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5	''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8918264/1/A-Certain-Unknown-Level-0 A Certain Unknown Level 0]]'' is a ''Literature/ACertainMagicalIndex'' fanfic written by [=MrQuestionMark=] that builds upon the UrbanLegend of the certain unknown level 0 that defeated Accelerator and the Railgun.
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7	The fanfiction explores almost all the characters of the [=ToAru=] universe and their interactions with the Level 0 in question, Kamijou Touma. All the while dealing with unconnected events on the Magic Side and the Science Side, and a new gang, MINUS, that has risen to "defend" the principles of the Unknown Level 0 who defeated the [[PersonOfMassDestruction strongest]], while not truly knowing the reason why he fights.
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11	* ActionSurvivor: A couple of characters are this, including Uiharu and Saten at one point.
12	* ADayInTheLimelight: Every arc is based around a character and their interaction with Touma and learning more about what makes him, [[ChronicHeroSyndrome him]], with those from the Science side helping or getting involved with the struggles against MINUS and those of the Magic side being more standalone. [[spoiler: However, recent activities involve a magic organization called Harmonia's Cradle that isn't so different from MINUS [[EvilVsEvil even though they are against each other]].]]
13	* AlternateUniverseFic: While Mr. Question Mark does try to incorporate most of the revelations revealed by retconning his story to fit, other elements came too late and had to be left out; such as Shokuhoku knowing Touma before the events of the series. Kamisato Kakeru and his faction along with the Anti-Art Attachment are deliberately ignored. With the introduction of the [[spoiler:Elements attack from [=NT17=]]] come the Uiharu Kazari arc however, it seems to be subverted at this point.
14	* AntiMagic: Touma's Imagine Breaker in his right hand, which nullifies magic and esper powers on contact.
15	* AnArmAndALeg: Touma's left arm, which was already injured from his previous encounter with Kihara Kamui, is mutilated to the point that when he's tossed on the floor, it's enough to tear what remaining ligaments he had, amputating it.
16	* ArrangedMarriage: In order to stop the pressure from three big corporations forcing their own arranged marriages on his daughter, Mitsuko Kongo's father arranges one with Touma the husband to be.
17	* TheAtoner: What Kongou Mitsuko becomes after the mission to rescue Touma from the coalition against the FIVE_Object Project.
18	* AssholeVictim: {{Deconstructed}}. In spite of being a [[{{Jerkass}} pretty unpleasant person to everyone]], [[spoiler:Hashiro Endo's]] death is ''too'' [[CruelAndUnusualDeath gruesome]] and [[TearJerker heartbreaking]] to be considered cathartic.
19	* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: While not love ''per se'', Faith has more care to Orion than she lets on. Aiding him when he's injured, and shows rage when [[spoiler: Misaki]] shoots him using her body. Asking Orion who did it, implying she would have killed [[spoiler: Misaki]] given the chance.
20	* BerserkButton:
21	** After learning about Touma's beliefs about himself and any relationships he may have; anyone badmouthing him will immediately gain the near murderous rage of Misaka, Shokuhou, Itsuwa, Index, and Othinus as Kongou would've discovered if she had not been kidnapped. Later discovered she was not kidnapped, but Touma instead. Though Kongou still manages to gain their rage-Misaki especially-when she badmouths Touma's own luck that got himself kidnapped. It doesn't end well.
22	** If your going against Hamazura, Accelerator, Misaka or god forbid all three, '''do not''' threaten, harm or kidnap their loved ones. As much as they respect Touma and his ideals, they will become the monsters they were or were about to become in order to rescue them as Orion Phoenix found out through their ColdBloodedTorture.
23	* BewareTheNiceOnes: When the bus that [[spoiler:Touma]] was in explodes, the girls were horrified to see him and said bus get ripped apart by the explosion. It was at this point, however, that [[spoiler:Mikoto]] '''snaps''', and throws caution off the window, [[spoiler:creating a '''massive iron sand monster''']] and sets out (successfully) to [[spoiler:destroy the command center which was inputting commands into the buses around Academy City]]. Touma gets an admittedly even more epic (and also terrifying) one: [[spoiler:As he emerges from the wreckage of the bus, completely worse for wear, after hearing Uiharu being viciously attacked by Gakusha Bakin, ''he's not having any of it'', and proceeds to '''''crush Gakusha's ankle so much, he might have completely dismembered his foot in the process'''''. Although it might be because of the Invisible Thing possessing him at that time.]]
24	* BlessedWithSuck: Touma's right hand, in addition to negating all supernatural phenomenon, also negates his very luck, [[ButtMonkey frequently landing him in a world of pain]] from the vengeful girls he frequently embarrasses.
25	** Though his male classmates regard him as CursedWithAwesome due to his godly ability to ([[CluelessChickMagnet unintentionally]]) gain the affection of girls, a result of his right hand negating the red string of fate.
26	* BornLucky: Batya Sitara of Harmonia's Cradle has not once ever experienced misfortune as a complete antithesis to Touma. However, if her one comment is to be believed, she is BlessedWithSuck when it comes to this as she feels that she has lived an incomplete life without misfortune. It's to the point that she starts showing a budding obsession with Touma with the ability to negate that.
27	* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Aaron Gracestone and his security team had been abducted, tortured and brainwashed [[spoiler:by Kihara Kamui shortly after the arranged marriage was made between Touma and Mitsuko.]]
28	* BreakTheCutie: The Science Side of Touma's harem is emotionally beaten as much as Touma is physically wrecked, the worst of it during the Uiharu Kazari arc where the girls suffer from multiple {{Heroic BSOD}}s and their FireForgedFriendship almost [[BreakingTheFellowship gets torn to pieces]]. Do note that the entirety of the Uiharu Kazari arc is 40+ chapters in 74.5 hours.
29	* TheBusCameBack: After painstaking ''40 chapters'', and only appearing as TheGhost for quite some time, [[spoiler: Touma finally comes back to Academy City.]]
30	* CassandraTruth: No one in MINUS believes that Touma is the Unknown Level 0 they revere when he tells them upfront because they can't believe he didn't fight Accelerator to prove his strength.
31	* CerebusSyndrome: [[DownplayedTrope While previous arcs have had their dark moments]], they would often end in MoodWhiplash due to Touma unintentionally breaking tension either because of [[CosmicPlaything his luck]], SkewedPriorities, or his comical conversations with other characters. Following the Uiharu Kazari Arc, things get grimmer and grimmer, and the story begins to deconstruct Touma as a character.
32	* CharacterTitle: The fic is named after the ''"Certain Unknown Level 0"''.
33	* TheChewToy: Touma is certainly this to the author, who is a self-confessed "Touma sadist".
34	* ChronicHeroSyndrome: Guess who?
35	* CluelessChickMagnet: Why, Touma of course, and it's mentioned in-series that multiple girls, not just the ones shown in the main series, have crushes on him. During his actions against MINUS, he adds Saten, [[CoolBigSis Konori Mii]], hell, even [[{{Tsundere}} Fukiyose]] and [[SingleTargetSexuality Kuroko]]! [[spoiler: It's implied that Uiharu has developed feelings for him throughout her own arc, and it's later confirmed at the end.]]
36	* ColdBloodedTorture:
37	** The things done to Touma by Kihara Kamui in Aaron Gracestone's body are enough to sicken even the author and only serve to show how much of a monster Kamui is even among the Kiharas.
38	** Hamazura, Accelerator and Misaka do this to Orion after they found out he is responsible for kidnapping their respective loved ones. The brutality of this moment actually causes Touma to finally land an actual punch on Misaka followed by a DisappointedInYou speech.
39	* CosmicPlaything: The reason why Touma ends up in all these situations.
40	* DarkAndTroubledPast: While some of the canon characters retain theirs from the main series, Touma's is actually worse than already is presented. When he was a child, Touma was nearly stabbed to death by a CEO whose business went under from interacting with Touma. Touya also mentioned that Touma [[FriendlessBackground never had a childhood friend at all]] when his classmates ask the older man about Touma having any {{Childhood Marriage Promise}}s.
41	* DarkerAndEdgier: [[{{Doorstopper}} The Uiharu Kazari Arc]] might just be the darkest story arc to date. And as the arcs [[SerialEscalation get longer and longer,]] the tone becomes far much gritty and somber than in the beginning.
42	* DentedIron: Touma may be MadeOfIron, but all the trauma he has endured throughout both the story and canon series is starting to show. [[spoiler: Especially when he is diagnosed with ''[[ShellShockedVeteran Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder]]''.]]
43	* {{Determinator}}: Touma of course, who ramps it up to eleven in ''Kongo Mitsuko 2'' by overcoming his inability to remember Shokuhou Misaki through sheer willpower, [[spoiler:and a little help from Regon.]]
44	* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler:Touma, against all odds, survives an ''antimatter explosion'' at '''point blank range'''.]]
45	* DoorStopper: A truly massive story at over ''2 million words in 132 chapters''.
46	** The story arcs have been getting longer as well. The latest arc featuring Uiharu is a DoorStopper ''in its own right'', consisting of more than '''ONE MILLION''' words spread over 47 chapters.
47	* DramaticIrony: Kuroko feels contempt for groups like MINUS due to how they act out on the belief that Academy City discriminates against them for not having any esper abilities or having weak ones, seeing how Academy City never guaranteed that they would develop such. Considering the Parameter List that is vital to the Power Curriculum Program...
48	* EldritchAbomination: The "Invisible Thing" that resides in Touma's right hand. Those who are unlucky enough to damage his right hand face pure incomprehensible terror and would be lucky to escape with their sanity.
49	* EntertaininglyWrong: Despite the trope name, this fits as it does ''not'' need to be played for laughs in ''A Certain Unknown Level 0''. After Touma defeats Accelerator, several Level 0s and low-level espers hear about this and are inspired. Unfortunately, they think that the Unknown Level 0 who beat Accelerator was sending a message to rise up and destroy the high-level espers and those who associate with them, forming a highly-organized and murderous gang called "MINUS" in the process. When in fact, Touma beat Accelerator because he is a hero who helps and protects people. When Touma explains this, the MINUS members [[DramaticIrony refuse to listen to him and accuse him of being an impostor, as he is completely different from the image they created in their minds of the Unknown Level 0]].
50	* ExtraOreDinary: One of the MINUS members Touma fought possesses the Metal Twist power, which can reshape metals.
51	* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Accelerator. No one knows his birth name anymore.
52	* EveryoneHasStandards: Although Shirai Koroko [[ClingyJealousGirl doesn’t like Touma for being so close to Mikasa]], she is willing defend him as part of her duty to Judgement. She doesn’t even hesitate to come to his rescue alongside Mikasa when the “Pure” try to kill him.
53	* EvilBrit: Aaron Gracestone of Circuits and Chips[[spoiler:, even more so after his brainwashing at the hands of Kihara Kamui.]]
54	* EvilVersusEvil: As of the Mugino Arc, there is an underground war between [[spoiler:the remnants of MINUS (science side) and Harmonia's Cradle (magic side). At this point, MINUS is at its last grasp but it isn't out of the fight just yet.]]
55	* FailedASpotCheck: The trio of Misakaists calling themselves the "Pure" took upon themselves to punish anyone who dared to harm Mikoto Misaka within the school grounds of Tokiwadai Middle School, but they failed to notice Shirai Koroko's blatant sexual harrasment against Mikoto.
56	* FamilyTitle: The Sisters Arc, which is about the Sisters, who are actual sisters.
57	* ForTheEvulz: Kihara Kamui does things in a unethical manner not because he feels it limits science, but simply because he can, showing that unlike the apathetic sociopathy of the rest of the Kiharas, Kamui is instead a sadistic psychotic monster who does things just because he can.
58	* GatlingGood: Stephanie Gorgeouspalace uses an array of Gatling guns against [[spoiler: the hacked Anti-skill Weaponry]] in [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8918264/129/A-Certain-Unknown-Level-0 Chapter 129]].
59	* TheGhost The leader, also known as the general, of MINUS is only mentioned by his title with not even his name being known to anyone. In Chapter 174. his name is finally revealed: [[spoiler:Owari Taisho that is to say [[MeaningfulName General of the End]].]]
60	* GossipEvolution: It turns out that due to the decentralized nature of MINUS and extremely hands off nature of its founder and general, the original reason for the groups creation was lost. [[spoiler:In truth, unlike other members who revere Touma as the Certain Unknown Level 0, the general ''loathes'' him.]]
61	* GrandTheftMe: Inverted and discussed. Because Touma lost all his memories before July 28th, he feels that he has done this to the original Kamijou Touma and because of that has decided never to enter into a relationship because it would be another thing taken from the previous Kamijou Touma. Shokuhou, Misaka, and Index are in disagreement of course, but Touma stands firm in this belief.
62	* GroinAttack: True to his misfortune, Touma's bad luck causes the normally well-behaved Ekataraine, Kongou's pet python, not only coil around him trying to eat him but when Mitsuko finally coaxes the snake off of him, she bites him where even Index hasn't. To add insult to injury, Ekatarine attacked Touma in the toilet meaning she had direct access to the organ in question.
63	* HeroicBSOD: A comedic example, but when [[SingleTargetSexuality Kuroko]] finds herself attracted to Touma after helping her out in her arc, she takes it rather poorly, to say the least.
64	** Later played straight during the Uiharu Kazari arc, and multiple times.
65	* HisNameReallyIsBarkeep: Accelerator, basically. No one knows his birth name.
66	* HopeBringer: Touma has this effect on most of the characters in the story. So much that when he leaves Academy City for London (unintentionally, of course), [[CerebusSyndrome things took a dark turn for those living in Academy City]].
67	* IRejectYourReality: The “Pure” try to to kill Touma for “violating” Mikasa, but when their idol fights them to protect him and calls him a friend, they are unable to comprehend why Mikasa would oppose them and come to the conclusion that she’s an imposter.
68	* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Well, more accurately, Idiosyncratic Arc Naming. Every Arc is named after the character who has ADayInTheLimelight.
69	* IdiotBall: Despite being told to leave any classified information about Touma alone, with a [[ColdSniper sniper]] aiming right at her with a laser for emphasis, Uiharu still tries to investigate Touma. [[spoiler: This leads to her kidnapping by Seria Kumokawa and [[WildCard Tsuchimikado Motoharu]], the latter being the sniper in question.]]
70	* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: What the Mugino Shizuri arc boils down too. After getting her more stable personality wiped by a Kihara, Mugino reverts to her pre-defeat by Hamazura self, prompting Touma to slug it out with her in order to wake her up and bring her out of the Darkness.
71	* InvincibleVillain: [[BloodKnight Thor.]] [[spoiler:Especially during his appearance in the Uiharu Kazari arc.]]
72	* ItsNotYouItsMe: Discussed, Touma notes that his misfortune would be a contributing factor in relationship problems between him and whoever he did decide to get into a relationship with, this matter being more problematic due to Touma's GrandTheftMe beliefs. Misaka tries to say that anyone who loved Touma would be able to up with it but is taken aback when she realizes that a brief argument makes her realize that no matter how much one loves someone, their patience does have limits and those would be pulled to their extreme with Touma's [[BornUnlucky supernatural bad luck]].
73	* IveComeTooFar: [[OriginalCharacter Damian F. Slivka]], one of Kongou's so-called fiances, has this when he realizes that what he is doing is wrong, but must continue to do so in order to stop Kongou Airlines deal from going through.
74	* TheJinx: Something always happens when Touma Kamijou is around.
75	** He caused so much mayhem at an Academy City detention facility he was sent to at the conclusion of the Kuroko arc that Antiskill has ''banned'' him from all their detention facilities since.
76	** This takes a darker turn when exploring Touma's past. [[spoiler: His status as a walking DoomMagnet led others to avoid him, culminating in a knife attack by a man who lost his company after interacting with Touma that left him scarred on his back.]].
77	** In [[spoiler: London]], this goes into DestructiveSavior levels in just three days: [[spoiler: Buckingham Palace (twice), The Tower of London, Big Ben, etc.]]
78	* LaughingMad: Misaka becomes this in chapter 131 when [[spoiler:she can't take the fact that Touma might be dead from the explosion]], it transitions to an even scarier DissonantSerenity complete with TheUnsmile and DullEyesOfUnhappiness that unnerves the rest of the Railgang.
79	* MadeOfIron: As always, Touma. Trying to stop him from saving you by brutally beating him up? Nah, he still saves you. Debris stuck in the back of his skull? Won't stop him. Having ''his entire side'' '''''ruptured open?''''' You're gonna have to do better than that. [[spoiler:Surviving an '''''antimatter explosion at point blank range?''''' Now ''that's'' pretty hardcore .]]
80	** He has survived ''so much'' it gets to the point that it is near-impossible to keep track of them.
81	** Kamui Kihara also admits that despite all he did to Touma, he's amazed that he didn't even seem close to snapping. [[spoiler: And that's when he was torturing him.]]
82	* MarryThemAll: Deconstructed by Uiharu, who actually considered it until she realized that humans and love are inherently selfish by nature and all this trope would do is cause the girls to jealously wait their turn for Touma, all the while Touma would be passed around like some shared object with no one truly being cemented as his true love.
83	* MistakenForPedophile: Touma gets hit by this during the Konori Mii arc, when Touma helps a little girl, a possible tourist, find her mother. In true fashion for Touma's misfortune, Konori got an earful of Touma's easily misunderstood monologue.
84	* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Misaka is driven to near despair when she sees that no matter how much good Touma does for a peaceful life for all, life just craps all over him and is followed only by more torment.
85	* OverdrawnAtTheBloodBank: lampshaded by Kihara Kamui, who is impressed by just how much blood Touma had lost during his torture of the latter and is still alive despite of that.
86	* PastLifeMemories: Of sorts, [[spoiler:the medicine Regon was so effective at restoring Touma, that it actually is restoring memories that Touma should have no right to access anymore, including memories of Shokuhou Misaki, who accidentally made it so that Touma's brain could no longer store memories of her,[[ShellShockedVeteran At the cost of remembering his trauma during the events of NT9.]] The memories lost to Index's John's Pen Mode however were completely destroyed and have no chance of ever being recovered.]]
87	* ProtagonistTitle: Each Arc is named after its protagonist who is having ADayInTheLimelight (except [[BloodKnight Thor]], who [[FaceHeelTurn eventually becomes the]] [[AntagonistTitle main antagonist of his arc]]).
88	* PutOnABus: [[{{Downplayed}} Not quite]] [[spoiler: but Touma's sudden departure to London has this effect for most of the Science Side characters, both heroes and villains. Most of the time, he gets mentioned by other characters, appears only a few times through viral videos, news footage, or photos of him, taken from his time in London. When he does appear, he's always TheGhost, never seen, only heard through phone calls]].
89	* ReasonYouSuckSpeech: Touma is both a giver and receiver on this, especially if he and his opponent are on opposite sides of the SlidingScaleOfIdealismVsCynicism.
90	* RedEyesTakeWarning: After surviving a freaking ''anti-matter'' explosion, Touma comes out of the wreckage with one eye normal, the other red with a [[SupernaturalGoldEyes golden glow]] implying that the Invisible Thing may have temporarily taken control of Touma.
91	* RememberTheNewGuy: As this fic is to take place sometime after the series, this becomes unavoidable with Othinus in chapters posted after [=NT9=]'s release. Kamisato and the Anti-Art Attachment, however, will not be used according to WordOfGod (although it does seem to be {{subverted}} at this point).
92	* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: Aaron Gracestone, Kisaragi Maeda and Damian F. Slivka were able to march into the female-only School Garden with an army of bodyguards unimpeded as part of their campaign against Kongou Airlines thanks to their respective companies' influence in Academy City.
93	* SerialEscalation: Meta-example. The Uiharu Kazari arc is over three times as long as any of the arcs before it.
94	* ShockAndAwe: Electromasters, like Misaka Mikoto, have the power to control electricity and magnetism.
95	* ShroudedInMyth: As expected, Touma's reasons for defeating Accelerator and Mikoto are not known to general public, and MINUS uses this fact to create the propaganda needed for their followers.
96	* SinsOfTheFather: Turns out, all the suffering that Kongou has had to go through [[spoiler: is due to her father making deals with ''Kamui Kihara'' for weapon parts. For a FIVE_Object]].
97	* SmiteMeOMightySmiter: While not religious in any way, Mikoto gives a pretty good one towards the unfairness that is Touma's luck.
98	--> '''Mikoto''': "[[ChronicHeroSyndrome He's doing what he thinks is right each and every time, to get more and more smiles on other's faces.]] [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished And this is his reward?! Hunted because of his kindness?! Hunted because he wants to save others?! Hunted to have the peace that he wants so much to protect destroyed?]] [[DespairEventHorizon H-How is that fair?! HOW IS THAT HIS REWARD?!]]"
99	* SpannerInTheWorks: Touma is this, as usual. A good example would be the Shirai Kuroko arc. Kuroko was set up by Crowley to be assassinated by MINUS because she was [[HeKnowsTooMuch close to learning about the Magic side]]. However, as soon as Touma enters the picture, Aleister is forced to do nothing but let things run their course, which of course means that Touma saves Kuroko. He tries to get Kuroko expelled for the collateral damage from the fight, but Touma still manages to save her by using his connections to take the punishment instead, and again, Aleister is forced to just let things run their course.
100	* SpecialOddHand: Touma's right hand has Imagine Breaker, the ability to negate any supernatural power (psychic, magic, and even divine).
101	* SuperheroParadox: Some of the characters in the story blame Touma because of how many bad things are happening in Academy City '''because''' of him. He, of course is aware of this.
102	* SupremeChef: Touma's cooking is apparently so godly that when he was visited by Mitsuko Kongo and her entourage, Misaka, Kuroko, and Shokuhou Misaki; the girls all had a near orgasmic experience.
103	** It should be noted that Index, Otohime and Othinus who regularly eat his food do not have the same reaction, suggesting there is an acclimation period.
104	* SupportingProtagonist: Downplayed. Kamijou Touma remains an important character (he is the titular character after all), plays a key role in the main story, is also the protagonist, and each action he makes, big or small, [[ForWantOfANail influences future major story arcs and drives the plot forward]]. That said, he is ''not'' the sole focus of the series, as each individual arc [[ADayInTheLimelight focuses on the supporting/minor characters of the series, their personal struggles, and interactions (established or newly-formed) with him]], with Kamijou only being relevant at the midpoint of that particular character's arc.
105	** Taken up to eleven in the Uiharu Kazari Arc; [[ReassignedToAntarctica as he was in England facing off against another magic cabal]], he remains absent in the arc [[spoiler:until the end]]. Despite this his absence is felt not only by his allies, but also by his enemies, and his influence in the Railgang's lives is a major source of occasional humor and conflict for the arc.
106	* TakingTheHeat: To prevent Kuroko from being expelled for collateral damage, Touma opted to take the blame and punishment in her stead.
107	* TakeAMomentToCatchYourDeath: [[spoiler:Kazari Uiharu]] nearly became a victim of this at the hands of [[spoiler:Bakin Gakusha]]. [[spoiler:Moments later Bakin himself became subject to [[BigDamnHeroes a heroic version of this trope]].]]
108	* TheseHandsHaveKilled: Mugino Shizuri's greatest desire is for penance for all the things she's done for the Dark Side of Academy City, not to mention her [[CharacterDevelopment core characterization]] [[TheAtoner is dependant on that past]]. So much so, that WordOfGod is that she is one of the few, if not the ''only'' person, who is immune to the [[ChickMagnet "Kami-yan Disease."]]
109	* TookALevelInBadass:
110	** After the events of the Orsola Aquinas arc, [[spoiler:Index gains new knowledge from another grimoire, allowing her to control ley lines (basically this amounts to having the power of a ''god''). When she tries to use the knowledge from the grimoire however, [[ArtifactOfDoom it]] starts to take control of her, threatening to destroy the world.]]
111	** Otohime Tatsugami also gets this treatment, [[spoiler:after gaining the ability to use ''magic''. This of course causes interest in [[TheChessmaster Lola Stuart]], who then sends a Saint after the poor girl.]]
112	** This is what the eponymous character of the Uiharu Kazari arc goes through. It's {{Deconstructed}}, as we see a ''young 12-13 year-old girl'' go through the [[FamilyUnfriendlyViolence worst]] [[BreakTheCutie three days]] [[InnocenceLost of her life]].
113	* TraumaCongaLine: Seeing what Touma has to go through again and again culminates in Mikoto giving a SmiteMeOMightySmiter rant on Touma's behalf. Then only a few minutes later, the Railgun team are at each other's throats whether or not to warn Touma about an impending attack on him and then a day later MINUS launches what could be their last ditch effort against Academy City.
114	%%* TranquilFury:
115	* UnluckilyLucky: With every misfortunate situation Touma faces a semblance of good fortune will swoop in and assures Touma's ultimate safety in the end, ''after'' him going through so much violence and brutality.
116	* UnskilledButStrong: Touma still has his [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower prodigious strength]], [[GoodOldFisticuffs and a lack of formal training to go with it]]. At one point, he gathered enough strength to '''''crush one of MINUS' lackeys' ankles''''' in order to save someone. And in the Mugino Shizuri arc, [[spoiler:he [[CurbStompBattle gets handily defeated]] by [[{{Mundangerous}} a normal mercenary]], and would have been killed [[UnluckilyLucky had a nearby car missed into colliding with the car he and the unnamed mercenary were on.]]]]
117	* UnwantedHealing: It turns out that the way Orion Phoenix survived a lot of his missions is by being healed by what he calls his "guardian angel", whether he wants it or not.
118	* UnwinnableByDesign: A non-video game example in chapter 152 lies in the Magic Name system used by Western magicians. Unlike what Styl says, a magician's Magic Name is not just some fancy words like LetsGetDangerous, but rather is in fact a way of life carved into their very ''souls'' making it almost a like a {{Geas}}. The problem is that most of them are lofty goals that can never be accomplished, even by Saints, unless one is a Magic God. [[spoiler: By declaring herself [=Salvare001=] "Be the Salvation of Those who Cannot be Saved", Otohime has basically condemned herself to the same ChronicHeroSyndrome as her cousin.]]
119	* VillainTeleportation: Thor still has his ability to 'move the earth around to help him fight better' from the time he fought Touma during the events of NT 9.
120	* WeaponOfMassDestruction: Taken to the extreme with the Five_Object which combines the power of two different weapons of mass destruction already present in both the Raildexverse and Kamachi's other work ''Literature/HeavyObject'', the Five_Overs and the titular Objects.
121	* WellIntentionedExtremist: The entirety of the campaign waged by Aaron and his counterparts against Kongou Airlines [[spoiler:is to prevent the company from helping Kihara Kamui develop a superweapon capable of threatening global security.]]
122	* WhamEpisode: Chapter 132 finally ends the [[ArcFatigue infamous]] [[DoorStopper Uiharu Kazari arc]], but while it is somewhat light-hearted and has the emotional roller as one would expect from a long-running arc such as this, the last section brings some devastating news. First, [[spoiler:Lola Stuart, or rather [[EldritchAbomination Coronzon]] acting through her, sends a Saint after Tatsugami. And second, Touma is understandably suffering from [[ShellShockedVeteran PTSD]]]].
123	* WhamLine: Chapter 129 gives one shows just how far MINUS [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope is about to go to promote their beliefs]].
124	-->[[spoiler:The proper makeup of the items involved in this device have yet to be properly researched. However, the annihilation will only be on a small scale. Care is requested in handling the few nanograms of '''''antimatter''''' that is the centre of this device because of its fragile nature.]]

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