History YMMV / ACertainMagicalIndex

** [[folder:Touma's fight with Accelerator]]

* CriticalResearchFailure: The reason why Stiyl looks so old despite supposedly only 14 was because of a miscommunication between the artist and author: Touma' and Stiyl's first confrontation was supposed be something of an [[MagicVersusScience Old vs New]] (which the artist took literally to mean "old man vs young boy"), completely missing the note that said Stiyl was only 14.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Accelerator: [[spoiler:A young man who's trying to redeem himself for the terrible things he has done while trying to avoid turning back to his past self]] or [[spoiler:a sadistic heartless monster who hasn't changed his ways and enjoys being a powerful killer.]]

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: Don't you dare say there is none. Touma has his own! Presenting [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qx6YL1ld0iY Gensou Koroshi]] and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ofmj4ouopc Breakthrough]]. The latter is essentially the former ''in allegro.'' [[RedundancyDepartmentOfRedundancy Awesome!]]

* JerkSue: Mikasa is smug, rude, violent, and a generally unpleasant person...and is loved by practically every character, and got [[ACertainScientificRailgun her own spinoff.]]

** Creator/GeorgeRRMartin is helping write the series. [[labelnote:Explanation]]NT Vol 7's incredibly dark storyline, which includes characters being told that Maika Tsuchimikado had died offscreen, [[spoiler:it was a false alarm]], was similar to Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire's AnyoneCanDie style.[[/labelnote]]

** Creator/GeorgeRRMartin is helping write the series. [[labelnote:Explanation]]NT Vol 7's incredibly dark storyline, which includes characters being told that Maika Tsuchimikado had died offscreen, [[spoiler:it was a false alarm]], was similar to Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire's AnyoneCanDie style.[[labelnote]]

* IdiotBall: The Roman Catholic Church very nearly succeeded in planting the Cross of St. Peter in Academy City, which would have begun a worldwide conversion to their religion with no resistance. A complete, eternal, bloodless victory. They were thwarted by fireworks. Had anyone thought to read a flyer, or a program, or asked a passing hobo, they would have known the fireworks display occurred that night to celebrate the ending of the sports festival; ''the same festival they were using to smuggle the Cross into the city in the first place.''

* HilarityEnsues: Going by [[http://toarumajutsunoindex.wikia.com/wiki/Toaru_Majutsu_no_Index_Light_Novel_Volume_12 the summary,]] the entirety of Volume 12.
** The same could be said for [[http://toarumajutsunoindex.wikia.com/wiki/Shinyaku_Toaru_Majutsu_no_Index_Light_Novel_Volume_02 New Testament Vol. 2's summary]]

* SpotlightStealingSquad: An odd example. The author realized that Accelerator and Mikoto were extremely popular, so he increased their roles to the point where the former is the second protagonist and the latter is more of a love interest than the character in the title! This leaves the show with something of an ArtifactTitle as Index rarely gets to do anything.
* StoryBreakerPower: [[SuperpowerLottery Accelerator]]. [[AttackReflector Vector Redirection]]. That is all.
** [[MagnificentBastard Fiamma of the Right]]'s [[HolyHandGrenade Holy Right]]. Touma calls it an "I Win Button". He can level entire cities to the ground without breaking a sweat, teleport anywhere at a blink of an eye, and conjure a [[FlamingSword Flaming]] {{BFS}} '''forty''' '''[[PrecisionFStrike fucking]]''' '''kilometers long'''. There's a reason why he's one of the most blatant {{SNK Boss}}es of the series.
** In a world of Science and Magic where StoryBreakerPower abilities abound, an AntiMagic right hand that kills all of them ''is'' the StoryBreakerPower.
*** And that's not counting the fact that [[spoiler: his StoryBreakerPower is actually a ''PowerLimiter.'']]
** Simply being a Majin may qualify, in fact it is so much of a Story Breaker Power that [[spoiler: it pretty much destroyed Touma's Imagine Breaker, with magic.]]

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Index-tan episode 1 for the second season: Each of Saten's appearances are this.

** Now with the Second Season of Index, Fukiyose Seiri has become very popular with fans on her debut in episode 8.
* {{Fanon}}: [[spoiler:Fans have speculated that the Amakusa Catholic girl that Touma fought and saved from a fall in volume 7 may be Itsuwa, the Amakusa warrior who was first introduced in Volume 11 which may explain why she has a crush on Touma in the first place. However, the 2nd season anime had it {{Jossed}} as it wasn't Itsuwa that Touma saved but another girl.]]

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: Index-tan episode 2: Himegami is asked what her wish for the second season is. Her response? "Um, I won't ask for my episode, but I just want to be treated [[RunningGag more-]]". Guess what happens in her first lengthy appearance in season 2? [[spoiler:She gets [[BloodierAndGorier filleted]] by Oriana Thomson because she thought that Himegami was an agent of Necessarius due to the Celtic cross around her neck.]]
* HarsherInHindsight: Academy City's Power Curriculum Program. In theory anyone undergoing this program can become an esper yet there are still people who have yet to gain powers and even those who did never go a higher level which suggest the program has some problems. [[spoiler:However Vol 22 reveals the program is secretly being undermined by the Higher Ups of Academy City who decide who can and cannot gain esper powers and/or go a higher level based on the type of the powers that person has. This revelation makes it much worse once you realize Level 0's like Saten, the Skill Outs gangs and low level espers like the Level Upper users, who work hard to gain powers/higher levels but never can because their training is being sabotaged as the Higher Ups see no point of helping anyone who doesn't have the powers they want. That's right, the city is responsible of destroying the dreams of many students and leading them into path of cynicism and crime!]]
** All intentional; while Mikoto claims in SS: Liberal Arts City that Academy City has no intentions of taking the world via military force, the revelation via chapter 22 suggests otherwise...why else would you try to make an army of level 5s or an "interceptor" aircraft that has the ability to fly halfway around the world and level a city single-handedly? Basically, the reason why the corporate crooks of AC haven't bothered leveling the level zeros of their population isn't just because they don't want to, its because they need cannon fodder; they needed a group of disgruntled individuals who they knew would resort to violence in order to defend themselves against those termed and rewarded for being genetically superior, so that they might label that group as people on whom it is okay to use your powers, people whom it is okay to murder, because no one will care about them due to their collective reputation.
* HilarityEnsues: Going by [[http://toarumajutsunoindex.wikia.com/wiki/Toaru_Majutsu_no_Index_Light_Novel_Volume_12 the summary,]] the entirety of volume 12.
** The same could be said for [[http://toarumajutsunoindex.wikia.com/wiki/Shinyaku_Toaru_Majutsu_no_Index_Light_Novel_Volume_02 New Testament vol.2's summary]]

** Not to mention Touma and Accelerator have some {{FoeYay}} and {{HoYay}} as well.

** Shiage with either Touma, or Accelerator. But more on the {{FoeYay}} side.
** {{LesYay}}: Misaka and Kuroko, and how!
** WORST and Umidori.

** With some {{FoeYay}} , Oriana towards Himegami and Fukiyose.

--> '''Floris''': “Hey, you two lesbians who look like you’re from some erotic novel or something." [[hottip:*: Said when Bayloupe and Lessar were in a compromising position in the back seat of a car.]]
--> '''Lessar''': “Floris! Lancis!! Quit awakening strange new tendencies and wake up! We need to use this room!!” [[hottip:*: Said when Lessar found the two sleeping in the same bed when she needed to have a chat with Mikoto. Apparently Floris just likes to crawl into other peoples beds when sleepy.]]
** At this point, To aru needs its own page.
* IronWoobie: Touma gets his ass kicked on a regular basis, and even the fights he wins tend to end with him in the hospital. There's no real explanation for why he puts himself through such misery, especially considering he has his own [[BlessedWithSuck inherent bad luck]] to deal with. And yet he claims to be ''happy'' with way he lived his life...
** But he always does win in the end, and women fall like flies to his two-dimensional Shonen Protagonist hero speeches. What's not to be happy about?
* LauncherOfAThousandShips: [[HaremGenre And how...]]
* [[MagnificentBastard Magnificent Archbishop]]: [[spoiler:Laura Stuart]]

* FoeYay: Touma and pretty much all of his female opponents. And some of his male ones.[[spoiler: Accelerator and Fiamma in particular.]]

** Index and Kazakiri Hyouka.

** Not to mention New Light has some {{Les Yay}}, but more with Bayloupe and Lessar.

** [[MagnificentBastard Fiamma of the Right]]'s [[HolyHandGrenade Holy Right]]. He can level entire cities to the ground without breaking a sweat, teleport anywhere at a blink of an eye, and conjure a [[FlamingSword Flaming]] {{BFS}} '''forty''' '''[[PrecisionFStrike fucking]]''' '''kilometers long'''. There's a reason why he's one of the most blatant {{SNK Boss}}es of the series.

** Aleister: Is he nothing more than a giant {{Troll}} who loves nothing more than [[GambitPileup piling up one evil scheme after another]]? Or a WellIntentionedExtremist with ulterior motives? His actions would suggest the former, while his back story leans in the direction of the latter.

** Then there's the [[spoiler: [[{{AlwaysSecondBest}} #2]] [[{{SuperpowerLottery}} Level 5]] [[{{ArrogantKungFuGuy}} Teitoku Kakine]]. He's ObviouslyEvil from the get go, but he still manages to be [[{{EvillyAffable}} personable]] enough that you aren't quite sure what you think of him. That is, of course, until he '''beats up [[{{TheCutie}} Uiharu]]''', earning him the hatred and rage of the [[{{BaseBreaker}} majority of fans]]. It could have been worse though, it didn't [[{{BreakTheCutie}} break]] or [[{{KillTheCutie}} kill her]]]].

* GodModeSue: This is certainly the case earlier into the series, when it seems Touma is the only character capable of being the hero, beating the bad guys and getting the chicks - even moreso than the usual Shonen protagonist. Steyl in particular is a victim of Touma's spotlight stealing, and he knows it.

* GodModeSue: It seems Touma is the only character capable of being the hero, beating the bad guys and getting the chicks - even moreso than the usual Shonen protagonist. You wonder why the other men bother to show up on screen at all?

** He's lived his life without regrets. No matter how many tragedies he suffers, no matter how much the world tries to trample on him, he has always done what he believes to be correct. Even if he ends up brutally battered and broken, he took that punishment for a cause he believed in. As long as everyone's alive and happy, the "misery" he suffers is a small price to pay. That's the kind of man Kamijou Touma is.

* ShipToShipCombat: Which girl should be with [[spoiler:Touma]]? '''Don't ask!''' because the moment you say so, you will get yourself in a nasty ShipToShipCombat between other fans over their favorite girl!
** Yet two of the biggest ShipToShipCombat by Japaneses fans are the [[spoiler:Mikoto x Touma fans and Kaori x Touma fans.]] These two fanbases are so big, the novel artist Kiyotaka Haimura knows it [[spoiler:[[http://img694.imageshack.us/i/003dli.jpg/ and even drew about it!]]]]