Zettai Karen Children/YMMV

• Alternate Character Interpretation -- Kyosuke, Affably Evil or Faux Affably Evil?
• Alas, Poor Villain -- Attempted with Surma, Minamoto's predecessor as she breaks down and her Freudian Excuse is revealed. It doesn't work too well.
• Angst? What Angst? -- ....aaaannnnnddd on the three espers under his care practically never lose sleep about the legal and social discrimination they face, and frequently tease Minamoto for being a worry wart.
• Brain Bleach -- When the vacationing BABEL-ers see a giant monster that turns out to be a giant naked Tanizaki being projected by "The Little Mice" team

Naomi: MY EYES ARE ROTTING!

• Complete Monster: Black Phantom
• Crazy Awesome: Taizo.
• Draco in Leather Pants -- In story example. No matter what Kyosuke does (see Moral Event Horizon below) Kaoru sees him as more tragic than villainous. Minamoto is considerably worried by this.
  • Of course, Kyosuke cheats. Image management is a lot easier when you can erase memories.
    • She eventually decides that he's too much of a villian for her to tolerate when he colony drops a satellite to distract them while he goes to rescue his followers.
• Ensemble Darkhorse: Minamoto. Even for a main character, something about a of dedicated parent figure with enough badass cunning to make Batman proud really resonants with fans.
• Hey, It's That Voice! -- If I were to tell you that Kaoru was an otaku, the Second Kira, and God, would you believe me?
• Moe -- The Children, of course...and Minamoto.
• Moral Event Horizon -- It's really hard to understand any of the plight The Normal People say they suffer when what they do, such as blowing up bridges is a lot worse than what they accuse espers of doing. Also crossed by Black Phantom.
  • PANDRA and Hyobu leap over the horizon in chapter 161, when Hyobu brings down a satellite to crash on the city to distract BABEL. And in 163 Hyobu finally tries to kill Fujiko for real -- only to be interrupted by Kaoru.
• Nightmare Fuel -- ESPer Rampage In New York
• Values Dissonance -- Minamoto slapping Kaoru after she (verbally) lashes out at her family. Kaoru then retaliates in her usual style.
• Villain Decay: Averted. It's clear that Kyosuke could wipe out countries (And does in fact take one over) if he had a care to, he just has in-character reasons not to.
• The Woobie: Nai.
  • All three of the Children under Suma. Doesn't stop them from giving as good as they get.