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* [[Action Girl]]: Cho is a far more competent fighter than Kano. And now that she's got the magic weapon of one of the gods too...

* [[Art Evolution]]: And how!

* [[Art Shift]]: In the flashback sections in chapters 45 and 49.

* [[Attempted Rape]]: Red usually gets away with it, {{spoiler|but Kano distracted him just once... long enough for his victim to steal his gun.}}

** He attempts it again {{spoiler|on Fuuka}}. He's foiled again {{spoiler|by Kano}}. Violently.

* [[Badass Longcoat]]: Red is quite pleased when he finds one stashed in Cho's closet. Despite expressing disdain for said coat, Kano has yet to get rid of it.

* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: Kano, if you're unlucky enough to get him angry.

* [[Big Bad]]: Kuroyama, Tcaolin, and Red are all vying for this position.

* [[Big Beautiful Woman]]: Though not as extreme as some examples, Cho is intentionally drawn with a few extra pounds, and it doesn't diminish her hotness at all.

* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: Cho had one of these recently when saving the team from the zombies.

* [[Black Bug Room]]: Kano's mind seems to be composed primarily of them. The only section we've seen that isn't completely horrible (so far) is the warehouse room where Kid resides. And even that place has its problems.

* [[Blind Seer]]: Dee, spidery goddess of dreams and recurring character. She seems to have...''misplaced'' her eyes. She's sure she'll find them eventually!

* [[Body Horror]]: {{spoiler|Karen}}'s bizarre tentacle monster form.

** [[The Chosen Zero]]: A common reaction towards Kano.

* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Dee, who in the author's own words is "a little bit crazy" but in a nice way.

* [[Cool Sword]]: The Blade of Sigmr Ch'k, no question. It's a floating magic katana, the handle of which is covered in teeth. When Kano uses it, it hovers six inches away from his hand, connected to his arm by the ''quetzacoatlic personification of the dragon-god of war.'' If that's not a [[Cool Sword]], I don't know what is.

* [[Couldn't Find a Pen]]: Dark scribbles the names of Red's victims on glass using {{spoiler|blood leaking from his [[Eye Scream|empty eye sockets]], which he had scratched out on the journey there.}}

* [[Creepy Doll]]: Kuroyama's demons.

* [[Creepy Monotone]]: According to [[Word of God]], Kano's regular voice is an example of this.

* [[Crowbar Combatant]]: {{spoiler|Kano, when he's beating Red.}}

* [[Cute Bruiser]]: Cho may barely hit 5 feet, but she will happily kick your ass from here to Sunday.

* [[Dead Little Sister]]: {{spoiler|Nadia, who was about a year younger than Kano}}.

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Kano does it best, when he's not being [[Snark Bait]].

* [[Deity of Human Origin]]: Tcaolin.

** Separately, when visiting a god on a spiritual plane everything is vibrantly colored but for our black-and-white protagonist, in a sort of reverse of [[Splash of Color]].

* [[Depopulation Bomb]]: Wilsh Tree resorted to this to stop the plague caused by Tcaolin's rise to godhood, but she spared one place, Ir City.

* [[Enemy Within]]: Red fits this trope pretty much to a T.

* [[Enemy Without]]: {{spoiler|Red/James}} also manifests this trope elegantly when he is able to manifest a more or less physical form after {{spoiler|Tcaolin "fed him some souls".}}

* [[The Exile]]: Formerly Cho, who caused too much trouble among the Old Ones and was kicked out, residing in the slums of Ir. Currently the nick, more or less self-inflicted, and also resulting in a new residence in the gutter.

* [[Eyeless Face]]: Dee. She used to have eyes, but apparently misplaced them somewhere.

* [[The Fair Folk]]: Fae in Gray World are severely persecuted by humans, and treated as third-class citizens. Everyone thinks of them as thieves and tricksters, a stereotype the nick... plays into perfectly happily. Whoops.

* [[Fantastic Romance]]: {{spoiler|We seem to be heading towards Kano and Cho having one.}}

* [[Femme Fatalons]]: Dee's fingernails, which she also paints with [[Poisoned Weapons|poisoned polish]]. Unfortunately for Kano she [[The Ditz|forgot the second part]] and wound up poisoning him by accident (she meant to hit him, but not kill him) but luckily she keeps an antidote on her.

* [[Fingore]]: When Kano isn't busy hallucinating that there are maggots in his veins or the like, he often feels his fingers burning, sometimes indicating unrest in the [[Mental World|Zones]]. May or may not be related to why he tried to chop his left hand off, but hey, at least he missed and only got two fingers! His ring and pinkie finger don't work too well, incidentally.

* [[Floating Continent]]: The fae's continent.

* [[Foreshadowing]]: Quite frequently.

* [[The Fool]]: Kano fits a few aspects of this trope, especially in his initial bumble through Gray World. [[Averted Trope|Averts]] [[Karmic Protection|others]] [[Born Lucky|pain]][[Born Unlucky|fully.]]

* [[Freudian Excuse]]: [[Discussed Trope|Discussed]] by {{spoiler|Red when Dark writes the names of all his victims on his prison walls.}}

* [[Freudian Trio]]: All accounted for in the personalities of [[The Hero|our hero]], simultaneously adhering to and deviating from the original model more than ever.

** Kano is the ego and also [[The Face]] personality, the closest thing to a balance between the extremes of the others.

** The superego is Kid, [[The Empath]] who insists on kindness and moderation in a way which would be so very annoying if it weren't adorable.

* [[Genre Savvy]]: Red has made several jabs at the plot, mentioning once that it sounds like a "really bad anime."

* [[Good People Have Good Sex]]: The nick and the Princess. Whenever they can.

* [[Gorn]]: The author actually apologizes when things get especially bloody, claiming to dislike all the blood. Given how often and how copious the bleeding is, however, [[Lying Creator|this is most likely bullshit.]]

* [[Green Eyed Red Head]]: Kano, normally. Whether or not that's his natural eye color is sort of [[Shrug of God|muddled]], but the [[Fiery Redhead|fire imagery]] of the hair is [[Word of God|definitely]] intentional, though Kano [[Inverted Trope|cannot usually be described as passionate]].

* [[Hair of Gold]]: Kid has the blondest hair out of all Kano's alternate personalities.

* [[Hammerspace]]: Justified in-world by the presence of Grims, a floating talking cloud, who seems to serve no purpose in the story other than to carry around the characters' changes of clothes and Kano's sword.

* [[Happily Married]]: Moko and Kail.

* [[Hates Being Touched]]: Kano, oh so very much.

* [[Hearing Voices]]: Kano does regularly, though we're not shown this until quite a few chapters in.

* [[I Have the High Ground]]: Oh, nick.

* [[I Know Your True Name]]: Nearly gets Kano killed at the beginning of the story when he gives it away. {{spoiler|''Does'' get him killed at one point, but [[Unexplained Recovery|he comes back]].}}

* [[Immortality]]: All over the place. The Old Ones can heal their wounds by briefly becoming trees, and it is the norm for them to eventually forsake their bipedal bodies to live forever as trees, their consciousness part of a greater root system. It is pretty much unheard of for Old Ones to die, and they are descended from a god. There are [[Our Zombies Are Different|plague victims]] running around who can only be neutralized by growing sacred trees ''[[Squick|through]]'' [[Body Horror|them]] with god-related magic. Ghosts of the dead [[I See Dead People|rattle around]] [[Psychic Powers|Kano]]'s [[Black Bug Room|mind]] like candy in a gumball machine. {{spoiler|Red/James}} is still wreaking havoc there long after his brain was blown out by one of his would-be victims.

* [[Innocent Blue Eyes]]: Kid is the poster child for this trope.

* [[Jerkass God]]: {{spoiler|Tcaolin.}}

* [[Keet]]: Kid.

* [[Kick the Dog]]: Red does this frequently.

* [[Kindhearted Cat Lover]]: Dee resides in a self-described but otherwise unelaborated "safe home with cats"<ref>which likely doesn't make her a [[Crazy Cat Lady]]</ref>.

* [[The Lancer]]: The nick fits this rather well.

* [[Lady of War]]: Starless. Graceful, poised, dignified, scholarly, crushed a guy's head into gooey bone chips with her staff in one blow. Didn't ruffle her clothes doing so. [[Word of God|On Gray World, the clergy doesn't fuck around.]]

* [[Living Toys]]: [[What If|If]] title villain Kagerou hadn't been an evil aspiring god, he would have been a [[Word of God|toymaker]]. Most of his [[Mooks|henchmen]] are creepy, deformed living dolls.

* [[Locked Out of the Loop]]: For most of the comic, Kano is unaware of his other personalities, though he's slowly figuring it out. Dark's entire purpose is to keep Kano from remembering a bunch of things about his past.

* [[Magical Land]]: Grey World.

* [[Mad Eye]]: Kano's pupils are often drastically different sizes. Kid has it too, inside Kano's head.

* [[The Maze]]: The slums of the city of Ir are the outskirts of a labyrinth imposing enough that not even the children of the slums go in too deep, at the center of which lie some ruins which the purpose of the labyrinth is to protect people from.

** All to keep people safe from a monument called The Eye...which Kano has a somewhat unpleasant encounter with.

* [[Meaningful Name]]: The villain, as well as Heyoka.

** Also probably the titular villain Kuroyama. It roughly means "mirage," and at the very least references the story's [[Surreal Horror|nature]].

** Kid named his older brother/[[Guardian Entity|guardian angel]] Dark because he wasn't afraid of the dark, and Kid himself is known by this nickname because he doesn't seem to have a real one and will introduce himself by a new ridiculous title every time you ask him.

'''Kid:''' {{color|#0000FF|Then can I be Harry Potter?}} }}

* [[Mental World]]: A good chunk of the story is Fuuka's journey through Kano's chaotic, nightmarish mind, and the horrible things that happen while she is there.

* [[Mercy Kill]]: Moko does this to an injured woman {{spoiler|during the attack on Nishi Village.}} Mindi also does it to a woman who was crushed (see [[Contest Winner Cameo]]) though due to the nature of her powers Mindi can always bring her back later.

* [[Mind Hive]]: Kano, in addition to having a [[Split Personality]].

* [[Mind Over Matter]]: How Kano wields his sword.

* [[Mind Rape]]: Poor, poor Kano...

* [[Mind Screw]]: And ''how.''

* [[Mismatched Eyes]]: Moko.

** Kano and Kid's unevenly-dilated-pupil-thing isn't a true example, but resembles it.

* [[Mood Dissonance]]: Look at all the pretty colors! Even the blood... and gore... is... nice and vivid... dear god.

* [[Mood Whiplash]]: During the middle of an intense fight between Monster and Kano... we cut to a chibi Monty Python reference and an apologetic note from the author. At the time it was a semi-joke page to cover for an extended hiatus, but in an archive read it... feels very out of place.

** [[Mysterious Parent|Cho's mother]] is said to have died "[[Cryptic Conversation|of the age]]," when it is unheard of for an [[Immortality|Old One]] to die.

* [[Mysterious Watcher|Mysterious Pursuer]]: Upon his introduction the nick was a shadowy, darting silhouette pursuing the heroes' pursuit, taking [[Mysterious Employer|mysterious orders.]]

* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]: Dee's childish quirks mask the true expanse of her insight and power, which are vast.

* [[Only the Chosen May Wield]]: Kano has to go to Ir to retrieve the Blade from a statue. There is some conflict over who should've drawn it, though, as the nick shows up claiming to the title of Champion.

* [[Our Gods Are Greater]]: In Grey World, gods are are normal beings who [[Ascended to A Higher Plane of Existence]] ([[Animal Motifs|a tree, a spider, a dragon, a fox]]). Others can ascend similarly through a corrupt version of this process, through collecting [[Our Souls Are Different|souls]]: [[Big Bad|Two]] have tried this so far. Every person is born affiliated with one of the gods in a life-steering capacity, and gods' existences are reflected in the stars, which mold fate a bit. Each god represents certain aspects (such as [[Anthropomorphic Personification|wisdom, dreams, or the destiny to change the world]]) which they seem to have some [[Elemental Powers|functional influence]] over and are probably tied into on a worldwide scale to some extent.

* [[Our Souls Are Different]]: Tcaolin gets power by absorbing the souls of humans; their abandoned bodies then become [[Our Zombies Are Different|zombies]]. Kano's mind is sort of like a [[Soul Jar|vacuum]] for any soul that isn't tied down. In Gray World, people's souls can leave their bodies at will, but if they stay away too long they become [[Face Heel Turn|demons]]. Part of Tonbo's soul is currently [[Living Memory|existing independently]] of her otherwise functional self, and they're evolving into separate characters. Souls function in other mysterious ways as well in the Kagerou universe.

* [[Perpetual Molt]]: Originally [[Inverted Trope|seems to be the case]] with Dark's wings in a flashback, but it [[Justified Trope|turns out]] they were [[Evil Makeover|rotting off entirely]] at the time.

* [[Poisoned Weapons]]: The enemy's weapons, sometimes. Notable is a later incident with poison darts. Oh, and [[Blind Seer|Dee]]'s [[Femme Fatalons|nails]].

* [[Power At a Price]]: Kano's [[Psychic Powers]] seem to have damaged his mind to the point of being completely unable to use them, [[Hallucinations|plus other drawbacks]].

* [[Prophet Eyes]]: {{spoiler|Dark}}'s [[Monochromatic Eyes]] (above) can be considered an example, since he may be more or less omniscient.

* [[Punny Name]]: Dali-Dalai. He is most commonly referred to simply as "Dali." Don't get it? Try saying it out loud. Still don't get it? {{spoiler|It's a homophone of [[Don't Explain the Joke|"dolly."]] }}

* [[Rebellious Princess]]: As Tonbo's soul, Fuuka is very much this.

* [[Sanity Slippage]]

* [[Schedule Slip]]: Unfortunately, our beloved author isn't very consistent with updates. This is somewhat forgivable, due to the author not exactly having the most comfortable lifestyle.

* [[Screw Destiny]]: The nick quite openly turns his back on his role as Tcaolin's Champion to save Tonbo. Red seems to have taken his place in that role, somehow.

* [[Series Hiatus]]: Kagerou has gone on a few of these over the years, often over the summer (aka Con Season).

* [[Sexy Discretion Shot]]: The nick and Tonbo are not always appropriate for the common viewer, but we hope you enjoy their partial silhouettes while you wait.

* [[Speech Bubbles]]: While everyone sticks to the same font in bubbles, their font color changes. Quite a few characters who communicate without speech bubbles (Dark comes to mind) have rather creepier fonts. This is often one of the only ways you can tell who's talking, and who's in control of Kano's body.

* [[Spirit Advisor]]: In a thoroughly disturbing example, Red. [[Inverted Trope|Inverted]] in that while only Kano can perceive him, Kano [[Selective Obliviousness|can't]] ''[[Selective Obliviousness|actually]]'' perceive him.

* [[Splash of Color]]: Gray World is monochromatic save a few noteworthy features. In the first chapters, Kano takes on its palette as he walks through it, but his [[Speech Bubbles|text]] is green and there are vibrant colors in other objects not from the World such as Tonbo and her spirit animal, and there are sometimes hints of green in [[Green Eyes|Kano's eyes]]. In his second visit, people not from Gray World have color, and the landscape is largely gray with muted color throughout, especially on points of interest.

* [[Split Personality]]: The premise of the series centers around this. The main character has quite a few folk living in his head at this point. It's taken quite seriously, as the author is rather a crazy person himself, and VERY knowledgeable about DID.

* [[Split Personality Takeover]]: Red seems quite intent on doing this to Kano.

** {{spoiler|They don't look ''that'' star-crossed as of chapter 38}}.

** {{spoiler|And by that we mean they mate like rabbits.}}

* [[The Stoic]]: Starless. Cool and calm, we have yet to see her fazed. By ''[[Jerkass Gods|any]][[Zombie Apocalypse|thing]]''.

* [[Summon Everyman Hero]]: The premise is a deconstruction of this trope. Not only is Kano a ''breathtakingly'' screwed-up hero, the summoning process itself has been used for a long time to enable a deeply unpleasant sacrifice.

* [[Surreal Horror]]: Expect to say "What the hell is happening and ''why is it so creepy?''" a lot. The swarms of shadowy dragonflies are particularly memorable in this regard.

* [[Talking in Your Sleep]]:

* [[Teach Him Anger]]: What Red seems to be attempting to do to Kano.

* [[Teasing Creator]]: Luka tells us lots of things, but he can't tell us [[Spoiler|everything]]! Also seems pretty happy to play along with fan silliness.

* [[Token Evil Teammate]]: {{spoiler|Before becoming the [[Enemy Without]]}} Red fits this trope very well, ducking in to make a snide comment (or press Kano on a harsh decision) or to get Cho and Kano out of trouble (note: snark and saving intermingle) before flitting away.

* [[Trapped in Another World]]: Kano in the Gray World.

* [[The Undead]]: Zombies attack the heroes when [[Physical God|the Gods]] start to [[The Plague|lose their grip]] [[The Virus|on things]]. Kano is surprised that they are really there, as he frequently [[Hallucinations|hallucinates]] that corpses are attacking him (he tries to discreetly shoo the visions away). Ghosts are some of the many residents of Kano's head, though whether they are real souls or [[Our Ghosts Are Different|just impressions]] is unclear. Either way, they're equally creepy.

* [[Unexplained Recovery]]: This trope is not a true definition of Kano's death-and-revival, but he invokes it later to explain.

'''Kano:''' {{color|#348017|...I got better.}} }}

* [[Unstoppable Rage]]: {{spoiler|Kano, when Red attempts to rape Fuuka.}}

* [[Verbal Tic]]: Kano has used "we" interchangeably with "I" most of his life, as well as other plural conventions when referring to himself. (He doesn't notice, because he's crazy.) Cho, who reacts to this with some condescension, has speech including hints of Middle English — Ye, aye, and the like.

* [[The Voiceless]]: Dark. Included in his repertoire of scars are those from when he once sewed his mouth shut. May communicate with mostly nonsensical, tortured psychic vibes.

* [[Waking Non Sequitur]]:

* [[Weapon of Choice]]:

** Kano, surprisingly, is big on blades (if you trust [[The Trickster|Re]][[Jerkass|d]], anyway). He is ''[[Squee|very enthusiastic]]'' about his [[Cool Sword|magic sword]].

* [[Wholesome Crossdresser]]: Heyoka.

* [[Winged Humanoid]]: Cho. She can grow wings, and even change their color to match her outfit. Certain other Old Ones fit this as well, as do other residents of Gray World. [[The Lancer|The nick]] is a Fey, an entire species with gossamer wings (supposedly--they are [[Word of God|very withdrawn]] and we have only seen the nick as he has been cast out. Of another sort is Dark, whose wings are a psychic construction and ''probably'' don't actually function for flight.

* [[Word of God]]: The author enjoys throwing readers a bone by revealing trivial (yet entertaining) information about various characters, including their favorite foods, what their voices sound like, and what kind of underwear they prefer.

 

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