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* SleepCute: [[HoYay Ageha and Oboro]]
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** [[AxCrazy Aoi Yusaka]] is a young man who is revealed to be utterly malevolent. He participated in [[PlayingWithSyringes inhumane experiments]] for kids who have psychic powers known as Grigori Project, befriending a scientist, Koichi Iba. When Iba tries to seeks help to stop Miroku by gathering some information about the project, [[EvilAllAlong Yusaka]] then lets the heroes infiltrate the base, while slaughtering everyone he comes across with a crowbar; he also infects the heroes--including Iba--with [[ThePlague a nasty virus]]. It was also revealed that he brutally kills and tortures some people using a [[DeadlyGas sulfur mustard gas]] and poisonous moths. When Iba asks him to thank Miroku for his forgiveness, Yusaka just mocks him about it and it was revealed that in the past, he slaughtered the scientists that participated in the Grigori Project and joined Miroku's side so he could slaughtered whoever he came across.

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** [[AxCrazy Aoi Yusaka]] is a young man who is revealed to be utterly malevolent. He participated in [[PlayingWithSyringes inhumane experiments]] for kids who have psychic powers known as Grigori Project, befriending a scientist, Koichi Iba. When Iba tries to seeks help to stop Miroku by gathering some information about the project, [[EvilAllAlong Yusaka]] then lets the heroes infiltrate the base, while slaughtering everyone he comes across with a crowbar; he also infects the heroes--including Iba--with [[ThePlague a nasty virus]]. It was also revealed that he brutally kills and tortures some people using a [[DeadlyGas sulfur mustard gas]] and poisonous moths. When Iba asks him to thank Miroku for his forgiveness, Yusaka just mocks him about it and it was revealed that in the past, he slaughtered the scientists that participated in the Grigori Project and joined Miroku's side so he could slaughtered slaughter whoever he came across.
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* HilariousInHindsight: A world-ending video game, time travel, strange aliens, and an EldritchAbomination BigBad. Hmm...[[Webcomic/{{Homestuck}} where have we seen that before?]][[note]]''Psyren'' actually predates ''Homestuck'' by two years, and given Andrew Hussie's complete lack of knowledge regarding anime or manga, it's one hell of a coincidence.[[/note]]
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** [[TheManBehindTheMan Mithra]] is a mysterious woman who is revealed to be the engineer of several misfortunes in the series. Originally a human, she contacted an EldritchAbomination known as Quat Nevas and becomes a vessel of it. To bring down Quat Nevas to Earth, Mithra then manipulates one of the psychic child that was horribly experimented by the government, [[BigBad Miroku Amagi]], by giving him a dream of a sheep and a wolf and lies to him and his friends about the meteor that would grant them a great power, under the pretense that Mithra will guide Miroku to create his perfect world. After becoming a higher member of an organization that Miroku established known as WISE, it was also revealed that Mithra creates a core that could turn human beings into monstrous beings known as Tavoos. When said organization kidnaps the members of the resistance organization known as Root, Mithra takes an interest on one of the Root members because she has an interesting body that she wants to [[GrandTheftMe take over]]. When Miroku tries to make a new human race by using his ultimate power, Mithra [[TheStarscream backstabs him]], sneering that a sheep can never become a wolf and sheep should remain as the sheep they are, before proceeding to merge with Quat Nevas and letting it consume the Earth. Manipulative and fanatical, Mithra will stop at nothing to cause destruction and misery to serve the master that she worships.

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** [[TheManBehindTheMan [[spoiler:[[TheManBehindTheMan Mithra]] is a mysterious woman who is revealed to be the engineer of several misfortunes in the series. Originally a human, she contacted an EldritchAbomination known as Quat Nevas and becomes a vessel of it. To bring down Quat Nevas to Earth, Mithra then manipulates one of the psychic child that was horribly experimented by the government, [[BigBad Miroku Amagi]], by giving him a dream of a sheep and a wolf and lies to him and his friends about the meteor that would grant them a great power, under the pretense that Mithra will guide Miroku to create his perfect world. After becoming a higher member of an organization that Miroku established known as WISE, it was also revealed that Mithra creates a core that could turn human beings into monstrous beings known as Tavoos. When said organization kidnaps the members of the resistance organization known as Root, Mithra takes an interest on one of the Root members because she has an interesting body that she wants to [[GrandTheftMe take over]]. When Miroku tries to make a new human race by using his ultimate power, Mithra [[TheStarscream backstabs him]], sneering that a sheep can never become a wolf and sheep should remain as the sheep they are, before proceeding to merge with Quat Nevas and letting it consume the Earth. Manipulative and fanatical, Mithra will stop at nothing to cause destruction and misery to serve the master that she worships.]]
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** It is now a regular in the English version of Shonen Jump Monthly, which is impressive because it was originally a sampler.

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Removed Zero Context Example. Main characters can't be Darkhorses. Trope misuse.


* CrackPairing: The fourth Drift- [[spoiler:Ian and Fubuki get married]].
* EnsembleDarkhorse: Despite having little screentime compared to the other drifters, Kabuto seems to be very popular [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff with western audiences at least]].
** Kagetora ranked in the top 5 in the first character poll.
* EpilepticTrees: About Mithra well... everything.
* EvilIsSexy: Nekka
* FashionVictimVillain: The W.I.S.E. during their declaration of war. Fixed eventually when they get outfits that look like they came from the mind of [[Creator/SquareEnix Tetsuya Nomura]], and later on are seen just wearing suits.
* FoeYay: Eiji with Marie



* LesYay: Mithra with Marie.
** Yagumo openly gropes Sakurako at one point.
* {{Moe}}: Marie
* NightmareFuel: The Tavoo core insertion process. Also, Biological Ruin.
** The remains of people skewered by Miroku's Tree of Life. [[http://read.mangashare.com/Psyren/chapter-094/page004.html WARNING: Chapter 94 spoilers]]
** Yusaka once he shows himself for what he really is. Everything he does is pure NightmareFuel.
** Eiji Kise/Vigo's power Zone Diver has some pretty heavy NightmareFuel in it. He can phase through objects, including people's skin. Imagine a hand going through your chest, and then grabbing your heart. Or pulling your bones out one by one. Or dragging you into the ground, and [[TakenForGranite fusing you with the cement]].
* OneTrueThreesome: Ageha/Sakurako/[[spoiler:Abyss]]. The fact that the latter is [[spoiler:just Sakurako's more emotional LiteralSplitPersonality]] doesn't slow anything down in the slightest.
-->'''[[spoiler:Abyss]]:''' AGEHA! I love you ♥!
-->'''Sakurako:''' Sh-shut up!
* TearJerker: Ian in chapter 70. [[spoiler: His completely fries his brain out, trying to heal all the wounded after the Day of Revolution, after losing everything important to him, including the woman he was in love with and his best friend, Matsuri]].
** Chapter 102.
--->[[spoiler:Then tell him... "Thank you for letting me live, after all of the horrible things I did. Thank you... for forgiving me. Number 6, do you remember what today is? Happy... Birthday...]]
** Chapter 124 as well.
* TrappedByMountainLions: Hiryuu and Oboro
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic: Once the future begins looking really murky and uncertain, the DVD disappears, symbolizing nothing is set in stone anymore.
** Kasukabe notes that if he and Tatsuo go too close to the sun, the effects of the membrane won't work and they'll die because of their Illuminas Forges. This is (perhaps unintentionally) very similar to the myth of Icarus and Daedelus.
* TheWoobie: Marie

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* LesYay: Mithra with Marie.
** Yagumo openly gropes Sakurako at one point.
* {{Moe}}: Marie
* NightmareFuel: The Tavoo core insertion process. Also, Biological Ruin.
** The remains of people skewered by Miroku's Tree of Life. [[http://read.mangashare.com/Psyren/chapter-094/page004.html WARNING: Chapter 94 spoilers]]
** Yusaka once he shows himself for what he really is. Everything he does is pure NightmareFuel.
** Eiji Kise/Vigo's power Zone Diver has some pretty heavy NightmareFuel in it. He can phase through objects, including people's skin. Imagine a hand going through your chest, and then grabbing your heart. Or pulling your bones out one by one. Or dragging you into the ground, and [[TakenForGranite fusing you with the cement]].
* OneTrueThreesome: Ageha/Sakurako/[[spoiler:Abyss]]. The fact that the latter is [[spoiler:just Sakurako's more emotional LiteralSplitPersonality]] doesn't slow anything down in the slightest.
-->'''[[spoiler:Abyss]]:''' AGEHA! I love you ♥!
-->'''Sakurako:''' Sh-shut up!
* TearJerker: Ian in chapter 70. [[spoiler: His [[spoiler:He completely fries his brain out, trying to heal all the wounded after the Day of Revolution, after losing everything important to him, including the woman he was in love with and his best friend, Matsuri]].
** Chapter 102.
--->[[spoiler:Then tell him... "Thank you for letting me live, after all of the horrible things I did. Thank you... for forgiving me. Number 6, do you remember what today is? Happy... Birthday...]]
** Chapter 124 as well.
* TrappedByMountainLions: Hiryuu and Oboro
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic: Once the future begins looking really murky and uncertain, the DVD disappears, symbolizing nothing is set in stone anymore.
** Kasukabe notes that if he and Tatsuo go too close to the sun, the effects of the membrane won't work and they'll die because of their Illuminas Forges. This is (perhaps unintentionally) very similar to the myth of Icarus and Daedelus.
* TheWoobie: Marie
Matsuri]].
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* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: see [[Awesome/{{Psyren}} its page]]

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*CompleteMonster: In this series about people who time travel to a hellish futuristic dystopia to prevent a disaster, these three manage to stand out in their depravity:
** [[TheManBehindTheMan Mithra]] is a mysterious woman who is revealed to be the engineer of several misfortunes in the series. Originally a human, she contacted an EldritchAbomination known as Quat Nevas and becomes a vessel of it. To bring down Quat Nevas to Earth, Mithra then manipulates one of the psychic child that was horribly experimented by the government, [[BigBad Miroku Amagi]], by giving him a dream of a sheep and a wolf and lies to him and his friends about the meteor that would grant them a great power, under the pretense that Mithra will guide Miroku to create his perfect world. After becoming a higher member of an organization that Miroku established known as WISE, it was also revealed that Mithra creates a core that could turn human beings into monstrous beings known as Tavoos. When said organization kidnaps the members of the resistance organization known as Root, Mithra takes an interest on one of the Root members because she has an interesting body that she wants to [[GrandTheftMe take over]]. When Miroku tries to make a new human race by using his ultimate power, Mithra [[TheStarscream backstabs him]], sneering that a sheep can never become a wolf and sheep should remain as the sheep they are, before proceeding to merge with Quat Nevas and letting it consume the Earth. Manipulative and fanatical, Mithra will stop at nothing to cause destruction and misery to serve the master that she worships.
** [[TheCaligula Usui]] is an eyepatch-wearing man who starts off as a [[DirtyCop fake cop]] trying to steal Ageha's Psyren Calling Card. However, as time went by, he becomes something worse. Establishing his totalitarian Amakusa Empire in the future by [[GodGuise disguising himself as a reincarnation of Shiro Amakusa]], it was revealed that Usui had a penchant for executing people solely for entertainment, secretly laughing at the ignorant masses. It was also revealed that in flashback, he murders and mind-wipes some of the candidates that try to participate in the Psyren Games in order to obtain the Calling Cards. When Usui tries to kill the person who created the Psyren Games and one of Ageha's companions tries to stop Usui, he then mind-wipes her memory. Even after being defeated, Usui just sneers towards one of his subordinates by saying that they live in a world where farces prevail.
** [[AxCrazy Aoi Yusaka]] is a young man who is revealed to be utterly malevolent. He participated in [[PlayingWithSyringes inhumane experiments]] for kids who have psychic powers known as Grigori Project, befriending a scientist, Koichi Iba. When Iba tries to seeks help to stop Miroku by gathering some information about the project, [[EvilAllAlong Yusaka]] then lets the heroes infiltrate the base, while slaughtering everyone he comes across with a crowbar; he also infects the heroes--including Iba--with [[ThePlague a nasty virus]]. It was also revealed that he brutally kills and tortures some people using a [[DeadlyGas sulfur mustard gas]] and poisonous moths. When Iba asks him to thank Miroku for his forgiveness, Yusaka just mocks him about it and it was revealed that in the past, he slaughtered the scientists that participated in the Grigori Project and joined Miroku's side so he could slaughtered whoever he came across.
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* ChaoticGood: Nemesis Q's methods are... questionable, and she tries to put on a facade of apathy regarding the world's fate, but deep down she wants to stop [[spoiler:Miroku]] from destroying the world.



* FanNickname:
** Q-chan for Nemesis Q
** Also Chibi Q and [[spoiler:Lady Nemesis/Q for No. 7]].
** Recent developments have given birth to [[spoiler:Kuromiya]].
** Mostly in the Japanese {{fandom}} the term Ageharem/Ageharemu due to the MagneticHero qualities Ageha has. Made up of [[EvenTheGuysWantHim both sexes]].
** The manga's placement in TOC-rankings coined the term "Psyrening" for a manga that frequently jumps around between high and low positions.



* SpotlightStealingSquad: The Elmore Wood children in the TimeSkip, they steal the screentime from the other main characters at the point and made fighting the BigBadEnsemble look like child's play during their first appearance post-TookALevelInBadass.
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* FetishFuel: How Sakurako taught the boys telekinesis: She tied them to a chair, sat down ten feet away, and told them they couldn't leave until they managed to touch anywhere on her body without moving. The perfect training regime for 17-year old boys.
-->[[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/psyren/v02/c012/11.html Please, God!! Give me the power to touch Amamiya in various places!!]]
*** [[JerkassGods So God gave him the power]] [[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/psyren/v02/c013/20.html to blow up her wall.]]
** Also there's Amamiya's new ability [[spoiler: which allows her to [[LiteralSplitPersonality manifest]] her split personality "Abyss" into reality. Add that to Abyss's [[{{Yandere}} obsessive love]] for Ageha and you have yourself a fetish.]]



* MartyStu: Oboro is pretty blatantly one of these, what with his status as a handsome celebrity who has [[HardWorkHardlyWorks immense PSI prowess]], though as a bit of a subversion, some of his personality traits are...[[MoralDissonance questionable]]. Continues to play this straight when [[spoiler: he apparently goes UpToEleven as a Tavoo.]]
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* JustForFun/XMeetsY:
** ''Manga/{{Gantz}}'' meets ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'', pretty much.
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** ''Anime/{{Gilgamesh}}'' meets ''Manga/{{Gantz}}'' more or less.
** Or perhaps ''Manga/DragonBall'' meets ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger''

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** ''Anime/{{Gilgamesh}}'' meets ''Manga/{{Gantz}}'' more or less.
** Or perhaps ''Manga/DragonBall''
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''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'', pretty much.
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* HilariousInHindsight: A world-ending video game, time travel, strange aliens, and an EldritchAbomination BigBad. Hmm...[[Webcomic/{{Homestuck}} where have we seen that before?]][[note]]''Psyren'' actually predates ''Homestuck'' by two years, and given Andrew Hussie's complete lack of knowledge regarding anime or manga, it's one hell of a coincidence.[[/note]]
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* SpotlightStealingSquad: The Elmore Wood children in TheTimeSkip, they steal the screentime from the other main characters at the point and made fighting the BigBadEnsemble look like child's play during their first appearance post-TookALevelInBadass.

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* SpotlightStealingSquad: The Elmore Wood children in TheTimeSkip, the TimeSkip, they steal the screentime from the other main characters at the point and made fighting the BigBadEnsemble look like child's play during their first appearance post-TookALevelInBadass.
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* TearJerker - [[spoiler: Ian completely fries his brain out, trying to heal all the wounded after the Day of Revolution, after losing everything important to him, including the woman he was in love with and his best friend, Matsuri]].

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* TearJerker - TearJerker: Ian in chapter 70. [[spoiler: Ian His completely fries his brain out, trying to heal all the wounded after the Day of Revolution, after losing everything important to him, including the woman he was in love with and his best friend, Matsuri]].Matsuri]].
** Chapter 102.
--->[[spoiler:Then tell him... "Thank you for letting me live, after all of the horrible things I did. Thank you... for forgiving me. Number 6, do you remember what today is? Happy... Birthday...]]
** Chapter 124 as well.
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* FashionVictimVillain: The W.I.S.E. during their declaration of war. Fixed eventually when they get outfits that look like they came from the mind of [[SquareEnix Tetsuya Nomura]], and later on are seen just wearing suits.

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* FashionVictimVillain: The W.I.S.E. during their declaration of war. Fixed eventually when they get outfits that look like they came from the mind of [[SquareEnix [[Creator/SquareEnix Tetsuya Nomura]], and later on are seen just wearing suits.

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