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* PeerAsTeacher: Negi, who is ten, takes up a job as homeroom teacher for a class of 13 to 14-year-olds at a Japanese all-girls middle school as part of his on-the-job magic training.
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* WideEyedIdealist: Negi's view at the beginning of the series is very much like this, with the idea of there even being evil mages being completely foreign to him. Evangeline helps him grow past his naiveté though he still remains an idealist throughout the series who tries to see the best in everyone.
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* YoungAndInCharge: A 10 year old teaching a class of older women.
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* ClingySleepers: Much to Asuna's annoyance, Negi subconsciously insists on sleeping with her and getting as cuddly as possible.
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* TeenyWeenie: Both Makie and Evangeline have a laugh about this on separate occasions. Of course, Negi is still only ten years old.
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* FormalCharactersUseKeigo: Negi usually speaks very formally to mostly anyone he doesn't consider as really close friends or family. Makes sense since most of the people he interacts with are his students and he wants to sound well-mannered to make a good impression as a teacher. He only drops the formalities when speaking to someone who has a good level of familiarity with him, like his childhood friend Anya. When this is pointed out, the girls with crushes on him become worried that there is an emotional wall between them and Negi.
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* MarshmallowHell: His female students ''always'' sandwich his head in between their boobs upon tightly hugging him, and the TropeNamer moment occurs when several of them GroupHug him simultaneously.
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* {{Hypocrite}}: He was very aware and conflicted about this when he faced Chao, who travelled back in time to change an unfortunate past. Negi admits that he can't deny her and that he probably will have committed evil by stopping her. Asuna later points out that Chao and Negi are similar, and this makes everything he said to Chao to make her stop even more hypocritical.
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* BaitAndSwitchSentiment: At the start of the summer break, Negi asks Asuna if she would go to Wales with him as his partner. Asuna, Nodoka, and Yue think he means as in ''romantic'' partner and start freaking out, until Negi clears up he was referring to Asuna as just his [[MagicallyBindingContract Pactio]] partner. Asuna gives Negi a MegatonPunch for saying things in a way that's so easy to misunderstand.
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* LoveYouAndEverybody: Akira plays LoveInformant on behalf of Ako and Makie and he responds that he likes them too, causing her to go back and have to explain it again. He also pulls this off earlier on with Asuna twice.
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* MoreThanJustATeacher: While the teacher aspect of Negi is highlighted early in the series, it moves completely into the background during the Magic World arc as the mage aspect takes center stage.
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* BadassTeacher: During much of the manga one of the quickest ways to get into conflict with Negi is to attack his students rather than him directly.
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* SuperStrongChild: Downplayed. Negi uses magic to enhance his strength among other things, but when he's without magic he's about as strong as a normal ten year old would be. That said, he does go through intense physical training before [[spoiler:fighting Rakan]] and becomes much stronger even without magic.
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* BritsLoveTea: As a bonafide Welsh gentleman, Negi's favorite drink is tea with milk.
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* TookALevelInCynic: In the beginning, Negi is hopelessly idealistic and only tends to view the world in black and white. That there are even mages with ill intentions to begin with is a completely foreign concept to him. As he moves forward he starts to understand the world better and while he's still very idealistic, he comes to understand that "Good" and "Evil" are just labels that people use to justify their actions, and reality isn't that simplistic.
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* HumbleHero: Negi seldom recognizes his accomplishments and feats. He fights arguably the WorldsStrongestMan to a deadlock and never says a word about it.
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[[center: [-[[Characters/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi Main Character Index]] | '''Negi Springfield''' | [[Characters/NegimaAlaAlba Ala Alba]] | [[Characters/NegimaClass3A Class 3-A]] | [[Characters/NegimaCosmoEntelecheia Cosmo Entelecheia]] | [[Characters/NegimaAlaRubra Ala Rubra]] | [[Characters/NegimaMagicWorld Magic World]] | [[Characters/NegimaOther Other]] | [[Characters/NegimaGameOnly Game-Only]]]]-]
! Negi Springfield
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/RinaSato (Japanese) and Creator/GregAyres (English)
!!!'''Portrayed by:''' Yukina Kashiwa
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Negi is our [[KidHero ten-year-old]] protagonist, a [[TeenGenius precocious]] [[{{Scotireland}} Welsh]] mage assigned to be the [[WackyHomeroom homeroom teacher]] of an all-female Japanese middle school class as his on-the-job magic training.\\\
His principal goal is to find his father Nagi, a legendary mage and hero of a recent magical war, [[DisappearedDad presumed to be dead for a decade or so]]. With good reason, the boy thinks otherwise and devotes a lot of his energy, with the help of his friends, toward unveiling the secrets of his disappearance. Sadly, but predictably, the Ala Alba is often sidetracked by one or more of the {{Muggle}} students being endangered by the various hazards of the magic underworld.\\\
As a fighter, Negi specializes in wind, light and lightning spells, later supplementing his magic with martial arts when the weaknesses of a pure wizard become apparent.
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* AbnormalAmmo: During the fight with Evangeline Negi uses [[DepletedPhlebotinumShells Magic rounds]].
* AccidentalPervert: Tends to stumble in on girls naked or magically make them naked on accident.
* AchillesHeel: His lightning techniques that turn him intangible are vulnerable to exorcism techniques like the Shinmeiryu arts. Can't block those with deflector shields either. However, further mastery of this ability makes damage taken in this manner less serious.
* AdorablyPrecociousChild: He struggles hard to being formal and mature, which makes his students find him adorable.
* AesopAmnesia: Despite more than once getting his butt kicked after going into a fight alone, just to be saved by reinforcements, Negi just can't seem to get the idea of teamwork. This becomes a plot point later.
* AllLovingHero: He's sweet, kind and forgiving. Unless someone touches his {{Berserk Button}}s or [[BewareTheNiceOnes threatens his students.]]
* AlwaysNeedWhatYouGaveUp: During an early arc, he sacrifices his magic to keep himself from the temptation to cheat. He promptly enters a situation where just his basic physical reinforcement would have been quite helpful.
* AnimeAccentAbsence: Despite being from Wales and teaching English, he still has no accent.
* ApologizesALot: Whenever he says "sorry", [[DrinkingGame take a swig]].
* AttractiveBentGender: Forced to wear a miniskirt-style fox-girl kimono with ZettaiRyouiki during the Mahora Festival. And again, due to Chamo's suggestion, wears a SailorFuku when asking for a favor from Ayaka. [[ComedicShotacon Ayaka]] nearly died from a massive {{nosebleed}} in both occasions.
* BadassAdorable: He looks completely non threatening, but even as early as the Mahorafest tournament he could throw around adult men about ten times his size.
* BadassBookworm: After his fight with Jack, both he and Evangeline observe that Negi's primary strength isn't raw power, but his skill at developing new forms of magical theory and application. At one point, Jack states that his degree of genius is such that the magic he has developed at age ten is superior to that of those who've been studying the same thing for decades, even centuries.
* BadassTeacher: During much of the manga one of the quickest ways to get into conflict with Negi is to attack his students rather than him directly.
* BadPowersGoodPeople: Negi is definitely a NiceGuy, but Magia Erebea isn't exactly powered by rainbows and sunshine.
* BalloonBelly: In chapter 56, Makie prepared food for him knowing he was training for Evangeline's Apprenticeship Test and overdid it. Then she brought out the "secret" diet technique of the gymnastics club, which went too far the other way.
* BashBrothers: With Kotarō. They had their first fight together against Graf Wilhelm von Herrmann. In the Magic World arc they fully become this trope during their stint as a gladiator team.
* BattleAura: The first sign that Negi is actually angry. Being a wind mage, it also appears when he uses his more powerful spells. And then there's Magia Erebea Demon Form.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Negi was told that if he got in trouble, his father would appear and save him. When Negi's village was attacked, his father came to rescue him, but Negi still wonders whether it was divine punishment for his foolish wish.
* BefriendingTheEnemy: He resolves to deal with Fate by befriending him and convincing him to cooperate in an alternative plan to save the Magic World.
* BenchedHero:
** Negi misses out on the first half of the battle against Chao's robot army because he needed to rest and replenish the mana he used up earlier. The rest of the class and the Mahora Academy had to defend the World Tree without him.
** Negi goes on a rampage during the final battle and ends up being incapacitated due to stopping himself short of completely giving into the darkness, forcing the rest of his group to improvise until he gets back into the game.
* BerserkButton:
** Just ''seeing'' a full demon can make Negi lose control of his emotions. Negi almost got killed by Graf Wilhelm von Herrmann after the latter revealed his demonic form and told Negi that he participated in the raid on Negi's village. He also didn't hold back against the demon race when the bounty hunters group Canis Niger attacked Nodoka.
** Jack discovers that a good way to get Negi to give it his all is to act condescending towards the effort he puts in.
** And whatever you do, don't call Chachamaru a doll. Just don't.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: He's normally very gentle, but he's both the most flexible and most powerful character in the group despite his young age.
* {{Bishonen}}: His teenage form, "Nagi", is ridiculously pretty and makes girls lose their breath.
* BishonenLine: Upon using Magia Erebea he looked less and less human for many reasons, most notably its encroachment. Eventually he began mutating into a rampaging demon. However, while powerful, this form is not clever enough to fully utilize its strength. After mastering Magia Erebea by integrating it into his soul, he becomes nonhuman but retains the power and rationality of one.
* BloodKnight: He starts out averting it, but eventually grows to enjoy fighting.
* BlowYouAway: Negi primarily uses wind magic defensively (outside of disarming/stripping others). He later incorporates it offensively for his [[ElementalShapeshifter lightning form]].
* BondingOverMissingParents: Negi and Asuna smooth out some initial conflict by bonding over their mutual parentlessness.
* BoringYetPractical:
** Before he gains [[DeadlyUpgrade Magia Erebea]], Negi's magic style revolves primarily around Sagitta Magica, a very weak and basic attack magic. However, after months of experimenting and developing ways to use it, by the time of his final battle with Fate, Negi has built it up to the point where it's the equivalent of a full-scale war spell.
** Earlier in the Festival arc, Chao didn't have any qualms giving Negi her Cassiopeia Time-Machine since effective use of it would require the aid of a highly-advanced super-computer wired into his clothing. Negi re-purposes the spells for telekinesis and future-prediction (the most basic spells one can learn) to utilize the Cassiopeia for combat use. Now deprived of the GameBreaker she'd kept to herself the entire arc, Chao's winning streak comes to a sudden halt.
* BornWinner: He's the son of the WorldsStrongestMan and the heir of an ancient magical bloodline, taught from a young age by an immortal dark sorceress and later another legendary hero. He's also intelligent, can plan quickly, has excellent looks and a diligent nature to keep his talents from going to waste.
* BrokenHero: Negi is an extremely kind and helpful little boy, but besides ParentalAbandonment he has a traumatic DarkAndTroubledPast where demons invaded his village and [[TakenForGranite turned everyone to stone]]. Everyone was horrified to see his memories of said event, which worked exactly opposite to how it was supposed to.
* BroughtDownToBadass: After having his magic sealed temporarily by Yuuna in a class event based around the idea of getting Negi to make relationship progress, he's challenged to a duel by Ku Fei [[spoiler:after she confesses]]. With no chance to explain, he instead is forced to rely on sheer physical prowess and manages to throw her. It wouldn't have been enough to win, but it shows amazing reflexes even without supernatural power.
* TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive: [[DoomedHometown His village is attacked]] because [[SinsOfOurFathers his mother's enemies found where he is and tried to kill him]].
* CameBackStrong: During his battle with Dynamis, Magia Erebea starts completely consuming Negi and he's left on the brink of death. To recover quickly, Negi accepts to be resurrected as a demon and he gains full control over Magia Erebea.
* CantHoldHisLiquor: One sip of alcohol reduces him to a weepy drunk. In his defense, he's ''ten.''
* CerebroElectro: Negi primarily uses lightning magic and has the intelligence to maximize its potential when he lacks the raw power of his father.
* CharacterDevelopment: Negi learns early on the line between good and evil isn't so cut and dry and sometimes to do the right thing, you have to do the wrong thing. And while it takes him awhile to get there, he does learn to rely a bit more on his students for help.
* ChasteHero: Oblivious to girls' feelings because he hasn't even hit puberty and doesn't think of girls like that yet.
* CheerfulChild: Subverted. He's quite sunny and pleasant in early appearances, but it's just a surface attitude that covers up an obsessive attitude and a lot of negative emotions.
* ChildMage: Negi is incredibly proficient with magic for being only ten years old. He's even the trope picture.
* ChildProdigy: Graduated from university-level education at age nine while primarily attending a magic school.
* ClearMyName: At the beginning of the Magic World arc, he was framed for destroying the gate ports to the real world. This isn't addressed much for more than fifty chapters.
* CluelessChickMagnet: He's ridiculously popular with girls (to the point that the resident SchoolgirlLesbians have shown a passing interest in him) and never really seems to pick up on that.
* TheCollectorOfTheStrange: Though it isn't brought up too much, he has a bunch of weird stuff, both magical and mundane. This is where he got the magic gun he used a couple of times early on, for example.
* CostumeEvolution: Outside of his suit, Negi doesn't really have an IconicOutfit at the start, though he later mostly uses Chinese martial arts garb and the two outfits he wears during his time as the gladiator "Nagi" resemble both Chao's and Mana's battlesuits respectively.
* CrazyPrepared: His fight against Rakan has him pulling out five different trump cards, many of which were merely to guide the flow of battle or stall.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Red hair, red eyes.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: When Negi was four years old, a horde of demons appeared and attacked his village. Just as a demon was about to attack Negi, his father Nagi appeared just in time to save Negi from receiving a fatal punch from the demon. With a few strikes and a powerful spell, he destroyed all of the demons but the village was already in ruins and most of the villagers had been already [[TakenForGranite petrified]]. Nagi then disappears again and leaves his crying son behind. It's such a sad story that almost everyone who saw it, including Eva, couldn't help but cry.
* DarkIsNotEvil: Negi's [[DangerousForbiddenTechnique strongest technique, Magia Erebea,]] literally is Dark Magic and feeds on negative emotions. However, it's a case of TheSacredDarkness and Negi himself is a heroic figure, so while he might look menacing while he uses Magia Erebea (and could potentially lose control of himself), he is definitely a good person.
* DeathGlare: After gaining Magia Erebea he started to get some nasty, overpowering glares, likely complemented by his terrifying power.
* DeclarationOfProtection: He declares that even though she's not Asuna, Shiori is important to him and that he'll protect her. He also makes it clear to Fate that he won't let Fate lay a hand on Nodoka.
* DemonOfHumanOrigin: By mastering Magia Erebea, a technique created by Eva specifically for undying monsters like herself, Negi slowly transforms into an immortal demon similar to Eva.
* {{Determinator}}: When Negi puts a goal in his mind, there is basically nothing that can stop him.
* DistressedDude: When the group was sent to the future by Chao's trap, Negi was briefly captured and locked away without any of his tools, thus rendering him unable to actually use his magic. Interestingly, he apparently somehow managed to use magic despite having no staff or ring, which allowed him to escape and meet up with the group that had just arrived to rescue him.
* DittoFighter: Thanks to his Pactio, he has the ability to copy the artifacts of his own Ministras.
* DontYouDarePityMe: Negi goes berserk when Rakan sneers at the training he went through for his tournament fight.
* DoomedHometown: Kind of sucks that the poor kid had his own village attacked by a horde of demons, doesn't it?
* DoppelgangerAttack: His strategy to beat Kurt involves swarming him with waves of lightning clones so the latter has no idea which to attack, relying on his reserves of magical energy to overwhelm Kurt. Thus, while they do have some ability to do damage, it mostly functions as a DoppelgangerSpin.
* DreamWalker: He can cast a spell to spy on other people's dreams. He uses this on Eva when she's having a FlashbackNightmare about the Thousand Master, something she tries to kill him for.
* DrowningMySorrows: The kid CantHoldHisLiquor; he accidentally takes one sip of sake and crashes.
* ElementalHairComposition: Technically, Negi's hair turns into lightning because [[PowerMakeover all of him turns into lightning]], when he gets the ability to become an ElementalShapeshifter of lightning with ''He Astrape Huper Ouranou Mega Dunamene''.
* ElementalShapeshifter: With Magia Erebea, he can absorb spells to grant himself properties of the element in question. Incendium Gehennae, for example, grants him intense offensive power while Tempestus Fulguriens makes him incredibly quick. The Thousand Bolts makes him as fast as lightning while applying it twice basically makes him lightning for real, granting intangibility and thinking fast enough to keep up with his speed.
* EndearinglyDorky: As a 10-year-old boy who tries to teach a class of female middle school students, he can be so adorably awkward. This makes many of his students treat him like a little brother. Asakura and Misa in particular like to tease him about his dorky shyness, especially when they see him in his adult form.
* EnthusiasticNewbieTeacher: Despite his teaching job being an assignment, he still tackles it with great vigor despite the fact that most of his students are older than him (only Chachamaru is younger).
* FamilyThemeNaming: Negi, son of Nagi.
* FirstKiss: With Asuna in Chapter 25. Asuna pretends that since it was a pactio it doesn't count, but she's obviously not even fooling herself.
* FirstNameBasis:
** Everyone calls him by his given name. As he grows closer to his students, he also starts calling them by their given names, with a few exceptions like Chao, Asakura (no ones calls her Kazumi), Mana (who he is a bit scared of), Ku Fei (his master) and Ayaka (because she's the ClassRepresentative).
** Special case with Asuna, Kotarō and Anya, who are very close to him and do not use any honorific for Negi. Negi also doesn't use any polite language for them. He is this with Takahata as well, as the two of them are friends since Takahata came to visit Negi when he was little.
* FlashStep:
** Negi learns Shundo from Kotarō before his fight against Takahata, which would become a vital tool in all of Negi's fights from then on. However, once you made the "entry", you can't change directions, so an opponent who anticipates the move could simply trip you by placing an obstacle (like a leg) in your path. He later can do it mid-air too, which does allow him to change directions in the middle of the jump.
** In Negi's lightning form, he uses an advanced version of it, Raisoku Shundo. In Raiten Taisou form, it carries the same weakness of Shundo though. Negi uses wind magic to create a group of his own positive particles away from the main body, so his main body is drawn to the particles and allows him to do a lightning-fast movement. But until Negi removes the positively charged particles from his main body and to elsewhere in his expanded electric field, he cannot use a circuit for high-speed movement, which means he can't change directions once he makes the jump.
* FragileSpeedster: The lightning-based Magia Erebea techniques drastically increase Negi's speed, but lower his defense. Later compensated for by turning intangible.
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* GenerationXerox: As the manga progresses, his fighting style and relationships with his friends are becoming more and more like that between Nagi and his Ala Rubra.
* TheGift: Negi is often called 'Prodigy' or 'a Genius' thanks to his ludicrous growth, amazing smarts and innate ability to master many fighting styles. Neither brash nor overconfident, he's instead insecure, self-sacrificing, somewhat power-hungry with a noted inferiority complex.
* GlassCannon: Early in the series he had good offense, but was slow and easily interrupted.
* TheGlassesComeOff: Later on in the story, Negi's glasses break/were never on in the first place/simply vanish whenever he becomes particularly violent.
* GuileHero: Negi's no slouch physically, but what really makes him dangerous as a fighter is his planning ability. Other characters say that he'd probably be a [[TheSmartGuy supporting character]] in a different series.
* HandBehindHead: Often seen doing one (or both) of these whenever he's nervous. Particularly when he has to say something he doesn't want to, like "confessing".
* HaremPowered: Negi spends much of the series slowly amassing "Pactios" with [[BattleHarem the students of his class]] - a magical contract in which a [[SquishyWizard "Magister"]] empowers a [[MagicallyIneptFighter "Minister"]] to act as their [[SwordAndSorcerer partner in battle]], and creates a [[CardsOfPower Pactio Card]] with which the Minister can summon a powerful artifact matching their personality. Just before his climactic battle with [[WorldsStrongestMan Jack Rakan]], Negi enters a temporary Pactio as [[RoyaltySuperpower Princess Theodora]]'s Minister, receiving the artifact ''One Thousand Bonds'' - a card holder which can summon the artifacts of any of his own Ministers, and [[LampshadeHanging is referred to even in-universe]] as a StoryBreakerPower.
* HatesBaths: He doesn't like washing his body at the bath and Asuna usually needs to do it for him. According to a Drama CD, he gets it from his father.
* HatesBeingAlone: He tends to be pretty morose when nobody is around. Sleeping alone is also listed under his dislikes.
* HeIsAllGrownUp: Not that he isn't already at least cute, but when he starts appearing as "Nagi", basically ''every single girl'' takes notice of him. Also when he actually grows up, many girls still point out how handsome he's become.
* HealingFactor: Magia Erebea starts granting him one the more he synchronizes with it. When he eventually combines with it entirely, he's capable of healing off disembowelment and holes being blown through his torso in mere seconds.
* HereditaryHairstyle: He inherited his father's spiky red hair.
* TheHero: Negi is a boy with a good, naive heart and one of his main motivations is protecting those around him. Eventually, he starts a project to save two worlds from a future war.
* HeroesFightBarehanded: Negi slowly phases out his weapons after he gets a ring to serve the same purpose as his staff.
* HeroicResolve: Capable of taking a massive spear to the chest and continuing on via willpower alone, though only briefly. Played straight during the tournament final.
* HeroicRROD:
** Mana exhaustion will cause a loss of consciousness. Negi just needs to rest and sleep a bit, though. Negi fell asleep this way right after the Mahora Martial Arts Tournament, after he travelled back in time a week, and after he used everything he had in his BeamOWar against Chao.
** An interesting subversion happens after he and the rest of Ala Alba were scattered throughout the Magic World. He was earlier completely healed by Konoka and her artifact. It left him in a state where his body reacted by overloading because he had too much mana inside him. The way to heal himself was to release the energy by using spells.
** After pushing himself too hard with Magia Erebea, the encroachment finally becomes too much and eventually causes him to collapse and give him magical poisoning. After this is temporarily dealt with, his body petrifies itself to begin a metamorphosis process right in the middle of battle.
* HeroicSelfDeprecation: He is insecure and has a noted inferiority complex.
* HeroWorshipper: Negi admires his father, Nagi, who became a hero and worked for an NGO as a Magister Magi, which is why Negi initially tries to imitate Nagi and [[PursuingParentalPerils become a Magister Magi like him.]] The Nagi that Albireo Imma recorded for Negi then told Negi to [[BeYourself become his own person.]]
* HolyHandGrenade: Negi is proficient in light magic and most often uses light arrows when he channels Sagitta Magica, though it doesn't really have much to do with him having faith in something. It's implied that he wished to imitate his father, which is why Negi early on focused on light, wind and lightning magic.
* HonorBeforeReason: He really would win his battles a ''lot'' quicker if he didn't pull his punches against even the most black-hearted villains so much.
* HowMuchMoreCanHeTake: Beaten so hard during his graduation match with Rakan that he begins ''puking'' blood.
* {{Hypocrite}}: He was very aware and conflicted about this when he faced Chao, who travelled back in time to change an unfortunate past. Negi admits that he can't deny her and that he probably will have committed evil by stopping her. Asuna later points out that Chao and Negi are similar, and this makes everything he said to Chao to make her stop even more hypocritical.
* IAmNotLeftHanded: The entire fight, Negi and Rakan are just one-upping each other. Negi, as TheChessmaster, prepared five trump cards against Rakan, one card after another just baiting Rakan into Negi's final attempt to [[HoistByHisOwnPetard use Rakan's own power against him]]. And even after Rakan manages to [[MadeOfIron withstand that]], Negi prepared a small insurance, though he is completely beat afterwards.
* IAmWhatIAm: Magia Erebea turns him into an undying demon and Negi is totally fine with it. He's even glad that now he's the same as Eva.
* IAmYourOpponent: During the gateport incident, he attempts this one, but he's taken too much damage by that point.
* IdiotHair: Negi has one, but it's only when to comes to matters of the female heart and how to be a child. Otherwise he's a genius.
* IdiotHero: Averted, as Negi is intelligent and thoughtful [[LikeFatherUnlikeSon in contrast]] to his father. This is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by everyone around him, as it becomes obvious that he thinks ''too'' much about things. Kotarō later on tells him though that "idiocy" is supposedly the secret behind Asuna's and his father's strength, making Negi try to find out a way to act with more thoughtless confidence. When Negi asks Rakan for his advice on this matter, the latter ironically [[DopeSlap punches Negi]] for acting like an idiot, telling him to stop trying to imitate his father. Which turns out to be a good thing: Idiot heroes have their strengths, but solutions more complicated than '[[WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer Punch bad guy in the face]]' tend to be beyond them.
* {{Immortality}}: One of the consequences of Magia Erebea is speculated to be that he'll become a mindless, immortal demon, though he tries to work out countermeasures. The mindless demon phase is temporary, so he gets through this stage by accelerating it as quickly as possible. After completing the transformation, he has a powerful HealingFactor and at best only a few more years of aging before maturation ceases.
* ImprobableAge: He's ten years old and capable of teaching English while also being a magical prodigy that ends the series as one of the most powerful beings in existence.
* InASingleBound: Using wind magic with FlashStep, Negi can jump across the street and on top of buildings.
* IneptMage: Early on, Negi attempts to erase Asuna's memory of him doing magic and ends up [[TheNudifier erasing her clothes instead]]. He also tries to give her a ride in his [[FlyingBroomstick flying staff]], but he crashes. These incidents help foreshadow Asuna's [[AntiMagic Magic Cancel]] ability. He's portrayed much more competent when the series takes a more action-oriented direction.
* InnocentProdigy: He is very intelligent, but naive likewise.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: Negi cares a lot for other people, especially his students, and hates to put them in any form of danger. What he doesn't understand is that they don't mind to be in danger in order to help him out and they can feel hurt when Negi tries to keep them out of what he does for their safety. The best example of this is perhaps when Negi doesn't take Asuna with him to the lowest levels of Library Island. When Asuna finds out about it, Negi explains he didn't want to expose an "uninvolved person" to danger. Unsurprisingly, Asuna gets very angry at Negi for still treating her like an outsider and refusing to rely on her despite everything they have been through. Negi, however, has no idea of why Asuna reacted so badly to what he said.
* InstantExpert: Due to possessing TheGift, Negi learns things like martial arts and magic techniques far too fast, something that's sometimes commented on.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: With Takahata. The two of them are on a FirstNameBasis.
* ItsAllMyFault:
** He blamed himself for the destruction of his hometown when he was younger because he wanted to see his father. When his father did show up, it was during a massive demonic attack.
** Negi in general blames himself too often for bad things that happened which he had no control over. [[GetAHoldOfYourselfMan Kotarō had to beat him up]] to make him stop, Asuna (and later Chisame) also does this occasionally. Both Kotarō and Rakan also keep telling Negi to [[PowerOfTrust trust his friends]], but he still wishes to resolve things alone and thus bears the responsibility alone.
* {{Keigo}}: Negi converses with this to mostly anyone he doesn't consider as really close friends or family. When this is pointed out, the girls with crushes on him become worried that there is an emotional wall between them and Negi.
* KidHero: He's a ten-year-old hero, though he's less immature than the trope usually calls for.
* KidsLoveDinosaurs: When given a time machine by Chao, Negi wants to use it to go back in time and see the dinosaurs, but the time machine doesn't have the capacity to turn back time for more than a few days.
* KissOfDeath: PlayedForLaughs. A WorldTree-controlled Negi catches Asuna in a deep kiss that ends after she's passed out from lack of oxygen.
* KungFuKid: With the tutelage of Ku Fei he becomes an accomplished martial artist almost overnight. As shown late in the story, even without using any magic at all he's able to land an effective counter on super powered opponents.
* KungFuWizard: When it became clear his SquishyWizard ways weren't good enough, he picked up martial arts from Ku Fei and started blending magic and martial arts together.
* LightningBruiser: At the end of the story, he's the fastest known character with good but not amazing attacks and the best or second best defenses.
* LikeFatherUnlikeSon: Negi is polite, intelligent, studious, and doubts himself all the time, the complete opposite of his father who was a HotBlooded IdiotHero through and through.
* LimitedWardrobe: Negi wears the same green suit for much of the story, but during the Magic World and school festival he shows a lot more outfits.
* LivingForeverIsAwesome: He doesn't dislike the fact of Magia Erebea granting him CompleteImmortality. Negi even says he's happy about it because he's now the same as his teacher Eva.
* LivingWithTheVillain: He's had to fight at least three of his own students. Has occasionally gone GoKartingWithBowser.
* TheLoad: When he seals his magic and journeys to Library Island with the Baka Rangers, he's about as useful as an actual ten-year-old boy would be in an area with many dangers and traps.
* LostOrphanedRoyalty: Negi was raised as an orphan and only heard that his father was a famous hero. His mother? She was the last queen of the Vespertatia Kingdom, making Negi a lost prince of the Magic World.
* LoveYouAndEverybody: Akira plays LoveInformant on behalf of Ako and Makie and he responds that he likes them too, causing her to go back and have to explain it again. He also pulls this off earlier on with Asuna twice.
* MagicFire: [[BlackMagic Magia Erebia]] Armationem of ''Incendium Gehennae'' ("Hell's Conflagration"), a high-level [[PlayingWithFire fire]]- and [[CastingAShadow darkness]]-based spell, glows with black flames; they apparently cause ManaDrain.
* MagicKnight: Only in name. When asked by Eva whether he wants to become a SquishyWizard or MagicKnight, he chooses the latter. One, because this is what his father was and two, because Negi seeks the strength to fight alone. Negi has weapons, but he stopped using them when he became a KungFuWizard.
* MarkedChange: Magia Erebea causes black runelike tattoos to appear beneath his skin when used.
* MartyrWithoutACause: He always throws himself into the most dangerous situations and rarely factors in personal harm when coming to decisions, which makes people uneasy more than impressing them.
* MeaningfulName: "Negi" means "spring onion" in Japanese, which is a reference to how the leek is the national symbol of Wales. Negi-''Bozu'' is slang for newbie.
* MementoMacGuffin:
** Negi's staff. ItWasAGift from his father after Negi was saved by him six years before the story began. It is the proof that the Thousand Master was still alive (despite being declared dead four years earlier), which fueled Negi's wish to find his father.
* MerlinAndNimue:
** Negi is the Nimue to Evangeline's Merlin. She is several centuries older and becomes his magic master, after he saw a glimpse of her power in Kyoto. He eventually even adopts her original technique, Magia Erebea. While they show affection towards each other, neither seem romantically interested.
** An inverted case with Negi's magic students, specifically Yue. Negi is her master (and the magister in the magister/minister relationship), though Yue is slightly older than Negi. Yue can empathize with Negi on a different level compared to many of Negi's other students, but her love for him is one-sided.
* MightyGlacier: His ''Incendium Gehennae'' mode, as opposed to the LightningBruiser ''Jovis Tempestas Fulguriens'', grants amazing offense and improved defense, but leaves him quite slow. He never really makes use of this form.
* MinoredInAssKicking: He prefers TheSmartGuy approach and diplomacy, but in a fight his performance is exceptional.
* MulticoloredHair: He has red hair on the top and black hair in the back.
* MultiEthnicName: He has a Japanese given name and an English surname.
* NiceGuy: He is very kind and friendly, though rather serious.
* NighInvulnerable: In his lightning form, he's the MadeOfAir variant: Almost all attacks just pass right through him.
* NormallyIWouldBeDeadNow: Rock spear to the chest. It ''would'' have been fatal were [[TheMedic Konoka]] not around.
* TheNudifier: Anytime he sneezes, it will blow up several skirts, shred clothes, underwear or both. Later, sneezes accidentally cast the disarmament spell, meaning they can even strip you outright.
* ObliviousToLove: The only way he ever learns if a girl has feelings for him is if she straight-out tells him. Interestingly, he quickly picks up on Asuna's crush on Takahata, and Setsuna's on Konoka....
* OutOfClothesExperience: Negi gets to meet his berserk form in person this way. He is guided by Evangeline's avatar, who is also naked. Not that she ever cares.
* PapaWolf: Don't hurt his students. Just don't. You'll live longer.
* ParentalAbandonment: Negi was raised by his cousin, Nekane, for the majority of his life. His father supposedly died around Negi's birth, though Negi knows better, as his father came to his help six years before the story. The whereabouts of his mother are also unknown, but she is presumed to be deceased and he only learns late into the manga who his mother even is.
* PersonOfMassDestruction: ''The Thousand Bolts'', a spell he learns when first on the borderline of the monster tier with Rakan or Eva, is an anti-army ability and the ultimate lightning spell. In theory, since Negi comes up with a few lightning spear techniques.
* PlatonicLifePartners: With Asuna. Negi's relationship with Asuna never goes into romantic territory, and indeed, by the end of the story he admits to have developed a crush on someone else, but at the same time he identifies Asuna as the most important person to him.
* PostKissCatatonia: He's left dazing off after his second kiss with Nodoka. Also, Ayaka's pactio leaves him twitching on the floor.
* PowerDyesYourHair: His hair turns white when using Raiten Taisou.
* PowerMakesYourHairGrow: When using Raiten Taisou, his hair becomes as long as he is tall.
* PretendingToBeOnesOwnRelative: Negi sometimes uses magic pills to age himself into a teenager. As "Nagi", he passes himself off as his own cousin to anyone who isn't aware of magic.
* PunchPunchPunchUhOh: When Negi fights Rakan, he brings out his new ultimate move, turns into lightning and pinballs Rakan around for an entire chapter, at which point Rakan falls down. The next chapter starts with Rakan getting up, unharmed, and beating the crap out of Negi.
* PurelyAestheticGlasses: Negi values his minuscule pince-nez glasses, but they do not seem to serve any purpose regarding his eyesight or anything else beyond [[NerdGlasses marking him as bookish]].
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* ReallyRoyaltyReveal: Ostensibly a normal kid from a backwater village in Wales who just happens to have a famous father. His mother, however, is from an ancient royal bloodline and [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse possibly]] deceased.
* RedBaron: Eva remarked that he is called 'Boy Genius Mage' and later he's referred to as 'Thunder God Negi.'
* RedIsHeroic: His hair is red and he's a hero.
* RequiredSecondaryPowers:
** Subverted with Raiten Taisou. Despite momentarily becoming lightning, Rakan points out that Negi does not actually get lightning-fast reflexes.
** Played straight with Raiten Sousou, Raiten Taisou's upgrade. Negi ''does'' get the reflexes and constantly stays in his high-speed lightning form. Negi can make electric circuits indefinitely because he can create another circuit mid-air, which allows him to change directions however he wants.
* ReplacementGoldfish: It's implied that Ayaka sees the little brother she never had in Negi.
* RightManInTheWrongPlace: Negi starts off as just a fresh magic school graduate assigned to teach English at another magic school (sort of) halfway across the world. However, just because he doesn't know he was sent doesn't mean he wasn't: Merdiana's choice of assignment and the dorm he ends up in are just a little too convenient to be coincidence.
* RubberFace: Asuna stretches his mouth when she thinks he's been withholding information.
* ScarsAreForever: During the Mahorafest tournament he gets a scar on his cheek from Setsuna and another during the finals. He ''could'' get them fixed, but he has an emotional attachment to both. Negi refuses to have a scar on his arm he received in a fight with [[spoiler:a temporary backup image of his father]] healed, preferring to keep it as a memento. He also didn't heal the scar Setsuna gave him on his face, keeping it as a reminder to not get so caught up in the thoughts of his father that he forgets his students. They both disappear after his Magea Erebea transformation is completed.
* SemiDivine: Being the son of an Ostian queen, Negi is a direct descendant of the creator of the Magic World. Yue theorizes Negi's talents and high magic power may have something to do with him descending from what's essentially a PhysicalGod.
* SenseiChan: RareMaleExample. Negi is younger than his students, being only ten years old, and for the most part acts like an AdorablyPrecociousChild.
* SentIntoHiding: His parents became fugitives of the Megalomesembria senate after Nagi saved Arika from being executed by them, so Negi was hidden away for his protection. The enemies of his parents still found him and sent a horde of demons to destroy his hometown.
* SexierAlterEgo: "Nagi", his teenaged form that he takes after taking a series of age-disguising pills. Everyone finds him ridiculously hot.
* SharedFamilyQuirks:
** Despite being a complete opposite in terms of personality, Negi does share one very important quality with his father Nagi; [[ChickMagnet the ability to make every single girl he meets fall in love with him]]. According to a Drama CD, Nagi [[HatesBaths hated washing his body]] much like Negi.
** Negi inherited his mother's [[ObliviousToLove complete inability to notice love]].
* ShipperOnDeck: At the very least, he likes teasing Setsuna about Konoka.
-->'''Setsuna:''' In any case, I already have Konoka ojou-sama as...
-->'''Negi:''' Ah... [[SayItWithHearts So it really is that...]]
-->''(Beat)''
-->'''Setsuna:''' N-NO! That's not, um... That's not what I meant!
-->'''Negi:''' Ahahahahaha! Setsuna-san, so it really is Konoka-san!
** He also urges Asuna to tell Takahata how she feels.
* ShirtlessScene: He's shown shirtless several times. Most prominently when he's put in the hospital. Because he's a ten-year-old, this is hardly played for fanservice though.
* ShockAndAwe: Most of Negi's offensive abilities are lightning-based powers. He later turns this up to eleven by ''becoming'' lightning.
* TheShortGuyWithGlasses: The youngest and shortest of the main cast, but also one of the smartest.
* ShowerOfAwkward: With Setsuna in Kyoto. He also caused an awkward shower situation when he attempted to do Asuna a favor by enchanting her brushes. She wasn't appreciative. And there was also the time he spotted Chachamaru bathing in a river, but she didn't mind.
* ShutUpHannibal: Negi reveals to Gödel that he is well aware of his plan and the truth behind the Magical World.
* SinsOfOurFathers:
** Evangeline was not happy to see the son of the man who sealed her powers and bound her to Mahora. Justified by the fact that she also wants Negi for his blood, as it mitigates his dad's curse.
** There's the supported theory that the Megalomesembrian Senate were responsible for launching the attack on Negi's village solely to kill Negi, because he is the son of their old foe Arika Entheofushia ''and'' Nagi Springfield.
* SkilledButNaive: A highly talented mage who at 10 years old has the sort of power and skill that most don't get even after decades of study and training, but he's still a ten year old and he thinks like one.
* SkySurfing: Courtesy of his staff.
* SlipknotPonytail: Negi's ponytail has a habit of coming undone during significantly violent battles later in the story. Together with the [[TheGlassesComeOff removal of his glasses]], this serves to give him a much rougher look.
* SmartPeopleSpeakTheQueensEnglish: In the dub.
* SmartPeopleWearGlasses: Smartest character in the story barring maybe Chao and he wears glasses despite likely not even needing them.
* SpotOfTea: As stereotypical with British men, Negi likes drinking tea with milk the best. This puts him at odds with the caffeine addict Fate.
* StepfordSmiler: Chisame frequently calls him out on using fake smiles, when a child of his age should be more cheerful.
* StockShonenHero: PlayedWith. Negi is a naive and compassionate KidHero who would do anything to protect those he cares about and won't give up once he has a goal set in mind. He's striving ToBeAMaster, amasses a group of TrueCompanions, and eventually becomes one of the most powerful beings in the series thanks to learning dark magic. He's also extremely [[ObliviousToLove clueless in matters of love]]. Personality-wise, he's quite the opposite to the IdiotHero expected from the archetype. He's highly intelligent, something of a worrywart, and doesn't rely on the PowerOfFriendship (in fact he started using dark magic specifically so his friends wouldn't have to fight alongside him).
* StrongFamilyResemblance: He looks almost identical to his father Nagi, especially when he magically ages himself up.
* SuperIntelligence: Negi's great strength later in the manga lies in his ability to rapidly learn and create new techniques and strategies. It's remarked that governments would love to sit him behind a desk to just work on magical theory all day.
* SuperMode: The base form of Magia Erebea gives him a 50% power boost before he even starts using the actual Magia Erebea abilities.
* SuperPoweredEvilSide: Magia Erebea has an effect on his emotions because it's fueled by them. When the encroachment goes out of control, he turns into a berserking monster with some rather heavy mutations. Surprisingly, this is never really used in combat after he's interrupted during its first real occurrence.
* SurvivorGuilt: Being one of the only two survivors of his DoomedHometown, Negi has lots of it.
* SweetheartSipping: During a shopping trip with Konoka. It gets misunderstood by the DatePeepers to hilarious ends.
* SwissArmyHero: It's noted early that by changing the spells he absorbs with Magia Erebea that he can give himself different strengths such as a StoneWall, FragileSpeedster or GlassCannon. However, he almost always uses the FragileSpeedster effect.
* TalentedButTrained: According to Evangeline, Negi has an outstanding gift to produce magical power, but it's all useless unless he learns to properly use it through hard work. Negi always trains rigorously to constantly improve his skills, to the point he often can overwork himself.
* TaremeEyes: Likely to complements his "innocent little boy" traits.
* TellMeAboutMyFather:
** Negi grew up without his parents, and his ParentalSubstitute, Nekane, told him stories about his father, a hero, whom Negi [[HeroWorshipper would later admire and try to imitate.]] Negi always wishes to learn more about his father from people who knew him, though Nekane struggled to tell the young Negi what exactly "dead" really means, people like Stan or Evangeline didn't have many good things to tell about Nagi, and Nagi's comrades intentionally keep things secret from Negi until they no longer have a choice but to tell the truth.
** Later on, Negi learns about Princess Arika, who he correctly guesses is his mother. When he begins to ask questions about her though, most people try to dodge the topic, since she [[MaliciousSlander was falsely blamed]] and supposedly executed for starting the war Negi's father resolved. Just calling her "Queen of Calamity" in front of Negi almost made him lose his temper.
* TookALevelInBadass: The most obvious levels taken in badass were post Kyoto arc when he got some good teachers and later when picking up Magia Erebea.
* TranquilFury: After Quartum bisects Chachamaru, Negi appears and delivers a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown.
* UnstoppableRage: First happens against Graf Wilhelm, though Kotarō manages to smack some sense into him. Later occurs multiple times starting during a fight with Gödel.
* UnwantedHarem: Does the collection of powerful girls crushing on him strike you with [[BlessedWithSuck pity]], [[CursedWithAwesome envy]], or fear for the day he hits puberty?
* VocalDissonance: When the 3rd OAD came out, his adult self was still voiced by Creator/RinaSato.
* VoluntaryVampireVictim: After Evangeline becomes his magic teacher, Negi lets the vampire girl suck his blood at the end of their training sessions to replenish her magic power.
* WeakButSkilled:
** Negi managed to defeat Takahata because he came up with a plan to break through Takahata's defenses and was able to land a point-blank punch right in the gut right afterwards, thanks to a delayed spell. To be fair, [[IAmNotLeftHanded Takahata never was serious.]] He used his full power, but held back in aggressiveness, instead wanting to test how good Negi has become.
** In Negi's fight against Chao, Chao displays more powerful magic than Negi. However, while her raw firepower may be greater, Negi can counter her evenly because he is more experienced. For instance, while Chao uses 29 Valkyries, Negi only summons 17 Valkyries to counter her. While Chao gathers 59 Magic Arrows, Negi only needs 37. Basically QualityOverQuantity. In their final BeamOWar, Negi can get off his attack faster than Chao, forcing her into a defensive position.
** Negi is still far weaker than Rakan, but ends up drawing against him because Negi developed a plan where he would eventually [[EnergyAbsorption absorb Rakan's attack]] and [[HoistByHisOwnPetard use it against him]].
* WillfullyWeak: At one point decided that he would seal his magic and fulfill his duties as a teacher without relying on magic. [[AlwaysNeedWhatYouGaveUp He chose a bad time for it.]]
* WiseBeyondTheirYears: Despite being ten, he is very wise, though this has pointedly come at the cost of sacrificing a real childhood.
* WorthyOpponent: Kotarō thinks of Negi as being the first mage he's gone up against that wasn't a loser who couldn't take a punch.
* WouldHitAGirl: Despite being an "English gentleman", he doesn't hesitate to fight Takane. Asuna does not approve; Setsuna and Evangeline do.
* YouShallNotPass: Stays behind to stop horde of demons from catching Ala Alba. He's not in any real danger though.
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! Negi Springfield
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/RinaSato (Japanese) and Creator/GregAyres (English)
!!!'''Portrayed by:''' Yukina Kashiwa
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Negi is our [[KidHero ten-year-old]] protagonist, a [[TeenGenius precocious]] [[{{Scotireland}} Welsh]] mage assigned to be the [[WackyHomeroom homeroom teacher]] of an all-female Japanese middle school class as his on-the-job magic training.\\\
His principal goal is to find his father Nagi, a legendary mage and hero of a recent magical war, [[DisappearedDad presumed to be dead for a decade or so]]. With good reason, the boy thinks otherwise and devotes a lot of his energy, with the help of his friends, toward unveiling the secrets of his disappearance. Sadly, but predictably, the Ala Alba is often sidetracked by one or more of the {{Muggle}} students being endangered by the various hazards of the magic underworld.\\\
As a fighter, Negi specializes in wind, light and lightning spells, later supplementing his magic with martial arts when the weaknesses of a pure wizard become apparent.
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* AbnormalAmmo: During the fight with Evangeline Negi uses [[DepletedPhlebotinumShells Magic rounds]].
* AccidentalPervert: Tends to stumble in on girls naked or magically make them naked on accident.
* AchillesHeel: His lightning techniques that turn him intangible are vulnerable to exorcism techniques like the Shinmeiryu arts. Can't block those with deflector shields either. However, further mastery of this ability makes damage taken in this manner less serious.
* AdorablyPrecociousChild: He struggles hard to being formal and mature, which makes his students find him adorable.
* AesopAmnesia: Despite more than once getting his butt kicked after going into a fight alone, just to be saved by reinforcements, Negi just can't seem to get the idea of teamwork. This becomes a plot point later.
* AllLovingHero: He's sweet, kind and forgiving. Unless someone touches his {{Berserk Button}}s or [[BewareTheNiceOnes threatens his students.]]
* AlwaysNeedWhatYouGaveUp: During an early arc, he sacrifices his magic to keep himself from the temptation to cheat. He promptly enters a situation where just his basic physical reinforcement would have been quite helpful.
* AnimeAccentAbsence: Despite being from Wales and teaching English, he still has no accent.
* ApologizesALot: Whenever he says "sorry", [[DrinkingGame take a swig]].
* AttractiveBentGender: Forced to wear a miniskirt-style fox-girl kimono with ZettaiRyouiki during the Mahora Festival. And again, due to Chamo's suggestion, wears a SailorFuku when asking for a favor from Ayaka. [[ComedicShotacon Ayaka]] nearly died from a massive {{nosebleed}} in both occasions.
* BadassAdorable: He looks completely non threatening, but even as early as the Mahorafest tournament he could throw around adult men about ten times his size.
* BadassBookworm: After his fight with Jack, both he and Evangeline observe that Negi's primary strength isn't raw power, but his skill at developing new forms of magical theory and application. At one point, Jack states that his degree of genius is such that the magic he has developed at age ten is superior to that of those who've been studying the same thing for decades, even centuries.
* BadassTeacher: During much of the manga one of the quickest ways to get into conflict with Negi is to attack his students rather than him directly.
* BadPowersGoodPeople: Negi is definitely a NiceGuy, but Magia Erebea isn't exactly powered by rainbows and sunshine.
* BalloonBelly: In chapter 56, Makie prepared food for him knowing he was training for Evangeline's Apprenticeship Test and overdid it. Then she brought out the "secret" diet technique of the gymnastics club, which went too far the other way.
* BashBrothers: With Kotarō. They had their first fight together against Graf Wilhelm von Herrmann. In the Magic World arc they fully become this trope during their stint as a gladiator team.
* BattleAura: The first sign that Negi is actually angry. Being a wind mage, it also appears when he uses his more powerful spells. And then there's Magia Erebea Demon Form.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Negi was told that if he got in trouble, his father would appear and save him. When Negi's village was attacked, his father came to rescue him, but Negi still wonders whether it was divine punishment for his foolish wish.
* BefriendingTheEnemy: He resolves to deal with Fate by befriending him and convincing him to cooperate in an alternative plan to save the Magic World.
* BenchedHero:
** Negi misses out on the first half of the battle against Chao's robot army because he needed to rest and replenish the mana he used up earlier. The rest of the class and the Mahora Academy had to defend the World Tree without him.
** Negi goes on a rampage during the final battle and ends up being incapacitated due to stopping himself short of completely giving into the darkness, forcing the rest of his group to improvise until he gets back into the game.
* BerserkButton:
** Just ''seeing'' a full demon can make Negi lose control of his emotions. Negi almost got killed by Graf Wilhelm von Herrmann after the latter revealed his demonic form and told Negi that he participated in the raid on Negi's village. He also didn't hold back against the demon race when the bounty hunters group Canis Niger attacked Nodoka.
** Jack discovers that a good way to get Negi to give it his all is to act condescending towards the effort he puts in.
** And whatever you do, don't call Chachamaru a doll. Just don't.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: He's normally very gentle, but he's both the most flexible and most powerful character in the group despite his young age.
* {{Bishonen}}: His teenage form, "Nagi", is ridiculously pretty and makes girls lose their breath.
* BishonenLine: Upon using Magia Erebea he looked less and less human for many reasons, most notably its encroachment. Eventually he began mutating into a rampaging demon. However, while powerful, this form is not clever enough to fully utilize its strength. After mastering Magia Erebea by integrating it into his soul, he becomes nonhuman but retains the power and rationality of one.
* BloodKnight: He starts out averting it, but eventually grows to enjoy fighting.
* BlowYouAway: Negi primarily uses wind magic defensively (outside of disarming/stripping others). He later incorporates it offensively for his [[ElementalShapeshifter lightning form]].
* BondingOverMissingParents: Negi and Asuna smooth out some initial conflict by bonding over their mutual parentlessness.
* BoringYetPractical:
** Before he gains [[DeadlyUpgrade Magia Erebea]], Negi's magic style revolves primarily around Sagitta Magica, a very weak and basic attack magic. However, after months of experimenting and developing ways to use it, by the time of his final battle with Fate, Negi has built it up to the point where it's the equivalent of a full-scale war spell.
** Earlier in the Festival arc, Chao didn't have any qualms giving Negi her Cassiopeia Time-Machine since effective use of it would require the aid of a highly-advanced super-computer wired into his clothing. Negi re-purposes the spells for telekinesis and future-prediction (the most basic spells one can learn) to utilize the Cassiopeia for combat use. Now deprived of the GameBreaker she'd kept to herself the entire arc, Chao's winning streak comes to a sudden halt.
* BornWinner: He's the son of the WorldsStrongestMan and the heir of an ancient magical bloodline, taught from a young age by an immortal dark sorceress and later another legendary hero. He's also intelligent, can plan quickly, has excellent looks and a diligent nature to keep his talents from going to waste.
* BrokenHero: Negi is an extremely kind and helpful little boy, but besides ParentalAbandonment he has a traumatic DarkAndTroubledPast where demons invaded his village and [[TakenForGranite turned everyone to stone]]. Everyone was horrified to see his memories of said event, which worked exactly opposite to how it was supposed to.
* BroughtDownToBadass: After having his magic sealed temporarily by Yuuna in a class event based around the idea of getting Negi to make relationship progress, he's challenged to a duel by Ku Fei [[spoiler:after she confesses]]. With no chance to explain, he instead is forced to rely on sheer physical prowess and manages to throw her. It wouldn't have been enough to win, but it shows amazing reflexes even without supernatural power.
* TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive: [[DoomedHometown His village is attacked]] because [[SinsOfOurFathers his mother's enemies found where he is and tried to kill him]].
* CameBackStrong: During his battle with Dynamis, Magia Erebea starts completely consuming Negi and he's left on the brink of death. To recover quickly, Negi accepts to be resurrected as a demon and he gains full control over Magia Erebea.
* CantHoldHisLiquor: One sip of alcohol reduces him to a weepy drunk. In his defense, he's ''ten.''
* CerebroElectro: Negi primarily uses lightning magic and has the intelligence to maximize its potential when he lacks the raw power of his father.
* CharacterDevelopment: Negi learns early on the line between good and evil isn't so cut and dry and sometimes to do the right thing, you have to do the wrong thing. And while it takes him awhile to get there, he does learn to rely a bit more on his students for help.
* ChasteHero: Oblivious to girls' feelings because he hasn't even hit puberty and doesn't think of girls like that yet.
* CheerfulChild: Subverted. He's quite sunny and pleasant in early appearances, but it's just a surface attitude that covers up an obsessive attitude and a lot of negative emotions.
* ChildMage: Negi is incredibly proficient with magic for being only ten years old. He's even the trope picture.
* ChildProdigy: Graduated from university-level education at age nine while primarily attending a magic school.
* ClearMyName: At the beginning of the Magic World arc, he was framed for destroying the gate ports to the real world. This isn't addressed much for more than fifty chapters.
* CluelessChickMagnet: He's ridiculously popular with girls (to the point that the resident SchoolgirlLesbians have shown a passing interest in him) and never really seems to pick up on that.
* TheCollectorOfTheStrange: Though it isn't brought up too much, he has a bunch of weird stuff, both magical and mundane. This is where he got the magic gun he used a couple of times early on, for example.
* CostumeEvolution: Outside of his suit, Negi doesn't really have an IconicOutfit at the start, though he later mostly uses Chinese martial arts garb and the two outfits he wears during his time as the gladiator "Nagi" resemble both Chao's and Mana's battlesuits respectively.
* CrazyPrepared: His fight against Rakan has him pulling out five different trump cards, many of which were merely to guide the flow of battle or stall.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Red hair, red eyes.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: When Negi was four years old, a horde of demons appeared and attacked his village. Just as a demon was about to attack Negi, his father Nagi appeared just in time to save Negi from receiving a fatal punch from the demon. With a few strikes and a powerful spell, he destroyed all of the demons but the village was already in ruins and most of the villagers had been already [[TakenForGranite petrified]]. Nagi then disappears again and leaves his crying son behind. It's such a sad story that almost everyone who saw it, including Eva, couldn't help but cry.
* DarkIsNotEvil: Negi's [[DangerousForbiddenTechnique strongest technique, Magia Erebea,]] literally is Dark Magic and feeds on negative emotions. However, it's a case of TheSacredDarkness and Negi himself is a heroic figure, so while he might look menacing while he uses Magia Erebea (and could potentially lose control of himself), he is definitely a good person.
* DeathGlare: After gaining Magia Erebea he started to get some nasty, overpowering glares, likely complemented by his terrifying power.
* DeclarationOfProtection: He declares that even though she's not Asuna, Shiori is important to him and that he'll protect her. He also makes it clear to Fate that he won't let Fate lay a hand on Nodoka.
* DemonOfHumanOrigin: By mastering Magia Erebea, a technique created by Eva specifically for undying monsters like herself, Negi slowly transforms into an immortal demon similar to Eva.
* {{Determinator}}: When Negi puts a goal in his mind, there is basically nothing that can stop him.
* DistressedDude: When the group was sent to the future by Chao's trap, Negi was briefly captured and locked away without any of his tools, thus rendering him unable to actually use his magic. Interestingly, he apparently somehow managed to use magic despite having no staff or ring, which allowed him to escape and meet up with the group that had just arrived to rescue him.
* DittoFighter: Thanks to his Pactio, he has the ability to copy the artifacts of his own Ministras.
* DontYouDarePityMe: Negi goes berserk when Rakan sneers at the training he went through for his tournament fight.
* DoomedHometown: Kind of sucks that the poor kid had his own village attacked by a horde of demons, doesn't it?
* DoppelgangerAttack: His strategy to beat Kurt involves swarming him with waves of lightning clones so the latter has no idea which to attack, relying on his reserves of magical energy to overwhelm Kurt. Thus, while they do have some ability to do damage, it mostly functions as a DoppelgangerSpin.
* DreamWalker: He can cast a spell to spy on other people's dreams. He uses this on Eva when she's having a FlashbackNightmare about the Thousand Master, something she tries to kill him for.
* DrowningMySorrows: The kid CantHoldHisLiquor; he accidentally takes one sip of sake and crashes.
* ElementalHairComposition: Technically, Negi's hair turns into lightning because [[PowerMakeover all of him turns into lightning]], when he gets the ability to become an ElementalShapeshifter of lightning with ''He Astrape Huper Ouranou Mega Dunamene''.
* ElementalShapeshifter: With Magia Erebea, he can absorb spells to grant himself properties of the element in question. Incendium Gehennae, for example, grants him intense offensive power while Tempestus Fulguriens makes him incredibly quick. The Thousand Bolts makes him as fast as lightning while applying it twice basically makes him lightning for real, granting intangibility and thinking fast enough to keep up with his speed.
* EndearinglyDorky: As a 10-year-old boy who tries to teach a class of female middle school students, he can be so adorably awkward. This makes many of his students treat him like a little brother. Asakura and Misa in particular like to tease him about his dorky shyness, especially when they see him in his adult form.
* EnthusiasticNewbieTeacher: Despite his teaching job being an assignment, he still tackles it with great vigor despite the fact that most of his students are older than him (only Chachamaru is younger).
* FamilyThemeNaming: Negi, son of Nagi.
* FirstKiss: With Asuna in Chapter 25. Asuna pretends that since it was a pactio it doesn't count, but she's obviously not even fooling herself.
* FirstNameBasis:
** Everyone calls him by his given name. As he grows closer to his students, he also starts calling them by their given names, with a few exceptions like Chao, Asakura (no ones calls her Kazumi), Mana (who he is a bit scared of), Ku Fei (his master) and Ayaka (because she's the ClassRepresentative).
** Special case with Asuna, Kotarō and Anya, who are very close to him and do not use any honorific for Negi. Negi also doesn't use any polite language for them. He is this with Takahata as well, as the two of them are friends since Takahata came to visit Negi when he was little.
* FlashStep:
** Negi learns Shundo from Kotarō before his fight against Takahata, which would become a vital tool in all of Negi's fights from then on. However, once you made the "entry", you can't change directions, so an opponent who anticipates the move could simply trip you by placing an obstacle (like a leg) in your path. He later can do it mid-air too, which does allow him to change directions in the middle of the jump.
** In Negi's lightning form, he uses an advanced version of it, Raisoku Shundo. In Raiten Taisou form, it carries the same weakness of Shundo though. Negi uses wind magic to create a group of his own positive particles away from the main body, so his main body is drawn to the particles and allows him to do a lightning-fast movement. But until Negi removes the positively charged particles from his main body and to elsewhere in his expanded electric field, he cannot use a circuit for high-speed movement, which means he can't change directions once he makes the jump.
* FragileSpeedster: The lightning-based Magia Erebea techniques drastically increase Negi's speed, but lower his defense. Later compensated for by turning intangible.
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* GenerationXerox: As the manga progresses, his fighting style and relationships with his friends are becoming more and more like that between Nagi and his Ala Rubra.
* TheGift: Negi is often called 'Prodigy' or 'a Genius' thanks to his ludicrous growth, amazing smarts and innate ability to master many fighting styles. Neither brash nor overconfident, he's instead insecure, self-sacrificing, somewhat power-hungry with a noted inferiority complex.
* GlassCannon: Early in the series he had good offense, but was slow and easily interrupted.
* TheGlassesComeOff: Later on in the story, Negi's glasses break/were never on in the first place/simply vanish whenever he becomes particularly violent.
* GuileHero: Negi's no slouch physically, but what really makes him dangerous as a fighter is his planning ability. Other characters say that he'd probably be a [[TheSmartGuy supporting character]] in a different series.
* HandBehindHead: Often seen doing one (or both) of these whenever he's nervous. Particularly when he has to say something he doesn't want to, like "confessing".
* HaremPowered: Negi spends much of the series slowly amassing "Pactios" with [[BattleHarem the students of his class]] - a magical contract in which a [[SquishyWizard "Magister"]] empowers a [[MagicallyIneptFighter "Minister"]] to act as their [[SwordAndSorcerer partner in battle]], and creates a [[CardsOfPower Pactio Card]] with which the Minister can summon a powerful artifact matching their personality. Just before his climactic battle with [[WorldsStrongestMan Jack Rakan]], Negi enters a temporary Pactio as [[RoyaltySuperpower Princess Theodora]]'s Minister, receiving the artifact ''One Thousand Bonds'' - a card holder which can summon the artifacts of any of his own Ministers, and [[LampshadeHanging is referred to even in-universe]] as a StoryBreakerPower.
* HatesBaths: He doesn't like washing his body at the bath and Asuna usually needs to do it for him. According to a Drama CD, he gets it from his father.
* HatesBeingAlone: He tends to be pretty morose when nobody is around. Sleeping alone is also listed under his dislikes.
* HeIsAllGrownUp: Not that he isn't already at least cute, but when he starts appearing as "Nagi", basically ''every single girl'' takes notice of him. Also when he actually grows up, many girls still point out how handsome he's become.
* HealingFactor: Magia Erebea starts granting him one the more he synchronizes with it. When he eventually combines with it entirely, he's capable of healing off disembowelment and holes being blown through his torso in mere seconds.
* HereditaryHairstyle: He inherited his father's spiky red hair.
* TheHero: Negi is a boy with a good, naive heart and one of his main motivations is protecting those around him. Eventually, he starts a project to save two worlds from a future war.
* HeroesFightBarehanded: Negi slowly phases out his weapons after he gets a ring to serve the same purpose as his staff.
* HeroicResolve: Capable of taking a massive spear to the chest and continuing on via willpower alone, though only briefly. Played straight during the tournament final.
* HeroicRROD:
** Mana exhaustion will cause a loss of consciousness. Negi just needs to rest and sleep a bit, though. Negi fell asleep this way right after the Mahora Martial Arts Tournament, after he travelled back in time a week, and after he used everything he had in his BeamOWar against Chao.
** An interesting subversion happens after he and the rest of Ala Alba were scattered throughout the Magic World. He was earlier completely healed by Konoka and her artifact. It left him in a state where his body reacted by overloading because he had too much mana inside him. The way to heal himself was to release the energy by using spells.
** After pushing himself too hard with Magia Erebea, the encroachment finally becomes too much and eventually causes him to collapse and give him magical poisoning. After this is temporarily dealt with, his body petrifies itself to begin a metamorphosis process right in the middle of battle.
* HeroicSelfDeprecation: He is insecure and has a noted inferiority complex.
* HeroWorshipper: Negi admires his father, Nagi, who became a hero and worked for an NGO as a Magister Magi, which is why Negi initially tries to imitate Nagi and [[PursuingParentalPerils become a Magister Magi like him.]] The Nagi that Albireo Imma recorded for Negi then told Negi to [[BeYourself become his own person.]]
* HolyHandGrenade: Negi is proficient in light magic and most often uses light arrows when he channels Sagitta Magica, though it doesn't really have much to do with him having faith in something. It's implied that he wished to imitate his father, which is why Negi early on focused on light, wind and lightning magic.
* HonorBeforeReason: He really would win his battles a ''lot'' quicker if he didn't pull his punches against even the most black-hearted villains so much.
* HowMuchMoreCanHeTake: Beaten so hard during his graduation match with Rakan that he begins ''puking'' blood.
* {{Hypocrite}}: He was very aware and conflicted about this when he faced Chao, who travelled back in time to change an unfortunate past. Negi admits that he can't deny her and that he probably will have committed evil by stopping her. Asuna later points out that Chao and Negi are similar, and this makes everything he said to Chao to make her stop even more hypocritical.
* IAmNotLeftHanded: The entire fight, Negi and Rakan are just one-upping each other. Negi, as TheChessmaster, prepared five trump cards against Rakan, one card after another just baiting Rakan into Negi's final attempt to [[HoistByHisOwnPetard use Rakan's own power against him]]. And even after Rakan manages to [[MadeOfIron withstand that]], Negi prepared a small insurance, though he is completely beat afterwards.
* IAmWhatIAm: Magia Erebea turns him into an undying demon and Negi is totally fine with it. He's even glad that now he's the same as Eva.
* IAmYourOpponent: During the gateport incident, he attempts this one, but he's taken too much damage by that point.
* IdiotHair: Negi has one, but it's only when to comes to matters of the female heart and how to be a child. Otherwise he's a genius.
* IdiotHero: Averted, as Negi is intelligent and thoughtful [[LikeFatherUnlikeSon in contrast]] to his father. This is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by everyone around him, as it becomes obvious that he thinks ''too'' much about things. Kotarō later on tells him though that "idiocy" is supposedly the secret behind Asuna's and his father's strength, making Negi try to find out a way to act with more thoughtless confidence. When Negi asks Rakan for his advice on this matter, the latter ironically [[DopeSlap punches Negi]] for acting like an idiot, telling him to stop trying to imitate his father. Which turns out to be a good thing: Idiot heroes have their strengths, but solutions more complicated than '[[WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer Punch bad guy in the face]]' tend to be beyond them.
* {{Immortality}}: One of the consequences of Magia Erebea is speculated to be that he'll become a mindless, immortal demon, though he tries to work out countermeasures. The mindless demon phase is temporary, so he gets through this stage by accelerating it as quickly as possible. After completing the transformation, he has a powerful HealingFactor and at best only a few more years of aging before maturation ceases.
* ImprobableAge: He's ten years old and capable of teaching English while also being a magical prodigy that ends the series as one of the most powerful beings in existence.
* InASingleBound: Using wind magic with FlashStep, Negi can jump across the street and on top of buildings.
* IneptMage: Early on, Negi attempts to erase Asuna's memory of him doing magic and ends up [[TheNudifier erasing her clothes instead]]. He also tries to give her a ride in his [[FlyingBroomstick flying staff]], but he crashes. These incidents help foreshadow Asuna's [[AntiMagic Magic Cancel]] ability. He's portrayed much more competent when the series takes a more action-oriented direction.
* InnocentProdigy: He is very intelligent, but naive likewise.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: Negi cares a lot for other people, especially his students, and hates to put them in any form of danger. What he doesn't understand is that they don't mind to be in danger in order to help him out and they can feel hurt when Negi tries to keep them out of what he does for their safety. The best example of this is perhaps when Negi doesn't take Asuna with him to the lowest levels of Library Island. When Asuna finds out about it, Negi explains he didn't want to expose an "uninvolved person" to danger. Unsurprisingly, Asuna gets very angry at Negi for still treating her like an outsider and refusing to rely on her despite everything they have been through. Negi, however, has no idea of why Asuna reacted so badly to what he said.
* InstantExpert: Due to possessing TheGift, Negi learns things like martial arts and magic techniques far too fast, something that's sometimes commented on.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: With Takahata. The two of them are on a FirstNameBasis.
* ItsAllMyFault:
** He blamed himself for the destruction of his hometown when he was younger because he wanted to see his father. When his father did show up, it was during a massive demonic attack.
** Negi in general blames himself too often for bad things that happened which he had no control over. [[GetAHoldOfYourselfMan Kotarō had to beat him up]] to make him stop, Asuna (and later Chisame) also does this occasionally. Both Kotarō and Rakan also keep telling Negi to [[PowerOfTrust trust his friends]], but he still wishes to resolve things alone and thus bears the responsibility alone.
* {{Keigo}}: Negi converses with this to mostly anyone he doesn't consider as really close friends or family. When this is pointed out, the girls with crushes on him become worried that there is an emotional wall between them and Negi.
* KidHero: He's a ten-year-old hero, though he's less immature than the trope usually calls for.
* KidsLoveDinosaurs: When given a time machine by Chao, Negi wants to use it to go back in time and see the dinosaurs, but the time machine doesn't have the capacity to turn back time for more than a few days.
* KissOfDeath: PlayedForLaughs. A WorldTree-controlled Negi catches Asuna in a deep kiss that ends after she's passed out from lack of oxygen.
* KungFuKid: With the tutelage of Ku Fei he becomes an accomplished martial artist almost overnight. As shown late in the story, even without using any magic at all he's able to land an effective counter on super powered opponents.
* KungFuWizard: When it became clear his SquishyWizard ways weren't good enough, he picked up martial arts from Ku Fei and started blending magic and martial arts together.
* LightningBruiser: At the end of the story, he's the fastest known character with good but not amazing attacks and the best or second best defenses.
* LikeFatherUnlikeSon: Negi is polite, intelligent, studious, and doubts himself all the time, the complete opposite of his father who was a HotBlooded IdiotHero through and through.
* LimitedWardrobe: Negi wears the same green suit for much of the story, but during the Magic World and school festival he shows a lot more outfits.
* LivingForeverIsAwesome: He doesn't dislike the fact of Magia Erebea granting him CompleteImmortality. Negi even says he's happy about it because he's now the same as his teacher Eva.
* LivingWithTheVillain: He's had to fight at least three of his own students. Has occasionally gone GoKartingWithBowser.
* TheLoad: When he seals his magic and journeys to Library Island with the Baka Rangers, he's about as useful as an actual ten-year-old boy would be in an area with many dangers and traps.
* LostOrphanedRoyalty: Negi was raised as an orphan and only heard that his father was a famous hero. His mother? She was the last queen of the Vespertatia Kingdom, making Negi a lost prince of the Magic World.
* LoveYouAndEverybody: Akira plays LoveInformant on behalf of Ako and Makie and he responds that he likes them too, causing her to go back and have to explain it again. He also pulls this off earlier on with Asuna twice.
* MagicFire: [[BlackMagic Magia Erebia]] Armationem of ''Incendium Gehennae'' ("Hell's Conflagration"), a high-level [[PlayingWithFire fire]]- and [[CastingAShadow darkness]]-based spell, glows with black flames; they apparently cause ManaDrain.
* MagicKnight: Only in name. When asked by Eva whether he wants to become a SquishyWizard or MagicKnight, he chooses the latter. One, because this is what his father was and two, because Negi seeks the strength to fight alone. Negi has weapons, but he stopped using them when he became a KungFuWizard.
* MarkedChange: Magia Erebea causes black runelike tattoos to appear beneath his skin when used.
* MartyrWithoutACause: He always throws himself into the most dangerous situations and rarely factors in personal harm when coming to decisions, which makes people uneasy more than impressing them.
* MeaningfulName: "Negi" means "spring onion" in Japanese, which is a reference to how the leek is the national symbol of Wales. Negi-''Bozu'' is slang for newbie.
* MementoMacGuffin:
** Negi's staff. ItWasAGift from his father after Negi was saved by him six years before the story began. It is the proof that the Thousand Master was still alive (despite being declared dead four years earlier), which fueled Negi's wish to find his father.
* MerlinAndNimue:
** Negi is the Nimue to Evangeline's Merlin. She is several centuries older and becomes his magic master, after he saw a glimpse of her power in Kyoto. He eventually even adopts her original technique, Magia Erebea. While they show affection towards each other, neither seem romantically interested.
** An inverted case with Negi's magic students, specifically Yue. Negi is her master (and the magister in the magister/minister relationship), though Yue is slightly older than Negi. Yue can empathize with Negi on a different level compared to many of Negi's other students, but her love for him is one-sided.
* MightyGlacier: His ''Incendium Gehennae'' mode, as opposed to the LightningBruiser ''Jovis Tempestas Fulguriens'', grants amazing offense and improved defense, but leaves him quite slow. He never really makes use of this form.
* MinoredInAssKicking: He prefers TheSmartGuy approach and diplomacy, but in a fight his performance is exceptional.
* MulticoloredHair: He has red hair on the top and black hair in the back.
* MultiEthnicName: He has a Japanese given name and an English surname.
* NiceGuy: He is very kind and friendly, though rather serious.
* NighInvulnerable: In his lightning form, he's the MadeOfAir variant: Almost all attacks just pass right through him.
* NormallyIWouldBeDeadNow: Rock spear to the chest. It ''would'' have been fatal were [[TheMedic Konoka]] not around.
* TheNudifier: Anytime he sneezes, it will blow up several skirts, shred clothes, underwear or both. Later, sneezes accidentally cast the disarmament spell, meaning they can even strip you outright.
* ObliviousToLove: The only way he ever learns if a girl has feelings for him is if she straight-out tells him. Interestingly, he quickly picks up on Asuna's crush on Takahata, and Setsuna's on Konoka....
* OutOfClothesExperience: Negi gets to meet his berserk form in person this way. He is guided by Evangeline's avatar, who is also naked. Not that she ever cares.
* PapaWolf: Don't hurt his students. Just don't. You'll live longer.
* ParentalAbandonment: Negi was raised by his cousin, Nekane, for the majority of his life. His father supposedly died around Negi's birth, though Negi knows better, as his father came to his help six years before the story. The whereabouts of his mother are also unknown, but she is presumed to be deceased and he only learns late into the manga who his mother even is.
* PersonOfMassDestruction: ''The Thousand Bolts'', a spell he learns when first on the borderline of the monster tier with Rakan or Eva, is an anti-army ability and the ultimate lightning spell. In theory, since Negi comes up with a few lightning spear techniques.
* PlatonicLifePartners: With Asuna. Negi's relationship with Asuna never goes into romantic territory, and indeed, by the end of the story he admits to have developed a crush on someone else, but at the same time he identifies Asuna as the most important person to him.
* PostKissCatatonia: He's left dazing off after his second kiss with Nodoka. Also, Ayaka's pactio leaves him twitching on the floor.
* PowerDyesYourHair: His hair turns white when using Raiten Taisou.
* PowerMakesYourHairGrow: When using Raiten Taisou, his hair becomes as long as he is tall.
* PretendingToBeOnesOwnRelative: Negi sometimes uses magic pills to age himself into a teenager. As "Nagi", he passes himself off as his own cousin to anyone who isn't aware of magic.
* PunchPunchPunchUhOh: When Negi fights Rakan, he brings out his new ultimate move, turns into lightning and pinballs Rakan around for an entire chapter, at which point Rakan falls down. The next chapter starts with Rakan getting up, unharmed, and beating the crap out of Negi.
* PurelyAestheticGlasses: Negi values his minuscule pince-nez glasses, but they do not seem to serve any purpose regarding his eyesight or anything else beyond [[NerdGlasses marking him as bookish]].
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* ReallyRoyaltyReveal: Ostensibly a normal kid from a backwater village in Wales who just happens to have a famous father. His mother, however, is from an ancient royal bloodline and [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse possibly]] deceased.
* RedBaron: Eva remarked that he is called 'Boy Genius Mage' and later he's referred to as 'Thunder God Negi.'
* RedIsHeroic: His hair is red and he's a hero.
* RequiredSecondaryPowers:
** Subverted with Raiten Taisou. Despite momentarily becoming lightning, Rakan points out that Negi does not actually get lightning-fast reflexes.
** Played straight with Raiten Sousou, Raiten Taisou's upgrade. Negi ''does'' get the reflexes and constantly stays in his high-speed lightning form. Negi can make electric circuits indefinitely because he can create another circuit mid-air, which allows him to change directions however he wants.
* ReplacementGoldfish: It's implied that Ayaka sees the little brother she never had in Negi.
* RightManInTheWrongPlace: Negi starts off as just a fresh magic school graduate assigned to teach English at another magic school (sort of) halfway across the world. However, just because he doesn't know he was sent doesn't mean he wasn't: Merdiana's choice of assignment and the dorm he ends up in are just a little too convenient to be coincidence.
* RubberFace: Asuna stretches his mouth when she thinks he's been withholding information.
* ScarsAreForever: During the Mahorafest tournament he gets a scar on his cheek from Setsuna and another during the finals. He ''could'' get them fixed, but he has an emotional attachment to both. Negi refuses to have a scar on his arm he received in a fight with [[spoiler:a temporary backup image of his father]] healed, preferring to keep it as a memento. He also didn't heal the scar Setsuna gave him on his face, keeping it as a reminder to not get so caught up in the thoughts of his father that he forgets his students. They both disappear after his Magea Erebea transformation is completed.
* SemiDivine: Being the son of an Ostian queen, Negi is a direct descendant of the creator of the Magic World. Yue theorizes Negi's talents and high magic power may have something to do with him descending from what's essentially a PhysicalGod.
* SenseiChan: RareMaleExample. Negi is younger than his students, being only ten years old, and for the most part acts like an AdorablyPrecociousChild.
* SentIntoHiding: His parents became fugitives of the Megalomesembria senate after Nagi saved Arika from being executed by them, so Negi was hidden away for his protection. The enemies of his parents still found him and sent a horde of demons to destroy his hometown.
* SexierAlterEgo: "Nagi", his teenaged form that he takes after taking a series of age-disguising pills. Everyone finds him ridiculously hot.
* SharedFamilyQuirks:
** Despite being a complete opposite in terms of personality, Negi does share one very important quality with his father Nagi; [[ChickMagnet the ability to make every single girl he meets fall in love with him]]. According to a Drama CD, Nagi [[HatesBaths hated washing his body]] much like Negi.
** Negi inherited his mother's [[ObliviousToLove complete inability to notice love]].
* ShipperOnDeck: At the very least, he likes teasing Setsuna about Konoka.
-->'''Setsuna:''' In any case, I already have Konoka ojou-sama as...
-->'''Negi:''' Ah... [[SayItWithHearts So it really is that...]]
-->''(Beat)''
-->'''Setsuna:''' N-NO! That's not, um... That's not what I meant!
-->'''Negi:''' Ahahahahaha! Setsuna-san, so it really is Konoka-san!
** He also urges Asuna to tell Takahata how she feels.
* ShirtlessScene: He's shown shirtless several times. Most prominently when he's put in the hospital. Because he's a ten-year-old, this is hardly played for fanservice though.
* ShockAndAwe: Most of Negi's offensive abilities are lightning-based powers. He later turns this up to eleven by ''becoming'' lightning.
* TheShortGuyWithGlasses: The youngest and shortest of the main cast, but also one of the smartest.
* ShowerOfAwkward: With Setsuna in Kyoto. He also caused an awkward shower situation when he attempted to do Asuna a favor by enchanting her brushes. She wasn't appreciative. And there was also the time he spotted Chachamaru bathing in a river, but she didn't mind.
* ShutUpHannibal: Negi reveals to Gödel that he is well aware of his plan and the truth behind the Magical World.
* SinsOfOurFathers:
** Evangeline was not happy to see the son of the man who sealed her powers and bound her to Mahora. Justified by the fact that she also wants Negi for his blood, as it mitigates his dad's curse.
** There's the supported theory that the Megalomesembrian Senate were responsible for launching the attack on Negi's village solely to kill Negi, because he is the son of their old foe Arika Entheofushia ''and'' Nagi Springfield.
* SkilledButNaive: A highly talented mage who at 10 years old has the sort of power and skill that most don't get even after decades of study and training, but he's still a ten year old and he thinks like one.
* SkySurfing: Courtesy of his staff.
* SlipknotPonytail: Negi's ponytail has a habit of coming undone during significantly violent battles later in the story. Together with the [[TheGlassesComeOff removal of his glasses]], this serves to give him a much rougher look.
* SmartPeopleSpeakTheQueensEnglish: In the dub.
* SmartPeopleWearGlasses: Smartest character in the story barring maybe Chao and he wears glasses despite likely not even needing them.
* SpotOfTea: As stereotypical with British men, Negi likes drinking tea with milk the best. This puts him at odds with the caffeine addict Fate.
* StepfordSmiler: Chisame frequently calls him out on using fake smiles, when a child of his age should be more cheerful.
* StockShonenHero: PlayedWith. Negi is a naive and compassionate KidHero who would do anything to protect those he cares about and won't give up once he has a goal set in mind. He's striving ToBeAMaster, amasses a group of TrueCompanions, and eventually becomes one of the most powerful beings in the series thanks to learning dark magic. He's also extremely [[ObliviousToLove clueless in matters of love]]. Personality-wise, he's quite the opposite to the IdiotHero expected from the archetype. He's highly intelligent, something of a worrywart, and doesn't rely on the PowerOfFriendship (in fact he started using dark magic specifically so his friends wouldn't have to fight alongside him).
* StrongFamilyResemblance: He looks almost identical to his father Nagi, especially when he magically ages himself up.
* SuperIntelligence: Negi's great strength later in the manga lies in his ability to rapidly learn and create new techniques and strategies. It's remarked that governments would love to sit him behind a desk to just work on magical theory all day.
* SuperMode: The base form of Magia Erebea gives him a 50% power boost before he even starts using the actual Magia Erebea abilities.
* SuperPoweredEvilSide: Magia Erebea has an effect on his emotions because it's fueled by them. When the encroachment goes out of control, he turns into a berserking monster with some rather heavy mutations. Surprisingly, this is never really used in combat after he's interrupted during its first real occurrence.
* SurvivorGuilt: Being one of the only two survivors of his DoomedHometown, Negi has lots of it.
* SweetheartSipping: During a shopping trip with Konoka. It gets misunderstood by the DatePeepers to hilarious ends.
* SwissArmyHero: It's noted early that by changing the spells he absorbs with Magia Erebea that he can give himself different strengths such as a StoneWall, FragileSpeedster or GlassCannon. However, he almost always uses the FragileSpeedster effect.
* TalentedButTrained: According to Evangeline, Negi has an outstanding gift to produce magical power, but it's all useless unless he learns to properly use it through hard work. Negi always trains rigorously to constantly improve his skills, to the point he often can overwork himself.
* TaremeEyes: Likely to complements his "innocent little boy" traits.
* TellMeAboutMyFather:
** Negi grew up without his parents, and his ParentalSubstitute, Nekane, told him stories about his father, a hero, whom Negi [[HeroWorshipper would later admire and try to imitate.]] Negi always wishes to learn more about his father from people who knew him, though Nekane struggled to tell the young Negi what exactly "dead" really means, people like Stan or Evangeline didn't have many good things to tell about Nagi, and Nagi's comrades intentionally keep things secret from Negi until they no longer have a choice but to tell the truth.
** Later on, Negi learns about Princess Arika, who he correctly guesses is his mother. When he begins to ask questions about her though, most people try to dodge the topic, since she [[MaliciousSlander was falsely blamed]] and supposedly executed for starting the war Negi's father resolved. Just calling her "Queen of Calamity" in front of Negi almost made him lose his temper.
* TookALevelInBadass: The most obvious levels taken in badass were post Kyoto arc when he got some good teachers and later when picking up Magia Erebea.
* TranquilFury: After Quartum bisects Chachamaru, Negi appears and delivers a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown.
* UnstoppableRage: First happens against Graf Wilhelm, though Kotarō manages to smack some sense into him. Later occurs multiple times starting during a fight with Gödel.
* UnwantedHarem: Does the collection of powerful girls crushing on him strike you with [[BlessedWithSuck pity]], [[CursedWithAwesome envy]], or fear for the day he hits puberty?
* VocalDissonance: When the 3rd OAD came out, his adult self was still voiced by Creator/RinaSato.
* VoluntaryVampireVictim: After Evangeline becomes his magic teacher, Negi lets the vampire girl suck his blood at the end of their training sessions to replenish her magic power.
* WeakButSkilled:
** Negi managed to defeat Takahata because he came up with a plan to break through Takahata's defenses and was able to land a point-blank punch right in the gut right afterwards, thanks to a delayed spell. To be fair, [[IAmNotLeftHanded Takahata never was serious.]] He used his full power, but held back in aggressiveness, instead wanting to test how good Negi has become.
** In Negi's fight against Chao, Chao displays more powerful magic than Negi. However, while her raw firepower may be greater, Negi can counter her evenly because he is more experienced. For instance, while Chao uses 29 Valkyries, Negi only summons 17 Valkyries to counter her. While Chao gathers 59 Magic Arrows, Negi only needs 37. Basically QualityOverQuantity. In their final BeamOWar, Negi can get off his attack faster than Chao, forcing her into a defensive position.
** Negi is still far weaker than Rakan, but ends up drawing against him because Negi developed a plan where he would eventually [[EnergyAbsorption absorb Rakan's attack]] and [[HoistByHisOwnPetard use it against him]].
* WillfullyWeak: At one point decided that he would seal his magic and fulfill his duties as a teacher without relying on magic. [[AlwaysNeedWhatYouGaveUp He chose a bad time for it.]]
* WiseBeyondTheirYears: Despite being ten, he is very wise, though this has pointedly come at the cost of sacrificing a real childhood.
* WorthyOpponent: Kotarō thinks of Negi as being the first mage he's gone up against that wasn't a loser who couldn't take a punch.
* WouldHitAGirl: Despite being an "English gentleman", he doesn't hesitate to fight Takane. Asuna does not approve; Setsuna and Evangeline do.
* YouShallNotPass: Stays behind to stop horde of demons from catching Ala Alba. He's not in any real danger though.
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