Attack On Mika / Tropes U to Z

ATTACK on MIKA trope index
A to F | G to L (Gold Digger, Humiliation Conga) | M to T | U to Z (The Unfavourite)

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U

• Universal-Adaptor Cast: Each story that features Mika, Ichi, Hajime, Ririna, Tsuneo, and/or Hideo is self-contained and has them in different roles, relationships, and settings.
• Upper-Class Twit: Morao from "I went home for the holidays, and my sister demanded I take my clothes off..." is a rich man who not only abused his wife Yuka and justified it as "education," but he also deemed her to be from an "inferior family" because she was from the countryside.

V

• Vandalism Backfire:
  • "These drawings are trash" My parents suppressed my hobby...: Saki's abusive parents tear all of the paintings in the room, starting with her canvas. When they rip the paintings pinned on the wall, she reveals they belonged to their favorite daughter, Kirari. This scares them into stopping and resorting to damage control when she arrives.
  • Mean girl forces me to go to a matchmaking party, but...: Ririna takes what she thinks is Hinako's phone and uploads an alleged picture of her in a dominatrix costume to humiliate her. Much to her dismay, it was Hideo's phone, and the dominatrix in the picture was actually Ririna.
  • My ex-girl friend's father destroyed my house... "We're not together anymore... and...": A pregnant Kuzumi comes with her dad to Koji's house after he married a woman named Kaname. The man breaks the doorknob to force Koji to come out and brags about being part of a Yakuza group called the Shingeki Organization, but Koji reveals that the house belongs to the Chairman of the Shingeki Organization. The man loses his bravado when the gang members show up.
  • Cheating wife steals her husband's watch and goes on an affair trip...: Kuzumi steals a wristwatch from her husband Sota and runs away with her lover Kuzuo after being caught cheating. Allegedly, it wasn't Sota's watch, but a Yakuza's. However, he reveals the watch did belong to him, he just lied to make Kuzumi pay.
  • "The guy responsible for me leaving my previous company, joins my new company and a week later...": Shikio Ikesugi spilled "white stuff" over Kazuma's work laptop to make him look bad and to spite the former since he was his boss. However, Kazuma revealed it wasn't his laptop, but Konomi's. As a result, the bastard gets fired for property damage.

• Valley Girl: Female antagonists tend to talk like this in the English version, especially if they're in high school.
  • "The queen bee of our class invited me to the pool in hopes of embarrassing me…": Habumi, the class' queen bee, and Suzuka's bully, speaks in valley-girl accent.
  • "Here's what happened when the smartest kid pretended to be an outcast...": Being a Gyaru Girl with bad grades at school, Natsuna Takagi speaks in this type of accent and punctuates her sentences with an Annoying Laugh, especially when mocking the local nerd, Satori Sugino.
• Villainous Breakdown: In My sick and coddled sister said she wanted my boyfriend..., when Kasumi couldn't stand the pressure of Ren investigating her and seeing through her lies, she flips her lid and gives Ren a long-winded rant. Predictably, this becomes Kasumi's undoing after realizing her parents watched her. After the couple scolded her for lying all these years, Kasumi breaks down crying and begging them not to get mad at her.
  Kasumi: Shut up already, you talk too much! Taking advantage of me… A pretty girl like me is asking you to go out with me! Just be quiet and be mine! I'm more attractive than her! You really are an idiot if you don't realize that!
• Villains Want Mercy:
  • Eiji's and Sayuki's father begs Eiji to reconsider his refusal to inherit his company by marrying Sayuki.
  • Kasumi begs for help as Todo-san dragged her off the ceremony to force her to explain what happened after he heard her begging Daichi to take her back.

W

• Wedding Smashers:
  • Ichi finds out that his sister, Ririna, lied about him being dead to everyone during her wedding. This prompts him to crash the wedding to debunk her lies and expose his family for neglecting him in favor of Ririna.
  • Atsushi does an indirect version of this via an illustration he sent for his sister, Ayu's, wedding. Since she lied about being an only child to make herself look respectable, the groom started to question her.
• World's Strongest Man: Katsuya Shishida was the top-cat of Shingeki High School since he never lost a fight in his delinquent days. However, he decided to turn a new leaf and become a proper student.
• Work Off the Debt:
  • Mami was forced to work at the bar when she found out that she had no money to pay for her and the group's drinks.
  • Konomi defaulted on paying the debt collectors after kicking her husband Yutaka out of the house and ended up working various jobs, including construction work, to pay off the debt.
  • Hatsuo kept deferring to his dad when he was asked to pay at Mika's father's restaurant. When his father was arrested for embezzlement, Mika's father charged him $10,000 total and he was forced to work at the restaurant to pay off the debt.
  • Gurune and her lover are forced to wash dishes at the hotel's restaurant to pay off their debt when she is unable to pay the $4000 hotel bill after her husband, Hayate, cancels the credit card.
• Would Hit a Girl: When Erika stood up to Yabao's bullying of Sho, he threatened to break a beer bottle on her head until Sho stopped him.
• Would Hurt a Child: Yabao threatened a small Ichi when the latter stumbled upon the former with his corn dog and staining his jacket. However, Sho tries to defend the boy, only for Yabao to pour beer on him.

Y

• Yamato Nadeshiko: Natsu Kanzaki is described as one by her fiance Daisuke Kumada.
• Yandere:
  • Gozumi stalks Iketa to the point of sending him love letters by the droves on his locker, and it's implied she watches him on his sleep. She reacts with vitriol when the boys she stalks ask someone else (especially her sister Saki) out instead. Hence she doesn't like when Saki tries to look cuter.
  • Yuma rejected Fumika because she was ugly. Years later, Fumika grew into a beautiful woman. She asked Yuma's coworkers out to find out about him then dumped them once she was done with them. Fumika and Yuma began dating but he soon found out that Fumika was a Yandere. He soon quit his job and moved. He met a new girlfriend, but it is implied that the new girlfriend is Fumika in disguise...
• Yaoi Fangirl: Ayako Kisaragi, Soji Shinzo's beautiful but strict boss, is revealed to be one when Soji finds a doujinshi of Hajime and Ichi she dropped.
• You Are Fat: Touma Shinomori is the target of bullying for being overweight, especially from queen bee Kusumi Kuju. He changed schools, only to suffer flashbacks to those days when someone called him "fatty" in his new school. This motivated Shinomori to lose weight and show up his bullies.