Mahou Sensei Negima/Tropes S-U

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 * Saintly Church: Played with in Misora's focus chapter after Mahorafest. She pretends to be a kindly old priest in the confessional, but she is actually very mischievious and sometimes downright sneaky.
 * Sand in My Eyes: Used by both Konoka and Yue.
 * Sapient Cetaceans: Dolphin-men are one of the many denizens found in the Magic World. One of them works as a trucker who pilots an airship.
 * Say It with Hearts: Almost always used ironically; sometimes Konoka will fall into it, though.
 * Scenery Porn: Done with CG models of the environments, many of which are ridiculously detailed and have huge polygon counts.
 * Scooby-Dooby Doors
 * Schedule Slip:
 * "Negima will be taking a break next week" "Negima will be taking a break next week" "Shonen Magazine (which Negima is in) will not be sold next week" "Negima will be taking a break next week" Repeat ad infinitum.
 * The scanlations can be even worse given that the translators are unpaid, and tend to be students with exams and suchlike.
 * Schematized Prop: Logistifying Chiu's artifact.
 * School Festival: Quite possibly the largest one in fiction. It runs for about a week and takes in several million dollars.
 * Science Destroys Magic: Side material adds in the interesting fact that the ability to use magic is based on a certain way of thinking the world works, such as the four classical elements. As science advances and disproves these theories, the number of magic users dwindles.
 * Sealed Evil in a Can: Waking up a legendary demon was the motivation for the villains during the Kansai arc. Also, Eva technically qualifies; although she was sealed less for her evil (which was, if you believe her, considerable) and more because Nagi couldn't get her to leave him alone. Ironically, the protagonists defeat the first abovementioned Sealed Evil by temporarily breaking the seal on the other one.
 * Sensei-chan: Negi is a rare male version.
 * Serial Escalation: Negi vs. . Negi reveals that he isn't left-handed at least five times before the match is over, culminating in a spell that definitely deserves the name "Titan Slayer". And still stands up like nothing happened.
 * Serious Business: A tense meeting between Fate and Negi derails for one page into a heated argument over coffee and tea -- Negi is British, after all. Negi prefers milk tea and refers to coffee as "muddy water". Fate drinks seven cups of black coffee every day, and occasionally lemon tea.
 * Seiza Squirm: During the Claim Negi's Lips Tournament Asakura organizes in Kyoto, almost everyone gets caught and made to seiza by Nitta-sensei.
 * Sexy Secretary: In Chapter 337,  to become this to Negi as he's working himself to death (apparently enough to literally kill a normal human), even mentioning that she is the only one of the girls who can really help him this way. After confronting him directly about it and telling him that she truly wants to be there to help him,.
 * Naturally there is also a hilarious daydream before that where  envisioned herself working in this role starting with simple help, moving into what might be several years in the future where they've gotten quite familiar, and ending with  . Cue Did I Just Say That Out Loud?.
 * Sex Slave: Averted in the Magical World. Slaves may not have many rights but they are protected from being used as sex slaves.
 * Shipper on Deck:
 * Everyone Ships Konoka and Setsuna.
 * Jack Rakan ships.
 * The ENTIRE Ala Rubra ships.
 * Evangeline sometimes ships Negi/Chachamaru and derives endless amusement from poor Chachamaru's plight, though deep down she really is quite supportive.
 * Ship Sinking: Possibly the only real one in the series since Negi/Konoka and Negi/Setsuna; In Chapter 353, Negi tells which girl he likes. Her reaction makes it clear that A, it's not her, and B, she has no problem with that.
 * Chapter 355
 * Ship Tease: So much that it is impossible make any truly definitive declarations as to which girl will "win" until one of them actually does.
 * Shirtless Scene: In-universe, on the poster advertising.
 * Shock Collar: Applied to the girls under slavery in the magical world.
 * Shoot the Medic First:
 * During the Gateport Incident, Fate uses the confusion caused by  to try to petrify Konoka.
 * A variation happens when Fate's subordinate Koyomi targets Ako over other low-tier fighters, although Ako is not a healer but a support-type.
 * Shotacon: Poor Negi is such a Chick Magnet that half of his fourteen-year-old class is outright discussing how to confess their love for him within days of his arrival. It's made somewhat less squicky by the fact that at least a few of them are more concerned with how badass he's going to be in a few years, but at least one girl is very happy to have herself a yummy little ten year old -- although to be fair it's less about sex and more about replacing a baby brother who died at birth.
 * Shout-Out: Has its own page
 * Showgirl Skirt
 * Shown Their Work: Shown mainly in the compiled volume extras and magazines, which give descriptions on both in-universe physics and real world data, such as the use of surprisingly good Latin... And Greek. And Sanskrit. Other examples are the Hakkyokuken, Negi and Ku-Fei's martial arts style and the physics behind Negi's Raisoku Shundo. And . And
 * Show Within a Show: Mahou Shojou Biblion, a Magical Girl Warrior series.
 * Shrines and Temples: Mana is ostensibly the Miko of Tatsumiya Shrine, near Mahora.
 * Single-Stroke Battle
 * Skilled but Naive:
 * Negi is an incredibly skilled mage, but he's still a ten-year-old.
 * In another light, Negi is an incredibly skilled (natural) Chick Magnet nicknamed the Thousand Pimpster by some of the fans, but he's still a ten-year-old.
 * Skinship Grope: Chichigami-sama is a serial groper to the point of Unfortunate Implications. See Psycho Lesbian above.
 * Sleep Cute:
 * Happened to Ako & Makie, Konoka & Setsuna, and Negi & Asuna. Kazumi & Ayaka, and Haruna & Yue were close...
 * The credits of Negima! (Awww...)
 * Smoke Shield
 * Sneezing: Negi used to be affected by frequent bouts of clothing shredding sneezes in the early volumes of the manga. The sneezing decreased when the story grew more serious, the Fan Service didn't: Notably, sneezing mostly occurs in the downtime between major, action-filled arcs.
 * Snot Bubble
 * Snow Means Death:
 * The destruction of Negi's village.
 * Nearly literal when Eva strands Asuna on a blizzard-wracked mountain as part of her training. Asuna freezes solid while sleeping, then wakes up dead. Ask any doctor. Being Asuna, however, this is not sufficient to keep her down. Evangeline later hits her with an insta-kill freeze spell; once again this is insufficient, although in this case her ability to cancel magic may have helped. She was still stuck in an ice crystal long enough to suffocate.
 * Sorting Algorithm of Evil
 * Sparkling Stream of Tears
 * Spell Construction
 * Spider Tank: Literally. Lampshaded to hell and back during Mahorafest, when Misora finds the Martian Army stashed in the sewers.
 * Spit Take
 * Spot of Tea: Negi takes tea with, and each criticizes the other's tastes in a truly epic bout of passive-aggressiveness.
 * Spotting the Thread: Yue figuring out that  was an illusion in Chapter 143.
 * Squeaky Eyes
 * Stable Time Loop: The three days of Mahorafest. Done inconsistently, though: Their week-long jump back does end up changing the past, but it ends up being stable due to it being consistent with Chao's timeline. Basically it's a sort of destiny thing, otherwise there would be like a huge paradox, and if they hadn't succeeded, Chao would never come back in time to do it.
 * Strip English Lesson
 * Summoning Ritual: Typically, these invoke Valkyries, Undines or Salamanders, or other types of spirits, for offensive spells.
 * Summon Magic
 * Super-Deformed: Infrequently, and usually only when characters are under stress. Except Misora. She does it more often.
 * Super-Powered Evil Side:
 * Super-Powered Robot Meter Maids: Chachamaru serves tea. She also has a BFG, Kung Fu skills, and transforming blade arms.
 * Superpower Lottery: Pactios act as this, giving a artifact with a different ability depending the individual's personality. Some are good for fighting, some are stuff outside of fighting.
 * Super Speed: Raiten Taisou. Koyomi's artifact ability. Also one of the effects of artifact.
 * Supporting Harem: At least it started out as such, lately it's more of a Balanced Harem.
 * The Sweat Drop
 * Swirling Dust
 * Synchronization:
 * Take a Third Option:
 * Taken for Granite: Adds to the horror feel of the series, without too much Squick.
 * Taking the Bullet: Several times, including a 'defendee-tossing-would-be-defender-out-of-the-way-to-take-the-hit' subversion.
 * Talking in Your Sleep: "No way, lady, I can't smoke that..."
 * Talking to Himself: The American dubs.
 * Taste the Rainbow: Here's the class roster. And that's only the starting point.
 * Tele Frag
 * Telepathy
 * Teleporters and Transporters
 * Tempting Fate: Ayaka says that she has a bad feeling about going to the Magic World and Asuna claims that Ayaka's premonitions are usually wrong. Guess what happens to Ala Alba.
 * That Didn't Happen: Twice. Both times involve Forceful Kisses from Negi.
 * There Are No Therapists:
 * And Negi, from what Nodoka's diary showed us, needs one badly.
 * Subverted early on, however, when Negi gets cheered up by Satsuki during Mahorafest.
 * There Is Only One Bed: Weirdly inverted -- the girls understand and accept that no matter how many beds are present, Negi is likely to crawl into one a girl is already occupying. (Especially Asuna.) They even turn it into a game of Keep-Away on one occasion, fighting over who gets him. Of course, it's debatable whether ...
 * Thirty Second Blackout
 * This Is Something He's Got to Do Himself: As of Chapter 285, this seems to be.
 * This Is Sparta:
 * "Chachamaru-san! Is not! A DOLL!!!"
 * Not as cool and more of a joke, but "Eternal! Negi! Feverrr!!!"
 * Thundering Herd
 * Time and Relative Dimensions In Space
 * Timeline-Altering MacGuffin: Chao's "ultimate weapon."
 * Time Machine
 * Time Stands Still
 * Time Travel: Stable Time Loop as Negi starts running into earlier versions of himself...
 * Timey-Wimey Ball:
 * ...until the part where he has to change the future after being sent ahead.
 * Title Drop: The White Wing initially call themselves the Negima Club until the better name is suggested.
 * To Be a Master
 * To Be Lawful or Good: Negi gets this from time to time, having to choose when to break laws and when to let things slide, often while under threat. He's fairly flexible, coming down on both sides depending on the severity of the issue.
 * Token Girl:
 * Token Yuri Girls: Setsuna serves as Konoka's protector, and admits it precludes hooking up with anyone else. Naturally, other characters assume this is a complicated way of saying that they are a romantic couple, or will be. Konoka certainly has no problem being her (kissing-activated) partner in their magical contract. It's pretty much just Setsuna who isn't aware of this. Naturally, when Setsuna proved to be a popular character, the overtones became a lot more obvious in the Negima?! remake, with a more knowingly teasing Konoka and a more flusterable Setsuna, to the point of Setsuna stuck between embarrassment and ogling at Konoka in a swimsuit. Considering that in the early manga the way Setsuna acts around Konoka is exactly the same as someone with a really strong crush (complete with blushing and a loss of the ability to speak whenever she's around) makes the subtext already quite strong.
 * Took a Level In Badass: Pretty much automatic if someone gets an artifact. This includes
 * Yue is arguably the queen of this trope, having done this no less than three times. See her character entry for details.
 * Yue's best friend Nodoka is the goddess of this trope.
 * Too Much Information: Asuna gets an earful from Makie during the shower scene: "Negi-kun's you-know-what is touching my you-know-where! ... His you-know-what's getting you-know-what-er!"
 * Torch the Franchise and Run: The series' rather abrupt ending is the result of Akamatsu dropping the series in protest against his publisher's attempt to take ownership and copyright of the series away from him.
 * Total Party Kill: Discussed a few times after they entered the magical world arc as with so many other game tropes, especially when they were separated.
 * Tournament Arc
 * Training From Hell:
 * Lampshaded with Ku Fei's martial arts training, as her trying to create a "quick-powerup" training regimen for Negi based on old manga and kung fu movies fails miserably. She then tries training him conventionally, which works, and teaches him so quickly that she gets depressed about it.
 * Played straight, however, with Evangeline's training methods, which actually seem to work.
 * Transformation Trinket: The pactio cards.
 * Translation Convention: Scenes that take place in Britain are spoken in Japanese. The girls, even the ordinary ones, also have no trouble in the magical world -- averted though, in that it was colonized from Earth (Mundus Vetus, "the Old World"), and two of its major languages are "Anglicum" and "Japonense." Interestingly, though, the writing dotted around the Mundus Magicus suggest that the lingua franca is actually Latin.
 * Translation Style Choices: Most fan translations fall into Category 2 or Category 3, while the former official translation was a solid Category 2.
 * Trapped in Another World: The entire plot of the Magic World arc.
 * Triang Relations
 * Troperiffic: Akamatsu seems to be on a quest to use every trope ever. He is disturbingly close to succeeding. Naturally, this leads to...
 * Truce Zone: Megalomesembria's public baths.
 * Truer to the Text: An interesting case. The recent OVA releases have been faithful to the manga, but they're so deep into a story that none of its multiple previous adaptations properly covered, that they won't make much sense to anyone who hasn't read the manga.
 * Two Roads Before You: Father's or the Master's?
 * Two Scenes, One Dialogue: Variation: just as Fate finishes explaining the secret of the Magical World, the next chapter begins with confirming the same explanation for Negi and company.
 * Translation Style Choices: Most fan translations fall into Category 2 or Category 3, while the former official translation was a solid Category 2.
 * Trapped in Another World: The entire plot of the Magic World arc.
 * Triang Relations
 * Troperiffic: Akamatsu seems to be on a quest to use every trope ever. He is disturbingly close to succeeding. Naturally, this leads to...
 * Truce Zone: Megalomesembria's public baths.
 * Truer to the Text: An interesting case. The recent OVA releases have been faithful to the manga, but they're so deep into a story that none of its multiple previous adaptations properly covered, that they won't make much sense to anyone who hasn't read the manga.
 * Two Roads Before You: Father's or the Master's?
 * Two Scenes, One Dialogue: Variation: just as Fate finishes explaining the secret of the Magical World, the next chapter begins with confirming the same explanation for Negi and company.






 * Two-Teacher School: In the entire Elaborate University High, few teachers are shown other than Negi, Takamichi, Gandolfini, Nitta, Seruhiko, and Shizuna. Justified in that the manga focuses explicitly on the teachers who are also mages.
 * Unblockable Attack
 * Unlimited Wardrobe: When the girls are not attending class, and wearing the Mahora uniform, they each have fair amount of unique casual clothes. It's obvious reading the manga, that Akamatsu and company spent a lot of time coming up with fun looks for all of the girls.
 * The Unmasqued World: Negi and friends pay a brief visit to a "bad" future in which the current antagonist has recently succeeded in revealing the existence of magic, but aside from the excited attentions of some local girls and talk of all mages being recalled to the Magic World, we don't see much of the effects.
 * The Un-Reveal: 355 chapters and we never learn
 * Unsound Effect: "Pettan" for Yue and Nodoka.
 * Unspoken Plan Guarantee
 * Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Chachamaru uses her booster jets to fetch a little girl's balloon at one point, and nobody comments on it except Asuna and Negi.
 * The Unwanted Harem: Double Subversion: the professor surrounded by 31 female students sure looks like a set up for one of these, but, while the students may find Negi cute, they don't want to go out with him. Except, of course, that several of them do develop romantic feelings for Negi, though nowhere near as much as the premise would lead you to believe.
 * Justified in that they develop romantic feelings for him after he shows how mature, badass or awesome he is, and most of them look at him and realize that the ten year old kid will turn into the epitome of sexy and badass in five years tops.
 * Upgrade Artifact: Literally.
 * Urban Fantasy: Though it's shifted to a more Final Fantasy feel as of the Entry to the Magic World arc.