History Manga / HayateTheCombatButler

* [[strike:{{Yakuza}}]] [[RunningGag Very Nice People]] - The cheerful LampshadeHanging the show offers of this, as well as the over-the-top sugar-coating they give the activities of said very nice people to make it viewable to [[MultipleDemographicAppeal its younger audience]], arguably makes it [[RuleOfFunny funnier]] to anyone old enough to know what they're really referring to.

* GenreShift - The End of The World arc in the manga. Beware! Hayate's origins of power are revealed! [[spoiler: When he was a child, he became a butler and [[ToyShip boyfriend]] to the young Athena who lived in a castle at the end of the world. She gave him power and strength, but he unwittingly betrayed her trust when he gave the ring that represented their relationship to his parents, and they hawked it. Athena kicked him out, though she now lives in Athens.]]

** [[[[Bifauxnen}} Shion Kuresato]], the butler of the Chariman, also appears next to her at the end of Chapter 336.

* TheRedSonja - Somewhat for Hinagiku. Hayate has 'conquered' her, in that he's taught her how to defeat her fears (or at least the knowledge how to), but when admitting it to Ayumu, she still wants Hayate to be the one to start the romance.

* GlowingEyesOfDoom - Done by Hayate after being hit by a car. Also used as a ShoutOut to ''DeathNote''.

* XanatosGambit - Parodied [[spoiler:with a ShoutOut to ''DeathNote''... by a kitten.]]

There is also a 2010 LiveActionTV TaiwaneseSeries of the same name, based on the story line but with differently named characters. Hayate and friends appear in the MassiveMultiplayerCrossover game, VideoGame/SundayVSMagazineShuuketsuChoujouDaikessen.

[[Characters/HayateTheCombatButler Here we have the character sheets of the sweet, wacky and lovable cast.]] (Well, except [[AbusiveParents Hayate's parents]]. [[CompleteMonster They're NOT lovable]]) Also check out the [[ShoutOut/HayateTheCombatButler Shout Out page!]]- there are already a lot.

* FridgeBrilliance - Have you ever wondered why Chiharu is the only Hakuo Academy student to speak with an English accent in the Animax English dub? You figure it out in two ways:
** 1. You then remembered that both [[spoiler: the maids, Maria & Saki, speak with an English accent in the dub too. You mix the two & two together and realize that Chiharu must be a maid too! Your suspicions are later confirmed once you read the later manga chapters or watch the 2nd season of the anime and discover that she's none other than Sakuya's maid!]]
** 2. Having no idea, you decided to [[spoiler: watch the 2nd anime season and/or read the later manga chapters and suddenly find out that Chiharu is "Haruko", Sakuya's maid. It is then you realize that the dub was giving the viewers a hint what Chiharu's secret job was all along and that clue was none other than the maids Maria & Saki who speak with English accents. Brilliant!]]
*** Red Angel Media, the studio that dubbed the anime on Animax were genius. They musta [[spoiler: read the manga that she was a maid long before the Viz manga English release so they decided to do the English accent thing to give the first time viewers the hint long before they read the manga or watch the 2nd season. You gotta hand it to the studio, they knew what they were doing.]]
** There's also a bit later on in the manga, where it is revealed that Hinagiku was very close friends with [[spoiler: Athena, the board chairman of Hakuo Academy]] which might seem a bit odd given the latter's mostly loner nature, and was even noted by the Baka Trio. However, it actually makes a lot of sense that Hinagiku would get so close where others couldn't as [[spoiler: she likely reminded Athena of Hayate, at least sub-consciously, since the two are so similar]].
** On a separate note of Fridge Brilliance, remember when Hayate's brother heard Athena calling for help, and he thought it might be a ghost or something? Well remember he only heard her calling for help the moment when the stone of bonds landed in his hand, the only reason he heard her was because the stone opened a path way to the garden, thus letting him hear her mental cries for help. Though this doesn't really explain his ability to hear subconscious desires from a person at all.

* HoYay - Kotetsu Segawa is canonically gay for Hayate, and Azumamiya is almost undoubtedly attracted to him after the Mt. Takao trip (when Nishizawa met him she could literally sense it and moved to grab Hayate right after he introduced himself).
** The weird part is how Hayate acts around Kotetsu. No other character can get Hayate to show his dark side...which pretty much consists of being a {{Tsundere}}. Seriously, whenever they're together Hayate basically acts like a stereotypical tsundere love interest, albeit a particularly violent one with [[RanmaOneHalf Ranma-esque]] strength and skill, and has twice managed not to kill him to have a dere moment...which Kotetsu inevitably ruins instantly and gets beaten down HARD.
** On that note, Father Radiostar has had a few moments as well and did canonically write Hayate a love letter. That creepy, stalker-ish love letter. Tama sort of has his moments but depending on his mood it may be more like FoeYay.

* LesYay - Ayumu and Hinagiku. Superintendent Kirika and Sion
---> '''Hinagiku''': Now I'll never be a bride...
---> '''Ayumu''': [[EngagingConversation I'll take you]].
---> '''Hinagiku''': What about Hayate?
---> '''Ayumu''': That's right... Then how about [[TenchiSolution Polygamy]]?
** We also can't forget the yuri-tastic friendship between [[spoiler: Hinagiku and Athena, where Hina pretty much admired Athena on sight and blushed nervously as she tried to ask for her email address]]. It was explicitly stated that [[spoiler: Athena]] didn't interact with anyone else like that and that the two were an unstoppable duo that basically ruled the school together.
*** From way back when Hayate went to the Kendo Club to get Nagi interested in sports (because Hinagiku mentioned Nagi tried to join before), we see that Nagi and Hinagiku had an almost identical start with Nagi admiring how cool Hinagiku was and playing out much the same as the above relationship - at least until Nagi realized she would never be like Hina
** And with the Greece Arc we also have much more Nagi/Ayumu moments with the two being seemingly inseparable friends at times, it even extends after and the two seem quite friendly even after returning to Japan. Also Ayumu told Nagi she loved her during her birthday story. It was very heartfelt.
** Does [[spoiler: Luca and Hayate]] fit here? I mean [[spoiler: she thinks that Hayate or "Maid Star" is a girl, and she did kiss "her" on the cheek thinking that and seemed to be generally enamored of "her"]]. Seems like it's going to fit here until she figures it out.

* CuteShotaroBoy - Wataru fits both the acting hard-working and MouthyKid aspects of the trope. [[YourMileageMayVary And cuteness is in the eye of the beholder.]]
** Being 16 notwithstanding, Hayate himself fits into this archetype like a glove.
** There is also Kazuki, Ayumu's brother.

* IKEAWeaponry - The Sanzenins have an underground network of conveyor belts that can deliver Hayate an ArmCannon in a kit from a phone booth ''anywhere''.

* On a separate note of Fridge Brilliance, remember when Hayate's brother heard Athena calling for help, and he thought it might be a ghost or something? Well remember he only heard her calling for help the moment when the stone of bonds landed in his hand, the only reason he heard her was because the stone opened a path way to the garden, thus letting him hear her mental cries for help. Though this doesn't really explain his ability to hear subconscious desires from a person at all.

* On a separate note of Fridge Brilliance, remember when Hayate's brother heard Athena calling for help, and he thought it might be a ghost or something? Well remember he only heard her calling for help the moment when the stone of bonds landed in his hand, the only reason he heard her was because the stone opened a path way to the garden, thus letting him hear her mental cries for help. Though this doesn't really explain his ability to hear subconscious desires from a person at all.

** Hinagiku's foster mother has changed significantly since first being introduced. In her most recent manga appearance, you wouldn't recognise her if the story didn't explicitly tell you it was her.

** Thus far, Nagi likes Trap!Hayate best, Maria and Isumi believe crossdressing is his hobby, Sakuya really wanted him as her maid and asked why he had to be born a guy (to which Nagi and Maria claimed they also preferred Hayate as a maid...with incredibly evil grins), Ayumu, Chiharu, and the SC Rangers all find him extremely attractive in girl's clothes. Hinagiku is the only member of the UnwantedHarem so far that has seen Hayate crossdressed and still preferred him in guy's clothes (though even she had to admit that he was disturbingly attractive) the only other one being [[spoiler: Athena, who hasn't seen him crossdressed as far as we can tell...with "Alice" we can't be sure quite yet]]. Sadly for Hina, her mom tried to get Hayate into a frilly dress she wouldn't wear within an hour of meeting the poor guy.

* {{Earworm}} - ''Zettai nante shinji nai! Fukanou nante nai! Mirai ha hiraku te no naka ni aru!''

** the Oujus (Nagi, Isumi, Sakuya, Miki, Risa, and Izumi).

There is also a 2010 LiveActionTV TaiwaneseSeries of the same name, based on the story line but with differently named characters.