Fairy Tail/Tropes T-Z

"Jellal: Pathetic, (Evil Laugh), how utterly foolish. Now, that's called Dying in vain, Simon! The situation hasn't changed one bit! No-one can leave this Tower Ali--
 * Tagalong Kid: Wendy may become this, and you can see Romeo among the other Guild members in later chapters; averted in the past, where the kids formed their own magical teams distinct from the adults.
 * Taken for Granite:
 * Taking the Bullet
 * does this for in chapter 159. This is what convinces him that the taker can be trusted.
 * Which causes a flashback to when Simon takes a bullet for Erza and Natsu.
 * does this as well for Natsu against in his arc.
 * He seems fond of this trope. Before that he takes it for.
 * In the Phantom Lord arc, does this. More like taking the Wave Motion Gun though.
 * Taking You with Me: . It didn't work.
 * Talking Is a Free Action: Averted. As the Quirky Miniboss Squad is introducing themselves in Chapter 32, Natsu hurls two giant fireballs at them mid-sentence.
 * Talking the Monster to Death: Lucy gets this at least twice. Once in her fight with the rock-and-roll assassin in the Tower of Paradise, where she specifically talks Juvia out of the Mind Control that she has been put under, and later in the Oracion Seis fight, where Lucy convinces most of Angel's Celestial Spirits to defect.
 * Talk to the Fist:

Natsu: *POW* SHUT UP!!!"

": I'm the head of the Seven Kin of Purgatory. Someone like you is no match for the likes of--
 * And again

Gray: *POW!*"

"Happy: Natsu... I don't think you should go picking battles with girls...
 * Technical Pacifist: Fairy Tail guild as a whole.
 * Tempting Fate
 * Non-lethal version: there is an amusement park inside the king of Edolas's freaking huge castle, to the shock of Lucy, Natsu and Gray. Natsu was pleased.
 * Lucy also does it earlier in the same arc, complaining of boredom and wanting something exciting to happen.
 * "You'd be a really scary enemy, Juvia!" . Lucy, you've really got to stop doing this.
 * And again. Dammit, Lucy!!
 * There Is No Kill Like Overkill
 * Jose is not happy with just firing a Wave Motion Gun at the ruins of Fairy Tail's base and its wounded members. He then turns his own base into a Humongous Mecha Wizard, which proceeds to draw a magic seal that will wipe out an entire town.
 * Likewise with attempting Fairy Law during his arc.
 * There Was a Door: Gildarts loves to do this. Side affect of his.
 * Third Person Person: Juvia
 * This Cannot Be!
 * screams this before being defeated.
 * Same with when Natsu
 * This Is Unforgivable!
 * Natsu in the Edolas Arc (justified considering ). Cue Unstoppable Rage.
 * Also Natsu when battling after seeing that
 * The general guild reaction to the attack by Phantom on Shadow Gear.
 * tells that  is an unforgivable sin.
 * Time Skip: Gets one after the S-Class exam arc, of seven years, no less. And the series actually manages to subvert this trope. Also
 * There is another one just a few chapters later, but it's only three months..
 * Time Stands Still: Which causes some Fridge Logic.
 * Tomboy and Girly Girl
 * Erza and Lucy. Averted.
 * Mirajane and Lisanna
 * Tomato Surprise
 * Also, in the Cursed Island Arc.
 * turns out to be.
 * Too Dumb To See: After Natsu screams out fire, after seeing Makarov lose his trunks, Gray and Gajeel looks through the telescope anyway.
 * Took a Level In Badass: Strangely averted for Lucy, the main character. She is getting better with her celestial spirits, but she's still not at the same level as Natsu, Gray, or Erza. Then again, those three are pretty damn powerful.
 * Lucy officially takes a few levels after
 * Tournament Arc: The S-Class Trial arc.
 * The Grand Magic Games qualify as well.
 * The S-Class Trial is put on hold after barely 10 chapters however, and what follows is the (as of yet) longest arc in the series with the regular formula of unorganized fights against an evil Dark Guild. Also, the Grand Magic Games are strongly implied to be Not Just a Tournament.
 * Tragic Dream: Jellal's dream of a world of freedom may count, in a sort of twisted way.
 * Transformation Is a Free Action: Averted in the manga -- Erza is known to be exceptionally fast with her Exquipping. In the anime, they play it straight when she's bringing out the big guns.
 * Transformation Sequence: Erza when she Exquips her more powerful armors in the anime. And is later averted.
 * Transforming Mecha: Jose Porla can transform his entire castle in a giant mecha.
 * Traumatic Superpower Awakening: A flashback shows Erza first using magic after seeing a friend die.
 * Trojan Prisoner: Erza, who is the one Dressing as the Enemy, "captures" Natsu and Gray to lead them to the King.
 * True Companions: The cornerstone trope of the entire series.
 * Tsundere
 * Edolas Lucy
 * Used gender-reversed and hilariously here.
 * Levy towards Gajeel.
 * Carla, whom Happy has a crush on.
 * 24-Hour Armor: Erza borders on this as a psychological hang-up. She gets better.
 * Ultimate Evil: Not Zeref, who's more of a Bigger Bad. The Ultimate Evil of Fairy Tail is the Black Dragon Acnologia, which even Zeref is afraid of.
 * Unconscious Objector: At one point, Natsu fights with Gray while sleeping. Characters around them promply lampshade it.
 * Unholy Nuke
 * Jellal's magic Altearis consists of an extremely devastating orb. In the anime it sucks all the shadows in the room towards it and makes Natsu sick just by standing near it.
 * Later, Brain 's spell "Genesis Zero" is pretty much this, only with a tsunami of black shadows.
 * Law.
 * Unlucky Childhood Friend: Jellal, though not in the usual sense. (Probably.)
 * Unsound Effect
 * Ladies and gentlemen, we now have a sound effect for fanservice (as evidenced at 5:34 here and at 17:10 here.)
 * There's also a dark version of it.
 * Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Aside from Lucy, no one really cares about the council envoy's appearance.
 * Unwitting Pawn: is victim of this twice.  To a lesser extent
 * Utopia Justifies the Means
 * Jellal (subverted in that he was being manipulated) and the Kingdom of Edolas who
 * Verbal Tic: Too many characters in Fairy Tail.
 * Almost all of Lucy's celestial spirits have one based on the animal they resemble. Amusingly, Sagittarius (who looks like a human wearing a costume) adds "Hello Hello (Moshi Moshi)" to everything he says, and Cancer suffixes everything with "ebi" (a.k.a. prawn). That last one really disappointed Natsu and Happy, who were certain that he was going to say "crab" as his tic.
 * Looks like all the male cats in Extalia do this as well.  says "Kaah!"
 * Ichiya and Nichiya say "Men!"
 * Hot Eye/ and "Yes! (desu ne/Desu yo!)"
 * In the anime, Hughes and Sugarboy qualify as well too.
 * Kinana says "-kina".
 * Victoria's Secret Compartment: Erza, in an omake chapter.
 * Villain Ball: The ONLY reason Vidaldus doesn't ultimately win is because he'd rather use his powers to.
 * Villainous Breakdown
 * The Oración Seis seems pretty prone to this. Both Racer and Angel  have broken so far. Brain has a pretty good one here too, with eyes bulging out and everything.
 * After his defeat, becomes completely horrified when he sees images of Igneel, Grandeeney, and a hungry-looking Metallicana staring down at him. His face completely breaks down, and eyes bulge out, before fainting from sheer shock.
 * Voice of the Legion: Lullaby in the anime.
 * Walking Shirtless Scene: Gray, and to a lesser degree Natsu (he wears a vest, but it's not covering much).
 * Walking Wasteland
 * Chapter 200 introduces a new character who drains the life out of everything around him. He seems to have even less control over his power than Gildarts. He's . Fuck.
 * We All Live in America: The supposedly Spain-like country of Fiore has some pretty Japanese tendencies.
 * Weaksauce Weakness
 * Natsu suffers from an extreme form of motion sickness. Lampshaded when it was first revealed. Oddly, the fact that he can use Happy to fly does not cause this. This is pretty ridiculously HandWaved by Natsu simply stating that "Happy isn't a vehicle!". This from the guy who gets nauseous on top of a still raft. Also, Happy isn't a vehicle, but apparently Lucy is.
 * Turns out, ALL Dragon Slayers have this weakness eventually, apparently including both 1st and 2nd Generation.
 * has the exact opposite weakness. He's only Badass while he's in a vehicle. Otherwise he's a complete wuss.
 * Fried really cannot handle himself around Subverted in that
 * Well-Intentioned Extremist
 * Jellal is basically the living embodiment of this trope before
 * Even afterwards, he always seems to retain extremist solutions to various problems, making him a semi-heroic version of the trope.
 * Laxus has shades of it as well.
 * Wham! Episode
 * And again in Chapter 215, where
 * And in 216...
 * In 221, apparently ...dammit.
 * In 235, [[spoiler: Azuma uproots the entire Tenrou Tree, and it is revealed its magic was boosting Fairy Tail's magic, and keeping them alive under the Kin's onslaught. In other words,
 * In 252
 * And 253... oh my God, the 253rd chapter...
 * Personal Wham for in 256:
 * What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?
 * Pillow fights are taken a little bit too seriously by Natsu, Erza and Gray.
 * Natsu and Lucy fixing their hair and Happy putting on his sack right before they fight.
 * What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic: Jellal, in the Nirvana arc especially. and in addition uses Heavenly Magic.
 * What Happened to the Mouse?
 * What the heck happened to Erigor "the Shinigami" from the Lullaby Arc?.
 * Where the hell was Angelica during the Nirvana arc?
 * Whatever happened to Gray's smoking habit from the first few chapters??
 * Those people Sho sealed in cards. Were they ever freed? What about the one who saved Lucy? She owed him. They're not even mentioned in passing. It's given a Hand Wave in Episode 34 of the anime: Gray, Lucy, and Juvia alerted the council's soldiers before they ran off to rescue Erza.
 * Also, In episode 48 of the anime the guy trapped in the card is one of the cameos for the Fantasia Parade, they got out one way or another.
 * What the Hell, Hero?: Sugarboy informs Gray that the key to the Dragon Cannon can be used to change everyone back from Lachima, and then freaks out after Gray destroys it anyway.
 * Whip It Good: Lucy sometimes carries a whip, typically one that ends in a spade/heart shape.
 * White-Haired Pretty Girl: Mirajane, Lisanna, and Angel.
 * Wild Card Excuse: Happy's answer to questions such as "Why are you blue?", "Why can you fly?", or "How come you can talk?" is always "Because I'm a cat!" cheerfully and likely intentionally ignoring the fact that these questions are because he is a cat.
 * Will They or Won't They?
 * Alzack and Bisca are this trope personified. It's their main character trait, even. The ultimate answer?.
 * Not as prominent, but there's plenty of this between Erza and Jellal as well.
 * The Woman Wearing the Queenly Mask: Erza, despite not being a queen.
 * The Worf Barrage: A sustained assault against the Big Bad of the S-Class Exam arc, from a united front of various Fairy Tail members using some of the most powerful techniques seen in the series so far, successfully destroyed his cape and made him mad (maybe he liked the cape).
 * Worf Had the Flu: According to the author, the reason Midnight beat so easily was because  on top of . Alternatively, some fans have pointed out that, if you consider Midnight's ability, it's highly possible  tried to one-shot him with one of his Game Breaker spells and had it reflected back in his face.
 * also gives one to explain how Ultear beat him. His explanation can be sumarized as "becuase I didn't want to kill her, my magic was ineffective. Now that I'm out for blood I'm back to full power."
 * World of Badass: Actually subverted. Despite the fact that there are loads of Badass characters, who tend to hog the spotlight, only 10% of the Fairy Tail world's population can use magic.
 * World of Buxom: Along with 99% of all males having either an Heroic Build (and ShirtlessScenes) and/or Bishonen, for a Fanservice Family Pack.
 * Would Hit a Girl
 * Gajeel, who spends a good few minutes just beating Lucy silly. And he would have kept on doing it if Natsu hadn't shown up, rightously pissed off. He's doing it BECAUSE he knows Natsu is coming.
 * This seems to be in effect for the entire world of Fairy Tail, actually. There doesn't seem to be a distinction made between genders at all, at least as far as fighting goes.
 * Natsu actually invokes this when he suggests a round of fighting to find out who is the strongest wizard in Fairy Tail.
 * also gives one to explain how Ultear beat him. His explanation can be sumarized as "becuase I didn't want to kill her, my magic was ineffective. Now that I'm out for blood I'm back to full power."
 * World of Badass: Actually subverted. Despite the fact that there are loads of Badass characters, who tend to hog the spotlight, only 10% of the Fairy Tail world's population can use magic.
 * World of Buxom: Along with 99% of all males having either an Heroic Build (and ShirtlessScenes) and/or Bishonen, for a Fanservice Family Pack.
 * Would Hit a Girl
 * Gajeel, who spends a good few minutes just beating Lucy silly. And he would have kept on doing it if Natsu hadn't shown up, rightously pissed off. He's doing it BECAUSE he knows Natsu is coming.
 * This seems to be in effect for the entire world of Fairy Tail, actually. There doesn't seem to be a distinction made between genders at all, at least as far as fighting goes.
 * Natsu actually invokes this when he suggests a round of fighting to find out who is the strongest wizard in Fairy Tail.

Natsu: Guys or girls has nothing to do with it!!"

"Brain: (after shooting in the shoulder) I don't need the six demons if such an average guild can defeat them so easily, you trash!!"
 * Xanatos Speed Chess: Brain in his plan to obtain Nirvana..
 * Year X: The story takes place in "X784".
 * Year Inside, Hour Outside: inverted in the Celestial Realm, where one day in there is equal to three months outside.
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Natually, Jellal is the first that comes to mind here. Other people with unrealistic hair colors include Natsu, Levy, Juvia, Wendy, Bisca, Fried, Erza and Cobra (you can have somewhat red hair, but not that red), and Mirajane, Lisanna, and Elfman, since their hair seems to have always been white.
 * You Have Failed Me: Brain gives this treatment after


 * Your Princess Is in Another Castle
 * Zero-Approval Gambit: decides to unite Edolas... by draining it of its dwindling magic and offering himself up as the villain that Pantherlily will kill, thus making him the new king. Pantherlily has some complaints with that plan, and wants to turn it around so that he'll be the villain, and  will be the hero. Things hits a serious snag when both of them realize they can't bring themselves to kill the other. Natsu, Gajeel, and Wendy manage to salvage the plan by posing as rampaging demons for  to defeat, and the reverse anima convenient sucking them back to Earthland makes it look like they "died" by his hand.
 * Zettai Ryouiki
 * Seems to be a theme with the female villains.
 * Virgo
 * Also, Lucy as a maid.
 * Erza as a Goth girl, and a few of her other outfits.
 * Juvia as well.
 * One of the members of the recently introduced sports these as well, combined with Underboobs and an exposed belly.
 * Juvia as well.
 * One of the members of the recently introduced sports these as well, combined with Underboobs and an exposed belly.
 * One of the members of the recently introduced sports these as well, combined with Underboobs and an exposed belly.