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* MacrossMissileMassacre: Chachamaru did this at the end of the first anime adaptation using a pactio power.
* MadeOfIron: Jack Rakan, one of the names people have given him is "That damn guy you can stab with swords all you like and it won't do a thing, dammit"
* MagicAIsMagicA: Negima is pretty consistent about what magic can and cannot do. There are no money trees for instance and [[LovePotion Love Potions]] do exist but are highly illegal for logical reasons.
* AMagicContractComesWithAKiss: Pactio. It's implied that BloodMagic can be used if a kiss would be awkward or otherwise unwise, but since the one who taught them about the pactios is [[DirtyOldMan Chamo]]...
* MagicContractRomance: Negi notes that there is a trend where Mages are known to marry their Minister/Ministra Magi.
* MagicalIncantation: Typically in unfamiliar languages, such as Latin, Greek, Sanskrit, and archaic Japanese.
* MagicallyBindingContract: Pactio is the most obvious, but least straight, example. A straighter invocation occurs when [[spoiler:Fate and Godel]] each try to make Negi sign one which would have the power of a [[RestrainingBolt geas]].)
* MagicDance: Most Konoka's healing magic involves dances.
* MagicLand: This would be the near-literal translation of Mundus Magicus.
* MagicMissileStorm: One of the most basic and common offensive spells is Saggitta Magica (Magical Arrows). They come in a variety of [[ElementalPowers elemental types]] with different properties, and almost every mage is seen using the spell at one point. Near the end of the manga Negi fires off a volley of 1001 lightning Saggitta at Fate, who notes that while Saggitta Magica is a low-end spell Negi has scaled it up so much that it's essentially the same as an anti-army spell.
* MagicStaff: He carries a staff most of the time when doing magic. It serves as a focus for his spells and he also uses it to fly in a manner resembling a FlyingBroomstick. It also is a MementoMacGuffin since Nagi was the one who gave it to him.
* MagicWand
** Anya uses one of these as opposed to Negi's [[SimpleStaff staff]]. Using a wand to cast instead of a staff or other focus is apparently considered childish. They also don't work as well.
** Sceptrum Virtuale looks like a magical girl toy, but it actually gives Chisame hacking abilities.
* {{Magitek}}: Chao's DeadlyUpgrade and PoweredArmor, as well as Chachamaru's very existence. Oh, and a magic gun. And then there's the [[CoolShip Paru-sama]] (a Goldfish-Style Aerofish with a high-propulsion-pentagram-18-prayer-spirit engine and anti-pirate military-grade armaments.)
%%* TheMagocracy: The Megalomesembrian Senate.
* MaidCorps: Evangeline's {{Robot Maid}}s.
* MajorInjuryUnderreaction:
** In the Magic World Arc, upon having his ''right arm'' severed in a fight, [[spoiler:Negi]] just exclaims "I still have my left!" and continues to fight.
** Fate later has his arm lopped off by [[spoiler: Tsukuyomi]] and he doesn't seem too worried about it. Given that he's an ArtificialHuman, he reattaches it offscreen.
* MakeItLookLikeAStruggle: [[spoiler:Amnesiac Yue]] tells Negi to attack her when they accidentally meet, all the while wondering what exactly is she doing and why.
* MalfunctionMalady: He creates gusts of wind when he sneezes. Wind that seeks out and strikes girls' clothing like a heat-seeking missile.
* MarilynManeuver:
** Nodoka's skirt gets poofed up thanks to a wind spell, leading her to try really hard to hold it down.
** Yue shows Negi her progress in magic training by executing a wind spell that hurls her dress upward, leaving her panties exposed for Chamo to take a good long look at.
* MarryThemAll: A joke was made halfway through the manga about Nodoka considering a three way relationship with Yue and Negi to be an ideal solution.
%%* MarshmallowHell: The [[TropeNamers/AnimeAndManga Trope Namer]]. It also provides the page image.
* MarsNeedsWomen: Chamo seems disturbingly attracted to human girls.
* MasculineFeminineGayCouple: Konoka and Setsuna. Konoka is a very girly and cheery {{Ojou}} with healing powers while Setsuna is a serious swordswoman with some {{Bifauxnen}} looks who is determined to protect Konoka from anything. This aspect of their relationship is emphasized in some occasions where they dress up and Setsuna ends up wearing male clothing to contrast Konoka's elegant dresses.
* {{Masquerade}}: Mages are not supposed to reveal themselves to {{Muggles}}. Doing so puts them in danger of severe punishment, and LaserGuidedAmnesia for all involved if discovered.
* MassTeleportation: The portal to Mundus Magicus bears a strong resemblance to an airport.
* MeasuringDay: Negi doesn't seem to understand what it entails and asks the girls to get ready for it by taking off their clothes.
* MediumAwareness: The characters comment several times on the images that appear in the back of the panel to illustrate one of their thoughts or a flashback.
** Konoka hastily readies the RelaxOVision card used some chapters back when Rakan's taunting of the AmazonBrigade that's trapped them edges too close to {{Hentai}} for comfort.
** During Misora's hilarious attempt to attempt to deny her identity through BlatantLies, big glowing letters appear above her head proclaiming her name. She frantically tries to wave it away.
* MegatonPunch:
** Following a ThanksForTheMammary moment during Asuna’s practice date with aged-up Negi in a ''Manga/LoveHina'' homage.
** Since Negi is so young, most of the girls don't feel embarrassed around him. Anya, though, is willing and capable of sending him flying - [[SubvertedTrope but only if he lets her.]]
* {{Meido}}: A favorite of Evangeline and Fate, and apparently standard uniform for Magic World slaves.
* MentalWorld: During his Magia Erebea training, a copy of Evangeline yanks Negi's mind into a magic scroll and creates a world for him to train in.
* MesACrowd: Negi attempts to make a single copy of himself using a traditional Japanese magic that animates a paper doll, with which he is unfamiliar. Eventually he succeeds and goes away, but afterwards the four failed paper copies also come to life.
* MidSeasonUpgrade: Chachamaru gains one of these after her GadgeteerGenius creator Hakase gathered the observed battle-data of the previous arc. Among a few new weapons and a speed upgrade, one major aesthetic improvement has her concealing her mechanical joints with softer, more realistic skin. She still has a set of antenna ears on her head, so it’s not hard to figure out she's a robot.
* MindOverManners: Nodoka's ability is limited to just mind reading, but it's specifically noted that she's probably the one with said artifact simply because she's the one least likely to abuse it.
* MisplacedAccent: In the English dub, Negi speaks like an American attempting the IAmVeryBritish Received Pronunciation accent, not in anything like a Welsh accent.
* MissingMom:
** Negi's absent mother gets absolutely no mention until we finally learn that his mother [[spoiler:is/was Princess Arika Anarchia Entheophysia]]. He didn't know either.
** Mrs. Cocolova was turned to stone while Anya was away. She dusts her off regularly.
* MobileShrubbery: Nodoka uses this to quietly approach Natsumi, Makie, and Yue all talking about Negi.
%%* ModestyTowel: Sometimes...
* MonsterMash: Negi's associates include a ghost, a vampire, a half-bird demon, and a dog demon. On the other side, the REALLY monstrous-looking bounty hunters are later seen casually relaxing in the same baths as Negi and company.
* MoodWhiplash:
** ''Negima!'''s left-field ending; the gateport incident in Vol. 21.
** A more minor one comes when [[spoiler: Kurt Godel explains Negi's lineage]] and then gives Negi a WeCanRuleTogether offer. An otherwise serious moment is made funny with the inclusion of an RPG-style 'Yes/No' dialogue option.
* MoreDakka: Sayo with a [[ProjectileSpell Sagitta Magica]] [[GatlingGood Gatling Gun]].
* MorphWeapon: [[{{BFS}} Takemikazuchi]] can change both size and shape.
* MsFanservice: [[ClothingDamage Takane D.]] [[BestKnownForTheFanservice Goodman]]
* MultipleEndings: See AdaptationOverdosed, a few screens above.
** Also thoroughly [[LampShadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Paru's drawings depicting all the different "Bad ends" that could happen at one point or another. such as [[spoiler: Negi turning into an Ermine for [[NiceJobBreakingItHero allowing Magic to be exposed to the world.]] ]]
* MundaneMadeAwesome:
** And in Chapter 261, epic arm wrestling between Ku Fei and Negi. In formal attire.
** Rakan's technique "Eternal Negi Fever" that he wants to teach Negi.
** Rakan's Secret ultimate technique: Silent flipping and stripping. Also his Rakan Gentle breeze tempest fist. Made exclusively to use against female enemies.
* MundaneUtility
** Negi uses this almost continuously early on. He constantly infuses himself with magic so he can keep up with the girls as they sprint to school. It's more obvious after he temporarily seals his powers which makes him totally unathletic. He also tried to help Asuna do her paper route faster by giving her a lift on his flying staff, but it didn't quite work out.
** Kaede uses her ninja techniques to do things like hunt fish.
** Haruna uses her clones to finish her drawings.
** Chisame used her Artifact to make herself the #1 Internet Idol. This turns out to [[VictoryIsBoring have been a bad idea.]]
* MusclesAreMeaningless: Negi is a ten-year-old boy who buffs himself with magic while [[WaifFu tossing aside foes larger than himself]], then there are big changes in his body after several months of training. He's still just a shrimpy kid, though.
* MutuallyExclusiveMagic: Ki and magic are incompatible for the vast majority of people. For those people that can use them together (only three so far have been shown), it becomes a YinYangBomb.
* MyKungFuIsStrongerThanYours: Not only do the major characters spend almost all their time off-screen either training or sleeping (and have been doing so for years), the training itself is a frequent plot point on-screen -- especially if it's TrainingFromHell.
* MyParentsAreDead: When Asuna takes Negi for a bath, this comes up. Negi immediately feels bad for mentioning it but Asuna doesn't make a big fuss out of it. [[spoiler: Given how old she is, her parents, if any, are likely a distant memory]].
%%* MysteriousParent: Negi's father, Nagi.
* MysteriousProtector: The manga shows Negi thinking of his father this way, even [[spoiler:placing himself in danger hoping to get him to appear.]]
* MythArc: Negi trying to find his father. [[spoiler: The result isn't pretty]].
* NakedApron: Setsuna's version of Cosmo Entelecheia involves Konoka dressed like that.
* NakedFirstImpression: Since Chizuru and Natsumi find Kotaro while he's in his dog form, he's naked when he first meets them.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Alexander "Twilight" Zaytsev, fitting the criteria for Conquerors, Scary Nouns, XtremeKoolLetterz, and Anything You Can't Pronounce On The First Try all at once. [[spoiler:Nice nickname, [[EmbarrassingFirstName Chiko-tan]].]]
* NearMisses: stronger character vs. anyone using the time-warping bullets
* NeckLift
** Negi's father does this to a demon in the flashback to the destruction of his village, and finishes it with a nice squeeze too.
** Later, Negi himself pulls it on [[spoiler:Tsukuyomi when she foolishly tries to assault the ship with him on board.]]
* NerfArm: Setsuna wields a broom during the TournamentArc to get around a restriction on bladed weapons. Shinmeiryuu techniques do not seem to actually require a weapon, so she could have even gone barehanded.
* NeverBringAKnifeToAFistfight: Ku Fei is the only fistfighter among the girls of the group, and faces off against enemies with weapons many times.
* NeverTheSelvesShallMeet: Negi royally screws this up during the [[spoiler:Mahora Festival]], requiring some quick damage control from Kotaro of all people.
* NeverTrustAHairTonic: A female variation, when short-haired Ako thinks she should grow her hair out to be more attractive. A (not so) helpful denizen of the magic world promptly gives her a magic hair-growth potion, which works perfectly for all of a minute before the hair begins to engulf her.
* NewYearSameClass: Taken UpToEleven. Negima's class doesn't change at all, despite there being around twenty other classes in the grade. [[HandWave Hand-waved]] before it happened; it was stated that Mahora doesn't split up its classes.
* NewspaperDating: A short-term version is used in the Mahora Festival Arc to find out that the team's stay at Evangeline's resort lasted for much longer than thought.
* NiceJobBreakingItHerod: [[spoiler:The attack on [[DoomedHometown Negi's hometown]] was done by the Megalomesembrian Senate in a specific attempt to kill Toddler!Negi. It obviously failed, and now Negi knows, and boy is he ''pissed''.]]
* NinjaPirateRobotZombie: Would fit right in besides the Welsh ten-year-old kung-fu wizard school teacher [[spoiler: who's also technically a prince]] who is the protagonist. Never mind [[spoiler: Chao Lingshen]], the time-traveling {{magitek}}-wielding Martian mad-scientist restaurant owner who [[spoiler:is fittingly the protagionist's decendant and [[CassandraTruth totally wasn't [=BSing=]]] [[WhamLine about that Mars thing]] [[PlayedForLaughs either]] ]]. And that's just to start.
** Albino [[HalfHumanHybrid Half-Demon]] SchoolGirlLesbian [[BodyguardCrush Bodyguard]] Samurai.
* NoDialogueEpisode: Chapter 166, told from [[TheQuietOne Akira's]] point of view, contains virtually no dialogue.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: After [[spoiler:Quartum blows Chachamaru apart and impales her upper torso]] Negi shows up and promptly [[spoiler:manhandles him in close combat, eventually cutting him in half as well.]]
* NonchalantDodge
** First tournament fight in the Mundus Magicus arc. Negi and Kotaro dodge a ''really'' big attack combo... only to appear leaning on the big guy talking about how much that would have hurt.
** When Kaede is going up against Sanders in the tournament semifinals, he tries to instantly end the fight by crushing her with gravity magic. She appears right behind him, chatting about how the one being crushed is just a clone.
* NonFatalExplosions: Going to school wouldn't be very fun if the local robots killed you.
* NonLethalWarfare: Used during the War on Mahora Academy, [[spoiler: both times]]. Humans are not to be harmed, after all.
* NoodleIncident
** There're actually quite a few. One including "Chizuru and a large number of spring onions", and another about Chisame's "First time on the net".
** We also have Negi's "troubles" during Christmas and Valentine's Day.
** During Ku Fei’s arm wrestling match with Negi, the crowd makes mention of an infamous organization in Mundus Magicus being wiped out, and speculates that she may have had a hand in it.
-->'''Chisame:''' Just what has that Kenpo-nut been getting up to?
* NoOneGetsLeftBehind:
** When Yue trips over a tree root in the Library Island arc and twists her ankle, she implores Negi to leave her. Negi refuses and tries to carry her, but since he has no magical augmentations, he fails. Kaede picks up Yue and effortlessly carries her out.
** At the climax of the aforementioned arc, Negi attempts to stay behind because otherwise the elevator won't move due to the weight limit being exceeded. Asuna overrides his decision and tosses the magic book they were looking for instead.
* NoRomanticResolution: We never find out who Negi liked. We know he didn't like Asuna during the sports festival and he didn't end up with Nodoka, Yue or Evangeline while Chisame is apparently a hikikomori and Makie is still fruitlessly pursuing him. Not many plausible options after that. The answer wasn't given until years after the ending through the StealthSequel: [[spoiler:it was Chisame.]]
* {{Nosebleed}}: Given the amount of fanservice and awkward moments, this trope is surprisingly rare. Most of them involve the class representative, and random background characters.
* TheNoseKnows: Chamo uses a pair of panties to track down a pair of enemy girls who are dozens of kilometers away with pinpoint precision.
* NoSell: Chisame is completely immune to the [[spoiler:fake Cosmo Entelechia]] because it works based on how [[spoiler:dissatisfied the target is with their life. Chisame is right where she wants to be.]] When she learns this, she's predictably insulted, which in turn makes Makie insulted, who was also immune.
* NoSmoking: Chamo's cigarettes were winkingly labelled "chocolate" in the first anime.
* NotADate: Setsuna denies that her outing with Konoka is a date, despite everyone, including Konoka, treating it like one.
* NotJustATournament: There's a tournament whose hidden purpose is to gather evidence of the existence of magic and flood the media with it.
* NotQuiteFlight: Kotaro can't fly, but his shadow hounds can, and being made of darkness, he just forms them into the shape of floating wheels attached to his feet so he can run through the sky.
* NotSoDifferent: From Fate to Negi and most recently from Tsukuyomi to Setsuna.
* NotTheFallThatKillsYou: When Negi's group warps back an entire week they emerge a few thousand feet in the air, but their fall is cushioned by Negi's wind magic.
* NotWhatItLooksLike: After Asuna wakes up from a dream where [[spoiler:she remembered her time with Ala Rubra]], she stumbled across Setsuna and Konoka in the middle of making a pactio. Given that the {{UST}} had begun to escalate at this point, all Asuna sees is her roommate about to kiss her friend and bodyguard. Note that while Setsuna totally panics when Asuna comes, Konoka isn't the least bit flustered.
* TheNudifier: Negi essentially ''is'' The Nudifier. Also, just go read the ClothingDamage entry.
* NumerologicalMotif: Each member of the class their seat number takes great importance they are referred to by number at the start of the series and are on their Pactio Cards.
** Negi's Pactio card number is 496 [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/496_%28number%29 The Perfect Number]] of his 31 students. (As in he wouldn't be who he is without each of his students)
** [[spoiler: Luna's Pactio card number is 32 as in the newest student to the class]]
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Kotaro can hold a perfectly coherent and fairly intelligent conversation with [[spoiler:Negi and Fate about the space program]].
* OccultBlueEyes:
** Fate fits as this: He is what Evangeline called a 'doll', being a magical creation of the Lifemaker, extremely proper and TheStoic early in the story, [[SeriousBusiness but prefers to drink coffee instead of tea]].
** Evangeline herself is a blue-eyed vampire who is Really700YearsOld. [[spoiler:It was recently discovered that she herself is also a creation of the Lifemaker; an experiment on the concept of indestructibility]].
* OcularGushers: An anime staple, though when the characters are seriously crying, it's not exaggerated.
* {{Odango Hair}}: Fumika has them and can be seen as part of the page's picture.
* OddFriendship
** Asuna and Ayaka have been friends since they were kids. Their most common bonding activity is flying kicks at each others faces.
** Chisame tends to yell at Jack Rakan a lot, but the two get along rather well.
** Chamo seems ''very'' friendly with Chachazero, Eva's bloodthirsty puppet. She tends to have a bottle of wine ready whenever he shows up.
* OddlyVisibleEyebrows: There are many occasions where the characters' eyebrows can be seen through their hair.
* OfCorsetsSexy: A FanserviceExtra in the Magic World is wearing one. Asuna and Setsuna also wear these under their Maid outfits during the first TournamentArc.
* OffhandBackhand
** When a very large ball-and-chain comes flying towards her and Konoka, Setsuna slices it in half and doesn't even notice it... because she's beating herself up for getting ''weaker''.
** Evangeline to some random guy in the tournament while contemplating new information about [[spoiler:Negi's father]]. The poor guy never saw it coming.
* OfficialCouple: Nagi and Arika, as well as [[spoiler:Kotaro and Natsumi.]] Whether the epilogue officializes [[spoiler:Konoka and Setsuna]] is a hot topic of debate among the fandom.
* OffModel:
** Mostly fixed in ''Negima!'''s DVD release.
** Crops up again in the second ''Mou Hitotsu no Sekai'' [[{{OVA}} OVD]], the bit where [[spoiler:Fate shatters stone!Asuna in Negi's dream]]. There's less conspicuous CG, with better physics, in ''Anime/GaoGaiGar''.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome:
** There was apparently supposed to be a story during Christmas following the Magical World arc, where Fuuka and Fumika would meet two animals who turned out to be magic princes in disguise [[spoiler:that the two would eventually marry. Also, Fuuka and Fumika would have made their Pactios with Negi during this time]]. The events did happen and are still mentioned, but were never actually shown.
** Saving [[spoiler:Nagi]] from the Lifemaker. [[spoiler:Nagi appears alive and well in the final chapter, and it is mentioned that he was saved from the Lifemaker through the effort of Negi and his 31 students, and healed by Konoka's magic.]] However, like with the Christmas story about Fuuka and Fumika, it is mentioned but never shown.
* OhCrap: Jack making [[IncrediblyLamePun shit puns]] before confronting Fate's minions during Godel's ball. He says he has to go take a dump, and then tells Fate that everyone has to wipe their own asses. Truly, the [[IncrediblyLamePun shit]] [[FridgeBrilliance has hit the]] [[FanDisservice fan]].
* OldSchoolBuilding: In the first anime this is the setting for the "kiss catch" game.
* OneDialogueTwoConversations: When Negi asks Asuna to accompany him on a trip to search for traces of his father as his magic partner, Asuna misinterprets it as a love confession, as do Yue and Nodoka, who overhear it. Haruna doesn't, but she does enjoy the ensuing hilarity.
* OneGenderSchool: Mahora seems to separate the genders, but apart from 3-A it's never elaborated on.
* OneHitKill: Time-displacement bullets. (Interesting in that it's not a "kill" in the traditional sense, but tactically there's little difference.) Also, [[spoiler:Code of the Lifemaker has this effect on natives of the Magical World]].
* OneSidedArmWrestling: Negi vs Ku Fei. At first it seems like Ku Fei's brute strength will win but then Negi takes it seriously and completely beats her.
* OneWingedAngel: Played straight with Inugami Kotarou-kun.
** Subverted later on; after Negi single-handedly wipes out a gang of bounty hunters, the leader starts muttering about revealing his true form. Negi gives him a [[DeathGlare mean look]], and he goes back to cowering on the ground.
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: In chapter 314, [[spoiler:Fate is revealed to have survived, and is fighting Quintum to protect Negi's comrades. Because only ''he'' is allowed to defeat his rival.]]
* OnlySixFaces: Ken's art style is essentially this. A lot of character from both genders have the same face.
* OnlySmartPeopleMayPass: The end of the Baka Ranger arc has the titular five girls answering test questions to facilitate their escape.
* OnTheMoney: [[spoiler:Buying out slaves]] = one martial arts tournament. Actually an inversion: [[spoiler:It makes perfect sense for a martial arts tournament to have around one million [[ForeignCurrency Drachma]] as a reward, but not so much for that to be the exact price of the slaves' debt.]]
* OnTheNext: Present during the first anime.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: When Kaede opens her eyes, something big is going down.
* OperaGloves: During chapter 282 Negi shows up to the group meeting with long gloves up to his elbows [[spoiler:to hide his Magea Erebea marks.]]
* OrwellianRetcon: How old is Negi, chronologically? Well, the initial magazine releases said he was born in the summer of 1993, making him about 9 years old in the prologue. The bound volumes changed this to simply "1994", consistent with his earlier admission that he's only 10 if you use [[http://wiki.samurai-archives.com/index.php?title=Age_Calculation kazoe]], and WordOfGod reportedly has him at about ''eight and a half'' at the start of the series.
* OurDemonsAreDifferent: There are a number of different demon types, including half-breeds within class 3-A.
* OurTimeTravelIsDifferent: Instantaneous. It doesn't take too long for Negi to travel back in time, whether it be a day or a week.
* OutdoorBathPeeping: Chamo tries to bring Negi along to do so but Negi is too much of a gentleman.
* OutOfClothesExperience: When Asuna sees Negi's past through the dream spell, which works via a naked astral projection inside someone's mind. That's apparently just how that kind of magic works.
* OutOfContextEavesdropping: A couple of these, most obviously when a bunch of the girls overhear FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire Evangeline requesting that Negi pay for that day's [[TrainingFromHell training session]], which goes something along these lines:
-->'''Evangeline:''' Hurry and whip it out, boy!\\
'''Negi:''' But Evangeline-san, we already did it, it's too much!\\
'''Evangeline:''' I told you, call me ''master''.
** By the way, the payment was sucking blood from his arm.
** Later on, [[RobotGirl Chachamaru]] nearly causes Chisame's head to explode with this poorly worded statement about Negi's martial arts training.:
-->'''Chachamaru:''' I have been serving as Negi's partner every night and he seems to be happy about it.
* OverlyLongTongue: A Negi golem created by Haruna has a 23.5 cm tongue. She first states that "it" is 23.5 cm long, causing some of the girls to think of... [[BiggerIsBetterInBed something else]] before she clarifies she meant his tongue.
* OvernightAgeUp: Forward and reversed with the Age-disguising pills.
* OverrideCommand: The emergency shutdown button for Chachamaru is on her chest.

* OneHundredAndEight: "We've managed to capture 108 of the frogs-aru..."

* NoOneGetsLeftBehind: When Yue trips over a tree root in the Library Island arc and twists her ankle, she implores Negi to leave her. Negi refuses and tries to carry her, but since he has no magical augmentations, he fails. Kaede picks up Yue and effortlessly carries her out.

%%* NoDialogueEpisode: Number 166, if you want to know.

* NeverBringAKnifeToAFistfight: Ku Fei is the only fistfighter among the girls of the group, and faces off against enemies with weapons many times.

* TheMagocracy: The Megalomesembrian Senate.

* MarshmallowHell: The [[TropeNamers/AnimeAndManga Trope Namer]]. It also provides the page image.

* ModestyTowel: Sometimes...

* MysteriousParent: Negi's father, Nagi.

* NoDialogueEpisode: Number 166, if you want to know.

* [[ObfuscatingStupidity Obfuscating Idiocy]]: Kotaro can hold a perfectly coherent and fairly intelligent conversation with [[spoiler:Negi and Fate about the space program]].

* OffModel: Mostly fixed in ''Negima!'''s DVD release.

* OhCrap: A regular occurrence.
** And then there's Jack making [[IncrediblyLamePun shit puns]] before confronting Fate's minions during Godel's ball. He says he has to go take a dump, and then tells Fate that everyone has to wipe their own asses. Truly, the [[IncrediblyLamePun shit]] [[FridgeBrilliance has hit the]] [[FanDisservice fan]].

* OnTheMoney: [[spoiler:Buying out slaves]] = one martial arts tournament.
** Actually an inversion: [[spoiler:It makes perfect sense for a martial arts tournament to have around one million [[ForeignCurrency Drachma]] as a reward, but not so much for that to be the exact price of the slaves' debt.]]

** Crops up again in the second ''Mou Hitotsu no Sekai'' [[{{OVA}} OVD]], the bit where [[spoiler:Fate shatters stone!Asuna in Negi's dream]]. There's less {{conspicuous CG}}, with better physics, in ''Anime/GaoGaiGar''.

* MegatonPunch

* MetafictionalDevice[=/=]HarshWordImpact: Chisame gets stabbed with a speech bubble.

* MissingMom

* [[MoreDakka More Magic Dakka]]: Sayo with a [[ProjectileSpell Sagitta Magica]] [[GatlingGood Gatling Gun]].

* MundaneMadeAwesome: From the summer [=OVAs=]: Zazie. Chachamaru. ''PING-PONG.''

* MutuallyExclusiveMagic: Ki and magic are incompatible for the vast majority of people.
** For those people that can use them together (only three so far have been shown), it becomes a YinYangBomb.

* NewYearSameClass: Taken UpToEleven. Negima's class doesn't change at all, despite there being around twenty other classes in the grade.
** [[HandWave Hand-waved]] before it happened. It was stated that Mahora doesn't split up its classes.

* OurDemonsAreDifferent
* OurTimeTravelIsDifferent

* OverlyLongTongue: A Negi golem created by Haruna has a 23.5 cm tongue.

* OnlySixFaces
* OnlySmartPeopleMayPass

* OnTheNext

* MagicAIsMagicA

* TheMagocracy: The Megalomesembrian Senate
* MaidCorps: Evangeline's {{Robot Maid}}s
* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: In the Magic World Arc, upon having his ''right arm'' severed in a fight, [[spoiler:Negi]] just exclaims "I still have my left!" and continues to fight.

* MarilynManeuver: Nodoka's skirt gets poofed up thanks to a wind spell, leading her to try really hard to hold it down.

* MeasuringDay
* MediumAwareness: The characters comment several times on the images that appear in the back of the panel to illustrate one of their thoughts or a flashback

* MobileShrubbery
* ModestyTowel: sometimes...

* MythArc: Negi trying to find his father.

* NoDialogueEpisode: Number 166, if you want to know

* NonFatalExplosions
* NonLethalWarfare

* NotTheFallThatKillsYou

** Evangeline herself is a blue-eyed vampire who is Really700YearsOld. [[spoiler:It was recently discovered that she herself is also a creation of the Lifemaker; exactly what kind has not been revealed yet.]]
* OcularGushers

** Chano seems ''very'' friendly with Chachazero, Eva's bloodthirsty puppet. She tends to have a bottle of wine ready whenever he shows up.
* OddlyVisibleEyebrows
* OfCorsetsSexy

* OhCrap: regular occurrence

* OneSidedArmWrestling: Negi vs Ku Fei

* UsefulNotes/{{Mars}}: Went from what at first seemed like a joke from Chao to being [[spoiler:the real location of Mundus Magicus. [[AnotherDimension Sort of]].]]

* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: [[spoiler:Seven years worth of moments with every member of class 3A's actions in the future and their work to help save Earth, Mars, defeat the Lifemaker and save Nagi.]]

* NoRomanticResolution: We never find out who Negi liked. We know he didn't like Asuna during the sports festival and he didn't end up with Nodoka, Yue or Evangeline while Chisame is apparently a hikikomori and Makie is still fruitlessly pursuing him. Not many plausible options after that. The answer wasn't given until years after the ending through the StealthSequel: [[spoiler:it was Chisame]].

* NippleAndDimed
* [[NoDialogueEpisode No Dialogue Chapter]]: Number 166, if you want to know

* NoRomanticResolution: [[spoiler:We never find out who Negi liked. We know he didn't like Asuna during the sports festival and he didn't end up with Nodoka, Yue or Evangeline while Chisame is apparently a hikikomori and Makie is still fruitlessly pursuing him. Not many plausible options after that.]]
** Finally averted in the StealthSequel ''Manga/UQHolder'': [[spoiler: Being a hikikomori doesn't exactly have to be mutually exclusive with being Negi's wife...]]

* MorphWeapon: {{BFS}} Takemikazuchi]] can change both size and shape.

* TheNudifier: Negi essentially ''is'' TheNudifier. Also, just go read the ClothingDamage entry.

* MarshmallowHell: [[TropeNamers/AnimeAndManga trope namer]]

* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: In the Magic World Arc, upon having his ''right arm'' severed in a fight with [[spoiler:Negi]] just exclaims "I still have my left!" and continues to fight.

* MaleGaze: It's [[LoveHina Ken]] [[KenAkamatsu Akamatsu]].

** Following a ThanksForTheMammary moment during Asuna’s practice date with aged-up Negi in a ''LoveHina'' homage.

** Crops up again in the second ''Mou Hitotsu no Sekai'' [[{{OVA}} OVD]], the bit where [[spoiler:Fate shatters stone!Asuna in Negi's dream]]. There's less {{conspicuous CG}}, with better physics, in ''GaoGaiGar''.

* MindOverManners: Her ability is limited to just mind reading, but it's specifically noted that she's probably the one with said artifact simply because she's the one least likely to abuse it.

* MagicWand: Anya uses one of these as opposed to Negi's [[SimpleStaff staff]]. Using a wand to cast instead of a staff or other focus is apparently considered childish. They also don't work as well.

* MarilynManeuver: Every single eligible female on panel, every single time Negi sneezes.

* NotWhatItLooksLike

* OddFriendship: Asuna and Ayaka have been friends since they were kids. Their most common bonding activity is flying kicks at each others faces.

* MagicWand: The Thousand Master's staff works this way, as does the ring Eva gives Negi. Straighter examples appear when Yue and the rest of Ala Alba learn beginners' magic.

* MegatonPunch: Rakan For-the-Hell-of-It Right-hand Punch!!

* MissingMom: Negi's absent mother gets absolutely no mention until we finally learn that his mother [[spoiler:is/was Princess Arika Anarchia Entheophysia]]. He didn't know either.

* MundaneUtility: Negi uses this almost continuously early on. He constantly infuses himself with magic so he can keep up with the girls as they sprint to school. It's more obvious after he temporarily seals his powers which makes him totally unathletic. He also tried to help Asuna do her paper route faster by giving her a lift on his flying staff, but it didn't quite work out.

* NonchalantDodge: First tournament fight in the Mundus Magicus arc. Negi and Kotaro dodge a ''really'' big attack combo... only to appear leaning on the big guy talking about how much that would have hurt.

* NoodleIncident: There're actually quite a few. One including "Chizuru and a large number of spring onions", and another about Chisame's "First time on the net".

* [[spoiler: NoRomanticResolution: We never find out who Negi liked. The only thing we know for sure is that it wasn't Asuna because when he told her, she said he was going to tell the girl right away.]]

* NotJustATournament: There's a tournament whose hidden purpose is to gather evidence of the existence of magic and flood the media with it.

* OffhandBackhand: Setsuna, without even knowing that she was doing it... while worrying about getting ''weaker'', no less.
** Evangeline while contemplating new information about [[spoiler:Negi's father]]. The poor guy never saw it coming.

* OutOfClothesExperience: Everyone when they use magic to wander into the mind of another character

* OvernightAgeUp: Forward and reversed with the Age-disguising pills.

* OneHundredAndEight: [[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/mahou_sensei_negima/v04/c028/14.html "We've managed to capture 108 of the frogs-aru..."]]

* OperaGloves: Some have noted that Negi's newest accessory from Chapter 282, [[OperaGloves a pair of long gloves]] [[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/mahou_sensei_negima/v31/c282/8.html accompanying his chinese-styled garb]], seem to be almost a new form of Zettai Ryouiki. The fangirls love it, of course.
* OrwellianRetcon: How old is Negi, chronologically? Well, the initial magazine releases said he was born in [[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/mahou_sensei_negima/v02/c010/ the summer of 1993]], making him about 9 years old in the prologue. The bound volumes changed this to simply "1994", consistent with his [[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/mahou_sensei_negima/v01/c003/10.html earlier admission]] that he's only 10 if you use [[http://wiki.samurai-archives.com/index.php?title=Age_Calculation kazoe]], and WordOfGod reportedly has him at about ''eight and a half'' at the start of the series.

* MundaneUtility: Noticeable in ''Negima!'' and early in the manga. As the focus shifts to combat, these uses become less frequent and tend to be implied rather than shown.
* MusclesAreMeaningless

* NeckLift: Negi's father does this to a demon in the flashback to the destruction of his village, and finishes it with a nice squeeze too.