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A trope can't be "mostly" subverted.


* ShadowArchetype: To Yuki; she's essentially what Yuki would be like if she had even fewer social skills and absolutely no idea how regular humans interact or behave, and as a result she's even more unsettling and alien.
* StarfishLanguage: Implied at first, and then mostly subverted. The Canopy Domain did not, in fact, really know what communication even was, meaning they ''had'' no language.

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* ShadowArchetype: To Yuki; she's essentially what Yuki would be like if she had even fewer social skills and absolutely no idea how regular humans interact or behave, and as a result she's even more unsettling and alien.
alien than Yuki could ever be.
* StarfishLanguage: Implied at first, and then mostly subverted. The reason why she doesn't know how to communicate with humans is because the Canopy Domain did not, in fact, really know what communication even was, meaning they ''had'' no language.
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* TokenMiniMoe: Downplayed; while she's a cute little girl who's the youngest member of the cast, she isn't sexualized in any way, appears only sparingly, never [[SpotlightStealingSquad steals the spotlight]] when she does appear, and [[AnnoyingYoungerSibling annoys the hero]] because she acts her age. One would be hard-pressed to find an anime character with these traits in TheNewTens.

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* TokenMiniMoe: Downplayed; while she's a cute little girl who's the youngest member of the cast, she isn't sexualized in any way, appears only sparingly, sparingly (though she tends to appear with the main cast more often in the anime's merchandising), never [[SpotlightStealingSquad steals the spotlight]] when she does appear, and [[AnnoyingYoungerSibling annoys the hero]] because she acts her age. One would be hard-pressed to find an anime character with these traits in TheNewTens.
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She's not the very first example of the Token Mini Moe in anime or light novels, so she can't be an unbuilt example.


* TokenMiniMoe: An UnbuiltTrope. She isn't sexualized in any way, appears only sparingly, never [[SpotlightStealingSquad steals the spotlight]] when she does appear, and [[AnnoyingYoungerSibling annoys the hero]] because she acts her age. One would be hard-pressed to find an anime character with these traits in TheNewTens.

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* TokenMiniMoe: An UnbuiltTrope. She Downplayed; while she's a cute little girl who's the youngest member of the cast, she isn't sexualized in any way, appears only sparingly, never [[SpotlightStealingSquad steals the spotlight]] when she does appear, and [[AnnoyingYoungerSibling annoys the hero]] because she acts her age. One would be hard-pressed to find an anime character with these traits in TheNewTens.

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Kyon's old girlfriend. Or at least the female person he used to hang around with, and the reason for his pre-Haruhi reputation for "liking weird girls." Sasaki is intelligent and analytical...but chooses not to do anything to change her environment. She knows about aliens, time-travelers and espers, which are interesting, but she's not going to change her daily routine over it. She's somewhat of TheSpock and wishes to keep out of the God-business all the organizations have.

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Kyon's old girlfriend. Or at least the female person he used to hang around with, and the reason for his pre-Haruhi reputation for "liking weird girls." Sasaki is intelligent and analytical... but chooses not to do anything to change her environment. She knows about aliens, time-travelers and espers, which are interesting, but she's not going to change her daily routine over it. She's somewhat of TheSpock and wishes to keep out of the God-business all the organizations have.



* AntiVillain: Seemingly a Type I [[spoiler: but really a Type IV.]]

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* AntiVillain: Seemingly a Type I [[spoiler: but [[spoiler:but really a Type IV.]]



* ForgottenChildhoodFriend: To Kyon [[spoiler: and Haruhi.]]
* GoodAllAlong: Though she's introduced as Haruhi's EvilCounterpart, she's actually the only member of her group who isn't villainous at all. [[spoiler: In fact, she was even a friend of Haruhi's back in elementary school! She and Kyon hatch a plan to stop the rest of the Anti-SOS Brigade. [[BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu It wouldn't have worked]], but it's the thought that counts.]]
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: She mentions that one of the reasons she hangs around the Anti-SOS Brigade is that they're the only people who talk to her. In the end, [[spoiler: Kyouko states that she wishes to remain Sasaki's friend, and Kyon promises to always be her friend too, so things work out well for her.]]

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* ForgottenChildhoodFriend: To Kyon [[spoiler: and [[spoiler:and Haruhi.]]
* GoodAllAlong: Though she's introduced as Haruhi's EvilCounterpart, she's actually the only member of her group who isn't villainous at all. [[spoiler: In [[spoiler:In fact, she was even a friend of Haruhi's back in elementary school! She and Kyon hatch a plan to stop the rest of the Anti-SOS Brigade. [[BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu It wouldn't have worked]], but it's the thought that counts.]]
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: She mentions that one of the reasons she hangs around the Anti-SOS Brigade is that they're the only people who talk to her. In the end, [[spoiler: Kyouko [[spoiler:Kyouko states that she wishes to remain Sasaki's friend, and Kyon promises to always be her friend too, so things work out well for her.]]



* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler:To the rest of her group, but especially Fujiwara. She was one of few, however, to exactly ''know'' she was the group's pawn and secretly worked to stop it.]]

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* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler:To the rest of her group, but especially Fujiwara. She was one of a few, however, to exactly ''know'' she was the group's pawn and secretly worked to stop it.]]



* HeelRealization: [[spoiler: Complete with a brief {{Villainous BSOD}} and MyGodWhatHaveIDone.]]

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* HeelRealization: [[spoiler: Complete [[spoiler:Complete with a brief {{Villainous BSOD}} and MyGodWhatHaveIDone.]]



* TouchedByVorlons: As with the other espers. [[spoiler:Her powers, however, came from Sasaki.]]

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* TouchedByVorlons: As with the other espers.Espers. [[spoiler:Her powers, however, came from Sasaki.]]



* KillTheGod: Goes out of his way to [[spoiler:make a ''very'' serious attempt on Haruhi's life]] at the climax of ''Surprise Vol. 2''.



* KillTheGod: Goes out of his way to [[spoiler:make a ''very'' serious attempt on Haruhi's life]] at the climax of ''Surprise Vol. 2''.



** During the climax of the 11th novel: "[[spoiler: Go kill Haruhi Suzumiya!]]"

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** During the climax of the 11th novel: "[[spoiler: Go "[[spoiler:Go kill Haruhi Suzumiya!]]"
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* CatchPhrase: "Yare yare", at least in the past. Yes, ''she's'' the one Kyon picked that up from.

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* CatchPhrase: CharacterCatchphrase: "Yare yare", at least in the past. Yes, ''she's'' the one Kyon picked that up from.
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Bokukko is now def-only


* {{Bokukko}}: Strangely, she refers to herself using male pronouns when speaking to boys, but switches to female pronouns when talking to girls.
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* SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud: See VerbalTic below.

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* SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud: See Her VerbalTic below.of "nyoro" is essentially this, as it means "tilde", which is often used in Japanese text as an extension of a syllable to give a drawn-out or playful pronunciation.
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This shouldn't be in Ryoko Asakura's profile


* Letters2Numbers: Yuki(?) rewrites Haruhi's graphic to say 505. However 708 remains just an apartment number. (Unless it's short for Be On the Lookout).
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* SenpaiKohai: As a first year, she's a kohai to the entire SOS Brigade. [[spoiler:In the phone call, she refers to Kyon as "Sempai".]]
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* VerbalTic: "Nyoro[[note]]Japanese for [[SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud tilde (~)]][[/note]]" though she only says it very rarely (once in the anime). The anime also adds "megas"; though it's used only once in the actual anime it appears in her character songs.

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* VerbalTic: "Nyoro[[note]]Japanese for [[SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud tilde (~)]][[/note]]" though she only says it very rarely (once in the anime). The anime also adds "megas"; though it's used only once in the actual anime it appears in her character songs.{{Image Song}}s.



* AdaptationInducedPlotHole: More regarding characterization. The character songs for the anime's first season were released prior to the tenth volume of the light novels; building off the fact that she's an interface, the songs portrayed her as someone reaching for humanity and wanting to participate in the fun everyone else has but being unable to. The tenth volume, however, reveals that [[spoiler:she doesn't give a damn about anything that interferes with what the Entity wants, not even Yuki's personal safety.]]

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* AdaptationInducedPlotHole: More regarding characterization. The character songs {{Image Song}}s for the anime's first season were released prior to the tenth volume of the light novels; building off the fact that she's an interface, the songs portrayed Kimidori's song "fixed mind" portrays her as someone reaching for humanity and wanting to participate in the fun everyone else has but being unable to. The tenth volume, however, reveals that [[spoiler:she doesn't give a damn about anything that interferes with what the Entity wants, not even Yuki's personal safety.]]

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