Mahou Sensei Negima/Tropes P-R


 * Panty Fighter: Lampshaded a bit during the Mahora Budokan, when Asuna and Setsuna change into their provided combat attire, they discover after they are already into the sexy lingerie just what they are putting on. They have no real choice, so they go into battle as combat maids.
 * Panty Shot: Hoo boy...
 * Paper Fan of Doom: The weaker form of Asuna's pactio artifact.
 * Parental Abandonment:
 * Beside the obvious examples of Negi and Asuna, both orphaned, nearly all the characters live alone in a boarding school with no parents in sight. The two dads that showed up were extremely plot relevant.
 * And then there's Kotarou -- apparently any half-Youkai where he's from will be abandoned at birth.
 * Parental Incest: No actual incest occurs, but Yuuna really loves her dad. She even says that she wouldn't mind giving a "deep, passionate kiss" to her dad, which elicits a squicked "No. Just... No" Reaction from Ako.
 * Party Scattering: The main cast is at a Gateport, having just arrived in the Magic World from Wales. The Bad Guys pick that moment to launch their attack on the Portal Network to cut the Magic World off from the real one. As the system explodes, there's all kinds of swirly craziness and the cast end up scattered in ones and twos across a surface area nearly a third that of Earth. It takes an interminable period to get everyone back together, but when they do, everyone has, as they say, taken a level in badass.
 * Pensieve Flashback:
 * Negi and Asuna use a spell to get an Out-of-Clothes Experience inside Negi's memories of the destruction of his Doomed Hometown.
 * Done again, and to the same flashback, by Kurt Godel, while trying to convince Negi to join him. Negi's subsequent Berserk Mode is only stopped by ... and an Armor-Piercing Slap from the the Loli-Catgirl.
 * Perpetual Molt: Not as bad as some others, but it still applies.
 * Personality Blood Types: Tons and for almost every character. Check here for the full list.
 * Person of Mass Destruction: If you hear someone starting an incantation with "To Sumbolaion Diakoneto Moi", RUN.
 * Perspective Flip:
 * Perverse Puppet: Chachazero has a bit more free will than a normal old puppet, but she is definitely psychotic. In the most adorable way possible.
 * Petal Power
 * Pillar of Light
 * Pillow Fight: During their Kyoto vacation/school field trip, several of the girls of 3-A had an epic pillow fight with their boy teacher's kiss as the prize. Despite what you may assume from the previous sentence, very little of it was used as Fetish Fuel. [[media:Pillow_Fight.jpg|Also take note that the girls will indulge in the occasional pillow fight given the opportunity]].
 * Pinball Projectile
 * Pixellation
 * Place of Power: Twelve of them, including Mahora itself
 * Playing with a Trope: One of the big reasons this series is so popular is because Akamatsu goes out of his way to toy with tropes common to the Shonen genre and winds up coming up with twists and turns that catch even his own long-time readers by surprise, to say nothing of the people who were expecting this series to be little more than "Dragonball Z meets Harry Potter / Love Hina". See Beam-O-War for one example among many.
 * Please Put Some Clothes On: Right after Ala Alba gets spread out across the Magic World, Negi comes to and finds a bathing Chachamaru.
 * Plot-Relevant Age-Up: The pills everyone's favourite Ermine orders in. The author of the manga has a lot of fun playing with these.
 * Plucky Girl: Several, most notably Asuna, Anya, and later on, Yue. Even later on,
 * Point That Somewhere Else: During their big fight, Negi has Setsuna's magic daggers hovering at Jack Rakan's throat. He decides to bite down on a couple, and the others get nervous.
 * Pool Scene
 * Poor Communication Kills: If.
 * Porn Stash:
 * Subverted; it's merely used as a distraction.
 * Asakura's secret report on Negi's room makes a note on the lack of this in Negi's drawer since, y'know, he's 10.
 * Post Episode Trailer
 * Post-Kiss Catatonia: After gets her artifact in a ravishing Pactio kiss that goes on for four pages, and after.
 * Power Dyes Your Hair: Negi's hair turns white during his Magia Erebea.
 * Powered by a Forsaken Child: Asuna  while bound in chains as a child. Later she was used to power the magic-cancelling spell   The resulting mental trauma from being used as the power source to destroy   was probably one of the reasons Nagi and party decided to
 * Power Levels: In the manga's Magic World arc, Jack Rakan, with his own personal ranking chart, puts a major villain's power in context with an oddball list that includes: a cat (0.5), a normal human teen girl (1), a tank (200), a magic teacher (300), Negi (500), a dragon (650), an Aegis Battleship (1500), and the villain (3000). Meta Girl Chisame doesn't even know where to begin in pointing out all the problems with such an arbitrary list (which probably shouldn't be taken very seriously.
 * The Power of Blood
 * Power Perversion Potential: Some of the cast are more aware of this than others. Rakan uses his speed and power to flip girls skirts and take their panties off before they notice. His "secret ultimate technique" is Silent Flipping and Stripping, Combined with the Rakan Gentle Breeze Tempest Fist, oddly enough it actually works as a battle strategy.
 * Princess In The Mountain:
 * Psychic Link:
 * Any pair with a Pactio can communicate telepathically.
 * Later we see other people using this without a Pactio.
 * Psycho Lesbian:
 * Tsukuyomi.
 * And Chichigami, the queen of Skinship Grope.
 * Public Domain Artifact
 * Puppy Dog Eyes: Usually Negi.
 * Pure Magic Being: In some way, this could be said of
 * Put Them All Out of Their Misery: The Fatettes contain aspects of both type three and four, having been wronged (they're all war orphans or worse) and deciding they're going to fix society by completely redoing it. Whether they like it or not. As it's rather bluntly stated to Ala Alba, they at least don't even care what Negi's plan is or if it will work because they're more concerned with making a peaceful world than saving all the people. Having the people saved is a nice bonus to them.
 * Quivering Eyes: Negi again.
 * Radial Ass-Kicking: Asuna and Setsuna's battle against the demons in Kyoto played out like this. Once they began to realize that either girl could cut them down with a single stroke, they kept their distance and attacked more strategically in this fashion.
 * Rain Aura
 * Rain of (Magical) Arrows: There doesn't seem to be a limit to how many Magic Arrows you can shoot off, although it's usually a prime number.
 * Razor Wind: Wind-type spells, including Negi's old standby Jovis Tempestas Fulguriens, run on this trope. Griffins also have Razor Wind breath.)
 * Reality Ensues:
 * "The Reason You Suck" Speech:
 * Fate Averruncus tends to do this to Negi.
 * After Negi starts to crack after one of Fate's speeches, Asuna gives Negi her own The Reason You Suck Speech, the point being that he's an idiot for even considering what Fate is saying. The next time Fate attempts one of these, he gets a punch in the gut and a Shut Up Hannibal for his trouble.
 * Evangeline has a knack for these, against Setsuna, Asuna, Negi...
 * Reference Overdosed
 * The Red Planet: Went from what at first seemed like a joke from Chao to being
 * Red String of Fate: Lampshaded in one of the first two OVAs: Nodoka and Yue find a spell in Yue's Artifact that seems to indicate who the caster's tied to. Instead, it just ties things together with magical, glowing red string that can't be cut. Since Nodoka was thinking of Negi when she cast it... Hilarity Ensues.
 * Reed Richards Is Useless: Justified by the Masquerade. We hear several times in the beginning that mages try to help the world through NGOs, but 99% of what we see magic being used for is destroying the landscape during fights.
 * Relationship Voice Actor: Quite a few actually.
 * Rescue Arc: The school trip to Kyoto evolves into a Rescue Arc when.
 * Ridiculously-Fast Construction: 3-A's festival project is remarkably detailed for the amount of time they spent on it.
 * Robe and Wizard Hat: Most noticeable in Yue's Pactio outfit, which is practically the essence of this trope. Very noticeable when she summons her item while in a 1-piece swimsuit -- yes, 1-Piece Swimsuit, Cloak and a Wizard Hat.
 * Robot Maid: Evangeline's resorts are staffed by older (but younger-looking) versions of Chachamaru, usually referred to as Dash-Chachas or Chacha s.
 * Roof Hopping: Chao, in the chase that sets up the plot of the Mahorafest mega-arc.
 * Rousseau Was Right:
 * All over the place, at least for the first few arcs. Once the Ala Alba head to the Mundus Magicus, however...
 * Even then it mostly holds up enough that Negi is extremely surprised when
 * RPG Episode:
 * The climax of Mahorafest, AKA Mahora vs. Mars.
 * The entire Magic World arc could count, as the plot is decidedly on the Final Fantasy end of the spectrum, and an enormous number of videogame terms are used to explain the mechanics of how magic works. Not to mention the fact that
 * Rubber Face: Asuna does this a LOT to Negi.
 * Rule 63: An odd canonical example played for laughs or fanservice with Negi during the Mahorafest Arc as a joke by the class to bring in more customers.
 * Rule of Cool: A good chunk of the manga runs on this and...
 * Rule of Funny: Anything that isn't totally logical or awesome is going to be this.
 * Running Gag: Many, including Setsuna's Cannot Spit It Out-ness and how Jack Rakan tends to ignore the laws of magic that don't suit him.)
 * People mistaking Rakan's attack techniques for terrorist bombings.
 * Takane getting stripped.
 * Chisame notes that Jack Rakan bleeding after he tries dark magic, for the first and only time, is becoming one. Every time he said that he was invincible he would start to bleed.
 * Several characters have noted that Negi really needs to get his ass kicked one of these days, for a variety of reasons (mostly his harem).