "Ta". "Tanigawa Nagaru" fulfills this requirement — along with lots of other names.
  • Non Indicative First Episode — First episode, which parodies most of the anime tropes in The Catalogue.
  • Not A Date — Kyon and Mikuru. Aww.
  • Not What It Looks Like
  • Obfuscating Stupidity — Kyon protests a little too much that he doesn't understand what's going on; when previous casual internal monologue indicates otherwise. The novels make this very, very obvious via constant Little Professor Dialog.
    • Being the Unreliable Narrator that he is, he may even fool the reader. Example "Remote Island Syndrome" — He knew the real thing all along. This may however be supported by his almost magically precise character insight.
    • Some of the times it seems more like he's just saying he doesn't know in a snarky sort of way precisely because he's so competent otherwise. Or as a way to keep himself grounded as an ordinary person because of the people he spends so much time around. And, possibly, just as the other SOS members are part of what Haruhi is trying to find and express, Kyon may have been given various parts of Haruhi too such as her inner skepticism and ordinariness.
  • Occult Detective — Ostensibly the goal of the S.O.S. Brigade, though they very rarely get around to it.
  • Off Model — Thankfully averted in the anime, where the animation is consistent and of high quality throughout.
  • Ojou — Tsuruya (so far only shown in the novels).
  • Ominous Latin Chanting — Bilingual Bonus, to boot; the music is part of the first movement of Mahler's 8th Symphony, and the lyrics are taken from the Latin hymn, "Veni, Creator Spiritus", which talks about the creator of the world.
  • Omniscient Morality License
  • Only Known By Their Nickname — Kyon and his sister.
  • Ordinary High School Student — Kyon actually is confirmed completely 100% ordinary. Through background checks.
    • Although, one fan theory on the matter goes something like this: "That's just what he wants you (and himself) to think." And if you do believe this theory, there's some evidence of it starting to appear in Book 9 onward.
    • Also, remember how Haruhi comments that she'll only deal with "Aliens, Time Travelers, Espers, and Sliders" at the beginning? We have the first three, so...
  • Or Was It A Dream — What Kyon is asking himself after the climax of the (chronologically) sixth episode, until it becomes obvious.
  • Out Of Focus — Haruhi Suzumiya herself!
  • Pals With Jesus — Kyon. To the point that anyone who wants to affect her in anyway goes through him first, to his irritation.
  • Panty Shot — There's one in The Adventures of Mikuru Asahina. Guess who it's from?
  • Parker Lewis Ferris Bueller — Haruhi has gotten away with hijacking the literature clubroom, blackmailing the Computer Club President and stealing their stuff, dressing as bunnies, submitting her film to the culture festival with the applications already closed...
  • Peek A Boo — Mikuru in episode 9.
  • Perverse Sexual Lust — Search your feelings, you know it to be true.
  • Pet The Dog — Haruhi has a few. Most famously, the ENOZ concert and in the later novels... Valentine's Chocolate!
    • The way she deals with little kids, such as Kyon's sister, qualifies as well.
      • For that matter, there's something of a literal moment in one novel. Rousseau the terrier draws out some of the best parts of Haruhi.
  • The Philosopher — Itsuki.
  • Playboy Bunny
  • Post Episode Trailer — The "broadcast order" featured Kyon and Haruhi arguing over the episode number. The "DVD order" has Yuki laconically state everything deadpan.
  • Postmodernism
  • Powers As Programs — The humanoid interfaces.
  • Power Nullifier — Yuki Nagato
  • Powers That Be
  • Practical Voice Over — Kyon, narrating the first episode film.
  • Pragmatic Adaptation
  • Rape As Comedy — Haruhi's consistent sexual harassment of Mikuru.
    • Given the Sleep Cute moment as well as some short you-might-miss-them comments from Mikuru in the anime, it may be more a matter of Mikuru's youthful shyness, modesty, self-consciousness and Haruhi's energy that have her flustered rather than it being anything she doesn't want to do. After all, in the anime, the older Mikuru had little problem showing to Kyon the mole on her breast and only became flustered when she realized that Kyon hadn't really looked that closely yet at the younger Mikuru.
  • Rapid Fire Typing — And Rapid Fire Speaking, too. In fact, being an alien, Yuki takes this to such a ludicrous degree that Mikuru gets scared and Kyon gets nervous she'll blow her cover.
  • Red Armband Of Leadership — Haruhi, naturally.
  • Red Oni Blue Oni — Asakura (Red) and Yuki (Blue). Actually subverted, as their inner workings are exactly flipped.
  • Red Pill Blue Pill — Kyon is given the choice to either remain in the new world where espers, aliens, and so forth don't exist or return the world to its former crazy, troublesome self.
  • Rewatch Bonus — You're almost forced to it, due to the Mind Screw episode order.
  • Ripple Effect Proof Memory — Averted and played straight. Once in "Endless Eight" and in "Disappearance". The times it is played straight are explained. Yuki in "Endless Eight", because her informations are out of the time frame and Kyon in "Disappearance", because Yuki precisely made it so he'd remember.
  • Robe And Wizard Hat — As the trope-page says, Yuki is the wizard of rock.
  • Roleplaying Game Terms — Often in the novels and once in the anime, Kyon references Haruhi having a negative effect on his HP and MP.
  • Rubber Face — Poor Mikuru Hilarious punishment!
  • Scary Shiny Glasses — Yuki, until she stops wearing them.
    • When the Student Council President attempts to shut down the SOS Brigade, Kyon notices his glasses were flashing for no reason. "Are those special effects?"
  • Scenery Porn — Compare the real town of Nishinomiya with the anime. (See also this page with photos of locations of scenes from the anime.)
  • Schedule Slip — The tenth light novel has been delayed for more than a year. The second season was delayed for almost three years. The first episode of the second season suddenly aired in the middle of a rerun of the first season. We can only hope that the updates stay constant.
  • School Festival
  • School Uniforms Are The New Black — Yuki Nagato will wear her school uniform even when the rest of her friends change into their casual clothes.
  • Secret Keeper — For three opposing factions, all whom seem to get along pretty well for opposing factions, although it is mentioned that certain parties within each group don't get along as well as the three close to Kyon.
  • Sekaikei
  • Selective Obliviousness — Kyon's non-comprehension of Haruhi's feelings for him is acceptable in the anime, as the series is short and romance is not a gigantic focus, but it's getting downright ridiculous in the novels. It's even got Itsuki openly exasperated. Bear in mind though that in regards to his feelings for Haruhi, Kyon's an Unreliable Narrator. The issue is less any stupidity on his part and more of a refusal to understand.
  • Seinfeldian Conversation
  • Sempai Kohai — Subverted: Although Mikuru is Haruhi and the others' senior, she still gets used like a dishrag by Haruhi.
  • Ship Tease — Everyone and everything.
  • Shirtless Scene — Kyon in the second part of "Endless Eight". Stupid sexy Kyon.
  • Shout Out — Shuffle, Princess Nine, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Mobile Suit Gundam, Macross 7, Touch, Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni, AIR, Star Blazers Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney and other series.
    • In "Live a Live", Itsuki is playing Guildenstern in Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead. Poorly.
    • The book Nagato gives Kyon is Hyperion. It's a book/series about time travel, aliens, bizarre powers and things that may or not be gods/God... Hm...
      • More than that: After reading Hyperion, one may gain a whole new level of insight into what Yuki is and what her (and the Data Entity's) motivations are. This troper certainly did.
    • In "Bamboo Leaf Rhapsody", Yuki is reading Time Enough for Love by Robert A Heinlein. This, too, has implications for the story.
    • In The Dissociation of Suzumiya Haruhi, Yuki is reading Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter. Yuki could start the trope on Suspiciously Apropos Literature.
  • Show Within A Show — The movie.
  • Silent Bob — One single word with a bit of emotion from Nagato says it all.
  • The Singularity — Mechanical technology is a dead end in the Haruhi-verse: both the Aliens and Time Travellers are past it. Mikuru can't operate anything more complicated than a flashlight because what she's familiar with isn't remotely similar; when asked about the future, she can't reveal anything, but her non-answers imply that mankind doesn't even need to use boats anymore. This makes Yuki's love of Science Fiction novels and games an interesting quirk.
  • Sinister Silhouettes — Parodied in episode 2 of Haruhi-chan with Asakura claiming to be part of a "Radical Big Four".
  • Sitcom Character Archetypes:
    • Kyon is the Square and the Wisecracker
    • Haruhi is the Goofball and the Bully
    • Yuki is the Stick
    • Itsuki is the Sage
    • Mikuru is the Precocious and the Goofball
    • Ryoko is the Charmer.
  • Skepticism Failure — one character causes skepticism to fail.
  • Sleep Cute — Mikuru and Haruhi in the novels.
  • The Slow Path — Mikuru.
  • Some Kind Of Force Field — The walls of Closed Space.
  • Something Completely Different — Episode 00 "The Adventures Of Mikuru Asahina" ; Episode 13 "Someday In The Rain" ; Arguably, most of the episodes anyway.
  • Sound Effect Bleep — Kyon's Little Sister and Computer Society President's real names.
  • Sparkling Stream Of Tears — Mikuru, in the opening.
  • Spin Off — Haruhi-chan.
  • Spinning Paper — Kyon randomly remembers a scene from a previous episode in this format.
  • Spock Speak — Yuki Nagato.
  • Spoiler Opening -But only once you've seen the episode.
  • Stable Time Loop — Kyon is John Smith, who met a young Haruhi and influenced her to become who she is today; at one point in the novels, there are four Kyons and three Mikurus existing simultaneously.
    • Also, when an older Mikuru informs Kyon about her star-shaped mole, only to realize he was the one who told her about it, and he didn't know until she told about it. She's understandably upset at the implications.
      • Kyon and Mikuru are in far too many of these. Following Future Mikuru's instructions, the two of them plant the basic ideas of time travel in the head of a primary school boy. Present Mikuru recognises him as the future inventor of time travel.
  • Starfish Aliens — The Integrated Data Entity.
  • Starfish Language — They do not communicate through language, that's what the Interfaces are for.
  • Start My Own — Haruhi's motivation for starting the SOS Brigade.
  • Stepford Smiler — Itsuki, always cheerful and smiling even if the world is in serious danger. Kyon is not amused.
  • Straight Man — Kyon.
  • Strange Girl — Haruhi.
  • Stringy Haired Ghost Girl — Kuyou Suou
  • Student Council President — The... um... Student Council President from the short stories. Though he's really a Punch Clock Villain working for the same Agency as Koizumi, and was brought into the school to prevent Haruhi from inventing her own Big Bad. It doesn't work.
  • Stylistic Suck — The student film in "Episode 0". One of the few justified examples, as it's a student film, trying to look like a Toku show. Oddly enough, the effort required to achieve this look in animation makes it perhaps the most technically sophisticated episode.
  • Sufficiently Advanced Alien — Yuki and the others of her kind.
  • Super Deformed — Haruhi-chan and Churuya-san, though apart from these self-parodies, it consistently averts the trope.
  • Super Power Lottery — Yuki, and how!
  • Suspiciously Apropos Music — "God Knows" in episode 12.
  • Technobabble — Every time Yuki, Mikuru and Itsuki explain something to Kyon.
  • Those Two Guys — Taniguchi and Kunikida — though we see a lot more of Taniguchi.
  • Time Travel — The novels get really complex about this later.
  • The Time Travellers Dilemma
  • They Changed It Now It Sucks — Many fans reacted this way to the new opening and ending sequences created for the 2009 episodes. Admittedly, the old themes had three full years to become ingrained into the collective fan-consciousness, and the ending theme especially achieved godlike levels of popularity, spawning thousands of fan-made videos and animations. Fortunately the creators of the anime were seemingly aware that they could never top themselves, and avoided the temptation to try simply by coming up with something Completely Different (neither of the new themes feature any dancing whatsoever, and their visual styles are quite distinct from both each other and the old themes).
    • And the new art style, which is extremely similar to K-ON!. Not only that, the animation quality has dropped as well. Fans are not amused.
  • Tin Man — Subverted with Yuki, who legitimately appears to lack normal human emotions... at least, at first glance.
  • Together Umbrella — The anime-only episode "Someday in the Rain". D'awww...
  • Touched By Vorlons — Espers. But if you take it precicely, then every super-natural being, since they all only exist because Haruhi created a world like that 3 years ago..
  • True Loves Kiss — Kyon kisses Haruhi to convince her to turn the world back to normal) — or at least give her an interesting romantic subplot with Kyon, keeping her from getting TOO bored....
  • Trust Password — A crowning moment of awesome for Kyon in the fourth novel.
  • Twelve Episode Anime — Plus two, originally. The second season's episodes (also presumably a Twelve Episode Anime) are interspersed in the rerun of the first season, making it twenty-eight in total.
  • Uncanny Valley Girl — Ryouko Asakura.
  • Un Confession
  • Unequal Pairing — the Kyon x Haruhi pairing hinted by the series comes with a really big double bind: Haruhi can't be Kyon's equal as long as he actively continues to deceive her about her true nature, but Kyon can't be Haruhi's equal if she becomes aware of her true nature.
  • Unlimited Wardrobe — Mikuru Asahina and by extension everyone except Yuki.
  • Unreliable Narrator — But only in regard to his feelings about Haruhi and 'normalcy', otherwise Kyon's pretty good.
  • Vaporware — The tenth novel's been delayed for nearly two years, and counting. It'll come out eventually... we hope.
  • Vitriolic Best Buds — (As Taniguchi said about him and Kunikida, "So I threw him out the window, and that's how we became friends." *Tsuruya laughs*)
  • Wham Episode — Episode 5
  • What Happened To The Mouse — Shamisen, the talking cat, appears in episode one (eleven chronologically) and in the opening and ending animations, and nowhere else in the series. It's implied that he lives with Kyon's sister, but he's never seen at their house in the later episodes.
    • This is adressed in the novels.
    • And there's a good chance it will also be addressed in the second season episodes, but of course, that doesn't help you if all you've watched is the first season.
  • Where The Hell Is Springfield — Half-played straight, and half-averted. The series' setting is described/rendered in sufficient detail (in both novels and anime) to be undoubtedly the author's hometown of Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture, but it's never referred to by name in-series. Most likely, unwillingness to come out and say it is to avoid invoking a different trope based on the dialect of the region. Nevertheless, there are a few dead giveaways in the series, such as an establishing shot in the anime version of "Endless Eight" that is unmistakably the waterfront of Kobe. (Perhaps the series' attention to detail is also its own undoing.)
  • Wiki Walk
  • Written Sound Effect (The opening of the new episodes)
  • The Woobie — Mikuru; Haruhi went out of her way to make her one.
    • Mikuru would be one even without Haruhi's help. Think about it: She gets uprooted from her friends, family and timeline, is thrown into a culture alien to her without any of the technology she's used to in the future, where she is constantly manipulated, kept out of the loop and emotionally abused by none other than her future self. Add to this the fact that before being sent back in time, she underwent mental conditioning preventing her from ever revealing anything details of her old life to any of her new friends, no matter how much she might want to. And all of this abuse came from the people she's supposed to be saving.
      • She doesn't seem to mind. Perhaps because she knows that in the future she'll be able to take it all out on her past self, who doesn't seem to mind.
    • So does that make her a sadist or a masochist?
      • Actually, it's made abundantly clear that Mikuru doesn't know that her superior is her future self. Kyon even mentions that he's beginning to resent what he sees as the unfair treatment of younger-Mikuru by older-Mikuru
    • Also Yuki Nagato in The Disappearance Of Haruhi Suzumiya. Hell, everywhere after her Hostile Show Takeover.
  • Woolseyism — "Supersize me!" was not in the original script (as a matter of fact, the fansubbers were the sort to play Woosley with the script so one throw away "Huge!" became "Supersize me!") but somehow it's entered even the offical dub.
  • You Fail Biology Forever — The show contains quite a bit of nonsense about evolution, but it's more prominent in the light novels.
  • You Gotta Have Blue Hair — Everyone has realistic hair colors, except for the Humanoid Interfaces. And Tsuruya.
  • Younger Than They Look — Yuki is technically only 3 years old (And if we are to believe Kyon and Itsuki the world is only 3 years old.)
  • Your Mind Makes It Real — Haruhi can alter reality unknowingly.
  • You Should Know This Already — Haruhi is god. Where have you been the last years if you didn't already know this?
Tropes featured in the gender-flipped fanfics:
  • Crossdresser — Poor Mitsuru, forced to wear a frilly maid dress for a photo shoot and whenever he shows up at the club room for the remainder of the gender-flip of the first light novel!
  • Evil Laugh — Haruki gets one after telling how it's possible for the Computer Research Society girls to rape a boy (Mitsuru). Subverted in that Haruki himself is not really evil, but is merely a Jerkass.
  • Gender Flip — The whole idea of these fanfics.
  • The Glasses Gotta Go — Yuuki, due to his clash with Ryou Asakura.
  • Hide Your Lesbians — Subverted, as Itsuko only acts like a lesbian when Haruki's around.
    • Considering it's a gender-flip of the original, wouldn't this be be inverted? (Itsuki in the original surprisingly only did it when Haruhi wasn't around.)
  • Katanas Are Just Better — Ryou Asakura sports a katana instead of a Ryoko's knife.
  • Les Yay — Itsuko, who shows lesbian tendencies toward Kyonko.
  • Meido — Subverted in that the person who winds up dressed as one turns out to be a boy (Mitsuru)!
  • Most Common Superpower — Granted to Itsuko.
  • Pettanko — Kyonko. Nuff said.
  • Playboy Bunny — Kyonko was unlucky enough to get a bunny girl costume as a present from Haruki, who expects her to be grateful and try it on.
  • Real Men Wear Pink — Mitsuru, with his heart-printed boxer shorts and (for a good part of the gender-flip of the first light novel) a frilly maid dress.
  • Stripperiffic — Haruki and Mitsuru (the latter unwillingly) dress up as Chippendale dancers while passing out flyers advertising the SOS Brigade.
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