Basic Trope: A polite Japanese character, and/or the tendency of Japanese people to be very polite.
- Straight: Suzuki-san is a very polite Japanese man, who always uses proper manners.
- Exaggerated:
- Suzuki-san is so polite that he apologizes to inanimate objects, even as a Neighbourhood Friendly Gangster.
- Every Japanese character is portrayed as very polite.
- Downplayed: Suzuki-san is notably polite, but doesn't go too far beyond greeting people properly and generally being kind.
- Justified:
- Can be Truth in Television; Japan is known for having a polite society.
- Suzuki-san was raised to be a polite individual.
- Inverted: Barbaric Bully Ryuji is the physical embodiment Asian Rudeness, and he's also The Idiot from Osaka.
- Subverted: Suzuki-san simply pretends to be polite. He's actually Faux Affably Evil.
- Double Subverted: But he later realizes that Good Feels Good, and decides to be polite for real.
- Parodied:
- Non-Japanese characters behave politely in the Japanese way.
- Everything that Suzuki-san does is considered polite, no matter how rude is if other characters do the same things that he does.
- Zig-Zagged: Suzuki-san can be polite in some episodes, and not as polite in others.
- Averted: Japanese people are not portrayed as particularly polite.
- Enforced: Sometimes can be used as An Aesop, usually about good manners and/or treating others well.
- Lampshaded: "Wow, Suzuki-san has excellent manners."
- Invoked: Suzuki-san doesn't want to disappoint his family, so he learns how to dress, talk, and behave properly.
- Exploited:
- Politeness Judo
- The racist Manipulative Bastard uses Suzuki's politeness to serve him like a servant.
- Defied: After he is manipulated too much, Suzuki-san decides to Took a Level in Jerkass.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Implied: A polite character has ambiguous Japanese accent.
- Deconstructed: Suzuki-san becomes a people-pleaser that develops some level of anxiety.
- Reconstructed: Suzuki-san visits a therapist, and learns that he can express a disagreement without any rudeness.
- Played for Laughs: The exaggerated politeness is used for Self-Deprecation jokes in anime and manga.
Please return back to Japanese Politeness, troper-san.
